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Depremin birinci yılında depremde hayatını kaybedenleri anıyor, yakınlarına sabır ve dayanma gücü diliyoruz.Europa Nostra'nın 2024 yılı “Tehlike Altındaki 7 Kültürel Miras Alanı” programının 11'lik kısa aday listesine Antakya'da yer alan Demir Kapı ve Altınözü'nde yer alan Aziz Georgios Rum Ortodoks Kilisesi'nin dahil edildiği haberi geldi. Bu akşam biz de depremin yıldönümü vesilesiyle bu ortamda göreli olarak sevindirici bir gelişme olarak Europa Nostra'nın bu programına dahil edilmiş olmanın önemini, adaylık sürecinin nasıl geliştiğini, adaylık başvurularını yapan sivil toplum kuruluşları, uzmanlar ve yerel yetkililerle konuşuyoruz. Konuklarımız; Yiğit Ozar, Tuğçe Tezer, peder Yuvannah Abdullah Papasoğlu ve Yusuf İlyas Yılmazoğlu. 

Depremin birinci yılında depremde hayatını kaybedenleri anıyor, yakınlarına sabır ve dayanma gücü diliyoruz.Europa Nostra'nın 2024 yılı “Tehlike Altındaki 7 Kültürel Miras Alanı” programının 11'lik kısa aday listesine Antakya'da yer alan Demir Kapı ve Altınözü'nde yer alan Aziz Georgios Rum Ortodoks Kilisesi'nin dahil edildiği haberi geldi. Bu akşam biz de depremin yıldönümü vesilesiyle bu ortamda göreli olarak sevindirici bir gelişme olarak Europa Nostra'nın bu programına dahil edilmiş olmanın önemini, adaylık sürecinin nasıl geliştiğini, adaylık başvurularını yapan sivil toplum kuruluşları, uzmanlar ve yerel yetkililerle konuşuyoruz. Konuklarımız; Yiğit Ozar, Tuğçe Tezer, peder Yuvannah Abdullah Papasoğlu ve Yusuf İlyas Yılmazoğlu. 

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Summary: Emet Ozar is a seasoned Program Manager with 15 years experience in technology and education sectors passionate about creating effective processes and programs, managing relationships and using data to drive informed decision making. She was born and raised in California. After graduating with a degree in Learning, Design, & Technology from Stanford University, Emet worked primarily in Technology, Education and Operations. Emet's passions include reading, hanging with family, creative problem solving, crossword construction and solving, and building and fixing things. Emet is married with three children. Key Moments: 03:16 - Trust based influence and deep empathy 14:20 - The importance of being transparent. Vulnerability opens people up. 27:07 - What is Program Managers job? Are there elements of sales in it? 32:42 - Quantitative approach vs human approach when requesting budget from executives for software projects. Connect with Emet https://www.linkedin.com/in/emet-ozar/ (LinkedIN) Connect with Us! https://www.linkedin.com/company/53108426/admin/ (LinkedIN: ) https://stories-of-selling-human.captivate.fm/ (Website: )

What You Will Learn:How to build your life with intentionHow to come up with ideas worth pursuing How to think about delivering value to people The power of pursuing an idea with purposeHow to be grateful for all of lifeBio:Garrett Ozar is the father to Everly (3), who survived grade IV (Glioblastoma) brain cancer at birth.Garrett is the Co-Founder of Eterneva: a company that brings brightness and meaning to loss by delivering an experience that unlocks a positive way forward. Eterneva turns the carbon in someone's ashes or hair into a diamond as a memorial for the family.Garrett is also the Co-Founder of Foreverly Fulfillment: a 3PL that provides job opportunities for parents of patients at St Jude Children's Hospital- where Everly was treated.Prior to these ventures, Garrett founded Ampcaddy: a bluetooth speaker designed to bring music to the golf course.Important Links:garrettozar.comhttps://www.facebook.com/garrett.ozarhttps://www.instagram.com/garrettozarhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/garrettozar/twitter: @garrettozar Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Garrett Ozar has a story that is nothing less than extraordinary. From pitching his company, Eterneva, on Shark Tank and securing an investment from Billionaire Mark Cuban, to playing college baseball, or to having to watch his survivor daughter battle cancer, Garrett's journey is quite remarkable. In this episode, we discuss:His entrepreneurial journey and learnings through prior fails and debt.How Eterneva, a company that turns ashes into diamonds, was started.Why Eterneva doesn't just sell diamonds.His young daughter's journey through a cancerous tumor lead him to St. Jude Children's Hospital.How the customer experience at Eterneva creates long-lasting, positive goodwill for Funeral Directors.What does death care looks like in 10 years, according to Garrett.EternevaTikTok | Instagram | Website | Shark Tank ClipGarrett OzarEmail | LinkedInTell us what you think! Email Tyler (tyler@directcremation.com) or Will de Michaelis (will@directcremation.com).For Innovative Funeral Directors Blazing a Trail. Find us at directcremation.com.Want to start a cremation brand yourself? Learn how the some of the biggest cremation brands do it at partingpro.com.

Bhagwan Ganapati or Ganesha is one of the most worshipped deities in India. According to the legend associated with the Temple, King Abhinandan conducted a Yagna with the objective of overthrowing the kingdom of heaven. Alarmed Lord Indra sent the demon Kalapurush to destroy the Yagna. Kalapurush successfully destroyed the Yagna. However, he got carried away with his power and assumed the title of Vignasura, meaning the Creator of Obstacles. He systematically destroyed all Vedic rituals and Poojas that were performed by several sages and created havoc. The Gods approached Lord Ganesha for help, who defeated Vignasura. The demon realized his arrogance and surrendered to Lord Ganesha asking for mercy. Lord Ganesha promised retribution on the condition that he will not interrupt whenever Lord Ganesha is worshiped. Thus, Lord Ganesha came to be known as Vigneshwara. The word Ashtvinayaka is a Sanskrit word that means Eight Ganeshas. These eight temples are located in different places, and all of them are considered ‘Swayambhu' or self-originated. These deities are “jagrut,” which means they fulfill the wishes of their devotees.  भगवान गणपति या गणेश भारत में सबसे अधिक पूजे जाने वाले देवताओं में से एक हैं।  मंदिर से जुड़ी कथा के अनुसार, राजा अभिनंदन ने स्वर्ग के राज्य को उखाड़ फेंकने के उद्देश्य से एक यज्ञ का आयोजन किया था। चिंतित भगवान इंद्र ने यज्ञ को नष्ट करने के लिए राक्षस कालपुरुष को भेजा। कालपुरुष ने यज्ञ को सफलतापूर्वक नष्ट कर दिया। हालाँकि, वह अपनी शक्ति से दूर हो गया और विग्नसुर की उपाधि धारण की, जिसका अर्थ है बाधाओं का निर्माता। उन्होंने सभी वैदिक अनुष्ठानों और पूजाओं को नष्ट कर दिया, जो कई ऋषियों द्वारा किए गए थे और तबाही मचा दी थी। देवताओं ने मदद के लिए भगवान गणेश से संपर्क किया, जिन्होंने विग्नसुर को हराया। दानव को अपने अहंकार का एहसास हुआ और उसने भगवान गणेश के सामने दया के लिए आत्मसमर्पण कर दिया। भगवान गणेश ने इस शर्त पर प्रतिशोध का वादा किया कि जब भी भगवान गणेश की पूजा की जाएगी तो वह बीच में नहीं आएंगे। इस प्रकार, भगवान गणेश को विघ्नेश्वर के रूप में जाना जाने लगा। अष्टविनायक शब्द संस्कृत का शब्द है जिसका अर्थ है आठ गणेश। ये आठ मंदिर अलग-अलग जगहों पर स्थित हैं, और इन सभी को 'स्वयंभू' माना जाता है। ये देवता "जागृत" हैं, जिसका अर्थ है कि वे अपने भक्तों की इच्छाओं को पूरा करते हैं। Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi, 5 Temmuz da “İstanbul'un gelecek için bir planı var” sloganıyla İstanbul Planlama Ajansı bünyesinde hazırlanan 'İstanbul Vizyon 2050 Strateji Belgesi'ni açıkladı. Bu programda İstanbul'un kültürel mirasının korunmasına yönelik olarak Vizyon 2050'nin neler hedeflediğini konuşuyoruz. Konuğumuz, İstanbul Planlama Ajansı'nda yürütülen Vizyon 2050 Belgesi hazırlığında Kültürel Miras ve Koruma konusundan sorumlu olarak çalışan araştırmacı uzmanlardan arkeolog Yiğit Ozar.

İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi, 5 Temmuz da “İstanbul'un gelecek için bir planı var” sloganıyla İstanbul Planlama Ajansı bünyesinde hazırlanan 'İstanbul Vizyon 2050 Strateji Belgesi'ni açıkladı. Bu programda İstanbul'un kültürel mirasının korunmasına yönelik olarak Vizyon 2050'nin neler hedeflediğini konuşuyoruz. Konuğumuz, İstanbul Planlama Ajansı'nda yürütülen Vizyon 2050 Belgesi hazırlığında Kültürel Miras ve Koruma konusundan sorumlu olarak çalışan araştırmacı uzmanlardan arkeolog Yiğit Ozar.

Çetin Ünsalan'ın hazırlayıp sunduğu İşte Bunu Konuşalım programına ADLER CENTRAL EUROPE Genel Müdürü Eser Ozar konuk oldu.

Çetin Ünsalan'ın hazırlayıp sunduğu İşte Bunu Konuşalım programına ADLER CENTRAL EUROPE Genel Müdürü Eser Ozar konuk oldu.

Nuevo programa de series cargado de novedades, e incluso de algunas series que se despiden definitivamente, como Ozark. Como siempre, de todo género y de todas las plataformas posibles. Durante casi dos horas Dani, Maite y Marta comentan todas estas series... -FaceNews. Ncuti Gatwa, nuevo Dr. Who (00:06:16) -Heartstopper (00:13:40) -Ozar T. Final (00:21:57) -Muñeca Rusa T2 (00:34:20) -In my skin (00:45:29) -Severance (00:52:54) -Star Trek. Strange New Worlds (01:11:26) -Bienvenidos a Edén (01:22:21) -El Bebé (01:30:13) -Las crónicas de Usagi (01:42:34) Y para cerrar el programa contamos con el mítico Frank T acompañado de Lucía Leona con su tema "Dame un micro y verás" Recordad que estamos en www.hellofriki.com y en todas las redes sociales, incluído nuestro grupo de Telegram.

On Episode 61 of The Anecdote we bring on Prince Albert native and NCAA National Champion Owen Ozar. Sandwiching the interview, Jesse Brett and Logan preview the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs. 

İstanbul, Sultanahmet'te Adliye Sarayı'nın Divan Yolu tarafında yer alan erken Bizans dönemi eseri Lausos Sarayı kalıntıları üzerinde senelerdir yasadışı bir şekilde yer alan sahne konstrüksiyonu sonunda kaldırılıyor. Bunun sağlanmasında Arkeologlar Derneği İstanbul Şubesi'nin 2018 yılında Ekolojik Haklar Merkezi ile birlikte yürüttükleri kampanyanın büyük rolü var. Konuğumuz Yiğit Ozar'la konuşuyoruz.

İstanbul, Sultanahmet'te Adliye Sarayı'nın Divan Yolu tarafında yer alan erken Bizans dönemi eseri Lausos Sarayı kalıntıları üzerinde senelerdir yasadışı bir şekilde yer alan sahne konstrüksiyonu sonunda kaldırılıyor. Bunun sağlanmasında Arkeologlar Derneği İstanbul Şubesi'nin 2018 yılında Ekolojik Haklar Merkezi ile birlikte yürüttükleri kampanyanın büyük rolü var. Konuğumuz Yiğit Ozar'la konuşuyoruz.

Religions du monde - Dimanche 20 mars 2022 - 10H10-11H (H de Paris)   Le 19 mars 2012, Arié et Gabriel Sandler, 5 et 3 ans ; Myriam Monsonégo, 8 ans et Jonathan Sandler, le père des deux garçons étaient abattus à bout portant par Mohamed Merah. Parce que juifs. Cette tuerie faisait suite au triple assassinat, les jours précédents de militaires à Toulouse et Montauban. Dix ans après, Jonathan Chetrit, ancien élève interne, publie le récit de cette journée avec le témoignage d'élèves, de professeurs et de parents : « Toulouse 19 Mars 2012 : l'attentat de l'École Ozar Hatorah parceux qui l'ont vécu » (Albin Michel).   Ukraine : les religions mobilisées face à la guerre Rencontre entre le pape François et le patriarche Kirill de Moscou en visioconférence mercredi 16 mars 2022, interpellation adressée la semaine dernière à ce dernier par Mgr Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, président de la CEF (Conférence des évêques de France) et le pasteur François Clavairoly, président de la Fédération protestante de France sur le sens de son soutien à l'invasion de l'armée russe en Ukraine, les deux églises orthodoxes d'Ukraine à l'unisson pour dénoncer la guerre : analyse avec notre invité, le prêtre orthodoxe Jivko Panev, cofondateur du site Orthodoxie.com. Également correspondance d'Eric Senanque qui a rencontré, à Rome, le nouvel ambassadeur d'Ukraine près le Saint-Siège, interview du pasteur François Clavairoly .

Chaque semaine, Haim Musicant nous raconte une histoire d'un personnage historique en relation avec la date du jour. Cette semaine, il nous raconte l'histoire de l'attentat terroriste contre l'école Ozar Hatorah. 

ESSENTIEL, le rendez-vous culture présenté par Sandrine Sebbane. Elle reçoit avec Laurence Goldmann, Jonathan Chetrit auteur du livre « Toulouse 19 mars 2012 - L'attentat de l'école Ozar Hatorah par ceux qui l'ont vécu » aux éditions Albin Michel et un ancien élève À propos du livre : «Toulouse 19 mars 2012 - L'attentat de l'école Ozar Hatorah par ceux qui l'ont vécu» paru aux éditions Albin Michel Toulouse, le 19 mars 2012, collège Ozar Hatorah, à l'heure où les élèves arrivent en cours. Un motard casqué fait irruption dans la cour et sème la mort, tuant à bout portant un enseignant, Jonathan Sandler, et trois jeunes enfants : Arié (5 ans) et Gabriel Sandler (3 ans) et Myriam Monsonégo (9 ans), la fille du directeur. Ce crime a initié la série d'attentats islamistes qui ont endeuillé le pays de 2012 à 2015. Son traitement médiatique s'est focalisé sur la personnalité et la famille du tueur, Mohamed Merah. Les victimes ont certes suscité la compassion, mais on n'a peut-être pas pris la pleine mesure de l'inhumanité que représente cet événement – pour la première fois en France depuis l'Occupation on a tué de sang-froid des juifs uniquement parce qu'ils sont juifs. Jonathan Chétrit qui, en tant qu'élève interne présent sur place, a vécu les meurtres au plus près, a collecté les témoignages minute par minute de toutes les personnes présentes. Il nous fait entrer dans la réalité brutale de ces instants fatidiques, et de ce qui a suivi pour les survivants : la ruée des journalistes, le deuil impossible, mais aussi la solidarité, la volonté de se battre, jusqu'au procès des complices. Jonathan Chétrit, né en 1994, était interne au lycée Ozar Hatorah de Toulouse, en classe de Terminale, en cette année 2012. Aujourd'hui diplômé du barreau de Paris, il s'est chargé de la collecte de ces témoignages. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition paperback.

This week we sit down with Andrew Onermaa, founder of Ozark Gravel Cyclist. Andrew is a passionate gravel cyclist and bikepacker who has channeled energy and love into creating a hub for Arkansas gravel cyclists. Ozark Gravel Cyclists Web / Instagram Join The Ridership Support the Podcast Automated Transcription, excuse the typos. [00:00:00]Craig Dalton: [00:00:00] [00:00:00] Andrew, welcome to the show. [00:00:02] Andrew Onermaa: [00:00:02] Hey, thanks for having me, Craig, [00:00:03] Craig Dalton: [00:00:03] super excited to learn more about your project. It was our gravel cycling, but the more I've talked to you on offline, the more I want to hear about your personal journey to the bike and all the things you've been doing. [00:00:15] So why don't we start off by just a little bit of your background. As an athlete and what led you to gravel cycling? [00:00:21]Andrew Onermaa: [00:00:21] That's a great question. So the journey of the bicycle has definitely evolved a lot in the last decade. So I realized, or did riding bikes in college as a means of transportation. My vehicle died on me. [00:00:36] Okay. I can't buy another car. What are we going to do? So what's the cheapest bike you can possibly find. It's going to be a bike that has. One gear and has nothing extra on it. So got a six gear bike, cause I was starting to hear about it. I was cool. This is in 2011, 2012, and I started really getting addicted to just the motion of moving through the landscape and interacting with vehicles and people and pedestrians. [00:01:09] And I started delivering sandwiches for Jimmy John's in the middle of the night, I'd be doing a graveyard shift of 10:00 PM til three or four in the morning and just doing it all by bike. And I didn't have navigation on my phone, so I'd be printing up stuff in the shop, turn by turn navigation and using [00:01:30] that to deliver sandwiches. [00:01:32] And I ended up just spending a lot of years traveling. Out west always had a fixed gear bike. It'd be my fun way to explore, but I'd still be pursuing other things. Climbing backpacking, mountaineering skiing, really just fully embracing the outdoors. But the bike was always, there is more of just a really fun way to explore in a way to shake things up. [00:01:54] And it. Like within the last two, three years, I finally got my hands on a road bike with multiple gears brakes, and it opened up a whole new world of cycling to me that I'd never seen. I can suddenly do much, much bigger Hills. I was living in salt lake at the time I was doing these canyon passes, seeing the landscape from essentially mountaintops. [00:02:18] And I was just blown away by how much you could see in an afternoon, they didn't even have to be a full day. And so that just fully consumed me. I was doing a lot of where I would bag multiple peaks in a day via foot. And I was like, man, I can apply this to the bike instead. Let's like, how many high points can I hit? [00:02:40] And so that really opened my eyes to how much distance you can travel on the bike. And then. I started looking over and what about these dirt roads that I'm seeing? I'm getting tired of all these cars living by like ruining the vibe per se. Like I'm out in nature and [00:03:00] all of a sudden you have 20 cars blow by and one person has to roll down their window and yell something or whatever. [00:03:06] And so I started dabbling into some dirt, but I wasn't confident with the skinny tires. So I went west. On the other side of the salt lake or it's flat. And that was my introduction to gravel. It was just this big open space with these random gravel roads, no information, no signage. And I would just try and I go for awhile for as long as I felt comfortable. [00:03:31] Yeah. And then I would turn around and come back and just cross my fingers for whatever reason I was thinking now that I'm on gravel. My bike's gonna explode. Everything's gonna go wrong. And I kept having rise where it's whoa, that was actually really peaceful and enjoyable. And I was by myself the whole time. [00:03:49] And that's, I started honing in on that aspect of this is something different. This is combining a lot of years of playing outdoors and this love of the bicycle. And so that's the quick summary of bikes. Over the last, almost decade until I moved back to Arkansas and got a proper gravel bike, my first gravel bike, and it's been a little over a year having a bike that's designed for this style of riding and it's just been phenomenal. [00:04:22] And just the more I've done it, the more I've just, I don't know, absorbed as much as possible as far as learning. [00:04:30] And getting faster. [00:04:33] Craig Dalton: [00:04:33] That's a super cool journey to the bike. I, I remember in connecting with the originally, when you were talking about your passion for mountaineering and climbing and hiking it's, as you came to it from a road biking perspective, it's pretty natural that you started to see those same peaks you'd hike and say, why don't I go up a dirt road rather than the paved roads. [00:04:53] It's really cool to hear that store, that backstory about how you got into gravel cycling. [00:04:58] Andrew Onermaa: [00:04:58] Absolutely. And a lot of the hesitation initially was I felt like it was going to calm, complicate things of being out in nature in that environment. Since I always did things by foot or by skis, I, it felt very minimal. [00:05:13] And I thought, oh, now that I bring a bike, I'm going to have to bring tools in case it breaks down, I'm going to have to bring bags to carry things and it's going to have to attach the bike. So a lot of the hesitation was more so thinking is going to complicated all and take away from the joy. But it turns out and you can just cover so much more ground. [00:05:31] And for the most part things work out. So you're not getting out there and just getting flats all the time and derailers falling off or anything like that. It's, you're just doing what you love and you're doing it in a really cool. Environment. [00:05:45] Craig Dalton: [00:05:45] Yeah. You came into the sport at the perfect time, because a lot of the kinks had been worked out of the system on the bike. [00:05:51]They are super reliable and I definitely see what you're saying about hiking versus biking. I often think to myself as I'm [00:06:00] hiking with my family, we're just covering so little ground compared to what I do on a bike. We have to pick such a small section to hike, whereas that would be one eighth of what I might ride in any given day. [00:06:12] And I always feel a little bit guilty, the amount of terrain I'm able to cover versus when I'm hiking with my family. And they're just seeing this little tidbit of what's on the mountain [00:06:22]Andrew Onermaa: [00:06:22] for sure. And then one, one thing I was overlooking for a long time was the. The element of enjoyment of downhill, running, hiking, whatever going downhill is not nearly as fun my foot as it is on a bike or on skis or something like that. [00:06:39]That in itself adds a lot of extra joy on covering that terrain. Cause you get to. Experienced these crazy speeds and be making on the fly decisions and audibles to Dodge, a little boulders, or hop over ruts and things like that. So that's, it's a blast. You work, you like earn your journey is the term and skiing. [00:07:01] And I feel like it relates to gravel riding really well. Really well, [00:07:06] Craig Dalton: [00:07:06] so true. I had run into a friend of mine's wife who was out on a all day, a mountain biking trip down onto the peninsula to a great spot called Scags. And she told me, oh, I got a text from him saying he just had the time of his life. [00:07:21] And he's, she's I don't, I just don't get it. And I'm like, it's hard to explain to a non cyclist, but it brings us back to our youth. It's. It's like [00:07:30] playing video games, wrapped into working out this constant decision making that you have to do. When you clear a section you want to just high five, your friends and you just have a laugh because it's just such an exhilarating sport. [00:07:45] Andrew Onermaa: [00:07:45] Yeah. There's many times where I'm in the middle of the nowhere and those are laughing, going down a dissent or just grinning ear to ear. Cause it's. It's so much fun, [00:07:55] Craig Dalton: [00:07:55] so true. I'm smiling. Just thinking about it. So you mentioned, and that your journey took you back to Arkansas and you are new gravel cyclists at that point. [00:08:04] And the reason I was super stoked to connect with you is because I love these community based projects. So you started a group called Ozark, gravel cycling. What led you to begin that journey and put a stake in the ground and say, Hey, I'm going to be a hub for activity. Nos are in the Ozarks and try to unearth information for, would be cyclists and start a community around [00:08:26] Andrew Onermaa: [00:08:26] gravel. [00:08:26] Yeah. Yeah. That's a great question. So through fix gear riding, I honestly just spent a ton of time by myself cause it's such a very niche aspect of riding bikes that is hard to find other writers that did the same thing. And to have the same fitness or goals or schedules. So whenever I got a road bike, I was about to start racing for a team by no means was I going to be going to local crits or road races and dominating or anything, but I was just really excited on the aspect of [00:09:00] here's a group of people that love bikes and we're going to hang out and we're going to ride bikes and we're going to travel sometimes to events. [00:09:09] And do more riding bikes. So it was just this really cool group setting that got me excited. It reminded me of sports in high school, growing up junior high, middle school, things like that. It was just, I'm an adult, but also I have the shared activity that we all get to enjoy together. And so I was just really thrilled on having friends through a common activity. [00:09:38] And as soon as the pandemic happened, everything got canceled. So I never got to actually go to these races. I got to do a team camp, started doing some practice rides and then boom, everything canceled. So I was like, oh man, I was so fired up for this idea of traveling and riding bikes and checking out new spots. [00:10:02] And so when I moved back to Arkansas, one is to be closer to family. My grandparents are here. I wanted to help them with grocery shopping. I didn't want them to have to go out and do all these things by themselves. So I, one move was definitely to be around family, but the other was, Hey, things are shifting the ski resorts no longer open than I work at. [00:10:27] This seems like a good time to [00:10:30] pursue the bike a little bit more and just skip a few months of winter and jump straight to spring by moving down south. Showed up in Arkansas and I knew one guy that rode gravel in Arkansas, and that was literally it because we knew each other in college and our very first gravel ride together. [00:10:50] I basically told him, Hey, I was really excited on riding bikes with a group and trying to travel around and check out more places to ride, essentially make friends. And I told him that idea. He said, yeah, that's cool. We don't really, we have different, smaller groups, but there's no like central thing. [00:11:08] That's dedicated only to gravel right now. And so I pitched an idea of, Hey, let's. Let's do that. Me and you, we're having a good time right now, right? You probably have chief friends like this. I bet there's other people in Arkansas. We know there's other people in Arkansas that ride gravel. [00:11:23] Let's just try to connect more people. And that's really how it started was just me and one other person went on a gravel ride, had a great time together. And wanted to do it more and find other people to do it. [00:11:36] Craig Dalton: [00:11:36] So did you start off with a Facebook group? Cause I know now you have, you've got a website up and running. [00:11:40]How did you get started? [00:11:42] Andrew Onermaa: [00:11:42] Yeah, so it was whenever I first came back, I couldn't get a job when I first came back to Arkansas. So I was living with my mom and my grandparents and I was applying and trying to get jobs anywhere. Couldn't get a job. When I wasn't riding my bike, [00:12:00] I decided to make pursuing this a job per se. [00:12:04] It didn't feel like a job is I loved every single minute of it, but it's like, what can I do? I can create an Instagram account. That's like the very first thing I did create an Instagram account. Those are gravel, cyclists, boom. Here's three photos from our ride. Here's two people that like riding gravel. [00:12:22]What are some popular hashtags related to gravel? Who else in the area is riding gravel. So looking up ride Arkansas, anything I could do to try to find people through basically social media, I try to follow them and comment on their rides and be like, Hey, this is really cool. Where was this at? [00:12:42] And so it was just very genuine. Because I wasn't trying to do this Hey, this is a gravel authority and America is very, just start small, start local start focused. I didn't like, I love what's going on in the country, but I want to know what's happening right here, where I live. Yeah. Oh, I love [00:13:03] Craig Dalton: [00:13:03] that, and I've spoken to the Ohio gravel grinders and a couple other groups on the podcast and it's just so critical. [00:13:09] I think part of it seems to me that, there's. There's a challenge. Anytime you're getting out there in the wilderness. And just knowing someone did this route before you, or finding a group, that'll go do it with you. It's just so confidence inspiring. And it just accelerates that learning curve of, once you get hooked on gravel cycling, you just [00:13:30] want to explore new and different places as frequently as you can. [00:13:34] Andrew Onermaa: [00:13:34] Yeah. Hands down. And so it was that's what a lot of it was getting people together. Check out new roads that at least one person had been on it before. So we're like, cool. You've been on it. You're still alive. You're still talking to us, but let's go check that one out. And then on my days where I couldn't ride with anybody, I was scouting out new roads myself and trying to create new routes. [00:13:57] And then eventually bring people out to this other area I saw and then started adding some more consistent group prides. It was just once a month. And then it was every Thursday night and it just has grown very quickly just because. One there's a huge scene for gravel in Northwest Arkansas, but two we've just been consistent, no matter what it's been for a year straight, we've had a group of people riding gravel every single week. [00:14:27]Craig Dalton: [00:14:27] Amazing. So for the listener that may not be familiar with the Ozarks and Arkansas in general, can you just tell us where in the country Arkansas is and where are the regions that you love riding most in Arkansas? [00:14:41]Andrew Onermaa: [00:14:41] Yeah, that's great. So when I lived in Utah, it was actually one of my jokes. [00:14:46] I'd say, Hey, I'm from Arkansas named three states that border Arkansas, and a lot of people can do it. So Arkansas we're above Louisiana. We got Texas down to the Southwest. We [00:15:00] got Oklahoma, Missouri Tennessee, all these different states bordering us to we're south central and. The Ozarks themselves is I was just looking at this earlier. [00:15:14] So it's 1.2 million acres of incredible forest. It's big rolling Hills where the highest point is 2,700 feet tall. That's Mt. Magazine, and you have a ton of these scattered peaks that are. In that range of 2000 or so feet. And what happens is, as you're riding through this terrain, you get to a high point here on original line for a little bit. [00:15:43] And then you drop way down to where these rivers and creeks are, which are down at maybe 300 feet elevation, 400 feet elevation. So you constantly get. These repeating Hills of a thousand feet or so. And so it's this very engaging up and down rollercoaster you can't ever see for too far in one direction either cause the tree coverage or just cause it's so winding that it just really. [00:16:12] Pulls you in you're really engaged. You can't just stare off into the distance, that stuff, because you gotta be looking at what's in front of you. [00:16:20] Craig Dalton: [00:16:20] So my limited experience riding in Arkansas was out of Bentonville on the big sugar course, and it was the bits I did, which was only, I think about 35 [00:16:30] miles, a lot of gravel roads, wide gravel roads, wide enough for a couple of cars to go back and forth on pretty rough gravel roads. [00:16:37] As it turned out was she was a little bit surprised about. When you compare that type of writing with what you might find in the Ozark national forest, what would you, how would you describe the differences between the two? [00:16:49] Andrew Onermaa: [00:16:49] Yeah that's cool to bring that up because even a lot of people that live here, they tend to still hover around. [00:16:57]What's right by Bentonville arrived by Fayetteville and the way you describe it, I say that's a great representation of what's. Around these towns. I agree. It's pretty chunky and it can get steep and anything that you find out and those, the proper roads aren't national forest is just a more amplified version of what you experienced just outside of Bentonville. [00:17:19] So it certainly sounded like [00:17:21] Craig Dalton: [00:17:21] certain certainly sounded like the climbing in the Ozarks was, maybe 500 feet more than you might see or in and around Bentonville. [00:17:30] Andrew Onermaa: [00:17:30] Yeah. Yeah. And then just the vistas are that much more beautiful and the rivers are that much bigger. The creeks are that much bigger. [00:17:37] So it's really just like anything that's near Bentonville. It's just, I don't even know how to, it's hard to, that's why I'm so obsessed with. Getting out there and trying to develop new routes because I just think it's absolutely phenomenal. And I know how much people love the riding right by the towns we're at. [00:17:59] So if [00:18:00] you love this and you're willing to push yourself a little bit more, to go a little bit further up the hill, then you're going to get this much bigger of a reward going downhill or seeing this view. So to me, the Ozark national forest is just the. The absolute pinnacle of what Arkansas has to offer concerning gravel, riding and bike packing. [00:18:26] Craig Dalton: [00:18:26] Are you finding that the athletes that you're riding with and yourself, are you riding bigger tires because of that chunky terrain? [00:18:33] Andrew Onermaa: [00:18:33] Yeah. So some of the guys that have been here for a while and girls they I've been pushing them to go bigger and bigger tires. I've never finished a ride and been like, man, you know what? [00:18:44] I should've had a smaller tire. I should've had a smaller tire. And a lot of it stems from, of course, people coming over from the road culture and wanting to keep speed on pavement sections. So if it's your Thursday night ride out of town, there's going to be a fair share of pavement. Say we're doing pace lines. [00:19:01] People are going to want a smaller tire and go faster. But the thing is I run a 47 seat tire. All the time. It doesn't matter what, I'm doing 40 17 tire. And that's truly just because that's the biggest tire I can fit in my frame. If I could go bigger, I would honestly be looking into a 50 CC tire, potentially, especially getting out. [00:19:22] If you do a ride only in the Ozark national forest, that's where you're getting in the train of man. Maybe I want like a fully rigid mountain [00:19:30] [00:19:29] Craig Dalton: [00:19:29] bike and stuff. Yeah, no, I was thinking about the exact same thing today and I'm with you. Like I just, I. Go as fat as my bike will allow, and I never seem to regret it. [00:19:40] I was thinking about it also in the context of descending and just how much more confident I am to have a bit more fat rubber there. It's like going uphill and I've been experimenting with some really narrow tires just to test the other end of the spectrum. And it's all good going uphill. Like I'm perfectly fine. [00:19:55] But the moment it starts going downhill, I start getting nervous about, how much suspension is that tire providing? How hard can I hit this rock garden that I'm going through? And lot of times it's out of your control. You're, you get into some rough stuff going fairly fast. [00:20:10] You got to have equipment underneath you. That's going to survive the abuse. You're giving it. [00:20:14]Andrew Onermaa: [00:20:14] Absolutely. I feel like I remember whenever I listened to your podcast, like quite a few episodes in the last year or so, didn't you have a phase where you're starting to. Experiment more with six 50 B, just like you can go bigger tires. [00:20:27] Craig Dalton: [00:20:27] Yep. For sure. For sure. And yeah know, it's funny. I just posted something on Instagram this weekend, about three sets of tires and wheels that I had and which one did I choose? And it's going to be a no surprise to anybody that it was the biggest tire that I could fit that weekend. I really like, unless it's a very specialized ride oh, I want to do this. [00:20:46] Particularly longish road section, and then I'm going to go on a completely smooth, gravel climbing back. I'm definitely gonna go with the big tires and I hate to sound like a broken record on the podcast, but I think like you [00:21:00] suggested a lot of people get into the sport from the road side and start thinking, oh, like a 700 by 38. [00:21:05] That's perfect. It's way bigger than my road tire, which is true. But I think we're starting to see trends in the industry more and more. But the frames are coming with a 700 by 50 tire with capability. And I think that's a positive trend. [00:21:22] Andrew Onermaa: [00:21:22] Absolutely. And it truly, it varies by region. So when I'm talking about those are national forest, I definitely am going to be preaching a bigger tire. [00:21:31] Sounds like same thing with where you're at. And is it Marion county? Yeah. Marin county. Yep. Yeah, Marion county. You get some people maybe in Iowa. So I just, I did a race in Iowa, not too long ago. And out there I can tell, I didn't need that tire. I could have gone. A little bit skinnier, but it was what I was used to. [00:21:49] So that's part of it. I'm used to it. I know how it handles and it still felt good. I never felt like I was sacrificing speed, but definitely by region. I think that's where you see trends just coming back to the different communities. It's that there's established community in the area and their bell curve of tires, tire, width. [00:22:10] Is at a certain point. That's probably what you're going to hear recommendations for. [00:22:15] Craig Dalton: [00:22:15] Yeah. I had a similar experience to yours in Iowa when I went to Steamboat Springs and. Tire people I was talking to, you were saying, oh, you can race that course on a 38. And I was like, no way. And I did come down to a 40, which I thought was a good [00:22:30] accommodation, but at the end of the day, like I totally could have done it on a 38. [00:22:33] And I know a lot of the local guys and girls were running 30 twos because they call it champagne, gravel out there. And it's, it's not technical at all compared to what it sounds like you and I are used to. [00:22:45] Andrew Onermaa: [00:22:45] Yeah. Yeah and teach their own. I w that's what I love about gravel is that there's so many different consistencies and styles that you take a road trip and you're like, man, this is. [00:22:58] A brand new experience. Not only is it new scenery, but just the way I am riding is a completely different experience. Yeah. [00:23:06] Craig Dalton: [00:23:06] And you design your equipment for what you want to make. Maybe you're designing around a weakness, you want to climb faster. So you get a lighter set up where maybe you're not confident descending. [00:23:16] So you get something big and burly to allow you to keep up with your friends. And, as you said, it's all good. And it's fascinating to see different people's setups. [00:23:24]Andrew Onermaa: [00:23:24] Yeah. And no matter what, whatever a person brings, I'm excited for him. You're here to ride. Let's do it. And we're going to bring, to get through this ride together. [00:23:35] Hopefully there's not many mechanicals, but if there are so be it or flats, it's the fact that you can pull someone and experience something like this together. That's more important than sometimes getting into the nitty gritty of what's the right call. It's more like the fact that you have the enthusiasm to come do it. [00:23:56]Will overpower a lot of those little things with the equipment. [00:24:00] 100%. [00:24:00] Craig Dalton: [00:24:00] It's all about riding. What you've got. Like you said, when you're out there in Utah, you just had the desire to test those gravel roads out there and you just rode your road bike and it was all good. And as it became a passion of yours, you're like maybe I want to get more specialized equipment over time. [00:24:14]And you did. And now look what you're doing. Adventures all over the place. [00:24:19] Andrew Onermaa: [00:24:19] Yeah. Yeah. It's so much fun. And I'm just barely getting started. So that's definitely exciting thing. It's finally being like, all right, I've found something I'm in it for the long haul and it's going to progress a lot over time in so many different capacities and I'm going to keep doing everything I can to help the local community while I'm at it. [00:24:39] Craig Dalton: [00:24:39] That's so great. That's so great. Speaking of racing and being in it for the long haul, I can't help, but ask you about the Arkansas high country race. Now that I learned you did it and you cry, you crushed it. So was that your first ultra distance race? [00:24:56] Andrew Onermaa: [00:24:56] Yeah, that was my first ultra distance race, first gravel race. [00:25:00]So several firsts in that one outing and. Crushing it's, I don't know about crushing it. I went in with the mentality of I'm going to either pull off something crazy. I'm going to go up in planes. And I think I did a little bit of both. I did enough to where I was in the conversation with. [00:25:21]Like a caliber of an athlete of tagging. Just the fact that they kept mentioning my name for the first few days and I was around the same [00:25:30] mileage and all of that. So that was really cool. Ultimately I had never pushed that far in my life as far as my mental and physical. And so it was an awesome learning experience and sleep deprivation as well. [00:25:44] I slept. Two and a half hours in the first, like three days. It was just, yeah, it was a lot and it was exciting and a really cool way to start. So I'm definitely looking forward to more ultra distance racing. I think that's definitely the sweet spot for me personally, is just getting on the bike and living on the bike for days on end. [00:26:06]Craig Dalton: [00:26:06] How many miles was that event? [00:26:08]Andrew Onermaa: [00:26:08] That event it's right around 1,037 miles. They've still been shifting the route over the years, whether it be due to flooding or closed roads. So it's still a little bit of a dynamic route. It's not a hundred percent set in stone, but yeah, just over a thousand miles. [00:26:27] So that's a pretty substantial distance that be covering, especially just in one state. [00:26:32] Craig Dalton: [00:26:32] Oh, it's massive. And what I thought was interesting about that event, you can choose to go clockwise or counter-clockwise right? [00:26:39] Andrew Onermaa: [00:26:39] Yeah. It's wild. So it's definitely with bike packing, being newer bike, packing racing. [00:26:45] Let me say being newer in the United States, you have your classics, like the tour divide, the Colorado trail. I'd say those are when it comes to bike, packing, racing, and routes. Those are the prime examples. [00:27:00] With the most history. And it's very clear, you start at one end and you end at the other, and for the Colorado church drill, you can do it either direction. [00:27:12] And there's an SKT for both and an overall MKT with the tour divide. As far as I know, the race has always been north to south. People have done the route, both directions, but the race is north to south. And so what's a loop, right? What they've been developing here is, Hey let's shake things up with this loop. [00:27:30] You can go either direction for one, two, you can start anywhere. So we've had people start all over this route for the race. It's a mass starts. Everybody starts together. But even that in itself, that mass starts going to change every two years. So it's this crazy dynamic race where. You can go one year and then you go again three years later and you're starting in a completely different city. [00:27:56] You might even be going a different direction. The weather might be completely different. It's, there's a lot of things that they're tying together just to keep it very interesting, [00:28:06] Craig Dalton: [00:28:06] which is cool. And how did you feel about your choice of direction and what was it this year? [00:28:10]Andrew Onermaa: [00:28:10] I like the counter-clockwise direction. [00:28:13] A lot of it was strategic in the fact that starting from say a bill for last year and this year being the host community, you get the hardest stretch out of the way and the first 250 miles. Okay. So that [00:28:30] has the hardest train. So my mentality was get the hardest section out of the way right away. [00:28:35] The biggest run out of no resupply, which is, I want to say around 150 miles and no resupply, no service, barely any water, definitely no food. Just knock that out and then keep trucking along. So that makes sense. I liked that idea. I think part of the problem was I definitely didn't keep in mind that I. [00:28:57]Was covering different terrain than the leaders and the other direction. So in this case, this was taking, so he was covering different drain and I didn't need to be even with him at mile 300 I should have been behind, but instead I was even, and so it, it really does mess with your pacing strategy when you're looking at dots on a website and you're trying to base decisions on what other people are doing versus. [00:29:22]Solely on how you're feeling and what you think is the right call for you to put out your best time. [00:29:28] Craig Dalton: [00:29:28] That makes sense. And what was your sleep system and what was your sleep strategy? [00:29:33]Andrew Onermaa: [00:29:33] Sleep strategy and system went hand in hand. My strategy was sleep as little as possible, ride the bike as much as possible. [00:29:42] So I brought as little as possible when it came to sleep to ensure that I didn't give myself the choice. So I was like, whenever I get to a major town, say halfway through, get a motel sleep for four hours, get back on the [00:30:00] bike, make another huge push, occasional plopped down in a ditch in the middle of the night and put on emergency busy and all your layers and sleep for an hour. [00:30:09] That was my mentality, which that's not what I do for a tour or a fun ride. But for. Race of competing against people of that caliber. I knew that's what personally I would have to do to be able to make up that differential and fitness and experience [00:30:26] Craig Dalton: [00:30:26] you did decide to bivy in a ditch. [00:30:28]What was your body telling you? Just like I'm completely done or was it your mind? You couldn't ride a straight line anymore? [00:30:35]Andrew Onermaa: [00:30:35] The first time I slept. I was just not nodding off, but I was yawning som starting to ride slower. The hill started filling bigger and harder and I just decided, okay, go ahead and take a break, take a nap and get back after it. [00:30:56] And so Alan worked great. Second time I took a nap. I was on the wooden floor of a community church. In the middle of nowhere and luckily the doors were unlocked. So I just laid down on the ground between two pews on the hardwood floor and my knees were crazy creaky. When I got back on the bike and everything hurt terribly bad. [00:31:18] And sometimes I just, that will last for 10 minutes and then your body goes, oh, okay, here we go. Back to what we've been doing. And sometimes you're working through that for two or three hours and you're just [00:31:30] in your head nonstop. All right. Like surely this is going to change, right? It's so it's definitely a lot of mental warfare. [00:31:38] I'd say the mind is. Equally important as any other aspect when it comes to that kind of racing. Yeah. [00:31:45] Craig Dalton: [00:31:45] Yeah. And the idea that you're gonna feel so many things from throughout the day, and it's going to change you're gonna feel like everybody's going to feel like crap at a certain point during the day. [00:31:55] And the ride is so darn long that you're bound to feel better at some point, presumably. [00:32:01] Andrew Onermaa: [00:32:01] Yeah, absolutely. And which are you doing that route one kind of coming back to the whole inspiration with Ozar gravel, cyclists was having the opportunity to do that route over the summer while I was still looking for a job, I was so blown away by the terrain that it sealed the deal for me. [00:32:19] I was like, I'm definitely gonna live in Arkansas for the rest of my life. This is incredible. I'll take trips other places, but this is a great home base. And I can train here for the rest of my life and ride here for the rest of my life and be so happy. So that route gave me just so much joy and fulfillment that for one, it just got me incredibly excited on Arkansas riding, but too. [00:32:46] I knew that we were just barely dancing through this terrain, 1.2 million acres and the national forest of the Ozarks alone. And we just do one little line and through it a couple of times. [00:33:00] So what about all these other roads that we don't see on that route? And so that's been just the utter joy of. [00:33:06] Every weekend I can go sample one or two more new roads, make new connect actions, keep changing up loops. And right now my summer project is to make a new bike packing loop in Arkansas. That's around 300 miles, but it's way more. Gravel way less pavement. So 80% gravel, 90% gravel, and you're getting 32,000 feet of elevation in 300 miles. [00:33:37] And you share almost no roads with a high country. So it's just this beautiful sample of you want to know what bike packing and gravel riding is an Ozarks check this out all in the Ozarks. Exactly. And yeah. Ultimately it's to make a bunch of smaller loops within that loop. So you don't have to go do a hundred mile day. [00:34:00] I want to be able to have people here's a 25 mile route that you will love. And then you can eat a burger at the oldest cafe in Arkansas right afterwards, or something like that. I have all these friends in this community that are all stoked about it, and we're all getting out together and exploring. [00:34:16] We have this community everyone's so excited. And it's just been so uplifting for everybody. It's just the Spire and more and more people are jumping in as time goes on. [00:34:30] So it's just this beautiful snowball effect that who knows what's gonna be the scene in another year or two, but it's only getting bigger and better and more exciting. [00:34:41] Craig Dalton: [00:34:41] I love your passion for it, Andrew and it's definitely, Arkansas has definitely been coming on the map more and more over the last few years between the big bike packing race and big sugar and other events that are going on. It's truly a place that if you love off-road riding, you got to get to one of these days. [00:34:59]I think that's a good place for us to end. I really appreciate the time and truly appreciate anybody who's growing a community from the ground up. Ozark gravel cycling is such an amazing resource and I'll put a link to it in the show notes for anybody in the region. Who's looking for great routes. [00:35:16] You hear the passion in Andrew's voice for what he's doing. So go visit him, hit him up on social media and get out there and try some Arkansas gravel. [00:35:26] Andrew Onermaa: [00:35:26] I would love it. And I do get messages from people coming out of state and they want to know where to go and what to see. So it's it's very rewarding to share this with others and I'm glad to have. [00:35:39] You asked me onto the show. Cause it's just helping us reach an even broader audience that maybe one person is going to make a road trip to Arkansas. And that's because of you having me on the show. So thank you. [00:35:52] Craig Dalton: [00:35:52] I think we might be getting a rush of people to Arkansas after this. I love it. [00:35:56] Thanks Andrew. [00:35:58] Andrew Onermaa: [00:35:58] Absolutely. Thank you. [00:36:00]    

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On today's episode, we had 1-time BCHL All-Star and future member of the University of Denver Pioneers, Owen Ozar! We talked about: His decision to leave home at 14 Making the move to the BCHL Playing with current University of Michigan star Kent Johnson The 2020 World Jr A Challenge And so much more! As always, thanks for listening! Be sure to follow our socials, we're on Instagram (@coldhardsportstalk), Facebook (@coldhardsportstalk) and Twitter (@CHSportsTalk). Stay tuned to see what great guests we have on next!

Kevin Ozar was born and raised in the city of Detroit, a place he deeply loves. He graduated with degrees in History, English and Education from the University of Dayton and has a Masters in Teaching and Learning from Marygrove College. He has been in education for the last 23 years, has taught every grade from 6-12 in content ranging from Drama, AP literature, US History and pretty much everything in between. He currently teaches 8th grade at Farmington STEAM Academy and is a trainer for the Boomerang Project, traveling around the hemisphere helping teachers and students improve the culture of their schools and foster youth leadership. He has spoken in front of more than 15,000 people, collects Air Jordans, and plays basketball despite being both old and slow. Sometimes he has a beard, sometimes he doesn’t. He lives in Grosse Pointe, Michigan with his two daughters, his very patient wife, three cats and two fish.

In our previous episode, we covered the whirlwind campaign of Chinggis Khan and his generals against the Jin Dynasty of North China from 1211-1215. Chinggis Khan’s empire had been baptised in the blood of the Jurchen state, and before the fall of the Jin capital to Mongol armies in 1215, Chinggis Khan returned to his homeland. A lesser conqueror would have sat proudly on his accomplishments then, having unified the Mongols and secured a lifetime’s worth of plunder from the Jin. But Chinggis Khan was no lesser conqueror. Never one to sit idle, even while his armies continued to fight in China he sent others to wipe away old enemies and uprisings and expand the economic reach of the Mongghol ulus. Unintentionally, these efforts set him on a collision course with the Khwarezmian Empire, which controlled a huge swath of territory from Transoxania in modern Central Asia to western Iran. Today, we will be looking at the uprising of the Siberian forest peoples, the fall of the Qara-Khitai, and the Otrar Massacre; the prelude to the Mongol Invasion of the Khwarezmian Empire. I’m your host David and this is the Ages of Conquest: A Kings and Generals Podcast. This is..the Mongol Conquests.       Before we delve into today’s episode, we must mention upfront that  the timeline of all of these events can be a bit messy. They all took place in a short period between 1215 and 1219 and in an area most westerners have very poor geographic knowledge of.  It is testament to Chinggis Khan’s army though, that he could have so many forces operating in different theaters over vast distances all at the same time, all of whom could succeed in their tasks and return to him triumphant. So let us begin!       Chinggis Khan crossed the Gobi desert to return to his homeland in July 1215, his first time north of the Gobi since 1211. The Jin Dynasty’s capital of Zhongdu, modern day Beijing, had fallen the month before, and he must have felt confident his presence would not be needed in that theatre for some time. In his absence, continued operations against the Jin Dynasty were led by his general Samuqa, who undertook a phenomenal circuit across the Jin realm, crossing the Yellow River and approaching their new capital at Kaifeng, darting around Jin armies and crushing those he could outmaneuver. The continued pressure kept the Jin from occupying their fallen settlements, and Chinggis could now deal with issues back at home. The danger from his length of absence was that more recently conquered peoples would find it a chance to reassert their independence- which is exactly what happened.       By 1216, unrest had spread among the forest tribes around Lake Baikal, north of Mongolia proper and only recently subjugated. It had been simmering for sometime with the Khan’s absence in China, but was set off by one of Chinggis’ lieutenants, Qorchi. Qorchi had joined Chinggis decades prior, and had ingratiated himself with the Khan with a vision of Chinggis’ future victory, and had been in turn promised at some point along the way, thirty wives. In 1216, Qorchi was finally allowed to ride north to claim them from the Tumed tribe near the southern reaches of Lake Baikal. Qorchi rode into the main camp of the Tumed and, quite gracefully [sarcasm], told them to deliver unto him thirty of their finest women. The Tumed were at that point ruled by their chief’s widow, a proud woman named Bodoqui Tarkhan. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Tumed were pretty pissed at this, and promptly captured Qorchi.        Chinggis Khan was not happy to learn of this, but hoping to avoid having to send an army deep into the Siberian forests, sent the loyal chief of another forest tribe, Quduqa Beki of the Oirat, to use diplomacy to garner Qorchi’s release. The soft touch proved no more successful, as Quduqa was captured. This was a real issue, as Quduqa was not just a chief, but also an imperial son-in-law, married to Chinggis and Borte’s second daughter, Chechiyegen (chech-i-yeg-en). It was time for armed retaliation. Chinggis summoned first the Noyan, Naya’a, who fell ill, and the duty then fell to Boroqul. One of the Khan’s ‘four steeds of war,’ an adopted son raised by Chinggis’  mother Hoelun, a high steward, cup-bearer, commander of a part of the Imperial Bodyguard, and a long time friend of the Khan, Boroqul was held in high esteem, and sending him showed how serious Chinggis took this matter. Boroqul marched north with a small army, intending to carry out the duty of his Khan. Entering Tumed territory in early 1217, Boroqul was perhaps a little too proud after the successful war against the Jin. If the mighty descendants of Wanyan Aguda had been humbled by Mongol archers, how could peoples of the Siberian forest hope to stand before them? Boroqul rode before the main army with two scouts, where he was ambushed and killed by the Tumed. With their commander lost, the Mongol army retreated.       Chinggis Khan was furious. A personal friend had been killed, a Mongol army was forced back- this was an affront he did not take lightly. Further, the rebellion spread. Other people of the forest were now in open revolt. The Kirghiz of the Yenisei River refused to provide troops, and the whole northern frontier of the empire threatened to break away. Chinggis Khan wished to lead an army himself to crush this insurrection, but was talked out of it by his close friend Bo’orchu, and a strategy was devised. In a great pincer movement, the commander Dorbei (dor-bei) Doqshin (dok-shin) was to be sent against the Tumed, while Chinggis’ eldest son Jochi was sent in a western army against the Kirghiz, preventing cooperation between the various peoples. The plan was a success. Dorbei Doqshin avoided the main routes that Boroqul had taken, cutting his own roads through the Siberian forests to surprise the Tumed at their main camp while they were in the middle of a feast. The victory was total, and the Tumed were subjugated. Quduqa Beki and Qorchi were freed, Quduqa taking the Tumed chieftainess Bodoqui Tarkhan as a wife while Qorchi got his 30 maidens. 100 Tumed were sacrificed for Boroqul’s spirit and many others were taken as slaves. Finally, Chinggis Khan took his dear friend Boroqul’s children to raise as part of the imperial household.        In the west, Jochi was also met with success. Assisted by Quduqa Beki and his Oirat, early 1218 saw Jochi subdue the remaining Oirat, Buryat, Tuvan and finally the Kirghiz. Controlling one of the northernmost grain producing regions along the Yenisei River, the Kirghiz were a formidable force and valuable to have as subjects. This region was to be Jochi’s patrimony, the seed from which the vast Golden Horde would later grow. This was just the opening move of a larger operation, however. While 1218 was the defeat of the hoi-yin irgen revolt, it was also the opening of the first western operation of the Mongols, and for this we must backtrack a small bit.       If you recall, with Chinggis Khan’s unification of the Mongols in 1206, there was a group of Naiman, under Kuchlug (whooch-loog), son of the late Tayang Khan, and Merkit, under their chief Toqto’a Beki, who fled west, making a stand on the Irtysh River in 1208 before being defeated and dispersed. Toqto’a, the long hated enemy of Chinggis who had captured his wife Borte in the 1180s, was killed there, and his sons took the remaining Merkit to the far west, while Kuchlug would make his way to the empire of the Qara-Khitai, in what is now eastern Kazakhstan and Northwestern China.        The remaining Merkit, under Toqto’a’s son Qodu, fled to the Qangli, the eastern branch of the vast Qipchaq-Cuman confederation. The Qipchaq-Cumans were a loosely connected grouping of Turkic tribes inhabiting the steppe from the borders of Hungary, to the open lands east of the former Aral Sea. Chances are, you know the Qipchaq-Cumans best for their battlemasks with the moustaches, or as enemies from the game Kingdom Come: Deliverance, set almost two centuries after the events we discuss here. With Jochi’s forces already acting in the west and subduing the Kirghiz, it was seen as a good time to not just strike back at the Merkit, but give Jochi a chance to prove his own strategic acumen.       We’ll briefly note that there is some confusion on the exact timing of this campaign against the Merkits, as some sources date it about a decade earlier, adding it onto that Irtysh River battle, or a bit later, adding it onto the great campaign against Khwarezm. But it has been convincingly argued by scholars today, such as Christopher Atwood, for a dating of 1218-1219, just after the hoi-yin irgen revolt and  before that Khwarezmian campaign. We’ll use this dating for this episode.        To the Mongols, other steppe nomads posed the greatest threat. Enemies in China would be tied down by their cities, but nomads could always withdraw and continue to pose a threat. The chance of them being unified under a charismatic leader,  like Chinggis himself had done with the Mongols, was a real danger, and their very existence as an independent steppe people challenged the growing sense of Mongol legitimacy as the masters of the peoples of the steppe. That they were harbouring Mongol enemies, from the much hated Merkit tribe, was tantamount to a declaration of war itself. With the return of much of the Mongol army from China, this was a fine time to crush the remaining Merkit, as well as Kuchlug in Qara-Khitai, which we will get to shortly.       This operation in 1217/1218 is also the first time  the famous Subutai held a major command, though it is unclear if Jochi or Subutai was the overall commander. Meeting up with the western vanguard, Toquchar, they marched across the steppe into what is now western Kazakhstan. On the Chem River, near the northeastern shore of the Caspian Sea, Jochi and Subutai caught and defeated the Merkit-Qangli force. According to a biography from the Ming era Yuan shih, the history of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty, Jochi and Subutai then pursued the fleeing Merkit-Qangli between the Ural and Volga Rivers, deep into Qipchaq territory, and destroyed the remainder. Qodu was killed, and his son or brother Qulqutan Mergen was captured.   Qulqutan Mergen deserves mention for the following anecdote, which highlights the relationship between Jochi and Chinggis Khan. As we’ve discussed, all Mongols were trained archers from childhood, but Qulqutan Mergen was considered highly skilled even among the skilled; indeed, ‘Mergen,’ means archer or shooter. In Robin Hood fashion, the captive Qulqutan sent arrows into a target, and then split those arrows in twain with his next shots, to Jochi’s delight. Jochi sent a messenger to Chinggis, asking them to spare Qulqutan’s life. Chinggis however, despised the Merkit, his long time foes, and had to deal with rumours that Jochi himself was a Merkit bastard. Chinggis’ response was, as recorded by Rashid al-Din was rather typical for the Khan:       “There is no tribe worse than the Merkit. We have fought so many battles with them and  suffered untold trouble and difficulties on account of them. Why should he be left alive to cause trouble again? I have stored up all these realms, armies and peoples for you: what need is there of him? For an enemy of the state there is no place better than the grave.”       Jochi duly did his duty and executed Qulqutan and his family, but this highlights the tension between Jochi and Chinggis which would emerge in the following years. It has been used to suggest Jochi was less sanguinary than his father, whereas this highlights a mantra Chinggis had become well acquainted with in his own youth: an enemy who is allowed to survive will only continue to be a danger in future. Had Chinggis’ own enemies taken note of that, then he would likely have perished long before.       Jochi and Subutai had a long journey back to Mongolia, but their return was interrupted by an unexpected encounter in early 1219, with a large army under the Khwarezm-shah, Muhammad II of the Anushtegenids (Anush-te-genids).  Based in the Khwarezm region just south of the Aral Sea, under the Shah Tekish, and his son Muhammad II, in the previous decades the empire had expanded dramatically with the collapse of the Seljuqs, the Ghurids and the Qara-Khitai.    Ruling the empire since 1200, Muhammad had shown himself to be an ambitious, though not always patient, man. Styling himself ‘the second Alexander the Great,’ in 1217 he had made a failed march on the Caliph in Baghdad, was gobbling up the former western territory of the Qara-Khitai and had an eye on the steppe, where much of his own military forces and family came from. In early 1219 he may have been seeking retribution for Qangli raids, or to go after the Merkit himself, when his army stumbled into that of Jochi and Subutai. Aware of Chinggis’ interests in trade with Khwarezm, the Mongols asked for free passage. Shah Muhammad, a vain man infront of a very large army and not trusting them, decidied to attack. Reluctantly, Jochi and Subutai lined up for battle. Greatly outnumbered, they fought fiercely, though Jochi was nearly killed.    With nightfall, the armies pulled back. The Mongols lit fires to make it appear they were resting for the night, then withdrew under cover of darkness. Morning broke, and the Shah looked out at an empty battlefield. This enemy had fought fiercely, much fiercer than he had anticipated, and inflicted great losses on his army. It was said that the Shah developed a phobia of sorts towards facing the Mongols in open battle, something which would have major consequences for our next episode.       Jochi and Subutai returned to Mongolia sometime in late summer 1219, coinciding with major news which also reached Chinggis. But we’ll pick up with them later, and move our attention now to the southeast, where other Mongols forces had been busy.        Kuchlug (whooch-loog), the Naiman prince we’ve mentioned several times already, fled to the empire of Qara-Khitai after the defeat on the Irtysh River in 1208. The Qara-Khitai was founded in the 1130s, by Khitans fleeing the fall of the Liao Dynasty to the Jurchen Jin Empire. One Khitan commander, Yelu Dashi, took the Khitan garrisons from Mongolia and entered Central Asia, where his well armoured Khitan cavalry proved decidedly deadly. He subdued the eastern Qarakhanids (tchara-khan-ids), then defeated the western Qarakhanids and the Seljuq Sultan Sanjar in 1141 on the Qatwan (tchat-wan) steppe, near Merv. The defeat was a major blow to the already fragmented Seljuq state, though Seljuq control in Iran would last another 50 years. In the aftermath, Yelu Dashi controlled an empire stretching across Central Asia, from the Tarim basin to Khurasan. The Anushtegenids (anush-te-genids) of Khwarezm, formerly Seljuq appointees, now became vassals of the Qara-Khitai, as Dashi’s empire was called by the Mongols, meaning ‘Black Khitans,’ or ‘black Cathay.’  The Qara-Khitai have a fascinating history,  but unfortunately, not one we have time to go into here. Buddhists, with Chinese dynastic trappings, their empire was decentralized, with many vassal kings subject to the gurkhan, the Khitan emperor. Two of their five emperors were women,  ruling an ethnically and religiously diverse realm, and for decades harboured dreams of retaking north China, though they stagnated under the long reign of Dashi’s grandson, the gurkhan Yelu Zhilugu. The Qara-Khitai had been overlords of the Naiman tribes, so after the Irtysh River defeat in 1208, the Qara-Khitai was a natural place for Kuchlug to flee. Zhilugu saw Kuchlug and his retinue as a useful ally against his own vassals, especially the troublesome Muhammad Khwarezm-shah. The gurkhan bestowed titles, favours and a daughter upon Kuchlug, who repaid this generosity by raiding the Qara-Khitai treasury during Zhilugu’s war against Muhammad.  After a series of back and forth attacks, including an incident where Zhilugu sacked his own capital after it barred his door to him, Kuchlug ambushed and captured the Gurkhan 1211, and held him captive until his death in 1213. Kuchlug seized power, but proved incapable to rule the complicated state. Muhammad Khwarezm-shah took much of the Qara-Khitai’s western territory and butted heads with Kuchlug, who challenged the Khwarezmian to personal combat. The Shah declined. Kuchlug, originally a Nestorian Christian, converted to a violent strain of Buddhism, and began persecuting Muslims within his territory, alienating the empire’s urban population. The Tarim Basin proved especially volatile, where Kuchlug nailed an imam to the doors of his own madrassa in Khotan, and his forces destroyed crops every year until starvation quieted them.        In the northeast, near the Mongolian border, Qara-Khitai vassals declared for Chinggis Khan. One such was Ozar, a Qarluq horse thief who had risen to control Almaliq, and on his declaration of loyalty, had been given one of Jochi’s daughters in marriage. Kuchlug besieged Almaliq in late 1215 and killed Ozar, though his widow succeeded in defending Almaliq and getting a messenger to Chinggis Khan on his return to Mongolia. The death of a vassal, especially a son-in-law, was something to always punish, and Kuchlug’s usurpation of Qara-Khitai was a real danger. So in late 1216 Chinggis sent his top general, Jebe Noyan, [Zev, Зэв], accompanied by the Uighur Idiqut Barchuk and Qarluq Khan Arslan, to deal with Kuchlug. The speed of the collapse of Kuchlug’s state was shocking. Securing Almaliq, Jebe pursued Kuchlug to the Qara-Khitai capital of Balasaghun. There Kuchlug was beaten, but escaped, and Jebe entered Balasaghun unopposed. With princes of the realm now declaring openly for Jebe, Kuchlug fled through the mountains into the Tarim Basin, where he was still despised.        Jebe’s forces followed suite, and upon entering the Tarim Basin, sent out a declaration of religious tolerance: whoever submitted to the Great Khan would have their freedom of worship respected, a rather marked change from Kuchlug’s policies. The region then erupted: wherever Kuchlug had garrisoned troops, the citizenry fell upon them. Kuchlug was chased from city to city, many barring their gates to him. Fleeing the Tarim Basin, he travelled through the Pamir Mountains, eventually making his way through rugged Badakhshan (bad-akh-shan) to the Wakhan (wa-han) Corridor in northern Afghanistan, where he was cornered by local hunters and handed over to Jebe. With Kuchlug’s severed head on a lance, Jebe paraded it through his territory and gained the submission of whichever cities still held out. Thus ended the Qara-Khitai, years of anarchy followed by a remarkably peaceful Mongol conquest. With hardly an arrow shot, Jebe had greatly expanded the Mongol Empire westwards, returning to Chinggis Khan in 1219 with 1,000 chestnut horses with white muzzles- the same colour as the horse Jebe had shot out from under him in 1202.       An unforeseen consequence of this conquest was that this brought the Mongol Empire to the borders of the Khwarezmian realm. Shah Muhammad had had his own ambitions to conquer Qara-Khitai and had succeeded in taking some of its western territory- only to suddenly have the remainder quickly fall to this rising power in the east, while encountering them on his northern borders.       Yet, conflict between the Mongols and the Khwarezmians was not yet inevitable.  In fact, Chinggis Khan wanted to avoid, at all costs, war with Khwarezm. The first Mongol-Khwarezmian contacts were an embassy sent out by the Khwarezm-shah in 1215, passing the ruins of Zhongdu. Chinggis was happy to generously gift them, a part of a general Mongol policy of overpaying merchants for their goods. With a surplus of silver ripped from North China, overpaying merchants was a fine way to encourage and direct trade in the difficult overland journeys, especially into Mongolia, and would be a hallmark of Mongol policy for the next century. Initial contacts seemed promising between the two states, and Chinggis sent a return embassy in 1218 to reaffirm trade and friendship. By then though, most of the Qara-Khitai realm, the bufferstate between the Khwarezmian and Mongol empires, had been ground down by the efforts of Shah Muhammad and Jebe.        Muhammad was perhaps eager to find fault in the embassy, led by Mahmud Khwarezmi, likely the same individual as Mahmud Yalavach, a significant figure under Ogedai Khan. The embassy’s message from Chinggis Khan said that the Khan considered the Shah on the same level as his dearest sons. The Shah was furious: how dare any man, even a great emperor, consider the Shah of Khwarezm a son, implying the superiority of the father?        After the initial meeting, the Shah continued to grill Mahmud Khwarezmi, who, as his name describes, was a native of Khwarezm. Mahmud managed to calm him down by telling him Chinggis’ armies were pitiful compared to the mighty forces of the Shah, and that the Khan was only interested in trade. Shah Muhammad was pacified, for now.       This embassy had been sent ahead of a larger, slow moving trade caravan, about 450 merchants and their attendants, carrying precious goods.  Sometime in late summer 1218, the caravan reached the city of Otrar on the northeastern frontier of the Khwarezmian Empire. Otrar was governed by Shah Muhammad’s uncle, Inalchuq, who, possibly on the orders of the Shah or his own vile initiative, accussed the merchants of being spies, seized their goods and finally executed them, only a single camel driver escaping. This was a shockingly short sighted decision. Even if Shah Muhammad didn’t directly order it, he did nothing to discourage it or punish Inalchuq for the act. One possibility, suggested by historian Dmitri Timokhin, was that it was ordered by the Shah’s domineering mother, Terken Khatun, Inalchuq’s sister. Terken Khatun, a strong willed woman of Qangli origin, often actively combated her son’s orders, and acted as monarch in her own right in the original Khwarezmian capital of Gurganj. Perhaps seeing war as inevitable with the Mongols, with their swift conquest of Qara-Khitai, she wished to force her son to act.       Whatever the reason, it may surprise you to learn that the Massacre of Otrar was not the direct casus belli for the Mongol invasion of Khwarezm. When that lone camel driver returned to Chinggis Khan with news of what had happened, he was mad, but had no desire to lead a full invasion of Khwarezm while the Jin were still unconquered, and the Khwarezmian army seemed fearsome enough on its own.  Trade with Khwarezm was of greater benefit than conquest, so Chinggis Khan, in early 1219, sent another embassy, led by a Muslim who had served Muhammad’s father and two Mongol notables. War would be averted and trade resumed, they told the Khwarezm-shah, if he only sent Inalchuq to Mongolia for punishment. As far as the Mongols were concerned, the massacre at Otrar was just the act of a shortsighted governor.       Muhammad was in an unenviable position: if he didn’t give up Inalchuq, war would come to Khwarezm.  If he did give up Inalchuq, he would antagonize the Qipchaq-Qangli officials in his empire loyal to his mother Terken Khatun, pitting much of the administration and military leadership against him and undermining his rule. Thus, Shah Muhammad II of Khwarezm sided with his mother and made the fateful decision to execute the Muslim envoy, breaking the cardinal rule of diplomacy with the Mongols: do not kill the envoys. The envoy’s Mongol accomplices had their beards singed off by Muhammad, and were sent back to Chinggis Khan.  They returned to him after Jochi and Subutai had come with news of their own encounter with the Khwarezm-shah, and the message seemed clear. A powerful foe in the west, who now bordered his empire, had made opening strikes against the Khan. Ignore it, and he would lose face while leaving his new western territory vulnerable to Muhammad’s armies. With his general Mukhali having been committed to the Jin realm and able to keep the pressure on them, his northern borders secure and remaining rivals to steppe legitimacy destroyed by Jochi, Subutai and Jebe, Chinggis Khan raised his armies, and unleashed hell upon Khwarezm Having explained the background to war between the Mongols and Khwarezm, you won’t want to miss our next discussion on the Mongol Invasion, so be sure to hit subscribe to the Kings and Generals podcast and to continue helping us bring you more outstanding content, please visit our patreon at www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. Thank you for listening, I am your host David and we will catch you on the next one!

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 UNIVERSITY OF EXCELLENCEWWW.UOFE.ORG    Prince HandleyPresident / RegentTHAT'S WHAT PROPHETS ARE FORSTAY IN THE BLESSING ZONE  You can listen to this message NOW.Click on the pod circle at top left. (Allow images to display.)Or, Listen NOW >> LISTEN HERE  Email this message to a friend.    Subscribe to this Ezine teaching by Email: princehandley@gmail.com(Type “Subscribe” in the “Subject” line.)    24/7 release of Prince Handley teachings, BLOGS and podcasts > STREAM    Text: “follow princehandley” to 40404 (in USA)Or, Twitter: princehandley  _________________________________DESCRIPTION OF PODCAST / TEACHING You need to be continually in the blessing zone. In this podcast-teaching I will share with you two (2) important areas where members of the Body of Messiah— possibly including YOU—are being cheated out of blessing. 1. Not listening for the call to be a Prophet; and, 2. Not recognizing and honoring a Prophet. In this teaching we will cover both areas ... Plus TWO (2) prophecies. _________________________________  THAT'S WHAT PROPHETS ARE FORSTAY IN THE BLESSING ZONE   “Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for you, and you shalt live: and if you restore her not, you can know that you shall surely die, you, and all that are yours.”            – Genesi 20:7  "He that receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward.”           – Yeshua (Jesus) / Matthew 10:41“He let no man do them wrong: Yes, he reproved leaders of nations for their sakes, saying, 'Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.'”           – Psalm 105:15 In my NEW book, Conflict Healing, I describe several incidents where people had opposed me in my ministry and what happened to them as a result: One lady drove her brand new yellow Cadillac through the back wall of her garage and into the swimming pool—could have drowned, but for God's mercy—and was on the front page of three large newspapers: Los Angeles Times Long Beach Press Telegram Orange County (previously Santa Ana) Register. One young man died of a brain hemorrhage in 24 hours. One lady's house was destroyed to the ground in 48 hours. These are just a few, plus several I did NOT include in the book. Remember when Elijah withstood and challenged the false prophets on Mt. Carmel, and called fire down from Heaven (1 Kings 18)? I was laughing the other day remembering when I was holding a tent meeting in Tennessee (USA). We had to cut down tall trees from the woods and drag them in by tractor to make poles to hold up the tent. One morning I was in the woods by myself praying for that night's meeting and asking God to answer by fire from Heaven. I was kneeling in the woods on a tree stump and all of a sudden I heard noises. I looked around and on every side of me there were BIG black bulls. Immediately I thought of the scripture in Psalm 22:11-12, “Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help. Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.” I don't know if I have ever prayed harder in my life! I prayed and prayed and prayed—and stayed and stayed and stayed—until finally the bulls moved away out of sight. Talk about being delivered! Well, that night I preached on Elijah confronting the false prophets and calling down fire from Heaven. God had really been blessing the meetings and college students were driving from 70 milles away to come to the meetings. When I ended the meeting that night, I prayed, “Hear me, O LORD God, and let fire come down from Heaven.” All of a sudden, smoke began to enter the tent from above!!! One of the large lights at the top of the wooden pole near the front where I was preaching overheated and started burning the wooden pole … and people ran to the altar. One college student fell on the ground—under the power of the Holy Spirit—and remained there under the power of God. At that time in my life I was NOT baptized in the Holy Spirit and I did not know what was happening to the young man. Several college students gave their lives to be missionaries for the LORD God that night. And one of the students was later raised up to be a pastor in that area. It does NOT matter HOW God works … just so He works. Elijah was a man—a human being—just like we are. Yet, he prayed and God stopped the rain for three years. He prayed again, and God brought rain back on the earth again. Elijah was NOT afraid to confront the leader of the nation. Where are the REAL prophets today? Sin is rampant because the office of the Prophet is being neglected: being vacated. One of the greatest areas of ministry that is still being overlooked—and under sought after—is the office of Prophet. I want to share with you two (2) important areas where the enemy wants to cheat the Body of Messiah—to rob the synagogue and church—out of blessing. These attacks from the enemy are designed to deceive God's People so that they will: NOT listen to the call to be a Prophet; or, NOT recognize and honor the office of the Prophet. Of course, NOT all of God's People are called to the office of Prophet. However, the sad thing is—due to bad, inaccurate teaching from teachers and seminaries—most people do NOT know there is such an office. I am NOT talking here about the Gift of Prophecy … I am talking about the office of the Prophet. God uses prophets for different reasons and for different prophetic discourses. Prophecy can be: Directed (to a particular person or group) Specific (as to present or future action or resulting from past action) National (pertaining to a country or ethnic amalgamation) Judgmental (resulting from transgression of God's principles) Contradictory (against false prophecies being declared) Notification of blessing (due to God's favor or the result of obedience) To the above mentioned I want to ADD a category that is often overlooked by rabbis, ministers and theologians: Prophecy can be used by God through the Prophet as a “Spotter.” Let me give you an example. If you follow NASCAR racing you may be familiar with the term “Spotter.” A high speed professional auto racer definitely needs a Spotter: a person who is also an experienced driver but who is an observer of the race in a special location above the crowd who can see the cars, the line up of drivers, the track condition and opportunities for the driver to go ahead and pass, as well as pitfalls for the driver to avoid. Many times the ministry of the Prophet is used in similar—parallel—life circumstances: to direct and guide people or nations through troubled waters. The prophetic spotter will be much needed in the future with genome alteration, human enhancement, brain-machine interfacing and cyber intelligence. “Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he reveals His secret unto his servants the prophets.”– Amos 3:7 You need to be continually in the blessing zone. One prerequisite for this is that you need to be always listening to God … and be open to what He is saying. God does NOT change. And, the office of the Prophet has NOT changed. If you are NOT listening and someone calls you for dinner, you will probably miss dinner. Are YOU listening to determine IF God is calling YOU to the office of Prophet? And, I am NOT just talking to men. I am addressing this question to women—and girls—as well. Women have been used since time past in the office of Prophet … as well as men. Huldah was a Prophet. Huldah is one of the seven women prophets of Israel enumerated by the Rabbis: Sarah, Miriam, Deborah, Hannah, Abigail, Huldah and Esther (BT Megillah 14a). She is also mentioned among the twenty-three truly upright and righteous women who came forth from Israel (Midrash Tadshe, Ozar ha-Midrashim [Eisenstein], p. 474). When King Josiah found the Torah scroll in the House of the Lord, he sent messengers to the prophet Huldah, and not to Jeremiah, probably hoping that she would be merciful in her prophecy (BT Megillah 14b). Josiah apparently hoped that Huldah would be more moderate in her revelations, or that her compassion would succeed in canceling the anticipated future tribulations. However, contrary to his expectations, Huldah uttered harsh prophecies to the king. The greatest meetings where I have been on stage to observe closely as a minister were at the meetings of Kathryn Kulhman. Miss Kuhlman used to say often, “If God would have found a man to do this job, he would NOT have chosen me.” I say that to emphasize—and to prophesy—that God is getting ready to raise up and call out women as Prophets in these last days: holy women filled with the Ruach HaKodesh (the Holy Spirit), filled with His Word, and who operate in the Gifts of the Spirit—women who are NOT afraid to confront the leaders of nations, openly or otherwise! As when God calls men, so it is when He calls women. Your background is NOT the reason for your calling. Who you are does NOT depend on what you have or do not have, what education you have or do not have, what you do or do not do, who you know or do not know, or what you have done or have not done. God calls YOU because of WHAT you will do and WHO is in you. Huldah answered the messengers from King Josiah when they came to hear the Word of the LORD from her: “Tell the man who sent you to me.” (2 Kings 22:15) Ancient Rabbis comment that because of her haughty deportment, she was given a derogatory name, “huldah,” meaning “weasel” (BT Megillah 14b). However, I believe that Huldah may have possibly been—previously—a “sneaky, untrustworthy, or insincere person” until the God of Israel changed her and called her to be a Prophet. (Just like He changed Jacob, Moses and, just like He has changed—or, will change—many people reading this, including me.) In Psalm 68:11, we read: “The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.”The literal translation of “Great was the company of those that published it"is: “Of the female preachers there was a great host."God has always used women. God does NOT change—neither has the office of Prophet changed.“And the next day we that were of Paul's company departed, and came unto Caesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him. And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.” – Acts 21:8-9 Several decades ago I prophesied that God was going to start raising up African Americans—and other Black People—for leadership in government, business and ministry and placing them in strategic positions. Now, I prophesy to you that God is going to raise up KEY women He has chosen for the office of Prophet.  The fringe benefits that go with the office of Prophet are wonderful. “He let no man do them wrong: Yes, he reproved leaders of nations for their sakes, saying, 'Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.'” – Psalm 105:15 Now, let me give you a second prophecy. I want to quote from Ecclesiastes 3:1. “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” My friend, you are beginning to enter a NEW season. Your life is NOT over … it is just beginning … if yo will receive this word and believe this prophecy. You are entering a NEW season, my friend. Listen to God, obey God, be used by God … and be BLESSED by God. I trust this teaching will help you. God has given you everything you need to stay in the blessing zone. Check to see if you are: Listening to God's call to be a Prophet; and, Recognizing and honoring the office of the Prophet. And, if you need help making a decision—or if you feel that you have NOT recognized and honored the office of a particular Prophet—check out two of the following books titled, Decision Making 101 … AND … Conflict Healing – Relational Health … PLUS How to Receive God's Power with Gifts of the Spirit, which will enable you to receive God's Power with resultant gifts. Decision Making 101 Conflict Healing How to Receive God's Power   Your friend,Prince HandleyPresident / RegentUniversity of Excellence   Podcast time: 15 minutes, 47 seconds Copyright © Prince Handley 2014All Rights Reserved.  Prince Handley Portal    24/7 Prince Handley BLOGS, teachings, and podcastsClick the dove above.  _______________   For FREE literature, write to:Handley WORLD SERVICES IncorporatedBox ADowney, CA 90241 USA  ______________________________________________ Prince Handley Ministry Portal: www.princehandley.comPrince Handley Books: Both Print Editions and e-BooksUniversity of ExcellenceThe Believer's Intelligencia: www.uofe.orgSubscribe to The Healing and Miracle Podcasthere: SUBSCRIBESubscribe to Apostle Talk Podcasthere: SUBSCRIBESubscribe to The Voice of Israel Podcasthere: SUBSCRIBEFREE onlineNew Testament Bible Studies in French, Spanish & English: http://www.uofe.org/bible_studies.htmlApostle Talk Podcast(advanced teaching): www.apostle.libsyn.comHealing and Miracle Podcast: www.healing.libsyn.comVoice of Israel Podcast: www.podcastsatellite.libsyn.comRabbinical Studies: http://uofe.org/RABBINICAL_STUDIES.htmlIsrael News and Prophecy: www.podcastsatellite.comIf you need healing, deliverance, or prayer, email to: princehandley@gmail.com  ______________________________________________  

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