beginning at verse one reading to verse three and then I'm going to give you a prolonged introduction and Get into the study Jonah chapter one beginning at verse one now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of amity saying arise Go to Nineveh that great city and cry out against it for their wickedness has come up before me But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish So he paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord Let me give you an introduction to the book of Jonah and then what we'll do is we'll develop this study and Look at some very basic things about it's only 17 verses And so we ought to be able to cover most of this tonight in a very Fairly casual, but factual way. Let me give you the background Jonah is a prophet Jonah lived around 760 before Christ and he was from a region called Zebulun Which is by the in the north by the Sea of Galilee according to 2nd Kings 1425 Jonah ministered as a prophet during the reign of a king named Jeroboam the second who was the king of Israel Jonah is often referred to as the reluctant prophet and That's because after his initial call he chose to flee rather than fulfill the commission God had given to him Now I immediately find this interesting especially when you compare it with the call of other Galileans When we're looking in the gospel of Matthew for example in chapter 2 verses 20 and verse 22 Those verses tell us that Peter James John and Andrew after receiving the call from the Lord immediately responded and answered But Jonah on the other hand Rejected the call and actually tried to escape from God Now in this book God has a message he has a message for an ancient and evil city called Nineveh Nineveh was the ancient capital city of Assyria Assyria is Ancient Iraq and it was the greatest city of its day When you look at the Bible you discover in Genesis chapter 10 verses 8 through 11 That this city was founded by a man by the name of Nimrod When you read concerning Nimrod you might find it interesting to know it and I'm not going to give you a study Concerning Nimrod, but it's interesting when you look at him that his name meant rebellion and So this city was actually founded by a man named rebellion in Genesis chapter 10 verses 8 through 11. It says Kush was the father of Nimrod who grew to be a mighty warrior on the earth He was a mighty hunter before the Lord That is why it is said like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord And when you look at like Nimrod a mighty hunter The literal translation as I have seen it through commentators is like this like Nimrod a mighty hunter of men Before or against the Lord? That's what he was all about so the first centers of his kingdom were Babylon Eric Akkad and Colne in Shinar from that land he went to Assyria where he built Nineveh, so it's a very ancient city During the time of Jonah again 760 BC Nineveh had become a great city According to chapter 4 when we get there verse 11 it had a population of no less than a hundred and twenty thousand Now to you that may not mean much because obviously here we here in the United States have cities that number in the millions When you combine for example Chino Chino Hills you have over a hundred and twenty thousand people by itself Ontario's got like a hundred and eighty thousand people So we don't really think in terms of that being large But indeed it was because most of the cities in all would have been very small in population And and many would have really been called like villages So when you have a city of no less than a hundred and twenty thousand that really in ancient times was an immense an immense city It took three days to walk around this city if you include walking through what would be called the suburbs And if you began to go into the center of the city, it was a full day's journey It was an extremely wicked nation It was known for extreme cruelties when you look into some history related to to Assyria and all There are certain things that I gleaned so I can give you instances of this from some of the The chronicles of its kings from the histories of its kings and there are comments that they wrote that were discovered That have been preserved and these are things that were written by some of their kings for example there was a King named Asher Nasser Paul and He wrote he wrote I stormed the mountain peaks and took them in the midst of the mighty mountain I slaughtered them with their blood. I died the mountain red like wool the heads of their warriors I cut off and I formed them into a pillar over against their wall their young men and their maidens I burned in the fire He wrote concerning the capture of a leader He wrote concerning this I flayed him his skin. I spread upon the wall of the city He spoke of mutilating bodies of live captives stacking their corpses in piles That was Asher Nasser Paul Shaman Esser Boasted the second boasted of his cruelties after campaign. He said a pyramid of heads I reared in front of his city their youths and their maidens. I burnt up in flames Then you have Sennacherib. I cut their throats like lambs. I cut off their precious lives as one cuts a string Like the many waters of a storm. I made the contents of their gullets and entrails run down upon the wide earth their hands I cut off Then you have Asher Bonapal He was describing the treatment of a captured leader. He said I pierced his chin with my keen hand dagger Through his jaw I passed a rope put a dog chain upon him and made him occupy a kennel He later boasted of hanging Egyptian corpses on stakes and stripped off their skins and covered the city walls with them These were nice guys No wonder the prophet Naim Wrote concerning Nineveh in Naim chapter 3 verse 1 woe to the city of blood Full of lies full of plunder never without victims He said in chapter 3 verse 19 nothing can heal your wound your injury is fatal Everyone who hears the news about you claps his hands at your fall for who has not felt your endless cruelty so a Syria its capital city Nineveh had a terrible reputation an evil reputation It was horribly evil and yet in spite of this incredible evil God desires to deliver them from impending judgment When you look at the book of Jonah, what is its message? Let me give you some things to see again laying its context so that as I read through it You'll get a grasp of it a better grasp One of the things you see the first thing you see the message of the book is that God loves the whole world God loves the whole world not just a single person and not just a single nation He loves the world John 3 16 God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life First lesson we can glean from this is God loves the whole world You see Israel was to reveal the love of God to the world as The elect covenantal nation of God Isaiah 49 3 Reads he said to me you are my servant. Oh Israel in whom I will be glorified Paul and 1st Timothy 2 3 and 4 said it like this This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior who will have all men to be saved and To come unto the knowledge of the truth God loves the world and would have all men to be saved So this book serves to remind Israel of its missionary purpose Secondly the book reveals that God will have his way because after all he is the Lord of all the earth Israel has been unfaithful Unfaithful in his mission yet. God still wants his message to be delivered and He made sure his message of salvation is delivered even as we'll see in chapter 2 verse 9 Where Jonah says salvation is of the Lord A third thing we see is the response of the Gentiles Because the response of the Gentiles serves as a rebuke to sinful Israel You see the response of the pagan sailors serves as a contrast with Jonah's hostility These these people were concerned with a Jewish prophet But he wasn't concerned with a great city And his hatred for the Ninevites prejudiced him against preaching repentance for salvation You know, there are people even today in the church Who would not have any problem whatsoever Hearing that somebody that they don't like died and went to hell They still have that kind of mentality somebody offended somebody hurt them somebody did something wrong to them And they're almost reading the obituaries waiting just to see that name in it So they can rejoice And that was unfortunately the heart of Jonah And a fourth thing before we get into the actual study of the book a fourth thing Is Jonah is a symbol to Israel of the nation's disobedience to God and indifference Jonah was disobedient to God He fled When God said to go And when he's taken into that great fish It's a picture of God's displeasure with the nation of Israel But when he repents it represents God's desire to forgive and to restore and to use for his glory That's what we're going to see as we begin this study of the book of Jonah verse one Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of amity the word of the Lord The word of the Lord came Is a phrase that reveals Jonah to be a prophet He was to speak to the people the mind of God As it says in Deuteronomy 18 18 and we'll put my words in his mouth and he will tell them everything I command him Or aim is three seven Surely the Lord God does nothing unless he reveals his secret to the servants his servants the prophets So when it says the word of the Lord came it's another way of saying Jonah was a prophet God's word came to him so that he might speak forth the message of God to the people that he intended God intended to communicate to And so God intended to use him to preach God's message And as a prophet Jonah is under the orders orders and he and he ordinarily would have obeyed immediately Because that's what prophets do But he got his orders And when he got his orders, well, he didn't he didn't respond. Well, here are your orders arise go to ninova that great city cry out against it For their wickedness has come up before me So God gives them orders you're to go to ninova now ninova was located 550 miles to the north and the east of Of samaria it was on the tigress river If Jonah rises up and walks there, it's going to take him about a month So it's a month's journey to go from israel that area of israel All the way up to the northeast Into this place and he's going to bring a message notice the message you are to preach against the city And when it says you're to preach against the city, this is a message of impending judgment You are to pronounce its doom God is about to destroy For their wickedness Now according to chapter three verse eight, it's an evil city filled with violence Again in the book of neyam in chapter three verses three and four as neyam was describing ninova He spoke of it as having charging cavalry flashing swords glittering spears Many casualties piles of dead bodies without number of people stumbling over corpses All because of the wanton lust of a harlot Alluring the mistress of sorceries who enslaved nations by her prostitution and people by her witchcraft They hated ninova And god was looking down from heaven if you will And god saw it. It's not that god ignores. It's not that god doesn't see there have been times when when i have said, oh lord It seems as if your eyes are closed to this Don't you see God's eyes are not closed to it God's eyes were not closed in but god does have patience But what are the things we need to know about god's patience is god's patience has its limits You may be an immensely patient person You may be one of those people that seems unperturbed and unruffled under any circumstances But eventually your your patience gets to its limit You might find this interesting i'm I've grown to become a a pretty non-reactive person So my kids my kids Often don't know when something's bothering me They just because i don't tell them I don't act as if it is i'm actually if it's really bothering me i take it to the lord And and that's what i'm doing or if there's a concern of some sort I kind of keep it to myself. So they really don't know When something's going on that they should be concerned about so not that long ago We had a barbeque during the summer.   You know what? I don't play that, you know Because i learned a long time ago That you need to have reserve right and and god is reserved He's very patient But you may think That you are okay with god And you stay in sin and and and you think he must be okay. He hasn't done anything about it yet When the lord is just Showing his patience to us the lord is not slow in keeping his promise as some understand slowness He is patient with you not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance So what gives us the impression that he's all right with us is really god's long suffering with us And he was suffering long with ninova But it had reached the top It's time It's over It's time to deal with it And he's sending a prophet And he says you tell them Destruction is coming Destruction is coming So Jonah verse three arose to flee to tarshish from the presence of the lord He went down to japa found a ship going to tarshish So he paid the fare went down into it to go with them to tarshish from the presence of the lord Jonah i want you to go to tarshish. No I'm going to go in the opposite direction I'm going to leave and i'm actually going to go in a direction. You didn't ask me to go He was motivated by his hatred for asyria and his misplaced nationalism Now the thing is jonah's not afraid of the difficulty of preaching to them But he was afraid and you'll see this when we get to the end in chapter four. You'll see this. It's very clear there He wasn't afraid of the difficulty and listen preaching can be difficult Especially when you're preaching to a group of people like these ninovites these assyrians who are bloodthirsty monstrous savages But that is not what he was concerned about what he was concerned about is that they would listen to the message and get saved That's what he was concerned about You're asking me to go preach to isis Contemporary they need to burn Jonah Jonah I don't want to go there. So what's he do it goes in the opposite direction It's kind of like this. It's It's that attitude only people I love can be saved My mom had a Silly sense of humor if you knew or you would know that People say David you got your humor from your mom In some ways. Yeah, I I did my mom was very quick-witted And she would make you laugh.   She would say things like that. But but there are people who actually Actually feel that way. You don't receive the lord here Go to hell And but the fact is that's a literal place And so it's really like only those people I love can get saved the rest I don't really need with me forget about it Somebody said this because Jonah was sorry that god was so kind He would rather not preach Yes, would rather die Than that the grace of god Which was to be the peculiar privilege of the people of israel Should be communicated to the Gentiles also Who had neither the word of god nor the laws of moses nor the worship of god nor prophets nor anything else But rather strove against god and his word and his people He didn't want To go and give this message to these people. So what did he do? It says he he fled from the presence of the lord the word presence speaks really of faith literally It represents Jonah's relationship with god when he's fleeing from the presence It represents his relationship with god and that would include his relationship with god as a prophet When he speaks of presence genesis chapter three verse eight says it like this They heard the sound of the lord god walking in the garden in the cool of the day and adam and his wife Hit themselves from the presence of the lord Among the trees of the gardens. So he was hiding from his relationship with god and forsaking his position As a prophet he was renouncing his calling. He was saying i'm Literally i'm making a choice if you will to backslide I'm out of here. I'm not going you want me to go to the east. I'm going to the west now He goes to japa It says he went down to japa japa is to see see uh seaport We go we we've been there many times. It's it's 35 miles or so from where he had been And he boards a ship and he goes off to tarshish Which would have been around a 2,500 mile journey by ship Tarshish is modern is modern spain So he's going to the southern tip of modern spain is where he's fleeing to Well Verse four the lord sent out a great wind on the sea It was a mighty tempest on the sea so that the ship was about to be broken up The mariners were afraid every man cried out to his god through the cargo That was in the ship into the sea to lighten the load But jonah had gone down into the lowest parts of the ship Had lain down and was fast asleep So the captain came to him and said to him What do you mean sleeper arise call on your god perhaps your god will consider us so that we may not perish They said to one another come let us cast lots that we may know For whose cause this trouble has come upon us. They cast lots a lot fell on jonah They said to him please tell us for what causes this trouble upon us. What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? And of what people are you he said to them? I'm a hebrew I fear the lord doesn't appear that way at the moment does it? I fear the lord the god of heaven who made the sea and the dry land Um, here you go. Here's something practical. It's not that easy to run from god It's not that easy to run from god There are people in this room who understand exactly what I mean because you've tried to Well, I'll just get away. I just leave.  I'm only in the church I'm nowhere else They run from god God has given them a call and has said this is what you're to do And they say it doesn't fit my agenda. It doesn't fit my preference. It doesn't fit my life It doesn't fit in With what I want to do and what you're telling me to do Is something I will not do So instead of doing what you're telling me to do I'm going to do what I want to do Anybody in here running from god right now There are some who are Every time you have a group as large as this there are people running from god. There's no doubt. There's no doubt That's just a law of average. It's not like i'm a prophet. They'll say to the lord off to my right. I feel a No, it's just a law of averages Anytime people grab gather together. There are some people who say that's me Because god spoke to your heart god told you what to do.  Well, I was going there, but you know they so i'm going over here So they have the appearance of really walking with god because they go to church But in reality, they're just running from place to place because when the holy spirit has his laser beam and he puts it on them through conviction Man they're jumping trying to get out of the way kind of like the matrix, you know My dad only spanked me a couple times in my whole life Part of the reason why is because he didn't want to kill me and the other reason was because He would laugh When he tried to spank me Because as a little boy I would jump All over the place When he would grab me by the hand and say it's time to get your spanking I would jump and I would dodge and I would move and I would try to run And he'd start laughing he always said And he'd say just don't do it again and I I learned how to dodge my father's punishment, but i've never been able to dodge gods chastening Because you can't run from him You know the psalmist asks the question it's found in psalm 139 verses 7 through 12. Where can I go from your spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens you're there If I make my bed in the depths you are there If I rise on the wings of the dawn if I settle on the far side of the sea even there your hand will guide me Your right hand will hold me fast If I say surely the darkness will hide me the light becomes night around me Even the darkness will not be dark to you the night will shine like the day for darkness is as light To you you can't run from god Best thing to do is give up Best thing to do is trust him and do what he says And so what happens he decides he's going to go to spain going to the coast and he's going to just body serve Well, the lord sent this great wind on the sea There was a mighty tempest on the sea so that the ship was about to be broken up The sailors the mariners are afraid Every man cries out to his god through the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the load Jonah had gone down into the lowest parts of the ship had lain down and was fast asleep And so he's trying to hide in his rebellion. He's completely dull to the things of the lord So the sailors on the other hand are lightening the ship's load because they want to save every person on board But Jonah, where is he? Well, the bible just told us he was asleep Now some suppose that he had gone to sleep before the storm actually hit and wasn't aware of it But others believed that he was simply settled in his decision and wasn't concerned He had what would be called a careless self-assuredness Because he had become callous. He was hard as a rock against the conviction of the spirit But he failed to realize something he failed to realize that god could reach him wherever he was Included on a boat going off to spain But in his rebellion he had become completely dull to the lord. That's what happens by the way and we know this When we are in sin You become callous Callous to the things of god You at one time had a tender heart. You at one time had had a spirit that responded quickly The lord would whisper and you would hear him. You wanted to serve god Something happened And you got disappointed in one form or another And you got hardened And it started out Not as hard as it ended up But it does slowly dull to the point of insensitivity Whereas at one time when people would speak to you about the lord, you would say oh, I know him And then eventually what happens is I just don't talk about him anymore Jonah became insensitive hardened and there he is in the boat. He's completely dull But what happens according to verse six is a pagan sea captain has to call this prophet to prayer And he says perhaps the true god, that's the literal translation Perhaps the true god will consider will assist us and perhaps he will be kind to us So while men are in danger God's man Is asleep Today there is a whole nation called the united states That is asleep guys and it's in danger That the nation's in danger We're in danger slowly, but surely There is a Concerted effort. No not a conspiracy.  I don't think so well Is a stronger opponent than the political system And the wave that we are experiencing right now of anti christ sentiment That is not generated by simple human will That is a satanic attack That is the enemy of our souls We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers There is an orchestrated effort To remove every vestige of god and faith In this nation And it's going on right now, but the church is like that proverbial frog in the kettle of water And all of us know this that you can take a frog and you can put him in water And he'll sit there And you can turn on a flame a burner very very low And because the frog doesn't have the capacity to notice degree changes It can't You can't notice he will boil the death And the church has been called a frog in the kettle Because We and this sounds condemnatory. I'm not condemning anybody. I'm speaking I'm just speaking about it, right? So please don't think oh you're picking on me. I'm not But maybe the holy spirit's telling you something What we do Is we do watch a philosophy of antichrist hatred That is in it's it's in various forms You name all the cults and it's in them It's antichrist from the benign type cult that says oh we do worship Jesus We just call ourselves by this name Mormon or Jehovah's Witness or Christian science to the Anti god atheist movement and everything in between You see the thing is guys keep this in mind. This is an important point. Keep this in mind People say oh, there's so many religions in the world. That's not true. There are two There are two gods and satans That's it satans has a variety of forms Via Islam buddhism You name it Everyone denying who christ is That's satanic And when we as a nation have Have even prayer in in school board meetings attacked Wake up Because the attack is here It's in our colleges every college student here knows that Every college student here who hasn't gone to a christian college knows that Because you have I've had professors Who had actually opened the class? I remember one on my social psychology class The professor said and Cal Poly Pomona How many of you Are christians born again evangelical christians. How many in this class are Three or four of our hands went up It this is the first day of class I feel sorry for you Because you trust in that little black book To tell you how life is And that was my opening From this professor who's getting paid by tax dollars To undermine the faith of the only thing That can keep This nation From being destroyed, which is christian faith It's christian faith Right now. Did you know that in england they're kicking out missionaries? Christian missionaries are being kicked out of england many calvary chapel pastors who have been there doing missions work in england Are being kicked out right now Well islam is taken over the one thing That can change and save that safeguard that nation Is being kicked out of that nation the faith of christ That's what's going on right now. Do you think that came through parliament? Do you think that the men in parliament the women in parliament just decided we don't need jesus christ That's the tenet That spirit is not a full lord of course, and it's not simply a human spirit Now that may sound ridiculous to you But it's true That's what's going on That's what's going on and there is a battle going on right now That is huge And christians We need thank god you're here. We need to be in the word of god Do you have friends that are that should be here not because oh, I need a crowd No, do you have friends who need to be here? Invite them They need the word of god churches shut down on sunday super bowl sunday because men don't show up Because they're watching the game That's what's happening here and That's a major problem In Ephesians 5 13 and 14 it says this everything exposed by the light becomes visible For it is light that makes everything visible This is why it is said wake up. Oh sleeper Rise from the dead And christ will shine on you Wake up Well in verse 7 they said to one another come let us cast lots that we may know For whose cause this trouble has come upon us and cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah Now casting lots was an ancient way of determining an answer to a question in this case god used it It's kind of like throwing dice or something like that It's just it's the casting of the lot in this in this case god used this to show them About Jonah now they believed that this storm was a direct response to sin by an angry god They thought that they were being punished because someone else's sin And that's why they brought this up. And so when they cast the lot and somehow The way that they did it it was the disclose that it was Jonah. And so what do they do verse 8 they said to him Please tell us for whose causes this trouble upon us What's your occupation and where do you come from? What is your country? What people are you? They wanted him to openly confess his guilt for whatever it is that he'd done Perhaps his occupation was the kind that would cause gods to be angry They wanted to know his city his nation his people that would help them to understand How to bring sentence upon him? It's interesting in verse 9 how he says i'm a Hebrew I fear the lord the god of heaven who made the sea in the dry land Now that wasn't evident at that moment that he feared god I I have been in that position where Though I was a believer in god my life wasn't showing it I've been in that position. Have you where I I just wasn't letting the light shine And and when I said i'm a believer in christ you could almost hear the gasp of you're kidding me you Because my life was not showing it And so the fact is he says this is what I am and there are times that your life doesn't Evidence what you really are but he's saying it I I fear god And he says there's the god this god that I worship is the god who controls the sea He's the god who controls everything He's the god of the sea as well as the dry land He's not a what would be called a regional or a tribal god during that day. They had tribal gods So their tribe their people had their god. He's saying no my god is the god of the entire earth So their question why have you done this first hand the men were exceedingly afraid? Why have you done this? The men knew that he fled from the presence of the lord because he had told them they said to him What shall we do to you that the sea may come for us? The sea is growing more tempestuous. He said pick me up throw me into the sea The sea will become calm for you. I know that this great tempest is because of me In other words kill me because I don't want to go to Nineveh Nevertheless the men rode hard to bring the ship to land but they could not Sea continued to grow more tempestuous against them. Therefore they cried out to the lord and said we pray Oh lord, please do not let us perish for this man's life Do not charge us with innocent blood for you. Oh lord have done as it pleased you So they picked up Jonah And threw him into the sea, you know, I can almost hear it one two three Then you hear him say Marco, you know And the sea seized from its raging Then the men feared the lord exceedingly offered a sacrifice to the lord made vows now The lord had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights So a couple of things will close and we'll pick it up next time When they're asking you versus 10 and 11 why have you done this? In reality they're saying if you worship a god as great as this and why Why have you fled from him? You know what that is that's conviction from the world. Hey the god that you worship If he's true if you know, I'm not believer myself though I do have religion But when I've heard the Christians talk about the god that they worship He sounds like a pretty awesome god So if your god is everything I've heard him to be Why have you rejected him? It's a good question That's called conviction from the world You see they saw that his sin was affecting not just him. It was affecting them because that's what happens You see they were in danger because of him So we need to remember of this listen sin will always affect more than just you It always does Somebody says well, I'm just not in love with my wife anymore. I'm out of here. Every be everything will be okay. No your sin If there's sin involved in that And just casually saying I'm up and gone doesn't just affect you it affects everybody Sin always does it affects everybody. You never sin in a vacuum You see and so when they're saying what's going on here Jonas is listen There's the answer just pick me up throw me into the sea. It'll become calm Jonah obviously becomes sorry for them, but he's not sorry enough to go to Nineveh At the same time according to verses 13 through 15, they don't want to take a human life, especially the life of a prophet They don't want to be responsible for his death It's interesting that their care for him contrasts with his lack of care for them So they intensify their efforts. They try to to save themselves But eventually they have to let them go and when that happens verse 16 says the sea ceases And the result is the men fear the lord exceedingly You see god had done what their gods could not do He answered prayer still the storm Because false gods never can outperform god because they could never answer a prayer and they never can still a storm But verse 17 and obviously we'll close here. It says the lord had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah so We'll get the picture Jonah goes down into the boat Jonah goes out to sea He's traveling in sea There's a great fish somewhere over here And all of this is going on While this great fish is slowly but surely Just making his way Towards Jonah picture that in your mind for a moment Just a god had prepared this fish And in a sense, I don't know what he did fish go. I don't know all I know is that fish on his way And there goes Jonah overboard Thank you Takes him in God anybody here ever gets swallowed by a fish that god had prepared for you you have been you just don't know it You just don't know it Trying to run from god and god prepares circumstances That you will intersect with And he'll say gotcha I got you That's the truth I have you Now what are you going to do You can't do anything We'll see what happens, but it's interesting as god breaks him God allows him to To go through this he becomes a songwriter And he begins Actually, there's a song found in chapter two that we'll see And what happens while he's in that fish for three days and three nights Is he repents Three days and three nights it would take me three seconds I'm sorry Can you imagine how obstinate He is think about it. How long would it take you Inside of this fish. How long would it take you? It would take me no time The minute I saw those lips open I'd say sorry But he stayed three days We'll look at that when we get back to this passage the next time to think about it Don't be obstinate


First Marine aircraft wing commanding General Major General William Bidler bid farewell to Marine Wing Support Group 17 during a deactivation ceremony on Camp Foster. For 59 years, our Marine Wing Support Group have made us unique. The support group and its subordinate squadrons have put the Marine in marine aviation. MWSG 17 commanding officer Colonel James Gannon spoke of some of the unit's achievements, including the Wing's quick response to last year's earthquake and tsunami on mainland Japan. I would say we've met and exceeded the standards. We've stepped up to the plate. We've been ready every time we've been called upon and it's because of the efforts and motivation and innovation of these Marines and sailors. Though the support group will no longer be an active unit in the Marine Corps, Colonel Gannon says the Wing's aviation ground support will continue to be ready at a moment's notice. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.


Strip her in the Kia say that thing about that said Nina cheetah Can't face with it 38. Yeah, bro man is an eye and I Always say this cuz people be asked me. What's up at lefty? Oh, you're the best Mexican rapper So he ain't the best Mexican rapper, bro.    No, I just I just go with the flow and that's it when it's my time is my time I'm telling you like like I interviewed this guy named Kenny B down in Texas popping. He's popping Yeah, he doing this thing. He bout he bout to do four years though. He took that but but he told a long time He told me something though.    So when I'm ready to do it I'm ready to do it I don't want like I trust my partners and my cousins more than security so I'm saying like you might get paid the back Yeah, cuz it's you know trust now your life your life could split decision like that You like to change like that.  It's cool. I love it. I love being on stage I love entertaining.  I had a show last night. I was telling them how to show in rivers Like that's just sold out. I walked into the back homecast like all the fans I walked in with all of them.  What's up? I take a picture with everybody Yeah, I was your love to yeah, I should look to my fans man I'll make it rain on the street from the Kia safe that thing up at that sat in the cheetah Can't face with it 38. Yeah, bro, man Isn't I and I always say this because people be asking me. What's up at lefty? You're the best Mexican rapper. So he ain't the best Mexican rapper, bro You're one of the best rappers we got in the city.  Yeah, yeah, I got some water sounds coming up with TZ TZ TZ 4800 TZ TZ. Yeah, yeah Hopefully Mitch is slick. I'm a hundred him when I gotta do it with Yeah, he said he got me that's all Like how do what's your process like and later they go roll bounce on my face like my name was Draco What's your process when you get to the studio man when I get to the studio, I hate the studio I'm in and I'm out. I'm working.  I want all my stuff to be like, you know Bangers, I'm just really serious about my music. It's a good way to thank you Yeah, I go in there I go in there I go I freestyle a lot but when they let me write it I write it but it's really very hard to write a song and get in the zone and write something that the Sheets are gonna feel too. You know I'm saying it doesn't happen I'm running out of all my composition. No no pass from prison. I really ran through them So now I got a right new content. How much did you write in prison almost all my songs almost all my songs How many I wrote a lot in prison prisons probably where I wrote the most music guy is just to like just my head a Melody in my head or just something on the radio, you know, and I came out home and I wrote man Probably a whole album in there.  You know he a rapper in a Just so you got a sacrifice in a not so dope no more because you're sending dope you're on the block You really got to be rap rap rap rap rap rap rap rap and that's it and it really works out And then your mom's gonna tell you man.  I got chains on my neck like that's cool. It really works out But it's a sacrifice into it working out. It doesn't just happen overnight It I'm gonna be a rapper. Everybody wants to be a rapper, you know saying it don't work that way You gotta you gotta put in the work man.  So we're gonna do a video of me.  They're probably we always dying to get an interview And I was just like my schedule is already packed already to like April May It's like it's already packed. So once you're hot you're hot Yeah, and I don't ever want to go cold people like I was talking a little weirdo Weirdo we're talking and weirdo calls me and he's like Hey, man, I'm a wassup.  I'm tired. I'm always working, but I don't ever wanted to stop and it's true Though when you're hot you're hot when Draco was high. I think Draco was always hot. Yeah, when weirdo was high He was hot.  Yeah He was hot then too. It wasn't no it wasn't no competition in LA like young guys Bro was like one of the first people that got signed. Yeah, that I read that I knew I was like damn He got a deal. Yeah Always say this cuz people be asking me what's up at lefty. Oh, you're the best Mexican rapper So he ain't the best Mexican rapper, bro. You one of the best rappers we got in the city Yeah, I'm saying you don't even gotta put no race on it cuz bro got his skill level was there


Something I really wish I'd been told before I was coming to university is to really get help and I know that When you're looking to sign up to universities and everything your high school teachers your parents they're all going to tell you that It's all about independent learning and you've got to be really self-motivated and that stuff's all true It's totally true, but I really wish that someone had hit home to me and emphasized to me to reach out and and use the resources and the online resources and use the the people and At the university to get the most out of my learning experience and there's so much help Available to you at the university for instance I've got a lecturer who literally puts his phone number his home phone number up on the up on the screen every lecture you've got Library workshops where you can drop in and get help you can email your lecturers you can email your tutors You can organize one-on-one appointments and I found that At the start you feel quite awkward and you feel quite nervous about using these resources and Going up and and actually having one-on-one sessions with your lecturers because it's a bit intimidating But it's just so ridiculous that we don't do it because we pay for it You know these are in your these are in your fees and There's such an amazing resource to have and I find that Once you actually start to use these these resources and you start to go to these To these sessions that are available. It's really what manages to bump you up from a really good grade to an excellent grade Especially in my first semester. I was exactly the same. I felt quite nervous and quite awkward about going and Making an appointment with my tutor but as soon as I did I was able to get that one-on-one feedback and I think that's what you lack and more of a lecture Environment and that makes all the difference


Hey, there, polycasters. Rob here. Welcome back to the show. So today we're going to be continuing our series on accessibility by talking about screen readers and making sure that the elements we create have the right semantics to be announced properly by those screen readers. Semantics is a pretty important concept in web development. But sometimes you've got to wonder, why is it important? And really, who does it benefit when I use good, semantically rich elements? And so I want to do a quick demo here using a screen reader so you understand the importance of this topic. So over in the browser, I've just got a native checkbox element. I'm going to start up the screen reader that comes built in on my computer. So if you're on a Mac, there's a built-in screen reader called VoiceOver, which you can turn on with command F5. If you're on Windows, you have to download a screen reader. There's a free one called NVDA, or there's another one called JAWS, which you can use. Or there's even a Chrome extension called Chromebox, which you can install. And that's actually a browser-run screen reader. But over here on my Mac, I'm going to use VoiceOver. I'll turn on the screen reader. VoiceOver on Chrome. JS bin window. And I'm going to navigate over to this checkbox. Unchecked checkbox. And you can see that when I do that, the checkbox was announced as a unchecked checkbox, right? Because it's a nice, semantic, rich element. I've used the correct input tag here. Now let's look at what happens when we try to do that with the custom element that we created in the last episode. So I'm going to turn on my screen reader and focus this item. VoiceOver on Chrome. Dash group. And you see that the screen reader just announced it as group. And that's because, as I mentioned before, when we create a custom element, we're basically extending the HTML language. We're creating something that has never existed before. And that means that it doesn't have any built-in semantics. To the browser, a custom element is really no different from a span or a div. So there's nothing that instructs it or instructs our users that it needs to be clicked upon. So how do we add the appropriate semantics to our element so that users who actually rely on screen readers can interact with them? There's a few ways that you could go about this. You could, of course, just go and start reading through a bunch of specifications. But if you want to get started right away, what I'd recommend is checking out that ARIA authoring practices guide that we looked at in the previous episode. So I'm going to go over there, and I'm going to look for the pattern that I'm building, which, in this case, is a checkbox. So we'll go to the ARIA authoring practices guide. We'll go over to the sidebar and look for a checkbox. And along with the keyboard interaction support that we need to add, you can also see that there's a section here on what it calls ARIA roles, states, and properties. So ARIA, if you've never heard of it before, stands for Accessible Rich Internet Applications. It's basically a set of attributes that you can apply to an element to kind of do surgery on the accessibility tree and actually add in additional semantics. So if we look at the guidance here on the authoring practices guide, it tells us that our checkbox needs to have a role of checkbox, that it needs to have an accessible label. And we'll actually cover this in the next episode. And that our checkbox, when checked, needs to have ARIA checked set to true. And when it's unchecked, it needs to have ARIA checked set to false. And there's a few other items in here about building mixed checkboxes and things like that. We're not going to cover any of that in this series. But for today, what we can do is we can make sure that we get the appropriate role and the appropriate checked states. So let's switch back over to our code editor. And if you recall in the last episode, I used this host attributes property in order to have my tag sort of self-apply a tabindex attribute. And we can use this same property to self-apply the appropriate role. So along with tabindex, we're going to ask this element to apply a role of checkbox. And if we actually switch back to Chrome and refresh the page, we can open our dev tools. We can verify that the element is now applying that role. So we see role equals checkbox. And let's use our screen reader and see what it announces now. Voice over on Chrome, unchecked checkbox. So you can see now that the screen reader is announcing that this is an unchecked checkbox. It's actually even inferring that it's unchecked because of the role that we've applied. In the world of ARIA, the role is kind of like the most important attribute. It is the thing that you absolutely want to make sure that you get right. There's a lot of ARIA attributes which don't even work if they are not paired with the appropriate role. So already we've done kind of the 80% thing. We've gotten the correct role, which is great. The next thing we've got to do is add those ARIA check states when we toggle our checkbox. So going back to our code editor, if you remember I have this checked property that we're toggling on and off whenever the user either clicks on the element or hits space bar. So what we can do is we're gonna add an observer to this property and I'll call my observer function checkChanged. And then I'll add a little bit of additional space down here. So you can see things. I'll define a checkChange function. And I'm just gonna paste that in here. So what we're saying is we're gonna call setAttribute. We're gonna set the aria checkedAttribute and we're gonna set it to whatever the value of this.checked is. And remember we're sort of toggling that value inside of our onTap handler that gets run when someone clicks on it with a mouse or hits space bar. Now calling setAttribute in this way is going to serialize the value of this.checked to a string, which is important. In ARIA whenever you set a true or false value you actually have to do it as an actual sort of literal string of true or false, which is kind of an interesting quirk of ARIA. So that part looks good. The last thing that I wanna do is sort of change how this thing is styled. Now if you remember in the last episode we had this host selector for the checked attribute and that's how we actually figured out when we wanted to apply our check mark. But something that can be nice to do is rather than rely on a class or some sort of random made up attribute that we've created in this case, we could actually rely on the state of the ARIA value. So I'm gonna say anytime ARIA checked is set to true that is when we should apply our check box. The cool thing here is we're now creating sort of a symbiotic relationship between our ARIA attribute and the actual visual state of the element. And we can use that to verify that ARIA is working appropriately. So let's go back to Chrome. We'll open up our dev tools. We can see that ARIA checked is starting out as false. I hit tab and select this element. We can see that that then toggles to true along with the checked attribute being applied. And we can see that the appropriate check mark style is showing up. And the last thing I wanna do is just try this out with my screen reader. So I'll uncheck the check box, turn on my screen reader. Voice over on Chrome, that unchecked check box. Initially it says it's an unchecked check box when we hit space bar. Checked check box. Now it updates the state to a check check box. So now we've created a nice accessible check box that works well for the keyboard. It works well for screen readers. The last thing that we need to do is add labeling, but I'm gonna save that for the next episode. Now, if you have any questions about what we covered today, please be sure to leave them down in the comments below. Or as always, you can hit me up on a social network of your choosing at hashtag askpalmer. Thank you so much for watching. I'll see you next time.


So, what we want to do is keep you understanding that when we come around, we have the orbit. The orbit is set here in our pillar one, our start, that's what we call as the beginning of the chain reaction. This is why the windup is so, so critical. So, what are the things we're going to do is that when we wind and we're creating this, we're setting the orbit of the discus. Now, we can be anywhere technically in here. There are throwers who have had lower. John Powell was a thrower that used to carry the discus a little bit lower. He would talk about putting that discus up on the shelf. I think a lot of throwers like that discuss that in the high point is key, but one of the things is we're going to look at is we're going to understand that if we set that orbit here and this arm is following this way, we're naturally going to start to create that orbit that comes around. So, it's kind of a gradual thing. And so, one of the reasons we don't teach in our system is to just put it up there is that a lot of throwers, a lot of beginning, less dynamic guys that are going to develop or girls are going to develop on a slower timeline, are going to wind up pushing their hip too much and when they push the hip, they get the break at the waist, that actually pushes the shin back and they're going to come into the throw and there are actually many of them are going to be dropping and scooping. So one of the things we want to do is we want to understand how to keep that discus away. So, one of the simple tips is that you want to think about how we have a gradual path. So when we're here and the arms here, we have to avoid the high arm. We want the arm reaching out, long and around. That's going to pull the thrower into the circle and that's going to help them switch. This is again what we refer to as pillar three and four. So when we do that, we call the axis transition. We're also hitting that high point. We're hitting the discus down here and one of the things you're going to notice when I show you this is what am I showing you? My discus is actually really at shoulder height. It's the angle of the body in this position that's creating the high point. So when we talk about our pillar four, which is our axis transition, where we twist, wrap and we're hitting the high point, we're setting this position. We're creating that power position angle, which is going to take that discus out here as we drive, we push, we push and rotate the delivery side out and we get that discus out here and we hit that really nice finish. That's how you start to feel that length. So staying relaxed with the arms is one of the simple ways to do that. Setting the path right out of what we start our starter, pillar one, as we move through the throw and we see how it's that gradual turning of how we transition the axis around and then again around and out. So we hit that high point that allows the thrower to move over the delivery leg to this point and come through the throw.


Hi Ardalan. Can you hear me? Hi Erin, how are you? I'm good, how are you? You're well, thanks. It's been a while. Jennifer today, people a little bit of time to get here. I'm going to give everyone two more minutes to join. It doesn't look like we have very many people today. Hi Lois. All right, it's five past. Let's go ahead and get started. So I put in the chat, hopefully, I don't know if Zoom allows you to see the chat after you've joined or not. I'll go ahead and repaste just to be clear. So today we have just three items. The first one is the Dataset Lifecycle Framework. Yeah, Eunice, I believe you're joining to talk about that. The project went through a sandbox review on the TOC yesterday and they had some questions about how it differentiates from the cozy cap. So I wanted to start just with that discussion, if we could, please. So to that context, I shared the frequently asked questions. I just compiled it today because the document is still lacking and it's a bit difficult to digest what is exactly the framework trying to accomplish. And the comments were fair, right, about, you know, not being very clear on what is adding to the ecosystem and how does it compare with the cozy or with the other CSIs. So if you have, so I can just share the screen for the wiki or you can just. Yeah, that'd be great. Please do. So can you see my screen? Yes. Okay, so yes. So I will just go through everything because it's just a few questions, right? So what does the framework do exactly, right? So it brings one new custom resource definition, right, the Dataset. So basically it's a pointer to an existing data source and the current implementations is both S3 and NFS. And so yeah, is that just a sure thing? No. So basically what we're doing is that we're trying to map, not we're trying to map, we are mapping every Dataset that you create with one pbc that the users can directly mount into their pods, right? And the logic is implemented as a normal Kubernetes operator. Now, what is the motivation for this work? Why we started looking at that, right? So when container storage interface was introduced, right, more and more storage providers were available on Kubernetes environments, right? It's just that from our perspective, we feel that the barrier for non-experienced, non-powered users of Kubernetes, right, the barrier is a bit high to leverage the available CSI plugins, right? And gain access to the remote data and sources on their workloads. So that's what we're trying to enhance. We're trying to enhance the user experience mostly of data access in Kubernetes. So we're bringing the high level of abstraction, the Dataset, and we take care of all the necessary work about invoking the appropriate CSI plugin, configuring, provisioning, and giving in the end the pbc for the end users to use, right? Of course, we're not looking to replace CSI, right? If you go through our framework, right, we have implementations of CSI plugins that are standalone, right? So you can take this part of the code and use it. So we have CSI S3 and the CSI NFS implementations that are actually open source and I will talk about what we did there. So our aspiration, right, is to be like a meta framework, right, for CSI plugins and the comparison that I like to make is like the same way Kubeflow, you know, makes machine learning frameworks accessible in the same fashion we just want to make CSI plugins and pbc's accessible to Kubernetes environments. So to the cozy proposal, right? So, of course, we're not competing with the cozy proposal and we're not currently, right, aiming to have this functionality, you know, rewritten as part of our framework, right? So when we started the project almost a year ago, right, the only CSI plugin that we were aware of was the CSI S3 that I'm pointing in here and actually we have four and we maintain because there were some dependencies with the side cars and all this stuff. We are updating this as is in our in our repo, right? So now in the future, right, when cozy interface becomes part of Kubernetes, of course, we'll stop maintaining our fourth version of the CSI S3, right, and directly invoke cozy for creating a pbc for buckets in cloud object store. cozy also aims to manage the full life cycle of a bucket provisioning, configuring access, which we don't, which is actually beyond our scope, right? And the buckets and the S3 is just part of what we want to support as type of data sets, right? And an additional some additional benefits that are on the roadmap and we have some initial implementations we feel that it's after you introduce that concept of a data set as a high level abstraction, then you can build also high level orchestration, right? So I think we can achieve improvements in terms of performance. So we have you can have we try to present a pluggable casting interface and we have an example implementation of how this would work. So it will be completely transparent to the user and they can provision castes depending on the type of data sets without the user explicitly, specifying cast or configuring the cast on the row. And also we feel there might be interest on the security aspect, because imagine that we could have a common layer of access management for credentials of the different type of data sources, whether you have, you know, your normal S3 credentials like secret access key and the access key API, and the same fashion you can have username password, all part of the same access management layer. And we believe that we there are there are there is some interest. So I would like to point out and give a shout out to the people who have embraced the framework, even in these very early states, the European Bioinformatics Institute, and David specifically are running a POC with BLF and Kubeflow on their cloud infrastructure. So basically they're using pipelines and S3, the 1000 genomes data are on S3 buckets. And they're rewriting their pipelines to with a data set convention because the S3 credentials are before the left were repeated and you know, plug everywhere like environmental variables. Instead with our frame with our frame, they feel it's more convenient for the user to digest and write their pipelines. There is interest on the open data hub. And you can see a relevant issue that there is interest in integrating BLF directly into open data hub. And of course, there's party terms proposal, which is actually very close to the data set specification that we are supporting in our code. And if you look in their, in their code, the elect is actually forked. And it's been under evaluation whether you know, it can support the implementation. Right. So we make a pause right now and, you know, take up any questions or comments that you might have. I just had one question. So I thought the purpose of using the PVC though was to leverage the way that we mount volumes to keep that inherent functionality for the data sets. Switching to cozy, it's not going to be exactly the same, but that you regardless, you're still the idea is still you're wanting to basically provide an easy accessible way to a specific data set. So it's almost like pre-populating a bucket basically and allowing a pod point directly. I need to start there a bit more the cozy proposal, but I thought also it was wasn't sure that it was part of, you know, creating a PVC, but you know, if if it's more integrated, the more it's integrated to the Kubernetes environment, the better for us. Right. So we won't have, we don't have to do any new types of orchestration on our own. Right. The PVC. So imagine that there's a one-to-one mapping, right. One data set, one PVC. If we are thinking the data set to be like a user facing thing, right. So the user is aware of data sets and in their posts, they just use a PVC, the configured PVC from, from the framework, right. And also we're envisioning scenarios where there would be another, another provider, let's say, creating the data set pointers, okay. So it's a data set object. There would be another persona creating in the cluster, the data sets and would be the other persona, a simple user, simple, you know, a user who just wants to launch pods and launch workloads that way, mount in their pods without, without, you know, configuring, finding pvcs and all this stuff. We are adding an admission controller to inject those pvcs in the pods with labels. But this is an additional feature. It will, the PVC would work on its own as a normal PVC in Kubernetes, right. And that's our goal, not to bring, not, not to replace pvcs, not to replace CSI, but instead have a more user-friendly interface.  This is very useful. So thank you for putting together this FAQ. I think that will help clarify some of the questions that the TOC had. I'm not sure and it doesn't look like Amy's on what the review cycle is. Maybe it'll be pushed out till October again when they can get back to it, but I'll find out and I'll, I'll let you know. So the, the other thing I would say is, you know, we were striving to get more feedback. So what I'm trying to understand the new process is a bit not clear to me because I was starting to be put on a pull request, then it was a Google form and it was a bit kind of hard to keep track on where the review was happening. And I didn't get a chance to explain a bit more. Well, I understand it should be part of the framework and the documentation, but yeah, anything, anything that I can answer or give a better explanation or demo I would be happy to. Right. So it's perfectly fine that you find the new process a little confusing because it's only been since August and I don't think it's ironed out yet. So the new process, the idea was that they were going to try to simplify the way that projects got into sandbox and not require a presentation. The idea was that the TOC could look over the questionnaire that was filled out and then if they had additional information, they would kick it back to the SIG as they did here. And then we would provide that information. So yeah, you're not required to do a presentation. You already came on the SIG, we recorded that, we provided that information. That communication is still being ironed out. So I think you've provided everything you need. If not, I'll reach back out to you and let you know. Okay, great. Thanks. Yeah, thanks. I'll send this over to the TOC, find out when their next meeting is and I'll get back to you then. Great. Thank you for this. All right, moving down the list. Kieran, I believe you had some updates on the licensing questions we had from the last time we talked about OpenEBS. Yes, I have updated the agenda doc with the information I'm trying to put together. The action item was to list all the OpenEBS top-level repositories and what are the dependencies those repositories have on other projects. I can probably share my screen and quickly walk through that. That's okay. You're on mute, Kieran. Thank you. I think the question was around the CS Tor engine, right, that license. Okay, yeah. So go ahead and share your screen and we'll walk through that. So what I hope you can see my screen now. Along with the CS Tor, I kind of updated for the remaining repositories also. So maybe I, you know, since CS Tor was the first one that had a lot of open questions, I'll cover that and then we can go back to the other ones. All right. So the main concern with the CS Tor is it's a, it kind of depends on the ZFS and ZFS itself is a CDDL licensed project. So what OpenEBS did was for the OpenEBS ZFS project, which is actually a kernel, ZFS, you know, you can kind of build kernel module with that and ported that to work for running it in user space. So the OpenEBS CS Tor, which is a fork of OpenEBS ZFS is a modifications for making it work on user space. And then the actual functionality of how OpenEBS uses that framework or uses the ZFS for storing the data and the replication and high availability features that were added on top of it. They're all part of the OpenEBS CS Tor and OpenEBS ISTGT repose. These themselves, you know, since Lipsy Store is completely written by OpenEBS authors, that being Apache is not a problem. Now, the, you know, prior to the last call, the way the code was being built was the OpenEBS CS Tor was actually pulling in the changes from Lipsy Store and building that binary that was kind of highlighted as an issue. So now we turned around that. So Lipsy Store is the one that actually contains the main call, if you will, that instantiates the binary and it uses the OpenEBS CS Tor as a library, right? Just like any other project would use any other dependencies. So that's where it is at. Now, still keeping it open for discussion and trying to understand if this is okay or anything further needs to be done. I'll leave it at that. So yeah, I think this helps clarify how, you know, how you're using it, how it's being built differently. I think it addresses the questions. I would need to probably run this by Alex and Quentin. I think we have to have consensus from the leads before we move forward. And then it would of course still go through the due diligence as it was normally. So, but before that, does anyone have any questions around this or concerns that they want to bring up? Off the cuff, it seems to satisfy the concerns we had. But let me talk with Alex and Quentin and then get back to you, Kieran. Does that work? Yeah, that's perfect. Okay. Thank you. And I can't remember who was, was Saad doing the due diligence for OpenEBS for you? Okay. Last time when we had the presentation, I think this was the first thing that we had to get across before assigning the reviewer. I don't think anybody's assigned yet. Okay. All right. Sorry. I'm just taking notes and I'll update the notes after the call. I'm writing them down so I can listen. All right. Perfect. Thank you for that. I appreciate it. And you included this link in the agenda, correct? So we can get back. All right. Thanks. Okay. The last item we had was Prevega. We need, so Justin Cormack from the TOC offered yesterday the day before to run the due diligence, but we also need a tech lead from the SIG. So is there any volunteers? Volunteers for what? Exactly. Sorry, Luis, I'm on mute again. To work with Justin and Casey, he has questions on the due diligence for Prevega. I'm not very familiar with it myself. Okay. All right. Not all the tech leads are on the call today, so I'll just send out a separate note to see, you know, who's most familiar and has the time to be able to dedicate to that. Actually, it would be maybe nice, maybe at the next meeting if we could go through the due diligence that's process, because I myself do not know it very well. I don't know if many people do. I don't know if that will help. Okay. Yeah. I'll add that as an agenda item for next time. Maybe an expectation too of what the tech leads do to the due diligence. That would be great. Aaron, this is Tom. I would like to draft that process and kind of see it in action. So that Prevega is an interesting technology. If there's a chance for a newbie to kind of watch along and see it go through the paces of coming in, that would be great. Yeah, that'd be awesome. I don't think we have a good process today. I think in the past it's just been whoever has the time and we go through it and we just work together and it's not necessarily repeatable or comprehensive. So absolutely, if you have time to volunteer and want to do that, that would be awesome, Tom. Thank you. All right. That's all I had for the agenda today. Does anyone else have anything that they want to talk about or bring up? All right. Then I'll give everyone a little bit of time back on their calendars. Thank you. Have a great week. Bye, guys. Bye.


Hello, and welcome to another video. Int Woods, and I've been thinking about this for a long time, because the weather haven't been great in the UK, it's been pissing it down, it's been cold, so my mind's been drifting towards the woods, and I can feel autumn in the air, it's early, but it's there, so here I am in the woods for a night out, and I couldn't be more excited. I'm gonna lose my light soon, so I better be quick, prioritise what I've got to do, and that is get a fire going, get the coals burnt down, and cook myself some grub, because I am starving. There's a couple of roots there, so I'm just gonna move the whole thing this way, see if we can avoid them roots.   Birch bark from the Silver Birch, you just scrape this top layer off till you get down to the orangey clobber with the oils in it, and that'll create like a dust on the top of there, which should take a spark all being well. Normally I'd get bigger sections of this, but I'm in a bit of a rush to get fire going on that before it gets too dark. It's best to be like one and done and get yourself a big bit, and spend some time getting a real big pile of dust. Can do it with just a little bit if you're lucky. I'm feeling lucky as well. Feeling lucky, but then you need some reek thin bits, some thin bits that'll catch. That's my fire steel, still rocking it. I don't use it much because it's a loft, but what I do, I appreciate it. The knife of choice for this trip, my trusty custom SE3, thanks to Luke at York Knife. Right, there we go. It'll be quick. Being careful not to smother it, still leaving gaps for oxygen to get through, I put my little bits on there. There we go, I shouldn't lose that after days. My shelter of choice is the Gossamer Gear, the one. Look how small that is for a tent. I've brought this because I've got, I've carried a lot of stuff with me because I'm gonna be doing some cooking, so this is the lightest and smallest tent I own via long stretch. I didn't bring the trekking poles for it, so I'm gonna have to cut a couple of bits of wood, which works just as well, and get that set up. Not to net fire because one spark and this is gone, it'll just evaporate and I'll just be left lying on the floor. So I can still see it fire, but it's not gonna get me. Happy days. How should you be? The top layer of pine is like that, so the pegs were just pulling out when I was putting my sticks up. So I've used sticks as pegs and it's held well. Better than normal because I've been able to use big sticks either side because the guy lines on either side, they go directly into the floor because your pegs are so small and it just sort of pulls them down and it don't really do much, but because you can elevate them with these sticks, it really does give you a lot more room inside. Let's have a wine. Give it here. Just get comfy. Our plonkio, the plonkio there. Stay, hold. Right, spot on. Shall we have a little slurping time? You will, let's have a drink together, shall we? A bottle of rouge I've got. I'm not gonna drink it all, but I do fancy a glass of the red stuff. This was sent to me by my good friends over at Wine 52. They send you a little booklet. With all the information of the different regions, the different wines, what they're doing, they give you some little snacks, and no doubt on what, you mean you've seen me go on beers and that and latches and locks? I get into stuff and I'm into wine. I have been for quite some time. I really enjoy a red. It's what me and Fern drink at home. So really lovely company to work with as well. So I'm gonna try this and then I'll have a look at book and see if I've got it right, shall I? From different regions, I think we're in Hungary this month. I mean, I'll see you and I'm just gonna have a little glass. Watch me. Let's have a go, shall we? That's robust. I got home and I was looking through the footage and I was saying when I get into stuff, I'm really into stuff and I feel like for the people out there who are into their wines to see me pour it into a metal cup, ain't good enough. So here's the pour in oversized wine. There it is for size.  So if you just go to www.wine52, that's 52.com forward slash haze in capitals H, A, Z, E. You can get yourself a free case of wine. Also, there's no minimum commitment and you can pause or cancel anytime after claiming your free case to join the wine club. I'm gonna keep showing you that. Look at that. Full bodied. So I'll put a banner across it. I'm gonna do it professionally. I've done it in the woods and I was like half. It's like good enough to really showcase these wines and what they're offering and it wasn't. So this is a professional job. These are all the details. And again, it's www.wine52. That's the number five and two.com forward slash haze in capitals H, A, Z, E. To claim your free case of wine. Drink responsibly and thank you. Rustic crackers with sesame seeds. Cheese and onion peanuts. Yes, please nuts. D's nut. Right, go check them out. I'll leave a link below and let's get back to it woods. That noise, that glug. You have a bit more because it's, because I'm on holiday, I'm up north. I'm in a northern woodland and I couldn't be happier. So very full bodied. I'm getting dark fruits. I'm getting leather gloves. Oh, is that right? Okay. Oh, that's delicious. I like my full bodied white. Is it? Look, you stuck with me fruit beer reviews chatting about different IPAs and that. So come on. We're doing a little bit of a wine review. I'm going for plum, dark fruits, leathery, smoky, like tobacco-y, rich tannins, like plum, plum skin, the skin of a plum when it's like, I'm chining this, I'll be, right, slow down. I've got to do some cooking. Let's have a look and see. A stunning representation of Hungarian winemaking. I concur. What's the vitals on it though? Is it starving my bonds? 13.5, so that is a bonds burglar in it. The wine has a deep ruby colour with aromas of dark cherries, blackberries and cassis, accompanied by notes of vanilla, leather, and baking spices. Didn't get the baking spices, got the leather. And I'm saying I got dark cherries because a plum is a little bit of a bigger cherry in it if you think about it. If you don't think about it too hard. So yeah, I'll leave a link below. So if you want to get yourself three bottles of wine from whatever region they're exploring that month for just the price of the post and packaging, get on it.  What are you having? Good question. What am I having? Let me show you. Look at these man porcinis, seps. Solid. Got some hedgehog mushrooms, one Chanterelle. I went foraging early this morning to get them mushrooms rigade. There we are. It's been chewed a little bit but that is a beautiful little sep, perfect for eating. I'll clean it up and put it in bag. So dense man, so heavy, perfect. Let's see if we can find some more. What a lovely amethyst deceiver. I found a little flush of them so we'll tidy them up and they'll go in bag. I also found another little sep that'll tidy up and not going in bag as well. A tiny Chanterelle that's been chewed a bit. Not worth keeping but it's a good sign. I've seen what I believe is some hedgehog mushrooms and there's also a sep in there as well but that is gonna be tough to get. There's barbed wire and this is all holly. I'm going in. There you go, managed to get the sep out. That is a stunner, look at that. A chunky boy and I'm gonna crawl in. I'm just gonna get prickled and cut, it doesn't matter because it's worth it. Okay, I'm going in for it, I've got barbed wire. I can't even get, can I get under it maybe? No. Ow, ow. Oh, pain is only tempering it right on nut. There we go. Just have to bleep out all the swearing. I'm in, sort of in, sort of. The things you do for a shroom is worth it. Can confirm worth it. Oh, holly to the bones. I'm not living here now, do I? Look at this. Well, if I can get out. Too big to get fruit gap. Get that one out. Shame on you for those that want me to stack it. I thought we were mates. Yes. I've got to clear them up somewhere where there's less flies. A hedgehog mushroom. Very good eating. I think I've got enough for what I need. Nice variety. Yes, mate. Right, I'm going to clean these up and get them in the bag. Why is there so many flies? You can tell they're hedgehog mushrooms because they've got the spines on them instead of the gills.  They do, they can make a bit of a mess of eudation. They certainly get all over your foraging bag, so they cover all your other mushrooms in spines. So I just spend a bit of time, just get the majority of them off. But as I say, I would eat them. You could always, it was well at home, just take them all off and cook them up separately. There's like a little mushroom rice almost. Size of that whopper. It's a bit too far gone. Stork's hollow whopper. And there we go, so I've brought them back here and I've got myself, I think it's a pork tomahawk. Tomahawk. Right, I'll keep slurping this delightful beverage, but I'll get my pan on and let's cook some food. I've missed this mate. I've missed cooking it woods. So what I'll do is I'll leave that like that, don't fall off it, wait, there you go. Just to render the fat down. As my pork cooks, stirner. A hedgehog mushroom. One of my favorites. These, which look like they shouldn't be edible, but they are one chanceril, that's going in whole. That's a lot of shrooms, isn't it? That's a lot of mushrooms.  If ever you think, or if ever a recipe says one clove or two cloves, they're just lying. They mean just one bulb because for me, you can't have enough garlic mate, it's the best. I'll just get the lion's share of the skins off. I'm not too precious. That's a lot of garlic in it. It's too much, is it? Not for me, I like a lot of it. This is woodland cooking, and if you can't be rough and rustic in woods, where can you be? Things need to be a bit charred and a bit rough around edges when you're in woods. Sometimes a leather glove just doesn't cut it, so there is one of these over the handle. Look at that man, look at that. Just crisping up the fat on the outside, and that's about done, so when I think about getting my shrooms in, I'm gonna put it on there, it's gonna after it. There you go, look. Pork tomahawk. It's got lemon and garlic and spices, and all sorts, it's been marinated in. Look at that man.  That is unbelievable, man, it smells so good. Hit that with a knob of butter. Then in with the garlic. Loads of garlic, I don't care. All the liquid that the mushrooms have released. And so you wanna cook them until that liquid, evaporates, and then they're good to go. The smell is just beautiful. There you go, they're done. We should lay the pork chop on top, just to warm through, and that's the job done. Look at it, just look at it. You can't look at it, because there you are. See, look at that man. This is it, this is good times. That smells so good. Right, where's my eating irons? There's not many things that bring me as much pleasure as just slowly walking through a woodland looking for mushrooms, and finding mushrooms. It's top tier life stuff. All right, so meaty and delicious. Let's try a bit of this pork. Look at it, on lighting issues.  The fat is beautifully rendered, I can melt. Oh my God. One of the best meals I've cooked in woods. I've said that a lot, but it's so simple, but so delicious. Goes perfectly well with this rouge. And I've been doing a lot of hiking and stuff of late, so I've not been doing much bushcraft or bushcraft videos, and there's probably people who watch that haven't even seen me do bushcraft because I've just been hiking so much. So, welcome. I basically just struggle with focusing issues and have a drink in woods, and I love it. And I do get people saying, oh, I prefer it when you do the bushcraft stuff. But then, you get people saying, I prefer it when you do the hiking stuff. You can't win. Can't please all the people all of the time. So, I think what I've got to do is just please myself. And then, if you're into it, you're into it. If not, or at least, at least I can keep my sanity caught and stay happy. Wonderful stuff. I'm gonna get this light out of my eyes and really enjoy it.  I've maybe done half a bottle. To you guys, I just wanna say thanks. I can't reply to all the comments and everything, but I do see a lot of them, and I appreciate it. And I'll take this moment, as I'm just about to demolish this dinner, to say thank you to anyone who's liked a video or commented or just watched it or, you know, and add. And gain some from it or whether it's just, whether it's to do with your gear or whether it's just a little bit of distraction from life. And I appreciate it, and I appreciate you watching. So, this is for you. Salute, absent friends. Morning, glampers. I slept so well. I was out like a little light. Then, when I meet with a late night, a couple of glasses of wine, bosh. Give you a quick run through. Some slightly new clobber. The Gossama gear, I'll tell you what, zero condensate. Is that a tick? Nope. I ended up pulling a couple of ticks off of me as well yesterday after being out in my mushroom zone, so I'll have to keep an eye on that. So, didn't bring my hiking pole, so I just used bits of timber from woods. Still works just the same. So, after talking about it, and a few people mentioning it, I've gone for a quilt look by the legends over at, Big Agnes, and it is, the Fusel Ultralight. And I was warming it. I mean, I did wear me down pants and had a Merino wool layer on as well, but I was finding that just my thumb mat. I didn't run a risk of having Uberlight airbed on this stuff in case it popped. And then, Trekology pillow. And what I like to do is just put me, my little scarf thing over it, just feels better on my skin there. So yeah, I like that, but I mean, I'm gonna use it on some backpacking adventures and see how it goes. Dry as a bone, good lad. They want much of a breeze, but I guess it comes down to temperature as well. There's a lot of factors in there, condensation factors. I wanna go for a swim because smoky firewood being in like, out in woods just screams wild swim. Just to wash it all away.  Doesn't look very deep. Yeah, I've been here before, but it was frozen over last time, so I couldn't get in. It just doesn't look very deep. It looks quite boggy and sinky, but I'll check it out. Pretty boggy, kinda smells a bit. Oh, that's nice. Get it sweet under. I'm pretty homeless at moment when I'm up north, so it's good to have a wash. I guess, this is me. This is me at bath. It's good to get old stone. It's like, it's good to get old bog or old smoke off you. That was a beaut... I have a leg. Hey, up. It's lad. Stay, hold. Young Kermit. Frogner Regis. We're getting back. Neat water. Fly my beauty. That was a beautiful couple of days. Just what the doctor ordered. Handling her out woods, gathering mushrooms, going to woods, cooking them up. A little glug of wine. I've still got half a bottle left and then a wild swim to end it. It was just what I needed. Perfect. And it's just simple, isn't it? There's simple things in life. If you like your wines, please do check out the link below. I'll leave it below. And if you use my code, you get three bottles for... You just pay the post and packaging and you'll get three bottles. Also, if a lot of you do it, then they'll see that it works and they might send me some more wine. So if, you know, there's your reason. So thanks again to everyone who watches. Thanks for engaging, just hitting that like button and leaving a comment, stuff like that. I really do appreciate it. And I hope you're all well and still fighting the good fight. Take care of yourselves and I'm gonna stay out of trouble. It's not buggy. It's not. Come on. We're still doing this, aren't we? Of course we are. I'm not even going that way. I'm going this way. Love you, bye.


I think a lot of brands want to work with Mickey Mouse because of the timeless positivity he exudes as a character. He's one of the most recognizable, iconic characters in the world. Disney has had a program licensing materials to the public for many, many years. They started licensing him in the early 30s and that program started actually here in New York in the late 20s. A gentleman ran up to Walt Disney in the lobby of a hotel and waved some money at him and asked him if he could put Mickey Mouse on a school tablet that he was creating. And Walt needed the money so he said yes and that was the very first piece of licensed material. The inspiration for this activation originally came from multiple sessions with Disney Consumer Products and My Agency and we spent quite a bit of time with archives to really hone in on the certain highlight moments of Mickey's legacy and figure out how to contemporize those which ended up becoming this fully immersive 16,000 square foot exhibition. Some amazing highlights from this exhibition would have to be Sorcerer's Way, the tribute to Mickey's Fantasia. Another highlight would be the Mickey Mouse Club Room where we created the 90s set that brought so many amazing personalities. We have a great moment with Brooklyn based artist Daniel Arsham. We're inspired from a cartoon through the wall. He created a sculptural piece where it looks like Mickey Mouse is coming out of the wall. In this room, this is called the collection and what we've done is brought a number of items from California, from the Walt Disney Archives here to New York. And Darren, who created this exhibit, asked us to bring things that he could showcase. And so instead of just putting them up in a large splashy display of Disney merchandise, which is what usually what we do, he asked us to put each piece into its own little case and focus on that so that people could get up and really see what high quality pieces these are and how much fun they are and the beautiful little details. Some of them are vintage from the 30s, some of them are from the 40s and 50s. Even up through the present day, there's some things here that are fairly new to Disney collecting. There's some newer pieces here that are really terrific from licensees like Opening Ceremony, Mark Jacobs, Shinola watches, and they're all displayed on the wall too alongside these really wonderful treasures. You can see the Mickey Mouse watch right next to the Shinola watch. The most iconic Mickey Mouse branded product, in my opinion, would have to be the timepiece, the wristwatch. So many renditions over the years, they're just amazing, such great history, great stories behind them. We have a great moment here as well with New York City legendary artist Kenny Scharf did a beautiful cosmic cavern that celebrates the Mickey timepiece.