No, correct, he looked great. Number 007, know you did not hear me wrong. That's what we're calling it now, get into it.  Tonight joining us are, we have two different rosters of people tonight. We're gonna start with these group, this crew, and then a couple more are gonna join us. So we got Justin Scott. I'm back. Got Thad and his monster beard. Hey you. Still, you can't do better than that. Me, Brian Hare, Matt's getting ready to cut and take it. And shortly we'll have Christina and Hayden joining us. Stray is not feeling well, so send her some love. Cool? All right, cool. So tonight, I'm really excited because we're going to focus on disconnection in a haircut. If you guys can see that, can you show the other angle of the haircut? So the thing I love most about this cut that we did earlier today that I've been posting all over Instagram is the shortness in the layers. You guys know I love kind of a molady feel to a haircut. But the thing that I love about this cut is that it's pretty seamless. So if you look at it, it's very shattered, has a lot of fun layers and pieces. But if you comb it out, it's very soft, sleek. You don't see the layering throughout it until you start to move the hair and then you see that movement come to life. So Christina actually calls this my David Bowie labyrinth haircut.  You see that? Throw it up. Does it up there? So yeah, it's very similar if you look at, now you can come back. Just some amazing color. Yeah, it's a fun, yeah. Okay, so thank you Brian Hair for doing the hair color last week. So if you guys saw podcast or podcast 006, Brian did this awesome hair color. So I just went in and had some fun with the haircut. So this is what we're gonna do today. We're gonna focus on the disconnection, creating these longer pieces. Where do we put this connection, all that stuff. So if you guys have questions, make sure that you post them in the comments below. We're gonna have a lot of fun in this class. I know that we're gonna spend the next hour together. So make sure that you're asking questions and interacting. Justin and Brian are in the chat room taking your questions and we're gonna, we also have questions from Instagram as well. So, we have so much. Yeah, so. All right guys, so I'm gonna set up the mannequin. Brian, if you wanna pull up some of those questions then we can get started. Sure. And then we'll start the haircut. That's delicious. All right, so for starters, actually this is a pretty good one, but sorry, Matt, you're gonna have to answer. Okay. Dolo Deuce says how many different techniques are there in disconnected haircuts and which one would be a good, which would be a good way to learn that. All right, so I feel like this one is definitely gonna be answered throughout this haircutting technique. But let's just break down real quick and then hopefully it'll help answer your questions. So you can see that the sectioning in this haircut is pretty crazy. There's a lot of different panels within the haircut and I think that a lot of people seeing this, I'm gonna show it more close up so you guys can see it. I also filmed this haircut today, so I'm going to put out a simplified version of this haircut as well for different types of learning for you guys. So on this mannequin, what we did was we started off the sectioning. My thought process was I wanted to have this kind of skirt area around the bottom of the haircut and then all the fun layers on top. So if you look at, technically I have a disconnection here right on the side. Now the reason I did a little bit fatter disconnection on the side here as opposed to right here through the ear is that the density of the hair drops dramatically right here. We're gonna have some thickness in those layers and then this panel is gonna drop down in the back, veil over and then again on this side, this is gonna drop down. So we're actually not even going to cut the temple area or this back bottom area. So it's really key. The kitchen. The kitchen, okay. It's really key when you guys look at this technique is that you come across the occipital bone and when you come across to the ear, you leave a little bit of hair so it meets up so that there is a veil that comes down.  It's gonna be a real mullet. Then it's gonna look like a real mullet, yeah. Then you will have that. So everything else in the interior we're gonna work on. So let's just make sure that we have the, what's the question again? I think it was how many techniques are there? So I think there's. So I don't think there's like, I don't know the answer to that. Limitless. Yeah, I mean there's so many different possibilities. The reason I'm doing this connection in this part of the haircut is because I love how we can create all those shorter layers. If it was connected, you wouldn't be able to have those shorter layers because you couldn't connect this length and this length unless you cut concave. But I like that separation. The other thing that I love and I'll show you guys here is that with the disconnection, you can see that it actually pops up a shape in the back. So you could really stack this up and then this is gonna lay nice and sleek. So if I were to concave it, it's not gonna pile up as well as if I did the disconnection and kind of built a shape within the haircut. So it's almost like doing two haircuts within one cut at the same time. Hopefully that makes sense. But so let's, we're gonna get started. Brian, why don't you grab one more question so I can get the mannequin set right and then we'll get going. Okay. Tara Max 78 said, how do you choose a certain color line when your salon carries four different ones for each client that sits in your chair? I think that really is just gonna be a breakdown to whichever one you feel most comfortable with.  This one's gonna give you better gray coverage. This one's gonna have a better high lift. So I think just using your knowledge to customize, because there's nothing saying like, well, this client has to have this color line. I think it's just gonna be a matter of, you have a multitude of tools at your disposal. Yeah, because one color line might have a better, like tones for blondes. One another one will have better tones for reds or different types of reds. Like one might have a better violet red. Yup. So I think the question though is how, then how do you choose? So just by learning the lines well enough to know what, when to use what tool. Yeah. Like not all color lines are created equal. So attend all the classes, learn everything that you can, and choose appropriately. But I mean, don't make an experiment. That's what I feel, I see, I don't see a lot of it anymore. It's people, like I remember when I was in school and I started working in this year, I'd go to the beauty store, pick up my mom's color. I wanna make gray, I don't figure out how to make gray. If I wanna see what kind of cool patterns I can do, I'm gonna take three different colors and see what they do on a mannequin or I want my friends. I feel that a lot of this industry has kind of lost that experimenting and it's gone to the internet to ask, how can I do this without trying to figure out how to try anything new? Right. So I think that's also one way to do it too, except take all your classes and the more you know from personal experience, the better you're gonna feel about picking something for yourself. Sweet. Matt. Yeah. Jose Rivera, our friend. Yeah. Is asking you what would you say makes this haircut more modern? Like what makes a pompadour modernist type fading in some disconnection, therefore what makes this haircut more modern? I think what makes this haircut more modern is the style put into it. So if you look at the David Bowie style that we threw up earlier, that one has kind of the poofed out fringe and a lot of volume, that was kind of like the shag of, yeah? Someone said. My mic is off. Everyone's asking if you're mic'd. I am mic'd. And it's just all of a sudden, batter's not dead or anything? No. For solid? It's low. It's good. That's not low. Maybe just try refreshing the page, guys. Is that all it is? I don't know. Two people have said something. Can you hear me through here? I would put those on just a... The rest of us are so fine. Does everybody say they can't hear me or just you can hear me? Yeah. No. And it shows up right there, right? Yeah. All right. More solid. So I don't know why people... Then away we go. The address of the address is talking to us. So maybe there's like something like the internet. Okay. Well, can you ask Drea if she can hear? Just to make sure. Oh, I left the address much longer. All right. So... People can hear you. We're good. We're good? Yeah. All right, guys. So let's get into the haircut. Right now, what we're going to do is I'm going to start off in the back panel. Now, again, this part in the back shift around. Underneath here, this is all the disconnection. So we're not going to cut anything there. We're going to start in the mid-part. Now, I know a big question is going to be how do you choose where to start? The address that you were doing the entire time. Okay, cool. So where do you start and how do you pick your length, right? So first things first, I like to go... I went with the high occipital bone. What I did was I focused on how much density I wanted to leave down. I don't want it to be too thick. So if they had really thick hair, I might go a little bit lower. And again, if they have skinnier hair, I'd definitely go higher with the haircut. So then, as I go through here, I'm going to be pulling the hair directly out vertical from the head. So we're working higher than the head shape. What I mean by that is, you guys can see here, I'm standing on the right-hand side of the mannequin, and I'm working my finger angle just high above the head. So we're cutting a concave shape at this point, and then we're going to round it off through the top. So we're starting off working concave.  The shorter, the better I think the shape is because the shorter the hair, the stronger it is. If you think about, somebody said one time, a tape measurer, if you run the tape measurer out, the longer it gets, then it falls down, right? So a hair is kind of the same way. If it's shorter, it's going to be stronger, it's going to hold the shape better. As soon as it starts to extend out, it's going to fall flat. Gravity's going to pull it down. So I want to start off my line. Good analogy. Yeah, I didn't come up with it. But thank you to whoever did. I'm owning it. Now I'm over directing everything to the previous, yes? I think they're just not used to you being here and not talking. It's weird. Actually, we have a question when you're ready for it. OK, I'm ready. So this. Ready. OK, we have Kalicious. Kalicious. What is the correct technique for holding your scissors, wrists, and fingers when cutting? I've been studying education videos and noticed everyone has their own techniques. But I would like to know how to ensure haircuts are even and accurate with every slice. You're taking my job. You're taking my job, girl. So let's not worry about you, too. OK, so the question is with hand angles and how do you keep your wrist, honestly. There are certain times when you see me, I'm working through. And I could. I'm definitely more comfortable working like this. But because my elbow is so high and my wrist is cocked, I like to kind of come through here and I'm working on staying more flat with my wrist. And working through with my cut. Now, I've found that I can stay just as consistent that way. And the more comfortable you are, the more consistent you'll be. So you want to make sure that with every haircut that you're doing, everything that you're doing, you're comfortable. You're not stretching too far. And then your haircuts are definitely going to turn out better and be more consistent. That's really the goal in everything that you're doing with hair cutting. With color, you can just throw it everywhere. Throw it on the wall, see if it sticks. I mean, yeah, look at our stations. Right. I don't know how they're still white. All right, so now, I'm going to show you guys, I'm working. I need swivels. Staying on the same side of the head, cutting the same concave layering. Turn this. So now you guys can see I'm bringing everything to that previous section through here. So everything's being sectioned back vertical and then brought straight out from the head to the previous section. So just a slight over direction, not too much. But working that same angle. Fad, do you want to keep the camera on here? But we can grab another question, Brian, if you want. Yeah, I'm just making sure that we've got the right angle on. We actually, we had somebody earlier about what product there is near the hair for the cut. Or is it just wet? There's just. I'm prepping every cut with prepare, the Donald Scott spray. I like that it gives a nice slip to the hair. I know Justin's kind of been in love with that product as well. But I like spraying it in the hair. It's not too heavy. I think a lot of times I was using heavier products for a cutting lotion. But this is specifically for razor cutting and hair cutting. So it gives a slip to the hair and a little bit of hold for your sectioning. But it doesn't overpower the hair and feel heavy on it. Matt, your guy, is that stationary or are you using a traveling? It's traveling to the previous. So we went from 2 to 1, 3 to 2, 4 to 3, and so on. The final countdown. Someone said it's like a layered triangle? Yeah, it's a layered triangle in a way. But almost square as well. It's really almost square because we're working our way across the head and then everything's over directed back. So I would say we have a pretty straight horizontal line across the back of the head if we're working, if we're thinking in shape. OK, so that is the back of the head. You can see that that is pretty much like a nice little bob, kind of shaggy bob feel. So you can see that's why it's basically two haircuts put into one. All right, now we're going to work into the top.  So I'm just going to take out this diamond shape here. And real quick, just so you guys don't get confused, we started off the best way to start off the sectioning for this haircut. I don't expect you guys to do this exact same thing. But if you want to do something similar, we took the triangle out of the front. So I took a center parting. Then we took out the triangle. Then I went straight down center back. And then I drew the line from mid crown around a horseshoe section right to the temple area or the recession point. And I did the same thing on the other side. That's what gave me these nice little diamond shapes in the back. Then I kept my center line down when a cross occipital bone across here. And that gave me my section in the bottom. So the sectioning is pretty simple, even though it looks like there's a lot going on. So I'm going to comb the hair back. I like to work the hair with my comb in the direction that I'm going to be parting it for the haircut. And this, again, is going to be a traveling guide. And our guideline is going to come from what we just cut previously. And we're going to work this with the round of the head. So we're cutting this at 90 degrees straight out. And this looks short, guys. This is short. So this isn't necessarily what you would do on everyone. But it's a great technique to stay consistent and to work with that disconnection. And I'm sure there are people that would want to wear these shorter layers. If they don't, you could do a longer version of this haircut very easily on your guest. So traveling guide. And I'm working this part of the round of the head just like I did in the back. So as I get to this corner here, I'm not coming straight out from the head. I'm coming straight up. So it just gives me a little extra length on the side. And it also helps layer the sides so we don't get that line from the layering in the haircut. Or would you do this haircut as a dry cut? No, because I think the greatest thing about this haircut is that it's a very precise haircut. And that's why it's falling so seamlessly because each layer is being cut with a purpose. So you can see I haven't left this side of the head at all. I'm still working the same thing, working the sectioning exactly the same on both sides. The only difference on this side is I'm pushing the hair away from me towards my guideline. So we always want to push that new hair towards the guide instead of pushing the guide towards the new hair. So you push your guide. It's going to stretch the haircut out. And you'll be shifting your guide through the haircut, and it won't be consistent. I wish that I had gone in and colored the disconnection different to show that off. I like that it is a. I mean, I know that'll take away from showing how well it blends. Yeah. But just as more visual. Right. So don't they do still a lot of color in your hair cuts? It's up, Justin. You got a question by cut by Oscar. OK. This is right up your alley. What is the difference between the Mizetani Blacksmith Fit Puffin and the Acro Leaf Wide, both for dry and slide cutting, is one better than the other, and vice versa, and certain features? OK, so good question, Oscar. The Mizetani Acro Leaf Wide, so the Acro series of Mizetani has a certain handle type. Just like the Blacksmith Fit Puffin has the Blacksmith Fit handle type as well. So it's really just what handle you're most comfortable with. And the Acro, they're made of similar metals, those two scissors, so I wouldn't worry too much about that. It's more about the handle. I believe that the metals are similar, but I don't know. I've never used the Acro Wide, so I do have the Puffin. So if I had to choose, I liked the Puffin, especially because of the price point. I feel like the price point fits really well for the amount of use that you use with a dry cutting scissor, and it's a top quality scissor. I know if that has it. Oh, I love it. Yeah. I have it right here. I have a giant hand. We're going to use it in a little bit. It's a 5 and 1 half inch shear. It just feels comfortable for me. Can you see it? There you go. So this is the Blacksmith Fit handle. And then let's see if I have an Acro. I mean, I have the Acro Type Z2, so you can kind of see. Everything in Mizetani, the name is based on the handle. So here's the Acro Type Z2, and then here's the Blacksmith Fit. I actually think that this Blacksmith Fit with a little kind of triangle piece to your ring finger fits really well, and it makes it so your finger doesn't move around in the hole. So you get a nice grip on the scissor when you're cutting.  Yeah, maybe. I'm looking through our questions. We've got to actually, what I love, we have a whole bunch of brand new stylists. Some are still in beauty school, biology school. So good luck, you guys. A couple good questions. One is asking, what's a really good way to build a strong book? He says quickly, because he wants to have a full book in two to four years. Honestly, I think that's about what it takes. I don't know that that's necessarily accelerated. I think so long as you're a bus in your house, you can totally make that a reality. Dad, do you want to go to whatever angle button? My belly was not the angle I was looking for on that. So get to my double chin instead. Yeah, please. Somebody else has asked, what's your best advice for new stylists? I think that over the past couple of years, I think we've pretty much settled on our best advice is stay educated. Yeah. And I know that sounds like obvious for us to say, but that's what works for all of us in our careers. And we've seen what constantly educating yourself can do for us and other people and just your skill and your talent and confidence and everything. So I think that's a good one. Plus, we had a question on the Matt Beck show where the guy was asking how not to stay out. Dr. Gehling, what was it? Earned out and you feel stagnant. And I feel education, you can't really feel too stagnant if you're always learning and you want to try that new technique, whether it's one person a week, that's something that you want to try. You can't really see stagnant if you want to educate yourself. Absolutely. All right, last bit of this haircut. Well, important. And this is what I'm saying, once you section a haircut, when I first started mapping out my haircut first, there was a guy named Scott Cole who I watched really closely when I was working with the Paul Mitchell crew. And I always looked up to the way that he cut hair because he would map out an entire haircut before he did it. And the great thing about it, he would even go through and in the disconnections, he would put the clip facing down. It was either down or up. So let's say a disconnection, he would put the clip facing down and then everything he was gonna cut, he would put pointing up. And I just thought that thought process is really good for new stylists because when you map out a haircut, it makes your workflow better.  So just make sure that everything that you do has a purpose behind it. Think about the way that the weight's gonna shift and move in the haircut. Like, I know layers this short and a long haircut are kind of crazy, but they're not really crazy as long as they fall seamlessly. If they fall and they don't make sense in the haircut, that's when it's a mistake, right? So. Or a surprise. Or a surprise. Last little bit of the haircut. I love this part because we're gonna connect this short layer piece here to the fringe area. What? What? Get out of here. So I'm gonna take a vertical section right down the center of the fringe. I'm gonna elevate this up. I'm gonna grab a piece from right back in the point. You're real quick. What kind of comb are you using over there? This is the 334 comb from YS Park. No. I didn't get you one though. I know a guy. All right, so. I am going to layer the front fringe here. Now normally I would not wanna layer the fringe, but what I'm gonna do is I wanna go in and break up the fringe, then I'm gonna go through in the dry cut and soften it. So I'm just saying your mic is kind of distorted. I think that was when you put the headphones down because I could keep it. Yeah. Maybe that too. Maybe turn it down just a little bit, Thad, since I thought it wasn't working. And then I turned it up. Is that me? Yeah. Ocho. You can go down a little bit more. All right. Why is he doing that? Keeping it with the fringe and what will it do? I'm not necessarily keeping it right with the fringe. The fringe mark, the guide is coming out right there. I just wanna connect it flow to the back. It doesn't have to connect completely.  So I'll show you guys. Getting crazy in the class, but y'all. A little bit different here. So here was my hair before. So it's a tiny bit shorter. It's not much, but it connects in. And then what that does is it cuts a layered part of the fringe. So it's not a heavy fringe that goes through and we can go in and point cut that out, which we're gonna do in a second. And I'll show you guys. So we're putting in the structure of the fringe first or the bang, whatever you wanna call it. So I'm gonna work. A little concealer. Love when parents come in and they're like, I want my son's bangs to be straight. I like when people come in and say, I can't afford Botox, I need bangs. It's a lot cheaper, right? So we're gonna work this up. We are keeping a heavy point on the front bang area. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna over direct everything to the center. So what's that gonna do for me? Anybody got a? I know. What?  The rainbow, yeah, there you are. It's a great description, Brian. Your happy arch. It's the rainbow shape. Well, did you not get the exact picture in your head? I did, I got it. There you go. You're welcome. So what that's doing as I over direct it is shifting that weight towards the temple area, giving a kind of a rounded feel to the fringe. And then I'm gonna do the same thing on the opposite side. Let me do a little shift here. Bringing everything into that center, using my guideline. All right, so now we can see the rainbow connection. The rainbow connection there. So it's longer on the sides, gets shorter in the center, kind of gives that U shape or the rainbow shape. Notice how he said, you looked at me and said, or the rainbow shape. What are you trying to say, Matt? You called it. All right, so now take out the disconnections and then you'll see how this haircut comes together and all the long pieces fall out. Now if this were curly hair, I would probably go in and cut that base a little bit shorter. If I can go down. Heck yeah. So you can see the layering in there. It's really fun. We blow dry, we smooth it. Ta-da. And now we have. Look at what blowing dry did. I know, it's amazing. Look at that color. All right, so here is a couple adjustments that I made as soon as I blew it dry. I went through and I cut into the fringe.  So basically the way that I look at it, if I saw, I saw a little bit of a heaviness because of the layering that I was holding, right? So that top point, the top edge of the fringe is gonna lay heavier. So you're gonna see this kind of crease or weight line that comes across. So what I did was I took the hair horizontally, lifted up that bit. I looked at what I had underneath. I hold the hair up, just like that. I'm gonna shift the head, gonna shift this up. All right, so I lift the hair and then I go through and I just point cut along the edges. And then as I do that, it starts to soften the look of the fringe.  Somebody just asked, since this haircut may not be requested by a client, how would you approach suggesting it? I honestly, I don't think that this is necessarily something you're gonna fully do on a client.  I don't know if this technique is necessarily always gonna be something that you would use, right? So if you wanna give this to a client, I would say find somebody that wants this type of hair color or this type of cut, but this isn't gonna be something that somebody's gonna wear all the time. You definitely need to smooth it out. You need to style it a certain way. So what I would say when suggesting things to a guest, if you have a guest that has weaker points in their haircut and you're trying to add extra weight to it, you can create a disconnection within that area so you don't have to layer it. I think it's, hair cutting is all about what you leave on the head, not necessarily what you're cutting off, right? So we're constantly going in, constantly trying to chop away at a haircut to carve something into it. When technically, if we wanna create a little bit of extra volume, we can go in, create those short layers within the haircut and then leave the length on the bottom. Or I've had guests that are a little bit older, maybe in their, let's say, early 50s, late 50s that can't wear a haircut like this, but they have a lot of hair and they don't wanna deal with it every day. We'll go in and I'll totally take out the whole mid-part of their haircut and I'll disconnect the top. I'll let the top fall over long and I'll let the bottom be long. So that way, we're taking out, removing weight from the interior and then allowing them to still have long hair that they can pull back in a ponytail, still work with on a daily basis. So, disconnections are a big part of hair cutting and I think a lot of people associate disconnection with a hair show look. But what I'm trying to kinda show you guys today is that you can, I mean, this is fun. This is definitely a haircut that I knew, like if I put a picture up, it's gonna get people's attention to come in.  Yep. Oh, somebody asked, they have, I have your app on my old phone, but I can't find it in the App Store now. Yeah, it's not on the App Store anymore. So that's why. Yeah. Not actually sure why. It's one of those things where when you first start doing things, sometimes you rely on other companies to make things and they made the app, it was cool. It still works if you have it, but if you don't have it, you can't get it anymore. So, it's kind of. It's like quite funny. Yeah. And then somebody, our girl Unicorn, no, it's Uni Walker, asked a question that's good for Thad to answer actually. She's saying, she's an apprentice assistant starting to transition to more days behind the chair with clients. Very vigilant on body position and working in the most comfortable manner, but standing on day still takes its toll. Any suggestions on stretches, exercise, blah, blah, blah, we all do different stuff. Yoga and hot baths and red wine for me. I like to use the kind chair a lot actually. So I know it's not answering the question about stretches. I don't necessarily have the stretch. I was suggesting you to talk about the chiropractor that you now go to three times a week. I got one, once a week. That's like, I love the cutting stool, but I do go to a chiropractor all the time. The cutting stool's fantastic. Well, I've always had like stuff going on in my back. Right, yeah, yeah, I know. That's helping as well as it's more so for like longevity. But yeah, I go to a chiropractor. This is great. I feel like I just like sat for like an hour of massage and I was only there for five minutes, so. It's nice. I just go to the gym five days a week that works out for me. I'm gonna do that too. Yeah, but I feel that that leaves me sore so that doesn't really help with. But it's not like, it's not a wrong body position sore. Like she might be feeling it's a, I just picked everything up, you know, X amount of time of sore. Yeah. I feel like if you go do that or if you get like the foam roller that you have. Yeah, the foam roller is great. That's great for any kind of like shoulder issues or back issues you might have. Do you call it Justin? A fun one. Hey, thanks, Christine and Matt, for my birthday monsters. Welcome. Right there. All right, so you need to go over anything else?  So if you want to add a little bit of shape to that, you can go in and kind of draw your line here. And then the last thing I did was I went through and I, so I take my scissor. You guys may have seen this if you haven't seen it before. Let me turn. Do it. Do this a little bit. So used to, oops, that doesn't work. Oh, what happened? That camera's done. Well, guess we'll just use the other one. It's us. There it is, she's back. All right, so what I did was I went through, totally gonna turn this, perfect. All right, and I grabbed vertical section, overdirect everything straight towards me. I take my scissor, I put my thumb through the other direction, and then I work the scissor back. So I take my thumb out, put it in the other direction, flip the scissor around, and then I just work by slide cutting in. And the reason I like doing that technique is because this is a little bit more uncomfortable. So this is pretty easy body position. And I just softened the edge of the haircut here. And I did the same thing on the other side. So vertical section, bring the hair out, take the scissor, flip it, and work just from that edge of the eyebrow down, just to soften the haircut in there.  To finish the haircut. I also feel like that technique also makes you feel like a little bit. Cooler. Cooler, definitely. But work that angle a little bit more gentle. Like you're a little bit more conscious about what you're doing. Just be careful because you'll give them a mullet if you go too hard. Well, I'll kind of give them the mullet anyways. Oh yeah. So adding a little bit of, I'm really like loving cream texturizing paste on longer hair right now. And I know that kind of, some people that freaks out like Brian's face, but I like- No, it's just the phrasing. I love this stuff. I like, this is carved from Baccato, but I like adding a little bit of this cream paste to the ends coming through. And then just to mess up and add that texture in. Instead of using like a spray right now, I really like the way that the cream feels in the hair. And this really brings my David Bowie labyrinth cut. Since I did mention earlier. Matt Bacc. Yeah. Are you gonna recommend this to someone with a lot of wavy, frizzy, thick hair? No. I didn't think so.  Well it's just such a big difference in the mannequin. Like this one's all blown out and flat ironed and that one's airing dry with a normal texture. Yeah. It just looks a little bit disheveled. Alabama. It's a little, there's probably people from Alabama. I can say that. I'm from there. Oh, is that how it works? That's how it works. That's how it works. This is like- It reminds me of what's your name? Steven Tyler. Connor from the first Terminator movie. Yes. There you go. And that's just a slight texture. So yeah, if they're like super frizzy and super wavy then they're just gonna have to put so much work into it to make it look. Cause the point of this, like you were saying at the beginning is to do a hardcore disconnection but still have it seamlessly run together. Yeah. And if it's just over texture- Chris, you wanna go that closer? Get in there. You can see how that layering, it's seamless. I mean, you can obviously see the pieces but there's nothing heavy or lines and that's because of the elevation that we were working with throughout the haircut. So this is actually a really fun haircut. I kinda hope that- Matt, somebody asked how you would style those bangs like in the real world? In the real world? Cause it's just like super long. Yeah. Again, this is like a more fun haircut. In the real world, I would cut them a little, they would be a little bit shorter. But I would still use the same technique. I would still, but I would cut into them more so that they were softer and peaceier. And, you know, then you could kind of separate them. You'll need to see when you look awesome. Yeah, pretty much. It's the same feeling of anybody that wears kind of a heavier front fringe. It's gonna be broken up and you know, if they're having a really hard time and they can move it up like the 80s and, but yeah. So I would just separate it, use a little bit of that cream paste or maybe a spray wax type product just to separate that fringe. But you can see she has eyes. Yeah. She can see. They're coming through. She reminds me about Cheetara. Oh my God, I love Cheetara.  Heck yeah. Any other. Yay. I think we're pretty solid on questions. Yeah. I mean, we got through a ton from social media of them. We got some great questions in the chat room. Okay. Christina, would you mind grabbing that pink box from the color bar? It's on the other side. And if you guys have any, it's popped in. If you guys have any questions, you can post them in the comments below. I'm also going to post another version of this haircut when I actually cut this mannequin. I'm going to post that on our YouTube channel as well over the next couple of days. I'm gonna edit that video together. So I did do kind of a raw cut of this haircut as well. So you guys can get two versions of it because I knew that this class, the pod class, is a little bit crazy. There's a lot of questions coming in. So hopefully that'll help answer anything that you haven't gotten from it. Also make sure that you comment below, let us know what you think of the cut. We just got told that this is the most answered question episode ever. Yeah. And I'm pretty sure it was. Answering questions, taking names. Boom. We have a big celebration. Yeah, this is a surprise. Yeah, we're getting, where is it? I thought I was like, I missed the week. Cool. No, we decided to wait until you got back to do your birthday. So the whole reason for this, Justin's okay, I can't see it. Because Justin is working on getting his Medusa tattoo enlarged and brought all around on his head, we decided since he's getting more snakes added to himself, we got him a Medusa snake, birthday cake. I don't know if you can see, take it out Justin. Slide it on out of there. There's Hayden in front of the camera. Turn around and say hi. Straight behind your face. They're right here. Hi. That's awesome. Okay. And there's even glitter on it. Come on, buddy. Awesome. This is so cool. Happy birthday. Happy birthday, Justin. Happy birthday. All right, so who are we gonna choose to spin the wheel? Oh, I don't know. Justin, you pick. You're the birthday boy. You know what? Love. Yeah. How much do you still love? Uni Walker's been active on all of our stuff lately, everywhere. We haven't picked her before, have we? I was just gonna say, how we picked Uni Walker. Oh, I don't know. Because we keep talking about writing it down every week, but we never have. Yeah. Do you know her name? Universe? Is her first name? No. All right. I just asked her if she's in the States. Yeah, she is. She's in Cosmetology School. Oh, cool. That doesn't mean that she's in the States. I mean, she's not in Brazil. All right, cool. Oh, so Uni Walker gets to win tonight. All right, Hayden. Yeah, Thad's gonna go over what's on the wheel. Oh, geez. Let me get a blanket. Do these are too? All right, so guys, we have Olplex to help restore your hair. We have Parker for when you need to get a nice, close shape. We have Ergo for when you're looking to have your guest leave nice and stylish. We got Donald Scott for when you want to do a nice razor cut along with using your shears. We have Nerva Beauty to make sure your slant is outfitted with Brian. We got Free Slant Education from Matt. What are we giving away? We're giving away Brian and his hair. I like fun stuff. It's like a fun packet. We're giving away Brian's lost tooth. Yeah, we're giving away Brian's fun package. We got sunlight for your blonding needs. I love this. We got Mainstream, all right. Mainstream? Yeah, Mainstream, which is for the stylist. A month for 100% of your profit. Amika for styling products and tools and good stuff. They give cool stuff. Yeah, cool stuff. You want fun stuff? Amika. We got Olaplex again. And we got Ms. Atani. Ms. Atani is going to be still. Are we still giving away shears or $100 off? It's still shears, because we gave away. We gave away one pair. Yeah. So you could possibly give us a pair of shears. And we got Jay Lace as well. And they have a lot of awesome stylus gear as well as Justice Scott on their website. I'm going to return this one. Oh, sorry about that. All right. Oh, all right. Hayden is going to spin. Ready? That was awesome. That's it. FSC Live Pod Class 007. Yeah. The spy edition. Like Matt said, if you have questions, be sure to actually post them below because our little windows get ready to go away. So we can answer them. Has they're asked? May be sure to follow us on everything. Subscribe to us on YouTube if you haven't already. Check us out. Book, Snapchat, Instagram, everything, mattesfreecellineducation.com. You can follow me. I'm Hairstyle on everything. Bad bonus. I am Justin Scott. Hayden's bed. He did not have Instagram yet. Or am I? Hayden's going to bed. Yes, Hayden's going to bed. All right, cool. So I hope you guys enjoyed the class. I know that there was a lot going on in that haircut. So I hope you guys like it. Please comment below, let us know. And we'll talk to you on the next week. Yeah. Bye. See you guys.


Okay, good morning. If we can all settle down please, we'll get started. Good morning. At least one energetic good morning. Okay, so today we are going to be starting the minor prophets, the prophetic books which are smaller in size. So we will be covering Hosea, Joel and Amos. So we'll begin right now with the book of Hosea. So if you can turn in your Bibles to Hosea, we can get started. Hosea was the prophet whom God asked him to prophesy to northern Israel. So he was doing his prophetic ministry in the northern kingdom. Basically there are three well-known prophets who ministered to the northern kingdom. Jonah is one of them. Of course Jonah did not minister to the northern kingdom but he was from northern Israel. So Hosea, Jonah and Amos. Amos also ministered to the northern kingdom. In fact Amos was from the southern kingdom but God sends him to the northern kingdom to do the prophetic ministry over there. So if these people are ministering to the northern kingdom, it means that they would have had their ministry at an earlier date because if you remember the northern kingdom falls almost 150 years before the southern kingdom. The Assyrians come and invade the northern kingdom and take away the northern kingdom's people as slaves almost 100 years before the southern kingdom falls. So which means if these people are ministering to the northern kingdom they belong to an earlier date. So Hosea and Amos were simultaneously doing their ministry in the northern kingdom. God was asking both of them to prophesy to the people and ask them to repent. We also have another two prophets, Isaiah and Micah who also started off their ministries maybe halfway through after of course Hosea and Amos were doing their ministry a little earlier and then halfway through their ministry is when God calls Isaiah and Micah. All these people belong to the same time period. Approximately around the same time you have all of these prophets doing their ministry. So Hosea prophesies to the people in the very last days before the Assyrian attack and so he tells even now it's not too late, even now if you choose to repent God is willing to change his mind but then the people are not interested. So during around the end of his ministry, around the end of his 40 year ministry is when the Assyrians they come and they attack and it's generally believed that Hosea probably escaped to the southern kingdom when the attack happened. Many of the people they try to escape and go to the southern kingdom for shelter when the Assyrians attack and so it's generally believed that Hosea was able to escape. He was able to go to the southern kingdom and take shelter over there when the Assyrian army attacked. So he most probably wrote the book of Hosea while he was staying over there recording all the prophecies which God had given him during his time of ministry. Now Hosea was probably a farmer. He uses a lot of agricultural illustrations in his, in his prophetic works. If you know the Lord allows the ministers of God to use their own language, to use their own background to preach in a particular way, to minister in a particular way. He inspired them but he allowed them to use their own illustrations, their own vocabulary. So which is why it's generally believed that Hosea he was probably a farmer. So when he was doing his prophesying, he used a lot of agricultural illustrations to do his prophetic work. Let's just look at one example from the book of Hosea. Hosea chapter 10 verse 12. If we can have someone read out for us. Hosea chapter 10 verse 12. Hosea chapter 10 verse 12. So for yourself righteousness reap in mercy. Break up your fellow ground for it is time to seek the Lord till he comes and reigns righteousness on you. There are two agricultural illustrations used over here. The first one he says, so righteousness for yourselves. And if you do that, then you will be able to reap the fruit of unfailing love. He's using a gardening term. You put a seed into the, maybe let us say the flower pot. Okay, you put the seed inside and you wait for it to grow. Depending on what kind of seed you have put inside the pot, that particular plant will finally grow. If you have put rose plant seeds inside that pot, what you're going to get is going to be a rose plant. On the other hand, if you have sown weeds into that pot and if you keep waiting for a rose plant to come outside, it's not going to happen. What is going to grow outside only weeds will grow out of that particular pot. So over here, Hosea is telling them depends on what you are sowing. If you are sowing righteous deeds, if you are sowing a godly lifestyle, if you are sowing the right kind of choices, then what will come out of the ground? You will reap the fruit of God's unfailing love. So no matter how difficult the circumstances that you are facing, when that fruit comes, it will be the fruit of God's unfailing love. Nothing is impossible for the Lord. He will help you. He will provide whatever you require for your life, for your ministry. But it depends on what kind of seeds you put into the ground. Did you sow righteousness? Did you sow holiness and honour honouring of the Lord? What did you sow into the ground? That is the plant which is going to come out. And so he uses a second illustration in the same verse. He says, break up your unplowed ground. The ground of your hearts has become so hard that even when God's seed falls on it, it's not able to go into the ground and bear fruit because the ground has become so hard. So he basically, the terminology used over here is to break up the unplowed ground. You got to dig that ground, make that soil lose. Those of you who know gardening, who are interested in such things will be familiar.  Then when you put the seeds over there, something will grow. On the other hand, if that soil is hard and it is not ideal for the seed, even if you put the best seeds over there on that hard ground, nothing will happen. The seed will just be sitting over there. The ground will be there as it is and no result will come out. So he's giving the warning, you people, instead of sowing seeds of righteousness, you have allowed your hearts to become so hard that even though profits are coming, multiple profits are coming and prophesying. At this point of time, you basically have four prophets who are prophesying and saying, you know, change your ways, but these people are not listening. And that's because the heart has become so hardened. So he says, it's time for you to plough it, dig. Start removing all the rocks which are there inside. Start removing all the wrong things which are there. Then the soil will be soft. Then when God's seed is sown, immediately you will be willing to receive it and fruit will come out of it. So he says, break up your unplowed ground for it is time to seek the Lord. And how long should you go on ploughing and softening up the soil until he comes and showers his righteousness on you? Over here it's talking about the fruit of righteousness, the blessings which will come out of your life if you are following him. So two things, what are you first of all putting into the ground? What kind of seeds are you putting in? Second, are you putting those seeds on hard soil or is it soft soil which is willing to receive? So both of these things matter. So a lot of Christians, what do they do? They don't even bother sowing the seeds of righteousness. They live as they want to live and then they cry out and say, Lord, I want this, please help me with that. And they say, oh, nothing is coming out of this ground. God is not providing a fruit of unfailing love. Why? That's because they did not sow the right seeds. If they had put in the right seeds, they would be getting the right harvest. So it's logical. Whatever you have put into the ground, that is what is going to come out. And so one day, they may go to a gospel meeting or they may go to some church service and then that day they feel very emotional. And so the next two days, they try to live very, very godly lives. And then two days after that, they say, oh, okay, now God is going to start giving me the fruit of unfailing love. And then they wait and they see and nothing happens. So they think that just because the two days they lived right, now suddenly a grand harvest of blessing is going to come out. It doesn't work like that, right? I mean, you have been putting weeds into that flower pot year after year after year. And then two days you bring a lot of good seeds and you put them inside. And in two days you want a lot of roses to come out. It's not going to work that way. That's not the way logic works and that's not the way gardening works and that's not the way spiritual principles work. So you got to do it week after week, month after month. You continue to hold on to God. You continue to serve Him. You continue to honor Him. You continue to sow righteousness. And then one day suddenly there's such a beautiful harvest of righteousness where all that you have worked for, the reward for it comes, but it takes time. So we cannot say two days I'm going to sow something into the soil and on the third day, fourth day, I want the harvest to come out. It's a lifetime process. And this lesson I think is especially important to those of you who are sitting here because you are all so young. What you are sowing now in these current days, in these current years, the fruit of that you will see in the years to come. So it is so important now when you have the time, you can make the soil of your heart soft, break it up, remove all the rocks, remove all the things which will hamper the growth. Let the soil be soft and right. And then as the seeds are falling in, the seeds of God's word, the sermons that you're listening to, the books that you're reading, oh my, a lot of feedback. Yeah. So if you are prepared for hearts now and sowing right things, then tomorrow will be a good harvest. All right? So this is the point which Hosea is trying to bring out over here to the people. And this is what the people of that time have actually been sowing. This was the time of Jeroboam II. He was the ruler at this point of time. And during his time, because he was a very powerful military warrior, the Israelite people were able to have many, many victories in war, which means they were able to gather wealth from many, many nations. They were in a very good position financially. Everyone was getting rich. Everyone was flourishing. Even trade and commerce was going really well. So the people were feeling, oh yes, everything is good. And they were not sowing the correct seeds. So they were thinking everything is going fine. So I think even our future also will be good. And so they did not prepare themselves for the future by sowing seeds of righteousness.  And so you may say, everything in my life is going well. And if you are careless and you don't sow the seeds of righteousness, tomorrow, 10 years from now, the harvest which is going to come out may be very, very bitter. Because in this day when things are going well, you became careless and you were not careful to plow the ground of your heart. Which is what happened over here. So Ozia was saying all these years you have been sowing the wrong kind of seeds just because everything around you is prosperous and good. But be careful because what you have sown is going to start coming out of the ground. All the weeds which you have put inside are now going to start coming out and that time the judgment will be great. Even now, even now in these last days, it's not too late. You can repent, you can start sowing seeds of righteousness is the lesson which Ozia speaks to the people and the people refuse to listen to this message which he is giving. So in Ozia chapters one, two and three, God talks to Ozia and says, I want to use you. I want to use your life as an object lesson. I want you to marry a woman who is unfaithful. I wanted to marry that kind of a person to show these people what they are doing to me. In the same way, your wife will be unfaithful. I want to show these people that even they are being unfaithful to me and then maybe they will learn something in these last days and maybe they will change their hearts. So in chapters one, two and three, God asks Ozia to marry an unfaithful lady and in chapters four to fourteen, God brings out the lessons from that. God says in the same way this lady was unfaithful, you people also have been unfaithful to me but look at Ozia, look at the faithfulness that he showed from his side to his unfaithful wife and in the same way that he is trying to remain faithful, I also in these final days I'm trying to be faithful, I'm giving you one last chance. Are you willing to change your ways? So chapters one to three talks about the life of Ozia, the very difficult marriage that God asked him to enter into, the very difficult life that he experienced because of that and then chapter four to fourteen, God uses that example of his marriage and says in the same way that this lady was unfaithful, you are being unfaithful for this danger. Are you willing to change your ways? So the book of Ozia basically talks about that and this person that Ozia chooses to marry, that he's commanded to marry, is somebody named Gomer. We don't have much details about Gomer in the book of Ozia, just a few verses which talk about her. Maybe we can have one person read out, Ozia chapter one verses two and three. Ozia one verses two and three. Ozia chapter one verse two. When the Lord began to speak by Ozia, the Lord said to Ozia, go take yourself a wife of a hallowed tree and children of a hallowed tree for the land has committed great hallowed tree by deprating from the Lord. So he went and took Gomer, daughter of Diplom and she conceived and bore him a son.  So which means this lady was already living an unrighteous life. Already she had been going after men and spending time with them. Already her character was bad. So God asks Ozia to go and marry such a person because the Lord in the same way, in his mercy came to these people of Israel but they in their hearts were unfaithful. So God wants to demonstrate that. So Ozia chooses to marry this person and then together they have three children. Now we do not know for how many years Gomer stayed with Ozia but one day after having three children she starts going again after other men. So we learn that she commits adultery, she goes to another person where the details are not given but something happens over the next few months and finally she ends up in the slave market. So most probably the person to whom she goes maybe he abandons her and then she tries to go and find somebody else and then at some point of time she'll have to sell herself. So we don't really know what happened and what the time span was but once she leaves her husband and starts going after other people a series of bad things happen to her till finally one day she ends up in the slave market where they are selling the slaves and she is also being sold as one of the slaves. So at that point of time the Lord comes to Ozia again and this is what the Lord says to Ozia. So Ozia chapter 3 verses 1-3 Ozia 3-3 Ozia chapter 3 verse 1 then the Lord said to me go again love a woman who is loved by a lover and is committing adultery just like the love of the Lord for the children of Israel to other gods and love the resin cakes of the pagans. Verse 2 So I bought her for myself for 15 shekels of silver and one and one half homers of Barley.  These are very significant verses over here in the book of Ozia. The Lord says to Ozia go show your love to your wife again though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. So you're not going and showing your love to someone who is honorable and good and deserves kindness. You are going to go and show love to a person who is in adultery who doesn't even deserve any kind of kindness and from that the example the Lord is bringing out is that even though Israel you have been unfaithful to me even now I am willing to come and show my love to you are you willing to respond is what the Lord is saying and so this man in obedience he goes and he doesn't even have enough money to purchase her. He gives 15 shekels of silver but the 15 shekels of silver is not enough and he doesn't have any more silver left then because he is a farmer he has Bali he also joins to that money one and a half homers of Bali and then that amount is finally sufficient to purchase this woman. So much money being spent on a lady who is not even worth it and the same thing the Lord is trying to bring out to the people of Israel and saying you people have reduced yourself to such a level of spiritual adultery that you don't even deserve any mercy but I am willing to make the ultimate sacrifice and buy you back are you willing to respond to me so we see that this man Hosea who is not very rich gives everything that he has to purchase not an honorable lady but to purchase someone who had been living an adulterous life who had abandoned him and gone away and these are the words which he speaks to her you know this is what he says to Gomer in verse 3 after purchasing her with all the money that he has this is what he says to her he says then I told her you are to live with me many days you know so he is not saying the next time I am upset with you I will throw you out after all I purchased you I spent on you so now I can do what I want no he says I want to renew the commitment I want you to stay with me many many many days and then he says you know you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man and I will behave the same way toward you he says you know I am going to be very very faithful to you in spite of what you did in the past I am going to forget that and I am going to be very faithful to you I will show all my love and commitment to you and in exchange I want you to show me the same kind of commitment so this is a object lesson which God is using to speak to the people and ask them to be faithful towards him he is saying even though you have sinned against me for so many years I am willing to take you back I am willing to be completely faithful towards you and bless you and help you and I want you to be in the same way towards me is what the Lord is saying so it is actually a very powerful object lesson that God tries to bring out over here in this book of Hosea and even the names which are given to the children you know the three children who are born to this couple the names given to these children are also very significant names if we could have someone read out for us in chapter one itself maybe verses six chapter one verses six to eleven if someone could read out Hosea chapter one verse six and she conceived again and bore our daughter then God said to him call her name Loh Roma for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel but I will utterly take them away verse seven yet I will have mercy on the house of Judah will save them by the Lord the God and will not save them by Bo nor by sword or battle by horses or horsemen now when she had weaned Loh Roma Ruhama she conceived and bore our son then God said call his name Loh Ammi for you are not my people and I will not be your God understand yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea which cannot be measured or numbered and it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them you are not my people there it shall be said to them you are sons of the living God verse 11 then the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together and appoint for themselves one head and they shall come up out of the land for great will be the day of the Israel so over here she has a daughter and the daughter is supposed to be given the name Loh Ruhama which means not loved imagine you are holding a newborn baby in your hand and you have to give the name to that baby saying not loved again a very powerful object lesson so God is saying you know it's like as if I adopted you people as my children and I wanted to make you my own family but you did not want me you rejected me so now I am declaring to you you are not loved anymore I am not going to love you anymore but in the very next sentence this is what the Lord says Lord says yes in spite of what your people are doing at least I will save a portion of this nation at least Judah I will save them is what the Lord says and then this one more child who is born a third child and this is a son and he is to be given the name Loh Ami which means not my people so these two children are named not loved not my people but in the very next sentence again the Lord says yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore and he goes on to say in verse 10 they will be called children of the living God so it is such a beautiful thing God speaks anger and judgment in one sentence in the very next sentence he reveals his heart and shows how compassionate he is so there is always this tension between the love of God and the judgment of God God has because he is righteous he must judge sin but at the same time he does not enjoy judging sin he wants to show mercy so he says even though I am giving you these two names I am still willing to come to you and have compassion and make you children of the living God if only you will respond to me and he makes this promise he says a day will come when the people of Judah and the people of Israel will once again be joined together a king will rise from them who you know basically is referring over here the Lord is referring to the Messiah so a king will rise over them and he will be their ruler and then there will be a great day of Jezreel that word over there is basically talking about how there will be a great battle in the end times and then this king he will come out victorious and then he will rule all the nations so over here that word day of Jezreel is referring to the end time war maybe the war of Armageddon or something you know so it's referring to that so these two children are given these names are not loved and not my people the first child that first child is given the name Jezreel in fact let's look at that that would be chapter one versus four and five if we can have someone read out for us Hosea chapter one versus four and five Hosea chapter one was four then the Lord said to him call his name Jezreel for in a little while I will arrange the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu and bring an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel verse five it shall come to pass in that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel so we looked at the names of the second two children but the first child the first child who is a son is given the name Jezreel and that word Jezreel literally means God will so okay the sowing of seeds so God will so now the valley of Jezreel was a very very beautiful and very prosperous valley it had a lot of what do you call this small streams of water it had springs of water so it was a very luscious, prosperous valley in which you had a lot of plants growing the crops grown over there would be really good so it was that kind of a prosperous valley and so it was named Jezreel because the people were declaring and saying God himself has sown blessings into this valley so that word actually had very good meaning but then from the time of Ahab onwards there's a lot of bloodshed which happens in that valley you know we know the story of Ahab how he wants to take away the vineyard of Naboth and so he has murdered so that is the first bloodshed with which this whole you know story starts after that constantly there's one bloodshed after another one murder after another in that valley so what was supposed to be a valley of blessing instead becomes a valley of bloodshed so finally one day God comes to somebody named Jehu and God says to Jehu and says if you will destroy the entire house of Ahab and bring judgment upon them then I will make you the next king and you know we actually see Jehu doing that he kills the northern king of Israel who is Ahab's son he kills the southern king of Jerusalem who is the grandson of Ahab then he goes to Jezebel and he says you know I'm going to kill you and then the servants they pick her up and throw her out of the window so she also gets killed all this happens in Jezebel so there's a lot of bloodshed which happens in Jezebel and God brings judgment upon this house of Ahab now God says the same kind of judgment which I brought upon Ahab's household I will bring it even upon Jehu's descendants because they have followed in the same footsteps that Ahab followed they have not repented they have not changed so God wanted to sow blessings in that valley but these people sowed bloodshed in that valley and in fact the Lord says in Hosea chapter 4 verse 2 there is only cursing, lying and murder stealing and adultery they break all bounds and bloodshed follows bloodshed in fact after Jeroboam II you have I think about 6 rulers who are left among those 6 kings who follow Jeroboam II 4 of them assassinate their own family members and they climb on the throne I mean that's the kind of household that they are and God is disgusted with this northern kingdom of Israel and he says I will sow bloodshed in this valley because of the way that you people have conducted yourself so the 3 children are given very negative names but God makes a promise and says one day Judah and Israel will be joined together a righteous king will come out of you and on that day there will be another Jezreel, another war but that day it will be a Jezreel of victory when righteousness will be established and so after that you know you would have the millennium rule of the Messiah so it talks about that so these are just some of the lessons which come out of the book of Hosea giving them one last chance to start putting new kinds of seeds in the flower pot but the people of course choose not to do that and so the spiritual lesson that comes across to us believers today what are we putting inside our own flower pot are you putting in weeds or are you sowing in seeds of righteousness when everything is prosperous around you you are succeeding everyone is speaking well of you you have a lot of supporters and friends at a time like that do you grow overconfident and start being careless what you are putting inside the ground if you start putting in the wrong kind of seeds it is dangerous because the seeds which you have put inside they will come out and there will be a harvest a very important verse that we can you know dwell upon even before we close this book of Hosea that would be from Galatians the last chapter of Galatians I have noted down the reference here somewhere but I cannot seem to find it you know if you can just turn in your Bibles to Galatians second last chapter where it talks about what just a minute I will try to find it because I am sure I put it in somewhere Galatians 6 Galatians 6 verses 7 to 10 if you can read out because this is basically what happens in the book of Hosea Galatians 6 7 to 10 Galatians 6 7 to 10 Galatians 6 verses 7 Galatians 6 verses 7 do not be deceived God is not for whatever a man's source that he will also read verse 8 for he who source to his flash will of the flash reap corruption but he who source to the spirit will of the spirit reap everlasting life verse 9 verse 9 and let us not grow very while doing good for end due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart we will stand as we have opportunity let us do good to all especially to those who are of the household of faith so here you know these are the words in verse 7 do not be deceived God cannot be mocked a man reaps what he sows so if you are going through a period of prosperity favor where everything is going well in your life do not grow careless and start sowing the wrong kinds of seeds because do not be deceived God will not be mocked God knows exactly what you are putting in the ground and that is what will come out of the ground tomorrow so be very careful what you put inside the ground in verse 9 it says therefore do not get tired of doing good because one day that harvest which you have put inside it is going to come out may it be a good harvest of reward not a a bad harvest of judgment okay so maybe this could be the worst you know this passage could be applied to the book of Kozia the people thought that just because Jeroboam is you know making them a very prosperous nation and everything is going well they are going to be fine they forgot that God cannot be mocked God is not deceived what you have put in the ground will come out and so because of their spiritual adultery because of the oppression of the poor because of all the sins which they have done in the time of Kozia himself at the end of his life in the last of his ministry in the last days of his ministry Assyria comes attacks them and they are completely defeated they are all taken away as slaves and placed in different nations and even up to today we don't know where they all got spread out because they completely lost their identity as Israelites they got mixed up with the other nations and now nobody even knows what happened to those 10 tribes but the promise of God is there that one day even a remnant from those not 10 tribes will be collected by God and they will be joined to the people of the remnant of Judah and the messiah will be the king over them the end time promise which is there for these people. Now coming very quickly to the next book so after the book of Kozia which book would you have basically you would have the book of Joel but let's look at Amos first because you know Kozia and Amos were after all doing ministry at the same time for the same nation the Northern Kingdom so maybe we look at Amos first and then maybe we will look at Joel so Amos like we just saw in the introduction he was actually not born and brought up in the Northern Kingdom Kozia was born and brought up in the Northern Kingdom. Amos belonged to the Southern Kingdom he was staying in a place called Tekoa Tekoa was like a border town it was on the border of the Northern and Southern Kingdoms it was like a hill station it was on a higher level cooler weather so this man Amos he was a shepherd who looked after sheep and because of the good weather which you have at that higher level he also had fruit orchards he used to grow sycamore figs yeah so he was an orchard owner and he was also a shepherd that was basically his background when Samuel was prophet he established a lot of prophetic schools where people were trained for full time ministry they were trained on how to be prophets how to minister to the Lord how to preach in the different towns and villages so there were prophetic schools which Samuel had established but Amos was not part of any such school he was a completely secular person he was a shepherd and he was an orchard owner but God takes a person like that and says I want you to leave the comfort of your life and I want you to go to the Northern Kingdom and start prophesying against the leaders and the king and the powerful people over there so he is asked to give up his comforts go to a hostile place where he will not be wanted and preach to them not nice words but harsh words of judgment that's the difficult assignment which Amos is given so yeah maybe we could just read chapter 7 Amos 7 verses 14 to 15 where it tells a little bit about his background Amos 7 14 to 15 Amos chapter 7 verse 14 then Amos answered and said to Amazia I was no prophet nor was I a son of a prophet but I was a sheep breeder and a tender of saikama fruit verse 15 then the Lord took me as I followed the flock and the Lord said to me go prophesier to my people is right okay so he says I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet but God told me he asked me to go to the land of Israel and prophesy over there so if you were to look at the structure of this book of Amos the first chapter gives prophecies against other nations on all the neighboring nations which are there around Israel so you have prophecies against Damascus Gaza, Edom, Tyre Wab and a few others so first God starts by giving prophecies of judgment against all these surrounding nations and in the middle you have Israel and God finally brings judgment even against them he speaks out a word of prophecy against them in chapter 2 so chapter 1 and a little bit of chapter 2 are all the prophecies of judgment against the neighboring nations and if the people are feeling very happy to hear about the judgment being brought against them God says wait your turn is also coming you may be sitting in the middle but you are not safe judgment is coming even upon you so in the half way through chapter 2 God starts speaking judgment even against these people so that will be chapters 1 and 2 and then chapter 3 all the way up to chapter 9 which is the last chapter the first 10 verses of chapter 9 so from chapter 3 up to chapter 9 verse 10 God gives him a series of visions of judgment he has a vision of swarms of locusts he has a vision of fruit which has become overripe which you are going to throw away he has a vision of scorching fire God coming like fire and judging he has a series of visions of judgment so that would be chapter 3 up to chapter 9 verse 10 and the last 5 verses of chapter 9 is where God gives 5 promises of how one day in spite of all the judgment one day God will restore his people so that's basically the structure if you remember when we were doing the book of Hosea a few minutes ago we talked about how one day both Israel and Judah will be joined together once again and you know a righteous king will be established that was in Hosea chapter 1 verse 11 here something similar is promised even to Amos so in this last 5 verses where God is promising restoration this is what God says in Amos chapter 9 verse 11 verse 11 if you can have someone read out Amos 9 verse 11 Amos chapter 9 verse 11 on that day I will raise up the tippernacle of tippet which has fallen down and repair its damage I will raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old okay so so the Lord tells Amos also that one day Judah will be restored Israel of course is going to be destroyed but Judah will be restored one day that's the promise that God gives and this is the main judgment which God wanted to speak against the land of Israel if you remember you know when the when the entire land of Israel got divided into the northern kingdom and the southern kingdom in the northern kingdom it was Jeroboam who had been placed as king and he decides that he doesn't want the people to go to Jerusalem year after year and make their sacrifices over there because he's afraid that the people will want to go back and rejoin themselves with the southern kingdom and so he comes up with this idea of making two golden calves he places one golden calf in Dan he places the other one in Betel so Amos ministry is mainly in Betel he is supposed to prophesy against the priests and the ruler over there and all these people and say you have gone into idol worship you know the people were now worshipping that golden calf and after they began to worship the golden calf they also began to worship all the other Canaanite gods and goddesses so Amos ministry was mainly in the city of Betel against some of the most powerful people who were living over there so God was very angry about the idol worship which was taking place and also the economic exploitation so in Betel all these spiritual leaders and the political leaders they were coming up with wrong schemes and policies to grab the peer the land of the common people and when the common people would go to the judges for justice the judges also will get paid off some bribe and so they will not give justice so that way the rich were getting very very rich and the common people who even had small portions of property all their property was being grabbed by these rich people so a lot of exploitation was going on and a lot of idol worship was going on so Amos was sent to speak judgment against these specific people so maybe we will look at Amos chapter 7 we will cover how much ever we can before the break and then after the break we can continue so Amos chapter 7 if someone could read out verses 7, 8 and 9 Amos chapter 7 7, 8 Amos chapter 7 verse 7 thus he showed me behold the Lord stood on a wall made by made with a plumb line with a plumb line in his hand verse 8 and the Lord said to me Amos what do you see and I said a plumb line then the Lord said behold I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel I will not pass by them anymore verse 9 the high places of Isaac shall be desolate and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste I will rise with the sword against the house of Jeroboam. Okay so Amos is standing over here in a very powerful city and he is talking against the most powerful people and he is saying this is what the Lord says I saw a vision in the vision I know God was standing on the wall and he was standing with a plumb line so I mean in your vernacular bible I am not sure what the wording is for that a plumb line is basically a long string at the end of the string you will have a weight attached a metal weight attached so when you hold the string up and the weight hangs down you don't find the weight hanging slightly at a slope that way or at a slope this way it hangs straight exactly 90 degrees if you were to measure because of gravity so when you are holding the string and you have the weight down holding it down the weight does not hang slightly this way or that way it hangs straight exactly down and if you were to take a measurement it would be literally 90 degrees so this is basically what they were using in those days when they were constructing walls when you start constructing the wall they would take the plumb line they would hold it against the wall which is being constructed to see whether it is completely straight or there is a slight slope so when you are holding the plumb line against the wall if the wall is perfectly straight the string and the weight will be parallel exactly to the wall on the other hand if your wall has now started going slightly crooked when you hold the plumb line it hangs out to the open it does not hang exactly parallel to the wall which means that the wall is now going slightly wrong then the mesons will break down that portion they will again straighten the wall so that is basically a plumb line and God is using the illustration of a plumb line to say something to these people and then when we come back from the break we will see that the powerful people become very angry with Amos when he says this and a whole bunch of other things happen so we will look at those details after the break


Welcome back folks. I doubt our industry is right now done 28 nazik is off 17 s&p's off seven and a half Let's go over to our mammoth the basil Chapman as we do each and every Tuesday at 20 past the hour Don't forget folks basil is an outstanding show here every trading day 11 to 12 East 12 to 1 Eastern Standard Time shame on me Great program also is a great newsletter the opening call now the way you get the opening call folks You come over to our website of TFN. You go right under Featured content. You're gonna see the opening call right there. You hit the opening call you hit subscribe You can get it for one month for 128 dollars a month You can get it for six months for 595, which is a savings of a hundred and seventy three dollars You can get it for a year for nine hundred ninety five dollars, which is savings of five hundred and forty one dollars I'll come with a 30-day money back guarantee folks. You get everything to win zero to lose That's a Chapman. What's going on? Hi Tom. How are you doing doing great man yourself? Very good. Thank you You're good. So we get the Fed coming tomorrow. We get the end of the Window dress and end of the month getting you the month. That's just everything is coming together here so this is going to be very important for a couple of reasons because almost all the indexes and the stocks that Certainly are very important to to what I look at They have overhead resistance where they are right now or just a little above Okay, so it means that there's going to have to be say the Dow for instance would have to go to the 27,000 480 27,500 the moment it's there That's that's just gonna force a lot of people in but with this this kind of resistance I've got a feeling that within the context of what happens with the Fed That yep caught a point, but you know, they also have been some very good Economic reports coming out. I don't think they can go to 50 So this is what I'm looking at For us for subscribers to my opening call. We have we still have a Core position from the low that was on June the 3rd on the long side of the Dow Within that contact we context we've taken some profits So we took a little profits off this morning But nine points away actually seven points off the all-time high at 27,000 398 that was the high of the 16th, but at 27,000 391 we started a short position and we've added to that and one of the reasons is Within the context of yep, it's gone sideways. You can see on the left side chart. This is the Dow daily It's already just gone sideways within a 300 point range, but my thinking here is that if there is a close below 26,000 950 in other words we get back into the 26,900. I think we could start a Longer maybe not so deep but a longer time out so that we just have another week or two or maybe even three of Consolidating it could get worse But this is really my thinking that so many stocks are bumping up into resistance. It's really going to take a whole new a breakout to the upside to bring in more buyers and I think that if you look at The key stocks a lot of them They've had very very big moves in the six months or seven months that we've been since the beginning of the year So I think they kind of do for a rest, but here's what what I'm looking at within the Dow It'll be below seven 27,000 I put it at 27 Sorry 26,000 950 go below close below that you're already looking at a Consolidation that's been going on for over two weeks So that that'll be one of the things that I'm looking at a break above 27,000 420 says be careful now we could find more buyers I'm not sure how but that could be because of what the Fed says But if you're looking at what we have we've had Bank America from the 24s There's a technique that I talk about left side right side cup formation I'll show you right here. Look at this beautiful cup formation from the high that was made back on the 29th of April at 31 17. We've been right to 30 point ninety nine the other day So it's kind of fulfilled that test of the upside the monthly chart is starting to break out So slowly but surely you're getting some stocks in areas that have been underperforming holding very well You spoke about the dollar, you know, we've been long the dollar since April of 2018 Look at this beautiful cup formation 1937 was the high in the 23rd of May. They came all the way down to 95 84 And if you look at this the number of bars on the left from the 23rd of May to the low that was made in the 25th of June in 95 84 we came within in the last two days. We've come within 17 cents of getting to that left side high So this is another one of those beautiful patterns. I just want to show this for a second always like to look at patterns He has the arch formation He has the cup formation and the straight line move up or down and and this is the combination So these are the patterns that we look at all the time and you can see that we've got these cup formations for me You've got even in the monthly chart a cup and handle So you were talking about the dollar their levels to watch you're talking you were talking about gold gold has been acting very well So I agree. This is going to be very important for the dollar It's achieved everything on this particular phase of the move that I looked at getting into the 98s Maybe now starts another consolidation I can just tell you that if it starts if the dollar starts to get to the 98 88 Area or higher is I think it's going to go quickly to pass So this is the way I'm looking at it But most importantly is that the dollar index in the monthly chart has come within 17 or 18 cents There's the monthly on the right of making that leg D that we're always looking for in the Chapman wave, right? So this is a very important period. I agree. Then there's a stock that we've had is the the broker dealer III it is an ETF the I shares a US broker dealer and securities ETF We've had it from 60. It's gone to 66 62 also another nice gain and I'm anticipating that it's going to be pulling back It's gone to a peak E in the Chapman wave and then weekly chart is still very strong and the monthly chart is just starting to break out So I suspect that the 6463 should be the support that we have to look for if there is a pullback in the market But this is a an area that I'm looking at favorably for 2019 going into the end of the year and Also, I spoke to you some time ago about a stock PLD, which is is a symbol Prologous, it's in the reeds in recent. It's an industrial reeds and it's also done very nicely for us We started a position at 75 it did 84 and now it's trading at 82 There's another one of those cup formations So there's there's a lot of resistance coming up so I am anticipating that if there's any chance for the market to not break out because there's some hesitancy and I suspect the Fed is going to I didn't see how they caught they aren't forced to say we're going to be looking at the data We'd like to lower the rates by a quarter percent And then we'll see because it really is kind of a mixed performance overseas is one thing But here in the United States a lot of the reports have been good enough for them not to really raise rates So I suspect There's going to be some kind of a pullback and it's how the market deals with it and that's going to be very important I said by this time tomorrow 330 What 24 hours was it 24 hours later? Let's see what happens But we're prepared. We still trying to keep our long positions, but we've got as kind of a Insurance policy. We've got a shorter short the Dow will see how that works out But as I say the core position, I think we're going higher in 2019 So I'm trying we got in on June the 3rd I just don't see how it's going to go back to the lows of June the 3rd unless there's really bad news So I'd like to keep that position and then add to it on the pullback Maybe switch from the shorts to the longs So that's kind of the plan and there's no doubt, you know as Bowser's talking folks This is pretty amazing, you know, we're at all-time highs and the Fed hasn't Brought rates down at all-time highs No, it's the first I went through the track. This is first. Yeah, never. Yeah, listen folks jump over to our website at TFNN You're going to feature content hit the opening call right here right now. You have a great one safe one We look forward to show tomorrow


Classroom Seating Setups Classroom seating arrangements are just as paramount as any other in aspect of teaching and lesson management. An effective classroom seating arrangement or lack thereof can easily be the difference between an optimally performing class and a mediocre class. As a teacher, one needs to create a synergy between the chosen classroom setup and the teacher's style of teaching, the student's personalities, the classroom furniture and the classroom space itself. A host of factors influence the most effective classroom seating arrangements and some of which shall be discussed in this summary. It is also important to note is that some of these influential factors are so dynamic, may even change with every new day or new lesson, such that a teacher needs to remain flexible when it comes to accommodating new seating configurations.The configurations in which you organize the student's positions and that of yourself largely depends on but not limited to some of them factors. Classroom furniture The kind of classroom furniture greatly influences the kind of seating arrangements to be chosen. Shares and desks that come as separate singular units allowed for more and different seating configurations to be used. Possible attention diversions A teacher has to consider possible attention diversions, distractions when choosing a preferred seating arrangement. Finding ways of reducing possible distractions may enhance students' attentiveness and increase classroom productivity. 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Circles or shoes setups This configuration is best suited for student-to-student interaction and teacher-to-student interaction. This format is the one that strikes a fair balance between the teacher focused and the student focused style of teaching. Lessons that require discussions and presentations are the ones that mainly function well with this configuration. It is, however, difficult to control individual student behavior and enforce discipline with this layout. Separate tables group pods Seating arrangements where students are clustered into small groups promote student-to-student interaction. Students develop skills such as communication, problem solving and collaboration in this arrangement. Group seating arrangements offer safe and comfortable working spaces for students to explore tasks among themselves. 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According to statistics about 40 journalists and not central geopolitical zone of Nigeria have been selected from various broadcast and print media currently participating ongoing 3G training program budget tracking and investigative public expenditure. The chairman, board of trustees of the NGO, Isaac Balaji and other speakers noted that the cardinal objective of the training was to help entrench transparency accountability in governance in which must be championed by tasking Nigerian journalist and also scrutinizing tracking government budgets. Journalists and other participants at the workshops spoke about their expectations. Petition about journalists involved in the investigation of budgets is quite higher than what we're having now. You see, we have the freedom of information act. I know it's difficult, there are issues with them. But if journalists go the route of utilizing this act very well, they will be able to track budget down what they are doing. Just like someone said, there's a difference between budget reporting and budget tracking. We have situations where money are released for rules and the rules are never done, they're never constructed. Do you go back as journalists to find out why? Who took what? What was taken in the release? And why was it, why did the contrarian now return to... So we have to do a lot more on this. If you know they are made of money going into public projects in this country, they are huge. They are huge. That is why you see performing governors, seeing them delivering projects. You see they are commissioning this today, they are coming because they monitor themselves as governors. But when you see states that are not performing, when the rules are not done, all the infrastructure are not done, it's not that money are not voted. It's because there's high corruption in those states. As journalists, reporting budget is actually different from budget tracking. And I feel that this particular workshop is going to help me to learn how to track budgets. I think that this training is very relevant to me and the work that I do. So going forward with all the knowledge I'm going to take from here, I should be able to do my work better. I should be able to track budgets. I think this workshop will now be able to kind of empower us to track a budget because budget tracking, I think that should be the major thing. It's not just about reporting it. But with this kind of training, it will give you the tool and how to, it will give you a kind of a procedure on how to understand the step-by-step integrity of tracking budget.