What's up everybody, Jason here for JaspysCaseBricks.com. We just sold out 2023. Hip parade, I know man, for us. Holiday multi-sport edition. Jaspys exclusive. This is a 10 box cased. Two random players, number two. So we have 10 cases total, 10 box cases, 100 boxes made total and everybody gets two random players on the list below, one card per box. So the last break we did, we pulled the Josh Allen RPA. So this one is now gone. The rest should still obviously be there. I'm probably finding at least one per case. Oh, excuse me, just, thank you. Alright, so here's the dice holder, here's the customer names. Now we're gonna double them up guys, so you'll get two random players. And then there's the place to the players from Aaron Jones down to design Williamson. Roll the dice, it is a three and three six times. One, two, three, four, five, six. Zoey DeGinello, Aaron, and freaking 500 days of summer. You know, I had the time when I was younger when I seen it, I hated her, but now as an older adult, rewatching it just recently a few months back, you know, she gave all the signs, man. She gave all the signs.  Three and a three six times. One, two, three, four, five, six. Christian McCaffrey down to Calamari. Dude, Chad, I'm not gonna lie, man, it's been pretty funny. People on Twitter are just so funny. Like just so funny, man. They're just hilarious. Alright, so I'm not gonna go by it by name by name, but I'm gonna alphabetize it by customer names so you can see what you got, but just to show you the way it came out. So, A-A Ron, you got Garrett Wilson down to Shohei Otani. Alright, Jake London, Evan Mobley, Judge Julio Tua. You guys see Tua's big-ass gash that he had right here? Alright, Brian Yolketsch and Peter Lanzo, Carlos Chet, Alvarez, Chad Tucker with IU, Gonzayon, Damien, Justin Jefferson, Ronald Aquinas Jr., DeCons with Amanra, St. Brown down to Anthony Richardson, and then you got a little A.J. Brown, the middle ball, a couple good receivers there, Jay Lomato, CDLam, Petty, T. Higgins, Josh Allen, Eugene, Trey Young, Mike Trout, as well as Adley, Justin Herber, Justin Jamal, Murray and George Pickens, Kev, Tyree, Olave, Luke, Christian McCaffrey, Charles Barkley, Michael, Sengun, SGA, Edward Saltuve, Juan Soto, Tyler Murray, Todd, you have Boba Shed, Jamar Chase, Doran, Purdy, Todd, you have Stephen Curry, Ban, Devante, and Todd Teese, and then Tristan from Aaron Jones on an R.J. Barrett with Jalen Hurts in there, Kate Cunningham. My finger has a heartbeat. I don't even know to be honest.  He's done. Curry's done. Alright, is that where they call Aaron? Why printing out two sheets? Frickin' always gets this printer messed up.  The sorting team needs it because there's 60 players chad. Come on, man. 16 out of 100. Caught onto that. On Thursdays, well, what was the last day I was here? Wednesday? Wednesday, the last frickin' of the night was this hip rate, and I noticed that when both sheets got printed out, that frickin' always just says printing error, paper jam, but there's no jam.  Anyway, speaking of Kate Cunningham, look at that. Obsidian. Rookie autograph out of $149. Let's go to Kate. Triss. There you go. Ruchman. PS810, bow and draft chrome first. Little Adley going to Eugene. I'm a human, raised by humans. Boba Shed. This is a super short front rookie. PS810. Bow. Todd.  Jesus, there. And how about an Austin Riley from Flawless, two-color patch and autograph? That's out of $15. Austin Riley. A-Round on the board. Then we have a Trey Young for the Hawks from Recon. Trey Young. Eugene on the board again. We got a T Higgins. Nice little three-color patch and autograph from Spectra. Rookie RPA. Out of $15. Edward Petty with T Higgins. .41 contenders optic. Red Rookie autograph to $149. A little bit of a smear there, but not really a smear, I guess. Just kind of didn't finish to circling out of the A, but a modern St. Brown that's going to de-cons. I'll definitely look at it right now. I'll show it. I'll show it right here. A card ticket. Brandon Ayuk. Let her be Chad Tucker on the board. All right, those moss guys. I feel like we still haven't had a sushi pay yet, right? There's a Justin Herbert. One, two, three, four-color patch. Rookie autograph out of $75. I don't even think this card is on the sell sheet, but it has to be a rookie. It has to be this one. If I count up the number of cards on the sell sheet. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, there's one card missing. I'd have to assume it's this one. Right? I have to assume it's this one. Justin Herbert. Eugene from that certified filler. I don't know. Maybe not, but I have to assume it's that one. I think I looked it up last time when we were talking about the first one. I think there's only nine sell sheet cards on there, so there's got to be one extra. I don't know if it just didn't fit on the collage or what, but it has to be that one. If it isn't, that means it's a monster case. Chuck, little Charles Barkley, white mosaic PSA 10. That's nice. Out of 25. Luke on the board. This is a good amount of different customers hitting. I mean, a couple of them hit twice, but there you go. Unfortunately, I know not everybody hit, but thanks for giving it a shot. But yeah, I have to assume that Herbert has to be the sell sheet just because, like I said, there's only the Anthony Edwards, the Vladdy, the Josh Allen, the Yolkich, the Jamar Chase, the Shohei, Lamello, the popular demand, Mike Trout, and then the Christian McCaffrey snakeskin. So that's nine. So I have to assume that the 10 was just Justin Herbert. Maybe just didn't fit in the collage. There you go. But yeah, Otani is still alive. You're thinking about some Otani, some Trout, Jamar Chase, Yolkich. Very nice case, guys. Like I said, tough to hit as there's 30 spots sold, 60 players. Obviously, only 10 popping out in every case. So odds are one in three. But thanks for giving it a shot, guys. Appreciate it, jaspyskatespricks.com.


So guys, I am back with another Diablo 4 video and this one's more of a new friendly sort of video for new players to the game I'm getting a lot of questions on my discord via DMs in comments of my videos and I'm seeing them all over the place to be honest And that's due to weapon and armor upgrades for today guys I plan to explain everything you need to know about weapon and armor upgrades How's it going guys? My name is DPJ and to celebrate the launch of this amazing game I'm giving away an ultimate edition version of the game to be with a chance of winning simply drop a like on this video Leave a comment down below and make sure you are sucked. Good luck. Okay, so when it comes to upgrading your gear Turning rares into legendaries Extracting a certain perk from a legendary and applying it elsewhere We can do all of that and more and hopefully today guys or answer any question you have in regards to This crafting system Okay, so first things first The gunsmith guns the gunsmith. I think I'm playing destiny the blacksmith The blacksmith people this is where you're obviously salvage your gear So if you've got certain gear you don't want just mark it like so like so come here This mantle or junk that's obviously if it's marked as junk it'd be classic junk Bam there you go and you get the materials you can see right at the bottom here I'm very useful some of these materials are if you've got legendaries that you do not need In fact, if you've got any gear that you do not need and don't see a plan for in the future It may as well salvage it and get vital materials you'll use in the future. Okay, so upgrading So this guy as well the blacksmith gonna say gunsmith again then blacksmith dude This way upgrade so tab across obviously need to repair.  Yeah, that's where you'll pay yourself as well But yeah upgrading stuff. So if I want to upgrade something I'm gonna upgrade Let's say this beautiful weapon right here. Actually not longer It's gonna probably cast a pretty penny, but there we go. We're gonna do it anyway But yes, we're gonna upgrade. This is perfect my bill by the way perfect for my bill by the way Yeah, this is where you upgrade it. This is where you upgrade this absolute monster of a weapon. There we go Costs money and it costs the said materials right here So if you haven't got any of these materials guys needs to go farm them But I like these materials come from you Actually salvaging some of your gear that you do not need but yes That's the basics on salvaging repairing and upgrading. Yeah, so what about extracting and And applying certain things to other gear Well, this is what you got to do. Okay, so you want to go to a town and look for this symbol right here the occultist Any town that has one of these you can do this with so yes come right here guys. So we're gonna go over there So when you first come to this guy's he will have a couple of things you can't select Which you'll learn about more as you play but the main ones are imprinting aspects Extracting them and also enchant item now enchant is what we'll start with it's actually we place his and a fix on your item So for instance as you can see right here guys, let's say we select Let's do his chest piece. It doesn't really matter. We see here. It says plus two point three total armor Plus one five dexterity and a plus one hundred and eighty two For as well as a plus four point five percent control impaired duration Now if I have to select any one of these say if I want to change it or something else It is completely random, but it can't you can change it. So for instance, let's say I click on dexterity I I want intelligence on my neck or so I select that and then I go down to but it's shorter than material costs there and Enchanted just like so bam get a warning and that's what we have here This is this is change a plus hundred and seventy maximum life a plus eight percent some Skill damage or no change it won't refund your materials if you select that so what do I want that one? I do want that one Select it and replace it select that and replace it. There we go. There's your item your new made item Okay, so yes, that is what the enchant item does. Okay, so what about imprinting aspect and extracting one This is what I was talking about in regards to Taking a certain perk known as an aspect from a legendary item and applying the elsewhere So for instance, let's extract one first. So I'm gonna select a legendary here and what we've got let's say What we've got here actually we've got Let's go with this one right here. I'm never gonna use this item So for this guys, I extract this aspect. So I've got this aspect now. You can see right there This is the main the main aspect on this you can see the star next to it damaging an elite Enemy grant you a barrier absorbing up to one thousand seven hundred six nine damage for ten seconds blah blah blah blah blah That is the aspect of this weapon. So if I extract this it's all costume money, by the way But I strike it guys. I now have that aspect So if I come to my imagery scroll across there I have the aspect now I can apply this to any piece of gear which may allows me to do and it says there Allowed item types helm chest armor pants amulet and shield simply is that so now guys I can go and place this Inside of another item you can also do this inside of A rare item don't have to be legendary and this will turn that rare item into a Legendary so for instance if I select this put this there guys and I go to get the aspect from my inventory Select it there. It turns the item into a legendary as you're seeing right there with a new Boosted well, it's not really boosted, please and he's a boosted piece of gear when we're talking about but also guys You can also do this an easier way. So if let me come back out of that go to same said item You can also add a codex of power now these I'm gonna slow my show my class owner Don't really have any for my class to be honest. These are other aspects now These aspects are tied to doing certain things like dungeons and much much more And if you go to your map guys, you'll see that like these dungeons like so will grant you see that one there Night howlers aspect Which you have the aspect guide you can use it as many times as you want as long as it's one of these aspects The codex of powers the aspects from your inventory you can only use once you can't use them multiple times That will be absolutely crazy So for instance guys if you had an amazing aspect on a certain weapon But nothing else on that weapon match what you was looking for the build you're trying to go for for instance They say this one here each time one of your your summoning minions attacks an enemy They gain an 11% attack speed for three seconds up to 33% So you want to do apply this on to a different weapon with better perks You can do that what you do is guys you'd act obviously Extract this thing. I don't know why even went there, but you distract extract this like I do here I don't really need this weapon anymore. So I'd extract it just like so Now I have it now guys. I'd apply this to another weapon. I've got a weapon here that I can play it to What about this one right here? There we go. Well cross and you can see I can put this in there right now Bam, I know God. We just craft it there the materials you will need I haven't got enough for that one so I can't do it but that is what you'd end up with This legendary from a rare but still having the certain perk the certain aspect on it you want for your build So if you are farming and you get that well, you get the perfect the perfect aspect But it's not perfect for your weapon for your build and every other Ethics on the actual weapon, you know what you got to do guys go and craft it right here with the occultist But yes, that's more or less the whole thing. It's not too difficult to be honest It is just a learning curve to be honest is a learning game But once you do get the hang of it people you should be good What I'm doing right now is unless I know for an absolute fact I'm never going to be using any of these these aspects and these legendos I just salvage everything because the materials you get are so important They really are but yeah guys there the basics and upgrading and everything you need to know about armor and weapons in the Outlaw for guys if you enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps add you feel like what you see want to see more Be sure to subscribe and hopefully guys. I will see you on that next one


The mounting national debt is a tremendous threat to the future of the United States, its position on the world, our standard of living at home, and potentially our domestic tranquility. The national debt at this point is probably the most serious challenge facing the country today. After a terrorist potentially using a weapon of mass destruction in the United States, the biggest threat we have is our fiscal situation. The deficit and the debt are not an immediate problem, but they absolutely are a long run problem. If you look at the long run budget projections coming out of the Congressional Budget Office, those are truly terrifying. Mounting national debt is an enormous threat. It calls into credibility the full faith and credit of the United States, and that means that we are looked at almost by the rest of the world as a third world country. We can't do that. Well, countries decline either because they lose wars or they get buried under their own debt. The consequences of failure to deal with it are literally catastrophic. Mathematically, the debt's a bigger threat to future budgets and all our other national priorities. It's a bigger threat to the health of our economy than most people have recognized or been told yet. Clearly, if we allow the debt and deficits to continue as they are, they will crowd out almost all of their spending in terms of our payment of interest on our debt. It's not an acceptable alternative for our country, and certainly not an acceptable alternative for our children and grandchildren. My good colleague, Erskine Bowles, calls it the most serious threat that this country has ever had, the largest and most difficult thing to resolve, and the most predictable as to where we're headed. I don't think you can overstate the importance of this threat to the U.S. It is a threat to literally the foundations of our economy. They could crowd out future investments in skills, technologies, and the equipment we need to produce, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff have identified it as our greatest national security threat. There is nothing I can think of that would give the country, both business and consumers, more confidence than to see a longer-term plan of reform that restores fiscal sustainability. I think it's a threat in a much larger sense. It's a threat to the whole idea of self-government. It's a threat to the notion that free people acting freely together can discipline themselves, put the future before the present, their children's interests ahead of their own. This debt issue is not a singular issue of concern just to our country, but to people who look to America for leadership. We ought to do this for the world. You have to think that the debt is our single biggest problem. We have a very large long-term deficit problem. We just simply have to fix it. There is no option. We have to reduce the future debt. Sixty people, both former people in business and government, have really come out and asked the Super Committee to think about going beyond the one-and-a-half trillion-dollar cut mandate. I had a press conference the day after that letter was sent saying that I supported that objective and I believed that it was critical if we were going to get to where we need to be and have a country that is on a sound fiscal footing. The Joint Committee needs to go big. Policymakers need to be looking and going big. As far as I'm concerned, we have to have a go big approach to this particular problem. I believe that this committee ought to go big. I think there's no substitute for a go big approach. We absolutely do need to go big because the problems that we're facing on our deficit are big. Failure is not an option for the deficit reduction committee.


We are back at the House at Pugh Corner with Jim Hogue. That's me. And your guest for the second half of this interview is Conor Kelly, whose family obviously comes from Ireland. And he lives in Boston now. The first half we spoke about Tulsi Gabbard and her relationship, former relationship to the DNC and possibilities of her becoming a candidate. And we're both interested in seeing how that develops. And we spoke about the influence that Israel has over Congress and the states and municipalities throughout the country, which I find fascinating and a little depressing at the same time. So I think we can switch topics now to Assange and Syria and anything else that you want to bring up, Conor. But I do want to point out to our listeners this book, which doesn't seem to be on camera at the moment. Have you got it right? OK. The American Trajectory, Divine or Demonic, by David Ray Griffin. And I've reviewed some of his books. This is not one of the ones that I reviewed, but I'm reading it now. And like everything else, David Ray Griffin has written. It's important for you to read. It's accurate. And it gives a good picture of the ideal that Americans, most of them, thought of themselves as well-meaning, religious, and devoted humanists throughout the world, even though the people making the decisions knew darn well that that was not the case. And he takes us back through the 1800s, the war against the Philippines, which is mistakenly called the Spanish-American War, which is part of the fake news that I'm interested in myself, and right up through. So again, the American Trajectory by David Ray Griffin is a good read for you. So Conor, where do you want to start for the second half? I guess we're going to start with Julian Assange. Yeah. And his captivity for almost the last decade, for basically telling the truth, exposing the US government for crimes that's committed that they didn't want to be exposed. So number one, it's an attack on free speech. And number two, it's an attack on the Fourth of State that traditionally held by the media, which obviously, the US media these days is just propaganda for corporations and the death hole umbrella of war profteering and all that other stuff. And previously, before Bill Clinton passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996, I think the media in the United States, almost all of it was owned by 70 corporations. Since he passed that act, 90% of all US media is owned by six corporations. So that's six CEOs, maybe a few dozen chairmen, maybe a few dozen people on board that control all of the media every American, just about all the media every American sees. You have to seek out independent, reliable independent sources to get the truth. And to me, Wikileaks has been one of the most effective and reliable of kind of that old school media that the Woodward and Bernstein's, so to speak. They don't exist in America anymore. They're all just kind of spokespeople for the DNC, the deep state, whatever you want to call it. It's not news anymore. It's just propaganda. And it's the same with like Glenn Greenwald, who bought a good reporting, I think, and stuck in Brazil because he's fearful of living in the US and reporting hours reporting. So it's a really horrible situation for real journalists these days who want to explain to the people what their government's doing. I mean, the same thing happened to Edward Snowden. He risked his life in his career and faced to Russia because he gave the United States people access to the information we pay for with that knowledge. He gave us that information and led us to figure it out, do with it what we wanted. And what happened was the mainstream media smeared him. The US government put out a warrant on him, so he's now living in exile in Russia. And Julian Assange basically stepped that whole kind of whistleblower, deep state whistleblower kind of operation where the governments aren't telling you the truth, so somebody's going to get in there, get the facts, and get them out. And that terrifies the world hegemony of NATO, the US, Israel, and England. They're partners in New Zealand, Australia, England, New Zealand. I think they're all part of some little surveillance network or whatever it is. So I don't know. I think Julian Assange is an exceptional person. And obviously, he's very strong-willed, strong-minded. I mean, to be locked in a building for seven or eight years must be just mentally destroying him. Now he'll not be able to go outside and stuff like that. It just amazes me. And it's all just because he told the truth, which is horrifying to me. Well, one of many things that did disappoint me about Trump is that when he was confronted in a public meeting about, can you help Assange? And he says, well, I don't really know anything about him. Well, Assange is the guy who gave us all the information that Trump needed to criticize Hillary. Exactly. So where is Trump going with this? I don't really know who he is when, arguably, he's the most important person on the face of the earth. If he's so important that he could swing the vote, Seth Rich and all of that involved, if he's the one who put out this information, which is perfectly correct, nobody's ever said it wasn't true about Hillary's deal. No, never. Cory, he's never. Rejected story ever. I had to retract the story. I'm sorry. Say that again. WikiLeaks has never, ever had to retract story in the whole time it's existed, so. Yeah, certainly the most accurate. And he just lays out the facts. That's it. And if you were to just look at them, your jaw would drop because it's so different from what you get from the mainstream mainstream and the alternative mainstream, like somebody like Amy Goodman. Yeah, vice or whatever, stuff like that. She has these limited hangouts where she's not allowed to talk about some things and she is allowed to talk about other things. Yeah, yeah. So what do you think are the most important things that Julian Assange has given us? Certainly, he basically opened up the Pandora's Box of Secrets of the DNC. And I think that was huge. Even though it appears to me that a lot of Hillary supporters, especially, have simply refused to read them, even though Hillary herself and the DNC has to have to confirm their accuracy, because you can't fake those emails. Like apparently there's some electronic number attached to every email, kind of like a fingerprint. So they came from these accounts, the Podesta emails. I mean, it just, it exposed the US quote unquote democracy for the farce that it is. And I think it opened a lot of people's eyes to the fact that no matter who, and it raises me to that really only, you know, most Americans only get involved in politics once every four years, which is outrageous because the corporations and lobbyists are involved in every election community, you know, region, state, and otherwise. And you know, most people only wait for presidential elections. And that just, I mean, it just boggles my mind. It may be as a state governor, you know, something like that.   As U.S. citizens, we're all victims of our government. So they're playing the blame the victim card and nobody's calling them on. I mean, who is going to call them on? Basically, all you have people like Julian Assange, because everyone else in that media bubble is going to play by the party line, you know, they're just going to keep following the party line. So nothing's going to be accurate. It's going to be, you know, pulled and has to be repeated until enough people get it. And they might say something offhand on like one, you know, whatever an episode of 60 minutes or something. And then that's it, you never hear about it. And just, it's a really sad situation these days that, I mean, the number of civil rights that have been stripped from us with like the Patriot Act and then Obama's NDA, which is amazing to me because he's a constitutional law professor and he basically did away with Habie's corpus, you know? Like he made it OK for the president of the United States to assassinate American citizens based on intelligence from the CIP, which is a thing, you know? Like he has the power, you know, of a king, you know? And as soon as that happened, I said, you just wait until there isn't some sweet talking, you know, former constitutional law professor in the Oval Office. And then you talk to me and then you tell me this is a good idea. Little did I know it was going to be the very next election and the very worst person, you know, that was coming to office to prove that theory right, you know? Like, and so it's just, I mean, yeah, there's nothing more than I could say that it's a sad situation that the greatest reporter and probably in the world right now is sitting in an embassy for, so he's not, so he doesn't have to go to prison for the rest of his life.  And then if a Democrat, like a deep state Democrat gets in, they're obviously not going to get out of any breaks. But there's a worldwide movement to try to, you know, free him at this point before the Venezuelans cave into the American demands. Yeah, exactly. But one other thing that I wanted to mention was that you talked about the uniformity of mainstream media. And one thing that's really funny is when somebody captures around the country, they capture the headlines and the first sentences and the whole sentence that somebody says in, you know, Oshkosh is the whole sentence somebody says in Bangor, Maine, it's the line that you have to say and word for word, the whole thing all over the country. So that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that some higher power is telling these local people exactly what to say. And, you know, you would expect they're all going to have the same story to some extent. But to have it literally word for word is kind of humorous. Yeah, it all comes from those six CEOs that own 90% of the media in this country, you know? Well, my heroes, you know, they're working together. They want to say they all have the same interests. So, you know, it's going to be pretty uniform. My heroes tend to be- The old buyers and box crews, you know, and stuff where they just, you know, just kept people worked up about social issues and stuff like that. But yeah, anyways, you were saying the heroes- My heroes tend to be whistleblowers. And so I'm talking about Binny. You've seen them, maybe the interviews with Binny and Steele and I don't know, going back further, you've got Ray McGovern and then there's Greenwald and Snowden and these people know going in. And by the way, I've interviewed Daniel Ellsberg as well. Yeah. So you're being interviewed by the same guy who interviewed Daniel Ellsberg. Oh, that's the biggest problem. So, this history of whistleblowing is an alternative history to the United States. It's an alternative history to what they tell you in the mainstream media. And so what Daniel Ellsberg said then turned out to be 100% true. What Binny is saying now is probably 100% true, but nobody gets to hear what he says. And that's a CIA whistleblower. Ray McGovern, the same thing. Whistleblowers from, you know, NASA's space program, all of those people are silenced. And the history books don't report what they have said, even though it's true, the history books tell the story that the deep state wants them to tell. But we can't just blame the deep state because people get it in their heads. It becomes a legend. And if you go against the myth and the legend, you can't sell your textbook. The states and the school just say, what? Osama bin Laden didn't do 9-11? Heresy. Well, I think personally, anybody who thinks Osama bin Laden did 9-11 is really missing something up here. It's not only instinctive, but all the evidence now has come forth against his being the fine mover in 9-11.  The what? Just about every single one of the Mossadeh Arabian. Every single one of the, you know? The people were Saudis. But now there's the big question on what planes did what? Why did the planes disappear? You know, correct me if I'm wrong, but planes don't disappear. And buildings, if they're attacked asymmetrically, they can't fall symmetrically. It's just a physical impossibility. And so all these buildings that fell, they fell symmetrically, even though they were supposedly hit asymmetrically. And that's a physical impossibility. So all of these things put together are never going to become like the assassination of Kennedy. These things are not going to be in the mainstream history books. And I find that rather depressing. And again, you go back to the war against the Filipinos. It's the same thing that it was a Spanish-American war. Well, it wasn't Spanish-American war. The Filipinos kicked the asses of the Spanish. The Filipinos had already won the war. So the US comes in and claims the Philippines as its own and calls it the Spanish-American war. I'm oversimplifying, but that's what happened. So these lies kind of bother me. And it's getting easier and easier to tell them, even though people like us are out there waving our arms around and saying, hey, dumbass, that's not what happened. But we keep at it. We keep trying to bring actual facts. And that's back to Assange. We couldn't do it. We couldn't do it if it weren't for Assange. And the mainstream knows that. And that's why he's locked up in an embassy. It's because he brings out the truth. And they can't tolerate that. Same with Snowden. Same with Greenwell. Greenwell lives in, I think, Brazil. Yeah, it's Brazil. Now. And James Corbett is in Japan. The people who bring out the truth are not that many of them that I know of are in the United States. I mean, they're risking everything for pretty much no reward. I'm sorry, I lost that. They're risking everything for almost no reward. So it takes a real patriot and real citizen and someone with real integrity to do that kind of thing. Yes, absolutely. So back to Syria. We all got a big kick out of how Trump finally did what the left wanted him to do. And then they start running around like chickens with their heads cut off because he actually did it. Yeah, exactly. So I've interviewed over the years on my radio program several experts on Syria. And I admit it's extremely complicated. But there are parts of it you can simplify. And the Israel stealing the Golan Heights, that's perfectly OK now. It's simply Israel. End of story. Can't talk about the Golan Heights stolen from Syria. But if I were Syrian, I would remember that. Yes. And just as it is. World War II pretty much was supposed to end the idea of militaries going to other countries and basically stealing territory. It was supposed to end that. But obviously those things don't happen. When they want to do it, they do it. That's what hegemony is. What's the world hegemony is. That's why they have it. And that's why the media doesn't tell that story because it's not meant to be told. From their point of view, that's not the story to be told. The story is, well, now the story is, oh, we need to protect the Kurds. It's like, well, that wasn't what was going on. Before it was the white helmets fighting Assad, who was gassing people. Now I'm under no illusions that Assad is a good guy or anything like that. But the Syrian people elected him. And then there was an insurrection. And I read an article recently that has been established that the deputy prime minister or somebody in the intelligence community in Israel finally admitted that they were arming the opposition in the Syrian war. They finally admitted. So it's like, and again, back to Tosi. Yeah, but she was the only one who went there to check it out. And she goes, the US forces don't belong here. We don't believe this isn't our fight. And I think she also realized that the opposition or the, quote, freedom fighters were terrorists who were being armed. And we already made, we make that mistake constantly. We do it over and over again.  And then the terrorists turn around and do something to us. You know what I mean? Like, it's like, we armed them. We train them.  You know what I mean? But I think that was the big thing with Syria that it's actually come out. And I was surprised that it came out. But when someone in a government position admits to something, kind of have to report it. And so it finally came out that Israel has been arming the, personally I call them the insurrectionists in Syria. And now that, and Syria finally chased them out of there and people couldn't be happier. They were preventing people from getting water, from getting food, from leaving war-torn areas. And now these people are free to move around and get the help they need, the aid they need. And you know, it's complicated. And a lot of the stuff in the Middle East goes back centuries. These kinds of feelings of revenge and, you know, this is mine, you know, this isn't yours. And so you got to tread lightly in that region. And we're kind of just all dozing through it. You know what I mean? So I was just reminded of a quote by Mark Twain. And I'll get it wrong. But the difference between a savage and a civilized person is that the savage has to give up whatever the civilized person wants without a fight. What a brilliant, brilliant way to put it. And here we have the news I just heard yesterday was that Israel is now bombing a section of Syria. And they warned Syria not to stop it, not to shoot down the planes that are bombing them. Not to defend their own. Have you heard that story? I have not, I have not. But yeah, that's what they do constantly. They say like, don't say we're gonna attack you and don't do anything back, we're just gonna get work. You know, same with Gaza. Like they're always saying people are using hospitals and schools as shields. Gaza is the most densely populated area on earth.  It just can't, you just can't do it. It's an excuse for slaughter. And going back to Trump moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Israel, he did that on Israel, basically Israel's Independence Day, the day the country was founded. And obviously there were protests and the IDF went in and started, you know, shooting protesters and gas grenades and all that stuff. I mean, you know, I thought to myself, could you imagine if on the 4th of July we went to like Native American reservations and shot tear gas and started shooting people, like to celebrate the 4th of July. I was just horrified by that whole situation. I didn't know about that. Yeah, yeah. There was this big, there were protests by Palestinians because the embassy was being moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. And they obviously have holy sites in Jerusalem that, you know, they respect and stuff like that. And now that the Israeli embassy, or the Israeli United States embassy in Israel is now in Jerusalem, it's giving basically a troll of Jerusalem to Israel and the United States. So they were protesting that, not violently. They were gathered together, you know, along the Fenton borders where they're not allowed to leave. And then, you know, and the IDF just started firing and shooting gas. The Palestinians were trying to hit gas grenades back in tennis rackets. It was a pretty, yeah, I think somewhere like, it might have been highs, a thousand people were killed that day. Okay, well, we have to wrap it up. And don't forget, folks, the American soldiers that were conveniently shot just at the right time in Syria. We didn't talk about that. All right, your guest has been Connor Kelly. This is Jim Hogue at the House at Pugh Corner. And this will be posted at the Orchid site on YouTube and locally and hopefully on my site, which is the House at Pugh Corner. Thank you very much.


Hey there friends, thanks for checking in at TriggerCon 23 and one of the handguns I was really excited to see it's my first stop today is at Oracle Arms. They have the OA 2311 Pro. It looks like a double-stack nine millimeter 1911, but actually it's not it has a linkless barrel system. It disassembles much easier and quicker But it also has some features on here that I think many shooters are gonna find advantageous. First off Takes a six-hour P3 20 mag This is a 22 round mag and it does have a flared mag well attached here and I Said it before I don't see a downside to a flared mag well makes an excellent I would guess I haven't shot it yet, but an excellent competition gun This is the pro model. It has a five inch barrel. You can see it has cutouts in the slide Full rail there to put a light They all come optic ready with plates that fit an RMR, RMSC and a Delta point pro One of the things that makes this super cool as it comes out from the factory with between a four and a four and a quarter pound I'll drop the mag here for four and a quarter pound Trigger pull and it does have that flat face trigger there with a 1911 reset so basically what you're getting is a 1911 like platform or shall I say 2311 like platform with a Linkless barrel system, which as I mentioned makes the Disassemble much easier and quicker. You don't even run the barrel or the the barrel through the upper It just comes off like any other handgun that is more common I should say maybe not especially for those 1911 guys But another thing this has is an ambidextrous Slide stop and the advantage there is that reach with the thumb can be a little bit intensive over here I could just take my trigger finger drop that Slide and get right back into the fight lightweight slider Slide spring pretty lightweight. I would guess right around 11 pounds And you throw an optic on this and it's pretty cool now Something that you may have not seen before perhaps you have I haven't seen much of it They move the rear sight in front of the optic and they have a tritium front dot the advantage there You're not fighting through the rear of the the slide to co-witness Is raised it serrated black as I point this pistol I can see the dot I can see that sight and that makes it easier for sighting in your dot as well as it For some reason your dot goes out. You still have a clear sight picture the MSRP on this is right around $2,600 a bit more expensive, but they have others in their line. They're right to my right here We're gonna go through that starting out at $1,700 much more affordable with many of the same features I think you're gonna like what you see it's one of the reasons why I Really wanted to come to this booth here at trigger kind to check it out because I saw online that it Had some features that were very attractive to me in the popularity of the double-stack 9 millimeter 1911 like Platform has grown in popularity and they got into the game with the OA 2311 I'll take a look at the grip before I move on seems to be Pretty well textured not overly texture you put a put a in a holster It's not going to irritate the body much of there for look at the flared The flared mag well for those quick mag changes Let's go ahead and check out some of the other handguns a little more affordable what we have here is an OA 2311 compact has a four and a quarter inch barrel once again The they are optic ready, but this one has the sights in the rear Tridium front dot one of the things I did not mention with the pro model is that it has an ambidextrous Thumb safety alright, so it is left-handed friendly considering that that and the slide stop is on both sides It has a polymer grip here the trigger is measuring I would guess around four and a half with this model, but many of the same components you can see it has a rail there and the polymer grip the the Flared mag well is not as Pronounced as with the pro model. However, it does flare a bit. They also all have an aluminum frame I didn't mention that they do have that and so you get a little bit of a lighter handgun You got the P3 20 mags MSRP on this model is 1799 and these are out and available right now now This is one that includes some aftermarket accessories done by rocket city stippling I have a little cheat sheet here, but you can see it has the OD green on the the grip there as well as some Professional texturing with the back strap and the front strap as well as the side panels all the other components remain the same This one has the optic on it and as you can see with the plate they move the rear sight to the front of the optic So it is always available in the case that your optic goes out over here We have a five-inch model. It's the same exact as Grip anyways the frame the ambi controls and everything else as the compact model. What's the MSRP on this 21? 2199 We'll check out this trigger and this one feels lighter than the compact I think this is more to the four four and a quarter pounds that we spoke about earlier with the pro model and then over here we've got another rocket city with some professional Texturing and everything that actually feels really nice if you're at rocket city you're watching this you guys do nice work Looks like a desert sand not quite OD green. I don't even know what it's called But it's got a nice maybe coyote tan. There's so many words for the same thing I don't even know what to say, but it does look cool. One of the things this offers is a port in the barrel So you see the slide is cut out with lightning cuts as well as ports in the barrel All right, so not only does it look cool, but you gave the advantage of that and every time I feature a double stack 1911 someone says what if you ported that barrel? Well, this one comes from the factory like that And here we have the same thing with a five-inch barrel. I can see the port there perhaps you can It has this aluminum grip as well as the flared mag well, and here is a Rat Dark Earth Coyote tan desert sand whatever you want to call it version that will also be available These are not available currently, but they plan to be in the coming months. So that's Oracle arms They have some nice handguns from what I've seen and what I've experienced. I like the trigger pull I like some of the left-handed friendly Components that people say, you know, hey, I'm a lefty certain things don't fit me that well But they sort of solve that it's like a 1911 and a little bit of a sick p3 20 with some additional features that Many people may find advantageous Starting at 1799 all the way up into right around 2500. You're looking at some guns I'm going to check it out that during the range day and Probably do a short so take a look at that and see how well it functions And I'll have a better idea of what we're looking at if you like videos like this Please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button. Thanks for watching and you guys be safe


When Katie first started her psychology major, she was really frustrated with always having to cite her sources. She knew that if she didn't cite her sources, she would be accused of plagiarism. But she didn't really understand why it was so important. And she was upset to find that she had to learn a new citation style. She'd already learned MLA in high school, so why did she have to switch to APA? As Katie progressed through the major, she started to understand more clearly why citing sources is so important. First, she came to see that the books and articles that she was citing took a lot of effort to create. She learned that researchers could spend months or even years working on a book or an article. Giving appropriate credit to the author was a way for Katie to show that she understood and respected the time and effort involved in the creation of each source and the value of that source to the author. Katie realized that citing sources was also a way of providing credibility to her own work. It demonstrated to her professors that she had done research on her topic, and it showed that she could back up what she was saying with evidence. Her professor explained that each time a scholar published a book or an article, that person was participating in a type of conversation among scholars in that field. When she cited her sources, she was showing her professors that she understood the conversation that scholars were having about her topic. It showed that she knew all about the previous relevant research. Katie began to use her sources in a different way. As a freshman, she would usually write most of her paper first, and then she would try to find sources that fit what she was saying. However, as she learned more about research, she started using sources before she started writing and not as an afterthought. She learned to use sources to guide her thinking about a topic. Katie discovered that looking at what others had found gave her a better understanding of her topic and helped her to develop new questions and arguments. Citing sources also meant that her professor, or anyone else who read her paper, could find the same sources she had found. This allowed those who read her paper to learn about new sources that they might not otherwise have found. Katie also found out why it was important to use APA style rather than MLA. She learned that different disciplines, or subject areas, usually had different citation formats. Conforming to a specific style, rather than having each person use their own preferred style, provided consistency for everyone in that discipline. Using APA style demonstrated that Katie was learning to write like a psychologist would write. Even though she didn't like using APA style at first, Katie found many different resources she could use that made citing sources easier. The most important resource she had was the APA's publication manual, which explained all aspects of APA style. Katie also learned about several different websites that provided assistance with APA, including the APA style website, the APA style blog, and the APA formatting and style guide at the Purdue Online Writing Lab.


Good day, May 40 here. I just got back from my M.C.P.A adults-only meeting, mentally challenged but physically able. And, you know, we all like to live independently here in the home. And we get high quality of life. We support each other in living independently here in the home. And every night they wheel us into the main room and we get lime jello and they show us Prager University videos. And it's just, it's just the best man. Like, we just laugh at the normies, bro. We laugh at the normies.  They think they're just so smart, man. But, you know how to live, man. You know, like, my favorite group of people, man. Mentally challenged but physically able adults-only. That's where it's at. Life is with the people, man.


Two homeowners and their pets are now safe after being rescued from their burning home at Breezy Point on New Year's Eve. Around two in the morning, Breezy Point police officers were making their rounds when they one officer noticed smoke coming from a home on Highway 11. Then he noticed flames coming from the roof and it appeared people were inside. After kicking down the door, the two adults inside and their seven birds were rescued from a fire that had started in the attic from the chimney. Very unlikely that the smoke detectors would have went off in time. The first indication that this fire was there would probably be when the ceiling collapsed. And so it was very heartwarming to know that they got them out in time. Neither of the adults were injured during the incident. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


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When man first began to reach for the stars, dreams about space travel usually included living in space in what is now called a space station. Those dreams became reality when after the successful completion of the Apollo program, the next step chosen for manned space flight was an earth-orbiting workshop known as Skylab. During the Skylab program, three different crews lived and worked in America's first space station for a total of 171 days. The knowledge and experience gained from Skylab provided a foundation for the design and development of future space stations. Skylab taught us that any long-duration space station will be highly dependent upon a space transportation system. The reusable space shuttle will continue to be a key component by providing frequent access to low earth orbit. Expendable launch vehicles may be used to carry both supplies and payloads to the space station. In the 1980s, the shuttle expanded our capabilities to live and work effectively in the space environment. The next step in space exploration and utilization, space station freedom, is currently being developed by the United States with cooperation from Canada, Europe, and Japan. As a research laboratory, freedom will increase scientific knowledge, stimulate the development of new technologies, and help realize the commercial potential of space. Many advances are being made in various technologies as we prepare for life aboard space station freedom. New spacesuit designs, robots, and a health maintenance facility are just a few of the developments underway. Eventually, space station users will want to increase their capabilities. As a result, freedom has been designed for expansion. Enhancements may include another structure, a spacecraft servicing facility, and more power. In addition to providing a research facility for the advancement of science and technology, freedom will serve as a base for future exploration. In building a lunar base or traveling to other planets, freedom will provide the departure point necessary to accomplish those missions. Space station freedom, an important prerequisite for future long term space travel, as our dreams of space exploration continue to become reality.


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The Ministry of Health and Wellness is expressing concern over the lack of adherence to protocols at mass crowd events. This comes as the ministry has observed an increase in daily COVID-19 cases over the last 14 days, with 140 new cases recorded for that period. The ministry notes an increase in campaign-related activity during that same period. With an average of 7 new cases daily and only 12% of the population fully vaccinated, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sharon Belmar George is sounding and alert to the organizers of events to ensure strict adherence to COVID-19 protocols. The organizers of these events are reminded to ensure the necessary authorization is granted through the Rural Tenement Police Force. All approved activities must be managed as protocols. It is of grave concern that we note mass crowd activities with no physical distancing, masks not worn or worn inappropriately. The public is reminded that we are still managing a pandemic with over 100 active cases in country with low vaccination coverage. This puts us at high risk for in-country transmission due to large activities without adherence to public health measures. Dr. Belmar George reminds the public that people with chronic diseases and compromised immune systems are at a greater risk of developing complications from COVID-19. With the threats of the introduction of new COVID-19 variants and or a spike in cases, the Ministry of Health projects an increase in hospitalizations and deaths if COVID-19 protocols are not adhered to. The Ministry of Health appeals to the public to prioritize health and safety at this time and to take all measures to prevent this disease. Vaccination remains the most effective public health measure in managing infectious diseases. Saint Lucia, like the rest of the region, has noted that our fully vaccinated people have not been hospitalized nor died from COVID-19 to date. The AstraZeneca vaccine has been proven to be safe and effective in protecting people from developing COVID-19 infection. Particularly severe COVID-19 illness is complications hospitalization and death related to COVID-19. We continue to urge every unvaccinated adult to access the various sites to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at the soonest. Persons wishing to be vaccinated this week can visit the following sites during the hours of 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, July 14, 2021, then removers preschool, VG Sports Complex. Thursday, July 15, 2021, Philip Marseille Grounds, VG Sports Complex. Friday, July 16, 2021, Jack Melwell Nest Center and Grossly Human Resource Center. In addition to vaccination, the chief medical officer emphasizes the importance of practicing daily COVID-19 preventative measures. These include regular hand washing, the use of face masks in public, the sanitization of frequently touched surfaces, and avoiding crowds. Individuals are urged to isolate themselves if they are experiencing respiratory symptoms and sick care immediately.


The Herald Perry Show! Hee hee hee! Herald Perry, as Honest Herald, the homemaker. Well, it's a chill November evening in Honest Herald's hometown, but as far as Herald is concerned, it might as well be spring. He's just had his date with the lovely Theodora, the dancing teacher. Right now, we find him reluctantly saying good night to her on her front porch. Well, good night, Harold. Good night, Theodora. Yeah? You want to stay out for a minute and talk? Hee hee hee hee. Well, it's awfully late, Harold. Thanks again for a very lovely evening. Oh, really wasn't much. Just dinner at the Antler Hotel in the moose room. Of course it was the deluxe dinner, $2.50 with a shrimp cocktail. Yeah. I enjoyed the movie, too. Yeah, so did I. Gosh, it was nice sitting there with you holding hands and snuggling up in the dark, Theodora. Yeah, movies are better than ever. Wasn't that mystery picture scary? Yeah. I like to go to mystery pictures with you, Theodora. Every time you get scared, you throw your arms around me. I did pretty well tonight. You got scared six times. That was because of that awful character. The one they called the Hummer. Yeah. Every time he was just about to murder somebody, he hummed that tune and that weird voice. Yeah. Theodora, wouldn't it be awful if the Hummer were right here in Delro Springs? Don't say that. He'd walk down the dark streets looking for his victims. Harold! And he'd come sneaking up behind you closer and closer and then... Harold? Yeah, yeah, yeah.  That isn't fair. No, but it's fun. Theodora, how about a kiss? Now? Oh, come on. Harold?  Darn it, I missed. I'm going in now. Good night, Harold. Good night, Theodora. She goes $7.30. Yes? Come here. She kissed me. Tonight must be can night. I better walk with my eyes open from now on. I'm wearing one. Pineapple can. Sure it was a nice evening. The Hummer. How could he be in little old sleepy Melrose Springs? Well, certainly fun saying good night to Theodora. What's that? Somebody's following me. Sounds like that Hummer.  Like that fellow in the movie. Probably saw me kissing Theodora. Hates lovers. Maybe he's going to take a shot at me. Good night, yourself. I'm getting out of here. The door's locked. What a police station. Pete, the slowest human. Howdy, Harold. Yep. Kind of a night owl, aren't you, boy? Never mind. Let me in quick. There's a man following me. Oh, will I let him in too? Oh, no. I think he's a lunatic, Pete. I want you to go out there and arrest him. Arrest him? Okay, but first I'll have to fill out a form. Pete, there isn't time for that. This man is dangerous. What make you think this man was dangerous, Harold? Well, he was humming Good Night Irene. How's that, boy? I said he was humming Good Night Irene. That's what I thought you said. What's the matter? Don't you like that song? Well, of course I like it. I think it's kind of pretty. Do you want to take the tenor part, boy? Yes. No, I don't, Pete. Sure. Harold, I can't arrest a man humming a sensible song like that. Now, if he was singing that one about, I'm waiting for ships that never come in, that'd be different. Pete, if you'll only... He had to do this. If the ship never comes in, what's the fellow waiting for? Big boob waiting all his life for his ship to come in. But the time the ship gets there, the pier will collapse. Good. Now, why don't he sing a song like, Oh, give me my boots and saddle. I haven't got a saddle, but I'd sure like to give you the boot, Good Night. What a police force. Maybe I didn't really hear that hummer. Probably just my imagination. Boom, brother, my imagination never sounded like that. I better get home to Mother. Good morning, Harold. Good morning, Mother. Why, what's the matter, son? You look so pale. Well, I didn't sleep very well last night. Oh, that's too bad. Well, you'll feel better after breakfast. It's all ready. Mother, Mother, Mother. Mother, please don't hum that song. Why, Harold, you are upset this morning. Oh, I know. It was that scary mystery picture you saw last night, the hummer. Yeah, it wasn't the picture, Mother. I don't want to frighten you, but when I was walking home from Theodora's last night, a very strange thing happened. Somebody followed me, making a humming sound, just like that man in the picture. Now, Harold, I'm sure that was just your imagination. But, Mother, some movies make a deep impression on you. Well, I can remember when I saw Ben Hur, I dreamt of coffee for three nights. Mother, really, I wasn't dreaming. I heard it twice. Harold, I bet I know. Someone was playing a joke on you, one of your friends. Playing a joke? Well, maybe you're right. Sure. You'd just like one of those corny characters who try to scare me. Sure, it could have been Doc Yancey or my boss Stanley Peabody. It must have been somebody. Well, now, don't worry any more about it. Say, Mother. Yes? Where were you last night at midnight? What? Only kidding, Mother. Little Mother's right. Imagine me worrying about my Hummer.  The old veterinary has been trying to get even with me ever since Halloween when I put the hula skirt on his old horse. Well, I'll just drop in and let him know he isn't fooling anybody. I'm just finishing up on this welch terrier here. His name's Clarence. Hello, Clarence. Cute little fella. Just been bobbing his tail, Harold. What can I do for you?  I hear you're a pretty good singer, too. Oh, I, uh, croon a little now and then. In fact, my animals prefer me to John Charles Thomas. I'll bet they do. You know, Doc, I'm looking for a new vocalist on my radio show. I just thought you might be interested. Well, I might be at that. You know, I sang the lead in the veterinarian's school operetta, Peacone's Knights. Peacone's Knights? Why don't you sing something for me now, Doc? Hey, you know what? Just sing something for me now, Doc. Any song at all. How about Good Night Irene? Well, certainly. I'd be glad to sing it. Don't bother with the words, Doc. Just hum it. All right. Here's where I trap it. Here goes. Of course, I'm a little out of practice. Yes, Doc. All right, go ahead. All right. And I sound much better with an orchestra. I know, Doc. Will you get going? All right. I'm all ready. Hummer didn't sound like that. That's enough. I'll see you in my dreams. He gots the dog, too. All right. Let's take the next course together. Come on, Clarence. What? I win Good Night. I win Good Night. He gots the Andrew sisters. Let me out of here. Doc Yak Yak isn't the Hummer. If it wasn't Doc, it must be Stanley Peabody. Yeah. He could hum like that. He was a boy soprano once. In case JP, I'll connect you. Oh, hello, Harold. Good morning, Gloria. Is our Mr. Peabody in? Yes, he is. Good. Oh, gee, Harold. I saw the scariest movie last night, The Hummer. Yes. And it had the most wonderful plot. This crazy fellow went along the street humming Hello, Irene. That's Good Night. Huh? Good Night, Gloria. Good Night. But, Harold, you just came in. And I'm leaving, too. I'm going in to see Peabody. I'll let that big shot boss of mine know he's not putting anything over on me. Come in. Oh, Stanley. What do you want, hemp?  It's solid brass. That's not the only thing that's solid brass around here. Stanley, hemp. Well, you please be careful. You're breathing on my potted joanium. Oh, sorry, little joanium.  What's that? And? Oh, I said it's well potted, too. Hemp, I'm a busy man. If you've got anything to say, say it. I'll get right to the point, Stanley. Where were you at 12.05 last night? Hmm, that happens to be none of your business. Yeah, he's the one. All right. Peabody, I've got you this time and you can't slip out of it. You're the Hummer. Deny it. I deny it. He slipped out of that. Hemp, what are you babbling about? If you must know, at 12 midnight, I followed my customary procedure. I listened to the frost warnings, adjusted my electric blanket accordingly, and went to bed. You did, huh, Stanley? Well, then I guess it wasn't you. Stanley, there's a lunatic loose around this town. Yes, I know. Why don't you give yourself up, Hemp? I hate him. Smart, Alex. Well, maybe I just imagined I heard that humming. Uh, better get my office here and get some work done on tomorrow's program and just forget the whole darn thing. What's that? The Hummer? He's in my office. Well, I'm not afraid of him. Better take this model off, no? I'll rush right in and meet him face to face. He makes a move, I'll rush right out again. Well, here it goes. Nobody here. He's invisible. Where's it coming from? Oh, a record on my phonograph. Sorry you couldn't wait last night, Honest Harold, but I'll be seeing you soon. Not if I see you first, brother. For the second act of our story, Honest Harold, in just a moment. Rudolph, the famous reindeer, will be given a highly special treatment when Judy Garland visits Bing Crosby on Bing's program just a little later tonight. That's the Bing Crosby show on most of these same CBS stations. And now, Honest Harold, the homemaker. Who is the Hummer? Why is he pursuing Honest Harold? When will he strike? Right now, alone in his office in the radio station, Honest Harold waits. The Hummer could be anywhere, everywhere. But is Honest Harold nervous? Is he worried? Is he afraid? You said it. Never know when the Hummer will try to come in here. Better barricade the door. First the desk. Filing cabinet. I can just pick up this water cooler. Slippery. Splash some on me. Cold. Made it. I'd like to see anybody trying to get through that door now. Who's that? It's Gloria Harold. Can I come in? No, you can't, Gloria. In fact, the way I've got this door barricaded, not even Primo Carnera could force his way in. He? Oops, forgot the door open the other way. Gloria, did Pete and Marshall get here yet? I want them to be my bodyguard. He'd be a little delayed. Delayed? Why? Well, his little nephew is sick and Pete's delivering his papers for him. Oh, my goodness. Oh, and somebody else called for you too, Harold. Theadora. I hope she doesn't come down here. The Hummer saw me kiddin', sayin' goodnight to her. That's why he's after me. Oh gee, isn't this exciting? Nobody knows who the Hummer is. Why, it could be anybody. It could even be me. What? Gloria, cut that out. See you later, Harold. Better push this furniture back in place. Who's that? It's the Hummer. Come on in, Pete. Boom! Very funny. It's about time you got here. Do you realize this Hummer might come in any minute?  Oh, well, I've never been a bodyguard before. Let me look it up in my policeman manual. Policeman manual? Let me see here. Money, money, money. Oh, here it is. Do not move the body until the arrival of the coroner. Yes. Pete! My still, Harold. Remove the body to the morgue. Pete, look, just a minute. All I want you to do is sit outside the door and don't let anybody in or out. Now, you got that? Gotcha, boy. In every five minutes, I want you to look in and see if I'm all right. Look in and see if you're all right. Gotcha. Now, will you get outside? I've got work to do. Okay. Are you all right, Harold? Pete, it's not five minutes yet. Get practicing, boy. Yeah. What kind of protection can I expect from that lunkhead? Melrose Springs Police Farce. See you, Dora. Now, how did you get in here? I just walked in. Oh, that Pete. Why, Harold? You don't seem very glad to see me. I'm very glad to see you. Goodbye. Goodbye. Harold. You did that this way last night. See, Dora, you don't understand. The Hummer's after me. If he saw you here with me, there's no telling what he'd do. The Hummer's after you. That's very funny. Yeah, that's what you think. You're just saying that so I put my arms around you. I am not.  Dora, I'm not... Remember how you said good night to me last night? Dora, please. You were standing real close. Like this. Then I put my arms around you. Like this. Zoink. Aren't you going to kiss me? Shetty bear? Dora, hi. Oh, what the heck?  This is the way to go. Pucker up, Theodora. I'm waiting. Wait a minute, Harold. You all right? Pete, you're supposed to be outside watching for the Hummer. You sure got a Hummer there, boy. She's dark outside. Certainly lonesome here at the station. Just me and Pete. Wonder if he's still outside the door. What's that? Somebody's coming. Stopped outside the door. Is that you, Pete? Pete. Door knob is turning. Door's opening. Must be the Hummer. Hello, Harold.  Why didn't you knock? I didn't want to wake up your bodyguide. You mean he's asleep? Goodness. I brought along a friend, Harold. What? Clarence, this is Harold. Yeah, I met him. The Welsh Caroler. He auditioned for me. What do you want, Doc? Well, we come down to help you, Harold.  Clarence has volunteered to track down the Hummer. Oh, for heaven's sake. I thought he was a Welsh Terrier, not a bloodhound. Confidentially, Harold, his mother was a Welsh Terrier, but his father was with the Army Intelligence. G2? No, K9. Listen, Doc, I don't want any more. All he's got to do, Harold, is smell something that belonged to the Hummer, and then he can crack him down. Oh, say, where's that phonograph record that fella left? Doc, please. Oh, here it is. Come on, take a whiff of that, Clarence. Oh, he got the smell. He sure has.  He picked up the trail, Harold. He has? Doc, Doc, why did he stop? Harold, huh? The Hummer's right here in this room. What? Find that curtain. Who? He is? That's right.  He's got the Hummer, Harold.  Pull back that curtain. All right. Hummer. He's got my bologna sandwich from yesterday's lunch. It's funny. I didn't know he liked bologna.  The Hummer in this room, why, I'll bet he's not with it. Who's bodyguards reporting, Harold? Are you all right, boy? Sorry we woke you up, Pete. Look, Harold. Well, there's a note pinned to Pete's chest. There is? Ain't that a doozy? Let me see that. Honest, Harold, meet me at midnight at the old Sawmill. It's from the Hummer, fellas.  Well, now that was strategy, boy. What? Yeah, we made him show his hand. Now, all we gotta do is bait the trap at the old Sawmill and then spring it on him. Huh? Who's gonna be the bait? You, boy. I saw it. Come on. Yeah. All right. You're spooky out here. Push the moon and come out. Here we are. Yeah. Yeah. Let's see if the door is locked. Dark in there. Go on in, Harold. Me? Why don't you go in? You're the law. You're the bait, Pete. You've got nothing to worry about, Harold. I'll be right out here. Wait. Waitin'. Yeah, thanks. Just call out to me any time you want to. We better throw the Hummer off the track, though. Call me by an assumed name. Alice. Go on. Don't stop pushing. Can't see a thing here. The darkest Sawmill I've ever seen. I better check the Pete. Are you there, Alice? Right here, Emily. Emily.  I wonder where that Hummer is. Probably hiding behind some of this machinery. What's that? Something bit me. Something with sharp teeth. Backed into a buzzsaw. Guess they got him an all Sawmills. Better check Pete again. Are you there, Alice? That Pete, he's forgotten the signal already. Are you there, Alice? Oh, it's an owl. Who yourself, you flat-faced ninny? Maybe the Hummer isn't gonna show up. Maybe I'd better go home. There he is. Oh, brother, he's coming closer. What am I gonna do? Pete?  Oh, brother, well, this is it. Okay, Hummer, you got me, but I'm not going down without a fight. Who turned on that light? I did, honest, Harold. Who are you? What have you been following before?  Shoot, no. Shucks, no. I just wanted to fly out here, buy out here. I wanna try out for your radio program. My radio program? Yeah. Why didn't you come in the studio and audition? Well, shucks, I started to, but I'm too bold-headed. Yeah? I mean, I'm too bashful to sing in public. It sounds like a broken record. Well, that's why I asked you out to this sawmill. Oh, my goodness. I also play the musical song. Musical song? Yeah, like this. Yeah, yeah. You like it? You like it? Oh, I love it, yeah. You mind if I join you? You can sing center. I mean, team winner. Oh, what the heck? Take it, Hummer. I'd like to step out of character for just a moment to tell you something about Travis Air Base, which is just a few miles from San Francisco. It's a terminal where our boys are sent to the battlefields, where many of our heroic wounded from the Korean front are flown in. These are wounded fighting Americans unconcerned over their own injuries, many of which will keep them hospitalized for life. They're hurt and saddened by the overwhelming blow of mass retreat caused by an enemy which outnumbered them 50 to 1. We of the entertainment industry are trying to help them a bit in our own small way by sending performers weekly from Hollywood to try and ease their hurts and disappointments through laughter. I've been selected to take a company on Operation Santa Claus to that hospital December the 23rd. I'd like to say to those boys, thank you from all America for what you've faced and sacrificed for us. You listeners can help me say that by sending me gifts which I'll be glad to deliver to them the day that I arrive. It doesn't matter so much what you send, so long as it's something. A tangible Christmas remembrance to those men who gave their all so that you and I might be free. Please go out an hour tomorrow at the very latest, buy your gift and send it to me, Harold Perry, Post Office Box 150, Los Angeles 53, California. I'll do the rest. Enclose a card with your gift, with your name and address. Maybe the boy who receives your gift may want to write thanks. Anyway, send it now to Harold Perry, Post Office Box 150, Los Angeles 53, California. And may God bless you. Good night. You have just heard the Harold Perry show, Honest Harold. The supporting players tonight included Jane Morgan, Parley Bayer, Mary Alden, Ray Hoback and Elmore Vincent. Oh, Senator Fischer. And featured Gloria Holiday as Gloria and Joseph Kearns as Old Doc Yak Yak. Norman MacDonald directed and the music was composed and conducted by Jack Meakin. Honest Harold created by Harold Perry was written by Gene Stone, Jack Robinson and Dick Powell. That's a familiar name, isn't it? Bob LeMond speaking. This is CBS, The Columbia Broadcasting System.


A convicted Level 3 sex offender is being released from prison and will be moving to the Bemidji area. 49-year-old Chester Grauburger is currently serving time for criminal sexual conduct, but will be released on February 20th after serving his sentence. At that time, Grauburger will be moving to the vicinity of Pony Lake Road, Northwest, and Highway 89 in Liberty Township, Northwest of Bemidji. The Beltrami County Sheriff's Office will be hosting a community notification meeting at 6 p.m. on Monday, February 19th at Eccles Community Center. Representatives from the Beltrami County Sheriff's Office and the Minnesota Department of Corrections will be on hand to provide information and answer any questions.


Do you think that the Holy Spirit has left you?  Do you feel like God? Do you feel like the Holy Spirit is a million miles away? Well, if you're asking the question, has the Holy Spirit left me? If you feel that feeling that the Holy Spirit has left you, then I want to make this clear. You are operating on feelings, not on faith. So the first point I want to establish here using Scripture is the fact that the Holy Spirit does not abandon the believer. He does not leave you to your own demise. He does not reject you because of some mistake that you made. The Holy Spirit faithfully abides. And then I want to show you why you might be feeling like the Holy Spirit has distanced himself from you. I want to get into the Scripture and even somewhat into your feelings and thoughts to show you how that deception forms to where you begin now feeling and questioning and wondering, has the Holy Spirit abandoned me? But here's what I want you to do. I want you in the comment section right now to write a statement of faith, even if you don't feel like it right at this moment, even if this is difficult for you to believe. I want you to publicly declare, write it in the comment section, this simple phrase, He's still with me. Write it in the comment section right now. He's still with me. Again, you may not feel that right now. You may have trouble believing that.  So again, we're going to look at what the Scripture says about the Holy Spirit abiding with you. And then I want to get into some of the minutia as to why you might be feeling that the Holy Spirit has abandoned you. First, go with me to Romans chapter 8 verse 9. But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you. And remember that those who do not have the Spirit of Christ living in them do not belong to Him at all. It's important to remember that the presence of the Holy Spirit fills your being at the very moment of salvation. Salvation is a miracle. Salvation is a work of the Holy Spirit. It's a mystery of the Spirit. How are we born again of the Spirit? No man really understands that completely, but we do know that it's a miracle of God. And when you are born again of the Spirit, the Holy Spirit must be present for that regeneration, for that new life to begin to flow.  Now let me balance this by saying that I am not in any way implying or suggesting that you can go on sinning without any consequence whatsoever. No, your sin does have consequences. We're going to read Ephesians 4.30 in a moment where we'll see that one of those consequences is grieving the Holy Spirit. You will still reap from the sins that you commit, especially in the natural world. There are consequences to the choices that we make. Of course, yes, sin has consequences, even to some extent in the eternal realm. After you've left this world, after you've stood before God, there may be loss of heavenly reward because of the way that we live. But does the Holy Spirit abandon the true believer? No. Does the true believer desire to be holy? Yes.  No one is really suggesting that when they say that the Holy Spirit doesn't leave you. In fact, that desire to live holy is in part evidence that the Holy Spirit still abides with you. So here we see, though, that salvation or the identity of the believer is tied together with the presence of the Holy Spirit. You cannot separate the two. You cannot separate the two. You, as a born-again believer, have the Holy Spirit.  Both of those realities are always true simultaneously. And that's very clear in Romans chapter 8 verse 9. Now, John chapter 14 verses 15 through 18 says it more directly. Watch this now. This is Jesus speaking. If you love me, obey my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another advocate who will never leave you. He is the Holy Spirit who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive Him because it isn't looking for Him and doesn't recognize Him. But you know Him because He lives with you now and later will be in you. No, I will not abandon you as orphans. I will come to you. Now, of course, there is this prerequisite where Jesus says, if you love me, obey my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another advocate. Well, how do we fulfill the commandments? How do we receive righteousness? Well, the Scripture says that Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness. Ephesians chapter 2 verses 8 and 9 make it clear that by putting our faith in Christ, we receive salvation. By putting our faith in Christ, we receive that righteousness. So it is by putting my faith in Christ that I vicariously fulfill the commands to the life of Christ. So the Holy Spirit then comes to abide. And once He comes to abide, Jesus says, He will never leave you. He abides faithfully. Now, you may imagine that your last mistake was the one to finally do you in. You may imagine that your last fault, your last whatever you want to call it, lapse in judgment. You may be saying, oh, man, I've really messed up this time. But what would it make sense? How would it make sense for God to remove from you your only power to be holy as a punishment for not living holy? That would make no sense whatsoever. So we understand that if we have this desire for holiness that the Holy Spirit abides. Now, Ephesians 4.30 says this, And do not bring sorrow to God's Holy Spirit by the way you live. Remember, He has identified you as His own, guaranteeing that you will be saved on the day of redemption. Now, I want you to look at what the Scripture says here. And really consider what it's saying. That the way you live can grieve the precious Holy Spirit. I don't want to do that. I don't want to live in a way that grieves Him. So that, of course, is a consequence of sin, but He still abides. Now, again, I want to make this clear. I'm not saying this means you can live however you want. I'm saying that if you're truly born again, you will want to live holy. And as you begin to take this journey, as you begin to submit yourself to this process of sanctification, that the Holy Spirit works with you. He works with you patiently. So why does it seem then that sometimes the Holy Spirit has abandoned us? What makes us feel that? Well, we've already established from Scripture that the Holy Spirit abides faithfully. In fact, let's read Ephesians 4.30. And do not bring sorrow to God's Holy Spirit by the way you live. Look at this again here. Remember, He has identified you as His own, guaranteeing that you will be saved on the day of redemption. In fact, the Scripture very clearly calls the Holy Spirit the seal, meaning He's there to help you get it right. So this is the third time I'm confirming this because I don't want to confuse a new believer. So let me just say this clearly. It's not that we can go on sinning without consequence.  So again, why does it seem then like sometimes the Holy Spirit has left you? You may be feeling that right now. I feel like He's distant. I feel like He's a million miles away. I feel like God doesn't hear me. And you just kind of have this burden on you.  He still loves you. He's still abiding with you. And He hasn't rejected you. We see that in Scripture. So you have to ask yourself, do I believe my feelings, or do I believe by faith what the Bible says? Well, you have to believe the Word. So when we establish that the Holy Spirit faithfully abides with the believer, then we can dismiss this idea that He has abandoned us. And once you've come to accept the Scripture, once you've started with the foundation of truth from Scripture, then you can begin to ask the right questions. You stop asking, why did the Holy Spirit leave me? And you begin asking, why do I feel like the Holy Spirit has left me even though the Scripture clearly indicates that He does not? Well, number one, here's one of the number one reasons why believers sometimes feel like God has distanced Himself from them. Number one is sin. You have compromise and sin in your life and you will feel distant from God. This does not mean that He has actually left you or abandoned you. Why? Because again, what sense would it make? For God to look down from the balcony of heaven and say, you know what? You made a mistake. You didn't live holy today. So now I'm going to remove from you the only power, the only chance, the only opportunity that you have to live holy. He wouldn't do that. Instead, for His child, He provides grace and grace is not a license to sin. Grace is the power to resist sin. Grace is the empowering, indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit that gives us the ability to walk in holiness. Look at Hebrews chapter 10 verses 21 and 22. And since we have a great high priest who rules over God's house, let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts, fully trusting Him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ's blood to make us clean and our bodies have been washed with pure water. So we can enter boldly. We can go right into the presence of God without disruption. Why? Because the conscience has been cleansed. When you sin, you have guilt, shame, a sense of inadequacy, and the enemy uses that shame, guilt, and sense of inadequacy to endorse His lie that God has rejected you. Now again, I'm not talking about that one who's just living how they want, not repenting, not trying, who's rebelling against God and saying, oh, there are no consequences. Oh, nothing bad's gonna happen to me because I doubt that kind of person is even saved to begin with. Let's just be honest. I'll put it to you bluntly. If somebody doesn't care about living holy or pleasing God or living a life that meets His standards, if they don't even care about that, then I doubt that they've ever received Christ truly. I doubt that they've ever been truly born again. But a true believer is gonna get frustrated with that sin in their life. They're gonna get frustrated with their mistakes. They're gonna become bold about resisting the flesh.  I have to break free from this. And so sometimes though, you do fall into a mistake. Sometimes you do make a foolish choice. And then when you make that mistake suddenly now, you have feelings of shame, guilt, inadequacy, and you feel distant from God. And what does the enemy do? He takes the opportunity where your emotions are at an all-time low and he endorses his lies with your emotions. He uses your emotions to make his lie more believable. And then what do we do? We obsess about it. We wanna hear that our specific sin has been forgiven instead of just looking to the general instructions of scripture that clearly indicate to us that if we repent, we confess, we turn from that wrong doing that God forgives us. You don't need someone to sit down with you and go down a specific list of your specific sins and say, and confirm to you, oh yeah, that one's covered. Yeah, that one's covered. Yeah, that one's covered.  So that's number one. You're living in sin consistently. You're practicing habitual sin. You're giving into temptation.   And then of course the result of that is going to be that you feel distant from God. But again, that's your feelings. That's not reality. The word says he abides. Your feelings say he's abandoned me. Are you going to believe his word or your feelings? Number two, trials. In the same way that the enemy uses our mistakes to endorse his lie that God has abandoned us, so the enemy uses our trials to endorse his lie that God has abandoned us. Romans chapter eight, verses 35 through 37. Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love? Now look at the rhetorical question being asked here. Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity or are persecuted or hungry or destitute or in danger or threatened with death? As the scriptures say, for your sake we are killed every day. We are being slaughtered like sheep. No, despite all these things overwhelming victory is ours through Christ who loved us. Some of us think God's ignoring me or I'll hear believers say things like I've been praying to God for year after year after year and all these years I've been suffering. God's just completely ignored me and God's not answered my prayers and God is doing nothing but rejecting me. What are they doing? They're living by their feelings, not by the word. They're looking at their circumstances. They're looking at their trials. They're looking at the challenges and the tragedies that they face and they're allowing those circumstances to cause them to come to a conclusion that's against what the scripture teaches. But the Bible clearly tells us that just because we are persecuted or facing calamity or trouble or because we're hungry or destitute that doesn't mean that God has abandoned us. That's not an indication that God has rejected us. We shouldn't take that as a sign that we are now a million miles away from God.   But the enemy will try to take your circumstances and then use that as evidence to say, look, he's abandoned you. Well, first of all, if you believe that, then I think that you need to rethink what you think about the gospel. If you believe that trials are proof that God has abandoned you or trials are proof that God doesn't love you, then you need to revisit what you think about the gospel in a fundamental way. And finally, number three, a lack of devotion. Isaiah 26.3 says, This is a portion of Scripture that we read quite often here, but the fact of the matter is that what you focus on will produce feelings in you.  You lack prayer and the Word and worship. You lack that connection, or I shouldn't even say you lack connection. Rather, I should say you lack the acknowledgement of that connection through prayer on the Word and worship. Of course, you're going to start feeling distant. You don't go to church. You don't pray daily. You're not reading the Word. You're not worshiping Him. You're not doing anything that causes you to acknowledge that presence. And because you're not doing those things that cause you to acknowledge that presence, you feel like He's distant. But again, those are only feelings. He's not abandoned you. He's not rejected you. He's with you. Jesus said, I'll send an advocate, and He will never leave you. He abides. Yes, you should live holy. No, it's not a license to sin. But if you've made a mistake, God doesn't withdraw His Holy Spirit from you. Instead, you grieve the Holy Spirit. Yes, but He abides.  And He says, let me help you do this. I'm not going to leave you to yourself destruction. I'm not going to give up on you. That's a word for someone right now.  I am not giving up on you. He abides. So Father, I pray you help them to receive these truths. Come on, just let the Holy Spirit settle these realities in your heart and in your mind. Help them to receive these truths, despite what the enemy says. Help these truths to permeate their entire being. Let them live by these truths that you'll never leave us nor forsake us. That you've not rejected us. And that you will, Lord, finish the work that you started in us. For you are the author and the finisher of our faith. Give them peace, Lord, and let them sense your presence. In Jesus' name we pray. I want you to say it because you believe it, say amen. 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Good morning, everybody. Happy Friday. Welcome to the final day of KubeCon Cloud Native Con, Europe, and our last set of keynotes. Before we get started, we would like to invite all of you to join a Slack channel, Celebrate. It's in the CNCF Slack channel. It's Celebrate, C-E-L-E-B-R-A-T-E. This is a place where the community can shout out your appreciation for each other or even celebrate your own personal wins. We would love to see hard work get recognized. So please join us, and don't be shy when you see amazing achievements in the community, and please feel free to share it in the Slack channel. And now let's kick things off for our first set of keynotes for today. Our first presenter is Petter Svayam. Petter is a senior distinguished engineer and chief architect with Veritas. Today, he's going to discuss best practices to provide integrated, automated, elastic data protection and disaster recovery in cloud and Kubernetes. Please welcome Petter Svayam.