Okay. Let me just repeat a few things. Sorry guys. So first thing is that about your status of report. Please submit it before 9 a.m. tomorrow, India time. E-learning students, same thing. Please do post it on your discussion page before 9 a.m. tomorrow. Okay. The other question is about the questionnaires, authorization letter for questionnaires if you have any survey or questionnaire. I will give it and I will take a look at the questionnaire and then, you know, I'll give an authorization letter stating that you're a student and you're a final year student and pursuing this degree and therefore would require the respondent to, you know, take part in the survey. So I will mention that. So please do send the questionnaire, right? Okay. And then the third query was from Shree Kumar asking what should be the sample size? When we say sample size, we are talking about the number of questionnaires, the number of responses with talking typically about a survey or a questionnaire, right? So where we need a quantitative, qualitative analysis in order to form a conclusion. Okay. So let's say you want to say today's young people are not interested in coming to church. Okay. So when you say today's young people, of course, you need to focus and say, okay, how old are these people? What is the gender? What kind of, you know, what is the group that you're actually getting this information from? Okay, that's one thing. Second thing is how many have you asked? You know, I can't ask like two or three. And then come to the conclusion today's, you know, young people are not interested in church. Like, I can't come to that. I need. So that's why we're looking at at least, at least 50, five zero, not one five, at least five zero, if it is something of this nature. Okay. So in your case, you're looking at your, you know, creativity in ministry, right? Creative arts in ministry. So you would ideally be, you know, asking people who are in leadership, right?   Maybe we can look at half the number, say 25, you know, we can. So the response will be, yes, response will be no response could be, you know, we are too small, you know, various things. So maybe that if since you're contacting churches or ministries, you could put it as 25. Okay, half that number. But if it's going to be an individual response for a particular conclusion, right? It's good to have it as 50, if not more. Okay. Again, it depends on the scope. Again, I just want to just repeating that it depends on the scope of that research. So 50 or more would give you a fair, realistic analysis picture. Right. So that is so she might I hope that helps. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Any other questions based on specific to your, your work, your research, is there anything can, okay. Yeah, that's fine. Kennedy. So what is the nature of your, what is the topic again? You can interview muslim cleric. Fine. But what is the your research topic again, please? So I'm just opening the sheet. Okay, spiritual burnout. Now, see spiritual burnout, Kennedy, typically, we're talking about church, right? I think that's the topic, spiritual burnout among among the leadership in church. So it's better to avoid that muslim cleric.  And since we're talking about the Word of God, the Spirit of God, you know, and also worship and prayer and everything whom we have, you know, the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit. And then despite that, we're saying we're talking about spiritual burnout. So I'm just wondering whether there could be any commonality, because it is not clearly it's not. So, but you could, you know, as a one off thing to say that, to state the fact that, okay, even in this kind of a worldview, worldview, there is a possibility of spiritual burnout for XYZ reason, you could state that as a added point, I guess. Yeah. Yeah, excuse me for a minute. Please just one minute. I just think, please think of any other questions that you might want to ask. Just give me a minute, just one second. Sorry, sorry about that. Yeah, so any other questions? Okay, so, so for those of you who probably are going to be getting your information from the first, from, you know, through a survey or a questionnaire, you need to really, I mean, get that questionnaire in finalized form, right? Whatever you are going to ask, because it's, you need to refine the, you know, the question, and see, you know, is that what you really want, right? That you, so you, so maybe some questions are open-ended, have you looked at that, right? Open-ended, close-ended, close-ended meaning you, it's a, it's a multiple choice, and people just have to pick, choose one of that, like three or four options, whatever, they just need to choose that. But if it's open-ended, that means that they are giving, you know, their views or their thoughts, and it's not just one point, two points, it could be, you know, many things. So, so you need to kind of decide on that, okay, and bring the questionnaire to finalized form very quickly, so that you can start sending it out. So we are, now this is the last day of February, we're getting into March, so, so we need to, you know, get that and get the information in, right? And then once the information comes in, you need to put it together in a table, you know, a table of sorts, and then a statistical table is what I mean, and analyze it and see the responses and based on which, you know, you're forming your conclusions, right?  So always, you know, give out more so that you can get the required number and give out more than the required number, so that, you know, some people might say, okay, I don't, I didn't have time, I didn't respond, you know, I don't want to answer whatever, so you can get the required number of responses, right? So, please work at it. Yeah, Prabhakar, I saw your thing, I will, I will check. Okay, okay, so Adinaj is asking, should we mention their names also? So, Adinaj, I think you're, if you're talking, still talking about the question as you're asking whether their names should be mentioned, okay?  And so, you know, they might not want their identity to be known, right? They might not want their names to be revealed, and at most they could give, you know, information like, maybe their gender and age and so on, right? So, if it is of that nature, you can frame your questionnaire in such a way that the names are, you know, not mentioned. But if it is, you know, if it is something else, then you can, you know, can feel free to get the names, right? Okay. So, do we have to attach the questionnaire with the paper? Well, a sample questionnaire would definitely need to be, needs to be part of the report, because you're saying, okay, this is what I used, right? So, you would definitely, so Shreemar's question is, do we have to attach a questionnaire with the project report? So, yes, whatever questionnaire that you're using, whatever method I would say, whatever method you're using, you need to mention that and, you know, the model of it, sample of it. So, yeah. So, I have put up the reference of my research. So, let me just go through it, Asha. Yeah. And then I'll, so I don't know what you mean by reference. So, are you referring to, you know, whatever information or books that you read? And so, you're putting that reference, you're citing that as a source in your research. Is that, is that what you're saying? Yeah. Yeah, you need to do that. You definitely need to do that, because if it's, if it's using any or quoting any original work or a previous research done, which you looked at the internet and you're, you know, you're quoting that in your research paper, definitely you need to, you need to cite that. Otherwise, it'll be plagiarism, right? What we saw earlier, because if you're presenting something as your own views, which was, which is actually someone else's work or someone else's report, then that will be plagiarism. So, yeah, we need to definitely avoid that. So, we need to cite the source, author, book, you know, the MLA report has that format. Okay. So, you need to mention that. But for the status of the report also, you know, you can just mention that. I'll help in the use of Google Forms. I'm using that. I can use Google Forms with a survey free of charge. Yeah. So, SurveyMonkey is, I think they have some paid services. Google Form is pretty versatile. You can use that. And maybe someone in class who can help, can just take their help and do it. It's fairly simple, Chris. Yeah. Okay. So, Charles's question is, you want to use a plagiarism checker? Yeah, there are some tools which are available online, which are free plagiarism checkers. The tool, I think Grammarly has one. Yeah. Grammarly has a free plagiarism checker. So, you could use that. Let me just put the link here. I haven't used this myself, but you could write out. You can just go to Grammarly.com otherwise, and go to one of the tools which will be. So, let me just put that down. Grammarly.com. So, you could use that. So, answering Chris. So, Chris, it's a fairly simple. So, maybe one of the students can just help out. Or if I see a video how-to forms, I think we find that helpful. You can probably share with the others also. Any YouTube how-to video, how to use Google Forms. So, yes. There are some videos. Let me just send you a couple of those links. We can help the class. I haven't checked these videos. So, creating online questionnaire. Just a minute. There's a, yeah. I think this is a fairly good one. Let me put it here. Yeah. We use Google Forms for, actually all of my Western papers, previous semesters, if you had, you know, all those are using Google Forms. Anyway, here's this view.  So, there are plenty of those. So, you just try this and see if it helps. I think the most important thing is giving access. You know, like, that's where I also struggled, you know, you create the form and then you make some last-minute changes, then it changes the access setting. And that's how, you know, you've, many of you got back to me on the stream saying you're not able to open and access it. Then, you know, last-minute change and then that reverts back to the default, you know, access rights. So, kind of, yeah, limits the access. And then we need to change it again. So, that's the only part where you need to be careful and think, yeah. So, otherwise, it's quite good. Yeah, any other questions? So, we've been talking about questionnaires, talking about surveys, sample size, talking about how to create online questionnaires using Google Forms. What else? We've been talking about whether to include people's identity in the questionnaires. Well, it depends.  And which means that you need to get their permission also mentioned that, you know, is it okay to mention your name? So, but, yeah. So, you need to be kind of, you need to get their permission, right? So, if you feel that, okay, this person's job role, their title, the name, you know, maybe, you know, it adds weight to the research, their response in the questionnaires adds weightage to the report, I mean, to the research, to the conclusion, you know, by all means to that, yeah. But if you want to keep the name anonymous because of the sensitive nature of the information that they're sharing, then you add other information like the gender, the, you know, what role are they doing, you know, what kind of work, what kind of occupation, or, you know, social standing, all those things you can, so that it gives the other, you know, information so that your conclusion is stronger, right? Okay. Anything, anything else? By the way, starting from tomorrow, we have our, you know, month of worship and prayer, weekdays, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., which is also streamed on Zoom. So, feel free to log in. It'll be an hour of worship followed by prayer. Feel free to be part of it. And, yeah, and also tomorrow, I think we have our mentoring hour in the morning for all the online students. So, please do log in as well, right? Okay. Okay. Any more questions? You can feel free to, you know, email me. Feel free to put it on the stream. I'll be glad to respond to that. Okay. Okay. So, we'll close now. If there are no more questions, we'll stop right here and pick up in our next class, right? Okay. Okay. Thanks, everyone. Hey, all the very best. Let's shift gears, pick up momentum in the work that we're doing.  Okay. Okay. Thank you. God bless. Have a good day.


Hey, hello buddies. Thanks for watching.  So if you watch regularly, I don't know which video your favorite seller is in Maybe you don't have a favorite Maybe you have a few but be sure to make sure you hit that bell so that you get alerts when I post new videos All right, you guys we are gonna get started here. I've got 31 Bolo's coming your way Just like in the normal featured members video I'm gonna go through the first set and then we're gonna have a speed round at the end All right, I'm gonna tell you where they got it what they paid for it and what it sold for and these are almost all big money Bolo's okay, but they're most of them are unexpected. All right. Let's get started All right So the first item is gonna be coming from flippin it good. Let me make sure my screen share. Yep. It's up Flipping it good. So flipping it good does a lot of retail arbitrage you guys So he goes to like Ross and TJ max, maybe not TJ max. It's Burlington I used to do TJ max, but he picks up a lot of shoes and he is really really good at it So if you want to know more about retail arbitrage, definitely check out his channel. All right, you guys So what he found is these Calvin Klein women's shoes you guys knew without box. Look at these He got these at Ross for $50 and he took a best offer of 420 now that is some retail arbitrage if I have ever heard of it. Can you believe it? $420 on those wow I Would have walked probably right past them like I didn't know Calvin Klein went for $420 no clue Okay, the next one comes from electric garage sale. That's the name of his eBay store He's got lots of good stuff His link is down in the description of the video along with all the other links of everyone I'm going to talk about in this video So be sure to go down there and check out their YouTube channels and their eBay stores. All right This is a vintage at wood speedster outboard model boat engine. So I think it's for like Like a model it's not for like an actual Big boat, you know what I mean? Does that make sense? And I could be totally wrong, but it looks pretty small Point zero five one. I have no idea what any of that means But I know even like the models The engines for the toys some of them can go for a lot of money. So he got this at I Didn't write where he got it. So I apologize for that But he sold it for a best offer of $199 and 95 cents. I don't know how I missed I didn't write down what he paid for it and where he got it. Sorry guys. That's my fault because I know he sent it to me But yeah, definitely be on the lookout for those the next item comes from butterfly hustles and Butterfly hustles is who I learned about the straw hats from and I have sold probably six or seven now Definitely a Bolo item, but she's got lots great info on her channel. Okay, so what did she sell? She sold these? Zota oxfords and They are square toe. I mean not a little bit square. They are square Those are you know, I picked to this one because I just thought they were so different I've never seen a square toe like that. So these are pre-owned shoes you guys pre-owned shoes Definitely do there is a market for it So she got these at a thrift store for two dollars and she sold them for eighty three dollars and seventy-two cents All right, the next item was sold by gales new and vintage and She has an eBay store She has a YouTube channel that she's kind of playing around with but not really posting right now So definitely check out her eBay store and the link to her YouTube channel will be down in the description as well What did she sell? She sold this vintage fabric design by oh, I don't know how to say that. I Feel like the J is probably pronounced differently J-u-a-n-a. It's a Terry cloth back bathrobe Let's see Just a Terry cloth bathrobe. I mean it seems very plain and simple to me I probably would have walked right past it and that's why I love it so much I love the unexpected Bolo's so she got this free from a friend and took a best offer of 90 dollars The next item comes from the funky pickle thrifter and this girl knows her jewelry I don't know if you remember the last item that I Talked about she sold a brooch for $999 well in this most recent video she talks about how she organizes her jewelry so definitely check that out and This one. I just loved this This is a Yankee candle royal frankincense Christmas candle you guys and She said she just had a hunch about it She paid a dollar for it at a thrift store and took a best offer of $60 how amazing is that so discontinued candles can definitely be a Bolo so Don't I mean look them up sometimes it pays off to look them up if it's a retired scent Some of those can go for big money the next item comes from the thrifty nurse and She is a Bolo finder She's kind of slowed down on our content a little bit But definitely subscribed her because when she puts out content, it is good So she sold this amazing Bucilla vintage angel tree skirt you guys it is so amazing I just love this. This is definitely something that I would have picked up in a second I just love it. I love it. What do you guys think about the tree skirt? Let me know in the comments I'm guessing you're all gonna love it She got this at an estate sale for one dollar Are you kidding me one dollar and it sold in eight hours, which does not surprise me one bit It's sold on Mercari for a hundred and fifty dollars. So she sells on Mercari and eBay and She finds some really cool stuff Next item comes from Oh This is in the wrong spot. So we will come back to that You guys I had a mishap where I mixed everything up. So I had to It was a mess. We won't talk about it. All right. So Toledo antique Toledo antique they pay up for some of their items But I will tell you that Usually when they pay up those items sell for big money. So you see this video right here It says we sold it for five hundred and ninety nine dollars Okay. Well, they Sold it for five hundred and ninety nine dollars This is what they sold. It is a authentic Hermes black and white color anniversary De La Feta something silk scarf, I don't know But very very cool you guys They paid a hundred and twenty for this at an estate sale and it sold for five hundred and ninety nine dollars So if you want to know more details, you can head to their channel Toledo antique and check out this video right here All right, the next item Came from Chosen Good's reseller and Carissa is now doing live shows So make sure you tune in because she always features a great another great YouTube channel when she goes live So check that out. I Love this one and I picked this because you guys know that I absolutely Love selling toys and I just thought this guy was so cool So it's Mario and he's a toy, but he can be used as a cake topper I tell you guys all the time to always put cake topper in your title Because a lot of times people are looking for these to put on kids cakes and stuff like that And then the kids can just keep them afterwards But this is from 1981 it is vintage and it says donkey Kong Mario So I think this is more of a rare figure. Yep. She's got rare in the title I've never seen him before but I absolutely love it She got this on Facebook Marketplace and a lot of items So she has about 10 cents in it and I think she took an offer of $22 and 51 cents plus shipping Which is fantastic for a little small toy All right, the next item is Okay, all right, this is from it's all goods and I did not hear back from her I haven't heard back from her in a wow I don't know if her Instagram is kind of if she's not on there right now But I still wanted to share with you guys Her Bolo and she has a great store. So it's linked down below. It's all goods 94 and She sold this X files complete series collector set It's a bundle deal here and it looks like it sold for $220 And it looks like season one is even missing and I don't know what she paid for it or where she got it But I thought it was pretty cool and I wanted to share it with you guys any of these complete series You definitely want to look them up. I just sold Lost the complete series and I did really well with that. It was definitely a Bolo So you guys will see that in a future video the next item comes from the thrifty broad and She sells her main platform I consider her main platform to be posh mark, but she does sell on eBay also But definitely check her out if you want to know more about the different platforms All right, so what did she get? She does a lot of clothing and she does a lot of goodwill bins items So that's where you buy things by weight So this item came from the goodwill bins. She paid about two dollars for it and it sold for a best offer of a hundred and twenty five dollars and OAK means one of a kind and it says I'm probably gonna say this wrong people of the labyrinths labyrinths I'm not really sure how to pronounce that but it's a leather handmade jacket Let me get you a tag right there So pretty amazing and she dug this out of the bins. How cool is that? Pretty cool. All right. The next item comes from a little bluebird And she is also a volafinder with really cool items from clothing to toys to you name it She's got it in her store. So you can definitely go and check that out She sold this Raiders jacket and it's satin so anytime you guys these vintage satin jackets Definitely look them up. She got this at a church sale for ten dollars and it sold within 24 hours for a hundred and thirty dollars So that's what the inside lining looks like but yeah anything starter vintage satin. Look it up the next item comes from Donatella Bottolino and She has YouTube selling events on her channel and she gets things from like storage units and Bulk buys a state sales. I mean you name it. She finds it and she has amazing stuff I buy from her and you guys will hear me say I bought it from Donatella Bottolino's auction or her Selling event or I got a missed a Dibble box and that's who I'm talking about alright, so this is a real and she got this from a big buyout that she did and she will put things on eBay occasionally because she wants to be featured in the videos So if she knows it's a high dollar item She'll pop it on eBay and it usually sells really quick, but she ended up taking a best offer on this Ooh, I want to say she took 425. I forgot to write it down. I think it was 425 But you guys it's a vintage pen senator 12 slash zero Working in good condition. I don't know it's a big game real and she's in Florida. So That makes sense that you know, maybe for a bigger fish. I don't know But very very cool Bolo I wouldn't have known I wouldn't have known I've got to say that The next item is from horse and hair curiosity shop You guys know that I love her store because she finds the most crazy unique Vintage items does a lot of like Christmas and Halloween. I mean, I just don't know how any person can find so much cool stuff Very very cool. All right, what did she sell? She sold this vintage Puerto Rican wall mask It's paper maché from 1988 and it is definitely Interesting she got this at an estate sale and she paid $30 for it and it ended up selling for $225 her asking price. So you guys it's nothing fancy. Look, I mean, it's just this type of writing It looks like somebody painted it on I'm guessing it's probably a one-of-a-kind. It doesn't say that but I Mean I that's crazy. I would not want to ship that it's paper maché Can you imagine shipping that? Oh, I would love to know how she did it. That is crazy All right, the next item comes from the rebel reseller and she specializes in plush But she sells tons of different items. So definitely check her out I was telling her I'm like you only have like a thousand subscribers. This was like last month I'm like you're getting fantastic views. I mean people are tuning in to see what she's selling because she has Awesome solds. So check her out. All right.  She got these at an estate sale for $12 and took a best offer of 160 so and the buyer paid shipping the next Iter Iter the next item comes from sister rescue Treasures and they are on eBay and McCurry and a little bit of Poshmark I think they're dabbling in Poshmark now, but They have a really cool store with tons of items. So definitely check them out. Here is what they sold. I love this It's called pookie. It's written by Ivy Wallace. It's a hardcover book you guys and The best part is they got it free from a friend And it's sold for $95 So, you know, it's just amazing what books go for I have a tendency to walk past books And I probably shouldn't because there are some big money books out there The next item comes from Nikki love snacks and she has a reseller channel also She does kind of mix it up on her channel, but you can definitely find some what sold videos over there She sold you guys. I love this This koogee sweater. So wait, am I saying it wrong? Yes, I am. I think it's koogee. I Think it should be koogee It's how I've always said it and then I heard somebody in a what sold video call it koogee and I'm like, are you kidding? I've been saying it wrong all this time. So I'm not really 100% sure how you say it But it's COO GI and if you find one of these they are definitely a bolo item Man, oh man, these just go for so much money. I I don't know and then they've been trending for a while I mean they have been holding their value. She got this at a thrift store for six dollars and it sold for 225 dollars So I I don't think I've found one yet So if I did I don't remember it's if I did it was a while ago. Okay Now we are going into our speed round. Okay I'm gonna tell you who sold it, but I'm not gonna pop up all of their information But I would like to take a minute to let you guys know if you would like to join memberships. There is a Let me pull up full screen here Let me see okay, and then we're gonna go into the speed round So don't leave but over here there should be a join button If you guys decide you want to be featured in the video like this you can join down there at level 2 now Again, all of their information for all of the people that are participating in this video Is down below it's got their eBay store and their YouTube channel if they have one Definitely go check them out because they all have like amazing reseller content And if they don't have content, they have awesome stores that you should definitely check out Okay, so here's the koogee sweater Now the next thing she sold is this event. I think it's vintage. It's a Chanel CC brooch pen Let's look at the back here right here is Made in France Chanel. I mean could you guys imagine flipping that brooch over and seeing Chanel on the back? I don't even know that I knew Chanel made brooches So very very cool Let's see where she got it. She got this at a thrift store. Are you guys ready for this? $1.95 Get out of town and it sold for a best offer of two hundred and one dollars plus shipping The next item comes from Oh, I got it mixed up. Okay, this one comes from Heron horse curiosity and it is a Santa She paid thirty dollars at an estate sale for this guy and he sold for two hundred and ninety five now It looks like it's by Leo Smith so Midwest of Cannon Falls 450 out of 750 so it is numbered and then you can see here. It says Leo R. Smith. I I mean to me it doesn't look anything fancy. I feel like I've seen Midwest of Cannon Falls before. Oh That like I Feel like I just bought something from them I'm gonna have to look or maybe I passed on it. I feel like I just saw something with Midwest on it That's so funny. All right, the next item comes from Donna Telebotelino. It is a jelly cat plush and This is just adorable. It says fuddle wuddle This is not a big buddy big money bolo, but it did sell for twenty five dollars free shipping But what I wanted you guys to know is jelly cat is a brand that you should definitely be on the lookout for It has a pretty good sell-through rate And you can get decent money for them some of them go for more than others But a lot of people look for jelly cat I also wanted to bring to your attention how Donna holds the plush in the first photo So this is what most of us would do and she always angles them and does a close-up Let me know in the comments what you think about this. Do you think this is good or bad? So I don't know I have mixed feelings about it But she feels like it draws people into her listing, which it might All right, the next item comes from a Little bluebird and this one actually surprised me because I have never heard of this brand. It's by boar By bo re and she said that these retail for big money I can't remember how much she said she told me and I should have written it down But it was something crazy like four or five hundred dollars or something Retail guys not pre-owned She paid eight dollars at a thrift store for this and took a best offer of 85 The next item comes from It's all goods. I believe yes, it's all goods 94 and again I don't know what she paid for it or where she got it because she did not get back to me So if you're watching check your Instagram I don't have any other I don't know how else to get a hold of yet to get the information So this one was auction style and it sold for a hundred and forty dollars and fifty cents It's a blow mold you guys and it's a Santa face So blow molds are definitely a big money Bolo They are kind of a pain to ship depending on how big they are, but I'm definitely worth it So look at the shipping on that That's I mean it's 36 inches so but you got a package. I'm right Okay. Oh, no, I messed up again Okay, so this one is from a chosen goods reseller and I was supposed to pull up a tray and I forgot to do it She's like you already featured the Starbucks mug. I'm like I did so I forgot so there's actually a tray Okay, you guys so it is a Jenny Kane k what k a y any Kane is that maybe how you pronounce it, but she got this in a fab fit and fun Box, so it's like a subscription box and she keeps what she wants and then if she doesn't want it She just puts it on eBay. So she got this for approximately three dollars and fifty cents inside that fab fit fun box and It sold for twenty nine dollars plus shipping The next item comes from Toledo antique It is a vintage Michael Garmin hand-painted figurine from 1970s and it is signed this sold for a hundred dollars or ninety nine ninety nine and This was a consignment item and they did a fifty-fifty split and when I was looking through their solds They sold quite a few of these and all of them seem to do very very good So definitely look up that Michael Garmin if you see it. I don't know if you guys saw the bottom here This is what it looks like. All right, the next item comes from My goodness, this is just a mess I really messed this up. I apologize you guys So I do know that this one comes from the thrift funky pickle thrifter and it is a ring She got this in a junk drawer or a junk store find. I'm sorry not junk drawer junk Store fine. So she paid 50 bucks for a bunch of stuff and this ring is by Scott Kay and it's really really big and She sold this for it's a size 10 sterling silver ring. It's across 35 grams and She sold it for a best offer of three hundred and fifty dollars you guys Amazing and I think she said there was a bunch of gold that she found and she scrapped it for like three or 350 something like that. It was in her most recent what sold video. So you guys should definitely go check that out All right, these my little ponies These were sold by butterfly hustles and she actually sold I think I've got them both pulled up Okay, so she's got this lot of 52 and this lot of 40 now She did end up she did price them a little high, but I don't really know too much about the many figures I don't know if there's certain ones that are rare. I know sometimes I will do that I'll just price it high because I'm not really sure. Maybe there's something special in there Kind of feel out the market, but it looks like somebody offered her $87 for both lots, which is still a fantastic for a bunch of little my little ponies I don't think these are vintage Um She got these at a thrift store and paid about seven dollars for all of them the next item that sold is from oh It's a pressure gauge. I didn't I Didn't keep his store. Let me see over here Electric garage sale. Okay, there we go It is a vintage Ashton Stanley steamer motor carriage pressure gauge You guys my husband might know something about this, but I would look at this and be like What is that? But he got this at a clean out. So he really just had his labor So he pretty much I want to say he got it free, but it was a clean out So got it free, but he had to work for it And he sold it for asking price of two hundred and nineteen dollars and ninety five cents plus shipping The next item was sold by flipping it good and he said new balance go high and they are made in USA So that is something good to know He bought these at Burlington for thirty four dollars and ninety nine cents and he took a best offer of 180 and you can see right here on the tag. It says made in the USA. So that is a great tip I didn't know that Okay, so this one comes from the thrifty nurse This is a Georgetown University Bulldogs vintage starter jacket. Now what I love about this I Believe it had like a name or something here and she bought this Georgetown patch Separately and she put it over the name. So very very clever. She paid five for the jacket She paid five for the patch and I think she got the patch on eBay and then Somebody there's a whole story behind this if you go over to her Instagram, she's got the whole story you guys should definitely go read it because Somebody was looking for this jacket and it's just such a great story, but she's the thrifty nurse on Instagram so go check that story out Sold for ninety dollars on Mercari The next item are these Tori birch boots. 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Hi everyone we're here to tell you about the peer-to-peer support schemes that we run for students joining SOAS. We'll tell you about how new students can benefit and returning students can get involved. Here's a rundown of what we offer. Firstly there's the collaborative student learning scheme where trained student facilitators help new undergraduate students to further their understanding of their chosen degree program with weekly study sessions. Next is the SOAS peer mentoring scheme where trained peer mentors help new students to settle in at SOAS in their first few weeks. They're there to signpost you to the right support services and to help you find your feet. There's also the foundation year mentoring scheme which offers specific support for new students starting a foundation year program. Also keep your eyes peeled for a new PGR mentoring scheme for research students. Our schemes are a fantastic way to meet new people from your department and to grow your knowledge of your subject. Keep an eye on your student email account to find out how to get involved and to benefit from our schemes. The student experience engagement and retention team help to provide oversight for all our peer support schemes. We support our volunteer mentors and facilitators in their roles and can signpost you to further support across the university. At SOAS we're proud that all our peer support schemes are student driven with the support that we help to offer shaped by student opinions and feedback. If you would like to learn more about our peer support schemes or you would like to sign up to become a volunteer peer mentor or see yourself facilitator you can find more information on our website all by visiting the student hub. We're looking forward to welcoming you to SOAS.


Please join me in a few moments of centering silence. And now, please remain seated while we sing the in-gathering hymn, number 90. Welcome to First Unitarian Society of Madison. This is a community where curious seekers gather to explore spiritual, ethical, and social issues in an accepting and nurturing environment. Unitarian Universalism supports the freedom of conscience of each individual as together we seek to be a force for good in the world. My name is Erika Kolmenaris, and on behalf of the congregation, I would like to extend a special greeting to visitors.  Newcomers are encouraged to stay for our fellowship hour after the service in the commons area of the atrium building. Members of our staff and lay ministry will be on hand to welcome you. If you are accompanied by a young child, please remember that if they need to talk or move around, the loja area to my right is a good place to retire with them. And at this time, we ask that you turn off all beepers, cell phones, and electronic equipment that might cause a disturbance during our service. I'd now like to acknowledge those individuals who help our service run smoothly. Our sound operator today is Marine Friend. Our lay minister is Bob Radford. Our RE greeter is Nicole Fenske, and our greeter is Pat Coulson. Our ushers are Kirsten Sieber and Karen Timberlake. And our coffee is being made by Willie Bernstein. Please note the announcements on the red floor insert in your order of service describes upcoming events at the society and provides you with more information about our activities each weekend. Here are a couple of announcements that deserve special mention. After service, head to the commons to choose a needy family for the family to family holiday gift program. You'll be able to beat the Black Friday rush. Don't forget to tell the elves if you can help load social workers' cars with gifts on December 14th or 15th. Or if you can join the also needy elf committee, which only meets four times between September and January. And speaking of shopping, tomorrow is my favorite shopping event of the year, the art in the right place, art fair, and bake sale. Over 40 artists will be participating in this annual fundraiser for our children's religious education program. I encourage you to return to FUS tomorrow between 4.30 and between 9.30 and 4.00 and shop for lovely artwork that will be here. There will also be wonderful baked goods to satisfy your appetite. It's a great opportunity to keep your dollars local while supporting an important program at FUS. Today following service, we will be transforming this landmark space for the sale. If you're willing and able to stick around after service for a bit and assist the effort, moving pews and setting up tables, that would be great. We need your help for about an hour or so. Volunteers will gather in the hearth room, the back here, for instructions. Thanks in advance for your help. And again, welcome. We hope that today's service will stimulate your mind, touch your heart, and stir your spirit. In words are from Burton Carly who has served as the senior minister of the Church of the River in Memphis, Tennessee, a Unitarian Universalist congregation. Let this be for us an hour of celebration and an hour of renewal. In celebration, let our minds be awake to the common miracle of the earth, the flowing grace of the river, and to the answering spirit within us. In renewal, let our minds be aware of the deep down freshness of a new day, of holiness let loose in creation and of the responding yes within us. Let this hour be a time of celebration when we feel at one with the mystery in which we move and have our being. Let this be a time of renewal when we let go of past disappointments and present anxieties in order to embrace the healing power of our communion. I invite you to rise in body or in spirit for the lighting of our chalice, and, Erica, you will do the honors. And please join me in the words of affirmation printed in this evening's program. We light this chalice as a symbol of our thanks for the beauty of life. We are grateful for the many gifts we have been given, gifts of love and laughter, where mutual support is most evident. Gifts of conscience, which encourage us to contribute to the common good. Gifts of hope, which give purpose to our days and meaning to our efforts. For these and many other unnamed gifts of life, we give thanks. And in the spirit of thanks, I invite you to turn and exchange a warm greeting with your neighbor. It is our practice once a month to set aside a few minutes during the hour for the sharing of personal joys and sorrows, a time for members, friends, and even visitors to our congregation to relate to the entire gathered community some special event or circumstance that has affected your life or the life of someone close to you in recent weeks or months. General announcements, news items, political appeals are by no means appropriate during joys and sorrows. And so for the next few minutes, anyone who wishes is invited to step to the front of the auditorium and light a candle in the bowl of sand to my right. And then using the microphone provided by our lay minister, share your name if that's comfortable for you to do and also your message. Please note that our services are webcast so listeners are not restricted to the folks who are sitting in the room this evening. You may also come forward and wordlessly light a candle of commemoration and then simply return to your seat. And now I open the floor for the sharing of these important matters of our lives. And I would begin with the central candle, candle of memory for Ruth Hersko, longtime member of First Unitarian Society, whose memorial service was held here earlier today. I have a joy that my wife got to spend a week in warm Florida with her mother this week. My father-in-law passed away a couple months ago, so it was a joy she got to spend that time with her. The sorrow is that she has to come back. I have our baby brother able to join us here. My sorrow is from my brother-in-law, David, who is a recently diagnosed with lung cancer. And the joy is that the treatment is probably going to give him a few more. The sorrow is for the families of those lost in Paris last week. And the joy is for the love and prayers for those people. Hello. My joy is that I think this is the first time I want to say in a hundred years that I might have had my family all together around the Thanksgiving table. We had four pull-in yesterday from Connecticut, two on the road right now from Pennsylvania, and the rest are scattered throughout the Midwest. We start our celebration tomorrow with a big game luncheon for the Viking Pike Packer game, because many of us are transplants from Minnesota. And the daughter-in-laws are from Wisconsin, so it will be interesting. So I'm starting the day off with an old-fashioned Minnesota wild rice hot dish, and hope that kind of makes everybody happy. Signify any joys or sorrows that might have occurred to you as others were speaking, but that remain unexpressed. We hold those with equal concern and affection in our hearts. Please join me in the spirit of meditation. For the silence which soothes our souls and for the music which stirs us inside. For the earth and its miraculous lushness and the knowledge that it's all just a gift. For the children who keep us curious and for the aged who show us life's depth. For the visions which bolster our spirits and the places we love to call home. For the differences which make us unique and the convictions which link us as one. For all of this we are indeed lucky people. In this eleventh month of the year with the cold, damp and dark closing in, we pause to give thanks for all that we have. We pause to say that because of it all we are undeniably a lucky people. Let us continue on in just a moment more of silence. Blessed be and amen. And now as we turn to hymn number 322, singing verses 1, 2 and 5, we invite our children to leave for their classes. This well-known passage from the Gospel of Matthew, the sixth chapter. Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you shall eat, what you shall drink, or about your body, what you shall wear. Is not life more than food and the body is it not more than clothing? Look you to the birds of the air, they neither sow nor do they reap nor gather into barns and yet your heavenly Father, He feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And can any of you, by worrying, add a single hour to the span of life? Why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow. They neither toil nor do they spin and yet I tell you not even Solomon in all of his glory was clothed as one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you? O you of little faith. Therefore do not worry saying what will we eat, what will we drink, what will we wear. Strive first for the kingdom and its righteousness and all these things will be given unto you as well. So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today's trouble, that's enough for today. And then in a rather different and contrasting vein, this antidote from Robert Folgem's book, What on Earth Have I Done? A friend of mine, Brie, who was twelve at the time of this story, she's willing to go anywhere with me that involves dressing up. She likes my company and I like hers. And we both like looking good and laughing hard. She's my kind of guy. Technically speaking, she's my grandchild. But I emphasize that we are friends out of mutual admiration, not merely because we are blood kin. She is old and she is wise beyond her years. And I am young and goofy behind my years. She aspires to adulthood, but hasn't quite got the hang of it. And I know what's required of adults, but I can't get used to being one. Now with regard to dress up occasions, one in particular, Brie went along with me to a wedding where I was the ministerial officiant. It was a very romantic occasion that went off much better than I had expected.  Miraculous. The bride and groom lived happily after that, at least as long as the reception. Laughter, tears, hugging, dancing, eating, drinking, whoopee, home run with the bases loaded. During the ride home, Brie was unusually quiet. I parked the car and we walked hand in hand toward my house where she was going to spend the night. Still quiet. Then suddenly she said, I wonder where he is tonight? You know, him. The man I'm going to marry someday. The father of your great grandchildren. He must be out there somewhere. Where is he? I can't imagine. Why do you ask? Well, said Brie, I worry about him. I hope he's okay. Well, I say if he's going to meet up with you somewhere down the road then I'm sure he must be fine. Safe in the hands of destiny. Silence. I looked down at her and saw trembling lips and teary eyes. What's wrong? Well, what if he got hit by a truck? What if he's out there hurt? I felt tears in my own eyes. That would be awful, I mumbled. Yes, she sobbed. He'd be so sad and so lonely without me. And just then we went through the kitchen door and my wife saw our distress. What's wrong with the two of you, she asked? Her husband was hit by a truck, I moaned. And we don't even know where he is or who's taking care of him. What? Underneath this story is the question that I often ask myself, Fogum writes, what will become of me? Someone once asked me, if you could know everything that will ever happen to you for the rest of your life, but you could not change a single thing about it, would you want to know? Some days, yes, mostly no. But I can't stop wondering, even if it makes no sense. Even if I don't really believe in destiny or the one and only, I still wondered. Meanwhile, the trucks of fate roll on by and the trick is not to get run over by one. The trick is to be there, alert by the side of the road with your thumb out. And then if that truck with your number on it just happens to come along, you will know, you will be watching and you will get in and you will go and the ride will be as long and as lovely as you had always imagined it would be. A little more of that, because Americans are, according to a 2002 World Health Survey, Americans are notoriously anxious people.  One in five of us suffers from an anxiety disorder of one sort or another. And we spend over $2 billion a year on medications to mitigate those conditions. This might seem strange that, given that the average American is amply supplied with the basics, food, shelter, proper clothing, schools, medical care, personal transportation, public safety. We get out exactly in the same position as the pilgrims who stepped off of the Mayflower 400 years ago in late November with little more than the clothes on their back. That first winter of 1620, half of those English refugees perished from exposure or poor nutrition. But thanks to Squanto and the remaining members of the Patuxet tribe, already decimated by diseases introduced by European explorers, because of the Patuxet assistance, the pilgrims adapted to their new surroundings, 60 or so of them were still around to celebrate with their gracious hosts, the Thanksgiving Day feast the following November, an event that was more than likely a traditional native harvest festival. It's perhaps ironic that the Patuxet were not more suspicious of these bad-smelling white interlopers who had occupied a site wherein better days, members of their own once numerous tribe had lived and worked. Without Indian assistance, the Plymouth Rock settlers would almost certainly have been up the creek. By contrast, in today's America, collective worry over refugees has led to both extreme rhetoric and extreme policy proposals. Over three million Syrians, an equal number of Iraqis, have now been displaced due to conflicts that the U.S. helped to instigate and for which we bear significant responsibility. And those burgeoning numbers have created a resettlement nightmare in the countries of Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon and more recently in Europe. Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children have fled their war-torn countries seeking asylum, straining the capacity of countries ill-equipped to absorb them. And now, after recent terror attacks in Paris, persons of Middle Eastern extraction stand under a very dark cloud of suspicion. Now perhaps, given Americans still vivid memories of 9-11, we should not be surprised that so many of our own citizens seem so worried. More worried, it seems, than the British, the Germans, and even the French. You know, despite the carnage created by those ISIS operatives eight days ago, President Francois Mitter Hollande has renewed his country's commitment to accept a large number of Syrian refugees. European nations are indeed tightening their security. They're taking additional steps to ensure their citizen safety, but they are not reacting with the paranoia being displayed on this side of the Atlantic. Here, there have been calls to close the door to further Syrian immigration, to allow only Syrian Christians to enter the U.S. The governors of 31 states have now declared Middle Eastern refugees to be persona non gratis. Just two days ago, Indiana's governor refused entry to two Syrian families that had been living in a Jordanian camp for the past three years. Other proposals have included closing all of America's mosques and creating a national Muslim database. Faced with growing opposition to his own resettlement plan, President Obama has remained defiant. Slamming the door in the face of refugees would betray our deepest values, he tweeted. That's not who we are, and it is not what we are going to do. Well, that comment hardly satisfied South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy, who is demanding a risk-free immigration plan that guarantees America's absolute safety. Why do Americans worry so much? Why have we become so fearful? Well, truth be told, this is nothing new. The 1850s saw the rise of the American Party, better known to historians as the Know-Nothings. The Know-Nothings adamantly opposed Irish and more broadly Roman Catholic immigration. A few decades later and in the grip of the so-called Yellow Peril, the U.S. Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which shut the door to Chinese immigration for more than 60 years. And, of course, more recently, politicians have stoked American spheres of immigrants from south of our border. It is indeed puzzling that a country comprised almost entirely of immigrants and their offspring would turn out to be so inhospitable toward those who are seeking the very same opportunities as my German, Swedish, and English ancestors. Is it the violence that we are afraid of? Statistics indicate that Latino immigrants, documented and undocumented, commit violent crimes at a significantly lower rate than the American population as a whole. As Jonathan Roush wrote in The Atlantic last spring, President Obama catches flak when he lectures the American public not to be so darn worried. If you watch the nightly news, he said, it feels like the world is falling apart. I promise you, he said, that things are much less dangerous now than they were 20 years ago or 30 years ago. And you know what, Roush continues? Obama is right, and the alarmists are simply wrong. Violent crime in this country has declined by 70% since the early 1990s. And in 2011, the homicide rate in America reached its lowest level since 1963.  Roush quotes Stephanie Rogolo of the Libertarian Cato Institute, who observes that no great power in world history has come close to enjoying the traditional state security that the U.S. does today. Human beings are, Roush allows, hardwired to overreact to perceived threats. And in an earlier era, that hypervigilance did serve us well as a protective function. The snap of a twig, the sight of a shadowy figure, could alert us to a dangerous predator. But today, however, this attribute can often be maladaptive, leading us to take the kind of extreme measures to adopt state and national policies that will end up undermining our freedoms and ultimately serving to reduce rather than enhance our security. Roush says that memory also plays a role in all of this. Incidents of murder and mayhem make a much deeper impression on us than long stretches of peace and serenity. We conjure up a world that is fairly teeming with perils and pitfalls, and we tend therefore to overestimate the likelihood of calamitous events in the future. That's one side of the story. But none of the foregoing should be construed as an argument against worry and its place in our emotional repertory. While we should not allow fear to override common sense and compassion, complacency carries with it some real dangers of its own. In that same Atlantic article, Jonathan Roush characterized this back last March. He characterized ISIS as an almost entirely local menace, one that lacks an active lethal presence in either Western Europe or in the United States. Well, last week we learned the hard way that this was not the case. So perhaps those who had been entrusted with Francis security should have worried a little more. Worry, in other words, is by no means an unnecessary or inexpedient emotion. Problems arise, yes, when worry becomes excessive or chronic or misdirected. There are times that call for worry. There are occasions that warrant it. Yes, Jesus counseled his listeners not to give any thought to the moral to simply take care of business today. Can any of you, by worrying, he said, add a single hour to your life? Well, actually, yes, you can. Worry, that intuitive sense that something isn't quite right, that feeling of impending peril can protect us, can protect our loved ones, can add hours to our lives. Worry begets vigilance exactly what we need to stay out of harm's way. Robert Folgem's experience with his granddaughter, who was worried to tears about the safety of her future husband, that highlights a type of concern that seems just a bit out of whack. But Folgem's conclusion is the right one. We need to stay alert, because if there is a truck with our name on it barreling down upon us, it's reasonable to worry about it, reasonable to worry about the sobriety and the skills of that driver out there. Now, worry does, of course, create stress. And in extreme cases, it can become an anxiety disorder with physical symptoms that include palpitations, hypertension, insomnia, and even shorter life expectancy. Clearly, heightened worry like this does not serve us well. But moderate worry may. For example, a recent study published in the journal Emotion tested this thesis. Does worry help us on a sampling of students who were taking the bar exam? Now, once these students had completed the testing, they were awaiting the results, and some of those students adopted a kind of a fatalistic attitude, just relax, what will be, will be. Others, however, were anxious and they found it very difficult to tamp down their worries. They would hope for the best, in themselves, for possible failure. Now, once the scores were posted, which group was better prepared to handle the information they received? Turns out, the warriors. They were both more thrilled if they passed and less devastated if they failed. As Dr. Kate Sweeney observed, if the news was bad, the warriors were ready with a productive, reasonable response. If they passed, they were absolutely elated. But woe to those who remained calm. Those who sailed through the waiting period were shattered and paralyzed by the bad news, and if they got good news, well, they were underwhelmed. So does worry get an undeserved bad rap? To a certain extent, it probably does. If worry raises our stress level, we presume that it should be avoided because the stress we know is unhealthy. But that may be an oversimplification because recent research suggests that generally speaking, stress is harmful only if the subject believes it is harmful. If we reframe the experience of stress and regard it in a more positive light, its physiological effects are dampened. Over 100,000 Americans, Kelly McDonough argues, may have died prematurely, but not from stress. They died from the belief that stress was bad for them. I once had a female colleague who served a large Unitarian Universalist congregation in Texas. She always struck me as a little bit wired, a little bit high strung, and stress she once conceded is my drug of choice. For me, that was another way of saying that she found stress in her life, particularly her professional life, rather than discomforting. And I share those sentiments. After nearly 40 years of public speaking, not a day goes by that I don't worry about what I'm going to say and how I'm going to say it. And the same holds true of rites of passage. Now, I've conducted over 700 weddings in my career, half that many memorial services, but I always worry every single time about getting it right. And worrying can be kept within manageable limits the psychologist John Agro Hall suggests. It helps prepare us to make the best performance that we possibly can. And worry also demonstrates active concern. Our children, especially when they enter adolescence and have begun chafing at the bit, may express frustration with what they see as exaggerated parental concern. Recoiling from our adult worries, they say, don't treat me like a kid. I know how to take care of myself. How many of you have heard that or the equivalent of it? But if, as parents, we don't share our worries, our kids may judge us to be apathetic, unconcerned, indifferent. Now, as long as it doesn't suffocate them or cause resentment, worry can reassure our sons and daughters that we really do care about their welfare. And this is true as well for non-family members who happen to fall within our orbit. In his powerful book, Just Mercy, Brian Stevenson, who has been litigating on behalf of condemned prisoners for over a quarter of a century, Steven admitted that after 25 years he had reached the point where he was just plain worn out from worrying. He worried about pending execution dates. He worried about upcoming decisions from the Supreme Court. He worried about having sufficient staffing and resources to carry on the fight. He worried about released prisoners who were struggling. And despite all of his accomplishments, Stevenson felt overwhelmed and he wrote, it's time to stop. I just can't do this anymore. But then, a few pages later, and like the protagonist in Samuel Beckett's novel, Unnavable, Stevenson said to himself, I can't go on, but I must go on. The beleaguered attorney realized that not only were his worries inescapable, they were appropriate for the situation. Those worries were what motivated him in his ongoing struggle for just solutions. For Brian Stevenson, the emotion is not disabling because he can move from the pain of worry to constructive activities that prove to be worry's antidote. And we can do the same. But this means that we have to be selective, letting go of sources of worry and anxiety over which we can exert little if any influence, and turning our attention instead toward issues where we just might have some leverage. At a personal level, that might mean being more intentional about planning for our retirement, particularly if we're worried about our finances when we do retire. If we're a parent, it may mean keeping closer tabs on the social media that our children are using. And in the social and political sphere, there are many issues that are worth worrying about. The criminalization of poverty, hostility toward the Muslim faith and its members, glaring inequalities in our own community, in housing, education, and employment. We worry a lot about the future without there being anything that we can really do about it, Art Markham observes. So find an action you can perform and engage with it. Now, can we really do this? Can we really choose not to worry about certain things, to be selective about what we are going to worry about? According to the Stanford anthropologist, T.H. Lurman, around a third of us are born with a genetic predisposition for higher levels of anxiety, which may make it harder for at least some of us to worry less. And, furthermore, over exposure to the sensationalist, conflict-driven media increases our propensity to worry. You know, these days I think many Americans suffer from a kind of free-floating anxiety that then latches onto every disaster desgeur raising it to near-panic levels. And it's important, therefore, to find things where we can be effective and also to develop a strategy that can help us to understand and moderate our worry. Because when we lose the sense of having choice and we forget that things change, then those negative mind-states tend to solidify and they begin to seem permanent, Sharon Salzberg writes. A mindfulness practice can lead to self-empowerment. The ability, she says, to face our demons and to find the strength to stare them down. In other words, attempts to repress or to run away from our worry, that's typically not going to work. But if we allow those anxieties to enter and pass through consciousness, then we may be able, over time, to identify their true source, to put them in proper perspective and to control our own reactivity. Steady yourself and see that it is your own thinking that darkens your world, John O'Donoghue writes. But search and you will find a diamond thought of light and a new confidence will come alive to urge you toward that higher ground where your imagination will learn to engage differently as its most rewarding threshold. Blessed be. This being the Thanksgiving season, we will be collecting turkeys and fixings and also money for the Saint Vinnie de Paul food pantry, the largest food pantry in the county. And we will be directing those gifts to people who cannot afford a Thanksgiving dinner in 2015. Please be generous. I invite you now to rise once more from your body and spirit as we sing together him number 151. Gratitude for the wondrous gifts that are ours and moved by the desire to share this undeserved bounty with life's fellow travelers. We prepare now to re-enter the world as it is. May we leave here sensitized to the world's unfulfilled needs, but also with a song of Thanksgiving on our lips to the creator and sustainer of this daily miracle that I am and we are. Blessed be and amen.


David Glasgow Farragut was a man of the sea from his earliest years. When he was only eight years old, his mother died, and he was made the ward of Navy Captain David Porter. This outstanding naval officer taught the young Farragut the importance of carefully planning a task in advance, the importance of performing each detail with skill and care. And of following through the overall plan with unwavering resolution, factors that were basic reasons for Farragut's becoming one of the greatest leaders and officers in American naval history. When he was only nine and a half, he was given a midshipman's warrant, and his Navy career was launched. When the War of 1812 broke out with Britain, Farragut was aboard the frigate Essex with Captain Porter in command. On August 13th, the Essex fought and defeated the Alert, a 20-gun British sloop. The Alert was the first British man of war to be taken in the War of 1812. The Essex took a large number of British prisoners aboard. Sullen and ugly, they plotted to take over the ship. On the night set for the attack, the watchful 10-year-old Farragut saw the leader, pistol-drawn, pass his hammock. Sensing what was going on, Farragut slipped from his hammock and crept noiselessly to Captain Porter's cabin in hopes of warning him. Thus, Farragut showed at a very early age the coolness and resolute courage that were among his greatest attributes. His brave deed gave Captain Porter the opportunity to arouse his crew, to press the revolt, and save the ship. After a highly successful cruise in the Atlantic, the Essex was ordered into the South Atlantic to join the Constitution and the Hornet in operations against the British fleet. But no rendezvous could be made with these vessels. Captain Porter found himself alone off the coast of Brazil, dangerously low on stores, and with a possibility of attack by overwhelmingly superior British forces and ever present danger. His original orders had been to cruise in the South Atlantic and then proceed to the Pacific. So Porter set sail for Valparaiso, Chile, the nearest friendly port. The Essex was the first U.S. naval vessel to round Cape Horn. She arrived at Valparaiso in March, 1813. The Essex found the whale-rich Pacific waters a profitable hunting ground for British ships. The Essex proceeded to capture over half the entire English whaling fleet. Captain Porter's prizes were so numerous that the 11-year-old Farragut was put in charge of a captured whaler, the Barclay. In his first experience at command, Farragut handled himself with great ability and safely sailed his prize to Valparaiso and then rejoined the Essex. The British eventually caught up with the Essex. The Essex found herself in a hopeless battle with two big British men of war, the Cherub and the Phoebe. As the uneven battle raged, the young Farragut proved himself to be of tremendous value to Captain Porter. In his own words, Farragut later said, During the action, I performed the duties of Captain Sade, water gunner, powder boy, and messenger. In fact, I did everything that was required of me. Although he was but 12, Farragut had learned so much in his few years at sea that he was more valuable to Captain Porter than many adult members of the crew. He contributed much to the excellent account of herself given by the outclassed Essex in her last battle. Farragut served on many ships in the 10 years following the War of 1812. He received his Lieutenant's epaulette in 1825. He was next ordered to the receiving ship at Norfolk. Here, he broke all precedent by establishing a school for uneducated enlisted men. Farragut's own formal schooling was meager. He had educated himself by taking every possible opportunity to read, study, and learn. He wanted his men to have a similar opportunity to educate themselves. He knew the educated man learns more quickly, advances faster, and does an overall superior job. In 1832, he became executive officer of the Natchez, his first big job afloat. As a result of his early training and great zeal, he quickly made his mark as an outstanding executive officer. A fellow officer said of him, Never was a crew of a man of war better disciplined or more content or happy. The moment all hands were called and Farragut took the trumpet, every man under him was alive and eager for duty. On one occasion, he took the Natchez out of the harbor of Rio against a strong headwind. This required superb seamanship since the harbor entrance is quite narrow. There were several foreign men of war in port whose officers and crews were watching closely. Many declared that under these conditions, he could not clear the harbor successfully, but it was done without balk or failure. All hands, officers and men felt the glow of pride and satisfaction from serving with such an accomplished seamen. Farragut was appointed to the rank of commander in 1841. When the war with Mexico broke out, he was on shore duty in Norfolk. One of the great operations planned by the Army and Navy was an amphibious assault on Vera Cruz. With Vera Cruz taken, the way would be open for an assault on Mexico City itself. Farragut had served in the Gulf of Mexico on several tours of duty. He'd also been in command of the Sloup Gehry and present on the scene when Ulloa, the chief defense of Vera Cruz was captured by the French. He was in the castle a few minutes after its surrender and made a most careful study of the fort and its defenses. With the foresight of a dedicated officer, he felt such information might well be valuable to the United States Navy at some time in the future. Thus, at the start of the Mexican War, few naval officers knew Vera Cruz or the Mexican coast better than he did. Because of this unusual knowledge, Farragut was extremely eager to participate in the Mexican campaign and wrote several letters to the Secretary of the Navy requesting a command. In 1847, he was given command of the USS Saratoga with orders to proceed to the Vera Cruz area. Because of a shortage of enlisted men, he was forced to sail for Mexico with his crew 10% short and largely untrained. With his typical efficiency, Farragut carefully trained his men on the voyage south and by the time he arrived off Vera Cruz, the ship and the crew were ready for action. But the castle of San Juan de Ulloa, as well as Vera Cruz, had already surrendered. Soon after this, the disappointed Farragut was given the monotonous duty of blockading the coast. This was his uninspiring task until the war ended. In the following years, Farragut served as executive officer of the USS Pennsylvania, found at the Maryland Navy Yard and, while there, was commissioned captain in 1856. He took command of the USS Brooklyn in 1859. In 1861, he returned to Norfolk to await orders. Tension between the north and the south was becoming daily more acute. This put Farragut in a peculiarly embarrassing position, for Farragut's family and wife were all from the south. On the day Virginia ceded from the Union, Farragut was discussing the situation with friends. In my opinion, President Lincoln is fully justified in mobilizing the federal troops. A person with such sentiment, sir, cannot live in Norfolk. Without hesitation, Farragut courageously made up his mind to leave Norfolk and join the northern cause. That night, he and his wife and son left for New York, where he reported for duty. Thus did Farragut make the extremely difficult decision to fulfill his oath to defend his country, come what might. Farragut's next great adventure was to be the capture of the city of New Orleans. New Orleans, largest city in the Confederacy, was a vital link in the system of trade between the south and the countries abroad. Europe needed the cotton raised in the south, and its sale gave the south the wealth it needed to carry on the war. In addition, the city was an important manufacturing center and a big supply area for the Confederate forces. So the capture of the city would be a great loss to the south. But three great obstacles made its capture extremely hazardous. The first was the Mississippi River. New Orleans was about 100 miles upstream. To reach the city from the Gulf, an expedition would have to penetrate one of the five river mouths, all silt-filled and much too shallow for the large heavy-gunned ships that would be needed. The second barrier consisted of two very powerful forts, Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip. The third was the Confederate fleet. Despite these great odds, the Secretary of the Navy set up a committee to look for a man to head the assault. Farragut was 57 in seniority among the Navy's captains, but his service reputation was outstanding, and Secretary of the Navy Wells was impressed by his decision to support the Northern cause. The committee, noting his enthusiasm and self-confidence, recommended that he be promoted to flag officer and given command of the operation. In February 1862, he arrived at Ship Island in his flagship, the Hartford, and set up headquarters. Farragut was famous for his careful preparations and weeks of planning followed. In a letter to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Fox, Farragut requested more medical officers and medical supplies. He wrote, My greatest anxiety now is to have proper comforts for the sick and wounded, for somebody will be hurt. During the weeks of planning, Farragut worked closely with General Butler, who was in command of the Army troops in the operation. In fact, Butler provided much-needed fuel for the ships when it was extremely difficult for Farragut to obtain it. In preparation for taking his ships over the sandbars and into the Mississippi, Farragut had all excess weight removed. Even so, most of the ships had to be dragged over the bars, a back-breaking operation that took nearly a month. Each ship was then individually prepared for the assault. Extra spars and rigging were sent ashore. The vulnerable propulsion machinery was protected with anchor chains and sandbags. The exteriors of the ships were camouflaged with mud. While decks and gun carriages were whitewashed to make them more visible to the crew during a night action. Matting was rigged to protect the men from falling spars and splinters. Tubbs of water and sand were placed on deck for fighting fires. And special lightweight ladders were built to help the carpenters go over the side to repair shell damage to the hulls. Then as a prelude to the assault, Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip were bombarded for a full six days. At 2 a.m. on April 24th, 1862, Farragut hoisted two red lights in his flagship, Hartford. The bold plan to fight past the forts and capture New Orleans was underway. The ships were in three divisions with the center division led by the Hartford. Despite the early bombardment, the fire from the forts was very heavy. Even though resistance was fierce, 13 of the original 17 ships got past the forts. After a spirited engagement above the forts, they defeated the 11 ships of the Confederate Navy. And the next day anchored off New Orleans. During the next two years, Farragut participated in the campaign against Vicksburg. But his main effort was blockading the south's remaining Gulf Coast ports. During this period, he had been made a rear admiral, the first officer in the U.S. Navy to hold this newly created rank. He paid special attention to the Mobile Bay blockade. The fall of New Orleans had made Mobile the major cotton exporting city of the Gulf Coast. From it, fast blockade runners were getting out important quantities of cotton despite the northern blockade. Because of its strategic location and its importance to the blockade runners, the south had armed it to the teeth. Its fall would be of great significance in the overall strategy of the war. Two very powerful forts guarded the entrance to Mobile Bay and made the passage of attacking ships extremely hazardous. The narrow channel past the forts was also guarded by 200 torpedoes or mines as we would call them today. The mines were placed so that any ships passing through the channel had to move within very close range of Fort Morgan, the larger of the two forts. In addition, a powerful ironclad that Tennessee patrolled Mobile Bay with three other ships. Nevertheless, Farragut intended to take his available forces and capture Mobile Bay. Farragut's plan for the assault was three-fold. Troops were to land to the rear of the forts with naval forces furnishing fire support for the assault. The four monitors were to enter the channel first, pass close to Fort Morgan, and thereby attract most of its fire. Seven pairs of wooden warships, lashed together, would make the run past the forts during daylight. The larger ships would shield the smaller ones from the fire from Fort Morgan. When the ships entered the bay, the monitors were to engage the Tennessee. In his usual thorough manner, Farragut ordered the ships stripped for action, camouflaged, and made ready as they had been at New Orleans. After weeks of preparation, Farragut gave the order to start the assault on August 5th, 1864. Farragut climbed into the rigging of the Hartford to get a better view of the operation. The ships entered the channel in two columns as planned. Difficulties developed almost immediately. As the fleet neared the narrow channel under Fort Morgan, the enemy ironclad Tennessee moved into a position to attack. The leading Union monitor, Tecumseh, somewhat in advance of the column of wooden ships, hit a mine and sank almost immediately. Farragut ordered a gunboat to lower a boat and pick up survivors. At this point, the Brooklyn, the leading vessel in the column of heavies, fearful of entering the minefield, reversed its engines and stopped. The captain of the Brooklyn shouted a warning about the mines to Farragut. Farragut realized that the situation was critical and could quickly become disastrous unless he acted. The Brooklyn was still motionless and there was the imminent danger of the ships' astern in the narrow passage, being forced to stop, drifting into each other and becoming perfect targets for the defending gunners. It seemed almost impossible for the Hartford to lead the column past the Brooklyn. The tactical situation was such that Farragut was faced with but two alternatives. The first was to lead the column of heavies through the treacherous torpedo field, for his monitors were already in the regular channel. The second was to retreat. Farragut had to decide in seconds whether to proceed or attempt to reverse course and withdraw from Mobile Bay, making the operation a complete failure. Later, he said, it was the supreme moment of my life. Farragut made a split-second prayer for divine guidance and inner voice seemed to reply, go on. Thus, amidst the smoke and flame of battle on that desperate August day, came the ringing words of one of the bravest orders in military history. Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! Once underway, the column of ships straightened out in a disciplined manner. Farragut took his ships down the port side of the immobile Brooklyn and through the torpedo field. He reasoned that his own ship would explode many of these mines and others would be defective. Thus, enough ships would get through to dominate Mobile Bay. The plan worked. No more ships were lost and the column steamed triumphantly into the bay. One major threat remained, the iron-clad Tennessee. The Tennessee had rifled guns that were of greater range than any guns in Farragut's force. Tactically, the Tennessee, under the protection of Fort Morgan's guns, should have engaged Farragut's ships at a distance. Instead, it attacked head-on. After a short desperate fight, the Tennessee surrendered. Soon after, the forts guarding Mobile Bay surrendered to the attacking army forces. Mobile Bay capped Farragut's naval career. Shortly after the war, he retired as America's first admiral. Many valuable lessons in leadership can be learned from studying the career of this outstanding officer. Farragut had, first of all, a cool, unruffled courage, as was demonstrated when he helped to save the Essex. Even a sea-toughened youngster might have been frightened enough to remain quiet when the desperate men tried to seize the Essex. Instead, Farragut, without hesitation, put his life on the line to save his ship. In his scale of values, duty came above self. There is no substitute for true devotion to duty. It is one of the great traditions of the Navy that every man and officer must do everything in his power to carry on. Another important character trait was Farragut's desire to learn. He wanted to know everything about his own job and the jobs of others as well. This made him extremely confident in emergencies. He was able to command the Barclay when not quite 12 years old, and he carried out his duties with the ability of a full-grown man during the final battle of the Essex. Of course, his wealth of knowledge and experience played an important role in overcoming the tremendous odds at New Orleans and Mobile Bay. The more you know about your duties, the more valuable you are to your men, your ship, and your Navy, and the more effective leader you can be. A zeal for knowledge and a thirst to learn are characteristics of every outstanding naval leader. Throughout his career, Farragut was deeply concerned for the welfare of his men and grasped every opportunity to help them become better trained and educated. In battle two, their safety was uppermost in his mind. A successful leader is personally concerned with the character and welfare of his men. His victory in battle or in peacetime, the performance of his unit depends upon the loyalty and respect of his subordinates. This loyalty and respect reflects the leader's devotion to duty and his sincere realization that his subordinates are equally vital to his success. Another important feature of Farragut's character was the mature objective view he took of events. For example, he had every reason to be deeply disappointed at his minor role in the Mexican War, considering how much he knew about the Mexican coast and its defenses and how laboriously the knowledge had been gained. But he accepted his assignment to blockade duty with quiet patience and full understanding of the necessity of the mission. The leader with self-confidence in his ability does not have to be continually in the thick of things. He accepts routine assignments with the same devotion to duty as spectacular ones. No naval leader had a greater sense of personal responsibility than Farragut. This helped him in making many crucial decisions. One such example was his decision to support the northern cause during the Civil War. His home was in the south, his wife was a southerner, and the social and political pressure to join forces with the Confederacy was enormous. But instead, he deliberately chose the hard road because to him, honor demanded that he follow the dictates of his own conscience. The Navy man throughout his career finds his sense of personal responsibility put to the test many times. Leadership demands that he never hesitate to do what duty demands, rather than what is expedient or what he would like to do. Integrity that never swerves or weakens, even under the most trying conditions, is a basic prerequisite of true leadership. Another clue to Farragut's success was his extremely careful planning. He believed in working out a plan of action in the greatest detail and then painstakingly preparing ships and crew to put the plan into action. When time was available, he used it to the utmost, but every bit of preparation paid off handsomely. True leadership is based on the willingness to take the time and trouble to plan carefully, prepare meticulously, and train thoroughly. Perhaps the greatest tribute of all that can be paid to Farragut was the way he inspired others. Thus years later, Dewey faced seemingly overwhelming odds at Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War. At this highly critical moment, he asked himself the question, what would Farragut do? The answer was go on. Dewey did go on to a great and decisive victory. Thus was Farragut, like all exceptional leaders, an inspiration to the Navy men of his own time and the generations that followed. By following Farragut's example, the Navy man of today can keep alive the great traditions of the past and develop a self-discipline that keeps in proper perspective performance, integrity, self, and country.


P&G plans to submit its BOR, a second BOR, and start 2022-2024 planning and addressing the PTR progress. So one of the impacts that we sort of noticed from our head on our submissions, like the submission of the first National Communications was 2002 and then the second National Communications was 2016. Now we decided to address that issue by instituting and finalizing the process. The CCPDA, Climate Change and Human Authority is responsible for preparing these reports. And through this process, we're able to submit the first P&RT report in 2019, and currently we just prepared our second P&RT report which we will be submitting this year. So, see if it's actually improved the submission dates. I think the main lesson learned is the political commitment from other countries. Commitment is very important to understand the reporting purposes and the commitment that P&G government or countries are putting forward under the UNFCCC. Like I mentioned earlier, previously it was more project-based. When the consultant left, they left it on the information data so it was quite a huge challenge. It was also time-consuming. We had to spend a lot of resources and effort to try to collect all those historic data again and also identify the data source. So I believe the archiving system is actually going to solve this problem, solve this issue. I think the main important thing for P&G is to build in capacity for experts. We want more national experts. So in future we have people that can work on these systems and greenhouse gases especially in venturi, exposing experts to international meetings, especially the negotiations. It's very important to understand their role.


So, the problem that we're going to do is ethyl alcohol is prepared industrial by the reaction of ethylene C2H4 with water, H2O. What is the percent yield of the reaction if 4.6 grams of ethylene is 4.7 grams of ethyl alcohol plus 1. So let's go ahead and do this. So it gives you the reaction equation, this is C2H4. So it also gives us the mass of ethylene, C2H4, 4.6 grams, and it also gives us the mass of ethyl alcohol as 4.7. So what's the percent yield? Do we just say 4.6 divided by 4.7 and knock it out? No. We've got to do what? Convert it to moles. Convert it to moles. And this reaction, hopefully you guys are asking, well, how do I know which one is the limiting reagent? Okay? Hopefully that was the question you're asking yourself because they don't give you the mass of water, right? Remember what we said, well, if they don't give, first of all, if they don't give you the mass, then they must be saying the other things, the limiting reagent, okay? So in this case, ethylene is, but not to mention the fact that water is very inexpensive. Remember when we were talking about limiting reagents? Limiting reagents are usually the more expensive or the less prominent or predominant thing. So ethylene, of course, is going to be the limiting reagent. If they don't, obviously I don't expect you guys to always get that, you know? But if they don't give it to you, then you just do assume that that one is the limiting reagent. Okay? So let's go ahead and figure this out. So we've got to figure out, well, what's the molar mass of both of these things? Okay? Ethylene is going to be 2 times 12.01 plus 4. So molar mass of ethylene is 28.052 grams per one mole, and this is C2H4. So that's going to give us the number of moles of ethylene. Yeah, let's go out to a few digits for ethylene. 6, well, we'll just say 6 more. We'll worry about our sick things at the very end, okay? And now we've got to do the same for ethanol. So we know one mole, 0, 6, 8 grams of ethanol. The number of moles that I got of ethanol are 0.102 moles of C2H6. Okay? So now we're comparing what is the liquid, the liquid with the product. We've figured out what the percent yield is. Is everybody okay with that? So figure out the percent yield. The number of moles of limiting reagent divided by the number of moles product divided by the number of moles limiting reagent. So first, yeah, 1, 1, 2, moles divided by 4, moles times 100 percent. Notice the moles cancel, 0.2 percent. But when we come back over here, it's 2, 6, 8. So let's just take it to 2, 6, 6. So it's going to be 62 percent yield. I think it's a 0.164 mole of C2H4 of limiting reagent. Pardon? Why was that top 1 of limiting reagent taken from that first? Because this is the reagent in excess. We will. Yeah. So, I mean, it don't give you any information about it. So, I mean, this, what are you saying? Why isn't this it? Yeah. This is the product. This is not something that you're, this is not a reactant. This is a problem. I think you're understanding this. So the thing is, is the limiting reagent is going to be one of the reactants here, you know? This is the product. Okay. So you can only, it's like the race. Remember we were talking about the race? So the limiting reagent of a race would be how many people started it, okay? So, and we're talking about starters, right? It could be only this thing or this thing, right? This is like how many finished it, okay? So if we had 164 that started it and 102 that finished it, that's what we're getting our percent from. Okay. Does that make more sense? Yeah. Okay, cool. Just think about it like a race, okay? Yeah. Like multiple reactants, so you have to actually figure out. You have to figure out what the limiting reagent is, right? So if in this case it said the mass of water is, I don't know, 18.02 grams, right? Then you'd have to use that to see if that's the limiting reagent. Like would it be the one with the least amount of moles? The least amount of moles. So in this case, this, right, moles of H2O, right? So I compare that to that, which one's less? The echo one, right? So that's still the limiting reagent, okay? Does that answer your question? Does that answer your question too? Make more sense now? Okay, good. Any other questions about that? So remember, you've got to do the limiting reagent first if they're both given to you.