Yeah, the recording is started. So Let's begin this class with the word of prayer Dear father we come into your presence We surrender each of us in your hands Lord Father as we prepare to share on each topic on the reformers We pray that you will lead us and guide us and strengthen us. We pray for the good connectivity good health Thank you father. Thank you Lord that you will enable us to understand that has been shared in the class and Help us to carry the revival fire and us. Thank you father in Jesus name we pray amen amen Thank you, so As per last class We have assigned each topic To some of us in the class That is starting with Anita Lubega Jeffina Isaac Roslyn John Paul Zellitholi and those whom I have missed to address Y'all can pick the topics from the second list. So these will be the graded assessment for mid assa for the mid midterm exam or mid assessment So if you can pick your topics, it would be great for those who have not picked the topics last week Can pick the topics from the second list? E-lock if you can pick the topic, it would be good. E-lock and Elisha You can type the person name on the chat so that we can get get that assigned to you Or maybe we can do that later also and we can start with Anita Govekar if you're ready, you can present your assignment Okay, and you can start with your session I'll just stop presenting Ma'am. I didn't made any presentation. I have written it in Word doc ma'am Okay Okay, so you would be sharing on George Fox, right? No, not George Fox. Sorry. You'd be sharing on Zurich reform under. Okay. Go ahead. Go ahead and share Yeah, ma'am. Can I share ma'am? Yes. Yes, please. Ma'am, I'll be talking on Who's wing? Hardwick swing Lee He was born on January 1st, 1484 This place was a well this in the togen book equivalent October 11 13 15 31 He was the most important reformer in the space protestant to formation He founded the space reform church and was an important figure in the border reform tradition and His early His early life and career his father was a village magistrate and His mother was Margaret Milley and Wengie was priest of Wilders and later Dean of Wayson Hardwick went to school at Wayson and then basil 1494 and 1496 Where is master Hendrick Wolfman inspired him to inspired him in him and enthusiasm for music and classics, but his father and uncle want him to Pursue the study in theology in And he went to in university deeply influenced by the lectures of the teacher and reformer Thomas written back he would in written back and sorry one second and Sorry, then Wengie at once began to preach his new conviction apart from topical criticism and of abuses He did not first attack traditional positions Begin he began content to expound the regular gospel passages in 1518 Despite much opposition. He was appointed people priest at a great minister at Zurich The post gave him little income or a visual influence out great scope for pitching. He commands the commands the series of Exposition in the New Testament and and wild a by topical application Serious plague in 1519 found him faithful in his ministry and his own illness and recovery followed by his brother's death in 1520 dependent on the spiritual and theological elements in his thinking and teaching that had been overshadowed to some degree by the Humanistic in 1520 he secured permission from the city governing council to please the true divine scriptures and The resulting summons helped him to steer rewards against fasting in practical celibacy that initiated the Swiss reformation in 1522 In perseverance of his view of the supremacy of scriptures Wengie pleased his now famous sermons at the Otain back Convent and despite local opposition to many of his ideas He secured fresh authorization from his bishop to continue preaching attract on Meets and printed version of the otain back addresses the clarity and Certainly of the word of God appeared in 1522 the year 1523 was a crucial in the Zurich and reformation in preparation for a Disputation with the weaker general of Continents arranged for January in town hall of Zurich Wengie published his challenging 67 article his main contentions were adopted by most peace in the state Wengie was Wengie and his Successive steps taken in during 1524 and 1525 included the removal of images the suppression of organ organs and Disolvation of religious houses the replacement of the mass by simple communion service the reform of the baptismal office and the introduction of Prophecying or Bible readings the recognition Recognization of ministry and the preparation of our need to version of the Bible 1529 Wengie fostered the movement not only by preaching and influence on the council but also by his various writings example on education on baptism on the Lord supper and especially the comprehensive commentary on true and false religions in 1525 and He was publicly married to Anna-Grenhardt on April 2 1524 That's it now. Thank you Thank You Anita. Thank you Who goes next? We see Lou Becker Okay, Lou Becker you have prepared on which topic? Yes, pasta and the class. Yes, we can hear you Okay, I think I was given to To deal with the Anabaptist. Is that right? Anabaptist. Yes Okay So, let me go The Anabaptist the name Anabaptist was not their only name. Just ask Krishna One second one second one second, please Have you created any presentation that you can share it with the class before you could share? No, I just No worries on your word doc you have it. Okay. Yes, okay. Please go ahead. Please go ahead Lou Becker I was saying the the name Anabaptist is not the name they gave themselves just ask Krishna is not our name It was a name They are contemporaries gave them but it actually means it comes from two Greek words Anna and the baptimus Which really means? Re-baptizers or to do baptism again To them they believed that they were going to follow the the Bible and the preachings of the New Testament It was started by a man. They call un-rich Ziggly in 1484 he was born in 1844 and he died in a war in 1531 But they he didn't start it alone. He started it with his counterparts Felix Marzi and comrade Gibral Ah Much as the but the Protestants and the Catholics disagreed on everything in life They on this time agreed to eliminate the Anabaptists their philosophy was very simple they believed that Infant baptism was not in the Bible. So they wouldn't follow it they believed that they would only have one baptism and that was at When a person is an adult and is of age he can confess with his mouth that Christ is a bd is a he died for him and So they fought against infant baptism number two They had a philosophy of saying that the church and the state wouldn't be bedfellows They believed that the church and the the state would be separate This did not go well because in those days in the 16th century There was what we call the state region anybody in the state was supposed to be Following a given region that was either Catholicism or any other These guys If they were born in the 19th century, they would be the Martin Gandhi. They believed in non-violence They said that they would just as Christ did when he was On earth they wanted to follow that so they were believing in non-baptism. I mean, they were believing in non-violence But um This guy they call Felix Mars was the first matter as far as the the anabaptists were concerned He was drained in limit river in near lake in lake Zurich in stazerland as we know that the this radical Reformers started in the town in Zurich the town which is found in in in stazerland he was murdered there Through drowning as far as king fed king fed and the fourth was concerned. He called this one the third baptism So they said if they need water that much they would Be drawn and they called it third baptism to correct First baptism was the other one which the infant baptism second was The one they called their name which is an abaptism which means Re baptism to them. This was the first they never called it the second as others called it And the third was that one of drowning. So he died on the 20 on the 15th january 1951 In the presence of his mother and brother who told him that he can do anything But he would not refute jesus christ When they were drowning him he had psalms 31 verse 5 to say that in In thy hand i commit my my soul and some say that these were the very Words that were spoken by jesus christ they also believed that the People were supposed to be priests for themselves. They needed no go away between the They never needed a mediator Just as the priests, you know the priests have that way of them coming and they You confess your sins and when they forgive you maybe they tell you to read the rosary or what for them They believed that everybody would go to christ and they would ask for forgiveness from god by themselves I think today i'm not the only one who has got something to say that's what i had to put together. Thank you pastor Thank you. Thank you. Look me up for sharing the inputs. Thank you so much I also see on the chat enok has posted a message Enok, you can share next week But then you can choose a topic from the second list If you can choose a topic for now There you can prepare and share it Next or the next class Next class if you can choose anyone george folk to the first great awakening Jonathan edwards any of them from the list And you can share about them in the next class Okay, thank you Good morning Yep, please i'm very very sorry. I won't be able to meet up today because i'm going out i'm living in the city I'm No problem my topic i'm not getting my topic yet Okay, okay, so um you can take up You can take up george fox and the quakers for next class Is that okay, you know Or you can you can talk about first great awakening or jonathan edwards any of them from the slide that you see on your Scree Okay, there's no problem. I will do that next class I I will do that So, yeah, so can we uh decide is it george fox or first great awakening or george first just first will be okay for me Okay, okay. Okay. Thank you so much I'll be going As soon as i board it i'll be going off Okay. Okay. Thank you Thank you so much. Yeah Okay, the next person is jeffina Okay So jeffina you would be sharing on william tindale. Do you have a power point presentation to share? Yes, bachelors. Okay. Yes. I can stop sharing and you can go ahead Yes, you can present it Can you hear me? So I just want to thank pasadena for giving me this opportunity because I learned a lot from william tindale This bible is very common today. We have different versions different Translations and a lot of things my list very common today. I think we have Lost the value of it because it's very common every christian home has a bible I wonder how many of us take and read it But once during the time of william tindale, actually there was no bible in english So william has this great passion that he wants this bible to be for everyone because he has read the scriptures He knew latin So let me give a little introduction about his childhood He was in west of britain and one of the thing that is very important about william is he learned latin During his school days. So the bible was only in latin So he read all these bible and he was like so passionate about scriptures So what he did was uh, he wanted to study theology because of his passion But the thing is even in theology college, they didn't teach scriptures They thought something else, but they didn't teach each and every single scriptures because there was no translation obviously So he studied in oxford university One thing that motivated him was while he was in college Erasmus printed the greek bible for the very first time So he was very very passionate about scriptures So he learned the greek and he wanted to know about this whole bible thing and everything So the bible was only in latin because it is one of church trick Because the bishop and the pastors they don't want people to know what's in the bible So that people will start questioning them people will be like what the bible says. There's why are you doing that? So they don't want people to be acute if they start getting acute The whole church will be a controversy because the bishop were not exactly doing what the bible says they had their own rules and own things so William came to know about this like so he wanted people to know the scripture He wanted people to live life just like how jesus said So but so one thing that he started thought of doing was first. Let me go to the bishop Let me do it by authority. Let me ask the permission and let me start translating in english so that Everyone can read the bible. So that was his passion. So he went to the bishop Who was named stanzu? So he went to london and met this bishop and he was like Bishop I want to translate this whole bible. I have I know greek. I want to translate this in english But the bishop was like no, no, you should not Because it was one of church tricks So obviously the bishop don't want him to do that and the punishment for translating bible Was really hard to get and it is actually imprisonment for life Or else they'll get burnt just for translating even if you translate one single sentence You will be burnt forever. So this was the punishment, but william tender had this great passion Uh, it is a really big story like he kept moving from place to place place to place place to place He was in hidden places so that he can start translating and he kept it as a secret in himself But once he decided and let me go to germany Germany, so I'll I'll have the freedom. I'll have the freedom to print. I'll have the freedom to translate So he decided and he went to germany But one thing that really shocked him was while he was on the way to germany. There was one person Uh, who actually translated, uh, I mean in williams own place. It was not in germany Uh, but in williams own place. There was one person Who translated the lord's prayer and he wrote it in a very small paper and he had it in the But he was burnt alive while he was on his way to germany william came to know this but he still don't want to give up No matter what happens. He wants to translate. So he started printing as soon as he went to germany. He went to the print shop He started printing Almost six thousand six thousand bibles he translated and he sent to britain Uh secretly through ships and secretly everything was secret because if someone found out there's a bible in english They are sure gonna get into some punishment But while william was about printing the last copies. There was someone called cohalious He started raiding that print shop So because he was against martin luther even in germany, there are some people who are against this So williams didn't know about him, but somehow he came to knew that he's coming against him So he flew to a city called warms. So almost his life was like Going from place to place place to place and place to place in thousand five and ten to six fifteen twenty six He printed the very first bible. Uh, so he kept Sending things to england he secretly even though he knew that it's against law He kept sending things to england because he was so passionate about this because he wanted people to know about it So once the bishop of london duncel came to know that There are people who are having these bibles that translated in english they are in secret places So what he did was he burnt all of the bible in uh in front of the church And the most funniest thing is while the bibles were burning. He was actually preaching He was preaching to the people like you should not do this and he was preaching about jesus, but he was burning the bibles so That is the most funniest thing for me like how can someone burn the word and preach the word I don't know, but still williams angel didn't give up He kept printing no matter where he went. Um, I think, uh And then he almost completed the new testament. So he thought of uh translating The old testament so he learned hebrew and then uh, he literally really learned hebrew Like he had this great talent in him to learn languages like in proper grammar even so he Translated the first five five books the pens took By staying in belgium sea coast.  He wanted protection So he won't don't want to live alone don't want people to recognize him So like group of people's were living in that place So he wrote he was there writing all these Things and started printing things in 1534 he did and one thing that happened That actually kind of seemed good was king henry Had a second coin called annie bullen and she loved this bible she started reading this bible and She also told king henry like I have this bible and look at these the translations are good The words are so powerful and everything so king henry wanted william on his court in england King henry was not against the bible in that moment. He was like, I want him to be in my court He's so uh talented. So I want an in my court. So he sent steven wake And asked him to find william because william is hiding actually in a place where many people are living So he's actually hiding. So he went Found william and he was like uh king henry wants you in his court But william said I have one thing one thing Ask him to authorize english translation If he says bible can be translated in english Like everyone can get it then I will for sure come to the court But this actually Tensed william henry like he was like why? I sent someone I asked someone to search for him. I am the king. How can he say no to me? So this actually made him tense. So he sent uh henry phillips Uh henry phillips to actually get caught up william So during this time william didn't give up the thing is william didn't give up no matter what happened He started writing joshua to chronicles hand written during those times while waiting for king henry's reply And then henry phillips he came Searching for william. He was very tricky. He entered as william's friend. He started searching and he was like I'm william's friend. I want to have a lunch with you. That's how he Invited william.  They caught him to king henry And william was died on october 6th with the 36. They burnt him alive Uh, even at the last moment he was praying for england like god. I pray that these People's eyes will be open like they can see that your word is important And what happened after william's death was also so inspiring his friend known as john rogers He translated the whole bible the reminding passage is also he translated and he made it as a whole book And 10 months after uh, his death The same king king henry he authorized the bibles in english It's so inspiring like, uh It is one thing that I love this He printed it so small like it was like a pocket bible like 8,000 20,000 copies he made everything was so small as pocket Bibles so that no one no one will know that we have a bible And then it was finally authorized today. We have many translations In bible today. We are so blessed Uh, I think I have like seven to eight translations in my home And we have different bible study bibles journaling bibles bible for kids bible for teens And I think We have a million reasons to be thankful to god to not to worry and to just praise him and we must be thankful for Cards sending people like william changer Because he gave his whole life just to translate bible just to pick it in english So we must be thankful and just like william changel. We should be passionate about the words these words or not just words Really, they are not just words. They are more valuable. Many people have sacrificed their life for this word So it's our responsibility and we should really decide and desire To go read this word get deeper into this and keep trusting on this because these are not just words These are powerful words of god. So just like william changel Let us also Give our whole life to Jesus and be passionate about it no matter what happens around because when god is for us Who can be against you? So thank you Thank you. Jeff. You know that was wonderful. Thank you also for the Presentation it was wonderfully shared and presented Yeah Thank you. God bless. Okay. The next person we have is Mastar Isaac. If you're ready on john calpin We can go with that Yes, good morning Good morning brother. Okay. I'm sorry. I prepared my excerpt on Gogu notes I don't know how to share it, but I have it and I I will do the presentation orally And later on I will forward it to you Sure. Sure. No problem. You can go ahead with the presentation. Please I mean with your with your session. Yeah Okay, um Presentation is about john calvin John calvin was a french lawyer Theologian pastor and an ecclesiastical statesman He was the most important figure in the second generation of the protestant reformation He worked in juneva during the protestant reformation He was born on july 10 1509 in nor yong A town in peccadilly a province of france The second of three children who survived childhood His parents were jane and gerald calvin He was married to idyllete calvin from 1540 to 1549 The widow of a man he had converted John calvin was raised in the stoned roman catholic family His father was employed by the local bishop As an administrator in the town's cathedra His father wanted him to become a priest because of his close ties with the bishop and his noble family At the age of 14 calvin went to paris to study at the college of mashay In preparation for his university studies Towards the end of 1523 he transferred to the most famous college of montego Although the teachings of individuals like luta marty luta and jackals the staples Were spreading in paris calvin remained closely tied to roman catholic However john calvin in 1525 developed friendship with individuals who were reform minded This is eventually the stage for calvin's eventual shift to the reformed fate While studying in orleans in the university of orleans his father died in 1531 And he buried his father While attending to his studies in the universities of france He read a lot from erasmus and marty luta It was through their writings He became converted to become a true follower of christ By 1532 john calvin finished his civil law studies and also published his first book A commentary on the clemencia An essay on clemency by a roman philosopher sinaka The following year Calvin fled paris because his because of his contacts Their lectures and their writing seems opposed to roman catholic He spent the next years in various places under various names outside france He studied a lot on his own Preach and began work on his first edition of the institute At the age of 26 calvin published the institute Which became an instant bestseller The institute of the christian religion is calvin's seminal work of systematic theology It is regarded as one of the most influential works of the protestant theology Published in latin in 1536 And in his native french in 1541 It's a core reference for the system of System of doctrine adopted by the reform churches, usually called calvinism By 1536 calvin has disengaged Or was disengaged from the roman catholic church and made plans to permanently leave france But because of the war between Francis the first and charge the fifth Charge the fifth or the tenth I don't get that player anyway He he made his top in jenever His fame has spread so far ahead of him in jenever that the local bishop Guglielmo Ferral persuaded him to stay Ferral was struggling to plant protestant musin in the city This started a long difficult yet fruitful relationship with that city Calvin began as a lecturer and a preacher By 1538 he and ferral were asked to leave the city by the council Because of escalating theological conflicts And their uncompromising religious stand He went to strassburg Until 1541 He stayed there as a pastor To french refugees Was peaceful and happy In strassburg he learned a lot about the administration of obang church From martin boucher His senior pastor In 1541 the council of jenever Requested him to return He was emotionally not happy to return He wanted to stay in strassburg However, he felt it a responsibility to return to jenever Calvin published many volumes of commentaries On most of the books Both the old and the new testament except few Which he omitted Calvin was instrumental in the establishment of the college The jenever which later on became college calvin One of the oldest public schools in jenever, switzerland Calvin believed in Calvin's belief was centered around the sovereignty of god Calvin thought that god had power An absolute supremacy over all things that he created Calvin thought that god is so holy and so worthy That he should be praised and loved So man was created So that all god's tribute might be displayed Known and praised They let the last days in the last days of calvin In the late 1558 calvin became ill with fever Afraid of dying before completing the final edition of the institute He forced himself to walk He improved it from 21 chapters to 80 Shortly after he recovered He stringed his voice while preaching Which brought a violent feat of cough That burst a vessel in his lungs He said deteriorated considerably And on the 25th of april 1564 He made his will in which he left a small amount of money to his family Few days later ministers came to visit him And he said or he paid his last goodbye Calvin passed away On the 27th of may 1564 at the age of 54 That's all i got for now And like i said please show me so that i can forward it to you God bless us all thank you Thank you thank you mr. Isaac god bless you shared well yes you can share uh You can share on the google drive i will create an assignment as usual how we create on google classwork So that's where you can upload your ppt presentation along with the research word doc Okay Yeah So the next person Optimist isaac would be rosalind rosalind if you're ready with john orcs can we start And before we could start rosalind one second enox there would be a change of topic for you because george fox has already been taken by zealot only request you to please you know Take up on jonathan edwards. Would that be okay? enox if you have heard me you can You can reply on chat Okay, he's left and rejoined Okay, okay, we will go ahead with rosalind for others you can look up to your chat to get the topics aradhana Elisha Okay, okay, please go ahead rosalind so i can stop sharing. Do you have a presentation to share rosalind? Um, sorry, ma'am. I don't know how to present Okay I just return it in my book So I Will read it out. Okay. So maybe later for those Uh, for those who have not prepared the presentation that is the ppt slide Request you all to please prepare and upload uploaded directly on the google classwork. Is that okay? I will learn Okay. Okay. Great. Uh, yeah, rosalind. Uh, you can get in touch with us if you wanted any help. Okay, we will find you so right now Sit sit can move for any help whenever I need Okay, we have jeffina also here available. He can assist you. Okay Yeah, ma'am. I'll text her also jeffina. Is that okay with you? Would you help rosalind? I Text uh, I texted jeffina also the other day for some information. So I'll do that. I learned from this. Yes. Sure. Sure. Sure. Thanks So I've written it as well. So I'll just read it out Yes, go ahead Yeah, uh, thank you ma'am for this opportunity Um, I'm presenting john north, uh, scotland's greatest performer Ma'am, excuse me for the noise A john knocks was a 16th century spotish minister He was uh born in jiffer gate in haddington east loatium in united kingdom He was a reformed theologian and writer He was also a leader of the country's information Uh, he was the founder He was the founder of the presbyterian church of scotland Uh, his father william knocks was a merchant Um, mother's name is in glare who died when john knocks was a child His elder brother william knocks took over his father's business John knocks studied at the university of st. Andrews Uh, under john major One of the greatest scholars of the bible of the time John knocks was ordained a catholic priest in edinburgh in the year 1536 by william pashom bishop of dun glane However, john knocks was converted from catholic priest to the protestant faith um John knocks joined the reformers patrick hamilton and george wisher All the both died as martyrs for jesus christ For the for their faith John knocks was in the year 1549. He was also present for 19 months in the galley prison He was released in a very uncertain manner Uh, his release On his release knocks took refuge in england Uh, in this same year on 7th april 1549 knocks was I was licensed to work in the church of england Knox uh, the liturgy required worshipers to kneel during the communion knocks considered this as idolatry He was protesting the Catholic mass and worship His preaching and work of reformation was carried on in scotland The bishops of scotland View veered him as a threat to their authority and summoned him To appear in edinburgh on may 1556 He was accompanied by so many Uh, uh, he was accompanied by so many influential persons That the bishop decided to call the hearing off And uh, john knocks was set free to preach openly in edinburgh on august 1st Scottish parliament met to settle religious issues Knox and five other ministers were called to draw up a new confession of faith The parliament passed three acts in one day Abolish the jurisdiction of the pope in scotland It condemned all doctrine and practice contrary to the reformed faith It forbade the celebration of mass in scotland um to conclude like um More than anything else, uh, john knocks was uh Known for his prayers Give me scotland or i die Knox's prayer Was not an arrogant demand but passionately of a man Willing to die for the sake of pure preaching of the gospel in the salvation of his countrymen This uh prayer has really blessed me as I was doing this Study on john knocks Knox's greatness Lay his humble dependence on his god To revive his nation and reform his church Knox's belief was not in the power of his prayer or power of his preaching But in the power of the gospel and power of god Preaching and prayer is always a second was always a secondary means in the salvation of his people Um John knocks continued his work as a reformer He was called as the trumpeter of scotland Because of his preaching with conviction He was called to menace menace he was called to um minister in his early forties Was called to ministry in his early forties. Uh, he was a brilliant scholar Uh came a little late in the ministry yet his preachings gets immediate recognition Uh king edward the sixth appointed him to be as one of his royal chaplain Who went throughout england? Preaching reformed truths John knocks was a god fearing man a man of prayer And his prayers threatened the queen of scotland He feared not the face of any man He was known for his boldness as he stood in the pulpit Because he feared only his god John knocks said quote Whatever influenced me to utter whatever the lord put in my mouth So boldly and without respect of persons Was a reverential fear of my god unquote Because he feared god so much he feared man so little This holy fear trust him forward in his preachings He said I knew I rendered an account before the judgment throne as we read in Paul a Paul's epistle to second Corinthians chapter five verse 10 I will read that For we must all appear before the judgment seat of christ That each one may receive the things done in the body According to what he has done whether good or bad We christians shall all stand before the judgment seat to give an account of what we did and how we did verse 11 says therefore knowing The terror of the lord we persuade men Praise god It is the fear of the last day and are giving an account to believers As believers to jesus christ The deeds done in our bodies whether good or bad that drove john knocks to preach with great boldness He was so bold in his preachings to call out things as they truly are in a time It was desperately needed to be heard He took the word of god so seriously. He took his ministry so seriously He took the last day That we shall stand before the lord so seriously that it gripped his heart and made him sober minded As bible also tells us to be sober minded to be level headed in our ministry To not to be intoxicated with the spirit of this age, but to remain very level headed In our ministry, so as we preach the word of god So That's it ma'am. He died on 24th november 1572 in edinberg We really praise god for such anointed man of god that he That we had Thank you ma'am. Thank you rosalind wonderfully shared. Thank you each one for taking this time And sharing on the assigned topic Okay. Um, so there are some changes on george fox. We already have assigned to zealot only So jonathan edwards would be Texas enock and george whitefail will be super shish and then We have Was the other person Linden right Linden Yes ma'am Okay, george whitefield was assigned to you, but Who did super shish talk on george whitefield? Okay. Okay. So linden. I'll just give you a different person um Can you talk about Okay, let's skip. Okay jonathan westley linden okay Okay, so linden will you talk about jonathan westley um, i'm just going to the list Elisha would you like to choose? To choose a person from the notes abubakar elisha aradhana I'm ready to pick on his question Yeah, mr abubakar on whom you would be talking on Let me talk on David David brad, okay Okay Okay, elisha Elisha would be it would you take up the second great awakening or any individual person? I'll give it to you. Just give me a minute I'll assign a person George whitefield This revival David brad William carry Elisha is that topic okay with you aradhana Aradhana would you pick henry martin? I think most of us have covered in the class right? Okay, so we have covered most of them Okay, okay, then thank you so much in the next class kindly prepare a presentation and Research doc and you can present it in the class. Okay Thank you so much. Nice talking to you and the each one I put in the effort to share on the topics That was assigned. Thank you. See you all in the next class. God bless Thank you


Okay, I think we can get started. Welcome everyone to today's session from Maori to deaf engineers welcoming all contributors. I'm Catherine Paganini, Head of Marketing at Boyan, the creator of Linkerd. I'm also one of the co-chairs of the TAG Contributor Strategy and the facilitator of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing working group. Yeah, so let's start by introducing our panelists today. So why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself and tell the audience how you're involved in the TAG? Destiny, do you want to start? Oh, the mic, you have to switch it. Okay, hello, I'm Destiny O'Connor. I am co-chair of, I'm a web developer and co-chair of the CNCF Deaf and Hard of Hearing working group. I support and help educate people to learn more about accessibility and help with the Deaf and Hard of Hearing requests and accommodations. Kia ora e te whanau. He uria hau no Ngati Apa me Ngati Tuwharetoa o ku iwi. No Whanganui a hau ko JT he mot o ku ingoa. Kia ora, my name's Jay. That was just a quick intro, Māori. Just I belong to the Ngati Apa Ngati Tuwharetoa tribes in New Zealand. I've been told our accent just quickly for the interpreters as well can be a little bit hard to follow. If I'm like blending vowels or too much slang call me out, that's I'm happy to switch things up. But I am part of the TAG contributor strategy group as well. I'm the co-chair of the mentoring working group alongside Nates. And I try and support a couple of other initiatives like the Deaf and Hard of Hearing working group and higher ed working groups. And I'm a community manager with IINZ. Shout out to the team. Kia ora. Hi, I'm Jay Jackson. And I'm a senior software engineer for Total CX. And I've been part of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing working group for some time. And I want to be supportive of getting more Deaf into the field. And it's becoming my passion to do that. OK, great. So let's start with our question for you, UJ. You know it's complicated, we have two. So what motivated you to create pathways for Maori youth into open source? First of all, I didn't know anything about open source until about two years ago until I connected with the team. So it was a big learning curve in itself. But I was really fascinated about the nature of open source and how it was about transparency and collaboration. And it didn't matter what your background was or where you came from, it was about consistency and being prepared to show up and contribute what you have to add to some sort of collective value. And those sorts of things really resonated with me. So when I came to working with young people when I work with a lot of schools and tertiary education providers and different community organizations, I saw a lot of value for young people there because, well, a few reasons. Our education system, like many, is not really effective at building our young people up for the future. A lot of standardized and industrialized approaches in terms of building an education that's going to be relevant for what the future's going to look like. And the same sort of deal with trying to support them into the changing workforce. There's a lot of misunderstanding about how to ensure that curriculum is relevant to where the industry is going. I also thought like the idea of volunteering was really important because quite often it's, the focus is starting on that $25, $30 an hour job as opposed to being prepared to develop your work ethic and those fundamental skills first. And so the idea of your merits being acknowledged as opposed to how well you sell yourself in a resume or an interview doing the work first, I thought that was really important, sort of lesson for them to sort of understand in terms of how else they can sort of communicate their value. And just for young Maori in general, they for the most part don't understand their value. It's, there's a lot of things in terms of drawing from our whakapapa and our mataranga, our lineage and our knowledge and things that are there and inherent. But there's a lot of things that sort of understand about what is the skills and the value that they really have to bring to the world. So I thought there's a lot of potential and open source in general about how they could sort of broaden their horizons and understanding of themselves and what else they could do to sort of change the world around them. Okay, great. And what has been the response so far and can you share some progress that you've made? Yeah, so it's been interesting because most people I've found don't really know about open source in general, even less so about Kubernetes. People are curious and you start telling them about data orchestration management and self-replication, all these sorts of things. Like it's interesting, but it doesn't quite stick in terms of how does that sort of relevant to us. But in the same sort of thing is that interest and that curiosity because people sort of understand that there's some sort of potential there. So we've been able to run or support different events and workshops. We've recently kicked off with help of Abby from our team as well, a program, some of the schools to start introducing them to different open source platforms and just trying to, again, trying to introduce them to something a little bit different. But I think one of the response from the wider Māori tech community has been really important to understand how can better support that. And open source in terms of its potential to things like data sovereignty and, again, different sorts of access points has been really key because, I mean, the participation number in Māori, for Māori and tech in New Zealand is really low anyway. I think it was around 4% last year. It's jumped up around 0.5 since. And so there's a lot of conversation in terms of what are the systemic issues as well as the behavioural ones that we need to address to help shift that dynamic. There's a lot of structural things that aren't really set up for Māori to be able to participate meaningfully. So just being able to contribute to trying to explore some of those sorts of solutions, trying to understand what are those sorts of things and the wider sort of tech sector for Māori. I think if some of the work being able to do that is being able to gradually feed back to how we can support and build up the presence in open source in general. Okay, great. And the next question is for you and Destiny. So, I mean, obviously we all know that it's really important to include marginalised groups. But why do you think personally that it is important? Destiny, do you wanna get started? Sure, yeah. So this is important to me because some deaf out there can speak. Sorry, let me go back. I grew up with mostly a hearing family and they don't sign. And so I lip read and speak most of the time interacting with them. So I have kind of an interesting perspective interacting with the hearing community in that way. But because of that, so one-on-one conversations are great. With the advantage of that is... Because some people assume that you speak well. You don't need accommodations. And so often that is taken advantage of and I still need accessibility because I'm deaf and I don't always use my voice in those type of situations. Jay? Yeah, of course I can only speak from personal perspective. But I mean, the benefits of diversity and opening up to other cultures and perspectives, it's pretty well documented. That's why we encourage fresh eyes. It's being able to encourage others, be able to share the unique view of something and look at a problem or an issue from a different sort of angle and start to begin, foster innovation in that sort of way, that's all pretty clear. But I think from Mārīdum, one of the concepts is around what we call manākitanga. And it's around how we sort of, when we're talking about welcoming people, we can welcome people in the sense of we can be polite and friendly and accommodating, we can allow them to drop into meetings, we can allow them to give their ideas and post discussions, but it's not necessarily the same as making people feel welcome. How do we open our spaces, our homes, our ideas, create safe environments for people to really feel like they belong and that their opinions are actually valued and heard as opposed to just having a voice among the noise. I think it's some of those sorts of concepts and values and ideals that I think can again offer a lot of value to this community and begin to build some of that greater understanding in terms of how we can better work together. And I mean, it's not something that's unique to Mārīdī, either it's a lot of indigenous cultures have similar sorts of ideas and things too, but I think it's those sorts of things that can again just bring a really important dynamic that isn't necessarily absent at the moment, but I think can definitely be pulled upon more with what's already exists. Yeah, great. So yeah, this is the first CUBE con that is actually accessible to deaf and hard of hearing. So Destiny, can you tell us a little bit what the deaf and hard of hearing group had to do with it, what the role was? Yeah, absolutely. So we helped provide resources for the conference, what to do in those situations, what deaf people are asking for in regards to accommodations, whether that's capturing and interpreters, we provided resources for that. In the past three months, we've been working on that, yeah. It's been awesome that they've provided interpreters as well. I mean, it's overwhelmingly, to be honest with you, it's great. Yeah, and we also have to add that we only provided the recommendations to the CNCF and the Linux Foundation Events team four weeks ago, so I mean, it's really amazing that you're all here and can able to interact with everyone, so huge shout out to them for sure. And so Jay, so how did you find this group and yeah, how has it been so far for you? Well, I was part of the deaf professional Slack group and it's a group of deaf professionals from all over and the co-chair, Rob, who's in the room, he's one of the co-chairs, and he had essentially set up this CNCF working group and recruited deaf folks to come in. So I decided to come in, take a look, and my experience was, you know, I've had a good accommodation experience with my current job, but I know that a lot of deaf and hard of hearing people do not have the same privilege there, so I was trying to help out and see if I could do some advocacy and jump in just to support the other deaf and hard of hearing members and when I did, well, this is my first conference and it's my first talk too, so I was really excited to be here. Thank you, thank you so much. And it's just an exciting time and I feel like the more that I'm involved and I learn what I can do to advocate and help and deafness is a huge spectrum, obviously. So some people speak and read lips, some people speak some and hear a little, some people do not hear at all and are fluent in signing, some people use closed caption, open caption, interpreters, there's a huge array of experiences and accommodations that meet the needs of the deaf community. So some people have very unique experiences and so I've just, it's been interesting to hear all of the stories and feel validated here and be able to contribute and share and advocate. Thank you. Yeah, and I think what is really interesting, like for me that I learned, right, because is what you just said, like that huge variety of people and the different needs on what they rely on differ so much and I think there is so much need to educate the community so they understand because literally some people think like there is caption that's enough and no it's not, right, because you can watch a video on YouTube with captions but how do you interact with people and all these things you don't really kind of know unless you actually know, get to meet deaf people because you don't think about it, right. And I think it was really encouraging to see how everyone, once you start that conversation with the Linux Foundation and the CNCF, it's like how willing they were to make those accommodations because they just didn't know, right, and now where they understand, they're thinking, yeah, of course we have to do it. We cannot just exclude a whole group of people just because we're not providing these things that are available to us and technology is making it easier and easier but we also need interpreter and so on so I think it's really great that we've, again, like four weeks and we're here, you're here, it's really amazing. So the next question is for you two as well, like Jay Jackson and Destiny. So of course this is a maintainer track and we haven't really worked on recommendations for projects yet and you're also new to open source so it's a little bit of a challenging question but for the maintainers out there, that's next on our to-do list. We do want to provide recommendations for projects but what should project owners know about deaf and hard of hearing and why is it important to ensure that their projects are accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing? I don't know who wants to start, like either way. Me, okay, I thought you meant the other Jay. Okay, yeah, two J's. He's South Jay, I'm North Jay. Anyway, we have a GitHub where we can contribute and put strategies in there for conferences and meetings, et cetera and people are very welcome to read any of that information and provide feedback as well.  Yeah, what Jay said also really the best way to find out how to accommodate is communicate with us, contribute to a project, maybe just ask what's our preferred way of communication or what's the best way to accommodate us for our learning needs and opportunities to contribute. So, you know, sometimes interpreters are the option, maybe they're not the best option, maybe it's captioning, maybe it's specific chats and notes there or whatever, you know, there's so many ways to communicate with folks and I think just don't feel uncomfortable to just ask and go ahead, we're definitely willing to help and more than you know, really. Yeah, and I think like asking or like really interacting with people and learning from them is the best way, right? Cause it's like there's just so much you just don't know and so yeah, just lose that fear if you have any, you know, and just ask and go and like what we're also saying, like we have a lot of people here now, so come, ask questions, meet them, right? So they'd be happy to. So in general, is there anything specific for projects that you would like to be inclusive that you can think of? And again, I know it's kind of difficult because you haven't really contributed to that but right. I think just don't be afraid. Just if we are saying, hey, we're deaf and we have these disabilities and we'll let you know you don't have to run away ask someone else about us, just ask us, provide us with whatever best option that can be provided for the project, I would say. Is there anything for the end? Oh, did you wanna say something? I was thinking anything from the indigenous population something that projects could do to be more welcoming so that they feel, you know, it's a tough one. It's a big question because I think I think it starts with why do you believe being inclusive is important? You know, I mean, it gets talked about a lot in terms of diversity and equity inclusion and everything. It's almost to the point of becoming like a marketing tactic or a strategic sort of effort. It's, you know, it looks great to, you know, slap on your company values and talk about that in your culture and everything.  It's, I think you need to take a step back and, you know, I think we all have to remember it's not about us. It's not about me. It's not about you. It's who are you trying to serve and why and how can you do that? And meaningfully in a way that's not transactional. It happens a lot back home. It's, you know, people, you know, organizations for instance, say they want to hire more Maori because it would make them appear as more, you know, culturally inclusive and welcoming sort of organization. You hire that one Maori person and suddenly, you know, that's what, you know, you really respect the culture. You name your project after that. You, you know, you have them involved in some superficial way that doesn't really reflect what it is that, you know, what your actual sort of commitment is. And quite often it's, you know, you've got a project for instance and you approach Maori at the implementation stage as opposed to the ideation. So most of the decision making has been done. And I think it's really important that if you're serious about inclusion, how can you bring people in and build the relationship first and try and understand what the need is and try and make them a part of what you're trying to do as opposed to bringing it in after all the serious, you know, all the big decisions have been made, all the heavy lifting's been done. And then it's sort of like a tack on at the end. I think sometimes diversity is seen as a detriment. People who are seeking equity are seen as entitlement. People who are seeking inclusivity are seen as a bit of an inconvenience for what, where the real work takes place. But I think if people take the time to, you know, really think about it as a project or an organisation as an individual, why that's important and leave it that first, I think it can really change the project from the inside out and all those sorts of things. People, like I said, it'll be about creating that space of long first where people really can feel comfortable to bring the best of themselves. And all those other sorts of things that are always gonna be there, that's always gonna be a priority, will come out naturally as an extension of that. So I think if we can do that right, yeah. The change in these that happen will come. That's very well said. So unless you have anything to add. Yeah, just to add to what Jay was saying, the, you know, with the keynote speakers and everybody that was saying it's all community-based and it's really just getting to know each other, interacting with one another and coming together on the same level. It's really important. Very much a similar message, I would say. And I would add, they say the chain is only as strong as its weakest link. And that's the same with the community here. If we can pull other people up via accessibility, inclusivity, I think we can make a stronger community for all of us. Inclusivity is not just for people like us. It's for everyone. So if we have everyone involved, participating, contributing, it benefits every single one of us. What a great way to close the talk. So before we open up for questions, you'll know this is the TAC Contributor Strategy. We have a Slack channel. We have several groups mentoring, deaf and hard of hearing, maintainer circle, lots of different things. So please check it out. Join the Slack channel. Come to one of our meetings. You can all find them on the CNCF calendar. And yeah, the Learn More QR code goes to our website. There you can find all our resources and we have a brand new section for accessibility where you can find the recommendations for conference organizers, which we hope will be used by many more conferences, not just people here in the Linux Foundation. And so that's another call to action. If you are at any conference, feel free to send them to them, because they are really good recommendations that come from deaf and hard of hearing to the community. So that's a very valuable resource. So yeah, I think that's it and we're open for questions, if there are any. One more thing. Oh, I wanna thank you so, so much for everything that you've done so far in contributing and making this working group happen, making us feel included. And for this, it's really, it was great for our meeting and exceeding our expectations for this year. I just wanna second that quickly, because I think you've put so much work into this and it's something that, although you've had a really strong personal connection to it, you've never, it was the same before, you've never made it about you. You've always been working from behind the scenes and trying to build up others to be able to step in and lead the space. And just been led really strongly with that servant leadership and I think that's really important and a really strong example of what I think we're talking about. So, Ngā mihi nui kia koe and thank you very much. Thank you. This is not too bad, you're making me cry. Okay, now we're open for questions. Yes, oh, there is a mic over there. I'm not sure if you're remote workers or in-person workers, but I'm curious about accessibility as it relates to workflow and maybe you can speak to your personal experiences on what has worked well for you for workflows and being efficient, either be remote conferences or in-person conferences, like what can employers do to be more inclusive in those environments? Is that now specifically for deaf and hard of hearing? Or yeah. I do work remotely, yes. And right now with today's two technology, I mean, we have Slack, we have Teams, we have Zoom. It's made it very accessible for us with all the new technology. And companies like VRS, which is video relay service, they provide interpreting for phone calls, et cetera, and then there's captioning. There's any number of things that we can use to make our lives accessible and you guys use Zoom, right, Destiny and Rob? Yeah. Yeah, we do. For on a call, maybe we're using VRS for Sorenson. Sometimes they have interpreters ready for that, but there's also interpreters available in other capacities that we're here to provide interpreting services and accommodations for us, yes. Yes, so when you ask about interpreters for meetings, my company provides interpreters over video and we have interpreter on the Zoom screen with us. So far it's been pretty good. A lot of the time it's a bit of a struggle because sometimes Zoom has a caption feature which is really strange because the person who's hosting has to turn it on and enable it and many people do not know about it. So we have to educate the Zoom organizers to please turn the captioning on. So that's one of the things that we encounter. And we did actually have a meeting with the Zoom accessibility team and so provided feedback and they said that they would be working on it, so hopefully, yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, so fingers crossed. More questions? So when you're interacting with software, whether it's a development environment or a utility or even just a community sort of interface, what's one thing that you wish you had that's sort of missing that you sort of noticed that is sort of never there and that's actually for all three of you like when you're interacting with just normal software? I would say, I'm sure it's with like social media having things like if they have a podcast or some sort of developer group where they're having a conversation. I wish that it had captions or an option to have captions on there. They have it sometimes, but it's not always great. It's not always exact as what they're saying. Any voicing, anything online with audio, there's often not a lot of access for that, so I feel like that's a missed opportunity. I would say relatively the same as Destiny did. For me, just interacting, video-based software, yeah, there's captions there and that's pretty important to me, but sometimes the caption, I mean, it's improved. I'm not gonna say it's terrible anymore, but it's there and sometimes it's not the greatest. So the caption feature, sometimes it works great, but you have to kind of still try to figure out what's being said a lot of the time. During a live talk, if they can get an interpreter for that, that's great, but some people rely solely on the captioning, which is called cart in a live environment, but it varies. And one thing that I thought it was funny just talking about captions and that I've never heard before, but now where I'm interacting with a lot of deaf and hard of hearing people, they call it craptions. And so I didn't know, because I don't pay attention to it, because it's like, I just listen, right? So yeah, they're sometimes really bad, so if you're providing bad captions, they're not able to understand what you're saying, so really important, sorry, go ahead. Well, from working with a lot of young people and Marty in general, how the visual is important and what is the story that's told? I think sometimes a lot of software, they do the what really well in terms of what is its features and functions and all those sorts of things. They do the how sort of okay, but at the same time, a lot of documentation is very text heavy, it can switch off people's attention spans pretty quick, but the why can be really vague as well. Like why is it important? Why should people care about what your software does or what it is? How does that potentially serve their interests? So I think where it makes sense that visual components and how people interact with it is important, but in working with some neurodiverse people as well, some of the dyslexia or dyspraxia, can you resize the fonts? Can you change the color of the background because it can't process the imagery and things that are there? So I think it's again, the more widely you sort of interact with people, understand these sorts of things that we take for granted every day is often people's biggest barriers and I think again that's why it's so important to reach out and try and understand before building it, so yeah. And we just got the sign to stop, so that was perfect. Okay, thanks everyone for showing up and enjoy the show. Thank you.


Djiyo jin Fey IRA yarno suiku bana It looks like Kenyanwe never sleeping when Maskukini is occukohand watu is at vibe no the performance of Señor Nou election maingalooriesi k wellnessis faith Ketepeagon atratendun tuweza lase 28这里 と the Bato loki kenya ja na wa 1 nge li attention People have middle and short distance, unlike long distance which you have been dominant over the years. So the entry of Umanyala and the performance of Faith Kipiagon has really entized the entire country to start following the harmonic. How is this possible? In a weeks time you break 1500 records and a few days later again another record in 5000. How is this possible? Exactly a one week, a seven day period. But if you just look closely how Faith has been performing, just take it way back to BitGos in 2010. She is someone who everyone, those people who are involved in athletics could tell that she is destined for greatness in athletics. Look at the way she ran 1500. After winning Tokyo Gold defending her title, her next move was a world championship which she finally was able to break. And going to seven days later, breaking the 5000 meter race. And the most interesting part was that she was raising again is Gide, who was the record, Gide from Ethiopia. And again the two belong to one camp. They are all managed by Global. So they are people who know each other very well. Gide last year spent most of her entire training season in Kaptergat. And they were just staying in the same camp. So they understand each other familiarity. Is there between the two? And you and I have seen this lady Faith Kipiagon Chepnetic rising through the ranks from a tender age during this world cross country championships. And she is doing right now. Come on. What can this be attributed to? Discipline focus? Or is this just hard work? It's discipline of course coupled by hard work and good management behind her. Patrick Tsang who is a current coach and she moved to Kaptergat in 2019. Since then she has been winning every single race. And again one camp, one management having two now three world records. It shows the dedication this camp have led by Patrick Tsang. Patrick Tsang himself is an accomplished athlete. Actually Patrick Tsang was the first Kenyan to win gold at Kasarani Stadium in 1987. That's during the old African games. And he went ahead and won silver at Barcelona Olympics. Then again won another silver in Stuttgart in 1993. So she is going through the right hands. Exactly. That's my point. Fadinanda Omanyala was the first African 100m run and reigning champion in Commonwealth competition that happened a few months ago last year. Also coming second in last night's Damond League and preparing very well for Budapest. His competitors get scared. Yes, actually you could see the body language of the two athletes. That's Noa and him after the race. You could tell that they respected each other. Omanyala breaking sub 10 finally at the Damond League is a huge performance by him. I was talking to him this morning and he was like man I finally break the 10 second barrier in Damond League. It shows that what is ahead of him definitely anyone who follows sprint is now in the bracket of the finalist at the world championship. He will definitely make it to that final. Running agaist everywhere it's in Marcel Jacobs who finished I think distant 5th, distant 7th and Jamaican. Umu Omanyala keeps telling us every day that he is his mentor and they all trail behind the Kenyan man. Umu at some point everyone thought that probably is winning. Yo actually he started his start from the block was a bit slow because around 5 meters he was last. Then he recovered is very good after 20 meters he laid throughout until 95 meter. That's when Liles took over and finally won the race. So generally it means that you know the athletics in the country is booming worldwide. Despite the problem of doping which is ravaging global world with Kenya also included in the countries that are getting affected massively by this monster. Sports wise athletics is doing us proud. It's actually uniting the entire country. Look at how all Kenyans were behind Umu Omanyala and Faith during the last two meetings. It shows the impact. It shows that Kenyans can really get united by sports. I was speaking to someone this particular morning and he's saying that we should be worried in stipliches. I think we've been dominating before because as we speak right now I think Kenya is fading. Can we restore the lost glory in stipliches which used to be dominated by the likes of Ezekiel Kempohi, Kwencensilas Kiprutu? It's a huge concern especially at the federation those athletes Kenya led by the Ebo president Jack Tway. Their concern at the level of the latest performance is going down by every season. I knew Grima was good but I never anticipated him breaking the world record. The record would have gone to Morocco rather than to our neighbors Ethiopia. It will take time to recover because again middle and long distance they tend to go on road races where there's more money and it's actually money matters that's been able to lower the performance in stipliches. So which means we need to do a lot by putting in place a lot of structures and strategies to revive our heroic performance in stipliches? Yes especially now that we are going to world championship. I believe that athletes Kenya should have select a few the best stipliches runners and put them in a camp probably for two months. It's actually two months to the world championship if they can be placed in a camp and concentrate only on stipliches. I think probably we can get a medal at the world championship but at the moment I can tell you we won't be able to get a medal at the world championship in Agast. Are young stars looking like those who said to take over from Ezekiel Kenpoikon, Censula Skipruto? Yes there are quite a number of young guys coming in probably from under 20 categories. But again I have told you that money matters in long distance especially starting at 3000 stipliches. They rather go to road races which are many and have more returns than wait for them only which starting in May and in August. There are so many road races globally so they rather go to look for money rather than wait for them only series to make money. And you know in terms of fighting doping scourge we saw yesterday president William Ruta at state house during the launch of Kalanta Hela reiterating government's commitment of ensuring that this monster is something of the past that you know having met a world athletics president Sebuko the same message was passed across I don't know from your own perspective having been in athletics for a while I don't know. Can we fight it and bring it? Yes the apparatus that have been put together by the government agencies I think probably with the more money funds coming in to ADAC to fight this scourge I think more testing will means that more people will be caught and at the end will have a clean spot. There is you know that narrative going round saying that you know there is a likelihood even Kenyan heavyweight athletes are involved. It's only that you know they haven't been exposed though that's an unsubstantiated claim. Do you tend to agree with that stereotype? You know the problem you know I mean it's a competition and there are different camps. There's leaders camp, now there's acid camps, there's night camps. All these people they are fighting to one agenda being a global superstar. So the propaganda will be thrown around so you'll never really know the truth. So sometimes the propaganda is about to tarnish opponents' reputation. Exactly. How is Russia doing in terms of fighting this scourge? They were banned at some point. Are they still out right? Rashi, at the moment they are competing individually and it's a status that world athletics has been put probably maybe in the next two years they will be allowed to compete in the country but I know they get a lot of testing, a lot of education is being undertaken. Sensitization programs most of them. So yesterday's performance by our Kenyan athletes led by Faith Kipyagonichepunge tich just coming in the wake of Kipkeno classic which took place in the country I think two weeks ago and I saw you were involved in organising for pitch side interviews for superstars and are we getting to Diamond League as well because there is that push that you know Kenya can be hosting Friday night athletics. Yes, the country, the athletes Kenya was already applied for the event to be upgraded to Diamond League status. Others also feel that we can have a double. We still have continental tour, have Diamond League, probably put the continental tour in Eldoritz then Nairobi to host Diamond League. I mean Kenya is a powerhouse when it comes to sports. I think this month another world rally is happening in this country. The government want to market Kenya around sports. They feel it's easier to market the country through sports, that's what they are doing. And saying that do you also try to advocate for KTB Kenya tourism board to use Kenyan sports scene as a tourism destination centre. You remember that noise that was made when Naomi Campbell was picked to advertise Kenya overseas and when we have the legs of Heliwood Kipchoke, Victor Wanyama, you know. Ya, it's quite cheap to market the country through sports rather than putting multi-billion adverts on global TV stations. I mean the focus should be on the sport. I'm happy that the government have realized that and brought in Talanta Hela which some quota still not really understanding it but I believe that those involved and those who have been mandated to carry out the initiative they know what they are doing. So overall going forward the future looks bright for Kenyan athlete sports genre. And now let's talk about the upcoming World Athletics Championship set for Budapest. Kenya is known for performing very well at the global stage in international championships, Tokyo Olympics, Commonwealth Games in Birmingham and now Budapest knocking the doors. How are the preparations so far? Ya, if you follow the athletes Kenya weekend meets you could see that a huge huge number of athletes are coming in as part of the preparation. And in 2 weeks time, June 22nd to 24th there will be national championship at Nyao Stadium. I believe the attendance will be huge. And actually the likes of Manila have put in their calendar and put it out there outside there. There's national championships. One of the events is looking forward to the preparation towards it I think is good. And like other sporting disciplines like would I use football really? Or probably rugby there has been the problem of transition whenever the heavyweights are retiring and exiting the scene there is a problem of their voids being left being failed. But I think in athletics things have been smooth because David Rudisha left 800 meters and now there is Avi Manuel Wanyoni. Wanyoni is coming in. Wanyoni is very strong in the last 50 meters. Look at his last night, his position at the 50 meters and at the finish line. He is very good. And he is getting good support from Janeth who is coaching him. And other races as well. Javelin we had to get someone like Julius Yehgo. Javelin will take a while. Especially that you can't train. There's no facilities.  Coming to Nairobi you know the hustle in Nairobi. You have to maybe probably have someone to stay with or rather they rather just not participate is the lack of facilities. But in general your overall assessment regarding the state of the game, athletics and overall sports in the country. It's good. Look at the performance of Kevin Kiptum. People were saying now Elwood should retire. He's aging. And now Mr Youngster is coming in. That was in London? Yes. He won London and he has been included in the marathon team. So the future is still bright despite the exit of the legs. Yes, other people are coming in. We have got replacements. Yes. Dennis Okeo. Aroba Sports Journalist and Athletics Consultant speaking this particular afternoon joining us to speak about athletics in the country and state of the game going forward ahead of what athletics championship said for Budapest, Kenya is preparing for the championship and looking forward to replicate the aglittering show that we've always witnessed in the past international event. Thank you Dino for coming through all is a pleasure having you on board. Good bro. Thank you. Of course touchline still continues. We take a short break and not too long of course we will be hosting Chemo himself captain James Tuma Kefa president alongside Terio Uko who have just been elected this particular morning through and opposed Kefa elections and they continue the mission of representing welfare and interest of former and current footballers. Don't go away. Stay tuned. It's the touchline.


Welcome to my very first blog. It's all about how to make an interactive read aloud using two different tools, Epic and Screencastify. So my name is Keeley. I'm a kindergarten teacher and working on my master's in instructional technology. I happen to be a huge fan of picture books and read alouds.  And they are awesome, but I have a huge issue this year. I'm a virtual teacher and a lot of my students don't always make it to my meetings. I want them to have the same literacy rich content that my other students are having. So that is a major issue. Another issue is that when I do have meetings, sometimes the students cannot see the story that I am trying to show them. They're missing those crucial pieces of the illustrations and some of the vocabulary that I want them to see. The same thing happens when you are in the brick and mortar classroom. You're sitting down, you find an awesome book, but it's about this big and all of the kids in the class cannot see and suddenly they're all playing tug of war with their t-shirts. I don't know why, but we all know it happens. So I found a solution that helps the students hear my voice even if they're not with me and be able to see all the parts of the story. I simply go on Epic, find the story that I want, grab Screencastify, read over the story using my voice and inserting all of the talking points that I want to tell about. And then the students can hear me, they can see the pictures and it's really awesome. All right, let me show you how it's done. So making an interactive read-aloud is pretty easy. Just go to epic.com, then click on my account. And if you don't have an account, then check out a tutorial because you'll love it. There are tons of books for your kids and you to read. Put in the title. I already know I'm doing the little red hen because I love the fun voices and the kids love to read with me. I'm going to choose this little red hen because I know as I do my think-alouds, it really lends a hand to doing parts of a narrative, such as character, setting, action and emotion. Once you've decided the story that you love, it's time to put your voice on it. So I'm going to use Screencastify. I already have it saved. I also have the paid version. You may want to look into that depending on how long the story is that you will read. So I'm going to click it. And then I'm going to make sure it's on desktop and microphone. Then I'm going to click record. And on my other computer, I have two options that say screen one and screen two. This is screen two. I'm clicking that and I hear a three, two, one. Let's go. Little red hen.  This is the time where I might put in a think-aloud. Hmm. I noticed the author said, the little red hen, the mouse and the rooster. I wonder if those will be the characters. One day the little red hen found a grain of wheat lying on the ground. Look what I found, said the rooster to the mouse. I will plant it in the earth. Who will help me? Not I, said the rooster. Not I, said the mouse. Then I'll do it myself, said the little red hen.  Notice up top it is red so that means that it is currently recording. There are two ways to stop it. You can click the button or you can just click the stop sharing button. I'm going to click the red button right here. Click stop. And as it comes up there are some different options. You can listen to your story. You can edit your story as well, especially depending on what type of screencastify you own. And then there are some sharing options. You could share it to your YouTube. It will go to your Google Drive and be saved, which is pretty awesome. So I want to show you how it has went to my Google Drive. And right here you can see that it is prepped and ready to go. And then I can listen. I hope that you found my tutorial about making an interactive read-a-loud with Epic Endscreen Castify Helpful. If you want to follow me for more tips and tricks on read-alouds, just go here. And remember we read on Wednesdays.


You guys welcome back to another one. If you are new to the channel, I'm Gold Pony, I do new car truck SUV reviews on YouTube. And today we are in the new 2020 Ford Edge courtesy of Bobber's Ford in Dilsberg PA. And so what did you check this one out today? Because my sister does own a Ford Edge and she likes it. And so the Ford Edge essentially slots between the escape and the explorer. It's kind of in the middle of those. But in addition to that, there's actually several slight changes for 2020. So of course I will be going over them and testing out everything else on this one today. So what do you guys say? Let's just go ahead and jump right into it. And as always, let's start with pricing. So but as you can imagine, there are several different trim levels for the 2020 Ford Edge. First one being the S-E starting at $31,100. Then you have the S-E-L for $34,355. Titanium, which goes for $38,100. And then there is the S-T or the Sportier version starting at $43,265. So that was pricing all for the front wheel drive configuration. If you wanted to add all-wheel drive, it's really not all that expensive. Only adds $720 to any of those prices. Usually other manufacturers charge like somewhere around 2,000 for all-wheel drive. So that's kind of cool. But nonetheless, powering the non-ST trim levels, like the one we have today, is going to be a two-liter twin-scroll turbocharged inline four-cylinder, putting out 250 horsepower, 5,500 RPM, 280 pound-feet of torque available at 3,000 RPM, power sent to front wheels or all-wheels through an eight-speed automatic. Give me a zero to 60 time, coming into approximately 7.6 seconds. With MPG numbers coming in at 21 in the city, 29 highway for the front wheel drive, 21 city, 28 highway for the all-wheel drive. And you do also get an auto-start stop system with the edge, meaning we have stopped at a red light or a stop sign, the edge will turn off automatically for you. If that started to annoy you, there actually is a button directly behind the circular shifter dial. So you can turn that off ultimately if you wanted to. But so then the other engine configuration, belonging to the ST trim level, is going to be a 2.7-liter twin-turbo V6, 335 horsepower, approximately 5,500 RPM, 380 pound-feet of torque, again, approximately 3,200 RPM, power sent to all four-wheels. That is actually standard all-wheel drive, so you don't need to add $720 for the ST. Eight-speed automatic with paddle shifter, zero to 60 in 6.1 seconds, that's pretty crazy. And MPG numbers coming in at 19 in the city, 26 on the highway. But so then before we do any kind of paddle shifter test or acceleration test in the edge, I did want to mention there is a sport driving mode, actually, that button is located directly in the middle of that circular. Okay, dial, it immediately downshifts for you, so it instantly lunges you forward, so that's pretty cool. It's gonna hold the RPMs at a much higher level, giving you more power on demand, also gonna adjust the throttle sensitivity. But that was kind of funny, that was a very distinct difference there when you press that S button, so that's pretty cool. But having said that, what do you guys say? Let's go ahead and hit a paddle shifter, putting us in paddle shift mode here, and let's test these things out. We'll see how quickly they actually react for us here. All right, we are in paddle shift mode, and here we go. Yeah, okay, there's a turn. Definitely a little bit of a delay to them, honestly, so they're gonna be useful for engine braking when it snows out, perhaps, so really, that's what most people are gonna be using paddle shifters for in an SUV anyway, so really, I probably wouldn't even touch them in the edge, cause there's a little bit of a delay, so the fun factor is kind of taken away with that, but, again, they're there for engine braking, so I'm still glad they're definitely there. Gonna essentially help you from sliding off the road when it's snowing out. You can use paddle shifters instead of hitting the brakes, but nonetheless, let's go ahead and get set up now for an acceleration test, and let me find it straight away, and we'll give control back to the edge. I'm just gonna take it out of that sport driving mode there, and let's see how quickly we can get the new 2020 Ford Edge here up to speed. All right, and rolling start. Three, two, one, go baby, go. Not too bad. Yeah, that'll work. Certainly no issues emerging onto the highway.  Plenty of get up and go, plenty of pull, so that was a very nice acceleration, not the quickest I've ever felt, but certainly plenty nice.   So interesting little fun facts there, and there is also an ST performance package, of course, for that trim level that gets for $2,695. That actually gives you red brake calipers, performance brake pads, and other cosmetic upgrades to go along with that, so I wanted to mention that as well. And in the back of the Edge, 12.4 inch rear discs for the non-ST trim levels, like the one we had today, and 13.5 inch rear discs, if you were to go with the ST, but as far as that braking feel goes, it's been perfectly fine for me today, so absolutely no issues with coming to a stop. There's no brake pedal delay or anything like that, so that's definitely a plus. Touching on suspension and handling, up front you're gonna get an independent MFIR, since strut front suspension in the back, independent rear suspension, front and rear stabilizer bars, and another thing with the ST trim level, you actually get slightly larger stabilizer bars if you were to go with that route, but ST tuned suspension also with that trim, but I keep touching on the ST, and of course we don't have that one today, so let me speak to the SEL that we do indeed have here today. As far as ride quality goes, it's been perfectly fine. Definitely soaking up Pennsylvania's road and perfection's quite nicely actually, so very impressed there. As far as cabin noise goes, get a little bit of cabin noise, and I got a lot of climate control noise, because it's so flipping hot today, but other than that, it's been perfectly fine there as well, no issues for me. Steering feel is a little bit on the looser side, I will say that, but for an SUV, I honestly don't think many people are gonna mind that at all, because this is a family SUV essentially, but wouldn't have minded it a bit heavier of a steering feel to the edge, or perhaps the ST trim level may indeed fix that, but with the SEL, it's definitely a looser feel to it. I didn't wanna say that. As far as visibility goes, I can see plenty fine out the back, certainly no issues there, and I did wanna also mention rain sensing windshield wipers do indeed come standard on all trim levels as well, so they're gonna be there for you too. Essentially what that is, is whenever the edge detects any kind of rainfall or mist, they are gonna turn on this windshield wipers for you automatically. One last thing you have to worry about, and that's always a good thing too, but that about rounds out the performance segment of this review, guys. Let's now go ahead and find a spot, and let's take a look at the exterior of this brand new 2020 Ford Edge. All right, here she is, you guys, the new 2020 Ford Edge, finished in agate black, or a gate black, however you say it, but wanted to touch on the colors real quick to start, three color deletes, and six new colors for the 2020 Edge. The color deletes include Baltic Sea Green, Stone Gray, and White Gold. The new colors for the 2020 Edge include Atlas Blue, Dark Persian Green, Desert Gold, Iconic Silver, Rapid Red, and Star White, so in case anybody wanted a new color for the 2020 model year, but let's go ahead and start up front on the Edge here. Front grille is gonna be the same with the exception of the ST trim level, because that ST trim level is actually going to give you a black honeycomb front grille, whereas the other ones are gonna give you chrome horizontal bars, which of course is what you were looking at right now. To the sides, all trim levels actually get full LED headlights. Full LEDs, I wanna specify that because a lot of times cars do come with LED headlights, but not full LED headlights, meaning low and high beams, so I love that for all trims. Automatic feature, of course, comes with that, which starts to get dark out at night. Ford Edge will automatically turn on those headlights for you. LED fog lights coming standard with the SEL trim level and up, you guys can see those down below, and LED daytime running lights also standard across the board. So to make your way to the side of this one, SEL and titanium trim levels will give you roof rails up top there, and that is an optional feature on the SE trim level. If you wanted that option for the SE, it goes for $165 there. Rear privacy glass also coming standard across the board, black window surrounds for the SE and ST trim levels, chrome window surrounds for the SEL and titanium trims, in case anybody was curious there. Take a look at the side mirrors, they are power adjustable black side mirrors for the SE, body colored side mirrors for the SEL trim level and up, and of course they will come heated with LED integrated turd signals as well, definitely looks good there. But they take a look down at the bottom, 18 inch aluminum alloys coming with the SEL and SE trims, 19 inch nickel painted aluminum wheels coming with the titanium, and of course the ST bumps that up once again, bumping it up to 20 inch machined aluminum alloy wheels, and of course there are some optional wheel designs available for all trim levels across the board as well. But now let's go ahead and make our way to the back of the edge here. Starting at the very top there, shark fin antenna as expected, just below that rear spoiler with an integrated brake light, just below that rear window wiper as well. LED tail lights actually come standard across the board, love that. We've got some trim level badging found in the lower right hand corner of the rear tailgate there, and just below it all, dual exhaust outlets with circular chrome tips. At least that is gonna be the setup for the non-ST trim levels, however, if you were to go with the ST you get dual exhaust outlets with trapezoidal tips. So either way, you guys know what we have to do next with our non-ST trim level here today. As always, here is that exhaust clip. It's up and down since we all round back, when it comes to opening the rear hatch of the Ford Edge, there are a couple different ways to go ahead and do that. There is, of course, a button on the key fob itself. Press that twice, that is one way to go ahead and open that up. There is also a hands-free, foot-activated liftgate. If you were to go with the titanium, and that feature is optional for the SEL that we have today. So do want to mention that as well. And of course, there's a button on the hatch itself. So you got a few different options there. Once opened up, cargo capacity comes in at 39.2 cubic feet. If that was not enough space, there is a 60-40 split, meaning the rear seats do fold down, bumping that up to 73.4 cubic feet, which is actually a good bet for a two-row SUV. Do want to also mention in that cargo area, you can find cargo area LED lighting. There is a cargo management system, also known as in-floor storage, along with a spare tire, just underneath of that cargo floor. And that comes standard for all-term levels, by the way. You also have a cargo area 12-volt power outlet back there. There are some grocery hooks. And there's actually some rear ventilation in that cargo area as well. So just about everything you could possibly want in the cargo area will be there on the forward edge, essentially. But so they make their way to the rear legroom. That comes in at impressive 40.6 inches. So for reference, I mean, even six feet tall, this is how much space I have back there. Really, anything over 40 inches is really luxury-esque at that point. Heated rear seats are optional. If you wanted that, rear ventilation does come standard on all-term levels. And you can find 110-volt power outlet in that second row if you were to go with the titanium or the S-teacher level. And of course, it's gonna be optional on the SEL, of course, that we have today. And there is a 12-volt power outlet right next to that as well. And make our way to the front seats. 10-way power adjustable driver seat with a cloth finish comes with the S-E. SEL trim level is going to add a six-way power adjustable passenger seat, heated front seats, and active X seating material. Titanium trim level gives you memory settings along with full leather seating. And ventilated front seats with a perforated leather is going to be an added option for $2,875 if you wanted that. And lastly, the S-T is going to give you full leather seating with Mico suede inserts along with the S-T badge and towards the top of those seats as well. But I will say in our SEL trim level today, not only are the seats plenty comfortable, but the headrest themselves, they are some of the softest headrests. Honestly, I felt in quite a while. They're like a pillow, essentially. A lot of headrests these days are super firm for some reason, which I really don't like, but these headrests, they're super soft. I like that. Anyways, making our way to the steering wheel, it is tilt and telescoping. It is leather wrapped for the SEL trim level and up, and it will come heated for the Titanium trim level, also optional on the SEL and S-T trim levels. We actually do have that option as well today. Then making our way to the startup. Let me first start by showing you guys the key here. Do you have your Ford logo on the one side? And when you flip it over lock, unlock that button to pop the rear hatch and the times two button there in the middle, that is going to be your remote start. So all you need to do is simply make sure the vehicle is locked, press that twice. It's going to start up for you, so you can possibly cool down on super hot days in Pennsylvania like today. But nonetheless, what I'm going to do now is simply just put my foot in the brake and press that engine start button located just by the driver's right knee there. And so then once it started up, speedometer is front and center. You have two smaller digital gauge clusters to the left and the right. Cool thing about that is to adjust what is on those two gauge clusters, there are steering wheel mounted controls on the left side to adjust the left side, that makes sense. And steering wheel mounted controls on the right side to adjust the right side. So I love how Ford made that super easy and super simple for everybody. You can check out tons of different information up there, how many miles you have left until you hit empty, trip A, trip B, outside temperature, the list goes on, so plenty of information you can check out up there. Then make your way to overall interior quality. Dual zoom climate control comes standard across the board, along with the overhead sunglass holder found on the roof there. Panoramic Vista Roof is going to be optional for the SEL, titanium and S-teacher levels. That is a $1,600 option. If you wanted to go that route, ambient lighting is going to come with the titanium and S-T trim levels, so therefore we don't have that today. Universal garage door openers, again with those two trim levels and wireless phone charger, again with those two. We do have the universal garage door openers though, that's an option as well for the SEL, but that's going to be found for up to three different garage doors found on the driver's side sun visor up top there. But overall it's pretty much finished as you would expect the Ford Edge to be finished. I will say there is a good bit of hard plastic surrounding the infotainment screen, just below that where the climate control is and just in front of the shifter. That's all pretty much plastics right there, but really that's my only gripe on this thing. Everything else is pretty nice. There is an electromechanical parking brake just behind the circular dial and shifter there. It's also some rubberized storage just above the infotainment screen. Wanted to mention that too, so that's always nice. There is what appears to be a cell phone holder just behind the cup holders and there is a massive amount of storage within that center armrest as well. So definitely finished quite nicely for the Ford Edge, but now let's make our way to the tech display. Eight inch color touchscreen display comes standard for all trim levels. That is going to be Ford Sync 3 system. Bluetooth and audio streaming comes with that along with Android Auto Apple CarPlay meaning if you have a smartphone simply hook it up to the Edge you can do a free navigation through that smartphone. Displayed up on that screen in front of you there. Factory navigation system is going to be optional ambient lighting adjustments can be had up there if your vehicle is equipped with them. Climate control settings up there as well and your radio settings and this is the fun part for me. When it comes to the sound systems which we will test out here in a second, six speakers with the S-E, nine speaker sound system with the S-E-L which is new for 2020. Used to be six speakers for the S-E-L now has nine speakers. That's one of the changes there. Any 12 speaker bang an Olsen sound system with the titanium and S-T trim level. So let's go ahead and test out the new sound system here for 2020 being the nine speaker one. So let's turn on the radio see what we got playing today and let's test out the clarity of this one. Actually it feels like a good bit more speakers. The clarity was actually very nice. It feels like it's coming at you from all directions. Good bit of bass. Really that nine speaker sound system is plenty fine for me. I would have no issues with that whatsoever. But sit then last thing on the tech display I wanted to mention to you guys is when you do put the forward edge in reverse you will find a rear view camera across the board letting you know who or what is behind you which is always is going to lead us in this safety. It's the first thing I wanted to mention on the safety side of things. The 2024 edge is an IIHS top safety pick. So that is a plenty good start right there. Front side side curtain airbags do come standard along with driver and passenger knee airbags as well. In the back you're going to have latch AKA lower anchors and tethers for children for the rear car seats. Rear child door locks can be found back there as well. Tire pressure monitoring system and all trim levels also give you Ford co-pilot 360. This is going to be a safety suite of a ton of different safety features including automatic high beams, blind spot monitoring system with rear cross traffic alert, lane keeping system, precolision assist with automatic emergency braking as well. And there's an optional Ford co-pilot 360 assist plus package goes for $795. That one gives you adaptive cruise control with stop and go and lane centering, evasive steering assist and a factory navigation system actually comes with that as well. So overall when it comes to my final thoughts of the 2020 Ford Edge, the ST engine option is going to be brilliant in this thing although we didn't have it today. Top safety pick is definitely a huge plus especially if you have kids. Ambient lighting is a plus again although we don't have it today. Android Auto Apple CarPlay I love. And so at the end the Ford Edge is in a very crowded segment. There are plenty of different options out there. There's the Hyundai Santa Fe, Honda CR-V, there's Toyota RAV4, there's really so many different options here but Ford Edge is definitely a very solid pick especially considering that IHS top safety pick as well so let me know what you guys think of the Edge in the comments section below there. That is about it for this one you guys though. Thank you so much for watching. Feel free to follow me on social media at the bottom of the screen there. If you like, be sure to hit the subscribe and the bell notification button if you're into new car reviews. That is what we do here on this channel after all. Do appreciate you guys watching more than you know and I will see you guys all in the next video. Stay Gold.