A water nozzle is to be attached to a vertical pipe as shown in the figure below. The engineer designing the piping system needs to know the force exerted on the coupling by the nozzle, including the weight of the nozzle itself and the force of the water pressure, so that it can be designed effectively. The nozzle inlet diameter is 3 inches, the outlet diameter is 1 inch, the static pressure at the inlet is 19.2 PSI-G, the weight of the empty nozzle, which is fabricated out of stainless steel, is 10 pounds, and it has an internal volume of 150 cubic inches. Determine the horizontal and vertical forces acting on the coupling by the nozzle, being sure to indicate direction. Let's start with our assumptions. First up, we have incompressible flow, then steady state, and I am assuming all of our velocities are uniform velocities, that's an average velocity, uniform flow at 1 and 2, and I'm going to be neglecting any body forces in the x direction, and then let's assume that the water is at standard temperature and pressure, for which the density is 1.937. That value comes from table A1 at standard temperature and pressure, which is 1 atmosphere and 68 degrees Celsius for pressure and temperature respectively, 137 is our density for water. Next up, do I care about the x direction or the y direction? The answer is yes, I care about both actually. I have to perform a conservation momentum in the x direction to determine the x force, and a conservation momentum in the y direction to determine the y force. I can do them independently, I just have to do both. So let's start with the x direction, and this should be becoming old hat, so I will go through it a little bit more quickly. For surface forces, I have our reaction force, which I'm drawing as rx into the right direction, so I'm going to plug that in here as a positive value. I have a gauge pressure at state 1, but the surface force exerted by that gauge pressure appears in the y direction. Therefore, I don't have a surface force exerted by that pressure in the x direction. Then there are no body forces, because I've neglected any body forces in the x direction because the only body force we're considering is gravitational acceleration. Then I have steady state, which means this entire term is also 0, and I have one opportunity for water to cross the boundary in the x direction, and that is state 2. So my control surface integral is going to be the integral across state 2 of density 2, u2 times velocity vector 2, times da2. So rx is equal to rho 2 comes out of the integral, u2 comes out of the integral, and I've assumed uniform flow, so the integral of velocity vector 2 with respect to a2 is going to collapse down to magnitudes of average velocity times area 2, and you know it's coming. Is that a positive or negative value? Well, our velocity vector and area vector are in the same direction, which means that it's going to be a positive value. Then I'm going to try to rewrite u2 in terms of average velocity 2, and for that I recognize that I have an x component of velocity here, but I can describe by using a cosine. So cosine of 30 degrees is equal to that is the proportion u2 over v bar 2. Therefore I'm writing u2 as v bar 2 times cosine of 30 degrees, which means that I'm actually writing this as density of water. It's incompressible, so the density is the same everywhere, so it's just density times cosine of 30 degrees times the average velocity at state 2 squared times a2. And this point, I know a2 in terms of diameter, I know rho, I know the cosine of 30 degrees, but I don't know the velocity at state 2. So I can rewrite the velocity at state 2 in terms of the velocity at state 1 because I know both cross-sectional areas by using our conservation of mass. So just like last time, it's going to simplify down to the velocity at state 1 times the area at state 1 is equal to the velocity at state 2 times the area at state 2. And just because I want to show it a little bit differently, I'm going to calculate that numerically and plug it in as opposed to doing what I normally do, which is calculating a value symbolically. It doesn't really matter. You do. I'm going to say v bar 2 a2 is equal to v bar 1 a1. Therefore, v2 is equal to v bar 1 times the quantity a1 over a2. And that would be v bar 1 times pi over 4 times diameter 1 squared over pi over 4 times diameter 2 squared. Which is equal to average velocity at state 1 times the proportion d1 over d2 squared. My velocity at state 1 is given as 6 feet per second. So if I were to take 6 multiplied by the proportion 3 over 1 squared, I would end up with 54. So my velocity at state 2 is 54 feet per second. I'm going to make that a little bit bolder. Not because it's important, but just because when we refer to this later, I don't want to have to just scrub around the page going, where is it? I know I calculated it. You cannot find it. Oh no. 54. Okie doke. So then rx is going to be 1.937 slugs per cubic foot times cosine of 30 degrees times our velocity at state 2, which is 54 feet per second, and then I square everything and then our area at state 2 is pi over 4 times the diameter at state 2, which I believe is 1 inch. Yup. 1 inch. And then I square everything. And I'm looking for a result in pounds. Yes, pounds of force. So I will start at my destination and work backwards. A pound of force is 1 slug times 1 feet per second squared. Slugs cancel slugs. Second squared cancels second squared. And I have square feet times square inches in the numerator and cubic feet times feet in the denominator. So I need 12 inches in 1 foot. I square everything. 1 squared is boring. Feet squared. And feet squared cancel feet and cubic feet. Square inches cancels square inches, leaving me with a result in pounds of force. So, calculator, if you would help us out here. And that would be, oh no, screen went away. Okay, we made it through the void. So 1 point, 1, come on calculator. YouTube, 1.937 times the cosine of 30 degrees times 54 squared. Looks like I dropped a trilling presidency there. Times 54 squared times high over 4 times 1 over 12 squared. And I get 43.25, oh, no, pi over 4, why are you appearing there? What happened there? Oh, it's what was that a device on? I don't know what's happening to my calculator. It's all the calculator's fault. That's what's important. We get 26.67 26.67 pounds of force and you know what's going to happen next. Is that force on the nozzle to the left or to the right? Well, we calculated a reaction force. So the force required to hold the nozzle in place has to be to the right. We have to counteract the force on the nozzle by providing 26.68 pounds of force to the right. That means the actual force in the nozzle is to the left. I'm going to say 26.67 the x component of force is force on nozzle is to the left. Because the force required to hold the nozzle in place the reaction force is to the right. And we know that because our rx value is to the right. We got a positive value. Therefore, the reaction force is to the right. So one dimension down now we can do our y momentum equation and for that I will open up a new sheet. And the y momentum equation is going to have the same general terms as our x momentum equation. The only real difference here is that we are talking about the y components of velocity which we indicate with an italics v. Now, here's the thing. I know my handwriting is difficult to discern if I'm writing an italics v or not. So instead of writing an italics v I'm basically going to be writing the greek letter nu and that's just to try to exaggerate it by writing it like this. So hopefully you guys are able to interpret what I'm trying to indicate here. Nu for our purposes here is just going to indicate the y component of velocity. I'm going to write fs y plus fby is equal to the integral of some stuff that isn't going to matter because of steady state and that is density times nu times dv plus the integral across our control surface of density times v times velocity vector dA. Then we can plug in and cancel terms I'll get rid of my calculator here. I have a pressure at state one that is higher than atmospheric pressure which means I have a gauge pressure which is exerting a force on the control volume which is going to appear in the negative direction because I'm defining my y axis as being up. Furthermore I have a surface force in the form of ry which is up so it's going to appear as a positive value.  And again if you work the problem in gauge pressure then I only have to care about state one's pressure if you were to try to model this with absolute pressure you would have to account for the pressure at state two as well. And it's again really just the pressure difference that matters anyway so because p2 is at atmospheric pressure the difference between the two is gauge pressure so p1a1 is the surface force that's relevant as a result of the pressure differential exerting a force on the control volume. Then we have body forces this time because we are talking about the y axis and gravity is down in the y axis presumably actually you know just for good measure here let's just say g is down now it's not just presumably it's assumably we have weight in the form of the weight on the nozzle itself we also have the weight of the water in the nozzle because we were told that the internal volume is 150 cubic inches so I'm going to subtract the weight of our nozzle and I'm going to subtract the weight of our water that's everything on the left for the right I can get rid of our volume term because we are at steady state and we have two opportunities for water across the boundary in the y direction that's at state one in the downward direction and to state two in the downward direction as well so I am going to write for my first integral here I have the y component of velocity at state one times density because they come out of the integral and then I'm taking the integral of the velocity vector with respect to the area vector which because of the uniform flow assumption is going to simplify down to a magnitude so that's v bar one times a one and do I make that a negative or not well the area vector is going to be acting upward because it's always defined in the outward direction and my velocity vector is in the downward direction which means that they are in opposite directions which means I add a negative and then at state two I don't have quite enough room so I will make a little bit of room here so I am going to write that as plus the y component of velocity at state two times the density at state two times and again, okay let's take this down a line hopefully that's not confusing then I'm going to bring out my velocity vector as a magnitude because we are assuming a compressible flow and do I make that a negative or not no I do not because the velocity and area vectors are in the same direction now we can go through and consider these terms one by one r y is what we are looking for p one we know we can determine as a function of d one which we know the way to the nozzle we know the way to the water we can calculate because we know the volume so that would be the mass of the water times gravity which is the volume of the water times density times gravity then the y component of velocity at state one is going to be negative v bar one you follow because the average velocity at state one is in the downward direction which means the y component of velocity is a negative value because we define our y axis is going up this is going in the downward direction and density one is the same as density v bar one we know a one we can determine in terms of d one the y component of velocity at state two we can describe relative to our 30 degree angle so sine of 30 degrees is going to be y component of velocity divided by average velocity which means this is going to be negative cosine of 30 excuse me sine of 30 times v bar two because again that's in the downward direction density two is the same as density and a two we can determine as a function of diameter so at this point we have everything that we need just a matter of plugging stuff in so I'm going to do something dangerous I'm going to try to solve for our y and substitute in the same step so we begin with p one a one and then we add our weight of our nozzle and then we add density times water times gravity and then we subtract oh excuse me it's negative v bar one times negative v bar one which is going to yield a positive quantity density times v bar one squared times pi over four times diameter one squared and then at state two we only have one negative so it doesn't cancel so we're left with minus density times sine of 30 degrees times v bar two squared times pi over four times diameter two squared and if we had left our v bar two symbolic we could make that substitution now and I'm sure we could write this in terms of all the diameters ever but for now this is perhaps a little bit more straightforward so p one was given as 16.2 psi g and we are multiplying by a one which is going to be pi over four times diameter one squared I really should have made that substitution up here in order to be consistent with my other areas. Diameter one was three inches and then I square everything and I'm looking for pounds of force and a psi is a pound of force per square inch which means I'm already in pounds of force then we add the weight of our nozzle which was 10 pounds of force oops then density of water was 1.937 slugs per cubic foot and then we multiply by our volume of water which was 150 cubic inches if I am not mistaken and I am not mistaken then we multiply by gravity which is presumably 32.2 feet per second squared I guess I should add that to our assumption per second squared and then I'm going to want that in pounds of force so I will start at our destination and work backwards upon a force is one slug times one foot per second squared slugs cancel slugs and then 12 inches are in one feet and I cube everything one cube is boring second squared cancel second squared cancel inches cubed feet and cubic feet cancel cubic feet and feet leaving me with pounds of force so next up is going to be the density of water times pi over 4 times the average velocity is day 1 times d1 squared so 1.937 slugs per cubic foot times pi over 4 times velocity 1 squared which was 6 feet per second yeah 6 and then 54 6 feet per second and then I square everything and then multiply by the diameter at day 1 which was 3 inches 3 squared inches squared and I want pounds of force so I will start at my destination and work backwards out of force is a slug times a feet per second 12 inches in one foot I square everything one squared is boring slugs cancel slugs feet and cubic feet cancel square feet and square feet leaving me with pounds of force and then we are subtracting what appears to be just a part of a row we are subtracting 1.937 and you know what just to be a little bit more efficient I am going to copy and paste this line because like 80% of it is the same density times sine of 30 degrees so I should go to this all over to the right sine of 30 degrees as pi over 4 times the velocity is 2 squared which was 54 and then we are multiplying by the diameter at state 2 squared which is 1 which looks right so density times sine of 30 times pi over 4 times velocity 2 squared times diameter at 2 squared I will point out here that if you had plugged in the velocity at state 2 symbolically in terms of velocity at state 1 and a bunch of diameters it would probably be easier to factor out a bunch of stuff and write it in terms of a unit conversion that only occurs once with the ingress and egress point but this works just as well now I can calculate for days calculator you are needed so I am going to take 19.2 and then I am going to multiply by pi over 4 which is going to be a theme in this calculation I really wish there was a pi over 4 button on my calculator times 3 squared and then we add to that quantity 10 then we add to that quantity 1.937 times 150 times 32.2 and then we multiply by 1 divided by 12 u and then we add to that 1.937 times pi over 4 times 6 squared times 3 squared times 1 over 12 squared and then we subtract 1.937 times the sine of 30 degrees my calculator is already in degrees times pi over 4 times 54 squared times 1 squared which is boring times 1 divided by 12 squared ok it's 2 carats that's entirely too many carats and let me sanity check this calculation 19.2 times pi over 4 times 3 squared plus 10 plus 1.937 times 150 times 32.2 times 1 over 12 cubed plus 1.937 times pi over 4 times 6 squared times 3 squared times 1 over 12 squared and then we are subtracting 1.37 it's 1.937 not 1.37 calculator you made a mistake again 937 times sine of 30 times pi over 4 times 54 squared times 1 over 12 squared I'm just going to double check that last term make sure there's nothing doesn't seem quite right yep looks good to me so our answer is going to be 139.15 and then it wants to know the direction again for some nozzle is we got an Ry value that was positive which implies that the reaction force is up so in order to hold the nozzle in place you have to supply a force in the upper direction of 139 pounds therefore the actual force on the nozzle is going to be in the downward direction or rather the force on the pipe guess that's what I really meant the force on the pipe is downward meaning the pipe would be in tension I'll clarify that over here it's not the force on the nozzle it's the force on the pipe


In neuroscience, people want to figure out how the brain works. You want to understand how the information flow inside the circuits. And with modern calcium indicators, you can really capture the neural dynamics and function time. And therefore, you can really see how the neurons think in real animals. The many things happen deep in the brain. But the thing is, when you image deep, your image quality gets worse, because tissue induces distortion to your optical beam. AO is adaptive optics. With AO, you can have high quality environment, but it's restricted to a tiny image field of view. So what we aim to solve with this system is that we want to make the field of view really large, and we want to make it scalable, so you can simultaneously measure a very large region without any constraint. The idea of multi-pupil adaptive optics is really that we wanted a prism array. So this array of indeed tiny prisms, but each of the elements is tilting the beam to a different direction. Now, with this prism array, we have one individual pupil for each of those quadrant. That way, we can handle them independently and simultaneously. And in this way, they can all be optimally corrected at the same time and over multiple regions. And in this work, we use a 3x3 prism array to generate 9 pupils. Of course, this thing is scalable. You can potentially do 4x4 or 5x5 to get 25 regions simultaneously corrected.


Good morning, sir. I am Sarah Siddharth from the Indian Community School, Kuwait. I am originally from Hyderabad, India. As a student of Class 12, I have been observing a mismatch between the questions asked in the examination and the objective with which we are being taught. Our teachers often say that we have to emerge as good human beings, but our exam papers do not reflect this concern. So I have a suggestion for our education system. Examination needs to be linked with our broader aim of education and every student, parent, teacher, and the board examiner must be aware of this. Thank you, sir. I am a student of Class 12. I am observing a mismatch between the questions asked in the examination and the objective with which we are being taught. Our teachers often say that we should be a good human being, but this concern does not reflect this concern. Our education system has a suggestion that our exam should be linked with the broader aim of education. And every teacher, student, parent, board examiner must be aware of this. Manini, we would like to know your thoughts on this. Look, there are many things in education. This education has not been prepared overnight. For thousands of years, new things have been linked with the development of human beings. New ways have been linked. But it is difficult. We have cut the education from life and connected it with the exam. And the effect of this is that we feel that whatever is said in the school, as you have seen in the school, you will go to a tourist place. So, if the children of class 5th, 6th, 7th grade have come to the school as a tourist, and the teacher has told them that if they have to go like this, then all the children will go like this. That is how it is. They will see the whole tour program like this. Now, this is not in education. But what he has taught, is it not related to life? Discipline. I am not saying that you should not do this overnight. It means that such things happen. We do not pay attention to it. The teacher who tells us, he gives the knowledge of syllabus. But how does this work in life? He does not tell us. The truth is that every aspect of education should be relevant to life. This should be a hobby for the teachers. I will tell you a short story. When I was a kid, I was a teacher. I was in government primary school. My village was in Gaikwad state. In Gaikwad, there was a speciality of the king. Wherever his kingdom was, primary schools were there. Children's education was compulsory. There was post office. There was a library. There was a speciality of his. Wherever his kingdom was, there were so many things. In my village too, there was a government school. I used to study there. There was a speciality of our teacher.  We used to tell the others, you will bring 3 chana beans, you will bring 5 rice beans. It is like that. We used to take 5 mung beans. I used to take 5 mung beans. I used to learn how to bring 5 mung beans. I used to bring 5 mung beans. I used to teach 5 mung beans. I used to teach 5 mung beans. Then, what did the teachers do? They used to mix all the things. Then, they used to tell the children, ok brother, you bring 5 mung beans. One of them would say, 5 chana beans, then he got an arithmetic. He recognized the chana beans. The others would say, pick 5 rice beans, show them. That was their way of teaching. Now, they are small, but how did they combine it with life? I mean, there is no such thing in education. Everything happens. There is music, music, there is communication, there is dreams. Everything happens. But, we ourselves, the family, the teacher, everyone is ranking, ranking, ranking. The same problem begins. We are opening up our lives. We destroy our lives. We start learning from everything. We look at ourselves. We change our lives. Thank you.


My research is motivated by this peculiar situation that we observe on the sub-Saharan African continent today that there's almost exclusive reliance on the use of former colonial languages as the main language of schooling. In fact, with the exception of Tanzania and Ethiopia, there's not a single country which offers even the entire span of primary schooling in a local language. And moreover, there are very two peculiar features. One that the colonial language is very, very different from the languages that are spoken locally in these communities. And second, the very important fact that the day-to-day exposure to these languages that are used as the language of schooling, the official language of the country, remains absolutely low. So if you were to take most countries in sub-Saharan Africa and look at the data that's available on the proportion of people who are able to speak it, figures are shockingly low. On an average, only about 20% of the population is conversant in these languages even after 50 years of usage. This particular piece of research is carried out in Cameroon, in the northern part of Cameroon, where children normally learn in English. This experiment was designed by my collaborator and co-author. So in this part of Cameroon, schooling is normally carried out in English. We selected 12 schools in the northern division of this part of the country and introduced schooling for the first three years in a local language, which is Kom, which is the language spoken in this catchment area. And these schools were matched to 12 identical schools so that we had students who are comparable but continue to study in English. We track both groups of students for a period of over six years and see what is the impact of provision of schooling in the local language as compared to providing schooling in the form of colonial language. What we find is that the students who study in the local language stream score more than twice the amount of marks that students who are studying in the English stream do. On an average, the people in the English language stream scored about 25 points on 100. The people who learn in the local language stream score about 50 points on 100 and do better not only on mathematics but in fact seem to do better on English. However, after the end of grade three, when these people switch back to using English again, when the experiment is over, we keep tracking them till the end of the sixth year of schooling. We see that they still exhibit some kinds of small gains as compared to the people who studied in the English language stream. But our interpretation is that these gains are so small that they might not be of any importance when we actually think of what is human capital important for. So the main takeaway of a research, I would say, is that the wide scale reliance on the usage of these former colonial languages are responsible for the large scale educational failures that we observe in this part of the world. And it's a policy that seems to favor a very tiny elite at the expense of a large majority. In terms of thinking about policy recommendations, I think it doesn't operate in a political vacuum. So the political economy behind it is very, very involved. And these need to be explored more in detail before we can come up with any definitive policy conclusions.


Hey guys, what's up? In this video, I'm going to show you how to crush any interview if you want to get a sales job in the automotive industry. All right, guys, what's up? It's Andy. So here's the deal. Look, number one, if you don't know who I am, I made 700 gram my last year selling cars. Two mill as a GM. Have a training company now. We have over 170,000 salespeople across the country. We train. And over 1,200 dealers on the training program.   OK, as a GM, every single day, I watch people come in for jobs. This is a salesperson. I watch people come in for jobs. So many of them unprepared.  Number one, unprepared, all right? Know a little bit about the place you're going to get the job at. Number one, how many used cars do they have in stock? How many new cars do they have in stock? Right? Look on the website. Does it seem like they got good pictures of their cars? Number one, it's not about you going to get the job and them saying, yes, how about you interview them? OK? And I'm just saying this.  You want to find a place you love and go work at a great place and make it your life.  There's a difference between people who work and have to go to work and people who do love what they work.  It's a difference. So when you say, well, what does that have to do with getting my job? Well, number one, do a little research on the place that you're going to go get the job at, OK? And that way, when you're having a conversation, just imagine this. Based on the little bit of information I've given you, you're talking to a new car manager, used car manager, general manager, anybody that's talking to you and you're like, you know, hey, so yeah, so before I came in, I noticed on your website, right? That you had 63 new cars and 275 used. But then I noticed down the road at Johnson Buick and GMC, you know, they only had 63 used cars and 200 new cars. So I noticed you guys had 70 more new cars than them, so you must sell more because you carry more, right? And I want to be with the best. And that's why I came here.  Guess what? Bam, brownie points. Think about it, OK? You want to do a little research on the place you're going to go. Just don't drive around in your car. Do some research and get the job that you want. But how do you get the job? Well, so the first thing is, people are judging you. Right when they see you, they're judging you. Look, you can bring resumes into every car dealership out there, OK? Resumes aren't needed. There's not very many dealerships that want to see a resume. You know what they want to do? They want to look at you. They just want to take a freaking look and go, huh, yep, looks nice. If they can say that, guess what? They'll come talk to you.  Your hair combed, your haircut, you're not fixed or manicured and looking nice, they're not going to want to see you with their customers. Think about this.  The first thing that I think about is I'm bet this person's here because they want to deal with my customers. Well, if I can't see you as somebody that I think that my customers want to deal with, you're not getting a job. So appearance is everything. You don't have to be a good looking person. You got to dress nice. You got to look clean. You got to look good. You got to take care of yourself, OK? Do me a favor. Before you go to your next job interview, OK? Go to Chick-fil-A. Go to Chick-fil-A.  When you go to order your food when you're done, say, hey, can you guess what I do for a living? Just ask, I'll give you 100 bucks if you can guess what I do for a living. And they say, well, you got to be a business, man. I know that. Guess what? You're on the right track and you're dressed nice. I know you are because the person can guess. I don't know what it is, but you're a business man.  But if you go into Chick-fil-A and she's like, I don't know. Work at the mall. Guess what? The customer see you as somebody who works at the mall. The manager's going to see you as somebody who works at the mall, not as a business person, OK? So number one, dress, all right? Anybody right now that's not getting this, you're not going to get the best jobs, I assure you, OK? So dress nice. Even if you don't have the money to buy nice stuff, go to the freaking Goodwill, OK? For five bucks, I can get you dressed up at the Goodwill. I promise you, OK? I did it myself when I was 18. You can do it, all right? So let's move to the next one. Smile. Have a great attitude. Bring some energy to the table. When you go to meet people, guess what? Be exciting. One thing that you learn about car dealerships is they love to feed the machine. What's the machine? The machine is the showroom floor. They like the energy, OK? Nobody wants a quiet showroom floor. There's always music on. Flags are flying. People are buying. Back in the day, we put balloons on the car. We want activity. Everybody wants energy. Energy feeds the dealership. It feeds the customer buying a vehicle. If you don't have a lot of energy, guess what happens?  You may be able to go greet them and say hello and smile. And then after that, you can't do anything. You're an order taker saying, welcome to McDonald's. They want to see that you've got enough energy to take your customers through the process. So how would you show them that you could do that? Have enough energy to take the manager through the interview? Does that make sense? Bring your energy, OK? Put your entrepreneur hat on when you go in, right? Tell them you want to be the best. And by the way, think big. Think big. Do you think when people are hiring, they want to hire another low guy on the totem pole who's going to be average, who is settling, who's hoping to make just enough money to pay their bills? Or do you think they're trying to hire the next guy that's going to come in and be the difference maker in the company? Which one? Difference maker, all right? Well, guess what? Can you be seen as the difference maker during the interview? You better be, because if you don't, there's a good chance you're not going to get the job. The auto industry's on fire right now. Fire, like with flames. It's on fire. We're making more money and we know what to do with. Guess what? You want to join. You want to get in. But guess what? You're not going to get the great jobs when there's salespeople are making a lot of money. If you're coming in and you're not a winner. So you want to come in, be dressed nice, smile, have lots of energy, and then also the first things first is to say, hey, look, I maybe don't know exactly what to do, but I can share with you this. I'm very coachable. Write that down. I'm very coachable. I'm a fast learner. I listen. I, I listen. I'm willing to have a great attitude, great energy. I'm willing to do whatever you say every day. I'm one of the hardest workers in the room, OK? Again, this isn't my niche, but I know this. If I was coachable, if I was likable, if I smiled, if I had energy, if I had drive, if I was committed to being to work on time, if I worked hard, you probably would want someone like that inside your organization, wouldn't you? Yes. That's it. Guys, it's this simple. I'm going to give you a couple more tips, but it's that simple, OK? They don't care what you did before in the past. I care about what you're wanting to do now, OK? And guess what? Are you going to let the manager run the interview and ask a bunch of questions, or do you want to take control and run the interview? You know what? One of the things that you'll learn in the car business is they always say, take control of your customers. All the people in the car business say, take control of your customers. What if you went in on the interview and took control of the manager? He'd be like, dude, I went down there to interview this guy. Number one, he interviewed me. And dude, I'm dying to hire the guy. Like, I can't believe this guy showed up. Where the hell this person come from? Where did she come from? That's the way you want them thinking about you. Guess what? They need to be reminded, man, that there's great people out there that are coming in for jobs. You do it. Be the exception. The 99% or the 1% or who are you? When you show up, are you just like the last 10 people that interviewed?  Be that guy. Be that woman. So dress nice. Energy. Make your presentation. Make your presence great. Speak up. Eye contact. Write that down. Eye contact. Just like I'm looking at you in the camera, I'm not looking over here. Imagine if I was talking, imagine this. If I shot this whole video saying, guys, so you know what I think we should do is do this.  You'd probably be watching a different video right now. Eye contact.  And guess what? People love eye contact. It's one of the strongest things in negotiations. And it's one of the strongest things where people build trust and rapport with people. Look in the eyes. Eye contact, all right? All right, what's next? Where you want to go? What do you want to do? How big you want to dream? What's your goals? You got a family. Tell them. Say, hey, listen, I'm married. I've got three kids. I've got a giant Y. Most people come in because they probably want to make enough money to go to the lake and drink beer for the weekend. That's not me. I want to build a house.  I want to be financially free. I want to be the number one salesperson at the top of your sales board. And guess what? What I don't know, I'll learn. I want to be around great leaders. You're probably a great leader, right?  He's like, who's manager's going to be like, yeah, I'm pretty good. He's like, OK, cool. That's the guy I want to be around. Somebody like you that's going to teach me. And guess what?  OK? And I'm going to do it. Talk's cheap, but action's not. I love action. OK? Guess what? I came to this place because I looked you up online. You seem like a great place. I come here, I like the energy. You seem like a great guy. Look, man, let's break some records. Let's go. What I don't know, you'll teach me. And also, I'll self-educate. Write that down. I'll self-educate. I'll self-educate, which means I'll learn everything you can teach me, but also I'll do the research on my own because I know it's my job to get myself better. I'll take ownership for myself. OK? Guess what? They're going to be blown away, man. They'll be like, dude, where did this person come from? We've been looking for this guy our whole life. We've been looking for her our whole life. You could be right now a bartender working at McDonald's, mowing lawns. You could be a lawyer. It doesn't matter. Car business will pay you a quarter of a million to half a million dollars a year if you're great. Just telling you. And by the way, the greatness, all the greatness, it's self-made. 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Okay. Okay. I hope you all are doing well. I hope the stretch has helped a little bit. Let's pray. Father, we thank you. We honor you. We love you in this place, Jesus. We acknowledge your presence. We are thankful and grateful for who are in our lives. We thank you for your mercy that upholds us. We thank you for your faithfulness that sustains us and provides for us. We thank you for your presence that gives us life and protects us. It gives you all the glory. I pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Okay. So we moved to chapter 4 today. We've completed chapter 3. We went through the foundations of praise in detail from where we get the word praise, from the name of Judah and from the life of Leah and Rachel and how God honors Leah eventually. And different Hebrew words for praise. Why are we called to praise Him? Why are we encouraged to praise? When should we praise? Where should we praise? How should we praise all of that? And so in this chapter, we learn a little bit about the power of praise. Okay. Everybody say power. You can say power a little bit more powerfully. Okay. Say power. Yeah. There's hardly any life in books. Say power. Power. Yeah. Right. So we learned a little bit about the power of praise in the last class. As in we spoke about how God is enthroned, isn't it? So our praise is so powerful that it builds a throne for God to be seated. And that one point should be enough for us to understand that our praise is powerful. Okay. And I keep saying this again and again. Forgive me for sounding redundant, but the devil knows the power in your praise. He knows the power in your praise. He's afraid of your praise. If there's anything that scares the devil is your praise. When you begin to praise God, he starts running. Right. He's just very scared. And so that's what we try and learn a little bit from two different characters or scriptures today. So in your Bible, let's go to 2 Chronicles chapter 20. 2 Chronicles, not Corinthians. Yeah, Joseph. Chronicles. It's after Genesis and before Revelation somewhere there. Yeah. After 2 Kings. It's 1 Chronicles. After 1 Chronicles, it's 2 Chronicles. How many of you have had the chance to read this chapter before or go through this chapter before? Yeah. Yeah. Awesome. It's okay if you haven't. It's fine. You've been forgiven already, so it's okay. Anyone online have gone through this chapter before? Just read it before. Okay. 2 Chronicles chapter 20. The entire chapter is one of the most popular and a powerful chapter in the context of praise and worship. Right. In just one chapter, there are so many things you can learn about. You can learn about praise. You can learn about worship. You can learn about obedience. You can learn in the power of prayer. You can learn about leadership. So there are very so many different topics that can be addressed from just one chapter. Okay. So can we go through that? Are you ready? Yes. No. Maybe. Yes. Sir. I beg your pardon. Verse 1. Correct. Correct. Yeah. So in your course content, there's only one verse, but I want us to go through the entire chapter. Yeah. Is that okay? Verse 20 is like the climax, so we'll get to that. Okay. So this is how the story begins. 2 Chronicles chapter 20. Just so we know during this time, the king of Judah is, the name goes by Jehoshaphat. Okay. So he is the king of Judah at this time. So let's start reading verse 1. 2 Chronicles chapter 20 verse 1. It happened after this that the people of Moab, with the people of Ammon and others with them besides the Ammonites came to battle against Jehoshaphat. Verse 2. Then some came and told Jehoshaphat saying, a great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea, from Syria, and they are in Hazazon Tamar, which is Engedi. Okay. You can underline Engedi. You can learn it later. Engedi is a place of a stream where all the deers and other wildlife will come to drink from.  Engedi. Okay. So they've been, they're coming from a valley where there's water. Verse 3. And Jehoshaphat feared and set himself to seek the Lord and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. So Judah gathered together to ask help from the Lord and from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord. Verse 5. Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem in the house of the Lord before the new court. Okay. So we'll stop. We'll read a few scriptures here and there. We'll stop. We'll try to understand what is happening. Okay. So from verse 1 to 5, we've just read verse 1 to 5. What is happening? What have you understood from verse 1 to 5? Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. A wall. Yeah. So how many nations are coming to attack Judah? Moab, Ammon and other multitudes. So at least three countries we can say for now. Okay. I'm saying at least three. Okay. So what else is happening? Sorry. It's okay. Alright. So neighboring countries are coming to attack Jehoshaphat. Right. Judah. And some people come and tell Jehoshaphat. It's like, hey, you know, Moab, Ammon and all these countries are coming against us. They are there in the valley. So Jehoshaphat is alarmed. Right. He's worried. But then what's the first thing he does? Yeah. Okay. So awesome. Isn't it? Verse 3, Jehoshaphat feared. And verse 3, it said, he said, he set himself to seek the Lord. That's the first thing he does. Right. He set himself to seek him. That means to pray, to find out, okay, Lord, what do I do? Okay. Give me strength. So he sets himself to seek the Lord. And the second thing, his leadership comes into play. He proclaimed a fast. Right. He calls everyone what everyone is who? Not just one family or two family, but all of Judah. Right. The whole country of Judah, he's saying, come let's fast. We are going to be enemies coming to attack us. We're going to seek. But when we seek, we're going to fast and pray. Verse 4, so Judah gathered together to ask help from the Lord. And from all the cities of Judah, they came to seek the Lord. And Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem in the house of the Lord before the new court. Okay. Verse 6, everybody there together? Yeah. We're in verse 6. Okay. Stay together, guys. All right. This chapter is one of those chapters, like Christopher Nolan's movie. If you get lost, you'll get lost. Okay. Verse 6. Oh, no, no, sir. How can you talk about movies? This is Bible college. Deal with it, guys. Okay. Verse 6. And said, Oh Lord God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? And do you not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations? And in your hand, is there not power and might so that one is able to withstand you? So that no one is able to withstand you. Verse 7. Are you not our God who drove out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and gave it to the descendants of Abraham, your friend forever? And they dwell in it and have built you a sanctuary in it for your name saying, if disaster comes upon us, sword, judgment, pestilence or famine, we will stand before this temple and in your presence for your name is in this temple and cry out to you in our affliction and you will hear and save. Okay. So from verse 6 to verse 8. What's happening? Verse 6 to verse 8. Just a little loudly, please, if you're... Sorry. They're praying. Okay. Who's praying? Jehoshaphat. All right. What else? What else? Talk to me. They're standing in the congregation and speaking to God. Okay. Who is? And the works he has done. Sorry, Gertrude. He has done. He's reminding God that who God is and what works he has done in the nations. Yes. So Jehoshaphat is also, he's declaring again. He's not reminding God of who he is, but then he's declaring everything that he's done so the people will also know. He's saying, are you not the God who brought us out of Egypt? Are you not the God who delivered us? Are you not the God who gave us this land, the descendants of your son Abraham to live here, to dwell in it? Okay. So that's the context. So he's declaring in the midst of the whole congregation, he's just reminding himself and the people of Judah of who this God is. Isn't it? Right? So that's what's happening. People, nations are attacking Judah. Jehoshaphat is alarmed. He calls for the fast. He seeks the Lord. The entire nation is on a fast. Let that sink in. Okay. The entire nation, people from every city and tribe came to seek the Lord. There's a revival that is happening. They haven't realized it yet, but that's what's happening. Okay. All right, let's go on. Let's go to verse 10. Okay. And now here are, again, Jehoshaphat is continuing in his prayer. He's saying, and now here are the people of Ammon, Moab and Mount Sire, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them and did not destroy them. So this verse is very important. Okay, guys, pay attention. Verse 10. Now what he's saying is, God tells the people of Israel, when they enter the land of Canaan, they are to chase everyone out. Yes? They are to chase all the Canaanites out of the land. But Israel, the people of Israel did not do that. Are you with me? They let the enemy stay with them in the land. It's very important. I can't stress how important this is. They let the enemy stay with them in the land. They compromised. They ignored the command of the Lord. Okay. And they say, it's okay. They're compromised. Now, because they compromised and let the enemy stay, they came at a time where the enemy began to oppress them. That's exactly what Jehoshaphat is saying here is, we let them live, but now they're attacking us. Okay, there's a spiritual lesson here for us, is that if we compromise with the devil, you give him a foothold, he'll come inside and put one tent and reside in you. Okay, so that's another very spiritual lesson right there. Okay, let's go on. Verse 11, Jehoshaphat is continuing.  Verse 12, O our God, will you not judge them? For we have no power against this great multitude that is coming against us. Nor do we know what to do. I love this line.  Wow, that's such a beautiful and a powerful prayer. He says, all these enemies are coming. I don't have power. We as a nation do not have the power to stand against them. Imagine a leader, a king of the land, the king of the land. And all the people are there. They can see him. If I know that someone is a king in my head, okay, the king will know what to do because he has the power. He's brave. He's supposed to be powerful. But you see how Jehoshaphat humbles himself before the Lord and making himself vulnerable in the presence of everyone. Lord, we don't have the power.  Are you with me? So the answer to winning the battle begins right here. It's reminding us of who God is and fixing a gaze on him. Are you with me? David cries out in Psalm 27. Psalm 27 verse 4. He says, one thing have I desired of the Lord and that will I seek that I may dwell in the house of the Lord for all the days of my life and that I may gaze upon the beauty of the Lord, that I may fix my eyes on you. Psalm 27 verse 4. It's beautiful. Okay, so let's inverse. Oh boy, where was I? Christopher Nolan. Okay, verse 2.  Verse 13.   Does anybody love that verse? I love it. It just doesn't say that the spirit of the Lord came. It says the spirit of the Lord came on an individual, Jehaziel. Okay, prophecy from Joel chapter 2. On the last days, I will pour out my spirit on all guitars, on all flesh. Isn't it, right? People. And so the spirit of the Lord came upon a man, right? On a prophet, Jehaziel. Where was I? Verse 14.  We can't ignore those names, right? If your name was there, you would read it. Yes or no? I always tell anybody, I teach... Chronicles. Chronology, right? It's very important. If your name was there, you would read it. There was a time, and this is just a side note. I was in, I think, 6th standard or 7th standard. I used to watch Test Match. Test Match Cricket as an event. Does anybody watch Cricket? This is okay. So there was a bowler. India was playing Pakistan. There's a bowler called Anil Kumble. Anybody remembers? So in one innings, he took 10 wickets. He was the only second person to do that in the history of the game. In the 50s, there was an England player called Jim Laker who did it. So it was a big deal back then, okay? To take 10 wickets in one innings. And so the newspaper company came up with this thing saying, okay, you can wish Anil Kumble. Call on this number and your message will come in the newspaper. So I called. I congratulated Anil Kumble. And the next day the newspaper came. First thing what I do is I start, I open, I go to the sports section. Sports section is always at the end, right? And then there I saw. There are like some 100 names of people who congratulated Anil Kumble. I don't give up. I start searching for my name. I found it. Roshan Jonas. In the midst of, I don't know, hundreds of people's names. My name was there. Daddy, see, my name is in the newspaper for all the right reasons. For all the good reasons. But I didn't stop there. You know what I did? Can you guess? There was no picture, photo and all to take those days. No, I took the entire newspaper and went to school. I went to school. See, my name is in the newspaper. My name is in the newspaper. What are you laughing? If your name was there, you will do the same. No, the importance of a name in the midst of hundreds of names was important to me as an individual, isn't it? And in God's word, if there are names mentioned in a single verse, there are four names mentioned. It's important, right? So that's my small gyan about the importance of the names. But don't ignore the names, okay? So study them. So verse five. So the spirit of the Lord came. The son of Zechariah, okay? Verse 15. And he said, listen, all you of Judah and your inhabitants of Jerusalem you King Jechoshaphat, thus says the Lord, do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God's. Do not be afraid nor dismayed. So verse 16. Tomorrow, go down against them. They will surely come up by the ascent of Zez and you will find them at the end of the brook before the wilderness of Jeruel. Okay. You have to love God's humor. God is saying, okay, don't worry. Don't be discouraged. Don't worry. The battle is not yours. So tomorrow, go. They will also come. You also go. Say, if it was me, I'd be like, okay, do you want me to go? Sure. That's what's happening. Verse 17. You will not need to fight in this battle. Position yourselves, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord who is with you. O Judah and Jerusalem, do not fear or be dismayed. Tomorrow, go out against them for the Lord is with you. That means his presence is going to be with you. Okay. So let's pause again. So everybody's okay. Are you with me? Okay. So what has happened? The spirit of the Lord comes upon this person called Jehazil, the son of Zechariah. He gives a word saying, thus says the Lord, don't be afraid. Don't be discouraged. Go into the valley. Meet with them. But you will not have to fight. The battle belongs to the Lord. Yes. That's what's happened so far. Has the fighting began? Have they won the battle? Not yet. Isn't it? Because tomorrow is the battle. Today only God is saying, don't worry, I'm with you. The battle is not yours. I will fight. God has just given the word. They haven't even entered the battle. They haven't even tasted victory yet. But God's word was enough for Jehoshaphat. Because in the next verse, see his response, verse 18. And Jehoshaphat bowed his head. Parak or Shah with his face to the ground. Remember that? And all of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem bowed before the Lord, worshipping the Lord. So even before they got the victory, just because God said, don't worry, the response was they fall down, they fell down in worship. Verse 19. Then the Levites of the children of the Kohathites, stood up to praise the Lord, God of Israel, with the voices loud and high. Okay, verse 19. Again, a small Bible study there is, it says the Levites who were the children of Kohathites and of the children of the Kohathites. So again, names. We know why Levites. Another thing what we need to know or we need to study about is that Levi had three sons. Kohath, Gashom and Merari. So there were three clans from the tribe of Levites and each clan had their own responsibility. So among the three clans, the Kohathites were responsible in carrying the Ark of the Lord. Not anybody else from another clan. Only the priests from the clan of the Kohathites were responsible with the Holy of Holy duties. Okay, so that's why their names are mentioned there. It's simply not there for a joke. So the Kohathites stood and they praised the Lord, God of Israel, with the voices loud and high. Shabbat and Halal and Yata and everything is happening in this verse. Again, it's very important for us to remember they have not entered the battle. The victory, they haven't even tasted it yet. But just God said, the victory is yours. You don't have to fight. They are worshiping with a loud voice. They are celebrating. And verse 20. So they rose early in the morning. This is the next day and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. And as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah and your inhabitants of Jerusalem. Believe in the Lord your God and you shall be established. Believe his prophets and you shall prosper. Verse 21. And when they had consulted with the people, he appointed those who should sing through the Lord and who should raise the beauty of holiness. As they went out before the army, they were saying praise the Lord for his mercy and yours forever. Okay. How many of you have seen a war movie? War movies? Fighting war movies. You've seen it, right? Yeah. So, okay, in any of those movies, in how many movies do you see musicians in the front of an army?  Is it? Which army is that?  Okay, but I haven't seen one. It's very strange for me to even imagine there's an enemy in the front who wants to kill you, not just want to shake your hands.    And then the king says, hold on. Where is my worship team? Worship team? You're going to go in the front with the guitars, with bass guitars. Go in the front and sing praise and worship. And they did that. But look at verse 22. Verse 22 says, now, when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushes against the people of Ammon, Moab and Mount Sire, who had come against Judah and they were defeated. For the people of Ammon and Moab stood up against inhabitants of Mount Sire to utterly kill and destroy them. And when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Sire, they had to destroy one another. The enemies, the three countries that attacked Jehoshaphat, the Judah, they killed each other. They didn't even have to fight. Isn't that amazing? Right? I mean, that's just an example of the power of praise is I really, really hope that we understand the power of praise. This is not just a story for us to read and feel nice.  What a story. You know, it's mass-full, you know? No, but this is for us to be encouraged. You know, when we face something impossible or any trials, any problems, we are encouraged to seek the Lord. Right? We're encouraged to go after who he is, his presence. Remind ourselves of who he is. Are you not the God who provided for me all these years? Are you not the God who saved me from, you know, and kept me all these years? All fine? So far? Okay, let's go to another story and learn about another power of praise.  Okay? When you can, just go ahead and reread this chapter. Read it slowly. Don't be in a hurry when you can. All right, let's learn about another example, another story of the power of praise. We'll go to the Book of Acts. We'll go to the New Testament now. I'm just going to put this. I'm just going to share the screen for us in just a minute. Everyone online, see the screen that I'm sharing? Yeah? Okay, cool. All right. Now we are in Acts chapter 16. Let's go to verse, let's say, okay, let's read from verse 16. Okay? Acts chapter 16, verse 16 onwards. Everybody's there, right? Okay? Acts chapter 16, verse 16. And now it happened as we went to prayer that a certain slave girl possessed with the spirit of divination metas who brought her master's much profit by fortune-telling. Verse 17, this girl followed Paul and us, Silas, and cried out saying, these men are the servants of the Most High, God, who proclaimed to us the way of salvation. Verse 18, and this she did for many days, but Paul greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her, and he came out that very hour. Verse 19, but when her master saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas. Okay, the story is getting interesting from now. Verse 19, they seized Paul and Silas. That means they captured them. They dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities. Okay, underline drag if you haven't or any word in your translation. They dragged them. Verse 20, and they brought them to the magistrates and said, these men being Jews exceedingly trouble our city. And they teach customs which are not lawful for us, being Romans to receive or observe. Verse 22, then the multitude rose up together against them and the magistrates tore off their clothes and commanded them to be beaten with rods. And when they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into the prison, commanding the jailer to keep them safe. Having received such a charge, he put them into the inner prison to be beaten in the stops. Okay, so we all know the story. It's one of the Sunday school story. We know about Paul and Silas. Okay, so Paul and Silas are captured by the city officials, by the government officials. They are dragged, that means hold you by the cloth. They drag you through the mud and everything.  Who would you feel if you were dragged? Okay, you will not feel like I'm going to praise you. I'm going to praise you. So Paul and Silas was dragged. They were stripped. Okay, they were stripped. They were literally made naked. And then it says they were beaten with rods. First beating. They were beaten with rods. Now we don't know how many times they were beaten. After they were beaten, they were given 40 minus one lashes, stripes. 40 minus one, that is 39 lashes. Jati, right? What is it? Oh, that's what it's called. Okay. So, and that punishment, right, that 39 lashes, it was called as grace. Why?   So they've been dragged. They've been stripped naked. Imagine the embarrassment. They've been beaten with rods and given 39 lashes. Now this is just a painting drawing from Google. They still look very clean. Imagine after beating with the rods and 39 lashes, they will have more blood. But one thing I never understood in this from the story is Paul, the Bible says was a Roman citizen. Paul was a Roman citizen, but he's been accused that he's a Jew. Yes, he is, but he was a Roman citizen. Now, no Roman citizen could be punished, should be punished like this. According to the law of the land, they should be taken to court and just be put in prison. No Roman citizen can be beaten or be stripped like how Paul was. I never understood why Paul didn't say, Hey, you can't do this to me because I'm a Roman citizen. He could have said that, but I don't know why he didn't say it. It's a point for us to ponder or study deeper because I've pondered about it. But let's come back to the story. They've been dragged, been stripped.  And as if that was not enough, then their legs and the hands were tied to the stock. Now you see this wooden block, right? That's called a stock. Now, you see their legs are closed, right? Their two legs are closed, isn't it? Now this is just an imagination drawing. The historians say sometimes the gap between two legs would be wide. They would spread their legs. So it's not as closed as easy as it is. Are you with me? And they say that their hands were not free like this. Their hands were tied to their legs. Okay? Their hands were tied.  Yeah? Fine. See, I sit. I can't reach my leg easily, isn't it?  Imagine my legs were wide spread. They've been beaten almost to death. Their legs would be separated. Their hands, because it can't reach, they pull. And so when they do that, their shoulder is dislocated. Okay? Their shoulder is dislocated. So now we all understand the context. Yeah? In the midst of all this, 100% guarantee that you can be the best singer in the world. You will not feel like singing. You can be the best musician or whatever, but you will not feel like singing. Are you with me?  Everybody is seeing. Imagine the shame and whatnot. And then finally put in prison where their shoulders being dislocated. In verse 25, now we say, at midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God. And the prisoners that were listening, there were other prisoners in the jail who could hear them sing and pray. Suddenly there was a great earthquake so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chain were loosed. That's a very important verse. I keep saying this. Sorry, every verse is important. So what is happening? They start praying. They start singing hymns. They start worshiping God. Suddenly an earthquake. The prison doors are broken. Their chains are broken. Now there's a very important line there. It says in verse 26, all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were loosed. Very important. It just doesn't say only Paul and Silas's doors were opened. Does it say that? Does anybody else's Bible say anything? Only Paul and Silas's doors were opened. It says all the doors. That means the doors of every other prisoners were also opened and every other prisoner's chain was also set free. Let's stop. You see, the power in your praise is not just for you. Are you with me? The victory of your praise is not just for you. Paul and Silas, they were praising. They were set free. But because of their praise, the other people were also set free. Are you with me? And so when we come together, say during supernatural hour or during in church corporate worship, your praise can set someone else free. Are you with me? The power and the victory of your praise is not just for you. Are you with me? And so that is the power of praise is when we praise, we receive the victory. We experience it. But all the others who are oppressed are also set free. Amen. That is such a powerful lesson for us to learn from about the power of praise. And there are so many stories like that in the Bible, which I would encourage you to go through. But we'll stop here for today with that point. Okay. Everybody online, are you doing okay? Hope you were able to follow along. Yep. Awesome. Awesome. Well, God bless you. Thanks for joining in. Please go ahead and re-meditate on the chapter, both the chapters, 2 Chronicles 20 and Acts chapter 16. I'll let the Holy Spirit speak to you, the minister to you. All right. God bless you. I'll see you next week. Have a good one. Thank you. God bless you. You're welcome, guys.


Due to the lack of truthful coverage on the Australian fires, I figured that some of you may not have heard the majority of them were started by arson because we have Hollywood celebrities virtue signaling about the climate telling you to donate money. Teen firefighter is among dozens accused of lighting fires that have ravaged Australia. This fire season, police have taken legal action ranging from cautions to charges against almost 200 people in New South Wales alone that includes 24 people charged with deliberately lighting bushfires, 53 accused of failing to comply with the fire ban and 47 accused of discarding a lit cigarette or match. Police in Australia are accusing 24 people of deliberately setting bushfires. NSW police have taken legal action against 183 people, 40 of whom are juveniles for fire-related offenses since November 8th, the statement said. The legal actions range from cautions to criminal charges. You know what's really crazy? They're trying to cover it up. Australia's wildfires spark disinformation battle as they take a tragic toll. Authorities are also battling hoaxes and misinformation, including false reports of widespread arson. Many of the claims seek to suggest that arson, not climate change, was a key driver of the historic fires. The truth about Australia's fires, arsonists aren't responsible for many this season. The truth, oh boy, the media is going to tell me the truth, I can't make this up. The simple reason for covering this up, they want to spread more misinformation about climate change. Enormous mega fire in Australia engulfs 1.5 million acres. It is just one of some 135 bushfires in Australia's southeast that have claimed the lives of at least 26 people, killed more than a billion animals, and damaged or destroyed nearly 3,000 homes. Meanwhile, more than 30,000 people attended a protest in Sydney to denounce the government's handling of the crisis and to call for action on climate change. All of these news articles are fairly similar, being very dramatic about the scale of the blaze, how many people have suffered, tragedies, then segwaying into the climate crisis. Brainwashed sheeple are believing their government.  How much more clear can it be? This is completely, if people believe this, I should just give up. It's all a strategy to control people, and what's great about it for them is they're getting the civilians to do their dirty work, set laws and policies in action that will further restrict our rights, take our money, take our lives. What's crazy about this is a theory from another YouTuber named Russian Vids. The fires in Australia line up with the proposed high speed railroad. He speculated that it could be a controlled burn. A similar coincidence with past California wildfires, they lined up with another proposed high speed railroad. When this happened in California, it was labeled a conspiracy theory, just like the arsons are being labeled as lies. Once you actually understand what climate is, how it's regulated by solar cycles, the magnetic frequencies, how we are entering a grand solar minimum, somewhat of a mini ice age, how they can actually manipulate climate and geoengineer things, so despite us entering a mini ice age, that ice age might not happen if they're spraying heavy metals in the air. Everything appears to be a lie, and life slowly becomes more and more meaningless. That's the issue with conspiracy theories, it's just depressing. What is there to do about it? No one wants to take action. Animals and carnivores, carnivores, are virtue signaling about the climate to fit their own agenda. Oh, animal agriculture is terrible for the environment. Howdy boy, you should be eating that grass fed grain finished beef as it is, eco positive, as my daughter's Mercedes and my $7 million house. I don't really have any more words for this, I feel like I, as I said a week and a half ago, I'm just going to escape to a farm with a hot Russian girl and stop dealing with this, taking abuse from people, and honestly you guys that are still continuing to support me are keeping me around, but it's getting to the point where the corporate chill abuse I've been taking, it's very clear what's going on, the gang stalking, the gaslighting, all of this stuff, it's reached a peak, they really want to get rid of me and who knows what's going to happen. So thank you guys for joining me, please like the video, most importantly share the video. If you guys do want to support me further, check out my book, The Ancestral Indigenous Diet, down in the description below. You guys can also check out Frankie's Syringe Me, Frankie's Naturals, you know frank-to-the-father.com for help and fitness consultations.


Hey guys, how are you today? All right, so I'm gonna start off by being really honest with you I am filming this a couple of days before Christmas. I know right so I have to work on finishing my or working in my last journal for 2016 But that's not why we're here today. So I'm gonna that's what this is. This is my last journal for 2016 I talked about these journals in the Startup videos So if you want to see more about these journals and what I'm using why I'm using it what works What doesn't go look at the getting started document in the file section of the group This is the last one for this year This is November and December and I've got a few random bits and pieces here. I need to stick in here and I need to I've been just sticking pieces and I haven't done much actual writing. I've done a little bit So I need to work on that later today, but not right now That's another bit or piece that's gonna go in there Today we're here to discuss the January prompt and to work in our journal for 2017 with the January prompt now The January prompt is confetti bubbles and bling Interesting, what do you do with that? Right? So the premise behind this prompt is to celebrate and embrace the incoming new year, right so Think of yourself as having a party in your journal a new year's party in your journal, right? this is my 2017 journal for those who don't know and Let's see. I don't know if it's right set up or not. Let's see. Oh, yeah, maybe Yeah So it is a It's a faux midori journal or traveler's notebook. It's from Amazon and again, there is Information about it in the getting started Document and the videos I am noticing that this little brass thing should be up here So I'm gonna have to switch that around I won't do it right now but I have some different little random pockets in here to hold little bits and pieces a pen and Let's get started and let's go to our January section which is right here And this is the card that we tipped in for December To get started for our new year, which is our little sketchy girl that we did With all of her little inspirational words and symbols on her Kind of our our girl full of goals and hopes and dreams for the year, right? So now we're gonna use the prompt confetti bubbles and bling to decorate our journal and I'm gonna start out really simply by Grabbing let's see. Let's grab a metallic getting the I'm getting the impulse. Let's grab a metallic gel pen I'm gonna just quickly grab a few colors because I don't know what color I'm gonna want to use Jelly roll house some really great metallic gel pants, so let's grab some of them I'm kind of wanting to go with this dark red one And I'm gonna go right on January 1st and write happy new year here my dog barking Somebody's in the front yard. Okay, and then I'm gonna put a big exclamation point Yeah, I love that and I don't know if you'll be able to see that on camera But it's just a little bit sparkly You don't have to go hog wild and crazy on this but you know add a little bit of sparkle and shine to your journal when you Can I do have I want to let that dry just a little bit. It's wet And I do have these gel highlighters. We may may or may not put some of that on there But I like that. Okay, so now we're gonna go and we're gonna take something square I happen to have these Zentangle cards because way back when I thought I was gonna be really into zentangling. I have a whole stack of them and Save over the holiday and the crisp and New Year's parties If you're going out to any events for the holidays for Christmas for whatever holiday you celebrate or New Year's You know all around you you're gonna find Hopefully you're gonna get some gifts that might be Chris wrapping paper involved There might be confetti involved little bits of sparkle and bling save them. I Recently got a package that had this creeper wrapped around it Actually inside out which was interesting, but when I ripped it open Look at all that sparkle and shine and little chair type angels on it.  I've grabbed things and put them in to put in my journal Okay, so we've started out by making a point of celebrating the day by writing happy new year love that I am also going to go in here And one of the things I've been trying to do with all my journals for 2016 and I'm going to continue to try to do it for 2017. I'm really bad about birthdays like really really bad But I do have a couple birthdays in January and as the month goes on I do want to mark them One is my little sisters, which I'm pretty sure is the ninth and then my dad's which I think is the 14th So as they go along as as the month goes along and I they pop up on my YouTube. I'm sorry my Facebook Page I want to make sure that I take a point Make a point of writing their birthdays in here and to celebrate their birthday And if I can figure out their days ahead of time, of course I would write them ahead of time any special events that happen places we go if we go out on a date night I would make a note of that I wouldn't make a point of doing a ton of day-to-day journaling because that's not for me what my journal is about But that being said there's a calendar in here for a reason so I will mark down special things All right, so we're gonna get back to our card Remember confetti bubbles and bling, right? So we already have this shiny bling. You just love that. Isn't that cool? All right? Sorry, just dragged it So I'm going to just quickly let's zoom in here. So I want to just loosely and quickly Sketch a couple of Champagne flutes on this way You of course don't have to do this in pen if you aren't confident in your drawing skills There's nothing wrong with that do it in Pencil and then I'm gonna just draw some bubbles. I'm gonna take a small brush This is a snap Princeton snap Philbert number four Philbert. It's teeny tiny. See that?  This is the pilot varsity disposable fountain pen So when I get it wet it is going to bleed Which is one of the things I love about that now that being said it may not bleed a ton on this paper I'm actually not sure so we're trying this For the first time live on camera It's bleeding a little bit just to get my little bubbles wet Okay, we are going to go in and grab some I'm just gonna really quick grab a little bit of watercolor and I'm going to use Something that's sort of champagne-y colored, right?  I kind of I want that I don't want a ton of color. This isn't this is just a quick little Sort of piece of artwork, and I'm adding in so a little bit of the buff color Just that just that much nothing more than that now. I'm going to get out some this will work This is just some kind of chunky-ish gold glitter and I want to take some glue And I'm going to put the glue here on them on the plate. I'm going to mix in a bit of this glitter Which has never been opened This is like glitter shavings. It's like little hairs of glitter That's probably enough. I'm gonna get a different brush because for this I want something that I don't mind getting glitter stuck in And I'm going to mix The glitter and the glue together doing it this way ensures that Most of the glitter is going to stay on your piece and it's not going to come off Over everything else on your page. So I'm going to take my glitter and glue mixture and just Kind of dab it on the champagne flutes and The bubbles hopefully I can get some on the bubbles This brush might be a little bit big Well, we got it. Okay, I like that now before this dries Whoops Before this dries here. First of all, I'm going to take this and stick it in the soapy water And before this dries, I'm going to take a Baby white we're going to just do this now Of course, you could take this you could spread it on a piece of deli paper or something like that to use somewhere Else in your journal. You of course you could do that There's no wrong way there's only your way All right, so that's all clean now we can go back to our journal and We can tip in our little card Or do we want to stick it in a pocket? Nope, I Do have some of these pockets will be using at some point They're actually receipt pockets from Heidi swap and they are sticky on the back So they would be fun and will be fun at some point to use in the journal You could put part you could put event tickets in there Of course, you could put receipts in there. Maybe you're going on a vacation You could put stuff for your memory your vacation in here I always like to have some sort of sticky pockets and when I do take my journal traveling I take the a few pockets and I stick them somewhere in my journal either in here or in the zipper pouch And I take some with me always Because believe me they come in handy. So I think what we're going to do is tip this in I think I want to tip it In there you want to tip it in here See that's always the debate Maybe I want to just do it here Let's get some tape washi tape and You know, it's confetti bubbles and bling, right? So we're going to get some sparkly washi tape. I Have these two sparkly colors. I Don't remember where I got them some one of you is going to ask me but sparkly washi is all over the place No matter where you go if you find the washi tape section, especially at this time of year, you're going to find sparkly washi tape Whether you're at Daiso or you're at Hobby Lobby or you're at Michaels It's everywhere Getting it open might be a challenge But you know, I want the blue one. All right, of course I do So let's let's put this in with some sparkly washi tape Now if your washi tape isn't super sticky, then you want to make sure Also put some glue down there or some gel medium or something to ensure that it stays and it doesn't come off Not all washi tape is created equally and some of it's not super sticky And so then we go and flip it open and put another piece on the inside. It seems to be more like a fabric Tape again, I don't remember where I got it. Yep. I Like that. All right, and it will I mean it'll it's gonna flop open. Oh, let me zoom out It's gonna flop open like that for right now But once it's been closed in there for a little bit, it'll stay closed You just have to trust me on that. I am gonna take a little bit of the sparkly washi I think I have I want to do something else. So I got I picked up these craft paper banner ribbons at Hobby Lobby So I want to take some of these See if we can find the beginning And I want to take some of these and I want to use maybe the tape and these and I want to decorate Our January page here again, we're adding more sparkle and bubbles and bling So I'm gonna just cut off a strip of these Hear my devices blinging back there They're going crazy So I don't want to put a flag on the fold because then then things won't close correctly And I don't want to necessarily cover everything up, but I do want to put this on here. So we're going to just glue it in I'm gonna kind of place it and then Lift the little flags up stick a dot of glue back there Don't put too much glue because if you need to like move it around so that your journal closes You can move it, you know to the from side to side a little bit now the other teachers and I Are each as you all know by now we've changed the rules and procedures for this whole journaling program Recently and we'll discuss it while I'm here gluing these little flags in And we've created a special Facebook group just for the program It's called my year 2017 a link will be in the description below I am teaching this week And I believe Anne is teaching next week Cindy's Week after I will check for you Remember the lineup. I just know I'm the first week. So I had to get my button gear. Oh see right here I was gonna glue it over the elastic Whoops, so I want to make sure you know as the year goes on that I can take this January one out and put the next months in That means you need to be really careful about not gluing over the elastic, but putting things under the elastic Otherwise you're gonna have a trouble. Oh, I like that. That is cute. And yeah, that'll fold All right Let me get my planner. I'll be right back. Hey, I was right So I'm gonna teach for the first week of any given month Mott the week will start on the first Sunday of that month not on the first of the month the first Sunday My week will last in for until the Saturday and on Sunday the next Sunday And we'll post her video and her thoughts and she'll be sharing with you for the week After she's done it will be Cindy and then the fourth week of the month will be Jerry and If there is a fifth week in any given month, it'll be a free week and we will be posting randomness and sharing maybe some of your videos and things like that I did go into Facebook and I figured out my family birthdays for January and wrote them down so my sister La Maria and my brother-in-law Rich My little sister Elizabeth and my dad are all in January I am going to take something I have liked to do for 2016. I still like to do it It's still one of my favorite art journaling things and when I go on vacation. I bring these with me. These are Bible Bible high gliders there gel highlighter crayons meant for Bible journaling and I don't do that kind of journaling But I love these things. They're fabulous. They go on dry. They dry quickly So we're gonna use them here For the birthdays and I think we're gonna go with purple No, we're gonna go with pink and We are going to take the birthday days and we're gonna Just do that and then for new year. I think we're gonna do we have it's already bright and sparkly I don't know that we want to do anything. I think we're gonna just leave it Happy new year the way it is Maybe we'll take that same pen Don't overthink it just work in your journal and do what feels right have some fun playing with all those random products That you've got probably laying around in your art room and that you never use and work on them in here and have fun with it and See what you can come up with Now you can see right here. This is lifting. It's not sticking to the other washi tape So this is what I was talking about. So I'm gonna take some of the glue And I'm gonna put it underneath the tape and then I'm gonna push it down and This glue dries pretty quickly. So I'm gonna keep pushing it down for a little bit until it dries You could use gel medium. You could use You know, whatever you have on hand. This is just some generic adhesive clear adhesive glue from Tuesday morning You don't want to put glue on top of it because it may Eliminate some of the sparkle and we don't want to do that We like the sparkle and it's just I think because it is on the waxy plasticky washi tape down there Which it's not really liking sticking to I am gonna cut another piece of this off This sparkly tape the only thing about it that I'm not crazy about is that it doesn't It doesn't really tear I'm just listening to my impulses right now, which said that I wanted more tape on here So I'm adding more tape. I like that. It's just a randomness How's the month of January goes along and we do different events and visit certain people? I will be of course taking pictures with my phone. I do have an LG pocket photo printer, which is a small Printer hold on something stuck to my journal Which is a small printer that prints small photos like this I will try to remember to put a link in the description below and I will be taking pictures and I will be putting them in if we go to events and we get tickets or I get a present with a special gift tag on it over Christmas It'll either go in here or go in the other journal for the end of 2016 if we go visiting people and there are bits and pieces on the table or we go out to dinner I always pick up a business card and Stick them in my journal That sort of thing so I want you to think about picking up bits and pieces of your life as the month goes on Putting them in here and then writing about what you did that day It doesn't have to be a big, you know long essay just you know put a couple of sentences Take some pictures and put them in also see it's not wanting to stick so we're gonna I'm gonna work on that I'm gonna need some gel medium Alright, so when nothing else works I break out the heavy gel medium So let's do that All right So this is golden's heavy gel medium in matte Has been still is my favorite glue on the planet It'll stick anything to anything. I've even stuck smash pennies to my journals before with this glue You will take a random piece of deli paper Again, we don't want to get it on the front sparkly side. We just want to get it on the back side So we're gonna put some on this other washi tape. There we go We can slide it around the gel medium takes a long time to dry So you have plenty of time to slide things around But once it dries, I can guarantee you this isn't gonna go anywhere. I'm gonna wipe off the excess With a baby wipe and there we go You notice that the sparkly tape stuck really well to the zentangle card. It's this other washi tape That's on here. It's not wanting to stick to it. So sometimes you got to break out the big guns and Break out the extra heavy gel medium or heavy gel medium Golden makes not only heavy, but extra heavy Alright, clean off my palette. Alrighty So over the month think about adding bits and pieces of your life to your journal if you are Wanting to do more little drawings and doodles then do that You definitely could do something a sea lemon-esque and take your Calendar and do a little doodle in every day of the month if you're not sure what I'm talking about Go over to sea lemons YouTube channel and look up her any one of her doodle Videos she's got a couple of them up on her channel where she just doodles the whole calendar. They're really fabulous All right, that's it for this month go out and have some fun Don't forget the most important thing Couple more I should say I should edit myself a couple most important things because as I'm as I'm gonna say that my standard I'm thinking of another one. So one there's no right way. There's no wrong way There's only your way so whatever way you decide to do that do this journal for the year Whether you're doing it like I am or like one of the other teachers follow your heart listen to your muse and do what feels right for you and Go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. All right, there we go bubbles and bling I've added some nice bling to my January page now I can't wait for New Year so I can get some pictures in here and I will make sure and do a flip Before we do anything for the next month's prompt and that's it for right now Everybody have a happy holiday and a happy New Year happy and safe one and I will see you later. Bye guys


Well, that was a tool chain from last week. This week is different. JavaScript. Let me just put this. I have three production audits just named after me. Four. My job is to keep our code running while other packages are changing theirs. Should you learn JavaScript? Nope. Is there any other option? Nope. Oh, look. Another library was added today to patch the problems of the other 150 that were also released. Did you know JavaScript was actually written in seven days? Such a messy language. I love it. Did you know JavaScript was actually not written in seven days? No one ever knows what value variable is or what its type is. Now, we use TypeScript. We still don't know. I'd rather use Rust or WebAssembly. They say adoption is coming. They said that 10 years ago. They say that every year, but this year is different. Is it scalable? No. Is it maintainable? No. Is it portable? Not really. Yeah, we use React. We actually use Preact. We actually use Svelte. We actually went back to vanilla JavaScript. Yeah, we're using a library for this. Well, that we rewrote to vanilla JavaScript because it wasn't efficient. We're stuck with this messy language now. I love it. JavaScript. Yeah, it's the defect of standards. Do you know there's a library for that? I wouldn't trust the, let's say, finance application with JavaScript. What our finance application does is, yeah, it's only fine to use JavaScript, but I recommend using TypeScript. Not that we do.  And then we went to promises. A wait came out. We went back to promises. Now we rewrote everything back to callbacks because it's just more comfortable. At least you know it's bad. Oh, it's probably just a quick fix. It will take me three to five days to find it. We tried CoffeeScript. We wrote our code base. We tried TypeScript. We wrote our code base. And then we went back to vanilla JavaScript because it's just more comfortable. So we rewrote our code base again. Yeah, we use React. And then React 16.8 came out and we had to rewrite everything to hooks. React 17 came out. We had to rewrite everything again. And then React Scripts was updated to version 0.4 and we had to fix everything to work with local images. And now React version 18 is coming out. We'll rewrite everything again. We rewrote our code base around nine times this month. Yeah, you can use Redux. It's only fine. But if you're on it, I'd recommend you use Redux Toolkit. But actually, it's better to use Flux or Flomux or Fluxable. Actually, better to use Recall. Not that we do. But now React came out with the hooks and contacts API which apparently is better than Redux. Apparently. We'll rewrite everything again. Sometimes it just doesn't transpire. We usually rewrite our code base then. We actually wrote a custom transpider to transpile transpider. It's such a messy language. We use it for our website, desktop app, mobile app, for the fridge, the Tesla. It's not actually native. I mean, it is actually native but it's sort of not really native. It's sort of hybrid native. But some of it is native. I mean, some people use it in a native way but we don't really use it in a native way technically. A lot of people are switching back to native. No one has switched yet. Angular? Talk to me when you use Angular 2 or React. NPM is such a bad package manager. No one uses that anymore. NPM is such a good package manager. How many languages have one? So that major version breaks our code but our code breaks the minor version. I still don't know how to fix pure dependencies until this day. Yarn, bit, PNPM, Torbo would make sense, right? JavaScript doesn't think so. jQuery? What are you, five? We use JJQuery. Global variables? No one uses them. It must be somewhere in the window. How do you debug node apps? You don't. You just write good code but not in JavaScript. No one ever master JavaScript. I get 100,000 points in Stack Overflow. I'm still a noob. Node is technically multi-threaded. JavaScript is technically performant. Our code is never safe. When they'll blow up, probably won't work here anymore. Probably will be using Rust or WebAssembly or whatever. JS. An array is technically just an object. Objects are objects. Null is technically not an object but objects can be null so they technically can be non-objects unless they're an object, right? So technically null is an object. Yes. It's a bit hacky, I admit, but JavaScript is by design. Is it easy to learn? Have you tried JavaScript? Probably will be a bit hacky. Have you used JavaScript before? I don't recommend. I don't like our tool chain. Documentation? And another advantage is that it's free. So was Java before it was bought by Oracle. So we prepare ourselves by installing modules from NPM. Then we compile it to TypeScript. Then we use a term, Spiler, called Bubble, to turn Spiler to ES5, load it with System.js, file for bankruptcy, bundle it all up with Webpack, use it in a framework like React and let the state be managed by Redux or Flux, Flummox, or Fluxable. Or Recoil. Or whatever. JS. And voila. All of this just to avoid using jQuery, or in our case, JJQuery. But that'll be probably less performant as most of the things. This isn't our production code. It will be tomorrow, though. Probably gonna get fired again. I mean, there is really no alternative to JavaScript right now. Defecto. No one really knows what the value is until we get an error. I love it. Well, try writing anything without JavaScript nowadays. JavaScript. I love it. No, I don't recommend it.