So we can continue before we get into the next section here which is about God's blueprint for the local church. I was thinking as different ones of us we were sharing, if there are those who are aspiring church planters, you know, just know that the journey is not easy. But when it is from God, He gives the grace, He gives the strength. So I'm reminded of a mother giving birth. So it's not easy. You ask any mother, it's definitely never easy. But the joy of seeing the baby or the child or the fruit of that labor. In this case it's a spiritual fruit. That gives us all the joy and that is totally worth it. So I just do not want any of us to feel that it's so hard. It can be very difficult to actually move in this direction of church planting and all that. But if God has called you, it's a journey of faith. And so just step forward and as much as it's challenging, it's exciting. And Sister Rupa also said that she said adventure is okay. It's a good adventure and we will get to know God better. We'll get to learn to depend on God more and it's a beautiful journey. So I just want to encourage those who are aspiring to look at it as a wonderful assignment that God wants to hand you. So with that we can move on to the next section here which is about God's blueprint for the local church. So now I am on page 47 in the House of God APC publication. So when we want to build something, we all know that there needs to be a plan put in place. And generally people use a blueprint and then they construct a building. So similarly we must think about the blueprint that God has for the local church before going ahead and building it. Because what are we doing? We are talking about planting God's house, nurturing God's house, taking care of God's house. But how does God want that to be done? That's the question we're asking. So we need to know that blueprint or that pattern from God himself. Now when we talk about church, all of us in this class, we can have our own ideas. We can have our own preferences. We might think that church should look this way or that way. But ultimately it's God's opinion that matters about what the local church is supposed to be or what the global body of Christ is supposed to be. So when we are building the house of God, it's best to refer to the characteristics which are pointed out in God's word as blueprint for us to build the church. So in the word of God, there are at least 10 areas that are highlighted which we are going to study in this course and we must build the local church in line with those 10 areas. Now there are images given in the Bible, things like the church is the bride of Christ, the church is the army, the temple of God. So there are 10 such blueprints and each one of them means something. So we will expand on every single one of them as we go forward. And whether we are a pastor, whether we are a leader of a church or we might say that no, I'm not in that capacity yet. I'm just serving at another level. But that doesn't matter. Every single one of us who is serving the church must bear in mind that we are here to build according to God's blueprint, not our blueprint. So that's what we will discuss and we trust that that will help all of us to renew our minds to what the church should really look like. And I think it's page 132. If you could just go along with me to that page. So, sorry, 119. Yeah, 119, sorry. So that captures all the 10 images of what the church is supposed to be. So I think if you have a look at this, you will know the topics that we're going to discuss. So it's listed out for us, church as the bride, where we will talk about the love between the church and Christ. The church as the house of prayer and worship, where we will talk about how God wants us to be in this position of seeking Him. The church as a temple where God is honored, where Christ is honored. The wine and the branches. So that's a picture of intimacy, how God really wants us to be connected to Him. The church as a lampstand or a source of light in the dark world. The church as the body of Christ, us being one with Christ and representing Christ to the world. The church as a family of God. So the relationships within the church and our relationship with one another, how that is meant to look. We will discuss about that. The pillar of truth. The church being the upholder of truth in a world where the standards are constantly shifting. Then the church as God's chosen people where we demonstrate kingdom, culture and values to the people. And then the church as an army where we exercise our authority, we exercise our dominion on spiritual darkness. So these are the 10 pictures that we will go to one by one. Today we will take up the first one which is the church as the body of Christ. So we can go back to page 47. So we will learn along all these lines. There is a passage from 1 Corinthians chapter 3 where Paul writes to the Corinthian believers and he says that when he does his work for the house of God or the church, he builds as a wise master builder. So what he is referring to is he is saying basically he goes by the instructions that God has given him according to God's blueprint. He says as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation and another builds on it. Remember we said that there are coworkers. There are many people who are building the kingdom of God and everybody works together. And then he goes on to talk about how he is careful to build with gold, silver, precious stones because whatever work we do, eventually it is going to get tested and tested by fire. So he kind of exhorts and warns the people who are engaging in building God's house to use the material which will not perish. So that refers to us building the house of God with spiritual resources and with the right intentions. So we must be careful to do that. If we don't do it that way, how else can we build the church? We can build it with man-made ideas. We can build it for carnal reasons, fleshly reasons. We could build it just directed by how the market goes up, goes down. These are the best techniques available. So many things. We could do our research and build the church in that way. That is not directed by the word, that's not directed by the Holy Spirit. And therefore that work will not last for eternity. So we must bear in mind that God's work should be done in God's way. So let's move on to talking about the body of Christ. So the church is the body of Christ. And as we see this picture, the human body, it's easy for us to understand and relate with. So let's look at the church as the body of Christ. So this scripture right on top, chapter 8, Colossians 118, it says, and he is the head of the body, the church who is the beginning, the first one from the dead that in all things he may have the preeminence. So it talks about a body and the head of the body is Christ. So he is the head of the body and who is the body? The church. So we in the church are the body and Christ is the head. So what are some things that we can learn from us, from the human body, right? And relate that to how the church should be. So we know that in a physical body, everything is connected. Now we talked about Christ being the head and us being the body. Obviously there's a connection. You don't have zero just the head floating around and the body moving on its own but that would be very scary. That doesn't work that way. So in the same manner we are connected to Christ. And when we are connected to Christ, the life of Christ is supposed to flow through the people of God. It's supposed to flow through the body because who is the body? The church is the body. That is our position. And we are told in Acts 17-28 that we live, move and have our being in Him. So in Him our connectedness with Christ is very, very important. So you could look at it in the broad way and say, yeah the church which is everyone who is a believer, everyone who is part of the kingdom of God and you could also look at it as how does this apply to my local church? So yes, in my local church this is the way every believer must relate to God. We live, move and have our being within Him. So every believer is supposed to be connected to the head of the body. If there is no connection and we could keep explaining all these things in detail. If there is a believer and the believer is not connected to God or the local church and there is no connection of the local church with Christ, then how is it the body of Christ? So relationship, intimacy, connectedness is important both individually and collectively. And we must keep that, we must maintain that. And to know that when the body and the head are connected, our identity flows. You could say in a way the entire body, we have an identity. But generally when we talk about a person, we can recall their face and say, oh this person but obviously we are not referring to the head separately and the body separately because when we are referring to the head we know that we mean one person, they are connected. So the identity of that person is their face. So in the same way the head of the church who is Christ Jesus, the body must receive its identity from the head. And that's how it should be. So how does this apply? Basically every believer needs to know who they are in Christ Jesus. So if we don't know that, we don't know who we are.  Then what happens? You really don't understand what you are about. So for the church, for the body, it's very important for that body to derive its identity from the head and for the identity to flow from the head. So our identity in Christ Jesus is what is important. Now as a local church we understand this. Every believer should know who they are in Christ Jesus. Now looking at various local churches that belong to the larger body of Christ, how can we interpret this? See even then, now we may belong to different denominations, we may belong to a certain way of doing church, we may belong to subscribing to a certain doctrine. So there are a lot of differences even among the so-called believers. But at the end of the day, we're all connected to the head and the head is connected to us. So how do we relate to someone who may not agree with our doctrine? As long as they are born again, they are part of the same body as us and they are connected to the head, we are connected to the head. So we relate to them with that kind of an honor. And we don't divide, don't bring divisions among the people who belong to the body of Christ. So that's how we would apply that. So yes, we've understood now that the body has a head and the head is the preeminent one. So the head makes the decisions, the body must be connected to the head and also that the identity of the body flows from the head. Now moving forward, what are the other things that come through? Because the church is the body of Christ. So the body represents the person. It represents the person. So we are told that we are the body of Christ. And we've already said that on the earth, we are the ones who have to exercise authority. And God has called the church to be that representative. A scripture here from Ephesians 1, verses 22 and 23. And he put all things under his feet and gave it to be head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all. Again that relationship between the head and the body. And we're told that God has put everything under whose feet, under the feet of Jesus. And Jesus is the head of the body. So if everything has been put under the feet of the head, everything has been put under the feet of the body as well. So Jesus rules and reigns with authority over every work of darkness. And that is true for the church, that is true for you and me. Because if something has been put under the feet of Jesus, it has been put under our feet. So we stand in authority and on the earth, we have to represent who Christ is. In the book of John 1st John, John writes seven times, he says, as he is about Christ Jesus, he exhausts the believer and says that you must represent the Lord Jesus. Walk in the light as he is in the light. Walk as he walked. See him, we see him as he is. So basically he's pointing us to Jesus every time and he's saying that we are called to be his representatives. So what we need to understand is that the body is here to continue revealing Christ to the world. And that is our task. So how should we reveal Christ? We must reveal Christ accurately. We must reveal him in a complete way, in a complete way the best that is possible. And of course we have his word working in us and his spirit working in us. But that's what we are called to represent the Lord Jesus.  So that again is a duty of the body. Now we also see that we can reveal Christ completely. So in your notes there is some explanation about that. So positionally we are told that we are complete in him. But of course as we are living out our life here on earth in a practical way we have to demonstrate that. And again that is a journey that can be a growth journey. But it is possible because Jesus Christ has already done it. We are already complete in him. So we can represent Jesus well. We can represent him completely. We can represent him accurately. So that's the job or that's the work of the body. Then the body is supposed to do what the head instructs it to do. So the head decides I am going to go jogging and the body has to follow. Now if the body doesn't follow it just the brain decides and the body doesn't move the head. Then there is a problem there. So in the same way when the Lord Jesus has revealed his purposes. When he has revealed his standards. If the body doesn't line up with it which is us every believer and the local church and the global church. If we don't align ourselves to that there will be a huge mismatch and that's not representing Christ correctly to the world. So whatever Jesus has said, whatever he has done, whatever he has purposed for the world. We are the ones who are in the place to execute it because we are in the world right now. So in a sense we could say that we are the hands and the feet of Jesus. He is the head but we are the hands, we are the feet and we are here to do the will of God. We move forward as representatives and hopefully people will receive us. Jesus said that the Father sent him and Jesus is sending us out.  So in that manner we are here to execute the purposes of God. So whatever gets done, I think we touched on this earlier in the purpose of the church. The mission of the church, how we must step out and there are so many different areas in our character. How we can have the fruit of the spirit in the works that we do, how we can demonstrate good works in carrying the power of God, demonstrating the power of God. We can reveal the glory of God. So we can be the hands and feet engaging in the matters of the world and bringing about that change, shedding the light of God in the places of darkness. So that's how we exercise our position that as the body, here is the other truth that we can learn. The body has many parts. The head is only one part which is the Lord Jesus Christ. But the body consists of various numbers. And similarly, the body of Christ which is the church consists of many members. So there are lots of individuals. How do we relate to these individuals who are also part of the body? In 1 Corinthians 12 verses 12 to 27, there is a passage that talks about relating with one another and honoring one another just the way the human body. Human body, there are many parts, they all have their functions. It's not that one body part is better than the other part because it gets to do a specific duty, not at all. There's no question of competition. There's no question of comparison. So the eye will do its part, the ear will do its part. Every body part has its duty to perform. And you can't really, what do you say? You can't not have that body part. And it is really essential. You can't just let go of a certain body part at any time because you need every single body part. So as we study this passage, we are able to take the truth from there and apply it to the kingdom of God, apply it to the church and the local church where we can say things like there are many members in the body of Christ. So if you look at the local church, you can say, yes, individually there are lots of people who belong to the body of Christ. And we could also say that every single person has their function. And each member is very much needed. You can't replace them.  They are very much needed in the body of Christ. And there does not have to be competition because each one is gifted in a different way and each one is called to perform a different function. So as long as we are doing our part joyfully and without competition, the body can accomplish what it is supposed to. Then we are not independent. So we can't say that we can exist on our own. That doesn't happen even in our body parts. Nothing exists separately. So in the same way in the church, people are dependent on one another. So we need each other. And we have to learn to grow together, learn to do life together. So we are not independent of each other. I think we have touched on most of the parts, most of the insights from this passage here. So basically, it's an encouragement to realize that we can live together. Because when you look at the church, the global church, it's about celebrating one another. We all exist. Different denominations exist. And we can learn to appreciate. We can learn to celebrate each person's gifting and function and bless one another and continue to be a part of the body of Christ. We don't really have to ask God to do away with one particular person or one particular denomination. A group of people whom we may not like. So that's not how the body works. So we trust God and we do our part. We learn to appreciate. We learn to celebrate one another. A few more insights from this passage. I'll just add these as well. God has placed each one where he saw it best for us. And as he was pleased. This is 1 Corinthians 12 and verse 18. So again, why is a certain person doing what they are doing? God knows best. Now we don't know why God has chosen each one in their positions. So once again, I talked about appreciating and celebrating one another. We must also appreciate and celebrate the decision that God has made in choosing different ones of us for different tasks. So God knows best why he has positioned us where he has. And then it takes all of us to make up the whole. Every single person is needed. Every single person can contribute to the life of the church. So we don't find some body parts not wanting to do their part on 2 days or 3 days. You can't just say that for this weekend my hands are taking a break.  It just doesn't work like that. Everyone has to step in. Every body part has to step in. So if the eye doesn't see then the mouth cannot speak and the hand doesn't move. Every body part is very much needed. And it's only when each one does their part that you make up the whole. So in the same way in the church, everyone's role is essential. Now what if somebody says okay, I'm not doing it. It does affect the others. So we must understand that everyone is needed. Everyone's contribution is important. And it's only when each one steps up that we can make up the whole. And nobody can claim independence. Also in this passage there's another key point which is that whatever God gives greater honour to what seems to have less honour. So the body parts which have less honour, God gives them greater honour is what we need. So how do we understand this? See in our site we might great responsibilities in a certain way. So if you see someone speaking from the pulpit or if you see someone on the stage, we might great that as a good ministry, great ministry. Whereas there can be others who come in early and they kind of clean up the place. They put the chairs, they do all the other work that is required for the church to actually begin to gather. Now who are we to say what is better than what is?  So for us whatever is seemingly less honourable, God is the one who can give it more honour. I am reminded of the Ministry of Intercession. The Ministry of Intercession is not in the public eye and there are so many people who serve faithfully, maybe their entire lifetime praying and nobody even knows their name. Nobody even knows they did it but in the sight of God there is great honour for the ministry that they have done. So in that manner the things that may be seemingly less honourable are actually more honourable in the sight of God. So God is the one who judges and we must not treat anybody, anybody's function in a light way. So that is an additional point there. And obviously the entire body must learn to work together and work well because if there are divisions, if one body part withholds its function the body can't work. So in the same way if there are divisions in the body of Christ among the people of God it affects the whole body. It affects, it slows down the work of the kingdom, whatever we said so far, representing Jesus, revealing Jesus, being the hands and feet of Jesus, all that gets hindered and hampered. So divisions and strife in the body is not something that God wants. So with the example of the human body, Paul actually tried to bring out all these insights and let people know that there are many of us who make up the whole and we have to learn to appreciate where God has put us, learn to honour one another and learn to work together, learn to keep away division, strife, hatred and things that destroy us. So these are some insights that we gained from this chapter. And in practicality what are the things that we can do for the local church? So we can teach them that the believer is the body of Christ and the believer belongs to the body of Christ. So the other things will follow, things like deriving identity from the head, being connected to the head and then, you know, flowing well with other believers. So this truth of us being the body of Christ helps us to live out our lives in this way. And of course, you know, as being a part of the body where the head has authority, we also move in the authority that God has given us. And we continue to execute the commands that the head gives us. And yeah, so those are some of the applications of this truth and some of the challenges. I'll share two challenges which I mentioned here in our notes but I'm sure we can discuss and we can talk some more after this. So one challenge which a church can have is having people from several cultural and social backgrounds. So when that happens, if they are not taught that they are the body of Christ and various parts have to, you know, learn to live together, learn to serve God together, there can be divisions within the church, right? So as a pastor and a leader, we have to be very, very sensitive and we have to make sure that we are building the church by instructing them to have one mind, one heart. You know, that's what Paul preached. He said you should have one heart and one mind. So if we notice any divisions, any cliques forming or people kind of wanting to be only within their own social group then we must see how to bring that, how to bridge, how can you kind of help these social groups and, you know, people from varied cultures to do life together in that local church, okay? So it's not easy but a pastor can be sensitive about that and with the guidance and the direction of the Holy Spirit address that matter and reminded of what happened in Acts chapter 6. Remember we discussed when there was an issue of serving food, there was a problem between the Hebrew speaking Jews and the Greek speaking Jews. So there's a cultural difference, okay? And because of the cultural difference, one group felt that their widows are being neglected but the leaders of the church, they didn't just brush off the concern and say, hey, forget it. It's okay. You know, learn to deal with it. They didn't do it that way but they took it up because there was a group, they were feeling left out. So the elders dealt with it. They appointed seven volunteers and they made sure that food was distributed equally, properly to among the widows of both the cultures, okay? And what happens at the end of that passage, you see that the church grew. The word went out, okay? So the way the leaders dealt with the division made all the difference and the church completely right. So when there are divisions, there can be differences in the local church. The leaders need to know how to address it in a positive way and what we are discussing in our other class, encourage kingdom culture. Encourage kingdom culture, which is beyond the nation that we come from and the background that we come from and all of that. So kingdom culture, that was the emphasis. Okay, yeah. Then the other challenge here is the non-commitment of some believers to a local body because they understand this truth that we are part of the body of Christ but they would like to subscribe to the idea that it's okay not to be planted in the local church because I'm part of the larger body of Christ. There's nothing wrong in what they're saying, okay? However, how do you do life if you're not planted in one local body? How do you stay accountable, right? If you're not planted in one body, how do you use your gifts and your grace to serve your brothers and sisters if you're floating around going to different churches every weekend, every other day or all over the place? You're not ready to commit to one local church. So that can happen when believers understand that they are part of the global body and the large body of Christ. So we can encourage the believers to choose to stay planted and committed in a local church. This can also happen when there are certain ministers of God who have to travel around a lot for their work and that's understandable, right? They have to travel around but sometimes it becomes an excuse where they don't want to be planted in any church or they don't want to be accountable to any local church. So that can become problematic. Sometimes they might travel around and visit various churches only to promote their ministry and nothing else. So that's also not nice, that's also not nice. So what we are saying is one is the believers need to understand this truth that they are part of the body of Christ and use the insights and live out the insights at the same time having understood what this means, the misapplication might also happen and that needs to be prevented. So that overall is what we see in this chapter. I'm going to pause at this time and if there are other thoughts that you may have or some questions that need to be answered we can deal with that. So in that case let me ask you a question. So how do you balance this truth of being a part of the local body and at the same time belonging to the larger body of Christ? Every single one of us is a part of the local church and the larger church. So how does it work? Yes, yes Harrison. I belong to a local church and I still go around with some other activities that relates to the things of God but I've not really found a balance towards handling the things in the local church and also addressing the ones outside or maybe a global outreach. Because the task I see before me in the local church is kind of time-consuming that I don't really have time to really address other things. One thing I've come to understand is that God has given us a different platform to share His Word. One other way I've used to manage the global outreach is through the Internet. So I'm seeing and it's something that I've come up with a concept of shooting and short films that relates to Christianity and the body of Christ. So if I cannot be there in person then I can use the platforms that I have to also reach out to as many as I want to reach out to. And I think this is the way I kind of balanced my time in the local church and in the global outreach. Thank you Harrison, thank you for sharing. So what you're saying is based on the gifts that God has given you and what is put in your heart you sort of divide your time between the local church and the other responsibilities. Yeah, the thing I want to also say is that there are some things that I see in the local church that I may not really have the attitude to express it the way I want to express it. Let me say that the way I see it, people may not accept it the way I see it. And how do I share that story? How do I tell what I see? And the best way I've come up is to show a movie that tells the story or show a short film that tells the story. Let me take for example, if I'm to tell my past story that what is happening here is not really right because for me, I may go through the world I've got to know to see whether such movement is biblical. And if it is not, then I'm like, I'm not really done with it. And how do I go to tell the authority that what you're doing is not right? Because you don't want to create confusion. You don't want to be seen as a rebellious Christian or a rebellious worker. And in those moments, you just ask the Holy Spirit for wisdom. But there are so many ways we just want to pass on the information that God has given us. And one way and one from me, from my own side of the story is that how can I really reach out to the people? And when you look at it, a lot of people are spending time on their phones, on their laptops. And the best way I can do that is to reach them through that medium that they pay attention to. And the more I'm busy creating content that will touch lives on the social media, the better for the social media. Because when you pick up your phone and you browse through or do your research, you want to see a lot of things that are contrary to the will of God, contrary to the word of God. And as we Christians, how do we come in to see that we change the narratives of this thing? And that's why I feel that it is very important that we use every medium that we have to propagate the gospel. Just like we are sharing here, if the initiative has not come up for a Bible college to be online, someone like me will not have the opportunity to partake in such a great moment like this. So it is very important that we use every medium. Because I do say that when the devil is getting more refined in his method in capturing souls, what is the Christian body doing? So why the devil is planning? We have to be ahead of him. So that's my take on it. Thank you. Yeah, sure, sure. Thank you. Thank you, Addison. Thank you for sharing. Yeah, so we get that. And also, I think for lack of time, we will not be able to take on any more questions. I wanted to add a few thoughts to what you said about in case the leadership and then some issues there. But we're going to talk about that in Kingdom Builders. So please excuse me because I know you have a class to catch and me too. So we will wrap up right now. And Samuel, maybe you could post your question on the screen page if you don't mind. Or we can respond to your question. It was a response to the question that you asked. Oh, response. OK, OK, OK, OK. Maybe next class. Next class. Yes. Sounds good. Sounds good. Yeah. OK. All right. Thank you everyone. Thank you. And I'll just say a quick word of prayer. We will close with that. Speaking to us, Father, for equipping us, Lord, with the truth of your word. Lord, we pray that every word, Lord, of yours will change us. It will transform us. It will renew us, Father God. And Lord, that we will keep moving. Lord, close it to you. And Father God, align ourselves, Lord, to your purposes. Lord, we continue to ask that your hand of blessing will be upon each one of us, Father God. And Lord, grant us your understanding and a lot of knowledge as we continue with the learning, Father. We thank you once again. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. So God bless you. Class, thank you once again. See you next week. Bye for now. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Bye. Thank you. Bye, everyone.


What's going on guys today? I am back with another Destiny 2 video and today I have a few little hidden secrets and references for you guys Nothing major, but one which in my opinion relates to Aerys Moran And I believe will be accessible some way or another when the full game comes out But before we go any further if you guys do enjoy the video leaving a like is much appreciated on my behalf Let's aim for 3000 likes. That'd be absolutely epic. I also have a couple of better calls to give away So two people who leave a comment and a like this video will be picked to receive the beta code Make sure your YouTube DMs are open. Okay, so the mission we do when we first select a character is where these things of interest are So make your way through the mission and you will eventually see Kade who shows off his gunslinger skills and takes out three of the red Legion with ease While this room right here if you didn't realize is actually the room which leads to the vanguard room This is exactly where the crucible vendors are set out Though we came through is located right behind where the crucible quartermaster would be Straight across is where Lord Shaq's chills offering bounties So following the path of the mission we come past where Aerys Moran normally is Notice she has gone for her mysterious vase is still here. What's weird about this is when you approach this vase You cannot melee it. You cannot shoot it. In fact, you kind of withdraw your weapon This happens normally when you can either access something or scan something could this vase give us further indication of what's happened here Will it give us a clue into the Aerys Moran story in Destiny 2? Will it give us lore to explore and maybe even a separate quest of some kind? Who knows one thing for sure is Aerys Moran's mysterious vases here And I believe it's here for a specific reason one which we will find out on a full games release Okay, so the next thing I want to show you guys is more of a sad story than anything else And it is the existence of the jukebox within the tower Many people call it the disco room a room you only really visit to equip emotes or check out there when he eventually comes Yeah, well within destiny 2 this area is locked off So you can't actually access the disco room and to be honest finding this area where the vanguard quartermaster and the Future Walkout vendor would be isn't straightforward due to it not being an area you travel through during this mission So to get to this area you first have to clear that this initial room you come to once this room is cleared You have to jump up to this platform to make your way to survive and help defend against the red Legion But instead of going forward with a mission go right as I do you will come to the area in question The area where the Future Walkout vendor would be an area where the vanguard quartermaster would be and where the dead orbit vendor would be So if you jump down to where the staircase Which leads to the jukebox room would have been you can actually access it But if you listen carefully you can actually hear the jukebox breathing its last breath you can hear music playing This is a dead end. We got to get back into the fight And then it kind of slows down like batteries are hooded out or something Which is so sad, but it's epic at the same time This guys will one day be a throwback to the good old times of destiny one you mark my words And I that note people I am ending the video if you enjoyed it leaving a like is much appreciated on my behalf If you spotted anything else in reference of destiny one Let me know what is down below in that comment section. Hope you enjoyed the video and I will see you on that next one


Do you think you still think Cheetah over Tua for MVP? You know what? I told you, as the more games that Tua continues to play, at some point, just the nature of the position, he's going to jump Tyree. I would have put him above Tyree right now.  Tua. Tyree, Jayla Hertz. That was my top four now. God, you won one last time. I got to warn you about the Josh Allen situation, but we'll get to that another time. What do you mean? What's the Josh Allen situation? No, he's just super, super talented. I love how he plays. I love the energy he plays with. I love what he brings to that team. But just situationally, sometimes in games, you know, you saw it in the Green Bay game, you saw it in the Jet game, you saw it in this pass game. Just get too careless with their football. I got a good feeling we'll probably seek some of those plays a little later on in the show. But Josh Allen just got to do a better job of taking care of balls and just either throwing away or tucking and running out of bounds sometime.


Hello and how are you all today? The question says if the mean of the following data is 18.75, find the value of p. Now here the data which is given to us having x as 10, 15, p 25, 30 and frequency that is f i as 5, 10, 7, 8 and 2 respectively. So first of all we need to draw a table. Now here we have written down our x and f here. What we need to do next is we need to multiply them to find out f i x i that is 10 into 5 giving us 50, 50 into 10 giving us 150, p into 7 gives us 7p, 25 into 8 gives us 200 and 302 gives us 60. Now let us find out the sum of frequency and the sum of the product of frequency with x that is summation of frequencies is equal to total of these that is 32 and summation of f i x i is equal to 46, we are given that mean is equal to 18.75 right. We know that the formula for mean using this method is summation of f i into x i upon summation of f i that is 18.75. Further we just need to substitute these two values that we have found out above that is 460 plus 7p upon 32 equal to 18.75 that further gives us 460 plus 7p is equal to 18.75 into 32. The product of these two comes out to be 600. So this further implies 7p is equal to 600 minus 460. So we have the value of p as 140 divided by 7 that is simplifying gives us the value of p as 20 right. And this is the required answer to the given question. So hope you understood the whole concept well. Do remember to take care of your calculations and have a nice day.


Alrighty, so here is our 2021 construction update on Mountain Bay Cliffs and Beagle's Brigade and then whatever else is going on in the park. This footage is a little outdated. We have newer footage that we're filming actually currently while I'm speaking, it's being filmed. But yeah, none the less nothing has changed over on this little secondary bulldozed mountain looking dirt storage area, whatever you want to call it. Wenderland seems to be just storing dirt everywhere now, it's getting a little weird. But yeah, nothing too much has changed. No signs of behemoth being painted which we're trying to keep an eye on. And there were no signs of the discs being installed on behemoth station area as well on this state of filming but I'll have an update for our members today or tomorrow on the newer footage. So for those of you who don't know, you can become a member on YouTube by just clicking that join button underneath this video and you guys get early or exclusive access to some content that we post there. But yeah, no signs of any behemoth paint job or the discs being installed outside of the station. I do know that behemoth did start testing the other day as a quick update, the park still obviously is planning to open up on time for May but that all depends on the CDC and what's going on in the world come May. Trying to think of what I can and can't say, can't go into detail on that. All right, so I'll just go back to the construction update. Nothing going on with Mindbuster as well, no retracking that we can see as of yet. So we've been keeping an eye on that. Beagles Brigade, I'm not sure if the ride has arrived yet. I do know as of a month ago it was pretty well land cleared and all that. But Mountain Bay Cliffs is the pool is done and I'm expecting from the footage we get today to see some sort of structure for the actual mountain portion of Mountain Bay Cliffs. And this thing is extremely deep. If you look at Grace Peacock on Twitter's update, it's just like, or Kim's Wonderlands update as well. It's like extremely deep. Wasn't actually expecting that because the mountain isn't actually that tall for what it is, but nonetheless, this is what it is, you're looking at concrete. It'll get a little more exciting when they start building the mountain. But I thought I'd get this update out there. Everyone's kind of bored, got nothing to do. So I figured, hey, people are probably wondering what's going on with Mountain Bay Cliffs. Been holding onto this footage for some time because I didn't want to give too frequent of updates. Otherwise it'd be boring. Anyways, hope you enjoyed this update. Don't forget to hit that like button, subscribe if you haven't yet. Show this video for others to enjoy. Bye.


Thank you very much, Provost Beth Winkelston and Professor Tukufu Zuberi and all of the very kind and hospitable professors and friends and colleagues that have met within the past hour or so. Thank you very much. I think the hospitality was so warm that I really felt that I ought to have been here a lot sooner. I really must thank you very much and also for the tour of the museum. I was really quite an eye-opener. Thank you very much indeed. I'm also grateful to the Africa Center for Africana Studies of the University of Pennsylvania for the kind invitation to speak on energy transition in Africa as a matter of fact, the topic is actually energy transition in Africa, although there will be components of the just transition. I have in the past few months, both in speaking and even writing about this and related issues, in thinking or perhaps approaching the subject from the point of view of a just transition, which perhaps explains why the topic displayed is energy transition, the just transition. That is the broad notion that the burdens of climate change and its mitigation must be fairly and equitably shared between African countries who are, as we all know, the least emitters, but the worst sufferers of the consequences and of course the least prepared for the consequences of climate change and the developed economies, who of course we know are the worst emitters and who are far better resourced to deal with the consequences of climate change. But while this climate justice point of view is crucial, that is the concept of a just transition, while it's important, it nevertheless often leads to the conclusion that the only options open to Africa are adaptation and lately loss and damage compensation. In other words, almost every conversation around a just transition would almost invariably lead to saying, well, the solution is some adaptation and perhaps some compensation in terms of loss and damage. So for African countries, the remedy that climate justice often appears to present is rather narrow adaptation or loss of damage, as I've said, but for African countries, the challenge that is as important as containing climate change is energy poverty, which essentially means the lack of access to energy for electricity, for cooking, for heating, for cooling, etc. And how this inhibits any real chances of growth or job opportunities. Of course, we all know from empirical evidence that the availability of energy directly correlates with income, wealth and development, both at the individual and the societal level. And the energy poverty issue in Africa, as some show some of us already aware, is huge. Over 1.3 billion people in Africa are serviced by an installed capacity of about 244 gigawatts, which is less than the 248 gigawatts that 83 million Germans have access to. So Sub-Saharan Africa remains also the only region in the world which has the largest number now of people without access to clean cooking fuels and technologies, 19 out of the 20 countries within the lowest clean cooking access rates are in Africa. So for Africa, the crucial question in the energy transition conversation is how does the continent develop? How does the continent provide well-paying jobs and decent livelihoods for its growing population within the globally agreed carbon constraints? And those carbon constraints, as you know, the Paris agreements, the Kigali Accord more recently, the Kyoto Protocol for Developed Economies and Renewed Energy Standards, etc. Those are the constraints that we've all agreed to stay within. The straight answer is that there does not seem to be a pathway. There isn't a pathway for Africa to provide for its populations, provide well-paying jobs, provide opportunities, etc. If we stay within the globally agreed constraints, this is because the historical pathway of growth to upper middle income status that has been attained today by the wealthier countries of the world was by the use of carbon-intensive energy sources. But such a growth path is not available to African countries, at least not within the global planetary boundaries. The global carbon budget, as they say, simply would not allow it. Please bear with me, there are a few sustainability jargons that I might use, and I'm sure that only those of us who are interested enough in climate change may be aware of some of these jargon. But global planetary boundaries, for example, refers to the concept that was developed just in 2009, that there are certain limits or thresholds in the Earth's natural systems that if crossed could lead to irreversible changes and potentially catastrophic consequences for human civilization and the biosphere as a whole. So those boundaries, which we've set, these priority boundaries, if we set for ourselves, we assume that if Africa were to go the same pathway of carbon-intensive development, then of course it would be impossible for us to, for the rest of the world, to reach its targets for zero carbon emissions by 2050 and all of that. As a matter of fact, some of the information that we have, some of the research that's been done, shows that if Africa were to go the same carbon-intensive path as the wealthier countries have gone, it could add actually 12 gigatons of CO2E emissions annually by 2050. And that, of course, would put global net zero by that time well outside of reach. So if all we did was to just go the same pathway, just do the same things that everyone else has done to get to upper-middle income status, then it would be impossible for the world to achieve net zero by 2050. So the inconvenient truth here, if one may borrow that expression, is that beyond being treated as victims, whose problems will they delve with somewhere later on in the food chain, Africa's own growth and development is not really being seriously accommodated in the global energy transition conversation. It just isn't. Yet a strategic key to attaining global net zero by 2050 may well lie in seeing Africa from a different paradigm, not merely as a victim, but possibly as a solution. And I've been greatly helped in coming to this conclusion by involvement that I've had in recent months with some of the very great work of advocacy and proof of concept that's been done by James Wangi and Kali Nguyen, who form what is called the Climate Action for Africa, or CAPA. And they've done quite great work in this area and have taken a lot from a lot of their conclusions, a lot of work they've done in my material for this particular presentation. So beyond climate justice, beyond just saying Africa is a victim, let's take care of that problem, may lie a real opportunity for Africa and the world. And this opportunity is the distinct possibility of climate positive growth for Africa. In other words, a paradigm where Africa pursues a climate positive or carbon negative path to middle income status and beyond. And of course, there is really no difference between climate positive or carbon negative. They mean one and the same thing. And this contains in and of itself part of the solution to the global net zero ambitions of the world, because if, as is the case, some countries will not meet their net zero targets by 2050, then some significant portion of the world must be climate positive or net negative for global net zero to be achievable. Put differently, since many regions are already off track to achieve net zero by 2050, some other regions must fill the gap. If global targets must be met, some other regions must fill that gap. A recently released IPCC report notes that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities have already made our world 1.10 centigrade warmer. And we are, as a global community, not on track to limit warming to 1.50 degrees centigrade or 2 degrees centigrade, as targeted under the Paris agreements. So Africa, with its current low carbon footprints and limited legacy infrastructure, is in the best position to do that. Let's just examine that argument more closely. Africa's endowments, renewable energy, natural resources and a young workforce, present a compelling set of circumstances for several pathways to climate positive growth. Now these pathways include the following. The first is in low emissions, consumption and production, low emissions, consumption and production. I'm going to come back to that. The point being that Africa can, instead of going the carbon intensive path to providing energy, goods and services for its own needs, can actually take full advantage of green technologies and practices. It's the distinct advantage that Africa can actually pursue a green course of growth without worrying about costly legacy infrastructure. This would, of course, mean a wide range of changes in eating, living, city designs, for instance, transportation, use of electric cars. Different changes in habits must occur. And of course, there are so many things going on already, of course. One example is a project in Kenya with the use of low-cost bioethanol-fueled cook stoves. These are already in use with an off-take reaching, as of 2021, almost 300,000 of these cook stoves up from about 50,000 just two years earlier. And it's estimated that this could mean over one million metric tons of CO2E in avoided emissions annually, just using these cook stoves, just using this number of cook stoves. Of course, that can increase, it can increase every year, it can increase to any number. And then there's the additional benefit that the stoves generate high-quality carbon credits which are sold in the global carbon markets. The second pathway is that having recognized the fact that global zero carbon ambitions cannot be realized without intentional carbon removal technologies and practices, Africa can actually ramp up her own potential to remove carbon at scale through a combination of plant, land use and ecosystem management and the engineered removal technologies. Already Africa's large carbon sinks currently store years of global emissions and the abundant supply of unused agricultural waste is already available as biomass for clean energy production and soil improvement. The third pathway is that with its abundant reserves of renewable energy and raw materials, Africa can become a hugely competitive green manufacturing and energy hub for the world that could actually accelerate greening of global industry. For example, by onshore processing of 110 million tons of bauxite to aluminium, and that is currently being exported as raw bauxite from Africa to Europe and Asia, but doing this using renewable energy between 1.3 to 1.5 gigatons of CO2 emissions can be avoided annually just by doing the processing onshore, just by processing bauxite onshore. You can actually save that much in CO2 emissions. And that is the same as processing lithium within the mining locality. Already some of that is happening. In Carduna, for example, in Nigeria, there's a lithium processing factory which has been built. The whole idea, of course, is that aside from mining the lithium, the lithium will also be processed onshore. Zimbabwe recently also in December 2022, introduced its own policy on local processing of lithium. So Africa also has the technical potential to produce 21 billion tons worth of hydrogen annually as compared to Europe's potential of 0.67 billion tons. And as green hydrogen costs fall, African manufacturing locations may become even more competitive in a range of related value chains, for example, for ammonia, for fertilizers and e-fuels as well. So the paradox, if you like, of an energy poor continent becoming the green industrial powerhouse of the world is easily resolvable, and it must be. Energy poverty can only be resolved if there is a significant investment in renewable energy. That can only happen if we create the energy-intense anchor demand that makes the investment in additional renewable energy bankable. We have to create that anchor demand to make that additional investment bankable. Therefore, it is not which comes first. It's not whether renewable energy generation capacity comes first or industrial deployment comes first. Both must be developed concurrently. With industrial anchor demand, African countries can make the greed investments and create the cross-subsidy opportunities to serve the unserved and underserved retail users. In addressing energy poverty, it is much more straightforward than some of what we are made to believe. So the purported choice between expanded retail energy access and industrial development is a false one, because industrial development will make investments in retail access possible. So it's not one or the other. It's actually both working together. How about the dependence of countries like mine, like Nigeria, on oil and gas, and of course the implications of that for emissions? I think that the use of gas as a transition fuel, and I emphasize transition fuel, will not significantly derail our commitment to carbon negative growth. Nigeria's energy transition plan attempts to chart an energy transition pathway which has at its bedrock the development of renewable energy, specifically solar energy. The plan is to develop 250 gigawatts of solar capacity by 2050. And that plan outlines the decarbonization strategies in the area of power, oil and gas, transportation, etc. It also mitigates against the medium to long-term job losses in an industry that has dominated our economy for decades. So we have to take account of that also, what we do with the job losses and the energy transition plan takes that into account. It also recommends the role of gas as a transition fuel to balance large influxes of solar power on the grid. It's also of course a cheaper and relatively cleaner option for the base load power, for base load power for industry. So today, just to explain that as quickly as possible, today renewable energy has not been shown to have sufficient base load to power industry. Of course you need loads and loads of renewable energy to be able to do so. So gas has that base load and besides, gas is useful also to ensure that the grid remains steady when you are using multiple sources of energy. And all of this of course is happening as we watch the cost of solar batteries plunge. And indeed the cost of solar batteries, the cost is actually plunging and even in the past 10 years alone, the past five years, we've seen a tremendous drop in the price of solar batteries and we expect that that will happen and continue to happen. There are also practical ways in which gas, especially propane, will breach the gap before the full use of renewables is commercially practical. To illustrate the point, recently some discussions have been going on, on decommissioning of industrial scale diesel and petrol generators that are used at the moment by base station operators of telecommunications companies in Nigeria. So the telecommunications companies have these operators who operate their base stations, the base stations they use for their systems. And thousands of these base stations are powered 24-7 by diesel generators. So a proposal that was made for complete replacement of these diesel generators with solar power and batteries met with a challenge. The service level agreements that the base station operators have with the telcos is simple. We just want 24-7 power, no downtime, that's a service level agreement. Now using solar power alone today with necessary storage facilities will be far too expensive. So the compromise that may now be reached and as I said, the conversation is ongoing is that we'll start as an interim measure until the cost of solar batteries of course reduce sufficiently, we'll start with a hybrid power source, solar energy and propane powered generators. Propane as I've said is a much lower carbon emitter than diesel or petrol and propane or LPG is already in use for clean cooking stoves in Nigeria and several different parts of Africa. So there are many practical short term uses of gas that are made more attractive because of its availability and relative cleanness as compared to other fossil fuels. So considering the three pathways to climate positive growth that I've outlined and I will just repeat them in case anyone has fallen asleep while I was saying talking. The first is Africa pursuing an essentially green cause of growth, low emission consumption and production. That's the first pathway. The second is Africa being the carbon removal center of the world. Both by offering natural carbon sinks which we have in abundance already and the development of carbon removal technologies. The third is becoming the most competitive green manufacturing and energy hub for the world. The proposition that Africa could then bring to the table or if you like a grand bargain that Africa and the international community may make is as follows. A climate positive growth framework based on the premise that the world needs Africa to attain its net zero ambitions. Just to elaborate, a climate positive growth framework is also both an answer to the global need for massively net negative emissions in order to attain its net zero ambitions and at the same time is a solution to Africa's growth imperatives, energy access, jobs and decent livelihoods for millions. Now the success of this framework will depend on certain key actions, some of which are within the control of African states and others, the control of the international community. On their part, African countries will formulate clear science based national strategies for climate positive growth. The strategies will be linked to specific targets for net negative contributions to global emissions. There must also be accompanying policy and regulatory environment that will enable the realization of the strategy and by such means encourage needed investments. For this, we can build on the Kigali Accord which is an accord which has moved us several steps further, especially after Paris and the following and the agreements following it. The international community on its part will undertake to make the required investments in Africa's renewable energy and work out trade rules that will give access to favorable low emissions production and also facilitate the rapid development of fair and equitable carbon markets. That's quite an issue by itself, and I won't want to take you too much, of course, but equitable, fair and just carbon markets are important. I work at the moment with the African carbon markets initiative and part of our task is to see how we can actually deal with the rest of the world to work out fair systems by which the African carbon markets could operate effectively. Africa, from which highly competitive carbon returns will come, can only see the capital influx if the bottlenecks to fully functional carbon markets, such as verification, etc., are worked on. At the moment, most of the verifying bodies, the bodies that verify carbon credits, that verify the value of carbon credits, of course, are based in the global Northern countries. But if Africa is going to be the hub for many of these useful carbon credits, then we need to have much more verification companies actually located in Africa. The international community must also ensure some degree of market access to African countries so we can sell low embedded emission products into the global markets in an equitable way. And the financing for this purpose ought to be appropriately nuanced to some amount a lot of the competition inhibiting risk premiums and cost of capital challenges that Africa faces. A good mix of development finance will be important alongside patient and flexible financing instruments, some of which have been used successfully already for financing renewables. There are many options aside from the conventional. We have renewable auctions which are taking place practically all over the world now, including Africa. Debt for climate swaps are being proposed and of course, carbon markets. There are of course very many practical issues to be worked out if this grand bargain is to happen, including intermittency of solar and wind power, the systems integration issues, cost of storage of renewable energy, financing and of course, the notoriously difficult problems around changing global trade rules, etc. But these are challenges that can with a clear sense of the existential urgency of the goals that we want to achieve be surmounted and the incentive to make these proposals work is the recognition that Africa can actually be the key to meeting the global net zero targets that we've set for ourselves. Thank you very much for listening.


Skill number one, technical acumen. People heard of business acumen before, so what is technical acumen? Technical acumen is the skills you need to master to be able to communicate and understand the engineering concept. For example, as people coming from consulting and MBA background, you may not know how to code, but you need to know the basic concept in terms of what is API, what is STK, what is AI, what is blockchain, and all those key fundamental technology you need to get to know so that you are able to show that you have interest in technology.


Another method of solving differential equations is known as the variation of parameters. And this emerges as follows. While we can use the method of undetermined coefficients to solve kth-order linear differential equations, we have to find the appropriate annihilator or ansatz. But sometimes we can't. What can we do then? And the thing to remember is that the problem exists regardless of your ability to solve it. We have to be able to do something. So let's consider a simple case where we have a homogeneous second-order linear differential equation. Now we'll assume we can solve this and assume that this has solutions y equals c1u1 plus c2u2, where c1 and c2 are constants. Now we'll assume the inhomogeneous equation has solutions y equals c1u1 plus c2u2, where c1 and c2 are functions. And remember one of the main rules in solving differential equations is that it is easier to obtain forgiveness than permission. If we have to wonder about whether we're allowed to do this, we might not get anywhere. We can just try it out and see if we do actually get a solution. So let's see how that might work. Suppose u1 and u2 solve the homogeneous equation. And assume the non-homogeneous equation has solutions y equals c1u1 plus c2u2, where c1 and c2 are undetermined functions of t. So we'll differentiate. And again it's easier to obtain forgiveness than permission. We'll assume c1primeu1 plus c2primeu2 equals 0. Why not? If it works, we'll have a solution and all is forgiven. Of course, if it's not written down, it didn't happen, so we'll record that assumption over here. That simplifies this derivative. And because this is a second-order differential equation, we do need to find that second derivative. Of course, we can only get the forgiveness if we actually solve the equation. So let's see if this solves the equation. We'll substitute our values into our expressions. g of ty, f of ty prime, and y double prime. Adding up the left-hand side should give us h of t. Adding up the right-hand side will give us... And the important thing to remember is that since u1 and u2 solve the original homogeneous differential equation, this coefficient of c1 and this coefficient of c2 are both going to be 0. And so our equation simplifies to... And now I have two equations that c1 prime and c2 prime satisfy, and so we can solve for c1 prime and c2 prime. So let's try to solve this differential equation, which has no obvious annihilator. So the solution to the homogeneous equation is going to be c1 sin t plus c2 cosine t. We'll treat c1 and c2 as functions of t, so y prime is going to be... But we'll assume c1 prime sin plus c2 prime cosine is equal to 0. And that simplifies our equation, but we still need to find our second derivative, so we'll find that. So now we want y double prime plus y to equal tangent of t. So take y and add y double prime, and that gives us... tangent equals c1 prime cosine t minus c2 prime sin t. And there's a second equation that involves c1 prime and c2 prime. So let's solve this system for c1 prime and c2 prime. And one way we might do that is we multiply the first equation by sin of t and the second equation by cosine of t we get. And if we add our two equations, and we can simplify this, so c1 prime is sin of t. Well that worked out so well. Let's do it again. This time we'll multiply the first equation by cosine t and the second by minus sin of t, which we'll give us. And if we add them we get, and then simplify, which gives us c2 prime. Of course we need to know what c1 and c2 are, but we can anti-differentiate. So the anti-derivative of c1 prime will give us... c1 is minus cosine, the anti-derivative of c2 prime will give us a rather horrific mess, but we can find the anti-derivative eventually. And so we get y equals cosine t sin t plus this horrible mess, plus the general solution of the homogeneous equation, where we return c1 and c2 to being actual constants.


Are you an inventor, creative thinker? Maybe you just want to change the world. I'm Leo Camacho. Disney and XPRIZE have teamed up again to find the next generation of great innovators. In Disney's new movie, Tomorrowland, Casey, a teenage girl teams up with a scientific genius named Frank. Together, they journey into Tomorrowland. In the Disney Create Tomorrowland XPRIZE challenge, we want you to take a journey in your imagination to a place where anything is possible. That's right, picture yourselves in the future. You'll port back into us today and tell us about a new invention that you've discovered and how it's helped change the world. Are there sensing technologies that help prevent diseases? Are there cool robots? What about space travel or a machine that cleans polluted water? Or my personal favorite, mind-powered video games? It's up to you. You can submit your vision from the future in three different ways. A video, an image, or by writing a story. Let's look at Tracy. She decided to show us the fashion of the future in a video. Or Keith, who built his invention with a 3D printer. Dramatic parrot, drooper idea, then submitted the photo.  Be creative, show us your unique idea. Whoever can come up with the most interesting future invention or innovation and can describe it best wins. Oh, and I almost forgot, that's awesome prizes too. You can win $3,000, a 3D printer, and some other great stuff. So sign up today for Disney's Create Tomorrowland XPRIZE challenge. Visit XPRIZEchallenge.org slash Create Tomorrowland. And be sure to check out Disney's new movie Tomorrowland in theaters May 22nd.


Hello, everybody. Welcome to Esso's here at Atlanta. Of course, my name is Bryce. Early, early this morning, I had the opportunity to chat with a panel of powerhouse spiritual women, including Tamara, and of course, including Emmy, and of course, including Holly. Now, because of the subjects that we spoke about in this conversation, the whole conversation, the full episode is over on rumble. So please go down into the description box below, hit the show more button on the down arrow. So you can pull the link up that will take you directly to my rumble page on esotericatlannus. You can watch the full episode. Another thing you might want to do that would be easier than always following the links is go ahead and subscribe to my rumble page so that you'll just get notified anyway once a new episode is up. So go ahead, follow the link, meet us over there, and we'll see you over on rumble.


Danhole, yet pronounced Danehole after the Danes, intriguingly their purpose, although almost exclusively cut into Chalk strata, is completely unknown, and although claimed to have been created by an invading party, were solely created within Kent and South Essex, consisting of a small vertical entry tunnel which then opened into what could be described as spacious multi-room living quarters, with the largest inner chambers measuring some 18 feet wide, and some set at a depth of over 80 feet, particularly those found in Hangman's Wood, Essex, which interestingly is now known as a side of special biological importance. These unusual chambers have baffled all who have investigated them. Undeniably dating prior to the documentation of history in England, cut into an unusually hard variety of Chalk, all of which showing no deer horn, metal or flint tool marks, or any of the stone cutting, and many individuals who have investigated the inner chambers have concluded that the Daneholes must have been cut into individual cube blocks, and then somehow extracted from the chambers. How this was achieved, however, is yet another mystery. Thankfully, due to Hangman's Wood being a preserved area, more than 50 Daneholes still exist within the 3 hectare site. What were the Daneholes used for? Who could have built them? Were they, like a number of other underground chambers we have covered in the past, found the world over, once built to be lived in, clearly attempting to shield oneself from an exterior threat? If so, why? Were ancient peoples in the UK also attempting to hide from something? An initial investigation of the Daneholes was undertaken in the 1800s, with almost nothing regarding the investigation into their origins having been undertaken since. Although, fortunately, they are now receiving independently funded attention, the results of which will be available soon. We will, of course, keep you posted. Who dug the Daneholes? What were they used for? We find said questions highly compelling.