I just have one goal, which is to make the most powerful Star Wars movie I possibly can The best shot at making something good is to come into it and trust my guts, you know Hey guys, I'm Scott all right and today we are talking all about how do we bring Star Wars fans back together? There's a bit of a bit of a split at the moment massive divide So what's gonna bring us all back together and back to loving that galaxy far far away? What do you think? So Star Wars a fan, and it's not in a great place at the moment Hold the size of the Grand Canyon.  Yes. I would be worried if everybody across the board was like, yeah, it's much more exciting to me when you get, you know a group of people who are like coming up to you and Really really excited about it. And then there are other people who walk out just I mean Literally saying that was the worst movie I've ever seen having those two extremes to me is, you know Is the mark of the type of movie that I want to make Obviously, you know fandom is plays a huge part in Star Wars and we kind of really want to get the band back together How how do you think, you know, we can do this? Well, how do you think Disney or Lucasfilm could do this? Well, they've kind of put themselves in a bit of a corner, haven't they? Yes Stuffed up a little bit. They're offering this new trilogy that nobody wants at this point because Ryan Johnson isn't at home so The big thing is the giant potato head man You do you get rid of Ryan Johnson in general or do you just keep making Star Wars films? I think I think that the core joy that we love about these movies is, you know, obviously We love these characters. We love the setting. We love, you know, we love that how built out this universe is We love there's so much to love in on in the you know on the screen And it seems like we're being really split apart by what's happening behind the scenes And so I think really it's around embracing, you know everything that we've loved so far and and but I guess that's on Lucasfilm the kind of how did we show that back to the fans? Yeah And I think For all the troubles I've had with you know, even like Rogue One had problems last year. I didn't I think had no problems really Yeah, yeah, but that's the end and so obviously yeah, yeah, which is so odd because like They they last year I was in the can months for release. Everyone was so happy and excited and ready to go for it Luke Schill was so happy and then fuck.  Look, I think they can listen to the fans and they can announce to the fans like straight up and just say on Lucasfilm.com or Luke Lucas Yeah, I'm on with that. Yeah, Star Wars.com. Whatever you want to call it either one and just say We've pooped Ryan Johnson's trilogy and I will be right on the internet as Saying that that trilogy was cancelled and I think that will bring back a lot of people just to say You know, howdy-doody here's my money back for Star Wars, but I think that's a little mean I'd like I think it's mean I think Like I get people had problems with it, right, but I I don't think Firing the guy is like gonna I don't know how what problems that solves like either He's he's the one writing and creating this new trilogy has got nothing to do with anything I've done before Like it's completely he's a talented filmmaker. I think It's got nothing to do with all the nostalgia and all the stuff that you love It's you know, it's gonna be potentially like these Spitoff movies where it's gonna explore new areas of Star Wars, which we've really enjoyed in the spin-off movies this world building I don't think Yeah, it surprised me that everyone wants him off because I think He's lined up to potentially live with something pretty cool. That's not gonna step on all your childhoods and everything You know sure well, okay Then if you don't get rid of Brian Johnson, then what do you do? You look at Brian Johnson and how he was put into the film and you look at all the other films They've also had this menacing person at the back and saying this is what you should be doing This is what you should be doing in Kathleen Kennedy. Yeah, and then the last did I didn't have that She didn't really step in and say anything was wrong. No, and that was the film that kind of everyone hated everyone Everyone loves Rogue one and she stepped in everyone loved I mean most people love solo right and she stepped in there and most people like the Force Awakens But the one she didn't do was the last night So maybe Kathleen Kennedy should she be looked at and maybe get kicked to the curb. I I maybe I'm just talking because I'm biased towards, you know, you look at her history Everything is done is like flaws right like and look and okay This is probably the first time she's running a studio Which is fine but she has enough experience and enough working with some of the biggest names in Hollywood to Like I don't think she is a problem. I think right. I think she potentially could get bored with the gig At some point which fair enough like you're looking after What is essentially such a huge now part of that Disney, you know IP? But it's you're only looking at one part You're probably not getting all those kind of different experiences potentially getting as a producer, but What do you think the answer is? I think I don't know. I think I'm always I'm very wary of like jumping on the stale to too much and I think that's what everyone I've get this feeling. That's what people want I mean a lot of people had a lot of issues with Force Awakens that it was too similar to you know a new hope or very repetitive and so I like it's a very hard balance to kind of kind of Fix or like to to figure out my opinion I I Say keep the course almost. I know that sounds really odd, but like I think if you There's there's a requirement that you have to acknowledge things or you know publicly declare that Ryan Johnson sucks and you will never touch anything and I think you kind of But I think I just stay the course I think the biggest problem they've had with last year and solo is The time between the two of them I think that really kind of is was it was it was hard for I guess fans who are so used to You know waiting years and years for a new Star Wars movie now my biggest problem is my biggest concern is that With Disney running it and they're all around you know stamping IP everywhere They can they're trying to get that get that you kind of lose that magic and that that's specialness of Star Wars So to me I think potentially pulling back a little bit maybe spreading things out I think that's kind of a way to kind of and I don't know if I bring fans But I think bring some of the magic back stars, and I think with the magic comes the fans I guess well They do have I mean they that one of the biggest answers as a fan for me to get me excited is Star Wars Galaxy Edge. Yes. I mean that for me opening that up in general Yeah, would get me pretty excited as a fan and and may reignite my fans. Oh, yes. I've lost it Not that I've lost I'm so excited about anything. Yeah Lucas can bring out but um But in fans in general the ones that are have a lot of hatred for Star Wars at the moment and and and what they're producing This could really answer that I feel I agree I think it's really that is ultimately the ultimate fanboy thing is living that universe right and to me part of I Think that the arc that they're trying to go with with last Jedi is that acceptance of anyone can be you don't have to Be a skywalk and be a Jedi right so I think that that arc of these characters kind of everyone be kind of coming here Ultimately leads itself into galaxy's edge where you are gonna you yourself are gonna be part of that that kind of journey But I agree. I think that's totally gonna Hopefully like bring everyone back really like excited and happy and waiting six-hour lines to go and rides and stuff But I mean Disneyland has done nothing wrong Anything that they've released that's been like a massive failure. You're going like Some of them may disagree with you, but generally I would agree with you Yeah, and I think I think yes, so that'll that'll put a really good spin on I think the animated series I think Dave Flynn he's done a really great job kind of leading those and so I'm quite excited about the new one I think that's yeah, I'm excited kind of see where that all goes So I think there's enough kind of coming in the pipelines as far as bringing the fans back together Yeah, it's a tough spot and if Ryan Johnson is truly the problem Okay, maybe you need to renounce him my guess But I think there's potentially deep problems. I can't see what they are But I think they're I don't know if that's the the kind of the answer Yeah, so what do you guys think what do you think can really bring back the magic and bring everyone back to Star Wars? Let us know in the comments below and until next time. I'm Scott. I'm right see nerds at the movies Someday this war is gonna end Not the Star Wars that will never end that will keep going forever You and me will go home someday


This is a display for the Bly KVM. No, it doesn't look like that in real life that scrolls because of the camera sync in case you're wondering. But it is attached to the KVM that we're using in this particular machine. You see it in here. And this is a little cord attached to it that gives me the display. But it is a KVM on a board that allows me to control a computer that doesn't have one. So a link to this company, I'm still working in a review, but we wanted to use it for a little while to do some reloads. And this is actually our lab system right here. And it's worked rather well as the system does not have IPMI or anything built in. But it's a fun little project. I've been playing with it and links in the description below. Review coming soon.


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So this isn't finished, I was expecting to have a bit more time to get the polished product done, so there's going to be a number of points in here that are like leading questions for you to go out and do your own research if there are things that sound appealing to you. It assumes a base level of infrastructure knowledge and Kubernetes concepts. The target audience for this was people running Kubernetes in production. And it is not a comprehensive guide to security on Kubernetes. It's just, I guess, a collection of ideas and things that people can do to improve their security posture and, you know, fix up any gaps that they might have in their own stacks. So start off with a picture of potato done. So it's tip one is going to stop the bots and this is primarily about using a web application firewall to kind of stop malicious traffic at the edge of your stack. So, you know, there are a ton of bots out there just running scripts and trying to hit known vulnerabilities for every framework and application out there. So these types of things can just denial of service your site when you hit by one of these bots just because it's hitting pages that are not cached and, you know, it's like computationally quite expensive. So the idea with a web application firewall is you can configure rules and when the traffic comes in the firewall checks or analyzes the request matches it against the rules that you have configured. And if it hits then it blocks the request before ever even comes to dribble. So that can save you a lot of traffic and a lot of compute. So one thing that I think, you know, most people should do is set up your waft to block common paths for other frameworks.  So those are all like, you know, you know, minimum level of configuration required and you'll get, I think quite a bit of value out of that. A lot of these waft products also have managed rules. So, you know, that is like the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities. So, you know, there are most of them have some feature that you can turn on. So that will, you know, monitor for like a known set of exploits, you know, CSRF, XSS and all those types of things. There's also not 100% sure on what the status of this is. So try to do some research. The blogs are quite old, but Drupal steward. So this came out after the remote code execution exploit last year, maybe the year before. The idea was that it's a commercially supported waft rule that, you know, when we have a big, you know, remote code exploit or something coming up in Drupal. Behind the scenes, these waft rules can be developed and automatically protect all the Drupal sites that have Drupal steward enabled. So that's something that is super exciting concept. I'd love to know where it's at. If anyone knows, please feel free to give them. Let me know at the end. These are just, there are a lot of waft products out there. They're usually the one that you're going to choose is tied to the content delivery network that you already use. So, previous next in Skipper, we're using AWS waft product. I have heard very good things about cloud flares waft product. There's a link there. I'll put these slides up later, but there's a link there to an excellent talk by Sean Hamlin at Drupal South camera. And he goes into some serious depth about very cool features and things that that product provides. And if you're on GCP, as a lot of Kubernetes users are that Google has its own waft product too. But I have not used that. It's meant to be text here. It's meant to say hydrobytes, hydro, no, hydro bits, hydrobytes. Okay. It's an old name server that checks out. So talking about all things encryption here. First off, the rank is encryption at rest. So this is talking about stuff that is stored on disk.  You want to protect your data and make sure that like they can't just run off with your, you know, database volume or stuff that's in your private file system or your backups. So there's a, if you're using S3 in any capacity, we use S3 for our backup storage. There's a few options. Service site encryption would be my recommendation. So this is just an option that you can enable on a bucket or like on a backup utility to send a specific header with the S3 API requests. And then just make sure that the stuff on disk at Amazon is encrypted with a KMS key. So the advantages of this is it's super easy to use. It's basically just a checkbox. You don't need to manage keys yourself. And it does give you, like from a SecOps perspective, like a pretty good level of protection. The cons are that it might not satisfy the security requirements of your organization.  Then you might have to go to the other option, which is client site encryption. So this is where your application is the one that's actually doing the encryption and then pushing the encrypted blog. To your S3 bucket. Yeah, so the pros of that it's flexible. It's portable. It doesn't have to just be S3. You can push it to Google or Azure's products. But the cons are that the key management is all up to you. And please don't roll your own crypto. That's never a good idea. Just a few links there to ideas you can have if you want to roll with any of that. At previous next and skipper, we're using elastic file system for our private and public storage. And that has, again, a checkbox that you can tick to have the volumes on, you know, the underlying instances encrypted. That's a good idea to check. And RDS has the same option to, again, checkbox and you're good to go. Okay, so now getting on to encryption in transit. So this is talking about TLS connections to protect data while it's going over the wire, unencrypted traffic. Someone can sit on the network and just monitor the traffic and, you know, if there's any sensitive data in there, take it and use it for nefarious purposes. There was a, many years ago now is a great example of some Firefox plugin, I think called fire sheet. And you could go to like a, an internet cafe or like a, you know, McDonald's and sit on their open Wi-Fi and just see all like these people logged into Facebook or Twitter and things like that. And it'll give you an option to just say, oh, hey, Nick Sanat is logged in on Twitter. Do you want to log in as him? And it would steal their session and you could post things as them. It was amazing. But anyway, if you've got encryption in transit, those types of attacks are mitigated. In Drupal land, we've got connections coming into the app from the outside. So those are your browser saying, hey, I want to request index.php. And the other type are Drupal making connections out. So in this context, we'll just cover ancillary services that are inside your cluster. So that might be Redis, Solar, Clamav, things like that. So we're running on Amazon RDS for our databases and this is a really neat little couple of lines and settings.php that will encrypt your database connection. So Drupal talking to your database, fully TLS. There's a blog post there where I go into more detail about how to set it up, how to add the keys to your container images or however else you run it. So that's a really low hanging piece of fruit that gives you just one extra pop that's encrypted. So, yeah, talking about the like incoming HTTP requests. So in a typical Kubernetes setup, this is kind of the bits that are encrypted or indicated with the ticks and the bits that are not encrypted or indicated with the cross. So this is not too bad. Like at the point at which your traffic hits traffic, it's inside the cluster. So at that point, you're only really worried about bad actors inside already the network perimeter. But, you know, if you're running untrusted code or, you know, there are people who I've lost audio. Yeah, similar to me. Where did he go? So yeah, so at the point at which the traffic hits traffic, it's already inside your cluster. But there are some instances where you might not fully trust everything in your cluster.  So completing that last little hop there is important for protecting your customer's data when they're submitting personal information or credit card details, things like that. It gets even worse when you look at when Drupal is then connecting out to other services for like your case or search or AV scanning. Typically none of those are encrypted, but they would potentially still be storing data that is sensitive and could be stolen or yet used otherwise by an attacker. So there's a few options here. I guess I'll go with the one on the right first. So do it yourself. TLS for that first for this like hop here where you're coming into Drupal. So you can set up an SSL certificate in front of Drupal here in that Drupal pod and have traffic connect over HTTPS. Now that's a quite a simple thing to do. It's essentially the same thing as setting up SSL on a static virtual private server like we used to do back in the day. But it only encrypts that one hop that traffic coming into Drupal. It doesn't manage or doesn't look after any of the other traffic then going out into your other services. The kind of the more holistic and robust solution would be a service mesh. So a service mesh is a description of a tool. There's a lot of products that do it, but essentially it that you can configure network policies and and have certificates deployed to containers that get attached to every single pod inside of your cluster. Then when Drupal is talking to Redis or to solar, it's not talking directly to the Redis pod. What it's doing is it's talking to its own little container that attached to itself. As a proxy and that proxy is talking to a proxy that's attached to the Redis pod. And so those two proxies talk over TLS so that over the wire connection is encrypted and then Redis and Drupal kind of don't even know that that's happening.  So the cons are so the pros are that that manages everything, you know, you can configure any network connection inside your cluster to use a service mesh. The cons are that there's, you know, obviously it's a quite a complicated system to set up and maintain. You do have additional latency added to your to your hot path, you know, you've got extra TCP hops, you've got encryption of overhead. And there is like a non negligible amount of additional compute resources that are running like all those proxies need CPU and need memory to be able to run. So that does kind of balloon out how many how many nodes you're going to need in your cluster to run. So these are some options for service matches out there. So Linkerd and Istio are probably the two most popular ones. Istio is a is deployed by default on GKE and Google and it is it's a behemoth. Linkerd is trying to go with the more like turnkey type solution. So that's definitely one that like I personally would look at over Istio just so I don't have to understand a huge project to make it work. These are the ones here like console and Kuma and Misha kind of newer on the scene and probably wouldn't be deploying them into your production cluster just because things moving pretty fast and, you know, yeah, they're basically still for all beta software. This is a excellent talk from the Kubernetes forum in Sydney from last year. And this guy is absolute gun and he goes into extreme depth and detail and all of those options and basically gives a breakdown of his recommendations for particular use cases in which service mesh to choose. All right, so on to the next topic. So this is a tool that's relatively new called open policy agent. So opa is like a policy engine that allows you to set up rules. And when a new object is created in the Kubernetes API, it validates those objects to make sure that they conform with your rule set. So cool things that you can do with this. And then you could ensure that images that your pods, you know, have defined in their spec only come from a specific registry.  You can ensure images are configured to run as non root users. You can ensure that that host names, like if you've got a team and they've got like a specific sub domain inside your corporate domain that they're allowed to run wild with. You can make sure that anytime they create an ingress that it is inside that domain space. Otherwise it could have people, you know, trying to create things where they shouldn't like, you know, maybe they can accidentally deploy www and sit on that with a dev site, something like that. And it is like a basically it's own true and complete programming system for these these policies. So it's just options are limitless in the types of rules that you can enforce. Now this type of thing is in my opinion is very important if your team is deploying with tool account, you know, where they can be quite free to basically run images from Docker hub and things like that. There is a there is a risk in in running images like that. So yeah, definitely want to be having some guard rails around what they can do. This is an example of a policy. So this is what I mentioned first. It's basically checking that the name of the image starts with holy.com as in trying to make sure that images are only like holy.com slash Drupal rather than Docker.io slash Drupal. Okay, the next one is runtime monitoring and anomaly detection. So this is a tool that monitors and what's called the like sys calls on Linux. So, you know, all the really low level stuff that the kernels doing is a tool called BPF which can check what's going on. So this is kind of again another policy engine where you can set up alerts for specific things that look kind of wrong.  If someone manages to put a crypto miner on disk and run it, you probably want to know. If someone manages to become root, probably want to know. Those are, you know, all examples of things that that that runtime monitoring can do and and there's stacks of other stuff. I'm not a real expert in this area, but yeah, definitely worth looking into. Skipper we're running Falco. So again, like all those things that I've mentioned are things that we're monitoring for. And I believe that aqua has a similar tool, there may be others as well, but again, I'm not a real expert in this area. Okay, getting on to some simple ones. Read only file systems. So this is essentially stopping contained like files in the container from being modified. So the benefits of this you can stop developers from, you know, jumping onto production and changing a file inside the container to fix the problem. When if they do that they'll get a message saying permission to mark tonight read only container. And this, if you're running read only containers, it really does defend against like many classes of attacks where an attacker can always trying to write a file to disk or change index dot PHP to then run arbitrary code. So they get it. If you got a read only file system, they can't do that and it's, it's just like, you know, again, not saying you shouldn't patch your Drupal site but if it gives you that a little bit extra time. And to, yeah, not have crypto miners been deployed on your infrastructure. This is an example of how you would define that in in your pod spec so you can do this.  Okay, a couple of things around images. So image vulnerability scanning is like a process that will scan your image files and identify like operating system dependencies that are vulnerable or your project dependencies that are vulnerable. And select these tools can be deployed in different ways. You can tell them to just scan everything inside your registry and identify things that are broken around a day. And you can also put them into your CI CD pipeline. So, you know, an interesting idea might be to have this at the end of your build process and if there are any vulnerabilities. Just to avoid deploying any vulnerable code. Two options there to do this. I believe there are others. Yeah, definitely worth looking into. Okay, and the next one is image signing and notaries. So this is an approach to defend against an attacker. Somehow managers to get access to your registry like they still credentials or something like that.  They just push a crypto miner to that. And, you know, when your Kubernetes cluster pulls that image, it doesn't know that it's meant to be Drupal it just goes images that cool runs and the crypto miners running instead of Drupal. So what this approach says is that when you build your image, you cryptographically sign it, and you send that signature to what's called a notary. And the notary remembers that and associates that with a specific image version. You then have Portieres running on your Kubernetes cluster and when Kubernetes pulls the image, it checksums the image tells the notary, hey, I've got this checksum doesn't match what you have. If it does, good. It runs it no problem. If it doesn't, it won't run the image. So that's just a, you know, defending against that particular factor. Cool. Now is it. Thank you. Any questions? Comments. Thanks, Nick. That was great. Yeah, I have a question. Well, I guess a comment when Drupal Stewart and I guess the there it is a bit contentious if like these large hosting companies are getting like firewall rules before.


30.1 and 30.2 in our packet where we are to reset you is that we have received staff reports council members have asked questions this would be the opportunity for anyone who is with us either online or present in the council chambers to speak to this matter either item 30.1 30.2 for up to three minutes anyone online miss bush okay no one with us wishes to comment on that alright matter is back before the council the chair would entertain a motion on first on item 30.1 and there are a series of recommendations on page 30.1.1 regarding receiving a presentation adopting a resolution authorizing city manager to allocate budget changes is there such a motion right here we go we have lots of motions around here I'll second it's a moving kind of council alright miss brown second by miss commentary johnson miss Watkins miss Watkins there we go alright so I am wondering if you might be kind enough to accept what I consider a friendly amendment only you can determine that which would add additional direction to the finance director and the city manager when they release the fiscal year 23-24 budget that they have a report on that document or supplementary to that document regarding sales tax collection remittance relative to street vending is that acceptable to you acceptable without objection debate or discussion on the motion seen and hearing none roll call please councilmember newson hi brown hi Watkins hi runer hi commentary johnson hi face maricolder hi and mariculee motion passes unanimous we'll get you some wd-40 for that next year's budget alright we are on the item 30.2 and on page 30.2 point one we have recommendation from the human resources folks who adopt a resolution regarding classification compensation and to adopt a resolution demanding the budget act to appropriate funds for various purposes enumerated in the item is there such a motion so moved by miss Watkins second by miss commentary johnson is there debate or discussion on this item seen and hearing none clerk will call the roll councilmember newson hi brown hi Watkins hi runer hi commentary johnson hi face maricolder hi and mariculee hi motion passes and so ordered out of an abundance of courtesy to our members of the public sir we are back on oral communication we welcome you to the microphone let's go three well usually we do two but you it's at night you're the only one left let's do three minutes three okay there you go see what happens oh it started okay first of all you're some of the best leaders in the nation truly I mean if you look at what happens in Santa Cruz we're doing some of the best things and doing things some of the best ways I'm trying to speak to the highest level of things I'm gonna say some words and the only point is if you resonate with these words you may naturally work on them um or sorry work on them you may not your heart may naturally work them out in the whole community there are some things that are kind of not working the homeless population some mental health things some aggressive kind of behaviors happening some which are horrible some which are don't physically affect others but are kind of aggressive I myself I bought a house ten years ago and I was young and I kind of stopped caring about other people and I want to really really make a point for anybody who's listening that was a mistake I was wrong we need to care about each other bad things happen so what I want to talk about is just a couple of words just for everybody who's listening care concern consolidation healing contentment happiness affordable housing for all affordable food for all happiness dignity and respect for all and I think that's all I'm asking for those things for you know from the powers that be can we put these things into motion for the whole community is that three minutes yet okay half a minute the question is how do we make these things happen consolidated harmonious solutions that take the whole into account we were all taught physics chemistry psychology art math etc etc etc the answers we need may be beyond all those things there may be something entirely we're not seeing beyond therapy beyond psychology beyond there's neuro linguistic programming there's now like somatic exercises and breath work a couple of sections there's something I think we're not seeing and that we're missing what it is I'm not the answer but perhaps collectively we have the answer to for our society and for our community thank you thank you very much for being here tonight thank you for your testimony thank you for your compliment that's very kind thank you for the generosity of your spirit tonight very much appreciated thank you sir happy Valentine's Day further business come before the council no no miss bush no well typically that's in order but yes miss golder has moved to adjourn is there a second oh let's see mr. Newsom seconds that I know that there's a lot of debate about it but it's not a debatable motion I favor signify by saying hi high post motion carries we stand adjourned


Another everyone and welcome Mrs. Melissa Armon. I'm here reviewing the spy. This was the play of the day today and It was a tough one, but it ended up working out and I'm seeing here how we closed We ended up closing near the low So in fact, let's just look here and if we're down at all tonight We're basically breakeven here tonight, but um, I think it's gonna be Tough for the market to get out from under this tomorrow morning. So I mean we didn't fall off a cliff today That's true, but in order to hold on here. Something would have to happen pretty big Otherwise the likelihood of us continuing to fall down in the next few days seems seems pretty high I mean again anything can change in this market. That's why it's just been so crazy But definitely not a place to go long wait until we get the confirmation and until then I mean expect more selling to come into I have to see where we gap tomorrow morning. We're not doing anything tonight Friday morning is a big day We'd have to significantly Significantly gap up Friday morning to move out from under this that could happen It definitely definitely could happen because the banks report they could move the whole market But right now there's so much turmoil with tariffs. I just can't see how we get out from under this and we've been stuck in this range So I'm gonna go over the two plays today. First one was a loss So the market rallied broke fell okay, then stopped and Then over here was a nice setup secondary setup this one went on to work So you could have gotten out of it here You could have stayed in it a little bit longer gotten a little bit more down It did move nicely in the afternoon It did break late and you know, this wasn't easy to do today The lesson from today is hold the conviction hold the conviction if you rate the gap and You know that it's good hold it. It doesn't mean you go after something 25 times in a day I mean, but taking a one retake isn't problematic Sometimes two preferably one. That's what we did here today with this and I held the conviction I had the direction of bias right you don't play gap fills and there were traders that went long this today We gap down and rally, but it was not along. It was a short I had a great call in the market and last week when I was on TV and people were asking me about The market I said the market is not shrugging off tariffs. Trust me when I say this I was right I made a great call in the market It was a gutsy thing to say because everyone was saying the market is that I just did the tariff situation the market has not Point of fact today. So the market has not we had this moved down today because of the news that came out on the $200 billion more in tariffs that the US is putting on China last night. We crashed last night We gap down this morning. We sold off today as a result of that the market is not shrugging off tariffs It doesn't like it. It's considered negative news and it's affecting a lot of companies Specifically companies that do business overseas in some of these countries Real companies like apple. So let's just quickly look here at apple See how that closed here today Oh, it's almost the same as the market. Look at that snuggles a bug in a rug And there you have it so Snuggles a little bed bug All right, so going back here to the spy. I made a great call I held my own conviction when I was on tv speaking. I'm very good at doing that Uh, you know, I'm extremely good at predicting price movement It's one of the reasons you'd come and pay me money to learn what I know I mean, that's the reason that you come and take the golden gap class You'd learn a system to make money trading in the market and you'd also Learn and get my knowledge base. I mean that is the reason to come and do my course So the next course is july 21st and 22nd. It's not this weekend, but the following weekend Watch this market. Please be careful if you're trading Um, if you're up money, I would really get out quick in this type of environment Let's just see here where we are Right here tonight. So loaded day was 276 52 All right All right. Good luck everyone. Good luck. Have a good week if you're interested in the golden gap course email me to sign up and Hold the conviction if you know what to do if you don't you got to get conviction You can't you can't make money in this market without conviction and you can't make money in this market without a good system You're going to need both you're going to be absolutely 100 percent both I've got that email me if you'd like more information melissa at the stocks wish.com We'll watch the market the next few days this week exciting times. Thanks everyone. Have a great night


The Mets are up, two runs on the Marlins in this game. It's the bottom of the ninth, so cue the trumpets because Edwin Diaz is coming in. He strikes out 52% of the batters he faces this year and this is a dominant performance from him. Steps in, looks at the catcher, hitter. Okay, I can do this, I can do this. No, you can't, they go, the three finger wiggle. So that's a slider and he throws that one nice little, like slight slide swings over, it was in the zone. Now they're gonna go outside fastball, doesn't quite get it outside because it's just too electric. Up and in the middle, fouled back. O2, they're gonna go back to the outside slider and that one has a real nice sweeping movement. That's out number one, strike, strike, strike. Next batter is a righty. So how do they attack him?  Now this slider is a little different than the others because it's got no sweep. It's really like just a spinning changeup. It doesn't do much, then fastball up top 100, top of the zone, back to the outside is my favorite pitch of the sequence and that is just like a slider. Again, not crazy movement, but just dotted and less.  Here are these two at bats side by side in the first one he was facing a righty and the next one he was facing a lefty. It didn't matter, he used the exact same sequence on both. Open them up outside slider, then on the O1 pitch came up high with the fastball. They got the swing and miss, then went back to the outside slider. Pretty cool, pretty exactly what he wanted to do. Here's both hitters on either sides of the plate, both pitches. Sliders to the far sides of the plate, fastball up to the middle and then slider far sides of the plate. But do you see the difference in the sliders? Like the one he threw to the righty sweeps away, the one he threw to the lefty is just kind of, like a changeup that doesn't move. I wonder how much he can control that or not control that or if it just, whatever happens, happens. Now he throws the fastball where he wants to throw the fastball and he gets a swing and a miss. It's kind of an ugly swing from Joey Wendell, but that's where he wants to throw that inside fastball. That's a tough pitch. So he goes back to it right away and gets the called strike, got the swing strike.  It was almost nine pitches, nine strikes, three strikeouts, but Joey Wendell fouls that one off. Oh my goodness, oh my God. O2, they're gonna go back to the slider and get some absolutely dominant performance by Edmund D. He's been doing it all year. But I do like how easy he made it, how dotted those pitches were, how the slider kind of swept when he needed it to and did it. And I like that he knew about the immaculate inning and then laughed about it and got it right at the end.  And if you got some pubes you need to mow down, then head to Manscaped, use discount code johnboy20. For 20% off you can get the lawn mower 4.0, electric trimmer, it's a Bush's worst nightmare. It's like a Marlins worst nightmare, as Edwin Diaz in the ninth with control. I do think that the Joey Wendellot bat at the end is where he actually put it together and threw all the pitches where he wanted to throw it. Like that's where he wants to throw out fastball. It's where he wants to throw out fastball. This is where he wants to throw that slider under the zone and this one is the perfect pitch. Good job by Edwin Diaz, absolutely electric.


Hello everyone. My name is Lina Mutlaksada. I'm a research associate at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. My talk is about the role of a specialist from masking, in predicting listening difficulty in children with central artery processing disorders. So artery processing disorder indicates difficulty processing sounds in the central artery nervous system. APD may be diagnosed to reported listening difficulty with reduced behavioral and cognitive function, but normal hearing, normal conventional audiogram. There is a legal agreement as to what qualifies as APD and LID, how they differ and which tests are appropriate for diagnosis and management. Recent work suggests that LID or APD is preliminarily dependent on cognitive, including listening problems. However, there is also evidence that a deficit in a spatial hearing and difficulty understanding the speech and noise may indicate a disorder of the central artery system. So this study aimed to isolate cognition from auditory contribution to spatial release from masking, which is one of the auditory abilities essential for auditory scene analysis and speech perception in noisy, multi-hoccer environments. So in this study we had 17 children with listening difficulty defined by either professional diagnosis of APD or parent's report of listening difficulty. We also had 18 typically developing children as a control group. Participants were 8 to 17 years old and mean age was 11.4 years old, 63% of them were male. We did standard and extended high frequency audiometry. As you can see, both groups had normal hearing at a standard frequency range and only few of them had extended high frequency hearing loss. We also compared speech reception thresholds on two tasks. A special advantage measure of the listeners, which is speech sentencing noise test, listeners had four conditions. For the purpose of this presentation, we only talk about these two conditions, a co-located condition known as low-queue both target and maskers are presented from front speakers, also known as a head condition, talker and target and masker coming from zero azimus. And then we have a spatial advantage condition in which target is spatially separated from the masker. Maskers are located at plus and minus 90 azimus. For the sound field digital noise test, we have similar condition, a head condition in which both digits and multi-talker bubble coming from front speaker and then side condition or spatially separated condition that maskers are spatially separated from target. They are presented at minus and plus 90 degrees azimus. So as you probably know, sound field digital noise or digital noise test is much easier or cognitively less demanding compared to listeners, which has a sentence in noise test. So for digital noise, we have sequence of three digits, zero to nine presented against multi-talker bubble noise. And digits, sequence of three digits and presented in random order make the test a lot easier than listeners, low-queue and spatial advantage tasks. So here we have results. Both LID and TD groups had better speech reception thresholds on both tasks when the noise was spatially separated. So this is showing sound field digital noise speech reception threshold. As you can see, 90 condition had a lot better speech reception threshold.  And then here when we go from low-queue to spatial advantage from a co-located condition to a spatially separated condition, the CS scores drastically improve. Despite similar performance at co-located condition in sound field digital noise test, LID children had significantly poorer speech reception threshold than TD children at spatially separated condition, at 90 condition. And this results in significantly poorer spatial release from masking for the digital noise test. However, SRM or condition in listeners task or spatial advantage measure of listeners was not significantly different between the two groups, LID and TD groups. So overall, this is showing that children with LID had significantly poorer ability to differentiate target from background noise when the task was less demanding, was much easier. So digital noise test compared to the listeners. It's worth mentioning that there was significant correlation between sound field digital noise SRM and listeners spatial advantage. So this task was significantly correlated. However, listeners spatial advantage was not significantly, the score was not significantly different across groups. So to wrap up, as I just mentioned, sound field digital noise was more sensitive to LID than listeners. So the task was less cognitively demanding and I was measuring the ability like bottom up auditory perception. And a related difference in SRM between LID and TD groups on both tasks provides a long sound evidence that brain mechanisms prelimarily serving bottom up auditory perception may contribute to listening difficulties in children with APD. So thanks for listening. I'm happy to answer your questions.


Okay, welcome back everyone to our second lecture of BC213 on the end times. We are just giving an introduction to the course and why it is important to study the end times and how we are going to, what is our approach going to be in studying the end times. Any questions so far from anybody? Any thoughts, any questions? Everybody's okay? All right. Okay, thank you. All right, so let's move forward and feel free to ask your questions anytime. So in our approach to studying the end times, the third thing that we want to mention is that we are open yet uncompromising, meaning we are aware that there are various positions in interpreting Bible prophecy and I will explain some of these terms. We are aware that people may interpret Bible prophecy in different ways and the reason that there are so many different interpretations is one having to do with the timing of things because the Bible doesn't give us a said date and time like it doesn't say in the year 2050 this will happen and in the year 2075 this will happen. It doesn't give us dates, right? So therefore when it comes to timing, there are, you know, we can't be hard and fast about it and therefore there are people who position things differently. So when it comes to timing, there is difference and we are aware of that and we are open to listening to what other people have to say and thinking through on it and hopefully before I have thought through on it and I will share with you reasons for why we position certain things the way we do and of course we are always open to listening to how others think through on it and secondly, like we said, when it comes to figurative language in Bible prophecy again, there can be variation and interpretation of figurative language but the rule that we always follow is interpret scripture with scripture. Don't try to interpret scripture by going out of scripture, right? Interpret scripture within scripture. Like if we are going to look at certain things outside, it's okay.  You know, stay within that. So like I gave you an example where, you know, in Revelation 12, it was talking about the sun, the moon, the 12 stars and the woman. Instead of, you know, in that same chapter, all of that is interpreted for us but if we don't stay with that and then we go outside of it and start looking at, you know, space and stars and astronomy then we can get into all kinds of weird interpretations, right? So that's another reason why there are differences in interpretations. One is having to do with timing. Second is having to interpret these, the figurative language or things that are given to us not in certain terms but more in figures. Therefore, there are differences. Now, very broadly speaking, when it comes to timing, we have these four, you know, generally speaking, broad categories of positions in interpreting Bible's prophecy and we will explain each one. There is dispensational pre-millennialism. There is historical pre-millennialism and there is post-millennialism and there is a-millennialism. So these four broad positions and we will put it in a little picture so you will understand it. And in or among these pre-millennialists, you have the pre-tribulation, the mid-tribulation and post-tribulation. Now, some of the meanings you can get it from the word itself, right? Pre-millennial. So pre means before. Millennial is the thousand years. So when we say pre-millennial, that means you're saying before the millennium. And this has to do with primarily when people believe Christ will return. So when somebody says they are pre-millennialists, that means they are saying they believe Christ will return pre, that is before millennium, meaning the millennium. So when somebody says I'm a pre-millennialist, they are saying Jesus will return before the millennium. If somebody says post-millennialism, that means they are saying Christ will return post, that is after millennium is the thousand years. So post-millennial means Christ will return after the thousand years. Now, within the pre-millennialists, there is the dispensational and there is the historical. And this has to do with where you position the pre-millennial return of Christ, before the tribulation or after the tribulation. So both are saying Christ will return before the millennium. So both are pre-millennialists. But where will Christ return before the tribulation or after the tribulation? So dispensational pre-millennialism says these people will position the return of Christ. Of course, pre-millennialists before the millennium, but they will position it before the tribulation. So they are pre-tribulation. Historical pre-millennialism means, it's called historical because this was what was believed by the early church. When I say early church, I'm not talking about the first sanctuary church, but I'm talking about the church fathers, meaning the second, third centuries. So that's what's called historical pre-millennialism. And they positioned it post-trib. That means Christ will return before the millennium, but after the tribulation. So they are called historical pre-millennials. Post-millennialism means Christ will return after the millennium. That means a thousand years will go and then Christ will return. And then a-millennials, they don't believe in the millennium being a literal millennium. They just believe that it's happening in a spiritual sense. So that is explained here in the notes, which I've shared with you. Dispensational pre-millennialism, historical pre-millennialism, post-millennialism and a-millennialism. And if you want to look at it in a chart, like a chart, and we will be referencing this chart, we will use it. But look at it here. So this is the millennium, meaning the thousand year reign of Christ. A thousand years. The Bible talks about a thousand years, Jesus ruling and reigning for a thousand years. That's given to us in Revelation chapter 20 and verse 4 through 6. So Jesus will rule and reign for a thousand years, the Bible says. But now, so that's called the millennium. But now, the... So pre-millennialism means before the millennium. So let's say we are in the church age. We are right here now. Some are here, close to the end of the church age. Now the dispensational pre-millennialism believe that Jesus will come here. He will come before the seven years of tribulation. So the Bible talks about seven years of tribulation. We will show it from Scripture. They believe that Christ will come here. Historical pre-millennialism, they believe Christ will come before the millennium, but at the end of the seven years tribulation. So they are basically what people refer to as post-tribulation. There are some people who believe in a mid-tribulation rapture or Christ coming or take for the church a mid-tribulation. That's primarily because of Revelation 14 where it talks about the 144,000 Jewish believers who were found taken up into heaven and they are referred to as the first fruits. So there's an explanation for it why they believe that. So there are those who believe in the mid-tribulation. The post-millennialism, they believe Christ will return once for all at the end of the millennium. And during the thousand years it says reign through the church on the earth. A millennium, they don't believe in all this. They believe that Christ is currently ruling and reigning through the church and we are in the millennium, so on. So they are millennialists. So these are various positions people take and have taken and depending on different books that you might read, you will find people taking these kinds of positions and they will try to explain why they take that position, so on. Now the position that we take as a church and that I would be taking in this course is a dispensational pre-millennialism which is a pre-tribulation rapture of the church. So that's the position we will take. But like I said, we are open, we are aware that there are other positions and we will try to maybe explain why do these people say a mid-tribulation, why do these people say end of tribulation, etc. We will mention those things along. And if you're interested, you can always research that, that the position we will be taking in this course and you're free to disagree or whatever. I'm not saying if you don't agree with this, you will fail the course. That's not what I'm saying. We will be giving you reasons from Scripture as to disposition, the pre-tribulation rapture of the church and what is referred to as the dispensational pre-millennialism. Now if you want to hold on to another position, you're perfectly fine. As long as you're convinced and you see reason for it, that's fine. But we will be giving reasons here for this and explaining this why we take this position. And we'll come back to this figure from time to time as we talk about the very sequence of events that are going to take place. So like I said, we're going to give room for variations. That means, yeah, we're fine. We understand there are people who might see things differently and we're not going to fight about it. We will listen and we will also have an explanation to the reason we take or for the position that we take and we will explain it the best we can. Number four, the fourth approach that we will talk about in studying the end times as we try to look at a complete view of Scripture. So especially when you're reading the book of Revelation, if you understand that, hey, other people have spoken about things. Daniel throughout his book, Daniel has said so much about the end times. Then Zechariah has spoken and Joel has spoken and so many others in the Old Testament have spoken. And so if you want to understand the book of Revelation, it's good to know what has been written in other places in Scripture. And the Apostle Paul wrote first Thessalonians and second Thessalonians and Corinthians. The Lord Jesus spoke about it in Matthew 24.  So in our study of the end times, we don't want to take one chapter in isolation or a few verses in isolation. No, everything has to be interpreted with the light of the rest of Scripture. What else does Scripture say? So along, put it all together and then interpret. Number five, like I was saying, the Old Testament is explained in the New Testament. So there are many Old Testament prophecies. And as we progress through the New Testament, we begin to better understand what was spoken of even in the Old Testament. And number six, we will use Biblical typology. And I think I've been explaining this all along, that when we are trying to interpret figurative language and prophecy, we will use the Scriptures itself to interpret them. And I mentioned the example of what was mentioned in Revelation 17 verse 1 and verse 15. Number seven, when they're interpreting Scripture, we will recognize there are different time frames. That means when a prophet is speaking or when a prophet is writing, when there's a prophetic release of Scripture, time frame can change within a given prophecy. Time can change. So classic examples would be Isaiah chapter 9 verse 6 and 7, where Isaiah says unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon his shoulder. And to his rule and reign there will be no end, to the increase of his government there will be no end. So it is given to us as one verse, or Isaiah 9, 6 and 7. I'm just turning there my Bible so I make sure I can quote it properly. Yeah, of the increase of his government peace there will be no end. So he says Isaiah 9, 6, unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given. So that took place in Bethlehem 2000 years ago. In that same verse he says, and the government will be upon his shoulder. That is yet to be fulfilled. That is out in the future. It will happen in Revelation 20 verse 4. It will happen when Christ comes and he sits in rules from Jerusalem. So within one verse, Isaiah 9, 6, in that one verse is a gap of more than 2000 years. Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given. That took place in Bethlehem already fulfilled. The government will be upon his shoulder. That is still in the future. Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end. Upon the throne of David and over his kingdom. That means he's going to sit on the throne of David. Ruling from Jerusalem. That is in the future. So in one single prophetic utterance, there is a time frame of more than 2000 years. So he's changing. He's jumping across time in one sentence. This is happening. This is going to happen. This is going to happen. It's in one sentence, but in one sentence he's jumping time more than 2000 years. So the jump could be forward or the jump could be backward. For example, in Isaiah 65, 17 to 25, the jump is backward because he starts off by saying there are new heavens and the new earth. And then he jumps backward 1000 years and he's talking about the millennium, life in the millennium.  They will build houses and they will plant vineyards. Oh, that is not happening in new heavens and the new earth. That's happening in the millennium. The lion will lie down with the lamp and people will beat their swords into plowshares. That's the millennium. So in Isaiah 65, 17 to 25, he starts off by talking about the new heavens and the new earth, which is described for us in Revelation 21 and 22. But then he jumps back 1000 years and starts talking about life in the millennium. Okay, so you have to recognize time frame. Okay, what's he talking about? And how can I understand time frame? Well, I have to interpret it in the light of rest of scripture, right? That, oh yeah, the scripture is saying that the government, Jesus will sit upon the throne of David, but that's going to happen in the future, right? And or things, you know, if we talk about the new heavens and new earth, yeah, it's going to happen in the future. Peter wrote about it, 2 Peter 3, the book of Revelation talks about it. And so therefore I need to understand Isaiah's prophecy, along with what Peter wrote and along with what John wrote in Revelation. So then I understand that he's actually jumping back in time 1000 years, describing life in the millennium. And then in a select, so we understand that. Are you all with me so far? Okay, let me just finish a few more points and then we will take time for questions. Number eight, our third guideline in interpreting scripture is to recognize dual, near and far fulfillment. That means, again, a prophetic scripture. Sometimes there is the near and the immediate fulfillment and then there is the future fulfillment. So example, Ezekiel, right? When Ezekiel is prophesying, this is around the time when Israel was in captivity in Babylon. We know that they were in captivity for 70 years and during Isaiah foretold that Jeremiah announced it and Ezekiel and Daniel lived through that. And of course Jeremiah lived through parts of it. Now Ezekiel is prophesying about the re-gathering of Israel. So there is a near fulfillment, which means it happened then. That means at the end of the 70 years, the Jewish people were permitted to go back to their own land. So there was a near fulfillment, but there is also an end time fulfillment. So Israel was re-gathered together as a nation. In 1948, they became an official nation in their own land. So there is both a near and a distant, far fulfillment of the re-gathering of the nation. The reason this is significant is because then in Ezekiel 38, he starts prophesying about Russia. He talks about how Russia, the people from the land of Gog and Magog, we will explain this. They look at a nation that has settled in their own land. They're living peacefully and they say, I will go and attack them. Which is a future fulfillment, you know, Ezekiel 38. Talking about how this kingdom from the north referring to Russia, because if you look at Moscow, Moscow is directly north of Jerusalem in the map. And Ezekiel prophesied, Ezekiel 38, he mentions the tribes which are actually part of Russia. And so he says, this people will look at this and people who have been brought back to their own land or living peacefully in their own land that was fulfilled in the sense that Israel was re-gathered as a nation. They became a nation in 1948. And then you have, you're looking into the future on how the king from the north will attack Russia, will attack Israel. So there is a near fulfillment, which means in Ezekiel's time, the Jews were permitted to go back to their own nation. But there's a far fulfillment, meaning after more than 2000 years, they were re-gathered, all the dispersed, I mean the nation that was dispersed that didn't exist was re-gathered as a nation. And they became a nation in 1948. And we have to look at their journey from the north. So understand there's a near and a far fulfillment in certain cases. We also are open to unexpected ways. That means, you know, right, we may not even realize, but God will set it up and cause the Word of God to be fulfilled. So how exactly it's going to happen, we will be open to it. For example, Revelation 13 says that the antique, the beast, there is the beast. There is the false prophet. There is a second beast. There is the dragon. The dragon represents Satan. The beast represents the Antichrist. And there's a false prophet who, let me see, is a leader who has become a religious leader. Now they are working together. In Revelation 13, they establish a financial system where nobody can buy your cell except they have the mark of the beast. And the mark of the beast is either on their forehead or on their hand. And the mark is 666. You cannot buy your cell unless you have this mark. So we don't know exactly how this is going to be fulfilled. You know, we have many possibilities.  You cannot buy your cell unless you have the credit card. And so that's the mark of the beast. Then we said, no, no, no, you know, then now you can have chip implants in your body. And maybe the chip implants will carry the mark of the beast, you know, they'll put it in your forehead or on your hand. And only then you can buy and sell.  They can identify you and that is then connected to your bank accounts and you buy and sell through those kind of mechanisms. So we don't know how it's going to exactly be fulfilled. But the Bible says that people are going to be engaging in a global financial system. They cannot buy your cell unless they have this mark. And there are many options today on how that could actually be fulfilled many, many ways, you know, and so we just be open. We don't have to pick one way, you know, something, there are so many ways in which that can pro-Revelation 13 can actually be fulfilled today. But there are so many options just remain open. However, it's going to happen. It's okay. And number 10, we acknowledge that our understanding of certain end-time prophecies is not 100% certain, you know. It's not 100%, but we can do our best study of a best understanding and then say that this is most likely. For example, I'll just give you an example, you know, Daniel prophesied. And this is beautiful to see, you know, Daniel chapter 8, chapter 9 when you study Daniel, he prophesied. He talked about the coming world empires. So he talked about, of course, he talked about the Babylonian Empire. He talked about the Medes. He talked about the Persians. And then he spoke about the Greek Empire. So that was out in the future, you know, so Daniel was living at that time, you know, he lived during the Babylonian. He spoke ahead of time. He spoke about the next world empire. He prophesied about the Medes. He prophesied about the Persians. He also prophesied about the Greek Empire. Now, he never lived to see that, but we can read it and we can say it was fulfilled just the way Daniel prophesied. One of the things that happened was Daniel said the Greek Empire, the leader of that Greek Empire would be very young, very strong, very powerful. You can read this in Daniel 8 and you will look at it. We will look at it next year, but I'm just giving you a summary. And this young ruler will be very strong, very powerful. He will expand his kingdom, but suddenly he'll be cut off in his youth. He'll die here. And then his kingdom will be divided into four, four portions. There will be four horns or four leaders who will take care of, take over four portions of his kingdom. And from one of those four portions will come the Antichrist. So who was Daniel speaking of? He was speaking of Alexander the Great. He was the Greek leader who grew his empire very fast, very strong, but he died when he was very young. And when Alexander the Great died, his Greek Empire was taken over by four of his generals. So that big Greek Empire was broken down into four portions and four of his emperors took over four. So part of it was Syria, Greek, Greece, so modern country, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Turkey. Four of his things was broken down. And then he says, from one of these four will come the Antichrist. So when you look at that empire today, of course, it's very broad, very broadly speaking. I'm not saying very precise. You can say, okay, it was broken in these four areas, Greece, Syria, Turkey, Egypt. And then he points and says, from one of these four comes the Antichrist. So most likely from one of these four areas will come a leader who's going to be strong. And so we're not saying very definite, but based on what we read in Daniel's prophecies, based on what actually has taken place in history. Now remember, you know, when the Greek Empire was broke, when Alexander the Great, his empire was broken into four portions. They were roughly covered rough parts of Europe and then across the Mediterranean. So we're generally saying it could be from one of these areas where the Antichrist will come. And so we look, okay, this is what's happening. Daniel prophesied about it.  There are many countries that are part of the former empire. So we have some idea based on what Daniel spoke about, but we're not 100% sure. So we don't want to be very hard and fast on that. So please, this is an example where, okay, we are open. We understand what Daniel prophesied. We understand how it has been fulfilled and we know where to look for. But we don't want to point our finger at some person and say he is or he could become the Antichrist. We don't want to do that. Okay, let me just make two points here and then I'll take questions. So in all of our study of the end times, we don't want some things that we don't subscribe to. For example, two things would be one is there is there is one position or there are two positions in this whole study of the end times, which we just don't agree with because we see that it's not correct. One is pre-terrorism. This belief is that everything was already fulfilled in the first century. Okay, now that's kind of weird. But there is some teaching along those lines that everything was already fulfilled within the first 100 years. Now it is absurd. How can, you know, 1,000 years be fulfilled within the first 100 years and all of those things. But that's one position of obviously it's not it's absurd. So we don't subscribe to it. Then there is another position which is prevalent today. It is often referred to as dominion theology. You may have heard about it or maybe it's not, you know, people don't speak about it too much. But what this theology says is that the church must take over all the nations, control all the nations and usher in the coming of Christ. So it puts the responsibility on the church to govern the nations. Well, actually we don't we don't subscribe to it because it is actually Christ who's going to come and defeat the antichrist. And Christ is going to give the kingdoms of the earth to the church to rule and govern. It's not the other way, right? It's very clear, Revelation 19, it's Christ who comes riding on the white horse who overthrows the antichrist. And Daniel chapter seven is very clear. It is he Christ who gives the nations to his saints to govern. Whereas dominion theology puts it the other way. They say we have to take over the world and then Christ will come and rule. No, the scriptures tell us differently. So that's why we don't subscribe to these two things. But you know, I just want you to be aware that there are these kinds of interpretations of end time scriptures. But for us, we just say, look, that's completely wrong. That's not what the Bible says. Okay. So let me pause here. I think it must be a lot of information for you today. Are you all with me? You're okay or following any questions? First in that chart, which we saw a little earlier talking about the Millennials segmentation. Is there also a war of Gorgon may go towards the end because I'm not sure you saw that in that chart. Yeah. So we have not. So in the chart, we haven't put all the details that would happen. So there are two times Gorgon may go are referenced and which we can position in the chart. One is towards the end of the triple seven year tribulation. Another is towards the end of the millennium to the end of the seven year tribulation. And it is is equal to 38 where the Gorgon may go from the North. See a nation that is living at peace. And they say they're going to go into attack. Basically Russia coming into attack Israel. And then is equal chapters 38 and 39. It says rush is rebel push Russia back. They defeated. They'll be pushed back. Then they will regroup and they will come again. But this time they will be assisted by other Arab nations. And he mentions many of the Arab nations who will assist and they will all come against Israel. So that's as equal chapters 38 and 39. One time we have Gorgon may go but that is positioned at the end of the tribulation towards the end of the seven year tribulation before the coming of Christ to establish his kingdom on the earth. The second time Gorgon may go is mentioned is at the end of the millennium. That is Satan is bound for 1000 years during the millennium. He's away from the planet. And at the end of the 1000 years he's released for a brief period of time. And this is Revelation chapter 20. And at that time he goes and he deceives the nations once again. And it is stated there that he is able to get Gorgon and may Gorgon to join him. So this is again talking about a people whom Satan has deceived and he will go against the place. He'll go against Christ himself who is ruling from Jerusalem. So that's the second time it's mentioned. But in a different context. It is mentioned in the context when Satan is released at the end of the 1000 years. Given a brief chance to deceive the nations. So we see Gorgon may go mentioned twice. Now we haven't shown it in the chart because it's a finer detail. But hopefully that answers your question. Yes, thank you. Any other questions on what we've covered so far? It's a lot of information, but just feel free. I see Zafina's comment here. There's a lot of information here. Any other questions? Okay. So what we are, I think we will pause here for today. Next week we will start off by just establishing that the Bible is a prophetic book. Meaning we will look at some prophecies that were already fulfilled. Just to say that look, the Bible has a very good track record where prophecies that were given were fulfilled. So when we read prophecies about the future, we can have complete confidence that these things will be fulfilled. Because you look back, there's so many prophecies in the Bible that were fulfilled. Just came to pass. When it seemed impossible, came to pass. Therefore when we look at prophecy into the future, it may seem impossible, but everything God has spoken will be fulfilled. The only thing is for us to try to understand what has been given, what has been said. Then we can look at what is happening in the world and connect it back to Scripture and say, oh yeah, this is what the Bible has already spoken. Then these are the things that will happen. So we will establish that. Then we'll get into, after that we'll get into a sequence of events. Starting from where we are today, the church age, what is the sequence of events. And as we go along, we'll explain. We'll get into the details. We'll explain what is going to happen. Okay. Let's close in prayer. I don't want to overload you. Take some time to just go back over the notes and just review it. Feel free to ask questions. Any doubts, just feel free. Let's try to understand this subject very well. Once you study this and then next year when we look at everything worse by worse, you'll find out that it's all there. You can understand it and the meaning is all there. It's not very difficult to understand Bible prophecy. Could somebody please close in prayer and we will dismiss after that. Father we pray and we would be able to grasp everything that you have written in your Scriptures. And we will be able to understand it here. It's fullness. We pray O God that it would benefit our personal life and also our congregation that you have given us. We pray O God that we would prepare ourselves for your coming and understand your word better Lord Jesus. Thank you for this class and thank you for Pastor sharing this word in depth for us to understand God. He praise your holy name in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Thank you everyone. Have a good break and we can prepare for your next class. I'll see you again next week. Thank you. Bye now. Thank you everyone. God bless you. See you again. Bye now. Thank you.


Hello people and welcome back to the channel. Today we are filming a video that has been highly requested. So much so that I've been nervous to make it. But that's okay because we are drafting our own pant pattern. So I'm going to go ahead and throw it out there that you never get it right on the first time. Disclaimer, yes this is how to draft your own pant pattern but we will have to make adjustments. You kind of always do based on your body type and measurements. What works for 2D doesn't always work for 3D but I'm excited to help you guys get there. So first there are a few things that you'll need and that's pattern paper or some kind of see-through tracing paper. If it's not see-through that's not a deal breaker. It's just easier. Next you'll need a measuring tape, some kind of long ruler. I mean 12 inches is fine but if you have a longer ruler that'd be awesome. Of course a pencil because we don't do nothing in marker here and then also optional a hip ruler. So I'll be doing everything in pencil and then outlining it with Sharpie so you guys can see what is going on. And now to get started there are some measurements you need to take. So first we'll start with our horizontal measurement. So you'll need your waist measurement which looks like this. Next you'll need your hip measurement which looks like this. To know what your hip normally sits at and I said this in my last video as well but right in the middle of like one butt cheek in the middle of that cheek is most likely where your hip is. It's just the widest part of your lower half. So go ahead and take down that measurement. You'll also need your thigh measurement, your knee measurement and your ankle measurement. So we do thigh knee and ankle just in case you want to do a slimmer fit pant or skinny jean versus a straight leg pant. Today we'll be doing more of a form fitting pant but if you want to do more of a straight leg pant all you have to do is take your thigh measurement and bring that all the way down. Slimming down just a little at the ankle. All right next we'll do some vertical measurements and that's from where you measured your waist to where you measured your hip. So waist to hip measurement which looks like this. Then you'll need your crotch depth which technically is like waist to crotch but how you get that is that you sit in a chair and you measure from your waist down to the bottom of your butt. That is your crotch depth measurement that we'll need. Next you'll measure down waist to thigh. Then also waist to knee and then waist to ankle and a pro tip for getting those last two is to use a mirror a full body mirror so that way you don't have to bend down and mess up the measurement by bending down. You can just put it at your waist, let the measurement tape hang, stand by a mirror and collect those measurements. So once you have all those measurements we are ready to start drafting. All right guys you just started drafting your pattern already have some things marked out but we'll go over them. What you want to do first is mark a straight line down your pattern. Be sure to do this in some because we will be adding seam allowance etc. So go ahead and draw a straight line and I'm doing this in sharpie so you guys will see it hopefully. And from this line we'll start adding measurements. So after you draw your straight line what you're going to do is go ahead and square off the top line. This will now be your waistline and you can mark it as such. And then now we'll be using our vertical measurements. So the pant I'm making today is for a friend. I'm going to go ahead and use the measurements I got for them. So you want to do your waist to hip measurement which for me is going to be eight inches down. Go down eight inches draw a little tick and then from there draw a straight line. This is why having a long ruler can be beneficial so you don't have to keep going keep inching the ruler forward as you draw. And then go ahead and mark that as your hip line. And then you want to take your crotch depth or like waist the crotch measurement and get that mine sits an inch below the hip line. So I'm going to go ahead and draw that straight line as well. And this is now your crotch line CL. And then you'll take your waist to thigh knee and ankle. Cool. So now we're going to start with actually our hip measurement. So take your hip measurement and divide it by four. For my person their hip measurement was 37. So divided by four that is nine and one fourth inches which is right here. And what you're going to want to do is also mark that measurement on your waistline. So we'll go up mark that here as well. So now you'll take your waist measurement and divide that by four as well. Her waist measurement was 28 divided by four that's seven. So what you'll do is take your ruler and from this point go this way and measure out seven. So for me that looks like this. And then also two we're going to want to add in. So let me go ahead. So you'll want to because you'll be doing this in pencil it'll be better for you. So what you'll do is mark that seven. But then what we're going to do is add an inch for the dart and that's going to be our new measurement. After you add an inch to your waist measurement that is your new position. And now we can connect the waistline to the hip line. I also want to jump in here really quick and let you guys know that I am actually using or the way I found out how to do this was from a video that I'll link down below. She has a really good technique for making a pant pattern which is really nice. But when I first did this video there was a lot I had to correct. So I'll be doing it a little differently than her but her video is amazing and that's what I'm getting all this information from as well. So if you don't understand the way I'm saying it feel free to check out her video as well because I think she did an excellent job though you'll definitely have to like adjust some fit issues after you create it. But hopefully with the new way I'm doing it for you guys you won't have to do that. So now we're going to focus on the crotch point but before we do that what you're going to want to do and you can do this in the beginning as well. I just kind of forgot to what you'll want to do is connect these two marks all the way down to the crotch line. And then next what we're going to do is take our hip measurement and divide it by four and basically with that new measurement what you're going to do is from your crotch line where this line meets you're going to go out that much. So for me that's 2.3 so it's going to be a little bit over 2 for me. So I'm going to go ahead and mark that out and what we're going to do is connect this point up to this line but you want to be sure you don't go too deep in so you have enough space and for my fellas as well like I would even go out yeah I would take that line out a half an inch more if you are male. So to connect this line you want to make sure you don't go deeper than from this point out you want to make sure you don't go deeper than an inch and a half so go ahead and mark that and then you can just start to free hand connect it up to the straight line too low perfect So once you have your crotch point what you want to do is take your ruler and find the midpoint of this the center of the crotch line so for me this is 11 and a half inches so the center would be 5 and a half I'll go ahead and mark that with my pencil first and then basically now what you want to do the whole way down is mark your center point on your trousers so you just want to make sure this line is straight you can even like square up your line with your ruler but we're going to draw this straight line all the way down So now your whole pattern should look something like this from your ankle line up you should just have a straight line that shows the center of your pattern which is how it will work and then now we'll add in the inch dart that we already put in but now we'll put it in place so now we have our center line of our pattern we can add in our dart the average dart goes down about four inches for me personally I like to do four and a half I feel like it gives you a nicer hug onto the body it's what I use for my personal pant pattern so I'm going to mark four and a half on my center front line and then also from the center I'm going to go ahead and mark an inch or half an inch on both sides to be an inch in total because that's what we added our dart to be and now we can move on to forming the rest of our pant so now that we have our center line drafting the rest of our pattern should be pretty easy so now this is where you can differ if you're doing a straight leg or wide leg pant versus more of a tapered fit pant this is going to be more of a skinny pant it won't be a skinny jean like tight but it will be more fitted to the actual measurements versus being straight leg if you wanted a straight leg pant you could put in your thigh measurement and then just go straight down from your thigh measurement coming in just a little bit at the ankle you're going to take your thigh measurement and for me and for who I'm making this for the thigh circumference was with 18 and a half so that divided by two is 9.25 so nine and a quarter so what I'll do is actually on my tape measure go ahead and find nine and a quarter which is that's nine and a half this is nine and a quarter go ahead and meet that with that line make an indent for the middle and then now you can use that indent as placement for your thigh measurement on your center line and you can mark that I'm going to mark my pencil first so nine and a quarter we have right here and lastly we have our ankle measurement mine was nine and a half so that divided by two is four and three quarters I'm going to first start by doing this in pencil and you guys should be already doing this in pencil and connecting each dot and then we'll smooth it out as we go and actually what you can do is go ahead and just connect your thigh line to your ankle line because this isn't far enough from where we needed to be so just go ahead and connect your thigh line to your ankle on this side so once you're done you should have a front pattern that looks something like this and now we're going to do something a little different and place a different sheet on top and go ahead and trace this original outline and you can do that in pencil I'll do it in dashed marker form so you guys can see it because this is going to help us with our back before we add our seam allowance to this part so first I want to make sure you transfer your waist hip your waist hip crotch thigh knee and ankle lines onto the new pattern or the new piece of pattern paper this is why having see-through paper is good so once you have these matching go ahead and trace out your front pattern you're gonna also want to mark the center so just uh just so we know it you don't have to draw the whole line down just mark what the center is and once you get that traced out now we can put this aside and continue working on our front so now on our front we're going to add seam allowance everywhere so I personally like to use half an inch seam allowance just because that is easier or easier for me to see on my sewing machine so at the bottom I'm gonna let my hem allowance be an inch and a half so let me go ahead and mark an inch and a half down and then another cool thing about having see-through papers when we fold up on that line fold the paper on this line and then what you're gonna do is mark up to the line you have cut out and just trace that all the way down so that way when you fold this on the inside you have enough fabric so we'll move this back and then trace those out and that is now your new hem with seam allowance included so now you are done with your front piece you can go ahead and cut it out all right so now we're going to start on the back which should be relatively easier because we have already traced out our front so now what I want you to do is take or mark the half mark between the center of the front panel and where you started your pattern cool so you'll go ahead and mark that half mark I'm gonna keep mine in pencil for now to keep things cleaner and what she has you do in the original video is take your crotch distance and move that up this way and move this line up by that distance for me that would be 2.3 but I've done this already for myself and I was too high so what I recommend that everyone do is just move this point up by an inch and a half because back pants are slanted to make sure you have enough room for the butt area and so when you sit down your pants don't slide down with you so I'll mark that and show it before you guys so you see it so this is an inch and a half up and you guys can do the same and now take your waist measurement from your front mine is 8 inches and from this line go ahead and slant down until you get to your point so from here so this will be my new waistline and now we're going to move on to the crotch point so next from your crotch point you're going to go out 2 inches and I'm going to mark that with pencil first and then you're going to go down by half an inch this is your new crotch line for your back panel and how we're going to connect it to the top we're going to use this center point as well and come out 2 inches to make sure our curve isn't too deep we're going to come out 2 inches from that point which is right here and then we're going to connect let me actually put that in sharpie so you guys can see we're going to connect these three lines in a curve so you want to make sure you get this part as smooth as possible mine is a little mine is a little stark but I'm also using a sharpie so it's going to be like that but you want to keep this line pretty smooth to close off the back pattern what we're going to do is add an inch to both sides of the front thigh knee and ankle measurements so from the thigh measurement from where our dashed line is from our tracing of our front we're going to add in an inch on this side and an inch on the opposite side as well and now we'll go ahead and connect those lines all the way around so what this does is include our seam allowance from our front pant pattern and also gives us a little give for our back pattern to make sure our seam stays in place in the original pattern tutorial she adds another seam allowance on top of this one you will not need that it was way too much the first time I did it so when you join your pant pattern she looks like this for now you won't have all these crazy lines because you'll be doing this in pencil so you can erase all this I'm almost tempted to retrace it but I don't want to waste any pattern paper I actually might have to slim this part off it seems a little too wide but now we're going to work on the dart before we finish to do that you're going to find the middle once again on your other top part of your back waistband and because it's slanted our dart will also be slanted so your average back dart is about five inches in I like to go down just a little deeper and five and a half your back dart will also be an inch as well so now we've added in our inch dart to put us back on a waist size so now that we've added an inch to all sides except for right here which is good because it factors in our half an inch seam allowance from our front but also we didn't add it here so when we sew this at half an inch it'll bring this in to where these actually meet which is really nice so now at the ankle we'll do the same thing for hemming allowance go ahead and draw out a straight line we'll fold the paper again onto this line and get our hem place your ruler right at that line and fold it over we'll go ahead and trace those seam allowance lines so we're able to mark them on the front effortlessly and that is your back pattern all done so now that you have your back piece all cut out what you want to do is take your front piece lay it on top and line up your knee lines hip lines cross on etc go ahead and line those bad boys up and because I was using sharpie I am just a smidgen off at the top and actually just at the top thank god hopefully because you're using pencil you're cutting on the right line so basically we want to make sure that when we line up our respective lines with oh god I can't line up our hip lines knee lines etc that our sides match up so that when we're sewing we can go ahead and just use our normal seam allowance so you want to make sure that your sides are trued so on my back pattern I actually forgot to add in a half inch seam allowance at the top so they do match up but as you can see my curve matches up pretty perfectly it's okay if these don't line up on this side because you do need more inner die space anyway but once you do that and everything matches up that is your front and back pattern done but in the next episode of this series I want to show you guys how to add pockets what kind of pockets you can add and also how to do the zipper fly this has been super fun it's definitely been a video that I've been avoiding just because I won't be there to help you guys with your fit issues and things like that but at least I can get you guys started somehow because with what we just done today you can do a mock-up pair of pants also for the waistband it would just be however thick you want your waistband to be whether you want an inch an inch and a half I think a standard is an inch and a half or two inches you just do that as the width and then the length of your waistband would be the length of your waist measurement or you can even go out an inch and a half more than your waist measurement just to be safe but yes stay tuned for the next episode thank you guys so much for six thousand subscribers that's crazy we just hit five thousand at the start of quarantine and we're already at six that means so much to me also be on a lookout for more sit down talk videos with you guys about how happily dress started what it means to me and how it's more of a lifestyle than anything thank you to everyone who watched my tarot video even if that's stuff that you're not into it's something that I really enjoy and being self-reflective I think is something that everyone can benefit from so thank you for those who have watched that video I'll see you guys in my next one see you guys later