This study investigates the fatigue behavior of an aluminum alloy, AA5083H111, in the rolling direction, RD, and transverse direction, TD. It shows that the SN curve consists of two linear curves with different slopes, and that RD specimens demonstrate longer fatigue life than TD specimens. This difference is approximately 25%, with fatigue lives ranging from 276,551 cycles for RD specimens, to 206,727 cycles for TD specimens. This difference may be due to larger L6, MN, Fe, particles in the TD orientation, which lead to greater stress concentration and shorter fatigue life. Micrographs of the fractured surfaces show that the fractures are typically ductile, regardless of specimen orientation. This article was authored by Bronco Nessimer, Frank Zupanik, Tomasz Wuerrer, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


This is stock number 9117A, a 2006 GMC Sierra 2500, Crew Cab Short Box. This truck has a Duramax diesel 6.6L with the LLY motor, which gives you 310 horsepower. From this HD video, you'll be able to tell that for the age and miles on this truck, it's an excellent condition. Front bumpers in pretty nice condition. They have LED lights all the way through on this truck. So, very bright lights going on. It has Open Country Toyo tires. These tires, I would say, have probably about 80% to 90% of the treads, so very new tires. And they are on Moto Metal Chrome to Alloy rims. Now, these are 275-70R18s, and those rims are basically like new. Very nice condition. Tires are in very nice condition. I would imagine they put them on at the same time. Like I said, it's got LED lights throughout. The headlights, you can see just how bright those lights are.  Passenger rim, excellent condition as well. As you'll see, all the rims are in really nice condition. And as you go down this side of the truck, you can see just how clean the body is, how reflective that paint is. That's really why we do these HD videos, so if you are far away, or even if you're close by and just can't make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can still see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. You can see it has a back rack, headache rack up there. Down this side of the truck is very clean. Bodies in very nice condition. Back rim, excellent condition as well. No scuffs or scrapes. And the frame in the underbody for being an 06 with almost 100,000 miles is in really nice shape. All the lower rockers look really good on this truck. That's really what you want to see on these older trucks, is the undercarriage. Back tires, just as much try as the front tires. Rear bumper is in pretty nice condition. 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A poem titled, The Face of My Soul. What words do I have left in me to tell you of my sorrow? A pain that never goes away and will return again tomorrow. What else do I have left in me to show you how I grieve? A grief that always stays with me, a grief that never leaves. This pain is not a ten-day pain that comes and goes with time. This pain is yours, this pain I share with you, this pain forever mine. The pain of losing anything cannot compare to you. No matter what I think I've lost, the loss is never true. You remain the single scar engraved upon my soul. The only loss I mourn each day, a pain to most unknown. If souls were made to represent the face we wear each day, my soul would weep and chant aloud, Labayka Ya Hussain. Salla'ala Muhammad wa Ali Muhammad.


The next part of transformations that I want to get to is um is called viewing transformations. I want to build up enough transformations that so that we can place our models into the world and also define the stationary part of the model in the world and then figure out how it should look on the screen based on which way we are looking with our eyes. So, I got to go through a lot of transformations to do that it is not a computer graphics part yet it is a step towards that it does not really talk about how to render the pixels let us say, but I just need to know what points in my world should be appearing at one particular spot on my screen. So, how do I apply all those transformations. So, that is the next part I am going to get to if you have a computer graphics class before you have undoubtedly gone through this chain of transformations before. So, let us do that part. So, viewing transformations. So, in other words I want to start I want to start by putting my entire model into the world in some way this was the alternate world generator should build some model of the world let us say at a current time. So, somewhere in this world I have an object appearing. So, some kind of object appears and I have to take this object and through some kind of transformations figure out where it should appear on a screen or I guess I should say display how is this screen or display arranged perhaps it goes from 0 to 1080 and from 0 well let us see I will just say 1 to 1080 and 1 to 1920 and this can be considered as discretized just making up whatever coordinates I want here for the resolution it does not matter, but the screen has some kind of resolution and. So, we are ultimately going to have to figure out what RGB values to assign, but at today's stage I just want to figure out where an object like this shows up if at all. So, somewhere in this on the screen I should have my face appearing right let us say that shows up in the world. So, I want to figure out what these transformations are I am not going to talk about how does the light propagate how does the discretization happen should this be visible at all or not to be blocked by something else that is in the way of your view and correcting for perspective projection. I will get into some of the math of that today, but I am not going to put the whole thing in together we will come back to that at a later part in the course. It will probably be in the second week when we are covering more of the graphics pipeline issues and then talk about how those relate to virtual reality which has its own special set of challenges and problems that are not standard graphics. So, all of that becomes part of the rendering pipeline, but today I am just doing let us say the geometric transformation pipeline. So, how to do the math of it. So, in order to go into that I am going to have to I am going to make a rather large figure, but I would like it to all fit on the board. So, let me erase this. So, I want to consider the chain of transformations that go all the way from defining your movable models to determining what should appear on the screen. So, I just want to go through the entire chain of transformations I am going to write it at a high level on the board here and then go through each part. So, we talked about the body frame as the way of writing or the way of expressing our movable models. So, somewhere in this body frame I will write x, y, z I have some kind of object appearing here right. So, some kind of object appears in this in this frame. We apply the transformations for example, the homogeneous transformation matrix that I just gave to perform the appropriate rotation and translation to move that body into the world or embed that body in the world frame appropriately. So, that is one step I will draw another frame here. So, somehow this through the transformation this object in this case this cube face gets moved somewhere in the world not going to get the geometry perfect here of course this is just an illustration. So, this is the world frame. Now, some of the model is already going to be defined in the world frame right what part of those we are called the stationary the stationary model. So, if there is building some furniture that does not move maybe trees that remain anchored and do not sway in the breeze things like that we talked about. This is already defined in the world frame. So, there is no transformation you are already there and then for each and every one of your bodies that can move you have to perform a transformation to bring it into the world frame. When you get to that stage then you can start to talk about how it should look when it appears on the screen when you get to the later transformations. So, this particular transformation here going from body frame to world frame occurs quite a bit right. So, I will call this embedding rigid bodies. So, it happens many many times typically embedding rigid bodies. There is different names for these if you go looking around sometimes this will be called a local frame or sometimes called an object frame. Local frame is more general from mathematics it shows up in a differential geometry and related areas and object frame is very common in computer graphics as well. So, body frame is very common in engineering. So, pick what you like the same concept over and over again and then the world frame ends up if you use the term local frame nice word for that is global. It is a global frame. It is the kind of common frame of reference that you would like to put all of your bodies into right. So, the next frame I want to get to is called the I frame. I will draw it like this where Z is going this strange direction Y is going up and I will say that X is out. So, X is pointing out at you and then I will have an I here as the name suggests. So, I got too many things on the way here. So, X is coming out, but I have an I here with you can imagine a pupil right there at the point the I will have some field of view and somewhere inside of that field of view will be this body perhaps maybe it will be outside of the field of view. In my example I will make it inside the field of view otherwise it will just have to eliminate it or it will not be considered further. So, somewhere inside this field of view of this I there will be this body and I am not really sure how to render it anymore after doing these transformations, but I will just put it in here anyway. So, you get the idea. So, I need to figure out this part I will call this the I transform and also in computer graphics very often called viewing transform or camera transform, but all of these are transforms related to viewing. So, I do not maybe do not want to use that word, but you could call it a camera transform and what I call the I could be called the camera. It is not a camera in the physical sense it is a kind of virtual camera, but you know when we are using virtual reality then your I corresponding in the virtual world becomes like a virtual camera right. So, it makes some kind of sense. So, I am going to call the I here. So, what is essentially going on with this transform is that somewhere in the world the I is looking at this. So, imagine the I itself is like a body that appears in the world right imagine we just grab onto an eyeball and we put it in the world and we point it somewhere and we orient it some way and then it sees something. We would like to then have a transformation that puts the entire world into the perspective of the I right. So, it is not going to do any shrinking distorting other strange things it is not even going to decide what is in the field of view or what is not. I just want this transformation to to express all of the points in the world in the coordinate frame of the I ok. And then when I have gotten to that stage I have two more transformations left. So, this up here it is called the see the I transformation puts you in the I frame. So, we will do one more at this point and it will be called the canonical view transform I am going to give some notation to these as well. Let us see I will call this one T R B rigid body and by T I mean a 4 by 4 transformation matrix just like we have been doing. So, homogeneous transformation matrix. So, T R B the I 1 I will call T I E Y E I. So, you remember where it comes from and I will call this one T can for canonical. What we end up with after performing the canonical view transform is a kind of perfect cube centered at the origin X Z Y I just want to render the show the whole cube here and I want it is coordinates to go from minus 1 to 1 for each of the cases. So, I do not know where to draw these 1 minus 1 2 oops. So, this is 1 1 either way minus 1. So, Z is going minus 1 in the back up to 1 because Z is coming outward in this case and I have X going to the right negative 1 to 1. So, the origin is in the center of the box I do not want to draw the origin in there make more of a mess, but the origin is inside of the box. Why why does the box have with 2 instead of with 1 it does not really matter and some people in computer graphics will argue that maybe it should be 1. They are always trying to find ways to simplify the algebraic computations to make them more efficient later right. In fact, not not even simplifies not even the right word sometimes they will make it more complicated. So, that the calculations are efficient later when it is done in the GPU. So, a lot of little funny things are going on like that, but I just want to say that what is happening when you go from this case to this case is the last remaining step left to figure out how objects should appear on the screen is going to be done by a straight forward orthographic projection which basically means that once you get down to here the X and Y coordinates have been nicely figured out for each one of your points in the world frame. So, from the perspective of the eye. So, you have figured all that out you have figured out the the distortions due to perspective projection and I will give the details of that, but that is what you have gone and figured out right. So, that is something that is very very far away a tree that is very far away should look small on the screen right and a tree that is up close should look large on the screen. So, those kinds of transformations are being taken into account in this canonical view transform and then where you here all you have to do is take all of the transform objects they look like a like they are in a bunch of slices here along the z direction that are they let us say they are x y plainer slices and all the objects just projecting a very easy way then to the this part the x y plain as if this were the screen except the screen coordinates are usually not running from negative one to one they will be pixel indices. So, that requires one more transformation which to me just looks like a change of units or something you know it is very simple because you want your units in the end to be pixels. So, pixel coordinates. So, there is one last transformation I would say the canonical view transform is probably the hardest of the ones that will do the I transform also has something unusual going on, but this final one is quite simple which is just converting from this canonical coordinates where everything is running nicely x y and z from minus 1 to 1 to the actual pixel coordinates. So, this is called the viewport transform I will call it TVP and we get up here now we are finally, in some kind of nice screen space I am just writing some numbers there just to get you thinking about resolutions and. So, this is the screen or display in other words you have pixel coordinates you also have an interesting question of do you want why to increase as you go down or do you want it to go in the other direction maybe it looks like this 0 to 7 67 for example, maybe it goes in this direction it depends on how it gets addressed in whatever low level software you have. So, you may have it going in one direction or another I believe for historical reasons why increase is going downward, but that does not look like nice planar Cartesian coordinates does it the historical reasons are one is well we do that for matrices if you noticed right row 1 is up here and row 2 is down here. So, we count down this way also if we print lines out on a printer or an old punch card this increases going down. So, I think they went with that it is just one of these unfortunate cases where that is not the way we would like it in order to make it consistent with the rest of mathematics. So, there will always be a little bit of confusion showing up in here as well you sometimes have to invert the wise all right any questions about this. So, that is the chain of transformations unless the question is can you give me more details because I would like to give you more details next, but at this point this is what we have. So, again we start here define each one of your bodies in its own local coordinate frame transform them using rotations and translations into this global world frame and include all the other parts of the model that do not change. Then based on where the I is that now the I can be moving of course in virtual reality then we perform the I transformation. So, that we get all of this model in terms of the I's perspective then we transform into this canonical view transform. So, that a bunch of graphics pipeline operations can be performed with ease and efficiency before the final step of just easily projecting them all onto the screen, but we got the coordinates wrong because we put them in this nice canonical form. So, we can then do this final viewport transformation and then we have exactly where my body is that I want to have rendered in terms of pixel coordinates wherever this might show up. And of course, there are discretization issues here, but I am not dealing with that yet either that is part of the graphics pipeline. So, it is as if these pixel coordinates are continuous variables here at this stage. So, I do not mind if this corner ends up being 542.9973 so forth right. So, that will be quite fine and then we will have to deal with problems of aliasing and anti aliasing to compensate for that or correct for that later as part of rendering. Here we are just trying to figure out where does everything go right. So, we have this I am going to write out the chain of transformations algebraically after racing. So, this is your last chance to ask questions while this is on the board because I am not going to draw this again. Yes. So, what you are doing in that stage is let us see let us look at the start and the finish. So, the start here is I have brought all of the model in the world into the eyes perspective and that is what that is where you are at here. When you are down here you have figured out what would go on the screen and you still have a z depth to all these things that are going to go on the screen. So, you figure out the perspective transform you have figured out when you do this transform and it will become clear hopefully when we get to it. So, in other words if there is something far away it will become smaller when you are in this when it is transformed into this space. So, there will be some objects let us say that are far back they are at a let us see if they are far away then they are at some location like z close to minus 1. So, they are very far away, but I figured out what their size is going to be. So, that if I just simply delete the z coordinate where do they show up in x and y. So, everything has been arranged at after this transformation so that the scale and location of everything is appropriate based on the perspective transformation due to this I and the geometry of this and I have to work that out for you. So, this is put in a form that let us say graphics developers can use immediately and perform all the operations they need to to determine what is visible from what is there an obstruction what kind of anti aliasing do I need to do and so forth. So, pixel shading operations things like that are ready to occur here. I could have jumped everything I could have taken the x and y part and just made that be pixel coordinates already and skip this step, but it seems that people like to work in this and do all of their computations in one coordinate system and then if someone decides to change the display which as we plug and unplug monitors and do kinds of other things resize windows and things then it is only a change of the viewport transform. So, it is nice to have this as an intermediate transform. Any other questions? Yes, that is it that is right when we get to this part we will have a viewing frustum that is a region that it corresponds to everything the eye can see and outside of that it just will not end up in the box and then we will have the problem of a culling or clipping when we get to the rendering pipeline which is figuring out what needs to be thrown away. But when we are up here in the eye part even though I have drawn the field of view of the eye it has not been used yet that part will get used and there will be going to get to it in just a little bit, but there will be a near plane and a far plane and that will make a frustum shape that will be transformed into a cube. Other questions? You are asking the right kinds of questions you are just anticipating what is coming in just a little bit. Yeah that is exactly right once we get to the world frame. So, this operation TRB is applied to each and every one of your rigid bodies. So, they are all put together in this nice place here. It is now you have like a snapshot of the world in 3D of this virtual world in 3D or alternate world let us say in 3D. Now you figure out what it looks like from the eye's perspective you have all of it and then you carry it down here and the parts that the eye could possibly see are inside of this box, but you have not figured out occlusions yet when you do this trick because it is just going to be a very simple homogeneous transform. So, inside of this box there could be some objects blocking other objects, but that is going to be handled by the rendering pipeline the graphics pipeline using this representation and it will use the Z values to determine that. One common technique is called Z buffering it will use the Z information for that to do it quickly to figure out how the pixels need to be ultimately rendered, but today I am just trying to figure out where should the points go. If you start with a point over here where does it end up when you get to this right yes. There is a lot of there are a lot of interesting questions like that I suppose where I could say why do not we eliminate any one of these transformations right and so, because you see that this is just a chain of transformations I could say why do not I just recognize which I am going to do right as soon as I erase this I am going to multiply them all together and say look it is one big transformation. So, each one of these intermediate representations makes it easier to understand what is happening makes it easier to develop and debug code and that is especially true for the canonical view transform as I said because people might change the resolution and go out this way. It is helpful to have a coherent view of the world one of the reasons why might be that you could have multiple eyes looking at the same scene right if you have a bunch of people together sharing a virtual reality experience you may calculate this first and then have multiple eye transforms that is a simple answer right, but I think it is I think I would find it quite confusing to apply rigid body transforms that automatically take into account the eye view point. I have very difficulty I have very much difficulty visualizing that or imagining that it is mathematically possible yes. That is right so that is right many bodies are put into the world frame you are going to have to reason about all of those simultaneously taking into account this view transform. So, you could do that, but you know again it all these things are mathematically possible I just think that through some amount of experimentation and skill over many decades several decades people have settled on these intermediate representations to make it easier clear for development to separate everything out piece by piece. So, and Professor Mani is right that if you have many many objects here many many bodies you are going to have to take into account the eye transform for all of them each and every time. This does all the transformations once and then you just have a single eye transform to to to compensate which I find very very nice. I figure out where all of you are located in the room in the alternate world and then I move over here and I look from from this direction and I can figure that out very quickly and in virtual reality you are going to be changing the eye very frequently. In fact, you might look at a completely static world and you start moving the eye around and it is very natural to have this global picture of what is going on right. So, I am going to erase this now and then start going into these particular transformations. I do not need to cover our TRB, but I do need to talk about the eye transform and the canonical view transform. The last one I will briefly mention, but it is very simple like I said it is more like a change of units or something like going from meters to feet. So, something like that. So, I think from your questions you are paying good attention I think I think you are anticipating what is coming next. So, these are the right kinds of things to be asking. So, if we put all of these together I get a single transformation let us say T that is I got to go in the proper operation order which as I have just erased it, it was here and we need to go from right to left across these. So, imagine it is still there. So, the last one was TVP the viewport transformation. The one before that was T canonical, the one before that was Ti and the one before that was TRB for rigid body which is only applied in the case of movable bodies. Is that right we had 5 coordinate frames that I showed you and there were 4 transformations between them right. So, there is one less. So, these are the 4 transformations. So, we just chain all of these together as homogeneous transforms. I should point out that one of these the canonical transform is going to have some non rigid body transforms inside of it. So, it will not be an example of a rigid body transform, but it will be an example of a homogeneous transform it is just a little more general because it does some scaling due to perspective projection. So, it is not going to be rigid, but it is still homogeneous. So, before I gave homogeneous only for rigid bodies just pointing that out to avoid potential confusion. This is standard computer graphics set of transformations. There is a little bit extra that will come in for virtual reality which I will which I will provide at various points. One of them is that in here we insert TL and TR for stereo rendering. Let us put stereo display I am not talking about rendering today right. So, we have to perform some kind of shift that corresponds to your left and right eye. So, when I cover it today before before I get to the left and right shifts I will consider to be a psychopsychopian view you will be a cyclops with your eye right in the center between your right and left eyes and then we will add the stereo part. And another thing that happens was another transform here which I will call T D I S T and I will not get back to this one for a while. This one T I put this here for distortion for distortion not distance distortion which will compensate for optical distortion. So, we will do some final kind of warping that will account for warping due to a wide field of view lenses. So, we will have to do some final operation. It is possible to move this T DIST earlier in the pipeline it may be advantageous, but it is also more complicated. So, the easy fix is just to do it at the end, but there could be some sound reasons for trying to do it earlier. And I am not sure and I think in most of these virtual reality pipelines in the current state it is at the end here. So, it is one final fix to account for the distortion.


Only true friends of the Holy Spirit know this and it's rarely talked about.  I wanna talk to you about death to self. Now, when I use that term death to self, for some that may raise some negative feelings or negative thoughts because I understand that that term many times is used in a very legalistic sense, used to control and to manipulate.  And of course, I'm talking about spiritual death. That is that we decrease, Christ's increase, John 3.30. I must decrease, but he must increase. Less of me, more of you, Jesus. So that when people look at you, they see Jesus shining through. When people look at you, that they see the light of Christ impacting them. I want you to write this in the comment section right now. Make it a public declaration of faith. Christ lives in me. Again, say that, write that as a public declaration of faith.  Don't be distracted by the cares of this world. Even as you watch, you may notice that the flesh tries to pull you to something that it craves, something distracting, something entertaining. I want you to fight that and be challenged, be inspired because I truly believe that as you are challenged by the word of God, that you will enter deeper places in your walk with Christ. Now again, when I talk about death to self, I don't mean that in the legalistic sense.  This is simply meaning that we put Christ first, that we allow Christ to have ultimate influence, that we serve him as Lord. He came that we might have life and life more abundantly. So death to self is life unto God.  Go with me to Luke chapter nine. Luke chapter nine will be our main text. I'll read for now verses 18 through 22. And this takes place after the feeding of the 5,000. Verse 18, one day Jesus left the crowds to pray alone. Only his disciples were with him and he asked them, who do people say I am? Well, they replied, some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, and others say you are one of the other ancient prophets risen from the dead. Then he asked them, but who do you say I am? Peter replied, you are the Messiah sent from God. Jesus warned his disciples not to tell anyone who he was. At that time, God had not released him to reveal that on the larger scale. Verse 22, the son of man must suffer many terrible things. He'll be rejected by the elders, deleting priests and the teachers of the law. He will be killed, but on the third day, he will be raised from the dead. So here we see Peter receiving a revelation from the heavenly Father. Jesus asked the question, who do you say I am? Not what do others say, not what does your family say? What does culture say? Who do you say I am? And every single one of us must answer this question. Every single one of us will be confronted with this reality. Every single one of us must make up our mind. Who is Jesus? If Jesus is God, if Jesus is Lord, and of course we believe he is, then serve him, follow him, give him your all. It's all or nothing. It's everything you have or nothing at all, the surrendered life. Who do you say he is? Who is Jesus to you? Now this was a private moment between the Lord and his disciples, away from the crowds. It was their time to be pressed by that question. It was their time to receive that revelation. But again, every single one of us at some point must make up the mind. You must decide. When you decide to follow Jesus, it's a lifelong commitment. When you decide to follow Jesus, it's to forsake all. But you have to be convinced of that in your mind if you're going to continue to walk this walk of faith. You have to know by the Holy Spirit, have that inner witness. Jesus is God, Jesus is Lord, Jesus is the Christ. Because upon that revelation, the Holy Spirit will build many more things. It's a personal decision. Your parents cannot answer that question for you. Your friends cannot answer that question for you. Your pastor cannot answer that question for you. Your favorite YouTube preacher cannot answer that question for you. You have to answer that question for you. Who do you say I am? And once you catch a glimpse, once that amazing revelation is given to you, there is no going back. Who do you say I am? Answer that question. And when you answer that question, you are called to be a disciple. You are called to forsake all. Now, let me stress this. Ephesians 2, 8, and 9, those verses make it absolutely clear that salvation is by grace through faith not works so that we cannot boast. It's nothing that we do that produces that salvation. But that doesn't mean that the born again believer doesn't have a responsibility to walk in holiness, to live for God. We do good works not to be saved, but because he saved us. It's our reasonable service, our response back to him. Luke 9, 23 through 27. Then he said to the crowd, if any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross daily and follow me. If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it.  And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? If anyone is ashamed of me and my message, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that person when he returns in his glory and in the glory of the Father and the holy angels.  Now, of course, when Jesus is talking about the Son of Man coming in his glory, the glory of the Father and the holy angels, he's talking, of course, about his return. But here in verse 27, if you look at this word kingdom, Basileia, which is the original word, it can mean royal power or splendor. And here's a comment about that particular word from the outline of biblical usage. Not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather the right to authority to rule over a kingdom. This could be referring to the transfiguration of the Lord which takes place just in the next few verses. And in fact, when you look at all of the narratives that share this particular story, you'll find that that's exactly what follows in each one of those instances. So it could be a reference to the transfiguration of the Lord. But before we read that portion of scripture, let me show you in the scripture what we forsake. What does this mean when he talks about picking up your cross?  And if you don't do it, you're not picking up your cross? No, because that's what some people try to do. They use the scripture in an abusive manner to keep people under their control. They manipulate them, they instill them with fear so that if you don't do exactly what they say, believe exactly what they believe down to the very last detail, then you're compromised. You're not one of them. You're not one of the remnant, you don't belong. That's not at all what's being described here. And again, death to self, though it's used sometimes as a negative term, it's actually a positive thing. I'm gonna show you what it means here in the scripture. Number one, it means to forsake your sinful ways. Yes, this counts. I can't tell you how many times I've heard that giving up sin isn't carrying your cross. Absolutely it is. It's a death to self. It's something you are giving up. It's something you are allowing to be crucified. I'll show it to you here in scripture. Now that doesn't make up the entirety of what it means to carry your cross, to give up your sinful ways, but it is one of the ways that you experience death to self. Romans chapter six, verses 10 through 12. When he died, he died once to break the power of sin. But now that he lives, he lives for the glory of God. So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus. Do not let sin control the way you live. Do not give in to sinful desires. Galatians 5, 24 puts it this way. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions. Notice the language being used here. It's referring to the cross. Have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there. So these two portions of scripture, Romans six, 10 through 12 and Galatians 5, 24 are talking about the death to self specifically in reference to our sinful ways. Giving up your sinful ways, that is a crucifixion of self. That is to carry your cross. Again, I'm gonna give you a couple more points that doesn't make up the entirety of death to self, but forsaking sin is in fact a form of death to self. It's to embrace your cross. It's to say no to the man of sin. It's to say no to those desires, to that side of you that craves the things of sin, to that side of you that is tempted, to that side of you that longs for something that is ungodly. To say no to that. And in fact, not just to say no to the sin, but to even flee the very boundaries of temptation. That is a death to self. Why?  And it's not really even who you are, but it's still a reality that we face in the world today.  Every time you say no to temptation, you're alive to Christ and dead to self. That is to sin. Romans 13, 14 says, but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, almost like a garment, wear him, and make not provision for the flesh to fulfill the lust thereof. Now, something that we should note about the use of the word flesh in the New Testament, sometimes the word flesh is referring to your physical body. And we know, of course, the physical body is not evil unto itself. After all, your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. What know ye not? Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. You are not your own. So the physical body is not sinful unto itself. It's an instrument that can be used for disobedience, but it's also an instrument that can be used for obedience. It's an instrument that can be used to displease God. It's also an instrument that can be used to please God. It depends upon what you choose to do with the body. So the physical body, this flesh, that is that earth suit, if you will, is not evil unto itself. And sometimes when the New Testament uses the term flesh, it's talking about the sin nature and the desires that come with that. So here the scripture is talking about making no provision for the flesh. And of course, it is referring to this sin nature, this side of you that is under the law. It's Romans 13, 14. Make no provision for it. I like to say starve the man of sin.  Often we say, Lord, I'm picking up my cross, but then we have a resurrection of the sin nature just days later. And I don't say that to condemn you. I say that to challenge you, to recognize that when you say no to sin, sometimes that's gonna be a painful experience for you. That that will be difficult, but the more you say no to sin, the more you say no to the flesh, the stronger your spirit becomes, the more alive to Christ now you become. And I should say that the more that your life in Christ begins to influence you, I think that's a better way to put it because you are indeed alive to Christ. But to experience the influence of that reality and have it manifest in your everyday life in a way that counts, you have to participate with what God is doing. You have to cooperate with the Holy Spirit. And so the Bible says, make no provision for your flesh. Well, that means if you have an issue with pornography, get rid of social media and don't have your phone or your computer with you in the times that you are tempted. You say, well, that seems to be rather drastic. Yes, make no provision for the flesh. If you're struggling with an addiction and you can't overcome it and it's beginning to take over your life to the point where you don't know if you're going to be able to break it. Well, then move to a different place. I know that that doesn't solve every issue, but if you're in a place where you know everybody and you're getting a certain connection from a certain area, then at least give yourself a reset period, find someone who can keep you accountable and get out of there. Delete the phone numbers from your phone. Go off the grid if you have to. Get drastic about giving no provision for the flesh. If you have an issue in any particular area when it comes to sin, you should seek out accountability, tell a fellow believer what you're going through and then create boundaries that keep you not just from the sin but also from the temptation itself. Flee temptation. Don't even put yourself there. We are to pray that we be not led into temptation. Jesus said to pray, lead us not into temptation. He didn't say, pray, Lord, help me to overcome temptation when I put myself there. No, don't even go to that place. Don't even cross that boundary. If this is challenging you, let me know on the comment section right now. What about this is challenging you? This is the word of God, but it also should inspire us to know that that power has been broken over our lives. I mean, look at what the scripture says in Romans 6, 11, we'll read it again. So you should also consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin. We've been delivered from that. In other words, we now have the choice to overcome that, how, life unto Christ. And so we choose every day, whenever you say no to sin, whenever you say no to what you desire in the flesh, and by the flesh I mean sin nature, whenever your sin nature desires something and you refuse to give it that, you are crucifying the sin nature. So that's number one, forsake sinful ways. Number two, forsake secular ways. Now, this has a very subtle distinction from sinful ways. I'll explain that to you in a moment. Romans 12, 2, do not conform to the pattern of this world. That is, don't live like everyone else. Think like everyone else. Don't live according to the systems of the world. Again, in a similar way, just as the physical body is not evil, but the sin nature is. So planet earth itself, the material world is not evil, but the systems of the world are. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is God's will, his good pleasing and perfect will. So again, the patterns of this world, don't live like everyone else. And again, I'll say, let's draw that comparison just like the sin nature is different from the physical body. So the patterns of the world or the systems of the world are different than the planet earth, that is the material existence of this globe. And so this is to live in the prioritization of pleasure, possessions and power. That's what it means to live in the pattern of the world. To live in the patterns of the world, that is the prioritization of pleasure, possessions and power. Now, pleasure is not evil unto itself. There are many pleasures that God has given to us that we are meant to enjoy in a holy way. Possessions are not evil unto themselves. You are likely watching this on a device that you possess. You are likely watching this in a house or home, maybe you rent, but it is a form of a possession.  You're wearing clothes that you possess. So this is not evil unto itself, possessions. Now, it's okay to have things as long as things don't have you, but the prioritization of pleasure, the prioritization of possessions, the prioritization of power, that's what evil power is not evil unto itself. I mean, think about what good people can do with the proper legal power. Think about what good people can do with physical power and strength. Think of how they rescue children from very vile situations, evil people, and they go in with a certain physical power and they're able to remove those children from those very dangerous, very wicked situations. That's a good use of power. Think about the power that an employer might have over an employee, and I don't mean one is better than the other, but of course we understand that there are power dynamics. Think about the power or the authority that the parent has over the child. That can be a healthy thing. But again, the prioritization of pleasure, the prioritization of possessions, the prioritization of power for the sake of themselves and to never be fulfilled, to always want more and more pleasure, more possessions, more power, that is what it means to live according to the pattern of this world. So don't live like the rest of the world. All they seek is pleasure. That's the whole point of their existence. All they seek are possessions. That's the whole point of their existence. All they seek is power. That's why they wake up in the morning. Don't be like that. They consume, consume, consume. First John 2.16 says, for the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see and the pride in our achievements and possessions. Let me read this again. It's a powerful verse. First John 2.16. For the world offers only craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see and a pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. And so to prioritize those things, to make that your entire life's pursuit, that is to miss that which is truly worth anything, the spiritual. Do not sacrifice the eternal for the temporary. Do not sacrifice the spiritual treasures for worldly treasures. We are dead to this world. Galatians 6.14 puts it this way. As for me, may I never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of that cross. Listen to this. This is talking about the death to self in regards to forsaking the secular ways. Watch this now. Because of that cross, my interest in this world has been crucified. And the world's interest in me has also died. Think of what the world lives for. Just education. Is education evil? No, you can use it for the kingdom of God. Get an education if the Lord tells you to. But if that's all you're living for, you're living according to the patterns of this world. Wealth is wealth evil by no means. The Lord gives wealth and adds no sorrow with it. Okay? So wealth in and of itself is not evil, but if that's all you're pursuing in this world, you're missing something very important. Achievements, possessions, power. Is that all you're living for? Is this it? I mean, think about this. If that's all you're living for, then this is it. You're never gonna get any joy that's, well, you'll maybe get temporary joy, but not permanent joy. Not permanent peace. You'll never really experience love through the material. I mean, this is it. If that really is all you want, then this is it. There was an experiment that was done, I believe, by a philosophy professor. I remember how this parable goes. And he told all of his students that in the next room, he had prepared some coffee for them.  So stay with me even if you don't drink coffee. And he sends the students into this room where they can get some cups and mugs and whatever was available. And in that room, on various different shelves, he had mugs, he had cups, he had tumblers, all these different vessels that could hold the coffee. And when the students went into that room, they were fighting over the best mugs, over the best tumblers, over the best coffee cups. They all came out and they had picked theirs and then he serves them the coffee and asked them how they enjoyed it. They all enjoyed it. And he said, do you realize, and this was the point of his experiment, he said, do you realize you were all in there taking quite a while to make a decision as to what vessel you want it to use out of which you would drink your coffee. You all drank the same coffee. Yet here you are worried about the cup that you drank it with. He said, this is what people do in life. Life that God has given to us, that's to love and to have joy and to have peace, to glorify God, to enjoy the company of one another, to experience the goodness of God and His creation. That's all wonderful. But then we fight over the vessel in which we enjoy it. We fight over what car we drive, what house we live in, what clothes we wear. And this is why people who achieve wealth and power and gain possessions end up depressed because it never does what they thought it would do. They get to that point, and I've spoken to several wealthy people who've told me this all the same, that they get to that point and they realize it's really all the same. You have a car, you have a car, you have a house, you have a house. I mean, even the wealthiest person in the world who has the most rooms in their house can only be in one room at a time. They still have to go to sleep on a bed. They still have to eat from a plate. It may be the finest dining they can find, but it's food. And so I look at the things of this world and sometimes I wonder, is this all there is? And if this all there was, if this was all there was, it'd be miserable. If not for the presence of God and the presence of God within one another and our connection with one another and the substance of life itself, well, we wouldn't find any joy in this at all. We would just be going through the motions. I remember one time we were ministering in Las Vegas. Now, here in the United States, in some parts of the culture, Las Vegas is considered the pinnacle of living. They call it Sin City.  And we were doing a ministry event there. And it was packed. We were amazed at how packed that event was. Right there in Sin City, packed miracle service. People were standing outside the building, couldn't get in. But I remember we were driving on the way to the service and we're passing all these casinos and bars and I'm looking out the window and I told the team, I said, this is what they live for. Right here, this is it. And I'm looking inside of the casinos or like right there on the outside, you can see into some of the buildings. And you can see the faces of the people. No one's laughing. No one's smiling. They are miserable. It was just emptiness. And I said, this is what everyone thinks they live for. This is everything you could ever want in the world in terms of sin. Here it is and they're unfulfilled. That is why we have to forsake our secular ways.   Christians who think they have to be involved in everything. They can't miss anything this world has to offer. So distracted by the cares of this world.   God came to give us life. And of course, he is the giver of those things in which we find pleasure in a holy manner. But if that's all you're living for, that's not life unto Christ. So forsake your secular ways. So forsake your sinful ways. Forsake the secular ways. Forsake your selfish ways. Now, when I talk about selfishness, I'm not specifically talking about sin. Like we know, for example, drunkenness is a sin. Adultery is a sin. I can go on listing various different things. You can read like, for example, First Corinthians chapter six versus nine to 12 to see the various different things listed there that count as sin that keep you from the kingdom of God. But when I talk about selfishness, I'm talking about those things that are seemingly good, not necessarily immoral, not blatantly sinful, but they're not of God because they're not for you. Galatians two, two says, I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, there you see that word flesh meaning physical body, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. I'm crucified with Christ. I'm not alive anymore. What does that mean? It means giving up your dreams for God's dreams. That happens sometimes, you know. It means giving up things that are blessings to obey God. There have been seasons of life where I just want it to coast and rest in the blessing of God. I would reach a certain point and say, Lord, can I just stop here and rest a moment? And the Lord says, we'll live a lifestyle of rest, but on this particular matter, you're going to have to give that up. You're going to have to say no. Not every good thing is a God thing. Now again, we have to be careful here because those who have the tendency to fall into legalism will just give up everything that's good to them simply because they think God doesn't want them to have it. So I know people who just won't enjoy anything, they give up anything and everything that's a blessing because they think every blessing is a test from God. That's not the case. In fact, more often than not, it is not a test from God. So be very careful about how you allow your mind to think about the blessings of God. But there are times that God will ask you to give something up that is good. And again, let me say this again because I know there may be someone hearing this right now and already you're thinking of all the good things God's given you. And because of that legalistic mindset, automatically you're going to say, well, I want to give it all up even though he hasn't required it of you.  Yeah, always 100% of the time. But when I talk about selfish ways, we can't confuse that for the blessings of God. Sometimes, here's I guess the simple way to put it and succinctly so, sometimes when God gives you a blessing, he wants you to enjoy it.   You're going to be miserable that way. And you're going to say, let me give that up. You're going to be miserable that way.  Sometimes when there's something in your heart that you want to do, you want to have, a way you want to handle the situation, sometimes that is your selfishness and God wants to test you in that. This is to lay down your life for God's glory, to say no to good things that aren't God things. So you forsake selfish ways. Now remember, after Jesus says these words, going back to Luke chapter nine, let's read verse 28 now, we left off on verse 27. After this now, about eight days later, Jesus took Peter, John and James up on a mountain to pray. So we see that they had a revelation, you are the Messiah. And then Jesus talked to them about crucifixion. And now we see here glorification. And as he was praying, the appearance of his face was transformed and his clothes became dazzling white. Suddenly two men, Moses and Elijah, appeared and began talking with Jesus. They were glorious to see. And they were speaking about his exodus from this world, which was about to be fulfilled in Jerusalem. Peter and the others had fallen asleep when they woke up. They saw Jesus's glory. And remember, we talked about that word, royal splendor. So this is what they're seeing now. When Peter woke up, they saw Jesus's glory and the two men standing with him. Verse 33, as Moses and Elijah were starting to leave, Peter, not even knowing what he was saying, blurted out, master, it's wonderful for us to be here. Let's make three shelters as memorials, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah. So he just, he said something because he felt like he had to say something. But even as he was saying this, a cloud overshadowed them and terror gripped them as the cloud covered them. Then a voice from the cloud said, this is my son, my chosen one, listen to him. When the voice finished, Jesus was there alone. They didn't tell anyone at that time what they had seen.  I can sense a strong anointing as I'm talking about this.  Take anything, take everything. Give me the presence of Jesus. Take anything, take everything.  But that should be the mindset, Lord, that if it were the case that you were to take something and I had to choose, that I would say, take everything else, just leave me your presence. Because from that really flows life. And this isn't a life of misery, joyless existence, stoicism, seriousness. It's not what it means to die to self. Because death to self, again, is life unto Christ. And that life is not a miserable one. It's not a burden someone. Jesus told us that we should give him our burdens. His burden is light. The scripture says, his commandments are not grievous. In other words, they're not overbearing. They're simple. Love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. Love your neighbor as yourself. On these, hang all the law and the prophets. So it's simple. And it's joyful and it's peaceful and it's love filled. And it is a life of power. It is a life of vitality. It is a life of refreshing springs of living water. It is a life unto Christ. I'm not wallowing in misery under some dark cloud of heaviness, these sets of rules. I can't enjoy that meal because I don't wanna enjoy the pleasures of this world. Stop with that. That is a very, forgive me. That's a very immature way to look at spiritual growth, especially considering that the scripture doesn't describe it that way. Of course, if that's your priority, the pleasures of this world, that's different, but I'm talking about life unto Christ.  I've made up my mind. I know who you are. I know who you are to me. I know what you've called me to do. And I'm laying it all down. I'm crucifying it all. Crucify my will, Lord, in its place resurrect your own. I'm going after Jesus. I'm not looking back. I'm keeping my hand to the plow and I'm looking forward. And you begin to glimpse his glory. Notice he only took Peter, John and James. Why? Because they had been invited in. There was a favor on their life because of how they had so dedicated themselves to him. Those degrees of dedication came with degrees of revelation. Romans six, four, for we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives. Crucifixion is always followed by resurrection, power and glory. And so when you live that life, you're not just giving up these things for nothing. You're not giving up pleasures for a dull existence. Life with Christ is colorful. Life with Christ is exciting. Life with Christ is grand. Life with Christ is magnificent. More so than any other life you can live. Right here and now, not then and there. Here and now it's magnificent. Here and now it's wonderful. And I use that word literally. It is full of wonders when you live unto Christ. Now look what happens. So we saw that they got a revelation, made up their mind, you are the Christ. And then they were challenged to lay it all down. And then after they accept that challenge, they are invited in to catch a glimpse of the glory of God. But watch this, it goes even further. Not only do we see greater measures of His glory as we yield ourselves, but we also begin to impact lives around us. There's a prayer that the Holy Spirit led me to pray when I was about, I want to say 12 or 13 years old. And I wrote it down and it was a simple prayer. And I prayed it with all sincerity. To this day I still pray it with sincerity. I said, Lord, let my hands be your hands. Heal through them.  I want to see things, people and situations the way you see them. Lord, let my ears be your ears, speak to me.  I want to speak your truth.  Take me wherever you want me to go. Let my being be your being. Let my heart beat as one with yours. Crucify my will and in its place resurrect your own. I surrender, take over. And when you begin to live like that suddenly now, that light that shines through you begins to impact others. Watch this now, this is so powerful. John 12, 24 through 26. I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone. But its death will produce many new kernels, a plentiful harvest of new lives. Those who love their life in this world will lose it.  Anyone who wants to serve me must follow me because my servants must be where I am. And the Father will honor anyone who serves me. There are many different things that we can point out about this passage of scripture.  Again, the sinful ways, secular ways, selfish ways, all of that is crucified. And in that place, you're either serving Jesus because you love him or you're not serving him at all. It's when you are planted in the ground that your motives become purified. So yes, we understand that about this scripture, but think also about the fact that the Bible says here that you will reap a harvest of what? A harvest of new lives. What does that mean? It means that the crucified life is a life planted in good soil. And when you plant your life like a seed in the ground, you allow it to be hidden even for a time. What you reap from that is more lives being impacted. In other words, a life surrendered is a life multiplied. Souls come into the kingdom. God can use you for his glory. God can use you to win the lost. God can use you for touching others. We die to self, not just to see the glory of God.  That others might hear the gospel. That others might see the love and light of God demonstrated through us. That they too would taste the goodness of God.  And you're not dying for nothing. You're dying for the glimpse of the glory. You're dying that Christ may live in you. You're dying that you might live in Christ. And you're dying to self that others might live also. A single moment spent in the presence of God can transform your life. But a life spent in the presence of God can transform nations. May we be as a drink offering poured out for the purpose of God's glory. May every last drop be used, Lord.  Every last drop of my time, of my energy, of my gifts. Lord, I pour it out. Spend me for your glory. Say that in the comment section right now. Spend me for your glory. Lord Jesus, I pray you help us to do it. Here's what I'm gonna ask. Let him challenge you here. Holy spirit, bring to their remembrance. Bring to their minds those things that need to be surrendered. Those areas that need to be yielded. We surrender all, Lord. Lift your hands and tell them I surrender. I give it to you, Jesus. Spend us for your glory. May our lives impact others. Shine through us that when the people see us, Lord, they see Jesus. In his name we pray. Type it because you believe it. Type, amen. You were blessed by this message, challenged by this message. You think that other believers have to hear this. Guys, we rarely hear this talked about anymore. You think others need to hear this. Do me a couple of favors. Leave a like and then don't forget to subscribe to this channel for more content like this. Now I'm gonna ask you to do something that may challenge you even more. I wanna ask you to get involved with this ministry. You see, there is a side to us that is the flesh, that is fearful, that is controlling, that is greedy. All of us have that in us. 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The book and volume and balance indicators are located here in the upper right hand corner of the bookmap chart. You'll need to subscribe to the add-on package in order to gain access. Both indicator outputs are derived from the same calculation. However, the volume and balance indicator is based only on the transactions here within the viewable chart. The book and balance is based on the calculation for both the current and historical order book within the viewable chart range. You can see the output is based on a percentage here or based graphically here with the zero line being in the middle. Let's right-click on the indicator and select the order book and balance settings. You can see we have several settings here for the order book and balance. You can also click down here for the volume and balance and there are no settings. That's because the calculation is being made only for one price level based on the transactions. You can click here for more information. Let's go back to the order book and balance settings here. You can calculate the number of levels you'd like to have outputted here. Let's select 20. So that means 20 levels above current price and below current price are going to be calculated for my order book and balance. You can also have it outputted by the percentage from the best bid and offer here or you can calculate all of the price levels. Let's go back up to 20 and we'll go over the weighted options here. When this box is selected this is the half-life distance in number of price levels. Currently we have five selected. What this means is that the first five levels above and below current price are going to be weighted twice as important as the next 15 levels in the entire calculation. You can also have sound alerts enabled here. You can have it enabled for when one side is greater than another by percentage. Also when the bid outweighs the ask or ask outweighs the bid or for both. And you can see here you can also customize the output of the alert.


Hello! Welcome to This Week in the City. Highlights brought to you from the Public Relations, Media and Marketing Department with the City of Columbia. I'm your host, Alicia Yeatsy. This week in the City, on today, Monday, August 26th. If you are seeking a job, the U.S. Census Bureau is seeking census takers. The Career Coach will be partnered City Hall on Monday, August 26th from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. City Hall is located at 1737 Main Street. You will see the Career Coach parked outside. You can apply for jobs as census takers for the Census 2020. Also this week Columbia Water will host a Columbia Water trivia night at Curiosity Coffee. On Wednesday, August 28th it will begin at 5.30 p.m. For more details visit our website at ColumbiaSC.gov On Thursday, trash the poop at the Segra Park for the Fireflies baseball game which starts at 7.05 p.m. Columbia Water staff will be on hand to assist those who bring their pets to the game. As we roll into the weekend, don't forget that any weekend events can be found at Destination Hometown or on our website at ColumbiaSC.gov. If you're not on our email list to receive a weekly update about events then please email us at PIO at ColumbiaSC.gov. As we roll into the weekend and into Monday we want to remind all citizens that city offices will be closed on next Monday, September 2nd in observance of Labor Day. Again all city offices will be closed however for emergency services please call 9-1-1 and while you've got that free time on Monday there's several things you can do moving forward. If you're interested in purchasing tickets for the upcoming Mayor's Breast Caps Awareness Breakfast in October then please visit our website at ColumbiaSC.gov to find the link to buy your tickets now. Also coming up in October you can go to our website at ColumbiaSC.gov to register for the Mayor's Walk Against Domestic Violence coming up on October 5th. It is free but we want you to register so that we know that you're coming to join us to support taking steps against domestic violence in our community. Also if you're looking for opportunities to volunteer Planning and Development Services is seeking volunteers for their annual bicyclists and pedestrian accounts survey process. If you're willing to help with taking others and giving them information about our survey in September visit our website at ColumbiaSC.gov Again you can volunteer and get some community service hours if you would like to help count those who are utilizing bicycle and pedestrian friendly services in our city. Well it sounds like it's a busy week in the city and we hope you have a great one.