Alright so sewing 101, mending a hole. Alright so what does a tank top with a hole in it right here have to do with a pair of lace thong underwear. Get your mind out of the gutter. So this is an inexpensive pair of lace thong underwear from Walmart. I bought it specifically for doing this repair. I don't wear thong underwear, not that you need to know that. Alright this is a tank top I bought when I was in Las Vegas with my girlfriends and we were doing our art retreat and I love this tank top. I wear it all the time and if you live in Las Vegas or you're going there for a visit and you go to Walgreens which is where I bought this shirt and you see these tank tops. I would love to have somebody send me another one in. I just cut the label out and threw it away. Hold on. Extra large. I'd love two of them. They're not expensive but I do love it. Anyway if you live in or you're visiting Las Vegas and you have a chance to go to Walgreens on the Las Vegas Strip, that's the best place to buy souvenir FYI and when I was there they had these and I would love to have one or two more because I do love this shirt. It's not you know it's just thin knit material. So anyway when I came back from Alaska and yes I took it with me to Alaska I had a hole in it. The laundry people on the board ship had a hole in it anyway. So we're going to fix it. The first thing we've got to do is change the thread in our machine because I was just making journal covers because I'm filming this the same day I filmed that and I've got white thread in here. That won't work on this black tank top. So first thing we're going to do is change our thread. So I just pulled the top thread out and here's some black thread.  That's easier to just take them off. We're mixed media artists. Don't throw the labels away. I'm saving. I must just stuck them to my shelf. You know they'll show up in a journal cover somewhere. My thread holder has this piece that holds the thread spool on so I'm going to stick that on the front. Before I thread the machine I'm going to see if I have a black bobbin. I do. Yay. That means I don't have to wind one. So I can just thread my machine. There's a catch there. A catch here. You can go down and around. Gotta bring this little arm.  There we go. Let's do that again. Alright. So I've got my thread spool in. I'm going to put that there's a catch here. There's another one here. I'll bring the thread down and around. I moved the wheel here until this the needle moves and this little arm comes up and it goes in there. It goes down here. There's a catch. There's a catch on the needle and then it goes through the needle. Every machine's a little bit different so look in your machine's instruction book for how your machine should be threaded. You should never have it too far from you so you can remind yourself how to do stuff with your machine. I still have to remind myself. Alright so I'm going to pull this bobbin out. I'm going to put this one in. Now it should wind clockwise, which it is, for my machine. Again everyone's different but I think most of them are like that. Put the needle down and pull it up again and then I'm going to pull in this upper thread and that as I'm doing that it's going to bring a loop of bobbin thread up and I'm going to pull that bobbin thread out so now both of my threads are up to the top of the machine. That's what you want. I did all that but I need to change the needle because I have a big thick denim needle in here and this fabric is all pretty thin so I have a smaller size 11 needle here that I'm going to pull out and I'm going to take this needle out. There's a little screw here so I'm going to take the needle out. I'm not going to go too far with it because I'll probably just put it back when I'm done. I don't use these small needles too much. I insert the new needle.  For mine the hole should be going front to back. Alrighty, we've got it done. Yay!  Now of course you can buy stretch lace at the fabric store but sometimes it can be a little hard to find so I thought it was just easier to buy a piece of cheap underwear and honestly and get the stretch lace that way.  I'm not going to toss the rest of the underwear because it might come in handy for fixing something else so maybe you have a piece of clothing that you could use for this type of repair, another t-shirt maybe if you have something like this you need to fix. So I'm just kind of disassembling the underwear. Brand new, never worn. I'm actually thinking that part of the crotch of the underwear might work. Okay cut it off here. This is the whole crotch of the underwear. Now the first thing I'm going to do is cut away the black cotton that they have on the inside here because I just want the lace. I should really get my sewing scissors out for this. I do have them. So these are actually surgical scissors. Oh here we go, surgical scissors. I use for sewing and embroidery needlework. These are actually Ginger black sewing shears. I've had more than 20 years. I've had them and I don't think they've ever needed to be sharpened. Application scissors are funny-looking scissors. They're made to cut away things like this without cutting the wrong fabric. So they're made to hold the fabrics apart while you're cutting and they do a fabulous job. These are much much sharper than the scissors I use every day on paper and stuff like that. Don't use your fabric scissors on paper. They'll dull them. Okay so this is trash. So now we have this little piece of lace.  Can you see what I'm doing? No you can't see. There we go.  So if I'm going to do, there's a lot of different ways you could do the repair you know by pinching it and sewing it together but I thought why not just add an extra piece of fabric there and it may not look like it was always that way but it will look more interesting and honestly it's going to be under my hair so who really cares. Now my only thought is do I want to put this all the way down? Do I want to just do it low?  So now I have the edge is free, the decorative edge and then I'm going to trim this off and if I do this right I can make it look like an applique. So I'm going to wrap this piece of the side around until it meets this other scallop on the other side and I'm going to pin it together. Pulls myself with the pins. So when I sew it together I can make it look like an applique. Alright so let's get it sewn down. Now when you're sewing stretch fabrics you either want to use a serger or you want to use a zigzag stitch. So in this case we're going to use a zigzag stitch and I am going to order that little piece of fabric.  That'll give me an approximation of what we're going to be working with on the t-shirt. We're going to test our stitching and our stitch length and our zigzag. So I'm going to do about a two so it'll be little and I'm going to lower the stitch length to like just under three. The width is two and that needle is working well. Let's see. It's a little bit long. Let's do it. I would like it closer together. This is why you do a test. I need my reading glasses. Black on black is really hard to see. I'm just testing and testing until I get it right. Yeah that's better. Okay so now that I got it where I want it I'm going to cut this. This is our test piece so you can see all the different lines of stitching. Maybe you can. It is black on black but I've got it where I want it.  They're going to show through. I don't want them on there so we're going to take them off. I could seam rip them. I'm not going to. I'm just going to cut the bulk of them off. So I'm going to start at the upper edge and I'm going to zigzag all around this piece of lace I've added. Now the trick to this is don't pull on the fabric. You want it to go through the machine as flat as possible. You still want to stop in the corner with your needle down and turn pulling the pins out as we go. We don't want to sew over the pins. We're going around a curve so I'm going slow and I'm holding my fabric and I'm taking my time and forth at the beginning where I met the beginning. I'm going to trim all my threads.  Like I said this is my favorite shirt so I'm going to do what I need to. So that's pretty good. Let's see how this is sticking up. I want that to be down so I'm going to add a second row of stitching to hold that down. I'm going to start over here on the other side this time. All my threads off. That's pretty good. Make sure it's all on there good and I didn't miss anything. Doesn't look like I did.  This is an optional step. You don't have to do this. This part's a little more advanced than just adding a patch of fabric but adding a patch of fabric is a great way to practice your zigzag stitches and you can do it in a square if you're nervous about trying to do a curve. Do a square. Squares are easier. So now we have that. So now my tank top is fixed. There's no hole. I've got this cute piece of lace in the back. There we go. I'd still like another one. So if any of you are nearer in Las Vegas, I'll pay you back. Alright, so it's a quick and easy patch out of fabric that was definitely non-traditional because I used a pair of underwear, new underwear, not used underwear. But when you have to patch any of your clothing no matter what it is look and see what you have maybe in your donation pile that you can use that you can cut up to make your patch with. Think outside the box and look around and see what you've got. That's it for today.  Yeah? Alright, go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye.


Social learning across content is a collection of organizations seeking open and sustainable ways for content to be used across platforms, especially in support of teachers and students working around and with that content. We started reaching out to people we knew to see whether this concept made sense to them and the feedback was really positive, so the idea was born to form a coalition. Social learning across content is a group of some of the biggest content creators, providers, platforms, and stakeholder groups in education working together towards cross-platform social learning. We'll work on technical best practices to align content platforms with the needs of social learning tools and how to give users the best experiences. What this initiative represents to me is this idea of trying to bring the best of the web and the good things we've done on the web around connection and sharing and being able to collaborate and work together and mirroring that with educational technology or educational content and finding ways that we can make educational materials and the process of education more rich and fulfilling and powerful for students who are learning. The group of organizations participating in the social learning across content coalition will hopefully work collectively to improve discovery, access, and engagement with content within learning management systems for students and faculty. Social learning has always been social but not necessarily in a technology way, so the help you get from the student next to you in class to help explain a topic is something that has always happened in the physical space but hasn't always been orchestrated in the virtual space, so getting students to work together and help explain and help students along the learning journey is something we need to foster across the whole ecosystem. It's a way for users, for my own personal and my company's goals, academic users to help them collaboratively read, learn from, and learn from each other as they go through their academic materials, communicate with each other about that, provide feedback to each other, and learn not just from their instructors but their peers. It's imperative as we move into increasingly virtual and cross-domain research projects that we have access to a full reimagining of how we utilize educational resources. So a coalition that makes available the interaction that students have with learning materials and enables faculty to reach in and coalesce those interactions from across a wide variety of what are currently product silos and contained gardens is an essential element that allows us to have a broad imagining of what our students are learning, what our gaps are, how teachers can improve their instruction, and how we deliver adaptive learning to the broadest imaginable community. We have signed on to this effort for social learning across content to help address what we're seeing as core needs of users. Learners of any discipline have to navigate a variety of platforms to do their work. There are learning management systems and publishing platforms and aggregator platforms, and it's kind of a bewildering of variety, especially for undergraduate students and the user experience. A lot of these sites might provide similar tools and similar functionality, but you really have to kind of learn each one on your own. You have to then find a way to integrate the work that you're doing outside of those platforms with the work that you can do inside those platforms. It just becomes really complicated. It feels like we're placing a pretty big burden on the student, the user, that that distracts them from doing their actual work. What we're seeing is that students who use multiple services to do their coursework need help from all of the organizations that are participating in this effort to help connect the dots among those platforms. You know, we've seen on the web a movement towards consolidating and monopolizing certain kinds of behaviors, and I think it's important that the education community really gets behind the idea of open standards so that we can make sure that it's easy to build new applications, new approaches to things, but also so that we don't kind of limit who gets to play in that space. We believe students and faculty should be able to access digital learning solutions as seamlessly as possible. It's always going to be a multi-platform world. However, it should not seem that way to the learner. For us to have the kinds of interaction that this coalition is moving forward to provide an interoperable layer for enables those students and those faculty to be able to lay their hands on learning in a way that takes barriers away from students that have had to struggle through one portal or another portal without being able to knit together threads of information and knowledge that are vital to that understanding. We see learning happening across more and more digital tools and applications all the time, and it is vital from our perspective that institutions be able to design their learning and understand their student experiences across the digital tools and applications wherever the learning is happening. What we see is this coalition that has been brought together is focused on ensuring that that content, no matter what platform you're using it on, what device you're able to have that uniform environment and from a faculty's perspective or student's perspective, you can be anywhere you need to be in a very virtual or in-person learning experience. The goal here is to build quality products that meet students where they are and then using standards so that the tools are as intuitive as possible and align with course goals. In education, for example, we see that disabled students' service offices, which provide assistance to students, could annotate textbooks and add the information that a student with a disability needs that isn't present in the publication. We are participating in Slack to help establish interoperability standards amongst the community with an emphasis on OER textbooks. A key limitation we've had in the past was establishing a shared authentication infrastructure to enable students the seamless access to the power to personalize and to collectively annotate the textbook content. So for EPSCO, we're participating in this coalition because we've embraced standards like learning tools, interoperability and wholeheartedly believe that streamlining the workflow for faculty and students will most definitely lead to improve outcomes. Standards can really help us all kind of make the technology fade into the background and really bring the learning to life in a new and modern way. The ability for us to have the content integrated into the system but the functionality kind of ubiquitous across those different implementations is a huge advantage. So things like hypothesis allow us to bring context to the content but not be tied to the modality at which you're digesting that content. We think that training individuals, people with disabilities, to use this technology is one area that we'd be working on. And then providing guidance to schools and universities and to anybody that might be adding annotations to documents to assist people with disabilities. So I think what's happening here with this new social learning effort is beginning to apply these tools that we have available to us, these open annotation standards on a variety of material that will unlock the accessibility of this to more and more people and allow them to share with each other their reflections on the material, enhance it, make it more useful to other people and just generally contribute to the overall process of a collaborative learning environment. Well, most importantly, we want to make sure that teachers and classes are able to study the materials in JSTOR that they have rights to without jumping through needless hoops. Once that is possible, I can imagine all sorts of new options and tools that we and others can build that leverage that access and support of educators and learners from shareable syllabi and reading lists to classroom annotation. I think we have an obligation to work individually to overcome these. And I think collectively we have an obligation to work together to address common problems that are really inhibiting the ability of individuals to learn and produce high quality work. So it's a lot of shared interest. I mean, that's the bottom line, I think, is that there's so many people out there doing these common kind of activities. And I truly do think that there's strength in numbers and that we can do more together than we can apart. If your mission is to, has anything to do with trying to be a benefit to the world of education and learning and collaboration and just trying to help humanity grow up, then the question I would turn around and say, well, why aren't you participating? Because because this is an obvious direct path toward those goals. I'd encourage others to join the social learning across content effort for a few different reasons. Creating a cross-platform solution for social learning benefits students and instructors by establishing a consistent, easy to use experience. The work will improve learning outcomes for students. And it also will make just learning more active and visible and collaborative. But it also benefits publishers and content creators and those platform developers who are interested in education as well by focusing on compatible and interoperable solutions. It will simplify product development and hopefully speed the time to market for the products that we're all building. The coalition to assist essentially in flattening access to information involved in pedagogy is a strategic goal that a university like ours sees as one of the required elements of the next generation of education. I would start by inviting them to think about where education is going to be in 10 years and asking them to think about what it's going to take between now and then to get there. And I think nobody believes that we're going to be using fewer digital tools or less digital media and the way we design and deliver education. I don't think anybody would argue that learning is going to be less social than than it is today. And I think that it's a big strategic question about how to get early in the process of transforming education to achieve that vision of a more social, unified, digitally mediated, efficient, student driven and institution led learning ecosystem. I think it's critical for organizations to get on board with this project. We would really love to see that happen. At the end of the day, it's to the benefit of all of our users and we just see that as a win all around.


I'm the Comic Weekly Man, the Jolly Comic Weekly Man, and I'm here to read the funnies to you happy boys and honeys.  Right out of the pages of Pocs the Comic Weekly, straight into your living room, your friend the Comic Weekly Man, the Jolly Comic Weekly Man. Little Miss Sonny, how are you today? Oh, I'm just fine. You know what? What what? My new changes in the American Weekly magazine that we get with our son's paper. Well, good for you. And they all said that they thought the magazine was better than ever. That's what they said, huh? Mm-hmm. That's what they said, that it was better than ever. And my friends are saying the very same thing. They like the new colors, the pictures are being done in, and the new type, and even the change in the paper. They all like it. Well, it's like we said it's better than ever. Yes, I'm glad you think so. The American Weekly has always been a fine magazine, but the people who put it together wanted to make it better than ever. So I'm happy your father and mother agree that they have. Well, they do. Then everybody's happy. Yes, and then I'll be happy if you'll read me the funnies now. Pocs the Comic Weekly? Very well. I'll read that in just a moment. But before I do, let's listen to this nice man. Pocs the Comic Weekly and on the first page, Hop along Cassidy. Magic words for the music, please. Very well, my lady. Six guns blazing as he thunders along. Give us music for Hop along. Hoppy and his friends arrive at Buck Peter's Wyoming Ranch. But instead of a fine, well-kept rent, they discover a rundown place. Buck Peter's and his wife are nowhere around, and Hoppy can find no trace of it. He goes to the sheriff's office in Rimfire and discovers the two crooks who had stolen the deed to Buck Peter's property, wearing badges of the law. Hoppy faces them saying, I never expected to find you two posing as the law in Rimfire. You better start explaining why Buck Peter's and his wife haven't reached the rocking W. Our wagon party was to meet him there, and we found the place deserted. One of the crooks answers, Ah, that ranch has been empty ever since the law took it over for Texas. The town's never been able to sell it. Hoppy replies, My guess is you're trying to keep homesteaders off that spread. He goes on last picture top row. We found the remains of several partly burned property deeds. But if anything's happened to Buck and Rose, Rimfire's going to need a new sheriff and deputy. One of the crooks gets to his feet, gun in hand. Hey, this fool could be a troublemaker. Can't his guns brag? He'll never have a better chance to kill him in self defense. Hoppy backs up to the wall. The crooks close in on him. Hoppy reaches his hands over his head, and suddenly grabs a coat hook above his head and swings his feet forward, knocking the wind out of brag. As the second one reaches at him, Hoppy slugs him in the jaw. He drops to the floor like a limp sack. Out the door, Hoppy goes, nearly knocking down a richly dressed man outside the door. As Hoppy hurries away, the man steps in the door of the sheriff's office last picture and stops in astonishment, as he sees the two men lying unconscious on the floor. You bet he did. But one thing troubled me, Hoppy's a stranger there in Rimfire, and that man seeing Hoppy going out of the sheriff's office may think Hoppy's an outlaw. Well, those two crooks will be sure to tell him lots of lies about Hoppy. You can be sure of that. Oh, dear. That means more trouble for Hoppy. Well, we'll find out about that next week. Now? Oh, now I can see what Prince Balian is doing today. All right, let's go over the page and see if he's there. All right, said. Yes, there he is on page three, like you said. And last week, they baptized the babies, and they gave them their names, and I wonder what's going to happen this week. Well, let's read right now and find out. Here we go with Prince Balian to the days of King Arthur. Eckett, Wreckett, Tray, Malkin and Quince. Music romantic for a fair, fair Prince. In the first church to be built in fuel, the twins are christened, Valeta and Karen. They guess that the ceremony returned to their farming, their fighting, or raiding their neighbors, and all is at peace. When disturbing news comes from the south, the king seldom interferes with his people fight among themselves, but this trouble comes from across the border. And the king decides that an investigation should be made to find out exactly how dangerous the situation is. Last picture, top row, Prince Balian and Rufus Regan, glad to have a vacation from peace and contentment, tried forth to see what's happening. First picture, second row. When they reach the Trouble Valley, they hear a strange tale from the natives there. One morning we found our river dry, and when we tried to cross the border, to find the reason, our men drove us back. Now our flocks die at first, and our valley becomes a desert. After two days of cautious scouting, Bal and Rufus, first picture, bottom row, discover that the enemy has built a dam that holds the water on their side of the border. And where before was a huge and barren wasteland, there's now a lush green valley, as the life-giving water cuts a path through the land and irrigates the land so things may grow. Fences are being built, and houses. Last picture, Val says softly. So, may ruin one of our valleys to water one of their own. Well, we'll give them water. Those people that take the water away from the other people across from the valley there. No, it was not. But Val says they'll give them plenty of water. I wonder what he means. We'll find that out next week. Well, I hope it doesn't mean a lot of trouble because I saw a western movie one time, where someone dammed up a river, and then the cattle were thirsty, and the ground dry again, shooting guns, and people were killed and everything. Now, let's hope that nothing like that happens to Prince Valion. Now, let's see what we find next. Turn over the page, go past Jungle Jim, turn over that page, and go past Terry Mason and the Lone Ranger. And there, on page seven, is Donald Buckle. Oh, read that, please. All right, say the magic words with me, please. Squeeze, jump, squeeze, jump, squint, and tick-a-tack. Let's have music, you better quack, quack. Donald is on the phone talking to his girlfriend, David. He's saying, Yeah, yeah, that's right, that's right. I'm getting culture, culture. Oh, it works for him, Donald. I'm going to be an artist as soon as I finish the book. Wow, all right. I'll be over, except when you progress. Donald sits down to read his book on culture, which he's sure will make him smart enough to be a very fine artist. And then he starts to paint a painting.  And then the sun at the bottom of the picture. And then he dabs in a few other colors of paint here and there. Then first picture, bottom row, he says, Wow, finish. Here's his doorbell, ring, he opens the door. It's his girlfriend, Daisy. Hi, Donald, how's the culture coming? Why, I just finished my first lecture. Donald shows her the painting. After Daisy looks at it a minute, Donald says, Ah, your fracker takes a little top fling off my back. Daisy says, Well, yeah, uh, just a small detail. I'll take this brush and, um, he takes the brush and makes a few strokes, and then says, last picture, best, you're all best. Donald looks at his painting and sees that she has written the word top and bottom on the painting. So people will know which way to look at it. And Donald goes, I don't think it does either. Not the way Donald did it. I need to become a good artist. You bet it does. The wonderful thing, though, to become an artist, if you have the patience. Yes, I love to paint. Yes, I think the colors are nice, too. And it's so interesting what you can do with it. Yes, it is, isn't it? Yes. Well, now I'm sure you would like to read Dagwood and Burnley. Oh, I'm sure, I'm sure. Very well then, let's pick up the first page of the second section. And the colors are so nice. And here we go with Dagwood and Blondie. But I'm a fool, I'm a fun-dim-dim-zombie. Come to me, music, for Dagwood and Blondie. Saturday noon, down at the office, Dagwood puts on his coat, ready to go home. He says to Mr. Dithers, are you going to work all Saturday afternoon? Mr. Dithers says angrily. Yes, I'm just the boss. Dagwood decides to say no more, and he hurries to the door. Just as he gets to the door, Dithers smiles, pretty lucky for you. They get this beautiful spring afternoon off, to just roll around your house. Last picture top row, Dagwood comes up to step to the house. Thousands of kids inside are creating mayhem, tearing the place apart. Sounds like a riot. Dagwood opens the door and steps in first picture second row, and is attacked by 30 kids who leap on him, and feed him up. Dagwood greets. And turns around and dashes out of the house. I forgot Cookie was having a party today. He's a bus coming down the street, dashes after it, leaps for it, catches it last picture second row. Back to the peaceful quiet of the office for me. Oh, kid, look down, meet a TV. First picture third row, he comes into the office and smiles at Mr. Dithers. Dithers drops to his knees and kisses Dagwood's hand.  As Dagwood goes to a stack of paper at the desk, Dithers says, nothing to distract, nothing to disturb us. We'll accomplish one does this afternoon. Yes, I'm going to enjoy it. Just in the door open. Dithers' wife comes in, last picture, first row. You hit. Mrs. Mappy and I were going shopping together this afternoon, but her baby sister didn't show up. First picture, bottom row, in comes Mrs. Mappy and her four children.  Mrs.  Dagwood takes one look at the kids and then starts climbing out the window. Dithers grabs him by the foot. I come back, your bum said, don't exhaust me when I need your most. And last picture, Dagwood's on the floor tied up while the kids pull his hair, shooted it with flingshots and popcorn, and the baby smears ink and sticky lollipop all over him. And Dagwood shouts. Dithers sticks his head in the door and says, stop complaining, bum said. You're getting 50 cents an hour for it. Yes, I'm afraid what Dagwood should have done was to join the Navy, gotten a submarine and gone down under the water. It's the only way he could have gotten away from children that day. All right, I will in just a moment, but first here's that nice man again with something interesting to say. Now here we go again with Puck the Comic Weekly and on the first page of the second section, Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys. Magic words for the music room. Very well, my lady. Ah, yip-a-yo. Now here we go with Roy and Trigger. Ah, yip-a-yo. The girl Nadine, who said she was looking for a job as school mistress, and the man named Doane had been brought to Chubby's ranch by Roy and Chubby. When they arrived there, Chubby's blacksmith Tenpenny tells them he's caught a stranger who is snooping around the place and has tied him up in the stable. What Roy doesn't know is that the man was goucho and that the girl and Doane and goucho are working together in an attempt to rob Chubby. When the men get to the stable, they find the croaker flipped away. At the foot of the pole where he was tied, they find a bolo, the weapon used by goucho. Roy tells the men to search the thread while he searches the stable. In first picture, he climbs to the haylock. As he sticks his head through the trap door, he's hit on the head by goucho. See, poor goucho, a pity I must use the wrong end of my gun for fear of making too much noise.  He used his brains to find out where Chubby walled and hide his goal. That last picture, top row, goucho looks out the big door the hails hauled through. He sees Doane standing outside. He grabs a rope and starts to slide down saying, Hey, saying you're derby, I thought you went with the others. Don't replies. And quiet, you porny vaquero. Bring your burglar tools to Nadine's room. We'll hide you till they stop hunting for you. A short time later, first picture bottom row, Roy, who has regained consciousness, comes out of the stable. He sees Tenpenny and Chubby Walden coming back. Roy says, Hey, that slippery rascal got away, Chubby. I have hunches after your gold wherever you hide it. Chubby answers. Why, it's not here, Roy. Right under everyone's nose, where it makes it plum difficult to climb. As they walk toward the house, Chubby tells Roy, Yes, sir, every do-bad in the place has made a gold for my mind. Thanks to Tenpenny's skill at the forge. Tenpenny says, Yeah, go, Roy. Camouflage with paint. Roy exclaims, Well, that's interesting. But with a thief loose, we better see if the school teacher's safe. Meanwhile, inside the house, Done has brought Goucho to the dean's room and tells her she has to hide Goucho there. Now, Dean doesn't like to look at things. He says she doesn't want to hide him. Tenpenny does a knock on the door.  Goucho stays till dark, and then we start looking for the gold again. Quickly, Goucho hides himself with a huge chest in the room. Last picture, Done runs for the window and knocks over a statue. Roy, outside the door, Roy, outside the door, calls. Hey, Miss Drake, are you okay? What's that noise? The dean answers, Oh, I'm all right, Roy. I just knocked over a statue. And then she says to herself, Goodness, that sounded heavy. I wonder. What do you think she's thinking? Well, I think gold. I am afraid of that myself. Oh, I hope Roy catches Goucho and Done before she has a chance to tell those crooks where the gold is. We'll find that out next week, but now let's go over the page. Oh, look, there's Flash Gordon, and I'm so anxious to read this, because you remember, Flash had been captured by the giants on the planet Rhea. Yes, and he had captured one of the rocket ships and was hoping to escape to Earth. But it didn't work, because his ship was captured and he was brought back before the king of the giants to be punished. And then some of the giants caught the smallpox, the disease the giants cannot withstand.  Yes, and now let's see what happens next. Here we go with Flash Gordon. Rega rega dune dune saskimata. Let's have music for heroic Flash. Flash warns the king that his ease will ravish your planet. Your only hope is to make peace with Earth and secure vaccine from our laboratory. But before the king can reply, Rube, maddened with fever and blaming Flash for his flight, makes a wild attempt to kill the earthmen. Stop, Rube! Rube, stop! Only the king's quick intervention fazes Flash's life. Flash's picture, top row, is violent onslaught over the taxis Rube's waning strength and he falls lifeless. Ignoring the stricken warrior, the king addresses Flash. This girl's day's life will be forfeit unless my people get the vaccine with you speak.  First picture, bottom row, hurrying to the most powerful face scanning station on wreath. Flash tries desperately to make contact with Dr. Zarkov on Earth. After anxious hours of failure, the doctor's face appears on the screen. Flash tries. Zarkov! Flash's offer is once with smallpox vaccine for 100,000 inoculations. Meanwhile, Dale ignores the threat that hangs over her and works tirelessly as a nurse for the stricken victims. A list of sufferers grows by the hour. One of the most serious cases is Rube's daughter, Kara. Last picture, back on Earth, Zarkov loses no time in rounding up a huge store of vaccine and other medical supplies. Within 24 hours, after receiving Flash's call for help, Zarkov is rocketing toward the enemy moon in an interplanetary race against death. So do I, because if the medicine doesn't get there, they're sure to die. And if they die, the king is apt to take Dale's life if he said he would. What do you think will happen? Well, we'll wait till next week and find that out. Everything depends on Zarkov getting there safely. And we'll find out about that next week. No adventure today. I have the same feeling. So let's go to the very last page. All right. He will go to sleep, and now that means we'll have a new adventure. Well, let's get to that right now. Here we go with Dick's adventures. Say the magic words with me. Riggity pack, kazak, kazik. Let them use it for adventurous Dick.  As Dick lies under a tree relaxing, his cousin says, Hey, Dick, you ever think if I first used the words, don't give up the ship? What was Captain James Lawrence? They were as dying words. It was way back in... Hey, Dick, wake up, Dick! But reality is melted into a dream, and in its spell, Dick goes back, back for the years. It's the month of May of the year, 1800 and 13 in Old Boston.  He sees a ship that blocks the harbor. Cousin Dan says to Dick, Hey, Dick, take a look. She's still blockading us. First picture, second row. Like a great dark bird of prey, His Majesty's frigate Shannon flies relentlessly back and forth just outside Boston Harbor. But within the harbor, protected by shore batteries, lies its prey, the American ship, the Cheshire. The Cheshire. Dick and Dan look at the ship within the harbor, and Dan says, Hey, there she is, Dick. The U.S. frigate Chesapeake just returned from a long raiding voyage against the King's ships. Last picture, second row. Dick says thoughtfully, Hey, they're pretty evenly matched, Dan. Golly, I wonder who'd win if they fought. First picture, bottom row, at dockside. Part of the Chesapeake crew are whispering in grim, long-faced groups. Dan says cheerfully, Hey, hello, what's the matter here?  Last picture, one of the sailors from the Chesapeake fancies. Afraid? That's the wrong word to use to a sailor in the U.S., maybe, maybe. But Harkin wears a jinx on this Chesapeake. From the day she first touched water, he said nothing but bad luck. She jinxed, I tell you. I wonder why that ship is there. The sailor says the ship has had nothing but bad luck. Well, it's certainly bad luck to be where it is now, because that ship can't even go outside the harbor. No, if it tries to go out of the harbor, it'll be attacked by the English ship, the Shannon. Well, I wish we could find out some more about this. We'll find out more about it next week. Now, let's find out the new things that are happening with Rusty Riley. Oh, yes. Because, you remember, he wants to buy horses for Mr. Miles. Yes, Mr. Miles has decided to sell the horses to Mr. Colby. But he's also decided that he wants Tex and Rusty to go along with the horses to see that they're treated properly. Yes, but there was a strange man last week whose name was Blacky, who was doing some scheming with the sea captain. And I'm sure they're not up to anything good. I'm sure of the very same thing. Now, let's see if we can find out anything about that now. Here we go with Rusty Riley. Gallop and Rundle, a road is dusty. Give us music for us, horse and Rusty. Tex and Mr. Miles are out at the paddock looking at the horses and talking. Mr. Miles is saying to Tex, I had the bank and the association look Mr. Colby at Tex. His financial rating's good, and his business is apparently on the level, so I see no reason why I shouldn't sell him some horses. Tex replies, Well, I'm right glad to hear he's okay, boss. I'm always a spect cheery at a mixture of pleasant armor. Too much of a built-in smile, if you get my meaning. Yes, I understand, Tex, but he's an old circus and carnival man, which is probably the reason for his manner. But anyway, I'm sending you and the boys along with the horses. A little later, last picture, top row, Mr. Miles is talking with Colorado Colby in his study. Mr. Colby, I have picked out 12 horses with gild cells, providing you agree to a certain condition I must impose. Happy to hear it, Mr. Miles, very happy indeed. Just name the price, and I'll wire my bank for a cashier's check at once. First picture, bottom row, Mr. Miles says. You see, Mr. Colby, my horse is, uh, a little too much. Mr. Colby, my horses are a little more than just commercial products to me. I, uh, like to know where they go and how they're treated. So I want Tex, Rusty, and Pete to go along with them. Of course, of course, matter of fact, I'm delighted. But I should warn you, it'll take some time. These horses are for a customer in Florida. You deliver them to my farm in Delaware Bay, and we'll then send them on by ship. Mr. Miles and odds, certainly, certainly. Three big bands should take care of them. A little later, Rusty and Pete are talking. They packed for the trip. Rusty exclaims, Boy, oh boy, this is gonna be a fun piece, a trip to the east coast, and then on a ship all the way to Florida. Pete laughs. Yeah, hope I don't get seasick. I never been on a ship. Meanwhile, many miles away, last picture on Delaware Bay on the sea coast, the man named Blackie is looking at a ship anchored out at the end of the pier. He says to the sea captain, So much to ship, huh, Captain? See, sure isn't any queen there, eh? Happy answers. Hey, no, Blackie. He's a tub. He could do with a little paint and a new gear. Let's hereby see whether, at least, as long as we need it to be. Well, we do know from last week that he has a crooked plan in mind. Yes, and that crooked plan has something to do with that ship. Well, we'll find out more about that next week. And something else we'll find out. Next week, we have a surprise for you. Oh, goody, what is this surprise? Beginning next week, the comic weekly is going to have one more new comic. And this one will be called Big Ben Bull. It's a story of prize fighters. Oh, I love that. I love boxing. Well, you will enjoy Big Ben Bulls, I'm sure. And we'll read that next week. Now, that's all the time I have. But before I go, here's that nice fellow with some more interesting information. And all your boys and girls, they've got to go now. All right. Okay, that's the date. And the date with all your boys and girls be sure to meet me with our little friend Ms. Honey next week when I read Pucks the Comic Weekly. For I'm the comic weekly man, the jolly comic weekly man. 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The QS performance parameters, which are supposed to be the performance metrics, which are measurable actually determine how the service is going to be provisioned from a service provider to the end user. So we are going to discuss it from the protocol's perspective. Then we are actually going to look at the performance parameters and see how different IP traffic classes are influenced or affected by these performance parameters. The protocols being central to the implementation of the NJN architecture for service provisioning are very important. When we are talking about IP based network services and in all IP environment, we are talking about the protocols which work with IP above and below. So at the lower layer, we are expecting some kind of connectionless and connection oriented services like Ethernet, ATM, SDH, PDH, Wi-Fi, that is 802.11 ETC. At the higher layer, we are expecting the application layer services like RTP, RTSP, RTCP, session initiation protocol and at the transport layer, we have TCP, UDP or sometimes neither of them. So if that is the case, we can say that these protocols are going to have a final role in determining how the QS is actually provided. If you look at this diagram, we have an all IP environment. We have end to end scenario where we have the service provider and we have the service seeker in a source destination situation. You can see that at the higher layer, there are so many protocols which affect which use IP and which affect the behavior of IP. Likewise, the data link layer protocols also determine how this IP packet, which is an hourglass model is affected in terms of service provisioning. So from the pure IP perspective, there are certain parameters which define exactly how a QS class can be provisioned services. The first one is the IP packet transfer delay. It is actually the difference in the occurrence of two transmission events because one transmission event is followed by the second transmission activity. So this packet transfer is a measure that can be given any form. For instance, it's an average transfer delay, the max transfer delay, minimum transfer delay or the median transfer delay. So this is very important because from the network perspective, each intermediate device such as a router or a switch is processing an IP packet. Once this delay is there, then any variation in it might cause jitter. So this is actually the difference between one way delay of IP packet and it is compared to the reference IP packet transfer delay, which can vary of course, but there is some kind of guideline on how to choose the reference IPTD. So whenever this IPTD is deviated, then depending upon the standard deviation or variance, this IP packet delay variation can be computed. It's another very important parameter. Then we have the packet error ratio. It is the total number of packets which are either corrupted or lost because if you recall in the IP header, there is checksum. That determines the erroneous or corrupted packet which is discarded by a router or an end host. Then we have the packet loss ratio. That is a packet that is processed by a router sent to another router but is never received or it is dropped at the input queue of a router buffer. So this is actually another interesting perspective on the total capability of a network to deliver a certain number of packets. This in turn requires some additional information on the overall capability of the network in terms of bandwidth, in terms of the buffer available to every router, etc. So the IP traffic that is carried on could be, we are talking about QS requiring IP traffic. So there are QS classes which are based on the IPTD, IPDV and error and loss ratios. So you see we have different classes. For these eight classes, in fact class five is not specified and class six and seven are quite ambitious. So they are not offered by different service providers but for the first few classes that is from class zero to class one, we can look at them from their usability point of view. So class zero and one are for real time delay and jitter sensitive applications. So most jitter sensitive applications are sent on to class zero and one, specifically class zero being the best. It is highly suited for high interaction applications such as voice over IP because it has very low bound on IPTD. Class two and three are targeted for transactional data again interactive but having relatively more IPTD. For instance, class two suits the signaling traffic and class three is for interactive applications. Now class four relatively has more IPTD. So it is for short transactions which are again live but not requiring much jitter sensitivity. And video streaming is another interesting application of class four IP traffic class.


Good morning everyone. My name is Tom O'Mara, I am the online learning project manager for University College Cork. So for the next 15 minutes I'm going to talk you through our presentation, our proposal for the transformation of true collaboration of building digital literacy in HEIs. So this is a slightly older presentation, I updated it this morning and I didn't quite get a version of it to you. The partners on this project are University College Cork which is leading it, so that would be myself. And joining me on the left hand side here then we have from I.T. Tralee, we have Dr. Tom Farley, from Cork Institute of Technology we have Dara Coakley, from Institute of Technology in Kerala we have Damien Raftery and from Waterford Institute of Technology we have Laurel Widger. So because we're short in time for 15 minutes I'm just going to do the short straw and I'm up here going to speak through the presentation if that's okay. I may defer it to the guys if you've got particular questions as we've gone, is that okay? Okay, so the presentation that you sent just one slight change on it is Tony Murphy's name was in for I.T. Tralee and in fact it's actually Dr. Tom Farley that's here instead, okay? Okay, so what will the project achieve? So the project is about collaboration to achieve digital literacy, so what we hope to do is we want to continue to work done under phase one of the teaching and learning enhancement funds, so we've done some work on that already, I'll reference it in a few minutes. There's a bunch of us working on projects there, so we want to build on that. Take content and take ideas that have already been developed and then use those in what we're doing. We want to bring together the expertise attained in the Southern Cluster Higher Education Institute, so the institute represented here today at this presentation are a HEEA Southern Cluster around the area of building digital literacy among capacity among staff, but also looking at effective engagement with learners and students by using online tools, so how do we do that? We hope initially to begin increasing the digital literacy of participants and ultimately the project will hopefully provide a sustainable route for the ongoing development of digital literacy in higher education institutes in Ireland, so we don't see this as a one-off project, we see this as being a stepping stone, a launchpad if you like, for building capacity in the future. So I've used the headings that were provided on the guidelines, so how will we achieve it? Well, initially we will identify academic staff in each of the locations, each of the partner locations, and then we will facilitate learning needed to successfully integrate technology into their teaching. The staff that we've identified and supported will then become champions for the improvement of digital literacy skills, thanks Tom, within their academic discipline, but also within their department and ultimately across the Southern Cluster, so we see greater collaboration across the institutes. So as we develop expertise, for example, in IT Carlow, well then we might see those experts consulting and talking to, for example, people in Tralee or people in Waterford or people in UCC, so really it's about developing that community of practice around digital literacy among academic staff. The project, if we're successful, will document the journey that champions take and provide a map for others who wish to follow in their footsteps. The timeline we proposed, and I suppose we were struck a little bit when we looked at the guidelines for the proposal and we spent some time discussing it, it's quite short, and I know one of the feedback questions on the proposal was having the digital week in the middle of February or the end of February is very short and how will you teach people to a sufficient point by that time. We understood we had to have digital week by the end of February so we very much saw the digital week as being a launchpad rather than a culmination. So in November and December, depending on funding, we would look to assess the digital literacy skills of the academic staff that we want to recruit and we would set up a project website. Pretty basic project website we would say. During December, so after exams, when we look at exam boards and we get a little bit more time with the academics, we will identify the champions within each of the institutions and we will have some collaboration. We haven't clearly defined exactly how we're going to define the champions. In UCC for example, we have a waiting list of academics and schools and departments looking to get supported by the instructional design team which I lead in UCC. So if you ask me today I could list five or six academics across UCC that would very basic digital literacy skills who want to work on this project. In January, once we've identified the champions and we've assessed their skillsets, we would design individual learning plans. We were discussing this quite a bit so because we're five different institutes we all have different strategies, we all have IT strategies, we have different needs. So for example, we don't use Adobe Connect that much in UCC but I know it's used in other institutions and they have needs around training for that which we wouldn't need perhaps in UCC. We use Blackboard, other people use Mahara and use Moodle so there would be varying training needs required across the different institutions. So everyone would get a very individualized training plan. We also see for example if you've got, I know for example in UCC if we have academics who want to go on a particular training course, if we want to address particular learning outcomes, well then there's probably a bunch of other people who in that institute would also benefit from doing that as well. Between February, beginning of February and June we would provide training so you can see already we're getting close to digital week and we're only beginning to do the training in February. The training we're looking at doing is to run it across partners, so actually to share training so using tools like online collaboration tools to share so we might for example run a session in UCC and we would actually stream it and everyone else would participate in an online discussion afterwards any resources we would develop would go up on the project website so we're very much looking to efficiencies of scale between different institutes. From January to June sorry digital week, phase five is digital week which runs from February to 22nd to the 25th so what we have discussed on that is that every day we would, each institute would take a different day and would run a series of events in that institute which would be streamed for everyone else to participate in as well, culminating at the end of the week in some sort of round table collaboration between the institutions online. So for example in UCC we run a digital day every year where we bring together academics across the university to one location and we get them to showcase what they've done and we then begin discussing with people to attend at what they want to do in the next coming six months around their CPD needs. So very much we see the digital week as being a collaborative exercise that we would share expertise over the week. But from January right the way through to June because the project won't complete until June the chapters will be putting learning into practice so we don't see this as a finite training thing, we see this as something we don't, we gradually support people we give them the information they need to get them up and running and then we'll continue to support those people right the way through to June. We want to see them putting the learning into practice with a final summary day sometime towards the end of June that we can agree which will be recorded and documented as the final evaluation. So one of the questions again on the feedback was around how do you propose evaluating this and I'll come to that slide in a minute. Phase 7 then is from December for right the way through the project from beginning until June we would document the learning journey and disseminate through the project website. One of the questions was how do you promote how would you recruit champions so each of the if you look at our proposal you'll see each of the institutes has existing teaching and learning strategies and we have digital learning, digital literacy strategies as well in different places it's what we would do is it's part of our ongoing activities so all of us that are here today representing this proposal were part of ongoing training development within our institutes so we would see this very much as contributing into that. We would use existing structures so existing training structures within UCC for example we have a whole range of different training structures we have a learning technology unit that does some training we have a the Office of Vice President for Teaching and Learning where I work also do some training and we have various other different training functions within the university. We would integrate into training programs and CPD events that UCC are running and the other institutes are running as well. Use newsletters, emails and that type of thing. So evaluation so the question that was asked on the proposal was how would you evaluate this? Well we will have initial assessment results of the champions digital literacy skills and what for IT for example have already developed a tool that we're looking to I suppose adopt for our purposes so we have those baseline results and we'd see what the competencies of the staff are. We would do surveys right away through training we would do surveys across institutions as well to see if we could compare metrics across institutions. We're looking to document using video so in UCC for example we have an audio visual media services team and I'm just beginning to work on that my previous background was I was a TV producer and a new learning developer in commercial so I'm looking to use video a lot more in UCC and we've been discussing that across the institutions about video snippets and hops, recording journeys in that way. We would record all training and digital week events and we would stream them wherever possible and we would also reference various different partner studies and other research I know there's a ton of research being done within UCC for example and talking to the other institutes were also aware of other research that they have conducted. So the two comments that as I said that were mentioned on the proposal were how do we engage the champions and the questions I suppose was about yeah it's all very well dealing with people who already have made the decision and we made this point in our proposal actually it's very easy to deal with people when they've actually decided they want to engage with technology and work with you. Increasingly in UCC we're seeing a lot of pressures being put on from an income generation point of view from people wanting to do more with less within across the departments so there's pressure from the top down and people are being forced to come and talk to us more and more and literally that's growing so at the moment we changed the structure of online support in UCC back in June this year and we're already recruited two new instructional designers and we're under pressure to get more people in so there's a huge demand within UCC and certainly talking to Trillie, Wadaford, Cork, IT and Carlo we know as well that there's an increasing demand for training there. The digital week timing was questioned and again that's down to the proposal really and down to the guidelines we would quite happily be willing to consider moving the digital week back into June or into May if that made more sense but we very much see the digital week not as a culmination of training but really as a launchpad so we really want to put people up there and say well I'm Professor John Smith I'm lecturing in Epidemiology and I've never used technology before but I'm hoping to use Adobe Connect to stream and capture some of my lectures or Panopto or whatever or create a different website. So those were the salient points I'm just looking at the time and that really is Etna Natchel. Thank you very much.


How much faith do you have in American democracy? That's a hard question for me to answer. I have a lot of faith in the American system of government. To me, a big part of the reason America has been successful and stable as a free government for 200 and 30 or 40 years, depending on how you count, is not because of American democracy per se, although that's part of it, but because we created a constitutional Republican federal democracy that prevented power from concentrating in any one place. The great danger and fear that I have is that in the last 50 to 70 years, power has increasingly concentrated not only in the federal government, but in the presidency. And we talked about something called an imperial presidency in the United States. The president has more and more power. And part of that is because Congress has advocated its power because they don't want to pass the most controversial laws or they don't want to get in controversy at all because they want to raise money. And if you raise money, you don't want to be on record doing this or that. And so they pass general laws and then leave the implementation of that laws to the executive branch, to administrative agencies. The administrative agencies run by the president, the president attains more and more power. And that is to me the most dangerous trend in American politics is the imperial presidency. I think we need to reinvigorate Congress, the Legislative, but I also think we need to reinvigorate the states and state government, but even beyond that, local governments, I think we need to bring back the fun in politics and politics is only fun if people think they have power. So if you organize locally and you have no power at some point, you stop. That's what scares me. And so I think what we're seeing right now on the left and the right are disempowered American citizens saying we want power and they form the Tea Party and they form Occupy Wall Street. That's the good news. The bad news is as soon as they actually have to take responsibility with the power, tax themselves, govern themselves, they sort of disappear and say, you know, we don't want that. It takes time. It takes money. It's difficult. It's not easy. It's actually hard and it takes time and no one seems to want to spend the time on self-government anymore. And so my worry is that these movements will become simply safety valves for anger, but not actually lead to a reinvigoration of democracy. My hope is that they will lead to a reinvigoration of democracy and that people will start to become involved again in self-government all throughout the American system of government.


Namaste viewers, welcome you all to the episode 5 of NICU Diaries and to answer to your queries I have Dr. Ravi Swami and I have Dr. Sanjeeva Reddy here. The first question is about what all the protocols that we use in our NICU to prevent infections and how do we manage when they occur? Infections are the most common problem what we see in NICU because the babies have got very minimal defense but the simplest thing which we enforce for all parents or all the health care professionals are to wash their hands. So just even before you enter the NICU you will see that we are quite strict on washing your hands, wearing a separate gowns, changing your footwear and stuff. This itself is more than sufficient to reduce most of the infections in NICU. So these are the usual ways how we limit and prevent infections. What would be any adverse effects that we can see in NICU care of babies? NICU per se we cannot generalise the adverse effects it all depends on why a particular baby is admitted to NICU. So if a baby is admitted for infection treatment the adverse effects will relate to the medications that we use and sometimes if the baby is admitted for treatment of jaundice the effects will depend on the treatment that we use, the phototherapy light and also the complications of the jaundice itself but NICU per se will not leave any adverse effects as such. Babies admitted in NICU will they have a healthy life later or do they have any long term complications that could stay? So this has been well studied so we are always interested in looking at the long term neurodevelopmental outcomes for babies usually between 18 months to 24 months depending on the condition most of the premature babies that's the most common admission to the NICU preterm babies if you say you have about 100 babies in NICU 80 to 85 should not have any issues depending again on gestation but remaining 15 percent we do look into complications especially in their motor problems like they able to walk and whether they're able to use their hands and so on similarly we do see issues with their speech and in their behaviour. How do we support the parents and families during their stay is there any different way that we do or how do we support them? So NICU environment is very unique only patient is allowed to stay inside the unit but again there is key differences between adult ICU and NICU for example whereas adult patient is cared for in a normal kind of a bed for babies we may have a cot which is suited for the size of the baby or we may have a special incubator which helps in maintaining the temperature of the baby. So parents may find it a little bit difficult to have access to babies all the time but we will try and do our best to allow the visiting hours unrestricted access to stay with the baby for as long as it's possible but we have a feeding room next to the unit where they can sit and rest for as long as they want and more importantly we provide information on a regular basis so they are updated about what's going on with the baby and they can kind of feel relaxed about what's going on inside. How do you approach pain management and comfort measures for infants in NICU? Okay so again depending on what the problem is we can decide so the most commonest ways how we manage pain in babies who are undergoing any form of procedures for example we're doing any blood test or we're putting a canal or something then it's well well proven beyond or that sucrose which is a sugary water does help in pain relief. So yeah depending on the threshold for pain we decide on the medicines what we need to use. Thank you so much viewers for watching we'll see you again in the episode 6.


Welcome once again everybody. It's good to see you all. I hope you all are doing well as Just mentioned and everybody who's joining online. I hope you're following along with the course. Well Good good good Colen you have your hands raised. I think that's by accident or do you want to ask a question? All right, no problem. Let's try it. Okay. Hey, can I request one of us to start us off with a word of prayer? Please anybody just please lead us in the world of prayer Sure I pray Father Jesus name. We come before throne of grace. We need your mercy law before you grace and mercy today, Father We love you. We praise Father as we spend time in the class Learning about the worship ministry father. We thank you the subject We pray Father let deeper insight that revolution from the word of God I speak the spontaneous revelations from God in Jesus name, Father. Thank you, Dad Nightmaster With your divine wisdom father you are the author of the Bible and you really award with the divine Rima word of Lord. We thank you. We praise you father for your goodness your goodness overflows in our life time As we spend the time father. Let's spirit of God Work in our hearts work in our soul father. Let me understand more deep father your heart And and your your heart of daddy. We thank you. We praise you father. Give us the wisdom understand Understand the deeper things of the world of God. We thank you. We praise you in Jesus name. We pray Amen Amen Amen. Thank you, Thomas. Thank you. All right guys. Let's get started So last week we started off on our journey on learning from the tabernacle of Moses, right? So we started off there just as quickly do a quick recap Okay from page 16 in your notes From page 16 in your notes. That's where we started our journey Into the tabernacle of Moses We see that how How the tabernacle was God's idea. It was his sanctuary. It was his dwelling place From the time of the fall in Genesis to Exodus 25. That's about 2,500 years There was really no dwelling place After the fall after Adam and Eve had sinned There was a separation a great divide between Divinity and humanity and how the tabernacle was a bridge you know between heaven and earth and so and so the one of the First things that we encounter as we go into the tabernacle is the gate Which we call it as the place of introduction, right at the gate You meet Jesus in all his four offices as he's presented in the four gospels that he's presented as a king He's presented as a son of God. He's presented as pure and perfect man And he's also presented as our savior in all of those four gospels And the four gospels the four Colors of curtains or the veil that makes up at the gate Represents Jesus in his all his four offices. That is the place of introduction, right and then Which leads us into the outer court as we all know in outer court. There are two pieces of furnitures, isn't it? There's a brazen altar or bronze altar or also known as the altar of sacrifice Which we will call it as the place of reconciliation the place of the altar is a symbol of the cross Right where Jesus is Jesus gave himself as a perfect sacrifice for us it is at the cross where reconciliation is born because he shed his blood For us and he took our place on the cross. He reconciled our Relationship with God the father back because of what Jesus did on the cross and so that is a symbol That's the imagery of the brazen altar. It's a place of reconciliation It's also a place where it reminds us to offer ourselves up as the living sacrifices every day Okay, it's not just a place where we encounter and know that what Jesus did for us But it's also encouraging us urging us to live a life of a spiritual sacrifice to offer your body and your life as this living sacrifice Completely to God, okay and Then from there we move to the next piece of furniture, which is the bronze labor or the brazen labor Which is a place of sanctification in page 18 in your notes page 18 In your notes, we see that it was like a big tub of water basin Right on the outside it was covered with bronze and on the inside of the tub Basin it was filled with mirrors that was used by women, right? And we see that's a place of sanctification because In the tabernacle days the priests had to wash their hands and their feet Before they enter the holy place Right before they enter the holy place they had to wash their hands and feet now the hands it symbolizes works deeds Right now we we don't have to wash our hands in a sense, right? It's again metaphorically speaking because we don't live by deeds. We don't because we live by grace Okay, Jesus is our righteousness, right? We are in him and he is in us So we don't have to you know, worry about deeds our works is not going to get us to heaven It is the righteousness of God that covers us However, we still have to walk this walk of life.   We still have the capacity to Examples, right all these acts of sins and so which is why we need to Sanctify ourselves on a daily basis and and from what we read in your notes We see that word of God Cleanses us His word Lenses us right and we are also cleansed and empowered by the spirit like we read in Titus 3 Right and then also in James chapter 1 was 22 and 25 We see that the word of God is is used as It says it's a mirror for us, right? It's a mirror that tells us. Okay. What is good? What is not good? If a man looks at himself in the mirror and if he doesn't correct himself, he is a fool But if if a man looks at himself in the mirror and corrects himself He's a wise man and it's amazing how James uses God's word as a mirror and funnily enough That the basin on the inside was made of mirrors and that's just wonderful, isn't it? So the bronze labor is the place of sanctification. We are cleansed. We are we are made whole by God's word Okay, so that's the outer court and then there now we enter into the inner court as you entered in To the inner court to your right side. There was a table of showbread or shoe bread That is the place of Satisfaction Okay, the bread resembles Jesus as he is the bread of life. He satisfies us He provides for us to give us this day our daily bread, right? so he's he That is the place of satisfaction and in the reminder that Jesus Is the bread of life because that's what he says in John 6 35 I am the bread of life and John 6 51 58. I am the living bread which came down from heaven right And then we concluded last week with This other piece of furniture, which is the golden lamp stand Which is a place of illumination, right in John chapter 8 Jesus says I am the light of the world, right? That's Another symbolization there John chapter 8, right? Yes, John chapter 8 Okay So it was a place of illumination. It's a place of revelation and one of the key scriptures that we we kind of concluded was from I think second Corinthians chapter 4 that Paul writes About Jesus as the light of the knowledge of the face of God of the glory of the face of God that we all need So yeah, so we concluded that and I hope, you know, we're all doing well until then Right, okay, because today we'll continue in your notes and on page 20 and This is the last piece of furniture in the holy place Okay, so in the holy place you have the table of show bread you have the golden lamp stand And then you have the altar of intercession Okay, the or golden altar of incense. This is a place of intercession. Okay Let me just read the verse that's there in the notes from Exodus chapter 30 verse 1 to 9 it says You shall make an altar to burn incense Okay, guys, I hope everybody has your notes ready. Should I share the screen? Will that be better? Will it be better if I share the screen? And do that. Yeah, sure. I'll do that. Yeah Second, um, so that's where we're at We are page 20 this Here's for a lot of reference sake Okay, so Exodus 30 verse 1 to 9. Can I request one of us to read this this passage, please? Anybody please read this passage Siddharth, do you mind reading us this passage? Yeah, yes I mean the whole thing the notes Just the notes. Yeah, what I was there from Exodus chapter 30 to 1 to 9. Yeah Just okay Just make an altar to burn incense on you shall make it off Acacia wood, acacia will be its length and qubit its width It shall be square and two qubit shall be its height Its horns shall be Of one piece with it and you shall overlay its top its sides all around And its horns with pure gold And you shall make it for it molding of gold all around two gold rings shall make it Okay Under the molding on both sides you shall place them on its two sides and they will be holding for the poles with which To wear it you shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold and you shall put it before the veil that is before the arc of The testimony before the mercy seed that is over the testimony where I will meet with you I don't show burn on it sweet incense every morning when he tends the lamps He shall burn incense on it and when Aaron lights the lamps at to the light. He shall burn incense on it Uh pre Perpetual incense before the Lord Yeah incense before the Lord throughout your generations You shall not offer strange incense on it Or burn offering or green offering not sure you pour a drink offering on it awesome, okay Thank you Siddharth. Thank you so much. Okay, so there's clear instructions on How the altar is to be built now there was clear instructions for every piece of furniture That was ever built in the tabernacle. Okay, we are not going into the details of it But it's wonderful to see that how God is very specific about the details Which would to use once again as always And how many rings and everything To go in this. Okay, so And later on when you read in Exodus 30 34 to 38, you see that this incense was a mixture of Four rich and very rare spices Okay, and this was used to on Uh to be burnt on the altar of incense Okay, um, so I mean that altar of incense on it. You cannot do any burnt offerings You cannot pour any drink offering or green offering That was not the altar for it. It was just purely an altar for incense. Okay Let's read just a few more scriptures. Um, can I Rest request us to go to Leviticus chapter I just paste these Scriptures that I would like for us to read in the chat section Um, it'd be wonderful if you could help me read those scriptures Leviticus chapter 16 verse 13 Numbers chapter 16 was 46 and numbers chapter 7 was 86 Okay, can three of us uh any three of y'all I'll read those uh scriptures, please Leviticus 6 13 anybody Correct Please go ahead. Yes And he shall put The incense on the fire before the Lord that the cloud of incense may cover The mercy said that is on the testimony Last he died Okay, so that is uh leviticus chapter 16 verse 13. Is that correct apprentice? Yes, sir Okay, all right, so uh just to Um I think I just for all our benefit I'll paste that verse also Um, this is the niv version. This is leviticus sixth Sorry guys That's not not one. Okay. So he used to put the incense on the fire Before the Lord that means this altar of incense was just before the holy of holies, right? The only thing that's separated the holy of holies and the holy place Was like a thick six inch veil. Okay And the smoke of the incense will conceal the atonement cover above the tablets of the covenant law So that he will not die. Um, one of the interesting things, um Wait, let me see if there's another version of it. Um, that we can This is of the same verse, but the nlp version It says uh there in the Lord's presence He will put the incense on the burning coals So that the cloud of incense will rise over the ark's cover the place of atonement That rests on the ark of the coven if he follows these instructions, he will not die, right? So, um, imagine this imagery. Okay, so And this incense was to be burning in the morning and in the evening throughout the day, right as it's mentioned That means the holy place Would will always have this smoke In it this this fragrance of uh, you know of the incense filling that room And and and and and and it could go past the veil and fill The mercy seat as well as we read in leviticus 16 13 Now can I request uh, somebody else to read the next verse which is numbers 16 46 Please Take your fire band put life ball from the altar in it And incense on the coals and hurry with it to To the blow with the people in perfume Rachel and purification for them Probably the Lord angry has already broken out and and and and if it Has already begun Correct. Yeah, so this is another different context, but uh, mozick is commanding aren't to do the same thing is to um Burn the incense on the altar. Okay. Um, so again Now in that context there was a wrath of god that was coming But then that altar of incense pouring the incense was like a place of intercession and you know standing in the gap And asking god not to do that Because that's what intercession simply means isn't it guys? Right intercession simply means standing in the gap All right in the past a year and a half Or almost two years How many times have we said to each other?   Yeah. Have you done that? A bit more so I mean, I'm sure we've done that a lot in our lives But then uh, I mean at least in my life It seems like I've said that a lot more in the last two years year and a half during the pandemic You know, so simply Every time we say that you're you're telling the other person. I am standing in the gap for you I'm going to pray for you. I'm going to intercede for you And we just saw the context, uh, you know in numbers chapters What is that verse? Number 16, okay There's another chapter that a verse like I'll read for us is numbers chapter seven 86 it says The 12 gold dishes Filled with incense weighed 10 shekels each according to the sanctuary shekel Altogether the gold dishes weighed 120 shekels Okay, uh, no, there was these dishes that gold dishes. Okay. It was all filled with incense Uh, that was and I would encourage you to read that entire chapter, uh, you know Because again the details That more that the scripture goes into that god goes into is amazing So I would urge you all to just go through those passage of scriptures those entire chapters, um, you know for for better understanding We can't do that now for time's sake. Okay All right So at the altar of incense in your notes, uh, is where intercession begins Where the word becomes our prayer Okay, uh Let's go to Psalm 141 verse two. It's one of the go-to passages every time we mention, um Intercession, okay Psalm 141 verse two And with your hand in that scripture, let's we can also turn to revelation Uh Chapter eight No problem At least tells me that the class is alive Okay, so we have Psalm 141 and revelation eight ready. Okay, so let's read uh, Psalm 141 Uh, I'll read one one and two Okay, it says Oh lord, I call to you Come quickly to me hear my voice when I call to you verse two May my prayer be set before you like incense May the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice Okay, you see how prayer Is Uh used as uh an imagery for incense, right? May my prayer be set before you like incense And may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifices such a beautiful imagery, isn't it? David was such an amazing port, you know poem writer A port I should say Um, now let's quickly go to revelation chapter eight And I'll read the first three verses. Okay, the first four verses just so we understand the context When he opened the seventh seal There was silence in heaven for about half an hour And I saw the seven angels who stand before god And to them were given seven trumpets Another angel who had a golden sensor Came and stood at the altar He was given much incense to offer remember, you know just pause it says This angel was holding a golden sensor. Where did we read about it just now? In number 16 didn't it number 1646 right and uh, sorry number 786. Okay, they're golden Wrestles were filled with incense. So the same thing is mentioned here Another angel was who had a golden sensor came and stood at the altar He was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints On the golden altar before the throne Right on the golden altar before the throne The smoke of the incense Together with the prayers of the saints went up before god from the angel's hand Okay, um, so That's just another Beautiful beautiful imagery. So there's altar of incense is an altar of intercession, right? And we see that jesus also intercedes for us in heaven. He's constantly interceding for us and In the one of the key verses is it starts in John chapter 17 verse 1 Okay, john chapter 17 verse 1 when he's When he lifted up his eyes to the heavens and he said father the hour has come Glorify your son that the sun may glorify you Right and in that whole chapter in john chapter 17, we see that jesus Interceding for his own right And he still does it And that intercession that his his intercession for us is like a fragrant cloud of incense Before the father right covering the faults and the sins of the people of god so that they will not be destroyed by the wrath of god, right? um So that is uh, that's something beautiful about the altar of intercession Okay From here Now We move To the holy of holies okay now In the outer courts, there was noise. There were people, you know There was there was there was a crowd of people right every time this crowd of people that there's there's some kind of noise, right? There's uh, there was crying There was there's a there's a sound of greetings. There's a sound of sacrifice washing everything In the holy of holies You experience some 46 verse 10 which is Be still and know that I am god Okay, there's a transition happening here guys From the outer courts to the inner courts To the holy of holies right the outer and the inner courts Very much involved our duties as christians the things that we have to do Our ministry, you know worship leading our pastoral ministries, etc. etc Right the outer and the inner courts kind of Symbolizes our duties as a christian And what we need to do to move into places where we really want to be Is the place called the holy of holies And that's where we really want to be Okay So pass the veil on the day of atonement once a year Once a year every every year the high priest Only the high priest Okay, would go into the holy of holies and And put the blood On the mercy seat as an atonement for the entire nation Of israel Okay, the high priest would have these 12 stones on his breast played You know representing all the 12 tribes of israel Okay, let's just go a little deeper and see what the word has to say So there was a veil that separated the inner court, which is the holy place From the holy of holies Also known as the most holy place The holy of holies contained the mercy seat and the ark of testimony Okay This is very important for us to know the holy of holies was not empty Okay, it's very very important for us to know that the holy of holies was not empty that place Had the ark of testimony in it All right. Um, so can I quickly request someone to read this passage, please anybody, please The whole passage Yes, the exodus one is it right? Yes Exodus 2630 the 34th. Yeah, this one. Thank you. Thank you and you shall Raise up rise of the cavernacle according to its pattern, which you were shown on the mountain You shall make a veil woven of blue purple and scarlet thread and find woven It shall be woven with an artistic design of turban You shall hang it upon the four pillars of Akhaya wood overlaid with gold Their hooks shall be gold upon four circuits of silver and you shall hang the veil from touch Then you shall bring the ark of the testimony in There before the veil the veil shall be a Divider for you between the holy place and the most holy You shall put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony In the most holy Thank you Right Wait, that's that's another passage for us to you. You know, you can read again a little later on Where is that? Sorry There's another passage of scripture that I've mentioned in exodus 25 You shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark and in the ark You shall put the testimony that I will give you once again and there I will meet with you I will speak with you from above the mercy seat From between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony about everything Which I will give you in the commandment the children of israel Okay Why it really fascinates me about this is When god starts the design of the tabernacle when he tells starts telling moses about the design and how it should be When we talk about the tabernacle we start from the outside We start from the gate. We start from the outer courts inner courts and the most holy place But god always started from the holy place and then went outside That again, you know should tell something about the way god functions and god thinks and god works is that For him the inside is more important than the outside Right, that's not to say that the outside is less important or anything, but if he's starting From the from the holy place holy of holies and then he works his way out And that should tell us something that means it is very important, right? Um, so that's just a little bit about uh, you know, just some of the pointers that I want to share about the ark because like I mentioned Uh, the holy of holies was not empty Right, it had a piece of furniture in it. Okay, so Uh in the bible, right, um, there are a few arcs that is mentioned Okay, it is now in the old testament itself the ark of the covenant is Depending on the translations that you use it's mentioned at least a hundred and eighty five times Okay, a hundred and eighty five times. All right, so um, I'll just Put this something that I uh So the Hebrew word for ark My chat for us Uh, the Hebrew word for ark is tawa, okay ta hyphen va or tevet It's not in your notes. I'm just just additional notes that I'm sharing with you. Okay, so, um, the word tawa Okay, uh, is used twice in the bible not only, uh It one of the first arc that was uh, that is mentioned in the bible is The noah's ark Right, um, it's uh in the mbc that in genesis chapter six to 10 genesis nine I'll I'll share the scripture for you with your as well Between I mean you all know where noah's ark is mentioned in the bible Okay in genesis, so that's the one of the first arc that's mentioned now when you read through that arc And the and again the details on how god tells noah to build it, you know the measurement and everything he tells noah, okay Use pitch or tar to cover it from the outside and on the inside, okay? They call it pitch like like it'll be like par, right? um and another second arc that is used uh, that's mentioned in the bible is um again in the kjv version if you read exodus chapter two This chapter two was three to six it talks about how moses's mother, uh, you know built this small Basket which was which is also known called as an arc Okay, that was also pitched with a used tar to pitch inside and out Okay, uh, and and also The third mention of the arc is used in term uh is used in terms of um In when they had to bury joseph, okay again depending on the translation in genesis 50 was 26 That's genesis chapter 50 was 26. Okay The word that's used there for coffin joseph's coffin is actually um This hebrew word which again means like a chest like a treasury of chest, you know Like a treasure chest like a big trunk, you know that people call it A tool chest a chest box everything, you know Which was also the same term used for the arc Okay, so let's just pause there and you see that arc was actually used to protect yourself To protect yourself from the danger and everything but also the same time It was also used to put away dead things into And and and to be put away And much later we see right that the arc of the covenant In the arc of the covenant inside the arc Uh, there was 10 commandments the laws that was kept inside and there was added Rod or staff that was put inside and and manna that was placed inside and all of those has significance, right? So Uh, and why do I why do we need to know about all of this and I think It's very important that we understand all these, you know small details. It's um, not It's good, isn't it so But except, you know, all these arcs was pitched with tar inside and out except the arc of the covenant Of god was pitched on the outside and inside with gold. It was covered with gold and that again resembles the divinity the The heavenly things the royalty the kingdom etc. That's what gold resembles, isn't it and And also another small thought about acacia wood that god tells them to use now acacia wood In those in their culture Uh is known as an incorruptible wood Okay Now in the bible again wood Is symbolized as humanity Okay, you there's a lot of imageries like this, right that the bible uses metaphorically. So wood always symbolized humanity Okay, uh now in acacia wood in their culture It was like a wood that was incorruptible And it would this wood would produce a balm or a gum Okay, that people would use for medicinal purposes for healing purposes You see where i'm going with this, uh, you know It's like symbolizing beautifully that jesus was this inhuman. He was incorruptible And by his stripes by his blood that was shed out of his body. We are healed Isn't it? Um, so, uh, yeah, that's just another pointer, you know for us to Uh, remember about the arc of the covenant. Um, and from there on, you know, we see that Um, I mean, that's that that's really that's really it. Um, you know This is a place where you have communion with god Okay, this is a place where you don't do anything Where you are where you just come face to face before him Um Before this this eternal being this humongous this This eternal god The ancient of days the holy one of israel That is a place of worship Okay In the outer courts guys just stay with me In the outer courts Okay, as sam 100 says I will enter his gates with thanks giving his courts with praise Okay, in the outer courts, there will be a lot of people There can be a lot of people like a group of people like like a crowd 50 or 100 Okay, and and from there when you come into the holy place It's suddenly small and you can only fit into approximately 10 to 12 people in that place But in the holy of holies, there's room only for one So what is happening there is that you can praise god with a crowd in the congregation Corporately you can praise him you can exalt him, right? And then when you go into the holy place you can serve god With a group of people with a team with just a handful But you can only worship him face to face one on one And that is what is happening in the holy of holies, right? Um Let us dwell in the holy of holies. This is the place of intimacy with god This is the place of high intensity.  Uh And just on the encouraging note, uh It is that place is like mary settling down at the feet of jesus Listening to the voice of god It is choosing that one thing Which is a good part which cannot be taken away Okay, um, so as as christians as, um Let me just Stop presenting here for us okay, um On concluding a part of this section as as christians as Ministers of god as ministry leaders wherever you are at We cannot be satisfied in the outer courts We cannot be satisfied in just knowing. Okay, jesus died for me all is well. Happy life. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah No But there's an invitation Right, there's an invitation. He says come Bully to the throne of grace Okay, the ark of a covenant was another again a symbol of the throne of god on earth It was his throne here And he bruised we see that he says come boldly to the throne of grace. He's not only saying come But god is saying, you know, he's addressing your attitude in the manner how you can come Come boldly to the throne of grace Don't just stay in the outer courts You know, and there's a beautiful song by petra Uh, and I'll share the link says take me past the outer courts Into your holy place Past the brazen altar Very very stand face to face Yes, it's a lovely song. It's ministered to me. Uh, so many times Um, I'll try and get that link and I'll share it with you.


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