I think there's maybe some questions and some Q and A and I will, I'm going to start taking those, maybe first come first served and hopefully I'll get as many of these answered in the next 15 minutes or so. All right, so it looks like the first question was, what's the threshold PSA after prostatectomy can reliably detect recurrent or metastatic disease? So this is a controversial topic but I think a very good question. So certainly if you wait longer and as a PSA goes up your chance of the scan being positive is going to go up. But of course the chance that the patient also has disseminated disease and isn't going to respond to salvage radiotherapy also goes up. So what I generally tell our clinicians and our clinical practice pattern has been that if the clinician is going to pull the trigger on a salvage therapy they should get the PSMA scan first. Nothing's worse than say doing salvage radiation for a patient and then their PSA keeps climbing and then eventually we get a PSMA scan and sure enough they had a lymph node that was outside of the salvage field. So no matter what the PSA is if salvage radiation therapy is going to be the next step probably need to get the PSMA scan first again before just not to have any regrets later. It doesn't mean that the scan is going to be positive we may not see the site of disease but we at least know that we weren't sitting on sort of a deal breaker lesion that we just missed because we didn't image. I would say insurances can have problems with imaging at PSAs below 0.2 because all of the data we have is at 0.2 and higher post prostatectomy. So it isn't clear exactly how insurers are going to cover that but from a scientific standpoint I think we're justified to scan patients so long as it's before the next step in their therapy. And then the next question that I can PSMA pet replace MRI for making a diagnosis of local staging. I would say they're complimentary. It's hard to see EPE for instance on PSMA pet it is relatively, you know it's at least possible to see it on MRI. I think PSMA pet is very good for some malversal invasion. That's a little anecdotal but it just seems like it's really good for some malversal invasion. But what PSMA pet really gets you is the sort of local regional staging the public lymph nodes that may be too small to call an MR. And then of course it gives you a wider field of use systemic staging. In an ideal world, I suppose we don't have really nice pet MRs but not every place does and not every place will. So I do view the modalities as complimentary and I think it makes a lot of sense for patients to get both if that's possible. Let's see, do you try to do initial staging PSMA pet before giving ADT? Again, you know, I guess if the patient's gonna get systemic therapy no matter what the PSMA pet may not add a ton of value. I think the real value of PSMA pet is trying to find those patients who have low volume metastatic disease or local regionally recurrent disease that may have sort of salvage options like SBRT. But to really get an idea of a patient's extent of disease I do believe in sort of PSMA pet before initiating systemic therapy just because the PSMA pet's gonna be hard to interpret after the systemic therapy. As you sort of saw in a couple of examples the lesions can do all sorts of things. So it is very hard to interpret PSMA pet right after the initiation of ADT. So I'd certainly prefer to have it before than just have it after. Is there a way to compare the FDG and PSMA scans for progression or response to ADT if a patient's undergone FDG prior? Yeah, you know, if a patient's disease is FDG avid and many castration resistant patients will actually have a fair bit of FDG avidity. I think you can follow them by FDG and that's probably a decent way to follow them because their disease is going to be from that point on, glycolytically active. And so if you see that loss of glycolytic activity I think that's actually a good way to follow them. A combination of PSMA and FDG unfortunately buddies the waters quite a bit. So I'm not sure exactly how to sort of take the combination of the two of them. Like if you saw sort of new lesions on PSMA that weren't FDG avid, would you believe them? I guess I would, but it is certainly hard to follow with both modalities. We don't have great data on following with both modalities. So if they have avidity on one I would probably try to stick to that one and follow them all on those lines. All right, use of PSMA and initial value issues patients found on screen to have elevated PSA and may not do well with MRI screening. Yeah, so there's a little bit of data on this. There's a trial called the primary trial from Australia uses Galli and PSMA 11. And they reported that the PSMA was actually a little bit better than MRI at finding clinically significant disease. I can tell you my anecdotal experiences that they almost always find the same thing if there's clinically significant disease. I don't know that I find PSMA upfront as definitively better. Although again, they always sort of publish literature would say that it's at least a little better. In terms of patients that can't get MRI screening I think the big holdup would be insurance. I think insurance is now pretty cool with MRI as sort of a secondary screening modality for patients with elevated PSA but there are no guidelines that recommend PSMA PET in that context. And in a patient who in fact the guidelines specifically say PSMA PET is only for men with prostate cancer. So an insurance company would have a pretty solid foundation to stand on to say that this patient doesn't have confirmed prostate cancer or we're not gonna pay for their PSMA PET. However, if insurance is okay with it then I think it can be a very useful adjunct to MRI. MRI is probably still the gold standard in that space at least in my mind based on the level of data that's out there. But it is for a patient that maybe can't get an MRI if you can't get a PSMA PET, it can't be useful. All right, do I have experience with Pazluma and what I consider an equivalent to Polarify? So yes and yes. So I've read, I don't know, probably 80 or so Pazluma scans that were done on various trials and whatnot and my experience with it is pretty much exactly as the companies describe it or at least someone as they describe it. There is less urinary excretion than Polarify.  There's probably a little bit more false positive bone uptake. Again, that's anecdotal. I don't really have data on that, but my observation was I would sometimes see things that I was sure were benign but lesions that seem to have Pazluma uptake. Of course I don't have head to head necessarily Pazluma and Polarify scans and any significant number of patients. But yeah, my impression from the clinical trials that were done is that they are statistically equivalent and we should, from a guidelines perspective and use of them in different indications, we should be comfortable with either one. Can you share your protocol for PSA imaging for Polarify? Do you think that imaging in two hours has been official? Another great question. I think that there are occasional lesions that show up at two hours and don't show up at one hour. And it is possible that it is possible that that may make a difference in one patient or another. You never sort of know there's not necessarily like a big prospective trial that has shown that. I would note that two hours is outside of the FDA approved label for imaging with Polarify. I believe the Polarify label is something like 45 to 90 minutes or something like that. I don't think it goes out to two hours. So it would potentially be off label to use it at two hours which is not a big deal, just something to be aware of. What I think is maybe the more practical consideration is that at two hours, you've used an uptake room for two hours and that may not work with your pets in our workflow because everybody's getting image with FDG at one hour. So we use one hour because it fits in with our FDG workflow. And I think it's an uncommon patient that's gonna benefit from imaging at two hours. If you do have the option though, there may be occasional patients for him that would be beneficial. All right, if PSMA scan is negative of patients with a rising PSA, following initial treatment, have you found FDG scans be of any value? No, I think FDG only really becomes a value when you've got relatively advanced castration resistant disease. There are certainly FDG positive tumors that occur before that, but they're relatively uncommon. And I suppose a question could also be asked, is AXMEN useful in that case? I tend to think not either because I think most of the negative scans and PSA in that patient population are because of volume of disease and there's no molecular imaging that's gonna find them. So the question is whether a negative scan then triggers salvage radiation therapy still or what we should do with that negative scan. But I think right now in the guidelines level data would I think support the statement that PSMA is the most sensitive modality that we have for the biochemical recurrence setting and that there's no real reason to believe that other modalities are going to be reasonable problem-solving tools. There's one exception I think to that. In a patient who may have a local recurrence, maybe they have a positive margin at surgery, I name it contrast-enhanced pelvic MR is a great tool. So if you don't see anything on PSMA in that context, a multi-parametric MR is maybe still a great option. All right, if there is an equivocal transitional zone finding is PSMA-positive side biopsy versus active surveillance. Yeah, I'm not aware of any data that would suggest that. There is data that PSMA-PET can make you more confident kind of in reading the MRI. So if you did, yeah, I can certainly imagine a case where you've got something on MR, it's Pirates III, what do you really do with that? It's blazing hot-on-pet that you go ahead and biopsy that. Pattern for disease seems to be important for PSMA uptake, at least somewhat. But again, yeah, I'm not aware of prospective data. So it would, again, I think insurance issues may sort of come into play, but it would be a reasonable step from a scientific standpoint. Let's see, anonymous attendee, do you recommend stopping ADT for some weeks before doing PSMA-PET? We don't, whatever the patient's on, we figure that's sort of the state of their disease and we should go with that. So if they're on ADT and they've got a rising PSA, that would indicate they have viable disease and it's progressing, it's likely to be PSMA avid, and we should go ahead and image them and take a look if it's sort of otherwise reasonable to image them. So yeah, we don't really try to change anything that the clinicians are gonna do. Again, I think it's not always a great idea to try to scan them right after initiation of ADT because weird things can be going wrong, but we don't stop ADT generally. Okay, so Pirate Street Peripherals and Lesion, is PSMA useful to side biops or not? Again, I think it could be helpful, which again is extrapolating from data that isn't exactly in this space. I think it could be helpful, but I would, and if the patient has no prostate cancer, even if it's, well, I guess the problem is anybody that's on surveillance is gonna have at least favorable intermediate risk and the guidelines don't recommend PSMA pet in that context. So again, insurers may have a problem with that. I don't always know how nuanced they're getting with things, but I can imagine insurance being an issue there. And then maybe a time for one more question here, and I think there's about one more question here. So are we administering Clavicto? Do you think metastatic constriction that doesn't submit or refuse chemo could be considered for therapy? So the real problem there is that the data that shows that men who are not post chemo and their benefit of Clavicto hasn't been published yet. And so I don't believe an insurance company is going to pay for a $300,000 course of Clavicto on that basis. It's really the FDA label only for post chemotherapy men. So while I think that we're gonna move into an era very soon where we're giving Clavicto pre-chemo or in men who don't want chemo, we're not quite there yet. So we are only giving Clavicto right now to men who have progressed on chemotherapy. Okay, and then one last question. So I said one more, but we'll do this one. Do you handle focally intense bias may uptake without CT correlate? So it depends on where it is. If it's in bone, I look really hard for a CT correlate because sometimes the CT correlates are very subtle. They may be like, something that's maybe minimally expand style, there might be a good fit for fibrous dysplasia. If, so in bone, I think it can be tricky, but if it's really intense, we do have to take it seriously. If it's outside of bone, if it's in soft tissue, I guess it would be very case dependent. It was truly out in the middle of nowhere and there's no lymph node around. I wouldn't be sure what to think of that. In other organ systems, it may require additional workup like if it's in the liver, that could be an HCC or something, it may have to go hunt that down a little bit. But yeah, it would sort of depend a little bit. And then if it's in the prostate, it's almost certainly prostate cancer and that's presumably, I guess, why the patient would be being imaged. And with that, I do apologize. I will gonna have to run. I know there's probably other questions that'll trickle in, but it's really been a pleasure joining you today. And I hope this was a useful talk and I really thank you all for your attention. Thank you for some great questions and hope everybody has fun reading these scans.


Since Keir Starmer took over Labour this spring, he has made it a priority to woo back the wealthy donors that flocked to the party under Tony Blair. In November the Times reported that one of those cash-riched returnees was property tycoon David Abrams. So according to the Times, Starmer had sent a personal letter to Abrams soliciting donations. Now at the time we raised concerns that these developments would once again make Labour a vehicle for wealthy interests. This is a property developer, remember? I mean there were previous controversies about potentially favours being offered to this property developer because of his closeness to, at the time, new Labour. However there are even deeper problems with this new relationship. They have been revealed in the last couple of days by the Guardian and then also other people on social media who have gone through his internet history which is not a pretty sight. We can take a look at the Guardian story so you can see that Keir Starmer urged return donations from Islamophobic property developer. Abrams tweets included suggestions that Muslims have mixed loyalties, that conservative Muslim culture is inherently violent and that Muslim youth have a propensity for suicide. Don't think I know how to divide political Islam from moderates and fundamentalists, Abrams posted in 2013. It is the very nature of the beast. As recently as this January he tweeted the claim that while Israel was a brand new high tech state with new inventions to benefit mankind, its close neighbours chose terrorism and invented suicide bombers. And it's not just Muslims who are the subjects of racism in his tweets. Not that that would matter, these tweets are all appalling enough. Got a penchant for calling Jews who don't support Israel self-hating.  We have too many of them.  And this is someone who Keir Starmer you've got to remember wrote personally to to ask if he would like to reconsider donating to the Labour Party.  He used it as an excuse to complain about a completely unrelated event on a bus in the United States. Let's get this one up.  That happened in reverse when travelled on public bus after visit to Graceland. After general abuse almost lynched by a baying mob at Terminus driver had to lock doors before driving to a different location. Completely bizarre response to someone suffering racial abuse, racial discrimination on an airplane. This is definitely the most jaw-dropping tweet though from Labour's new high-profile donor. David Abrams in 2017 tweets, hashtag President Zuma. Most black South Africans spoke to earlier in the year preferred white rule as less corrupt and more viable and professional. He's literally defending apartheid. There are lots of debates in the moment about what you're allowed to call apartheid and not in the Labour Party. Are you allowed to call Israel apartheid? Are you allowed to compare it to South African apartheid? You don't have to worry about that particular debate here because this guy is literally speaking positively about South African apartheid. The thing that everyone agrees was racial white supremacy. Aaron, there are calls for Starmer to give back Abrams' donation but as far as I can tell there hasn't been much comment or beyond this story which was not written by the Guardian politics team, it was written by a different journalist at the Guardian. I haven't seen any of the lobby pick this up. I haven't seen Labour force to really comment on it but this is someone who Starmer personally wrote to to ask to become a donor to the party who has now been sort of found out as having tweeted. I mean I think most people agree that many of those tweets count as latent racism, especially the Islamophobic ones. The comment about South Africa just mind boggling. How is this able to stand? There's a bit of an overblown way of putting it but how can this happen without any pushback whatsoever? It speaks to the complete brazen hypocrisy and duplicity of many of the people in the liberal media, particularly the Guardian, the new statesman, the BBC who imagine if this was Jeremy Corbyn donor. Imagine if Jeremy Corbyn had written to a donor saying please come back to the Labour Party and this was a person who said that actually Black South Africans prefer apartheid. Can you imagine? It would be a story going on for weeks. But this, like you say, only appears in the Guardian because it's not being covered by the politics team. I wonder why, right? How firm is their commitment to anti-racist politics, you wonder? And that's a question, by the way. That's a question if they want to answer it, they want to come on the show, they're more than welcome to. How firm is the commitment of Keir Starmer to anti-racist politics? Again, he's welcome to come on the show. Whenever we write a story, we always go to Labour for comment, we don't get anything and even to this story when Labour are contacted, it's pure boilerplate, you know, and this all comes in the aftermath of that report by the Labour-Muslim network which found that more than 50% or around 50% of Muslim Labour Party member supporters don't trust the leadership to act on this. That's terrible. Furthermore, you've got around one third of Labour Party member supporters have either experienced or observed Islamophobia in the Labour Party. So it's present, it's being observed, they don't trust the leadership to do anything about it. And when you see a story of this scale being reported in the national media, the leadership knows they have to do so little because their backside is covered so much in the Liberal press and that this won't blow up, they can respond with pure boilerplate. And I think it's hugely insulting to a number of people. It's not just insulting to Muslims, which it is, or to black people, which it is. It's also hugely insulting to the many people who've been involved in the debate around anti-Semitism in the Labour Party and have done so with entirely good intentions. Many, many people. And it just seems to me when you look at this story, the way it's being responded to, both by the parts of the media and by Keir Starmer's lot, there was no good faith coming from them on this. It's shocking, it is shocking. You know, he deleted his Twitter account for a reason. I'm sure if people really wanted to look, there was much, much more. And it wasn't that he was just contacted and he started giving money back to Labour again. It was in the Sunday Times, I think a couple of weeks ago. So this was really, this was a story that was actively briefed to the press by somebody. Might not have been Starmer, might have been Mandelson, it might have been somebody else in the Labour Party. Mandelson, by the way, has quoted in that same article saying, this is a sign that people are coming back, the people we want, they're coming back. Is anybody going to Peter Mandelson now saying, do you have a comment about David Abraham saying that black South Africans prefer to partake? Of course they're not. I mean, my God, we knew there was duplicity and hypocrisy in British politics, but this story is just remarkable. It might seem odd that we're critiquing the Guardian whilst talking about a Guardian story and fair play to Damien Gale, who has written up this story. But what I was checking was Jessica Elgert, who is their main lobby reporter, hasn't tweeted about this story, which shows that it's not seen as a politically controversial story.  But no one thinks this will cause problems for Keir Starmer because no one cares about, well, either this form of racism or they don't have any desire whatsoever to hold Keir Starmer's feet to the fire. Jessica Elgert will not tweet something which is disadvantageous for the Starmer leadership. She won't. And so we, we on Navara Media have had this for years. Oh, you're, you know, you're just propagandist for Corbyn, even though I disagreed with the Corbyn leadership on open selection on the general secretary's office on a whole bunch of things. I thought it should be more farmer accountable to members. We probably disagreed where we publicly disagreed, right? Ash on, on policing or, or, or migration on Brexit policy, right? And yet these people, it was all projection, Michael. This idea that, oh, Navara is just, you know, they're outriders for the leadership. That's what these people are doing. There's a very clear story of public interest, which clearly undermines Keir Starmer and his leadership's claims to being anti-racist labor. Always were an anti-racist party. Oh, except by the way, when we all went round Phil Woolis, gathered around Phil Woolis 10 years ago and said he was a good guy and he hadn't done anything wrong despite the fact his campaign published brazenly Islamophobic campaign literature, you know, we're back to that place again now where people just don't really need to talk about it. But here's the problem for labor is that their strongest base amongst the electorate. Yes, it's renters, yes, it's young people, but it's also people of color and it's Muslims and it's black people. And if, and if they genuinely have the perception, which by the way, I think is warranted, if they genuinely have the perception that their votes are being taken for granted by the Labour Party, there's going to be a problem. If you're taking the votes of Muslims for granted and yet you play silly buggers when it comes to Kashmir, you completely override democratically agreed policy on the party, or you basically basically ignore what your own Muslim members are saying with regards to Islamophobia. Guess what? Muslim supporters and voters are going to be a bit less keen to vote for you next time round. There's going to be an electoral overhead there. You know, we're going to find out. Labour clearly don't think it's a major problem for them that somebody like David Abrams is donating money to the party despite what he said about the key groups that are most supportive of Labour when it comes to election time. It's a real slap in the face. We've got a bit more on Abrams in a moment. First of all, if you're new to this channel, if you're enjoying what you're seeing, do hit the subscribe button. Tiski Sour goes live every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7 p.m. and we put out these clips on a regular basis, so it's worth being subscribed and hitting that notification button. On Abrams, we have spoken about him before because the only problem with him isn't these racist tweets. It's also that his relationship with the Labour Party in the past represented basically everything that was wrong with the Labour leadership's close ties with the corporate establishment that meant that we couldn't really trust that they were working in the interests of the many, not the few. This is a clip from a friend of the show in a previous job explaining why Abrams donations never really reflected well on those in receipt of them. David Abrams' business is property and that means he's routinely involved with seeking planning permission for projects here in the North East. At the highest level, planning is a political process, both in Whitehall and in the Labour-controlled councils of the North East. As you can see, there are quite a lot of them. It's politicians that get to decide on Mr Abrams' projects. So knowing whether he's giving them money is above all relevant to that. Another area of the North East Mr Abrams took an interest in was Sedgefield, the then constituency of Prime Minister Tony Blair. In 2005 and again this year, a Mr D Martin of Acorn Residential Estates is listed as a consultee for Sedgefield's local development framework. Actually, Mr Abrams and D Martin are the same person. So what representations did Mr D Martin make to the borough council? Actually, none says the council. However, with the constituency Labour Party, it was different. He was, said one local Labour politician, a hanger-on. Another said he often sent a note to Tony congratulating him. He was invited to Blair's farewell speech, says one source, as someone you could rely on not to stand up and heckle. Despite not living there, nor having any business with the council, he came along to various things of Tony's as a member. So this is, I mean, someone who it seems, Stalmer specifically sought out to say, oh, we think you should come back into the fold. Labour is once again a party for billionaires. And he would have well known, because this was a big deal at the time. That's why it was on Nudes night, that David Abrams was always a controversial donor to the Labour Party because he was a property developer who it appeared and was getting favourable treatment from Labour authorities after having donated to the Labour Party. A clear conflict of interest there. And this is the kind of thing that, you know, for all his faults, Jeremy Corbyn was moving the party away from him, saying no longer are we going to be, you know, in cahoots with Britain's corporate establishment, because we know that so long as we're relying on donors in the city or property developing donors, then that is going to undermine any potential that this party has to change the country for the better. And if you look at the people who were close to Tony Blair, there is nothing that tells you more about the completely, you know, morally degraded nature of the new Labour regime.  And now we can see also, send racist tweets.  Well, in their zone two dinner parties, which is all that matters to these people, these people, and it is very much a bubble, it sounds like a glegia, I sound like Nigel Farage saying it, but it's true because of the way this country works, so much political, social, economic power is concentrated in London. My God, Keir Starmer's constituency has the Guardian Office in it.  And who are they listening to and whose opinions count and who matter? For Keir Starmer, it's not black and brown members who want to, and white members too, but I'm saying that in the context of this guy making Islamophobic and I think anti-black racist remarks and his tweets, they don't want to talk about Jeremy Corbyn, they want to be talking about a Green New Deal, the housing crisis, by the way, because many of them rent, they want to be talking about universal credit and what kind of economy we build up to COVID. They don't want to be doing this. This is entirely of Keir Starmer's making. This nonsense civil war is entirely of his making. And I think partly because he's actually got no policies. I think that's something nobody's talking about. He wants to stay relevant, he wants to be in the news, but he actually hasn't got anything to offer anybody because he doesn't really know what he believes. He doesn't know what kind of policies he'd want to do. He doesn't know what he'd like to do with power and that presents a major problem. So how do you keep yourself relevant? How do you get pats on the back from the right-wing media? And how can you make yourself look like you're doing something? Because of COVID, he can't do events, he can't do a tour, he can't zoom all day.  So I think that's a big part of that. But it's insulting to members. It's taking members for granted. And if Labour continue to piss off black and brown voters, if they continue to piss off renters, if they continue to alienate young people, if they really don't seem particularly interested in a radical green policy which is fit to the task when it comes to what we have to do with regards to climate change, they're going to struggle. They are going to struggle. Does that mean they're going to lose more seats next time round? Maybe not. We're going to win another 10 seats. I have no idea. By the way, with boundary reform, which is in the background to all of this, which we may get in 2023, it may be academic. You may see a huge change anyway. But my God, Labour haven't got hope and hell if they alienate young people, minorities, renters. No chance. But for Keir Starmer, and again, you go back to materialist analysis, conditions determine consciousness. If you're a wealthy guy, I don't care about his background, right? If you're a wealthy guy and you've been at the top of your game professionally for 20, 30 years, he doesn't know what it's like for renters who are struggling.


Coming to you from our GIS studios, I am General Norvel and this is your Midday News Brief. Sufra Comprehensive Secondary School retains a St Lucia Hotel and Tourism Association Chefs in Schools Championship title for yet another year. Their SLHDA would like to congratulate the Sufra Comprehensive Secondary School on winning the Chefs in Schools Cook-Off 2019. The winning team consists of performers Shaqueen Franke and Kayla Joseph and was trained and coached by Chef Ruben Kumar of Anne Sharsney Resort over the past two months in preparation for the competition. The team put on a great show in both the signature dish and mystery basket rounds at the recently held competition on their home grounds at the Sufra Comprehensive Secondary School on Thursday 13th and Friday 14th June 2019. In second place was the St. Joseph's Convent Team consisting of Jean-Ai Williams and Chris Joseph, trained by Chef Nyssa Paul of Windjammer Land in Villa Beach Resort. In third place was Makai Jé-Chien and with me Prospect of the Leonhead Secondary School and trained by Chef Billy Morissette of Capmizor. Kayla and Shaqueen along with their chef and teacher will travel to Barbados to represent St Lucia at the Regional Caribbean Junior Dueling Challenge come August this year. Their training will continue over the summer in preparation for the regional leg of the culinary competition. The competition was proudly sponsored by the Tourism Enhancement Fund, Winfresh Limited and Trans-Caribbean. Special thanks goes out to the schools and students who participated in this year's event. The Leonhead's Comprehensive, John Odlam, Barbara No, Shoselle, St. Joseph's Convent, Entrypo, Souffle Comprehensive, Auger, Cache Rescomprehensive and the Syrah-Siemann Secondary School. The final of the Tika Caribbean Entrepreneurship Challenge concluded in Martinique with a young St Lucia claiming the top sport. President Alfred Marie Jean awarded 19-year-old Sophie Klein with the winning prize, a Euro $10,000 grant to develop her project, Jua, which aims to transform the world of education by integrating virtual reality. The Tika Caribbean Entrepreneurship Challenge is organized by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Martinique in partnership with the Territorial Collectivity of Martinique, the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, OECS, and the Caribbean Export Development Agency. The Caribbean Entrepreneurship Challenge aims to sensitize the youth on cooperation in the Caribbean, encourage young entrepreneurs to mobilize their skills to serve their country and to promote entrepreneurial innovation. Back in St Lucia District 1 Education Office has signed up with Jua's Virtual Reality Programme. Jua Innovative Learning Solutions Inc. is directly affiliated with Jump Junior's Under Mentorship Programme. Jua focuses on the academics and are driven by virtual reality where students are able to experience the joy of learning through gaming technology and alternative learner-centered teaching methods while being fully immersed in academic environment specific to each subject area. Minister for Equity, Social Justice, Local Government, and Empowerment Honorable Leonard Montoot is following through with his promise to lend more assistance in creating increased opportunities and providing greater support for local artists, musicians, and producers. Minister Montoot explained that a contract has been signed under the Basic Needs Trust Fund for the establishment of a music recording studio in the town of Grosillais. Upon completion, musicians will have access to state-of-the-art recording equipment and technical support to help improve the quality of their craft, whilst benefiting from assistance that will help take their creations well beyond the St Lucia borders. That's all for our midday news brief. Thanks for tuning in.


Good afternoon everyone it's It's good and it's bad to be here with you once again. It's good because I'm happy to be with you It's a little bit bad because I think this is the last in our in our time together during this season during this week of prayer and So This afternoon, I'm going to be I don't I think I'm going to be fairly Fairly brief, but I want to Just share a few things that were that are on my heart to share with you About the work that is before us about the situation that we're in All week if you've been listening to the messages each message I've been really burdened or led to share with us that It is not time For business as usual. You've heard me say that a few times throughout the week This is not the time for business as usual. This is not the time for work as usual and You know, it's a it's such a very interesting thing We're all very familiar with I think we've all heard the stories of this great ship called the titanic This is a ship that was built and It was claimed that this ship was going to be unsinkable It was built with reinforced and with I think it had double hulls on the ship and People claim this ship could not be sunken it could not be sunk and on its maiden voyage on its trip to Europe some of the Wealthiest and most celebrated people in America boarded that ship Certain that they would make it to the other side. There's been a major motion picture that was Created about this voyage. I think something like 20 years ago and It's very interesting when that ship was sailing people were so confident in the ship That when the ship Struck in iceberg, I'm sure everyone felt it but no one worried Everyone heard the sound and everyone felt the bright the vibrations of the ship as it scraped against the iceberg but no one Noticed very much. No one took great care. No one took serious concern because they knew that they were on a ship that was unsinkable and Of course When the alarm finally went out and people heard that you know, it's time to go to the lifeboats Many people still Stories told many people still did not listen. They did not believe they did not understand About the seriousness and the urgency of the situation around them. Oh my friends we are in a similar similar situation and It is difficult for us Because we know and and I think sometimes it's even more difficult for members of the Adventist church Because here in the Adventist church, we know But we're standing on a very firm foundation The truths that we have come to understand from the word of God, this is the word of God There's nowhere you can find in the teachings of the Adventist church that it's just well a person said this. Oh a tradition said that Everything that we have come to love and trust and believe has come directly out of the word of God And we know that the word of God shall not fail It shall always stand Ellen White even makes the statement. I'm gonna paraphrase here She says it will even appear at some point that the church will fall That the church is not going to make it there will be a shaking and there will be problems and It will look very much like the church will fall, but she says the church shall not fall She says that the church is the object of Christ's highest affection And so when you hear these kinds of statements coming from Sister White when you when we look at Into the face of Christ himself When we understand that we are standing on the word of God it it seems like There really should be no problem and yet and yet We are standing at the end of time and There is a are several passages in the beginning of the book of Revelation chapters two and three where the Lord Gives the church an evaluation and The church of the last days just before Jesus arrives is a church that is in a Very precarious very desperate very serious situation They're in a serious situation, but they don't know it you see they're in a serious situation because They know that they are standing on the truth they know it in fact Jesus confirms this is taken from Revelation chapter 3 and verse 15 Jesus is speaking to this church and he says I know your works and He says that you are neither cold nor hot. They're not cold They're not Deceived they're not out in darkness. They're not believing things that are not the truth No, they have taken time and they have studied and they have understood the truth They know the word of God. They're not cold They're not like so many people who have religions that are not really focused on the creator of heaven and earth They're not saying there is no God. They're not in rebellion against God They're not saying well, we know the word of God says this but our traditions say something else And we would prefer to be with our traditions. They're not saying that either They're saying no, no, no, we reject everything else But the thing that we believe in the thing that we trust in is the word of God itself Hallelujah. Amen They're not cold You can't pick at their theology. You cannot you can't dismantle their doctrine All of it is on a firm and very sound foundation my friends I hope and pray that you are on that firm foundation that you are believing in the words of Christ and Christ alone But Jesus goes on he says they're not cold. He says but they're also not hot either Now we're gonna talk a little bit about what it means to be hot and I hope and I hope and I pray that These are not just another set of words for another Sabbath afternoon program. I I'm praying that the Holy Spirit is going to get a hold of us before it is too late you know, there were people in in my country and in in America Back in the year 2001 you remember September 11th 2001 and there were people in those high-rise buildings. They the World Trade Center Who just could not get themselves to believe? That the fire that was in the building was so serious that they needed to urgently leave their work and rush Not to the elevators but down all of those stairs and they delayed they made phone calls They continue to do work many of them were told by Officials by their supervisors by their boss.  These buildings were designed to withstand Different problems and this should be okay. And so people waited my friends. We cannot wait It is far beyond it's far past the time to wait And I'm gonna be a little bit alarmist here if I may just forgive me But I feel like if I don't try to make things clear then That maybe I'm not really doing my work, but I and it's not my work. It's our work. We're in this together I need you I need my church to rise up and to wake up and Decide that the work before us is urgent. It is alarming and it is not worth Leaving it's not worth waiting even one moment We must urgently move Jesus says that they're not cold, but they're also not hot. I could wish you were cold or hot But he's saying you're even in a worse situation than if you were cold He says because you're lukewarm and neither cold nor hot I will vomit you out of my mouth People who are cold are simply unprepared, but people who are lukewarm are actually rejected by God Don't have the truth do not know the truth and then do nothing with it It's a far more dangerous far more serious situation to be in Jesus says All of this is happening because verse 17 because you say I am rich and have become wealthy And I and have need of nothing and do not know that you You you who believe the truth you who have the correct doctrines you who have the right understanding Understanding you who have rejected the traditions of men you We have become wealthy and have need Say that we're rich and have become wealthy and have need of nothing and we do not know that we are wretched that we are miserable We are poor. We are blind. We are naked Jesus says he counsels us to buy from him gold refined in the fire that we may be Rich not just thinking that we're rich. We need to become wealthy in Christ How do you become wealthy? you become wealthy by storing up your treasure where in heaven and as I Visited many places around the world around Kenya around East Africa many places I I'm sorry to say and I want to say it clearly with with love and compassion for you and for me I Am not seeing a Seriousness that respects the time in which we are living. I'm not seeing it There should be alarm There should be a sense of urgency for the loss around us We need to be storing up our treasures in heaven There's too many there are too many members of the remnant church of God Who are still planning on marrying and giving in marriage and so forth, and I'm not saying anything against marriage I'm talking about the general spirit the attitude of the times within the church, right? If you're engaged by God's grace that the Lord has called you together, please get married, okay? I have no problem with that, but if you get married you need to understand God is calling you together in an unusual time The the Lord's return is on the at the very door And your marriage should be unlike any other marriage you have ever seen in the world Because you're called to an urgent task The time is gone where we are going to just marry and give a marriage and buy houses and land and cars and seek for jobs and do the various things that the world does and And and and just grow old doing those things and that's it. No the time my friends is far far spent This is not a long message But if it was a long message, I think I could try to explain to you To us why? Truly the time is far spent There is not much time left and the Lord says that we should Buy from him gold refined in the fire refined through trials and challenges Through persecution through sacrifice refined as faith that you have Are you sacrificing?  Are there challenges because of your faith because you refuse to keep quiet because you refuse to be Reasonable because your love and compassion for those around you is so great. You must speak to them in The name of Jesus that you must serve them in the name of Jesus.  Am I comfortable? My friends I there are so many seventh-day Adventist members who are comfortable And if we are comfortable the church that is called by God to deliver an urgent message about the urgent times Imagine everyone else My friends Let us rise up and be the church that God called us to be I'm gonna jump down for the sake of time. I want to Go to verse 19 Jesus says as many as I love Because I love you Jesus says I Rebuke and I chase him. I'm not going to sit here and tell you how well you've done when you have not When you have been far too complacent when you like the ten virgins in the story have fallen asleep It Jesus says I'm not going to cradle you and coddle you I'm going to warn you.  We need to let it go My friends the three angels messages have been here in Kenya for more than 100 years This is an urgent message. It's been being proclaimed for more than 100 years in this nation My friends time has run out We cannot afford another 100 years There are 50 million or so people living in this nation and In many places in this country Adventism is viewed as a tribal religion It's for this tribe. It's for that tribe. We don't know anything about that in our culture my friends What have we done with God's message and Jesus says this Finishing verse 19 therefore Therefore as a result of all these things. He's told us that we're lukewarm We're in danger of being vomited out. He's counseling us He says therefore here's what I want you to do. I Want you to be zealous and repent You who know the truth you who understand the doctrines you who understand the word of God first we need to repent and Then be zealous, you know, I want to Change the word zealous because it's not it's only a word that we ever hear when we're reading this verse But I think the appropriate word that kind of maybe would call us to attention here is the word extreme Jesus is saying Don't be complacent. Don't worry about it. I The the authority the one in whom all authority has been entrusted. I Am telling you be an extremist love with extreme passion love with extreme Compassion and care We need to urgently give this message as I shared on Sunday last Sunday This city is going is about to grow by more than five million people in the next 25 years five million people that means More than 200,000 people every year that means This month there will be more than 16,000 people moving into this city this city will be growing by 16,000 people The last time I checked we had maybe 200,000 members in this city of over five million people 200,000 but we've got five million people in this city and the city is adding 16 more than 16,000 people every month that is more than 550 people every day today this city has grown by 550 people and what are we doing? What are we doing what not only are we doing but what is it that you are doing? You personally I don't know about you, but I feel like I'm not doing enough These were your children That were lost If your children were on the Titanic if your children were in those burning buildings in New York 22 years ago What would you do to get your children out of that building? What would you do to warn your children to leave that ship what they can? my friends This city is in an urgent urgent situation this nation is in an urgent situation and Just like it was on the Titanic as the ship was literally sinking people were in the ballrooms listening to music and dancing and enjoying their meals a friend the time for us to have the fellowship and the faith that we've always had is Long over Let me read to you from sister white Ellen White writes a great work is to be done She says I am moved by the spirit of God to say to those engaged in the Lord's work That the favorable time for our message to be carried to the cities has passed by has passed by and This work has not been done She says I feel a heavy burden that we shall now redeem the time that we're gonna wake up and Work extra hard to make up for what has not been done my friends in your life in your life Never mind your brothers and sisters around that are here with us today ask the Lord in your life is Is anybody saying this person is an extremist they love Jesus too much There's they're talking about Jesus too much. They're praying too much. They're giving too much They're serving people too much. Is that what people are saying about you? Is that what they're saying about you and if it's not what people are saying about you then I'm suggesting to you very Directly there is a problem There's a problem Don't it is this is not the time for the world to think that you're reasonable and everything is no my friends We need to love We need to give we need to serve in an extreme way Ellen White says the days in which we live are solemn and Important the spirit of God is gradually but surely being withdrawn from the earth Plagues and judgment are already falling upon the despisers of the grace of God the calamities by land and sea The unsettled state of society the alarms of war are Portentious They forecast approaching events of the greatest magnitude She says my brethren Enter the cities while you can in the cities that have been already entered. There are many who have never Heard the message of truth. Can you believe there are People here in Nairobi who've never heard this message never heard it Not sure exactly how old this church is But I'm I'm saying This church this is the mother ship. I think Church for Nairobi am I right? I think that's right. This is the the preeminent church in this city Who's responsible for reaching this city if not this church if not you as a member of this church and There are people in this city who've never heard listen I guarantee you if we put our minds together today we could come up with a plan You could come up with a plan to make sure that at least no Nairobi and Would be unaware of the three angels messages Let me ask you this If if if Christ Came here and he said to you listen Today the city is growing by 550 people if If there was an opportunity that I could give you but it would cost you everything But it would cost you everything People would talk about you People would your reputation would suffer Your bank account would be emptied and you would be Struggling and suffering along with the least of these in this city But if you give me your everything today, I Can guarantee you these 550 people that the city is growing by today I can promise you my Holy Spirit will reach them and Will offer them the gift of eternal life They will not suffer they will not die without having a clear choice They'll have the opportunity to be saved and Many of them will take that opportunity because they will see your sacrifice They'll see how seriously you have taken this message and many of them will be in my kingdom for eternity I don't want to make it difficult and I don't want to tempt anybody to raise their hand when they Don't feel that way, but I want you to tell the Lord whether or not you would be willing to give everything for that mission for those 550 people and the truth is that there are some of us here that would not and I praise God because I believe that there are some of us here that would and that will God wants to use us, but the time for Business as usual church as usual is long over and We are not in an arc of safety because the other members around us don't seem to be feeling very urgent well, you know, they all heard pastor pollute as well, but You know everybody else seems to be Doing the same things. Well, I guess next week. We'll just see what happens at church next week Do not be fooled by that when God calls you He is calling you and he wants you to come no matter what anyone else says no bad No matter what anyone else does if the Lord is calling you you need to fall on your knees and ask him Lord Here am I send me Lord? Whatever it takes. I will go These are urgent times These are urgent times I'm telling you I had and I'm not speaking out of Nothing here, and I'm not saying I'm in any way a good person or anything like that, but I am telling you I know what it is as I mentioned the other night, you know, I was a very comfortable Software developer running my business doing well children were doing well everything was fine But the Lord said no you need to go Don't think it will ever be easy the Lord the Holy Spirit is not going to fall on you in such a way that doing his will It's going to be easy. It's going to be an obvious. Oh, yeah, of course Lord Let me go do this You're not going to be filled with so much passion and so much joy in the Lord that you're just gladly going to go Skipping along and sacrifice everything for for the Lord. You will not even Jesus himself didn't want to go But he was forced to say because of his love for humanity and his love for the Father in heaven He said not my will But yours be done Everything around you every one around you will be calling you in a different direction but the test of the Holy Spirit is will you listen to me he says on Sabbath afternoons, I hope that will take the opportunity all of us as Seventh-day of Venice the Lord has given us a whole 24 hours where we can work together The Bible says in Acts 2 that when they were all together and one accord that is when the Holy Spirit fell upon them And then they went out and they shared the gospel with the multitudes We are very blessed every week. We have that opportunity So we cannot afford to spend All day every Sabbath day amongst ourselves. There's a city out there that needs you There's a city out there that needs you every day of the week And I'm here to tell you That no matter what your plans are for your life No matter where you've been investing whether it's your career or financially or in your family or what have you My friends there is no better and no safer investment than to store your treasures in heaven Do not be complacent If everyone around you decides to stay in the ballroom of the Titanic If they want to stay at their desk at the World Trade Center, you go You go be zealous therefore as Jesus has said What does it look like for you to be zealous? For you to give all that you have So that there is nothing left undone So that you can say I have finished the very the race I Have run the course my friends I Need my church to wake up so that even I Can be more and more on fire let us encourage one another There is a world out there that needs us the Lord is willing to give you this city This is one of the greatest cities in the entire continent of Africa and The Lord will give you this city So that from here you will reach the rest of this continent and even the world He is willing to give it to you My friends all you have to do is sincerely ask Let's pray Heavenly Father Lord we thank you that Jesus is soon to come Lord what what a joy God where there will be no more tears there will be no more sorrow God that we will live in a Perfect city a Perfect kingdom the earth made new Lord I thank you for that. There'll be no more crime no more corruption No more death God we are looking forward to that day now Heavenly Father No one's looking forward to it more than you are Lord because you want to see your children With you for all of eternity And right now God there are millions and millions of your children who do not yet know you and They can't see you So many millions in this city have not even heard your message and and when they meet us Lord There's there's there's not enough about us to make them know that you are coming Urgently that you are coming soon Lord I want to invite you I Want to invite you Lord to give us your Holy Spirit in a fresh new way God whatever we have been doing as nice as it is it does not Represent how hot you are willing to make us in the faith Lord you're willing to take us much farther The plans we have for our lives are nothing compared to the plans you have for us Your plans are exceedingly abundantly beyond all that we would even ask or imagine but God Please Lord we believe but help our unbelief Help our unbelief Because Lord while we believe in your word while we believe that you're coming soon Lord the truth is God We are afraid to take a step We're afraid to look different. We're afraid to do something that when no one else is moving Lord We don't want to be the first to stand up and walk to the front We don't want to be the first to Go and sell all that we have and give to the poor and come and follow you Lord God we're listening to the world around us our family around us our friends around us More than we are hearing your voice Lord God, please Please I have compassion on us Help us to hear your voice urgently and clearly before it is too late Lord this is not only the call for salvation for the city, but it is the call for our own salvation You said through sister white that That more than 95% of us are not ready to meet you Because even though we are members of the church We're working harder to fit in with the world and succeed in our life on this and on this earth Then we are working for your kingdom Lord, it's not easy to stand out. It is not easy to be different Lord, I'm asking you please help me to be different Lord my brothers and sisters that are here listening right now Lord, I pray with all the sincerity and all of the passion that I know how to pray with Lord God I pray right now for a Holy Spirit revival God. I'm asking that you will fall on them Lord I'm asking that you would awaken every single one of us Lord. I pray that you will trim our lamps Fill us with your oil Lord Lord, I pray that you will remove all fear and all doubt Lord Give us all faith and all confidence to do everything we can for the glory of your name Lord change us and use us to call this city to righteousness Lord Let us be an example to the other church members around us who may never move until they see us moving urgently With extreme passion for your glory Help us Lord. I praise you for Nairobi central church You have used it to bless this city in so many ways Now Lord on the brink of your return Lord call this church even higher To rally the Adventist movement in this city and in this nation To do the mighty and necessary work of proclaiming your message urgently So that you may return and welcome millions of your children here in Nairobi home with you I Praise you Lord. We're not praying this prayer in vain There's not one person that's here today that is here by accident You have called and chosen the ones you wanted to be here to hear this message And Lord, I know that you will use them You'll use us Thank you Lord in Jesus name we pray amen


Have you seen the new release from Lummi? I love when we get a new release like an actual new design from one of the really well-known trusted pin makers. And that's what we've got here. This is the Lummi Balloon Rollerball Pin. This is a May 2023 release and they just arrived today. They come in three colors and we're looking at the first color here and it's blue. They come in blue, lime, and pink and all three are demonstrators and that's always a fun addition to a design I think. You'll recognize the iconic pin clip that you see on the Lummi Safari and All-Star that are so popular and these pins are postable with a really firm friction post and they have that compression cap. We like to think of these as the perfect writing instrument to complement your favorite fountain pin. You can whip your Lummi Balloon Rollerball pins out to write short memos or quick notes and Lummies are proprietary so these are going to take the Lummi Balloon Rollerball refills. Look for them on our website along with the Lummi Balloon Rollerball pins pinchlay.com. And subscribe for more new pin release features. See you soon.


So you have this 5V microcontroller, powered by 5V and speaking 5V only on its digital IO pins. To communicate safely with a 3.3V board, like say an I2C-based sensor, you'll need a translator, specifically a logic-level shifter. This board will convert the voltage levels and make communication safe and possible. Because I'm using this for I2C communication, I chose the BSS-138 level converter. It uses NXP's official method for shifting between I2C devices with pull-up resistors to boot. Just make sure you put the lower voltage signal, like 3V, on the LV side, and the higher voltage signal on the HV side. This board can also be used for UART serial and very slow SPI data. Just not a great pick for neopixels or high-speed signals.


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Or sharing this with someone the other day and thought it might help us all, it's this. You have to love yourself first. I don't mean some narcissistic way, but I mean in a way that you make you your priority when it comes to self-love and self-care, because this person was constantly canceling plans about things they're excited about because other people sort of demanded and hijacked their time. They were rearranging their schedule constantly to accommodate unreliable people who always bailed at the last minute without notice and expected them to just deal with it. And I said to this person, you have to love you first.


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The ultimate fight that I ever had was still living with terminal cancer, sorry, temporary to totally gone cancer, eight or nine years on. My name is Dave Bolton and I am the founder and lead trustee of Ahead of the Game Foundation. The foundation was born out of my own real lived experience in 2014. I was diagnosed with an astrocytoma brain tumour, the size of a tennis ball in the front hemisphere of my brain. That led with a five-year diagnosis. Following a craniotomy and removal I was up speaking within three hours and I was discharged within three days. A year later I went in for a random scan and unfortunately on the midline of my brain there was a world's deadliest tumour, the biggest killer of all cancers. I was given a three-month diagnosis with that. I went home, I was sat on the couch and I was waiting to die. But I thought if six months is the average then there must be people to go before but there must be people who get to 18 months which is usually the longest anyone will live. So I put myself in a fight. I named it Terry, he was my opponent and I put a camp around it so I got my mindfulness right, my diet, ulcerative therapies, supplementation, physical exercise, meditation, tackling at 360. The scans kept getting better, it kept shrinking and after about five years which would have put me in 5% of the world's population I kind of wanted to see what I could do to help others because I thought there must be people in similar situations with no support and I wanted to show that other people that there is another way so I re-chained as a cancer rehabilitation specialist, especially treatment related fatigue which is devastating. To name's objectives for head of game is to provide physical, mental and emotional rehabilitation through prescribed coached sessions also to support the families of the loved ones as well. When you come off that treadmill for cancer treatments and you're on your own and because it didn't have radiotherapy etc I didn't need to have physiotherapy so I wasn't aware that I'd lost range of movement. A friend of mine who knew Dave suggested I got in touch with him, I didn't. Dave got in touch with me because at the time I just wasn't talking to people, mixing with people, just wanted to stay at home doing nothing and then we've been on a journey together ever since. I think there is a massive need for what we do. One of our ambassadors Anna Crofton actually says that our foundation is bridging the gaps in rehabilitation, we don't just focus on the physical, it's the mental, it's the emotional. After being told that I had the terminal brain tumour there was nothing more the surgeon couldn't do, he mentioned about positivity and then he was just like you know speak to Dave Bolton. So when I researched Dave I was just like yeah I think he's got something here and ever since I haven't looked back. It's a crazy thing to say that this terminal brain tumour has actually brought out the best in me which was all key from meeting Dave. He must have a phone book full of people that are requesting his help all the time and he's always there. I don't know how he spreads himself around everybody. He's very driven and that drive it gets through to you. The National Lottery have been instrumental not only for when we were right at the beginning, that first initial sum of 10 grand put the blueprints put the foundations to see what we do today but I would say one of the big things was being in a place where I could speak openly honestly without pity without judgment to others in going through the same situation meant the world to me. It's really helped me with my mental health so it's projects like this that have been funded by the National Lottery have enabled us to improve the quality of the lives of those in our communities who are suffering the worst.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we will discuss the following question and the question says solve the in equation minus 4 is less than equal to 3x plus 5 is less than 17 and show the solution set on a number line. Write down the possible values of x if x is an integer. Let's start the solution now. We are given this in equation that is minus 4 is less than equal to 3x plus 5 is less than 17. This in equation can be split into two in equations. So this implies minus 4 is less than equal to 3x plus 5. This is the first in equation and 3x plus 5 is less than 17. This is the second in equation. Now we will solve them separately. First let us consider minus 4 is less than equal to 3x plus 5. Now we subtract 5 from both sides. So this implies minus 4 minus 5 is less than equal to 3x plus 5 minus 5. Since we have subtracted the same number from both the sides so the sign of inequality remains the same. This implies minus 9 is less than equal to 3x. Now we divide both sides by 3. So this implies minus 9 divided by 3 becomes minus 3 is less than equal to x. Or we can say that x is greater than equal to minus 3. So after solving the first in equation we get x is greater than equal to minus 3. Now we will solve the second in equation which is 3x plus 5 is less than 17. We will subtract 5 from both the sides so we get this implies 3x plus 5 minus 5 is less than 17 minus 5. This implies 3x is less than 12. Now we divide both sides by 3 so this implies x is less than 12 divided by 3 which is 4. So on solving the second in equation we get x is less than 4. So on combining the two solutions that we get we have minus 3 is less than equal to x is less than 4. We will now draw a number line to show this solution set. So we have drawn this number line and we will show minus 3 is less than equal to x is less than 4 on this number line. Now the portion to the right of minus 3 on the number line contains values which are greater than minus 3 and the portion to the left of 4 on the number line contains values which are less than 4. So this portion on the number line between minus 3 and 4 contains values which are greater than minus 3 and less than 4. Since minus 3 is included in the solution set so we will shape this circle at minus 3 since 4 is not included in the solution set so we make an open circle at 4. So the shaded portion of the number line represents the solution set and shaded circle at minus 3 means minus 3 is included in the circle means 4 is not included thus we have represented the solution set on the number line. Now we have to write down the possible values of x if x is an integer. Now if x is an integer then the possible values of x are now the solution set is minus 3 is less than equal to x is less than 4 and if x is an integer then all the integers which are greater than equal to minus 3 and less than 4 are minus 3 minus 2 minus 1 0 1 2 3. Now we will plot these values of x on the number line so we have drawn this number line now we will plot the points minus 3 minus 2 minus 1 0 1 2 3 on this number line. So if x is an integer then the solution set is minus 3 minus 2 minus 1 0 1 2 3 and we have plotted all these possible values of x from the solution set on the number line. With this we end our session hope you enjoyed the session.