So, this is one reason that one has to have statistical that is a technical reason and there is a more profound conceptual reason is that even if we could solve newton's equation for all the all particles I have heard a number of particles in what do we do with that because that contains lots of irrevalent information this term in statistical mechanics what is relevant and what is irrelevant is an extremely important concept we have to extract from lot of things that are going on something which we observe in real world and also what is experimentally accessible okay so having said that so that was the difficulty which man was motivated by Maxwell's velocity distribution to introduce the probabilistic description he took it halfway but he couldn't do very far as I said other side of the Atlantic our great wheel at Gibbs realized that there could be a different way of doing the things wheel at Gibbs did completely equilibrium statistical mechanics these has to be understood clearly while Boltzmann was trying to do transport properties even today transport properties are time dependent statistical mechanics starts with Boltzmann's combining equation so this is a very important distinction what makes so wheel at Gibbs realize that you know that many different systems which observe they have same macroscopic properties they must be in different microscopic states so is a different microscopic states of the system that belong to a given macroscopic state then there must be way to look into equilibrium distribution in terms of a probability so the important breakthrough then came going from the trajectory or time dependent stat mac or time dependent distribution function which gives time averaging from there one wants to go to an equilibrium distribution so wheel at Gibbs realize that the simplicity gates in doing the equilibrium distribution that could allow him to do a probabilistic description and even by that time early 20th century his book was published I think 1903 by that time probability theory was well developed mathematics of probability theory central limit theorem and all other things were well developed so he had now the he could rely on that so he they said if I want to describe a probability distribution then what are the probability distribution I want I want a quantity which is a I could talk in terms of thermodynamics a term in terms of entropy energy fluctuation these kind of quantities he already had one result in front of me which is Boltzmann definition of a function entropy to what extent that entropy already thermodynamics was rather well developed entropy function or heat function was well known that correspondence had been had occurred to Boltzmann I am not too sure of but probably it was but suddenly wheel at Gibbs realized it so he had that formula s equal to kb ln omega kb is Boltzmann constant very appropriately put there and so now he had to find the omega and of course if it and rest of the thermodynamics how how did he go about it so he said okay let me construct a an ensemble which is a huge collection of the system each system has characterized by same number of particles n same volume v and same energy all are constant now and then in this ensemble he said okay how can I describe now probability distribution he then introduced two postulates one is that he wanted to do the average how do I do the average instead of one way to of course time average follow one system for a very long time the other one you follow many identical systems now the idea is that many identical system billions and billions of identical systems of nve they are all in different microscopic states why because my number of microscopic states is enormous it is billion to be to the power billion so all these systems will be in different microscopic states so that is a very critical understanding that all my I can construct an ensemble means a collection of identical particles all of them in different microscopic states then if time averaging that I do by following in one system a trajectory for a infinitely long time or very long time that can be replaced by averaging over the these different systems low and behold what is the advantage instead of following the trajectory which is a time dependent quantity I am going to talk of something which is time independent and that's it enormous simplification I don't have to solve new prosecution anymore which was the prescription of Boltzmann then when he did that of course he had these these ensemble picture of systems in different microscopic states and averaging over them is what is today is Monte Carlo simulation trajectory is molecular dynamic simulation however in order for the trajectory to be equivalent to ensemble ensemble I have been all different microscopic states you have to understand these are still at a conceptual level things are assumed these are postulates and the verification comes you know with the results and comparison of the experiments then he said that okay my trajectory then must go to all the microscopic states that I am representing in ensemble then comes the second postulate which is called equal a priori probability that means all microscopic states are equally probable to be visited by the system and in a long trajectory they will be visited equal number of times these are limiting things infinite number of states infinite time infinite number of systems so everything asymptotic where things are can be proven exactly now when I say things could proven exactly that of course happen only 1981 case more than 100 years later almost so these things that a system equally probable but equally probable doesn't mean that it will be visited so the two things I jumbled together to be separated that comes as a hypothesis that all these states will be visited that's the ergodic hypothesis that each state will be visited in the course of time that means its system will not get stuck in a minimum that haunted us in molecular dynamic simulation that's why you cannot do phase transition just in envy because it gets stuck in one minimum then all the new techniques like umbrella sampling meta dynamics that have been invented and created are essentially to take the system out so the reason that one has to be conceptually clear and study these things even more now than before is because of the connection with the modern stat mac and which is so powerful now it has reaching the state of quantum chemistry in this sense the packages are being available I see my students other students getting like one of my student without understanding too much but great results in rotation of carbon monoxide nitric oxide and cyanide ion in a aqueous binary mixture something which was unthinkable few years ago such complex system but that can be done now I cannot claim that the student knows very great of the concept of statistical mechanics and how to do coupling theoretical work but the results at the hand and at the end of the day results are that are important that's what everybody wants so statistical mechanics has come to that level now so we have to understand this little bit more detail to have a certain sophisticated certain sophistication your understanding sophistication in our so then from that micro canonical ensemble using s equal to k l n omega we derived the expression of pressure expression of energy ds dt is energy so everything is now number of omega number of microscopic states omega well done that part was done but then nv is a very artificial system because it is a system which has same number of constant number of particles which is not changing constant volume constant energy that's not the real system real system with a volume is fluctuating transition ice melting density goes up by 10 percent then you have the energy fluctuating because these systems are far more open in at least in chemistry and physics and in chemistry we have also systems were chemical reaction taking place so any so nv microcarbons is too restrictive so the next stage gives d construct a beautiful and brilliant mental construction that you went over to constructing and super system out of nv t where energy exchange allowed you put all we all nv t together allowed interaction between them flow of energy then put it whole thing in a bath let it be equilibrate then put an insulator around them so that the whole super system is an nv e of Italy size n is my n number of particles then Italy size n by normal n it is as n by v Italy size n by e are the number of particles volume and energy of my super system now we formed a micro chronological ensemble of the super system and then showed by doing constant method of constant variation or Lagrangian multiplayer we can get a quantity called partition function which logarithm gives free energy and whose derivatives gives all the thermodynamics after doing that he was my genius of high degree he didn't waste time in seeing movies or other things he was single and he was always going coming back and forth from starling that what he had all the time but this amazing what he did he did the grand canonical ensemble where now number of particles also exchange allowed the same thing was done and he wrote a beautiful beautiful expression of equation of state pv equal to kb t we remember all these are energy dimension pv equal to kb t nm grand canonical partition function then we also discussed npt which is used most in simulation and experiment so till now we have done all the groundwork still keeping things fairly simple we have done four ensembles and we could have spent more time on npt but okay that is i told you that it is essentially same construction but the thermodynamic potential of npt is gives free energy so thermodynamic potential of micro chronically is entropy thermodynamic potential of canonical is hemorrhage free energy thermodynamic potential of grand canonical is pv and thermodynamic potential of npt is gives energy that what exactly thermodynamics tells us that exactly comes out to be true so one of the major goal of statistical mechanics is to explain thermodynamics remember one of the things that we you read in thermodynamics i don't know we are a great teacher professor meh choudhury who again and again told us one thing that a thermodynamics cannot give you anything a priori give the results it gives certain relations so thermodynamics does not give you what is the value of entropy cannot give it unless of course you integrate of a cpt it does not give so that means there is a it is not a theoretical machinery that gives you anything from first principles that's the that the correct statement it doesn't have first principles it has certain working principles which equal laws of thermodynamics which will be fun to teach some time the thermodynamics in a in a very deep and fundamental level because that's a wonderful subject however here we don't have a for that time or course content for that but here thermodynamics then comes out of statistical mechanics so one of the first idea of statistical mechanics was to explain thermodynamics and what it does it does in a beautiful way starting from microscopic principles intermolecular interactions which gives you energy levels then you everything flows you get all the thermodynamics exactly so these are the theories we are going to do applications of statistical mechanics and we'll do the simplest thing first which is monotomic ideal gas ideal gas monotomic so these two things are both very important so so this is what we are going to do and it is an extremely illustrative and very very nice and i saying when we studied these things we thought is useless but then later much much later when i did drug the an interpolation okay so we'll do the this is the following thing what we will do today derivation of the thermodynamic equations applying principles of statistical mechanics these two derive micro-supertion model system we'll do now entire volume available to all the molecules maximum translational entropy in ideal gas this is a very important thing again because just you know in a bark i gave the lecture where i had a path which is diffusion and entropy there's a very hot topic now even in active matter everywhere diffusion and entropy what is the role entropy plays and okay so what goes in there the entropy called excess entropy and excess entropy entropy system minus the entropy of the ideal gas and diffusion is e to the power excess entropy you know this is amazing how these things haunt you come back to get you the results so you know those of us who thought that ideal gas monotomic gas is not important we are using it every day now okay so let us now do these things Hamiltonian of the system is an interacting particles is h n tv is equal to n number of particles so Hamiltonian is just kinetic energy there is non interacting so there is no potential energy if they are not then partition function is just n over integration over all the particles so so partition function of n number of particles chinese people detailed you know they don't know nothing to worry about India because most of the indians are sick which i think is by and large true i myself got sick yesterday so this is the configuration part and this is the momentum part and then these are function of all r n that will write like that and function of without writing so this is the integration that you have to do so n particle integration over n vector of one to n momentum of n number of this and this is the Hamiltonian then i hope you understand this very important because this will be repeated again and again it will be repeated today and it will be the important class that will start from Wednesday morning with the mayor's cluster expansion theory we will use this again and again and again and again okay momentum three n integral here three n integral here and this is the Hamiltonian in of my case Hamiltonian is just kinetic energy and then you can see this will come out straight with a since this is additive i can app to the power n i hope you understand additive means is just multiplication this is the thing is it clear this thing how it is happening because this will happen again and again that's why i'm spending some time here what you have done that since this is some all of them have the same mass now i can write it as a product and then the product means there is a n number of them okay this is the h to the power three n here that has been missed we have to care we have to put that back this is indistinguishability called bolshman's factor he put it by hand with then quantum mechanics came it became okay the basic idea is that you don't get a extra state but just by exchanging two particles in the eye by keeping everything identical so formulation factor is this time and we have h to the power three n and there's a great new reason for h to the power three n anybody can tell why h to the power three n should be there and must be there a very nice and elegant very simple exponential you guys did text at my course no yeah absolutely it is close to the answer here answer that it has to be dimensionless quantity see we put log in front of that you cannot have a dimensional quantity after log or in exponential there has to be dimensionless that the first thing we usually ignore that fact very much second that we actually normalize the volume integration by the volume in the cell and the volume in the cell is given by planck's constant and if you do that this quantity that q q is one of them so let me say the so let me also put it here h three n n factorial then now dr one dp one e to the power minus beta p one square by two m the whole thing in the exponent this is to the power n because the n part is there okay now this is volume this is momentum okay now if i make now this is l cube this is momentum cube if i make length in momentum then what is the dimension of length momentum okay so length and momentum so dimension of length dimension of momentum is ml by t right yes so this is the the dimension of this is also the dimension of the planck's constant so the momentum l by t ml by t energy is ml by t square ml square right that's what i was saying some something is missing i was mumbling ml square now in planck's constant remember h omega is energy that is ml square by t square okay that means we are having that's why h dimension of h bar if this one ticket goes out right you get ml square by t this is also called the dimension of the action so that is the volume in the phase space which is normalized that should be h to the power three n here okay now we most of the time don't write it i actually don't like to write that one but it's okay this is the dimensionally correct one has to be so now one does this integration of one particle this is a single particle that decomposition is possible because there is non-interacting when you do that then dpx dp z dx dy du z with one minus beta h so one of them this one gives volume so that volume comes out then this integration is same integration because next decomposition comes p p momentum square same as p x square p y square plus p z square right and p x square p y square p z square so this integration is this one what is this in of this integration value of this integration root over pi by a yeah so root over pi by a means this is one over kbt two here m here two pi m kbt right root over pi by a a both are a this also comes here yeah two pi m kbt so this is the integration that integration in its full glory comes here and these since it is root over three of them one two three of them becomes cube and since root become three by two if i have to put Planck's constant h to the by three and here that goes here at h square okay so this is the small q i have to one over n factorial in front of the big q this is the partition function of the monatomic gas


Economic recovery in small island developing states will require not only greater cooperation from international financial institutions, but also increase resourcefulness of seeds themselves. Prime Minister the Honourable Alain Chastney conveyed these sentiments during an online panel of the World Economic Forum's The Davos Agenda on Wednesday. Discussion during the events surrounded capitalizing on opportunities to reset the economic system and building one that incentivizes sustainable and economic growth with strong private sector participation. Details in this report. We're going to have to now do things for ourselves to show the rest of the world that we are ready. Prime Minister Hon. Alain Chastney calls for strengthened resolve of small island developing states and a unified approach in managing similar economic development hurdles, while emphasizing the need for international financial agencies to better accommodate seeds inflicted by external shocks. The nation leader believes these same affected countries must take initiative. His suggestions include cost-effective diplomacy and building new revenue streams for a sink fund of free capital to manage such crises. That's something that's on us, right? I think that the first discipline to be able to develop the reserve funds, whether it's on a national basis or on a regional integration. So we have the OECS or we have CARICOM or we have the wider body of SIDS where we're pulling monies together that we can help ourselves out. But certainly integration is critical and the fight always is sovereignty. So let's take foreign affairs as an example. Everybody wants to have their own foreign office in New York, their own foreign office in London, their own foreign office in Washington, DC. But has the time come for us to now look at how we can share that cost? The Prime Minister adds that SIDS participation within international agencies can also be consolidated at reduced cost and greater efficiency. Honourable Shasne Headlining, a special panel of the World Economic Forum's Davos Agenda 2021 this week, was supported in this view by panellist Pacific Islands official Zarak Khan. As the Prime Minister has said, the first thing we're trying to do is help ourselves. So the Pacific what we're doing is we're setting up an innovative financing facility called the Pacific Resilience Facility. We're working with our development partners to develop this facility and also link up with investment managers. We're looking at a $1.5 billion US dollar facility that can support community level projects in the Pacific Island countries, particularly in terms of building resilience focusing on adaptation. The leaders maintain the need for a concurrent review of international financial systems to appropriately cater to SIDS, particularly as the pandemic has exacerbated their debt crisis created by natural disasters, among other unexpected shocks. With onset of COVID-19 and the pandemic, our debt to GDP ratio went from about 46% to 81% in terms of borrowings. And so we very much subscribe to the thoughts of the Honourable Prime Minister in the sense that it appears that the multilateral finance institutions and the way that the global financing landscape is structured at the moment, it does not tailor to the needs of small island developing states. I think there needs to be a sit down to re-engineer how we're going to treat small island developing states in the global context. And that would be with the IMF, the World Bank, the UN, and certainly within Brent and Woods, because it's an impossible task, but yet there is a lot that we're contributing to the development of the world. Like other SIDS dependent on tourism, St. Lucia's gross domestic product declined due to effects of the pandemic. In an eight month span, the island's GDP went from 59% to 85%, worsening its debt crisis. For the Government Information Service, I am Jesse Layance reporting.


What's going on everyone? Sam here with late in sports cards and I am ripping one box of 2020 top-to-chrome sapphire edition Baseball for Jeff R. So good luck Jeff. See what we get in here It's fully like a boba shed auto that'd be cool some big names in this one. I think it's Lou Bob the Shet Jogged my memory who else Kyle Lewis Gavin Lux Trying to think who else is in this one.  I believe to 25. Yep three of 25 on the Loreano There you go. Congrats on that Yeah, you're done. That's a good one. I forgot about you're done. Sure. Is there Austin Riley on the future stars? Forgot about you're done my mistake everybody. I remember 2020 was the year everybody was both grading these Marcus Simeon Issam Diaz Charlie Morton and James McCann base base pack there. Oh Of course can't forget about Andres Munoz No way Got Brock Burke rookie. There you go for the Rangers Sonny Gray Yankee legend Kevin Kramer and Jake Riznick on the base We'd be fools to forget about that Tim Anderson base Randall Grichuk base. Thank God. He's out of the AL East DJ Stewart and Hunter Renfrow base and base See a machete or a Jordan Got Jesus Lizardo rookie for the A's Brent Souter Kenley Jansen and Jacob Stallings on the base as well Two packs to go. Good luck here Jeff Got John means there you go. Too bad. He's injured. Nice. Louise robber on the sapphire rookie Congrats on that one Jeff. There we go That's one. We're looking for right there Got Edwin Diaz and Yosemite Grindal. That'll work. We'll take a loob of sapphire rookie any day of the week That's yeah, man Got Ronald Acunha Jr. On the base got Alex Bregman Roberto Perez and Louis Severino to end the break that will do it for your break there Jeff Congrats on all the hits. We'll get those right out to man. Thank you


Alright, so I'm going to talk about Trove's integration with Orchard, where now we've been doing it for a year. And if we talk about Orchard being one of those end-to-once reuse-often, that's the great thing about it, Trove is one of those reuse-often cases. So this is the people and organisations zone in Trove. If you haven't met it before, it's where we collect together records describing people. We set up a container for a single person and bring together all the records describing them from different institutions and systems. So here's an example, Marcia Langton. Records about her exist in four different systems that we work with. So we bring them together here in one big Marcia Langton container. The container does useful things like it connects all the system identifiers for other systems to reuse and that's behind the scenes. But for a user it also brings together bits of information like biographies, publications that she's authored and related people and organisations. Now we have a small but constant demand from modern-day authors and researchers to be able to take control of this Trove profile, to update the record, to write their own biography and we don't have a local system capable of doing that. So we send them to Orchard. They need to set up a profile there and then they need to start using it. So that means including it when they submit articles for publications and ideally in their university's institutional repository if that's possible. I won't really go into the how, just know that Trove relies on a slightly complicated web of systems to try and identify just the Australians in Orchard. DOIs are the key across all those systems so when researchers have good metadata like DOIs in their repository record and the matching DOI in their Orchard profile then Trove will find them or even better if they include the full Orchard URL in repository publication records we'll go straight out to Orchard and grab their record. So what are the benefits for researchers? Well number one, they get a presence in Trove. If you're not Marcia Langton and you don't have records describing you in four systems, you might be someone like Alex Brown here, then setting up an Orchard will create you a record in Trove. When I checked last year about 90% of researchers we get from Orchard were new to Trove so that's really important. Setting up an Orchard, making yourself Australian will get you into Trove. They can write their own biography, it doesn't have to be extensive even if it's only brief enough to distinguish them from other people with a similar name. Trove auto-generates this list of resources. It thinks that this researcher wrote based purely on author name. So if someone has a common name like Alex Brown does, it's generally not going to be stuff they've actually written and we know that researchers themselves find that really frustrating. If they have an Orchard, then Trove will replace that list with the definitive publications from Orchard. So that includes when they've moved institutions. We also love it when they include keywords. These get roughly translated into occupations and it helps people who come along in Trove looking to find researchers in a certain field. So we encourage people to include information like their education and employment and as Natasha showed us earlier, if they give the right permissions then institutions can actually do this on their behalf. But when they include that in their Orchard profile it makes a researcher even more findable both to users and to their colleagues. So here's a search in Trove that's limited to people from UQ that nominated diabetes as a research field that they're working in. Someone might conduct this search if they're another researcher in the field, if they're a journalist looking for a comment, if they're staff from a government department, a post-doctoral student, there's quite an extensive list of people that are looking. But whoever it is, more information in their Orchard record makes the researcher more findable in lots of systems beyond Orchard. And this is one example where people are looking in Trove. We're also really keen for people to include grant identifiers. So if they've received a grant particularly from the ARC or the NH and MRC, those organizations want to know that their open access mandates are being met, they want to link the people they gave grants to with publications. So entering the grant ID on their Orchard record can mean less work on reporting for everyone involved. We've also seen some really cool stuff happening with funder grant IDs in Trove recently. So here I've done a search for a grant number in Trove. It's showing me the people who worked on that and nominated it on their Orchard profile. And on the right-hand side, you can see that Trove's also showing the publications and data sets that came from that same grant number. So all from the same search just of the grant number. So I guess the key message to take back to researchers from Trove is that if a researcher has an Orchard, they take care of it, they use it, they water it in their greenhouse, then one of the benefits will be that they take control of their profile in lots of other systems. Trove is just one of them. Now it's all great and I want everyone to take that back, but I don't want to sound like I'm just hard selling, there's a bit of a reality check. It's not all sunshine and beautiful flowers. We know that what Trove gets is skewed. So we've got about 12,000 Australians from Orchard today. They're predominantly from the physical sciences and education and there's a real lean towards medicine. These are the top 10 keywords that researchers nominated as their fields. Trove, the way we've set up the system, has a really tough time finding humanities researchers. We don't have real-time updating like we should. Once a researcher initially comes in, the records only update once a month and we know some researchers find that frustrating because they find their profile in Trove, they specifically go to Orchard to update it and then they don't see their results straight away. And finally, our Australianness test is quite rigorous. We initially didn't have it and we were vastly overwhelmed with foreigners. So that test will skip anyone that doesn't set up their education or employment fields or specifically name one of the Australian universities or research institutes in their biography. But our Orchard integration is a success story from our point of view. I've just written a blog post about our experience one year on. It's meant less work for us, it's meant much more correct data in Trove but also much more correct data in lots of other systems. It's a great way for a researcher to get their profile out to have it be correct to take control in many more places. I might leave it there and hand over to Scott.


Before we get started, I just wanted to remind you all that there's polyphonic merch available at dftba.com. If you've ever wanted a polyphonic video on your wall, this is the way to do it. I've got posters I made that I'm really proud of, so please just go check it out, show some love, and support the channel. Thank you so much, and I hope you enjoy the video. Entire generations have been raised on Disney musicals. Before finding their first band, buying their first album, or becoming part of their first movement, many kids found their first favorite songs in Disney movies, and for lots of people that love has stuck around. Time and time again, Disney has been able to write show-stopping musical numbers that enchant and enrapture listeners of all ages. Of all their songs, though, I've always been most drawn to the villains. Disney has a unique way of introducing their antagonists, and I think by looking at some of these villain songs, we can better understand why Disney captures new generations of imaginations, year after year. Let's take a closer look. Writing for a musical is a unique challenge. Not only do you need to create a catchy song, but you need to balance that with the story and visuals. In order to tackle this challenge, Disney takes a collaborative approach with their writing. A great example of this is Alan Menken. Menken composed for a number of Disney films, including The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin. In an interview with ABC, he said that at Disney, the story and visuals evolve alongside the song. Generally, you go from the basic story to the basic structure of telling the story to what musical style you're going to use to tell the story with, where the songs lie in that structure, then one by one tackle those songs. This process is why Disney songs are able to fit so seamlessly. They've been developed right there alongside the story, instead of plugged in afterwards. For an example of this, you need to look no further than one of Disney's most iconic villain songs, Gaston. On the surface, the song seems to be telling you all about Gaston himself, but actually you kind of know that already. By the time the song comes on, you've met Gaston a few times and you know his general traits. However, by pairing the song with the visuals in the bar and having a number of voices singing, the movie shows us how everyone else feels about Gaston. By showing how much the town loves Gaston, the song further removes our antagonist from our hero, Belle. Everyone loves Gaston, except her. This sets them apart early on, and serves to set up the tension when they face off later in the movie. Another villain song that was clearly built alongside the story, instead of before or after, is Poor Unfortunate Souls from The Little Mermaid. That song serves a number of purposes in the plot. It sits at a key point in the film, where Ariel makes the deal that will become the center of the story. While advancing this plot point, it also manages to introduce the main villain. But the way that it introduces Ursula isn't by telling you that she's evil, it's by showing you. More than anything Ursula actually sings, it's the nature of the music and how it pairs with the visuals that show us she's evil. The music reflects Ursula as a character. It's got a twisted, bombastic sound in the dark key of C Minor. The makeup of the music also serves an important role in the ebb and flow of the soundtrack. It introduces a musical tension. So far, the songs have been bright and happy, and this dark song signals that the movie is about to progress into the unknown. The venture into the unknown is an important part of many Disney villain songs. With both their sounds and visuals, the songs represent a shift away from the rest of what we've seen in the musical up until that point. One of the best examples of this is Be Prepared, Scar's song from The Lion King. This song is a drastic shift from the first two of the film. The Circle of Life uses warm, comforting color palettes, complemented by a song that climbs upward dramatically in a major key. The next song, I Just Can't Wait to Be King, has a bright color palette with upbeat music in another major key. When we get to Be Prepared, we're met with a palette of darker colors and greens and a slower, dark song in a minor key. But Be Prepared isn't a complete departure from the other songs in the musical, and that's where some of the power comes from. It's built on the same musical concepts. It just feels like a dark inversion of them. Both I Just Can't Wait to Be King and The Circle of Life use percussive instruments and choirs in the background as center points to the song. Be Prepared follows this trend too. This inversion makes it feel like the villain is part of the same world as everyone else, but also hints that if they get what they want, they could shift the world into a different place entirely. For something like The Lion King, the music is almost a prediction of what's going to happen once Scar takes over the Pride Lands. It's the music of the Pride Lands, but twisted and distorted. No villain song twists things quite like Jafar's Prince Ali reprise in Aladdin. In the song, the villain takes one of the hero's songs and turns it on its head, and it works wonders. By using the same song twice, the movie highlights the opposition of Aladdin and Jafar. The ironic twist on the song helps feed into the despair the hero feels at this time. It takes one of the hero's most triumphant moments and subverts it. It's not just the classics though, Disney has continued this trend with their modern movies too. One of my personal favorite Disney villain songs comes in Friends on the Other Side from Princess and the Frog. This song falls into the exact same pattern as all of the great villain songs. It speaks with the same vocabulary as the rest of the music, imitating the New Orleans jazz that introduces the movie. However, it shifts into a darker place which matches the visual palette. Everything about the song, including the lyrics, is a venture into the unknown, the other. Over the years, Disney has created a whole host of memorable villains, and while the story and the actors are a part of the reason these villains have stuck with so many people, the songs are just as important. These songs help tell the story and show you who these characters are. Even beyond that, they show you each character's terrible potential, the potential to take our happy ending and replace it with something much worse. And isn't that what Disney's all about? That's part of what makes Disney so magical, the way they're able to use music to turn a good story into a masterpiece.


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You guys know cuz I've mentioned this recently I've been wanting to try new things here on the channel including taste tests Unboxings and just try to get some more creative content flowing on the channel and use some of my YouTube money to purchase those things Now I looked into this company because it was advertised to me called save parcel Where in theory When a parcel is lost in the mail and the customer gets a refunds if that parcel is then found Save parcel purchases it and then sells it on their websites I looked at the reviews and the reviews said it was amazing a lot of five stars A lot of people saying you get really great stuff out of it And their prices range from $50 for their standard box up to $200 for the more expensive one So I wanted to purchase a standard box the $50 box and try it out everything on their website said that you will receive a box Luckily, I purchased it when it was on 50% off So I paid 25 US but since I live in Canada with the shipping and the currency difference I paid about $40 Canadian now once again, I was expecting a box, but that's not what I received What so ever what I received is a small little poly bag and At first I didn't think this was the box from save parcel I didn't think it was the package from them, but on the back here. There is a tracking number So I crossed that with the tracking number that they gave me on the email and it is the same tracking number So this is the standard box for save parcel the $50 box Now what is inside is mind blowing and it makes me realize that since it's relatively new My order was 1100 that was my order number That it's kind of funny that there's no youtube unboxings right now I know they're kind of new but I was expecting something So I was hoping to get something good and to hop on a new company and start making videos for them But this was just utter trash What was inside this poly bag which there's no bubble wrap and no bubble wrap on the item Was a cheap little wireless charger from china It looks like something you'd order off of wish for like a couple dollars And this is what I paid $40 for that to me is ridiculous It doesn't even look like it works There's no bubble wrap in here. So to have a tech item ships like this in a little poly bag No bubble wrap inside no bubble wrap on this is ridiculous Now it does say I can read it without even opening it. It's what phones it works for There's about two or three samsung and then a lot of the older models for iPhones Which I have none of those phones. So this to me is not even worth anything because number one I can't get it to work number two. It has all these chinese Writing on it's on the label. So I know it's probably a chinese knockoff It's probably something like I said off of wish Now it very well might have been something that was lost in the mail And it was later founds and saved parcel purchased it and received it However, for them to ship something like this and sell something like this even though Yes, it is a mystery item. You don't know what you're going to get For this to be what's inside for $50 Is ridiculous Now I thought maybe possibly What I received this package was a fluke. It's something that never happens given all the great reviews that they have on their channel So I decided to email them and ask them a couple questions. Number one. Is this what I should have expected to receive I was expecting based on the reviews and based on what your site says I was expecting a box Also, the facts that this here Won't even work because it looks like it's cracked inside here I'm not even going to try it and I don't even have a phone that would be able to work on it and charge it I decided to ask them all these questions in an email And just earlier today, I received this package yesterday just earlier today I received an email back from them saying No, this this is what our standard box is This is what you're expected to get out of a $50 save parcel box Which is crazy The fact that they told me yes, this is what you're going to get if you order from us Is crazy. This is not worth Even if it was name brands, let's say in my opinion wouldn't be worth more than 20 dollars This here since it's a cheap wish version. I'm assuming like I said, it's maybe worth two dollars Definitely not more than that. It's really light And they didn't even have it shipped properly. It was no bubble wrap. So So whereas I thought I was going to get something great and make more videos in the future in order from them again Absolutely not. It is not worth in my opinion $5 let alone the 40 dollars I had to pay for the standard box and there's more boxes There's a $200 box that costs $200 us Which would probably cost me around 250 canadian i'm assuming with shipping and the currency difference. So It's definitely not something I plan on purchasing again. I thought it was going to be a great thing It absolutely wasn't and i'm assuming all of the reviews on their websites Are 100 fake because as a consumer if I were to purchase a $50 box Mystery box and this is what I got in it I'm not going to give the company a five star review saying how great it was and a lot of them that purchased the standard box commented a review and it says And a lot of those that gave a review Also left a picture where they had a box with a playstation 4 controller or a couple items air pods Somebody got a cell phone. I'm assuming all of those reviews are absolutely fake given what I received with my box So point of this is Do not order from save parcel absolutely ignore them. I wanted to try them out I wanted to try something new on the channel and I thought it was going to work out I'm not making any more videos for from them I am not purchasing anything else from save parcel I really wish that it was an actual legit company But clearly it is not especially when they emailed me to confirm This is what to expect to see from us nothing really of value That is crazy to me that they are selling these packages the $50 one the cheapest package for $50 And you receive something so cheap that looks like it was ordered off of wish My thinking is that they likely order and purchase items off of wish and then send it to You whenever you purchase it for $50 from them To me that is crazy. I am now looking into other things on the channel I have a couple sponsorships that are in the works right now So there is going to be better content on the channel in the future more creative stuff on my parts And I just wanted to mention this because I was expecting to do a big unboxing video and Help the company out and see what they're all about and kind of explore new ventures with the channel This is definitely not one i'm going to continue with i'm absolutely done with save parcel Don't even go and purchase anything from them. It's not worth the $50 or if you purchase a bigger box It's not worth it. Absolutely Not so hope you guys liked this video. I thought it was going to be a great unboxing It clearly wasn't but at least i'm able to share with you my experience with this company So you guys don't have to be in the same boat and you guys don't have to have the same thing happen to you Where you basically feel like you're a scams based on the reviews and what the site said in the description and everything about them Was completely false So i'm gonna leave this video here. Hope you guys enjoyed. I'll see you guys in the next one. Hopefully something good coming up peace


Matthew 13, beginning at verse 54, when he had come to his own country, he taught them in their synagogue so that they were astonished and said, where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works? Is this not the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary, his brothers, James, Josie, Simon, and Judas? And his sisters, are they not all with us? Where then did this man get all these things? So they were offended at him. But Jesus said to them, a prophet is not without honor, except in his own country and in his own house. Now notice verse 58, and he did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief. And so we're gonna be looking at that. And I have to be honest with you, even as I introduced this study, first service, I just was real open, real open and probably offensive. And so I don't know that I'll be as offensive. I usually think through my words by second service and I'm less offensive, but try to stay very open. But the problem that we're having here right now, and I'm gonna spend my time coming to this point is the last verse, when it speaks concerning Jesus, not doing many works there because of their unbelief. And I wanna speak to you today as we get to the conclusion concerning unbelief. But let's begin by looking at the verses before us. So let me give to you a context and let me give to you an introduction. And we're gonna be moving into the fruit of unbelief because that's what we see here, the fruit of unbelief. And so in chapter 13 here in the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus we know gives a series of eight parables. And the eight parables that Jesus gave here concern what is called the kingdom of heaven. When you look at these eight parables, the foundational parable is the parable of the seed and the soils. That was the first parable that Jesus gives in Matthew 13. And that particular parable revealed that some people would receive the Gospel, but that most won't. As a matter of fact, he gives to us a ratio of three rejecting and one receiving. And so the point that the Lord is making here is most people will reject the message of the Gospel. As we've gone through this, we have seen that these people who are hearing God's word, while they heard but they didn't understand. And seeing, he said, they did not perceive. And the reason they would hear and not understand and see and not perceive is because their hearts were calloused.  That's what we see at the conclusion of chapter 13 when he makes it very clear that they did not believe. And so that's what's taking place here. They are remaining in a state of unbelief. As you look through the ministry of Christ, Jesus did works and spoke words that the prophets and the righteous wished that they could have seen and that they could have heard. And people noted that nobody had ever done such marvelous things or spoken so powerfully. They began to wonder out loud if he could be the Messiah. They called him the Son of David. And as I've mentioned to you, the term Son of David is another way of speaking of Messiah. So they were wondering out loud if he could be the Son of David. But they were silenced. The religious leaders silenced them. We saw that in Matthew 12, 24, when the Pharisees heard it, they said this fellow does not cast out demons except by the Elbs above the ruler of demons. And so when they began to wonder out loud, can this one be Messiah? The religious leaders said no, he's actually possessed by the devil. And so what we've been seeing up to this point is they were resisting the Spirit of God and they resist the Spirit of God because they are anchored in unbelief. Nothing Jesus is saying and nothing that he's doing is moving them from their settled rejection of him. And so these verses give us a glimpse into what is called the willful rejection of Jesus Christ. And we are gonna see what the fruit of unbelief is in just a moment. Now in verse 53, the last place we were when we left off last time, verse 53 informs us that after Jesus finished these parables, he departed from there. As we've been looking at chapter 13, we know that he's been in the city of Capernaum. And now he's returning to his home. He's gonna go back to where he was raised. He was raised in the city of Nazareth. If you're looking at a map of Israel and you look to the north, you have the Sea of Galilee. In almost the center of the Sea of Galilee, in its northern most, you have on the Sea of Galilee, Capernaum.  And so he's returning now to the city of Nazareth. So in verse 54, it says, when he had come to his own country, he taught them in their synagogue so that they were astonished and said, where did this man get this wisdom in these mighty works? And so that tells us where he's going. Now the way that we usually use the word country is we're thinking in terms of our own country as in the United States or whatever. That's not how the word is used here. The word country is just speaking of his home, of his hometown. He's on his way back to the city of Nazareth. When we look at Mark chapter six, verse one, it says, Jesus left there and went to his hometown accompanied by his disciples. So Jesus is leaving Capernaum where he's been ministering and now that's the center of his ministry. It's his ministry headquarters. He's returning to the city that he was raised in, the city of Nazareth, but he doesn't go on his own. He's bringing his disciples with him. And while he's there, according to verse 54, he taught them in their synagogue. And so Jesus was a rabbi and Jesus would speak very often in synagogues. It had actually become his manner or his custom. Luke tells us in chapter four, verse 16, on one occasion he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up and as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read. Now, people were not always open to the things he had to say. And a great example of this occurred on another occasion, other than the one we're looking at today, on another occasion when he had shared in Nazareth. You saw that in Luke chapter four, verses 28 through 30. It says, there are all those in the synagogue when they heard these things were filled with wrath and rose up and thrust them out of the city. And they led them to the brow of the hill on which the city was built, that they might throw him down over the cliff. Then passing through the midst of them, he went his way. So they weren't always responsive to the things that he had to say in the most positive way. And on one occasion they actually took him to the brow of the hill in order that they might cast him down and kill him. The brow of that hill still exists to this day. We've been there many times when we go to the land of Israel and we've been on the brow of that hill and we've given Bible studies. And so you can see how that had he been cast down, he would have died. And that's what they wanted. But the bottom line is, is they were not receptive to the things that he had to say it. And an obvious fact, everyone of us in this room, who gives away our faith, who shares our faith, an obvious fact to us is people are not always receptive to hearing the claims of Jesus Christ and not even from him. They don't always want to hear. And we know this, this isn't news, this isn't brand new, this isn't some kind of revelation. People are not always open to hearing what the Gospel has to say. I read about a certain skeptical writer who was in prison and who was visited by a Christian who wished him well. But this skeptical man didn't want to hear a word about Jesus Christ. And seeing a Bible in the hand of his visitor, he made this remark, you do not expect me to believe in that book, do you? Why, if that book is true, I'm lost forever. And so people don't want to hear necessarily. And it would seem that even today, many may respect the fact that Jesus was a profound teacher and many may respect the fact that he was a good man. And some will even claim to have a great respect for him. They might even refer to him as a prophet of God. But the things that he said divided people. Listen, do not think that you're gonna be the most popular person in class or necessarily the most popular person in the neighborhood. On the job site or in the family, if you actually really believe what Jesus said. You know, a lot of Americans are very tolerant to many things other than to truth. And when somebody actually says, no, I really believe what Jesus said, they will say as you've had them say to you in one form or another, oh yeah, he was a great teacher. I'm sure if he existed at all, some might even say he was a great prophet. And they'll say, oh, I really do believe that we ought to obey the golden rule or we ought to live our lives according to the Sermon on the Mount. And there are people who will say philosophically that they can agree with some of the things that the Lord Jesus had to say. But when you start telling them some of the things he said that are actually absolute, they have a real problem with that.  No man comes to the Father, but by me. And that's where people will draw the line. They'll say, now wait a minute, you know, that there's just too many people who've over the years said things from Moses to Buddha to Muhammad. There have been so many religious instructors and now you're trying to tell me that the only way that I can see God or have a relationship with God is to go through Jesus Christ.  There are around seven billion people on the face of the earth and the overwhelming majority of those people are lost. How can you possibly tell me that? And you'll have people who really will argue with that because what you just did is you quoted Christ and they don't like that. They don't wanna believe that and yet that's what Jesus said. In John 3.18 he said, he who believes in him is not condemned but he who does not believe is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.  Now did Muhammad ever say that or Buddha ever say that or anybody else ever say that? Of course not. Did Moses ever say that? Did the psalmist, any psalmist ever say that? Of course not. Jesus said that and that's a very powerful statement. In 1 John 2.23, John the Apostle said, whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either. He who acknowledges the Son has the Father also. That's a very powerful and absolute statement. And so those are the comments that cause people to be offended in him. And once again, Jesus is here. He's in his neighborhood if you will and he's attempting to reach his former neighbors as well as those who knew him. Now they have violently opposed him before but he shares with them. That's because it really reveals to us that God is very patient. In 2 Peter 3.9, the Bible says, the Lord is not slack concerning his promise as some men count slackness but is long suffering to us. Not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. In Romans 2.4, Paul said, do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience? Not realizing that God's kindness leads you to repentance? You know it's God's patient kindness. Imagine how many times in the past prior to coming to faith in Christ, you could have died but you didn't. You survived. I think of the time when I was 19 or so and I dropped five reds, Downers, Lilia, F40, second all, which we used to drop at that time and I dropped five of them and I killed most of a half gallon of wine. And I think of how I woke up in the back of my station wagon and I was filling the urgency to vomit. My body was paralyzed and I knew that should I begin to vomit, I couldn't even move my head to the left or the right. I was paralyzed and I knew that I would have vomited and drowned in my own vomit. I knew that. And a guy I knew, his name was Freddie, Freddie had recently been buried. I went to his funeral and he had died in that identical way.  And so there I was in the same condition and yet God was merciful to me because God is not slack concerning his promise. Some men count slackness but his long suffering to us were not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. It's the kindness of God that leads us toward repentance and he shows us this kindness and that's what Jesus is doing.  Now as he's there and he's teaching, notice in verse 54, he's teaching in their synagogue, they begin to talk amongst themselves. Notice their response.  And so they're astonished, that word astonished in the original language, they're struck with amazement. They're amazed at his teaching. They're amazed at his insights, the insights that he's giving to them. Jesus spoke with clarity, he spoke with eloquence, he spoke with authority and they're amazed at him as they listen and they ask the question, where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works? You see they saw him only as the carpenter's son. Jesus had never received instruction from their rabbis, from their experts and they're showing their amazement, they're responding by saying, how did he learn these things? Now this is something you've seen from his earliest days. Remember with me when he was 12 years old, Luke records how that Jesus went to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover and he was 12 years old. His mother Mary and her husband Joseph had left and left him behind and they came back looking for him and there he was with the rabbis and he was speaking to them, he was listening to them and asking them questions and all. There he is with these teachers in the temple and it says in Luke 2.47, all who heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers. And so Jesus already has demonstrated this profound wisdom and so they're asking where did he get it from? Where did he get this wisdom? How could someone from such a small and insignificant place gain such understanding? You see when you look at Nazareth, don't think of Nazareth as being a city like the ones that we have here in California. It was a village and there are those who say that the population of this village called Nazareth could have been up to 200 but more than likely was less than 50. So they knew him, they knew his family and you'll see this in just a moment but they're asking the question where did he get this wisdom from? Where did he get this power from? And they began to speak concerning that. Now Isaiah, the Old Testament prophet prophesied concerning the special relationship that the father had with the son, the Messiah. In Isaiah 50 verse four it says this and these are the words of Messiah. The Lord God has given me the tongue of the learned that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. He awakens me morning by morning he awakens my ear to hear as the learned. That is called a messianic prophecy is related to Messiah and the Messiah has what is called the tongue of the learned. When it speaks of Messiah having what is called the tongue of the learned that's a phrase that speaks of his divine education. The term learned to the Jews spoke of a well-trained scholar. It would also allude to the fact that he was his father's favorite. So this ability to teach resulted in his ability to minister and so his ability to teach resulted in him giving instruction. It resulted in him giving comfort. It resulted in him giving refreshment to those who had a weary soul. He was able to speak a word in season to the one who is weary and he still is. He's still able to bring that word of comfort to your heart. To this day all you need to do is get in the Word. If you're going through something you pick up the Bible and you read and you read a Psalm and the Psalm will give you insight. The Psalm will give to you comfort. It's like what it says in Psalm 119 verse 50. This is my comfort in my affliction.  Paul says in Romans 15 verse 4 whatever things were written before were written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the Scripture might have hope. So God in the old as well as the new gives us comfort and so the Messiah is saying He's given to me the tongue of the learned that I might bring comfort to those who need refreshment. Not only that but Isaiah prophesied Messiah would be saying He awakens me morning by morning. He awakens my ear to hear as the learned. My morning fellowship and my communion with the Father gives me discernment as well as wisdom. And that's one reason why it's important for us to wake up in the morning and speak to the Lord in prayer. Like it says in Psalm 5 verse 3 my voice you shall hear in the morning oh Lord in the morning I will direct it to you and I will look up. And so they're saying where did He get this anointing from? The answer is my Father. Where did He get these mighty works from? Where did He get the power to perform these miracles? Now they might have heard reports of what Jesus had been doing throughout the land. Remember that the religious leaders did not deny that He performed works. They just questioned the origin. Some of the religious leaders are saying that His power came from Beelzebub from the devil.  Jesus's anointing is from above. The works are heavenly in their origin and they're intended to point people to faith in Him. And some were very aware of this and some were drawn to Him by the works. Do you remember a guy by the name of Nicodemus who came to Jesus by night? We used to call him Nick at night. Nicodemus, remember how Nicodemus spoke and said in John 3 verse 2, how he said to Jesus, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with them. Rabbi, we know that the works that you're doing did not originate with man. We have had a convocation of other rabbis. We've been debating amongst ourselves where this great wisdom and power comes from and we have concluded, there are a number of us who have concluded that you come from God because of the works that you're doing. God is with you. And so Jesus's words as well as His works were His credentials to awaken people to know that He was Messiah. And so as they're asking, where did He get this wisdom and these works from, the answer has already been supplied to us from the Lord. Now they were ignoring what was obvious, Jesus is from God. Now Paul in 1 Corinthians 1 verses 22 through 24 said it like this. He said, Jews request a sign. Greeks seek after wisdom. But we preach Christ crucified. To the Jews, a stumbling block. To the Greeks, foolishness. But to those who are called both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God. Where did this wisdom and where did these works come from? Christ is the power and wisdom of God. That's the answer. So this is the sin of unbelief. What is unbelief? Unbelief has been translated as simply unfaithfulness. It's a lack of faith. It's a weakness of faith. But unbelief in its root is an unwillingness to believe God. An unwillingness to believe God is unbelief. There was an infidel by the name of Voltaire. And Voltaire said, if a miracle occurred in the marketplace of Paris and in the presence of 2,000 men, I would rather disbelieve my own eyes than to believe the 2,000.  Now they were wondering at his words and they were amazed at his words, but they were in unbelief. They refused to believe. And so what do they do when they're unbelief? They begin to question. Notice verse 55 and 56. Is this not the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary and his brothers? James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas? His sisters, are they not all with us? Where then did this man get all these things? Now we're gonna look at that for just a moment. Is this not the carpenter's son? Joseph, Mary's husband, was a construction worker. Do you normally associate godliness with construction workers? I do know that we have a lot of construction workers in this church and indeed I can associate godly men with construction workers, but the average person doesn't. The average person doesn't. And Joseph was a construction worker. He worked with his hands and he worked with wood and he worked with stone and he was an expert at that. And so they're beginning to say, now wait a minute, this is the individual who did all that work here in Nazareth. We know him for what he was. He was a construction worker. He was a carpenter. Not only was Joseph one, but by the way, Jesus was one also because Mark tells us in chapter six, verse three, that Jesus is the carpenter. And so they're simply saying, we all know that Joseph was a simple carpenter. So how could Jesus be so profound and powerful?  And so they're asking, can the Messiah really come from amongst us? You see, the thought of Messiah coming from amongst them actually went against the traditions that they had embraced because John tells us in chapter seven, verse 27, that they said, we know where this man is from when Christ comes, no one will know where he's from. So the tradition that they had been raised on is that you would not know what city he originated from. That was their tradition. But in reality, just looking for an excuse to reject him. What they're doing is they're reducing him to the stature of an ordinary man in order to excuse their own unbelief. Isaiah told us in Isaiah 53, verse two, when we shall see him, there's no beauty that we should desire him. You know, sometimes we think of Jesus and perhaps in our own mind's eyes, we begin to formulate what we think he might have looked like. And sometimes we may think of him as being a tall and very handsome and very attractive, the kind of man who would walk into a room and men would respect him and women would admire him. And a lot of times, let's face it, I think we have that because we have a kind of a distorted sense of beauty and the importance of beauty. Like if you were somewhere and some stranger's looking at you and this stranger's a very good looking stranger and they're just looking at you, you might think, oh, you know, they're looking at me. But if it's an ugly person, what are you looking at? Right? I mean, because if somebody's beautiful is looking at you, you think there's something attractive about you, but if somebody's ugly looking at you, there's something wrong with them. And we have a tendency of thinking that way, that's an absolute fact and we know that's true. It's just true, beauty gets a pass and ugliness doesn't, I know that by experience. And so with that said, sometimes we look at the Lord and we think that Jesus must have walked into a room and immediately, if it was dark, he must have glowed in the dark. We think that he had some kind of attractiveness to him and yet the Bible makes it very clear concerning Messiah, we shall see him, there's no beauty that we should desire him. It wasn't that he was necessarily outwardly very attractive, it's not as if Jesus would walk into the room and you'd see him as like a GQ model of some sort. When he walked into the room, there was something about him that would attract you to him but it wasn't necessarily his looks. What there was about him was something that was much deeper than the beauty that a person could have. Everyone in this room knows that beauty is fleeting, that you may be a great looking, handsome, well-built man now, live long enough and that's a memory, that's a memory. I remember when I had a 30 inch waist, yeah, that was a long time ago, now it wasn't it. I remember when I had this big old chest, yeah, now it's just dropped to your waist, man. That's a fact, and that's just a fact. Let's face it, at one time you may have looked this way and now you look that, that's okay, we're aging, there's no big deal, there's hardly anything somebody said though that is more tragic than to watch a beautiful woman as she grows old. Because when you were young and beautiful you got over a lot more than when you're growing older and we know that, how many women you know who at one time, know of who at one time might have been real well known for making movies who were known for being beautiful as a young woman and now that they're older, what parts do they get, why, because we're fascinated with youth and beauty in this culture and so people have a tendency of thinking that Jesus might have been just so handsome, he kind of glowed in the dark kind of person, you know, but the Bible says there was nothing about him that would draw us to him, not physically, then what was it about him that drew man to him? There was something that came out of him that radiated from him that caused people to be able to bring their children to Jesus that he would hold and bless those babies because there was something about this rabbi that drew people. There's something about you too by the way, you have the fragrance of Christ and when Jesus is in you and when Jesus is emanating from you there's something about you that can be attractive to those who don't know him. Keep that in mind. There's something about you that's beyond your physical appearance. There's something deeper than that. There's something called character, there's something called the quality of who you are, your essence that comes out when people spend time with you and they get to know you and they can grow to love you and it has nothing to do with your outward beauty. Now you may be a beautiful person and if you are praise the Lord, but there's a quality that goes deeper than the beauty that is fleeting and that is the character and with Christ that's what it was that was attractive. There was a wisdom about him that made you want to be near him. There was a goodness, a virtue, a love, a care.   Please I bring my friend to you. That's the way it works and that's how it works in the kingdom of God to this day. So as they're looking and they're saying what is it about him? Where did he get this wisdom? Where did he get these mighty works from? We know who he is. His father is Joseph. He's an ordinary carpenter. This is Jesus the carpenter. He's a carpenter himself. Not only that, we know his mother Mary. We know his four brothers. He has at least two sisters. We know them by name. Where did these things come from? How did this happen? They were looking for an excuse to reject him. John 111 says, speaking of Messiah, he came unto his own and his own received him not. He was rejected. They're naming his brothers. They mentioned that they knew his sisters. Now here's a little theological thing for you. The fact that they're mentioning brothers and mentioning sisters. The fact that they're doing that is giving us clarity concerning a doctrine that some hold to that is called, and I'll just take a moment to share this with you. This doctrine is called the perpetual virginity of Mary. Some of you were raised to know that doctrine. The perpetual virginity of Mary is a doctrine that says that she was virgin when she conceived Jesus, virgin when she gave birth, and the perpetuality of it is they teach that she remained virgin after marriage and thus had no other children. So when the names, Joseph, James, Simon, Judas sisters, when they're mentioned, there are those who would say, well, these are not physical brothers of Christ through Mary. These are cousins. There are some who will say also that these were children who were born to Joseph prior to him getting married to Mary. Probably means the Bible doesn't teach that. That's not found in scripture. That's found in church tradition. When you read your Bible, you'll discover that Jesus had brothers and at least two sisters. You've seen them mentioned in Matthew 12, 46, and 47. We know that according to John 7, verse five, his brothers initially did not believe in him. We know that Paul tells us after Jesus' resurrection that Jesus appeared to his brother James in 1 Corinthians 15, verse seven. Acts 114 mentions them as being with Mary and other believers in the upper room. The brothers of the Lord are spoken of in 1 Corinthians nine, verse five, and Paul refers to James as the Lord's brother in Galatians 119. By reading our Bibles, ultimately we see that James became the leader of the church in Jerusalem, according to Acts 15, and that he wrote the book of James. Another brother mentioned is Judas, who is also Jude, and he's the one who wrote the book of Jude. These are half brothers, half sisters of Jesus, who were born to Mary after Jesus was born. And so with that said, what is the response? Verse 57, they were offended at him. But Jesus said to them, a prophet is not without honor, except in his own country and in his own house. And he did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief. The most difficult people, you've discovered this, haven't you, the most difficult people to reach, very often are your own family and your own friends. A prophet is not recognized in his own family and his own town, and that's a fact. It is normally the place that rejects them. Why? Because they know them the best. And so Jesus' own brothers rejected him. And so these people are now offended, they're stumbled at him, and that's why Jesus said a prophet is not without honor, except in his own country. So Billy Graham, a great minister of the gospel, a history of preaching the gospel throughout the world, Billy Graham has children. I wonder if his children, as they were growing up, saw the greatness of the anointing of evangelism in his life that strangers could see. Or whether they thought, this is my dad, this is just my dad. Or Pastor Chuck, a great pastor who was used by the Lord in mighty ways. I wonder if his children saw him as who he was, the way that perhaps people like me, like I saw him, more than likely not. Because in your own home, very often, the ones who don't see you for what God has made you will be your own family. And that's why it can be difficult for you sometimes to take this gospel message and give it to your family because they're the ones who will look at you and say, no, wait a minute. Okay, it's cool. I'm glad that you are quote unquote born again. All right, fine, that's cool. I mean, if that's what you wanna be, good. But man, listen, I remember you. I know what you were like, I know what you did.   My own brother, Frank, was that way with me. He told me that when I got saved. My brother said to me, I've seen you go through fads. This is a fad, you're gonna go back to what you were in a short time. That's what you are, that's what you've always been. So a prophet, Jesus said, is not without honor, except in his own country and in his own house. You have pastors who, labor, I have a lot of friends who are pastors, matter of fact, quite a number of friends who are pastors. And they pour their heart into their churches. And the church will show up for one or two things, whatever. But he brings in a guest speaker. And before you know it, everybody's showing up to hear the guest. Why? Because they've taken advantage and for granted that pastor, and they wanna hear the special guest.  I wasn't gonna go here and I'm gonna be misunderstood, so I might as well say it anyway, right? I will be misunderstood. That's just a fact. I still remember a brother walked up and said, you know, you ought to leave more often because you have good speakers come when you're gone. And so that's the fact. I mean, people think that way. I understand it. Some people will not go to retreats unless there are special speakers there. That's how the church has gotten to this day. And they don't appreciate the work of that pastor who's been there faithfully so many years because they're too caught up trying to give honor to other people. That's a fact. Not only that, but in your own home, you've loved the Lord, you've changed, you're trying to share the faith of Christ with people and your brother or your sister may look at you and say, come on, you haven't changed that much. You're not that important. You aren't that way. I'll watch and you'll go right back. And so Jesus made it very clear. They're saying, isn't this the carpenter's son? We know his mother, her name's Mary. We know his brothers, we know his sisters. And they're offended at him and Jesus' response. Now, verse 58, he did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief. Because of their unbelief. Unbelief kept them from receiving ministry as well as salvation. And it resulted in their own judgment. Remember when the Lord Jesus Christ spoke to the city of Jerusalem? In Luke 1334, Jesus said, oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophet, stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together as a hen, gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing.   He said, I've wanted to do that for you, but you kept scurrying out from underneath my wings. You would not. You rejected me. And Jesus is crying over the city of Jerusalem. You would not. You were not willing to come. Somebody said we took our sins and drove them like nails through his hands and feet. We lifted him high upon a cross of our transgressions and then we pierced his heart through with the spear of our unbelief. And that's what happens. You see, Mark gives us further insight in chapter six verses five and six where he said he could do no mighty work there except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. He marveled because of their unbelief. Then he went about the villages in a circuit teaching. He marveled because of their unbelief. It's interesting that Jesus being spoken of as marveling only occurs twice, being astonished only occurs twice. Once it's when Jesus saw the faith of a gentile, a centurion and this man had come to Jesus in need of a healing for his servant whom he loved. And the Lord Jesus marveled when this man came and said to those who followed assuredly, I say to you I have not found such great faith not even in Israel. So he marveled at the faith of a centurion but he marvels at unbelief. In both instances in Matthew eight and in here in both instances it was faith or the absence of it that caused Jesus to marvel. And I want you to see the fruit of it. He could do no works because people would not come to him again somebody wrote there are two things that God always hears, mark this. The first is the voice of faith and the second is the voice of unbelief. As much as God loves faith so much he hates unbelief. When we are strong in faith the Lord can do anything with us and for us and he can make us equal to all difficulties. But when we give way to unbelief Christ himself can do nothing with us. He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief. He could do no mighty work there except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. Unbelief keeps God's hand from moving in your life. Hebrews three 12 take heed brother unless there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief and departing from the living God. Listen we have not because we ask not James said. I was thinking about this yesterday. I was thinking about the condition of the church in the United States. I guess at this point I might be able to say a few things about the church. I've been part of it for 45 years. I've been teaching the word of God since September of 1973. I may have some things that I have earned the right to speak on by this point. I've passed through this church now for almost 35 years and two months 35 years remaining faithful here. I guess I could say a few things that some might want to hear. I realize we have Google experts who are able to say much more than me with much more wisdom but the bottom line is if there's anything that I see in the church today that concerns me and I'm not putting on a prophet's mantle or anything like that simply speaking as a brother to the church that I love and to visitors who have come today who won't come back next week. If the church is dealing with anything today it's unbelief. We have not because we ask not. We don't think the Lord's gonna answer our prayers half the time and so we don't waste our time praying. We try to make things better ourselves. And the result of that is that we have nothing. When God is saying I could do so many things in your life, are you concerned about your house payment? Have you brought it to me yet? You're concerned about your health. Have you spoken to me yet? You're concerned about your children. Have you brought them to me yet? And have you brought them over and over and over again until you see my mighty hand work in their lives or have you given up? You say you've got an anger problem. Have you brought that to me yet? Have you said oh God saved me. I'm so tired of getting angry at people. I need a spirit of love and compassion and mercy. I am sick of the way that I live. Have you done that yet?  You think I can't do it? I can. I can. I can. God can set you free. I'm not just preaching to the choir. This is the truth. This is something I'm concerned about in the church. God can set you free from alcoholism but you don't wanna be set free. You wanna use alcohol as an excuse to continue in the way that you lived and say you've got the grace to do it but you're losing your family over it. You're losing your marriage over it. You're losing your children over it. You have no ministry because of it and yet you're saying that it's okay. It isn't okay. You need to be set free from that. This is my heart to yours. It's a fact. It's real.  I wanna see the church walk in faith, not unbelief but we're living in a time where we are living in unbelief and we think that that's God's will for us. It's not. God wants us to be overcomers. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. All things. I can be new. I can be washed. I am washed by the blood of Jesus Christ. I am filled with His Holy Spirit. I am His Son. I will be victorious. I am more than a conqueror through Jesus Christ. More than a conqueror. I am an overcomer in Christ. I have made it and I will continue making it because my God is faithful. He is faithful. He began the work, will continue the work and will complete it in the day of Jesus Christ and I will see Him face to face and I will say, God, thank you for the work you did in my life. Watch out for unbelief. For unbelief, God is bigger than your financial problems. God is bigger than your health problems. And so, so I do. I've had three forms of cancer I'm going through right now. I'm having tests again to see if I've got some.  It isn't major, it isn't concerning. It isn't like some of my friends who've died from it. It's just skin things. I'm not concerned about it. You know why? Because whatever, I'm going to see Him face to face. I will be with Him face to face. That's why I live.  That's what we need to understand today. Christianity, Christians today, we are weak. We're weak. We are weak. Islam cannot overcome Jesus Christ by the blood of Christ. We are conquerors in Him. We need to understand that. But when they get up and they pray five days a week and the church has a prayer meeting and nobody comes, you tell me if we're in unbelief. You tell me, you tell me. When we schedule God into our lives and we haven't given Him full control, you tell me, you tell me if I'm living in faith or not. Please, I'm not angry. Don't misunderstand me. Some of you do, oh, that's a mad Mexican. No, I'm not. I'm impassioned by this thing that the Lord has been laying on my heart. Forgive me for coming off the way that I do. I don't like to speak like this. I don't. I don't. I don't. I'm a hippie. Hippies are mellow. I'm a hippie. You know, I walk in the peace of Christ and the grace of God, but I have a passion for this. There are missionaries in my church right now who haven't gone because you're not trusting God. There are men who wanna plant churches who are afraid because how am I gonna pay for my bills? You're not trusting God. There are people who have been called by God to be generous and give who never do because I won't have my bills paid for. You're not trusting God. That's a bottom line. That's a fact. What we need to do is we need to strap on the armor of God. We're in a battle and we are gonna be victorious. We will not lose. Jesus Christ has already guaranteed my victory. We will win. We will win. One way or another, we will win. But he could do no mighty works there because of their unbelief. What does God wanna do in your life? What does he wanna do in your life? Have you asked him? What? Do you have a friend who doesn't know Jesus that you've been wanting to speak to but he's just afraid to? You have a dad who gets mad at you because you have changed and you've stepped into a different religion so now he's mad. You've got an aunt and uncle.  I raised you right? Listen, I loved my dad and respected him till the day he died.  My mama, my mama did her best with what she had to be a good mom to me. Mama was abusive. My mom used to abuse her children when she'd get angry and she harmed us more than once. I loved my mama and I believed that God could change her life and I gave her the gospel and he did.  That was my heart at 20. It's my heart at 65. It hasn't changed. It hasn't changed. I look at the church for what it is. It's my family. We are the family of Christ. That's what we are.  The way you're seeing the passion, my kids have seen. My kids have seen it in their house. They've seen it when I've given devotions, when I've said follow the Lord. When I've said I may be your father, but I'm also your pastor and I am telling you in the name of Jesus Christ, you follow the Lord. There's nothing better than following Jesus Christ. I raised my kids that way. Yes, they went through their ups and yes, they went through their downs but all of my kids are followers of Jesus Christ to this day. It was worth the tears, worth the pain, worth the time on my knees, worth the time my face has been on my carpet in my bedroom saying God save my children and it's worth sharing with you. My passion for you today as I am right now do not give in to the sin of unbelief. Jesus wants to do a work in you. Why can't he? Why can't he? Why can't he? He wants to. He wants to work in you. In Norwalk where I grew up. Man, I was one of the snotty nose punks that ran the streets there. And then I'm asked to go and speak at a mayor's prayer breakfast and I'm standing in front of four or 500 people and I'm looking at the mayor and I'm looking at council members and I weep and I say I've had the privilege of being invited to presidential briefings where I've been in Washington D.C., I've run through the gamut, had to go through all the checks, the FBI, the whole nine yards and I've had the privilege of listening to presidents and these oppity ups there in the political. But you want to know something I told them?  That is my greatest honor to come to Norwalk where I used to cause such problems and to be able to say this is what God can do. Do not let the sin of unbelief rob you. Don't. God wants to use you. God wants to use you. Listen young man, young man, young man.  But I'm praying for you. I'm praying that God will raise you up and use you in a mighty way in these last days. That God will bring a fresh wave of his spirit into the life of the young people. The alcohol that you like to drink isn't worth it. The marijuana that you want to smoke, it isn't worth it. The fornication that you want to be involved in, it isn't worth it. Follow Jesus and watch what he'll do in your life. He will make you a life changer for other people. You need that. And young lady, stop giving yourself to your boyfriends. Give yourself to the Lord. There was a woman who approached Jesus. She was at a well and she walks up to Jesus and Jesus says, give me something to drink. How is it that you being a Jew ask a drink of me a woman of Samaria? John tells us because the Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. If you knew who it was who's asking you for a drink, you would have said, give me some living water. Well, I noticed that you don't have anything to draw the water with and the well is deep. With what are you gonna give me living water?  And she says, I have no husband. In this year, I've spoken the truth. You've had five and the one you're living with right now is not your husband.  Yes. See, you've gone through six men but you just came to the seventh. Seven in scripture is the number of perfection. You think you're gonna get love from these men? No, the man who will love you the most is Jesus himself. It starts there. Respect yourself. Save yourself. And when that man you marry on the wedding night, when you guys are together, you have less to confess to one another. And you're able to say, you know what? My life was for Christ. I believed and I trusted him. And this is what the result is. And the fruit of this marriage bed, we will dedicate these children to our God who will serve them the way we do. Save yourself. Love the Lord and follow him. And don't give in to the sin of unbelief. He can do it. Why can't he? He can change you. Why can't he? He can bless you. Why can't he? He can take care of your financial needs. Trust him. Why can't he? Don't give in to the sin of unbelief because Jesus was unable to do many works there except to heal the few because they said, we don't need him. Well, guess what? I do. I do.


iscord servers, email whatever form of communication you're using ask questions ask them all and then that you have shouldn't be asked I can be found online I'm on Twitter a lot and through email or whatnot I'm on the ally Slack channel as well and you can find me and ask me the questions and if I don't know I can find somebody who does know a source for you that will answer those questions and the accessibility community is very gracious and happy it's made up of a lot of people it's made up of a diverse group of folks that are more than happy to share their experiences and their knowledge with you it's not a closed group of people and we love to answer all the questions Thank you so much wonderful session we do have a few questions for you okay so the first being what was your motivation behind advocating web accessibility how did you get started with it well I have family members like I mentioned that have accessibility needs that have disabilities motor skill disabilities and visual disabilities as well so when I would see these people friends even and family members struggling with something that got me to want to learn more about accessibility because I heard about accessibility through my contacts in online and that was basically how everything started yeah that's great when you see people around you and you tend to understand them that's a great insight I hope it motivates a lot others to go in the same direction the next one like how would you encourage people especially teams or organizations to start considering web accessibility as an important aspect for product and especially for websites so the key for me has been when I do when I talk to companies or businesses the key is getting the stakeholders and the executives on board the person or people at the top like I mentioned in the talk when you get those people at the top on board that makes your job of advocating easier and hopefully they will have your back and you will have their 100% support I don't know if that answers the question or not but that's the major step I think it's great I think for every initiative it's the first step that counts you need to take that first step forward and things will fall into place one last question for you and then we will wrap up your session as an advocate do you see designers having some additional knowledge around accessibility because nowadays designers are more obsessed with the design aesthetically pleasing but they don't consider accessibility as something that they should lay stress on so on the designer front what do you take I see a small increase in designers wanting to get wanting to learn about accessibility more there is a long way to go the same I see the same with developers as well out of the two groups I think designers are a little more they don't know or they haven't learned about accessibility like developers do because when I talk to a developer say well this doesn't meet WCAG AA standards they usually if accessibility is something that they're focusing on that usually gets fixed fast as far as designers go I've had more conversations about color contrast with designers and who weren't aware that they were color contrast guidelines so steadily more and more as I talk to more and more designers in the communities that I belong to I get the word out and that's where a part of my advocating comes in yeah I think that answers the question thank you so much for such a wonderful session I hope this really motivates a lot of people to start taking up accessibility very seriously while their development process their designing process and their overall product development process so thank you so much it was wonderful having you here thank you I appreciate it thank you Todd please reach out to Todd if you want to get into you know advocacy especially around the web accessibility reach out to him on twitter yeah thank you thank you so much Todd okay so unfortunately there was some personal commitment for our next speaker Shilpi it was on priority so she couldn't make it for today's talk but we will see her in one of our coming meetups so don't be sad you'll get to hear her talk so this was actually the last talk of the day but you know before we wrap up I have to thank so many people so to start with I would like to thank all the speakers that made it possible today and made possible you know share your knowledge with everyone I would like to thank all the organizers Satish Tanisha Aditya especially Raghava I mean it wouldn't have been possible without all of them next I would like to thank Zainab and the whole Hasgeek team who helped us basically with all the technical setup and you know today you see it on the youtube live and with all the technical stuff that we have today so thank you Hasgeek and Zainab for that and yeah thank you all thank you all the attendees who came today I hope you had some knowledge and we will we'll keep doing it every year definitely and like stay tuned on our hello 11Y page you can visit the website and you know we often do meetups as well so a big thank you to all and if I missed anyone please sorry but yeah that's all Tanisha do you want to add something no I mean that's it it was a wonderful day so again happy global accessibility awareness day to all of you thank you all for joining in it wouldn't have been possible without your support and yeah stay tuned and we look forward to having more events on a more basis so that we can bring forth more accessibility knowledge away thank you so much thank you bye bye good night thank you