with literally wasting fuel, ketones instruct mitochondria to make more of themselves. Welcome to the Dr. Gundry podcast. Okay, first things first. I was wrong. And I'm not the only one. Turns out health professionals around the world were wrong about how the keto diet works. But you know what? I embrace finding out that I'm wrong. In fact, it actually motivates me. It's why I do what I do to empower you with the latest and greatest science discoveries so that you can live a long, healthy, fulfilled life. You see, I'm actually committed to researching. That means continuing to look again. That's the definition of research. At our current mainstream health beliefs in search of the truth. So today, I'm excited to share this groundbreaking research with you today. Plus, I'll give you a sneak peek of what's inside my new book out today, Unlocking the Keto Code. So we'll be right back. You're not going to miss this one, where I tell you how all of us were wrong about keto and its effects. We'll be right back. Welcome back. Now, don't be fooled by the title Unlocking the Keto Code. Even if you're not interested in keto, this book with my latest findings for optimizing health is really Longevity Paradox 2.0. Or, as I like to call it, the real key to the fountain of youth. And it's not what you think. And it really comes down to just one thing. Like the line in city slickers. First, let's discuss what exactly is the keto diet. Well, there are so many versions of the keto diet that the mind really can't get itself around the whole concept.  How does anybody know what keto is anymore? Well, the traditional keto diet was actually developed as a treatment for epileptic children before any of the anti-seizure drugs were available. And that diet started in the 1930s.  And remarkably, it was at least 50% effective in reducing and stopping seizures in children. It fell out of favor when drugs like dilatin and phenobarb were invented. But it actually had a resurgence a few years ago with the finding that you could give kids MCT oil, medium chain triglycerides, at a much lower amount of fat dose, say a 50% fat diet, and give them more carbohydrates and more proteins. Now, why do that?  And the carb drive that I talk about in the new book is built in to actually all animals seeking carbohydrates, including us. And so that makes really good sense why 60% of people who start a ketogenic diet for health reasons stop because they just cannot stand the restrictions. The other thing that's important to realize is that children who were on this actually had growth retardation and didn't develop muscles well. And in the book, you're going to find out exactly why that happens in an extremely high fat ketogenic diet. Okay, as most of you know, I've been recommending a ketogenic version of the plant paradox program for over 20 years now. And in the plant paradox, it's chapter 10, the keto intensive care program. But any of my alert readers, and certainly my patients who follow that program, notice that there's a whole lot of carbohydrates in the ketogenic program. And a lot of people don't question that. But a lot of people who think that you have to eat an 80% fat diet to achieve ketosis wonder why my ketogenic program is so easy to follow and so effective. And in fact, I profile one of my patients, Janet, at the start of the book to show how following the principles of that program, she not only effortlessly lost weight, reduced her prediabetes, reduced her cholesterol numbers. But she was so successful that she actually wanted to start to gain weight. And we go through why she actually found it difficult to gain weight. And that's actually one of the things we're going to unlock in the keto code. Wouldn't it be wonderful to be one of those people, and we all know these people who seem to be anything they want, they can have a piece of cake, they can have a croissant, they can have a fruit smoothie, and they don't exercise. And you and I go to the gym, we run, we do spin classes, we do Pilates, and we just look at a carbohydrate or food, and it seems like we gain weight. Well, we've often been told that that's our genes, that that person was lucky. Well, it turns out we now know, as I talk about in the keto code, from twin studies, twins have identical genes. And in twin studies, it's been found that where one twin is overweight or obese, and the other twin is normal or skinny, they have the identical genes. The mitochondria in the overweight twin are lazy. Now that doesn't mean the twin is lazy. It means the mitochondria is unable to process calories properly to take those calories and turn them into energy. Instead, the mitochondria takes those calories and stores them as fat. And what we've learned about the skinny twin and the skinny folks that you hate is that their mitochondria have actually adopted a way of wasting a lot of the calories that these people eat. And the whole principle of unlocking the keto code is telling you how those mitochondria have been trained to waste energy. And that's the excitement. That's the scientific breakthrough that's going to make a ketogenic diet not so miserable and easy to do. Now, as I mentioned, most people who try a ketogenic diet fail. It's actually not your fault. It's not their fault. I profile another one of my patients, Miranda, who came to me after two years, two years on a ketogenic diet. And despite being two years on a ketogenic diet, she kept gaining weight. And she actually, when I saw her, was a pre-diabetic slash diabetic with insulin resistance. And how could that possibly happen in a ketogenic diet? Well, as you'll learn in unlocking the keto code, what happens is, when most of us, most of us Americans, are metabolically inflexible. Now, it's a fancy word of saying that normally, mitochondria, the energy producing organelles and almost all of our cells, can use sugar, glucose to produce ATP. Or they can use free fatty acids to produce ATP. Or they can use ketones. And normally, when you stop eating, within eight hours of stopping eating, you should shift over to burning free fatty acids as a fuel. There's only one catch. When you eat, your pancreas produces insulin. Insulin takes the food you eat and knocks on all your muscle cells and your other cells as a salesperson. And says, hey, this person just ate some great stuff. I want to sell you this sugar. I want to sell you this protein. Your cells normally say, hey, great, you know, we're hungry, open the door, bring it in. When you stop eating, normally insulin should fall because now there's nothing to sell. When insulin falls, insulin not only ushers food into cells, but think about it.  You'd want to keep it in storage. So when insulin is elevated after you eat, you won't bring that stuff right back out. That's silly.  Now here's the problem. 50% of normal weight individuals in the United States have no metabolic flexibility. They have no ability to go get that fat out of fat sores and use it as fuel because they have elevated insulin levels. 50% of normal weight people. Now here's the really bad news. If you are overweight, 88% of you have no metabolic flexibility.  The worst news, if you're obese, 99.5% of individuals have no metabolic flexibility. You may have all that fat and you can go on a ketogenic diet where you're not eating carbohydrates, where you're not eating much protein, but you have an elevated insulin level and that elevated insulin level may stay elevated for a very long time and you have all that fat stored already and you cannot get to it. The other bad news is, fat has nine calories per gram of food. On the other hand, carbohydrates and protein have four calories per gram. So when you're eating a super high fat diet, you're actually getting twice the amount of calories by weight of carbohydrates and proteins. So it's no wonder when most of us are insulin resistant and metabolically inflexible and we start eating more fat, it's no wonder some of us are like Miranda, we just keep gaining weight and keep our insulin resistance. And the benefit of unlocking the keto code is there's a way we can trick the system, we can hack our insulin resistance without resorting to a high fat ketogenic diet to try and do it. Okay now I mentioned mitochondria. Mitochondria take the sugars and proteins and fats that you eat and through a rather complicated process called the electron transport chain, convert sugar, protein and fat into the energy currency that we all spend called ATP, adenosine triphosphate. And in fact I talk about in the book this process is actually very much like a hip new club where everybody comes to mingle and hopefully hook up for the night or longer and that hook up is called coupling. And mitochondria are in the business of coupling the food we eat with oxygen to produce ATP. Now that process is actually not as efficient as you might think. In mitochondria coupling oxygen with the food we eat is actually very damaging to the mitochondria. Most of us have heard of free radicals, reactive oxygen species. These are coupling processes that go wrong inside the mitochondria and they damage the mitochondria itself. And the mitochondria has a lot of repair mechanisms that we go into the book but we'll worry about that later. What we now know is about 30% of all the calories that enter the mitochondria for processing actually escape via back doors, via emergency exits and never participate in this coupling process. And that process of escape is called mitochondrial uncoupling. In other words you don't couple oxygen with these components to make energy. Now it seems like that's a pretty dumb idea. Why would we waste 30% of the food we eat?  It turns out that when we uncouple our mitochondria we produce heat. And it's that heat we're a warm-blooded animal that actually keeps us warm-blooded. But it's also that heat that wastes the calories we eat. And lo and behold in unlocking the Keto code you'll find out that ketones are not some super fuel. In fact they're not. This is well known from human research dating back to the 1970s and confirmed as early as the early 2000s in humans that ketones are a horrible fuel for our mitochondria and in fact are a horrible fuel for our brain. Just one fun fact human beings at full ketosis only 30% of the energy needs of ourselves can be met with ketones. Only 30% at full ketosis. Even the brain can only use 60% ketones as a fuel. The brain still wants 30 to 40% of its fuel at full ketosis from glucose. So if you take nothing away from today's podcast ketones are not the super fuel they're made out to be. Yet ketones have some amazing properties. So if they're not a super fuel what are they doing? In fact what ketones are doing is they're uncoupling mitochondria even further. And that's the unlocking the Keto code. You don't want to make ketones as a super fuel. You want to make ketones as a mitochondrial uncoupler. But the best part is there are other substances in the food you eat that can act exactly like ketones and uncouple your mitochondria even if you're not eating a ketogenic diet.  Imagine the possibilities. So how did I discover how ketones really work? Well one of the most important papers I think I've ever read in this search was a paper by Martin Brand in the year 2000 and it's a very simple title paper called Uncoupling to Survive. And let me take you through that real quick because it is totally counter-intuitive. It is completely paradoxical and you know I love a good paradox. So Dr. Brand discovered that if you are starving to death and there is no fuel coming in you would think that mitochondria would become super efficient in extracting every last little molecule of ATP from what you've got left to keep the organism alive. But what he found out was exactly the opposite. Mitochondria in the presence of ketones actually waste fuel. Waste fuel they become profoundly inefficient. Let me use the example from the book.  That's efficient burning of gasoline. On the other hand if you wanted to waste gasoline you'd buy a Ferrari which will get eight miles per gallon. Now as I talked about in the book there might be another reason you'd want a Ferrari over a Toyota Prius but stay with the analogy. So if you are trying to be efficient at calorie burning you'd be a Toyota Prius. But what Dr. Brand showed and every other study shows that instead of becoming a Toyota Prius when there's no fuel coming in the mitochondria by ketones are instructed to become Ferraris. Why do they do that? Because the process of making energy is really harmful to mitochondria and mitochondria are what produce energy. So when ketones are around they tell mitochondria to protect yourselves you mitochondria at all costs because if we lose you guys the mitochondria there's nothing left and so sacrifice everything else to save yourself. It's you know as you know I live in Palm Springs and we have a wonderful 10,000 foot mountain out my back door. Let's suppose I'm in a hot air balloon and the wind now starts pushing me towards the mountain. What am I going to do? I'm going to take all the ballast and start throwing that overboard so I can get more height. At some point if I'm about to hit the mountain I start looking at the other passengers and we all start eyeing each other going all right which one of you guys is going to jump out. Why? Because at the end the mitochondria has to save itself. So it will do everything its power to protect itself and to do that it actually wastes fuel. Now there's a good part of the story simultaneously with literally wasting fuel ketones instruct mitochondria to make more of themselves and mitochondria are remarkable if you've read any of my books. They actually carry their own DNA so they can divide within a cell as many times as they want to without the cell dividing. So what ketones and other ketone like substances do is when they tell mitochondria on a couple and waste fuel they actually tell mitochondria to make more of you guys so that now there's more mitochondria not working individually as hard but producing the equal amount of energy that one mitochondria would have struggled to do in the first place. It's kind of like if you're on a dog sled and you got one dog and you add five more dogs and now have a six dog sled you now have six dogs doing the work of one dog and actually making better progress and this is exactly what unlocking the keto code means. Each mitochondria has to work less but more mitochondria is made. Third thing that happens is that mitochondria are instructed not only to waste fuel and make more mitochondria but to repair any defects any damage that's been done to the mitochondria up to that point and if you've been following me you know that mitochondria working properly is the key to energy and also the key to longevity and one more fun fact when Dr. Brand looked at the mitochondria of the oldest living human beings who are living well these are 105 year old plus those individuals had the most uncoupled mitochondria so uncoupling is the key to survive and the book as strange as that name is uncoupling teaches you how to uncouple your mitochondria without the need of a ketogenic diet and that's what I'm so excited about. Now I can't wait for you to get the book but if you wanted to one make one change starting today to start this process to optimize your mitochondria it turns out it's something I've been telling folks for over 20 years now the more I can restrict the time of day that you actually eat food and get that period of time that you eat food down to about six to eight hours a day the better your mitochondria are going to work the better flexibility you're going to get to mitochondria and fun news just by compressing your eating window if you want to call it time controlled eating if you want to call it intermittent fasting but compressing your eating window from the time you start in the late morning to the time you finish in the early evening down to about six to eight hours a day the better your mitochondria are going to work and from human athlete studies the more weight you're going to lose even though you're eating of full days calories so wow you can have all the food you want to eat if we just compress the time of day you do and in the book I'm going to walk you through an easy way where one hour a week we're going to push back the time we eat breakfast and we're going to do that for five weeks good news you're going to take the weekends off so and you're going to find that it's really easy to transition from eating three meals a day to eating two meals a day but getting all the calories that you would have gotten from the three meals a day and you're still going to improve mitochondrial function and you're going to automatically lose weight because you've actually training your mitochondria to do a caloric bypass on the food you eat it's so exciting you know I can't wait for you to get unlocking the keto code so that's a teaser for the new book start today if you eat breakfast at seven o'clock tomorrow for the rest of the week start at eight o'clock take the weekend off next week instead of eight o'clock let's go to nine o'clock do that all week by then the keto code will arrive and you'll have the complete set of information on how to do it all right unlocking the keto code book launch happens today please get a copy wherever you get your books amazon barns and noble you can go to your local book seller as you know i'm multiple new york times bestselling books they should have it and they should have my other books as well but get unlocking the keto code it's secretly longevity paradox two as you're going to learn there is just one thing that binds all the great diets together and that turns out to be mitochondrial uncoupling and the stuff you're going to find that uncouple your mitochondria and the food you eat is going to blow your mind it's it's actually really exciting i can't wait for you to get it okay it's time for our audience question from bulletproof coconut on instagram what are your thoughts on hard ketones well it turns out most of you probably have never even heard of hard ketones there happens to be a beverage company that makes a seltzer which is an alcoholic drink but the alcohol is a half ketone which in some circles is called a hard ketone believe it or not it is still an alcohol but it's an alcohol that when our body uses it it appears as a ketone and it makes beta hydroxybutyrate i personally have absolutely no experience with the product it is advertised on the internet it's quite expensive they're pretty much out of stock i looked into it but uh the reviews are quite frankly mixed i find it's a whole lot easier if you want to make ketones believe it or not all you gotta do is take a tablespoon of mct oil you can swallow it you can put it in your coffee you can mix it in olive oil put it on your salad or fun fact from the book goat milk and sheep milk and goat yogurt and sheep yogurt and goat cheeses and sheep cheeses 30 percent of the fat in those animals milk is medium chain triglycerides mcts and you're going to find out how easy it is to generate ketones just by having mct or having goat and sheep cheese without having to pay an arm and a leg for some special beverage but that's a great question bullet proof coconut thanks for asking now it's time for the review of the week uh bean two all fifty from youtube commented on the yes no food list lecture after a year of going lectin free my cardiologist asked me what i did to improve my health i told him a little about you dr gundry but he really didn't want to hear it he said whatever you're doing keep doing it i'm 70 and feel better than i have for decades thanks dr gundry well thank you been to all 50 uh this is a very very common response from so many of my patients who have adapted my program and when their cardiologist sees their new numbers most of the time the cardiologist assumes that they've taken the statin drug that was prescribed and in fact they hadn't been taking the statin drug and when they tell them they hadn't uh they basically say uh i don't know just keep doing what you're doing and it's really too bad because as you know i've i've spent my career uh trying to teach anyone who will listen including family practice doctors internists and cardiologists that there might be more to heart disease and health than the cholesterol theory of heart disease and i'll give you a quick example uh today uh from this week uh i saw a patient who actually uh runs an orthopedic medical practice and this gentleman has been plagued with high cholesterol his entire life multiple physicians have urged him to take statin drugs he has resisted he has been following my program for two years uh he runs ldl cholesterol of 350 he has a total cholesterol of over 500 and finally after the urging of several of the practitioners in his practice he agreed to get a ct coronary angiogram a ct coronary angiogram basically gives you a 3d picture of how much plaque is in your coronary arteries and anybody want to guess how much plaque was in the coronary arteries of this gentleman following my program if you guessed zero you are correct now the person who did the study was apoplectic that a person could be walking around with death-defying cholesterol numbers but when i show this gentleman one of the tests we do looking at whether that cholesterol is activated to stick to blood vessels since beginning my program he's never had any activated cholesterol despite the fact that his cholesterol numbers are high now sadly most cardiologists don't even know about this test but it is available it's called ox ox capital p capital l dash apo b apo capital b ox pl dash apo b and it literally tells you whether your cholesterol is mischievous or not it's state of the art it's available and this guy is a living walking example that the cholesterol theory the cholesterol hypothesis of coronary artery disease is full of holes so thanks keep doing what you're doing please please please try to educate your cardiologist that there's something here i've been doing this now with patients for over 25 years and remember my life was changed by watching big ed clean out his inoperable coronary artery disease with a diet and supplements just like i subscribe to so thanks a lot thanks for writing this is why i do this your letters mean so much to me because i'm dr gundry and i'm always looking out for you we'll see you next week i hope you enjoyed this episode of the dr gundry podcast make sure to check out the next one here


In the past 150 years human emissions have put a lot of carbon dioxide in the air. We now measure a concentration of about 400 parts per million. This is about 40 percent higher than any time in the last 400,000 years. Of all the conclusions of modern climate science, this is one of the most reliable. But despite all of this evidence, some people persist in claiming that the recent rising carbon dioxide is all natural. For example, they say that instead of it being caused by humans, it all came out of volcanoes. Now, it's quite true that volcanoes emit some carbon dioxide. Over very long periods of geological time, those small amounts can add up to make a really significant change to the atmosphere. However, over a couple of hundred years, the emissions aren't large enough to make a difference. There are two main types of volcano. There are the ones that erupt under the ocean and the ones that erupt into the air. Both kinds are linked to the goings on at the boundaries of the tectonic plates and to the upwelling of hot rock from the Earth's mantle, the layer below the Earth's crust. The undersea volcanoes are by far the more numerous, making up about 90 percent of the world's volcanoes, although few of us have ever seen them. These volcanic chains are where a new oceanic crust is produced. But undersea volcanoes don't produce very much carbon dioxide, only about 100 million tons per year. About the same amount as an average U.S. state emits. Humans produce about 350 times as much carbon dioxide as the undersea volcanoes do. Carbon dioxide not only gets produced to the oceanic ridges, it also gets consumed there. What happens is that the newly formed balsaltic rock undergoes chemical changes when it contacts seawater. This reaction absorbs carbon dioxide from the water at a rate of about 150 million tons per year. The mid-oceanic ridge volcanic processes as a whole therefore probably consume more carbon dioxide than they emit. Now we're much more familiar with the kind of volcanoes that erupt into the air. The biggest chain of these is the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire. This is a belt running all the way around the ocean from New Zealand to Japan, then to Alaska, and then down to the Andes. Old oceanic crust is consumed at these places and they form volcanoes that produce much more carbon dioxide than the ones under the sea. The magro in these volcanoes comes not just from the Earth's mantle, but also from the melting of the more carbon and water-rich rocks in the crust. One reason these types of volcano tend to be more explosive is because of the larger amount of water vapor and carbon dioxide in their magma. Mount Etna in Sicily is one of the most prolific carbon dioxide producing volcanoes in the world. It produces about 13 million tons per year, but this amount is still only about half as much as what Sicily's 5 million people emit from burning fossil fuels. In addition, dormant volcanoes and volcanic lakes together admit as much as carbon dioxide as the actively erupting volcanoes do. All together, volcanoes that emit carbon dioxide into the air produce much more than undersea volcanoes, about five times as much. Volcanic rocks on the surface undergo weathering, and this chemical process absorbs carbon dioxide out of the air, about 180 million tons per year. That's approximately one-third of the amount put into the air by volcanoes. So if we add up all the sources of volcanic carbon dioxide, we get about 640 million tons per year. Once we subtract the carbon dioxide that reactions with volcanic rocks consume, we're left with about 310 million tons per year. This last amount is roughly equivalent to the human emissions from the country of Turkey. That's less than 1% of all human emissions. Human emissions for the planet as a whole in 2012 were 60 to 120 times bigger than volcanic emissions. Carbon dioxide emissions for cement making alone are three to six times bigger than those from volcanoes. Not only are volcanic emissions much too small to account for the rising carbon dioxide levels in the air, but over the past few thousand years natural emissions and natural sinks must have been in rough balance. The carbon dioxide composition of the air started to change really quickly after the 1950s. We can readily explain this as being due to the greatly increased rate of consumption of fossil fuels after the end of the Second World War. On the other hand, if volcanoes had suddenly started to erupt many times faster than the second half of the 20th century, we surely would have noticed. After all, volcanoes don't just silently produce carbon dioxide, they also throw out huge quantities of ash and magma, and they often cause havoc for humans living nearby. Only about 40% of the carbon dioxide emitted from any source remains in the air. The rest goes into the oceans and is taken up by plants on land. If we add up the carbon dioxide emissions and convert them into concentrations in the air, we see that emissions from humans over the past 100 years fit the observations like a glove, but the volcanoes don't even come close. People who incorrectly blame volcanoes for the change in the air take the fact that volcanoes do indeed produce some carbon dioxide, and then they've jumped to the false conclusion that this amount is enough to explain the increase we have measured. And they haven't done the basic arithmetic, but it shows that it isn't nearly enough to make any real difference at all in such a short time period. We know what caused the recent rise in carbon dioxide concentrations. We did.


had taken the entire world by surprise. Can you imagine? This is the first time that the entire globe has actually come together to solve a common problem. A lot of speculation recently about how do we do working from home. In India what we've seen is a lot of folks or companies have a negative connotation of work from home. The general perception is if you're working from home means you're not doing any work or like you know you're kind of you know like spending maybe a lot of time beyond work related matters. It's very very important that we try out this option for each of our businesses whatever business we are in. So we made some accelerated changes some of those changes are to enable anyone to be able to log into our platform from wherever they are but ensure the data security case privacy borrower experience was not compromised. The way that we've done that is we've allowed our core platform to be able to be logged into from a remote position. There are multiple tools such as Google Hangouts, Zoom, Slack that you can equip your employees with to ensure that they are productive even while working from home. It's really interesting to see actually how some people have managed to use some of the some of their methods of connectivity to connect to the platform and keep working. Some people are logging in through games consoles, through smart TVs, of course through their mobile phones. Most people in our calling network don't have a laptop but still they've managed to be able to log in and continue to work as normal. We are able to monitor exactly the performance that's happening through those partners and through those conversations. Now companies should have a very tolerant view of this and what companies should do is make it have communication in a much more clearer manner, be a lot more appreciative of the employees and give them that feedback that you know what you're doing it's good, it is sufficient. You don't have to be proving to us that you're constantly working or doing things. I think that that bit of faith and trust in employees is very critical and at this point it's much more important for companies to actually show that faith in their employees. A significantly improved productivity, around 20% better productivity in better collections from the partners we're working with. It's very important that you know we need to try this out it's very important each business ties it out and it's very important that once we try it out we will know what are the productivity norms that are emerging out of this work culture.


What's going on everyone? Sam here with late in sports cards. We are rip in twenty twenty three PNE at prism WWE under card one box break number 14 random pack style. Here's a look again at your random results as always can find those on the website under the results tab as well As the link in chat. Thank you guys again for getting this Filled up. I do appreciate it very much. Let me just sort these for myself really quick Again f1 dynasties or not dynasty f1 sapphires what we're looking to fill up here's a link again to that one at 60 a spot Five to go get your random team combo Obviously you're chasing some big-time variations big-time names and that Usually hit a lot of variations had a lot of good colors looking for reds pinks purples all that kind of stuff So good luck here I'll show you kind of how this works Open the box. We've got one through five and six through ten. There's one through five and six through ten number one Worm good luck here at disco Matt Riddle as well as top tier Kofi Kingston one of my guys right there. We give the dragon steamboat and base Packed number two Adam Jay. Good luck here Adam Disco Keanu James rookie disco macho man Randy Savage legends of the hall Braun Strowman and base there you go Adam got Ed B. Again at number three now. Good luck Ed It's like auto coming up here. It's gonna be Gable Stevenson and auto is That is Tito Santana sensational signatures Tito Santana Nice one there congrats Ed and base Ed picking up the auto in this box for Rob each lucky Rob See we got buddy Disco Hulk Hogan nice one there Rob. We've also got disco ring royalty macho man Randy Savage Tito. Hi, what's up? Tranquil and Base yeah, Tito's pretty sweet and Ed rounding us out again worm at number five. Okay one Yeah, I was gonna say probably have to imagine it does get pretty pricey after that shameless on the disco We've got Valhalla red to 99 nice one there Ed picking up some color Base and base there you go Ramar's at number six. Oh, that's awesome. That's awesome. Wow. That is awesome Ramar's at number six Let's do it Ramar's disco the Dana Brooke. We've got Roman Reigns prismatic entrances Roderick Strong and stone cold base on the back nice one there Ramar's now. We got Ed at seven and eight Starts at number seven here Ed Let's do it worm disco almost As well as top tier Roman Reigns Gigi Dolan Nikita Lyons array as well on the base Number eight like I said is Ed again. Good luck here at worm. That is Bailey on the disco We've got a rocky my via that is the disco nice one there That's on that Ed. That's that's the rock right there, right? What that's the rock. I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure I don't want to sound like an idiot, but I think that's the rock Okay, it's good. Nice nice variation Chris a number nine Is that like his first character when he yeah, that's what a lot of these did the variations are like early early early Yeah Silver Hulk nice one there. There you go Chris disco, Yokozuna base base and base and Scots rounding us out at number 10 Scott T. Let's do it Scott. Hulk's variation though was actor like his prime, right? I think so. I don't know to be honest Rhea Ripley Red Jerry Lawler nice one there to 99 Jerry Lawler Mysterio Angelo Dawkins that's gonna do it for the break guys. Thanks again for getting that filled on up really do appreciate it Next up number 15 our final WWE break


So, welcome to the first afternoon track. I'm going to start with a little bit of a overview of what we are going to do here. I think it will be a state of the Union, so we'll have to look in the past and discuss the plans and sort of go to the store for the next year. So, that's me doing open office work and in-office work for a number of years.  I'm currently working from CLE. I'm paying for the salary. I'm just going to come here and I'm also supporting the conference. Okay, so just to remind you, that's the year of the event, 2018. But we still have all the F1 to 2. So, it's been for who knows when we must have last, we must have the F1 to 2, ratified standardised playways. Anyone else? So, almost eight years. So, that's bigger. What do you know? First off, some history. As I say, 2011 was the year of 102. So, it started with the start of this XML format. So, it's a mistake. So, I decided that XML would be much better if we had a document format. I had to do a binding document format before, that is in the office. The office last day. So, the sun was inspected at the start of this open office team back in the day. Well, the first two came up with that idea. And they just draw the filter for the start of this format. And then some of you in the sun said, actually, we're much better than that. So, it's a great idea. This is a look for like some other people like to schema and validate. And you can tell how people start to read that. It's nicely documented. It's somewhat direct for the world of art. It's also direct for the office of project of the open office. It's nicely documented. So, that's when it started. So, you know, we were meeting in 2002. And rather quickly, we have 2002 then, out of the normal, 2005. And rather quick succession, roughly, I mean two and a half years, so it was an update. So, yeah. That suddenly stopped for good reasons in 2011. So, it's been languishing since then. And the problem with that is that it's not that the development is very stopped. So, there's still features being added. There's still problems being found in your specification. So, that's a mistake. We put up for a moment to roll all of this to understand it. So, that's what happened. So, nothing happened. Actually, quite a bit happened. Just that, you know. So, the ultimate goal of the standardization community, of course, is to go standards. And that's the problem that didn't happen. So, there was three concepts. So, first one is advance. Who knows what was the cost of the advance of human collaboration. Sorry.  So, the task there was that the change tracking marker within the bogey app is a bit underspecified. And it's not complete. So, this is quite an important part of this, especially tests. For text document interpretability, it was fast to work out a new standard of updates to the existence there. But then, through a total of three concepts, running on sort of the world, lots of energy, lots of time, and, of course, lots of minutes. And there's no update yet, but there's at least one, the last one for three concepts is built in the world now. And it's really having a break, I think, until later this year, between people. Let's move to the core of the issue, so that there's no accident at that right, especially for writing standards century stop in 2011. So, that coincides with the pretty much the end of the book, of course, and also the axle of the larger corporate responses of that project. And standardization work, especially writing standards are very good through all of bureaucracy. It's pretty tired every time and through some of the volunteers we've been doing. You usually get someone to be paid for that, but it's usually pretty expensive. So, just stop from that. Right. 1.3, that's the supposed to be next standard or some discussion to call it 1.3 or 2.0, since very likely the strange tracking thing won't make it for 1.3 of the next version. People decided to call it 1.3, because it's an iteration of a minor update, but so far it's been more than 350 issues worked on and get the individual target to be. So, that's quite a chunk of backlog. I'm reasonably certain that at least all of the 1.0 is much, much less in scope. So, I think 1.2 is the best. There's also a lot of debugging that was going on with the standard, lots of problems found, lots of under-specifying of ink here. We're already with the standard found, so, making mistakes, some errors that we just forgot to mention, and specify them all. Yes, and most of that was due to a massive backlog of improvements, especially in the middle of this, that then all went since we wanted to write at least the standard performance, that was then put into some separate namespace. So, when you're only a document, it's in the office, in the office namespace. But anyway, it's committed to putting things there to change existing things. And then you extend the file from what you need to some other store in your feature, you put it into a separate namespace, it's a good extended namespace, and you're documented on your product page that you have extended on the F, it's such a way, you can explain what you did there, and it's a feature, it's a marker. And of course, every vendor, every project is then strongly encouraged to have feedback back to come to the FTCs, that actually becomes a standard. Sometimes that just means finding the change in the marker, to propose some texts and pros for the written standard.  So usually there's some discussion going on and I'm not even sure what to say. At the end, though, it benefits all of us, I think, if new features can standardize so that the true value of the F, which is standardized format that all the people agree on must maintain. So if every vendor or every project has their own extensions at some stage, the amount of changes that people cannot be interlocked with so much, at least like any of these will be. And last but not least, maintenance work on end-to-round showing the system version. So there are back reports against 1.1, 1.2 and also the other versions of that. So those got fixed, and also got fixed as well and also visible to see as we are. Great, so that was what actually happened. Why I'm here is partially because since quite a while nothing really substantial happened in terms of the methods which was getting the standard out. So there was some concrete action finally and I really like to highlight your name which is Regina Henshel who is for TDF, the document foundation part of the UDFTC so she's purely volunteer she's a teacher in real life and she comes every week and attends the UDFTC course and does great work there find spots and and of course some things to find spots and spots in the new office but in the new office it's not that compliant if you need to fix this new office or if you propose to change the standards if you have the sentiment that the standard matches the new office is doing and she approached the document foundation with the proposal to put that proposal to fund somebody to write or to edit the new UDF version and TDF forecasts are clear and after lots of deliberation and lots of planning for looking in the pockets for some money of the TDF we finally this year we need funding and so the plan was to just have some kill start like some 10k or something just to get off the notepad plus some matching funds so that for every other company that should advance TDF will match that to a sort of limit and that rent didn't go badly so it actually went as well as Microsoft to step up to play so yes, we will fund that we will fund that TDF all of this is the right on the software, CIC the charity, the UDF fund my son I think Andrew is part of that so essentially TDF said okay this is the money we will find the companies to fund that and then find some editorial contract about all of that happened so Francis Cave is tasked to edit the new UDF version and SC34 Shell which is on the ISO level the group that is now receiving the Margo Asus TC the UASUS standard and then moves that into Margo Asus standard level just international requirements so Francis Cave is the Shell person who then will eventually receive some sort of funding so I think that's pretty good idea and this is a great standard professional and it's partnering with Patrick Rousseau who is the current Shell that we have to see of working as we speak working on the Margo Asus update updated draft that all kind of originally kicked us all into action so it was crumbling people were probably in agreement part of the agreement that this is a sustainable sustainable situation she kicked us into action and ultimately managed to get us into more rolling again including the TC freezing 103 submissions on June 1st so you say well this is good for deadline and we issue everything after that date it will not be considered 103 anymore so that after that the editors can start working on the standard we're not considering having to have to change things and it was really focusing people on the three-year relationship probably if you look into that the one with the bed one if there's anybody here at the spoon who is using working for a corporation that is using FUNIA or that is selling products based on FUNIA please do consider funding so there's still a little bit of budget left from this matching budget that's TDF it would be a shame to let that lapse because it's no amount just to step up to the place, talk to me we'll talk to Simon and we will work about how to do that so we have funding secured but we are at least able to push that towards the end of the year hopefully with the first committee draft but we have not secured funding beyond that yet sharing that then through the standardization process and bureaucracy perhaps editing further accepting crimes that is not a secure bet so please or ask friends and family or if you have other companies that might please do approach I think it's a good idea can we look into some ideas do you think that's going to happen I need to go mention that already so EOF marketing also took a dip and it was marching at the moment and there's some work underway do we know that we have adoption TC in some form but that's exactly that so so the goal for that is to coordinate marketing around ODF ramping up but then sometime next year hopefully we will have marketing in place and we will get the work out for that so a quick walkthrough in the development of the project is also a very nice initiative I think not really but it's not anymore so he started a couple of years ago it's really not a good idea but for something like this there are lots and lots and lots of changes coming in the day that ODF compliance can bring up any type that's a patch that's another patch patches all together lead to the problem that suddenly develops in the ODF and that only gets caught a year later when the version is shipped and somebody is running through an elevator but that's really not how it should be so what you really need for the development is that it's available so what the medium should have so ideally you want it has to break so that the doc doesn't even leave your disk or if it doesn't leave your disk it goes to the guard the continuous integration should fail there so he started to set up some things running some data on some of the results we need a version of it for some re-tests and he's really like that idea and so tender that CME my company started implementing in late 2016 and that the goal for that is that validation is the default and the thing that entry tests entry codes is writing in the liberal disability environment is tested for validity most importantly of course for the effort also for the same for OSM for universal rights and for for the effort so you know that we have a similar from the space for OSM for the time performance it's a bit more important for you to do some fine and you're able to do that to run but always the hardest is to train as much as you can as much as you can and so again the goal was that every developer that was up to need anything extra should get that and so again it's not happening and it's something that will be up and so it's more error reporting so that should point to a great place and it's a line and the pointer to the line like this place this is developed so that you actually see and also to be able to do a second art so that whenever needs to be discovered that a problem appeared earlier but it didn't catch that that you should be able to do a second art in a very commitment program and another is that it should increase the likelihood that you see when you see a submission that discusses the crisis to keep updated versions of the schema and the trees so that you do have a potential file format that's a new feature that you need to adjust and realize a new schema and in fact part of the path you can just directly go to to see inside of care like you propose the systems and that's indeed a problem so you just check it out and how it's generally made and feel at risk of cracks nothing else there's also a crash testing machine which is a much larger scope of documents a much larger part of documents that's run so it's running for almost a week and it's importing them to the labor so this other community office will get the weekly crash test updates and that has a column for for mobility problems and that's enough for all of us that is not down to zero so there's only one way to work there that's also something that brings the wheels but it potentially drags the world if somebody adds a unit test touches a feature that is not yet written anywhere but it's one of the web docs that are run on the crash testing machine and you will suddenly see that so that's one of the very obvious easy hacks it's potentially also something like a key soft project or DCI project to go through all of the in the community that was okay so that's all I wanted to say just a quick upload click on all of the brand of salt click that with the brand of salt this is well it was the June 20th at 18.00 and you can check out the brand of salt everything else that's called a planned route path whether that works out in standardization that is even less so in software development always gets the idea so before 6.2 which was due in February the plan is towards the plan is towards the end of the year to have the first quantity draft so there's no situation as it certainly means the last one but that should be the first draft that you come up to and we get lots of reviews and we are too involved in looking into that I don't know about something as I mentioned there's something in the marketing ground where we have running up and running up to them and hopefully we have something standardized by OASIS maybe in the so the the review can be much faster there's a 30 30 day minimum review for the voting period for new standards but whenever somebody finds a problem that sends you back at the variable also that it's easy but it's like three times more times that then you need to fix the things so hopefully until this we we have something out and meanwhile as you see like the people at Regina, and Patrick and Andreas we move on and we're working on the next which is probably either one of four or two of zero depending on how things are going that's far out still leaves the problem of how to possibly fund editing work for that so we will probably have to meet each other next year and ask again if you are somehow willing to fund or help funding of the editorial but I think the important that the forum is important enough and the idea behind the truly standard of support is that we will collectively find enough funding to keep that going and simply because it will be sharing a number of forums but to the fact that so much work goes into actual GC where all the stuff has been happening for the past seven and seven eight years we have been able to erase that that's the standard of more than 350 issues in many halls of standardization of all the standards we're working on it's like it's like writing something that would not be easy so the hope is that if this is successfully running we can make many more of those funding grounds and people will be able to try Thanks for your attention and I think that's the only number to have questions This is one of the ones that will be opportunity to release the current version of the forum is very, even very much do we have now a chance to read that about the forum? Yeah, there's another third question I think that we will be able to hear from the members of the forum but also from an accident in 2006 we still see that the members of the generics bad for the function so anyone who can see mentioned that let's see I have a question what was the what happened because so far we didn't have any problem So that's one of the questions so so we're going to leave the office okay let me try to so there's two questions I only have one of these and that's not better but the last question it's it's also perhaps a strategy or a client management for the office that depending on how things are going I would at least move out at the development side we might want to start writing out the new one of three once the first committee draft is out so also believe with the work started for 6-3 to run for 6-2 or 7-1 I think in January so start starting December or January next year we could feel this time changing all the LX namespaces to proper office namespaces but that has quite some work to do you can't just say okay I'm just writing out the new stuff and when somebody on document comes they can read it once so if you're stating something from the all the standard namespaces to the new ones so there's some work to do but it's pretty so that's easy to crowd source so that's easy to do that once for one of the I am it's not easy to do that I think it's high for 100-200 more so but it's so robust yeah do you have any idea of the proportion of the extended things that we run this last day to 1-2, how much of those are going to 1-3 so you just have to remove them from 1-2 as standard I don't think that she's always one of the namespaces so the thing is that you can check that you look into the check out of the data repository you look into the schema sub directory and that's the difference 1-3 schema sub directory and just just that 1-2 that's the number of changes that's one of the the nice features of this validation not exactly but some nice 9% of the variables that we're writing today and it's already in the schema so you can just see the difference


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Two Dalit youths from Soganur and Sembedi villages in the Ranipehte district near Arakonam Tamil Nadu were killed by members of the dominant one-year community on April 7th, a day after the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections. Three other members of the Dalit community, who are also injured in the incident, are now admitted in a hospital as their condition is critical. News click presents a report from Ranipehte. Soganur village is around 13 km from Arakonam railway station. On our way, we observed that the entire way to the village was filled with policemen. We met the relatives of one of the murdered Dalit youth Arjunan along with other villagers. The villagers gathered in the village to catch the children. Arjunan and his friends gathered in the village to catch the children. The whole village was filled with police officers. The police officers were not to be killed in the event of the incident. The police officers were not to be killed in the event of the incident. Arjunan's father was in the police office. His name was Paani. He was a member of the Dalit community. They would not let us come to the temple without a helmet. They would not let us come to our temple without a helmet and a helmet. They were trying to get us from here to the nearby temple. They were trying to get us to the temple again. They tried to make us come to the temple and put them in the way. We have been sitting here for four days. We didn't go anywhere. If we had been sitting here, we wouldn't have been in a good mood. We were thinking about what the government is doing now. We are going to get a wife and go home. We can't say anything.  We have been sitting here for 30 years. We don't have enough time. Some fights are taking place. The police are calling us and comforting us. They are making a compromise. Now, there is a huge problem. This is the first time in our country that there are two villages. We have to take care of them. We have to take care of them. We have to take care of them. Two villages died today. There is no one to comfort them. No one is going to see them today. We have been fighting for four days. We got a good solution through DRV. In other villages, they will fight for 24 hours. We have been fighting for four days. We didn't go to the road without drinking water. We didn't go to the government. They supported us. Now, we need a solution. In the neighbouring village, Perumal Rajapetai. They are from the Vaniyar community. We are from Dalit community. When women come here, they don't have any protection. They don't have any protection. Three or four days ago, we were looking for a job without living. We had a problem there. When we put the second shift there, they didn't reach there at one o'clock. When they came back, they made two villas. They were getting married. When they got married, we were scared of Dalit people. There have been protests across the area for the last four days, demanding appropriate compensation for the victims' family and demanding legal action against the accused. People also refused to receive the dead bodies of Arjunan and Surya. Following continuous talks with government officials, Polis have arrested six people involved in the incident after four days. According to the claims of the villagers, those involved in the murder belong to the ruling AI-ADMK party and its ally, the Patali Makkal Karchi, PMK. They have been involved in antisocial activities in these areas using their political influence and the Polis have refused to take up any complaints against them. The State Secretary of Communist Party of India, Marxist K. Balakrishnan, met the family members of the slain and injured Dalit youths. Newsclick also spoke with him about the incident. This is a very shocking incident. Those youths are only 26, 24 years old. Their young women, wives are widows. Only three-month-old child has lost his father. So, on behalf of the Communist Party of India, Marxist K. Balakrishnan strongly condemned the caste atrocities let loosened by the casteist forces against these Dalit youths. Our party demanded that immediately the police should arrest all the concerned persons. They arrested only six persons. But more persons were involved in that atrocity. So, immediately everybody involved in those affairs should be arrested immediately. Moreover, like these caste atrocity offenses, in most of the cases during the trial time, the accused are let free. They have been acquitted by the court because the police is not handling the case properly. The case was not properly conducted. So, moreover, the accused and the police are in collusion with each other. They are dragging on the cases for more than 10 years. So, because of that delay also, the culprits are usually acquitted in these occurrences that immediately the charges should be filed within three months, 90 days, the case trial should be over. Then only the culprits cannot escape from the law. So, the police should take immediate action to conduct the cases and finalize the inquiry investigation. Moreover, on behalf of our party, we have controlled their families. We are conveying our heartfelt condolences to them. I demand the state government, Tamil Nadu state government, immediately to release 50 lakhs for each family and also a government employment for their family, for their youth's wives. Moreover, these kind of caste atrocities should not be allowed in Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu is one of the states which has got very good social justice, very good social reform movements, Left movement, Periyar movement, all these things. But despite all these things, these kind of caste atrocities are taking place. Innocent youths, Dalits youths are affected and they have been murdered regularly. This kind of brutal murder should not be allowed. So, all political parties, all democratic forces should come forward to condemn these kind of caste atrocities all over state to protect the downtrodden people, especially the Dalit people. All must come and shoulder the responsibility to protect the downtrodden people. This is purely a caste fanatic caste atrocity let loose and by some individuals. So, they may belong to any party. I don't feel that their party will be behind them. So, my point is even PMK and ADMK should come forward to condemn these kind of caste atrocities including all political parties. Caste-based atrocities are not new to Tamil Nadu. Particularly during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the state witnessed one of the worst episodes of such atrocities with the election campaign of Toul Tirumavalavan, the VCK Party leader and member of parliament from Chidambaram constituency. At that time, people belonging to the dominant non-linear community had indulged in violence in the Dalit localities. The latest incident at Arakonam following the assembly election in the state is similar to that in terms of the violence and aggression unleashed by the dominant community. Notably, Arakonam is a reserved constituency. J. Gautama Sanna of VCK is the candidate representing the secular alliance in this constituency. Youth from Soganur village were actively involved in the election campaign for Sanna. Following this, VCK leader Toul Tirumavalavan commented on his Twitter page that Dalit youths have been killed a day after the election and alleged that there are political reasons behind this. Tilagavadi, who is a social activist and advocate, shared her views with us regarding the caste discrimination and the continuous attacks on the oppressed people. This issue is brutal which has happened in recent days in Tamil Nadu especially after the elections. So the motto of the issue is the political power should not belong to the Dalits especially for the leader like Tirumavalavan he shouldn't, the candidate from his party shouldn't get succeeded in this constituency is the main motto behind this issue because the people who were murdered was in part of the campaign in support of the candidate Gautama Sanna representing VCK so that is the main motto behind this so we can see obviously how the caste politics in our election system is playing along with this in this country and we can see that the murdered people were politically active in this place they hated that nobody developed this place especially their basic needs were not fulfilled so they hated all other politicians who won this constituency so they decided that this time especially VCK candidates should win so in that point the PMK, the people who murdered this these two Dalit youngsters they belong to PMK party and they were motivated and encouraged by PMK party if it is not encouraged by PMK then why they didn't give any statement that they condemn this or they refuse the killers, the murderers doesn't belong to their party so this is especially questionable and after coming this place we can see that how the place and the houses and people are living without any basic needs especially toilets and we can see how people are struggling here in these kind of areas and I could hear some issues that even from the beginning of the schools itself there is a very strong caste rooted in this particular place that I heard from the people and the murderers were very young age they were not very old and all they are very young and the caste ideologies are very strongly inserted in their minds so it is very threat to Tamil Nadu that this kind of things is happening in our Tamil Nadu and we are wondering how this elections will be changing the people and their standards especially Dalit communities so this has to be investigated and justice has to be given to the people who are murdered in this brutal issues it is not a very unique thing in Tamil Nadu the people who especially murdered Dalit people or Dalit women who got raped and murdered it is very usual in Tamil Nadu the filing FIR and filing a case is very delayed because it is what happening so they have a lot of political and caste pressure over them because they don't want to take it up they are waiting whether if someone comes and making issue and if so if someone big political people or big organizations come and come and urge on them then only they can file FIR and they can put cases on them and that too the cases FIR they are filing is a very very minimal cases not minimal sections not actual appropriate sections are not filed on them so in this issue also the police were waiting whether some political parties are coming or urging us or it is becoming issue through media everything they were waiting and watching once it is become hot in Tamil Nadu then they are filing the case in a very delayed so it is not it is not legal so after the two people were murdered it was lost of lives it is very important very crucial then they didn't file any FIR immediately so they were waiting and they were politically urged they were given privilege by the upper caste I mean the dominating caste people so it is very obvious that is how it works that is how the system works in the government we have to get justice for this girl they have to take the punishment for all of us there should be no more fights we should not go to life they should not fight that is what we need they have to get justice they should not hold hands and never go to life this 21st century should be a place for all of us because today we have 1000 families here 1000 families in this area there are such fights more than this there are 30 families in small villages how many fights will take place the government should remember because we are women here there is no education but there are some but today everyone is standing this is the reason this caste this problem should be solved in the future we have to get justice for the government for the government the fear the fear we have to live in this community we have to live like everyone else


dad checks video footage and sees cat behave strangely. Finally, Daniel had the proof he had been looking for. However, even so, he couldn't believe what was staring him in the face. Even so, he finally had answers to the questions he had wanted answered. He skips back to the beginning of the video clip and starts again, feeling uneasy as he watches what he had captured on camera. He always knew there was something strange about muffins, his cat. This was not what he had expected, however. We all know how important it to adopt pets and how much joy they can bring into our lives. However, adopted pets often behave in ways that may scare or surprise you. Many of these behaviors were learned from their previous home or they might be based on how they were treated. A couple who recently adopted a cat quickly discovered that it came with some such behaviors. One trait, in particular, unnerved them and resulted in numerous sleepless nights. The couple in question knew how important adoption was over buying a new pet. As a result, they chose to visit the local animal shelter in search of a pet. They soon found a cat who immediately stole their hearts. The cat was sweet, loving, and seemed very happy and the family couldn't have been more pleased with their newest member. However, it wouldn't be long before he started behaving in a way which they were not prepared for. The cat immediately became a part of their family. When they first saw him, the cat stared deep into Daniel's eyes with a pleading expression on his face. The cat seemed to be begging him to take him home. Daniel's heart melted and he knew that this cat was going home with him. It would have been cruel to turn away from this tabby. That's how muffins became a member of Daniel's family, though none of them realized what this meant for them yet. Daniel was pleased that his kids adored muffins and would often even spend the night snuggling with him and listening to him purr as they stroked his fur. Muffins seemed to immediately make himself at home once he was rescued from the pound. Despite how comfortable and happy he seemed, they soon discovered that he had a strange habit which only happened at night. However, this strange behavior quickly showed just how unique and quirky even animals can be. Every night since they brought him home, muffins would stand in the doorway of Daniel's bedroom and stare at him while he slept. He completely seemed to ignore the rather pricey cat bed that they had bought for him. After several nights of this, Daniel gave in and let the cat sleep in the bed next to him and his wife. He hoped that this would end the strange behavior but that was not the case. Instead, they noticed his strange habit taking on an even more disturbing form. As if staring at them from the door each night hadn't been unnerving enough, now that they allowed muffins to sleep in the bed, he simply took to staring at them at point blank range every night. This confused and worried Daniel and his wife. Could there be some bigger problem or even more worrying reason for this behavior? Was there something he was trying to tell them or was he staring at something specific? At the age of 13 Daniel had been diagnosed with asthma and had naturally been struggling with this throughout his life and especially at night. As a result, Daniel had never smoked, could never run a marathon and always needed to make sure that he had his inhaler on hand. Over the years he had gone to many different specialists and doctors about his condition but none of them could offer any real solution. To make matters worse, his nighttime asthma had become even worse. Daniel realized that his breathing troubles had become worse ever since they brought muffins home from the pound. However, this wasn't merely an allergy. Whatever was going on it was far worse than that. Some nights Daniel would sit up in bed gasping for breath while it felt as if a piece of glass was lodged in his throat, scratching him. Daniel became more and more concerned as time went by but he had no idea that he would soon discover the real cause. On this particular night Daniel woke with a start as he coughed and wheezed uncontrollably. His wife still lay sleeping next to him and he looked at the clock to see the time. 4.03 am. He didn't know what had caused such an attack. He decided to get and get a glass of water from the kitchen in the hope of easing his coughing. That's when he noticed muffins. He looked at the cat with a smile and then felt his blood run cold as he saw what the cat was doing. Sitting on a chair in the moonlight and surrounded by complete silence, muffins were staring at Daniel and watching his every move. As Daniel got up to get his water, muffins' reflective yellow eyes followed him eerily across the room. A sudden, irrational feeling of anxiety crept upon Daniel. What if the cat was seeing something that Daniel couldn't? This situation happened again the day after, at exactly the same time, 4.03 am. Daniel woke up coughing to find muffins staring at him. Okay this is super weird, thought Daniel, what are you doing, he whispered to the creepy cat. Suddenly, a thought popped into his head. He pondered for a while before nervously getting back into bed. What are you doing, he whispered to the creepy cat. Suddenly, a thought popped into his head. He pondered for a while before nervously getting back into bed. The following morning, as Daniel ate his toast and cereal, he watched muffins creep around the house. His two girls were playing with him while they watched some TV. His youngest, Ella, scooped muffins up and cuddled him close. But Daniel felt a lump in his throat, unable to get last night's antics out of his head. He knew he had to do something. So he did. Daniel grabbed his wallet, car keys, kissed his wife goodbye and set off to the supermarket. While driving there, all he could think of was muffins alarming and quite scary stare. He needed some answers. Enough was enough. I'm looking for a video camera, please. Preferably one with night vision. Daniel asks a member of staff, who was rearranging a shelf full of blue denim pants. Sure thing. The employee replied with a polite smile. She leaves him for a few minutes before coming back, armed with a video camera. He was finally going to get some answers. Daniel sets up the camera before bedtime, placing it behind a book. As he kissed his two girls goodnight, he noticed muffins lingering in the hallway. His green eyes were focused on Daniel's every move. Daniel gets into bed, kisses his wife goodnight and snuggles into his duvet.  The following morning Daniel woke up and immediately remembered the camera. As he waved goodbye to his kids, who were off to play soccer, he sprinted back upstairs while Muffin watched his every move. He shut the bedroom door, piled out the memory card from the camera and plugged it into his computer. While he waits for it to load, a feeling of excitement jolts Daniel. Finally, some answers. As Daniel presses play on the recorded video, he lets out a sigh. Please give me answers. He whispers out loud. The video showed nothing for the first few hours. Just Daniel and his wife tossing and turning in their bed. Fast forwarding the video, suddenly Daniel presses pause. He can see muffins in the video. He's perched at the end of the bed. Then slowly he makes his way up to Daniel, who's fast asleep. What was he doing? No way. Shouts Daniel. He was sitting in his bedroom watching the recorded video from last night. The video shows Muffin slowly creep his way closer and closer to Daniel's faces before getting completely comfortable and settling down on top of his nose and mouth. Daniel can't believe it. This would explain why he's recently started having trouble breathing at night. Pressing pause on the video, Daniel gets up. Suddenly, muffins creeps into the room and Daniel turns to him before cracking a smile. The following morning, over a cup of coffee and freshly cooked toast, Daniel explained everything to his wife. She was equally shocked at the outcome, but she felt happy that her husband finally had some answers. That's some way to show his love, Daniel's wife joked. Yeah, I guess it is, Daniel replied with a smirk on his face. As Daniel finished reading his morning newspaper, he heard a scratch. He turned around and muffins is sitting in the corner of the room staring at him. Daniel put down the newspaper and walked over to muffins and picks him up. He nests muffins in his chest while stroking his silky, smooth fur. The cat looks at his owner and lets out a purr. He was exactly where he wanted to be. This story just goes to show that our dear beloved pets really do have a mind of their own. And when they want something, whether that's food, drink, playtime, or in muffin's case, cuddles, they'll stop at nothing to get it. Even if that may result in choking their owners, with love of course.


This government from last five to six years has done an enormous work in terms of simplifying the ease of doing business and promoting innovation and we have been seeing the impact of it. A lot of labour law reforms have happened, a lot of unprotective processes have been removed and I think it's a continuous journey but I can see the commitment and the will to do it and I think once that is there I'm sure India will become in the top ten in the ease of doing business in the world.


So, imagine if I gave each person a notebook, a notebook of paper and a pen tonight and asked you to answer this question, what are you hoping for regarding the Gospel? How would you explain what you're hoping or what you hope for? What would you write down? And how would that compare to Scripture? Now imagine if your life was transcribed into that notebook. Just below what you wrote, imagine having the facts of all your actions and words and thoughts documented from the last few months. What would it say you're hoping for week to week? What your pursuits are? Dearly beloved, remember you have something so great to hope for that when compared to the world's best. The world's best is pointless and empty. When you compare what you have to hope for to your sinful desires, the best that your sin could offer is revolting and horrible. The Christians' hopes are in God and all His promises found in His Word. Our triune God has elected Jesus Christ, God the Son, as the focal point of our hopes through the Gospel. Jesus said, you search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life and these are they which testify of me. Follow with me in your Bible starting at Colossians chapter 1 verse 15 through 23. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation, for by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead that in all things He may have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven having made peace through the blood of His cross, and you who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death to present you holy and blameless and above reproach in His sight, if indeed you continue in the faith grounded and steadfast and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven of which I, Paul became a minister. Jesus Christ is all. The Father has and the Father has purpose to reconcile all things to Himself by Christ. Like Colossians, like the Colossians, we're proof of the beginnings of this reconciliation of God. Only during the last sermon, we were reminded by verse 21 what God has done. He has reconciled us His former enemies to Himself. Then in verse 22a, we were reminded how we have been reconciled to God by the bodily death of His beloved Son. Truly His arm is not short that He cannot save when you look at us. Look at what He's done. Look at our lives. Let us rejoice in full assurance of faith. That's where we left off last time. So let's pick up from there and read tonight's text by itself, starting with the words to present in verse 22, to present you holy and blameless and above reproach in His sight, if indeed you continue in the faith grounded and steadfast and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven of which I, Paul, became a minister. Here's the roadmap for tonight. I'll read the rest of it. I divide this text into three main ideas. What I see in here is God's purpose, God's means, and God's exhortation. At title point one out of the three points, God reconciled us for glorification. At title point two, God preserves us by the means of a condition, point three, therefore we must persevere in hope of the gospel, in the hope of the gospel. The main idea, the whole thrust of the sermon tonight is like hearing this exhortation. You chosen of God, stay on the King's highway and don't take your eyes off the heavenly city which ends with Christ in glory. Keep that thought in your head. That is the point of the text. Okay, let's move to point one. God reconciled us for glorification. This comes from verse 22b, if you look at it, to present you holy and blameless and above reproach in his sight. Peace with God came to us by Christ's death. Why? For what purpose? The scripture says to present you holy and blameless and above reproach in his sight. Before you begin interpreting this in your mind, let me ask, what exactly is meant by this phrase? Does this mean being born again by the Spirit here and now? Does it mean being made perfect in our soul before the resurrection, like Moses and Elijah and Matthew 17? Or does it mean being glorified with resurrected immortal bodies? The proper interpretation becomes clear when we consider the context, logic, word definitions and a similar verse in Ephesians. Ephesians is a mirror to Colossians in many of its ways. In context, Paul's telling them why they're reconciled. Therefore, as I understand it, the text cannot mean that the purpose of reconciliation is to be made born again because it's a logical fallacy. It's like saying God has made me to be at peace with him so that he could give me a new heart. In other words, regeneration must logically precede reconciliation. For how can one be at peace with God until he has a new heart?  Above reproach, it means this word is never used in connection with worship but is a legal term, meaning free from any legal charge, unaccusable or unaccused. Morally is, it means separated or devoted to God, morally pure, blameless, which is often used to describe the absence of defects in sacrificial animals and to describe Christ in offering himself as a sacrifice. However, here it's used metaphorically to mean morally blameless. I don't believe also that this text is referencing being perfect in soul, like Moses and Elijah and Matthew 17. Because of how the adjectives are used in context elsewhere in Paul's writings, specifically Ephesians, if you will turn to Ephesians chapter 5, verse 27. Actually I'm going to read up to, I'm going to go from 25 to 27, husbands, love your wives just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for her. For what purpose? That he might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of the water of water by the word. And then we have another purpose. That he might present her to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing that she should be holy and without blemish. In this context here it's telling what the purpose of Christ's work is and how he loved his church and how he's going to present them. The same word present is the same word present in our text. The same word holy is the same holy in our text. The same blemish, without blemish is the same blameless in our text. Also who is the one doing the presenting? It's Christ. Who is the one doing the presenting in our text? Yep. So here though it's easier to see that this isn't prior to resurrection because it uses the word glorious. This is illustrating the work of Christ and his glory and what he is going to consummate in the salvation of his people. And this would be deficient if it didn't include Christ's conquering of death. In his presentation if it did not include this text the way it reads with a glorious church that uses the word church to describe everybody together. And when you look at the way the resurrection happens it's always united with everybody together resurrected at once. So here I see resurrection bodies and because of the similarity and the comparison and mirror over here I see resurrection bodies in Colossians. So let's go back to Colossians. So why are you reconciled? It's so that you could be glorified. God intends he is going to get glory and be exalted in your glorification and he intends and has a divine purpose that you look ahead that where he's going. He's going to resurrect your body. We have incorruptible bodies but he will give you an incorruptible body. So if you look at Colossians 3-4 actually I'm going to read 3-1-3-4. If then you were raised with Christ seek those things which are above or above where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God set your mind on things above not on things on the earth for you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears then you also will appear with him in glory. That's talking about the resurrection. It's not a foreign theme in this letter. So as you think about glorification and you think about that verse I just read let not your thoughts about glorification be separated from being with Christ. Weld glorification to being with Christ in your mind. That's what the scriptures do. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of an archangel with the trumpet of God and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Beloved it has not yet been revealed what we shall be but we know that when he is revealed we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is when he is revealed when he comes and everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure. In glorification your resurrected body can never decay just as Jesus' body can never decay. It will be without disease or ailment or pain. Your body will always function to the fullest extent of its God given limits. Your imagination and memory will work together in perfect harmony. Like the legs of an Olympic runner they will never they will run tirelessly after God's infinite glory never perceiving a finish line. Your will will always be directed a right in love aligned perfectly with the will of God. Your conscience will always rejoice as you constantly serve and worship Christ from a pure heart. You chosen of God stay on the king's highway and don't take your eyes off the heavenly city which ends with Christ in glory. So here we're standing on the king's highway which leads to glory in God through Paul's pen God has lifted our eyes to the horizon and pointed at his intended destination for us glorification with Christ. And with great assurance and joy we might think we've received all the instruction we're going to need however with great love, confidence and also great seriousness. Paul doesn't end the sentence with a period but moves on with a comma and a condition which brings us to point to God preserves us by the means of a condition. This comes from verse 23a if indeed what about the if one might ask is not the whole program in jeopardy doesn't it all depend on us all ultimately does this mean a Christian can lose their salvation no God is sovereign unchangeable and cannot deny his unbreakable word that no one will snatch his sheep out of his hand. If we were to look at the context it would refute that as well over and over Paul reminds them and assures them of what has already happened in one place will look if you look in chapter 2 verse 13 and you being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh he has made alive together with him having you forgiven you all trespasses. I heard a brother say one time that would be double jeopardy if God paid for your sin forgave you and then punish you. Paul doesn't have in his mind that these people are not Christians. He knows they are he's heard of their fruit and he says having forgiven you having wiped out all the handwriting requirements that was against us. So this if indeed if we go to other scriptures or we stay right here in context it doesn't it is not intended to bring doubt nor does it mean that the whole programs in jeopardy. So what does it mean? On the other hand one might be tempted to take election and force this condition to fit into another verse. It's like there are certain things about God's word that we hold is true but we can't understand how they work how they fit together in harmony. Like how Christ is fully God and fully man and particularly what this issue is ultimately is man's responsibility and God's sovereignty. And what people want to do is they want to force one into the other like John Wesley he would take a warning passage which show he would say look you can fall away therefore this promise is contingent on you. And some of us can do it the other way around and say all the conditions that's just mean sense or it doesn't apply to us. It's really meant for unbelievers who are among the people so that they can test themselves and see that they're not continuing and that they're not genuine. When you read the letter he gives no indication that he thinks anybody's lost.  So he has in his mind when he gives them this condition saints and faithful brethren in Christ Jesus having forgiven you all trespasses. So this condition is in a sense like because you're continuing. This condition doesn't mean that you can lose your salvation rather this is written to genuine believers in Colossae originally and by comparison to you as well. Also glorification eternal life with with Christ is at stake here since the if indeed follows the divine intention of glorification. Here's the correct interpretation. Paul is emphasizing the fact that salvation is not complete that they need to persevere. This is one of the ways God preserves his saints in this life. The if indeed begins a conditional clause which is God's means to preserve his people. We say God will preserve his people. How does he do it? He does it like this because the very condition itself causes his people by the work of the Spirit to persevere. Its function is not to create doubt because he has just finished telling them that they were reconciled. Its function is to keep them headed in the right direction and strip them of presumption. We all have need of assurance and diligent perseverance. Don't miss the force of it either. This condition is powerful. Brethren, God intends you to be glorified if you continue. This is one of the ways God keeps you on his narrow path. I was thinking of analogy. Imagine a mother. She's gotten a little bit older. She went to college and she was a collegiate swimmer, captain of the swim team. She had won several matches. She has a daughter and she wants to teach her daughter as she gets old enough how to swim. She takes her alone, doesn't need to send her to classes. She knows what she needs to teach her and it's likely going to be a lot better training than she would get at the Y or some other place. She takes her into a pool and trains her week after week. She doesn't tell her, but one day she says after seeing her daughter learn the techniques, learn all the swims, and seeing her stamina and her speed, she enters her into a contest with an Olympic-sized swimming pool, which she knows her daughter's never been in before. She enters her in and the daughter goes as confident and she begins swimming a distance longer than she's ever swam before. She's not paying attention to the other people she's racing against. She's doing so well she doesn't realize that she's laps ahead and she begins to think that she's losing and she's becoming a disappointment to her mother and she's getting tired. So she stops and begins to cry and just weeping, thinking that the best thing for her to do is to finish, just to not even get, not finish the race, but get out of the water, go home. And her mother comes over to her and kneels down and says, daughter, you will win the race if you continue. The analogy fails in a number of areas, but do you see how in that context the condition isn't like some attack on your assurance? It's the same way here. Paul says in chapter one how thankful he is for them. He continues to praise God for them and he gets there and the Colossians are having this problem in their church with men coming in and teaching false doctrine. There's heresy. There's Judaistic kind of legalism. There's mysticism and there's kind of the beginnings of Gnosticism and this elitist type thinking going on and the whole thing is taking away from Christ. And he comes in there and opens this up and in our verse he's telling them that Christ is everything and you need to continue hoping in him. Okay, let's move to our third and last point. Therefore we must persevere in the hope of the gospel. This comes from verse 23b, let me read it. You continue in the faith grounded and steadfast and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard which was preached to every creature under heaven of which I, Paul became a minister. One might ask after the previous point, how do I heed the if and fulfill the condition God has given me? Well on the one hand remember God gives saving faith and preserves his people. The condition in one sense will be fulfilled because God will supply all the strength to do it and at judgment God will receive all the glory and praise for what he has caused you to do by his spirit. But in another sense you are responsible. Under God's sovereignty nor your assurance of salvation negates your responsibility to fulfill this condition. So back to the original question, how do I heed this? Well the main verb of this clause is continue. It means to persevere. That's where we get our word persevere from, it means to stay or to remain. And now you wonder, well what does it mean to continue, to persevere, to stay, to remain? What are we going to remain in? It's the faith. The faith is using the definite article there, it's not using your. If you look in chapter one verse four, since we heard of your faith in Christ, you see how it doesn't say we heard of the faith in Christ? Well back in verse 23 he's not saying your faith, he's saying the faith and what he's talking about is not their personal individual faith, but he's talking about the content of what they put their faith in. So what do you need to continue in? The content of what the Christian's faith should be in. What is that? It represents all that we hold is true regarding God and His Word, namely the gospel, and at the center of that is Christ. These adjectives, now you might ask, well what does it look like? How am I going to continue in the faith? What does continuance in the faith look like? We have an answer. It looks like somebody who's described this way, somebody who you could describe as grounded, steadfast, and not moving away from the hope of the gospel. You know what someone who looks like is continuing in the faith is someone that is like Martin Luther in the faith. Everything comes, the doctrines of the gospel are attacked, and he has got roots that go so deep because of God's grace. We each need that faith. The word grounded there is also used in Matthew 7, 24, 25 when Jesus was talking about the man who built his house upon the rock. And the reason why it didn't fall over in the storm was because it was built on the rock. Well, in New York City, you know, they have some of the tallest skyscrapers in one of the biggest cities in the world, and those things stand for so long. It's known that their bedrock there is some of the best in the country, that it's the prime place to build skyscrapers because of the bedrock. So, your hope, what you're hoping in, you should be hoping in such a way that your faith is described as unmovable, grounded. I see here of UCS students who have come from their parents' house into the college and they meet our evangelists, our brothers and our sisters there. And many of them are just distraught and troubled and just completely moved away from the Gospel, completely confused.  It doesn't budge. The world and all of its trappings doesn't make it budge. I was thinking of the Hoover Dam, but we're out of time. Let me just finish with application. Examine your beliefs in the content of what you're hoping in and hoping for. What hopes are driving your decisions and plans? Are you deluded by any modern-day philosophies or traditions that contradict the word or aren't in the word? Like a reformed version of your best life now. Are you trusting in Christ alone and hoping to be free from sin and with Christ and glory? Repent of wrong beliefs and hope in Jesus Christ who is living and reigning even now. Go to Him by faith and prayer and call on Him who died for you to fix your eyes on Him. Study His Word to renew your mind in hope of what is not seen in your lifestyle. Examine your lifestyle. What are you pursuing? What does your life and conscience say right now? To hope in and for Christ is to long to be with Him and be like Him. In your hope of eternal life, are you now putting off sin and putting on righteousness? Let's pray. Lord, our God and Father, praise You, Lord, You are eternal and sovereign in control of all things. Thank You for the sermon tonight and thank You for the clarity. Thank You for the blessing of salvation and the reconciliation. Thank You for Your conditional statements, Lord, that cause us by Your Spirit to want to persevere and cause us, Lord, to look upon Your Son and hoping ourselves in this world. And I pray that tonight Your people, Lord, would be benefited by Your Spirit and the hours to come and in this week in meditation of today and all that You have spoken. Amen.