There are a number of important probability distributions, but one of the more common is known as the binomial distribution. In many cases, we can describe a random experiment as the repetitions of a single, simpler experiment. So, for example, flipicoin ten times is the same as flipicoin once, repeat ten times. Or, roll three dice is the same as roll one die, three times. If this happens, we have a binomial experiment. More formally, we say that the binomial experiment is one that can be described as a single, simple experiment, repeated a specified number of times, where the probability of an event of interest is constant. So, let's determine if the following experiment is binomial, a coin is flip ten times, and the number of heads is recorded. If it's binomial, we do want to identify this simple experiment and the probability, otherwise we want to explain why it's not binomial. So, we'll pull in our definition of binomial experiment. So, we need to be able to describe this as a single, simple experiment, repeated a specified number of times. So, this is the experiment, flip a coin one time, repeated ten times. The other requirement for being a binomial experiment is that the probability of an event of interest is constant. Here, we're interested in recording the number of heads, so that means the event of interest is that the coin lands heads, and the probability a coin lands heads on any individual flip is one-half. And since this probability doesn't change, this is a binomial experiment. How about this experiment? We roll three dice, and the sum of the numbers is found. Now, we can treat this as the experiment, roll one die, repeated three times. But, there's no event, roll one die, that corresponds to the sum of the numbers. And that means we can't even identify the event of interest, let alone determine whether the probability is constant. And so, this is not a binomial experiment. Or, suppose we pick three people from a group of eight men and two women to serve on a committee, and the number of women is recorded. If this is a binomial experiment, identify the simple experiment of the probability, otherwise explain why it's not binomial.  This is not a random experiment, because the people are chosen. And, while that's true, the thing to remember is that random means unpredictable, not reasonless. Since we don't know in advance who is going to be chosen, this is a random experiment. So let's see if we can describe it as a simple experiment repeated a number of times. And the first thing that comes to mind is we might try to describe this as the experiment, pick one person from a group of ten repeated three times. But, we'd be wrong. After we pick the first person, we no longer have ten people to choose from. And so, this is not a binomial experiment. So how do we calculate binomial probabilities? If a binomial experiment is repeated n times where an event of interest has probability p, the probability the event will occur k times is given by the following formula. Now, as a general rule, calculating the different components of the formula is somewhat tedious, and as a result, most spreadsheet, statistical programs, and calculators have a binomial distribution functions. Syntax varies, but binomedist n k p is common. And note that what this means is that once we identify that an experiment is binomial, what we have to know is how many times the experiment was repeated, how many times the event of interest occurred, and the probability of the event of interest. So let's find the probability that a fair coin lands heads eight times in ten flips. So note that we're interested in the number of occurrences of an event when a simple experiment is repeated a number of times where an event of interest has constant probability. And so this means we're dealing with a binomial experiment and can compute a binomial probability. In order to do that, we need to identify the number of times the experiment is repeated, the probability of the event of interest, and the number of occurrences of the event of interest. So we're interested in the probability that a fair coin lands heads eight times in ten flips. And so that says the number of occurrences of the event is k equal to eight. Our simple experiment is flip a coin once, and we've repeated that experiment n equals ten times. Now, we also need the probability of the event of interest. Well, we're interested in whether the coin lands heads, and so the probability of landing heads is one-half. So this is a binomial experiment with p equals one-half, k equals eight, n equals ten, and so we can compute the probability. Again, most spreadsheet calculators and statistical software have a built-in capability of calculating binomial probabilities, you just have to figure out how. Once you identify n, k, and p, and we have, we'll enter in the correct information and our spreadsheet will calculate the probability for us.


And seeing 615, we have posted the agenda in three places, saying that the meeting starts at 615. Recording in progress. We're now recording. It's been posted on the website and emailed to interested parties so we can move forward with this meeting. And I'm going to start with the prior meeting minutes for September 26th. It looked appropriate to me. Do you guys have any corrections or concerns? I just made one little correction to put an I in front of the 89 signs. 89 signs? Not 89 signs on the product. Yeah, 50 years from now they'll wonder where those 800 signs are. All right. So I'd move to approve the minutes for that. I second that. In addition, all in favor? Aye. Okay. Cool. And we have any guests Larry or you're here for anything in particular? Just you miss us? I do. All right. You miss me too. All right. We've got the on the new business. We've got the September treasurer's report. You guys have a chance to study on that much? I looked it over. You looked it over and anything jump out at you? No, it didn't happen to me either. A lot of numbers. I always wish there was more on the bottom line, but that's never slow. Never going to happen. No, no. So is that something that move to approve this this edition of the treasurer's report? We approve the review. Approve the review? All in favor? Aye. Okay. We had a request from John Duger about his utility bill. And do you have Frank? You had some details or Terry? You have details on that? Details or nothing about it. Here's the bills that he has right here. Okay. And this was his request. Okay. He called and he has two late water bills and would like to resolve with some help. He's trying to sell this property. And it's, so this is what he got the total amount to do is what, 674 dollars? Or is this, is it two separate ones? I think this is the other one. That was the balance forward. Okay. And so, so this is property that he hasn't been in, but he kept the water on just in case he would come. I'm not sure. Very, you know, what the deal was there? I don't think he gets a lot of usage. I think it's just, he doesn't have a lot of usage or anything, but if his water is not shut off and if we shut it off, then I disconnect it. And he would have to pay a new hookup fee for both water and sewer. And he'd have to probably go through an engineer, which would have to go through the state to see if we could hook it back in. So you're talking, it probably cost him roughly probably guessing around three to $5,000 if I unhook it. And he never requested unhooking it. He never did. Okay. So I'm going to add a little to that because the property is being transferred. All the property taxes and utility bills need to be satisfied before transferring the deed. Right. So that balance would typically be taken out of his proceeds from the sale of the house. So it's not something that he really needs to pay up front in order for the house to sell. The attorneys call and they get the property tax bill and whatever might be due for water and sewer. And they, they deviate, prorate it at closing. So this is really something that can easily be handled at his closing. At the closing, yeah. I'm in the same situation with the garage property. The water is shut off, but I'm still paying the water charge and meter charge. Like I said, if you're going to hook it. Yeah.  So the commercial hookup, I think 3,000 or 1200 for water and 2,000 or something like that for a sewer. And then you still got to go through the engineering fees. Yeah. So yeah, I think that we just maybe can clarify with him that this is something that's not going to hold up the sale of his house, but that will be cleared up in. He's still responsible for it, but it'll be taken out of his proceeds. Yeah. So I don't think we can just say, hey, congratulations. You're selling your house. You don't have to pay the bills. I don't think so. So I'm just going to, you want to give him a call back and then measure? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The other thing is he never requested. Right. So yeah. Yeah. You can't request it after the fact. Yeah. It's not like it was a over usage. Oh, it could be. It could be sponsored or something. That's something that we can work with people for. This is just for the basic service fees. And is Tony on Zoom or anybody from the library? I don't think so, but I do. Can the person please that's on the phone with the number ending in 4998. Could you please state your name? Hmm. They're on you. Okay. Well, hopefully it's not Tony. Okay. I'm missing this chance to talk to you. Yep. You got any reports from the highway? I know it's not our job that the, about 100 is getting paid, but it is getting paid. Yeah. Well, they couldn't work today and Friday while they pick in any way after the holidays. Yeah. So they'll be out tomorrow, I would imagine. And I shoot, they're going pretty fast. Yeah. They got pretty much up to where they, they thought they'd be at the bridge by last Thursday because so they're going to be coming through pretty good. I've talked to John about working on the capital plan with him and I'll be sitting down with him. Pat has brought up something that we need to address at Bill Carlson's in the hollows and I'll go up and look at that. Probably not tomorrow, but maybe the next day. He's putting some sign up on his garage, is that?  So it sticks out in the road a little bit or what, what's the deal there? It definitely infringes on the right of way. Yep. So we'll have to deal with that. Okay. Just because you meet a truck there or something. Yeah. That would be an issue. And plus I don't know, I'll take John up with me too to see what we'll get together. So I'll talk with him. We'll go up and see what the deal is. And we will be working on the budget. He's working on the budget and the capital plan will sit down and get that done next week or so. All right. All right. You said Martha had a question there? Yes, please. What Frank was saying about who was the person he was talking about who had the sign on his barn. I was writing something and I missed it. That's Bill Carlson on town line road. Okay. So it's sticking out in the road. No, we're going to take a look at it. We're not sure, Martha. It's been brought to our attention. We have to go up and look at it to see what the deal is with it. Okay. Thank you. No problem. Sorry. I'll mute myself. Okay. Thank you. Good. All right. Terry got any updates on the utility world? No. Nope. Thanks. Everything's okay. Oh, there's a flush in the water. Hello. Yeah. Okay. Well, hello. That's the 4998. Now, this is Robert Frank. Who was the host of this meeting this evening? That would be me or the slide board in general. Yeah. We can hear you, Robert. Sorry. What's your question? I continue to be muted. We mute everybody that's doing it. It's me, Kristen. I run the computer and we mute people on zoom until they raise their hand either vocally or by pressing the raise your hand button just so we can run a smooth meeting. Well, I think you should put those rules of law or rules of regulations to the public because I didn't know this and you continue, Kristen, you continue to, continuing to mute me. So you're unmuted. So you're unmuted now. What can we do for you tonight, Robert? There's a number of issues. Okay. We're going through it. So let me make this clear to Kristen. Wait a second. I'm looking at my computer and I cannot speak to the computer. I have to speak on the phone. So what's with that? I don't know. I can sit back and relax. I don't know. So let's get, so we're on there. Let's, we're moving toward public comment and then we can get onto that.   All right. I don't know anything about this. It's pretty common zoom etiquette. That's between you and the digital community. This is democracy and I'm being discreet by this. If you'd like me to continue, I will. When we get to public comment, we can address your concerns, but we're working through the departmental agenda. You're excited that way. Well Kristen, wake up and smell the roses. Okay. Well, you do have a copy of our agenda that came with the zoom invite. So there's a copy of our agenda and you'll see that we're on our way to public comment. All right. So I is Jeff get part on there. He's un-meeting as we speak. He's un-meeting? Yeah. Good evening, Jeff. Hi, Jeff. Hi. Don't have too much. I've been really dizzy a tail in the summer, but I'm starting to, I roll my sleeves up and starting to get back on the horse. We should have, I'm checking to make sure that it's still coming up, but unless you guys know something differently, we're supposed to have the electric vehicle chargers installed by the end of this month. Sarah Peary has. We lost you, Jeff. Left GMT and Madam Kirk Shield, and I sent an email off to him this morning to find out whether they are on track for an end of October. All right, yeah, I was curious about that. I can be in touch with Caleb on that, Jeff. The last I knew, they were going to be another year because they had trouble with the panel. They can't get the 277-480 panels for a year. They're a year out. So unless they were going to, they were going to try to match one up. So I talked with the chief engineer and Caleb there one day and met with a guy that's going to do the work. This was probably two months ago, and they figured it was going to be a year out unless they could find the panel. And they thought the panel was at least a year out. OK, because Sarah told me, I believe Sarah told me, that she had the equipment. Yeah, I got a copy of that email to Jeff. And I talked with Casey for the Green Mountain Power. He's the one that's going to be doing all the work. They've agreed to do the project and take care of all the trimming and everything. And they want to locate it towards the back of the parking lot. And I've requested that they stay at least 10 feet away from the septic line that's buried in there. They're going to cross it. Because that's near the end, you can see where it runs through there. They're going to be on the parking lot side. I want to talk to you about that, so we'll go down and we'll look at that. Because I just took my video off. Oh, so you have a better connection without the video? Because I was freezing up here, so I think we'll keep engaged with you later on, Frank. The library had this little tag with Cody Downs, I'm trying to find out what he observed when he added flashing between the first and second story. And of course, there's concern remaining about the openings, particularly the north wall, for the windows. I don't know if anything further is planned there or whether I should start looking at that. We'll continue trying to figure something out there. I think you and I need to get together and we'll figure going forward. I think what we need to do is get a contractor in there to look at that, just to see what they think we should do and possibly look at how we're going to vent that to try to keep the pain on that building. OK, well, I'm available for that. OK. Well, back I set up some spreadsheets for the track expenses. Those have been neglected for a while. This week, I got the electric caught up and I'll probably be in touch with Kristen to if I'm missing any of them. All right. Martha's got a couple questions. It will build. I'd like meshing those with the EDI audit and start coming up with some proposals. Great. Is that it? That's really it. Do we have any updates on the resiliency zone project from Green Mountain Power? Are they still contemplating that? Oh, yeah. They have a contract with Norwich Solar. It will be next year, not this year. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't think they'd do it that quick, but interesting. Yeah, Norwich Solar is going to be doing the design and the permitting for GMP. Martha, you had some questions? Yeah, I just wondered, going back to when Jeff began talking on that electrical vehicle charger, which he said would be installed by the end of this month, is that that it sounds like maybe that's if he or not, is that definite? And if so, where was it going to be installed? Where in town? That's going to be at the park and ride across from the fire station. Well, I have no. Oh, they changed that. It sounds. Go ahead, Jeff. You know, until tonight, I was under the impression it was to be installed by the end of the month. Oh, right. Right. So it's not going to be installed till later. Frank's conversation with the engineer seems to indicate that it's going to be next year. OK, but next year it would be if the place is the same, the park and ride? Yes. And that's the park and ride north of town. If I said park and ride north of town, north of the village. On the north end of the village. It's in the village across from the fire station. Village, OK. OK, thank you very much. Sorry to bother you. No problem. Thank you. Unless we'll get it straight. Yep. Thank you, Jeff. Thank you. Yep. So we now are on to our public comment session. Robert, you had something you wanted to talk about other than the Zoom etiquette. The what? The navigation of Zoom meetings. Well, I had a lot of good information delivered to the town of Rochester. But tomorrow morning I'll be on with the Secretary of State to understand the rules and regulation of Zoom meetings with the Select Board, Board of Civil Authority, and Nancy, you look like you're going to throw up in Maine. So Kristen does not have the authority to mute me, OK? So if you'd like me to go on with what I thought was very positive feedback to the town of Rochester, I will do so. OK. Do you want me to do that? Please do. Sure. We're ready. OK. Number one, Dana, whatever his coonie, whatever, I don't know who the road guy is, they're doing an incredible job on the roads of Rochester. The building being constructed on the north side of Rochester, I don't know what it's going to be, but the laborers are doing a great job. Number three, the firehouse. The firehouse, can anyone answer this question? When was the old firehouse vacated, 2010 or 2011? 2013. 2013. So that was after Irene. Yes. Prompted that. That was after Irene because the new fire station was built on a donated property that had flooded during Irene. OK. So I requested from Kristen, who is a paid employee appointed by the town of Rochester for the deed of the firehouse to determine what is involved with the reason why the building has been vacant for 11 years, 10 years. What's being used for storage? It's not vacant, actually. It has a rotating storage depending on the season for town equipment. So we have coffee roasters, brewery people, Bill Carlson wanting to open an antique store. What's the number? Does the town know the number for public real estate to be sold within the town? We choose not to place the building for sale at this time. Well, it's only been 10 years. We have no intentions of selling it. We're using it for storage. Well, I would think that it would be proper to announce for Martha to report that to the town because there's a number of people, the owner of Maple Soul, that want to use that for economic development in the town. That was several years ago, yes. Every time someone has approached us about wanting to purchase it, it's been made public comment that we were not willing to sell it. Hardware being sold. Well, it's been publicly stated multiple times. So it's not like a secret. Do you know the reason why the town can't sell it? Because we'd like to use it for storage. Well, you might want to look into the state's statutes. The building is not really classified as a very healthy building as well, which was one of the reasons why we needed a new fire department, correct? Right. Well, I would get in touch with the how to your real estate person. Yes, I am. The reason why the town of Rochester can't put that forward to the public and turn it into an economic development project, just like the school. The town chooses to maintain the building for storage purposes. What temperature should the building be held at throughout the year? Whatever temperature it is, that's why it's a perfect building for what it's being used for. There's no power. Oh, again, you might want to check in with the state. OK. The building should be held at 58 degrees year round. There's no furnace in there. There's no heat. There's no water going into that building. It's just a cold storage unit. And we put the park benches, and John keeps the sander in there in the summer for his one of the pickups. And we keep the picnic tables in there. The guy who does the sidewalks parks his sidewalk plow in there during the winter just because it keeps it under cover and it's handy for him to use out of there. And that's the only thing we use it for. And it's just got a bunch of cones in there in case of an emergency that is used. And that's about it. There's a bunch of town equipment in there other than that, Robert. It serves a very useful purpose. You really, Frank, you might thank you for all that information. But you might want to check in with the state because that's a tax paid building paid by the tax payers of Rochester and this county. And you're telling me there are cones and clouds through. I mean. Yeah, it actually serves quite a big service to the town to have the sidewalk clearing tractor perched right there in the village ready to go. It's so it does, you know, it serves a purpose. Yes, it is right on Main Street when we looked at possibly renting it to the Maple Soul folks who initially was talking about brewing beer in there and instead of opening a restaurant and the complications with our septic system being able to handle that activity, it just was off the charts impractical. Yeah, so it's not that we haven't explored the possibilities. But is that? Well, the only thing I'm recommending to the select board, the board of civil authority and the rest is that checking with the state with regards to public building and understand the responsibility that the town of the building and the town owners or taxpayers of the building have your basically jurisdiction. So I don't I'm just recommending that doing and patting Frank and the rest deck it with the state and make certain that what's going on with that building is proper and legal. Oh, no, throw the high school in on that. I don't really care what's stored in there. Yeah, OK. OK, thank you. Hey, here's the question. We will do that. What's stored in the high school? We don't own the high school. That's the school. Yeah, that's the school bar about that, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So sadly, I had great information to share with everyone, including Martha and Nancy and the rest. But you know, I'm actually very disappointed with the Wizard of Oz, Kristen, muting me and telling me I have to raise my hand. I don't know how to raise my hand. So tomorrow morning, I'm calling the Secretary of State asking them to review this video. Dude, don't look away. I'm going to ask them to review it. You can't see it. Don't look away. I'll point it. Oh, Robert, OK. Did he just hang up? Yes, sir, he did. OK. He's still here watching us through his buddies off the phone. OK. I had a couple things. You have some other things in public, huh? No, I have some old business. Yep, all right. Did we have any further investigation into the maintenance agreement that we're being asked to sign for the stormwater? I have to get a copy from Kristen of the As Built play-ins there so that we have a copy of that. Should have been for payment. Well, we didn't pay anything. Well, before they paid it, it should have been. Right. We need to get a copy of the As Built play-ins so we can go over this agreement easier. And John has kept an eye on it since it was put in. And the big one to the north, the drain there to the north, he has not seen any water flowing from that one into this one in the middle. And so there's really not much water going into him. And he said, I've looked at him every time it rains and watch how the ground is after we paved it all. And he said he hasn't seen any water going into that center one from that other one. So if you look in that other one, it's bone drop. Yeah, it's probably over time as sediment builds up, that'll do it. Yeah, it'll put the stone up for a minute or so. And that was written in there that you have to clean that stone. Yeah, I know. We've got to look at it. I want to see what the As Built is and make sure we've got a copy of that. John knows where some of it is. And the defender is on the end towards the river by the salt shed. That would vary. Well, the caps are there, but it is buried. It's got the sample over it right now. So I'll take care of that this week. Have we heard from Bruce Fuelling about the Jones Mountain property issue? We haven't. I talked with Bruce about it, and he said he was going to try and get with Cooter, which has got the software on his phone to go and do the geolocation, if you get specific with the road. So I'm going to send it. Yeah, I mean, I could probably pull a deed for the people that are denying the right-of-way to see if there is anything written in that might have to go back a few owners to see if there is a right-of-way. All our maps indicate that it is a road. It was never thrown up as a trail or anything. So all the maps indicate what it's under, like a pint road. So we have to look at what the rules are to pint roads, and I'm not really positive how that all plays into that. And Bruce has done a lot of research on this stuff anyway. And so he was having some personal issues, and he wasn't able to address much until he gets through some of these things that are happening there. So that's why that's where it is. Forward it again. Yeah, yeah. So all we can do with that. Anything else that you had on your list, Pat? No. No. No, thanks for bringing those up. Does anybody in Zoom land or need anything to? Well, actually, I do have something else to say. Oh, you do have something? I thought you might. I'm in the process of compiling a grant, which is called the VTRAAN Safe Routes to School Spot Improvement Program. It's designated to improve bike lanes and sidewalks within villages that lead up to schools. Hello. Excuse me, we'll be right with you. And this particular program. One second, Patty. I've been trying to make a comment. And Kristen, again, has muted me. I haven't done anything. No, no one has muted you. You hung up? No, no, no, no, no. Wait a second. I asked Kristen last Wednesday if she would be so kind to prepare the deed of the firehouse for me.  Kristen, if there was any more. Robert, you know what? You just jumped right in and interrupted something that Pat was saying. No, I did not interrupt. Oh, actually, that's not true. We've got a lot of people here that just really? Yeah, yeah.  Your phone hung up. No, I did not hang up. What it sure sounded like. And it disconnected from the. Your glyph in his phone. That's what you guys thought it was. I did not hang up. Well, it's OK if we recorded. OK. So. Well, thank you, Patty. We'll listen to the orco together eating popcorn on Friday night. No, we won't. Now I'm hanging up. There you go. That's what it sounded like the first time. OK, so just for the record, though, he's his computer is still on and he is unmuted, just so you're aware of that. OK, OK. So can I continue? Yeah, go ahead. In the process of seeking grant money for 2022, be trans safe routes to school spot improvement program. It's to improve bike paths and sidewalks. And I did tour the town with Rita from VTrans. And we have selected a section of sidewalk that we're hoping to get a 100% non matching grant. In other words, we don't have to come up with any matching funds to restore the sidewalk from the parsonage up to Brook Street. And so the sidewalk will be, for the most part, the sidewalk up there is wide enough to be ADA compliant. There is a section by the parsonage where it might have to become a little bit wider. And they will replace the granite curbing along the way. And they are hoping that there's a drainage, a storm drain right there at that corner that will need to be reconfigured. And we're hoping to go up around the corner, not to the bridge, but just curl up around the corner so that people from Brook Street would start on the sidewalk before they even enter Bethel Mountain Road. I believe I got an initial thumbs up working with Rita. And she's very pleasant to work with. And I've got. I'm not sure. I'm not sure which way to go. So that's the standard. Yeah, it might be. It's in pretty rough shape. I looked at it pretty good the other day when I read the meters. Also, the section by Catherine's Lovely Flowers are kind of overpowering the sidewalk a little bit. And it pushes people a little more towards the traffic. So it might be time to cut back some of the foliage there, the flowers. But we're working on that. And we're hoping by next year we will be able to complete another section. And this is an ongoing program. So if this works out this time around, we're going to go back and knock on their door time and time again. And we could include bike paths as well in the future. That's it. All right. Good. So this is an annual grant, you're saying? Yes. The Vermont Safe Roads to School. Safe routes. Safe routes. Safe routes to school. And we're lucky enough our elementary school is right in the village. So we have a lot of children that walk to schools and buses. Thanks for doing that, school. Good. Good. Thanks. I've been used a lot. Yeah, it does. It's very busy. All right. Anything else anybody needs to speak about? If not, I think we'll adjourn and pay some bills. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Yep. Move to adjourn. I second. All in favor? Aye. OK.


Good morning YouTube fans. We're freezing it's windy and it's cold and we're in Death Valley and we're at the wilderness boundary that's looking down into the valley we're kind of up high we're a few thousand feet above the valley that's why it's a little chilly we got all our gear here ready to go we drove as far as we could we're headed down this road that's behind Julie looking for a mine so you might get some wind noise it's really windy again the day and my windscreen already fell off what of you starting to warm up a little bit here's gangsta Julie there's telescope peak the old mining road still in pretty good shape looks like it's dropping down into a wash right now just ahead of Julie there there's a brick PCP maybe something I can't quite read it down the wash though starting to see a few things it can and some steel there's some corrugated steel on there I think I gotta go up this way there's an opening very low almost in the wash here it's a little strange see some timbering there's an old door smells like a mine okay so we just peeked into that last at it we didn't go in because I was looking for this urban I had seen research I couldn't figure out where it was looks like there's another opening there possibly another couple openings here I see some waste piles over this way so we have a few things to explore any good pretty nice big orb in oh Julie's already on to the artifacts here's a here's a drift pick a miner's drift pick see how thin it is and small made for clearing out small crevices versus a large pick like for digging holes and hard clay and stuff there's also a piece of chain there drive chain of some sort there's a bunch of track connectors there on the ground looks like a file file that should go with the pick I'll stuff up all right let's go check out this little opening there was an old wood box here of some sort there's another wood box here of some sort as you can the table bags of gold so this maybe is just a little storage room so these bags are looks to be cement which has hardened after it's gotten wet unless it's something else there's a table here within looks like it well can and a tobacco tin I see light back there all right let's go across the wash and the only find some more cans down here you know there's tobacco can back there there's some other old cans in here parts of some dynamite boxes in the rats nest the rats are used in the dynamite boxes let's see if we can see any of these cans ground chocolate bishop something that's a blue ship nothing it's a bark oh that's just a design sweet ground chocolate and cocoa so it's like it's like cocoa okay let's go back here's another door says keep out danger toxic fumes fairly new paint we better get our gas monitor on our gas detectors going through its checks here's the light all right let's see what we have in the toxic fume keep out zone see some boxes nature gift something other quick rules butter beans butter bean butter beans been in here do you want to go right or left who's doing the left hand rule looks like there was a rack for hanging things on with the nail sticking on over there box is some sort doesn't look like a dynamite box a little event looks like it's just ends right here well look at the vein here though it's a big quartz vein and you can see it just stopped right there that's why they stopped digging that's about three feet wide it's gonna look the other way I think these are just prospects butter bean box reminded me of butter bean the fighter he's a character in the mason jar with something interesting looking vein oh somebody's done a little surveying in there with the paint quartz vein like there are a little bit of copper remit related minerals in there let's go see what we find around here our gas meter didn't go off so I don't think there were any toxic fumes in there I wonder who painted that on that's fairly new maybe the park service trying to scare you out of here looks like a top-to-a-barrel that was bent into a shape for a shoot or something miners used what they had on hand to get the job done there's another small type of bin or hopper shaped like that I call those hoppers that's the inside of it not very big maybe four by six at the top definitely looks like a decent quartz vein around here this is the way file there are a couple more little openings here to our right this stuff is all on the waste pile all looks like quartz let's go in this one see we see this is more of an open cut isn't it right here anyway definitely open this up a little bit here's a box it looks like it says something I can't quite read it maybe Julie can read it was it wasn't frozen wasn't frozen for long out here another rats nest in a quartz vein similar to the last place we were in interesting vein though it's a fey tomato sauce interesting to go take a left appear if we can if it's not too steep well once again it's just a short working with an interesting quartz vein big hanging wall on the right here some old beer cans down there look like a steel Budweiser can because it's rusting looks like there was some sort of a meal here somebody's done a lot of crushing a lot of fine sitting right here a little opening back there here's an inclined shaft a little messed up there's a big breakthrough on the lagging of the lining of the shaft with a bunch of dirt hanging there and some boards and rocks you wouldn't want that to fall on you I don't know if you can see down the shaft there got my spotlight out here is the orb in there's a load of vein material right here sitting outside of the mine waiting for the mill this is the dump outside of that here's the orb in a little trestle going over to it attempt to go down that shaft it looks like there was a head frame on top of it and the lift pad hoist pad back here looks like fairly old stuff judging from the condition of the lumber this would have been an equipment mount probably for the for the incline which is right over there and then the the head frame is toppled over would have stood above the the end of the incline here and there's part of the chute that the skip would have dumped into whatever it was there somebody took it I think a lot of that stuff got reused might as well grab that kind of stuff or cars or especially the wheels because you can make a worker out of wood but especially the wheels things that had to be cast like that or the big sheave wheel they wouldn't take those and repurpose them the next mine it's like there's a little bit of everything in these greens up here that must be Micah although it's not layered like Micah usually is a neat little oil can Julie found Richfield Oil Corporation tip it up a little bit see it's a 30 weight huh there's some stools up there and a piece of glass wow thick glass you know what that's from you know it's a little stranger that's a little taller what do you see back there interesting was this down the shaft you think but this is down at the bottom of the shaft because this was in line with the shaft right what's that that's a big waterline coming up or in kind of me let's see if this is at the bottom of the shot I'm guessing it is possibly anyway I'm guessing this is the bottom of the shaft yeah it's gotta be good thing we didn't climb down the shaft that's definitely it you can see the skip rails there they're looks like a four by four with a strap on it and does something over here but it's extremely low I don't know if it's filled in so this quartz vein is still here it goes into a room but it's extremely low and I just think it stops there I stuck my head in there as best I could so this is the bottom of the skip track it was a strap three by four with a strap on it that's looking up the shaft it's pretty steep it's almost straight up and anything could let go of this at any time then the rail is all busted up on the right side it's just hanging there by the strap as you can see all right let's back out of here I'm a neat little stope room here isn't it it's a red rock again I'm assuming this was a gold mine with all the quartz and also the red definitely a lot of minerals in this area here we have another place we can look at all right we're back to this spot where we very first started this mine exploration at this colored door multi-color door yeah what the rats are brought some birds in the garden now oh yeah stay out of those things they really mess you up boy it's warm in here takes a sharp right it's a lover for something throttle linkage this is a red red rock vein again if we put the brakes on that's the end of it that's pretty nice door fairly modern hinges it doesn't move though I know that's the opening just came out of wasn't the biggest mine in the world but small mines need love too yeah still fun you never know what you're gonna find till you get out here and check it out so that's gonna do it for our video for today and we hope you guys enjoyed it and we will see you next time


We're going to be looking today at Mark chapter 15 verses 16 through 20, and you might want to be prepared to turn to John's gospel chapter 19. You might want to put a pen or something there in that place, because I'm going to take you there as we near the conclusion of our study to share some things out of that passage that helped to bring this passage to life a little bit more. So just be aware of that. We'll be turning to John chapter 19 as we continue and go through this study. But today we're going to be looking at Mark 15 verses 16 through 20. So I'll begin by reading those verses and then as is my normal way of teaching, I'll give you a little bit of a background to remind you of what's taking place, then move into our study. So, beginning here in chapter 15 of Mark, reading from verse 16 to verse 20. Then the soldiers led him away into the hall called Praetorium, and they called together the whole garrison, and they clothed him with purple, and they twisted a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and began to salute him, hail king of the Jews. Then they struck him on the head with a reed and spat on him, bowing the knee they worshiped him, and when they had mocked him, they took the purple off him, put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him. Now at this point we all know Jesus has been delivered up to be crucified. As we've gone through this passage and have compared this with other passages, we know that the Roman governor, a man by the name of Pontius Pilate, was not convinced that Jesus should die. He knew that Jesus was innocent. In Luke 23 verses 13 through 16, it reads, Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people, said to them, you have brought this man to me as one who perverts the people, and behold, I have, I having examined him before you have found no fault in this man, touching those things whereof you accuse him, nor yet hered, for I sent you to him, and behold, nothing worthy of death is done to him. I will therefore chastise him and release him. Now we see that he had a mind to release Christ, at least at the beginning. He knew that Jesus had been delivered up to him because of envy.  Envy is displeasure when someone has what you don't want them to have. Envy has been identified in Scripture as what is called a work of the flesh in the book of Galatians in chapter 5 verses 19 through 21. You have what is called a list of the works of the flesh, and in Galatians 5, 19 to 21, it says that the works of the flesh are obvious, and it includes envy. In Romans chapter 1 verses 28 through 32, those verses tell us that those with the depraved mind are filled with every kind of evil, including envy. So envy is a very common sin. As a matter of fact, it's very often considered as simply normal, and we know that you can envy somebody's car, you can envy their job or their clothing, you can, you can envy their talents, their girlfriend, their boyfriend, you can envy their success, their home, their looks, their status, their finances. Envy over finances seems to be one of the sins that is most acceptable and most often seen in our own society. Well that's an especially evil sin, this envy, in that it's the sin that leads to the death of Jesus Christ and partly knew that they had delivered Jesus out of envy. He had found no fault in him, and because of this he began the lobby for Jesus to be set free. He first offered a choice to the people. We saw this, Barabbas or Jesus, murderer or Messiah. Which one of these would benefit Israel the most? Well instead of choosing Jesus, the chief priest stirred the people to ask for Barabbas. And then we saw that he had scourged Jesus, hoping that it would satisfy their anger. It may be that they'll see him and feel pity for him. Again in this he was wrong, we saw that. They wouldn't settle for anything but his death. Now the rejection of Jesus Christ was not unexpected. It was actually prophesied, again I've mentioned this to you before, but the Bible is the one book that has prophecy that you can point to that has been fulfilled, 700 plus years before Christ, it was a prophet by the name of Isaiah. And Isaiah prophesied concerning Messiah. He has said in Isaiah chapter 53 verse 3 that Messiah would be despised and rejected by man a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. He says, and we hid as it were our faces from him. He was despised. We did not esteem him. Isaiah said he was despised. That word despised is the word despicable. It speaks of being worthless when I look at the word despicable. I can't help but remember my son David when he was about 7 years old and he was really angry at me and he said, you're despicable. And I thought, wow, you're pretty smart. Would you get that word as I slapped his face? But you know, it means to be worthless. And so Isaiah said that the Messiah would be considered worthless. He speaks of Messiah being rejected. That word rejected speaks of not worth caring for, not worth defending. That word rejected speaks of someone who is unwanted. Jesus is regarded in Isaiah. Messiah is recognized as being worthless and unwanted. The Bible tells us in Isaiah again, Messiah was to be a man of sorrows acquainted with grief. When Messiah is a man of sorrows, it speaks of a deep experience. He had a deep experience with physical and emotional pain. And that was Christ. He was held in contempt. He wasn't valued. He wasn't valued by the people he had come to save. When John was writing his Gospel in the Gospel of John chapter 1 verse 11, John said he came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Well, the following verses describe what happened after Jesus had been scourged. He's already been beaten. He's already been humiliated before the Jewish council.  And now he's taken before the Roman garrison of soldiers. Notice verse 16, the soldiers led him away into the hall called Praetorium, the hall of judgment, and they called together the whole garrison. Now scourging normally would precede the execution of a prisoner, and since Jesus had been scourged, the soldiers were taking him to his death. It says that they called together a large number of soldiers. Again, these soldiers continue giving to us an insight of how fallen human nature really is. In Psalm 35 verse 15, in my adversity they rejoiced and gathered together, attackers gathered against me, and I did not know it. They tore at me and did not cease. And so they called together these soldiers.  They twisted a crown of thorns, put it on his head, and began to salute him. Hail, king of the Jews. Now they have no human sympathy, rather they begin to mock him. The Psalmist again in Psalm 69 verse 20 wrote, reproaches broke in my heart, I am full of heaviness. I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none. Now when Jesus had stood before Pilate, he had asked Jesus a direct question. It's found in John 1833. He said, are you the king of the Jews? In John 1837, he went on to say, are you a king then?  For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth, here's my voice. Well they were aware that Jesus had said that he was a king. And because he had stated that, the soldiers began to mock him. Verse 17, they clothed him with purple and twisted, and they twisted a crown of thorns and put it on his head. Matthew tells us in chapter 27 verses 28 and 29, they stripped him, put a scarlet robe on him. When they had twisted a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and a reed in his right hand, and they bowed the knee before him, mocked him, saying, Hail, king of the Jews. So what they did is they stripped Jesus, removing his outer garments. That's the second time his garments had been removed. He had already had his clothing removed when he was scourged. So that means that his back would have been open, full of open wounds. I mentioned to you that scourging was referred to in history as the living death. People would often die under the scourge because it was such a brutal thing. One commentator described the back of that person who had been scourged as being like hamburger. It was so ripped and so open. I mentioned to you that there were a number of thongs that were attached to a wooden handle, and they would put bits of bone, fragments of lead, or sharpened metal, and it would lacerate. It would rip that person's back completely open, and many had died. Most everyone fainted under that, but many had died under that. When Jesus had his back completely open, it isn't as sanitary as we may think from the movies we've seen, where sometimes they'll portray Christ after being scourged with stripes on his back. It wasn't that way. It was rips on his back. His whole back was ripped open because they had torn into him, and there were two of them. I referred to them as the lictors. They opened him up.  And now the robe that they put on him, the blood is coagulating, and the robe is sticking to him. And so what they do now is they rip off that robe. The purple robe, the crown, and the scepter are all symbols of royalty. Purple or scarlet is the color of royalty. It was something a king would wear. They were purple. The crown of thorns mimicked Caesar's crown, which was a wreath. And the staff represented a scepter, which is a symbol of authority. Now scarlet reminds us of something Isaiah wrote in Isaiah 1.18, when he said, Come now, let us reason together, saith the Lord. Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. So scarlet reminds us of this. Your sins are scarlet. They are red like crimson. Now when it says that, your sins are deeply ingrained is what he's saying. It's speaking of our nature, your sins are deeply ingrained within you. Your sins are like scarlet. You see scarlet would be, it wasn't a natural color. They would dye the cloth scarlet or crimson. And we know that in the symbol of baptism, the Greeks would use the word baptizel, which means to, they would actually take the cloth and drop it in, and the cloth would take upon itself the color. When you're baptized, it's more than just being dipped in water. It's talking about being immersed into something that takes over and is actually most evident. And so your sins are within you deeply is the point that Isaiah is making. So God said, let us reason together. Let me share with you something you need to know. Your sins will be like scarlet. They'll be red like crimson. But they can be as white as snow, as white as wool. And that's a promise. And so when you see that your sins are like scarlet, and when you see Jesus took upon himself or they put on Jesus, the scarlet robe, it reminds us. Though your sins may be deeply ingrained in you, you'll be forgiven. Your sins are like scarlet. They're red like crimson, the color of blood. And even so the Lord Jesus Christ. Even so Jesus wore a scarlet robe representing the blood that cleanses us. He's 1 7 says, in him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins in accordance with the riches of God's grace. In 1 Peter 1 18 and 19, you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. Though you be read, your sins be as red as crimson, Jesus took upon himself while they placed upon him a robe of crimson, a robe of scarlet, something red and it reminds us that he poured out his blood for us. The thorns that they place on Jesus as a crown. In my office I have a crown of thorns to remind me of what they did to Jesus. And sometimes we may be thinking of thorns in the way that you may think of a rose having thorns, the small thorns. These are an inch to an inch and a half. They're like needles. And so what they did is they actually gingerly had placed this because it will easily will cut your hands. I've picked it up without thinking before I picked up that crown to move it. And it pierces you very quickly, very easily. You need to remember that by this time Jesus had already had people palming him and harming him and now they're putting this crown of thorns on him. Well the thorns remind us of the curse that was placed on the earth when man fell. In Genesis 3.17-19 God said, cursed is the ground for your sake.  So thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you and you shall eat the herb of the field.  For dust you are and to dust you shall return. He wore a crown of thorns as a sacrificial lamb of God dealing with that curse. He wore a crown of thorns as a sacrificial lamb. But the Bible tells us that he wears crowns when he returns as kings. As the king.  He has a name written on him that no one knows but himself. He goes on to say in verse 16, on his robe and on his thigh he has this name written, king of kings and lord of lords. Though he wore a crown of thorns he returns with many crowns. And the scepter, the scepter of rule is something that he as Messiah will wield. You see the scepter represents a ruling staff. In Hebrews 1.7 and 8 it says of the angels he says who makes his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire. But to the sun he says your throne oh God is forever and ever a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom. So what man used to mock Christ were actually symbols of his greatness and his being the king. Verse 19 tells us they struck him on the head with a reed and spat on him and bowing the knee they worshiped him. His head was already swollen. His scalp would have been swollen by the pummeling that he'd already received. And now they're putting this crown on him and they're actually pressing it in and striking him. They're striking him and those thorns are pressing deeply into his head. His head that has already been his head that's already taken so many blows and he's in such pain. But they struck repeatedly on his swollen and bruised head and that drove those thorns more deeply into it. These men are beating him even more than he'd already been beaten. In Isaiah 50 verse 6 it says I gave my back to those who struck me my cheeks to those who plucked out the beard I did not hide my face from shame and spitting. And so they're doing their best to humiliate Jesus Christ. At this point I want you to turn with me if you will to John 19 and I want to fill in some things that Mark didn't give to us. Mark chapter 19 we'll start reading together and I'll begin to speak a little bit out of verses 4 and 5. So when John 19 he had said in verse 3 they said hail king of the Jews and they struck him with their hands. In verse 4 Pilate then went out again and said to them behold I'm bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no fault in him. And Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe and Pilate said to them behold the man behold the man. Now he said I find no fault in him and then he points him out. Notice him look at him as part of what he could be saying here he's helpless he poses no threat. Look how easily we were able to humiliate him. Look how easily he has been treated in this way and he does nothing he's harmless. Why are you so upset? He claims to be a king but he has no power. Well as they see him verse 6 says when the chief priest and officer saw him they cried out saying crucify him crucify him. Pilate said to them you take him and crucify him for I find no fault in him. So they see him and instead of it satisfying them and even provoking them to a bit of mercy or compassion the minute they see him the voices begin to rise and it's not just a priest I'm sure that there were those who amongst them that were crying out he is in our king. We don't trust him. Why would we want him to survive? It says in verse 7 that Jews answered him we have a law according to our law he ought to die because he made himself the son of God.  Now earlier in Mark 1461 and 62 it says when the high priest asked if he was the son of the blessed he had answered him by saying I am. So he is claiming to be the king and so in verse 7 that's why the Jews said we have a law and according to our law he ought to die because he made himself the son of God. Our Jewish law Leviticus 2416 for us says he must die because this one is committed blasphemy and the blasphemers to die. Now in verse 8 therefore when Pilate heard that saying he was more afraid and he went again into the Praetorium and said to Jesus where are you from? But Jesus gave him no answer. Pilate sees clearly this isn't a problem that's going to disappear.  Now he must have heard of what Jesus had been doing for three years. He was an official he would hear the things of this man called Christ this Jesus. He would have heard that he was a great preacher undoubtedly he would have heard about miracles. There's no doubt because there were so many people who had been affected by the resurrections especially the one of Lazarus there's no doubt that Pilate would have had some information concerning him. So he'd already heard undoubtedly of some of the things that Jesus had done some of the things that he had said some of the miracles that he had performed he'd been out there for around three years.  Now remember Pontius Pilate's wife how she came to him and said I have suffered many things this day and a dream have nothing to do with this righteous man. And Pilate had wanted to wash his hands of Christ. All of these kinds of things were things he was aware of. And now the Jewish leaders are telling him this man this man he claims to be the Son of God. So that's why in verse 9 he went back into the Praetorium he said where are you from? Now I've heard that you're from Galilee but what is your true origin? What is your true nature? Jesus remained silent he's already responded to such questions. Pilate had enough information at this point to decide for himself. And Jesus' silence gives Pilate time to consider what he's already heard. By way of application the time eventually comes when nothing more can be or needs to be said. You've heard enough. There are people who have heard the gospel all their lives. There are people who are aware of some of the claims of Christ. Perhaps they were raised in a home where a mom and a dad were Christian people. Maybe they were raised in a society that had recognized at least the traditional value of the Christian faith, the society I grew up in and some of you perhaps entirely different society than we have today obviously. We grew up. I grew up in a time when you'd have Christmas specials every year. And the ones who would put the Christmas specials weren't even Christians. They were Jews. But they would have Christian specials on Christmas. They also would have specials for Easter. That's what we grew up with. My whole society that I grew up in, the kids that I knew and grew up with and ran with when I was a kid, every one of us, I didn't know a single kid who couldn't tell you what Christmas was supposed to mean. I couldn't tell you that. As a matter of fact, I even sang in a Christmas choir when I was like eight and nine years old in elementary school. It was just part of what we did. And Easter was also recognized. It wasn't called a break. It was called Easter week. We actually had permission from the schools to go to church on certain days because there would have been days that were celebrated in that way. So we grew up in a different way at this point I'm making. Jesus would actually celebrate Christmas. We used to drive in Norwalk where I grew up and you'd go on the street and into the city and they would have banners and they would have lights and Merry Christmas was everywhere. That's what we grew up with. See, so people of my generation were much more aware of the claims of Christ. There were movies that were made even as I was growing up that would point to Jesus Christ. And it was something that was very common then. And so we grew up with that knowledge. So when someone spoke to me about Jesus, I already had a backdrop. And that was the way it was for a long time. And today, obviously, that's not quite the same. There are a lot of kids who, if their parents don't tell them about Jesus, if they don't go to church, those kids know nothing about them. You see people like me, old people like me, the society doesn't care about us. They've already lost us. They're looking for your children. That's who they want to get, your kids, your babies, your grandchildren. That's who they want.  Who needs you? It's your grandchild that we want. It's your children that we want. So a Christian can't read about Christ in a library but drag Queens can. That's okay. You can't go and get a tattoo at the age of 13 without permission, but a little girl can get an abortion without the parents knowing. My 13-year-old granddaughter has various things she has to deal with. And my son, David, was just talking to me about it just this week, that there are medical things that are sent to him that he has to give to her or else she can't get treatment because she has to make the decision to receive the treatment or not. My son doesn't have the authority for her because they've taken the authority from the parents. You're aware of this. I'm sure. If not, that's true. See, so we live in a different time. People who have gone to church and have heard information about Christ, and I know numerous people of this sort, well, sometimes you get to the point where you don't share more. You just kind of say, well, you've already got the information. What are you going to do with it? You already know these things. What are you going to do with it? Because there comes a time when silence is necessary to allow that person that's being spoken to to make a decision, and that's kind of what's taking place here. Jesus is before Pilate, and now Pilate suddenly is saying, where are you from? But Jesus doesn't answer because Pilate already knows enough to make a decision. Now, as this is going on, in verse 10 he says, do you not know, Pilate says, that I have power to crucify you and power to release you? You're remaining silent, and you don't understand the power I have? Well, Jesus answered in verse 11, you could have no power at all against me unless it had been given you from above. Therefore the one who delivered me to you has the greater sin. Are you not speaking to me? Don't you realize that your life is in my hands? Pilate looking at Christ, who won't respond, thinks that Jesus is just being obstinate, but his arrogance draws a response, and Jesus in verse 11 says, you have no power. I'm not under your control, nor do I answer to you. My life is not under your control. It's under my fathers, and I always do those things that please him. You have no authority. You see, any authority Pilate that you wield has been granted to you. And by the way, that didn't come from Rome. In John 3.27, it reads that John, John the Baptist said, a man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven. You have no authority. My father sent me to lay my life down on the cross, and you are simply part of the answer, or rather the means of having this carried out. Notice in verse 11 how he says, the one who delivered me to you has the greater sin. Pilate, you see me as an innocent man, but only as an innocent man getting a bad deal. The fact is, Judas and the high priest and the council, they all have more to answer for. That's because they have more understanding than you. They've had more opportunities, and they have more knowledge. And that leaves them in the position of having more to answer for. It's like what it says in Luke 12.48, for everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required. Or in John 15, verse 22, if I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin.  You have no power.  Well, as he hears that, notice verse 12, from then on Pilate sought to release him. But the Jews cried out saying, if you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend. Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar. They're there obstinately refusing for Jesus to be let go. Pilate was becoming more convinced of his innocence. Justice for Jesus was more important than satisfying their anger and envy. But they say in verse 12, if you let this man go, you're not Caesar's friend. You're supposed to remove pressure from Caesar, not increase it. If you don't deal with this man, you will be reported as a traitor. And when you do get reported, Caesar will deal with you. And so Pilate, verse 13, when Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus out and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the pavement, but in Hebrew, gavita. It was preparation day of the Passover and about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, behold your king. And they cried out, away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate said to them, shall I crucify your king? And the chief priest answered, we have no king but Caesar. He delivered him to them to be crucified and they took Jesus and led him away. There's nothing more he was willing to do. So verse 14 says that he says to them, behold your king. Now, again, on one hand, he may be eliciting sympathy. On the other hand, there are commentators who would say that he was actually mocking the Jewish people. There he is standing there, beaten, appearing helpless. Like it says in Isaiah 53-7, he was oppressed and afflicted, yet he didn't open his mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter as a sheep before it shears the silent. He did not open his mouth. Well, it appears that Pilate has had enough of these people. His attitude is changing. You're petty and this man beaten and helpless represents what you are. This is the best you as a nation could do when you produce a king. But as this happens in verse 15, they're saying away, away with him, away with him, crucify him. So instead of showing pity, they cried even more for his death. Shall I, shall I crucify your king? We have no king but Caesar. Literally he's saying, your king shall I crucify him? It's really more of a taunt. And Pilate's question pushes them to reveal what really was in their hearts all along. We have no king but Caesar. Instead of Messiah, Caesar is our only king. And that shows where their heart really is. We don't want this man. We will not have this man to rule over us. We have nothing to do with him. Caesar's our king. When they were put to the test and when they finally were given opportunity to say what was really there, there it was all along. We refuse this man. We demand his death. And that's why in verse 16, he delivered him to them to be crucified and they took him and led him away. Now returning to Mark 15, and I'll close with verse 20. For those of you who actually turned your Bibles instead of just sitting there looking at me. Verse 20, when they had mocked him, they took the purple off him, put his own clothes on him and led him out to crucify him. They took off the robe, put his own clothes back on him and led him away. Carrying his cross, he went to a place called Golgotha, the place of the skull. You see, by Jewish law death penalties were enacted outside city walls. Verse 13, 11 through 13, the high priest carries the blood of animals into the most holy place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. Let us then go to him outside the camp bearing the disgrace he bore. Forced to carry the cross to the place of his execution. Now Jesus, and we'll close with this, Jesus used this horrifying picture to illustrate the cost of following him. If there's anything that we the church today need to remember, one of the many things we seem to be forgetting, is the cost of discipleship, the cost of following Christ for some reason. It's more appealing, I would say, it's more appealing to our flesh to see Christianity and see discipleship as being a kind of an easier path. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one who was executed in his opposition towards Hitler, he called it cheap grace. It cost me nothing, but it's been said of grace that costs nothing is worth nothing. But there are a lot of Christians today, or at least professing Christians, who don't understand that Jesus spoke about discipleship as a rigorous and even a very difficult path. In Luke 9.23 he said to them all, if anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily and follow me.  Jesus is carrying the cross, but it's something he preached to us that we were to carry, and he demonstrated to us how to do it, because in that cross that he bore for us, the dying cross for our sin, it was the path to glory. And even so, when we carry our cross and follow him, we also are following the path to glory. It isn't cheap and it wasn't easy, it was costly. The suffering that Jesus went through was unlike anything that we'd understand or fathom today. And he did it not so I would be free to continue in sin so that grace might have bound God forbid, Paul would say. He did it to set us free from the bondage that we live in without him. He showed us the depth of love that he had for us, but he also showed us how terrible sin is. He was placed on a cross, but the nails didn't keep him there. What kept him there was the love of God, and God demonstrating what sin does. So for us to take what he did lightly, well, it's something we need to rethink. It's something that we need to meditate on, especially as Easter season is approaching. What was the cost of our salvation, the death of God's own son? Suffering, pain, humiliation, degradation, rejection. You're worthless, you're nothing, we don't need you. We prefer the Roman government over a messianic kingdom. We don't want to lose our place and we don't want to lose the way that the people treat us. They regard us with such esteem, how they approach us and they call us father and as they give us money and as they listen to us and we can lead. We don't want to lose that. We don't want Rome to come and take that from us. We don't want to lose that. We would rather lose you than to lose that. Crucify him, put him on the cross, get him out of our hair. So there he is, this broken body, carrying across to a hill where he's going to die for our sins. And he says, follow me. And that's what Christians do. And again, if there's anything this nation needs right now, it's for the church to wake up because we're in dark times and we're allowing the darkness to overcome us. The scripture says the light overcomes the darkness. The darkness cannot overcome the light. So let us let our light so shine before men that they may see our good works and glorify our Father who's in heaven. Father, we ask that you would work in us.


Item number SCP-009-J Object Class, fun for ages two and up Special Containment Procedures This book belongs to Alphia Jacobs, a Foundation First Readers book, copyright 2013 Dr. Wonder Entertainment Press. SCP-009-J is missing. Where has it gone? Is it under the table? Was it sat upon? Is it there on the ceiling? Is it under the rug? Was it gobbled right up by a quantum pill bug? Did it run through the tunnel? Did it fall down the stairs? Was it sent back in time to a carnival fair? Did it get on a train to a faraway place? Is it locked in a falsified beacon from space? Did it fall on the oblique and dated expunge? If it clogged up the sink, will it have to be plunged? Just where has SCP-009-J gotten to? Oh wait, that's right. SCP-009-J is you.


The presidential candidate of the People's Democratic Party, PDP Atikwa Buboka, has urged persons living with disability not to vote for the ruling or progressive Congress APC in the 2023 elections. Speaking at the inauguration of the party's PLWD National Campaign Council, Atikwa said, despite the passage of the bill by the National Assembly, the ruling APC failed to implement the disability law. He asked them to identify with the PDP. It was passed by our National Assembly. The APC came back as refused to implement it. You have absolutely no reason to vote for APC. This is the party that recognized your rights as human beings and is prepared to respect your rights. Therefore, I'd like to appeal to you to make sure that you go out and you identify your membership and call them personally to make sure that they vote. Not only they vote, but they vote for the party that cares for you and that is the PDP.


Mi je Autor Pibilt, in v prvnoj poživnih pristih nekaj ga bo, kako Pibilt je, in kako izgleda s dahljim, in v segundu ga izgledo, kako posleda. PIE build je vse obrženje, različenje systema. Jih so je neštačno, da je pitan pripomečenja na različno pitanje in tebrati, pa potreba vse vse neče počne, vse učne vse od učne, Files or EC directories or EC files. You don't have to remove them anymore. You don't have to add Debian options, Deven source options, patterns to remove these files. It configures your source. Even though this utils doesn't do much, in configure step, make sure that the same options are used in all steps. For example, this utils has this nice feature that if you pass some parameters to build step, it forgets about them in install step and tries to build extensions again. And by builds make sure that it doesn't happen. It simplifies building libraries for Python 2.3 or Python a lot. It makes it easier to invoke, for example, not only for this utils build system, but also different build systems like CMake or any custom one. It runs tests, which is something, for example, that the implementation from the developer doesn't, because Python has so many standards for running tests that the developer just simply ignores that and tries to detect the right testing suite, like no se, or if the interpreter is in the right version, then it tries to use unit tests discover thing, which was introduced in Python 2.7 and Python 3.2, if I'm not mistaken. It installs files to the right locations where other devian tools to later expect files, so you don't have to pass install layout depth or any other things that we used to have to do. Quick reminder about what DH sequencer actually does. So we probably in most Python packages already have something like this in devian rules files, which by default uses Python these utils build system, and the with statement is actually something that chooses the devian helper, because we don't have Python Central anymore, but we still have Python support, and this is what enables DH Python 2. And what DH sequencer actually does is it invokes these five commands, dev helper commands, which try to do the test to guess the right build system and invoke correct commands for given build system. For example, if it finds a make file, it will invoke make clean in DH auto clean, it will invoke configure command in the second one, and so on. But the problem with that is it works mostly with one Python version only, or in case, CMake, auto tools and other build system, the only one which actually knows to build for various Python versions and interpreters is these utils. So if there's a setup file and there's no make file, because make file has actually a higher priority, it will invoke the right commands for Python 2, and the problem with that is it doesn't support Python 3, and that's why I wrote PyBuild, and the support for Python 2 in this utils system is actually not as good as is very good, but it could be better. For example, DH auto test thing that I mentioned earlier. And what this with Python 2 thing does is it invokes DH Python 2 command, but the important thing is that it invokes it after all these commands. So PyBuild is something that implements another build system for DH sequencer, and DH Python 2 and other tools like DH Py support and DH Py Py, DH Python 3 are invoked after DH sequencer is already done. So that's the reason why PyBuild will never replace DH Python 2. It simply do different things. PyBuild doesn't generate maintainers, scripts, and so on. So please don't confuse DH Python 2 with PyBuild, because it's not the same thing. They are doing completely different things. And how to integrate PyBuild with DH sequencer.  First, dam is to actually set the build system because DH will try to use the default one, so you have to pass dash dash build system PyBuild option in order to tell it to use the PyBuild system. If you support Python 3, then you can add this one, but it's not related to PyBuild. The second thing is to create correct build dependencies. The mandatory one is DH Python, and please add it even though Python 3 package currently pulls that one in, because at some point I want to remove DH Python dependency from Python 3 package, so please remember to add DH Python to build dependencies, and it will also enable newer DH Python 2 helper, so you have to do it anyway, and please do. And the other part is actually not how PyBuild itself works, but how integration with DH sequencer works. Because PyBuild is actually a standalone command, and you can use it even outside DH or CDBS, and DH integration script, which was written in Perl, and I want to forget about it already, because it was a nightmare. This script tries to parse Debian control file and checks for build depends. If you add Python there, it will try to build libraries or scripts, because it's not only for libraries, you can package Python applications with PyBuild as well. If you add Python, it will try to invoke all these commands for Python interpreter, so the default one. If you add Python debug, it will do the same with debug interpreter. If you add Python all, it will check X Python version field in Debian control, and it will invoke all these commands for all requested Python version, the same for Python 3 and PyPy. There's one special option I want to mention here, which was suggested by Barry, which is name. This is a really nice option, because maybe a bit of reminder about how DevHelper works. If you have only one binary package, then DevHelper will install files to Debian slash package name directory, so you don't have to create any install files and so on. But if you add another binary package, so the second one, it will install by default to Debian tmp directory, and it's not Python specific, it's just how DevHelper works. And when you have two binary packages, you need to tell DevHelper which file belongs to which package, and that's what install files are for. And in case of Python, if you have only, for example, Python 2 and Python 3 package, install files are quite easy to write. You just have to enter there user-leap-python2-adopt-star, and it will install all Python 2 files from this directory to Python full package. The same for Python 3. You just have to put there user-leap-python3-star, and that's it. But if you happen to build a package for the back interpreter, it starts to be more complicated. You need to figure the right pattern for the back extensions and so on. It's already complicated when you have the back interpreter, and when you want additionally, for example, move this extension to different binary package, because, for example, the extension is optional and you want to provide any binary package and another one for extensions, then it's even more complicated. Maintaining this, you have to write this install files once, but it's a bit of pain to write them. So, another option is to tell PyBuild, what's the common name of your package. So, for example, if I have Python Maco, Python Free Maco, Python Free Maco X, then instead of full here, I have to put Maco, and PyBuild will know where to install it. For Python 2 it will use directory for Python 3, it will use this one and so on. And it makes really easy to add Python 3 binary packages for packages that already have only one. You don't have to care about install files at all. And that's pretty much it. If you want to, it's actually all the most packages for Python, usually look like. And we can go to hack lab and add some Python Free support if you want. If not, then I'm actually a big fan of customization. I customize everything. My VIM RC file is huge and so on. So that's why I made it possible in PyBuild to customize almost everything. And you can customize all these steps. You can provide different commands for each step or only for one of them. You can provide additional parameters to commands already generated for given build system. For example, if you don't want to do the work PyBuild already did for CMake or for these duties, and you want to pass one additional parameter, for example, you want to change the directory where scripts are installed. For example, you are packaging a game and instead of using user bin you want to install to user games or you want to package something for administrators and you want to use sbin. Then all you have to do is just pass install script user games, for example, and you don't have to care about all other parameters so that the thing that the hack I added to force these duties to remember all the options it will still work. You just have to pass additional parameters and don't care about anything other. You can also tell PyBuild to invoke different commands before each iteration of this build step or any other actually. If PyBuild invokes a command to build for Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 and you can invoke another command before each of these commands and after each of these commands so that in the examples later I will show you how useful that can be. Actually I saw a lot of packages which were overriding in Debian rules overriding these steps and adding four loops which were adding these new commands or passing new commands and new parameters and this is much, much easier with PyBuild. And almost any action can be disabled I will show you later. You can actually even create your own build system on the fly just by defining few options. You can tell PyBuild to support completely different build system which is currently not supported by default by PyBuild. And how can you customize it? There are two options. You can pass a command line option or you can environment by variables. All of them start with PyBuild underscore. Here's how you do it. You can, the first one is one I like most because it has some additional features like you can for example add underscore and interpreter name or interpreter version and it will work only for this interpreter or this version. And if you choose to use the command line you will have to invoke PyBuild twice. And the second way of overriding it is in devian rules is to pass after the dash-dash. Is it PyBuild 3 or can you tune from Python 2? It's all PyBuild. Zigo, ask if it's PyBuild 2 or PyBuild 3. No, it's PyBuild underscore option underscore Python 2 for example or Python 2.4. There will be examples later so so you can pass these options to DH Auto, Instal, Build, Configure or whatever and if you use this it works like any standard tuning tool so the two dashes means I don't care about these options and pass them to the next tool and it will pass it to PyBuild. Another one is to set environment variable inside in the line where you overwrite the DH Auto full. This way if you export in the top of devian rules file it will work for all steps and if you do it like this it will set this variable only for DH Auto Instal in this case and as I mentioned earlier you can also involve PyBuild directly but if you use the last one you lose the integration with that helper so it will not know which interpreters are selected which options you want and so on so you have to pass it using command line parameters this way if you don't like DH for example or need to invoke some really weird stuff then that's probably a way to do it actually DH integration is doing that but it feeds PyBuild with some parameters parts from devian control file for example but you can do it by hand as well if you want and examples I already mentioned install scripts and that's how you can pass it just one note about that please remember that you don't have to quote it here in make file because I already saw some people are adding quotes and you don't have to do that you actually shouldn't do that in make file and another example if you want to for example pass test directory to no se PyBuild by default in build step creates a new directory where the built files are where they stored and changes current directory to that when you invoke tests the source directory is not taken into account because I actually it happened to me more than once that I built something and invoked test and they failed and after I realized that I'm actually using the wrong directory because Python is by default using current directory it's on the first place in syspad and it's a common mistake I did that many times that's why in the test stage I changed the current directory to the build directory if your upstream maintainer doesn't install tests with library then you have to tell no se or py test where to look for these tests and this is how you can do it in py build just use test arcs so this parameters will be this option added to the nos command and you can actually use variables in in arcs in these options there are quite few of them like version, builddir, installdir interpreter version can you can use version.major for example if you don't want the whole thing it's all described in the main page you can use it to customize your commands you can also that's what you were asking about if you want to provide an option an option only for one interpreter you can do something like this so underscore interpreter version or only the main interpreter or version interpreter testdir is actually an option where you can define a different destination directory for extensions only so if you want to shape extensions in different binary package all you have to do is define this variable and pi build will do the right thing you don't have to overwrite dh auto install and move files one by hand or create very complicated install files and so on pi build does it for you another example is 2.2.3 there are many ways to do that so really big scripts in devian rules that tries to invoke 2.2.3 in a way that it doesn't conflict with python 2 because once if upstream ships for example tests only in the main directory but you invoke tests the same directory is used they will fail and 2.2.3 is needed because it's possible that the same script can work in python 2 and python 3 but if 2.2.3 is needed and upstream users doesn't install it tests with library and you can only use from directory from the root directory of this package then you need to deal with 2.2.3 and you have to do it before invoking tests for python 3 and reverse it afterwards because otherwise the tests for python 2 and with this simple free rules python build will do that for you so it will, the first line will copy tests from root directory to build directory and for all interpreters and the second line will override the line, the first line only for python 3 packages so python 3, 3, 3, 4 and so on it will do exactly the same thing but it will also invoke 2.2.3 in tests and afterwards in python after tests for all interpreters it will remove this directory when they are no longer needed it will just remove it so that's one of the examples where before and after options are useful you can think that moves extensions to different package is actually customisable as well so you can tell it you can define extension by providing a pattern and instead of by default python tries to find SO files with the abi thing and all other weird things that end in python file name but you can override it and tell it that you think that extension is something with PNG file so all images will be moved to this new directory another example how you can disable things in PyBuild because you can for example need python or python all in Debian control files built depends you don't want to build it for this interpreter for example you have a script that uses python 2 but you build only python 3 packages so you have to add python to build dependencies but you don't want pyBuild to build for this interpreter and the first line disables python 2 completely the second one disables tests step for python 3.3 for example if you want to invoke tests for python 3 but one version doesn't have support in some other dependency because it was not rebuilt yet or for some other reason you don't want the tests for this version fail and you want to disable it and just for this version you don't want to disable the whole thing for python 3 but just for this version because this one doesn't work and the second line does exactly that and you can actually disable many things at once so if you want to disable configure step for python 3 that's the first part here if you want to disable everything for python for version 2.4 doesn't matter which interpreter it maybe python 3 python 2 in the back and so on if you do that python 2 it will disable python 2 but not python 2 in the back so if you invoke python 2 in the back then you have to remember that you have to disable the back interpreter as well and an example of new build plug in new build system if you set system to custom and define parameters I will not get into details because we have few minutes left then you can ignore the build plug-in plug-ins that are defined in pilot and do something completely new you can define your own build plug-in and that's actually what build plug-ins do if you have something like this and want to share with others and I will replace it with proper plug-in which will detect if there are some files specific to given build plug-in it will use these commands instead of what it does for other build systems and before we go into questions I just wanted to say that I don't need any help with this I don't want you to write any plug-ins I will do it all myself I will just report wish list bugs and I will do it for you and I really hope that this reverse psychology thing works so questions I was just sitting here messing around with it on one of my python packages that I have maintained already the one thing that the upstream that I do is they use ePy doc and so I have to override for that would that be a situation where you could use the plug-ins and just override the testing routines that would be done to generate the docs PyBuild doesn't deal with docs actually but you can override DH auto build tell it to actually invoke the DH auto build so that PyBuild does the right thing and then add one additional line which invokes the command that generates docs, I actually do that in many packages two points first is I've just only recently looked at PyBuild in very briefly but the environment variable thing it seems to be you're using a lot of environment variables so I mean in a different context if I saw shell script with that many environment variables I would be inclined to say hey let's rewrite this in Python and stop using environment variables because obviously you've got actually you don't have to use them almost all of them can be passed as command line parameters I just think it's easier in DeGon rules general impressions here but I mean with environment variables if you misspell an environment variable most likely what's going to happen is the program is simply ignores the variable because you misspelled it so in other contexts where you have a grammar you can parse that file so here's an unexpected token or whatever but it's not valid here so it seems there may be some QA issues related to that design choice second point I want to bring up is well I don't do a lot of Python module packaging I'm a Python programmer I don't do a lot of packaging but I've been doing it for a while and it might go two or three years in between actually touching a Python package and it's happened several times to me that I will look at now you'd update this Python module, a package or whatever and there's a new way to package Python modules for DeVig so I'll go and read about this and I'll be on hopefully we have only one and it will rule the whole this is where I'm heading towards the other ones are either out of the archive or deprecated you'll go and look into it and there's two ways to do it so which one is the preferred one you do some more reading some people prefer one I would suggest to go to this page and Barry prepared a really nice guide how to use this stuff and it's very opinionated but it describes what we think is the best solution so it doesn't describe all the possible solutions but it describes something that we think is the right way if you follow this website then you are probably fine and by the way since this morning that's what SCDAP generates I uploaded a new version with some patches which are using PyBuild already I don't find opinionated problems when there's multiple opinionated positions in general how do you suggest we solve the issue where different people have different opinions I don't necessarily want to take an opinion on everything but if there's something where I'm not an expert and I would prefer to follow best practices we go back to windows why I said best practices not common practices we have really not so much time just a quick question maybe if not then thank you