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In fact, the only thing that would make life worth living for him right now would be a new 1954 automobile. Well, every year at this time, you get this uncontrollable yen for a new car, and it's so silly. There's nothing silly about it. I've been driving this car long enough, and it was secondhand when I got it. Oh, it runs all right as far as I can see. Honey, that's because you're not mechanical minded. This car's beginning to fall to pieces. That's the last time I'm ever going to buy a used car. But the car was guaranteed, wasn't it? Who owned it before you did? What did the salesman say? He told me the car had been driven only 50,000 miles by a careful San Diego sailor. It's the only car I've ever seen with tattooed sidewall. It's the truth. I don't mind that, but it's the things he tattooed on there. You haven't seen anything till you see Lily St. Cyr do a muscle dance at 30 miles an hour. Every cop on the freeways developing revolving eyeballs. Honey, you'd say just about anything to have an excuse for buying a new car. Wait a minute. It's not that, Alice.  Besides, I'm working in that picture, the high and the mighty, and everybody in it has a little foreign sports car, like a Jaguar. A Jaguar? Honey, just give me one good reason why you should drive around town in an open sports car. Because I got a velvet beanie for Christmas, and I want to see if the propeller turns. What are you stopping here for? Oh, I told Elliot I'd drop by and pick him up. He's having a business conference here. Here? In this shabby neighborhood? Yeah, yeah, this is the place all right. I'll be back in a minute, honey. Okay. Oh, there he is over there. Hi, Elliot. Oh, just one minute. I'll be with you just as soon as I made this decision. Gentlemen, I'm compelled to weigh this situation from every angle. If I pursue the one course of action, I run the risk of a sizable financial loss. Whereas, on the other hand, while the safer course is rather promising, I feel that there comes a time in every man's life when he is forced to take a gamble. Gentlemen, I have reached a decision. The 12 ball in the side pocket. Why do you can't win every time? Here's my quarter. See you later, gentlemen. Come on, Curly. Look, Elliot, why do you waste so much time in a pool? Curly, don't get on me all the time. I have to pick up a buck or two shooting pool. I'm not the executive type like my brother. He amassed a fortune. Legitimately? Sure. He thought of something nobody ever thought of before. He counterfeit special delivery stamps. He counterfeit special delivery stamps? Yeah, that's the simplest thing in the world. He takes a three-cent stamp, and he paints a bicycle under George Washington. Is that the same brother who puts the beer caps on the railroad tracks so he can use them in the telephone? Yeah, he's getting so the operator doesn't say number, please. He says, what do you have? Oh, hello, Alice. Well, finally. It must have been quite a conference. Oh, I'm sorry. Honey, did you mind waiting? Oh, no. What girl wouldn't like to sit all alone in a car in such a delightful neighborhood? I've been sitting here watching the sun go down behind the brewery. Yeah. Ain't that a beautiful brewery? Would you believe it, 14 years ago there was nothing there but an orange grove? Come on, Ellie, get in the car. Let's get out of here. Yeah, okay. Drive, huh? Ah, you go down Third Street here, Curly, and then you take a left. I know, I know. Wait a minute, wait a minute. There's something here I don't understand.  I don't get it. It sounds like a plot. No, no, no, honey, believe me, it's no plot. No, no, no. Curly just called me up and he said, come on, Ellie, I'm going down and buying a new English automobile. What? Yeah, it's that new British car, the Thunder Jet 8. Now, just a second, Alice, now please, now don't get excited, Alice. I didn't say that I was going to buy it. I just said that we'd look at it, that's all. Yeah, and the next thing I know, you're bringing it home. Look, Alice, now don't make any decisions until you see this British Thunder Jet. Oh, I know you're going to fall in love with it. What a car, Alice. It's got seven speeds forward, four carburetors, three exhaust pipes, and it goes 240 miles an hour. And it's got... Well, why has it got three exhaust pipes? Why has it got three exhaust pipes? He said just like a woman. Why has it got three exhaust pipes? Why has it... Well, anybody knows the... Well, the first exhaust pipe is to exhaust the exhaust. Yeah, and the second exhaust pipe? Well, the second exhaust pipe is to exhaust the overflow exhaust from the first exhaust. Couldn't be any simpler. Yeah. But what's that third exhaust pipe for? The third exhaust pipe? Yeah. Didn't you hear me say it goes 240 miles an hour? Yeah. It's for skyriding, Clyde. I can see what I'm up against now. It looks like Heathcliff is going to have a British car or he'll spend the next portnet pouting in his tardy.   Well, what do you know? Hey, look, we're here already. There. There's the British Thunder Jet Agency right there. Hello, sir. I came in... Well, I'd kind of like to take a peek at that English... that Thunder Jet car. I'd sure like to take a look. Oh, you would, would you?  Hey, Curly, I think I'll wait in the truck. Wait! Look, mister, you don't know who you're talking to. That's true. And I'd like to keep it that way. Look, mister, I think there's been... Oh, I'd beg your pardon, madam. I didn't see you there or I wouldn't have been talking to your chauffeur. He ain't no chauffeur, mister. He always wears those leather bow ties because they're smog resistant. Oh, look, Ellie, leave it. Look, mister, now you sell British Thunder Jet cars, don't you? We deplore the word sale. Each year, the British Thunder Jet people export five of them to America. Then, by careful research, we endeavor to find five gentlemen worthy of this exclusive motor vehicle. Now, sir, can you qualify as a gentleman? Hey, Curly, you didn't even get to the semifinals, did you? Now, wait a minute, now, look, mister, my heart is set on owning one of these British Thunder Jets, but, well, if I can't... Well, hey, look, mister, would it be asking too much if I could just take one look at it? Well, Lord Cravington will never forgive me, but... Did you say Lord Cravington? Yes, he's the one who selects the future Thunder Jet owners. Come on, Curly, I got a wonderful idea. What? Don't stand there, let's get outside. Come on, would you? Outside, outside. Look, Elliot, what are you rushing me out here for?  The only one that can get you one of these cars is Lord Cravington, and he happens to be staying at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Well, what about it? Here's my plan, listen to this. Hey, oh, Elliot, that's wonderful. Hey, Alice, Elliot's got a great idea how I can get a British Thunder Jet. Oh, fine. I'll be at the house. Just call me when you need the bail money. Life is just a voluntary, don't take it serious. Life's too mysterious.  Keep repeating, it's the berries. The strongest oak must fall. The sweet things in life to you were just loans. So how can you lose what you never own? Life is just a voluntary, so live and laugh at it all. Repeating, it's the berries. The strongest oak must fall. In life to you were just loans. So how can you lose what you never own? Life is just a voluntary, so live and if I do say it myself, the dinner table looks lovely. Yeah. You know, I still don't know how Elliot got Lord Cravington to agree to come to dinner at our house. Psychology, Alice psychology. Elliot figured the guys in the strange country must be dying for some English food. So Elliot promised him a genuine old English meal, a typical British dinner. Pretty smart, huh? Yeah. Alice, you don't realize how hungry these Englishmen get for some real British food. Why, just last week, Sir Cedric Hardwick got so desperate for some British pot roast, he took a bite out of Charles Lawton. He was an outside cut, too. Well, I'm going in and get the place cards. See you later, honey. Yeah, hon. Now let's see if everything looks cultured enough. Box of cigarettes, English ovals, naturally. And that old print I borrowed of the Tower of London. Then, of course, my own coat of arms, which I dug out for the occasion. Yes, sir, I'll bet Lord Travington has never seen anything like the Harris coat of arms. Just look at that. Two crossed bottles rampant on a field of pickled ham hocks. My family goes back to the House of Lords. Quite often. Who is the un-England and England shall be... Hey, Charlie, I'm not going to take care of everything. Oh. Who are you going to get to furnish that food? Romanoff's British department or what? How are you going to... No, no, no. Why should we lay out loot like that? You see this book? It's a genuine old English cookbook. And look here on page five. Here's what we're going to have. The Royal Hunt Dinner. When Lord Travington throws a stiff upper lip over this feast, he'll blow his crumpet. How do you know if this cookbook here's a real McCoy? Well, look at this recipe. How to stuff a Yorkshire pudding and with what? Let's know what it says. It says, take ye old crock. Put on ye old stove. Add ye old pinch of ye old English herbs. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Where'd you get this book? At ye old Sears and Roebuck. Elliot, what's the matter now? Relax, relax. I borrowed it from the library. Come on now, Curly. Let's put on our apron. Elliot, how are we going to cook an old English dinner? Where are we going to get the ingredients? There's stuff in this cookbook I never heard of before. I took care of that. When are you going to learn to trust me? I had Julius out since six o'clock this morning around enough to stuff. Now according to the book, what we need first to mix the sauce is a three foot deep hand wrought pewter cauldron. Such as Lady Guinevere presented to Sir Lancelot at the Battle of Wiccanum Moors. He ain't got nothing like that. Well, then we'll have to use the three inch deep frying pan that Lady Alice gave to Philip at the Battle of Encino. Very funny. Elliot, it's getting late. Now where's Julius? Are you sure? Well, you just relax. He's driving in the driveway right now. Well, thank goodness. He's driving away as utensils. Well, how are you fixed for flaming swords? Oh, we're long on those.  The three star brand. Okay. Yeah, I'll be back in a minute, Malcolm. Well, there'll always be an England. Hey, Julius, about time you got here. About time? When you went to the turtle tank at the zoo, it'll be worth it. Hey, did you bring the, you know, the main thing, the entree? You mean the boar's head? Yeah. The boar's head. The main course. What do you think they get? That's a big one, isn't it? And it's on a wooden platter. Yeah. Well, I just sat on the kitchen table there. This animal must have been ferocious, huh? Look at those whiskers. The big nostrils. Those red eyes. Hey, I found it. God's what happened to Don Wilbur's head. The boar's head? What's that for? We're going to cook it.  That's all they got to eat in England? Yeah. No wonder they're all taking bites off Charles Lawton. How can you cook this? It's as hard as a rock. Just pick up Wilbur and drop him in that boiling water. Okay. Wilbur. Yeah, that's what I named the boar's head. Drop it in. What are you waiting for? It's the way he's looking at me. He looks like my commanding officer after he talked back to the witch doctor. Hello? Hello. This is the smog control, chairman. There's a big cloud of smoke over your house. What's going on over there? We're having an Englishman for dinner. Well, stick a fork in him. I think he's done. Well, let's see now. We've been boiling this boar's head for two hours and we've put in everything the book says. It's got a kind of a peculiar odor. Maybe it needs a little more boiling. Stir it up a little bit, Elliott. You stir it, Curly. You're wearing the space helmet. Hey, Elliott, I think this thing is done. The broth tastes real good. Let me try it. Tastes a little bit like a sauteed tennis ball. Hey, that has to be Lord Thomas. I'm going to try it. Tastes a little bit like a sauteed tennis ball. Hey, that has to be Lord Cravington now. Hurry up, Julius. Get under your English footman's outfit. Don't forget your servant at dinner. Julius, Lord Cravington is here. Let you stand between me and that British sports car and I'll get into that outfit while I answer the door. Very amusing story. Here, have another cup of tea. Thank you, no, Miss Faye. I'm afraid to drink any more tea. It might spoil my appetite. And I've been so looking forward to seeing you. By the way, do you have a British chef? No, Lord. You see, I... I cooked the whole meal myself. You cooked it, Mr. Harris? Yep. I think I will have another cup of tea. Wait a minute, Governor. Don't use a new bag. There's a couple of good slashes left in mine. Oh, Mr. Harris, did I understand you to say that you spent some time in England? Oh, to be sure. Quite, quite. Yes, lovely old country England. What part did you visit? Oh, yes. It was someplace up north. Oh, then it must have been around Newcastle on time. No. No, that doesn't sound like it. No? Oh, I know. Then it must have been around Shropshire on the dunes. No, this was way beyond that. No. This was a little railroad stop. This was called Bristles on the Thigh. Bristles on the Thigh? Yeah, it comes right after shaving on the leg. Oh, yes. Oh, jolly good, isn't it, eh? Oh, Bristles on the shaving on the leg. Yes, yes. Devastatingly funny, old chap. Devastatingly funny. American humor, poor thing. Nevertheless, I must remember to tell that to Winnie. Good, come on, everyone. Let's all sit down, huh?  Julius, you may serve Lord Cravington first.  There you are, Lord Cravington. I'll bet you didn't expect to see anything like that so far from home. Frankly, I didn't. How, uh, how did it get here? Was it, uh, was it washed up on the beach? Oh, Lord Cravington, see, this is English delicacy. It's boiled boar's head. Oh. Well, how do you eat it? Not formality, Lord. You just take a bite and pass it. That's what them rings in the ears of four. Wait a minute, Lord Cravington, where are you going? Lord Cravington. Lord Cravington, you forgot your umbrella. I'll be back in a minute, Alice. I always thought that Englishmen were polite. He just got up and left. I did, but he didn't. And after all the trouble, you were... Elliot, let me shake your hand. That was the greatest idea you ever had. Lord Cravington is letting me have a British thunder jet in the morning. We made a deal. Really, Phil? Yeah, having this whole English dinner did the trick. That's the deal. I get the car if he doesn't have to eat the dinner. 1946, RCA Victor Knowhow creates America's first post-war table model TV. 1950, and every year since, RCA Victor has put more TV sets into American homes than any other maker. 1954, RCA Victor combines the industry's greatest research and production facilities to bring you the Master 21, America's most wanted 21-inch television at the lowest price in history. Only $199.95. Think of it. RCA Victor 21-inch television for as little as $199.95. Here is television with all the famous RCA Victor TV features. Here is RCA Victor quality at a price everyone can afford. It's at your dealers now. The Master 21 by First in television. This year, 1954, may be the showdown year in the 16-year fight of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis Against Polio. Give your share to the Marcia Dimes Fund. For this year's giving may be the giving that wins. 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It seems that investors appear to have turned their focus in the new year from the company's CEO to basic business drivers influencing stock price movement. Despite significant manufacturing issues, Tesla's fourth-quarter earnings release demonstrated solid operational profits and free cash flow. For those of you who are interested in this stock I advise you to continue to keep an eye on the company's recent price cuts on its electric vehicles, but it's anticipated that Tesla can excel by finding a sweet spot between cost reductions and greater volume. Also, Tesla has lived up to its image as a volatile stock thus far in 2023, but in good news for stockholders, the direction has been consistent. Tesla stock has risen 42% since January 1, with at least half of those increases occurring following the company's fourth-quarter 2022 earnings report on January 25. The report now caps off a fantastic year for the electric vehicle maker, which posted record profits and cash flow despite numerous challenges, including global supply chain kinks, shutdowns at its Shanghai production facility due to ramp and COVID-19 cases in China, and CEO Elon Musk's attention draining takeover of Twitter. Tesla reported year-over-year revenue growth of 37% to $24.3 billion in the fourth quarter, with net income of $3.7 billion. Free cash flow fell 49% from the fourth quarter of 2021 to $1.4 billion, owing mostly to a $2.5 billion increase in inventories between the third and fourth quarters of 2022. Free cash flow of $7.6 billion for the full year 2022 was a 51% increase over free cash flow of slightly over $5 billion in 2021. Investors were delighted that, while Tesla's gross profit decreased as predicted due to increasing costs, notably rising lithium-cell prices, the company's automotive gross margin of 29% still allowed it to produce a respectable total operating margin of 16.8%. A topic about future automotive gross margins has been addressed, does Tesla's recent EV price decrease foreshadow a weakening of demand against increased competition? During the company's results call, Musk stated that demand continues to surpass supply, and Tesla is focused on increasing volume while cutting manufacturing costs. According to Musk, orders are currently coming in at nearly twice the rate of production. Tesla's long-term goal of sustaining car production growth at a compounded annual growth rate of 50%, along with vehicle discounts, can be viewed by shareholders as a plan to protect its market dominance while spreading its fixed costs across a rising base of vehicles, and thus realizing greater incremental profit per vehicle. Earlier this month, Tesla reduced the price of its Model Y by up to US$13,000. As Musk noted in Tesla's earnings call, the firm has already hiked Model Y prices, albeit little, by $500 since the price decrease, so we may expect some price volatility as Tesla finds its desired price volume equilibrium over the next several months. The next quarter's production statistics and automotive gross margin should provide a good indication of how Tesla's volume priority is playing out, as their EV sticker discounts began after the end of the fourth quarter. Throughout 2023, investors will be paying close attention to the energy storage sector, which is on the verge of contributing significantly to Tesla's operating profitability in the near future. Last year, Tesla's total energy solutions deployed increased by 64% to over 6,500 megawatt hours. Tesla prioritizes megapack plant capacity expansion, and Musk promised details on future production plans this year. Understandably, the emphasis on Tesla's business is frequently overshadowed by Musk's erratic antics. Investors are more focused on the factors that will influence Tesla's stock over the next several quarters, such as the basic automotive manufacturing fundamentals of cost, volume, and profit, CVP, and their impact on Tesla's free cash flow, at least at the start of this year. Even with big vehicle discounts, I believe Tesla can retain an operating margin in the low to mid teens, allowing it to continue expanding financially at scale in the near to medium term.


What's going on everybody welcome back to another breaking news story and it's official the emu sake and Serena Williams are going to miss the Start of the season they're not going to play in Abu Dhabi at the start of January Remember there's a tournament only one tournament for the WTA at the very start of the year And then there's nothing for three weeks and then Melbourne we have a couple of events in the first of February So we're not going to see Serena or Osaka until the first week of February But there are some good players playing that event. So let's go have a look at what the tentative Seatings are going to be for that event in Abu Dhabi. So as I said, we've got some big names We've got Sophia Kennan the Australian Open Champion We've got Alina Svetolina the world number five plush kava the world number six and also Sabalenka the world number ten So there's four top ten players playing in this new event that they've created for the 2021 season Also, you got Benchich, Mugaruta, Rybakina, Mertens, Vondrasova Sakari's in there as well, Contavit, Brady, Mchova, Puttenseva, Anissa Mova and Jabor who are all in the top 30 Except for Jabor who's 31. They are all going to be the seeds at this point in this tournament So we'll do a bit more of a breakdown when that tournament draw comes out in the next week or so But that's a tentative seeding at the moment. So big names not in there obviously Ash Bharti She's not going to leave Australia to come back in quarantine. So that's a smart move But we don't have Osaka. We don't have Halop. We don't have Serena in there as well So a lot of big names missing but a lot of big names in that tournament or supposed to be played Sophia Kennan should be the number one seed start her campaign off trying to defend that Australian Open title Let me know down in the comments below Early predictions. Who do you think's gonna win that tournament? WTA very unpredictable We don't know who is who could win that tournament anyone even an unceded player could win I like Sabalenka. I think she's in a little bit of form But let me know down in the comments below who you think's gonna win that tournament But that's the draw that is gonna be the seedings Sophia Kennan number one seed


To increase parking turnover and improve efficiency in several areas for local businesses, the City of Pikeville will be enforcing time-sensitive parking spaces via automated cameras starting Monday, January 29th. The businesses have been pretty supportive. It will help them a lot because the spots, if they're taking first thing in the morning and somebody is in that spot for a full eight hour day, then their customers, it's not convenient for them to get to their places of business. Apple Icon Wireless just can't stop themselves. Get the iPhone 13 128 gig for a penny with a two-year contract on the mix and match or unlimited plan, new or renewed line. While supplies last, one penny for an iPhone 13. We are you. We are Apple Icon Wireless. The City is partnering with the company Automotis to enforce time-related parking violations. Cameras will capture license plates and, when necessary, will issue tickets to the owner of the license plate. Either the city nor the city police will be issuing time-related tickets and will not be able to waive any fees accrued by these violations. Cameras will be placed from Huffman Avenue to Pike Street and Main Street to Hambly Boulevard. People are parking there for hours and our local businesses don't have an opportunity for their customers to park curbside and get into their places of business. So it really centered around a need to just turn those parking spaces over on a regular basis during the day. Anything not marked as 15-minute parking or otherwise has a limit of two hours. ADA parking will be allowed for hours. Many parking spaces in town will still be free to use without time limits such as several parking lots around town, the parking garage, the Riverfell parking lot, and much more. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsey Fidell.


All right, good morning. Welcome to the Radiant City Center. It is Thursday. We're in the last week of our Isaiah 62, Fast for the Nation of Israel. We're joining millions of intercessors around the world who have focused their prayers and their intercession towards the nation of Israel, the apple of God's eye. And this morning we're gonna step into the intercession for the land of Israel right off the bat this morning. So if you have your Bible, I just encourage you. We're gonna dive into Psalm two right off the start. And Psalm two is a prophetic picture of what's to come and the fulfillment of things that haven't even quite happened yet, but are going to happen. And we see little sprinkles of it now. And it's a declaration Psalm that came through this, through King David, through this place of intimacy where he's seeing into the future and seeing the Lord mount on Zion. And it says in verse one, it says, why are the nations and an uproar in the peoples devising a vain thing? The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed, saying, let us tear their fetters apart and cast away their courts from us. He who sits in the heavens laughs. The Lord scoffed at them and then he will speak to him, to them in his anger and terrify them in his fury saying, but as for me, I have installed my king upon Zion, my holy mountain. And I will surely tell of the decree of the Lord. He said to me, you are my son and today I have begotten you. Ask of me and I will surely give the nations your inheritance and the very ends of the earth as your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall shatter them like earth and wear. And this is where we're gonna focus in and really pray for Israel and for discernment. It says in verse 10, now therefore, O King show discernment, take warning. O judges of the earth, worship the Lord with reverence and rejoice with trembling. Do homage to the son that he not become angry and you perish in the way for his wrath may soon be kindled and how blessed are all who take refuge in him. This morning, we're just gonna dive right in. So if you're in the room, I'm just gonna welcome you to raise your hands with me and we're just beginning to worship the Lord with fear and trembling. And we're gonna begin to ask on behalf of the nation of Israel that they would turn and worship the Lord with reverence. For behold, the Lord is coming with a rod of iron and he's gonna establish his kingdom. He's gonna rule and reign and he's going to release his kingdom, manifest, tangibly that eyes will see, that eyes will be open. So right now, Lord, we come before you as sons and daughters of the most high. You have purchased us by your blood and we have become a kingdom, a priest to you, Lord. To you, so Lord, as intercessors, we stand in the gap and we say, Lord, would you mend your nation, Israel, Lord? Would you install your kingdom on your mountain, on Mount Zion, God? Would you begin to break off demonic strategies, demonic principalities? Would you unveil the eyes of the people of Israel, of the Jewish people, God? Right now we step in and we step into a place of intercession that says, Lord, we want your will to come. We want heaven to rule on the earth and, Lord, you died for the sins of the world. So, Lord, we ask that your blood would cover a multitude of sin and, God, I pray for the offense, Lord, or the bitterness or the hatred that comes at the name of Jesus, Lord. I pray you flip the script and, Lord, where kings and nations are an uproar and devising vain things, God, I pray that you would bring your purposes, you would bring your plans, you would rewrite the script, you would flip the enemy on his head and you would rule and you would reign. So, King Jesus, we ask that you would stir yourself up. Oh, man of war, anointed one, holy, seated, right hand of the Father, God, we ask that you would stir yourself up for your holy nation, that you would come and mount on Zion, Lord. We speak it in the name of Jesus. Let your kingdom come, let your will be done. And your chosen people, let your kingdom come. Let heaven fall, let heaven invade when you break through the skies and when you make yourself real and relevant to your people, Lord. In the cry of Israel, out for the Messiah, the anointed one, the king rules with a rod of iron. You're the king. Say, Israel, take refuge in the sun. Take refuge in the Lord, your God. Lord, I pray for a heart of stone be turned to a heart of flesh in your people. Lord, I pray the tears that Jesus wept as he rode on a donkey into Jerusalem, weeping over the people. Lord, I pray the tears from your heart would soften the soil of your people that they would receive you. Yes, sir, we just ask for a revelation of the sun who all the scriptures point to, God. We ask that they would see the man with eyes of fire. They would see the outstretched love, but they would also see God the just. So Lord, let your kingdom come. Let your will be done in Israel as it is in heaven, God. Yes, sir, we prophesy over Israel. Feel the redemption, feel the redemption of generations. Generation two, who did not choose Jesus to be the Messiah, with scales falling off their eyes like salt of all moments. Let your kingdom come over Israel, Lord. You've gathered your people back to your nation. We ask that you pull back the curtain. And you would reveal that you were the one. You were the one in the Exodus story. You were the one in the wilderness. You were the one who wrestled with Jacob. You were the one, the promised one. You're the one who sits on the throne of David. Let your kingdom come. Just picture the people of Israel crying out to the sun. You're the king that we want. The king we've rejected. The chief cornerstone that's been rejected. Because who is like the Lord? So who is like the Lord Almighty? Who was and is and is to come? So we just bless you, God. We ask for your purposes to go forth. This, would you wake up your people? Would you wake up a nation? Who is like the Lord? Look to the sun of Israel. Behold, the Lord is gathering you back together. Would you look to the sun? He's brought you together to look to him.   Lift up your gaze. Would you look at the one who's been longing for you? We ask you remove the blindfold. Who is like the Lord? Faithful and true. The word of God. But we bless you this morning. We bless you as we continue. Just to worship you in reverence. At Psalm 2 verse 11, worship the Lord with reverence and rejoice with trembling. So we love you, King Jesus. We magnify you in this morning hour. We ask that you reveal yourself in a greater way. Our great intercessor, our great high priest who sits at the right hand of the Father interceding for us. We ask that you reveal yourself as we worship you with reverence and rejoice with trembling. Also set me free, it's the secret. Harvest grows from bed. A poor tree with better grafted. Richer, sweeter life I'll gain. Let's just begin to pray in the spirit, pray in our understanding. As we've been singing, I've just felt that, kind of like that new breaking of that, the bedrock of the heart to awaken love to the beauty of the Son, the worthiness of Jesus. It's not something we can strive for or earn, but it only comes when the Holy Spirit begins to break our hearts. Begins to open up revelation to see Him rightly. Let's just begin to sing in the spirit, pray in the spirit, begin to wait upon the Lord.  Our heart wired for people of your pastor, people of your presence. I still feel like the Holy Spirit wants to just minister a little longer to our hearts. The Holy Spirit, we just ask that you even come in a greater measure. We're only scratching the surface of seeing your beauty, your worthiness, your holiness. Whether you're at home or in the room, it's gonna encourage us. Let's just begin to give a sacrifice of praise, a sacrifice of adoration and worship. We've been singing about how beautiful, how holy, how we long to look upon Him. But let's begin to offer something that cost us from the inside, that deep well of worship that says, Lord, I am undone and I will lay my life on the altar to see you glorified. Lord, we will give all our worship, we will give all our praise for it is you alone. It is you alone, nothing else, no other, no other thing of this earth could take the throne, could open the scroll, but you alone and you alone deserve our worship. You alone deserve our praise.  Let's just begin to let it bubble up from the inside. Let that overflow of the Holy Spirit. Just begin to flow out of you, those rivers of living water. Let's just begin to press in, just begin to offer worship. Whether in your car right now, I encourage you, let's just let out a sound of worship, a sacrifice of praise this morning. Let's just like Mary, every ounce, else, nothing else. Amen, I'll give you the discomfort. I'll give you the disappointment, be the accolades. I'll give you the praise, not an older song, but a fresh praise. Recommit, re-solidify, preeminence of the sun. You stand alone, you stand alone.  So as we enter into a time of intercession, I just encourage you to not leave this posture of adoration. And we know in the scriptures that it's in God's heart to return to the earth again. That actually that's part of the gospel is that he's coming back. And so we're gonna begin to intercede. I'm gonna read out a Psalm 122, we're gonna pray for the peace of Jerusalem. We're gonna begin to enter into God's heart. We haven't left God's heart, we're actually just pressing into his heart and the intercessor that is Christ Jesus. Psalm 122 verse one says, I was glad when they said to me, let us go to the house of the Lord. Our feet are standing within your gates of Jerusalem, Jerusalem that is built as a city that is compact together to which the tribes go up, even the tribes of the Lord in ordinance for Israel to give thanks to the name of the Lord for their thrones were set for judgment, the thrones of the house of David. Verse six, pray for the peace of Jerusalem. May they prosper who love you, may peace be within your walls and prosperity within your palaces. For the sake of my brothers and my friends, I will now say may peace be within you for the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good. So Lord, we enter in to the prayer for your city, Jerusalem, God. And we pray the Jehovah Shalom, the Prince of Peace would rule and reign over a city where there's been turmoil for centuries upon centuries, God. We pray Lord on Mount Zion, Lord, we pray that your holy mountain, your holy city, Jerusalem that you would come and rule and reign and Lord, where you rule and reign there is peace because you are the Prince of Peace. So Lord, we ask right now that the Prince of Peace would rule and reign over Jerusalem and we as saints of the living God as Gentile people grafted in, we for the sake of the Jewish people ask that you would graft them back in like your word says you're going to do. So Lord, we pray a peaceful presence of your Holy Spirit over your city, Jerusalem in Jesus' mighty name, Prince of Peace over Jerusalem, your city, would you rule with your peace, confuse the schemes of the devil, be within your walls, Jerusalem.  I pray the epicenter of Jerusalem Lord, you would begin to create a portal from heaven to earth and you would establish your purposes, your kingdom but we just pray hasten the day Lord, hasten the day Lord, we pray for the peace of your city and we pray for the ruling over your nation God and we say man of war stir yourself up, we rend the heavens, we ask rend the heavens and come down Lord, would you establish your kingdom Lord would you quicken the day, would you quicken the gospel to come and go forth and power and boldness, we ask that you would re-establish the early days of the church and the here and now for this holy arrival of your presence to come down and to flood Jerusalem and to flood the nation of Israel and the nations of the earth God, I pray for the prayers and the incense of the saints the bowls to be full to capacity and God we ask that those bowls would begin to tip and your heart would begin to burn and break for your people God. Lord I pray right now that the saints would not grow in an apathetic or entitlement spirit God we pray even just for the church outside of Israel God we pray against the apathetic spirit that says it doesn't matter what happens in Israel it doesn't matter what happens in Jerusalem but your word says Lord pray for the peace of Jerusalem so Lord I pray even in the West even in the European church Lord in the Asian church Lord even in Australia and Africa Lord in South America God would you awaken your bride to pray for your Jewish people your Jewish believers God that their eyes would be open and that Jerusalem would see you rightly God just like in the days of old when David established the tabernacle and incense and prayer and worship 24 seven would arise to your throne God we pray for a re-establishment of the temple where you rule and reign in your holy city and incense and worship go up to your throne and God you will rule, you will reign you will see your kingdom come to pass here on earth so Lord we ask awaken your people awaken your bride Gentiles and Jews alike to pray for the peace of Jerusalem in Jesus' name Yes, awaken the hearts of your people Pray for the peace of Jerusalem Pray for the peace of Jerusalem Awaken hearts God break up the follow-ground of apathy selfishness God you turn the hearts of your saints to face the nation of Israel Would you use the Gentile Church to awaken the Jewish non-believers to the Prince of Peace in your chosen nations to align with Jerusalem, Lord? Yes, let's just join in with this chorus. Let's make this our prayer. Let's extend our hands to the nation of Israel and the city of Jerusalem. We just ask for the winds to blow. The winds of the Spirit pray for an awakening of souls. We just even intercede for the hastening of the day when you split the clouds. Behold, He's coming on the clouds and every eye will see. O Jerusalem, don't you see Him? Jerusalem, a place for all the earth to see. Jerusalem, a place for all the earth to see. He's coming on the clouds. Split open the heavens. He's riding on the clouds. Can you see Him coming now? Come back for the apple of your eye. He's riding on the clouds. Haste in the day. When the gospel will go forth. Would your word go forth? Can you see Him coming now? Would you set the stage for your holy arrival? He's coming. Behold, you came as the lamb and you're coming back as the lion, the tribe of Judah. And you're about to roar. You're about to shake the earth. Chapter 1 verse 5 says, From Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood. He has made us to be a kingdom of priests to His God and Father to Him. Be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. And behold, He is coming with the clouds and every eye will see Him. Even those who pierced Him. Even the Jewish people who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him. So it is to be amen. Jesus says, I am the Alpha and the Omega. The one who was and is and is to come the Almighty. Well Lord, we just bless you this morning. We continue interceding for your Holy Land.  Holy Spirit, we thank you for your leadership this morning. Holy Spirit, we thank you that you teach us how to pray. You teach us what to pray. So Lord, we bless you. We thank you God. We pray for a hastening of the day of your return. We pray a speedily quickening to your purposes and your process. And Lord, we pray every prophetic promise would come to pass, Lord. And that we would see with our very own eyes you coming through the clouds. In Jesus' mighty name, amen, amen. I just want to say thank you for joining us for morning prayer this morning. We've got a few days left of our Israel fast. Isaiah 62 encourage you to just press in these last couple of days. And we'll be here at noon in 6.30. We'll be back tomorrow at 8 a.m. Bless you and have a great day.


My name is Kiki Wood. I'm the National Director of the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition. And I'm here in Ottawa today from unceded MiGMA Territory in Halifax, Nova Scotia. That's where I'm coming from. And I'm participating in Climate Welcome because I think that it's really important that the Canadian government adopts a plan and a stance that's in line with science and is willing to make the tough choices, create real policy, and make decisions that are going to keep us under two degrees of warming. I think we haven't seen real climate ambition or understanding or action for the entire time that the Conservatives were in power. And it's really caused us to lose a lot of faith on the global stage. I'm here as a youth, as a current and future generation, and as somebody who cares deeply for the Earth to stand up and take my own action to show that I think that the land and making decisions that are going to protect it and keep us under two degrees of warming are important enough for me to risk a risk. My message to our new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, is to create a federal plan to keep us under two degrees of warming, to freeze tar-sands expansion and to immediately begin to facilitate a justice-based transition to a clean energy economy that has retooling, reskilling built into it for those workers currently in the oil and gas sector that are going to need brilliant new green jobs to bring us into a future that is just and respects the Earth.


Welcome everyone, let's talk about urban planning. So today we ask, how do global economic structures shape the everyday experiences of people that live in cities? And to answer this question, I've invited my speaker, Sander Van Lennon from the University of Groningen to tell us how the global financial crisis shaped austerity policies in Ireland. And of course, how these policies affected young people in disadvantaged neighborhoods. And we're also gonna look at what can we learn from the Irish case in this particularly. Sander, welcome to our episode. Thank you, happy to be here. Tell us a bit about the importance of your study because some years have passed since the global financial crisis, but well, consequences still endure and lessons are still to be learned. Yes, exactly. Indeed, the global financial crisis is more than a decade away from us. The period of austerity implementation is also almost a decade away from us, at least from the most direct implementations. But I think it is important to remember that those transformations that have been brought in, the transformations to policy, but also to public space, the way cities are being managed, the way services in cities are being financed, are still with us today. And they kind of put the groundwork of what future urban development, future urban governance looks like. So therefore, I think it remains important to study what happened in those years. But of course, the more we move away from that period, it becomes important to investigate how it shapes where we currently are and how it shapes urban possibilities now and in the future. What was missing specifically under research that you wanted to understand? Yes, when I started this research, which was already back in 2013, so it was also quite a while ago, Ireland was in the middle of this harsh, this fierce austerity regime being implemented. And at the time, there was a lot of attention to the impact of austerity in the crisis on young adults. But what I noticed was that it was specifically on young adults that more or less had opportunities available to them. So a lot was about students that had an outlook on having a good job, suddenly working in jobs that were considered not so good for someone that studied, right? So less highly skilled jobs and people moving abroad again. People not being able to find houses or not being able to buy houses anymore. And within this whole narrative, I started thinking, but what about young adults that maybe you were not so fortunate to begin with that maybe never really had those positive outlooks that, for example, students had? So that's when I decided to focus on, well, youth that experiences more poverty, more social exclusion. And being a geographer, I of course also wanted to add a spatial component. And that's why I decided to look at disadvantaged urban neighborhoods and ended up studying two of Ireland's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. So Nocnihimi and Cork and Baliman in Dublin. And I think in that what I was interested in or kind of struggled with during my studies is that, of course, on the one hand, you can go into these neighborhoods and ask what's changing in people's lives, know what services close, what things they struggle with on a day-to-day basis. And that gives you one part of an understanding of what austerity does in urban spaces. But on the other hand, I felt it would be a bit flat if you do this without investigating at the same time where these austerity measures come from, with why they are being implemented at the national scale, at the municipal scale, but also how they relate to global financial developments, political and economic development. So I think my two challenges were to see it kind of overarching change in relation to the everyday and the relation of the everyday to the overarching structural developments. And on the other hand, to look into this group that, as I felt, was not getting enough attention yet and was kind of being a bit undersnowed by the attention of more middle-class youth that had their opportunities reduced, perhaps, to what they expected without downplaying the importance of that dynamic, too. Sure, promising. So let us know about the most important highlights, the findings of your study. Yeah, so I think one of the most important highlights, both of this paper, but also the wider project as a whole, is that when you look at the everyday influence of austerity in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods in Ireland, and especially young adults, you see that there are three main spheres in which austerity is being experienced. That's work and income. So basically people getting less income, either from work or welfare. That's housing, especially people trying to move out of their parental house and not being able to find affordable or suitable housing and all the consequences that has. And the other is a decline in service availability or at least a restructuring in service availability in these neighborhoods, which means that either people cannot access training, but also not access, for example, sport or music facilities that they used to have access to. What I then did, so I got these three main spheres out of interviews with young adults from Nock-Nahini in Cork and Baliman in Dublin. I then started looking what happened in these spheres at both national policy and how that was related to preceding policy and how that was related to austerity and these overarching political and economic developments, such as the global financial crisis, the involvement of the IMF, the European Central Bank, in the name of the Troika in Ireland, and started to see through how these different skills relate to each other. So how does what happens at a global scale relate to what's being implemented at the national scale and ultimately how that translates into what happens in the neighborhoods and then their shapes the everyday livelihoods, experiences and practices of young adults. So you have mentioned, again, a shell less income, less housing, the declining service availability and some connection between national and the neighborhood. So tell us a bit about, in all days, some policy consequences or community-led initiatives, individual action. So in practice, what does that mean? Yeah, I think that in practice, sometimes you see that urban planners or other professionals that tend to deal with issues at the local scale, you can, apart from planners, also think about social work organizations or medical organizations. And I've also seen that in other research projects myself, can learn from this that it is always important to connect what's happening at national and international scale to what they see at the local level in order to understand how their local interventions might interact with, for example, a national austerity program being handed out, being implemented, or international changes in, for example, job market structures or economic fortune. So how can local interventions, can they kind of be like a shock buffer, a buffer to these more larger scale developments or will they amplify them? And I think what also can be interesting both in practice and in research is to, at some point, turn it around. So what I did in this paper was to kind of work down skills, right? So I started at the international level, so investigate how it influenced the national government decision and how that influenced restructuring in the neighborhood and how youth in the neighborhood responded to that and experienced that. I think in the future, we can also think about if there is a local intervention. For example, here in the area at ARIZM, a new elderly care cooperative started, in what ways can these type of initiatives start to work upwards? Now, can they, for example, set an example that might end up influencing national policy, maybe eventually international relations between care providers, international learning, or maybe they might reshape relationships between people and institutions that will ultimately work through these different skills and also start to influence other neighborhoods, other cities, other countries as well. And I think I started to tease out this so-called embedded comparative approach in this paper as one framework in which this can be investigated, both as analysis, right? To see how what happens locally relates to what happens nationally and internationally, but also perhaps as an approach and a tool for change to think about how we can do something at the local scale. I noticed that with my students quite a bit, right? They might have a desire to implement change, but then sometimes feel restricted by kind of the local influence that a planner can have. And hopefully this can be a bit of tool to think about what can happen locally that maybe can have wider reverberations throughout cities and the world. Perfect, you mentioned a lot about the future, so let's look a bit into the future, but academically. So what should be the focus of future research? Other groups than young adults or students, but you're a geographer, so other special contexts, so what's ahead of us? Yeah, I think what I would really like to do, this is part of one of my challenges to think about what I would call a spatial political economy of everyday life. Political economy of everyday life is a discipline that really tries to connect what's happening in global political economies to everyday, mainly household experiences and practices. And I think I'm really interested in what that looks like or what type of geography there is to that. So how does space and place influence this relationship between the structural and the everyday? So ways in which I would like to expand that in the future is for example, making a comparison between different welfare states, for example, comparing like maybe traditional social democratic welfare states like the Netherlands with a more liberal welfare state like Ireland with a more Southern conservative welfare state in Southern Europe and maybe post socialist welfare states elsewhere to see how, for example, notions of culture or kind of remnants of how things used to be organized or are currently organized influence in what way global political developments touch down in the cities and the neighborhoods in which we live and thereby shape and inform the things we experience every day, the things we do every day and how that transforms in a changing world. Some important tips for future research. Sande, if we could shorten our more or less 10 minute conversation in one or two sentences what would it be? Let me think about that for a few seconds. Sure, it's not an easy one. No, and happy is not life, right? I think there is two lessons that I really want to stress that is we cannot understand everyday experiences and everyday practices without also understanding what's happening at the level of national politics and international economies. So in order to get a full grasp of what's happening in our cities, we need to understand both and even better, we need to connect both. And in my paper, I tried to make that argument using austerity as an example to see how kind of roll back, roll out neoliberalism neoliberalism processes at the national scale and the local scale interact with each other to create locally specific outcomes. Sande, thank you very much. Yeah, thank you very much. For those who are watching us on YouTube, you can find all the resources, all the materials of this conversation, including the article that served as base to our conversation on the, let's talk about urban planning episode. 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A program is stored in RAM and run by a CPU. The CPU is like a factory and RAM is like the storage building connected to it. The storage building has numbered containers all the same size and all in order starting at zero. The factory also has some containers each used for a special purpose. A bus can travel between the buildings and move the contents of any container into any other. Inside the factory there is a control room where the boss works and a machine room where all the work gets done. As the factory owner you tell the boss what to do. You load the storage building with instructions one after the other, some with raw materials nearby. The boss cycles through the same six step checklist for every instruction and uses the clock to stay on pace. The first item on the checklist says to make a note of the number that is in the next container and then to radio the bus driver to fetch that instruction from storage. The second item on the boss's checklist gives the bus driver time to fetch that instruction and the boss a chance to make a note of it. The third item on the checklist says to add one to the number that's inside the next container so the boss doesn't have to remember which container has the next instruction when this one is over. The fourth, fifth and sixth items on the checklist are determined by the instruction itself. In this case the fourth and fifth checklist items tell the boss to send the bus back out to the container that is next, container number one in this case, and move the raw materials inside into a container on the factory floor. The sixth item on the checklist in this case tells the boss to increment the number in the next container one more time since this instruction used an extra container. Now the first instruction is over and the boss starts the checklist again from the top. The boss makes a note of the number in the next container and then radios the bus driver to fetch that instruction from storage. The boss writes down that instruction and then adds one to the number in the next container. This instruction is like the first and it tells the boss to send the bus back out to the container that is next, container number three in this case, and grab the raw materials from it and move them into another container on the factory floor. The boss again updates the number in the next container adding one to it since this instruction used an extra container and then the cycle starts all over again. The third instruction sends the raw materials that are now on the factory floor to the machine room. To execute this instruction the bus moves the raw material in the first container to the temp container. It then grabs the other raw material and parks next to the machine room. The machinist grabs bits from each raw material and gives them to the compare machine in this case which tells him how their values compare. The machinist then raises a flag over in the control room telling the boss whether the materials have the same value or if one is greater than the other. The flag stays up even after the instruction is over. The instruction cycle starts over and the boss executes the next instruction which says to first check if a particular flag is raised. The boss sees that the flag is raised so the next part of the instruction applies. It says to put a new number in the next container. Normally the boss updates the next container and just adds one to it as necessary. In this case the instruction itself has an extra container with the number to put in that next container instead. The instruction ends and the cycle starts over again, except this time the boss will be executing an out of order instruction. That's how programming works. You write a long list of instructions that can handle any situation that may come up. You also frequently include some instructions to compare data values and then jump to the appropriate set of instructions depending upon what situation the CPU finds itself in. In this case all the data has been predetermined by the programmer, but normally a lot of that data comes from an external source like a user or a network. Find more at InOneLesson.com including a link to this free CPU model that you can program. Although it looks complicated it does exactly what we've just talked about. The RAM on the right is just like a storage building with containers inside. The CPU on the left is like a factory with a control room that fetches and executes instructions from storage and a machine room that processes the data. Look for more videos soon and feel free to leave a comment with your questions or thoughts on this video. Thanks for watching.


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Good morning everyone. Thanks for your attendance this morning at today's Veterans Day commemoration. It's the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month and we know that comes from the Armistice signed in World War I. I want to offer a special welcome to all of veterans here this morning. It's our day. I'd like to take, I'd like all of veterans in the audience to raise their hand. Now repeat after me. I know you're not going to fall for that again. Okay. But I'm sure every single person who raised their hands would do it again. Okay. I'd like to offer a most special welcome to my predecessor Michelle Caver. For the last three years she's kept this organization together and I can't state that enough. I'd like to also recognize Bob Colby. Okay. Former post commander and former state commander for the VFW. Hey boy. I'd also like to recognize the VFW auxiliary. We couldn't perform without them. They are an integral part of our organization and it's a pleasure to know every single one of them. Thank you men and ladies. Of course, I want to thank dignitaries for arriving here today. They will get a chance to address you personally. I also want to recognize our first responders, police, fire, and all the people working in the medical community right now trying to keep Vamontas alive and safe. God bless them all. Okay. I would like to introduce May Amaro Weinberger right now for his remarks. Mr. Mayor. No. Pardon me. We need to commence with the national anthem. My mistake. And we got Mary Boguswitz to sing our national anthem. Can you see us gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars. May Amaro. Good morning everyone. Thank you for that beautiful rendition of the national anthem. That included Larry Solt who just a couple years ago was part of the city team, a member of our parks recreation department on the trumpet there. Thank you Larry. Good morning. I want to thank each of you for joining us this morning and properly paying tribute to this important day and to the service members that are here with us. It is one of the great privileges of the mayor's office to be with you every year on the 11th day of the 11th month to reflect on the sacrifices and services of our veterans in Burlington and Vermont and across the nation. Our community has a proud legacy of military service and it is my honor to see the positive impact that of that service each and every day and in every part of our city in the presence of so many veterans in our community serving as coaches leaders and mentors who serve our community with the same courage honor and dedication that motivated their decisions to volunteer to defend their country. Among the community that I believe is extraordinary our military service members veterans and their families are exemplary. In them we see a model of courage dedication and selflessness. In them we can find inspiration to become part of something bigger than ourselves. This selfless spirit lit some of the hardest days of the last year and I do want to to reflect on them. Leading by example our VFW members open their doors for a warming station providing food, toiletries, clothing and most importantly community to some of the most vulnerable members of our community without another place to turn. Our National Guard members showed up time and again for their neighbors at at test sites, vaccination sites, hospitals and food deliveries. The tireless and tenacious work of our service members and veterans helped blunt some of the worst impacts of the pandemic and was one of the reasons Vermont pulled through this crisis so much better than so many other communities. In return for this exemplary and valuable service veterans deserve the full support of our community when they need it and one critical element of this support is making sure that all veterans have a home no matter what challenges they experience. A year ago after years of community work towards this goal we declared a functional end to veterans homelessness here in Chittenden County and we remain committed to this goal as our cows in crisis has intensified over the last year and no matter what the future holds. As we move forward together from a period of great uncertainty it is easier to have faith than what lies ahead knowing that at home or abroad in heater high water in moments of crisis and the eerie comms that follow there will always be Vermonters who answer their call to serve. Thank you to all our veterans. Thank you all for being here again. Thank you mayor. I'd like to introduce Senator Patrick Leahy who is currently the president pro-temporary of the senate chair of the appropriations committee and our senior senator from Vermont senator Patrick Leahy. Thank you. Commander thank you and I incidentally the commander like our myself as my son Mark served in the Marine Corps and it's two days three days since Marine Corps birthday so I wished him a happy birthday late and Commander happy birthday. Thank you senator. Semper fi. Semper fi. And if I'd forgotten to remind and send that to our same greetings for our son Mark I would have heard about it and it is so good to be here with you with the mayor my dear friend congressman Peter Welch no no senator could have a better partner in the house than I have with Peter Welch and we've known each other forever and I'm honored to be here with you today and this is the hundredth anniversary of the VFW post 782 let's have a round of applause for that you know that's pretty amazing and I think over the over the years I've been here myself and I've been here I think even when I was state's attorney a few times and I love being here because the VFW is a community bound together by the shared experiences of fighting a war far from home sometimes losing friends always coming home profoundly change and I've long admired the VFW's deep and abiding commitment to serve your fellow veterans in the wider community and your perseverance you are an example of what is the best and we saw it especially during this pandemic for many years we've worked together on toxic exposures the other ever expanding list of illnesses associated with it and your advocacy has made a difference for the veterans of Vietnam, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan and many other battlefields who have been devastated by mysterious illnesses and I'm proud of the progress we've made in this fight including expanding the list of diseases associated with toxic exposures some didn't want to admit that an authority should have known better and I'm glad that we had a number of members of congress both parties who fought with us to do that but I think that we need to do a lot more to ensure that soldiers exposed to toxic substances while serving receive the care that they need the care that they deserve the struggle to assure all veterans exposed to airborne hazards and open burn pits receive treatment that will continue but there's a lot more and we saw that right here in in Vermont and then the stigma over mental health that's slowly lifting we should do everything we can we should help to end this stigma but then we need to make sure that our soldiers and our veterans have the support and care they need you cannot accept in the most powerful nation on earth the suicide rates among our veterans homelessness and substance abuse every single one of us whether a veteran or not have a duty to help on that but you know I'll get money for this in congress but you're the people they can do it and here at the VFW you provide commander a community a place to belong and you've been doing this more recently veterans reach out to help another group those they met in Afghanistan veterans connected friends desperate to escape the Taliban and bring the family here I don't know how many phone calls around virtually around the clock my office and I were making over there as we're congressman Welch and others to try to make sure we got them back and look what happened we got 120,000 people to safety some of those families will be arriving in Vermont over the next several months well I'm the grandson of immigrants even though I was born in my prayer these Afghan families should be welcome please promise me you will welcome them when they come here I don't know how many times I've been here with you but I feel proud every single time thank you commander thank you very much senator I'd like to introduce congressman Peter Welch he's our congressman at lodge he's a member of so many caucuses that I can't even repeat them here um he has been focusing on environment and the climate we can't live without a healthy planet it's it's it's imperative that we get some of these issues resolved and he in congressman Welch is the former senator pro-temporal of the Vermont senate Peter thank you thank you very much thank you commander and senator lehi thank you for your your beautiful beautiful words and your extraordinary service all these decades for Vermont and mayor thank you so much this is a special occasion and I'm delighted that senator sanders our good partner in washington is being represented is being represented uh here today thank you you know uh it is moving that in the eleventh day the eleventh hour of the november remnant reminder of all that we've gone through as a country and how in Vermont literally from the revolutionary war to this to the civil war to iraq and afghanistan for monitors have stepped up and sacrificed on a per capita basis we lost more troops during the civil war than any other northern state and that tradition continued down through iraq and afghanistan and it really symbolizes just a commitment to service the commander in chief sends out the call and vermoners respond that has been an enduring part of our history and people like me who have not served have been the beneficiary of that willingness to serve that has been so much a hallmark of vermont and that's why i feel humble to be here today but i'm like the vast majority of americans who haven't served but who have received the benefit of those of you who have so i say on behalf of myself and i say on behalf of the vast majority of americans thank you from the bottom of my heart to veterans who have been willing to serve and inspire us to serve when they get home so thank you one and all you know but this is a special special veterans day it is the first time in 22 years of veterans day where we no longer have troops in afghanistan 22 years day in and day out our men and women in uniform and a lot of women were there in uniform served our country and here's what is inspiring to me the veterans in afghanistan have been the leaders in urging us in congress patrick me and bernie and the president to not leave those folks interpreters those afghanis who served our men and women in uniform to not leave them behind in a center lady said yes we got 120 000 out but many are still there and i continue to hear from veterans that we have to continue to make every possible effort we can to not leave them behind and how inspiring that is for us that commitment that men and women in uniform have to yes their country but to one another the person who was next to them out there in helman province that person who was next to them at baghru you don't leave people behind and that's why i think patrick what you said that we will welcome these afghans because we didn't leave them behind and we're going to welcome them here because they helped our men and women in uniform there so thank you patrick and you know the biggest responsibility all of us have especially those of us who serve in congress is to make certain that when the warrior comes home we take care of the warriors who are wounded and to just this week we lost another wonderful soldier westley black who was exposed to burn pits and who will be laid to rest tomorrow we must continue to make certain that those men and women in uniform exposed to burn pits get the benefit of health care without having to prove exactly when and where in house they were next to burn pits where all kinds of toxic stuff that's enough and they served our country so patrick i'm with you i'm doing everything we can on that and you know the mental health challenges when our soldiers get back you know when i again i haven't served so i say this with humility but listening to veterans who did they always talk about the people they were there with they never complain about what they had to do but when they come back they're alone we weren't there with them they don't have the solidarity that they had even in tough incredibly difficult times so yes we who benefited from service have to make sure that we do every single thing we can to help folks make that adjustment back here where they don't have that solidarity that they had in that unit that was cohesive and where they shared a goal to help one another to save one another to leave no one behind so yes the work continues and that's what veterans day reminds all of us who haven't served we have a duty to stand by those veterans who served us and patrick and bernie and i are committed to doing every single thing we can to make sure that the cost of the war has to include the cost of caring for the warrior thank you thank you congressman welch i'd like to introduce kathryn becker van hostage who is the state director for the office of senator bernie sanders thank you thank you all very much for having me here today on behalf of senator sanders who is up in san albins at a veterans day parade and ceremony there i'm particularly proud that vermont really does stand with veterans on veterans day and every day today across the state we have over 20 ceremonies honoring veterans we have staff across the state speaking on the senator's behalf at many of these and it's great that vermonters show up today to recognize our veterans and your service to our country equally i want to on behalf of senator sanders say thank you to the families we know that you serve right alongside your soldier your your airmen and your sailor and we are grateful for your service as well and your sacrifice i want to say congratulations to the vfw on celebrating 100 years vfws and service organizations play an absolutely critical part in providing community for veterans and their families for bringing a space a physical space where veterans can come together after your time in service is over share stories and communicate with one another in a really special way and i am really hopeful that through the senate appropriations process um and through some assistance with federal funding we can help our vfw here in burlington and our vso's throughout the state continue to do that really incredible work um i really quickly on behalf of senator sanders want to agree with both senator lehi and congressman welch for their comments around the benefits and the services that we owe to our veterans and i think it's important that when we talk about this we acknowledge that what we're talking about is the fulfillment of a contract veterans swore an oath in service of this country and in return this country said that they would be there for our veterans and for their families when they came home and so we as your representatives in congress have a responsibility a moral responsibility and truly a contractual responsibility to do exactly that as a former chairman and longtime member of the senate veterans affairs committee i know that senator sanders is dedicated to that he is dedicated to providing the health care services the compensation housing employment assistance to veterans but he also knows that this is a really truly good thing to do because our veterans are incredible members of our society if you want to hire a great employee hire a veteran as we travel around the country and in vermont and we look at our great va hospital and health care facilities one of the things that i'm always struck by and i know that senator sanders is incredibly proud of is the number of va employees who are veterans themselves they are wonderful employees they understand the experience of our veterans and they make the care provided they're all the better so thank you to all the veterans here today to your families and to all those who work every day as well as veterans day to make sure that our veterans are acknowledged and recognized in the way they truly deserve thank you okay now with the uh the help of larry salt we're going to pay a musical tribute to all the branches of the service hello everyone can you hear me in a few moments if i sound bad i'll back away from the mic now this is the part of the ceremony where the celebration comes in and so for those of you who are here early you have in your hands the blue sheet and it is a modified versions of the various songs that represent our armed forces our sixth branch hasn't quite collected themselves yet so they do not have a song so that's why they're not represented here so we're going to sing these songs in the way that we want to show our support to veterans veterans hopefully will sound off really loud and proud for the branch of service they represent and all of you hopefully will sound off loud and proud of the service that you say that you are grateful for so that it honestly represents our way of life the freedoms that we have are based on sacrifice often the case from those who served in the military and so this is one way that you can show your thanks and appreciation is to do something collectively and and ensure that it is memorable for all of us and maybe it'll inspire us to continue to work together in order to have a more perfect nation so with that said the best song is first first to fight for the right and to fill the nation's might and the army goes rolling along proud of all we have done fighting till the battle's done and the army goes rolling along then it's high oh bravo now we are going down just a little bit but i want you to still keep the energy high for the next branches of service it is tough to top the army song but let us let us in earnest give it a good go right in the spirit of camaraderie and being citizens of this great nation let's show our support for uh the coast guard who by the way uh the the name of their song is simper simper paratus it doesn't have a uh a origin story um in that there it's unknown who wrote it but simper paratus uh means always ready so the coast guard in honor of them let's show them that we are always ready to support them we're always ready for the coast our trust in the new surface storm and howling gale high shall our purpose be simper paratus is our guide our fame our glory to to fight to save or fight and die i coast guard we are for you wonderful i think senator lay he said he wanted to come up front to you heard me saying you would never invite me back my voice is so bad let's hear from larry solz and let me correct myself uh the coast guard actually does have an arthur to their song i didn't want to make too much fun of the uh of the coast guard because they get forgotten often and they do great things on a normal basis keeping our shores safe and secure but i will make make fun of the next branch of service the navy now they don't have a designated uh author of their song and um simper paratus may be um their uh their their motto always courageous um and so that so that's that's likely the candidate for for their motto anyway but the anchors away they're they're not quite sure who came up with that rendition and so without further ado because i think i've messed up some of the facts so all you fact checkers don't come find me because i i just realized i i i did not say that correctly however we'll drive on i should have had you up here brian our next branch of service their motto aim high we use the name fly fight when the air force everyone knows this but i think it bears telling one more time that the air force is so good because they started out under the army they're the u.s army air corps air corps right and that and they were in existence in the best way possible from july 2nd of 1926 to march 9th of 1942 so it's it's ingrained in them they're it's deeply rooted to do it the army way even though we call them air force their roots are in the army best branch of service all right so 1947 they went out on their own but keeping in mind that you never go too far from your roots from your beginnings off we go into the wild blue yonder climbing high into the sun here that comes zooming to me that fun give them your thumb down we die spouting our flame from and i forgot to ask coast guard we have any coasties in the house they're all down on the water they're all defending the shores of course of course okay the last and certainly least you know how many marines it takes to take down an army soldier there's not enough out here i'm feeling pretty good still gutsy so gutsy yes and i can't run quite as well kind of messed up here with my left foot uh semper fidelis always faithful is their model we all know it we all know how to say it except the marines don't they say semper fi they can't even remember the rest of their motto i think eating too many box of crayons have you heard that that they like to chew on crayons i'm not quite sure why lick windows lick windows yes that's a good one yes that's my army airborne paratrooper buddy in the vfw bob t bow i want to hear the windows rattle across the street on this next song yeah from the malls of mount tazuma to the shores of tripoli we fight our country's battles on the land as on the seasky avenue vfw post 782 come see me i'll be performing nice job michelle larry thank you okay we're gonna wind up things i i truly want to thank the mayor and his staff for tremendous continuous local support thank you mayor and i want to thank our congressional delegation for their timeless support of veterans issues by my count there's over a hundred pieces of legislation being worked on in congress right now and that's in both the house of representatives and the senate so they are working hard and they're sincere about making things right for the people who have served this country i'm very very grateful thank you gentlemen and ladies i'd like to close with a little reflection a reflection about veterans and this is a comprised of three words courage duty fortitude these are watch words that create the sacred bond between us and our veterans predecessors from the first colonial muster called in april 1636 in salem massachusetts to those service members on duty now are preparing to ets or demobilize that bond continues it continues so long as democracy freedom liberty equal justice under the law and our nation itself continue that concludes today's program all are invited to the post for an open house and a commemoration of our post centennial a hundred years of veterans camaraderie and support to the local community thank you and god bless you