Coming up on DTNS GM takes on Tesla with new electric vehicle battery tech Twitter joins the ephemeral messaging trend Is it still a trend at this point? Also, what makes a good coder spoiler? This is the Daily Tech news for Wednesday March 4th 2020 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and from studio Redwood. I'm Sarah Lane In Salt Lake City. I'm Scott Johnson and I'm the show's producer Roger Chang We were just talking about not touching your face and the heroic diary of Elizabeth Lappato at the verge That was all a good day internet. If you want to get that conversation to more you got to become a patron and patreon.com DTNS let's start with a few tech things you should know Hulu's live TV service is now available on Sony's PlayStation joining YouTube TV as options to replace the now closed PlayStation view streaming TV service Hulu's existing PlayStation app will be updated to give access to live TV features In other news Amazon Studios join Twitter and Facebook and cancelling plans to attend South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas Starting March 13th Amazon had planned two screenings some panels and a marketing event. I cannot tell you how itchy my face is right now Microsoft is offering free six-month trials to the premium version of Microsoft Teams The premium version has more calling and meeting features than the free version But Microsoft is also updating the free version of teams to let users schedule meetings for video calling starting March 10 This is all to help people who have to work remotely because of COVID-19 concerns Tesla has been using an older slower processor for its autopilot functions for cars made in China since January 7th Because of a lack of chips up by yes, the ripples are felt by many Tesla says it will upgrade the chip free of charge when supplies become available the newer chips prices images 21 times faster than the previous generation All right, let's talk a little bit more about this trend that Twitter is on Well, Twitter is feeling quite on fleet today. They announced they will test a new sharing format called fleets This is starting in Brazil. So we're gonna gonna see that happen first fleets Cannot receive likes public replies or retweets and disappear after 24 hours if it sounds a lot like a story Well, you wouldn't be crazy fleets show up in a rounded profile icon at the top of the timeline From people who follow each other fleets do not show up in search or moments and cannot be embedded on external websites First of all fleets is just a great word. I mean it's because it's because it's a fleeting tweet get it Yeah, I was I was thrilled when I saw this this morning. Yeah, that's you that too. This is interesting because Twitter the one thing about Twitter that does has never worked for me is if I am involved in Watching some live events and there's I don't know like maybe ten other people who are gonna Understand what I'm talking about or whoever happens to be on Twitter right that moment and we're all doing the same thing You know like maybe if I'm watching the Super Bowl and my team is about to lose and I write like no And there's no context or anything. Well, I always without fail a few days later We'll get someone being like are you okay? Look at the timestamp like whatever it was is over now But this would be really good for moments like that the one thing about it is is Twitter seems to be making it Pretty limiting so that there's no conversation to be had whatever I'm saying is not only ephemeral But kind of thrown out into the ether without any context. You can respond by DM. That's it But sure that gets shuttled over into DMs. That's not a conversation. That's part of the general fleet Ecosystem the fleet ecosystem it all it also assumes that you have your DMs on which I assume They're gonna have some sort of reminder to tell people if they get replies They're not gonna be able to get these are people who follow each other. Oh So you tend to have technically that's true. Yeah, you can lock them out But technically that's true. The one thing we haven't said at all is that the term will be Twitter fleets Which is a weird thing to say out loud I don't know if I'm gonna call them that Twitter fleets like what are you doing? Oh, we'll go check out my Twitter fleets because if you just say go check out my fleets It's gonna take a while to anybody knows what the crap you're talking about and this is the first new way of communicating on Twitter Since the DM right they've they've taken tweets and made different things out of them like moments and trending topics But those are still just tweets these are pieces of communication that will not show up in your timeline They're accessed in a different way. They don't show up in any timeline You have to go up and click on a thing to say I want to see that fleet from Scott or Sarah Which is a whole different way of experiencing Twitter people are used to the sort of the river of Twitter things just kind of hitting their timeline So this this is an interesting idea But I'm not sure if it actually solves the problem for Twitter because I think people just end up not using it But I guess that's why they're testing it in Brazil just to find out. Well, if you only have let's say I follow 200 people They have to follow me back for me to see theirs and for them to see mine You suddenly have just whittled the whole thing down to an audience of 200. I don't know if that's Interesting the idea is this is your friends This is like I just want to tell my friends the people I actually follow But then that's also not how Twitter works because so many people game the system by automatically following back anybody who follows them, right? Right, right. So all that stuff gets real messy plus the whole idea of stories on other apps has always been This is another way to reach the people following me and there's no caveat that I have to follow them back I think this might be a goof because if somebody let's just I don't know Pat Noswalt wants to do something funny on a fleet That would probably be cool for all of us fans of his that follow him to see it Instead he's got to follow us for it to matter and I don't know that it ever will So why would him and a bunch of his comedian friends? Just like if you're a regular user, I think you get two minutes of video on a fleet But specially approved people can get 10 minutes I bet some people's fleets will be able to be broadly available without having to have follow-up Yeah, I I think it it'll probably become a setting that the user can choose I also feel like okay, this isn't exactly the same thing as a DM But let's say the scenario that you described Scott What if I really did want to reach those 200 people not everybody following me But you know people that I consider a little bit closer to well, I don't want to DM them all separately I don't want to put them all on a big old group DM. So this is a way to sort of half blast out something Yeah, that's a good way doesn't really need to be there the next day They still need to hurry up and do it in 24 hours, but yeah, it's that's an interesting way I would do it for let's say announcing our live stream But I won't because it's only gonna go in the fleet section right so there you go General Motors announced a new battery called ultium that uses pouch style cells instead of cylindrical cells And that means they can be stacked vertically or horizontally So you get a little more versatility in how you design the car around this electric vehicle battery The ultium's 50 to 200 kilowatt hour range can get up to 400 miles on a charge depending on how it's configured GM added aluminum to reduce the cobalt content to seven by 70 percent That helps bring down the cost ultium's cost should be below a hundred dollars per kilowatt hour So vehicles that use ultium potentially would be more affordable GM plans to have 20 electric Name plates. They're not models anymore. They're name plates because whatever, but they're gonna have 20 of those by 2023 with the first three coming in the next few months It's plant GM's plant in Hamtrammack, Michigan will be retrofitted to produce autonomous and electric vehicles and Battery cells will be made at a factory run by a joint venture of General Motors and LG Chem in Lordstown, Ohio So the batteries made in Lordstown shipped up to Hamtrammack, but in the vehicle and then they've rolled off the assembly line Silly name aside. I think ultium sounds like there's nothing wrong with Hamtrammack. Oh, you meant ultium Hamtrammack you guys are awesome. Don't don't go changing, but I Always wondered I always wondered if big battery and or a big battery advancement would finally come from what we're doing with automobiles With with batteries and I'm not saying that this immediately translates to batteries in general or storage in general Yeah, it may not right. Yeah, but I like I'd like to hear when there's battery innovation because you hear this all the time Batteries haven't budged for 20 years. They haven't moved. We've just gotten smarter devices. They know how to take advantage of them Well, maybe in cars because we have a very mission critical, you know mission happening here We can finally see some real innovation. So great Yeah, and cobalt mining is problematic price aside. So all of this sounds Great, I'd love to see this in more cars if it ends up being the way of the future Well, you're gonna get 20 name plates by 2023 and We'll probably sell these batteries to other automakers. They they're already in partnership with Honda on one of their EVs So I'm sure it'll go in there a Feature Google showed it. I'm still laughing at name plate a feature Google showed at CES back in January that reads web pages Allowed is rolling out worldwide to Android users users tell Google Assistant to read it or read this page And then the page will be read aloud and a highlight words as they are read if you want to follow along You can tap the screen to move to a particular section if you like You can also adjust the speed of the reading to be slower or faster kind of how you do with a podcast if you like it to Draw all out a little bit more or be a little bit snappier the feature also translates between 42 languages So this is this is pretty cool pretty nifty for for a lot of folks. I I don't know when I looked at the the the way that it it worked in a in a video that Google had Had shared with the world. I was like, it's still kind of robotic But Google Assistant's voice is one of the least annoying of all assistance to me It's it's not that bad and you probably get used to it and I love the idea of maybe For the show, I mean, I don't have an Android device so I can't use it yet but for the show if I Can't sit in front of my computer, but I really need to read the story about GM's new batteries I could have it read to me so that I see it coming in handy even if it's not an accessibility feature Which of course there's that too Yeah, I Was thinking about this and the more I think about it the features that matter to me the most here are the speed settings Is where does that sounds? There's a lot of things will read stuff to me now either manually or other apps or otherwise so none of that none of that sounds hugely innovative the innovation here will be Kind of devil in the detail stuff like adjusting that speed I know people who would love to have this speed reading to them in a car And I know others would much rather have that slow way down And sort of everything in between forgetting about you know great accessibility Leaps forward with this so I'm into it and I do like that voice I also hope there's other voice options that'd be cool just to shake things up Well, yeah, I mean this is just a feature of Google Assistant We can have all kinds of wishes about what Google Assistant could become and that'll be be part of it But yeah, I think it's a nifty nifty thing All right, well, let's take a look at the folded puzzle game talked about this on TMS briefly this morning This crowd sources research into protein folding in a game format and has added the COVID-19 virus or corona viruses It's most mostly known as And it's a related puzzle to that the hope is to develop a protein that binds to COVID-19 to block interaction with human cells and halt infection Human players are often better than computers at finding certain solutions good at recognizing patterns that sort of thing However, the folding at home project is also researching the virus folding at home Uses spare computer cycles to power a computer model people have certainly heard of that before but I went download this today I haven't played it yet, but there is a Mac a PC and a Linux version people can download and try Yeah, so the idea is there's a spike on the COVID-19 virus that it uses to bond to human cells and that's how it's able to inject its genetic code and Replicate and that's how viruses infect you right they just keep replicating and replicating and replicating So if they can create a protein that would sort of lock on to that spike and stop it from being able to connect to anything That would stop the virus from replicating and that would be a very effective treatment This is an attempt to figure out what protein might be worth trying to block that And and if you're like well, why can't you just look at it and figure it out a fold it around it It's not that simple when you're talking about how proteins fold Hence the projects both the fold it puzzle game and folding at home are more than 10 years old They've been trying to find different kinds of proteins for lots of different diseases Through this folding at home uses a brute force method of just saying let's use the extra cycles on your computer to power an algorithm That'll just try every possible combination it can it can do And then fold it is saying yeah But sometimes humans are intuitive and they can just make logical jumps that computers can't And so that might get us to something faster But if we pitch it as a puzzle game then people are more likely to want to take part and try this out So either one of these or both is a great way to help contribute to a potential cure to the coronavirus Well, I think we should all as well as not touching our faces be playing these games Get get to the puzzle everybody.  I don't know why I didn't notice and now I'm doing it again Yes, it's it's that yeah, I don't know. I'm trying to it's the reverse psychology.  There you go. Yeah. Yeah, I it's All kidding aside. It's it's pretty amazing that the humans and mass could could could actually be the solution that we're looking for it just takes more and more of Human interaction for it to be stronger. That's super cool. It's not guaranteed, right, right? But it's worth trying and you'll have a fun puzzle game if nothing else India's Supreme Court has sided with cryptocurrency exchanges that were banned in April 2018 by India's central bank That barred banks from offering services that supported digital currency So they didn't outlaw the digital currencies They said that they can regulate banks and therefore they're gonna tell banks they can't support digital currencies Which basically undermine digital currencies in India the court struck down the RBI's curbs Which would let virtual currency investors and businesses in India push against stricter rules being planned by the government and participate in projects Maybe if Libra ever happens something like that The Supreme Court is separately hearing another case which will decide on regulations for digital currencies itself The Indian central bank has been exploring creating a sovereign bank digital currency of its own and said private coins like Bitcoin Increase the potential for money laundering and other illegal activities. Basically, the court said That yes the central bank can regulate banks But it can't stop them from doing this that it needed to have a better reason for stopping banks from supporting digital currencies Then just the fact that they're digital currencies So it's not impossible That the RBI Comes up with a better reason and is able to put this back in place and get it tested by the court But for now it means that cryptocurrency exchanges have got a second win I don't think India is going to give up on this though because anti laundering anti fraud is a huge Priority and a huge effort of the Modi government So I would expect them to try another way to at least curb this if not bring it down Besides just the regulations that are also being disputed in court as well Well, I get being super nervous about not super nervous That's a bad way to describe how government feels about banking regulation But I understand the worries that they might have about corruption or this not working right or whatever But this does seem like a step in the right direction if you Think that cryptocurrency is a part of our banking future and you want worldwide banks to be able to To play in that playground And considering the size of India and yeah, like it's a big deal, right? So I mean, it's hard to say whether this is truly a step forward or just a temporary Stopgap until it's in I don't know But I hope I don't know it feels like the future like even though I barely understand it and Tom explains it every 10 days And then I tried to understand it better and all that I still Something in me knows the blockchain and cryptocurrency and everything around all this stuff is the future. So get on board India Yeah, hey folks Well, I mean, I think what this does is it takes an overcorrection and brings it back toward the center And we'll see if it swings the other way or keeps that, you know, banging around in the middle to get all the tech Headlines each day in about five minutes. Be sure to subscribe to daily tech headlines.com Chantel Prott an associate professor of psychology at the University of Washington is the lead author on a study published in Nature's scientific reports looking at what Is a quality that helps people to learn programming languages fast They looked at three dozen thirty six adults who as part of this study agreed to learn Python During the learning process while they were learning to program with Python they were tested for things like problem-solving memory language skills numerical skills resting state brain activity etc etc to kind of assess What are these people's natural talents and how do those correlate to how well they're doing at learning the programming because some As with everything some people learn faster than others The study found and again, this is 36 adults right now So this is a pilot study there needs to be like wider studies done on this But you do this kind of study to find out if it's worth doing those bigger studies And this one found that the participants who learned Python the fastest had strong language Working memory and reasoning abilities They didn't have strong math skills. In fact having a stronger math skill Barely correlated So it was your language skills your memory working memory particularly and your ability to reason That correlated with being able to learn the programming language fast math engineering types of skills that aren't related to reasoning Weren't not important in how well you were able to program Python So they're concluding that it seems like Learning a programming language may be more like learning an actual spoken language like Korean or Spanish Then it is like learning math and that the idea that we're putting Development coding and programming in the math sciences department May be doing a lot of people who would be great programmers a disservice because well, I'm crappy at calculus I guess I'll never be a coder doesn't appear to be true And so many of computer science degrees are set up with a very strong math Foundation, I mean I was a math major briefly I like math I've I've always found math fun But it was something where I was under the I was under the understanding That I would have to go really far in math if I wanted to you know get into a CS type of field and I just ended up going in a different direction But I know so many other people who are like, oh, I would just be completely You know priced out of something like this because I'm not so good with numbers and it turns out that The more programming languages have evolved over the years the more they are language based rather than just being able to You know think of everything in terms of numbers Which is a good thing doesn't mean you don't still need math skills But I love the idea that it's a lot like learning a foreign language because it's what it is It's it's a foreign language that you yeah, you You won't necessarily just be good at it if you're bilingual already But it's something where it's like I want to figure out how to convey this thought How do I do it and that makes a lot of sense to me today is today even more so it's more of a Language and less of a math language The languages are object oriented They don't have the same kind of reliance on one's math skills that they may have used to Had and so I can speak from my own experience There was a time where I was heavily involved in making php web pages What interested me was not the math. It's never been my strong suit always hated math And when I had to use it, I would but what really Stuck with me and what really made it a great fun endeavor for me Was the communication side of it of if I do this then this happens If somebody enters this Then look at all the cool things that can happen as a result when they hit that submit key Like to me that was magic. I felt like I was like working in a I don't know like a whole new medium that was different than math That was different than even just communication It was a way to like bring data from one place to another because someone made You know did something and what i'm saying is probably Very rudimentary to most programmers and where what got them into it when they were 10 or 11 years old But even as an adult that really appealed to me and I think that This this has actually helped kind of confirm for me. What I was what I was jiving on was this feeling of well This isn't just math. This isn't just algebra. This is it's some of those things and I need to buff up on those things And that's great and never hurts, but really what is this is about execution. It's about planning. It's about Result what result do I want and therefore what underpinnings need to exist for the result to happen? That's very different than just You know knowing the end of an equation Yeah, a lot of people have been saying logic In the twitch chat while we're doing this show and it's not exactly logic Depending on what you mean by it logic is sort of a loosely used term But logic in the mathematical sense doesn't seem to be what they're talking about if by logic You don't really mean logic, but you mean reasoning then yeah Just being able to problem solve and sort of intuitively understand like well if this is true and this is true Then this is probably also true. That seems to be part of this I'll tell you man when I was in college. I was a very mixed up person But you know, I did great at linear algebra I hated business calculus later. I found out that's because I took business calculus and not just calculus And I was I was all turned around but I thought well if I want to do computer science I have to do those classes And I don't want to keep doing those classes and I love journalism and I love language So I look at this like a lot of other people in our chat and y'all And say well shoot if if the standards had been you need to be good at reasoning working memory and link and language I probably would have like dived right in and done whatever math I don't think we're saying you don't need any math. We're not going to throw the baby out with the bath water here But I would have done the math that I needed to do to understand the programming languages without worrying like Oh, I have to be really really good at it, right? Yeah, I agree. I think that's I think I would have done more of that in college And I would have been less like no, I'm an artist type. I can't do that and they shouldn't come over here either Staying you're laying guys like I would have looked at it very differently. It was a weird assumption back then And there's also, you know, there's the obvious gender gap with coders and engineers and it doesn't mean oh That's because men are better at math than women and that's why they're all coders now But I think that there there was sort of this Assumption that well, it's so male dominated because that's just sort of the way that it's set up It's a little bit more intimidating and this kind of study Makes me hope that it would be less intimidating because it opens up a lot more skill sets of people who are like Oh, yeah, that sounds exactly like me. This sounds fun. Yeah, and uh, you know still scroll pointed out You don't really need a degree to become a coder anymore So there is, you know an escape valve here where if you're if you've been thinking gosh programming sounds fun But it's probably got a lot of math You just go get a udemy course or or something like that and start programming There's there's no reason to wait around which is one of the beauties of Sort of the advancement in technology and the internet Has made available but but you should even then even if you're not going to go the college route You should know like oh, it's the it's these kinds of skills that might Make programming Easier for you to learn than you thought again. This is only 36 adults. There needs to be a wider study But it does kind of make some sense. I wish I was part of the study. It sounds like just a cool study Maybe you can be part of the next explore my mind. 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Even if you didn't know them it's been happening a lot in the uk and our equivalent of the us fda is getting involved Also in england We have a lot of prehistoric buildings and castles and relics of villages built hundreds of years ago And metal detectors have got so affordable and good that archaeologists are worried that people who buy them don't realize That if they find treasure it belongs to the queen You can learn more about facebook food and what the queen doesn't want you digging up on text message at uk tech show dot com They talked about an ad on facebook for a single onion two kilometers away from nate Wow, who would I guess if you live next door, right? Not everybody's two kilometers away If you live next door and you need an onion real bad, but you'd go to facebook to find that I don't know. I don't know if that's the way the world works. But yes any treasure you find belongs to the queen as it should All right, let's check out the mailbag nick writes in about our conversation about uh, apple maybe going mini led Nick says i'm actually excited to see reports that apple is going to go down the mini led route with their coming products according to ming chi kuo I have zero apple hardware in my life But I have a super high-end pc The highest end gaming pc monitors are getting new revisions later this year with mini led backlights And the new backlight is expected to add a large amount to the price of these new revisions With apple ordering mini led backlights from suppliers first That will hopefully mean the orders would be high enough to bring down mini led prices in general Right now there's a premium charge for mini led and anything that brings down the price is nothing but good news to me As these displays are amazing to gaze upon That's a cool way of looking at this nick, which is like, you know, I don't not going to buy an apple product But man if if they start making the price of mini leds Scale high enough that that it brings down prices for other people that that could be cool I love that we should all get stoked when you hear samtung is going to do a thing And they're going to be worldwide because then it makes apple fans They should go oh well that means that stuff's going to come down Maybe we'll see something similar or it'll be cheaper when it hits same thing goes the other way like this is This is the reason why this particular part of Technology competition is good and I say, you know, hooray for that. 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It's Bradford City against Oldham Athletic the visitors are beaten now in the last four league games Starting today four points above the relegation. So I'm in five for Bradford City Fight it forward here dangerously And I just off-target from John Stett Brown the throw down the line and gets it back again Conor Brown to hang the cross in far side not it down dangerously for Weselowski to open the scoring for Oldham Athletic Midway through this first half and the visitors strike first Clark Harris with a header down was a Lofsky with the finish Winning challenge, but he's won it well has Matthew Dolan and then pings the pass forward brilliantly for Adam reach and Adam reach has scored the Equalising goal coolie taken from the man online from Middlesbrough Brilliant ball from Dolan Still had a bit to do here though, but he did it so cool It did reach for one one and two first-half stoppage time now as grounds blows the ball down the line and comes here for Harkins This is Gary Harkins for Oldham. This is dangerous and support in the middle and plays the ball through Oh for Johnson Clark Harris to restore the Oldham lead right on half-time here Lovely pass through from Harkins and an instinctive finish back by Jones The battle back from behind once before and they do so again now in their second half committing players forward But finding no way through and maybe leaving themselves vulnerable to the Oldham counter attack Only one to aim for in the middle, but it almost found him. It was Clark Harris sliding in Got his goal at the end of the first half It's first in 2014 by the way It's well cut out by grounds He threads it forward for Clark Harris. He could be in again here. Oh, it's a brilliant finish It's 3-1 Oldham Johnson Clark Harris with his second goal of the game Well, it had been something of a gold route for him and scored in the calendar year, but took that beautifully Flighted forward for Kyle Bennett, but Rahabka always convinced it was going wide Rahabka to clear this away Would be just a second win in nine league games for Oldham. They could wrap it up here Was pretty close from Phyllis Scott Let's go with a ball wide for Harkins One goal already today I'm enjoying themselves at the moment Harkins did create the space for the cross in the end bit of panic there in the Bradford penalty area This would be a ninth game unbeaten for Oldham against Bradford City in all competitions Flag up here, but the advantage has been played. It's with Mark Yates off the post Comes for Jones and Gary Jones has got one back But probably too little too late for Bradford City five minutes into stoppage time here and skipper has scored that Bradford have run out of time here. Oldham take a giant stride towards safety. They win by three goals to two


I never noticed this terrifying Bible verse until now. The way of the wicked is like a deep darkness. They do not know over what they stumble. Just think back to those moments where you've been in sheer darkness. In a place that you're familiar with, like your house, it's possible but still dangerous to navigate. But in a land you've never seen or a room you've never been to, you don't even know if your next step will land or if you trip on something what you tripped on. This is what our lives are like without God, pure and utter darkness. But with every step we're getting deeper and deeper in this darkness. But scripture also says that God's word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. The scripture calls Jesus the light of men. John says that the light has come into the darkness and the darkness could not comprehend it. It could not understand it. It could not overcome it. That light is Jesus. He is the light of the world. Friend, you don't need to stumble in the darkness anymore. Jesus has come to seek and save the lost. Put your faith in him and read his word and he will light your path.


And this is the 64-bit from ARM Logic, the S905 quad-core ARM Cortex A53. And you're also launching this one right now. Yeah, very soon. How soon? In one month. One month later, you'll have it ready. And let's check all the connectors that you have right here. Okay, this is Gigabit, Ethernet. Yeah, HDMI 2.0 and 3 USB. So this is your standard configuration right here, standard design for your PCB? Yeah. And how much RAM is here? RAM is 2 GB. 2 GB and Flash? Flash 8. 8 GB, so this is Mali 450 GPU, 5-core GPU. Yeah. All right, so let's connect it up and let's check it out on the TV. So let me go on this side over here. So this is all the specs for the CX-A8. It was an HDMI 2.0, 60 FPS. It's a modern number. All right. So let's power on the TV and try it out. So how about the price for this one? The price is not ready. So people can contact you and... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. So the CPU is still being a little bit finalized? Yeah. By Amlogic. It's pretty cool. Yeah, the price will be ready in one month, I think. One month later? Yeah. So booting up, what version of Android is it booting? Which version? Is it... We will try. We'll test it out. Is it 5.1? Android? Yeah. Android 5.1.1. All right. Yeah. So this is a typical Amlogic user interface? Yeah. So let's go on the... Serious? Yeah. This is the Android TV UI? Yeah. So we can see it's 5.1 doing one. Cool. All right. So your engineers are also working on finalizing the PCB design? Or is it already? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Or is it final and you're just waiting for the CPU? For the chipset. Just waiting for chipset and then ready for mass production? Yeah. Software will be ready soon. All right. Hardware is ready. How much can people customize the Android TV UI? Because in theory Google says that the UI should not be customized, right? For the Android TV kind of specification. But do you work on custom UI? Yeah. So what is the MOQ for people to do a custom UI? Yeah, at least 1000 units. 1000 units and then they can tell you what they want and you can do it right here? Yeah. Cool.


you guys. So it is day two girls self-isolation. I feel like I'm in some of a bad horror movie or I'm by myself. We officially got word from JB school yesterday that they will be moving to an online format which I appreciate but I'm like hmm most children at this age are kinsiatic you know I can pronounce nothing. They basically learn better with sensory with their hands talking. Most humans in my opinion learn better by doing by action instead of looking at something online and doing a worksheet. This is someone who actually manages online training. I know that. We work better that way. So exhibit A I have a lot of stuff back here that in addition to what they will be providing I will be getting that together for JB. It's going to take me all day to get it together. So I'm looking at his assignment. We are using classroom Google. I know these teachers busted their butts to put this together. So I do appreciate that. So we're not going to disregard it. So she has already assigned three things for him that are due on Sunday. Yeah so there's a math assignment, core knowledge assignment and CKLA which is in their work workbook. So at noon today we're going to go up to his school and pick up his packages. Now one of the things his school is providing they are providing care. I think when I dropped him off yesterday for it. Now we're paying for it. It's like $50 a day but he's only going he's only going once or twice a week just so I can catch up on work because you guys I can't work with this child here. I cannot work with I have no idea how people who are able to work from home are going to do it with kids at home. It is hard. Some of them can but depending on the age of your child to JB is still hands on. So as soon as he gets up I mean I have my little breaks in between but the type of work I do I need complete silence. I need to be able to focus for a few hours straight. That's why I get up so early. Let me get back. So around noon we're going to go to his school to pick up a package and like I stated his school is providing care. There's not a lot of kids there. There are probably when I picked them up yesterday there were less than 15 kids there. So not a lot and girl they are taking extra precaution. Like before your child even goes in they have to wash their hands and they sanitize them down. I gave them some extra products that I had because I am a prepper. I was prepping before this stuff started. I know this and so yeah anyway we will be going to the park today. I'm going to continue to catch up on some things we'll work before JB wakes up. It's almost seven o'clock. I want to gather some things for school at home and once I go and pick up his assignments then I'll definitely know how I can supplement what we have at home with what he has here. I don't want it to be to be overwhelming. I don't plan on spending no more than three hours a day on homeschooling with him right now because yeah we're not gonna do that. All right you guys this is what the homeschooling stuff is looking like. This is a little lab top my husband about JB just two weeks ago ironically. It is a lot. I didn't get a chance to get everything done because I called in the mom who was having she's having a really hard time with her two children who goes to JB school. One of them is special needs and she said that she was so frustrated she actually emailed the principal. It is a lot of work that these children have to do and they send in assignments every day and so we have four different topics within each topic there was between one to three tasks that were due each that are due each day. I'm not doing all that. I'm gonna be very honest. I'm going to not stress about this y'all. I'm gonna do what I can. Today was a waste because a lot of things came with me at work and so what I'm gonna have to do is first thing in the morning I'm going to get a lot of this stuff together again and figure out a schedule. I started writing things down for which day he is going to camp tomorrow and so I'm gonna be packing some of the worksheets the guy who's running the I shouldn't say camp daycare facility he he let me know that they are making sure that the kids are doing what they need to do.  Hold on I'm making a late dinner because I was literally on the phone with my homegirl for a while. She's very fearful which I understand because she is has battle cancer multiple times so she has a suppressed immune system and her youngest child has a suppressed immune system so they are not going anyway. That's a little bit of a not really y'all. This is funny. I started coughing in the store because I swallowed wrong but look I should have brought my water. My eyes were watering turning red because I was trying to so I was trying to suppress that cough because I don't need people to think I got the rona. I don't think I don't need nobody thinking I got the rona but look I have a tip for you guys. I will probably post this vlog this Friday. It's Friday then I have always kept large-sized hand sanitizers in my vehicle. I think it's probably one of the reasons why I don't really get sick not going on steering wheel because I mean I am a germaphobe. I've been like this for a very long time especially since my immune system is suppressed so whenever I go to the store whenever I get as soon as I get in my car this. I have two in my purse. I have wipes in my purse. I'm not playing like I always been that way always. So let me show y'all what I've got. I got a couple of things for JB to keep him entertained. So as we are out every twice a week I basically have something that a surprise toy or something to keep him motivated and entertained. Let me show you what I got at the Dollar Tree. I got a dry erase board little easel for him. We can practice addition problems. We can practice handwriting. We can practice spelling words on this. To keep him encouraged I also got some stickers for rewarding and whenever he gets a stickers going all the way straight across he will get a reward. I purchase a folder for his homeschool stuff. I got a second grade workbook to prepare for second grade and I got a drawing pad blank paper. We can do everything with this. Another thing that I plan on doing I learned how to type on a typewriter. Y'all I'm not that old. I'm in my 30s you know but I remember being in in I remember being in high school I think it was like seventh grade and they had the not the old typewriters but one of the more fancier type of the car y'all the fancier typewriters and in this raining if you hear something and so she would you know the typewriter has a flap over it so that she would cover our hands and we will have to type. That's how I learned how to type. So I think one of the things I'm going to do is see just go to the Goodwill every so often to see if I can purchase a typewriter because yes I really do feel like they're introducing these kids to stuff too fast but the teacher suggested that they go on to this website for typing because they're gonna have to be introduced to type and to prepare them for second grade. This is a lot of stuff and I don't want to overwhelm my child with things. Let me show you guys what I print it out. Now I went ahead and made a schedule of things that we have to do today and things to do tomorrow. He will be home tomorrow and he will be going to the care Friday but not all day. He's he won't be he hasn't been all day at these places since you know this stuff has happened. So this is our schedule and I know y'all can't see that but I'll just let you know y'all what the hell let me adjust the light. All right girl now I look cocoa. Now you can see this is our schedule so we're gonna have a Monday Wednesday Friday schedule that is the same and then a Tuesday Saturday schedule. We're gonna skip Thursday. Now of course my school our his school excuse me has done everything transfer everything online. I'm gonna let you know right now my child's not gonna be doing all that stuff and I know it's a little dark now but I want you guys to see this instead. He's not gonna be doing everything. I am not going to overwhelm myself stress myself out and my my son out JB out because I'm following their career. It would be totally different if I was following my own curriculum. Oh yes it would be good but I have to follow the school curriculum until we decide what the hell we gonna do. The thing that's very challenging y'all and all this is that gosh I was supposed to be touring other schools in preparation for transferring to another school. That was supposed to happen this week so I can't even transfer to an I could technically transfer but it will be I would be transferring blindly because I have no idea how the other schools are. So anyway guys this is gonna be the first day where we're following our schedule. It is actually Thursday today which is supposed to be our off day but since he was at camp yesterday we're gonna do the Monday Wednesday Friday schedule to catch him up also and overall he has three hours of home schooling based off this schedule. What I do before he gets up in here first of all we don't start to nine o'clock because that's just you know whatever. So the first thing I do is set out his laptop this is his Google Chrome. And then daddy bought me a switch. Daddy bought you a switch. I got you another switch. So I put out his home his work okay I have to stop saying homework and so we have here his math that he has to do today. We have to do this just from yesterday. I gotta switch for you. I know baby here are his spelling words we're just gonna go over and talk about them. I'm gonna have him hand trace them his workbook and so yeah we split this out over throughout the entire day going from nine to two and look if we can't get it all done it's not a big deal. So how are you liking it so far JB? Is it going good so far? You could be honest this will actually this will be our first full day. You know like this will be why what's the problem because your home y'all I think for the especially for the smaller kids they're home. Yeah so that's what it is because we're home and so he's not used to it. But this today baby will be the first full day of a schedule so you can really tell them how it went by the end of the day okay you're gonna have tons of breaks okay. Okay baby let's go ahead and make this for you. Hold on. Am I okay? Let's come on boy. How many candles? Oh the tail. You're seven. Alright sweetheart so you want this hair? You want it black? Here we go. What was your leg at? Can you point to your leg? I'm gonna show you guys what we're working on. A little bit of biology. Mate JB little character this is called starfall.com. This is so adorable. So baby how was your first day at school on schedule? This is the first time we did it on schedule. He's playing a game. It was good but we're behind y'all we're passing hours a little. It was kind of good and um. Sweetheart so yeah y'all it was he's so excited because my husband bought him him this new video game a switch child. I told him I got another switch for him. Okay I'll show them what it looks like. So yeah my husband he just got this in yesterday so today was his first full day playing it so we're we are we're supposed to be done it too. We didn't get done till a little after three right now. Yeah yesterday well I think I think today was your first full day baby. Yeah because you woke up today. I'm gonna show you how I'm gonna be preparing a couple of meals and a couple of meal ideas. Y'all know I've always been this way but definitely right now given a time to where food is being rationed and people don't have a lot of options in their area. The good thing about me is that I'm able to purchase just about anything and can make a meal honey out of just about nothing. So one of the things I definitely have done is stockpile on your non perishables. I have tons of different rights. I can show you what I have in here real quick. All right you guys so I just want to show you real quick what I have in my pantry. Y'all know me if you've been following me for a while you know that I like to keep a lot of different stuff on hand for this reason. Y'all hear me say that you know you look at my old vlogs I always say I like to keep at least two weeks worth of food but ironically speaking a week before things started to get really bad I was running low so I just randomly started buying stuff. I've only been to the grocery store to purchase food twice since the outbreak and I'm good for it. Honestly if push comes to shove this could last us a month. So I have here all types of rice. I have minted rice, brown rice, white, black, organic, Kiano dried beans, pinto beans, red beans, canned foods. I don't know where you're at but where we're at there's hardly no canned foods especially canned tomatoes which honestly are not good for you. Can't tomato set is but I have here coconut milk. I have chipotle. I have pasta sauce was really hard to find and then just a bunch of muffin mix. I do have cornmeal back there. I have a couple of boxes of Jiffy cornbread milk mix. I have at least one, two, three, four, five, five boxes of different types of pasta. I have cake mix crackers. I'm crack macaroni and macaroni. Macaroni and cheese dashes. We don't eat that but whatever. I was running low on finding JV cereal. He only eats apple jacks girl. So whenever I saw it in the store I went ahead and just got a box. We're good on snacks and frozen food. Y'all you have to excuse my freezer because that is not organized. Frozen food. I have tons of frozen fruit. We have mini pancakes. I have one, two, three, two out here. A frozen vegetables that's getting low. I have at least six to eight. I'm gonna say six. Six frozen meat but honestly you guys push come to shove you do not need meat. I mean I know people were freaking I can't find any chicken breasts you really don't need. If you're hungry you don't need meat. Another thing that I purchased last year it was on sale at my local fries. I know this is a little blurry. I was able to get these huge four pound bags of pinto beans from our local fries last year. They were like 50 cents or something and if stored properly beans can last honestly I've heard like up to 15 years. I also have a good amount of food in my stock pal. I have at least a week's worth of food in my stock pal and here in my kitchen I have about a month's worth. So y'all let me show you what I'm cooking okay. So I'm gonna be making a personal chicken pot pie. I've been craving it. When we were in Sedona my husband ordered this huge chicken pot pie that can feed three three people excuse me. He ate the whole thing by himself. I had one or two bites and so I've been craving it. Something I have honestly cooked maybe two or three times and the last time was a couple of years ago. So this is what I'm gonna what I'm gonna be doing while I'm cooking this. I'm also gonna be getting some ingredients ready. Well not necessarily ready. I'll show you what I'm gonna be making tomorrow. I could make it tonight but I'm tired. The chicken pot pie honestly won't be so so bad. Tomorrow I'm gonna be making a chicken stew which is very similar to the ingredients of chicken pot pie. Instead though I'm gonna be adding corn and potatoes to it okay. So chicken pot pie is fairly simple. I have three chicken breasts broiling on the stove here and some chicken bouillon. So to that I'm gonna be adding this melody of peace and carrots frozen not a lot. I have some carrots excuse me some onion here a can of green beans chicken bouillon garlic heavy cream flowers in the back some celery you don't really have to add celery and then I have some pie crust. Now since this is personal I'm gonna be putting in this little nine inch cake pan. I'm gonna unroll this cut it in half fold it in put my filling in put put the other half on top and bake it. Now you guys y'all know I cook by taste so I'm basically you're gonna see everything I'm gonna be cutting up the onion sauteing that with the garlic adding the vegetables adding some flour adding chicken broth and chicken bouillon and some heavy cream to thicken that up and then add some shredded chicken and basically spoon that into the pie show.


You'll have to forgive my pessimism, I'm simply trying to create theories which help me understand and explain what I experience. Why is there so much confusion in the world? Why are so many bad ideas believed by so many people? How can charlatans like Lawrence Krauss or Thomas Piketty be respected as profound intellectuals? There are many possible explanations, but I've recently become persuaded by one. Most people do not think clearly enough to recognize clear thinking. In fact, they're dissuaded by clear thinking. Clarity gets identified with shallowness, and imprecision and vagueness, on the other hand, are seen as markers of depth and profundity, often to such a degree that outright logical contradictions are accepted into people's worldviews. Famous philosopher Michel Foucault famously told John Searle that, quote, 25% of one's writing needs to be incomprehensible nonsense in order to be taken seriously by French philosophers, end quote. Now, if academicians are producing and persuaded by incomprehensible nonsense, then where does that leave the general public? I'm convinced that the children's story, The Emperor's New Clothes, satisfactorily explains a great deal of social behavior. Most people defer to authority, whether intellectual authority, aesthetic authority or political authority, and they do so out of insecurity.  In addition, there's this general notion that intelligent people deal with complex ideas, and the more complex and abstract, the more intelligence it takes to understand. And therefore, if you can't grasp the concepts that are coming from the experts, then you must not be intelligent. Thus, when Derrida writes some extremely nonsensical fluff, people act as if it's profound, because they want to appear smart. This compounds on itself, just like in The Emperor's New Clothes, and the result is a huge group of people who act like nonsense is brilliant. They outsource their own critical thinking to a group that they perceive as being smarter than they are. When it doesn't end there, then these pseudo-intellectuals will seek out nonsensical ideas, those which are the most incomprehensible, just to show how smart they are, to the degree that people actually think they can transcend logical reasoning. They become enlightened enough to see that intellectual consistency is the mark of a simpleton. That clear thinking is naive, and that contradictory thinking is profound. So we arrive at an absurd conclusion. People are most impressed when they are most confused. When somebody says that, quote, we now know that cats can be both alive and dead at the same time because quantum physics proves it. The pseudo-intellectuals all go, oh wow, that's right, yes I understand. Even though that's counter-intuitive, science is amazing. And all their pals agree and exchange high fives with one another, glad that they are surrounded by such intelligent peers. It no longer matters what you say, but how you say it and who says it. You might think I'm being unfair, but then watch the video I have linked in this article. It's about adding together a mathematical series, 1 plus 2 plus 3 plus 4 plus 5 add infinitum. And you get the most absurd conclusion imaginable, negative 112. That seems ridiculous, that's because it is. You're talking about adding up an infinite series of positive integers and getting a negative fraction. You literally couldn't think of a more preposterous conclusion. If this video didn't have a high production value and didn't involve PhDs in academia, if the people didn't perceive it as being serious, it would be over the top satire. And yet here's professional academics acting like they've discovered some mysterious paradox in the universe. I urge everybody to investigate this idea for themselves. The internet has many articles defending and rebutting the ideas in this particular video that you could add up an infinite series and get a negative fraction. But the point is, anybody who actually agrees with their conclusion certainly does not understand why. It's literally nonsense, it's a clerical error. Thus the proponents demonstrably discredit themselves. Yet read the comment section of that video. It's filled with pseudo-intellectuals whose entire argument is, oh, well the experts can't simply be wrong. If you don't understand, you're just dumb. If you think they've made an elementary error, it's because you just can't grasp this level of abstraction. Indeed, to those seeking out the most absurd, nonsensical, illogical, and paradoxical ideas, look no further than some of the claims of mathematicians. Then watch another video that I have linked in this article of Lawrence Krauss who in his own words, establishes himself as an irrational fraud. He claims that in some circumstances 2 plus 2 can equal 5. Yes, only once you reach a very high level of intelligence can you know that 2 plus 2 equals 5. It should be no surprise then that Lawrence Krauss is revered in many pseudo-intellectual circles for his illogical work. So how do you demonstrate clear reasoning to somebody who can't think clearly? I don't have an answer, but I'm open to suggestions. Here's a slightly different question. How do you impress somebody who cannot think clearly? And that answer is simple. Just use vague language in big words, contradict yourself, interject the words quantum or science, infinity, peer review or transcendent, and act as if you're part of an enlightened intellectual club. Avoid any propositions which are clear, straightforward, logical, or appeal to common sense, and avoid simplicity like the plague. For what it's worth in my own studies, I have discovered a remarkably consistent truth. The deepest, most abstract principles in any field of thought tend to be simple. Simple formulas in physics, simple principles in the martial arts, simple concepts in philosophy, simple basics in economics. When you first begin learning anything, all you see is murky complexity. But as you learn more, things get simpler and simpler. It's like navigating through a dense jungle. At first, you're surrounded by darkness and overgrowth, whacking away at everything with your machete. Then once a path is cleared, it remains clear, and you can make some serious progress. Chess, for example, to a grand master, is much simpler than chess to a beginner. It might involve more intense calculation, but the concept serves clear as day. Of course, you only arrive at this level of clearheadedness after an enormous amount of work and effort and practice. This is one reason why most academic writing is, in my opinion, a waste of words, at least in the soft sciences. Nobody takes the time to understand basic conceptual truths, and they mainly concern themselves with grandiose terminology, mathematical fiddling, and references to each other's work. All the while, getting the foundational concepts wrong. So I admit I'm a pessimist. I don't know whether the popularity of cloudy thinking is because people's lack of capacity or lack of understanding. But I have a hunch. Hopefully, with the internet circumventing academia, without the intellectual gatekeepers anymore, we'll be able to see a renaissance of clear, logical, and straightforward thinking. If you like these ideas, make sure to subscribe. And if you want to help create a more rational worldview, then please head over to my Patreon page and you can support content like this for $1. To read this article or to learn about my books, check out stevedashpatterson.com.


There's a famous hadith of a man who lived 500 years on an island And he committed no sins during his entire life And we are told that on the day of judgment He will be brought forth and Allah will ask him whether he wishes to be judged in accordance with Allah's mercy or in accordance with his own good works And this man he knows he has 500 years of dust pure devotion and worship And so he chooses to be judged in accordance with his own works And so Allah agrees and those 500 years are placed on one side of the balance And Allah places one blessing The blessing of eyesight on the other side and The blessing of eyesight weighs It says if those 500 years are not there at all and so this man he begins to be dragged towards hell And he cries out he cries back to Allah. He says no by your mercy And Allah hears him and he laughs and he tells the angels to take him to paradise We're into it would do name it Allah that of Suha if you were to estimate a Single of God's blessings you would not be able to enumerate it


Hi, this is David Rosales, I'm the pastor of Calvary Chapel of the Chino Valley in California. Today I would like to address the question, what are the signs that we are in the last days? This is one of the subjects of Scripture that believers are most interested in. When I was saved in 1970, the return of Jesus to planet earth was part of what we talked about most, and the excitement of his return stirred us to preach the Gospel. Since Jesus was returning at any moment, we saw sharing the Gospel as our most sacred and important duty because we simply did not want our loved ones to miss out on the rapture. This belief of the soon return of Jesus provoked much activity and was in many ways at the heart of the Jesus movement. There were books written, such as The Late Great Planet Earth, movies that were made, like A Thief in the Night, and there were songs, such as I wish we'd all been ready, all pointing to the rapture and how we should be prepared because it would occur at any moment. I'll never forget Larry Norman's song, I wish we'd all been ready, and how he sang, Life was filled with guns in war and everyone got trampled on the floor.   The return of Jesus to planet earth is a message that fueled the church then and should continue fueling the church in the days that we are presently living in. It should provoke us to live as if he really is going to keep his promise to come to receive us unto himself for where he is we shall be also. John wrote in 1 John chapter 3 verses 2 and 3, we know that when he is revealed we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is and everyone who has his hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure. His return is intended to provoke us to live lives that are separated to him.  The hope of his return is intended to provoke us to live as if he were returning at any time and those who have this expectation are to be busy doing their master's business. I cannot help but believe that part of the reason the church is in many ways being overwhelmed by the trends of the world is that in many ways we have just stopped believing that Jesus is true to his word. Believers can be like the servant who said, my master is delaying his coming and find themselves flowing in the current of today's shallow value system. This often is the fruit of ministries that are led by those who do not truly believe that Jesus will return soon and instead of heaping up treasures in heaven find themselves more inclined to heaping up treasures on earth, treasures that do not last and do not satisfy. So once again, what are the signs of the last days? Matthew and Mark tell us in their gospels that Jesus and his men were departing from the temple and heading for the Mount of Olives. As they were making their way to the Mount of Olives, his disciples drew his attention to the buildings. They said, look teacher, what massive stones, what magnificent buildings and indeed it was magnificent. But Jesus said, do you not see all these things assuredly I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another that shall not be thrown down. This sobered up the disciples and as they arrived at the Mount of Olives, they spoke to him privately saying, tell us when will these things be and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age? From there, Jesus spoke of what he said were the beginning of sorrows, wars, rumors of wars, famines, pestilences and earthquakes in various places. Often these are the signs that are emphasized as we point out the increasing frequency of the reality of these things in our world and point out that they are the signs that Jesus gave to prepare us for his return. What I found most interesting is that his men asked him about the sign of his coming. This helps us to see that in answer to that question, Jesus said the sign is deception. He said, take heed that no one deceives you and repeats this warning in verse 11, verse 23 and again in verse 24. What is the sign of his coming and the end of the age? Deception. In the days immediately preceding the rapture, apostasy will occur. There will be a deliberate rejection of biblical truth which is Christian doctrine and people will follow the deception propagated by demonic spirits who are the originators of all false religion. As these false beliefs are evangelized, some will willfully fall away from the faith. This speaks of a purposeful decision to leave a deliberate departure. Overall the conditions of the last days will be deception, deception that produces denial. First, there will be a denial of Jesus as God in the flesh and the savior of mankind, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Scientists, Christodelfians, Oneness Pentecostals, the Unification Church, the Unity School of Christianity, Dianetics and Islam, all deny Jesus as God. John wrote in 1 John 4 verse 3 that every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. This is the spirit of the Antichrist which you have heard was coming and is now already in the world.  People will redefine grace and will present it as permission to continue in sin and still go to heaven. This is seen in the movement to ordain homosexuals and perform same sex marriages. Ephesians chapter 5 verses 5 and 6 says, for you know this, that no fornicator, unclean person nor covetous man who is an idolater as any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God, let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Third, there will be a denial of the need for solid doctrinal teaching. Bible studies will be boring to carnal listeners and entertainment will take the place of edification. Paul told Timothy in 2 Timothy chapter 4 verses 3 and 4 that the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine but after their own lust shall they heep to themselves, teachers having itching ears, they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables. Fourth, there will be a denial of God through their works, having lifestyles that demonstrate a lack of faith in Jesus. Paul wrote in Titus chapter 1 verse 16, they profess to know God but in works they deny him being abominable, disobedient and disqualified for every good work. Finally, fifth, there will be a denial that Jesus is coming back to earth, a promise that is found over 300 times in Scripture. The apostle Peter wrote in 2 Peter chapter 3 verses 3 and 4, knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers walking after their own lusts and saying, where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. The spirit of the age encourages unbelief as demons entice people to reject the Gospel. What can we do? How can we combat this? We must simply obey Jesus and follow his command to go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything he said that he has commanded. And he promised surely I am with you always, even to the very end of the age. As believers and as pastor teachers, we must endeavor to go out and make disciples, teaching them to obey everything Jesus commanded. The best way to do this is to teach verse by verse through the Bible. The sad truth is that many who are called pastors simply fail to emphasize what Jesus taught us to emphasize. Many pastors are failing to preach and teach the whole counsel of God with conviction. And this has led to deception being accepted as truth and error as Bible doctrine. We believers are to speak with the boldness and confidence of knowing Scripture and that we are presenting the very word of God because it is truly God's message. Psalm 119 verse 160 says, the entirety of your word is truth and every one of your righteous judgments endures forever. As Paul wrote in Romans 1 verse 16, I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. Sadly, because pastors have failed to preach and to teach with conviction, deception is now rampant and accepted as biblical doctrine. Many times I have watched portions of televised church services and have had to turn the program off because of the error that is presented as truth and the sorrow and grief I experience as I watch God's children being lied to and used by the entertainer who is called pastor. We who are pastors must consistently teach the whole counsel of God. And remember that we give an account to God for what we have said in his name. We should use Paul as a model when he says, I have not shunned to declare into you all the counsel of God. Are we in the last moments of the last days? Yes, we most definitely are. And with this in mind, may we the church make a complete commitment to God's truth. It was AW Tozer who said, our Lord made it very plain that spiritual truth cannot be understood until the heart has made a full commitment to it. Jesus said, if anyone chooses to do God's will, he will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. The willing and the doing, or at least the willingness to do, come before the knowing. Truth is a strict master and demands obedience before it will unveil its riches to the seeking soul. This is David Rosales, pastor of Calvary Chapel of the Chino Valley.


Welcome back guys, so we are in the second video of five in our mini series And in this video we're going to be looking at some of the progressions that I like to use to help my junior players at under eight To develop a good forehand technique There are plenty of ways that you can develop technique in junior players These are some of the ways that I like to progress the strokes They aren't the only ways and it's important to know that every single junior is different The way that they learn, the way that they're built physically and the way that they cope with Information mentally too, so although these are quite simple ways of coaching They're not going to work for everybody, but hopefully they'll work for most people So let's get into our second video, forehand progressions Just like the serve on the forehand we would do lots of work using just a tennis ball So before even using a tennis racket lots of work would be done with throwing and catching So our players can practice their receiving and sending skills, but we don't have time for that today That'll be for a later video in this video. We're just looking at racket and ball skills So first thing first is knowing how to hold the racket and quite simply with children You get them to pick the racket up on the floor This will give them something between the eastern and the semi-western forehand grip Which will make their forehands nice and easy to start off with So progression number one I call it the bounce tap and quite simply you're going to get your child or your Player facing forward so shoes inside of a marker and You're going to let them bounce and you're going to tap it back over The key teaching point on this one is making sure that the player is making contact with the ball in front of their shoes And they're hitting up on the ball Once your player can do this comfortably the next step is being able to do it on the move Once your player can hit the bounce tap on the move the next step will be to introduce them into some rallying skills Once they can rally Constantly with the bounce tap you're moving to the net of pressure So the next step is introducing a slightly bigger swing by being side on to the net So we're going to start in the ready position as we did before When the ball comes in towards you're going to turn sideways And you're going to tap the ball back over the net finishing with a tip starts because we've rotated our hips Side on side on One more once your player can do this consistently the next step is can they do it on the move Move to the ball side on Once your player can do this on the move They can then move on to doing some rallies once they can do rallies comfortably They will move on to the next progression where we will now be introducing a bit of a follow-through now I call it a big nose finish you can call it what you like But we're trying to get that elbow up nice and high to finish the swing Side on tip starts big finish And again on the move one more for the ready position out to the ball. There we go again Repeated by rallies and we're into the final progression where we will be introducing a slight loop shape Now a way that I like to introduce the loop is by calling it the mirror pose So on the way back before the racket gets to the back of the swing We want the strings to be facing in towards the player like they're looking into the mirror So we want it to look like this That's quite a big jump from the previous progression so you can break it down and you can get your player starting side on Looking in the mirror here and creating that small loop To get underneath the ball and finish with the big nose and again into the mirror Get underneath the ball and finish with a big nose There's lots of ways that you can go about doing this This is just one of the ways that I like to do So they were my four hand progressions I hope you liked them I hope you liked them So they were my four hand progressions I hope you liked them If you're a parent or a coach feel free to comment underneath it If there's anything else that you've seen on the tennis court or any other ways that you like to do it And I hope to see you again in my next video looking at the backhand Take care


Hi, it's Bridget. This is my vlog. Good morning.  This is my birthday week and so I'm pretty, pretty much in a good mood I think today. I hope you are too. If you're not, it's okay. Hey, here's what I recommend. Wow, look at those eyebrows. Oh my, I'm not recommending the eyebrows, but oh my gosh, look at that. Holy cow. I have to draw my eyebrows in because everything's white on me as you know. Like no pigment. Anyway, so I'm gonna have to fix that before I do my video. I recommend, here's what I recommend. Put on a swimsuit cover-up. No, I mean no, that's what this is. It's like a swimsuit cover-up, like a house robe kind of thing. I know, I know it's a little ladylike, but actually it's not. It's actually a swimsuit cover-up, but it's pretty comfortable and it's, it's fun. It reminds me of like being in Florida or Hawaii. My sister's actually in Hawaii right now. Nice. I've never been to Hawaii. I have had some clients that are there, but I've never been there myself, so, hmm. So who do you think I'm in a channel today? Since it's my birthday week, I have to channel some of my favorites, I think. And I think one of the people that I want to channel is Freddie Mercury. And so many of my viewers on Above Life Channel love Freddie. And there's been a lot of suggested questions to ask him to chat with them about. So I've got content, although he and I just kind of checked. You know, we just kind of, once we open up and just start talking, we just start talking. So I'm in such a good mood today, you guys. So I'm looking forward to connecting with him. So now just because you might see this vlog before I actually share the videos with, the video with Freddie, don't freak out because you see I channel what I'm in the mood to channel so that they're good channeling sessions. And I'm inspired, of course, to pass that energy along to you. And so I have some, I have probably four videos right now that are ready to go in the coming weeks. So I also like to have that plan ahead of time. I like to plan ahead because I can't channel every week, every day, that kind of thing. I have to work around scheduling and kid stuff and all that. And I also need to make sure I have a backup plan in case like I'm sick or a kid is sick or something like that. Because if a kid is homesick, I can't really channel if I need to help take care of the kid, you know? So anyway, some of you are parents, you totally get it. So I hope you have a good day. So my recommendation to you in this particular blog as you create your life, that's the point of it, to inspire your spirit, put something fun on, like put something colorful and fun and that will make you feel, even if it's gloomy outside, which it is right now at our house, it's kind of quality to hear today and or cold outside. I'm thinking about vacation, even though I'm not going on any yet. Like I don't have any plan. I got to make sure my funds are in alignment, you know what I'm saying? I got to receive first that I can make plans for maybe a getaway or something. Gosh, I really could use that. Yeah. How about you? My friends in Florida, I'm thinking about you. My friends in California, I'm thinking about you. Oh, my friends in those warm mother states. Oh, I so, so envy you. All right. Okay, guys, so this is the blog. I hope you have a great day. Thanks so much for watching here at Ferry Grasshopper channel, where I share my vlogs with you and thank you for supporting the work that I share at Above Life channel when I channel on my weekly channeling sessions. Be sure you like and subscribe to both my channels because that really helps from the YouTube standpoint. Because what will happen is if you like and subscribe, YouTube will catch on to that and then recommend the channel to other people so you could be helping other people to find the inspiration that you so enjoy on the channels. Thanks so much for watching. Thanks for supporting the work and have a great day.