Wall get our initiation points look it back there we go nice and close to the wall Is what I wanted nice and close getting those get those close calls What's up everybody and welcome back to another episode here on tour drift here on this Monday if you haven't guessed by the title It is time for another build here on the channel. We are gonna be doing a crate build I have had my sponsorship set up for King Can can you gowl can you gowl or however you say it and wisefab for sponsorship crates So we are gonna go to the garage and do a crate build To start this episode off. We have 32 sponsorship crates to go through so hopefully with that We will get some decent parts to be able to do a build and the car that we are gonna choose today to do The build is this e21 BMW so like I said, we have 32 crates to open up So we're just gonna hop right into it and hope we can get some good stuff on these sponsored crates It's the first crate that we're gonna open. Hopefully it's a banger tires and aftermarket angle kit so the aftermarket angle kit is definitely a An additive on to that because we will need that so we're just gonna go through all 32 of these crate or 32 These crates import suspension. That's good And see what parts we are set on after we do all these crate openings and then go from there Maybe spend a little bit more cash on it We got you know 2,500 bucks right there that we can spend on the car trying to only spend the money that we get from the crates And now and now we got some five grand spend and we got some uh gold too so That whoo two sets of aftermarket parts. What are we looking after market intercooler aftermarket ECU coming in clutch With some parts. We're definitely gonna need as many parts as we can for this car to make a decent build out of it to start off import intake Next in tires. All right, so far so good. We haven't had pretty much any robust Other than I mean that one we don't really need tires, but Maybe we'll get a custom car in here too that I don't have some more import parts import suspension import turbo That's a good pull. We don't need that suspension because we do have Aftermarket we do have an import suspension. I was saying import. There's another $5,000. So that's 10 grand that we could spend on this Still got 23 more to go some more money some more tires So if you guys don't have these set up for get sponsorship crates It's definitely a good thing that we got a good set of amount of tires there That's kind of a bust crate open, but it's kind of cool just to do these What do we got we got the suspension, but we will get money for that since we've already opened that So I'm really hoping to get some some good some good parts for this because we can get pro parts and import parts And stuff like that So I'm hoping I would really like to get one of those custom cars, but Don't think it's gonna happen. We have 18 more crates to go. We have a decent amount of starting I would like an import Angle kit, but we may have to buy it because we did get a lot of money so we can buy Into some parts as well some alloy wheels. Okay, some aftermarket wheels We'll throw those probably on the Z21 has been sitting here stock for a very long time So it is time to do it. We got another turbo, but we got the money. We got a diff sicky We're differential. That's a good pull $10,000 right there So got 14 crates to go. So we have about 25 grand that we could probably spend Aftermarket exhaust. That's a good one and for suspension fields. We will be using that We can sell the other ones for more money because like I said We do have an import intake So we will sell all the old parts that we have and use it to buy some more parts for this import clutch That's a good.   Hopefully we can pull something big here Getting close to the end. We don't need that Aftermarket diff because we have an import one, but we will use it to sell it and Another turbo that one might be a little bit different when it comes to boost pressure We haven't pulled a motor yet. So we're probably gonna have to buy a motor which is gonna take away a chunk of our money that we've Accumulated for today some more suspension, but that's some more money some more wheels Pretty sad. I haven't gotten anything other than really import. I was hoping to get some pro parts But unfortunately We're down to the last couple another aftermarket angle kit and intake which we already have So unfortunately got three left this crates are coming to an end, but We still got some money we can spend on this car and definitely We got some gold as well. So last crate opening fingers crossed We pulled something big and it's another five grand So we probably look like we got about $50,000 and a bunch to spend on this e21 So we're gonna go into it and we are going to install our import or The import one we're gonna sell the aftermarket one. We don't need that anymore And we're gonna go into our turbos and what do we got? We got one that goes up 21 and this one goes to 19 So we are gonna fit the one that goes to 21 psi And we're gonna sell that one and then of course we're gonna tune this and bump the boost up as we can Which is probably gonna trip out our motor not yet. Okay. We have our ECU that we're gonna install Believe we're gonna leave everything how it is so far and we're just going to go with through here and install all our parts And see what we're sitting after that See what kind of power we're sitting at see what kind of money we should put into this maybe by Upgrade the engine so we got all that we'd have a stock block So that is that and we are over our engines max for angle kit We only have an aftermarket angle kit, so I'm wondering if we need to Bite the bullet and by We're gonna go with the fields and buy some New angle kits if they're available in the store that car gets pretty low though from the start alloy wheels looks like we have Some dish ones and non dish ones Believe those are not dished as much as yeah, no these are not as dished as much So we're gonna put those on we can leave the tires. We'll probably put the dish ones in the rear Which will be pretty sweet. So that's that we did not get breaks. So now we're gonna go to the rear of the car and we need to put our import different Make sure we're all the way locked on there. Okay, and then We are gonna sell this one and then for suspension. We got to put on the fields We're gonna leave everything how it sits at the moment and we'll see we'll go from there angle kit for angle kit Now we got to put the alloys. We're gonna put the dished ones in the rear of these the dish ones Or these the dish ones These are the deeper ones So I'm gonna put the deeper ones in the rear So so far a pretty decent Build set on this car now I feel like we're gonna definitely need a motor because we are over our engines max So we're gonna take a look at parts and see We do we do have an import angle kit we could put on the car So we may end up doing the import angle kit But I think we need to put a new engine in the car. So I'm thinking Probably just gonna go record about 2 J in this thing. We'll go with the stroke that's our 20 And we're gonna instant by that. We do have the cash for that. So we're gonna throw that in there So now the engine is a little bit more powerful and we're not over boosting it So we also want to go with that import angle kit Which we still have the money for the import angle kit and we're gonna quick buy that So that we can have that installed And we can have a little more steering lock on our e21 So that is how we sit right now So we're gonna go test this car out how it sits see what we can do with it. Looks like we're looking at about 584 horsepower e21 and What do we got big M full-track tunnels edge, but we're gonna go practice first We're gonna go to my favorite track that of Cali Banks to throw this car in practice And then we're gonna throw some tandems. So we're gonna do the beginning course e21 We're gonna stay with the aftermarket next tires 584 horsepower. Let's send it and see what happens We will start in second gear pick it up the third Pick it in. Oh, I think we're gonna have to go in the fourth pick it up in the fourth year Still has the power to hold it And this car is actually not bad for a crate build right now It is kind of throwing in Throwing in and holding itself not the highest point runs But for a basic out-of-the-box crate build on this e21 We're just buying the angle kit and the SR Not a bad way to start off the build for the seat 21 We are gonna continue this build on this car and Let's try it before you see what happens when it's in fourth Alright support logs down to go down third then kick it in the fourth You can handle the bank and forth here. There we go So actually very surprised with how this car is handling at the moment With just mild parts installed on it like I said in a previous episode You don't need a lot of power to drift in this game. You can do it pretty much Around 500 or less if you really want to 400 to do one too So e21 I think is fit for battle for tandem it is since we haven't driven it We're gonna be going against a lot of newer built cars So we may be able to take some wins But we are gonna go see where we want to run this thing Either big M full track or tunnels edge will run tunnel edge track. I feel like this car can handle tunnels edge hopefully I say that with the utmost Confidence in my voice saying that this car will handle tunnels edge We're gonna have to throw a livery on this car. It looks like we're going up against 460 horsepower s13 Sid the sloth. Hopefully your car is not as Slow as a sloth and we can get some decent tandems e21 first-hand them.  I'm not gonna be able to Stretch that out in a straight line. I should afflicted sooner And there goes the wall tap to lose all the points. So hopefully We can still come out with a decent lead This car handles pretty well. I'm actually very impressed with how this car is handling on a crate build only a 72 a 78 227 against 67 494 so it's a decent decent battle between us right now The need to anyone looking pretty fair right now though Definitely gonna have to add a livery on this. It's a sponsors on there But I just wanted to see how this thing goes and tannins are gonna throw it in for us. Here we go Pick it in behind the s-13 to hit him Position a little bit lower line little left foot brakes to stay there we're a kind of staying Pace with him right now, which is uh Very good for this car. We are getting the doors as close as we can What does he 21? Until we smack the rear always make it to so 42 43 chase should be enough to take the win here on Hakone On tunnels edge. We're gonna run one or two more tannins before we end this episode off So make sure you guys follow me on Instagram and Twitter all of which are found in the description box below If you guys are still enjoying torture, let me know down in the comment section down below Did have a request for an each 21 build so I decided to do the e21 with a crate build So we are gonna give him one more shot we're gonna Try and Link the course this time to get more points Kick it in right on the wall Almost over Almost over angle that and we did not link that and there goes a loss of points by smacking that That's not gonna be good for us right now but We still can somewhat salvage this run We are on the wall like that Didn't have the power it needed to come off of that wall a little wall tap Grazer 86 still a decent run for this build Probably could have been a lot better if I would have smacked the wall sit the sloth coming in with a 68 878 So we're gonna try and chase him down again try and grab as much door as we can on this man And then we will probably switch it up to another driver Kick it in the fourth behind him She had a little bit after him and a lost ground on him right there. We need to get back into the chase circle We have to cut the angle there. Oh Sid smacking hard into the wall So now we're gonna have to come back and get back in the rhythm go back in Back in rhythm back on doors Not a very good chase run Unfortunately, Sid taking it hard into the wall in the first turn so Second battle E-21 crate build looks like we are gonna come out with a win. Hopefully And we will be able to continue our Climb with this car. We did come out of the wind just by not by much Luckily we came out the wind so we see we can find another competitor here and continue the Battle of the crate build and see what we can come up with today We got Justin in a 744 horsepower s15 so we're gonna try and Not smack the wall and this run a little bit of an early initiation didn't get any initiation points So that's gonna affect us When it comes down to total points for as long as we can maybe stay Stay solid through the whole track and get all of our points We will probably have a better run than our last few ones Stay out the wall apparently unlocks sponsorship I wasn't even trying so we did get a sponsorship too, but we didn't smack the wall hard enough to Lose our clean run. It doesn't look like so we will get a better run Here in this one 103 to 42 Justin probably smack in the wall So it looks like he's going to forfeit that run. So you're gonna want to run again I will give him a chance to Justin. Do you want to run one more time? Maybe you made a mistake It does not so we're gonna try and find another one Then we're gonna go accept our sponsorship before we end this episode So like I said if you guys want to keep seeing builds like this make sure you comment down below I'm gonna keep stacking up more crates maybe do another bigger crate build on another car Of course, it will take some time to get more crates, but looks like we are going up against an s14 and Lot more power than us, but I feel like this little e21 is uh, is holding himself down and Doing pretty well Initiating on the wall get our initiation points. Look it back. There we go nice and close to the wall This is what I wanted nice and close getting those get those close calls Turn around those cones quick flick There we go try and flick this sooner. So we don't completely smack into the wall We'll run it up there to get the close calls. This is a much better run And probably the best run we've had all day Just tagging that last one and that's gonna be a very decent run in this e21 142 to 94 so he's not gonna want to go against us Unfortunately, he said nope. That's too high and Bob's out. So I think Justice is served with the z21. Let's go accept our sponsorships and this episode off and I think we did pretty well with the Z21 I'm gonna be using it more So if you see the 21 on track and you see me just know this thing, uh, things a bit of a banger right now so we're gonna go and Accept that sponsorship not going to the garage We'll probably be adding a livery or some sponsored e-cals in this car So you guys will know it is me and it looks like we got the sponsorship right here. We're gonna accept that Racing suspension So do we get anything cool with this we get cash and select sponsors? So it's cool to have another. Oh, we got another crate coming in. So it's cool We are still working on that 125 chase run. I did get this but I don't understand why it didn't work, but We only have one or two. I think only two more sponsors left to get before we got the sponsorship complete So we'll be trying to grind those and get those done So as always I thank you guys for coming back and watching appreciate all the support And as always I'd like to thank you guys for coming by I'm evil rabbit, and I'll see you guys on the track


The ruins of Moenja Daru along the river Indus on the western flank of the South Asian subcontinent are widely recognized as a universal symbol of the region's cultural and historical fountainhead. Four bears of the Seven Nations Sark, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation. Many centuries before the concept of a modern nation state was born here, South Asia have evolved into a unique cultural mosaic, encompassing almost all the great religions of the world. A truly remarkable medium that mirrors South Asia's more contemporary identity is the film industry, which churns out more movies annually than Hollywood and the West put together. Filmmaking is a serious business, not only in Mumbai, but also in neighboring Lahore, Pakistan's cinema hub, and in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal. Most movie girls, however, identify South Asian cinema with the ubiquitous boy and girl dancing around trees. The moment you say dancing around the trees, you tell me you are sort of looking down upon it. I think it is a very much part of the South Asian theatrical tradition which is steeped in our culture. So one got to relate that to a larger cultural tradition which expresses things in a stylized form. It jettisons realism, the western notion of realism. I think this element of the song-dance formula, the operatic element, I think exists in the commercials in a manner. It exists in the films from Nepal right down to Sri Lanka. When Sark was founded in 1985, some of its key members were grappling with serious problems of underdevelopment and poverty. Over the past decade, a clear consensus has emerged among the seven member states to address a daunting array of problems afflicting its peoples. Endemic poverty has become the basis and root of numerous ailments. What is at risk is not the quality of life, but life itself. Indeed, a positive change with profound implications for poverty alleviation, a serious issue in the region, is already underway. However, the traditional education system in South Asian countries has been stretched to the limit by the population explosion, scarcity of resources and expansion of knowledge. There is more in common among the Sark countries than their cultural heritage. The fact is that most of the member countries are primarily agrarian economies. But with the globalization of the world economy staring them in the face, the emphasis has shifted to greater industrial output and higher exports. For that, the best place to start would be the neighborhood. For instance, Sri Lanka has already initiated a fast-track dialogue with India on accelerating the processes of trade liberalization. Pakistan, as and when it opens up its relationships with India, will find that a lot of its surplus gas and energy resources, which are now being developed by massive foreign investment projects, will seek its markets for that in India, they will perhaps provide transit facilities for gas and energy resources coming in from Central Asia, which will be needed to be marketed both in Pakistan as well as in India. So their own objective interests are now really moving towards developing a much more fruitful bilateral trading relationship. As the seven Sark nations step into the new century together with a renewed determination to succeed as a viable regional alliance, their sense of purpose will not be lessened by their sense of togetherness bequeathed by a common geography and a shared history.


Insecurity in the country becomes more alarming as over 120 people were killed by non-state actors across the country in one week alone. And the People's Democratic Party PDP experiences fresh crisis over its chairmanship zoning as members demand open contest. This is Plus Politics and I am Mary Anacoff. The state of insecurity across Nigeria seems to be taking a turn for the worst. Last week, that is between September 24th and October 2nd, at least 123 people, including security personnel and civilians, were killed in various attacks by non-state actors. Out of 123 people killed, four were security personnel, two policemen and two soldiers, while the other 119 were civilians. Most of the killings were security personnel, which were mostly carried out by bandits, which occurred in the north-west and the north-central zones, and the epicenter of banditry activities. The figure for last week is the highest weekly toll in the past one month. There were less than 40 cases per week in the last three weeks. But joining us to break this down and all of the numbers and make some sense of it is Kabea Adamu, a security risk management expert and Adewale Ademola Justus, a political analyst. Thank you very much gentlemen for joining us. Yes, I really appreciate it. Ah, great. Okay. I wanted to be sure that you can hear me. I'm going to start with you, Mr. Kabea. It's interesting that we're having a surge in non-state actors and their activities more than we have ever had in the country. What would you, as a security personnel, say is responsible for it? Thank you. So, the hundred and hundred that are most frankly in the context of Nigeria is not an increase. And I don't mean by any way to not sound alarmed by the numbers and I'll explain what I think. So, we do produce a monthly report where we are an allied friend and of course provide figures for that. The list we've had from the beginning of the January to now has been about 600. So, if you divide that 600 by the four weeks that you have in the month, it means on the average you have at least 150 people dying every month. Now, we've had in June, which is the highest number that we've had in this year alone, we had, it's because, 1,032, which means for the month of June on a weekly basis, approximately around 300 plus persons were killed in Nigeria. So, I just wanted to remind you of this. I know the media houses that have published this report, perhaps for some reasons, maybe they didn't have the data base that we have, and so the way it was presented, what is that data, was an increase. It gave worries on, even if it's 10 people that are killed in the country in the week or in the month. But I just thought I should lay this foundation, it's not in any way suggesting that increase. Of course, it's indicating the fact that insecurity is still a huge challenge in the country, just like President Buhari spoke about during the independent speech, very highlighted in security. Interestingly, the President, yes, did speak about the fact that he's doing something. He talked about recruitment into the Air Force, he talked about recruitment into the police. But we're looking at what's happening now, and in the interim, how do these recruitment, how effective can they be for us in the interim to deal with these guys, because, again, we seem to be dealing with an issue of nomenclature here, we're calling them unknown gunmen, we're calling them bandits, but these people, terrorizing the country, different regions in the different parts of the country, but nomenclature seems to be an issue, and hence the reason why we're calling them non-state actors. But the President also failed to speak about the number of people who have died, the people who have been attacked, remember that people were attacked in Kaduna, and the attacks keep happening, even though the number of people killed may not be as much as we might make it, but one life lost is as valuable as a hundred or two thousand. Many critics have said that the President did not in any way try to give the people a sense of belonging, or of somewhat condol with the families of those who lost their lives. Is that for me? Yes, it is for you. Yes. I've had grievances about how men, but every leader has his own. It's possible that for the warrior style in that speech, when we reference security, it is his own way of ensuring condolence, and the fact that he sympathizes with the people who lost their lives. Because apart, we could have spoken about several other things, but it's about security. Of course, the expectation may be, for him to mention, that citizens go to have died, and the fact that at the government, we sympathize with them, and we are sure, of course, in my hearing that there will be an improvement in that area, which I think he did in that speech. Now, speaking about recruitment, I feel that even if we decide to have a million security law enforcement personnel, as long as we don't address the root causes of insecurity, then that million security personnel are not going to help our situation, because usually, we, as a country, especially the government, have to provide the foundation for the security of racism in the workplace. Now, where is the kind of situation we're dealing with in Nigeria? Where the issues of great racism, what is driving the security of political, social and economic exclusion, as an example, sometimes real and sometimes certain, not about security partner, is about the political class taking up those issues that are dividing up, and finding a way to resolve those issues, to reduce the grievances and the contingent for anyone who is at grief, to use unlawful means to either sabotage the government, or to cause some kind of chaos with the views to point to something that the government is doing. President, why do you think about that? Well, what I would be more interested in, what is the government going to put forward in terms of policy and operational action, play action to show how that grievances, those grievances will be resolved. A good example at the moment is the session with vegetation in both the South East and the South West of the country. Now, he's mentioned that the good and the forefront of that good education has been arrested, but the idea, the stream, the spirit, is still holding very strong, especially in the South East and in some parts of the South West. The number I like to be being threatened by that stream. So what is the government going to put forward in terms of building mechanisms to reduce good grievances and reduce the tendency of these persons to recruit from within the agrarian population? I'm sure that that's what I'm hoping to see. And I would have expected to hear from that. OK, Mr. Adewale, let me bring this to you. There are just like I asked, just like I asked Mr. Adam about Mr. President's speech. And of course, people also watch the body language of the president in terms of all that's been happening across the country. And I asked him, why do we think that these non-state actors all of a sudden have emerged and have become and have so much following, especially for the case of Namdik Kanu and Sondik Bohu, who have now been in cost, they're now in custody, of course, of the DSS. The president made mention of them in his speech and has said that he's dealing with the issue. But then he also spoke about the fact that there are people who are peddling lies and costing more divisions around and across the country. There are also naysayers who responded to Mr. President saying that he's part of the elites who have also brought some form of division across the country. So again, how do we deal with the issue, the foundation of these divisions that we have that have cost these non-state actors to be thrown up for us? Because we cannot really deal with insecurity. Or let me ask it as a question. Can we really deal with insecurity if we do not address the reason for the insecurity in the first instance? Thank you very much. Yeah, I want to appreciate the former speaker for what they have said. I know, like in some categories, this is a substitute for our nation Nigeria, because we will see almost all the regions of the country have their own share of this evil. Non-state actors in a legitimate mission, in a sovereign mission, is an absurdity. And like you said, this is not just a matter of the insufficiency of personnel or particularity of refugees. I commit to say it is because of the fallout of the foundation of the country. And like you said in your last expression, but it's not that the condition is that terribly false. Why would it be that the non-state actors as leaders whose followership is growing dramatically almost every time? It is because a lot of people are seeing the nation as a failed state. And then some of the actions of our leadership, almost on a regular basis, are appealing to us making people a term of an assurance that the nation has failed. Because our health or what else would you say of the country? If not, there's crisis. Moving down south, the politics is burning. Not like in just some two hours ago, just yesterday, Joe E. Bokwet House was set ablaze by Nigerians. So, you see, when it gets to a level when people throw away their relationship, all we need to throw up or to showcase or project the anger they have against the entity called Nigeria. Those that set ablaze and they do it, Bokwet House has people around its heritage, but they disregard their relationship with them.  So it's a failed state syndrome and it's so sad. None of our leaders yet is able to identify with this. It is not a function of the personnel. If we have millions of millions of security operators, if the foundation is not addressed and the foundation nationalities, patriotism, employment, folk of the people out there that are causing this carnage, they are jobless. And ahead of them, they can't see a future. So whether it's around them with Bokwet has no, our trip has to go for them.  And we're talking about what's happening in the Southeast and I'm not talking about the banditry or the terrorism that's happening in the North Central or in the North West. They are all their children. I'm asking, if you are agreed with the government, how does destruction of your people, the businesses amount to hurting the government or getting their attention? How does that work? No, no, you see, normalcy is when people are feeling OK, mentally, physically, like Bokwet, economically and financially. Women, there is a misnomer in the thinking of the people, particularly through their psychology. They will throw up that you are considering in your exposition. They are not interested in whether they are killing their own people, but they want to upturn the entire environment and make the whole world see Nigeria as countries.   Because conveying foods to that region with the Secretary of State, because letting the MRA and the multipliers here, Secretary of State, the people don't want to showcase their anger.  It's a signal of the shared space. People just want to showcase and project their anger for everybody around the world to know that Nigeria is finished.  Interesting. It's a foundational world. But I mean, I'm interested in this particular position that you're taking. But then I have spoken to people, political analysts who have also made mention of the fact that this is peculiar to the build up to an election season, that there's always some form of unrest that leads up to an election. You know, and they're saying that this has happened before. Although many have argued also in certain quarters that this has never happened on this scale, where you have pockets of violence almost everywhere in the country, that it makes you shudder at the thought of even driving from one end of the country to the other. So we're talking about problems here, but I always like to talk about problems and solutions. If you have, we have, I mean, you and Mr. Adam will have clearly stated that there is a problem. How do we deal with it? Because we cannot continue allowing people to die, whether we know them or not, whether the numbers are high or not. Why is government not taking it upon themselves, not just to speak about, you know, recruitment of people into the force and the long arm of the law dealing with them. But why is government not dealing with the major issue, which is the foundation? Yeah. See, like you said, if we shift our attention or focus from the issues to the solution, the solution is simple. It is simply because our leadership are yet to identify with the people. When I mentioned leadership, I wouldn't want everybody listening to me or everyone under the influence of my voice to think I'm talking about the president. The respective figure of leadership we have right from the president to the local government councillor. They are yet to identify with the people. Identifying with the people is feeling their thoughts, feeling the darkness with the people, feeling poor roads with the people, feeling joblessness with the people and feeling a debt poverty. We have a leadership now that lives and drives in Rolls Royce while the people are strolling or they are protected on the road. So it is because our leadership is yet to identify with the realities of the of the followers. The followers are suffering in Nigeria and our leaders are high up, they are far away. So the main solution is for the leaders to identify with the followers and the issues on ground.  I can hear you. Yeah. OK, I'm good. I'm good. OK, go ahead, go ahead. Yeah, like I said, so until we have a leadership that comes closer, like I said, why would you have a local government chairman who refuses to live and sleep in the local government where he is the chairman? I have one in our inundated. Is the local government chairman of our local government by a list and place in Akure? Is a leadership aberration? How do you want the people to trust him? How do you want them to follow him? How do you want him to believe what he has in his mind? What he what he tells them? But if he lives in the environment with them and he drives through the rough road with them and he lives in darkness, then he can tell you what they are feeling. So we have a leadership that is separated from the followership. So that's the major pain of the Nigerian crisis. Let me go back to Mr. Kaperdam. It's interesting that most of these people who are either non-state actors or working with these non-state actors are young people. And this is the future of Nigeria. And if our young people are the ones who are in the forefront of supporting or perpetrating these acts of violence, it should be a cost for war. And just like Mr. Demola has said, our leaders seem not to be leading by example. But we the followers, do we have to wait for our leaders?  But as a people, should we not also take some time to look at how we can also play a part in delivering the kind of future that we want, especially with our young people who are seemingly becoming tools in the hands of these perpetrators of violence? Yep. Am I on? Am I sitting on? No, no, no, I'm talking to Mr. Dammu. Okay, okay. So, interestingly, last month, or rather, well, time flies, in August, the African Falling Institute, API, released a social cohesion report. I took my time to study that report, and it showed that social cohesion, here, I was below average, around 40-40 percent. I think the cause of point for an acceptable social, national social cohesion from 50 percent upwards to claim to it one decision as a people has almost collapsed, and that goes together, but between reasons. Now, what are the reasons for that? There are reasons that I went in that report, but in answer to your question, the one I think comes to mind that we need to speak about is the extent in poverty level within the country, and not just the poverty level, which according to the National Bureau of Statistics is about 33 percent, but the poverty level and the unemployment rate for youth, which, depending on where you are in the country, is also different. So, as an example, in Lagos state, the poverty level is quote-unquote 4 percent. In my state, where I come from, it's about 87 percent. So, imagine the number of youth that are within that poverty cycle, and who, for one reason or the other, would want to move from Lagos to get a job. Now, situate that movement to the current hate messaging that is unfortunately permeating our national existence, where every movement is most likely to be classified as the movement of others. Meanwhile, the reason for their movement is in search of winner factors. But does that not also point to the fact that the leadership at all levels in those states are not doing the job that they promised to do and are not also carrying the people or lifting them out of poverty? I know government cannot do everything, but there has to be a precedence of sorts set by the government. So, exactly, but I wouldn't... I was trying to paint a picture, and the picture I was trying to paint is to start from the family level. That value system that has collapsed, there are several levels of responsibility, and I painted a picture to show how the family is quite irresponsible. If, as a father, you give birth to children that you are not able to cater for, you can't send them to school, where sometimes you have the resources but the job wants to be there, and then that up to the community level, where the community also fails in ensuring that you, as a father, or as a family unit, where you fail, then there is no way of redirecting you back to your responsibilities. And then we can even move up to the school level, as well as our religious bodies that are value shapers and in the cave of the schools that have responsibilities for both giving education as well as skills to our youth. I'm an employer of labor, and I can clearly with all sense of responsibility get in good stand from, you know, even our graduate. It's a very difficult thing. You see people with good certificates or when it comes for them to descend the certificate is extremely difficult. Now, I'm not generalizing that there are definitely very people that are worthy of their certificate, but on the whole there is a huge issue there. And then of course from there we look up to the government. And then when we come to the government, both at the local government, at the state level and at the federal level, each has its responsibility. So I'm trying to change the picture of our collapse Mali system. It will be wrong for us to point the finger at the government and say that they are responsible. So it's a responsibility that starts from the family up to the government. And I think what I'm hoping as we start containing an issue again 2023 that we address this issue squarely, our value system that seems to have collapsed and where life unfortunately does not appear to have any value, like we should as the people ask ourselves what happened, why is it that we no longer cherish those good value that we used to hold as a people. I remember growing up those things that we used to cherish as a community. In fact, I remember very well my dad was a civil servant. A family member is caught corrupt in any way. Believe me, the entire family is avoided. But today the reverse is the case. All that matters is for the person to be rich and nobody even but us to ask how the person got rich. And from instances they even know that he got rich to do the other things but he still valued and given some form of respect within the society at all of these levels that I mentioned. Okay, interesting. Finally, because we're out of time just as Mr. Damoha said yes, we have an enrolled culture of value system in the country. But looking forward to the future, 2023 is in the radar, whatever is happening, what politicians are doing is mostly for 2023. But as a country that has been touted as the giant of Africa I do not know if we're still able to occupy that status. But do you see this going away any time soon whether it's the Bahá'í government or the government after? Do you see us able to deal with the issues and address them head on or not? Thank you very much. Like my friend said there the collapse of the value system of the society is a critical contribution to what we have seen. But now as she said by the poor leadership we've been having as a people. You see, if we must propose solutions like I do approach to people in my personal capacity the homes are completely broken. The value system needs to be re-enached all the time again. Parents, parents particularly have critical roles made. And beyond the parents now our traditional lives have gone laggared. Because you will see we are in societies where it is the traditional lives that are the greatest harbourings of use in the society. They support also where they ought to come out and challenge certain things for for it is best known to them our traditional lives no longer looped that side. And now back to the civil society part of which the religious homes, the churches and the more are being treated. The values have gone back to where they used to come from. People don't gather for garden sake. Messages of reality no longer come to people. And now with sheer hunger everybody becomes a sell-out. And that is why we are doing what we are doing. Well I want to say thank you very much. It's a very sober conversation. Kabir Damu is a security specialist and of course Adiwali Adimola is a political analyst. Thank you very much for joining us on this conversation. I appreciate it. Thank you for loving. Alright. Well thank you all for staying with us. We'll take a short break now and when we return we will discuss the PDP and their plans for zoning of the national chairmanship and of course for the presidency ticket. We'll be back shortly.


I turn back to the book of Revelation and the fourth chapter, we're going to read from chapter 4 verse 2 through all of chapter 5. Now sometimes it's a preacher's ploy if he doesn't have anything to say, he just reads a long passage in Scripture. That's not the case here. Immediately, John says, I was in the spirit, and behold, a throne set in heaven and one who sat on the throne. And he who sat there was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance. And there was a rainbow around the throne in appearance like an emerald. Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white robes, and they had crowns of gold on their heads. And from the throne proceeded lightnings, thunderings, and voices. Seven lamps of fire were burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God. Before the throne there was a sea of glass-like crystal, and in the midst of the throne and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes and front and in back.  The four living creatures, each having six wings, were full of eyes around and within, and they do not rest day or night saying, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come.  And I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll written inside and on the back sealed with seven seals. Then I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose its seals. And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look at it. So I went much because no one was found worthy to open and read the scroll or to look at it. But one of the elders said to me, Do not weep, behold the lion of the tribe of Judah the Roof David has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals. And I looked and behold in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures and in the midst of the elders stood a lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. Then he came and took the scroll out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne. Now when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the 24 elders fell down before the lamb, each having a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.  Then I looked and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne. The living creatures and the elders and the number of them was 10,000 times 10,000 and thousands of thousands saying with a loud voice worthy as the lamb who was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing and every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea and all that are in them. I heard saying blessing and honor and glory and power to him who sits on the throne and to the lamb forever and ever. And the four living creatures said amen. And the 24 elders fell down and worshiped him who lives forever and ever. Wow, I've tried to show so far that worship is the ultimate priority. It was the primary concern of God. It was the primary concern of Christ. It is the first response of the regenerate heart. It's the essence of the gospel message. It's the chief inhabitants of the inhabitants, no chief work of the inhabitants of heaven. It's the reason for God's anger, the absence of it. And it's the essence of man's relationship to God. But then the question naturally arises, why should we worship God? Well, I think the scripture gives us three reasons. First of all, did you catch the word that permeated the entire passage we just read? Did one word stick out? Worthy. He's worth it. He's worthy of it. So first, we worship God because of who he is. In scripture, God is always and only the reason for everything that God does. It is simply enough that he is who he is. That's all the reason he gives. In Exodus 20, when God lays down his moral law, he begins in verse one, I am the Lord your God. And then he gives a command. And while the word itself is not there, I believe it strongly implied the word therefore. I am the Lord your God. Therefore, you shall not do this. From Exodus 20, verses two through chapter 29, verse 46. All the reason given for each of the laws that are laid down is found in these words. For I am the Lord your God. In Leviticus chapter one, verse one, God starts with laws. But there's no reason given for any of them until chapter 11, when he says, for I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore. There it is again. That's all the reason we give, because he is the Lord our God. God is always the reason for everything that God asks. Leviticus 18, one, I am the Lord your God. You shall not do what was done in Egypt. Keep my statutes. I am the Lord your God. Leviticus chapter 19, verse one, you shall be holy. How come? For I the Lord your God am holy. And that's repeated many times throughout that chapter. In nearly every single verse, at the end of each command, God gives himself as the reason for what he commands of us. So I conclude that we're to worship God because he is the Lord our God. When I was young, I'm one of five boys. When I was young, my mother took ill. You can imagine after having five boys that would do it. And she had to spend a fair amount of time in the hospital. Well my dad was already working two jobs. One is a state policeman and then he'd come home, clean up, and go drive trucks for the gravel yard. So he was working 16 hours a day. So he obviously didn't have time to run a household. So my older brother Dan and I were the only ones old enough to do anything. The other three were kids. So my dad calls us over. He says, all right, this is the only way this is going to work. Now we lived on a small dairy farm. Dan, you're in charge of the outside of the house. Now this is in the late 1950s. You get the cows milk. You get the milk out to the street for the dairy to pick up. You change the irrigation pipes. You feed the chickens and the hogs. You feed the cows. Make sure the hay's out there. If it's out, you mow the lawn. If it's outside the house, Dan, you do it. He looked at me and says, everything inside the house is you. You get up. You make breakfast for everybody.  Get them on the bus. You wash the dishes. You cook all the meals. You vacuum. You mop. You do the laundry. Pull the clothes. Put them away. Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait! How come I got to do all the woman's stuff? Remember, this was the 50s. And my dad, Dirty Harry hadn't been admitted yet, but my dad was Dirty Harry. And he was a cop. And he was a German. And he was 6'2", 190-pound German cop. And he leans over to me like this. He grits his teeth because I said so. Boy, Pop, I can't argue with logic like that. You have convinced me by evidence and sound reasoning of what I should do. I have to tell you this story. One of my dad's favorite things was Friday night to come home to a chocolate layer cake. That was back in the days when they had round pans with that thing that would go around and undo it from the bottom. And then you put it in. Well, he comes home one day after work on Friday, says, you got my cake? And I said, yeah. I put it out there. It was the height of two pancakes. Both layers took up about a quarter inch. He says, what in the world is that? I said, it's the chocolate layer cake.  What did you do wrong? I followed the directions on the box. Well, you did something wrong. Don't do it again. Well, the next week he came back and there it was again. In the third week he came back early and saw me eating the batter. He got all that was left. I knew I needed to get married. So we are to worship God simply because he is the Lord our God. Secondly, we worship God because he deserves it. We saw in Revelation 4, they will worship him and will cast their crowns before him saying worthy art thou, O Lord. In Revelation 5, verses 2 and 3, it's obvious Christ alone is worthy. In verse 9, they sang a new song saying, you are worthy. In verse 12, worthy is the Lamb. All of heaven declares the worthiness of Christ in God to receive worship. And do you notice that they worship him based on his worthiness to receive it? But again, God's great controversy with man is that they will not honor him as God. Instead, they insist on worshiping themselves. The entire book of Malachi in the Old Testament, or as the Italians like to say, Malachi, the Italian theologian. The entire book of Malachi is about worship, but God is not pleased with what they offer him. In Malachi 1.14, I am a great king. Where is my honor? Where is my respect? And then he says, go offer this to your governor and see if he'll take it from you. In other words, we treat God in ways we'd never treat anybody we really respected. Now the word for worship is a combination of two old English words, worth, sip. Literally reverence tendered based on the worthiness of the person to whom it is given. Jonathan Edwards once wrote this, our obligation to love, honor, and obey any being is in proportion to his loveliness, honorableness, and authority. What other conclusion can we draw then, but that we are under infinite obligation to love, honor, and obey God, since he is infinitely lovely, infinite has infinite honor and has infinite authority. We are infinitely obliged to worship God. We are under greater or lesser obligations to anyone based on their position and the respect or reverence their position demands and deserves. Even if you can't respect the person, we are to respect their position. Even in our own culture, a judge walks into a courtroom, all rise, or they do that at Yankee Stadium when Aaron Judge comes up to bat. And to not do so in a courtroom is considered as contempt. When the president walks into the press room for a news conference, the reporters stand up out of respect or deference for the office of president, even if not for the man himself. It's interesting to me that in Scripture, whenever the word of God is read, the people stand out of respect for the Bible. With that in mind, you can see why God asks the question in Malachi, if I am a king, where is my honor? Now, since worship is based on God's worthiness to receive it, we have to ask this question, how worthy is God? How much is he worth? According to Nehemiah 9.5, God is above all blessing and praise. According to Isaiah 57, God is the high and exalted one who lives forever. So if God is high and exalted and our worship of him is not, we refute the very Scripture we've come here to have teaches. Some churches are called high church, and they have a very formal liturgy. Every church has a liturgy. It's just whether it's high church or low church. And the reason for the formal liturgy is not because they have a love for formality, but a love and respect for the high and lofty one who inhabits heaven. How then could we ever treat the worship of the King of heaven and earth as something casual or something commonplace? How could we ever treat God as someone on the same level as ourselves? Psalm 113, verse 4, God is high above all nations. His glory is above the heavens. So we should also ask how great is God? Because the greater he is, the greater must be our worship. The more worthy he is, the more our worship should reflect his word. Listen to 1 Kings chapter 8, verses 10 and 11. And it came about when the priest came from the holy place that the cloud filled the house of the Lord so that the priest could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple of the Lord. How is that for a worship service? Wouldn't you just love to be part of that kind of worship? Where the priest couldn't even stand to minister because there was no need because the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord. You say, ah, that's Old Testament. Yeah, we only believe in the 27 books of the new. We just do away with the old, right? Wrong. It's not unique, just Old Testament worship. Listen to Revelation 15.8. And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of the Lord and from his power. And again, you know the imagery of Isaiah 6. I saw the Lord sitting on the throne lofty and exalted with the train of his robe filling the temple. When Isaiah saw the Lord, when Isaiah worshipped in the presence of God, he saw the Lord. He didn't see his own problems. He didn't see his physical infirmities. He didn't focus on his so-called needs. He saw the Lord. We need Isaiah's vision of God's glory in our worship. You can see why the Puritans would say we need to be forgiven, not just for our sins, but for our worship. Jonathan Edwards once closed the sermon this way. Can you think of a single reason why, since you got here this morning, God has not opened the gates of hell and dropped you in simply for your worship? You may be the last man alive who could get away with saying that anymore. Or I can, because I can play hit and run. But nobody else can get away with it.  Psalm 29.2, give unto the Lord the glory that is due under his name. Now, if it is due under his name, what does that mean? Here we have interactive class. If it's due unto him, what does that tell you? You owe it to him. It means he has a right to it. And if he has a right to something, we have an obligation to give it to him.  How much of our concentration does he deserve? Well, these are questions you don't have to answer because the Bible does. Psalm 103, verse 1, bless the Lord, oh my soul, and let what?  When was the last time you left the worship service exhausted?  The story told of Martin Luther when he was in seminary studying for the priesthood. He engaged in what so many seminarians do. Today we call it a bull session.  Sounds to me like most modern Bible studies. What do you think the verse means, Fred? I don't give a rip what Fred thinks the verse means. What does God think it means? Well, this particular session was about what was the greatest sin. So the question was asked, what's the greatest sin? And they're sitting in a semi-circle and one young student suggested that murder was the greatest sin since man is created in the image and likeness of God. And to take a life was to mar God's image. And another seminarian said, well, adultery would have to be the greatest sin since it's a breaking of a covenant between man and God. And so each individual, as they went around the table, gave his opinion about what's constituted the greatest sin. And then they got to Luther. Do any of you know what Luther was going to be before he went into the ministry? He was going to be a lawyer. There's strikes one, two, and three. Like we need another obnoxious guy in the ministry. Luther thought like a lawyer. So when the question was posed to him is what was the greatest sin he answered in this way? Now, if the greatest commandment is to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, then it stands to reason the greatest transgression of that commandment would be to love him with anything less than all. If that's a reasonable criteria, how guilty are all of us for committing the greatest of all sins in our so-called worship? Stephen Charnock said, the first ground to the worship we render to God is the infinite excellency of his nature. Worship ought to be suitable to the nature of God. Now think about that for a moment. Worship ought to be suitable to the object of our worship, not the worshiver, the worshipee. I want us to see something else about the nature of worship. The verse in Psalm 29, 2, given to the Lord the glory that's due unto his name. Many times in that verse the essence of worship is said to be giving something to the Lord, not getting something from the Lord. Give unto the Lord, give unto the Lord glory and strength, give to the Lord the glory that is due unto his name. Worship is therefore not what you get out of a service, but what you give to God in the service. And that happens when you give the Lord what he's due, what he is worthy to receive from you. So here's a radical idea. Worship isn't what you get, it's what you give. I told you that story about the young student, I didn't get anything out of it. The only consideration we need to have after a worship service is this one. Did I give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name today? Was what I offered worthy of him? Was he pleased with my offering of praise? Was my worship suitable to his majesty? Did I adore him as a king ought to be adored? I get to do a fair amount of traveling, most of it out of the country. My dad says, yeah, people will ask you to preach if you promise to leave the country. You wonder why I have a tick. So that positive affirmation. When I go to other countries, I'll be going to Medellin, Colombia in four weeks. And I preach there to Reform Baptist Church in the city. There's about 600 people that attend there. I love the music. Now I know the tunes, I don't know the Spanish words. But these people sing as if they're afraid that everybody in the city of Medellin, which is three million people, might not hear them. And again, they go this way. It says, make a joyful noise. I'm doing that. And so then I come back to America. And people in churches here sing like they're afraid the guy next to them might hear them. Are we singing for him? Are we singing for him? What difference does it make if he doesn't like it? So what? Who's he? Others often like to say, we preach to an audience of one, him. You and congregations need to sing to an audience of one, him. It does make a joyful noise. It doesn't say you got to be on tune. I can't carry a tune in a bucket. There aren't any buckets here.  Now if Charnuk is right, and I believe he is, and worship is to be suitable to the nature of God and His excellencies. There are those excellencies that are the grounds of our adoration of Him. These are all from Revelation 4 and 5. He is eternal. Next He is the creator of all things, the preserver of all things, the reason for all things, and the final cause of all things. He has overcome. He was slain and has purchased us with His blood. Another one is He is sovereign, and those are just a few. Again to quote Charnuk, the more we grow in the sense of God's holiness, the more we shall advance in the true performance of all our duties. Our reverence to God in all our dresses to Him will increase if every act of duty is ushered in and seasoned with thoughts of God sitting on a throne of holiness. We shall have a more becoming sense of our own vileness. A greater ardor to His service, a deeper respect in His presence if our understanding is possessed with notions of this. So that's the first reason. Why do we worship God? Because He's worthy of it. He deserves it. The third reason is that we're to worship God because He demands it. He deserves it. He demands it, and He's God. Again Revelation 14, 6, and 7, fear God, give Him glory and worship Him. Matthew 4, 10, you shall worship the Lord. Deuteronomy 6, 13, you shall worship Him. And all of those are in the command mode. William Beverage, if I know anything of God and of that service and honor that is due unto Him, we who live and move and have our being in Him ought to be possessed with such a fear and awe and dread, such a fear and reverence of Him is not to dare to carry ourselves irreverently or inseamly in His presence.  That word modesty is not spoken of often enough and it applies to men and women. The address to reflect God's honor or how well you're built. So what's the response of heaven to God? Revelation 5, 14, and the four living creatures kept saying amen and the elders fall down and worship. So the only response to true worship is more worship and we should always strive to make it better worship. So why do we meet on Sundays? The worship service is your opportunity on a weekly basis to show God how much you think He's worth. That's a rhetorical question here. If you were God, how much would you think you're worth based on how you worshiped Him last Sunday? There is a choral anthem that is my favorite. I love choir music and particularly choral anthems. You all should have a sheet of paper with the words to this one on it. Is that correct? This was written by a young girl when she was 19 years old. She's still alive. She lives in Dallas, Texas. The kind of stuff you were doing when you were 19? We worship God because He's our God. That's the answer to all the questions now. Why should I submit to my husband?  Why should I obey my parents?  Why should I come to church twice on Sunday? Because He's your God and He deserves it.


Have you ever wondered about the layers of the Earth's atmosphere? What happens at the transition zone between the Earth's atmosphere and outer space? In this NCAR Explorer Series lecture, we learn about the lower fringes of outer space, the thermosphere and ionosphere, with Dr. Li Yingchuan from the High Altitude Observatory. Discover how sunspot activity and eruptions in the sun from above, along with weather, climate and greenhouse gases from where we live, make the thermosphere and ionosphere grow and shrink in size, causing space weather and space climate. Learn how scientists study space weather and space climate, and how these changes can impact space technologies and space assets that we rely on.


Shadows, the biggest problem was really looking this all was for my son. We all want more dreams, more ambition, better outcomes, less orthodox families, you know, a lot of open skies to sort of do well in life. And of course I think search for your own identity. So the problem was really for me first and then of course I think it's universal. The other thing that I realized very early on in my career that internet is magical, it's you know 20 years now and I'm still smitten by it. So in my head the idea was that internet can do so much more, especially for women. You should think of Shadows as a Jim Khanna membership meets friend for life. A way to look at business when every user comes into Shadows, when every person comes into Shadows, she is looking to find something that's her space. It's a me space, it's also my online identity, it's also my friends here, it's what I want to do, skills I want to get better at, money I want to make, you know, my own brand that I want to build or a startup that I want to build. So Shadows is a space for that.  That includes career, that includes skills, that includes sense of well-being, that includes a large network, that includes ways to make money online, that includes access to credit, that includes access to jobs, that includes access to companies and a lot of other resources in one platform. So one thing that's on our list is to keep growing the resources that are available to every woman, also keep growing the number of women we reach out to. I think there's still very few of us and we need more role models, we need more women who are investing, we need more founders, we need more women to take the risk and we need to also be okay with failures, you know. I think what you see is only what I tell you is my success but you know, there's really like a whole suitcase full of failures that's sort of sitting there and I definitely want to tell any woman who's thinking of building a product, a brand, something you love or a company, you should go out and build it because it's an opportunity to put your name to it, you know. This could really be your contribution to the world. You only live once and I want to have a lot of fun while I'm at it but I also want to engage with the world in a unique kind way, in a creatively competitive way if I may, in a way that allows me to go to bed at peace and sort of also enjoy the small things of life, being able to sort of do what you love and find a lot of things from the same source, you know, your happiness, your salary, your satisfaction.


You see, I think there was a kind of contrast, which was, which had been present in the development literature for a very long time. There's one side which is saying, well, development is mainly getting the investment time at right and so forth. And the other is the development is mainly concerned with making human beings both more frequent, more free, more really free, not just freedom as permission, but freedom as real ability to do things that they have reason to value both individually as well as social beings in terms of their contribution to the society. And that includes also participation, public discussion, public reasoning, sharing values, sharing concerns, sharing doubts, and sharing results, and determination. Now I think in this approach, it's interesting that the question of Kerala came up. It was an interesting thing where Kerala, to some extent, reasons of history originally being not a part of the British Empire, being a native empire, native kingdom, the Arangor and Cochin, these were, they could carry some of the different policies in British India and they went for education very early. But even though, even with that, even though the average for Indian education was about, I think, 13% literature when the British left, but the Kerala figure was, well, in the 40s, higher, but not dramatically higher. But then with independence came very big burst in education first, but then on the basis of a nearly universally educated literate population, there was strong pressure for better public health care, and then the health care also became one of the sure pieces of Kerala. At that time, when I was defending it, and there were so many of the people involved and some of them actually in wider defending it, the critique used to be that, well, can a poor country, poor state in this case afford it? The argument was that yes it could, because even though education and health care may look expensive, but they're primarily labor intensive work, and therefore in a poorer country, labor is also cheaper, so that even though even you may need more action, it costs much less in a poorer country than in a richer country. And through this process, economic growth itself would be stimulated. Now the reason why it's worth seeing today is decades have gone by, and Kerala, instead of being one of the poorest countries, poorest states in India, has become one of the richer states. This is, of course, exactly what was anticipated by those who were pushing for that line. It's not that you continue to deny economic growth, but understand that economic growth also depends on the quality of human beings that are being cultivated through a deliberate public policy and social commitment. So now actually sometimes people who look at it say, well, Kerala can afford these things because it is a richer state. But that wasn't where the dialogue was earlier, when the dialogue was about Kerala not being able to afford it, because it's a poor country. But it's delighted that the country stays now, and Kerala being one of the richer states can more easily afford it, and this has happened to some extent in Tamil Nadu, in Himachal Pradesh, and to a varying extent in different parts of India. Similarly, if you look at many other countries, Sri Lanka has been an old example, Costa Rica, many other countries across the world. Brazil, in a very big way, in the under the period of the presidency of Cardozo and later under Lula, converted what was a kind of unnamed growth into a participatory growth. The Brazilian economy with universal health care, close to universal literacy has turned the page in a way the rest of the world, many parts of the rest of the world have not. I think one of the really exciting engagements is how intellectual discussions could make a real difference to the practical world in which we live, and the contrast between practicality and theory, and that's one of the, I think, terrible contrasts, is I think I never lose my enthusiasm for arguing against that, because ultimately there's nothing as important as what we think in determining what we do, what we act, and what kind of lives we end up leading.


Yo, it's 2022 and finally I'm making a video again. It's been a while since the last video I know. I want to talk about my 2022 goals for my running goals this year, a little bit about goal setting in general and a quick just recap of how my training has been going for the last couple of months. So 2021 was a good year. Interestingly, it started out, my goal for 2021 was actually just to arrive at 2022 injury free, ready to train seriously, right? And that's what I've done. I have arrived, I am stronger, I'm a better athlete, I've learned a lot and I've actually done, it's the best year of training in my life. I've actually done more volume than ever. Done a lot of cross training and a fair amount of running too. PR'd in the half marathon in September after sort of just a very gradual, careful build. So I'm very happy that I was able to pull that off and it just shows that unspectacular training is really the way to go. You don't want to back on having this epic training week stacked on top of each other and just like, wow, that's insane. That's like a monster workout, that sort of thing. You actually just want to do mediocre week after week, just be consistent, just be gradual, be progressive, be conservative, slowly but surely it all adds up and fitness results. So anyway, good year for me 2021. After the half marathon, I was gonna go into base training and I did, I got about three weeks of good volume there and then I got sick, just a regular cold and so that was a little bit of a hiccup, a little obstacle in the road and so over the last month or so, I haven't been able to run as much as I wanted but still been able to keep it consistent and now I'm here in Nice, France and I am ready to start training more. Hey guys, just popping in quickly. I wanted to let you know that if you are a runner and you have some running goals for 2022, maybe you're a beginner, just trying to get started running or maybe you're already a seasoned runner but you wanna train better. Then I would love to help you out. I offer online coaching. Basically, I offer different plans. You can check them out on my website. There's a link in the description below this video but they all include a custom plan, optimized to fit you and your needs and your goals as well as unlimited WhatsApp support and communication with me through the online interactive training calendar. All right, so if that sounds cool, don't hesitate to contact me through the website. I would love to help you out. All right, that's all. Let's get back to the video. So goals for 2022. Well, in terms of race goals, well actually let's take other goals first. Train consistently, stay injury free. Those two goals actually, those are the most important. They're even more important than the races because if I don't train consistently and stay injury free, I won't even be able to race, right? So those are actually the most important goals that I have. So I gotta focus on that. Stay consistent and I shouldn't do any sudden changes in training, which is why right now, coming from base training phase, going into a race buildup, I am actually now spending about a month as a little training cycle, training phase in itself, where I'm adapting my body to workouts again, like harder workouts, faster workouts, slowly increasing the amount of fast running that I do before I get to like February where I'll start actually doing proper workouts, if you know what I mean. So yeah, consistent training throughout the year, that's a big goal. I've set a goal for myself 3,500 kilometers in 2022. I don't know. I'm pretty sure I'll hit 3,000. Can I hit 4,000 maybe? I mean, I don't want to do more than that right now. We'll say that for next year because we want to have that gradual build, right? So maybe 3,500, I told 2,600 kilometers this year, but there was a lot of cross training too. Which I'll do this year as well. And so I'm hoping it's going to be my best training year so far. Race goals, pretty simple actually. I have a block now over the winter spring and focused on 5K and 10K. I'll get back to that. And then in the autumn, I'm going to try my first marathon. I definitely want to do my first marathon. I remember sitting here. Must have been three years ago now. There's a video where I'm sitting right here talking about my goals and mentioning that I want to do the marathon. And then turned out that way for various reasons. Mainly I had a health issue, but now I'm here and 2022 is on and I'm just excited and I think that I should be able to do my first marathon in September, October, November, depending on where I choose. Hopefully here in Nice in France, but we'll see. So the marathon build will start this summer sometime. I'll build up my volume, get it up to maybe 100K per week. Maybe even touching on 110 kilometers per week, typically. And do a specific marathon build. We can talk more about that in another video later when I start doing that. But before I get there, I have my eyes on a 10K race in April, Centrum Slöppa in Norway. It's the end of April. And I thought, why not also throw in a 5K in the beginning of April, right? So three weeks apart, those two races. So that's sort of the idea. Working on a little bit of those faster types of races this spring, I think now after doing my half marathon and just doing a lot of volume and slow distance and marathon pace and some threshold stuff this last year. I'm thinking now, let's get a little towards that sort of fast end of things and work a little bit. I wouldn't call it speed. That would be more like, you know, like 1500 meter, 800 meter pace type of work, speed. I might still throw in a little bit of speed work, but that's risky with me and my injury history with tendons and everything, which is probably also why I need it, but it's a, you know, we've got to sort of compromise a little bit. I think at this point, working a little bit more specifically on my VO2 max and, yeah, getting ready for a 5K and a 10K, I think that would be fun. Time goes just off the top of my head. I'm sort of thinking 10K, I definitely want to go sub 40. I will go sub 40, but can I go sub 39? Maybe, I think so. That's a reasonable goal. We'll see as the training progresses. Would be nice to go sub 38, to be honest, and see the 37 number there. For 5K, it's kind of, you know, similar situation, just definitely going to go sub 20. Can I go sub 19 though? Maybe, I don't have enough experience in that sort of pace realm to know for sure. And could I go sub 18? Who knows? This is a long range, right? So I have no idea at the moment. I'm just looking at tables and stuff. That's sort of what is indicated somewhere in that ballpark. But we'll see as training progresses. So anyway, I'm going to do a lot of special training, a lot of VO2 max training, and keep my volume actually pretty moderate over the next few weeks and months. So instead of sort of pushing the volume, I'm focusing now more on quality. I'm going to do two workouts a week plus a long run. Let's talk about my schedule in another video and how I'm planning to execute that build up. But so that's it. So 5K and 10K, April. First goal of the year, race-wise, and then marathon in the fall. And we'll just do a whole lot of miles, kilometers, base stuff in the summer. So that's sort of my goals. But honestly, I've learned a huge lesson this year. And that's what I want to also finish off this video with and tell you in terms of your goals and how I think anyone should approach their goals when it comes to running. And what I've learned is that if you get too excited about your goal, I mean, don't get me wrong, you should be excited about your goal. But if you get too excited and you get too focused on that one goal, as in a race, for example, particularly races, then it's very easy to lose track of those good principles in training, right? So you just say, okay, at this date, I want to be able to run this fast and then I got to do this and this and this in the weeks before. And you're just focused on the pace and you're just focused on the race and not on the training. And being focused on the training is what's going to get you to where you want to go. And being focused on good training principles and gauging where you are today is very important in running. Because if you get unrealistic about your paces and about your times and your goals, you'll probably overdo it in training. You'll either push the envelope too far in terms of volume because I got to get to this volume because that's necessary to perform at this level or whatever. And maybe that's true, but your insistence on that particular volume when your body maybe is telling you otherwise will get you injured, right? Or it might, usually it does. So I would like to sort of just have the goals there, but as an overarching principle, focus on the training rather than the goals themselves and allow the training to sort of dictate the goals a little bit. A particular internship like the time, the exact time to race, I mean the exact pace for the race and the finishing time. So stay conservative basically. Stay, keep it gradual. Have a couple of big goals and maybe a couple of smaller goals along the way, right? So I'm gonna do a 3,000 meter, probably a couple of weeks before the 5,000. Probably do it at 5K pace. That could be a little bit of a sub goal, right? So you need to have these different goals, but mainly focusing on training rather than being too obsessed about the goals. The goals are sort of like a bonus feature of the whole thing, right?  I'm gonna try and race fast, whatever. But if you get too obsessed about it, you won't be able, you'll overdo it in training and you won't even arrive at the starting line. So take a step back, look at where you're at today, plan accordingly, train well, take your recovery, don't overdo it, no sudden changes, gradual increase, progression, all those good principles, that's really key. That's it for the first video of 2022. I hope to do a lot more. I'm not gonna pin myself down to a particular schedule just yet, but I do wanna get regular about it. And I'm gonna do my best to get that done. What are your goals for 2022?  Could be anything, could even be non-running related if you want. But if it is a race or whatever, what race is it? And what's your time goal? What's your distance goal? What whatever type of goal you have, tell me about it in the comment section. Subscribe of course if you haven't done so already and stay tuned for more videos. And by the way, I'm working on that e-book. Still working on that e-book. It's coming out at some point soon, hopefully. All right, thanks for watching. Good to see you again, or I guess I can't see you, but you can see me. I hope you feel that it's good to see me. I'll see you in the comment section. Thank you, bye.


Now, we are going to see how to evaluate the subjective type assignments already we have shown you how to create and subjective type assignment likewise you will be creating a folder in your course admin ID in the drive of your course admin ID whenever the students are submitting their assignments you will be getting this assignments like here and so I have already submitted the assignment I have already submitted the assignment as a reviewer as a student I have submitted share this document with the admin ID of the course when the students submitted their assignments you will be that is you will be able to see the assignment here in your drive please don't delete anything in the drive so that it will be if you are deleting anything it don't be get redrived and the files will be lost which will be submitted by the students so don't delete anything just you will be seeing this file you if you want to manually evaluate you can just click this and download this and can evaluate but using the course stop you can evaluate the assignments here if you are giving multiple submission the last submission of the students will be able to will be here in this drive if you are giving single submission then the file will be automatically saved in this folder now I am going to show how to add the course stop and correct the assignments just in the dashboard you will be seeing a tab course stop click this course stop you will be redirected to this page you can add the course stop there will be three or more TS will be there for the course you can add all the TS mail it is here I am adding a Lakshmi at nptel.idm.ac.in as a course stop already I have added this if you want to remove anything you can remove if you want to add a course stop you can add here and click the button add course stop then it will be displayed here you can now add your TS email id which who are going to evaluate the assignment once I have added this log into the course with the id whichever you have added in the course stop I have added Lakshmi at nptel I have logged into the courses Lakshmi at nptel then I will be able to see in this tab course stop click that course stop tap now you can see the evaluation page since I have created only one assignment this is a testing I have created a subjective assignment I have seen you have already seen there is only one submission in the drive which is submitted as reviewer so it is showing number assigned one and it is not graded till now so it is showing number graded 0 go to the assignment which you want to evaluate you will be seeing this assignment id you can see this 1164 this is the id of that document in the drive of your course you can match this id so that you can able to see whose assignment is this and once you go to this evaluation and click this assignment you will be seeing this detail whose my id is this who submitted this assignment and the submission id this is the id in the Google Drive and you can click this tab evaluate then you will be able to see this link here click this link you will be reacted to the document which is submitted by the student you can evaluate this evaluate and give the comments here whether it is okay or something whichever which ever comments you want to give you can give it here and in the score was you can give the score and save save and then submit now you can able to see number graded as one already it was zero since it is it was not graded now you can able to see this number graded again go to submitted assignment show evaluated submissions so I have seen this I have evaluated this and gave the score as 10 if you want to reevaluate you can reevaluate here again it will be showing the some comments and score button if you want to change the score you can change save and then submit this will be easy for you to give the scores and once the assignment deadline is over students will be able to see this marks on the progress page


Welcome everybody to unfiltered pastor David. Welcome. Thank you. I want to thank you for joining us here today and pastor I had a question because We have a lot of churches around the world. We have a lot of churches in our area we have a lot of churches in California and You know, you see the different uses of the pulpit in some churches and some churches use the pulpit as or not churches, but pastors use the pulpit as a place for entertainment or as a platform to Launch a personal agenda or any other use than the word of God and how dangerous can that be for the church if the the most holy Table in the in the church Where the place where God's word goes out is I don't want to say vandalized It's tainted with an agenda. How dangerous is it for the church? You know that? churches in the United States at least I think for the last many years have Often been occupied by pastors who have a desire to glorify the Lord and I would say the overwhelming majority Pastors that I would be aware of at least Are people who want to honor God and they want to present the truth of Christ and they want to see the captive set free and all of the things that that That pastors ought to want and on occasion what you end up with is you end up seeing By by virtue of just comparison you will see some places that are occupied by pastors who seem to have have lost their way and Maybe have taken a turn in a direction that at this moment to them may seem to indicate that they're They're on the right note if you will that they're doing the right thing and perhaps even may applaud themselves and their church May even applaud the pastor For taking the turn that he's taken you know, I do see that I do see Churches that unfortunately sometimes are being led by somebody who's forgotten what he was called to do And I think that that's becoming a little more common, but not necessarily overwhelming the church You know we We've been given a mandate when the Lord Jesus Christ was speaking to the Apostle Peter after restoring him He had said if you love me feed or tend my sheep and my lambs given the word of God why because Shepherds are to give the full counsel of God when Paul was speaking to the elders of the church of Ephesus there in place called my lead us when he was there giving his last Really his last talk and encouragement to these men He said that they are to You know to shepherd the church there to love the church He said I have not shunned to declare into you the entire counsel of God and because of that he was very capable of Leaving them in the hands of the Lord as he moved on to his final his final destination so my own pastor taught me Chuck Smith taught me that My role is to Present to people the kingdom of God and to present people the king of the world the king of the universe and that's Jesus Christ I Think that churches are making a huge turn moving into the wrong area When they become Republican churches I Also think that churches are Going in the wrong direction when the pastor makes them Democrat churches We see both you know in many churches It's obvious that the pastor himself believes in the agenda of the Democrat Party and From my perspective, there's a great error in that in that The Democrat Party is by and large Energized by demonic spirit any party that that that champions people who are our homosexual any party that champions abortion on demand just because Any party that that follows the plank that Democrats have followed you, you know I believe all you have to do is examine their their principles You'll see no, this is anti scripture and anti Christ on the other hand The Republican Party seems to sometimes champion themselves as extremely moral when in fact There are just as many of them are just as corrupt as any Democrat And so it is very wrong I would say for a church to want to make converts to the Republican Party, you know Or to make converts to the Democrat Party to champion the causes We we have to understand that our call John is is a greater and a higher call than that Some people get confused and this may even be disturbing some probably some have already Turned this off. I mean, that's what happens. That's the the way people think today. If I don't agree with you I'll just turn you off and That's that's that's what they do But I'll tell you the truth the truth is that Christ never sent me as a pastor To preach a political stance. He taught me to teach biblical principles And if I as a pastor am successful at that if I train people to think biblically out of scripture for this reason Then they're gonna know how to vote I was re I was raised in a home where my mom and my dad were what they called Roosevelt Democrats They used to call them Roosevelt Democrats they grew up in the time when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president and they loved and in Were encouraged by what they believed him to have been at that time so naturally Not only me, but my wife Marie Naturally, that's what we were Many of us who are of Mexican heritage Have gravitated and did gravitate towards the Democrat Party After I got saved I began to use the Bible to help me to develop a biblical mindset as it relates to Who I elect to govern me or who I don't want to govern me? And I think that many Christians have mistakenly begun to preach the Republican Party or the Democrat Party and In fact while doing so you may convert somebody to become a Republican But they're still going to hell Because you didn't give them the gospel that transforms their life and making an assumption That you're doing God's business by helping people to see the Republican way or the Democrat way is really a disqualifier because I'll be honest with you The pastor's role is a higher role than to be a political activist And so yeah, I think that one of the things that's happening in the church in our day and I can understand it Seeing all the evil that has been called good. I understand it is to What is one of the mistakes? I think has to been to be that the pastor has become a political activist and in doing so Has actually sullied the call of the minister again, this is not a Judgment against a brother who thinks he's doing the will of the Lord It's really more of a concern that I as a pastor have I want my church to vote I encourage our church to vote and I I still haven't gotten to the point where I have given up hope that we can change this nation But we have a national day of prayer for a reason is because we need to turn as a nation to the Lord and I think that many pastors are preaching an angry gospel and It's a mistake John I Posted some on social media this morning something to the effect of if Paul Were to examine the church of the United States. Would we receive a letter from him? You know think about the Church of Corinth and And these churches that were the way they were do you think Paul would would be sending the United States a letter I believe that Jesus already did in the book of Revelation. He said repent you know Because when he was talking to the Church of Ephesus the Church of Ephesus had walked away from the first love and So I think the church In many places have actually walked away from the first love They may be known for good works, but they're not known for being on fire for Jesus Christ. Yes, and so Would Paul write us a letter? The Church of the United States being such a large a Large geographic area Could there be a general letter written? I think it already was by Jesus himself and he said we need to return to our first love Because we've walked away from it. You know, we've got that letter already And we need to read it. Yeah, we need to do it. It's not Pastor thank you so much because again, we see a lot of things coming from the pulpit and praise God for those churches that are teaching the Word of God and and but the danger that can be involved when a pastor May have a tendency to use up because the pulpit is one thing before we close The church can be numerically large in a small geographic area and so the people there who gather might feel like we're doing something and We're sure but here in California, for example, we have over 40 million inhabitants growing daily and so even if my fellowship here was 50,000 and everyone voted in a certain way That's not going to change That's not going to change the outcomes of the elections. It's not going to change 50,000 votes will not change it what will change the outcome of elections is When we reach people with the gospel of Christ and help them to see that there's a right way in a wrong way That changes their heart which results in the change of their votes And so we can gather people, you know, invite people to come and speak that we think are knowledgeable and and we may inflame our people with a passion to To read reject these things, but we're already doing that when we're teaching the word verse by verse and so I really think that it's It's really a mistake When we emphasize political parties political positions, I think we should address them We should address those things that are within the confines of their statements of You know why they exist and all but but John I still believe that you know Paul who lost his head for the gospel The Apostle Peter and all the rest other than John who lost their their head Or lost their life for preaching the gospel They were reaching out to a world that was was pretty much ruled by by Rome And yet Peter says we're to honor the king Paul says that we're to pray for those who are in authority and he says go out and preach the gospel even as Jesus taught us what's going to transform a nation is going to be the gospel and our holy our holy occupation is Present to people God's way and so I Know people like to argue and they'll argue with somebody like me Because oh no, you don't understand But I don't see any proof that they're doing any good themselves And so when we when we preach the gospel we see people converted we teach them the ways of Christ We're actually actually producing salt and light if we understood it Or we can run around saying I take credit for the person who just got elected because I influence so many people And I think that's ridiculous Because what you ultimately end up with isn't another sinner occupying an office another sinner who needs the grace of God So I cut through that and I just say what we need is Jesus and and when you know of Jesus Invote your conscience because your conscience is informed by the word. Amen. Amen Pastor, thank you so much for sharing and thank you guys for tuning in just a couple of things We have an interest list that's going on in our gazebo currently for those who are Interested in going to Israel next year in 2024 and the dates are still be worked out We have a date that's listed, but I know things are still tentative with those dates But the you could still sign the interest list you can stop by the gazebo and after any of our services We have somebody there that who can take your list name on the interest list and then Men we have our June 3rd men's conference. We have a good lineup of speakers come out and join us You can get your tickets at the gazebo or online, but most important We have our Sunday services at 8 30 and 10 45 pastor you're taking us through the book of Mark and Invite your friends and family to come out and join us We've been having a great time on our Wednesday and Wednesday evenings and Sunday morning services We have a time of worship. So Great idea to invite your friends to come out and join us invite your family Maybe the Lord's putting somebody on their hearts right now to bring in and you can come out and join us We look forward to seeing you pastor David. Thank you so much for your time. God bless you Thank you guys for tuning in


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and side, we see that we have the deposit deposits from QuickBooks payments. And we have down here, we have our information and there's our sales receipt that was deposited. So that looks good. And so it's grouping our deposits and then the net amount for dollars and 58 cents. Let's take a look at it on the checking account here. So if I go actually into the checking account, drill down on the checking and take a look at it. We then have our deposit that pulled through here for the 557 and this is the one that came from the automatic payment, I believe. So if I drill down on that 117, the 117, hold on, that's the actual fee, that's the fee that went through. Let's go into the deposit then, the 557. So here's our deposit and it checked all of these off, including the sales receipt. Okay, so it picked that one up and it deposited them together. So you can see it did that kind of middle step, depositing all these items, some of them being payments that went from the invoice that was received and then the sales receipt, which was, so it picked up both of these. If I go to the flow chart, it picked up the sales receipt that we made as well as the invoices that we received payments on. We didn't record the received payment, right? It kind of did the whole process for us and then grouped them together in the one deposit and of course we're hoping, and it should be the case, that this is the amount that we'll be showing on the bank statement so that we'll be able to do the reconciliation. So if we can get all this set up, if we get these automatic payments set up, then it can be quite nice from the bookkeeping side of things because we can kind of eliminate these last two steps, although again the downside is the fees. We can make the invoice, we can create the sales receipts, hopefully we can automate one or both of those things, whichever one we're going to set up and then we can just let the payments roll and not have to deal with the received payment or make deposit side of things and it should be deposited in our system in such a way that we can then match it out to the bank statements in the form of the bank feeds. So then we would go into the bank feeds and we would see this amount coming through on the banking side of things and be able to match that out.