All right, so you are asking is the camera too wide in both shots? Do I need to get in closer? Maybe It's a bit too wide as in Also in terms of your white screen. I know you said have the guy walk away But I wanted to try this instead. I just it just popped in my head if it doesn't work I'll do the guy walking away. It's still working on the hands eyes lips. I'll probably tackle that next All right. Awesome. Love it. Great notes So I put together just as a sequence Why is it so hard to find a good man? So first of all the cut works really well Why is it so hard? It's just probably It's just blocking it's really really fast Boom how she stops so she will come down. I keep that speed how this connects between the two shots is great Then just ease into this more Do you want to feel how it's you know, but cheeks onto a flat ground? It's gonna be some softer stop And she can start the line while still going down so she might You know by now one of seven on the second shot she might stop It's so hard to find a good man And Let's go one by one So yeah, to me that would be just be this for the transition but again those two shots together they work really well So if I go one by one So you're mentioning this and I actually love it. That's actually that's a great idea. All I would do is Probably reframe to something like this. Oh Leave where you have it right the top is fine You don't have to see all of this. This is too low here So imagine all of this that I'm scribbling here like an idiot is Gone so you're closer in like this, but you have a nice right frame composition there I love this idea that he's waiting there with this kiss It's also less animate you'd have to do the walk which is great And you can start the shot with So right when he when she gets to here You know you can have you can start him here Maybe a bit further back so his nose is maybe here and throughout the shot until we lose him He advances to where you are currently and then he can go from like normal almost normal lips to the kissy lips So we can tell right before she closes. He's going in Right for the kiss and she closes that could also experiment experiment with him in this pose waiting And then right before she closes like on this frame You suddenly have his eyes open up because he realizes wait, I don't I'm where's the kiss? it's not coming and He just sees right before it closes, you know, it's it starts to open right at the end You got like that big eye like wait what and then she closes just me as a little detail I think that could be interesting as well, but I love the idea That's totally great might want to move that foot around just a bit here So I have a bit of a cleaner silhouette so you can see the foot out there So it's not just this stomp if you squint it's like just like a straight leg like that and This gets a bit messy there silhouette wise, but it could probably work It's just aligns perfectly with her chest. It's a bit of a tangent. So maybe his hand is here No, it looks like she'll grab her chest there, but I think It's not crazy. Just it's just right there. I'm gonna probably just bring that So she's holding it behind her somewhere around here, maybe or you can experiment with here Where maybe has a fists or like tense hands nervous He's waiting and then when she continues and you see his eyes if you do this his eyes wide You will see a glimpse of his hand and the things are relaxing as he's realizing wait. What's going on? You play around with it for her Yeah, I mean that all works you have to Work on the mechanics of flattening the hands all the good stuff there as she pushes chest some Should and chest rotation there You know now she slides forward a bit of a weight change You might move over a bit more left and then right just mechanics wise keep going But that's great too. So she closes this right and I like that.  So at this point, maybe that hand is here So that by the time she drops her head You can drop her shoulders a bit and then that hand could already be lower So it's a it's a more overall view of things are coming down lowering because she that's how she feels So it's in back in this this pose not pose, but arms down a bit sooner The same thing here you're moving this around although you are moving over and it's good for weight shift For your pelvis, it's gets a bit swimmy. I'm looking at this foot You know, it's like she just stops in and the other foot kind of pivots, but then you have this weird pivots only on the toes It's a bit swimmy dancey and bit fast. I'm not quite buying the physics of this This is just like a magical rotation in Y Versus you do this Maybe she stops here a bit sooner with an angled foot like that and really plant it and don't move it and then she takes that step and Right at the end you might start pivoting On the toes to get there and then after that pivot you could do like a slight adjustment Not a step maybe like a slight raise and step Then when you go back here, just make sure that she's not too far away I have a feeling she's potentially a bit too far away So when she goes bam that might hurt her back a bit too much So be mindful of how you can approach that And when you do this, you really want to feel Like right now it feels like she's just going backwards and you want a bit of a Rotation so she's hitting the wall with her Butt first and it's rotated forward. So when she actually hits the wall You can feel how the root bam suddenly stops and then the chest goes back There's some impact on the arms impact of it on her head I don't know if she has a hair controls for polish So you feel that moment a bit more how she hits this And she drops a bit fast to me it would be she goes back Boom hits this with a little bit of a pause and slowly starts sliding Then hits the fastest point right before the cut So if you need to extend the shot back up a frame to get all this Totally fine, but I like that at this point The feet are going forward. I think that's cool and then we cut to this Why is it so hard to find a good man And I don't mind this you could be closer, maybe Maybe You could But then when you go to this, I'm not sure if she gets to cut out. I don't know you could you could try it I mean, it's an easy change Because I can see how this might be where those big blue shapes there or a leg Which you could also potentially cheat and just bring those knees lower. She's already slid down pretty far But then the question is when you bring those Legs up like what are you are acting choices?  She's like this And then she ends up Just taking putting her legs out To that full like our shoulder slums even legs are down That could be an acting choice She could be slightly closer to this so so when she's done With her so hard to find a good man Good man. So man at the very end she would be You know, she could almost be leaning over and then she has like a full lean with her head against this With a little hair Punched in a bit, you know, like that you can feel that contact how she's leaning against that wall Going over there that could be something So like as an idea everything I think I think is great. The timing generally works You know, you're gonna have to work on like I said, like how fast she slides down how quickly she stops um Stuff like that just for the proper weight and mechanics and then now that we're here Uh experiment going closer. I mean, I'm totally up for it. Why not? This could be fine, too And just think about your acting choices.  All right. Thank you All right There's an email you can sign up you can start whenever you want you can submit whatever you want You get 16 submissions either way the like and subscribe would be awesome. All right. Thank you


Hello everyone, I am Sira Satish Kumar, Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry in Manipal Hospital, Spangler. Well, I am very sure we all use our resources, we all use our ideas to feel better when we are not feeling good. Which means anytime that a person is feeling distressed, a person will try doing everything the person might think it could help like listen to a music or watch movie or go out with friends. There are a lot of things people follow when they are not feeling better.  So when you know that you are doing everything but you are not feeling better, you know that there is something that is lacking that you need to know to make you feel better. And you might go to a friend to ask some suggestions, you follow everything but still there is something that is lacking in you. You probably go to Google, learn what to do, though you know what to do probably you might not be sure on how to do and that is when you will have to seek a professional help to go for self-management for the stress management sessions.


Follow three talented young designers as they transform three empty apartments on Valdivia State into dream homes using finishes provided by Cesar Stone and Plaskon. Cast your vote on privateproperty.co.za and stand a chance to win one of the completed apartments worth more than three million rand. Welcome back to Winner Home on Afternoon Express. Now there is less than a week left for our design contestants to complete their master bedrooms. Recently they met up with their mentors to go through some ideas that will hopefully push their master bedrooms to the next level. Menently, show me where you're at, where we've got you on the main bedroom. I think we on track at the moment so the floor is in. We're lucky enough to have the floor installed at the same time as the other bedroom. Luck's got nothing to do with it. But how do you work the luckier you get? So I've made sure that the floor is protected so that it doesn't get damaged when we work on the rest of the stuff. At the moment we're working on the mural. So tell me about the mural, that's what I'm most excited about. We got in touch with Nabeah, you're going ahead with that. Yes, yes, Nabs is on sides are working on the mural. We're going for that distressed look which is bolder than what we had for the guest bedroom. Yeah, we need to make Plaskon happy, show them what we can do with their bed. So I'm very happy about that. And then I guess it's a matter of just waiting for everything to arrive. I mean it's a bit air-raising with the bed coming in from Durban. The bed is like one of my main worries because it's literally gonna make or break the room. So I'm very stressed about that getting on sides. I think it's worth the stress, Menante. That bed's gonna be beautiful. Obviously it's picking up on the same theme as your initial bedroom. Slightly different though. The dove gray I think is really, it's gonna be a little bit more serene, a little bit more calming than the guest bedroom. Even though we're taking a similar idea with the guest bedroom, so everything is gonna go into me. You and I know how much time we spend in our bedrooms. It's not just about sleeping. It's about relaxation. It's about function. It's also about getting ready for the day every morning.  Also just because of the site where it is, where Valdavi is, you want to be able to spend as much time on that beautiful estate. So adding in a few functional elements where people can work from their bedrooms. Also maybe you don't always want to read in bed. You take your reading quite seriously. You want to be able to sit in a chair. So I think for me that's the importance of this bedroom. It's stylish but it's functional. It's also the big thing about bedrooms for me is that they do have to be soothing. It has to become a sentry. So not too tech heavy. Pull back on the tech but again it needs to be hard working. That means I better get hard working myself. Agreed. A few things happened but I think I'll be able to make it. Oh I'm sure just talk me through it and maybe we can find some solutions. So the exposed cupboards are a bit too long. The one is fitting but the other one is way too long. I'm sure your handymen will sort it out and you've got a bit of time. Yeah. Just make sure that you've got a good finish on where the two paints meet each other. Yes it is. And I think one of the most important things to remember is you are not decorating.  Yes. And just keep in mind that some real person actually has to live in this place. Okay so tell me what is still left to do. I need to figure out how to do that quickly. The exposed cupboards and then my concrete benches are cut too long so I need to send them back. At least they were not cut too short. That would have been a bigger problem. I still need to style a bit and use the right bedding. I'm not sure yet what color I'm going to go through. I can definitely help you. I think for a bedroom you need like that little bit of unexpectedness on the bed. Maybe two colors that we go with. And good quality. The whole look that you're going for is understated. Really good quality so it doesn't look flashy but it is just fabulous to live in that space. Right how's it going? Yeah so the fence on the wall is looking great. At least I took just perfectly. The scissors to own bedside tables are arriving soon and we've taken that same scissors to own through to the main dressing room. We're just going to swap them in there. Okay have the bedside tables arrived? Yeah they will arrive soon so I'm quite happy with them. They look gorgeous. And tell me about the craft house tour. Has it finally come together? It's so amazing. Michelle it's just such a beautiful piece. They're based in Strand. It's marina wool and it's just going to be a salad. Not good so that whole natural organic beautiful soft look at the base of the bed. And also with the Lisa Furrow clay that we have there. I mean those art pieces are just so stunning. Now we wanted to talk about the rug for the bedroom. I wanted to suggest to you that maybe you look at moving that rug into the dressing room area so that you've got this beautiful quiet sanctuary and walk into this lovely soft space and then into that spa like bathroom. It's a great idea. Yeah it really is. And how's the dressing room doing? Okay I'm still waiting on confirmation for the Ottomans. They have that black leather that we spoke about. Yeah so we have that thread going through again. And we have the metal rods and they're going to look amazing. They are a little bit away from the wall so we can allow for different doors to be put in at a later stage. Down the side? Basically this whole building cupboard is floating in the air. I think it just adds that beautiful anus to the space. It has a beautiful panelling on either side. So what I loved about your design which I think you should work through and do fully is take that whole wall feature up and across the ceiling and down again. I think it just created this amazing room within a room. I also love Brunt's idea for a design for the pole that doesn't quite go to the end. So it doesn't mess with the catting on the side. All of those details really count. So I think the dressing room needs to be... Pierce or resistance? It does. You've designed it beautifully so go for it. All you have to do now is meet that deadline. Yeah I think it's going to be amazing space. Good. They better get their move on. Only three days left to complete those master bedrooms. Now paying off a home loan is a very expensive endeavor especially in today's economic climate. Luckily we have our finance expert to help us out. Due to general increases in the cost of living, home owners and property investors are finding it increasingly difficult to keep up with expenses. Home loan repayments being one of them. We have Tim Iconusi with us in the loft who is the head of sales and client value management at Nedbank Home Loans to guide us through the steps to take when it comes to protecting your homes when facing financial challenges. Welcome back to the loft Tim. Thank you very much. So one of these financial challenges we mentioned could be losing your job. What steps does one take in that situation? So Bonnie when we grant your home loan we know that it's a 20 to 30 year commitment and we expect that because it's a long period of time you may run into some financial difficulty. So as a bank what we've tried to do is to create options for individuals to be able to ride out the storm. And we have both short term options for clients who face difficulty and as well as some long term options as well. The first thing I'd like to state before I get into the options is clients should never go into default because the implications for that are quite dire and they have long term implications for that. So they'll affect your ability to get credit in future when your situation does improve. So the first thing I would suggest is for clients to come straight to your banker and talk about your financial difficulty and understand it from a long and short term perspective because if it's a short term difficulty then what we can do is restructure your entire loan which in essence is about reducing your repayments and extending the time period that you would need to pay back the loan. If you believe that the long term effects of your financial situation will continue to persist then I would suggest that you contact us and we have a product that we can help you sell your house and it's called the net bank assisted sale. And in essence what we'll do is put your house on the market for you and help you get the most amount of our value for it. And whatever the shortfall is we will then go a step further in forgiving 50% of that debt. So as a result of that you then preserve your credit history and your credit health and you're still able to get the most out of the property that you had initially. So what if in this instance the financial situation doesn't let up? Bonnie the first thing that we would advise our customers to do is to speak with us because we have financial products that will help them ride through the storm. And one of those products is a restructure program where we basically would restructure your accounts and reduce your monthly repayments and extend the period that you'd pay the loan over. And over the last couple of years we've helped more than 16,000 customers restructure their accounts and help them get back in their feet and to continue with the repayments of their mortgage loans. The second thing that we also have is a net bank assisted sales program which aids customers and helping them to sell their homes and to get the best value for it. So we've helped over 4,000 individuals sell their homes through the net bank assisted sales program and that's helped preserve their credit record. Thank you so much Tim. Thank you. Don't fear when net bank is near. They're here to help you along the way and make sure you are taking care of. For more information visit www.netbank.co.za forward slash home loans for more information. Sure, so fascinating. I'm taking notes and I hope you are too. Now just remember quickly that you haven't until Thursday the 14th of July to vote for your favorite design contestant's master bedroom and you stand a chance to win by doing so. Here's how. It's not called win a home for nothing. You the viewer can win one of the three completed apartments at the Valdivia state, valued at over 3 million rand by voting for your favorite design contestant's master bedroom on privateproperty.co.za. Win a home is proudly brought to you by private property and association with net bank.


Advanced ladder logic functions allow PLCs to perform calculations, make decisions, and other complex tasks. They rely upon data stored in the memory of the PLC that is divided into two broad categories – data files and program files. Program files are the part of the processor memory that stores the user ladder logic program and accounts for most of the total memory in a PLC system. File zero system functions contain system-related information and user-programmed information such as processor type, processor file name, and password. File one, reserved, is not accessible to the user and is reserved for the processor. File two, user-program, contains the instructions defined by the user to create the ladder logic program. Files three through two-fifty-five are user-created subroutine programs. The processor can store and execute one program at a time. The main program will always be in user-program file two and program files three through two-fifty-five will be subroutines. Data files store information needed to carry out the user program and is accessed through the ladder logic program. Organization is defined by the type of data they contain and are assigned a file number. Files zero and one are input and output data files assigned to a physical location of a rack and slot providing an interface to real-world input output. Files three through eight store the processor status, numerical data, and status of various bits. The remaining data files nine through two-fifty-five are user-defined based on the requirements of the program or instructions used and may be configured for bit, timer, counter, or others. To summarize, the memory of the CPU stores the program files while also holding the status of the input output and data values.


Hey everybody, how's it going? Dato Dui here with another one of these rank session videos. This time I think we can actually see ourselves on the leaderboard here. Yes, we are now placed a thousand one hundred and thirteen on the PC. Let's see where number one is. SoulbadGuyIRL is a modian with a ton of points. I don't think we'll be getting that many points in today's session, but I will be right back with our next match. Okay, we're versing bootleg with... this actually is 200th match. And yeah, Yamcha's on the team now. I've been playing him a little. He's pretty fun. Oh yeah, we're going to be skipping a lot of intros today because there's actually a bug that desyncs your match. If you... oh my god, I'm trying to... So yeah, if you... with certain intros, if you don't skip them... No, I was trying to change out. Oh, I could have... We got cell combos? I like it. I mean, I could have teched out at some point, but that was pretty clean. Like early on in the combo. All right, I gotta stop getting caught by these slides. All right, let me move my controller down here and really get focusing. What's my... my fingers? That's really not going to kill. Oh man, I can't believe that didn't kill. Oh, I got a sparking blast soon. Oh, what? So that's one thing about Yamcha. He doesn't have a... he doesn't have a very standard down heavy. So it can be kind of hard to hit. All right, we got one down. Now all we need to do is jump and I think we should be able to kill us. So it's probably going to go for that two medium though. Okay, I'm down to his last guy now. Let's see if we can't make a miracle happen with just my boy Yamcha. No, I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm dead. Yep. Damn. All right. Well, this time we won't lose because I'll actually look out for the cell slide. That was some sick combos though. What? What was that voice slide? That was the most fourth wall breaking voice line I've seen so far. No. I'm struggling against that for some reason. Really? That hit me over my light? Wow. I can't believe that hit me over my own light. Might have been a little obvious. Wow. Perfection. Geez, we died like six minutes ago. So let's go. No, my two heavy. If I can live. One, two, three, four. Ah, messed it up. Surprised he didn't switch me out though. Okay. Here we go. Yeah. I keep starting off these matches so rough. Okay. Just trying to buy some time for this thing to go away. Well, thank, ah, let's get it. I don't think this is going to kill. Let's go TN. No, I'm going to lose TN. Geez, these matches are tough. I don't even know if I'm going to be able to use this footage. I'm not, I'm not able to talk. I'm working real hard for these 3000 points. Oh, let's get it. Okay. I couldn't, couldn't afford to risk it there. Oh, no. Finally, this time I'm the one to get a character out early. No, you have to get out of here. Oh, I got to get blue Goku out. Oh, am I dead? Oh, very nice. Very nice. Oh, I got him. I got him. Nice. Back dash on me. Get, get, get that full six four. Oh, I timed it wrong. Oh, God. Oh, nice. Breakup is timing here. Doesn't matter. TN's getting thrown around. Oh, wow. Oh, I tried back dashing. Yeah, you should not do that against a sparking blast opponent. They will punish you for that. Oh, God. Let's hope he goes for a level three here. Nice. I'm going to live. I'm going to live and heal all of this backup. No, come on. I tried doing my own level three. No, live. You have to live. Oh, God. Oh, man. I'm going to lose. I can feel it. I'm going to try to cross him up with a Wolfgang fist here. Yes. Let's go. You have to let's go. Oh, man. That was so close. The hardest 4000 points I've ever got. Wow. I did not talk a lot. I, if you guys are seeing this, then I decided to put it in when editing. But I would not be surprised if that gets cut. Okay. We got a Goku black player here. 298 for 140. It's played a lot of games. We just got to trust that this level, people know what they're doing. So you got to play accordingly. Skip these intros. Don't want to desync. Pretty cool Goku black color. Oh, that was obvious. Oh, how did that not hit? I think Yamcha must have thrown off the timing. Going to a level one. I meant to tag canceling. Oh, that was a mistake. Oh, that move is so good. Oh, that was good. Yep. Very bad at getting those on reaction. Oh, that move has such a good hitbox. Let me out. I think I should live. Oh, never mind. Yup. Nice. Let's see what Goku blue can do here. Kate Vegeta blue when he gets it. Everybody else is so good. Like it's so good like not repeating too much stuff. Oh. Oh, wow. Uh-oh. Oh, no. I'm surprised that actually almost worked. Oh, wow. Serious? I got hit by that. Yup. Yes, I did. Hi. I don't usually like to have TN in this kind of position. Oh, I guess it was pretty obvious. Click the wrong two buttons. Oh, that was very good. Wait, he did the wrong thing.  Wait, what? Ah, I'm dead. What's going on? What's happening?  Oh, he blocked that? Let's go. Let's go. Yes. That was not supposed to be my win. That was supposed to be his win.  That was an awful performance by both of us at the end. Oh, man. Ah, very nice, very nice. Okay, so what I'm noticing is this guy guards hot. This guy wants to guard an overhead every time I do my two lights. So I'm just going to hit him with a there you go. See the delayed down medium. That's when I just had to do it so I could get the hits in. Yes. All right, we got Gohan. So right away, we don't have to worry about Gohan anymore, but we do have to keep in mind that Goku Black is kind of crazy. All right, getting Yamcha as soon as we can. Ah, we got to watch out for that. I'm really sucking at getting a taking those on reaction by getting some lag here. Oh, wait. Oh, wow. We got we got some hits off on Vegeta blue too. We're getting some lag. So I can't say this is a see what we can do here. Okay, I should have probably just kept the pressure on. Oh, right in the face. We're getting some real bad lag now. Oh, no. Okay, what's the I don't even know what really to do is Yamcha in this situation. Wow, that didn't. Leo. Oh, that's good. Let's go. Just started off ended with a Neil Wolfgang fist every time. Still not too comfortable on Yamcha. Really? I have some real bad lag though. I'd like to face that guy again when our connections are more stable with each other. All right, let's get one more here because I don't even know if any of these past two matches have been any good. So let's get this final match against Wolf here 251 matches. These people I'm going against some people with experience now. This is getting insane. All right, I'll try to keep the commentary actually up throughout this match. The best I can't skip. Skip intros don't want that desync. Okay, okay. And that's a dead Vegeta. All right, basically your standard affair just playing it pretty slow. I guess it helps in the beginning. I kind of I messed up some of my inputs. So it might have thought I was just mashing. Ooh, very nice. People as we get through the ranks, people are getting much better at reacting to instant transmission. I did not want to tag you into yet. Oh, nice. Messed that up so bad. No, I need that. I really need to work on that. Spend one bar should be a kill. Yep. I like when you finish them with that. It looks like finger go get out of here. Oh, nice. Nice. Get I guess we get to see some cool trunk stuff at least. Oh, okay. I'm going to go for that. Yes, the delay and we got them. Didn't find a good chance to use the sparking there. All right. Pick up a clean victory. I got to talk a little that time. Pretty good match. Let's try to repeat that again. This time, though, I think he's going to be a bit more prepared. Probably keep his get CN down here. How did I get in the corner? I think I hope this kills. Yes. Try beam is so good. TN is so TN has really found his place on my team as being someone that can pick up some kills where other people probably wouldn't be able to. That wasn't real. Oh, man. Oh, man. Played that really bad. He dealt with the pressure there pretty well. I mean, he left some openings. But I definitely wasn't good enough to capitalize on them. Oh, down heavy. Yep. Super predictable by me. You know, it's bad when I click the switch in button, like I would down heavy myself right here. Nice. Making a lot of good use out of his meter here. Oh, I could have down heavied him. Still getting used to Yamcha. Can't be too hard on myself, but definitely making a lot of mistakes. I might be dead, actually. Niagara pummel. Yep. I don't know the combo for that. I have to learn that. Ooh, the switch. Nice. All right. That's one pickup for Yamcha. Send him right into the desert. Ooh, if he had a nap on his team right now, that would be sweet. Ah, Yamcha dead. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Very nice. Oh, we get to look at this cinematic. This cinematic is the best in the game. Look at that. All that for Yamcha. Oh, if we can kill him again without him. Yes. Very nice. I think he should have sparking right there. So it probably would have been smarter for me to back off. But, hey, you know, he didn't do it. So we got the right read. Nice. Very nice. We almost ended with 400,000. Well, I know this was a lot quieter than usual, but hopefully you guys enjoyed it anyway. I'll probably cut it down. Maybe I might not even release this. Who knows? If I did, I hope you enjoyed it. If you liked this whole rank series and wanted to continue, you can go ahead and leave me a comment down below and like the video. It really does help me out. With that other way, thank you so much for watching. I'll see you in the next one.


and we look after those cows as if they're part of the family. I'm sorry to say this, but I'm maybe disagreeing with Mr Campbell that what I don't like about the Dairian situation is that, along the south of Scotland, there's what Ian Bute describes as factory farms, where there's cow numbers four, five, six hundred. Poor Brutes never see any grass, because they're under a roof 365 days a year. We hear stories about these places, but I've never been at one, but that's not dairy farming to my mind. That's factory farming. But it's the market, I think you would agree as well. I think you'd have to agree it is also the market as well. Well, as the expansion in these farms has been startling, and many of them have contributed to the surplus that we can't handle nowadays. George Jameson won't agree with that, but that's a fact that we think. James Withers first and then George Jameson, hoping to end up on an optimistic note. Some hoax. I'll answer the question about the day of growth on what's happened next, because it's an important question, just quickly by way of context. The Ambition 2025 talked of the potential for a 50 per cent increase in production to go from 1.1 to 1.6 billion. It's probably important to state that it was never a target, and whether that figure was going to be used was debated for a while. It was designed as a statement of potential that we should move from talking about managing decline in Scottish days to being optimistic and thinking about growth. The second key point about that 50 per cent growth figure was that it had to be market-driven growth. It would be suicide to produce more and hope that we could find a home for it. It had to be market-driven, or else we'd end up with a real challenge for some of the reasons that we've talked about before. That's by way of context. The Dairy Growth Board is now established. It's chaired by Paul Grant, who is the chairman of Mackay's Jams. That's taken someone from out with the dairy sector. He's taken a business from what was producing a commodity into one that's a strong brand now. I don't know if the committee is looking for any further evidence, but I imagine evidence from Paul might be useful in terms of what he's doing. In terms of short-term work, we've seen the launch of the Scottish dairy hub, funded by the dairy co, the levy board, and half by Scottish Government, designed to provide a one-stop shop for farmers looking for advice and support. There's a requirement for a bit of a culture change in the use of advisers, I think, in Scotland, compared to where our Scandinavian counterparts would be. It's designed to make that easier, so it's independent. It's not provision of advice from someone who's got something to sell. So no vested interests, just pointing farm as to where the best source of advice might be. That's now up and running. The second main thing is again around this international agenda. Paul is working closely with a number of Scottish dairy processors looking to enter three to five new markets this year, having done research last year. Fingers Cross would be heading towards the launch of a new Scottish dairy brand in international markets at the back end of this year at one of the world's big food and drink shows. So the milk bottle half full and George James in the milk bottle half empty. Don't quote me on this press because they'll accuse me of making excuses again. I repeat, there's potential to grow the dairy industry in Scotland. There's absolutely no doubt about that. If we can market more products at the right value and get investment in processing, farmers will react. In answer to Robert's criticism, I was a farmer for 25 years with 150 cows and then I was a consultant for a number of years. Then I can assure you there's many many farmers that have only got 100 cows or 150 cows that are just as efficient as the big guys. I don't like the term factory farming because I've been on many, I've advised many people that have got 500 cows, 1,000 cows and these cows are looked after fantastically well. Absolutely fantastically well. Now there's room for everybody in this industry and that's what we need to do. There's room for everybody just to put it in context. Last year we produced another hundred, another almost a, get my figures. We're good weather and we're good prices. Now one litre a day from the 165,000 animals in Scotland equates to about 500 million litre, that's 40 or 50 new farms. Average herd size rose by four over the thousand herds. That's another 300,000 litre. That's where it came from. That's where the extra milk came from. The guys that have grown in the south west have just taken up the space that others have left for obvious reasons, mostly economic. But to say there's, we mustn't, we mustn't split the industry between big guys and wee guys because it's about efficiency, it's about being fit for purpose and small family farms can be incredibly efficient because I was one. Well we're going to finish up with Nigel Evans just now and I mean we're going to finish up because we'll have a lot of very interesting reading from the evidence that we've already had before we tackle the next panels next week. Nigel Evans. This is as much a comment about the industry and where it's head in Scotland and in the wider UK. It's for us as an industry to be very positive about the future. We've talked about New Zealand a few times this morning. There are lessons there for us to sort of compare ourselves to New Zealand. If you look back at New Zealand 20 years ago, the removal of subsidies from their market, in fact just over 30 or 30 years ago nearly, what was the effect of that on that industry? It had a catastrophic short-term effect. It actually caused people to question a number of people who went out of their business. But if you look at that industry over that period of time, since, they've actually grown volume of production and value to the New Zealand economy by three times. There is a future out there, it's a very positive future and I think it's about us as an industry understanding where we add true value. Value is not something that we say it is, it is something that the consumer says it is. It's the customer at the end of the day that determines that value. New Zealand looked at it from the perspective of where is the value and they went out there and they addressed that market. That applies to us in Scotland and across the wider UK. It is there for the taking. What are some of the lessons that we can take from it? We've talked about cost of production this morning. Personally, I think a cost of production formula applied to Darien or any other commodity is actually a route to diminiation of value, not increased in value. It's because it stifles innovation and one of the things that you have to look at and again what happens across New Zealand and the US etc, these are not about growing herd sizes and factory farms. It is about the number of people that are employed in the totality within the industry and that's something that we need to look at and that demands innovation and that comes from true value creation. My view of this industry is very optimistic. I think that there is a huge scope up there and a huge opportunity to create value. Thank you very much for all your evidence. All of you. It's been very valuable to have this round table. It's given us a wide variety of views. It's given us a particular focus as the Scottish Parliament looking at the future of the Scottish industry in all our geographical diversity. We shall be tackling the various other panels in due course. I'd like to thank you very much for your evidence as witnesses. There are one or two people who are going to provide us with some more information who we've asked and the clerks will remind you at the end. As we agreed earlier, we'll move into private session. The next meeting will be on 4 February of the committee and we will continue the inquiry on the dairy industry and hear from the cabinet secretary for rural affairs, food and environment. I would now ask you in the public gallery if we can clear this within five minutes. We need a short break as well. We'd love to stand and chat and there's a lot of questions to ask, but thank you very much and goodbytes now.


Welcome folks, this is Tom O'Brien of TFNN. We have five days a week, we go seven hours a day, we go 24 hours a day on the internet at TFNN.com. Always remember folks, whatever you think about, you bring about whatever. You focus on growth so everyone's having a great day, safe day, make it a great week folks. Create new agreements based on respect and love. Take the responsibility to make new agreements with those you love. If a agreement doesn't work, change the agreement and create a new one to use your imagination to explore all the possibilities. Market-wise, let's take a look at it out here. We have the Dow Industries up 127, NASDAQ up 85, S&Ps up 22, Gold Contract flat, 14.80 an ounce. We got Silver up 9 cents, $17.10 an ounce, Light Sweet Crude up 15 cents, $60.22 a barrel, notes and bonds, we got the 10-year note, down 19 ticks, 128-13, the 30-year bond off a full point plus 12 ticks at 156-27.  Friday, the 10-year came down hard once again, going into the November 7th down draft, guess what, no more gas. Rejected lower price, takes off top side. 30-year did the same deal, except that it never got to the lows of November 7th on Friday. Bottom line, both are coming down with tremendously lighter volume today, that is saying that they still want higher price, lower yield. King Dollar, King Dollar down 140 is two ticks trading at 9703, Euro is at 111, the yen is at 109.58, and the pound is at 133 to one US dollar. My phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>, give us a call folks, wanna know what's going on in your world. In the world of the S&P's, let's take a look at them, what do you have? Okay, so we're at all-time highs, S&P, the spy right now is trading at a price point of $318.71, you get 50 million shares traded, bottom line is that each and every day, you're going to new all-time highs, this is the last full week of trading in the markets in 2019.   Tesla, Tesla's up 5.6%, this is up $20.52, if you're wondering what's going on there, what you had is that you had BMW Camo with numbers, you had Mercedes turn around and push off their electric vehicle that was gonna compete with Tesla for a full year, and why? Because bottom line is that in a couple of the news conferences, they bottom line was saying that, hey, man, the Tesla 3 evidently has eaten these people alive, folks. The bottom line is that, yeah, there's gonna be more electric cars, but guess what? People are buying the Tesla 3 versus that BMW that's out there right now. So bottom line is that they have no doubt they have some problems out here. Gold, gold contract out here is holding price, which is pretty impressive in the aspect of we get the market at all-time highs. Last week, what we did in the gold market, you're pushing higher with volume, you're pushing into the swing point up here that within a consolidation since November 7th. November 7th, that's when a drop down to a lower range, bottom line is still in that consolidation, and we'll see bottom line how this 1499 holds up. The silver, silver contract, S-I-H. So silver, same setup. Silver, last week, did have volume behind the move. Silver needs a lot higher to get in the higher range. We're talking about $17.61. Bottom line, you're at $17.10. Now, that being said, as a couple of the tag is, we're talking silver equities, a couple of them just basically have been on fire, still on fire, if we could take a look pan-American silver was $11.59. Six months ago, it was $21.43, and the way that this is set up right now, I believe this is one of them, we're coming into the top of this consolidation. If we break this consolidation with, yeah, it is. So it's breaking it right now. That's what it's doing. One second, $21.59. Oh, look at this. Okay, so it's going after it right now. $21.59 is the number. We hit $21.67 today. Bottom line, we'll see. I'll get this out on a monthly right now. If we break this, folks, with conviction, that is saying that we're going back to the highs of 2011. And if you were in the market and that run of 2011, that was an extraordinary run. I mean, that was the last extraordinary run that we actually had inside the metals market. That thing, we started off at going down to 2008. 2008, that was, you know, Pan-American is trading at eight. You actually went all the way back up to 43. You know, well, 2016 was the, 2011 was the highs. 2016, that was the good run. And Pan-American Silver was already up there. The thing that's cool about a lot of these Golden Silver equities, folks, what they've done is that they didn't even do a 50% retracement off of the highs of 2016 to the lows that were established out here in May of 2018. And there's no doubt that a lot, what a lot of this is going to be contingent on, I would say is it's going to be contingent on what the good old US dollar wants to do. If we go take a look at the correlation, is that you have the pound. So the pound broke its downtrend from February of 2018 and broke it with conviction, meaning going from a downtrend to an uptrend. That was when you had the Johnson, the Johnson vote, decisive victory, bottom line, that pound wants to go much higher. The Euro is on the cusp of breaking its downtrend also from February of 2018. Now, it's broken the trend, meaning, you know, you broke it, but I want to see some wide price spread and you get away from the downtrend line. That's a break with conviction, that's my definition of break with conviction, that you not only break it, you're getting away from it and most of the time, of course, if I'm looking at a different vehicle, meaning they're just trading, is that you want the volume with it. In the currency market, folks, you don't have volume because the bottom line is that so many different platforms that are out there. Dow, Dow Industries up 128 and Aztec up 84, S&P's up 22, stay right there, folks. Good job, man. Mr. Dave Mazda coming back. The director of products at Direction Shares, coming right back.


Hello, how are you? I'm great. Good to be here. It is the third, fourth week of the semester. I don't think I even know at this point anymore. Four.  I tried to give us less time. Not sure why. So we will go ahead and get started. And we have a few folks and I think we get a lot of viewers after the fact, but hopefully some folks will trickle in as well in case there's any questions. As always, my name is Grace Strain. I am one of the staff advisors here in the CSC undergraduate advising office. We are so excited to do our Tuesday Talk series and get to chat with some other folks in either CSC, the College of Engineering, any student services offices, providing support to our students. And I am joined today by the wonderful Rachel. Rachel, I want to pass it over to you to introduce yourself and chat a little bit about the work that you do in Honors. Absolutely. So my name is Rachel Armstrong-Saron. My pronouns are she, her, and I am one of the two academic advisors in the engineering Honors program. This is the start of my ninth year with the program. And so I have really enjoyed and continue to enjoy working with students to figure out what they want to do as part of their time in Honors. From the time they're admitted through alumni, we have a really thriving Honors community and a really thriving Honors alumni community. And I really enjoyed that I get to work directly with them. Awesome. Thanks, Rachel. And we're excited to chat about Honors and have a whole bunch of questions, but I think the first one is one that we get the most often for students who are interested is what are the requirements? What do I have to do to be an Honors? Could you talk a little bit about the requirements for the Honors program? Absolutely. So students apply to the engineering Honors program at the start of their sophomore year at the earliest. So students do need two semesters at the University of Michigan or one semester for external transfers. The really important reason why we have that is so that students have time to get exposed to the many incredible things that the University of Michigan and Michigan Engineering has to offer. Because Honors is a really excellent path, but it's also one of many, many things that you can do and we want students to explore and to really discover is Honors the place where they want to invest their time. When students are applying to the Honors program, we're looking for passion, for commitment to equity and to growth and students who want to expand on their education in ways that are meaningful to them. They do that through a couple of important requirements. One is that every Honors student completes a minor. That's any minor available to them at the University of Michigan. For CS students, that's probably every minor except CS. So we have students in business and public policy, French and German, philosophy and physics, math and material science. It's really however you want to take your degree and enhance that with a supplemental program like a minor. In addition to the minor, all of our Honors students complete three one credit seminars. These are seminars on leadership and personal development. So how do you reflect on work that's meaningful to you? Think about your communication strategies. Think about your leadership style. Improve your communication. All of the things that are important to everyone and that you get to do in a supportive and reflective environment. In addition to the minor and the seminars, all of our students also do a capstone project that's different from their major design experience. So we know you're going to get a really strong education with CSE in your major design. You get to kind of choose one of those projects. The Honors capstone is a much broader opportunity where students can pursue something related to their passions or related to their future. That might be a research project, especially if you're interested in a research career or a PhD. It might be an entrepreneurial project. If there's something that you want to pursue in that space. For students in our EGL specialization, it's an operations project through the Tower Institute for Global Operations. But in each case, the capstone is a chance for students to exercise their enthusiasm and their skills in typically the senior year. They do that with the support of a faculty advisor. And then we get to celebrate them when they present it at the end of their term. Awesome. Yeah, I appreciate you talking a little bit about the application requirements as well as, you know, what just the honors experience entails. I think it's a really robust experience for students. I do want to hone in on something because I'm sure there are students who, as they're listening to this might say, wait, I didn't hear GP requirement. I heard a lot of conversation about, you know, values, thinking about leadership, like being really intentional in what you're pursuing academically. So is there a GP requirement associated with honors and engineering? That's a great question. And for students who are coming from a high school experience or from even looking at LSA honors or honor societies, that may seem like a natural fit. For the past couple of years, starting in March 2020, as may not surprise you, we have had a flexible GPA requirement to the degree that at this point, students who are applying to honors or students who are currently in the honors program do not have to meet a minimum GPA. What we want to see for students is that they are succeeding in ways that are defined by them. So for students who have goals on which a GPA might be dependent. So for example, if you're applying to graduate programs or to fellowship opportunities, then a GPA might matter to you. And in that case, we have honors advisors who are available to talk with you about your success strategies and to help you ensure that you have the academic support to get there. But it's not required for the honors program specifically. For students who are interested in the EGL or engineering global leadership specialization. That specialization of honors does require a GPA because EGL requires students to complete a master's in engineering at the University of Michigan. So the GPA requirement for EGL students is to ensure that they are successful in that pursuit. Awesome. I really love that that change in GPA and more so being about individualized student success plans. You know, you're not competing against everybody else. They may be competing against yourself, you know, and what you can do and what you want to do. I noticed that you teased the EGL specialization, almost as if you know the next question I'm going to ask Rachel, your psychic. So I do want to ask a little bit more about what EGL entails. I know you mentioned a little bit of it in the last answer. Absolutely. So engineering global leadership or EGL, you know, Michigan's known for their acronyms, is a specialization of honors program that actually predates engineering honors. EGL celebrated their 30th anniversary this year or is currently celebrating our 30th anniversary this year. And the EGL honors program grew out of a need for engineering students to really develop and hone their ability to apply business concepts to global operations problems. So EGL students participate fully in the honors program. They do all the things that honor students do. They just do it in a specialized way. So as I mentioned, all honor students pursue a minor EGL students specifically pursue the international programs and engineering international minor for engineers. Through that minor, they develop language proficiency in a second language. They have a six or more week global or intercultural experience. So that might be study abroad, research, internship or volunteer abroad. We also have a couple of seminars where they think about the global context of their work because no matter where you are, who you're designing for and what you're creating, there is going to be interaction of multiple cultures and application to multiple communities. And so we really want to see students think about that and apply that to their success. So they do the international minor for engineers, they do the honors seminars, and they do a capstone project for EGL students that is a team project with Tauber Institute for global operations. Tauber spelled T-A-U-B-E-R and I would strongly encourage anyone who's interested in the intersection of business and engineering to check out the Tauber website. They have fantastic summaries of the kinds of work students do through their team project. You can read about the coursework and the things that help prepare students for success in those projects. And those projects take place between senior and the graduate year. So once students finish their undergrad and before they start their master's degree, the team project is a summer internship, 14 weeks paid, where you are working for a global company helping them solve significant operations challenges or opportunities. Students do a really fantastic job. They save companies lots of money or energy or resources, you know, they might focus on sustainability or supply chain or strategy. And there's a really great opportunity to match what you're interested in operations with what a company actually needs. And then students stay for the master's degree and then during that year work route for wherever they want to go full time. I think to get off track just a little bit. I think this is a really nice bridge between the last Tuesday talk we had and when we have coming up we had IPE before and then we have MDP afterwards. So you're like that bridge of globalization and thinking about solutions for corporate partners. So interesting how that played out. I promise I didn't schedule that so carefully. It didn't happen consciously. IPE and MDP are great partners of the engineering honors program and EGL. So we have a lot of students who do the international minor for engineers, all of the EGLs as well as many honors students as well. And we also have students who go abroad without pursuing the minor. So Michigan engineering's investment in global education is really important. It's really picking back up after a couple of year hiatus. But we really understand the importance of that knowledge, that understanding of the communities and cultures who will be affected by your work and who with whom you will be working. And MDP also a fantastic partner, a great way to get hands on design experience and design can be integrated into your honors plans, whether that's through the MDP minor or through a design related capstone project. Awesome. Well, thank you for the free advertising for next week's MDP session. Definitely something to check out when we chat with them next week as well. But yeah, that global education piece, again something we're coming back to for a second time now in our IG lives, I do think that is so critical. It's what we do at the University of Michigan and especially for our engineering students. Like I can't imagine an engineering student who isn't going to interface with other cultures, with other, you know, contexts in the work that they're doing. So really, definitely really important. I know we've talked about a whole lot of stuff here, but I do want to ask kind of the big question, which I think students always come to us with when they're considering any program experience, et cetera, is why should a student do honors? What really helps honors set them apart? That is a great question. So I've been in this role for a while and my goal as an advisor is to help students find the right fit for them. Because there are no wrong answers to how you can spend your time at Michigan and Michigan engineering, except not to do any of it. That might be the only one way to make a wrong choice. Engineering honors is a way to bring together your unique interests in a supportive community where other people want to reflect, to keep learning, to be curious, and to develop as scholars and members of a community, and to do that together. So I would say to students, if you have done, in your first year especially, something like engineering 110, which is the design your engineering experience course. If you take an engineering 110 or you're in it right now, and you think, I really like this format, I like that we are exploring our strengths and thinking about how that relates to our time at Michigan and our future careers. That's a really great indicator that the engineering honors experience would be a good fit for you. Engineering 110 and the engineering honors program are both run out of the Engaged Honors and Engagement Programs office. And so the philosophy behind engineering 110 is the philosophy behind the engineering honors experience. So that's one great indicator that it would be a good fit for you. There's a lot of things that students do in the honors program that they can do without being part of us. So anybody can get a minor, and many minors fit within the 128 credits that you need to graduate. So if you think, I really want to do a minor, but I'm not so interested in this specific community because I have a community elsewhere, that's okay. Do that minor. Absolutely pursue those classes. Start taking and exploring things that are of interest to you. Either stuff you already know that you like or you never had a chance to take a Japanese class before you got to the University of Michigan. Do that. Spend your time doing those super cool and interesting things. We at the University of Michigan have a lot of students who are engaged in undergraduate research. You don't have to be a part of engineering honors to do that. But if you're a part of honors, this is a great space to connect with people doing other kinds of research and to be able to share across boundaries. And get outside of your major and get outside of your specific lab and hear about what other people are doing. It might also be a place where you can get some support. So if you're having a hard time connecting with a lab or finding a professor, we have advisors for that. You also have advisors in your department. So there are many things that honors offers that are offered at other places on campus. I like to think that we bring that together into a supportive community and an inclusive community. So we want students to join honors because they want to be there. Because the kinds of experiences that we offer are the things that in which they want to engage and that the kinds of community that we offer is a space that they want to be. Our application process also gives you a little bit of a taste of what that experience is like. So I mentioned engineering 110 as one fantastic way to say, I enjoyed this, that speaks highly to how much I'll enjoy honors. But our application process also gives you a chance to engage in a workshop that's run very similar to our honors seminars. And the topic and the format would give you experience of what it would be like to be an honor student in seminar. And so you get to decide. Is this right for me at the same time that we help you engage with the program and figure out. You know, do you have the kind of enthusiasm for something that we're looking for in honor students. Love that we came back to like that, that whole piece of like self exploration reflection like knowing what is right what's the good fit for you but also that piece about community. I think sometimes students can forget that especially some of our engineering students, especially in CS, you know, it's very rigorous it's very challenging it's very competitive field. But having community here it is so important. So if it's not, you know, engineering honors, you know, make sure you find a community somewhere I think is a really important take away from all that. I know that we're at time we could probably talk like another 20 minutes about all of this, but I am curious if you have any like final takeaways, some things you want to share, perhaps where students could go to get more info on the honors program. Absolutely. So our number one resource is our people, our students. So our peer advisors are available every weekday from 130 to 430 p.m. in 251 Chrysler. We are neighbors to the international programs and engineering office and right around the corner from the engineering advising center and engineering career resource center and down the hallway from the engineering center for academic success. So we're in that space where we're upstairs from MDP and the Office of Student Affairs. We're in the Chrysler Center come see us every day that classes are in session. So that's every day except fall break and Thanksgiving break at this point. Our peer advisors are here and they are a fantastic resource to talk about the student perspective on the honors experience. They can share with you more about the requirements, especially in line with what you want to do. So, you know, asking you about your interests and then being able to make some connections for how that would fit with the honors program. The honors and engagement programs office also does things like the common reading experience. So if you got to attend Trevor Noah on Friday, we are super thrilled that he was here as well to talk with the College of Engineering. So you can see the kind of things that matter to us, the kinds of conversations, the kinds of topics that are important to the honors and engagement program. And that gives you a little bit of a picture of the philosophy of the program. The absolute best way to figure out if it's for you is to come talk with us and our peer advisors are really looking forward to meeting you. The peer advisors are truly one of the best resources and I love that the invitation to just go find out, see if it works for you. You know, you're here, you're willing to chat with students and help them figure out if honors makes sense. I will note as we're wrapping up that I think we must have summoned MDP because they did join like right after we talked about them and gave the plug for next week. So if you want to find out more information about the multidisciplinary design program, please join us next week. I believe we're doing 12 or perhaps 1230. What is time? What is dates anymore? We're doing 1pm. So I was wrong both times. So 1pm next Tuesday we'll be chatting with MDP about some of their offerings. But Rachel, thank you so much for making time for being here and for sharing about the engineering honors program. Any parting words of advice or wisdom you have? Thanks for having us. The computer science students make up the largest proportion of students in the engineering honors program. No surprise given that we also make up you make up the largest proportion of students in the college of engineering. And they do some really incredible things. Our peer advisors would love to talk with you about the kinds of work that computer science engineering students do as part of the honors program and I look forward to seeing many of you in the office soon. Sounds good. All right. We'll take care of Rachel. Thanks everybody for joining us and we will see you next week at 1pm on Tuesday the 27th. Bye all.


Hey guys, what's up? It's Isaac and in today's video I'm going to be talking about three really difficult things about doing ministry and kind of my ministry journey. I also want to let you know that this video is done as a collab with Samuel Perez and his ministry United 12. He has made a video very similar to this one and I'm leaving the link to it in my description. He's going to be talking about his ministry journey and some of the difficult things that he comes across in his own ministry journey. He creates awesome content and he's a real gift of encouragement. He loves Jesus and so encourage you check out his channel check out the video in my description after you watch this one. Okay, on with today's video. So the first thing the first difficult thing about doing ministry and this is this is me personally like there's lots of different ways that you can do ministry and there's lots of different ways and difficulties that come into it depending on what kind of ministry you're doing. So for me, a lot of the ministry that I do, yeah, it's in the local church as well, but a lot of it is online, creating content, resources, blog posts, that kind of thing. So I'm going to get into that kind of world. The first one is the feelings of inadequacy and feeling ill equipped. And I think no matter what kind of ministry you're in, you felt this to some extent because you're never totally equipped for whatever you're doing. You're never totally you feel adequate in what you're doing. And I think that's where we should be as Christians. We should be in that spot where it's like, I don't have everything I need here. So then we can look at God and say, God, I feel weak. I feel incomplete. I feel inadequate. Can you help me? Can you be here with me? Can you minister to me as I minister to others? Can you be here? Like that is that is amazing thing that we can be able to ask God, say, God, I need your help in this because if we felt totally equipped and felt totally, you know, never felt inadequate, then we would just kind of push God aside and we do our own thing because we're like, well, I'm good, I'll be good. But no, God has prepared us for this work. He said, look, go and I will be there with you. God's going to be there with us, but we need to step out there boldly and do it. And that's something difficult that I've had to deal with is just this feeling like, I don't, I don't know what I'm doing. And that's part of the where authenticity comes in where I say to you guys, and I say this, it's like, I don't get everything right. I don't know everything. I'm just learning and growing and sharing that with you guys as I learn and grow. And I think that is a good place to be. The second difficult thing about ministry is discouragement. And to be honest, for the last kind of, I don't know, month or so, I felt like I've kind of been in a season of discouragement and just kind of feeling a little bit down about the whole thing. And not that I'm like, oh, giving up or it's time to hand in the towel.  They're just seasons that are discouraging. And I think that's okay to acknowledge in ministry that those do happen. And I think that is just the way that God has designed it. So in the midst of those kind of discouraging seasons, we can continue to look to God and pursue Him. If everything was always up all the time, if we're like, yeah, this is great. This is great. I'm doing fantastic. Everything is going great. There's no discouragement. I feel totally encouraged. I think there could be a tendency to get prideful or boastful or, you know, and I think the fact that, yeah, some seasons are kind of discouraging. It brings us down to go back to what we're doing this for. What are we doing ministry for? We're doing it for God to honor Him, to serve Him, to be a witness for His kingdom. And that's where my heart is. So even in the midst of discouragement, we can look back at Jesus and say, God, look, I'm discouraged, but I know why I'm doing this. I know I'm doing this for you. It's not about any kind of exterior results or, you know, any of the fame or power or whatever that goes along with success in this realm. No, it's for you, God, and it's to be a witness for your kingdom. The third thing is, and this is more specific to kind of online, but not really actually, is obsessing about the numbers. Whenever you're in ministry, I feel like there can be a tendency and a temptation to look at people, number of people as a validating source for your work. For me, it could be looking at a video and saying, oh, this video got this many views. Therefore, my work is validated because that many people saw it. Or, oh, this video only got this many views. That means it didn't really mean anything or it wasn't worthwhile or I wasted my time or it was meaningless.  Is this still meaningful? All that kind of thing. But I think what's important is to not obsess about the numbers. At the end of the day, we're called to be witnesses. We're called to go. We're called to be bold for God and to preach the gospel and to disciple.  It's about that individual person that you're touching on a day-to-day basis and able to impact their life and able to encourage and challenge them. It's about one person. It's not about, oh, the hundreds or thousands or tens or whatever it is. It's about one. It's about one person that you are impacting and that you are encouraging and challenging and really discipling in this. And that's what's important. It's not about the numbers. It's about honoring God in the midst of our ministry. Because if we get obsessed with the numbers, if I only had this amount of numbers or, you know what, I just need this many views or I just need this many people coming to my church or this many people at my Bible study, we lose focus to what our goal is.  No, it's about being able to impact that one person. Well, guys, that was today's video. That was a little bit of insight into ministry. And I would like to hear from you guys if you are in some kind of ministry, whether that's at your local church or online or whatever it is, I'd like to hear what are the difficult things that you have encountered and how do you deal with them. Once again, this video was done as a collab with Samuel Perez from United 12. I'm leaving his video, which is going to be similar to this one, link in my description. So I encourage you to watch that video, leave him a comment and subscribe to his channel. I want to give a huge shout out to my patrons on Patreon. You guys are awesome. I really appreciate your support. And if you want to help me do what I'm doing here and make it so I can be able to do this full time, because that's my goal. I would love it if you would support me on patreon.com. And that's the place where you can support this ministry and be able to help me make the content that I make, because I'm really passionate about making content for people to help them follow Jesus more passionately. So anyway, if you want to help me out and support me on there, you can do that link in description as well. Thanks so much for watching, guys, and I'll see you next time. See ya!