Podcasts about Ofra

Hai Wonder Kids, kembali dalam renungan anak GKY Mangga besar. Judul renungan hari ini adalah   ALLAH ADALAH DAMAI SEJAHTERA KITA   Mari kita membaca Firman Tuhan dari Filipi 4: 7   Damai sejahtera Allah, yang melampaui segala akal, akan memelihara hati dan pikiranmu dalam Kristus Yesus.    Wonder Kids, Gideon sedang bersembunyi ketika Allah mendatanginya dan memberitahunya untuk memimpin pengikutnya agar mengalahkan pasukan Midian. Kejadiannya seperti Allah meminta anak paling kecil di sekolah untuk melawan pembully yang paling besar, atau seorang nenek yang melawan perampok bank. Atau seperti melawan ular dengan pemukul lalat.   Ini adalah cara Allah mengingatkan kita bahwa Allah tahu kita tidak mampu melakukannya. Tapi Allah bisa. Untuk membuktikannya, Ia memberikan hadiah yang luar biasa kepada kita – roh damai sejahtera. Ini adalah damai yang tidak dapat kita pahami. Damai yang dapat menolong kita melakukan apa yang benar. Allah memberikannya kepada Daud setelah Ia memperlihatkan Goliat kepada Daud. Allah memberikannya kepada Saulus setelah Saulus melakukan perjalanan ke Damaskus. Allah juga memberikannya kepada Tuhan Yesus ketika Ia memberlihatkan salib kepada-Nya.   Allah juga memberikan damai sejahtera kepada Gideon, sehingga Gideon memberi nama kepada Allah. Ia membangun sebuah altar dan memberinya nama Yehova Shalom, yang artinya “Allah adalah damai sejahtera kita”. Ini tertulis di Hakim-Hakim 6: 24 yang berbunyi sebagai berikut: Lalu Gideon mendirikan mezbah di sana bagi TUHAN dan menamainya: TUHAN itu keselamatan. Mezbah itu masih ada sampai sekarang di Ofra, kota orang Abiezer.   MARI KITA BERTUMBUH DI DALAM ANUGERAH TUHAN   Wonder Kids, apakah kamu bisa melihat angin? Apakah kamu mengerti bagaimana cara kerja angin? Tidak bukan? Tapi kamu dapat mengetahui bahwa angin itu nyata ada dengan melihat daun-daunan yang digerakkan oleh angin. Damai sejahtera dari Allah juga bekerja dengan cara yang sama. Kamu tidak bisa melihat atau memahaminya, tapi kamu tahu bahwa damai itu ada dari cara manusia dipengaruhi olehnya.   Mari kita berdoa Bapa, buka hatiku agar aku merasakan penyertaan-Mu dan memiliki damai sejahtera untuk melakukan apa yang benar di hadapan-Mu. Dalam nama Tuhan Yesus, aku berdoa, Amin.   Wonder Kids,  ALLAH INGIN KITA PERCAYA KEPADA-NYA BUKAN KEPADA KEMAMPUAN KITA SENDIRI. Tuhan Yesus memberkati  

​Sometimes, there is vagueness about whether it is morally permissible (or even in some situations required) to perform a certain act—moral vagueness. What is the source of moral vagueness? Ofra Magidor discusses this topic with Nigel Warburton. This episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast has been made in association with Vagueness & Ethics, a research project funded by the European Commission (grant agreement number 101028625 — H2020-MSCA-IF-2020) and led by Miguel Dos Santos at Uppsala University.

Amos 9:13 “He aquí vienen días, dice Jehová, en que el que ara alcanzará al segador, y el pisador de las uvas al que lleve la simiente; y los montes destilarán mosto, y todos los collados se derretirán”.Cuantos anhelan que Dios acelere los procesos, que en este tiempo veamos sanidades, milagros y prodigios, que en este tiempo las promesas que están guardadas comiencen a cumplirse, que el que está arando alcance al que está cegando.Para los que dicen “Señor no hay posibilidades para mi; no hay propósito para mi, no hay destino para mi”, yo vengo a decirte que solo hay uno que puede darte la respuesta, en el libro de los Salmos 139:16 dice “Mi embrión vieron tus ojos, y en tu libro estaban escritas todas aquellas cosas que fueron luego formadas, sin faltar una de ellas”; Dios estaba viendo tu embrión desde que estabas en el vientre de tu madre, todos tus días fueron trazados, fueron dispuestos y diseñados por Dios en la eternidad y los escribió en un libro que fueron escritas todas las cosas con las cuales se trazó un destino profético el cual fue truncado por las circunstancias, por la enfermedad, el dolor, la sequía, caídas espirituales, problemas jurídicos, pecados, maldiciones, iniquidad, en fin, Dios te llama en este día para que ese destino profético comience a tener un cumplimiento acelerado en el Señor, Eclesiastés 3:1 “Todo tiene su tiempo, y todo lo que se quiere debajo del cielo tiene su hora”; hasta la venida de Jesús a la tierra tuvo su cumplimiento después que fue anunciado en la Biblia desde el principio, está escrito en Gálatas 4:4-7 “Pero cuando vino el cumplimiento del tiempo, Dios envió a su Hijo, nacido de mujer y nacido bajo la ley, para que redimiese a los que estaban bajo la ley, a fin de que recibiésemos la adopción de hijos. Y por cuanto sois hijos, Dios envió a vuestros corazones el Espíritu de su Hijo, el cual clama: ¡Abba, Padre! Así que ya no eres esclavo, sino hijo; y si hijo, también heredero de Dios por medio de Cristo”.Hay una Palabra que esta escrita en el libro de Hechos 1:7 “Y les dijo: No os toca a vosotros saber los tiempos o las sazones, que el Padre puso en su sola potestad”; habla del momento en que los discípulos le preguntan al Señor acerca de la restauración del reino de Israel, ya que en esos momentos estaban bajo el yugo Romano y el Señor da una respuesta sorprendente: “El Padre tiene la potestad de determinar los tiempos y las sazones”.Esta frase “tiempos y sazones” es utilizado para denotar una oportunidad, un período de tiempo, frecuentemente traducido como “tiempo, tiempos o Kairos”, que representa un lapso indeterminado en que algo importante sucede o estar por suceder, su significado literal es «momento adecuado u oportuno», y se asocia con el «tiempo de Dios», por tal razón la fecha de caducidad de tus problemas y tus dificultades no las coloca el diablo, no las coloca el enemigo, no las colocan las personas; las coloca el Padre que hoy a descendido para escuchar el clamor de Su pueblo, hoy el Espíritu de Dios está en medio de nosotros, levanta tu voz delante de Dios “Oh dulce Espíritu Santo escucha nuestro clamor, anhelamos que los problemas, las dificultades, las situaciones difíciles que estamos viviendo en nuestra vida, familia y descendencia a partir de hoy les coloques fecha de vencimiento, que a partir de hoy se rompa todo argumento que existe contra nosotros y que nos es contraria debido a nuestra maldad, nuestro pecado y nuestra iniquidad; este es el tiempo en el cual Dios acelera su Palabra para ponerla por obra así como esta escrito en Jeremías 1:10-12 “Mira que te he puesto en este día sobre naciones y sobre reinos, para arrancar y para destruir, para arruinar y para derribar, para edificar y para plantar. La palabra de Jehová vino a mí, diciendo: ¿Qué ves tú, Jeremías? Y dije: Veo una vara de almendro. Y me dijo Jehová: Bien has visto; porque yo apresuro mi palabra para ponerla por obra”.Quiero colocar un ejemplo claro que sucedió con el pueblo de Israel cuando se apartó de Dios, cuando se sumergió en medio de sus pecados, sus iniquidades y en medio de su apostasía; Vinieron enemigos que los rodearon, los atormentaros, los saquearon y los arruinaron, fueron entregados por la mano de Dios durante 7 años, esta fecha de caducidad la colocó Dios debido a que el pueblo clamó y Él escuchó y extendió su misericordia y su bondad, por amor a Su pueblo, por amor a Sus promesas dadas a Abraham, Isaac y Jacob; esta palabra se encuentra en Jueces 6:1 “Los hijos de Israel hicieron lo malo ante los ojos de Jehová; y Jehová los entregó en mano de Madián por siete años”, pero el Señor llamó a un hombre llamado Gedeón lleno de temor, de miedo, un hombre pobre, sin recursos, el mas pequeño de todos, está escrito en Jueces 6:11-12 “Y vino el ángel de Jehová, y se sentó debajo de la encina que está en Ofra, la cual era de Joás abiezerita; y su hijo Gedeón estaba sacudiendo el trigo en el lagar, para esconderlo de los madianitas. Y el ángel de Jehová se le apareció, y le dijo: Jehová está contigo, varón esforzado y valiente” y Jueces 6:14-16 “Y mirándole Jehová, le dijo: Ve con esta tu fuerza, y salvarás a Israel de la mano de los madianitas. ¿No te envío yo? Entonces le respondió: Ah, señor mío, ¿con qué salvaré yo a Israel? He aquí que mi familia es pobre en Manasés, y yo el menor en la casa de mi padre. Jehová le dijo: Ciertamente yo estaré contigo, y derrotarás a los madianitas como a un solo hombre”. Hoy vamos a clamar delante de Dios, vamos a volvernos a Él con todas las fuerzas de nuestro corazón, vamos a romper con la maldad, el pecado y la iniquidad para que Él en Su infinita bondad y misericordia, en Su infinita potestad ponga fecha de caducidad a tu problema y a tu dificultad y venga el tiempo acelerado del cumplimiento de las promesas en tu vida, tu familia y tu descendencia.Y así como Gedeón hoy es el día de colocar el control de tu vida, tu familia y tu descendencia en manos de Dios, Él  siempre tiene el control, Él no va a permitir que seas probado más allá de lo que puedas soportar, 1 Corintios 10:13 “No os ha sobrevenido ninguna tentación que no sea humana; pero fiel es Dios, que no os dejará ser tentados más de lo que podéis resistir, sino que dará también juntamente con la tentación la salida, para que podáis soportar”; junto con la prueba Dios da la solución; lo que estás viviendo no es eterno, detrás de cada problema y cada necesidad Dios planea tu bendición, Dios planea la destrucción de tu enemigos, por esta razón yo vengo a decirte que “El propósito de Dios se está gestando y acelerando en este tiempo, Dios va a cumplir Su propósito contigo, Dios va a establecer su perfecta voluntad en ti”, por lo tanto es necesario que entiendas que la voluntad de Dios es ya y es ahora; es una decisión que debes tomar, “El reino de los cielos sufre violencia y solo los valientes lo arrebatan” así que, es el tiempo, el momento preciso de  levantarnos porque Dios no bendice las intenciones, Dios bendice las acciones, la fe sin obras es muerta y es el tiempo de permitir que el Espíritu Santo renueve tu fe; esta escrito en Santiago 1:22 “Pero sed hacedores de la palabra, y no tan solamente oidores, engañándoos a vosotros mismos”, tienes que provocar que las cosas te sucedan, que venga el tiempo, el kairos de Dios en el cual Él va a determinar la fecha de caducidad de tus problemas, tus necesidades y tus dificultades.Muchos por causa de la condición en la que se encuentran, postergan el llamado, postergan la voluntad de Dios en sus vidas y pierden la oportunidad de ser liberados, sanados, restaurados, restituidos, pierden la oportunidad de entrar en el kairos de Dios para que Él en Su infinita misericordia y bondad le ponga fecha de vencimiento a su vida de fracasos, sufrimientos, necesidades, aflicciones y dificult...

QUEBRE O SEU CICLO DE DERROTAS. Juízes: 6:1-26 NVI 1 De novo os israelitas fizeram o que o Senhor reprova, e durante sete anos ele os entregou nas mãos dos midianitas. 2 Os midianitas dominaram Israel; por isso os israelitas fizeram para si esconderijos nas montanhas, nas cavernas e nas fortalezas. 3 Sempre que os israelitas faziam as suas plantações, os midianitas, os amalequitas e outros povos da região a leste deles as invadiam. 4 Acampavam na terra e destruíam as plantações ao longo de todo o caminho, até Gaza, e não deixavam nada vivo em Israel, nem ovelhas nem gado nem jumentos. 5 Eles subiam trazendo os seus animais e suas tendas, e vinham como enxames de gafanhotos; era impossível contar os homens e os seus camelos. Invadiam a terra para devastá-la. 6 Por causa de Midiã, Israel empobreceu tanto que os israelitas clamaram por socorro ao Senhor. 7 Quando os israelitas clamaram ao Senhor por causa de Midiã, 8 ele lhes enviou um profeta, que disse: "Assim diz o Senhor, o Deus de Israel: ‘Tirei vocês do Egito, da terra da escravidão. 9 Eu os livrei do poder do Egito e das mãos de todos os seus opressores. Expulsei-os e dei a vocês a terra deles. 10 E também disse a vocês: Eu sou o Senhor, o seu Deus; não adorem os deuses dos amorreus, em cuja terra vivem, mas vocês não me deram ouvidos' ". 11 Então o Anjo do Senhor veio e sentou-se sob a grande árvore de Ofra, que pertencia ao abiezrita Joás. Gideão, filho de Joás, estava malhando o trigo num tanque de prensar uvas, para escondê-lo dos midianitas. 12 Então o anjo do Senhor apareceu a Gideão e lhe disse: "O Senhor está com você, poderoso guerreiro". 13 "Ah, Senhor", Gideão respondeu, "se o Senhor está conosco, por que aconteceu tudo isso? Onde estão todas as suas maravilhas que os nossos pais nos contam quando dizem: ‘Não foi o Senhor que nos tirou do Egito? ' Mas agora o Senhor nos abandonou e nos entregou nas mãos de Midiã". 14 O Senhor se voltou para ele e disse: "Com a força que você tem, vá libertar Israel das mãos de Midiã. Não sou eu quem o está enviando? " 15 "Ah, Senhor", respondeu Gideão, "como posso libertar Israel? Meu clã é o menos importante de Manassés, e eu sou o menor da minha família". 16 "Eu estarei com você", respondeu o Senhor, "e você derrotará todos os midianitas como se fossem um só homem". 17 E Gideão prosseguiu: "Se de fato posso contar com o teu favor, dá-me um sinal de que és tu que está falando comigo. 18 Peço-te que não vás embora até que eu volte e traga minha oferta e a coloque diante de ti". E o Senhor respondeu: "Esperarei até você voltar". 19 Gideão foi para casa, preparou um cabrito, e com uma arroba de farinha fez pães sem fermento. Pôs a carne num cesto e o caldo numa panela, trouxe-os para fora e ofereceu-os a ele sob a grande árvore. 20 E o Anjo de Deus lhe disse: "Apanhe a carne e os pães sem fermento, ponha-os sobre esta rocha e derrame o caldo". Gideão assim o fez. 21 Com a ponta do cajado que estava em sua mão, o Anjo do Senhor tocou a carne e os pães sem fermento. Fogo subiu da rocha, consumindo a carne e os pães. E o Anjo do Senhor desapareceu. 22 Quando Gideão viu que era o Anjo do Senhor, exclamou: "Ah, Senhor Soberano! Vi o Anjo do Senhor face a face! " 23 Disse-lhe, porém, o Senhor: "Paz seja com você! Não tenha medo. Você não morrerá". 24 Gideão construiu ali um altar em honra do Senhor e lhe deu este nome: O Senhor é Paz. Até hoje o altar está em Ofra dos abiezritas. 25 Naquela mesma noite o Senhor lhe disse: "Separe o segundo novilho do rebanho de seu pai, aquele de sete anos de idade. Despedace o altar de Baal, que pertence a seu pai, e corte o poste sagrado que está ao lado do altar. 26 Depois faça um altar para o Senhor, para o seu Deus, no topo desta elevação. Ofereça o segundo novilho em holocausto com a madeira do poste sagrado que você irá cortar".

1 De novo, os israelitas fizeram o que era mau aos olhos do Senhor, e durante sete anos ele os entregou nas mãos dos midianitas. 2 Os midianitas dominaram Israel; por isso, os israelitas fizeram para si esconderijos nas montanhas, nas cavernas e nas fortalezas. 3 Sempre que os israelitas faziam as suas plantações, os midianitas, os amalequitas e outros povos da região a leste deles as invadiam. 4 Acampavam na terra e destruíam as plantações ao longo de todo o caminho, até Gaza, e não deixavam nada vivo em Israel, nem ovelhas, nem gado, nem jumentos. 5 Eles subiam trazendo o seu gado e as suas tendas e vinham como enxames de gafanhotos; era impossível contar os homens e os seus camelos. Invadiam a terra para devastála. 6 Por causa de Midiã, Israel empobreceu tanto que os israelitas clamaram por socorro ao Senhor. 7 Quando os israelitas clamaram ao Senhor por causa de Midiã, 8 ele lhes enviou um profeta, que disse: ― Assim diz o Senhor, o Deus de Israel: “Tirei vocês do Egito, da terra da escravidão. 9 Eu os livrei do poder do Egito e das mãos de todos os seus opressores. Eu os expulsei e dei a vocês a terra deles. 10 Também disse a vocês: ‘Eu sou o Senhor, o seu Deus; não adorem os deuses dos amorreus, em cuja terra vivem'. Contudo, vocês não me deram ouvidos”. (Juízes 6:1-10 NVI) 1. A MUDANÇA COMEÇA COM CLAMOR 7 Quando os israelitas clamaram ao Senhor por causa de Midiã, 8 ele lhes enviou um profeta, que disse: ― Assim diz o Senhor, o Deus de Israel: “Tirei vocês do Egito, da terra da escravidão. 9 Eu os livrei do poder do Egito e das mãos de todos os seus opressores. Eu os expulsei e dei a vocês a terra deles. 10 Também disse a vocês: ‘Eu sou o Senhor, o seu Deus; não adorem os deuses dos amorreus, em cuja terra vivem'. Contudo, vocês não me deram ouvidos”.  (Juízes 6:1-10 NVI) Toda mudança começa com um clamor genuíno a Deus. 2. O POVO CLAMA, MAS O ANJO APARECE APENAS A GIDEÃO. Então, o anjo do Senhor veio e sentou‑se debaixo do carvalho de Ofra, que pertencia ao abiezrita Joás. Gideão, filho de Joás, estava malhando o trigo em um tanque de prensar uvas, para escondê‑lo dos midianitas. (Juízes 6:11 NVI) Todos estavam com medo, inclusive Gideão que estava malhando trigo no tanque de prensar uvas para se esconder dos midianitas, mas o medo não o impediu de fazer algo! 3. SUAS AÇÕES REVELAM O SEU CORAÇÃO. Então, o anjo do Senhor apareceu a Gideão e lhe disse: ― O Senhor está com você, poderoso guerreiro. (Juízes 6:12 NVI) Gideão é chamado de poderoso guerreiro, mas isso não era algo que ele mesmo acreditava. 4. A FORÇA QUE VOCÊ TEM JÁ É O SUFICIENTE PARA DEUS. O Senhor se voltou para ele e disse: ― Com a força que você tem, vá libertar Israel das mãos de Midiã. Não sou eu quem o está enviando? (Juízes 6:14 NVI) Assim como Moisés e Jeremias diante do seu chamado, Gideão tenta dar desculpas para Deus. 5. HÁ PODER NA OFERTA! Peço‑te que não vás embora até que eu volte e traga a minha oferta e a ponha diante de ti. E o Senhor respondeu: ― Esperarei até você voltar. (Juízes 6:18 NVI) Gideão, após ter uma experiência com Deus de comissionamento, insiste para que o Anjo não vá antes de Gideão trazer uma oferta! 6. TENHA A CORAGEM PARA OBEDECER. Perceba como a essência do coração de Gideão era tudo o que Deus procurava. A opressão tinha uma razão, trocaram o Senhor por Baal. Antes do socorro divino, era necessário conserto, mas somente os corajosos se dispõem. 7. O INIMIGO SE LEVANTA PARA CAIR! Nesse meio-tempo, todos os midianitas, amalequitas e outros povos que vinham do leste uniram os seus exércitos, atravessaram o Jordão e acamparam no vale de Jezreel. (Juízes 6:33 NVI) Diante do levante de satanás contra sua obediência, oferta e coragem, Deus se manifesta para colocar um ponto final. O mesmo Deus quer operar livramento em nossa família, cidade e nação! Onde estão os valentes do Pai?

Juízes 6:24 - Gideão construiu ali um altar em honra ao Senhor e lhe deu este nome: “O Senhor é Paz”. Até hoje, o altar está em Ofra dos abiezritas.

Una relación con Dios no debe estar cimentada en las circunstancias de la vida, sino en el amor que le profesamos a causa de su gracia y misericordia. Base Biblica: Jueces 6:11-14 RVR1960‬ Y vino el ángel de Jehová, y se sentó debajo de la encina que está en Ofra, la cual era de Joás abiezerita; y su hijo Gedeón estaba sacudiendo el trigo en el lagar, para esconderlo de los madianitas. Y el ángel de Jehová se le apareció, y le dijo: Jehová está contigo, varón esforzado y valiente. Y Gedeón le respondió: Ah, señor mío, si Jehová está con nosotros, ¿por qué nos ha sobrevenido todo esto? ¿Y dónde están todas sus maravillas, que nuestros padres nos han contado, diciendo: No nos sacó Jehová de Egipto? Y ahora Jehová nos ha desamparado, y nos ha entregado en mano de los madianitas. Y mirándole Jehová, le dijo: Ve con esta tu fuerza, y salvarás a Israel de la mano de los madianitas. ¿No te envío yo? https://bible.com/bible/149/jdg.6.11-14.RVR1960 ‭S. Mateo 26:69-75 RVR1960‬ Pedro estaba sentado fuera en el patio; y se le acercó una criada, diciendo: Tú también estabas con Jesús el galileo. Mas él negó delante de todos, diciendo: No sé lo que dices. Saliendo él a la puerta, le vio otra, y dijo a los que estaban allí: También este estaba con Jesús el nazareno. Pero él negó otra vez con juramento: No conozco al hombre. Un poco después, acercándose los que por allí estaban, dijeron a Pedro: Verdaderamente también tú eres de ellos, porque aun tu manera de hablar te descubre. Entonces él comenzó a maldecir, y a jurar: No conozco al hombre. Y en seguida cantó el gallo. Entonces Pedro se acordó de las palabras de Jesús, que le había dicho: Antes que cante el gallo, me negarás tres veces. Y saliendo fuera, lloró amargamente. https://bible.com/bible/149/mat.26.69-75.RVR1960 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nuevoscomienzosgt/message

Hai Wonder Kids, kembali dalam renungan anak GKY Mangga Besar. Judul renungan hari ini adalah   DAMAI YANG SEJATI   HAKIM-HAKIM 6: 24 berkata demikian - Lalu Gideon mendirikan mezbah di sana bagi TUHAN dan menamainya: TUHAN itu keselamatan. Mezbah itu masih ada sampai sekarang di Ofra, kota orang Abiezer.   Wonder Kids, jika kita berusaha untuk dapat diterima oleh dunia ini, maka kita tidak akan pernah memiliki damai sejahtera. Untuk mendapatkan damai sejahtera yang sejati, tanpa rasa kuatir, takut dan stress, kita perlu menyenangkan hati TUHAN, bukan dunia.   Gideon adalah salah satu tokoh Alkitab yang hidup di jaman ketika orang hidup berdasarkan pandangannya sendiri seperti yang tercatat di Hakim-Hakim 21: 25 seperti ini “Pada zaman itu tidak ada raja di antara orang Israel; setiap orang berbuat apa yang benar menurut pandangannya sendiri”. Ini artinya setiap orang hidup sesuai keinginan mereka sendiri, dan cara hidup ini tidak membawa damai, sebaliknya menimbulkan peperangan. Bangsa Israel berulangkali diserang.   Gideon berasal dari suku yang paling kecil dan lemah di Israel. Oleh sebab itu ketika TUHAN memintanya membela Israel dari musuh mereka, Gideon tidak yakin dia sanggup melakukannya. Tidakkah lebih mudah mencoba berdamai dengan musuh? Tapi TUHAN berkata “Aku menyertai engkau” sebagaimana ini tercatat di Hakim-Hakim 6: 16 seperti ini “Berfirmanlah TUHAN kepadanya: "Tetapi Akulah yang menyertai engkau, sebab itu engkau akan memukul kalah orang Midian itu sampai habis."   Ketika Gideon taat kepada TUHAN, maka TUHAN memimpinnya menuju kemenangan, dan damai sejahtera. TUHAN juga akan melakukan yang sama bagimu. Oleh sebab itu meskipun sulit, taatilah TUHAN, karena Ia akan memberikan damai sejahtera kepadamu.   Mari kita berdoa, TUHAN, berkati aku dengan damai sejahtera-Mu selagi aku mengikut-Mu dan bukan ikut dunia, di dalam nama Tuhan Yesus aku berdoa, Amin.   Wonder Kids, HARI INI, IKUTLAH TUHAN, BUKAN DUNIA  

"Gideão usou o ouro para fazer um manto sacerdotal, que ele colocou em sua cidade, em Ofra. Todo o Israel prostituiu-se, fazendo dele objeto de adoração; e veio a ser uma armadilha para Gideão e sua família." (Jz 8.27).

After Love Sick won rave reviews during its run in San Francisco, the show is premiering in London under a new title: A Song of Songs. In this brand new interview, the show's creator Ofra Daniel talks to us about the experience of bringing this story to the Park Theatre. The show sees her character undergo an extraordinary journey of discovering sexual and personal desires after realising she has a secret admirer. The show will play in the Park200 theatre which Ofra describes as an incredible space because of the intimacy it offers to audiences so they feel immersed within this world too.In this new interview with Ofra Daniel, we hear her reflect on her Middle Eastern roots and her interest in telling stories about relationships. She passionately tells us about her admiration for her fellow musicians and actors who are each able to bring a unique flare to this piece which blends Middle Eastern beat and flamenco rhythms. At a time when the world feels particularly divided, a magic seems to have been uncovered in the rehearsal space as people from all backgrounds are able to come together to create a show that truly celebrates diversity.A Song of Songs runs at Park Theatre from 9 May - 15 June.

Diana Marcelino Bermúdez Nacida en el barrio de Ofra en 1983, de pequeña era ruinita para comer, hasta que se apasionó por la gastronomía y sintió hambre de aprender. Tras ampliar su formación en Park 5, Ritz Carlton Abama y Lasarte en Barcelona, de regreso a la Isla comenzó a definir su identidad. La vas a conocer en este programa. Fuente: El Día

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Palavra ministrada na Family Church em Goiânia - GO ¹ Os israelitas fizeram o que era mau aos olhos do Senhor. Por isso, o Senhor os entregou nas mãos dos midianitas durante sete anos. ² Os midianitas eram tão cruéis que os israelitas fizeram para si esconderijos nas montanhas, nas cavernas e nas fortalezas. ³ Sempre que os israelitas faziam o plantio, saqueadores de Midiã, de Amaleque e de outros povos do leste atacavam Israel, ⁴ acampavam na terra e destruíam as plantações até Gaza. Levavam ovelhas, bois e jumentos, e não deixavam coisa alguma para Israel comer. ⁵ Esses bandos inimigos, que vinham com seus rebanhos e tendas, eram como uma praga de gafanhotos. Chegavam em camelos, tão numerosos que era impossível contá-los, e só partiam quando a terra estava devastada. ⁶ Os midianitas reduziram Israel à mais absoluta pobreza, e o povo pediu socorro ao Senhor. Juízes 6:1-6 ¹¹ Então o anjo do Senhor veio e sentou-se debaixo do grande carvalho em Ofra que pertencia a Joás, do clã de Abiezer. Gideão, filho de Joás, estava debulhando trigo no fundo de uma prensa de uvas, a fim de não ser descoberto pelos midianitas. ¹² O anjo do Senhor apareceu a Gideão e disse: "O Senhor está com você, guerreiro corajoso!". ¹³ Gideão respondeu: "Meu senhor, se o Senhor está conosco, por que nos aconteceu tudo isso? E onde estão os milagres de que nossos antepassados nos falaram? Acaso não disseram: ‘O Senhor nos tirou do Egito'? Agora, porém, o Senhor nos abandonou e nos entregou nas mãos dos midianitas!". ¹⁴ Então o Senhor se voltou para ele e disse: "Vá com a força que você tem e liberte Israel dos midianitas. Sou eu quem o envia!". Juízes 6:11-14 ¹ Jerubaal (isto é, Gideão) e todo o seu exército se levantaram de madrugada e acamparam junto à fonte de Harode. Os exércitos de Midiã estavam acampados ao norte deles, no vale perto da colina de Moré. ² O Senhor disse a Gideão: "Você tem guerreiros demais. Se eu deixar todos vocês lutarem contra os midianitas, Israel se vangloriará diante de mim, dizendo que se libertou por sua própria força. ³ Portanto, diga ao povo: ‘Quem estiver com medo e assustado pode deixar este monte e voltar para casa'". Vinte e dois mil homens voltaram para casa, restando apenas dez mil. ⁴ O Senhor, porém, disse a Gideão: "Seu exército ainda está grande demais. Desça com eles até a fonte, e eu os provarei para determinar quem irá com você e quem não irá". ⁵ Quando Gideão desceu com os guerreiros até a fonte, o Senhor lhe disse: "Separe os homens em dois grupos. Num grupo, coloque todos que bebem água das mãos, lambendo-a como fazem os cães. No outro grupo, coloque todos que se ajoelham e põem a boca na água para beber". ⁶ Apenas trezentos homens beberam água das mãos; os demais se ajoelharam e puseram a boca na água. Juízes 7:1-6 ¹⁹ Pouco depois da meia-noite e da troca da guarda inimiga, Gideão e seus cem homens chegaram aos limites do acampamento midianita. De repente, tocaram as trombetas e quebraram os vasos de barro. ²⁰ Então os três grupos tocaram as trombetas e quebraram os vasos. Segurando a tocha na mão esquerda e a trombeta na direita, todos gritaram: "À espada, pelo Senhor e por Gideão!". ²¹ Cada homem manteve sua posição ao redor do acampamento e viu todos os midianitas correrem de um lado para o outro, gritando apavorados enquanto fugiam. Juízes 7:19-21

In deze aflevering van de podcast gaan we verder met het thema Bijbelse verhalen. Vandaag bespreken we hoe personages in de Bijbel de brug vormen tussen onze wereld en de wereld van de Bijbel.Wil je meer verdieping bij dit onderwerp? Lees dan ook mijn boek 'Ik leer je de Bijbel lezen'.: https://bijbellezenmetjan.nl/ikleer. PS. Heb je ook al het gratis boek 'De Bijbel in 1 Dag gedownload? Dit kan via https://bijbellezenmetjan.nl/1dag.Transcriptie:Welkom terug bij de Bijbellezen met Jan-podcast. Leuk dat je samen met mij in de Bijbel wilt lezen.We zijn bezig met een korte thema-serie over Bijbelse verhalen. De meesten van ons zijn wel bekend met één of meer verhalen uit de Bijbel. Zeker als je een christelijke opvoeding hebt gehad of naar een christelijke school ging. Dat heeft zowel een voor- als een nadeel. Het voordeel is dat je bekend bent met de Bijbel, maar het nadeel kan zijn dat je overbekend bent met de Bijbel. Oftewel: je kent de Bijbel te goed om het nog tot je te laten doordringen. Een ander risico is dat je alleen de kinderbijbelversie van een verhaal kent. Neem het verhaal van de profeet Jona. Hij werd geroepen om Nineve te gaan en de mensen daar op te roepen zich te bekeren van hun zondige wegen. Hij was koppig en ging juist de tegenovergestelde kant op. Hij probeerde te vluchten van God met de boot en werd vervolgens opgeslokt door een vis. Na drie dagen nadenken in de buik van de vis besloot hij toch maar om gehoor te geven aan Gods opdracht. Hij ging naar Nineve en de mensen bekeerden zich na het horen van zijn boodschap. Jona was daar boos over. Kinderbijbel of echte Bijbel? Dat is in het kort de kinderbijbelversie. Ik heb niets tegen het lezen van kinderbijbels. Sterker nog, als je de echte Bijbel lastig vindt, lees dan vooral een kinderbijbel! Maar het echte verhaal gaat veel dieper. Het is opvallend dat Gods woordvoerder zich tegen God keert. Hij zou toch moeten weten dat je gehoorzaam moet zijn? Aan de andere kant, als je beseft dat Nineve de hoofdstad was van Assyrië en dat Assyrië een volk was dat andere volken terroriseerde, begrijp je het misschien weer wat beter. Het is hetzelfde als dat wij nu naar Teheran in Iran, naar Mekka in Saoedi Arabië of naar Pyongyang in Noord-Korea zouden gaan om daar openlijk te vertellen dat iedereen zijn leven aan Jezus moet geven. En de drie dagen die Jona doorbracht in de buik van de vis verwijzen weer naar de drie dagen die Jezus doorbracht in het graf. Kortom, Bijbelse verhalen bevatten veel meer diepgang dan je bij een eerste lezing beseft. Terug naar het plot Door de manier waarop de Bijbel verhalen optekent, krijgen wij het gevoel dat we te maken hebben met sprookjes. Dat zijn verhalen die misschien wel een kern van waarheid bevatten maar ze zijn niet echt gebeurd en je kunt ze ook negeren, want de werkelijkheid is veel complexer dan in de Bijbel. Als je zo denkt, dan begrijp ik dat. Maar ik weet ook wat het probleem is. Je weet niet goed hoe je een verhaal in de Bijbel moet lezen. Daar hoop ik je met deze thema-serie over Bijbelse verhalen mee te helpen. Als je hier verdieping bij zoekt, lees dan vooral mijn boek ‘Ik leer je de Bijbel lezen'. Je kunt hier meer over vinden op bijbellezenmetjan.nl/boeken. In de vorige aflevering van de podcast hadden we het over het plot van Bijbelse verhalen: • Wat gebeurt er in het verhaal? Hoe wordt het verteld? • Hoe past dit verhaal binnen het gedeelte van de Bijbel dat je aan het lezen bent? • Waar zit dit verhaal op de tijdlijn van de Bijbel? Als je naar het plot van het verhaal kijkt dan zoom je dus eerst in en vervolgens zoom je uit. We gaan dit straks nog een keer doen. Maar eerst wil ik het met je hebben over het andere belangrijke onderdeel van Bijbelse verhalen: personages. Personages zijn de mensen die in het verhaal voorkomen, al kunnen soms ook dieren een personage zijn. God is eveneens een personage in de Bijbel. Daar komen we straks op terug. Personages als brug tussen ons en de Bijbel Laten we ons eerst richten op menselijk personages. Heb je je wel eens afgevraagd waarom God ons een boek heeft gegeven dat voor het overgrote deel uit verhalen bestaat? Onze wereld is radicaal anders dan de wereld in de tijd van de Bijbel. Was het niet handiger geweest als God ons gewoon een samenvatting had gegeven met de belangrijkste regels? Nee, want God wil een relatie met ons. En hoe bouw je een relatie? Door elkaar te ontmoeten, samen te praten en samen dingen te beleven. Maar onze tijd op aarde is zo kort. Wij kunnen nooit alles beleven wat God ons mee wil geven. Daarom heeft Hij ons de Bijbel gegeven. Zodat we Hem kunnen leren kennen. Niet alleen door onze eigen ervaring en onze eigen gesprekken met God, maar ook door te zien wat God in het verleden heeft gedaan en heeft besproken met andere mensen. De verhalen zijn essentieel, omdat daarin mensen voorkomen die net als jij en ik met God te maken hadden. Ze leefden in een andere tijd en cultuur, maar ze waren net zo menselijk als jij en ik. Ze hadden dezelfde behoeften, dezelfde zorgen en dezelfde vreugden als wij. Ze stonden ook voor dezelfde keuzes. Wij vragen ons af: hoe maken we de Bijbel relevant voor ons leven? Dat is eigenlijk heel simpel. Verplaats je zelf in de Bijbel. Hoe doe je dat? Vooral door te kijken naar de Bijbelse verhalen en je te identificeren met de mensen daarin. Die Bijbelse figuren zijn de brug tussen onze wereld en de wereld van de Bijbel. Laten we aan de hand van een Bijbels verhaal eens kijken hoe dit werkt. Ken je het verhaal van Gideon? Gideon was een rechter van Israël in de periode nadat Israël begonnen was met het innemen van het beloofde land. Een rechter is in dit geval niet iemand die criminelen veroordeelt, maar iemand die het volk leidt. Hij was geen koning, maar wel een militaire leider die door God werd gebruikt om Israël te beschermen of te bevrijden van zijn vijanden. In de kinderbijbelversie is Gideon de man die zeker wilde weten dat God met hem sprak. Hij vroeg God om een teken. Hij zou 's nachts een kleed in het gras leggen en als God echt met hem had gesproken dan zou de volgende ochtend het kleed nat zijn, maar het gras erom heen niet. Dit gebeurde ook. De volgende nacht vroeg hij opnieuw om een teken. Dit keer zou de grond nat moeten zijn en het kleed niet. Opnieuw luisterde God en Gideon was ervan overtuigd dat God hem daadwerkelijk riep om de vijand te verslaan. Eerst trok hij op met een groot leger, maar uiteindelijk dunde God het aantal manschappen uit tot slechts 300. Met dit kleine aantal wist hij de vijand te verslaan, omdat God verwarring onder hen stichtte. Wat kunnen wij hiervan leren? Dat je God om een teken moet vragen als je het niet zeker weet en dat als je op God vertrouwt Hij grote dingen zal doen. Maar is dit het volledige verhaal? We gaan zo het verhaal van Gideon doornemen, maar laat me je drie handvatten geven om een Bijbels personage te doorgronden. 1. Kijk als eerste naar de naam en zoek op wat deze betekent. Een naam van een personage zegt vaak veel over de rol van die persoon in de Bijbel. De naam ‘Abraham' bijvoorbeeld betekent ‘Verheven Vader' of ‘Vader van een menigte'. Abraham is de stamvader van vele volken, waaronder Israël. Gideon betekent de ‘veller' of de ‘vernietiger'. Zijn rol in de Bijbel is dat hij de vijanden van Israël verslaat, maar ook dat hij afgoden vernietigt. 2. Kijk naar wat er gebeurt in het verhaal (het plot dus) en dan naar hoe het personage hierop reageert. Ik heb zelf enkele romans geschreven en in een roman schrijf je eigenlijk nooit hoe iemand is. Je laat het de lezer zelf ontdekken. Het personage onthult zijn of haar karakter door de keuzes die worden gemaakt. Offert iemand zichzelf op of kiest hij voor zijn eigen hachje? 3. Als derde: wat zegt iemand en komt dat overeen met zijn daden? Koning David bijvoorbeeld lijkt zijn vijanden te vergeven, maar op zijn sterfbed vertelt hij zijn zoon Salomo wie hij zo snel mogelijk om het leven moet laten brengen. Jozef daarentegen laat zijn broers in leven, ook nadat zijn vader Jakob is overleden. Jozef lijkt dus meer integriteit te hebben dan David. Wie is Gideon? Maar goed, laten we Gideon als voorbeeld gebruiken. Zijn verhaal in de Bijbel begint nadat God via een profeet heeft laten weten dat het volk geen vrede kent omdat het zich niet aan Gods wet houdt. Dan volgt dit stuk: Toen kwam de engel van de HEER en Hij nam plaats onder de terebint bij Ofra, op het land van Joas, een afstammeling van Abiëzer. Joas' zoon Gideon was juist bezig tarwe te dorsen. Om ervoor te zorgen dat de Midjanieten de tarwe niet zouden zien, deed hij dat in de wijnpers. De engel van de HEER vertoonde zich aan hem en zei: ‘De HEER zij met je, dappere krijgsman.' ‘Mag ik U vragen,' antwoordde Gideon, ‘als de HEER ons werkelijk bijstaat, waarom overkomt dit ons dan allemaal? Waar blijft Hij dan met zijn wonderbaarlijke daden, waarover onze voorouders hebben verteld? Uit Egypte heeft Hij ze geleid, zeiden ze toch? Maar nu heeft Hij ons in de steek gelaten en uitgeleverd aan de Midjanieten!' Toen wendde de HEER zich tot Gideon en zei: ‘Toon je moed en bevrijd Israël, dat is mijn opdracht.' ‘Mag ik U vragen,' antwoordde Gideon, ‘hoe zou ik Israël kunnen bevrijden? Mijn familie heeft in onze stam, Manasse, niets in te brengen, en ikzelf ben de jongste van de familie.' De HEER antwoordde: ‘Dat kun je omdat Ik je bijsta. Je zult de Midjanieten verslaan alsof je met niet meer dan één man te doen had.' Toen zei Gideon: ‘Heer, als U het bent die...

Kerry women's football captain Síofra O'Shea joined Thursday's Off The Ball Breakfast after a survey showed that 60% of Irish people have never attended a live women's sport event in the country.Catch Off the Ball's sports breakfast show LIVE weekday mornings from 7:30am or just search for Off the Ball Breakfast and get the podcast on the Off the Ball app or wherever you listen to yours.SUBSCRIBE and FOLLOW the Off the Ball Breakfast podcast.

GEDEÓN | JUECES 6:11-14 | PASTOR ÁNGEL ABNER RIVERAUna mañana delande de la presencia de Dios en donde nuestro Pastor nos confrontó y nos extendió una invitación a derribar altares y construir altar solo para Jehová. ¡A Dios la Gloria!"11 Y vino el ángel de Jehová, y se sentó debajo de la encina que está en Ofra, la cual era de Joás abiezerita; y su hijo Gedeón estaba sacudiendo el trigo en el lagar, para esconderlo de los madianitas. 12 Y el ángel de Jehová se le apareció, y le dijo: Jehová está contigo, varón esforzado y valiente. 13 Y Gedeón le respondió: Ah, señor mío, si Jehová está con nosotros, ¿por qué nos ha sobrevenido todo esto? ¿Y dónde están todas sus maravillas, que nuestros padres nos han contado, diciendo: No nos sacó Jehová de Egipto? Y ahora Jehová nos ha desamparado, y nos ha entregado en mano de los madianitas. 14 Y mirándole Jehová, le dijo: Ve con esta tu fuerza, y salvarás a Israel de la mano de los madianitas. ¿No te envío yo?" --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/iglesiaarecibopueblo/support

The Cello Sherpa Podcast Host, Joel Dallow, interviews cellist Ofra Harnoy. They talk about how she built an International career, she shares stories about studying with William Pleeth, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Jacqueline du Pré, and she shares details on her new recording of the Elgar and Lalo Cello concertos. For more information on Ofra, visit:www.ofraharnoy.ca You can also find Ofra on Instagram: @ofraharnoyYouTube: @OfraHarnoyVideosFor more information on our sponsor: www.CLEAResources.com If you are looking for in person/virtual cello lessons, or orchestral repertoire audition coachings, check out www.theCelloSherpa.comFollow us on Instagram and Threads @theCelloSherpa

Síofra Ní Fhlatharta ag Aithriseoireacht 'An Sionnach agus an Préachán'

Aaron Lipkin, CEO of Lipkin Tours, joins us from his home in Samaria and tells us that the shocking barbarity of the Hamas terror attack October 7 has united the Israeli people in a way that seemed impossible three weeks ago. You can help Aaron's crowdfunding campaign to buy a new ambulance for his village of Ofra, Israel by clicking here: https://bit.ly/lipkintours

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Jueces 6:11 Y vino el ángel del Señor y se sentó debajo de la encina que estaba en Ofra, la cual pertenecía a Joás abiezerita; y su hijo Gedeón estaba sacudiendo el trigo en el lagar, para esconderlo de los madianitas. (LBLA) Gibbor es un valiente guerrero y esforzado. En esta historia vemos un personaje que está en pobreza, pero le toca despertar. Nosotros vivimos en un mundo de entretenimiento, que tanta tecnología no nos duerma en la vida espiritual. A veces las bendiciones nos daña. En el mundo espiritual los madianitas representan lo que no nos deja avanzar, éstos sembraban y cuidaban, pero no saboreaban la cosecha porque algo sucedía. El trigo lo ponían en el lagar que es el lugar del vino, pero por miedo. Josué es un valiente guerrero, pero tenía su potencial oculto, Dios lo hizo de fábrica, él estaba acomplejado, él era un gibbor. En Israel se había una mentalidad que les rebajaba su identidad, nosotros somos la sal de la tierra y por eso nos preservan. Hay que ver qué dice Dios de nosotros, cuál es nuestra identidad. El Señor le dio su verdadera identidad a Pedro, le cambió el nombre para darle su verdadera identidad. El factor divino es que Jehová está contigo. Cuando el Señor nos envía a un lugar, Él siempre va a estar con nosotros, sin la Presencia de Dios no habrá respaldo. Debemos saber quiénes somos en Dios y después tener un respaldo divino. El Señor llamó a Moisés que era tartamudo, luego pasaron el mar Rojo, pero fue porque Moisés levantó su vara, aún así le reclamaban y murmuraban. Se requerían 1500 toneladas de comida y el Señor respaldaba de tal manera a Moisés que lo tenían. El Señor llamó a los discípulos, no fueron ellos que lo buscaron. Después vino Josué que era de espada y conquista, venían de un tiempo de esclavitud donde solamente sabían hacer adobes y después les toca conquistar. Si deseas ver el video de la prédica, síguenos en nuestro canal de Youtube: EbenezerHon --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ebenezerhn/message --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ebenezerhn/message

This week's episode is a compilation of chats with builders from the MADE handmade bike show in Portland, Or. This week included Rodriguez Cycles, Destroy Bicycles, Battaglin, Argonaut, Wren Sports, Velo Orange, Rizzo Cycles, WH Bradford, Speedvagen, Celilio Cycles, Wheatfall, DeSalvo, Larkin Cycles, Sage Cycles, Wolf Tooth, and Onguza Cycles. Episode Sponsor: Dynamic Cyclist (use code: THEGRAVELRIDE) Support the Podcast Join The Ridership  Automated Transcription, please excuse the typos: [00:00:00] Craig Dalton: Hello, and welcome to the gravel ride podcast, where we go deep on the sport of gravel cycling through in-depth interviews with product designers, event organizers and athletes. Who are pioneering the sport I'm your host, Craig Dalton, a lifelong cyclist who discovered gravel cycling back in 2016 and made all the mistakes you don't need to make. I approach each episode as a beginner down, unlock all the knowledge you need to become a great gravel cyclist. This week on the podcast, I'm sharing a bunch of interviews with frame builders from the made handmade bicycle show in Portland, Oregon. This past weekend, the event was so packed with builders and bike brands that I'm actually going to have to divide this into two episodes and each of them are going to be longer than I typically would release. I'm hoping you'll enjoy these little snippets to get to know some brands that might not otherwise be familiar to you. So many great hand-built bicycles up there. Very enjoyable show, and I hope you enjoy these interviews. Before we jump in, I do need to thank this week. Sponsored dynamic cyclist. The team at dynamic cyclist has built cycling, specific stretching and strength training routines. That are available from an app. Or directly from the web. Go visit dynamic cyclists.com to check out the videos. They have a free one week trial and gravel ride podcast. Listeners can get 15% off. All plans using the code, the gravel ride. Stretching is one of those things that I've committed to over the last year to try to get over the hump on a back issue. And I found the dynamic cycles program, very easy to follow. They've got a bunch of different routines. They somewhat trick me into doing a little core work, which I appreciate, but I appreciate very much the specific intention of the program directed at us cyclists so if that's of interest to you, go visit dynamic cyclists.com. And remember that code, the gravel ride for 15% off. With that said, we're going to slam all these interviews together. So we're going to jump around a little bit, but each of the builders and brands introduces themselves. So hopefully it's easy to follow and remember i'll have part two coming next week as well [00:02:24] Alder | Rodriguez Bicycles: My name is Alder Keld and I work for Rodriguez Bikes Alder. Tell me about Rodriguez and where you're from and what you, what your vibe is on the gravel scene. Rodriguez's bike shop over in Seattle on, on the Ave and we've been around for 50 years. I feel like only recently. We've really kind of tap, started tapping into maybe in the past like three years or so, the, the gravel market. You know, a lot of our disc brake bikes have gone like really popular now. As the road bike trend, kind of like, you know, starts to fade away. But we have our gravel models of Finney Ridge and the Bandido. That's Bandido. There's also Bandido and that's, that's a Finney Ridge right there. Let's talk about the differences between those two models. I mean this, this one looks pretty amazing with that old kind of GT inspired rear triangle. Yeah. Triple triangle there is is really nice. The, the line gets a little blurry between the two models. You know, it's mostly the way the break mounts. So the Finney Ridge is gonna be post mount, is post mount, and then the bandidos gonna be flat mount. But you know, we are completely custom. You can choose whatever tire, tire clearance you want, either one. And if you put a carbon fork on it, you're generally gonna get a flat mountain up front. So the, the line gets very blurred between which one is which. It's kind of, they both come through axle if you want, so. Gotcha. And does one have more of like a, a bike packing orientation and the other, more of a kind of race ride orientation? I would say the Bandido is definitely kind of on the race here, side of things. Just like the, the fitting of ridge, you know, I mean it's again, like this is a bandido, but it has three pack bounce on the fork. Yeah. And that's Finney Ridge and it has three pack bounce. You can really do whatever you want. And what, what frame materials are you building out of? So we do, for our lowest end one is 7 25, which is still much better than a lot of production bikes out there. And then we do velo spec and then we have like an ultralight blend that we have. And we do, we actually velo spec makes a lot of our tubing custom for us. So we get our specific Rockwell hardness and budding and tomb shape that we want out of everything. Okay, so what's the best way for people to discover the bikes you have an Instagram that they should follow? We do have an Instagram. It's at Rod Bikes on Instagram. You can see a bunch of, you know, cool, cool stuff there a lot of fun photos. We do also have a website we, rod bikes.com and you can see all the models. As well. And what does that ordering process look like for customers? Is it a long lead time or what's, what is it? We have a six to eight lead turnaround time. Okay. Usually, and then in the slower season, it could be four to six weeks. Okay. So pretty quick to get this dream bike underneath you. Yeah. We do full fittings and everything, so we have 20 stock sizes. So if one of our 20 stock sizes does not fit you we'll, measure your body parts, put it into our. Fit machine that we developed called Next, next Fit, and it'll spit out numbers. We'll double check those numbers and build a frame for you. We weld and paint in-house, so the turnaround time is very fast. Sweet. Thanks for that overview. No problem. [00:05:22] Sean | Destroy Bicycles: Can I get your name and brand? Yeah. My name is Sean Eagleton and I'm with Destroy Bikes. Sean, can you tell me a little bit about Destroy, where do you build out of and what's your philosophy about Gravel? We are out of Portland, Oregon and we actually just got the c l o, the old c o factory with inside of Chris King. And Gravel has been, has been growing this last year a lot. Sorry. That's all right. And what about this bike that we're looking at? So this bike is a personal friend of ours who wasn't really riding the last couple of years. She just started racing this last year. And a few of the races that I worked, she came in a good 10 minutes ahead of her husband. And it was, a friend that has just been killing it every time she goes out on a race and was. Basically a easy choice to say that this was gonna be our next cross racer, gravel racer. Her husband's known for being in the bicycle world already and doing a lot of really long extended gravel rides. And it was just a, perfect opportunity. Someone that we're very picky about our riders. We like people who aren't necessarily the typical racer. We like a little bit Grier and people with a little bit of attitude. So hence the, that matches with the Destroy brand name. Yes. That's why we wanted to go like super colorful with this thing. So the lights don't do it justice in here, but the full rainbow sparkle with the gold detailing really shows who she is as a person too. She's just a bit out there, a bit wild. What kind of frame materials this one built out of? So this is all Chrome, Molly and I like to do, tend to do a mix of stuff. I prefer Columbus seat stays and chain stays on a lot of things. The seat tube is a Tonga seat tube and the down tube and top tube are both Columbus as well. And do you like that from a ride performance perspective or how they weld together or what do you like about them? The Columbus in particular, like their seat stays, they're one of the few brands that make something that's bendable. I believe a lot of pre-made chain stays and seat stays aren't supposed to be used directly right out of the package. They still should be modified in some way to better fit the ride, better fit the bike and they're one of the few companies that I have, without a doubt, I can always modify them whichever way I want to. The bends come out clean. There's a lot of tubing that they do, certain hardening processes that it's just almost impossible to manually work them after. And just like to leave no tube left untouched, basically. What, and what does the customer journey look like if they are interested in a destroy bike? What do they do? How do they reach you? What does the timeline look like and what is the kind of experience of working with you? So it's a fairly simple process. We have. We now have a submission form online on our website, and you basically go on the website. We do a lot of batch stuff as well, so you're gonna choose between one bike or five bikes. And the whole process is getting to know you, getting a fit for you. And then I like to go a little bit crazy with the tubing talk, which most people get a little bit weary of. But everything is style as well, right? And when I'm choosing tubing, it's what do you want the bike to look like and how do you want it to ride? Ride, ride quality is just as important to me as how the bike looks. I'm very big on the geometries that we build. I tend to do things a little bit differently than a lot of people. But it's all based on my riding experiences and how I want the bike to handle. Yeah. And what's the best way to get more information about Destroy destroy by co.com. Instagram, destroy by Co, and TikTok as well. Right on. Yeah. Thanks Sean. Thank you. battaglin bicycles Okay. Can I get your name and the brand? Hi, I'm Marco from OA Battlin and I'm the marketing manager. We are a small company based in Italy making handcrafted custom still bikes. And how long has Baten been around? Battlin has been around since 1981. That's the year when our founder, Jovanni Battlin won the Jalia and Walter Espania. It's a legendary grantour double achieved which was achieved only by Eddie Merckx. That in 1981, our founder right after his grand tour victories launched his autonomous bike brand. Amazing. And I know the gravel scene has been slower to take off in Europe, but now it's catching fire over there. When did you as a brand start to explore building gravel bikes? We started exploring building gravel bikes two years ago. Obviously. The company has been, has always been focused on road bikes because that's that's what our founder used to ride as a professional cyclist, obviously back in the eighties. We knew that the gravel scene was growing. And we knew also our customers were asking for gravel product. But we wanted to find the right product, not just launch a random random gravel bike. And two years ago we started designing the port of energy which is a sort of gravel variant of our flagship product of the Portofino. So basically our port of energy has the same shares with our with its road counterpart, the same construction, the lag construction with the oversized logs and the oversized tubing. Yeah, I think that's very, a very striking element of the bike we're looking at is these lugs. Yes. It very much has the feel of a of a race oriented gravel bike. Yes. Which seems to be the front end of where European gravel is right now. This kind of more racy oriented bike. Would you, is that accurate? Yeah, it's accurate to say that and also you have to consider that our founder Giovanni and his son Alex, who is the c e o of the company right now wanted to. To design the port of energy went back to the old bikes the company used to make for the professional ra racers of the eighties who who raced in competitions the per rube. On on the pave on rougher roads. Yeah. Back back in the day, the roads were rougher than. The roads, the professional erasers are riding now. Basically for the port of energy we went back to the old geometries, to the old frames the company used to make, and we wanted to find this gravel variant, but with still with a road racing feel. Yeah, it's super interesting. I'll make sure to link to this bike in the show notes, 'cause I think people need to see this one. If people are interested in finding more out about the brand, where would you direct them to? They can visit our website, officina battalion.com and they can find us also on YouTube. We have many videos where we share our best builds. And for a US based customer, how would they get their hands on one of these bicycles? Actually the US is probably our most important market and we sell directly. Okay. We have a direct relationship with the consumer. We build our, all our bikes from scratch, so they send us their body measurements, their specifications. And we build we start from there. And would they be buying a complete bike with a groupo or are they just buying a frame and fork from you? It depends. All our bikes are custom made it depends on the customer's requests and specifications they can buy just the frame or we are more than happy to build a complete bike. Got it. Thanks. I appreciate the time. Thank you very much for coming and enjoy the show. [00:13:30] Ben | Argonaut: Okay. Can I get your name and brand? My name is Ben Farber. I'm the founder and head of r and d at Argonaut Cycles. Ben, where is Argonaut based? We are based in Bend, Oregon. Right on. I think I knew that and I'd seen the bikes for a number of years, but it seems like over the last few you've both expanded the line and added some small batch production. Can you talk about like the brand a little bit as it spec specifically to gravel cycling? What the custom bikes are all about and what the super knot's all about. Certainly. Yeah. So we are fully vertically integrated production facility based again in Bend, Oregon. We've got two models, the RMM three and the GR three in terms of the style of bike. So the RMM three is our road bike. It's a fairly racy, generally designed road bike, but it comes in custom geometry as well as proven geometry. With custom layup as well. So our big thing is how we engineer the carbon inside the bikes. And that's true for our gravel bike as well. So our gravel bike is the G R three. The idea behind the G R three is that it's a go fast up, go faster down, a gravel bike where the geometry is pretty progressive in terms of the front end with a 68 and a half degree head to Bengal. But then also a really nice tight rear end of a 415 millimeter chains stay with clearance for a 700 by 50 C tire. I think we've seen Sarah Max go quite fast on that bike this year. Yeah, absolutely. Sarah is our is our top racer that's been out there and doing the lifetime series. She was just in Steamboat and then getting ready to go somewhere in the south again. Pretty soon think so. Yeah. Yeah. Awesome. And then tell me about the Super Knot. I hadn't seen that before. Super Knot is our non-custom production line, essentially. So it's the same technology that is in our custom bikes in terms of the layup pattern of the frame and where and how they're made. They're just not custom to the individual. So we make these for in two different build, two different. Models. Essentially there's a super knot RMM three, the road bike and the super knot, g R three. And they are the build kit that they're outfitted with is essentially what we at the shop. If we could ride anything, it's what we would ride. It's if I would build myself a bike tomorrow, this is what I'd put on it. And that's the ethos behind these. And it's for a customer who doesn't necessarily need or want a custom bike, but just wants a really great riding, super high performance, really well made bike. That's what the Super knot is. Where they're cheaper in terms of relative to the custom bikes. So it's fif 14 nine for a complete RM three and then 12 nine for a complete g R three and lead time's about four weeks. So we're able to reduce the lead time. Got it. And is this bike, does it have a similar kind of race orientation or are you going for a broader applicability of a gravel bike? It's more of a go fast gravel bike with ample clearance. Essentially. And what does that mean, ample clearance for you guys on this bike? 50 C tire. Okay. 7 0 5 50 C. Perfect. Yeah. Yeah, it's interesting to see like over the last few years that size become commonplace, whereas four or five years ago it was a little bit tricky, I think, for a lot of frame builders to make that work. Yeah. And that's the art. And the cool thing, the magic in the G R three is having that short chain stay length with enough clearance for a 50 C tire. It makes it really capable, but also really fun to ride. Bike. A lot of times with the geometry of clearing that big of a tire, you burden it by having a super long wheel base, especially the rear center. And what, that's what really concentrate on the G three is that tight rear center makes the bike just so much more lively. Nice. And if customers are interested in learning more about Argonaut, what's the best way to find out about what you guys are doing? Argonaut cycles.com. And then follow us on instagram@argonautcycles.com as well. And I think you mentioned already the timelines for these various spikes, but if someone was coming to you for a custom build, what does that look like? I realize like the back and forth about getting the custom geometry right with the customer takes some time. Yeah. But yeah. What does it generally look like? Turnaround time? No. Good question. So we're about 12 to 14 weeks on the full custom bike. Okay, so it's still not too bad. Yeah. Right on. Thanks, Ben. Absolutely. Thank you. [00:17:29] Cameron | Wren Sports: Okay. Can I get your name and the company? Yeah. I'm Cameron Sanders. I'm with Rinn Sports. Cameron, let's talk about this handlebar you have in your hands. I know this is a little tricky since we're on audio, but let's do your best to describe it. Awesome. Yeah. So this is our perseverance drop bar. We have a perseverance flat and drop bar. The flat bar. We actually have on a number of gravel bikes out there as well. What it is, it's a one piece integrated arrow accessory alt bar. Think. If you're thinking like Jones or Redshift kitchen sink, you're in the right space but let's say the box that showed up on your doorstep was twice the size. Yeah. So what we're looking at, it's a, drop bar handlebar with an arrow extension kind of built into it. Correct, yeah. And a lot long as you said, a lot more longer and extended than you might be visualizing with sort of the short stubby extensions that we see on other handlebars. Yeah. It's not just for a psyching. Cycling computer or just resting your palms on this is like a full other position to get into. And from a manufacturing standpoint, we have not just like one loop, there's multiple angles here. So it's going out, it's flaring up, it's going, it has a nose that it goes around. And that definitely makes this a harder bar to manufacture. Basically we have enough material out front to make a whole nother bar. And where, what type of athlete, gravel athletes are you seeing kind of gravitate towards this bar? What type of events in your mind as a designer, are they? Is it intended for? Yeah, so the people that I think are benefiting the most from this are bike packers and like hyper endurance athletes. This was a. I jotted down notes about what I wanted after riding the Baja divide. And then I went and did a thousand mile gravel tour of Eastern Oregon. And between my mountain bike and my drop bar bike, I wanted something that felt at home on either one of them. But we also are getting a lot of riders and racers that are doing a hundred to 300 mile like ultra endurance days that are really enjoying the bar. Yeah, I bet. I've just recently been, Watching from afar, peri breast, Paris. And thinking like you need to get in an arrow position to finish an endurance run today like that. We have had a few people that there's some gravel events that don't allow you to a add on the arrow like clips, but because this is integrated, it's like this weird loophole where you can run it at some of those events. And I've had people that bought it just for that, which was not something I intended or thought of whenever I built the bar. But Even for the weight weaning, because it's integrated. It I'm also not a weight weaning myself. I'm bike packing with a hundred pounds of gear, but because it's integrated, it actually is very lightweight because you're minimizing the amount of stuff you have to use to attach an arrow position. Yeah. Offline, you were telling me a little bit about the armrests. Can you just describe them a little bit? Yeah. We wanted something in the aftermarket. We talked to profile design and a number of different companies and we just. Couldn't find what we really wanted for the bars. I wanted something that had a very tiny footprint on the bars so that you're not losing any real estate for hand positions or mounting things or shifting or whatever. And the armrests will clip onto the flats or the drops and either where the bars are themselves on along the top of the plane or in the loop itself, and they fully articulate and rotate so that you can. Just really fine tune your rest position in a way that you can't on a normal clip on. Because they are integrated into the arrow loop, there's only so much you can do with playing and moving them around. So ours are a lot more adjustable. And if people want to find out more information and or buy your products, where do they go? So they go to rin sports.com. Super easy. That's Ren Sports with a w r e n sports.com. Right on. And Cameron, thanks for the time and congrats on finishing the Oregon Timber Trail just in time to join us here at Maid. Yeah, thank you so much. Yeah, it was a great 18 days of riding. Awesome. [00:21:22] Igor | Velo Orange: All right. Can I get your name and brand? Sure. My name is Igor Stainbrook and I'm with Velo Orange. And where is Velo Orange located? We are in Glen Burnie, Maryland. The Maryland's not a name you often hear it's such, there's such great riding there, but you don't often hear about a lot of bike brands out of that area. That's right, yeah. There's a lot of really good riding, especially out of DC like you mentioned earlier, there's the c o canal and the gap trails, and a lot of our customers do long distance touring or random earing events. And so those kind of trails are perfect for our style of bikes. Yeah. What was the origin story behind the brand? So we first started in 2006. We were basically importing stuff from France and Japan and UK stuff that was more vintage style. And since then, since those sources dried up of new old stock stuff, we started developing our own things, improving on those designs. And now we do a lot of both classic style. But also more modern stuff too. Gotcha. So that was the inspiration that kinda, I see it in what I'm seeing around the booth here that, yeah, those classic styles and classic lines. As you started obviously it appears to be a touring reveering vibe, some of the stuff you're doing. As you started to see more kind of off-road riding, popularized in the us, what have you developed from a product perspective? So obviously tires are getting bigger and bigger. Since we first started, everybody was riding like 20 threes and 20 fives, but now we have a number of models. We have one that has, that's the rando that's coming out that has 30, that can take up to 30 eights. And then we also have the P L A, which is our kind of bike packing style bike. But it lends itself really nicely to, if you wanted to do two point fours, but you could put 45 millimeter tires, two point ones. It takes racks and fenders. You can put drop bars on it. It's a nice frame that has a lot of versatility. Yeah. You've got. The two ends of the gravel cycling world here. Exactly, yeah. Your road plus and then the bike backing side and not in the middle. It's interesting. Yeah. On this bike you were just describing with the bigger tires, can you talk about the rear end? It looks a little bit unique. Yeah. So the p l a, it's actually been in our stable for a number of years now. It's gone through a couple iterations, the most recent one. We now have through axles. And it has a new paint, but the geometry that everybody really likes is still the same. It has a wishbone rear end and it has a lot of custom stuff that goes into it that maybe a lot of people don't really, maybe not notice, but it's basically the rear end is a segmented wishbone that has, it's a bent tube and then there's plugs that are custom C and seed inserted and then braised in. And so it's a lot of. Technical stuff that goes into something that people may not even necessarily notice. Yeah. I think with a brand like this, it gives it some unique, beautiful details. Absolutely. Yep. Which always makes owners super proud to show off their bike. For sure. And you were mentioning that this one can be built up as a drop bar bike or a flat bar. Yes, absolutely. Yeah. We have a lot of people will build them up with drop bars. They most of the time they're one buys. We've seen some two buys as well. And it just lends itself nicely to a variety of build styles. So we don't really say, oh, it has to be this way, because they come as frame sets so you can build it up as you want. And so we also designed the geometry and the fit to really fit the rider nicely. So the larger sizes are 29 er and the smallest size of 26. Got it. So you don't have to compromise on frame bag size or kind of having weird fit on a very small bike with really big tires. So it's a nice, it's a nice rider. Gotcha. And Igor, what's the best way for people to learn more about Velo Orange? Go to velo orange.com or on Instagram. And what are you on Instagram Velo orange. Got it. Thanks for the time. Absolutely. Anytime. [00:25:17] Reuben | Rizzo Cycles: Can I get your name and the brand? My name is Ruen from Uhha Cycles from Spain. Ruen, can you tell me a little bit about the bike we're looking at? Yeah. We have gravel a gravel bike with a big tri freelance up to 750 with a new MV fork that they are actually selling on their mocks. But now it's available for the builders. And I have built a fulled titanium gravel frame with the with the full cable integration. We have some three D printed parts the dropouts which are U D H standard compatible. A joke for the chaining credence and the upper part of the head tube for having the custom cable integration without a, without having a super heavy and big head tube. It's a very clean look. Yeah. It's very You building out of Spain? Yeah, I'm building in Spain. I have the workshop in the near the City Center of Madrid. I'm a one band, one man band operation. I do everything but the paint and the finishing. Yeah, that's pretty much everything about the main things about the bike. Yeah. Tell me a little bit more about the dropout in the rear here that's using. The newer kind of mechanism of attaching the rear rail. Yeah. I developed my own dropouts for the to match my style and have a custom product my own aesthetic. And yes, we, I recently, this is the second bike I build with the U D H. We are, we were all forced to embrace this new standard. So I have been pretty reluctant. But now I have developed all this new platform with the dropouts. I have both C N C machine for the steel and three D printer for the titanium. Yeah, you can see it's I achieve because the main problem with the U D H is the symmetry of the dropouts on the rear end. I kindly achieve the symmetry with a few touches on the sign. And they are three D printed. We have a drive side with for the U D H power. And then Onri side has the flat mount brake mount. So everything is in line and easy to build. And are you able to three D print in Madrid as well? No. The three D printer is is made somewhere else. It took me a long time to find a supplier that meets my quality standards in terms of finishing overall, because the main problem with the three D printer is this grainy finish you, and you can click easily tell the difference between the three printed part that the rest of the tubes. And as you can see in here, if you touch the yolk, the finish on the yolk is pretty smooth and yeah, super clean. It's almost seamless with the rest of the tube. That is what I wanted to achieve. So it took me some time, but now I'm starting to use in this so that this technology that give you so freedom for design and so many options. And how did you get your start building? I start building almost seven years ago when I wanted to occupy all my free time between jobs and I started looking at the I, by that time I started to meet all the builders and see some custom bikes around. So I went into deep into the knowledge of first of all knowing more brands and builders and. Be aware that we're still people building bikes by hand. So I started really slowly and then I was pretty much self-taught in my workshop and making bikes for friends and for myself and doing this trying and error thing constantly and trying to get better and better in welding and building and everything you do at the sub. Amazing. And for a US based customer, what's the best way to learn more about the brand or ultimately order one of these bikes? First of one you can visit my website and my Instagram. If you look for Rho cycles in the web, it will be easily appears at the first of one of the first results. It's r a said O. And it's pretty easy to get in touch with me via Instagram or or mail. I try to keep a quick responses on all the direct messages and mail and yeah, the talk for a custom bike. Start straight away with me and we can talk about all your dream projects. Awesome. Thanks for the time. I appreciate it. Thanks to you. [00:29:35] Brad | W H Bradford: Can I get your name and brand? Hi, this is Brad from w h Bradford Designs. Brad, where do you build out of Sacramento, California. Right on, right up the road from me. I'm in Marin County. Oh, awesome. I ride Mount Tam quite a bit. As naturally you would from that area, it's like Mount Tam is amazing and not too far from you. This bike actually would be pretty good on Mount Tam, given that we're looking at a gravel bike with a suspension fork and dropper post, which the listener well knows. I'm a big fan of. It is actually the bike that I designed to do the alpine dam loop on. You called it out. This is our Gazo gravel frame. This is the bike we build the most of primarily double butted air hardened c molly for the front triangle Columbus rear end. We've made a few aesthetic changes for the bike this year. We've allowed integrated dropper post routing for 27 2. So it adds a second internal line to the frame. And then it is designed to work with the fox ax suspension fork, or you can switch it back to an envy, gravel fork if you wanna stay rigid. And so that's like a slight adjustment in the axle, the crown between those two forks, is that right? It was actually. Thank you so much. The axle of the crown is so close and given the fact that you probably want the front end a little slacker and a little higher, I didn't adjust the axle of the crown, but what I did adjust on the geo. Was the actual forward seating position of the rider. So the seat tube angle was increased forward by half a degree. We offset the seat tube at the bottom bracket by 7.5 millimeters, and then I actually made the top tube longer by like quarter inch and slacked the head tube angle out by a half a degree. Putting the rider more forward in the riding position and now allowing him to actually actuate the suspension fork better. Yeah, it's interesting. I'm totally with you on that, that, a small difference in actual axle to crown when swapping those forks actually positions the bike more oriented towards a rigid fork versus the suspension forks. So it's a natural compromise. Exactly. And w given the 45 millimeters of travel that the ax has, it doesn't raise the bottom bracket hype that much, but then you're still gonna be descending into your perfect pedaling position. Instead of having it drop down into a lower pedaling point and possibly smacking, roots and things like that. And that's a major concern in Marin as well, because you have Nice, those, all those nice polished roots on all your trails. Exactly. For customers, is this a custom bike or are you doing stock sizes? Pretty. So as a builder I offer three separate models. Our gravel bike, our adventure cross, which is a flat bar, gravel bike. Bike packing bike and our mountain bike. And then we do custom geo custom sizing on all frames, but we don't really venture out of those three designs currently. Gotcha. And how did you get your start building? Oh wow. I fell into this life. I sold my first bicycle design when I was in eighth grade to Alan Brown at Ozone Bikes, and it's just been a never ending process since then. And I got to this point and I've always wanted to do really high-end, road mountain bikes and I think that I've gotten to that point in my career. Nice. And for a customer looking to learn more about the brand, what's the best way of finding out more? Go to our social media page our Instagram, w h Bradford Designs, or just shoot me a message and ask me any questions you have. 'cause I'm always available. And what does the purchasing journey look like for a customer when they contact you? They fallen in love with what you're doing. How long does it take? What is the experience? Feel like I, I am a working builder, so you'll contact me. Basically, we figure out what bike you want sizing. I work with you. We produce a cad drawing of the bike and then small deposit down once we've gotten to that point. And it's usually 30 to 45 days for delivery. Okay. Right on. Thanks for the time. No problem. Thank you very much. [00:33:13] Richard | Speedvagen: All right. Can I get your name and brand? I am Richard Poole. I am the creative director at Speed Bogging. I couldn't come to Portland without talking to speed bogging. For sure. So let's talk a little bit about this bike. Yeah, just gimme a little bit of the details of the gravel bike we're looking at. Alright, so we got a pretty traditional custom rugged road for us. What we do with our rugged roads are, since they're all custom, they're built specifically to the tire size you want We're good and firm believers in short chain stays and more playful bikes. So if you never plan on running a 45, we're not gonna build you a bike that's gonna clear a 45 if you know you're only gonna run a 35. That's what we're gonna build it to. That makes sense. All these bikes from speed wagging, they're always Super tight and clean on the rear end. So that makes a lot of sense. Yeah. But if I did come to you and say, Hey, I'm all about a 50 C tire, you can deal with that. We can do that. We actually have the upgraded model of this called the rugged or road. And that will use, like any of the new suspension forks on the market, like the gravel forks, or we could use the envy adventure fork on that to clear about a 50. Gotcha. And tell me a little bit about the c o situation here on the svi. All speed vs. Have integrated seat masks. The seat post head is made by NV for us. We've been partners with NV since the launch of both brands. Seriously. They just keep making 'em, we keep using them. What does that translate to? So if I get one of these out of the box and I've ordered it from you, do I need to cut anything down to, to get the right seat post size? No. No. So the way one, we prefer, everyone that gets a bike from us gets a fitting from us too. That way we can get all the measurements dialed. We will have everything ready to go by the time your bike's built. And then, so we'll cut it down. It'll come as you see it right now. And those seat post heads have 30 millimeters of range. Okay. So if you do, it's made for 30 millimeters of range, just in case you swap a saddle or something like that. It can go up or down. Yeah. I gotcha. That should be plenty. Yeah. And then what type of tube set are you building with on the gravel bike? Oh all of our tubes are custom to us. A mixture of two true temper Columbus. And yeah, that's about it really. And what does it look like for a customer looking to get one of these bikes? How, what's the process look like and what's the turnaround time? We start with the fit. The fit is the most important measurement. We like to say we can get your bike 95% there if you're gonna send us your fit numbers from someone else. But we're big believers in being balanced on the bike and our fitting process incorporates that into each bike we build. And that's proprietary to us. No fitters really do that besides us. They tend to focus on comfort and like body angles and that sort of stuff. And is there a little bit of a sort of customer exploration conversation that goes on when I come to say, Hey, all I do is ride rowdy gravel. Could be mountain bike trails, but I want a gravel bike. Yeah. We'll walk you through that entire process. It all starts with that fit and at that fitting process, we will try and get you your entire build spec confirmed, your geocon confirmed, and then your paint scheme confirmed. It's about a three hour process, sometimes more. And by that time, like after the fitting, your bike's going into the queue and getting ready to be built and what does that sort of build process looks like after we've. Got the geometry ironed out between the two of us. Oh, that's a wild question just given the last couple years in the pandemic. But typically speed volumes are designed to be turned around in three months or so. Sometimes it's three to six. And then during the pandemic it was quite a bit longer, but we're pretty much back from that. Nice. And what's the best way for people to get more information about the brand? The website www.speedbogging.com. Awesome. Thanks for the time. Yeah. [00:36:43] Ross | Celilo Cycles: Can I get your name and the brand? Okay. My name is Ross Hatton and I'm with s Lilo Cycles out of Corvallis, Oregon. I'm looking at something rather unique here at Made. Can you describe this bike and the material you're building out of? Yeah, so our bikes are made out of wood reinforced with carbon fiber. So the outside shell is either hardwood or soft wood, depending on the material properties we want. And then it's reinforced in the inside with a full carbon fiber. Shells. We've got all the riding strength of carbon fiber frame, and a much smoother ride from the wood, which I acts as a damper on the frame and takes up some of the sting of the vibrations. Fascinating. So can you tell me a little bit about that process as I'm visualizing it? Obviously I'm seeing the, the wood exterior. Are you crafting the wood and then inserting sort of the carbon fiber after the fact inside that? Or does it start with the carbon fiber? So it starts with the wood, and we basically make two bicycle frames, so as if the frame is butterflied open. So we cut every tube twice, then we hollow them out after joining them together into the frame shape. And then we do a lined layup with the carbon fiber. So we've got all the directional layup inside the tubes. Then we put them together and we do a bladder supported circular layup on the inside. So there's no seam. It's a continuous circle on the inside. And then the we take the two halves of the wood, we put it together. And we machined down the outside to get the bicycle shape part of the machining process. We set up a we set up spaces for carbon fiber inlay, and then we overmold the carbon fiber and sand everything down. And so we get a clean fusion between the carbon fiber reinforcing tapes on the outside and the wood appearance. That's most the outside. I think I gave you a basically impossible task to describe how complicated that process is. If someone's interested, and I think they should be to, to sort of discover more about that process and what, what it actually looks like. Where would you direct them to? It should go to celilo cycles.com. Celilo is spelled c e L i L O. Okay. And you, you mentioned that adding the wood on the exterior of the carbon fiber kind of interior adds this dampening element to it. If you could describe like maybe how this bike might feel different. Than a, a standard carbon bike. What would you say? It's gonna be a lot smoother. If you can think about the difference between a wooden baseball bat and something so I don't think people do carbon fiber baseball bats, but you can imagine like aluminum versus wood. Yeah. The wood's got, takes a sting out of the impact. Okay. And so carbon fiber's gonna, would have the same kind of sting if you would make a carbon fiber baseball bat. And the wood is gonna have that less sting. So the carbon fiber frame when you get a hit is going to buzz a little bit. And so the wood really takes that buzz out. So this bike. I take it over like small chattery stuff. Just you don't feel it all, it just floats. Okay. And are, are you guys in production on this model? We're this is so we are, we are in production. Scott's working on various bikes. We've got a number of different models. Okay. One of the nice things with the with the setup is that it's customizable so that when we come in there's various hard points. So like, this is our. Showroom flagship model. It's got hard points all around the inside, so you can do different mounting pieces. It's got internal routing for generators, and depending on what you're looking for, the you can, we can tune the, the specific construction to what you need on the bike. Super interesting. And, and as a customer, if I come to you, are you building something custom from a geometry perspective? For me, we are. Yeah. We, we can do custom geometry. The process has a CAD pro, we have a CAD program that is parametric, so you can put in your reach and stack and all of that. And then the files from which we d cut the different tubes that's all driven by that geometry. So we can very easily customize that geometry for every given frame. Super interesting. And how long does it take for a customer to get a bike after ordering? It's gonna be several weeks. We can, so that's very quick. Yeah, we can, we, our, our process goes through very we, we've got, we've got a process set up so that you can put that, put that into your into our. Take. Take your measurements, put them into your production. Into production and manufacture that frame. Yeah. And you mentioned the website, that being the best place to get more information? Yes. Awesome. And then again Celilo Cycles, c e l i l o. Perfect. Thanks for the time. Thank you. [00:40:52] Ming Tan | Haley Cycles: All right. Can I get your name and the brand? Hey, this is Ming Tan from Haley Cycles. Ming Tang. This is a pretty cool looking bike with a special fork on it. Can you describe what we're looking at? Yeah, so this is one of our gravel bikes. This is outfitted with the cannondale lefty olive gravel fork. So it's got 30 millimeters of travel up front. This one's built with our standard oversized straight gauge tube set. So basically we offer. Three different tube sets you can choose from when you decide to configure a bike, and then we can build it however you like it. So fully custom geometry and fully custom geometry. All of our pricing is inclusive of custom and it's inclusive of your choice of paint and finish. Amazing. These bikes, the paint jobs are always gorgeous on these ha's, thank you. Really appreciate it. I mean it's, we really take pride in the fact that almost any bike that you see on our feed is different. Not all, some of them are similar, but. We really encourage our customers to go and make it unique to them. And are you working exclusively with Titanium? Only with Thai. Okay. Yeah. Gotcha. And what does the customer process look like? If someone wanted to get a Haley, what is what, how do they come in the door? What kind of consultation do they get and how long does it take to get a bike? It's a pretty organic process and usually it starts with a dis, a general discussion of what they're looking for. Whether it's a. A road bike or an all road bike or gravel bike or a hardtail, anything that doesn't have a rear suspension, no problem. But it usually starts with the type of bike they're looking for and then we start talking about fit and whether or not the customer has fit data or if they need to get fitted, or if they just want to duplicate their cockpit, fit off their current bike, we can help build that CAD geometry file for them based on the information that they have. And then, we get deeper into the weeds when it comes to. Tire clearance and gear choice. 'cause it's all interrelated in terms of how the bike gets built. Yeah. And then once the customer decides to move forward and the geometry looks good and the spec looks good, it's about a 16 week, 16 to 18 week lead time to get the frame done Okay and finished. And then if it, if the customer's looking for a complete bike, the complete bikes are all custom quoted considering that you can customize bikes to the valve stems these days. So everything is custom quoted at that point. Nice. Amazing. Thanks for sharing. Thank you. Appreciate it. [00:43:14] Julio | Wheatfall Cycles: Can I get your name and the brand? Yes. Julio Burino from wheat Fall Cycles. Julio, where is Wheat Fall building out of? Santa Cruz, California. Okay. He's currently designing there. We are having them made overseas, but we are now currently looking for someone stateside in either Oregon or California. Nice. And is it a completely custom process with the brand? Right now they're made to order, but we are working out sizes within our Within our bikes, either the gravel or the mountain or the cruisers. This bike we're looking at, what's the frame material? It's titanium. All of the bikes are currently titanium. Gotcha. And what's super unique for you listeners out there about this bike? It's actually got dual top tubes, the two thin top tubes rather than one across the top and a little bit of a sort of asymmetry and where they hit the C tube. What's the story behind that? It's something that my partner and I have been talking about for a long time to do something a little bit more unique. Make an asymmetrical bike that is aesthetically pleasing for the eye, but has a compliance that feels really well on the trails and on the road. Yeah. You nailed it on the aesthetically pleasing part here. I love it. That was the emphasis. Certainly for a show like this, it gives you a chance to stand out with a, titanium finished bike. Oh, thank you. Thank you. So what does it look like for a customer interested in finding out more about the brand? Where should they go and what does the process look like in creating their dream bike with you? So essentially this is our first show. We're just gathering ideas. We have a webpage that we do need to still work on Instagram and the maid show is catapulting our Success to get the name and the brand out there, but you we are at ww dot wheat falls cycles.com and you can get information and email us from there. Fantastic. Great to have another brand outta Santa Cruz. Awesome, thank you. All right. Can I get your name and the brand? I am Jeff Fra, and I am with Wild Bikes. Welcome back to the Pod Jeffrey. Thank you for having me. Can you tell us about what you brought to Maid? Yeah, so today at Maid, our big, our kind of big reveal is that my business partner Andy, is a huge Schwinn Paramount fan, and we have a Wayfinder fork, right? So what's cool about our carbon Wayfinder fork is that it's an inch and eighth straight steer. With all the modern gravel functionalities, dynamo routing, three pack mounts, fender mounts, rack mounts, all that good stuff that we like as gravel folks. Yeah. And what we wanted to really showcase is to other builders really what you can do with this fork. And so we build a lugged bike and we chrome the lugs. So it would be that, Schwinn Paramount homage. Yeah. Painted the main tubes, painted the fork. And this is the first lug bike that Wild has yet created. And it's this very classic looking thing with all the modern gravel capabilities. It fits 50 C tires has all the, has three bottom mounts, top two feedback mount. And we just wanted to really lean on our love for the past and bring it into the future and show people what was possible. Yeah, I love that juxtaposition of the kind of old visual styling. But as you're describing all that modern gravel performance, and it's super lightweight and it's a really cool lug set. So the lugs taper, so if you notice the tube actually tapers down to the C tube. Got it. 'cause you want the stiffness here and you want a little more flex in the seat area, cluster area for comfort. And so it's a really cool, well-thought out lug set designed by Chris Bishop of Bishop Bikes. Okay. And the carbon fork, it's super light. It's just, it just happens to be lug. And in, you may not know the answer to this question, but I'm gonna ask it anyway. In terms of lugged bike manufacturing experience, is that an art that sort of was at risk of disappearing and are fewer and fewer people understanding how to make a bike that way? I've been shocked at how few lugged bikes there actually are at this show. So it, it maybe seems to be waning. I think the problem is just the lug sets themselves present physical limitations. So this lug set is cool 'cause it has a sloping top tube, whereas most lug sets have a very horizontal Strat tube. So the lug itself actually dictates the geometry of the, to a large extent. You have a couple degrees you can play with, but it's set. So when you start building large tired bikes with a 700 by 50 C and then a straight top tube stand over becomes an issue. And so it's cool because we have products like this emerging that actually allow you to build that. Traditional logged construction with modern gravel features. And so I think our obsession with big comfortable tires has made the old lug sets a bit obsolete. So yeah, I think until we have more things like this available, it is gonna be a little bit of a dying art form because people just aren't building road bikes like they used to. Yeah. And if you are building a road bike, chances are you wanna fit 30 twos, 35. That makes a ton of sense. And is this a bike that a customer could come and buy from you today? Oh, we would love to. We are so hoping that people, we, we've loved this process and we love the outcome and so yeah, we would love to sell a customer this bike. We'd love to build more. And is that, is it a longer process for building and design or about the same? No, it's about the same. About four to five months is, what it takes for us from the project kickoff to when we are able to deliver a finished to product. Okay. Awesome. I hope I see more of these beauties on the roads and trails. No, thank you, Craig. Cool. [00:48:36] Mike DeSalvo | DeSalvo Cycles: Can I get your name and the brand? Yeah. My name is Mike DeSalvo from DeSalvo Cycles. Mike, can you tell us a little bit about the Scrabble bike we're looking at? This one I built was, it's actually for a customer. It was a fun project. He just wanted to go for a steel bike. Wanted to clear a tire, about 48 to 50 and keep it pretty classic. Unlike some of the really crazy stuff here with all the integrated hoses, lines, everything he wanted, all external mechanical shifting. It feels a little like blast from the past in a way. And is this a typical like tube set that you build with, or do you build with other materials as well? So I build with steel and titanium. This one right here is a steel bike, mostly Columbus Steel is what I use. Okay. And is there a reason for that? Is it as far as just, as far as name, the branded tubing, Columbus has always just been my favorite when it comes to steel. Yeah. Most of the bikes these days actually are titanium, but this one is a steel bike. Yeah. Okay. Gotcha. And you've been building bikes for quite some time now. Is there? Yeah, I'm sneaking up 20, 24. I'll make 25 years of building for me. Amazing. Yeah, it's a huge milestone. Yeah. It's, I know I started when I was 26 and now I'm 51. Has the process, has it always been a custom relationship you had with customers? Yeah. Everything I've always made is made to order. Okay. Yeah. I've never, I never worked in one of the bigger, or not bigger, but one of the, One of the smaller manufacturers or any of that just been a one man band and always made stuff to order. And how many bikes do you typically put out in a year? These days it's mostly titaniums and my numbers have gone down. I usually, I'm just in the 40 to 50 range is a comfortable spot for me these days. Is it titanium tube set? Just a little trickier to deal with? Yeah. More time consuming. Yeah. The whole process of building titanium bikes is just more time consuming than steel. Way back when we were doing a lot of steel road bikes, I actually almost did 151 year. That was my record. It was like 147. It's a crazy amount when you dig into like how much time it takes to make these bikes. Like it's a lot. And they've gotten a lot more complicated over the years too, right? We've got through axles and disc brakes and if you rewind 15 years or something when we were doing rim breaks and quick releases and things like that, but just a little more streamlined, a little quicker to do. That makes sense. So what does a customer journey look like? If I wanted to get a bike from you? The interesting thing coming off of Covid right now, at the moment at the moment I'm probably still a year out and I'm actually not currently taking deposits. COVID was a really interesting journey for me because I got a whole lot of orders and got backed up. So about a year ago, I quit taking deposits and I just put people on a wait list. So if you were to come to me today, what we would do is I'd put you on a wait list and unfortunately you'd have to be patient for, about 10 or 12 months. And then once I would get within a couple months of building your bike, I would circle back around with you and we would start then making the decisions. As a one man band, it's really hard for me sometimes to track all of the customer changes, shall we say, along the way. Yeah. So what I do with folks is I'm always happy to get excited and everything, but essentially, the gist of the way it works is I get a deposit and as the build gets closer to the top of the list, I circle back around with the customer. And we go through all the final details. And I think some people are amazed because once they're at the top of the list, that's what I'm focused on. Yeah. And it's gonna be that week or two or three, then I'm gonna build their bike. Versus the waiting, for the 10 or 20 or 30 in front of you Yeah. To get done. Yeah. That's a good way actually to handle it. Yeah. Master that excitement and enthusiasm and get 'em a bike pretty quickly thereafter. Yeah, exactly. Yeah it's tricky. All of us small builders, it's the battle we all face. Is just trying to get stuff done. When you're wearing all the hats during Covid, was it a, an issue of getting the supplies you needed to make the frame or what, and I know obviously there was a lot of enthusiasm about buying bikes during that period. Yeah. Covid was a really crazy thing because it was tons of orders. I'm still building bikes. I'm a little embarrassed to say, but I'm still building bikes that are some of the orders that were placed in during Covid. So I, for me, it was a ton of orders and then it was me being too optimistic about how quickly things might turn around. So then we had the supply issues both. With parts, we had suppliers with raw materials and everything. So you know, what should have taken six months now took a year and a half kind of thing. So just trying to come off of that a huge demand with no supply was just a really awful combination. Yeah. Gotcha. And if people are interested in learning more about the brand, what's the best place to go to? I have a website, DeSalvo cycles.com. I'm on Instagram at DeSalvo Bicycles as well. And I'm still a little fashioned. If somebody wants to talk to me, gimme a call. I'd be happy to chat with you in the shop. Perfect. Thanks, Mike. All right. Thank you. [00:52:49] Darren | Larkin Cycles: Can I get your name and brand? Yeah. Darren Larkin with Larkin Cycles. Darren, where are you building out of? I'm in Deep River Connecticut right now. Okay, interesting. So not a lot of frame builders outta Connecticut. Strangely. There's a couple really good ones right there in my same town is Richard. Richard Sax lives about Mile Away from Me. Oh. And then Peter Weigel is about 20 minutes away. Got it. So it's a nice, it's like a nice little hub of sort of old school frame building. How did you get into Frame building? As a hobby. I guess I was always a tinkerer and it made sense to, it made sense at some point to build a bike for myself. Got it. I was doing a bunch of messengering and riding and just made sense to build myself a better bike and then, built bikes for some other friends and got, I got really lucky getting a connection, helping out another frame builder in their shop, and learned a lot from that. Yeah. It seems like that's where you get the reps, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Can you talk about the sort of gravel models that you have and what are you building out of and what are some of the attributes you'd wanna highlight? Yeah so this sort of main stock model that I've been doing, it's been calling it the Dreamer and I've been making it for, at this point, at round five years. I've been trying to make just like a pretty light good general all around. Like affordable gravel bike, that is gonna ride really great and not cost a ton of money. So it's all tig welded, like Columbus, a mix of zona and life tubing. I'm trying to use like American made, like Paragon Machine Works, dropouts, bottom bracket. I've been getting fork blades made on my own, like getting those sort of custom fabricated different places. And cool. Yeah. And what does that, what does a sort of customer journey look like? How do they find you and what does the process look like? Are you building stock frames or custom frames? The, my, my goal is to have this particular model be a stock frame that is just available on the website, but over the past few years, between pandemic materials, availability, and then sort of me moving and resetting shops, it's been a couple years where I haven't been able to do that and I'm. Very much hoping once the dust settles after this show to get stocked back up again and focused on that. Nice. And so how can customers find out more about you? Larkin cycles.com or Larkin Cycles on Instagram. It's the best spots. Perfect. Thank you. Cool. [00:55:07] Dave | Sage Cycles: You, Dave from stage. Hey Craig. Good to see you again man. Good to see you too. And super stoked to hear about the updates on the Storm King. It's a bike. I love the original version of Yeah. And this thing is gorgeous, so why don't you tell me about it? Sure. No, yeah, it's the Storm King. The original Storm King has been such a good, fun bike. It's so versatile. It just, you can do so much with it. Racing, bike packing, adventure riding it just really allows you to do a lot. And as time has gone on from the original bike to where we are now, I've really developed the geometry and the design of the bike to improve it for future proofing, if you will. So from a tire clearance perspective and a tow overlap perspective, those were things from a custom standpoint have always plagued customers. And so I wanted to go about. Fixing that issue that I want somebody to get on this bike, and no matter what size tire they ride, they're gonna have tow clearance. How are you achieving that? So what I did was I redesigned the geometry, and what I found is that if I push the front end of the bike out by two centimeters and then shortened the stem by two centimeters, your handlebar stays in the same place for where it should be. But because I've pushed the front tire out, now you now have toe clearance that you wouldn't have had before. So technically speaking, the bike with the shorter stem will steer quicker than the original version because the, if you think of the stem as a lever and as you turn that lever, the shorter lever turns quicker. But the longer wheel base, because I've pushed out, the front end, actually is more stable at speed. So if you're going down high speed gravel road, it's chunky, washboard, big stuff like that kind of thing. The bike is actually way more stable in a straight line, but when you have to turn in tight corners because the steering is quicker, you can still turn around corners kind of thing. So it's this really nice improvement of being able to stretch out the rider and give a better ride quality. It's similar to mountain bike, but it's not mountain bike. Like it's just different in that way. Yeah. I think it's been just this interesting journey for builders as gravel came about. Yep. To distance ourself from the original kind of maybe Road Plus Origins Correct. Of the design. Yep. And thread that fine line between two Mountain Bikey, but still fun to ride on the road. And I'm super excited about this moment in time because I think for buyers of bikes we're, it's great moment where, yeah, if you get a bike that's produced in the year 2023, There's so much thoughtfulness in the design that have just added versatility to what we were using a few years back. Yeah, no, I agree. Gravel is, has really evolved over the last 10 years. If you think back to 10 years ago, seven years ago, something like that, a 40 millimeter tire was as big as you ever needed for gravel. Didn't need anything bigger, you weren't, nobody was pushing it. Now, with our new Storm King, for example, yeah, it takes 700 by fifties. But we also have an option that you can run a six 50 by 2.4. Yeah. It's huge. Yeah. That's just the versatility of that range to go from a 40 to a 2.4 is huge. So you can very much have one bike. You can take bike packing. Yep. But you can also go to S P T Gravel and throw some forties on it and race hard. Yeah. It'll be great. Yeah. This would be a perfect S B T bike. I know there's a lot of people at S B T that are using road bikes or modified road setups, but the reality is this, Will do the job just fine. Yeah. I think for those of us without a quiver of bikes in our garage to choose from, like you, you wanna be able to modify your bike with just changing tires or wheel sets if you have that opportunity. Yep. You're also doing some neat things with like three D printing right on this bike. You wanna talk about that? Yeah, sure. One of the things going back to the tire clearance issue, but now instead of tow overlap, now tire clearance on the frame one of the things we wanted to really standardize was chain ring size. Crank sizing, if you will, but chain ring size in combination with tire size and how that we can make an, from an efficiency standpoint of building the bike. So what we created was a chainstay yoke. Yeah. That sits behind the chain rings. This is nothing new. Plenty of builders been doing it for years. And. We made a three D printed version of it rather than a, we used to do chainstay yolks that were solid titanium plates. Yeah. And they'd be welded or bent and it was just a chunk of heavy metal. Going the three D route allowed us to really dial in from a CAD perspective using modeling software and and just other types of three d printing software and equipment. We were able to really dial in. The specs that we wanted. So we knew this is the tire size. We knew this is the chain ring size. We knew this is the Q factor of the cranks. What fits, what do we want to do? And then, okay, it also has to be able to run. If somebody wants to run a mechanical shift line, you can still run a mechanical shift line through the yolk. It's, oh, really? Just big enough to be able to do it. Okay we worked on that one quite a bit. But it's great because it allows you to From a building standpoint, it allows us to go, we have one chain stay design, and we can sit there and go, okay, this is how the chain stays, are shaped. We're good. We can repeat it every single time, and we're guaranteed to have this tire clearance, this crank clearance. Yeah. Et cetera, et cetera. And it just it just works. And and the three D parts are actually lighter than the solid plate parts, so we're dropping weight in that regard too. So it's a best of bonus. Bonus. Yeah. Yeah. Let's talk about the rear dropouts. I know, sure. It seems from the mountain bike side of the world, obviously there's new attachment Yeah. Strategies from various manufacturers going on. Yeah. Yeah. How are you thinking about that? Obviously like it's something you can change in real time as the trends move. Yeah. But what have you done with the dropout and just your thoughts on that? So the dropouts that we have on the bike that's on display right now, these are technically version one. I

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1. El TSJC suspende el Catálogo de vestigios franquistas de Canarias por no publicarlo en el BOC 2. Pedro Sánchez promete 300 viviendas sociales en Ofra, Vistabella y La Cuesta 3. Más de 26 millones de euros para impulsar la reconstrucción agrícola en La Palma 4. Nuevos avisos en Canarias por fuertes vientos y mala mar esta semana

The Cello Sherpa Podcast Host, Joel Dallow, interviews Cellist Ofra Harnoy, and Trumpeter Mike Herriott. They talk about their vast experience performing all over the world and offer advice on how the landscape has shifted when it comes to engaging a manager, and handling recording projects.  They also share the incredible details behind their latest recording projects. For more information on Ofra, visit:www.ofraharnoy.ca For more information on Mike, visit:www.mikeherriott.comTo check out their videos:YouTube: @OfraHarnoyVideosIf you are looking for in person/virtual cello lessons, or orchestral repertoire audition coachings, check out www.theCelloSherpa.comFollow us on Instagram @theCelloSherpa

* * * Now you can subscribe to Harmonious World for special subscriber-only contentWelcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, featuring a conversation with Ofra Harnoy and Mike Herriott. The pair have recently released Portrait, which features a brand new recording of their favourite operative music, arranged for cello and trumpet (with a host of additional large ensemble work thrown in.Portrait is a wonderful album and you can hear extracts from three of my favourite tracks to give a sense of the craft and musicianship of both Ofra and Mike. Thanks to Ofra and Mike for allowing me to play extracts from Portrait alongside our conversation.Thank you for listening to Harmonious World. Please rate, review and share and don't forget that you can also subscribe to support the show.Don't forget the Quincy Jones quote that sums up why I do this: "Imagine what a harmonious world it would be if every single person, both young and old, shared a little of what he is good at doing."Support the showThanks for listening to Harmonious World. You can support the show by becoming a subscriber.Please rate and review wherever you find your podcasts - it really helps.Follow me on instagram.com/hilseabrookFollow me on facebook.com/HilarySeabrookFreelanceWriterFollow me on twitter.com/hilaryrwriter

Beidh an Taoiseach Leo Varadkar agus an tAire Leanaí Roderic O'Gorman ag labhairt inniu ag Seóthaispeántas Comhairle na nÓg i bPáirc an Chrócaigh inniu. Beidh 500 duine óg ag teacht ó chuile chearn den tír chun freastal ar an ócáid.

Welcome to Episode 500 of the Yeukai Business Show. In this episode, Ofra Nissani shares her insights about challenges in business and how she sees them as opportunities for growth and innovation. So, if you want to know more about how to overcome business obstacles, tune in now! In this episode, you'll discover: How to deal with challenges in businessHow the Chance of Success Affects the Effort you put InThe Importance Of Perseverance About Ofra Nissani  Ofra has 20 years of experience running an omnichannel business in fashion retail. She is a sustainable expert with a passion for business and has experience in both B2C and B2B. She believes that commerce and the planet can live in a world together without damage to the future. More Information Learn more about how to overcome business obstacles at https://www.coachmybusiness.ca/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofra-nissani-76a9111a0/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachmybusiness.ca/ Thanks for Tuning In! Thanks so much for being with us this week. Have some feedback you'd like to share? Please leave a note in the comments section below! If you enjoyed this episode on How to Expand your Business, please share it with your friends by using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of the post. Don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic episode updates for our "Yeukai Business Show !" And, finally, please take a minute to leave us an honest review and rating on iTunes. They really help us out when it comes to the ranking of the show and I make it a point to read every single one of the reviews we get. Please leave a review right now Thanks for listening!

1. La 'marea violeta' desborda las Islas pidiendo la igualdad efectiva Unas 8.000 personas reclaman en Santa Cruz de Tenerife el fin de la violencia machista, la cultura patriarcal o la precariedad laboral. Las concentraciones tuvieron como denominador común la reivindicación de la igualdad de derecho de la mujer, no solo este 8M, sino todos los días del año 2. Interior destituye al coronel Tienda tras aparecer en el caso Mediador El escándalo precipita el cese del jefe de la Comandancia de la Guardia Civil en Ofra, uno de los 13 investigados por un juzgado desde el año 2020. La decisión ha sido ratificada por la directora general de la Benemérita, María Gámez 3. Microplásticos en la nieve del Teide y crema solar en acuíferos de El Hierro Aunque los científicos de la Universidad de La Laguna apuntan que es preciso desarrollar más estudios, las partículas localizadas en el parque nacional podrían ocasionar efectos perjudiciales en los recursos del suelo y el agua 4. La programación de vuelos con Canarias crece para el invierno La consejera regional de Turismo, Yaiza Castilla, es optimista con las cifras que confirman la confianza del sector en el Archipiélago, que cuenta con más de 2.400 vuelos a la semana, aumentando en casi 200 conexiones más que el año pasado

Leia: Rute 1 “Rute, porém, respondeu: "Não insistas comigo que te deixe e não mais a acompanhe. Aonde fores irei, onde ficares ficarei! O teu povo será o meu povo e o teu Deus será o meu Deus! Onde morreres morrerei, e ali serei sepultada. Que o Senhor me castigue com todo o rigor, se outra coisa que não a morte me separar de ti! " Rute 1:16-17 Reflita: Compromisso acima do conforto Quantas pessoas ao ficarem viúvas ou se separarem manteriam uma fidelidade à sogra? Algo raro, não? Pois não foi o que aconteceu com Rute e por essa atitude e suas consequências ela entrou para a história. Não só tem o primeiro livro de uma mulher na Bíblia, como ela entrou para a linhagem de Jesus. Embora o marido de Rute tivesse morrido e ela não precisasse ficar mais com Noemi, a nora foi fiel e misericordiosa com a sogra. A outra nora Ofra, por outro lado, voltou para sua família de origem e não ouvimos mais falar dela. Já Rute foi grandemente honrada por Deus ao manter seu compromisso. Você consegue se manter fiel aos seus compromissos firmados com Deus? Siga firme e seja abençoada pelo Senhor. Ore Pai amado, quero ser fiel e comprometida como Rute. Ainda que tenha que fazer escolhas menos confortáveis que eu nunca retroceda e sempre sirva ao Senhor.

Dios te bendiga de manera especial. Este es el día que Dios ha hecho, nos alegraremos y gozaremos en su presencia. Que maravilloso es volver a encontrarnos en este experiencia de reflexión en voz alta, dando gloria a Dios porque siempre ha sido bueno con nosotros. Nos estamos acercando al texto bíblico para conocer los nombres de Dios. Hoy estamos en Jueces capítulo 6 versículo 24. La palabra del Señor dice: "Entonces Gedeón construyó, un altar al Señor en ese lugar y lo llamo YHWH Shalom "Qué significa El Señor es Paz". Ese altar sigue en Ofra en la tierra del Clan de Abiezer hasta el día de hoy". Qué experiencia tremenda la que tiene Gedeón con el ángel del Señor. Ese ángel que representa la misma presencia de Dios, buscando a un valiente que sea capaz de enfrentar los desafíos de la opresión, de la injusticia y del hambre. La Biblia dice que el ángel del Señor llama Gedeón y le dice: "tú eres el escogido para librar al pueblo de Israel de esta crisis". Pero Gedeón entra en un conflicto con el ángel del Señor y empieza a pedir señales. Posiblemente Gedeón estaba abrumado por la situación. Estaba buscando una solución, por eso dice la Biblia que él estaba guardando el grano en el lagar. Para poder suplir las necesidades de su familia... Puede ser que también Gedeón (a pesar de que su nombre significa guerrero poderoso... cortante..). No necesariamente era una persona muy valiente y a lo mejor estaba abrumado por sus propios miedos. La voz del Señor le estaba diciendo: "Supera tus temores" "Ve ala batalla" "Ve y libera porque yo estoy contigo". Pienso que lo mismo que le ocurrió Gedeón nos ocurre a nosotros muchas veces. Tenemos que enfocarnos amado porque en tiempos donde estamos viviendo tanta hostilidad y desbalance emocional y espiritual debemos construir puentes de paz. El Señor es la paz. Y si el Señor construye la paz, nosotros necesitamos encontrarnos con él, para que nuestro ser interior tenga bonanza. Juan capítulo 14 versículo 27 dice: "Les dejo un regalo: paz en la mente y en el corazón. Y la paz que yo doy es un regalo que el mundo no puede dar. Así que no se angustien ni tengan miedo". Es hermoso. Por eso yo pienso que el día de hoy debemos encontrarnos con Aquel que puede regalarnos su paz. Debemos orar para que el ser humano reciba este regalo divino y se aferré a Dios como fuente primaria de paz. Mateo 5:9 dice: "Dios bendice a los que trabajan para que halla paz en mundo. Pues ellos serán llamados hijos de Dios". Así que el día de hoy debemos orar por todos aquellos seres humanos maravilloso que están dispuestos a construir un puente de paz y bendición, en la vida de otra persona. Oremos por la paz de las naciones, de nuestras ciudades y nuestras comunidades. Para que a pesar de las malas noticias que tienen que ver con el covid, con la guerra y con tantas situaciones que estamos viviendo en el mundo de hoy. Seamos capaces de poder sembrar en el corazón de otro la palabra de Dios que puede tranquilizar a tu ser interior. Señor, que así sea... Que podamos ver manifestado el día de hoy a YHWH Shalom a través de nuestras experiencias de amor y cuidado con otros. Y podamos inspirar el corazón de aquel que se siente turbado para encontrarse contigo, quién eres el Dios de paz. En el nombre de Jesús, amén.

Do you want to learn about the wonders of homeopathy in the treatment of autism, ADHD, fungal infections, and other related conditions? In this episode, Wren will discuss how homeopathy can benefit kids who suffer from medical conditions like autism and ADHD. She will also discuss how homeopathy can be used to treat chronic conditions and acute childhood diseases and the importance of proper breathing. Wren Síofra Lloyd is a UK-based homeopath known as an "international homeopath." She specializes in working with children with autism spectrum symptoms and related conditions like PANDAS, ADHD, and fungal and metal toxicity. She is also the founder of an international homeopathic autism association. And she also trains homeopaths in building their practices with a view to helping meet the world's need for homeopaths.  Check out these episode highlights: 01:08 - How did Wren first introduce to homeopathy 07:41 - Scarcity mindset vs Abundance mindset 09:41 - The advantage of working with a team of homeopaths 15:22 - Treating block cases of autism 17:50 - Why do more boys have autism than girls 30:01 - Chronic conditions in children 34:16 - Why is breathwork so powerful 36:59 - How homeopathy can benefit humanity in a variety of ways Know more about Wren Website: https://internationalhomeopath.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sally.lloyd.3939/ Support the Homeopathy Hangout Podcast by making a $5 once-off donation at www.buymeacoffee.com/hangout   Join my Homeopathy Hangout Podcast Facebook community here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/HelloHomies Follow me on Instagram @eugeniekrugerhomeopathy   Here is the link to my free 30-minute Homeopathy@Home online course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqBUpxO4pZQ&t=438s   Upon completion of the course - and if you live in Australia - you can join my Facebook group for free acute advice (you'll need to answer a couple of questions about the course upon request to join): www.facebook.com/groups/eughom

================================================== ==SUSCRIBETEhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNpffyr-7_zP1x1lS89ByaQ?sub_confirmation=1================================================== == DEVOCIÓN MATUTINA PARA MUJERES 2022“SIN MIEDOS NI CADENAS”Narrado por: Sirley DelgadilloDesde: Bucaramanga, ColombiaUna cortesía de DR'Ministries y Canaan Seventh-Day Adventist Church  30 DE NOVIEMBRE FUERA DE LUGAR“Después el ángel del Señor vino y se sentó debajo del gran árbol de Ofra que pertenecía a Joás, del clan de Abiezer. Gedeón, hijo de Joás, estaba trillando trigo en el fondo de un lagar para esconder el grano de las madianitas” (Juec. 6:11, NTV).Gedeón estaba completamente fuera de lugar. Al decirnos que él estaba trillando trigo en el fondo de un lagar, la Biblia pinta una imagen de desesperación absoluta. Es como si viéramos a una madre preparar una comida en el sótano de su casa, en medio de una guerra. Ella no prende la luz, no hace ruido; ni siquiera abre una ventana para que el aroma no atraiga la atención de sus enemigos. Los madianitas asediaban Israel. Tan pronto como los dorados granos de trigo eran recogidos o almacenados en los graneros, ellos aparecían para arrasarlo todo, como una plaga de langostas. Por eso encontramos a Gedeón completamente fuera de lugar, intentando hacer lo imposible: trillar trigo en el fondo de un lagar.En aquella época, el trigo se trillaba al aire libre, sacudiéndolo para que el viento se llevara la cáscara, y los granos pesados ​​cayeran al suelo. Pero, como Gedeón está escondido en el fondo un lagar, ¡no había viento que lo ayude! Las prensas de uva de esa época se hacían cavando dos hoyos en la roca, uno encima del otro. Las uvas se aplastaban arriba y el jugo drenaba al de abajo. Gedeón estaba en el fondo del lagar, en el hoyo más profundo. Es justamente a este hombre, escondido en las entrañas de la roca, a quien el ángel del Señor le dice: "¡Guerrero valiente, el Señor está contigo!" (Jue. 6:12, NTV). Gedeón está completamente fuera de lugar; no porque está trillando en un lagar, sino porque cree que es demasiado pequeño y débil como para actuar. En ese encuentro, Dios le revela su verdadera identidad y le muestra su lugar.Muchas veces, como Gedeón, estamos fuera de lugar: presas de una identidad falsa, desperdiciando años, tratando de trillar trigo en el fondo de un lagar, pensando que somos demasiado débiles y que no hay nada que podamos hacer. Sin embargo, Dios nos encuentra, escondidas en lo profundo de nuestra inseguridad, y nos dice: “¡Guerrera valiente, el Señor está contigo!” Si aceptamos nuestra verdadera identidad y recibimos su llamado, nos enfrentaremos a los madianitas y destruirlos como si peleáramos contra un solo hombre. Dios te dio poder, fortaleza y sabiduría. Eres una guerrera valiente: esta es tu verdadera identidad. Sal del escondite, ¡es tiempo de luchar!Señor, cuando pienso que soy débil e insignificante, tú me recuerdas mi verdadera identidad, me recibes y me das una misión. Soy una guerrera valiente porque tú vas a mi lado.

What is Play Therapy?: An Interview with Ofra Obejas, LCSW Curt and Katie interview Ofra Obejas, LCSW, RPT-S, about working with children in therapy. We look at what therapists often get wrong, important factors to understand, specialized training required (including play therapy), and what you actually do in therapy session with children.   Transcripts for this episode will be available at mtsgpodcast.com! An Interview with Ofra Obejas, LCSW, Registered Play Therapist - Supervisor Ofra Obejas, Registered Play Therapist - Supervisor level, is a professional player. She works with elementary- to middle-school aged children. She's been called by some of her clients a “kid grownup.” (That's her rapper name.) She's taught at the University of San Diego Play Therapy program and presents webinars and courses on clinical topics related to children's issues. In this podcast episode, we talk about Play Therapy We reached out to our friend, Ofra Obejas to talk with us about how to work with kiddos and what additional training is needed to work effectively with children. What do therapists get wrong when working with children? Treating children like mini-adults Not understanding the skill involved in play therapy What are important factors for therapists to understand when working with children? “It's more scary to the children when the adult is incongruent and not showing their true feelings. It's less scary to see somebody angry than it is to see somebody pretending that they're not angry, but they are.” – Ofra Obejas, LCSW Children have a different culture (i.e., the tooth fairy is real) The therapist's role as translator for what children are saying Children will make you feel what they feel (e.g., powerlessness, never getting anything right) The importance of showing feelings to children as a therapist (versus remaining a blank slate) What do you do with children in therapy sessions? Psychodrama and re-enacting situations Therapists can use any theoretical orientation Ways to interact with the child Paying attention to transference and countertransference Case conceptualization, including family therapy and work with parents What specialized training is most effective for working with children? “So, what is the therapy on a bumper sticker? If you had to put it in three words, it's notice it, sit with it, and make meaning of it. Or in an experiential [play therapy] model, it's: you observe it, you name it, and then you model how to cope with it.” – Ofra Obejas, LCSW There are specialized protocols for working with children with many different orientations Identifying which orientation suits you How to understand what is being reenacted and how to respond: Notice it, sit with it, make meaning of it; Observe it, name it, model how to cope with it What boundaries should therapists set when working with children and families? Unit of treatment (family, individual, who was showing up to the session?) Treatment goals (what are we working on?) What children are allowed to do in the session Interactions with caregivers and the responsibilities caregivers have during sessions What does online therapy look like with children? The challenges with working with children online Online sand tray, online dollhouse, online puppet theater Creating a virtual play room New trainings for VR therapy for children Watching children play video games online How has the pandemic impacted children? This was dependent on how well parents were able to self-regulate and stay within the window of tolerance (was there someone who could help the child to regulate) Lack of socialization and difficulty in having conversations Our Generous Sponsors for this episode of the Modern Therapist's Survival Guide: Thrizer Thrizer is a new modern billing platform for therapists that was built on the belief that therapy should be accessible AND clinicians should earn what they are worth. Their platform automatically gets clients reimbursed by their insurance after every session. Just by billing your clients through Thrizer, you can potentially save them hundreds every month, with no extra work on your end. Every time you bill a client through Thrizer, an insurance claim is automatically generated and sent directly to the client's insurance. From there, Thrizer provides concierge support to ensure clients get their reimbursement quickly, directly into their bank account. By eliminating reimbursement by check, confusion around benefits, and obscurity with reimbursement status, they allow your clients to focus on what actually matters rather than worrying about their money. It is very quick to get set up and it works great in completement with EHR systems. Their team is super helpful and responsive, and the founder is actually a long-time therapy client who grew frustrated with his reimbursement times The best part is you don't need to give up your rate. They charge a standard 3% payment processing fee! Thrizer lets you become more accessible while remaining in complete control of your practice. A better experience for your clients during therapy means higher retention. Money won't be the reason they quit on therapy. Sign up using bit.ly/moderntherapists if you want to test Thrizer completely risk free! Sign up for Thrizer with code 'moderntherapists' for 1 month of no credit card fees or payment processing fees! That's right - you will get one month of no payment processing fees, meaning you earn 100% of your cash rate during that time. Simplified SEO Consulting Have you spent countless hours trying to get your website just right and yet, it's not showing up on Google and it doesn't seem like anyone's able to find it? Simplified SEO Consulting has a unique solution. They've been training therapists to optimize their websites, so they show up better on Google for the past 4 years. But let's face it, with the busy schedules we all keep it can be hard to find the time to optimize your website even when you learn how. So, they are hosting a 16-day cruise in July 2023 going from LA to Hawaii and back. When you join them, you'll get intensive SEO education and coaching during the 10 days at sea. Most importantly, you'll have plenty of time to sit next to the pool and implement everything you've learned and then ask their team for feedback. Yes, it's the perfect excuse for a Hawaii vacation. But it's also a time to both learn about SEO and actually implement what you learn. The upcoming cruise is a unique opportunity to learn to optimize your own website, have time to practice what you learn and the ability to get feedback from leading SEO professionals in our field. To reserve your spot before it fills up, go to https://simplifiedseoconsulting.com/training-cruise-for-better-seo/  Resources for Modern Therapists mentioned in this Podcast Episode: We've pulled together resources mentioned in this episode and put together some handy-dandy links. Please note that some of the links below may be affiliate links, so if you purchase after clicking below, we may get a little bit of cash in our pockets. We thank you in advance! Ofra Obejas' website: redondovillagecounseling.com Ofra on YouTube UCSD - Play Therapy Program Relevant Episodes of MTSG Podcast: How Therapists Can Really Help Kids Who Are Being Bullied Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: An interview with Dr. Barbara Stroud What is Parental Alienation and How Can Therapists Successfully Treat it? Rage and Client Self-Harm: An interview with Angela Caldwell, LMFT Let's Talk About Race: An interview with Stevon Lewis, LMFT   Who we are: Curt Widhalm, LMFT Curt Widhalm is in private practice in the Los Angeles area. He is the cofounder of the Therapy Reimagined conference, an Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University and CSUN, a former Subject Matter Expert for the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, former CFO of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, and a loving husband and father. He is 1/2 great person, 1/2 provocateur, and 1/2 geek, in that order. He dabbles in the dark art of making "dad jokes" and usually has a half-empty cup of coffee somewhere nearby. Learn more at: www.curtwidhalm.com Katie Vernoy, LMFT Katie Vernoy is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, coach, and consultant supporting leaders, visionaries, executives, and helping professionals to create sustainable careers. Katie, with Curt, has developed workshops and a conference, Therapy Reimagined, to support therapists navigating through the modern challenges of this profession. Katie is also a former President of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. In her spare time, Katie is secretly siphoning off Curt's youthful energy, so that she can take over the world. Learn more at: www.katievernoy.com A Quick Note: Our opinions are our own. We are only speaking for ourselves – except when we speak for each other, or over each other. We're working on it. Our guests are also only speaking for themselves and have their own opinions. We aren't trying to take their voice, and no one speaks for us either. Mostly because they don't want to, but hey. Stay in Touch with Curt, Katie, and the whole Therapy Reimagined #TherapyMovement: Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Podcast Homepage Therapy Reimagined Homepage Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube   Consultation services with Curt Widhalm or Katie Vernoy: The Fifty-Minute Hour Connect with the Modern Therapist Community: Our Facebook Group – The Modern Therapists Group Modern Therapist's Survival Guide Creative Credits: Voice Over by DW McCann https://www.facebook.com/McCannDW/ Music by Crystal Grooms Mangano https://groomsymusic.com/

-Burnout: we've all heard it but what does it mean and how does it relate to codependency?   -How does moral injury contribute to our burnout at work and in our relationships?   -What can we do to stop burning ourselves out NOW and MOVING FORWARD?   Welcome to Episode 96! In this episode, we celebrate the FIRST time having an amazing guest for a SECOND interview! Ms. Ofra Obejas is here to talk about BURNOUT and it's interconnection to codependency. You'll hear Ofra define burnout and how we codependents inadvertently contribute to our own burnout. We also discuss the concept of moral injury (usually used when describing trauma in military members) and how codependents are often setup to do things against our values. We conclude with ways you can avoid burnout at work and in your relationships. It's a must-listen!    More on this episode's guest:   Ofra Obejas is s child and trauma therapist and supervisor in the Los Angeles area. She presents courses to therapists on various topics on SimplePractice learning and other platforms.   RedondoVillageCounseling.com   BURNOUT Handout: https://keap.app/contact-us/5161901516684475   Helpful links for the podcast: Sign up for the newsletter to receive all things Codependummy: https://keap.app/contact-us/2302598426037497  Journal! The Confiding Codependummy: 30 Days of Journaling Prompts for a Less-Codependent and More-Conscious YOU for just $1 a day. www.codependummy.com/toolsforhealing -  FREEBIE! The Self-Validation Challenge: Learn to validate your GD self: www.codependummy.com/challenge  Support! Donate Money/Funds! Help support the show via a one-time donation via secure Paypal link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=RJ3PSNZ4AF7QC    More deets on the episode:   We begin with a refresher on how Ofra defines codependency and ways she has experienced it in her own life. She describes an incident at work where she put the needs of others–including a convicted perpetrator of incest–above her own.    We then pivot to this episode's focus: B U R N O U T.   What is burnout? Ofra defines the term and emphasizes how it is a special kind of stress that leads to emotional and physical exhaustion. It may be in a relationship, at work, pursuing a passion where we eventually lose our sense of accomplishment.    Ofra shares with us what causes burnout and ways codependents contribute to our own burnout. She introduces the term “moral injury” where codependents have to do things against their values, keep secrets, repress our emotions, etc. to maintain our relationships with others. Over time, being subjected to moral injury can cause…burnout.    We explore ways that codependents contribute to our burnout which Ofra suggests is “half them and half us.”    We conclude with ways you can avoid burnout now and moving forward. It's important to practice self-care (with flexibility and compassion), question what we are being asked to do and why, identify and express our needs, set priorities, and ask ourselves “What have I got to lose?” in asserting our needs.    Thank you for coming on Ofra!   Questions for you: What came up for you as you heard Ofra's definition of codependency?  How do you relate to her description of ‘moral injury?' When have you experienced burnout? In your relationships, at work, or pursuing a passion? How do you sense you contributed to your own burnout? If half of the responsibility is ours–how might we be contributing to our burnout now? What can you do to integrate the practices that Ofra recommends to avoid burnout now and moving forward?   Thank you, dear listener, for listening!    BURNOUT Handout: https://keap.app/contact-us/5161901516684475 PLEASE: Rate.  Review. Subscribe.  Share. We need more ratings on Spotify! TY! -Get your copy of the Confiding Codependummy: 30 days of journaling prompts for a less-codependent and more-conscious you! www.codependummy.com/toolsforhealing  -The Self-Validation Challenge - free 30-day guide to providing yourself with all the validation you seek: www.codependummy.com/challenge -If you are wanting to dive into your codependency deeper one-on-one, please email marissa@codependumy.com -Sign up for the newsletter: https://keap.app/contact-us/2302598426037497  -Support the show via a one-time secure donation: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=RJ3PSNZ4AF7QC -  See you next week!

Jueces 9: No dejes que las posiciones ni las posesiones te dañen.Jueces 9:1-6:Abimelec hijo de Jerobaal fue a Siquem, a los hermanos de su madre, y habló con ellos y con toda la familia de la casa paterna de su madre, diciendo: —Hablen, por favor, a oídos de todos los señores de Siquem: “¿Qué es mejor para ustedes: que todos los setenta hijos de Jerobaal los gobiernen, o que un solo hombre los gobierne? Acuérdense de que yo soy hueso suyo y carne suya”.Los hermanos de su madre dijeron todas estas cosas a favor de él a oídos de todos los señores de Siquem. Y el corazón de ellos se inclinó a favor de Abimelec porque decían: “Es nuestro hermano”. Le dieron ochocientos gramos de plata del templo de Baal-berit, con las cuales Abimelec contrató a sueldo a hombres ociosos y temerarios que lo siguieron.Él fue a la casa de su padre en Ofra y mató a sus hermanos, los hijos de Jerobaal, setenta hombres, sobre una misma piedra. Pero quedó Jotam, el hijo menor de Jerobaal, porque se escondió.Entonces se reunieron todos los señores de Siquem con todos los de Bet-milo. Y fueron y proclamaron a Abimelec como rey, junto a la encina que está al lado de la piedra ritual en Siquem.V. 55-57:Y cuando los hombres de Israel vieron que Abimelec había muerto, se fue cada uno a su lugar.Así Dios devolvió a Abimelec el mal que él había hecho contra su padre, cuando mató a sus setenta hermanos. Dios hizo que toda la maldad de los hombres de Siquem volviera sobre sus cabezas. Y cayó sobre ellos la maldición de Jotam hijo de Jerobaal.---------------------------------------------------Abimelec es un personaje muy conocido, no precisamente por su valor para salvar y liberar, sino por la maldad que ocasionó en su ambición de poder.Al morir su padre, Abimelec usó la astucia y se asoció con la familia de su madre para matar a todos sus hermanos. Uno sobrevivió y proclamó una profecía contra Abimelec y los habitantes de la región que se asociaron con él. Aquí vemos el peligro de caer en esa ambición corrompida por el hambre de poder, de querer tener una posición superior ante los demás. Posiblemente Abimelec era tenido en poco ante sus hermanos por ser hijo de una concubina y no ser hijo de una de las esposas de Gedeón. En ese tiempo, el estatus de esposa y de concubina eran diferentes, aunque cumplían una misma función, con derechos similares. Posiblemente Abimelec no tenía la misma fuerza, poder y fama de los otros hijos pero esto no le daba derecho a exterminar a sus hermanos. Este genocidio innecesario, donde sobrevivió solo uno de setenta hermanos, hizo que Abimelec se autoproclamara rey de Israel. La dicha no le duró mucho porque a los pocos años tuvo conflictos con sus antiguos socios de crímenes, pelearon entre sí y se autodestruyeron. La envidia y la arrogancia junto con una ambición de poder y de riquezas conducen a un lugar muy oscuro donde el ser humano no ve lo que está haciendo, no escucha consejos de advertencia ni corrección y no siente el daño que está produciendo sobre otros. Guardemos nuestro corazón de construir algún plan o proyecto basado en una ambición o deseo donde Dios no está ahí. Consulta al Señor si eso que quieres obtener está bajo su voluntad, si realmente es un anhelo genuino, honesto y benigno, de alcanzar una meta basada en propósitos nobles para ayudar a otros, lejos de la avaricia y alguna especie de malicia.Pídele al Señor que te dirija y te responda si alcanzar esa posición en el trabajo, o esa nueva adquisición como una casa o un vehículo nuevo, te bendecirá o te destruirá.Muchos que persiguen un propósito y lo alcanzan, terminan revelando lo que había en su corazón; un corazón que desprecia a Dios y se aleja de la iglesia, abandonado a su esposa y sus hijos, terminando con otras parejas, hundiéndose en el goce temporal de una posición de poder y de abundancia económica y embriagados de altivez con una conciencia cauterizada. En cambio, otros llegan a un lugar de eminencia de forma legítima, sin pisotear su fe y convicciones en Dios, honran a sus esposas que los apoyan para llegar ahí, piensan en el bienestar de sus hijos, y ayudan a otros cuando Dios los bendice y les permite llegar más alto. Ellos se convierten en instrumentos de Dios aquí en la tierra y se convierten en alguien como Abraham que es bendecido y bendice a multitudes. Guarda tu corazón de desviarte de Dios, quien quita y pone reyes. A diferencia de Abraham que siempre fue bendición a donde iba, Abimelec destruyó a muchos, y en el proceso se destruyó a sí mismo, muriendo de una forma trágica y vergonzosa, cuando una mujer tiró un objeto pesado por una ventana y lo descalabró. Gracias a Dios por aquellos como tú que todavía se mantienen firmes, inamovibles en sus convicciones y en su compromiso con Dios y sus familias, aunque escalen a lugares de reconocimiento y de abundancia material, o ante la tentación de un placer temporal de la carne o del mundo.Soy Eduardo Rodríguez. ------------Judges 9: Don't let positions or possessions harm you.Judges 9:1-6:Then Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem, to his mother's brothers, and spoke with them and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying, “Please speak in the hearing of all the men of Shechem: ‘Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal reign over you, or that one reign over you?' Remember that I am your own flesh and bone.”And his mother's brothers spoke all these words concerning him in the hearing of all the men of Shechem; and their heart was inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, “He is our brother.” So they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-Berith, with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless men; and they followed him. Then he went to his father's house at Ophrah and killed his brothers, the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, because he hid himself. And all the men of Shechem gathered together, all of Beth Millo, and they went and made Abimelech king beside the terebinth tree at the pillar that was in Shechem.V. 55-57:And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed, every man to his place.Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he had done to his father by killing his seventy brothers. And all the evil of the men of Shechem God returned on their own heads, and on them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.---------------------------------------------------Abimelech is a well-known character, not precisely because of his courage to save and liberate, but because of the evil that he caused in his ambition for power.When his father died, Abimelech used cunning and associated with his mother's family to kill all his brothers. One survived and proclaimed a prophecy against Abimelech and the inhabitants of the region who associated with him. Here we see the danger of falling into that ambition corrupted by the hunger for power, of wanting to have a superior position before others. Possibly Abimelech was held in little by his brothers for being the son of a concubine and not being the son of one of Gideon's wives. At that time, the status of wife and concubine were different, although they fulfilled the same function. Possibly Abimelech did not have the same strength, power and fame as the other sons, but this did not give him the right to exterminate his brothers. This unnecessary genocide, where only one of seventy brothers survived, made Abimelech proclaim himself king of Israel. The joy did not last long because after a few years he had conflicts with his former partners in crime, they fought with each other and self-destructed. Envy and arrogance together with an ambition for power and riches lead to a very dark place where the human being does not see what he is doing, does not listen to warning or correction advice and does not feel the damage he is doing to others. Let us keep our hearts from building some plan or project based on an ambition or desire where God is not there. Consult the Lord if what you want to obtain is under His will and is really a genuine, honest and benign desire to achieve a goal based on noble purposes to help others, far from greed and some kind of malice.Ask the Lord to guide you and answer you whether attaining that position at work, or that new acquisition like a new house or vehicle, will bless or destroy you. Many who pursue a purpose and achieve it, end up revealing what was in their hearts; a heart that despises God and walks away from the church, abandoning his wife and children, ending up with other couples, sinking into the temporary enjoyment of a position of power and economic abundance and intoxicated with arrogance with a cauterized conscience. Instead, others rise to a place of eminence legitimately, without trampling on their faith and convictions in God, honoring their wives who support them to get there, thinking about the well-being of their children, and helping others when God blesses them and allows them to reach higher. They become instruments of God here on earth and become someone like Abraham who is blessed and blesses multitudes. Keep your heart from straying from God, who removes and sets up kings. Unlike Abraham who was always a blessing wherever he went, Abimelech destroyed many, and in the process he destroyed himself, dying in a tragic and embarrassing way, when a woman threw a heavy object through a window and it crushed him. Thank God for those like you who still stand firm, unshakable in their convictions and in their commitment to God and their families, even if they climb to places of recognition and material abundance, or when tempted by a temporary pleasure of the flesh or the world.I am Eduardo Rodríguez. May the Lord guard your heart.#LibrodeJueces #jueces9#KingdomChurch #iglesiaelreino#HogaresDePacto

Jueces 8: El grave error de un padre valiente.Jueces 8:22-28: Los israelitas dijeron a Gedeón: —Gobiérnanos tanto tú como tu hijo y tu nieto, pues nos has librado de mano de Madián.Pero Gedeón les respondió: —Yo no los gobernaré a ustedes ni tampoco los gobernará mi hijo. El SEÑOR los gobernará. —Y Gedeón añadió—: Quiero hacerles una petición: que cada uno me dé un arete de oro de su botín.Los madianitas llevaban aretes de oro, porque eran ismaelitas. Y ellos respondieron: —De buena gana te los daremos.Tendieron un manto, y cada uno echó allí un arete de su botín. El peso de los aretes de oro que él pidió fue de diecinueve kilos de oro, sin contar las lunetas, los pendientes y las vestiduras de púrpura que llevaban los reyes de Madián, ni los collares que sus camellos traían al cuello. Con ellos Gedeón hizo un efod, que expuso en Ofra, su ciudad. Y todo Israel se prostituyó tras ese efod en aquel lugar, y sirvió de tropiezo a Gedeón y a su familia.-----------------------------------------Gedeon realizó una de las más grandes hazañas en el campo de batalla que hasta el día de hoy admiramos y compartimos con emoción. Al final de la liberación y la conquista impresionante, vemos que la gente quería hacer rey a Gedeón y sus hijos, pero él tenía en claro que el rey de Israel debía seguir siendo el Señor, Dios de Israel. Vemos que Gedeón tenía firme su fe en el Señor y quería honrarlo, pero aquí vemos varios errores que cometió. Primero, pidió parte del botín de guerra y con ese oro mandó a construir un efod, que era una especie de vestidura tejida en fibras de oro y otras telas que la usaba exclusivamente el sacerdote de la tribu de Leví para consultar al Señor.La intención de Gedeón tal vez fue tener una representación de algo espiritual en su casa, en su pueblo, pero esto se convirtió en un problema porque ya el pueblo comenzó a ver esto como un objeto de adoración; ya no iban al templo sino que se conformaban con el efod y solo acudían a él. ¡Se convirtió en objeto de idolatría!Esto es un gran ejemplo de cómo una intención buena puede convertirse en algo malo. Es como si pensáramos que dando regalos a nuestros hijos estos reemplazarán el tiempo que debemos dedicarle, escuchando sus preguntas o inquietudes, jugando y conversando con ellos, orando y leyendo la Biblia de forma constante. Cuando vemos cambios drásticos en sus comportamientos, pensamos que ellos son malagradecidos porque no se comportan bien, pero posiblemente están reflejando ese vacío que los regalos y los objetos no pueden llenar. Es como decir que amo a mi esposa porque le doy unos bolsos o vestidos costosos pero nunca salgo con ella para compartir un tiempo de pareja. Los regalos y objetos son complemento en mi forma de demostrar mi afecto por ellos y trae alegrías a sus corazones, pero perderán su gusto si dejo de hacer lo vital y esencial que es mostrar mi interés por el bienestar de ellos en la medida del tiempo que les dedique.Nada puede reemplazar mi amor y dedicación.Así mismo es nuestra relación con Dios. Tampoco ninguna acción bonita puede reemplazar nuestra responsabilidad como cristiano, seguidor de Jesucristo. Cuidémonos de caer en el error de reemplazar alguna práctica bíblica por alguna acción propia que comencemos a establecer en el hogar, pensando que esta puede tomar el lugar de otra. Por ejemplo, no podemos reemplazar el hábito de congregarnos por los devocionales en el hogar y decir que ya no necesitamos ir a la congregación. Es necesario orar en la casa, pero eso no reemplaza la oración colectiva con mis hermanos. No podemos reemplazar la ofrenda que debemos dar al Señor por alguna acción de caridad que hagamos por alguien. Una cosa buena no debe reemplazar la otra. Más bien, hacer las dos cosas y poniendo primero el consejo de Dios que nuestras propias ideas que queremos establecer en nuestro hogar.Gedeón quiso hacer algo para engrandecer a Dios en su casa, su familia y su pueblo, pero lo que hizo fue desviarlos del orden establecido en la ley de Dios. Mañana veremos cómo uno de sus hijos se desvió del camino de Dios y cometió grandes faltas y actos criminales, pues posiblemente ya no escuchaba la ley, no llevaba las ofrendas al tabernáculo, y perdió toda sensibilidad del temor a Dios que su padre profesaba.Espero que cuando hagas algo noble y especial, que esto no sobrepase lo vital y necesario en el área espiritual y emocional en tu casa.Soy Eduardo Rodríguez. Que el Señor te guíe en cada decisión en tu hogar.#Jueces8 #LibroDeJueces#KingdomChurch #iglesiaelreino #HomesOfCovenant #ipuh#HogaresDePacto #HogaresDePactoPodcast #PastorCarlos #CarlosRodriguez #eduardorodriguez

Jueces 6: ¡No eres insignificante ni pequeño!Continuemos hoy con el llamado que Dios le hizo a un hombre en Israel en medio de la opresión de los madianitas.Jueces 6:7-16:Y sucedió que cuando los hijos de Israel clamaron al SEÑOR a causa de los madianitas, el SEÑOR envió a los hijos de Israel un profeta, que les dijo: —Así ha dicho el SEÑOR Dios de Israel: “Yo los hice subir de Egipto y los saqué de la casa de esclavitud. Los libré de mano de los egipcios y de mano de todos los que los oprimían, a los cuales eché de delante de ustedes y les di su tierra. Y les dije: ‘Yo soy el SEÑOR su Dios; no veneren a los dioses de los amorreos en cuya tierra habitan'. Pero no han obedecido mi voz”.Entonces el ángel del SEÑOR fue y se sentó debajo de la encina que está en Ofra, que pertenecía a Joás el abiezerita. Su hijo Gedeón estaba desgranando el trigo en el lagar, para esconderlo de los madianitas. Y se le apareció el ángel del SEÑOR, y le dijo: —¡El SEÑOR está contigo, oh valiente guerrero!Y Gedeón le respondió: —¡Oh, señor mío! Si el SEÑOR está con nosotros, ¿por qué nos ha sobrevenido todo esto? ¿Dónde están todas sus maravillas que nuestros padres nos han contado diciendo: “¿No nos sacó el SEÑOR de Egipto?”. Ahora el SEÑOR nos ha desamparado y nos ha entregado en mano de los madianitas.El SEÑOR lo miró y le dijo: —Ve con esta tu fuerza y libra a Israel de mano de los madianitas. ¿No te envío yo?Entonces le respondió: —¡Oh, Señor mío!. ¿Con qué podré yo librar a Israel? He aquí que mi familia es la más insignificante de Manasés, y yo soy el más pequeño en la casa de mi padre.Pero el SEÑOR le dijo: —Ciertamente yo estaré contigo, y tú derrotarás a los madianitas como a un solo hombre.--------------------------------------------------El pueblo estaba sufriendo los ataques de los enemigos porque habían caído en idolatría. Cuando el pueblo clamó a Dios; Dios llamó a un joven llamado Gedeón. Él se encontraba procesando el grano de trigo y estaba escondiéndolo para que no se lo robaran. Cuando Dios lo llamó para que saliera y venciera a los enemigos, él estaba frustrado por tanta destrucción y escasez que estaban sufriendo. Aun así, el ángel de Dios lo fortalece con palabras de profecía, asegurando que él los iba a vencer. Aunque Gedeón era un hombre valiente, estaba lleno de mucho escepticismo, de dudas, y también su autoestima estaba por los suelos, él se veía a sí mismo como el más pequeño de una familia insignificante del pueblo. Cuando Gedeón trajo una ofrenda al ángel, ¡Gedeón supo que Dios lo había visitado y lo había llamado para hacer cosas grandes y extraordinarias! Él quería confirmar que Dios estaba con él; y Dios tuvo mucha paciencia con Gedeón, mostrándole con señales sobrenaturales que Dios lo había llamado. Cuando Gedeón tuvo un encuentro con Dios, levantó un altar y lo llamó “El Señor es Paz'', pues Gedeón tenía la esperanza y la plena confianza que Dios les daría paz después de tanto sufrimiento.No sé en qué condición se encuentre tu familia. Si están pasando una prueba de escasez, con conflictos emocionales, o están sufriendo luchas espirituales donde el enemigo los ha tenido azotados, atormentados. Hoy te animo en el nombre de Jesús que recibas fortaleza en este día, así como Dios miró a Gedeón. Si estás escuchando o leyendo este devocional, significa que no te has rendido, que sigues en la lucha a pesar de todo lo que se ha venido en contra tuya. ¡Esto es señal de una persona valiente! Quiero recordarte que no estás solo o sola. Dios te está viendo y está dispuesto a escucharte y también para usarte de forma valiente para pelear y vencer estas batallas que enfrentamos. Pero ya no las vas a enfrentar de la misma forma. Ya no te vas a esconder más, vas a ir de frente porque tienes al Señor de tu lado, y nos tienes a nosotros, tu familia en Cristo Jesús! ¡El tiempo de paz ha llegado porque nuestro Dios de paz está con nosotros! Comencemos a creer que no somos insignificantes ni diminutos. ¡Comencemos a creer como lo que realmente somos: gente esforzada y valiente! Así te ve el Señor como miró a Gedeón. Recordemos el consejo del apóstol Pablo acerca de cómo debe ser nuestra actitud ante las pruebas y cuál debe ser nuestra forma de pensar en Filipenses 4:6-9: “Por nada estén afanosos; más bien, presenten sus peticiones delante de Dios en toda oración y ruego, con acción de gracias. Y la paz de Dios, que sobrepasa todo entendimiento, guardará sus corazones y sus mentes en Cristo Jesús. En cuanto a lo demás, hermanos, todo lo que es verdadero, todo lo honorable, todo lo justo, todo lo puro, todo lo amable, todo lo que es de buen nombre, si hay virtud alguna, si hay algo que merece alabanza, en esto piensen. Lo que aprendieron, recibieron, oyeron y vieron en mí, esto hagan; y el Dios de paz estará con ustedes.”Soy Eduardo Rodríguez. Que el Señor de paz esté contigo y en tu hogar.

In this week's episode of the Red Pill Revolution Podcast, we GO DEEP. We touch on everything from King Charles appointing Prince Andrew; An El Paso Teacher fired for promoting the term MAP, UFOs being sited and tracked over Ukraine, a nursing home apologies for bringing in a stripper, and even the ancient Sumerian Race and their unbelievable technological advances. Subscribe and leave a 5-star review! ----more---- Our website https://redpillrevolution.co/    Protect your family and support the Red Pill Revolution Podcast with Affordable Life Insurance. 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Thank you so much for listening. The first thing I need you to do before we jump into it is just go ahead and hit that subscribe button for me. All right. Takes five seconds of your day. It means the world to me. That's all I need you to do right now is hit the five star review button and subscribe takes five seconds. Like I said, if you're on apple podcast, Spotify, leave a review. If you are watching this on YouTube, go ahead and hit that like button wherever you're at. I appreciate you so much. And again, welcome to the revolution. We are going to jump right into it. Here are the articles we're going to discuss a nursing home has apologized after hiring strippers for their residents. . And we will discuss that. We actually have a video today, which you guys are in for a treat for. Um, there's some very, very happy old folks in this old folks home. And when I decide to put myself in one, many, many years from now, I may just have to figure out which one this one was, because it looks like they're having a great time. Um, the next one is discussing that prince, or I'm sorry, not no longer prince king, Charles himself is now, uh, seemingly going to a point prince Andrew into a high level position. And if you don't know anything about prince Andrew, you will in just a few minutes, there's a couple articles that we'll discuss on that. We are also going to talk about the Pakistan, former prime minister getting caught red handed, uh, with some documents. Now, normally I don't really care about the Pakistani former prime minister at all. Uh, but this was a, a pretty interesting one. So, um, we'll find out why he got caught red handed, uh, basically, um,  yeah. Basically putting, uh, documents out there during a legal case that didn't even exist. So we'll discuss that. We will also talk about El Paso, firing a teacher for going and calling pedophiles maps to their students and trying to convince them to do the same. So again, we will discuss all of that in a few more things, including UFOs and China, potentially finding a nuclear fusion fuel with limitless energy from the moon. All right. So lots of interesting stuff, stick around. Thanks for listening. Hit that subscribe button. If you didn't already, I forgive you, but if you don't do it now, I may not. All right. I forgive you, but just hit it. I appreciate it. Sincerely. All right, let's get. Welcome to red pill revolution. My name is Austin Adams. Red pill revolution started out with me realizing everything that I knew, everything that I believed, everything I interpreted about my life is through the lens of the information I was spoon fed as a child, religion, politics, history, conspiracies, Hollywood medicine, money, food, all of it, everything we know was tactfully written to influence your decisions and your view on reality by those in power. Now I'm on a mission, a mission to retrain and reeducate myself to find the true reality of what is behind that curtain. And I'm taking your ass with me. Welcome to the revolution. All right. Let's jump into it. Episode number 44 of the red pill revolution podcast. And I appreciate you more than, you know, the very first article that we are going to jump into today is going to be a nursing home. Apologizing, not sure why after hiring strippers for their residents. So we have heard of drag shows for infants and children, but what we have not heard of yet is strippers for old folks homes. and this is probably my favorite new video. There's a hilarious video making its round of a stripper, basically shaking her boobs  and doing all sorts of things in front of these old, old men and women in their mass. It's quite quite hilarious. So we will watch that in just a. But I do find it interesting, right? The, the, uh, drag show for children is such a hot topic. It seems like there was literally never a drag show for children. Right. Because it's a sexualized show until very, very recently. Um, so, and, and there's probably a very obvious reason why there's absolutely no reason children should be involved in drag shows, you know, but maybe that's me being crazy thinking that we shouldn't sexualize. Toddlers and infants, but who knows? So let's go ahead and watch this video here. It is quite hilarious of this nursing home debacle  and then we'll talk about some of the comments that came up in this, and then we'll move on to some more serious topics. But I thought we, you know, we'll start this one off light today. and I'll kind of talk you through what we are seeing in a, uh, you know, PG 13 fashion here. Although it's not, it's not that wild, you know, you can find it. It's not that crazy, but pretty hilarious stuff. All right, let's go ahead and pull this article or this video up. It seems like it's in a different country, but it's, uh, basically. This young woman, she looks like some type of, I don't know, I don't know if she's Asian or something, but they're speaking a different language and she's literally shaking her butt in front of these old folks on these old folks sitting in their wheelchairs. And there is just this man who is so excited to be there with holding this woman's boobs in her hands, hand. this is comical comical. Now I don't know why this isn't a thing. I think there's a company here. I, I don't know why this is not a thing already. There should absolutely be an entire stripper company. Designed to go to old folks homes. I don't know why we're like thinking that shouldn't be a thing. I don't know why these people feel like the need to apologize for hiring a stripper. Um, the only thing they should be hire, or the only thing they should be apologizing for is not hiring enough strippers. Cuz there was only one there and there's plenty of people to go around. Uh, they should absolutely bring in more people. Um, so , I don't know why they, they feel the need to do this. Now let's look through some of the comments here. Somebody says. Flips sake. They're old. They aren't dead. Yeah, of course. Why wouldn't these people enjoy themselves? You're on your way out. You might as well have a good time. Um,  let's see what somebody else said. This is coming from Reddit, Reddit slash face Palm, and somebody said, are we face palming for the apology? The hiring is exemplary.  uh, the next comment says maybe next time, mail strippers for the ladies too. Maybe that's what they forgot and why they have apologized.  all right. I think that's enough on that topic, but I think it's awesome. 100%. I am absolutely behind the strippers at old folks homes, way, way more than I am behind the children going to drag shows. Right. We see all these like horrific videos of, of literal children going to drag shows and giving money to these men. And in 90% of the time at these drag shows, they are highly unhealthy. And, and must we say overweight, and even in some cases, a Dr. May call them obese, but majority of the time it's obese obese men who are shaking the, what they did not have given to them by God, in front of children, asking them for money for sexual acts in front of. It's like literally one of the most horrific things. And like I said earlier, we didn't see that literally a year ago. We didn't see it at all. There was no drag shows, you know, shaking of, uh, you know, butts in front of children that was found to be acceptable a year ago. It's literally so baffling to me how this even became a conversation that we need to have. Um, and everybody who attends these with their children should absolutely have CPS called in them. Although there's another conversation about whether CPS is literally just designed to traffic, children for profit. Um, I heard somewhere that each child that they actually take away from the children ends up being like a hundred thousand dollars or Mo like it, it might have even been like a million. Um, every time CPS takes a child away from their family, they make money off of it from the, the country, from the state, from the federal government or the state government. They're actually profiting from taking children from their parents. And, you know, we went through a whole, you know, the whole vaccination thing. We had to look at it. Luckily, we're in a state here where they have exemptions for children, surprisingly enough, for in the state that I'm in, but they do, they have exemptions. They even have philosophical exemptions for vaccination, but there has been several, several cases. I did a ton of research on it when we decided not to give our children, the COVID vaccine. Um, for many, many reasons, the first being, it's not a vaccine, um, it's mRNA gene therapy, which has never been done before, you know, do your own research on that and make your own decisions for your own children. Um, but with my children's history and everything else, we decided not to do it. So we had to go and actually physically research what could happen if the state decided to come after us for that and have come to find out we fall under exemptions. Really nice to be in the state. I would never move to a state where that's not the case because they've actually, I looked at all of the laws in our state and I looked at all of the previous legal proceedings in cases against parents for not vaccinating. And there was like nine cases in the last hundred years or 70 years when this became a law where they attempted to do so now luckily a majority of those cases, they did not win and the parents actually ended up winning the case. Um, but just tells you how far the state is willing to go to profit from stealing children from their parents. It's horrible. So, you know, do a little bit of research on that. And I, I think it's, again, worth an episode, almost diving into what CPS actually is, what majority they go after, because it's a lot of times it's directly affecting minority communities, disproportionate. Um, you know, but I digress. So let's go ahead and move on from our nursing home strippers and we'll move into  the Royals family situation this week, uh, queen Elizabeth died. If you were hiding under a rock this week, or you're listening from the future in a time machine. Now, listening back, this is, uh, Wednesday, September 14th, 2022, that this is episode is happening and the, uh, queen died last week after almost 70 years, Ofra allowing prince Charles to become king Charles. Now some of the controversy that's coming up from that is that king Charles now, uh, you know, is now looking to so, so king Charles is now going to appoint prince Andrew to step in for him first, if he is ill or out of the country. That's right. The same prince Andrew, it says who was a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein and used $12 million of tax based income. To settle a sexual assault case with Virginia guff, the same Virginia guff, who was at the Galea Maxwell trial testifying directly. Right. You know that one. So king Charles is going to appoint a literal pedophile to potentially step in from now. We'll actually look into what that means. Um, and, and what the actual title is that he'll be getting. Um, but we'll read some of the comments here. It says he was already a counselor to his mom, queen Elizabeth II. The Regency act of 1937, decides who can be counselors. Apparently there's not a clause that has to do with, you know, paying off children for doing illegal sexual acts on them, you know, and being part of international sex trafficking rings. Maybe that should be a clause. I don't know who am I, although if you go and read the Ashley Biden journal, uh you'll know that. Our royalty, our princes and princes, our presidents and their family are not also immune to these types of acts. Um, but it goes on to say that three of them are non working Royals. Um, you guys need new legislation, so prince Andrew or prince, and can replace Peto prince. Now princess Anne is a, uh, somebody who goes on and say for real princess, Anne is a G does a lot of low profile Royal's work, charity work, zero scandals, not a big spender. Um, I could be propaganda by the news, but she seems humble and hardworking. I think she may have even been the one who was, uh, allowed to stand beside the princess, um, in one of these proceedings for like one of the very first times. Um, but quite interesting. Uh, don't really know why a king of a nation. Potentially put a pedophile in the possession of power, but you know, once you find out that maybe potentially majority of them are culprits in this type of thing, uh, you know, it starts to be much more believable. Now this article goes on to say that king Charles II appoints prince Andrew in new important role. And another article says that prince Andrew can still be deputized for king as counselor of state, but princess Anne can't under new rules. And then, um, we'll go ahead and jump into one of those articles here. So it goes on to say that king, uh, king Charles I third ascended the throne after his late mother queen Elizabeth, the second passed away at her country estate in bald morale Scotland. The 73 year old was officially announced as the nation's new sovereign last Saturday, September 10th. And following his proclamation, the new head of state was supposedly appointed his younger brother, prince Andrew as counselor of state. Robert Peston journalist and political editor for ITV news, posted a thread of tweets explaining the situation. And he says the Monarch points, five counselors of state to stand in for him when he is unwell or out of the UK, Peston began, they are his spouse. Plus the top four in secession to the crown who are age 21 or over these include prince Andrew and his daughter, princess Beatrice. It says that, uh, but not prince and who is probably the most widely respected in all of the Royal family. Many would say, this is not, especially since the 2013 secession of the crown act ended Premo, gen premature. Not sure what that is though. Um, only for those born after 2011, uh, interesting. He says it continues that. So if king Charles were incapacitated, Andrew would step in as king. Not Anne. He ended his thread with the question. Do you think most British people would approve? I would certainly hope not says taken to Twitter. Many users shared their answers to passions questions. One responded, I most certainly would become a Republican under those circumstances. No way would I accept Andrew as a standin for the king? This is nuts. A second person wrote in his first week as king Charles has had two hissy fits about pens, sacked dozens of his staff at Clarence house. And now is rehabilitating prince nons. Good call is your majesty. Yeah, I saw him do that, where he was like sitting there signing documents and like pissed that there was some stuff on the table and like waved in somebody else because how dare he have to move the King's hand to move a, you know, pen off of a desk. Um, it goes on to say that a third waited or wants to wait for an outcome tweeting. Let's see what the actual outcome is. I don't think people will stomach Andrew being in that line. I'm pro monarchy. I may be, it may be a legal glitch or point of clarification may be needed, but certainly needs to be changed. Andrew had also, uh, previously served as this Queen's counselor of state, along with king Charles Prince William and prince Harry. Hmm. Um, so who better to take on the throne  than a potential Jeffrey Epstein associated pedophile literally paid off Virginia guff in a settlement claim during, uh, a legal proceeding to hush hush, the conversation surrounding him sexually assaulting a minor. Hmm. Now that could lead us into our next conversation, which, you know, would be a little bit deeper than that, about this, you know, whole map situation, which we'll get into here in a minute. Um, but let's see if there's any more substance to these articles. I don't know anything about this princess Anne. Um, but it sounds like, you know, maybe she's the one who a lot of people are rooting for, or that other person said maybe I'm being propaganda. You know, I like that word propaganda  that seems like it's a, a very fitting word in these types of situations. Um, but how terrifying is that? That literally not only the king of England, but you know, seeing over Canada, seeing over Australia, seeing over, you know, 14 different Commonwealth, uh, realms is what they referred to it as, um, would potentially be prince Andrew also known as PTO Andrew, because as we've stated, he's a pedophile. I don't know. Quite terrifying. What a horrific PR move by, you know, during all of this. Now I did see something about king Charles. I, I just can't say that seriously, king Charles, I feel like I'm in a Disney movie. It seems so bizarre that we have Kings and Queens and princesses and, you know, Royal family, you know, all based on blood lines. That's the, that's the weird thing about the Royal family is it's literally all based on bloodline. You cannot move your way into a position of power. It's literally a Royal bloodline. And we talked about this an episode ago, where if you go back far enough, according to these, you know, conspiracy theories, you know, even people like Cleopatra. And, uh, there's like basically 12 Royal families that have had these bloodlines go down and down for generations. There's a CIA document about it, which is quite quite interesting. Um, so I'll have to check that out at some point there's like a 217 page book that is, uh, put into the cia.gov. Documents, you can go to Google right now, or even better go to brave search right now and type in CIA Royal bloodlines, FOA, OIA, freedom of information act. And you will find the document that I'm discussing here. Anyways, do some research on that. Happy to discuss it with you All right. Let's move on. Dr. Fauci and ran Paul and here is the clip, uh, but she's had the flu for 14 days. Should she get a flu shot? Well, no. If she got the flu for 14 days, she's as protected as anybody can be. Cuz the best vaccination is to get infected. And if not, if she really has the flu, if she really has the flu. Now, what this is, is this is ran Paul grilling, Dr. Fauci very recently regarding this, like today, I believe it's today. He's showing him on an iPad, the, to his own statements from like a few years ago, saying these things about the flu. Okay. So take that into consideration. When you're listening to this vaccination is to get infected yourself and, uh, but she's had the flu for 14 days. Should she get a flu shot? Well, no. If she got the flu for 14 days, she's just protected as anybody can be. Cuz the best vaccination is to get infected yourself and not get it. If she really has the flu, if she really has the flu, she definitely doesn't need a flu vaccine. If she really has the flu, she should not get it again. No, she doesn't need it because the, it it's the BA it's the most potent vaccination is getting infected yourself. So when we look at this, we wonder, you know, why you seem to really embrace basic immunology back in 2004 and how you, or why you seem to reject it now. And as a matter of fact, Reuter's fact check looked at that and said, Fauci, 2004 comments do not contradict his pandemic shame, actually words don't lie. If you look at the words behind me, we can go over them a little bit at a time. She doesn't need it because the most potent vaccin vaccination is getting infected yourself. It is true. It is true Senator. It is a very potent. Way to protect. But when you're trying to tell us that kids need a third or a fourth vaccine, are you including the variability or the variable of previous infection in the studies? No, you're not. So what I love about that is the fact that Dr. Fauci is just shaking in this piece of paper in his hand, coming from Reuters, like Dr. Fauci, aren't you Mr. Science, aren't you the only person who knows about science in this whole world, didn't you claim to be the, what did they say? If you question Dr. Fauci, you question science itself, like aren't you, the guy, not Reuters, not some random journalist who decided to, you know, try and make the world believe that there three year old needs another vaccination to be safe from a, a thing that literally doesn't even exist today. That, that the CDC itself said, you don't even need the quarantine, even if you have it. Right. But you're sitting there trying to justify it. And not only trying to justify it like Dr. Fauci, do you know that this is not. Facebook jail court. This is literally Senate. This is a Senate hearing, not the hearing on Facebook's fact checking. Right. He literally brought the fact that he brought that piece of paper with him to shake in front of the court. The fact that he did that and said, well, Reuters actually says a journalist with no experience in this says that you are wrong. Like you, you said it with your own words. How can you sit here in front of us and say that Reuters is going to like, um, you know, actually Reuters said that what I meant there is different from what I actually said, no, justify your position. Maybe, maybe you should back it up, not utilize Reuters in a fact checker. Like that's how far off we've gotten. That's how 1984 Orwellian we've gotten is now that somebody's going to sit in front of the Senate and utilize a journalist. Article to try and justify their own statements. So they don't have to back it up. And they're gonna use these like abusive, uh, tactics done by these journalistic companies like Reuters to, to try and Gaslight you into thinking that, oh, I, you know, Reuters knows what I meant, not, not myself. So I'll let them explain it. You know, it's like, no, literally you used your own words there. Like it it's, it's so crazy to see that he went on to, to use Reuters of all things to justify, not even backing it up himself. Like he's literally a, according to him, a scientist. And he can't even justify his own position on a statement that he made of with his own words, saying that you do not need a booster. You don't need a vaccine if you got it, because that's the best protection that you can get is actually getting it right. And not taking that into consideration when you are actually deciding to give children experimental drugs. Right. It's it's so, so wild to see that. But I love the fact that Fauci was shaking on camera. I love that. It makes me feel so warm inside just to know that he was so uncomfortable that his body could not even handle it there. And, and then the  other thing that I want to talk about, and, and I'll talk, touch on this just super, super briefly is that there was a clip going around of. Of an employee from Chick-fil-A employee, a Chick-fil-A employee took down this guy that was committing, like trying to steal the keys of this woman who had this children in her car. If you haven't seen it yet, it's gonna start making its rounds over the next few days. It's it's a Chick-fil-A employee who just jumped at this guy, like completely when he tried to like steal this woman's car with her baby in it, and just like threw him to the ground, stood on top of him and just, you know, my pleasure to him. could you just imagine him whispering that in his ear as he took them to the ground? Just amazing. Unbelievable. Um, but you know, I digress now, the very next. Is going to be Pakistan's former prime minister, Noah Sharif's family have produced documents to prove innocence concerning ownership of properties in London. The documents were signed in 2006, but the Kalibri font used in the document was released in 2007. So basically, uh, the document was dated 2006. And the font that was used in a document was 2007. So it completely showed that he fabricated this document. So we'll get a little bit more context here and then we'll talk about it. Um, it goes on, uh, to say that in July, 2018, um, three members of the family were fined and sentenced to jail Nawaz for 10 years, Miriam for seven. And her husband captains Dar for one year in the event, field department's case, as they could not show that the posh London property had been bought legitimately while Nawaz was sentenced for owning assets beyond income, the other two were held guilty for AB Bement and not cooperating with the prob agency. It was in this case that Miriam had presented a trust deed dated February, 2006 in Microsoft's Calibri font, which became commercially available only in 2007 Noah and his kin were jailed, but in September of 2018, the Islam bad high court ordered their release in suspended their sentence pending final adjudication for the, um, of the appeals against it. Hmm. So there is your. Breakdown  of why we are even discussing a former prime minister of Pakistan. Now, a few of the comments that you'll find on this thread here are a little funny that somebody says, that's why I always stick with times new Roman. Yeah. Just in case you find yourself in a court settlement and you don't want to have to deal with a, you know, great lawyer finding out that the font that you used pre or postdated the document that you signed  or forged even better. Um, . Um, pretty, pretty wild. You know, what, what, what hot water you must find yourself in there to legitimately use font. Like how stupid would you feel right to know that you made that big of a mistake, right. And how easy is it to just, just use time, new Roman, you don't have to get fancy here, guys. We don't need your Colibri. We don't need your comic Sams. We don't need any of that times. New Roman all the way across, you're safe from lawyers coming after you for utilizing the wrong font.  all right. So I found that to be interesting. And let's see if there's anything else of note in here. Um, so somebody says, so that's what good lawyers are for. Yes. That is exactly what good lawyers are for finding out that the person used the wrong. Interesting. All right. Anyways, I won't stick around on that one. I just found that to be quite, quite interesting now on the backs of the prince Charles or king Charles situation, let's go ahead and discuss this. There was an Al Paso teacher who was fired over, telling their students to use maps instead of the word pedophile. Um, for a comment in the classroom that touches off a firestorm says Fox news. We'll go ahead and we'll actually listen to this here. Uh, but we'll listen to where she actually says that to him. And this article even goes as far as showing, um, what the husband commented on a thread in a local Facebook group, which I found to be interesting too. So here is the article. It says Al Paso teachers firing over pedophiles comment in classroom launches, a firestorm response. It goes on to say that El Paso's independent school district board of trustees said the allegation is being investigated thoroughly. An El Paso teacher in Texas was informed of her proposed termination after telling students to call pedophiles, minor attracted persons, according to the city's school district. But some witnesses say her remarks were taken out of context. Now she literally says you shouldn't call them pedophiles. It's O you, we shouldn't make fun of them just because they wanna have sex with a five year old. She literally says to a high school student it's wild. It goes on to say that in an 18, second clip shared on TikTok, the Franklin high school teacher identified as the El Paso teachers Associa, uh, by the El Paso teachers association as Amber Parker, she'll never have a job again, um, can be heard telling students that they're not allowed to label individuals as pedophiles. She reportedly made the comment during a lesson on the play, the crucible. We're not gonna call them. That Parker said in the video, we're gonna call them maps, minor attracted persons. So don't judge people just because they want to have sex with a five-year-old. She says, what in the world kind of world are we coming to? We'll listen to the video in just a second, but it says first came the suspension. Then El Paso's independent school district board of trustees unanimously voted to fire Parker following her remarks on the evening of August 29th, 2022, the El Paso independent school district was made aware of a classroom situation. Impromptly initiated an investigation. Um, after a thorough investigation was conducted on September 6th, 2022, during a special board meeting, the board of trustees approved a decision to notify a Franklin high school teacher of proposed termination. The process will continue in accordance with the Texas education code, any allegation and potential misconduct is investigated thoroughly. And the safety of our students is the top priority as this is a personal matter, no further information will be shared at this time. So it goes on to talk about, um, some students were saying that it was taken out of context and then it gives what her husband actually said. Um, but let's go ahead and listen to this clip. It's again, it's 18 seconds long. And we'll see what this teacher had to say about maps. What? Stop it, Diego. Yeah. We're not gonna call them that. We're gonna call them maps. No mono attracted persons. No. So don't judge people just cuz they wanna have sex with a five year old. Oh, call . That was the perfect cut. You hear the guy go? What the fuck?  that's wild now. Thank the Lord that we're seeing retribution in this case. This is exactly what needs to happen across the board. And thankfully it didn't have to come to school board meetings in this, in this situation. Right? A lot of these situations have come to school board meetings, right? The sex books in children's libraries. Right. We've seen many, many videos about, uh, parents going in speaking up against those videos. Um, there's some crazy, crazy books that they're putting in children's libraries talking literally about sodomy and about sexual positions to five and six year olds in elementary schools. It's horrific, but thankfully, thankfully it didn't have to come to this case, at least as far as I know, it seems as if this school board caught it right away and, you know, surprised surprise they did it in Texas now. Um, I don't see how any of that could have been taken out of context. You can't say, you know, so don't judge people just because they won't to Hey of six, we had the five year old. Yeah, I'm gonna judge you. I'm gonna judge you and I'm gonna do way worse than that to you. If it's somebody that I know I'm gonna do far, far more to you than judge you. Yeah, dude, I'm not even gonna get into it cause that's called implication, but horrific, horrific thing to say, and to say it to an entire class of children to say it to an entire group in a high school setting, what kind of precedent is that setting? You're literally talking to minors saying it's okay. It, it, it's not only okay, but don't even judge those people for doing that to a child for literally putting the child in a position where they're going to be hurt worse than anything you could possibly imagine giving so much trauma for the rest of their lives that they're gonna have to deal with and unpack in a way that somebody who didn't deal with that could never have to imagine, could never have to imagine. And she's sitting in front of an entire school or an entire class of children saying that this should be acceptable and they shouldn't be judged. Not only that, but we're not even gonna use this term in case we hurt their little pedophile feelings. Like what in the world now, um, it goes on to say that the school district board of trustees voted to fire Parker following her remarks on the evening, uh, the El Paso school district was made aware of a classroom situation and promptly initiated an investigation. This is coming from the district's chief communications officer who told Fox news digital after a thorough investigation was conducted on Jan, uh, on September 6th, during a special board meeting, the board of trustees approved a decision to notify the teacher of proposed proposed to termination. The process will continue in accordance with the Texas education code, any allegation and potential misconduct. We already talked about that. Moving on, some students went on to say that her words were taken out of context. The teacher was expressing. This says how it was ridiculous, how they, how we might not be able to call people pedophiles that we will probably have to start calling them maps because is offensive to them. The class agreed. That's not what it sounded like now, if that is what it is, maybe you shouldn't be saying that in a group of high school students. Um, but if you are being sarcastic and then following that clip by saying, yeah, this is disgusting. This is gross. What they're doing, you know, we're absolutely going to call these people pedophiles and we're not gonna give into the woke ideology that is saying that we have to change the terms that we're using to describe the literal worst people in the world, doing the worst act in the world with the proper term for doing so and fear of you hurting their feelings, if that is the case. And she was being sarcastic. Yeah. It's definitely a distasteful joke. Should she lose her job for a distasteful, sarcastic remark? No, but if she is sitting here in front of a class of high school students protecting pedophiles and telling minors that they should also do the same, right? Literally the people that pedophiles go after minors in this case, um, Now it says that Daniel call vice president of El Paso independent school district board noted that while the lesson plans are approved by administrators, Parker appeared to stray from it in the particular class call had previously offered Parker. The benefit of the doubt saying the video had appeared to omit some important context and that it seemed Parker was only pretending to advocate the position. Now it did seem like she had some tonality there that seemed a little sarcastic, but I'm not gonna be the one to protect her update on my last post, after hearing from some of the students that were in the class, including my own nephew, I believe now that the teacher had appeared to be promoting and normalizing pedophilia was pretend, uh, I believe now that the teacher that appeared to be promoting in normalizing pedophilia was pretending to advocate a position. She didn't actually believe in, in order to challenge the students in preparation for them reading the play, the cruc. The video that many of us saw was missing. The important context. I regret the negative attention that the situation is brought to the teacher and wish her well. I'm told she is a great educator, but he ultimately voted in favor of firing her saying any reasonable person that heard what the seven trustees heard would've voted to terminate Amber Parker. Now Parker's husband. Jason said that Parker's comments were made to challenge students. Mr. Daniel call. I happen. The sick, the sick, what Mr. Daniel call, I happened to be the husband of the teacher in question Parker road on Facebook, I can tell you that we were shaken to our core about these accusations. It is both scary and disturbing that ANED 18. Second clip could destroy a 30 year career when taking completely out of context, she ex is exemplary as a teacher and truly cares about the students. Needless to say, we have spent many sleepless nights because of this cruel release to social media of the 18 seconds. We pray that you and the rest of the board will see this for what it is and not allow the edited video to destroy an innocent woman, her career, and her family in the process. I want to thank you personally for the updated post to begin to write this wrong. So it says that controversial classroom moments have been captured across the country. In recent years, driving parents to school, board meetings, demanding more of a say in their children's education. Um, Let's look at some of the comments here that says, this is a big problem with society, anything, and everything can be manipulated, um, input online or in the media to be the opposite of the actual facts. And once it is out, any correction, um, or apologies are buried and people are left with false impressions of circumstances. Uh, it also says that, um, want to know what's wrong with education today. After speaking with students and witnesses, I have come to believe that the teacher was being satirical and not expressing a view she held, but rather the opposite. I hear she is a great teacher, da, da, um, okay. That doesn't give us much information at all. Um, so it also says, so it is illegal to help a map with a cellulose nitrate and nitroglycerin assisted copper CLA PB projectile traveling at two times the speed of sound striking them with the frontal bone exiting the exci the bone, or is that still murder? Oh, I think that's called a gun.  um, interesting. All right. Anyways, so. This is, this is, this is, you know, good that these headlines are starting to lead in this direction. Right? Good. That we're starting to see pushback from not only the parents going to parent meetings, but also the school boards going in realizing the pushback that they're gonna have in these situations. Now, if this is a case where that teacher was being sarcastic, poor taste, poor timing, let's not even talk to children about the idea of normalizing pedophilia in the classroom. Obviously, you know, not the right way to go about that. Um, but should she be fired for having a sarcastic remark talking about maps? Eh, I don't know. But if she's saying that, you know, the, the sentence alone, maybe you shouldn't be talking about, you know, what did she say? So don't judge people just because they want to have sex for a five year old or with a five year old. Yeah. That's not funny. That's not a joke. That's not sarcasm. That's not that's wrong time and place. If you wanna do that at a bar and played devil's advocate on an argument, you know, you deserve to get ripped apart by whoever you're doing that with. Maybe you don't need to lose your job over it being sarcastic on that note. But in this case, don't talk to children about not judging people who wanna have sex with a five year old. 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That's the nature of war, but scientists in the country are looking to the skies and seeing something that they even didn't expect. Inordinate number of UFOs, according to a new pre-print paper published by Kiev's main as astronomical observation in coordination with the C's national academy of science. Say that three times fast. Uh, let's try it. Um, Kiev's main astronomical observation.  I said it wrong the first time. Astronomical observa, astronomical observatory in coordination, astronomical observatory in coordination with the country's national academic. Society of science. The paper does not specifically address the war, but in the United States, the Pentagon has long hinted, speculated and warned that some UFOs could be advanced technology from foreign military, specifically China and Russia, though. It hasn't been really given any evidence that this is actually the case. The Ukraine's paper is particularly notable because it is not showing that science has continued to, uh, to occur during this war, but also explains that there has been a lot, a lot of sightings. We see them everywhere. The researcher said we observe a significant number of objects whose nature is not clear. The paper is titled unidentified, aerial phenomenon, one observations and events come from observations made by NAS main astronomical observatory in Kiev, in a village south of Kiev called VIN. RKA. According to the papers authors, the observator took on the job of hunting for UFOs as an independent project because of the enthusiasm around the subject. Yeah. Interested. You got my interest. It goes on to say that it describes a specific type of UFO. The researchers call Phantoms. That is an object that is completely black body that does not emit and absorbs all of the radiation falling on it. The researchers also observed that the UFOs that seeing are so fast that it's even hard to take pictures of them. The eye does not fix phenomenon lasting less than one 10th of a second. The paper said it takes four tenths of a second to recognize an event. Ordinary photo and video recordings will also not even capture. The UAPs to detect UAPs. You need a to fine tune, the equipment, shutter speed frame rate, and dynamic range. Wow. So video cameras, recordings, photos, and even your eyes cannot see the UFOs that are flying across Kiev right now. And there's an astonishing number of them. It says wild. So the researchers did just that using two media monitoring stations in Kiev, in Veka, we have developed a special observation technique taking into account the high speeds of the observed objects. The paper said the exposure time was chosen so that the image of the object did not shift significantly. During ex exposure. The frame rate was chosen to take into account the speed of the object in the field of view of the camera in practice. The exposure time was less than one millisecond and the frame rate was no less than 50 Herz. Not sure what that means. Not a photographer. The scientist divided the phenomenon they observed with two into two different categories. Cosmics and PTO. We note that cosmics are luminous objects brighter than the background of the sky. We call these ships names of birds, swift Falcon, and Eagle. The paper said Phantoms are dark objects with contrast from several to about 50% says using camera stationed, roughly 75 miles apart allowed the scientist to make repeated observations of strange objects. Moving in the sky. The paper did not speculate on what the objects were. Merely noted the observations and mentioned the objects. Incredible speeds. They went on to say that flights of single group and squadrons of ships were detected. Moving at speeds from three to 15 degrees per second, Phantoms were observed in the troposphere at distances of up to 10 to 12 kilometers. We estimate their size from three to 12 meters and speeds up to 15 kilometers per second. Wow. 15 kilometers per second. If you break that down is something like, I don't know. It's like 1.8 to times, something like that. I don't know. So it's basically like nine miles per second. That math is probably terribly off. And I'm so sorry if you're somebody who goes by the metric system, I am not. So just trying to help you guys out  it says the easy explanation would be that these are missiles or rockets or something else associated with the war. But the scientists insist that their nature is not clear. UFOs are back in the public conscious. After a string of sightings were caught on camera by Navy pilots. Congress has demanded answers and the Pentagon responded by saying this is seen, that has seen some strange stuff, but needed more time and money of course, to, because they don't have enough money to send to Ukraine and also look into potential, you know, UFOs entering our airspace with alien beings inside of them. At the same time  to study the phenomenon appropriately. Congress gave them both. And the Pentagon open to the a, a R O oh, the a a R O is that we talked about this about a week or two weeks ago where the Pentagon basically opened an entire subdivision section specifically to study this phenomenon of alien UFOs, not, not potentially, you know, China and Russia, uh, military aircraft, they already sub sectioned off the potential of that. Right. They said that we believe that some of these are not of human origin. They defy the laws of physics as we know them. Okay. Wild, wild stuff. And they're starting to come out and talk more about. All right. The article goes on to say, um, a recent addendum in the Senate intelligence budget report said that the thread of UFOs was increasing exponentially and that the Pentagon's new office needed to focus on the UFOs that aren't manmade. Yep, exactly what we just talked about and exactly what we talked about a few episodes ago. So go ahead and listen to that one. When you're done with this one, um, Boris, the lead researcher of the paper declined to comment. This says that there's an update from nine 13, which is yesterday says the original version of this article stated that the Kiev study was a joint venture with the Pentagon and NASA. It was not vice has corrected the story and regrets this era. Wow, good on you. Vice way to go way to go. Now, one thing that, you know, speaking of corrections, there's been a lot of articles recently talking about how IRA Mein was allegedly put in. I think it was the CDC or the who said that IRA Mein is now an allowable substance when it comes to COVID and has helped significantly. Now, um, the correction that was made was basically that they are still not recommending it. They still want to do trials. That was the big correction that a lot of people made. Um, but they're saying that it's potential. Hmm. Um, but there's been a few people like Russell brand came out and made like an apology statement. Um, Russell brand's the actor. Awesome dude. One of my favorite favorite podcasts. I've like tried to categorize myself as a podcast and I'm like, I don't want to technically be Tucker Carlson. I don't want to technically be a political podcast. I want to be more like there's one person I can put myself in a category with. That's like kind of a mixture of like libertarian politics, not left or right. Mainstream narratives also kind of conspiracy based with a touch and little bit of like globalism pushback  and some good humor. Hopefully you think so. Um, it's Russell brand Russell. Brand's got a great thing going, if you haven't listened to his podcast, go check it out. It's definitely, uh, a bit on the same genre and topics that we discuss here. Pretty interesting stuff. A mix of politics, current events, pop culture, and a little bit of conspiracy stuff. If you know what I mean. All right. Now, Um, pretty wild stuff. The, the, the UFO situation is just wild to me. You know, there's been so many conversations, so many articles, so many, you know, governmental institutions that are pouring money into this now that are saying, and making this conversation mainstream, you cannot ignore it at this point, right. Whether they're pushing an agenda or not, because for how long they've known this stuff's going on, right. From Roswell to, you know, literally, um, who's the guy that went on to Joe Rogan. Um, uh, gosh, I blanking on the name. Um, but there's been so many people that have come out and said that they were a part of this, uh, you know, from anything from seeing UFO Aircrafts, you know, how long have those sightings been going on? Uh, Jeremy Corbe was the guy I'm thinking of. Um, and he basically is one of the most, uh, mainstream people talking about this. He's had so many good conversations, really good, uh, footage that he's caught on it, um, breaks down these things very, very well. Um, so. If you haven't heard that go listen to the Jeremy Corbe podcast, uh, with Joe Rogan, it it's quite quite interesting. Um, and he even talks to somebody else who claims to have been a part of it at Roswell. So that's pretty wild too. Um, and that was with, uh, who, what is that other guy's name? Of course I'm like, just trying to think of names that of people I can't recall. Um, but it's pretty crazy. He like says that he basically went in and saw the UFOs, saw the, um, saw Bob Laar is a whole documentary on it. Bob Laars documentary by Jeremy Corbe and they go into how he was literally taken by. It was like the, um, by the military, by the CIA or whoever was conducting these operations. And because he was like in the newspaper for building rocketships  and so, um, he, they, he basically went into, um, area 51. And said that he saw the ships, he saw, literally believed that he said saw aliens. It was like years and years ago, but he said that he saw them, um, in, in, so there's, uh, all of these things that came out, like the chemicals that they, the chemical compounds that he talked about prior to the government even saying they existed. So there's all these really weird correlations and all of these things. And Bob Laar is a very interesting character. Um, he doesn't seem to want a ton of attention off of it. He seems to just be like, he, he legitimately seems to be telling the truth. Um, it's a very interesting conversation. Go look up that documentary too, giving you lots of homework assignments today. Sorry. um, so, um, then we'll go ahead and talk about this in just a moment, which is the, the China situation with moon chemicals or. Nuclear fusion stuff. But one thing I did wanna show is that, you know, apparently Dr. Fauci, Dr. Fauci, Mr. Science himself is getting still grilled by Ram Paul, which I love. And you'll see in this clip, he's literally shaking due to this conversation. So let's go ahead and watch this Ram Paul article take a little bit of a shift from the alien stuff, um, which would kind of have been a nice segue into China going to the moon and finding this, but let's, let's, let's stop that segue. And let's go ahead and look at this. Yeah, actually, you know what, let's talk about it. if you have not heard China discovered a stunning crystal on the moon, which they believe could give us unlimited energy of nuclear fusion fuel. Now this article is by vice and it says that the find makes China the third country to discovery a new mineral on the moon. And the country says it's analyzed the soil for rail rare helium three. Interesting. It says that China has discovered a crystal from the moon made of a previously unknown mineral while also confirming that the lunar surface contains a key ingredient for nuclear FIS vision, a potential form of effective or effectively limitless power that harnesses the same forces that fuel the sun and other stars. The crystal was a part of a batch of lunar samples collected by China's change five mission, which landed on the moon in 2020 loaded up with about four pounds of rocks and delivered them to earth days later, each carefully sifting through the samples, which are now the first moon rocks returned to earth since 1976. If you believe that scientists at the Beijing research Institute of uranium, geology spotted a single crystal particle with a diameter smaller than the width of a human hair, the crystal is made of a novel mineral Chan change site. Named after the Chinese moon goddess change or changey, I don't know how you pronounce that. There's a hyphen between C H a N G and then the hyphen, and then E it also inspired China's series of lunar missions. It is confirmed that as a new mineral on Friday by the commission of new minerals, it's a weird commission, um, nomenclature in classification, which is, uh, brought down to C N M N C  of international mur neurological association. According to the Chinese state run publication. Global times change site is the sixth new mineral to be identified in moon samples. And the first to be discovered by China before China, only the us in Russia could claim to have discovered a moon, moon mineral. It is a transparent crystal that formed in a region of these Northern lunar nor near face. That is volcanically active about 1.2 billion years ago. Um, let's see what this article continues to say, which is according to the state media, the new lunar samples also contain helium three, a new version of the element helium that has long fascinated scientists and science fiction creators because of its potential as a nuclear FIS vision fuel source, the hypothetical form of power aims to harness energy released by atoms that merge under tremendous pressure, such as those in the interior of stars. Starlight is a ubiquitous product of nuclear fusion, but human made fusion reactors will still likely take decades to develop assuming that they are fusible at all that sad. If these reactors do become a reality, helium three would be a good fuel candidate because it produces less radioactive byproducts and nuclear waste compared to other atoms. Whereas helium three is incredibly scarce on earth. It is abundant on the moon, a disparity that has stoked dreams of mining the minerals on the lunar surface. Along those lines, China has joined the United States and other nations and expressing interest in extracting resources from the moon. In the future. Very, very interesting. Now, a couple article titles that I'll go through here, and I'm not gonna dive deep into these articles, but I just want you to know them. It says that China is planning to turn the moon into a giant space shield sounds like some star war shit. Um,  uh, and another one is also, um, space junk, crashing all over the world, upsetting everyone. You know, I, I'm not that upset about space junk. Haven't heard about it much other than the fact that it's an unbelievable amount of space junk surrounding our earth. If you haven't heard about that, there's literally, there's a, I'm pretty sure there's a, a map that you can look at of the earth. And it shows all of the space junk, which is like little things that we've sent up in pieces of, uh, satellites and things like that. Like when they're done with a satellite, they're done using it, all of the satellites we've ever put up there, they just leave them there. Even if they break down, even if there's things that go on with them, um, pretty, pretty wild stuff. Like they almost be like the, when they go to plan a mission. To go into space. Oh, allegedly. Um,  when they go to plan the mission, they do math calculations because they track all of the space junk and try to figure out. How, what timing of day based on the trajectory, the speed of the, uh, the speed of the rocket or whatever, um, to try and make it. So it does not hit space junk because even if it hits a marble size of space, junk going 35,000 million miles an hour, however fast they go, it's going to destroy, destroy the, um, destroy the ship. So they have to calculate it based on the timing. And there's so, so much junk in space, um, that it's very difficult for them to time. Um, another article here from this is from a little while ago, it says Mars formation that looks like alien doorway spotted by NASA Rover. How do we not hear about this stuff? There's so much wild things going on in the world today that it's. I, I am so under the idea  this is a simulation, the simulation theory is so interesting to me because what is the likelihood there was like literally horse and buggies, like a hundred years ago, right? 1922 people were literally riding horses almost. And now just so it happens to be the timing that we're alive, that we get to see the most interesting technological booms ever. Right. You wanna go back and talk, you know, and it's like a hundred years ago is literally your great grandparents. Your great grandparents were alive a hundred years ago for sure. A hundred years ago, right? Maybe, maybe not maybe your great-great grandparents, but maybe your great grandparents, depending on how old you are. Um, and maybe your parents even right. A hundred years is not that long ago. Right. And 500 years is not that long ago, either 500 years ago is literally your great, great, great, great, great grandparents. That means five people had sex and now you're here  and all of a sudden we went from all living like the Amish or the Indians. And all of the sudden, since the 15 hundreds, we are looking at space formations, nuclear, fission rocks, talking about aliens, visiting us. I'm literally speaking to you through a plastic piece of, uh, you know, bullshit that nobody know how knows exactly how it works. You know, it's like, it's so wild that we live here today in this reality on this timeline that it just seems so unprobable to me, I just don't get it. There's, there's literally no way.  the likelihood that I am not a Amish person on a farm, you know, 1500, you know, and even the fact of like 2000 years ago,  being that far again, that's not that far. That's literally not that far. Not that far. Right? 25, 30, 30 sexes ago.  that's gonna be the way that I, I, I think of time now is how many people had to have sex between now and then for you to be in that era 30 sexes ago, you could have been living in a. The same time as Jesus. And now they want to tell us that like, you know, literally the worth was the earth was, you know, however many, you know, years old. It's like, nah, I don't believe ya. I don't believe ya. I don't think so. There was an article that came out there was like 30,000. Um, they found the body that, you know, was kind of disputing all science on humanities, you know, uh, timeline. It was like 30,000 years old or even, maybe even longer than that. But there's some really interesting scientific articles and things that have come out that, that even say that it's longer than that. Right. That, that say that the pyramids were really from like there's, there's all of the sentiment that's been eroded underneath. Like there's like pyramids under the pyramids that are coming. and, uh, they they're like challenging all of the science, all of their religious beliefs. All of the things that we talk about today is being the timeline of humanity, right. It it's, it's pretty wild stuff. Um, and, and it's something they'd be interested in because, you know, we even go back into the conversation from yesterday of like the, or yesterday of last week and the queen and the reptilian species. it's so funny how easily you can jump into reptilian, Illuminati, reptiles, uh, controlling the world. Um, but there's like this whole idea of the Sumerians and the Sumerians being visited. And the Sumerians are like one of the very first humanity, like, uh, very first peoples, um, that humanity believed existed and the Sumerian race being visited and given technology that, that we can't even comprehend today. The, the ancient Sumerian societies had mathematical equations to map out the cosmos and, and like, let me look up the timeline of like, when, um, the Sumerian, uh, We're even around, um, because it's, it's so wild when you look up the actual history of, of ancient Sumeria. Um, this says it was like 2,350 BC. So 4,005,000 years ago, um, in Sumer, uh, the Sumerians were people of Southern Mesopotamia whose civilization flourished between 4,100 to 1750 BC. So six, 7,000 years ago, um, like the ancient Sumerian technology let's, you know, let's, let's dive into it. I got a little bit of whiskey left. Let's dive into the ancient Sumerian technology.  we, we might as well, let's see if I can find it. Um, let's see, ancient Sumerian technology. And if you're still here with me, I appreciate ya. This is fun. Let's do it. Ancient Sumerian technology. Um, let's go ahead and see what, uh, is questionable. Let's see what we can find here. So a few of the articles that are coming up is ancient Sumerian technology, nine ancient Sumerian tech, uh, inventions that changed the world. Um, let's see, there's like photo there's like hieroglyphics of the Sumerians with, you know, weird technology and seeing like, um, Kymera reptiles and, and different beings and g

Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 15-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world, from Sunday through Thursday. Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian and our real estate reporter Danielle Nagler join host Amanda Borschel-Dan. Saturday night an Israeli bus near the West Bank settlement of Ofra was shot at from a nearby Palestinian town of Silwad, leaving at least 8 bullet holes, but, thankfully, no injured. What else do we know? Earlier on Saturday, three Palestinian women from Nablus were arrested near a checkpoint with a makeshift submachine gun in their car. First of all, what is a makeshift submachine gun? Israel is set to allow an additional 1,500 Gazan residents into the country today, reaching 15,500. This rise was announced last month, but delayed. What are additional permits predicated on? We speak about the case of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh. What makes his case unique? Nagler gives us an update on Israel's rising real estate prices, including a few selections of home sales from the past month. And finally, we hear about new tourism efforts by Israelis -- in Zanzibar! Discussed articles include: ‘I'm still shaking': Bus driver recounts West Bank shooting attack Gunfire hits crowded Israeli bus in West Bank; IDF launches manhunt 3 Palestinian women arrested at West Bank checkpoint with makeshift submachine gun Israel to allow 1,500 more Palestinian workers to enter from Gaza on Sunday Israel temporarily freezes arrest of hunger-striking Palestinian as health falters Inflation and housing prices continue to climb, breaking new records Housing snapshot: 9 apartments and houses recently sold across Israel Subscribe to The Times of Israel Daily Briefing on iTunes, Spotify, PlayerFM, Google Play, or wherever you get your podcasts. Illustrative: View of a collapse in a newly renovated section of the 'Tama 38' renewal project of an apartment building, in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Bialik, on October 24, 2018. (Meir Vaaknin/Flash90)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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-How did we go from babies crying to meet our needs to children ignoring our needs to not inconvenience mom and dad? -What are the signs of codependency in children? -If we start to show codependent behaviors as children, is it irreversible as we grow older? -What can we do, whether parents or without children, to foster a sense that our children's needs (or our inner child's needs) MATTER? In this week's episode, we are graced with the gracious presence of Ofra Obejas, LCSW, who is a play therapist who specializes in working with children. In the episode, you'll hear Ofra open up about her own experiences of codependency and how she continues to combat it as a consequence to experiences from her childhood. Ofra describes to us what codependency can look like in children, how to distinguish the term “enmeshment” from healthy attachment, and answers whether or not we are doomed to be codependent forever once it takes hold in our childhoods. It's a must-listen! Helpful links: www.codependummy.com www.codependummy.com/toolsforhealing More on this episode's guest: Ofra Obejas plays with kids for a living. She is a play therapist in the Los Angeles area. She provides child and family therapy and parent coaching. www.redondovillagecounseling.com  Click to download Ofra's PDF: https://puye7p6j.pages.infusionsoft.net  More deets on this week's episode: We begin by hearing about Ofra's definition of codependency. “The reason we become codependent is when there is a conflict between competing factors. It can be unsafe, intolerable, or too scary” to prioritize our needs above others or in balance with others.  Ofra opens up about experiences in her childhood, namely with her mother, father, and older sister, which contributed to her developing codependency out of fear of abandonment.  Ofra goes on to give great examples of codependency in her own life as well as in the children, parents, and families she has worked with throughout her career.  I ask Ofra about enmeshment and how we can distinguish that from healthy attachment (since the two can look, sound, and feel the same BUT THEY ARE NOT). Ofra provides us hope by asserting that codependency is never irreversible since it is a learned behavior. That means that we can unlearn it my dear, sweet codependummy.  We conclude with steps we can take to help discourage codependent behaivor in children (and ourselves). Remember, you matter and your needs matter.  Questions for you: What came up while you heard Ofra talk about her definition of codependency? Do you agree you likely became codependent due to you asserting your needs was unsafe, intolerable, or scary? How did you feel while hearing about Ofra's experiences in her childhood? How do you relate? What do your enmeshed relationships look like in your family, friendships, or other areas in your life? How can you start to practice what Ofra encourages and start to believe that you needs matter? If you have children, how can you encourage interdependent rather than codependent behaviors by using Ofra's guide? Click here to download: https://puye7p6j.pages.infusionsoft.net  If you don't have children, how can you encourage interdependency in yourself and take care of your inner child? Click the link above to download her free PDF. Thank you for listening! www.codependummy.com/toolsforhealing Marissa's info: www.codependummy.com @therapywithmarissa on IG www.therapywithmarissa.com Help keep the lights on here: https://linktr.ee/codependummy