God sent an angel to visit Mary and the angel said Mary you have nothing to fear for God has a surprise for you and His name Will be Jesus Well, hello radiant church We want to take a moment and welcome those of you who are joining us online this weekend and those of you over at Portage Come on everybody who's in the house. Can we put our hands together and welcome the rest of our family? The rest of our family spread out in Thousands of locations not only here but around the country multiple different states last weekend. I was in Kansas City, Missouri I was ministering in a church. That's part of our radiant network of churches and then visited some friends on the Kansas side And I was in a restaurant with a friend of mine Yes in Kansas restaurants are open and so we were there eating and somebody who walked in was part of the International House of Prayer or otherwise known as I hop and they walked in and they go are you Lee Cummings? And I said yeah, and they go. Oh, you're the pastor of the church where Caleb Culver is a worship leader I'm like, yeah, that's right. That's that's right. So We're impacting people all over and you're making a difference and so those of you who are joining us online We welcome you today. Turn with me in your Bibles if you have them And even at home I would encourage you to open your Bibles with me to Luke chapter one in Luke chapter one We're gonna begin this weekend this Emphasis on the message of Christmas and I've entitled the next few messages leading up towards Christmas Mary's miracle We're gonna be looking at the story of the incarnation the coming of Jesus through the lens of the mother of Jesus a young woman whose name is Mary and the title of this first message is the problem with favor The problem with favor look with me here at Luke chapter one We're gonna begin in verse number 26 And it says in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth To a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph of the house of David and the virgin's name was Mary And he came to her and said greetings. Oh Favored one the Lord is with you But she was greatly troubled at the saying and trying to discern What sort of greeting this might be and the angel said to her do not be afraid Mary for you have found Favor with God and behold you will conceive in your womb and bear a son and you shall call his name Jesus he will be great and will be called the son of the most high and The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David And he will reign over the house of Jacob forever and of his kingdom. There will be no end Verse 34 Mary said to the angel. How will this be? Since I am a virgin and the angel said to her the holy spirit will come upon you and the power of the most I will overshadow you Therefore the child to be born will be called holy the son of God and behold your Relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son And this is the sixth month with her who was called Baron for nothing will be Impossible with God and Mary said behold I am the servant of the Lord Let it be to me according to your word and the angel departed from her This is the beginning of what we know and what we're celebrating in this season as the Christmas miracle another way of describing it throughout the years of Church history is advent Advent is a word that means the coming or the appearing and this is the time of year where we reflect and We focus on the coming of the Messiah the coming of Jesus Not just the birth of a child lots of children are born and lots of different places and on every continent and every city There's there's an ongoing birth rate But what we're focusing on is not the birth rate or the birth of just any child we're looking at the miracle of God Becoming a Man God himself Stepping out of eternity into this thing that he created called history in Order through his life and ultimately his death is burial in his resurrection to bring about salvation for eternity for those who all of their lives and for the very millennia of existence since the fall in the garden have been slaves to sin and destined for death and separation and This is the beginning of that story it starts with a young woman named Mary I Mean we think about Mary because if you've grown up in church and depending on your Denominational background Mary holds varying different degrees of honor and veneration The one thing that we can all agree on is that this was an incredible woman of faith This was a woman who was at a point in her life a young woman who's at a point in her life Where the Bible describes her right here and what we just read as she was betrothed That's not a word that we commonly use in our English language because kind of how things go in our culture is You know people date figure out if they like one another and then you know Somebody pops the question and asks will you marry me that by the way just happened in our family our youngest daughter Tiffany Just got engaged about a week ago We Jane and I knew for weeks what was coming and Ashley her older sister knew what was coming and we had to lie through our teeth to keep it a secret Because she's an investigative mind She's she has the gift of suspicion and so we had to ask for a special Dispensation from God so that we get lie to her about events that were about to take place because we knew that her fiance had a whole process all lined up to Propose to her and so he proposed to her you know he got down on one knee asked her will you marry me and then from that point You go on through a period of time called Engagement up until the big day of marriage that's kind of how it goes But it was different in there in the times of Jesus in the time that Mary Finds herself betrothed that word betrothed means at whatever point families Decide that their daughter is going to marry somebody else and oftentimes it was arranged marriages They would go through a process of vetting the family would and then there would be a betrothal and the betrothal Basically was a legal marriage has begun When you got betrothed Betrothed it was more than engagement you and the eyes of the community were married You just had not consummated the marriage yet There was a preparation time in which the husband would prepare the home He'd prepare the the finances the dowry would be exchanged Contracts would be there would be due diligence that took place And then there would come a time where the groom would come and take the bride To himself into their home, and then there would be the consummation of the marriage They would not know one another in a biblical sense until They were living under the same roof even though legally they were married And if you wanted to break the engagement, it wasn't just giving your ring back. It was actually a legal divorce So this is serious stuff Mary finds herself Betrothed more than engaged not quite fully married yet And I want you to think about this that this young lady is focusing and thinking about her whole future She's thinking about their house. She's registering at bed, bath and beyond Mean she's thinking about hey, we're gonna have a family Probably and most and most likelihood Joseph is significantly older than she is. She's probably Just from what we know the customs of the first century She's probably in her mid teens and Joseph is probably late 20s early 30s and She's dreaming about being married to her husband She's dreaming about the ceremony when He will one day come and he will take his bride and the community will come out and celebrate their union And I mean there it was a celebration that went on for sometimes multiple days She's dreaming about the dream in about her home dreaming about her future All of those things that a young lady who's about to get married dreams of and then Angel of the Lord shows up Gabriel Gabriel is no insignificant angel. He's a messenger from the very presence of God the last time We've heard of Gabriel in scriptures in the book of Daniel When Daniel is an exile and he's praying and he's fasting and he's asking God to get clarity About the purposes that and the promises that he has for Israel to bring them out of Babylon bring them back into the land Gabriel's the one that shows up and Downloads God's eternal purposes his purposes and his timeline for bringing them back out of exile for fulfilling the promises to Deliver the Messiah to the nation of Israel to save them from their sins to tie up all the loose ends and to Establish his eternal kingdom on the earth. I mean Gabriel is an emissary from the presence of God And he's not showing up to Daniel the prophet. He's showing up to Mary This young Developing betrothed Insignificant in the world's eyes But not at all insignificant in heaven's eyes and he says to her think about this I love this salutation. He says greetings. Oh favored one The Lord is with you Greetings, oh favored one that word favor is a big part of the story Surrounding Mary believing God About the birth of Jesus You find it a couple verses down later. It says you have found Favor with God verse number 30 you have found favor with God. You see in our modern American vernacular, especially in our American Christian Way of thinking the word favor has oftentimes been used and hijacked for all the wrong reasons I did a little Google search and on Amazon or Google search and then Amazon and look up all the Christian books that have been written on favor the idea of favor and We've got all these little same by the way There's hundreds of books the force of favor the fuel of favor favor ain't fair, but it sure feels good I mean there's all kinds of books sermons periodicals cliches that as Christians we talk about favor But I don't think that we fully understood the problem of favor Because when we think about favor we think about God coming and giving us it's kind of like we found the golden ticket And now God's gonna do for us whatever we want. I got favor with God and so I want to use it for myself I want to use it for my desires. I want to use it for my dreams It's a force that I can somehow bend the will of God to do for me what he won't do for somebody else but there's a problem with favor and The problem with favor is that we've completely misunderstood it The problem with favor is not God The problem with favor is us because we've seen it as a tool or a mechanism in order to get something to get favored quote favored status and we haven't understood that favor is always connected to God's purposes Look at Mary's life here And what we realize is when the angel comes and announces to her you found favor in the sight of God now He begins to Describe and download the implications of favor because if I were to ask you wherever you're at even at home Wherever you're at right now. What do you want to walk in the favor of God? How many of you would raise your hand and say yeah? I want the favor of God on my life raise your hand if you would like the favor of God on your life Okay, let me describe to you what favor does Before you raise your hand Because favor is good, but it may be different than what you think So let me let me share with you some thoughts about favor number one the word favor Comes from the same root word that we get grace and blessing Carouss it it's the same root word And when we talk about grace grace often times is connected with salvation So what is grace grace? I define grace this way grace is God's saving Response to a sinner's faith-filled inability Well describe that for me it's God's response God responding to sinners Who are unable to help themselves but exercise faith in what Jesus has done on the cross that's faith We don't have the ability to save ourselves God's response to that kind of faith is salvation. That's grace We are saved by grace through faith. That's that's right out of Ephesians chapter 2 That's grace, but what is favor here's what favor is favor being very similar Instead of it dealing with the sinner it deals with the saint favor is God's response to the saints faith-filled availability Not our inability, but our availability When we look at Mary, why does the angel pick this young lady? Why does he find her address in the middle of a small town in the Middle East in a nowhere country a Teenager who's about to get married That you don't hear any fanfare about Rome's not talking about it Alexandria, Egypt's not talking about it Scripture hasn't even listed her. She's just in the world's perspective. She's just a Insignificant nobody, but yet heaven has zeroed in on her Why has heaven? Why has God's eye and God's power and his favor Which is his supernatural goodness and kindness Bias towards an individual. Why is it found Mary? It's because he saw something in her He saw purity He saw holiness He saw availability a Heart that had been fully turned towards God not for what he she could get from God But a heart that was totally devoted to the Lord to his word How do we know that I mean next week? I'll talk a little bit more about this But when you read about what's called the Magnificat, which is her song and her prayer It's mostly scripture from Hannah out of the Old Testament. What does that tell us? It means in the moment of her greatest confrontation with the goodness and the impossibility of God's calling on her life Scripture and songs and songs that she had at all of her life memorized is what comes out of her heart What does that mean? I mean she's a young lady that even though the world didn't see her heaven saw her because God always releases favor upon the available Upon those who are divinely available It's interesting that in Second Timothy chapter 2 Paul talks about being vessels of honor That all of us in a great house there are both common vessels and there are Special vessels and he says this he says in second Timothy chapter 2 He says therefore if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable or what is common He will become a vessel for honorable use. Here's the keyword set apart as Holy useful to the master ready for every good work See often times here's the reality Salvation is free You don't have to pay for it. You don't have to earn it Jesus already paid it all all to him. Oh sin had left a crimson stain He washed it white as snow. How many are grateful for the free gift of salvation that Jesus offers you You grateful for that great. Let me tell you something Salvation is free destiny will cost you everything What do I mean by destiny? I mean exactly what Paul writes in second Timothy chapter 2 Becoming a vessel of honor that becomes useful in the master's hands Requires a decision of preparing ourselves and making ourselves available We don't know all the backstory, but what we do know is that's how God operates That's what favor is attracted to and that's who Mary was Mary's whole story wouldn't make sense Until the day that she sees Jesus resurrected from the dead She pondered many of these things in her heart and in her mind throughout the 30 plus years that she Mothered this Messiah this God become man. I mean imagine parenting God I mean, it's kind of nice because he never loses his temper and steals from his siblings, but he knows way more than you do And when you say Because I said so God turned around and says but actually because I said so But there are things in raising Jesus the Bible says that not only did Mary find favor think about this Even Jesus that says grew in favor wisdom and stature with God and man So she watched this whole development But she became one that the favor of God was upon And what we learn about favor let me from just this story that we just read Let me share with you three things that we that we see about favor here That's that's important for us to understand so we don't run into the problem of favor on our life Misunderstanding what favor really is and how it works number one is I'm just going to use this this phrase three different times favored are you dot dot dot here we go favored are you When God graciously interrupts your plans and invites you into his Favorite are you That's what happened with Mary Mary has her plans Mary has her However many months it's going to be before Joseph comes and takes her and they begin to build a family She's got her dreams of her family extended family all gathering together of festivities She's got plans of getting pregnant of decorating the nursery She's got plans of how many kids they're going to have down the road All of that in a moment gets interrupted When the angel of the Lord shows up and announces favor See we think sometimes that if I could just get God's favor I could get heaven's power to become the wind and the sails of my desires If I could just get God to breathe on what my plans for my future are that would be favor But actually the opposite happens favor is actually the interjection of God's goodness and kindness Into your life in such a way that it interrupts The earthly plans and strategies and goals that you've made and God steps in and says I want to use you For my plans and because you're favored. I'm going to let you in on what I'm not letting anybody else in I'm going to let you in on my purposes and my plans, but it's going to cost you Here's what it cost Mary Dignity because all of her life There would be people that would look at her and think Yeah, we know all about her story an angel showed up And she just miraculously had this child How do we know that because even in the the stories of Jesus we find out that when he comes back to his own hometown, there are some people who basically question whether he was legitimate or not Mary had to live with the stigma of that She had to trust God with Joseph Because how many know that that conversation had to be interesting Joseph I'm pregnant How because I know I wasn't there Well the angel of the Lord all oh here we go angel of the Lord I mean she had to tell the whole story and what we know is that it took another angelic visitation To convince joseph not to divorce her Now joseph was a good man But i'm telling you that I don't know too many guys who if their girlfriend came Pregnant to them and told them a story about an angel and about the holy spirit and about eternity and about the Messiah and changing the world and the whole thing and that's why i'm i don't know a whole lot of people who are going Oh, yeah, that makes perfect sense totally understand it now She had to she had to trust God's interruption How many have ever had your plans interrupted by god's plans? It's in those moments that we don't typically think this is god's favor But it actually is It's actually gracious of god To not just let our plans run their course our plans produce our results But when god Interrupts and intersects his purposes and plans even though we don't know the whole story She did not know the whole story even though there was a great cost of sacrifice of things that she had to put on the altar What if joseph doesn't marry me? What if my family disowns me? I could be stoned for adultery As I grow more pronounced and more pregnant They could literally legally take her out in the streets and stone her She had to count all of that cost As now the angel the lord is showing up in her life and telling her that you have found favor in the sight of god Favored are you when god graciously interrupts your plans and invites you into his Number two favored are you When you have to wrestle with what god is speaking to you in order to find clarity I have found that clarity Concerning the purposes and the plans of god for our lives Don't often come immediately I've had people say you know, I just want god to tell me what my purpose and my plan is for my life And what we expect god to do is roll out the blueprints on the table And say here's you at five and here's you at 95 You're going to live 95 years in four months and you're going to meet this person. You're going to marry them You're going to have 2.5 kids I don't know where the other 0.5 went but you get 2.5 kids And you're going to you know make this impact and Your hair is going to go gray at this age and this is the career that I want you to go into and this is the degree That I want you to have and You're going to change the world and boom boom boom and we want it all rolled out at once. That's not typically how it happens Typically what happens is god gives us a direction God positions us by interruption And then we have to wrestle with what he's spoken to us to get clarity This is what mary has to do. It says after the announcement. It says she was greatly troubled and saying At the saying and trying to discern that word to discern literally means to wrestle She's wrestling with what sort of greeting this is.  Are you happy with me? It's like How many know text messaging doesn't have emotion connected to it? Anybody figure that out yet? So jane and I we text like everybody texts It's taken me a while to figure out that fine doesn't mean fine Anybody know what i'm talking about So i'll ask her hey, do you mind if i go you know with so and so i'll be a couple hours late She used to say fine And i'd be like oh, we're good And then i'd show up and then i began to realize no Fine doesn't mean fine. That would have been okay with a smiley face and nexclamation point Fine means you'll get away with it She's gonna pay for it And the same with the greeting when you meet somebody and they see you Sometimes you have to look at the body language. You have to study. It's more than just the words Somebody says hey good to see you and then you're looking at them and you're doing the math going Is it really good to see me? Are you happy to see me or is that just when you ask somebody how are you doing? Do you really want to know how they're doing or are you just kind of saying hey, how you doing? So that can get by you Mary is wrestling with what does this mean? What does it mean That an angel is greeting me and telling me that i'm favored and then what what do i have what does this mean? That the angel says to her don't be afraid Don't be afraid. What do i need to be afraid of it says you have found favor with god and then he begins to break it down You're going to conceive in your womb A child the holy spirit is going to come upon you overshadow you this is language of new creation Because in the very beginning of the bible in genesis chapter one when god said words let there be light The light was it says in the spirit of god was hovering over the face of the darkness And when god was speaking separation of land From sea And darkness from light The holy spirit Was over the face of the deep activating and bringing to pass what god was speaking That word Abiding over the face of the deep is a picture.  He had it in his heart even before it became a reality Who initiated it and brought it to pass was the holy spirit in the same way as he spoke to mary about the holy spirit Overshadowing her he was overshadowing the darkness and the emptiness of her womb And he was about to impregnate her with the literal eternal word of god And even though she didn't understand how these things were going to happen It was the word of god spoken over her that she received that actually began to develop in the darkest places of her soul And in her womb the word began to take on flesh And she didn't have to understand how it was going to happen It would come to fruition the same way creation would come into fruition all she had to trust is even before I see it I know that he has a design for it I just have to trust him but in the process mary was wrestling with what do these words mean When's the last time god spoke something to you and you had to wrestle it to the ground It's like what does this mean god is this good or is this bad Lord, what are you doing? What are you saying? I don't understand. I'm trying to discern. Why are you why are you telling me to go in this direction? you know in 2009 Years ago god had spoken to me about us having Another campus on the other side of town and so many some of you may remember this in 2009 We rented a school on the other side of town We started having church on Sundays there. We recorded Pastor John was the campus pastor over there. We had about 150 200 people that were over there And we did it based on a word from god. We were trying to figure it all out After about nine months we figured out This isn't working the way that we wanted it to work.  That's just my plan I want to lead in conjunction with the holy spirit and I felt like I had a word from god But when it didn't pan out the way That I thought it was going to I had to wrestle with that god What did you mean when you told us to go to the other side? What did what is that? What is with that word? I don't understand the timing of it. It doesn't make sense And it wasn't until a few years later many of you maybe have never heard the story but in 2016 in september I was doing a vision weekend where I was casting vision for where we were going in the next year And I had said over from 2010 all the way up to there every year I talked about we're gonna plant a radiant campus on the other side of Kalamazoo But we looked at buildings we we had tried it it didn't work We pulled back we kept praying kept leaning into it and every year I would cast that vision This september in 2016 I was writing out my notes and I had it on I had a kind of light item there We're going to the other side And I actually Deleted it out of my notes Here's why I did it. I'm sick and tired of saying this is gonna happen And it's not happening. We tried it and it didn't work And I've wrestled with this and I don't want to throw it out there and have another year go by that doesn't happen And I specifically heard the voice of the Holy Spirit saying trust me Talk about going to the other side. I put it back in my notes Not unbeknownst to me when I preached that and I got to that point on the other side of town Was a group of elders in a struggling church That were in a leadership crisis watching that message And when they heard me say that they all collectively and several of them are now part of radiant They thought to themselves we have a building with no leader They have leadership and vision with no building and they reached out to us It was the next couple of months. It became an adoption of a struggling church the renovation of a campus It's now our portage campus on our opening Sunday in April of 2017 we had 2,300 people show up in that campus And god's word came to pass Thank you. That was a golf clap All the I know all the listen. I know all the portage people are clapping right now Thank you by faith But for years I wrestled with that word. What does this mean? Favor upon your life doesn't mean that you have all the answers It actually means you're going to have more to wrestle with More to believe for more to figure out because to whom much is given Much is required. Let me give you number three Favored are you when your faith in who is with you is greater than what you are missing favored are you When your faith when your trust in who is with you Is greater What you are missing What was she missing? How can these things be? I hear what you're saying to me god, but how can they come to pass? I'm a virgin I've not been with a man I've been through sex edge class And I know that That's a requirement In order for there to be conception I don't understand how this is Going to happen It's an impossibility. What does the angel say though the angel says Things with god that seem impossible to man All things are possible with god nothing shall be impossible with god Because it's the presence of god factor When you go all the way back to the beginning of the conversation between Gabriel And mary notice what he says about favor. He says oh favored one. What's the second part? The lord is with you See the x factor In all of our lives Is not what we think is possible It's not what we know we can accomplish in and of our own strength It boils down to Do we have faith and do we have trust in the one who said that I am with you and I will never leave you And I will never forsake you when the presence of god and the favor of god is with you In possibilities Become probabilities Even when we don't understand the whole story Mary had no idea about the whole story.  You don't know the whole story You don't know your whole story I don't know your story, but I know this heber's chapter 12 says Keeping our eyes or fixing our eyes on jesus the author And the finisher of our faith jesus His presence in our life Is the anchor of our soul and the anchor of our hope. I don't need to know I don't if I put my fixation on the things I don't have how can this be? I'm I'm a virgin. How can this be? I don't know anybody. How can this be? It's an impossibility scientifically How can this be? There's no jobs in my market. How can this be? My husband told me it's over and he doesn't love me anymore. How can this be? I've tried five six seven times and nothing's happened And now I feel the nudge from the lord to trust him and to believe him again Favored are you when favor shows up faith in who is with you? In the face of impossibilities Is greater than your focus on the things that you don't have Then what you're missing then what you're lacking If jesus is the author and the finisher of our faith Here's what I know about the story. He's writing over our lives.  Hey, guess what when what are you gonna do when you grow up?  She could have never figured out that story And let me tell you something you can't figure out yours All you can do Is respond like mary did and here's the last thing i'll leave with you Her response and all of this let it be done To me According to your work You know what she was saying Here's my life Write whatever story you want to with the ink of your favor Upon the parchment Of my availability I trust you jesus As the beginning and the end the first and the last the author and the finisher I want to invite you to stand with me today wherever you're at I believe with all of my heart The god has declared favor over our lives If we mistake favor As a commodity that we can use for our own desires We might get some instant gratification, but we will miss The eternal purposes of god for our lives right now if you think to yourself god could never use me I mean mary that's mary god could never use me With man some things are impossible with god all things are possible What if our response to the lord to his favor on our lives was God i may not know everything i i've got things that are missing i know that there's impossibilities But i give you my yes i want to be set apart as a vessel of honor and i'm saying let it be to me According to your word your purpose in my life Your purpose no reserve No retreat And no regret I give you it all Would you buy your heads with me or jesus today?  And on the horizons there's more questions than there are answers What does 2021 look like? What does next week look like?  All over the room while your heads are bowed and your eyes are closed No, we're all in different stories different chapters of our story right now But there's a great need for us to trust the goodness and the kindness Of god his favor upon our lives And to wrestle with the words that have been spoken over our lives to wrestle with those things that we don't Understand and to take our focus off of what we don't have and to put our focus on the one who is with us And if the response of your heart today Is that of mary's lord? Thank you for your favor I don't understand But i'm available be it to me according to your word That's the response of your heart no matter who you are where you are What your story is just want you to raise both of your hands as a sign of surrender And literally like mary said I want you to just speak it out loud I want you to say it to the one who is with you and just say be it to me According to your word According to your purpose. Oh god Let your favor rest upon me Lord now let it come Let faith rise in our hearts and let a miracle of a heart changed and a life surrendered Manifest itself in us today In jesus name


President Park, President of the Republic of Korea, distinguished heads of state, heads of governments, friends, it is a special privilege and pleasure to start our first plenary session with two extraordinary women presidents. And I think particularly your presence, Madam President, fits so well into the seam of our annual meeting in Davos, reshaping the world.  I also have to pay tribute for your outstanding focus, discipline, values. I could go on and on.  And we welcome you very cordially to the Davos community.  Thank you, Professor Shubab for that kind introduction. Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, my warm greetings to all of you. This is an opportune occasion to speak about entrepreneurship and the creative economy. For in our post-crisis era, the global economy is charting a new course. And many of the global leaders in this audience stand at the forefront of that journey. Thanks to strong national responses coupled with close international coordination, the global economy is gradually escaping from the crisis. Yet, continuous steel experience, slow growth, high unemployment is weighing economies down. Income inequality continues to linger. Making growth sustainable is another task all of us face. As our planet eventually becomes home to 9 billion people, the need to deal with climate change and resources depletion has never been more compelling. The global financial crisis has brought these issues to the fore. But in fact, there are problems that have been with us well before the crisis. And they lay bare the limitations of our existing paradigm. We must make growth sustainable. We must make growth inclusive. But piecemeal fixes will not do. Macroeconomic policies or labor policies under existing paradigm alone will not do. What we need is nothing short of a paradigm shift. What we now need and need urgently is an engine that takes us beyond these constraints. One that transforms the existing order and helps reshape the world. Korea is seeking that engine in the creative economy. Ladies and gentlemen, today, the brilliant idea, creative thought, or new technology of a single individual can help move the world and get nations going. Since the Industrial Revolution, the wealth and happiness of nations of individuals were marked by a material divide. Recently, this has given way to a digital divide. The future will be defined by a creative divide. Whereas existing economies have focused on extracting mineral resources from the ground, creative economies seek to tap into the creativity of the human mind. We in Korea believe that the only way to solving our problems is to creatively innovate our way out. Hence, our pursuit of a creative economy vision as the new paradigm for driving our economy forward. A creative economy harnesses the creative ideas of individuals and marries them with science and technology, with IT. It promotes the convergence of different industries and the confluence of industry and culture. And along the way, it creates new markets and new jobs. Together with creativity, what is key to successfully realizing this vision is entrepreneurship. Creativity begets innovative ideas. Entrepreneurship puts innovation into action. Entrepreneurship is what translates and individuals' innovative ideas and creative potential into the courage to start a new business. We have a saying in Korea. Beads are not. Consider the jewelry unless they are woven together. Entrepreneurship is what weaves together the beats of creative ideas into new markets and into new jobs. Companies must rise to the challenge of a new era. In doing so, they shouldn't be afraid of failure. Entrepreneurial spirit in the 21st century must be indefatigable. To support the thriving of entrepreneurship barriers that stand in its way must be removed. We also need to build a financial system that supports entrepreneurship and spreads risk. A system that helps those that fail get back up. Another key task is to build a creative economy ecosystem which spurs endless research and constantly churns out new ideas and value. The government needs to support this. In most cases, it's difficult to do diligence on ideas. And building ideas from the drawing board to the marketplace involves a high degree of uncertainty. This makes it difficult for early-stage startups to raise funds, to ease this process. We must make transform how startups and venture companies finance capital away from loans and towards investment capital, including through angel investors. Financing assistance should also be tailored to be a company's evolution. Policies should include tax breaks and other steps aimed at encouraging M&As of venture companies. Where businesses fail despite honest hard work, their credit worthiness should be restored promptly so they could try again. We need a climate where entrepreneurs can learn from their failure, bounce back, and achieve success. Korea is focusing on building an ecosystem where entrepreneurship can flourish. We will use this as a platform for flashing out our vision of a creative economy. Last October, we opened a Creative Economy website. This online platform helps people with great ideas who have done creative research and have the technology, but who have quit halfway through because of difficulties in making them marketable. In the span of a few months, some 4,000 creative ideas have already been put forward. Success stories are beginning to appear as patents are filed, prototypes are produced, and funds are raised to start businesses. Here is the story of one young man. He developed an application that directly translates any word on a mobile screen and offers the user learning opportunities through a vocabulary book. After submitting the idea to the K-Startup program, he was able, with the help of mentors, to launch a cloud-based language learning application. It now supports 12 languages. In just four months, this application was downloaded 400,000 times. Today, it is growing into a venture business. Creative ideas such as these will help inject fresh vitality to creating jobs and growing the economy. They will underpin our nation's competitiveness. Starting this year, we will move offline and establish creative economy centers across Korea. Once the system is fully up and running, anyone with a great idea will be able to get mentoring from experts and start a business. Companies will not only be linked up with talented people, their competitive edge would also be enhanced through innovative ideas. To reinforce these efforts, we will set up a creative economy joint task force. This will include venture companies, SMEs, large companies, as well as the government. The private sector will be in the driver's seat and lead the creative economy. Furthermore, to facilitate startups and entrepreneurial risk-taking, we are moving to a negative list approach to regulation. We are drastically cutting red tape that stands in the way of convergence and in the way of new industries. We will cap the total volume of regulations. Regulations will be relaxed across the board, except for those that are absolutely necessary. A ministerial meeting that I, as president, will be chairing will oversee these efforts. Answers to tackling energy and environmental challenges will also be thought through the creative economy. We will develop policies to build environment-friendly energy towns as creative business models. We will try new ways to site incineration plants and landfills which local communities tend to reject. Those communities will receive real benefits in the form of clean technology, technology-based energy, energy that will come from biomass co-generation plants or energy storage systems. We will also make government information more open and accessible for the general public. This government 3.0 initiative can also serve as the connective tissue for a wide range of new businesses. For example, the Korean government made available its 3D maps, land registration maps, and other information on the nation's land space. One startup made use of that data and developed a service application that estimates the power capacity and profitability of locating solar equipment in various areas on the map. Such data and ways to use our nation's land space will be made publicly available so that anyone could easily use them and develop many different services. As a result, we expect to see some 12,000 decent jobs created by 2017. Ladies and gentlemen, wouldn't it be nice to join Korea's journey towards a creative economy? Ladies and gentlemen, I believe the creative economy needs to play an important role in the reshaping of our world, the theme of this year's forum. For it can offer new opportunities for dealing with diverse challenges that can arise during that transformation. Existing factors of production or the prerogatives of select classes or groups. In contrast, the power to imagine and think of ideas is universal to everyone. It is not conditioned by nationality, ethnicity, wealth, or education. Unlike resources, creativity is non-depletable, nor does it degrade the environment. It, therefore, unlocks opportunities for sustainable growth. Creativity is inherent to all people, regardless of age, class, race, or nationality. It, therefore, holds promise for inclusive growth. The promotion of creativity will serve as the wellspring for overcoming unbalanced growth among nations and among different classes. Every member of humanity has the potential to become key players in the success story of a creative economy. It is why I believe the creative economy can offer a path to resolving the triple pressures of slow growth, high unemployment, and income disparities. Through start-ups, as well as the innovation of existing businesses, a creative economy can generate new engines of growth and can grow jobs. There will also be less income inequality, since anyone with a great idea can leave out one's dreams by starting a business. Where there is concern and care for others, there we can see fresh ideas blossom. It is when the desire to improve the human condition to heal humanity's pain meets science and technology, the solutions are produced, the suffering is eased, that the well-being of humanity is served. Realizing the benefits and goals of a creative economy requires concerted global efforts. Climate change and environmental challenges are global in nature. As such, the world must act as one in tackling them. Solutions to these problems could be found through the imagination and entrepreneurial drive empowered by a creative economy. I also hope to see nations that are custodians of the world's cultural heritage amplify creative value through cultural sharing and heart-to-heart exchange through the creative economy. Culture has the power to connect, to connect people of different languages and different backgrounds. The world is coming closer together as economic, social, cultural, and other barriers are ebbing away. We see this happening with our own eyes. We see how the culture of one nation is no longer confined to that country alone. It is increasingly being shared and enjoyed beyond borders. We use the expression Korean Wave to describe the widespread enthusiasm for Korean culture. Today, that wave is spreading rapidly across the globe. When Korean music recently paired up with YouTube, it became a global sensation. K-pop, Korean dramas, and films are being greeted here and there and creating new added value. When the cultural values of each country are brought together with IT technology, the possibilities for generating greater added value become truly limitless. Indeed, this is another key attraction of the creative economy. The companies that are welcomed around the world are those that have successfully combined various cultural content with new technology. May this audience have to throw up ideas that enable culture to serve as a vehicle, one that brings love and joy around the world. Ladies and gentlemen, since the global economic crisis, the Washington consensus has not been regarded as sacred as it once was. The world beckons for something more, something that better meets the calling of our time. But a new consensus has yet to emerge. May this world economic forum lead to what we could call the Davos consensus, the belief in entrepreneurship as the driving force of sustainable, inclusive growth. Indeed, a gathering of global leaders such as this should aim to usher in a new era. I believe you can do so by coming up with practical guidelines toward an economic, social, political, and cultural climate that forces entrepreneurship. I hope that Korea's quest for a creative economy can also offer others a practical entrepreneurship, driven strategy for shaping a new future. Our world currently faces countless challenges. But to me, they seem no more than minor bumps on our path to a better world. The fatigable spirit of entrepreneurship can lift economies up and lift countries up. It is now up to us to rise to the challenge and not be afraid to fail. Let us set our sights on making a better world.  Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your kind attention. And, President, what you really presented to us is a roadmap which is valid for every country to enter the midst and the end of the 21st century. And I was particularly proud to listen to you because the motto of the World Economic Forum since many years is entrepreneurship in the global public interest. Because we believe entrepreneurship as you have laid out drives social progress and economic development. But it always has to be subject to the global public good. Now, I am assuming that everybody listening to you, Madam President, wants now to invest in Korea. And so I have to ask you a question which probably is in our mind. Because it's somewhere in North Korea's nuclear weapon issues stands, I would say, nearly as a stumbling block for full-fledged investment into the region and into your country. And so for in terms of economic perspectives, some people would say, let's wait until we have the reunification between North or South Korea. And some others would argue your future may be very loaded by the costs of the reunification. So I think, Madam President, we would be all interested to hear your ideas about this issue. In the Indo-Pacific region, North Korean residents are suffering from hunger and human rights violations. So reunification is a way to solve the suffering of the North Korean residents. Another economic aspect is economic area. Unification will give benefit not only to Korean peninsulas of Korea, but also surrounding countries.  Recently, I mentioned that unification will be a great breakthrough. That was the expression that I used. When two Koreas are reunified, then there will be a dramatic SOC-centered investment being made in North Korea. In addition to that, not only into North Korea, but also countries around North Korea, like China or other countries, they will attract more investment. And also, if you go to the north eastern part of Russia, another boom of the investment will be invigorated, which means that a great growth can happen around North Korea and Northeast Asia, which means that it will provide a new engine of growth. In light of that, I believe that unification will give a great chance and breakthrough not only to South Korea and North Korea, but also to the countries around to Koreas in the Northeast Asian regions. Now regarding the future, forecasting the future, the best way to do that is we have to shape the future. There's a saying, the future can be made by the one who will actually make it, which means that instead of just sit and wait until the unification happens or arrives, we need to strive. We need to mobilize security measures, strengthen the security, and also we need to make best efforts to foster an environment where unification can be realized. And that is our efforts. Thank you. Thank you very much, Madam President. Unfortunately, we have come to the end of this first part. And I think we all, Madam President, we wish you the best in the implementation of your farsighted policies. Ladies and gentlemen, please thank Madam President for her excellent remarks and having outlined such a great vision for her country and for the world. Please, please, seat it. We will start again this session in a moment. There are many special personalities here in the audience. But I would like, before I start this session, to recognize the presence of our speaker and in the opening sessions this afternoon of Prime Minister Abe among us this morning. President Johnson-Siliff, President of the Republic of Liberia, it is now my great pleasure to introduce you to the Davos audience. And actually, you don't need an introduction. Everybody knows you. I just may add you are also a noble piece laureate. And when you came in the 2000 election, the president, the 24th president of the Republic of Liberia, you were not only the first female president of your country, but the first female president and elected head of state in Africa. Throughout your career, you have demonstrated a passionate commitment to hard work, integrity, and I underline particularly good governance, advocating for the rights of women and the importance I underline of education to provide a better future for your country and its people. You have also received and revived, you have revived the national hope by strengthening institutions and good governance. Madam President, we are very eager to listen to you. Thank you so much, Professor Schruher. Distinguished Excellencies, heads of states and government ministers, co-chairs of the 2014 World Economic Forum, leaders of business, academia, media, distinguished ladies and gentlemen. Professor Scharbaum, glad to be back in Davos, having missed several years because of the cold. It's an honor to be a part of this forum, an organization, and an event whose commitment is to improve the state of the world and whose reputation since its founding in 1971 has been second to none in all that it has achieved, not only in the economic sphere, but also politically, socially, and globally. I cannot think of a more topical theme and particularly the focus on the essential activities that will tackle unemployment, especially youth unemployment, which is one of the major challenges of today. It is complex, it is structural, it is global. It is complex because the drivers of this condition differ across the developed and developing world, across gender, across region, across age, across social status, and across ethnicity. It is structural because institutions and systems, particularly in developing countries, have not been able to respond to global technological shifts. It is global because developed countries normally sheltered by strong, diversified economies and developed institutions now face the same situation as they try to deal with the changes of a reshaping world. Many may recall that in formulating the Millennium Development Goals in the year 2000, the Silver Society Forum identified youth unemployment as a major challenge of development, particularly for developing countries with high population growth. 13 years later, the proposed post-2015 development agenda confirms youth unemployment as an emerging crisis worldwide. The genesis of the crisis can in part be traced to the 2008 global financial crisis, which decelerated global output and demand and gendering a spillover effect in emerging and developing markets activities, thereby exacerbating unemployment, most especially among women and youths. Driven by this deceleration of global demand, private households and firms in developed economies deleveraged their high debt burden through increased savings rates and austerity measures in public sectors. This resulted in downward pressure on both private and public consumption and investment, dragging down aggregate demand and growth with devastating effect on developing economies, especially those with high poverty levels and large unemployment in the informal sector. As a result, in 2013, the International Labor Organization estimated global youth unemployment at the rate of 12.6% employing unemployment of 73.8 million young people. In developed economies, youth unemployment increased by 24.9% since 2008, while some large economies like Spain and Greece have registered rates over 50%. During the same period, youth unemployment rates in developing economies were highest in the Middle East and North Africa, at 28.3% and 23.7%, respectively. In sub-Saharan Africa, importantly, however, ignoring the high level of vulnerable unemployed was registered at 11.8%, but up from 6% three years ago. This high unemployment, youth unemployment, is attributed to a missing pool of skilled labor as well as insufficient growth to absorb a growing labor force. Consequently, surplus workers face vulnerabilities as they pushed into the informal sector where they lack regular income benefits, job security, and pensions. Moreover, structure unemployment affects most vulnerable young people who comprise the large number of economic migrants, particularly from Africa, that continue to seek refuge in Europe, risking their lives in perilous voyages to pursue a livelihood with resulting racial tensions in host countries. The effect of unemployment on women is similar. The global financial crisis of 2008 intensified the economic barriers faced by young people in developing economies, often disproportionately affecting young women. The African development found that in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa and in all of North Africa, it is easier for men to get jobs than it is for women, even if they have equivalent skills and experience. In North Africa, for example, female youth unemployment increased by more than 9 percentage points compared to 3% for young males. GDP per capita losses attributed to the gender gap in a labor market are estimated at approximately 27%. Although significant progress has been made in closing the gap in income disparity, the disparity in gender in labor markets is still largely disproportionate worldwide, especially among young people. Moreover, fragile states like Liberia, my own, where the education and vocational skills sets of entire generations have been made casualties to violence tend to be more seriously affected by the unemployment crisis. In these countries, unemployment could be the tipping point for political instability. Furthermore, the pool of unemployed tends to migrate to the cities, exacerbating urbanization pressures through a growing concentration of urban-label supply. Liberia is a particular case in point. Despite average annual growth of over 7% since 2006, unemployment, especially youth unemployment, remains extremely high, and is a major challenge to the achievement of our development goals. The labor force survey of 2010 indicates vulnerable and informal employment for ages 15 and above accounted for an average of 74% with higher levels in rural areas. Females are more seriously affected compared with males. To address unemployment in one of the country's most economically deprived areas, where the most vulnerable and food insecure population live, we launched a pilot cash transfer program. The targeted households were typically headed by the elderly, people living with disabilities and chronic illnesses, and youth or single mothers with dependence. By providing a relatively small amount of money, U.S. $20 a month, on a regular and predictable basis, there was marked improvement in the lives of the beneficiaries. An independent evaluation showed compelling evidence that the cash transfer program improved food security, education, access to health, and the economic condition of beneficiary households. It also showed that school attendance increased, and 66% of children in the target areas had improved marks. More importantly, the program showed great potential in stemming the inheritance of intergenerational poverty. The problem of unemployment requires multiple strategies. First, substantial investment is required in national educational systems, including technical and vocational training. Second, effort must be made by governments to improve the business environment for foreign and domestic firms. Equally as emphasized by the G-8 countries at their 39 summit, businesses must recognize the importance of taxes, trade, and transparency as critical for growth prosperity and economic development. Third, using the success stories of other countries, special economic zones could be considered, established to promote profitable job-creating manufacturing opportunities. Fourth, better allocation is required in the use of revenue from natural resources where most of us are very rich. Fifth, effort to invest in systems that enhance production and productivity in the subsistence and informal sectors would reduce unemployment particularly among the youths. And we believe that social protection programs such as the cash transfer program which target vulnerable groups, women, young people, and the elderly can make a difference. Let us all accept that there is no fix, no easy fix for youth unemployment. However, partnerships between the public and private sectors can make a big difference. Large corporations which have been able to obtain concessions in developing countries should be prepared to work with governments to address the unemployment problem through training, through social benefits to communities, improvements in infrastructure in communities, and better relations and exchange with people in the communities. There was also been urgent response to the call for linkages between the activities of large corporations and the economy at large. The evidence is clear that significant employment is not created by the large concessions and corporations which are largely capital intensive in their operations but by the small and medium-sized enterprises which lead to development of a middle class, the most sustainable driver of development. We can take on the challenge to ensure that there's no civil upheaval, political instability, and economic disruption by working together to make sure that we find a solution to youth unemployment, thereby increasing the world's economic pie. Thank you. Thank you, Madam President. You draw the attention to an issue which will remain a key issue during the whole of the annual meeting. It's this link between creativity, education, skills, and employment. Of course, I could ask you many follow-up questions, but I will change a little bit. We have very little time, a little bit's a subject, and Europe is not only Europe, the whole world is looking with great concern at the moment at some fragile countries in Africa.  Could you just in a very few words tell us what is the recipe to create out of a fragile state to gain a stable situation and a peaceful environment? I know it may be too ambitious to have a short answer to such a comprehensive question, but you have such an experience if you could just tell us what you feel is essential. One has to build resilience in the economy when there's fragility. And that resilience does not come through growth alone. Growth alone we all can have and we all can achieve. But being able to spread that growth to a larger number of the population so that you increase their per capita income, you reduce their vulnerabilities. And a key element in all of this is capacity. We have found from our experience the capacity to negotiate agreements, the capacity to be able to monitor the performance of private sector companies and operations, the capacity to build those institutions that have the capability of doing all of these for sustainable growth is where we have to concentrate. And so this is why the whole idea of addressing fragility is something that is very much on the agenda of the African Development Bank. And what they intend to do is to also use a regional approach whereby the surplus and deficits and capacities and infrastructure can be exchanged in the region thereby enabling regional growth, regional integration to enable larger activities, larger economies of scales and more sustainability management. So it takes a while. We've been at it for nine years and we haven't achieved it yet, but we've made progress. Thank you, President Johnson-Sillif. This concludes our morning session and we want to thank you again for having come into the cold of Davos, but we made a special arrangement so that at least we have some sunshine so you are not missing your country too much. Thank you. You really did it. Thank you.


If you ever had anchor links on your page but when you click on them to go to the different sections it has the problem or if I go to section two it actually covers that heading up like that or if I go to section three it covers that up but that really does suck but luckily there's actually a way to solve this with just one line of CSS. Hello my front end friends thank you so much for coming to join me for yet another video and if you're new here my name is Kevin and here at my channel I hope you fall madly deeply in love with CSS and if I can't get you to fall in love with it I'm hoping to at least help you be a little bit less frustrated by it and today we're doing it by solving this problem that we can run into with anchor links and when things overlap and we don't want to do that with JavaScript if we can avoid it so let's jump right into the code and take a look at this and so I've set up this simple thing with the little sticky navigation here at the top and as you can see it it covers up my content when I click on the sections and let's let's before we jump into that let's just improve this a little bit so in my CSS here what I am going to add all the way at the top is on my html let's do a scroll behavior of smooth and at least now when I click it's a smooth transition between the different ones but again the issue is if I go to section two I lose the title the reason this is happening is when we go to section one it's lining up the top of this section to the top of the page and that's going under this and I exaggerated the the height of my navigation here just to really highlight what's happening so first we're going to solve this sort of the the CSS away only and then we're going to add a touch of javascript and a little bit of custom property magic just to make this a little bit more so we don't need magic numbers and things just work and the way we're going to do this is here on the html and I'm going to come in and do scroll padding we're going to do scroll padding top and let's do I'm going to do a lot for now let's do like 300 pixels so now if I click on the section two you can see it didn't actually go to section two the section two is over here because it's scrolling to section two but it's leaving 300 pixel space here from the top of the page down to where the start of section two is if I go to section three same thing section four well that's at the bottom so it doesn't really count so let's reduce this number to maybe 100 pixels because that might be a little bit better and so now we can try again section two oh that seems to line up much nicer that's sort of what I wanted look at that um but it's probably not perfectly lined up so you know some of the padding is still underneath that when I go to the section and this is where having to put magic numbers in here is not ideal so what we can do instead of a magic number is we can come in with a variable so var and what we'll do is we'll just call it scroll padding and we could just leave it like this but one nice thing is we could put in a fallback and I'm going to do 50 100 would be better because we saw 100 actually works pretty well here but if I do scroll padding with the 50 there what it means is this is a custom property that's non-existent doesn't we haven't defined it anywhere so because the browser can't find this it's going to go to this fallback so if I go to section two it goes to section two and you can see it's not perfect but at least it's not like covering up everything and hiding that text there and again I would I would use probably a better number than 50 here as the fallback but at least there's something and that just makes it a nice progressive enhancement which just means like if the javascript there's an issue with it someone has javascript disabled whatever it is it will use this value here but if the person does have javascript enabled which is most people we can enhance we can make this a little bit better of an experience for them so let's do a const of nav navigation height and that's going to be equal to my document dot query selector and I want to select my navigation and in this case I don't have an idea on it that's fine we can just choose this primary navigation right here so let's make this a lot bigger for a second and so here will be my primary navigation and I want the navigation height so I need to know how tall this navigation actually is an offset height and that should give us the offset height let's let's console log that console log nav navigation navigation there it is navigation height I am in code pen here so if I look in my console we should get it there it is 162 pixels tall so we can actually use this now to update or apply this to our html now then the html and we want to get the html itself because that's where this is being applied and it's the root of our document and all of that so to be able to get that we can actually just get if we go here and I do document document dot document element and that should update here and we can see here that we you know it's it's logging out everything that's there so this is what we want to actually be applying this to so we don't really need the console log I guess so what we can do is we can come here and we can say that document dot document element element and then we can just do style and then do a set property and set property allows us to set custom properties so first we want to put the name of the custom property here and so we do that it has to be in quotations and we write scroll padding because that's what I'm setting and then here I want to set the value that we're going to be putting so I could just put a number here if I wanted to but we want this navigation height so I can grab that drop that right in there that error should go away let's get rid of that console that's right here and if we click here it should work except it's not working we obviously made a mistake along the way let's go take a look so it is working you can see I have a scroll padding but it's 162 uh that doesn't tell it anything so if we come here I just need to do plus yes so to say you know give we have to give a unit to the number that we've just put in there so now with that change done if we click it should there we go line up pretty much perfectly you'll notice there when I do go to the section two it's actually off by a smidgen I have a feeling that's because if we look in here the primary navigation is actually 161.59 pixels so I guess if you want to be safe we could actually come here and when we do this we could always do a plus one plus pixel uh so that way we're just adding that little extra little bit so we just ensure that we don't run into that problem and now when we do this it should work perfectly fine where when I go to my different sections oh I did a plus pixel it should have been a minus pixel by the looks of it minus one uh instead of plus one and now there we go it's working perfectly and going exactly where we want it to there's one downside of this is if you resize things and it causes the navigation to change size that number won't automatically be recalculated there are ways of setting that up but honestly the only people who ever do this are devs anyway and usually navigations don't look like this anyway but if that is something important you could set a resize observer that would handle that and update any values that you would need updated and if you enjoyed this and you'd like to explore more things and cool things that you can do with position sticky I have a video that you might enjoy right here and with that I want to say a really big thank you to my supporters of awesome over on patreon jan johnny steward tim and simon as well as all my other patrons for their monthly support and of course until next time don't forget to make your court on the internet just a little bit more awesome


You too team keep it clean. What's going on? It's engraving here with another video and In this video we here to talk about the game That we currently watching right now between the Jaguars Jacksonville Jaguars and the Buffalo Bills and this is the AFC wild card matchup featuring those two teams and It has been a defensive game for real. It has been a defensive game for real now me This game got me. What's up, Antonio? This game got me hype man. This game got me hype big time man I love how this game is going. I know a lot of y'all some of y'all might be like, oh man This is this game born. It's only three three. Nope.  I'm loving how this game is going. It's got me hype for real man. I'm um I'm hoping I'm hoping everybody what's going on man appreciate all y'all coming through but I'm hoping I know I got on a Jaguar shirt right now shout out to Polly store But I got on a Jaguar shirt right now But I'm hoping that this will be the last time for today that you guys see me in a Jaguars shirt or jersey I'm hoping because I'm really rooting for them Bills side no offense to the Jaguars. That defense is amazing Amazing Jalen Ramsey with all the sugar in his tank the dude is still a beast man. That dude is a beast We could have drafted that guy We could have drafted him Who would have just gave up a fourth round pick two we could have had Jalen Ramsey? Jimmy Smith Jalen, but anyway, can't even think about that because that's the past That's over with but either way the defense is killing him and Bill's defense stepped up a lot too Bill's defense stepped up a lot too. So shout out to the bills defense But really quick before we get into this let me introduce myself me. I mean Raven viz This is my YouTube channel and Raven viz and I'm a Ravens fan. So with me being a Ravens fan I have to I have to I'm rooting for Tyrod man. I can't even lie. I'm rooting for two. I'm rooting for Tyrod I'm rooting for him, but with the Jaguars if they win I won't be mad at that either man because with me this playoffs honestly I just want somebody new to win. I want somebody new to win the Super Bowl I don't want it to be the same old it ain't under against Pittsburgh or New England But I don't want it to be them even though I think it's gonna be Pittsburgh in the Super Bowl But um, I just I wanted to be somebody new I want somebody new on a block to get a shot But do I see that happening right now? Honestly, no, but hopefully things will change. What we'll see. We'll see you never know you never know but I I really do feel like it's gonna be Pittsburgh on from the AFC side straight up, um, but I I'm rooting for Tyrod, but anyway, like I said, I'm a Ravens fan And if you a Ravens fan of you a Bill's fan if you a Jag fan if you a fan of any football team Make sure you subscribe to this YouTube channel and then once you subscribe turn your notifications on turn notifications on And then after you do that make sure you leave a like on a video It's how the 40 people in here right now chilling, but It's only 15 likes. It's only 15 likes. Make sure you leave a like on the video But like I said, I I do I really expect the Steelers to be in there at the end of things I'm expecting to be the ones that's in the Super Bowl Um, but I'm hoping that it'll be somebody new but I mean, we'll see how it goes. We'll see how it goes. We'll see how it goes either way, um Going back to that former Raven that Super Bowl champion Tyrod Taylor. Um, he He has been Doing a lot of over throws A lot of over throws Blake Borda's been doing a lot of under throws Tyrod Taylor been doing a lot of over throws So both of the both QB's are um, they are Hurting their teams. Um Tyrod had to rely on his legs and really toward the end of the second court It just wasn't out working that jaguar defense was all over that All over that all over that all over that Grind out Ty Ty said shoot out a grind out. Which one do you prefer? I love the grind. I love it I love games like this. I mean, I like to shoot outs too, but these games with the defensive games I mean with offensive games too, but with defensive games. I just It's it's so hype man. They get this game really got me hype. I'm telling you.  I'm going for bills But honestly, I won't be mad either way whoever wins. I'm just loving how this game is going I'm loving how this game is going man. Love it exactly quality control He said play our football. Enjoy it season will be over before we know it Yes, and I was raising fans our season is over and we know it So we're struggling right now, but it's all good man. It's all good Um, the south can say the past be still is again when they can close up the stadium and make it a soccer play What? Tyrod reminds me a lot of uh, mario the similar type QB both underrated. Yeah, Tyrod is all right, man He's been doing this thing. I know get old vegans. He's been he's been talking about it all day He's he's and he's been talking about it for a long time really all season I think that he he wished that they would have kept that the ravens would have kept tyrod over flakko But what I would I've been telling them that they they just wouldn't have been able to do that it would have been impossible it would have been impossible because You you want to you you want to superbowl because of flakko the defense makes them play too But flakko play lights out and he had one playoff games before that too um So you you just had you had to you had to pay pay him you had to pay him You had to take care of him and exactly that's another good point too. Um, that's another really good point JB small he said tyrod teller wanted to start so What what guy who knows he can play football would want to stay as a backup? Nobody wants to do that. Nobody wants to do that. So they had to pay flakko. So they did that and tyrod teller They let him walk. I think they got like a fifth round pick for myself like that. I don't know. I don't remember but um It just it wouldn't have worked out and say for instance, what if they would have uh If they would have kept tyrod over flakko let flakko walk They would have looked like the biggest fools in the world They would have looked like the biggest fools in the world Well, depending on how flakko play really really even Doesn't even matter how flakko play if they would have let him walk After he just won them a suvo, they would have looked like fools man. They would have looked like fools They would have looked like fools But yeah, I'm sure tyrod teller wants to do everything in his power to get a ring on his own and not be not get a ring As a backup. I'm sure he didn't want to be a get a ring as a backup. But anyway, anyway, um Kelepe said is this coming season make a break for ravens head coach john harbaugh? Definitely Definitely, I think especially with him keeping marty moan moan hinway the offensive coordinator. Um, that's big and then with um Greg roman returning as an assistant head coach I guess they just had to make up a title form so he could come back and get a pay raise too Because they know they needed him for that run game because he had us running like crazy, which was a great thing.  Oh paul pierce. So you're boston fans. He must like the patreons, too I'm just assuming based off of your your avatar. But um If you're an offensive guy, yeah, this is this game is not going to be Hypey stays ravens better for half these teams in the playoffs Hey I mean, hey, what teams out smith gonna go to that's a good question, man. This is exactly kelepy.   This is exactly how all them classic ravens stealers games used to go Just like this the last ravens stealers game where it was what 38 to 35 or 34 Whatever the score was that ain't that ain't no regular afc north game That's this year and this new style of football where you can't be as physical That's the new kind of football. That's a new kind of football, but that's not the original afc north kind of football That's not the shootouts man. I mean not the shootouts, but that's not that's not how it it was is played in afc north, man That's not it But this game right here this 3 3 3 3 when the last time we had a game 3 3 going in the halftime Especially a playoff game 3 3 Boy, I love this game. I love this game. Yeah, they did say that logan Both have got more rushing yards than passing yards, man. Okay. Vic said he liked the defense too. That's what's up, man People say it might as well be 1999 because the offense was more scarce back then. That's what it's looking like, man If jimmy smith was there the ravens would have beat the stealers simple We'll never know we'll never know we'll never know don't know. What's up, man? Don't they I ain't seen you in a minute. Hope all is good, man Hope all is good. He said this is classic nfl football. This is it man. I love I'm loving how this game is going y'all. Let me know when it starts because I hear my tv But I don't think that's the game yet But um, it sounds like I thought I heard a crowd in the background but that I guess that's must be a commercial or something um Fans only rule for defense when their team is playing Still would be that's when we had jimmy smith. Oh, there it goes right there. There it goes right there See y'all versus jags. Oh that game was three three at halftime. Okay. Okay. Appreciate it I think antonio brown is gonna be back next week I don't know if any y'all follow a outro sync old chat johnson on instagram But I saw on his story today that he was practicing with some guy at wide receiver He was a short guy and it looked like antonio brown But the only thing the only reason I didn't think it might have been antonio brown was because of the hair The hair was a little lower than as usual. Um, oh, okay. Appreciate that down there Oh good, man. Oh, it was a b that was him That because I I thought I thought that was a b but his hair looked a lot lower and it just did I wasn't sure if that was him or not. Okay, so some of y'all follow him on instagram too and y'all saw that.  Okay francisco saw it then. Okay. Appreciate that thing. Well, there it goes All right, it's confirmed. Oh one saw it too. I guess everybody saw it. All right. So that's what's up, man That's what's up um but yeah Ocho sinko was uh, he yeah, he was definitely um, he was cocky, but he backed it up He backed it up and he was oh he ain't rapper poor set it to okay. I didn't see that my fault, but um Ocho sinko he he backed it up. He backed it up that dude talked all the trash in the world But he sure backed it up, especially when he was on the bingos He backed it all up Patriots not so much dolphins not so much or those ain't last long anyway But um, he backed it up Um, and just like you know how you see him on tv and stuff you see him um When you see him on tv you see him at when he was at the on the games and stuff You see him on his instagram when we met him Like oh that maybe a year ago When we met him and he took us to the movies in a group of people and stuff He was the exact same way the Ocho sinko that was on tv when we met him about a year ago He was the exact same way exact same way So that dude is the exact same way went on tv in person Exact same the dude was a clown. He was just making everybody laugh. He was funny same exact stuff Um, so I see a couple of y'all telling me the game is back on So I guess I got two minutes according to my tv because with playstation view When you don't watch it from the phone then your tv will be about two minutes behind So the game will be coming on for me in about two minutes. Um, so I appreciate y'all Thank you for watching. This was a lot of fun. And I look forward to a defensive second half, man I look forward to a defensive second half y'all make sure you subscribe to the youtube channel If you haven't already turn your notifications on so when we come back here after the game You do not miss it and make sure you leave a like on the video If you haven't already click the thumbs up button and you can follow on twitter instagram and snapchat I'll see you all after the game. We are going


Welcome to this Estimike Electronics video, I'm Gustavo Sosa and Phil Application Engineer. In this video, we will start with an introduction. We'll follow an explanation on the TouchFX model. After this, we'll show how to create a TouchFX project, screens creation, how to change between the screens and finally, we'll implement how the hardware and graphic usage interface interact. We will create and navigate within two screens, and we'll be shown the interaction between the Wii and the hardware in TouchFX. For this, we'll be used TouchFX Designer to create the Wii, STM32-QMX for the hardware configuration, and STM32-QID. The hardware used is the STM32-H7B Discovery Kit. The STM32-H7B3 Discovery Kit is based on the STM32-H7B family with two megabytes of flash and 1.4 megabytes of RAM, capable to fit the graphics buffer within it. The LTDC peripheral is a DPI interface that displays a 480 x 272 pixels, 24 bits with a capacitive touch panel. TouchFX uses a well-known software design pattern, Model View Percenter. This is the modern way of doing user interface development, just like iOS or Android. It is structured a way to separate coding to the classes, making coding more effective in terms of reuse, maintenance, and code quality. Model is the interface to your system. View is the visual appearance of the user interface, and presenter is the logic for the user interface. In the Model View Percenter used by TouchFX, the events flow from the model and the view to the presenter. It is only one model and is interface with a hardware. It is a presenter and a view per screen. The model could handle multiple screens, but only one screen is active at a time to lower memory usage. Let's open TouchFX. Name and select the path for the new project. Remember, the name and the path should not have spaces. Select the application template for your board and create the project. Now, we are going to create the screens. First, at the screen one, we will add the background. It could be an image, but in this example, we are going to use a box. Resize it to fit the screen and change it to your desired color. Here will be a dark blue. Next, add a button to change the screen too. For this, select a button with a level widget. Change its default name and level it too to screen too. Place it at the convenience part of the screen, like at the center bottom. It is possible to add images. A way to add them is by adding an image widget. At the widget properties, click at the plus to import the images into the project. Select the image you want to add to the project. Now we have the images in TouchFX. We are going to add a logo image and the image for the virtual LED. LED on and LED off. In this case, the image order is important. First place LED off and top of it LED on. Let images names are important too, as will be used in the code. This virtual LED will be turned on and off by the hardware push button at the board. Change the default name for LED images. The LED off and LED on. Lastly, uncheck visible for LED image. Screen one is ready. To create the screen too, click on the plus at the screen section. As in screen one, a box has background and a button with level to change to screen one will be added. It is possible to just copy them from screen one and change the color of the box and the name and level for the button. For this button, its appearance will be changed to another included to with TouchFX. At the bottom properties, on the image section, change the presence and release images. Select from a screen dart that round the small button. In screen two, we are going to use a bulb. As in screen one, we will use one image for bulb on and another for bulb off. Again, the name will be changed, as the name will be used at the code too. Remember in this case, images order is important. Finally, a button will be added to turn on and off the bulb and a real LED at the hardware. For this button, the skin we are going to use for the preset and on preset will be an image we had imported to simulate a power button.  Uncheck visible for bulb on image. Rename the power button to button LED screen two. To change between screens, it is needed to add what is called interactions in TouchFX. Interactions are contained at each screen. Interactions are at the right side. The interactions to change between screens will be linked to the buttons in this example. At screen one, an interaction will be added so can change the screen too. As triggers, select button is clicked. Use button to screen two. At action, choose change screen and select screen two. Move to screen two. Add the first interaction as in screen one, but now to change to screen one. Here select button to screen one and change to screen one. A second interaction will be added when the power button is pressed. Name it button led screen two. Here, as actions select call new built-on function and give the name to the function that will be called by the code. Later in the code, this function will be written. To finish, generate the code. Open the project folder after TouchFX generates the code and open the SN32QMX5 by double-click on the ICO file. Bored leds, red and blue are already configured. It is only needed to configure the push-button as interrupt. Set PC13 as GPIO External Interrupt 13. Next, go to nested Interruptor Controller Preferral and enable the Interrupt or External Interrupt line 15 to 10. Generate the code. After the code generation ends, you can select to open the project or the project folder location. Today, we are going to open the folder. I am copying the QBID project path to open the project from QBID using the option Open Project from File System. Just for sanity check, let's compile the project. TouchFX template uses the leds for debugging. It is necessary to modify that code so we can use them. Add file TouchFX GPIO, command lines 52, 56, 76 and 80 so we can write the leds. Following the model used by TouchFX, we will start writing in the application the code to do the link with the GUI. At main.c file, we start adding definitions of variables for the leds. The leds in the civilization state, the push-button interrupts a routine that will toggle the led blue and a variable taken by the GUI. Finally, the function to toggle led red that will be called from the GUI. Next step, we will be tooling the model section to the application. It is needed to modify the file related to the model. Let's start opening model CCP file. Add a declaration for the push-button variable and the led route toggling function. At model tick, we'll check if the push-button was present and propagated to the presenter in the view. Model tick is a place suggested to do the link to the application. We add a function that will call the led toggle from the application. Now, open model HPPP to declare the led red toggle function. We need to declare to the function that will pass that the push-button was present at model listener HPPP. Save and close all the files. The step to follow is the presenter. Add the screen one presenter CCP file, add a function user-button called from the model, and we'll pass the push-button information to the screen one view. Also declare that function at the HPPP file. Save and close the screen one presenter files. Now, for a screen two, open the screen two presenter CCP file. Add a function that will call from the view the function that calls the toggle led red function at the model. Declare that function at this HPPP file. Save and close the screen two presenter files. Now is the turn to the view. With this, we will close the loop. Open screen one view CPPP, and add a function to make visible or not the virtual led image depending on the push-button state, pass it from the application to the model to the presenter screen one, and finally to the view screen one. Declare that function at the screen one view HPPP. Save and close view one files. Finally, open the screen two view to write a function we named a TouchFX designer when the power button is clicked. Led to function will make visible or not full on image and will trigger so the led red can toggle going from the view to the presenter to the model and ending at the application. Add the screen two view HPPP. Declare that function. It was created by TouchFX, we now overdrive it. Save and close view two files. Now we can compile. Click at the debug icon that is a bug. At the debug configuration will be opened only the first time the project is debugged. Go to the debugger tab. We need to add an external loader so QID can program the external flash memory. Enable the external loader. Click the scan and look for the STM32-H7B3 disco loader. To finish, hit OK. Debug session will be launched. You may be asked to update the ST-Link. If please do it and after it is updated, launch the debug again. After enter use programmed, it is possible to run the application. Here is the result of the example we have created. Thank you for watching this video.


Another day is here We're off to canora today guys. It's kind of fun. It's exciting. I took the bike in to work today That was exciting So I didn't know my coffee this morning. Usually I have my coffee in the pickup on the way to work But on the bike it's harder to drink the coffee, so I didn't get the coffee So I haven't had my coffee yet.  I'm not seeing any over here. Those are all 48-foot So I'm gonna have to go find a 53-foot step, hook on And make my way over to Deakin's Corner, which is around the corner on the east side of the city I'm gonna have to grab myself a coffee there or it's gonna be an interesting day Let's go get our trailer Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh Whatchya look at that, found one! that one's mine. I like this one 131 D. You're coming with me. That's why it rhymes Someone dropped it a little bit high though probably got a higher fifth wheel than me so I'm just gonna lower this down a little bit so I can hook on oh sorry I was probably pretty loud in your ears This way, right? Yes This one, you'll see it come down over there. Now we just got a sneak right in there. Down there, it'll click in. Can you see it through that screen? Looked up, we'll continue rolling this up. Walk around here to our break trip. Off to Canora, Ontario area. Under the petrol pass here, in Deegan's corner, and I think I made a mistake. This is the four wheeler doing back here. I think they made a mistake too.  This is where the big boys are. Anyway, I think I made a mistake. There's a Timmy's across the road. Coffee, look, there's one of our guys. You have decent coffee here, but you know, when there's a Timmy's across the road, I'm sorry, my hands are tied. I gotta go there. Drove this truck that's in front of me. Not too long. Remember that Volvo I was in a couple of weeks ago? For a day? But I ended up not doing anything that day. So stay and get it around now. I'm gonna get there again. A ways to get to this Tim Orton's. Pretty sure. If not, then we'll just, this truck company right here off to our right, they got a pretty good location with a Timmy's right next door, right? This beautiful suit will be a unit from British Columbia. Yikes. How are the fires doing out that way, guys? I heard that it's doing not so good. Fender's a bit bent up, but I'll forgive them. Fold it up with goodies that I should not have bought. Don't look. Don't look. Dropping it. I mean, I don't have anything here. There's nothing to drop. I didn't have breakfast this morning, okay? Hungry. Little ways further down the road already, so. Talkin' to you. But thanks anyway. At least she cares. Answering questions I didn't even ask. Do I have a stop sign here? Cause I stopped anyway. There's a stop sign there, but is that stop sign for me? I don't know. I have to race today too. Like I said, I wanna make up some time. Whoa, my bagel. My bagel went flying. Couldn't even see that hill up ahead there. The smoke was so thick. The sky still isn't blue. Not as blue as it should be. There's still some smoke in the upper atmosphere, but it's a whole lot clearer and sort of back to normal here today. Thank goodness. We're picking up some more culverts right over here. Somebody in Winnipeg needs them tomorrow morning. I'm here to pick them up. Here's my driveway up here. Right after this. Right across from the cemetery. Spooky. I am here. I don't know which one of these are mine. Probably maybe those. Maybe those. Probably that one right there I think. Looks like they're high enough that I need a step deck. Cause they told me to make sure I had a step deck today so that I could load up. Cause a flat bed will not work. That means the freight is high. I guess I'll go in and talk to the good people. Here's what's going on here. We're gonna tie her down. We're gonna take her home. Gotta let the government know I'm here. Government always wants to know. I'm on duty. I'm loading cargo. Okay government, now leave me alone. Stop taking my money. And I'll give you a quick look at why I'm sweating so much. It's cause of that. Yeah, it's hot today. It's hot and here's my load. Sort of a little bunk that we made out of the other freight. Belly wrap twice. So it's not gonna roll back and forth. It's also holding it down. Two extra straps on the bottom for holding it down. Four straps holding down this stuff here. We're using as donage so that doesn't move. And then my tires are right here. So three straps made it work. And this also has donage in there, nailed in there to make sure it doesn't roll. So it shouldn't be a problem. One in there as well. And on the other side. Okay, we are out of here. Air conditioning, air conditioning. Come on, air conditioning. Man, is it hot. Am I told you that yet? Calm down up there. Sweat. Wonderful, wonderful. Got my paperwork here. Gonna put it in my fancy orange paperwork holder. Keep you down there. This is all going to Winnipeg. We've got to deliver it tomorrow morning. Okay, air conditioning. Where are you? Come on, don't let me down. Bird, baby. I love my air conditioning. Find them. So it took an hour for them to load it all up and me and his security and everything. Since I parked here, it's been an hour or so. Pretty good, I think. Off we go. On for safety. You can also go to the other side of Canora. We're in Canora, we're gonna take Veterans Way up to Highway 17, that's the trans-Canada. Take that west. And then there's a little pull-out on that side of Canora yet. And I'm gonna pull in there and check my straps and tighten them up again because the load might have settled a little bit by that time. Delivering this in the morning so I'm gonna leave it all tied down for myself. I could leave it tied down anyway because you don't want it to roll off in the yard, right? That'd be a big mess. And a nice little meeting in the office afterwards. I like to avoid those kind of meetings. Puzzle of safety meetings. Make a turn, it's not shifting, it shouldn't. I am 99.9999999% sure that it's not gonna move a millimeter, an inch. If it moves an inch, I did a bad job. Really bad job, that's bad. On a school bus, there's lots of school buses here. I heard in Australia their school buses aren't orange or yellow. That must be so weird. School bus then. But here they paint them yellow or orange so that they're visible clearly from a long ways away. You can tell it's a school bus miles away very much. Cool bus, without even getting up close to it. What color are they in Australia? How do you know it's a school bus from a distance? Off to the right, here comes the sign.  You gotta do that, that's our sign. Don't stick your stickers on there and don't graffiti our sign from the tip of Newfoundland to home. Tomorrow we're picking up another trailer from the US at the gas tracks there just over the border. Gotta get there as early as I can. So the up and at it early tomorrow it's supposed to rain. Hopefully it does but you know every time this summer they said it's supposed to rain and it ends up not raining. These are, you have a good day. Mom said you were very good. Shevi said he beat you up though. It's not true, it's not true. This is a Vina basking in the sunlight sort of in the shade. It's been one of the last really nice days for a little while. Forecast says 100% chance of rain tomorrow. They're pretty confident. Oh good, actually we don't know like our plants need it. They're saying 100% so you know it's not gonna rain. I've never seen them say actually 100% chance of rain. It might be like storm warning. Storm warning, yeah. A couple of drops, we told you. Lander, you got a report? You have a report? Anything, anything to say? So I have a good paper. Come a little closer, I want to waste for something in your air. All right, sure. Watch out Frank, watch out. You can stay out here. You don't want to go in anyway. Shevi, there he comes. Hey buddy, what are you doing inside all by yourself? You loner. He hates the heat. It's hard to keep them outside in the summer.


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