Beginning at verse 1, therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart, but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in crafting, nor handling the Word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. But even if our gospel is veiled, it's veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the God of this age is blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. We do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bond-servants for Jesus' sake, for it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shown in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. And so last time we were together, let me lay a foundation. We looked at chapter 3, and we close with verse 18. So verse 18 of chapter 3 reads, we all with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror, the glory of the Lord are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the spirit of the Lord. And so we in Christ, and Paul has already made it clear, we in Christ are now free. We are no longer slaves, and because of this we do not cover our faces in the presence of the King. We need to remember that Moses stood before God, and he did so with an unveiled face. It was only before the people that he had to put on a veil. He had said in chapter 3, verse 13, unlike Moses who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passed in a way. And so we know that it was before the people that he would put on the veil, but he stood before God with an unveiled face. And so because of grace, believers can experience transformation into Christ-likeness. One of the commentators that I use when I do my studies is a man by the name of Alacot, and he said, the image of the old evil atom nature becomes less distinct, and the image of the new man after the likeness of Christ takes its place. So we are experiencing transformation into Christ-likeness. First Corinthians 1549 says, just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall we bear the likeness of the man from heaven. So we are being transformed and conformed. This transformation is an ongoing thing. As he says in verse 18 of chapter 3, we move from glory to glory. In Romans 8.29, Paul said it this way. He said, whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. And so, according to verse 18, we behold as in a mirror the glory of the Lord. So believers mirror the glory of the Lord as we reflect Jesus who is the image of God. We know that God's word is like a mirror.  And as we look by faith into the gospel, we will behold Jesus Christ who is, according to verse 4 of chapter 4, the image of God. So as we contemplate him, we are transformed into his image, again, from glory to glory. And this is a glory that doesn't fade away. It's a glory that continuously grows. So we're being transformed into his image. This is not done. This is not done without our seeking him and rejecting sin.  Well, no, you need to seek him and you need to reject sin. That's how it takes place. Titus 2, 11 through 14 tells us the grace of God has been revealed, bringing salvation to all people. And we are instructed to turn from godless living in sinful pleasures. We should live in this evil world with wisdom, righteousness, and devotion to God. While we look forward with hope to that wonderful day when the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ will be revealed, he gave his life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make us his very own people totally committed to doing good deeds. So being transformed into his image is not something that just simply happens. It's a process of becoming what is called in Scripture a disciple. And so we as Christians begin to seek him. We seek him by his word. We seek him in prayer. We meditate on these things and we fellowship with believers. And if we're not seeking him diligently, we are not being transformed into his image, and therefore we should be seeking him. In 1 Chronicles 16, 11, seek the Lord in his strength. Seek his face evermore. Psalm 27, 8, when you said, seek my face, my heart said to you, your face, Lord, I will seek. So that's part of you. That's what you do.  You're not automatically becoming a good person. And you weren't a good person before you came to faith in Christ. You were evil. I was evil. We were sinners lost hostile towards God, completely in opposition to him. But God in his grace and mercy gave us his son who died on the cross and took our sin upon himself. He was buried the third day he arose from the dead. He ascended into heaven. He sends the Holy Spirit to indwell those who had received his gospel message. And now we who at one time were alcoholics or abusers or drunkards or not just drunkards or drug addicts and all, you know, we are now set free from that bondage. And that's called Christianity. And yes, and you're saved and you're instantly forgiven. But you now proceed to pursue him. And as you seek his face, he reveals more of himself to you and you're being transformed. In verse 18, he uses the word transformed. He said, are being transformed into the same image. That word transformed is the same word that is used when Jesus in Matthew 17 was transfigured. In Matthew 17, too, it speaks of Jesus and it says he was transfigured before them. His face shown like the sun and his clothes became as white as the light. Well, this word transformed or transfigured is also used in Romans chapter 12 verse 2, which tells us not to be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of our minds. So the glory Jesus had when he was transfigured is the glory we too will one day have. It's not speaking of an outward glory. It speaks of a glory that comes from within. It is what is called the transformation of the essential man, and it's a work performed by the Holy Spirit. And this is what Paul has been speaking about in chapter 3, and that's what we left off at verse 18. And now he picks up in chapter 4 by moving further into his subject. And notice what he says in chapter 4, verse 1, he starts with the word therefore. Those are these things, therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart. As we have received mercy, we do not lose heart. Now when he says since we have this ministry, this ministry is what he called in chapter 3, verse 6, the ministry of the New Covenant, Paul referred to the law, the law of Moses, as a ministry of death, the ministry of condemnation. And that's because the law brought the knowledge of sin and as a result judgment. But by way of contrast, God by His Spirit gave us what is called the New Covenant. The New Covenant is the ministry of the Spirit. It's the ministry of light. It's the ministry of righteousness. This New Covenant imparts the Holy Spirit to us. This New Covenant makes it possible for us to be righteous before God. And this New Covenant is more glorious. It's more glorious than the Old Testament, than the Old Promise, than the law, because it reveals to us in chapter 2, verse 14, he pointed this out. It reveals to us that we triumph because of Jesus, and secondly, it reveals that God's Spirit works at us continually and He is transforming us. And we have this ministry, he says in verse 1, and notice he says, and we have received mercy and we do not lose heart. I'll say, and I have benefited from the mercy of God. The word mercy speaks of compassionate treatment. I have been treated compassionately, and I'm so grateful. And that's strengthened him. And I want to show you something here in chapter 4, verse 1, because notice what he says, we have this ministry, we received it. We have received mercy, notice, and we do not lose heart. We're not going to give up. That's what it means to not lose heart. What's that tell me? There were times when Paul needed to be strengthened so that he did not give up. Remember in chapter 1, verses 8 and 9, do you remember in 2 Corinthians 1, 8 and 9, how he said, we do not want you to be ignorant brethren of our trouble, which came to us in Asia, that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life. Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead. He's already made it clear.  He had gotten to a point where there could have been a temptation, and I want to make this practical, there could have been a temptation for him to just want to give up. Have you ever been there? Have you ever been there? You got saved? Your life is changing? Things are going well? But now opposition comes? You begin to lose friends? Stresses take your life? Maybe difficulties in marriage? Whatever. When you get to that point in your life where you say, I don't know if it's worth it. You know, Paul said, I don't lose heart. And I had to look at what would that mean in the life of a man like Paul, and what practically does that mean in the life of those who serve the Lord? What could that mean to a minister of the gospel? Because ministers can come to the point where they want to give up. Mark McIntosh was sharing just yesterday at a men's conference I participated in at the growing number of ministers, pastors who are leaving their churches. By the hundreds every month, churches are closing down here in the United States. By the hundreds, there are churches closing their doors, the pastors are giving up. And is it possible for that to take place? It's taking place right now. Ministers can come to the point where they want to give up. They get physically tired. They get emotionally drained. They become spiritually dry. They're concerned about the future like other people. They can have financial pressure. They receive ongoing criticism. They get tired of living in a glass house where everybody looks at them and is constantly making critical statements concerning them. Just this week, just this morning, I was reading in that wonderful gossip page called Facebook.  That happens all the time. And I told my wife, honey, that's not nice. You shouldn't say things like that to me. That hurts me terribly. No, I mean that happens all the time. I live in a glass house and this isn't about me. It's just true. I live in a glass house. I have people that walk up to me all over the place. Can you imagine? I've been here for a long time. There are a lot of people who at one time came to this fellowship that I still run into in other places. We were just the other day in one of the local places and two people in the store, one here and then another there, I run into them all over the place. Not everybody remains in this fellowship. And a lot of people are very critical and a lot of people say things that are just unkind. Like, oh, he lives in a three-story house and stuff like that. You can't believe the nonsense that has been said over the years.   But that happens. They see pastors who have a larger church and they know that many of their church left, their church should go to theirs. Their personality is ridiculed. I'll never forget a guy who walked up to me after a church service and said to me, I have to talk to you about, tell you something, don't start crying when I talk to you. I started crying. No, I wanted to cry as I hit him in the head, yeah, but I'll pop you one. No, but they do that.  Their preaching is ignored. Their clothing is judged. Their motives are called into question. If they say something about it, their character, their spiritual maturity is attacked. Their value is minimized. Pastors are often ministers. Don't take vacations. The children are judged. The wife is underappreciated. They can be victims of unfair criticism. They're victims of gossip and they can't defend themselves. Add to that the pressure of the world to conform to it. The ridicule that we as ministers undergo. We put in long hours, sacrifice, encourage, pray for and plead to the church and the result is rejection and gossip usually from those who perceive themselves as very spiritual. That's how it works. Through all of it, there's one thing you learn and Paul is making it clear. We do not lose heart. Through all of it, we learn that the Lord is with us and we learn to hold to him tightly. From 32 verse 10, many sorrows shall be to the wicked, but he who trusts in the Lord mercy shall compass him about. We see this kind of thing in the letter. Paul is once again answering a charge. His integrity, his selflessness has been called into question. And once more, he has to deal with the poison of the false apostles in Corinth. And he deals with another accusation. If you're keeping note of them, this is the 11th accusation that we see him dealing with. And they're saying, this man uses the gospel to advance himself. He says in verse two, we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. So he reveals his motives as he serves. Notice how he says we have renounced. The word renounce means to reject or turn away from. We have renounced the hidden things of shame. We have rejected the hidden things of shame. In other words, our motives before God and man are pure. In Psalm 90 verse eight, you have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance. Paul knew he could hide nothing from the eyes of the Lord. He was 413, nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Nothing is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account. And because he was aware of that, he lived a pure and a holy life before God and man. He went on to say, we do not walk in craftiness. That word craftiness speaks of a charming deceitfulness. It's a way of speaking of what would be called an underhanded tactic. This is saying that he does not have a self-serving ministry. He's not attempting to appear to be one thing while being another, taking advantage of people by putting on. I'm not walking in craftiness. Paul is saying my ministry is true to the word of God. Not to man's philosophy, not to fleshly wisdom. And I'm not preaching messages that are for my own benefit because he goes on to say nor handling the word of God deceitfully. I'm not using God's word to gain personal advantage. This is a picture of what we used to call twisting scripture, to twist the scripture to ensnare a hearer. When he had written to them in 1 Corinthians 2, 4 and 5, he had said to them, my message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power so that your faith might not rest in men's wisdom, but on God's power. Somebody said his enemies perverted the word of the Lord by adulterating it with the elements of the law of tradition and with false ideas about Jesus. And they did that in order to draw the converts after themselves. In Galatians, he addressed this to the church there in chapter 6, verses 12 and 13. He said those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. The only reason they do this is to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ. Not even those who are circumcised obey the law, yet they want to be circumcised that they may boast about your flesh. They want you to be circumcised that they may boast about your flesh. Paul is saying, I lived a spotless life before you. I'm a living exhibit of God's grace. And that kind of life, by the way, is what gives a minister a more respectful hearing as they share God's message. In Philippians 1.27, Paul said, whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in one spirit, contending as one man for the faith of the gospel. And so he says it. He makes it very clear. He says we've renounced the hidden things of shame. We're not walking in craftiness. We're not handling the word of God deceitfully. By manifestation of the truth, we're commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. Every man's conscience, not every man's emotion, we're living properly.  But he says if our gospel is veiled, verse 3, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the God of this age is blinded, who do not believe lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. And so he's making it clear our gospel is a true word from God. Notice how he says in verse 3, even if our gospel is veiled. Now our gospel, the term our gospel is not saying he invented it as if it belonged to him. He's saying our gospel is a message that I preach. And what he's saying also is that his authority is greater than the false apostles. You see, he preaches the one true gospel. But many people were not accepting that gospel. They still to this day reject that gospel. This gospel, he said, is veiled, verse 3, it's veiled to those who are perishing. They reject it. He says they're veiled. It's something he had already addressed. He's speaking of them being spiritually blind. Not only voluntarily, but here's the thing through satanic influence. Listen, Satan is referred to as the God of this age. And the term, the God of this age speaks of how he has limited authority in this period of time. In 1st John 519, John said, we know that we are of God and the whole world lies into the sway of the wicked one. So Satan has authority and he establishes a system that is in hostile opposition at constant warfare with God. It's called the world. And he has a certain kind of influence that he wields. He obtained this kind of authority through deception. Remember the story of the Garden of Eden? And Satan actually makes reference to this when he was tempting Jesus as recorded in Luke chapter 4. It says in verses 5 to 8 that the devil taking Jesus up on a high mountain showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. The devil said to him, all this authority I will give you and their glory for this has been delivered to me and I give it to him whomever I wish. Therefore, if you will worship before me, I will be yours.  Well Satan has blinded the minds of those who do not believe. To reject is a natural inclination. It literally speaks of those who choose to reject, who refuse to believe. And Satan encourages that. He encourages a rejection of Jesus Christ. He says in this message verse 4, he said, the God of this age is blinded who do not believe lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God should shine on them. And so the light of the gospel reveals the glory of Jesus who is God, God's image. In Colossians 1.15 through 17 it says he's the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created, things in heaven, things on earth, visible, invisible, whether thrones or powers, rulers or authorities. All things were created by him and for him. He is before all things and in him all things hold together. Hebrews 1.3 said Jesus is the brightness of his glory, the express image of his person. The children of Israel, Moses meets with God on the mountain. God gives to him the commands. The Ten Commandments. Within the Ten Commandments are the laws that pertain to man's relationship to God. God says I'm your God, you shall have no false gods. And he says you shall not have any graven images, no idols. Now in the midst of a world that is filled with idolatry in the midst of a world that every nation and every people, every culture surrounding Israel had their little gods that they carved with men's hands would place up in certain places in the house and would bow before them and pray that these gods would bless them in an environment of complete idolatry where everybody had these images. God said you shall have no images. I am the invisible God and you will walk by faith and not by sight. And you will obey my word from the heart. This is what you shall do. So you shall have no graven image. And so these were the people that were amazing to the pagans and the culture around them because they worshiped the invisible God. But you ask how can you know God in the most complete way if there's nothing tangible, nothing that you can see that helps you to understand. And so God answers the problem of his invisibility by taking upon himself human flesh. And that's what John told us, he said, he dwelt amongst us. We beheld his glory, the glory of the only begotten Son of God. The word became flesh and dwelt amongst us, he said. And the beginning was the word. The word was with God. The word was God and the word became flesh and dwelt amongst us. The invisible God took upon himself human flesh. And he dwelt amongst us, we beheld him. And even Thomas was invited, touch me and see who I truly am, right? So we preached this God, Jesus Christ. And we say you can have a relationship with God because God took upon himself human flesh and what is called the incarnation. He dwelt amongst us and every Christmas this pagan nation called the United States returns to its Christian origins at least that one time and the second time during Easter to remember that there was one named Jesus who was born and there was one named Jesus who died, was buried but was resurrected. We can't erase him from our nation's history and memory, right? But for believers, that's not a story, that's the truth. God took upon himself human flesh and dwelt amongst us. And this is the God that Paul is preaching. This is the God who expressed himself, who revealed himself. Again, verse four, whose minds the God of this age has blinded who do not believe lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ who's the image of God, she shine on them. They refuse to believe it, they turn the heart against it. He says again, for we do not preach ourselves, verse five, but Christ Jesus the Lord, ourselves your bond servants for Jesus' sake. We don't preach ourselves. So Paul labored to advance the cause of Jesus, not his own ministry career. In a personality driven society, the desire to be known can be intense. People want to be known in all. And sometimes those who at one time started out faithfully end up being less faithful. They begin to name the ministry after themselves. They begin to put their faces everywhere. They want people to know who they are and all of that. And we can very slowly but surely begin to eclipse the glory of the Lord by putting ourselves in his place. Well, Paul said, we don't preach ourselves. And that's the 12th charge if you're taking notes because they're saying he preaches himself. He doesn't preach Jesus, but he's saying, no, we do not preach ourselves. We preach the Lord Jesus Christ. We're not eclipsing him. He is the most important one. He's the only superstar. He's the only one who has importance. It's not the preacher because one preacher dies and another is raised up. But Jesus Christ remains forever. He is, Jesus Christ is unchanging. And that's why we follow him. And so they're saying he preaches himself. Now, John the Baptist disciples got jealous when Jesus began to eclipse John. They came to John. They complained about this to him. They said, the one whom you have baptized, he's now baptizing. And more people are coming to him. And they began to be jealous concerning that. And John had to correct them in John 3.27 and 28. John answered and said, a man can receive nothing unless it's been given to him from heaven. You yourselves bear me witness that I said I'm not the Christ. I've been sent before him. And then he went on in John 3.30 to say, he must increase, but I must decrease. So that's the kind of heart that resided in Paul. In 1 Corinthians, in chapter 3, verse 5, he asked the question of the church. He said, who's Paul? Who's Apollo's? But ministers, through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one. What are we? We are your bond servants for Jesus' sake. We aren't your superstars for your servants for the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what we are. The greatest in the church is in the pastor. The greatest in the church is Jesus Christ because it belongs to him. And what we are are servants. And we need to understand that we've been sent by God to serve. And he's speaking of that. And he says in verse 6, for it is, the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness who has shown in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. We have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. It is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness who's shown in our hearts. I'm going to close with a couple of things here. Spiritual illumination comes from the Father of light. It is his spirit that illuminates our darkened consciences. In Psalm 18, verse 28, the psalmist said, for you will light my lamp. The Lord my God will enlighten my darkness. It doesn't come because you sat down at the feet of some Buddhist monk who eventually initiated you by pressing your forehead and you are now enlightened. It came when the Lord shone out of darkness and revealed himself to us. He illuminates us by the power of his Holy Spirit. And it's through this knowledge that comes by the power of the Spirit that we see Jesus and know him to be God in the flesh. In John's Gospel in chapter 14, Jesus is speaking to one of his men, a man named Philip. And he says in verses 7 through 9, if you had known me, you would have known my father also. From now on you know him and have seen him. Philip said to him, Lord show us the Father and it's sufficient for us. Jesus said to him, have I been with you so long and yet you have not known me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. So how can you say show us the Father? If you've seen me, you saw him. How can you say show us the Father when I've been here manifesting him to you? All along. And so it's through the enlightening of the Holy Spirit that you actually see Jesus Christ. And it's this message of the Gospel that we take to people to say your darkened understanding can be enlightened. You can see God. You can have peace with God. You can have the hope of God. You can have the love of God. You can have the forgiveness of God. You can have a relationship with God. You can be completely transformed by God. You be a worshiper of God. This can happen. All the old will be passed away, behold, all things will become new. And that happens through the preaching of the Gospel and the reception by faith of that message and the transformation takes place and we are moved from glory to glory because of it. And that's what Paul is speaking about. He's saying, I don't preach myself.  I'm not, because I'm an apostle doesn't mean that I think I'm better than you. I'm a bond servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm a servant. We preach Christ. He's the Savior. And so he says, we have this treasure in earth and vessels. We need to know that the light of the knowledge of the glory of God is revealed in his message. And Paul refers to himself as an earth and vessel. What do you mean when you say we have this treasure in earth and vessels? Well, during that day, the practice of bearing valuables was very common. Israel, when you look at its history, had been attacked many times over the years by a variety of marauders, including major armies. And because of that, families would bury their valuables in order to keep them out of the hand of those who were plundering. So if they were taken captive and if they were freed, they might be able to return one day to retrieve their goods. They would bury it on their land. So he's saying we have this treasure in earth and vessels. So God is the potter, and we are the product of his hands. God has deposited his wealth in us. We've been given the message of the gospel, but the results come from him. First Corinthians 3-7, neither he who plants is anything nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. Paul is saying this and a close, we are unworthy, what are we, we're servants. You have infiltrators who have entered into the church, he's saying. False apostles who are undermining the ministry. You don't mind it when they take advantage of you. You actually exalt them. You actually do the things that they say to do. And they speak to you concerning me. I brought you to faith. I'm the one who came to Corinth. I'm the one who planted the church. I'm the one who established the elders. I'm the one who gave you the message of the gospel. No, I'm nothing special. No, I'm not saying that I'm anything other than a servant, a bond servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. Again, you like the eloquence of Apollo, so I don't blame you. And you look at me as being dry, dull, and boring. I don't necessarily blame you for that either, but we're not personality driven here, are we? We want the Word of God, a Word of God that sets free. And so you need to know that I'm not a superstar. You need to know that I am simply carrying a treasure within me, the same treasure you have, a treasure called the glory of God, the message of the gospel that transforms lives. And we've been given the opportunity to come in to preach that. And yet people walk in and they want to influence you and you listen to them. But I want to remind you something, though you may have 10,000 instructors, yet you have but one father. I begot you in the gospel, and I love you with all my heart. That's what he's saying. That's what he's saying. And that's what pastors say. That's what pastors say. Forgive me the emotion. Many never pray for me, but that doesn't mean I don't pray for many. And many may not appreciate the work of a pastor, but that doesn't mean the pastor doesn't appreciate the people. And we all know, and I can speak for my friends and all those I know who are true pastors, we're not in it for fame and we're not in it for finances. God, help me if I preach not the gospel, Paul said, and I can say the same thing. I didn't do it to have a large church. I didn't. I did it so that people would know Jesus. The lives could be changed. They could be blessed by God, forgiven them for giving up their sins so they could put their head on a pillow at night and say, God, you've been good to me. Because that's what he did in my life. Every morning I wake up and I've got my beautiful girl next to me, my wife. And I say to myself, God, you're so good. I see my babies, my sons and my daughters. And I say, oh, God, you've been so good to me. I see my grandchildren who I love with all of my heart. And they call me papa and they love me. And I say, oh, God, you've been so good to me. It wasn't by any work of righteousness which I'd done. According to your mercy, you saved me. And so the work that we do, and I speak on behalf of every true pastor, isn't to be known because I'll be honest with you. All I am is a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm nothing special. You already know that. I'm just saying I understand it too. But I also understand a very small bit of what the Apostle Paul went through. Because every pastor goes through almost everything that Paul has spoken about. If he's a true pastor, the accusations, the condemnations, the criticisms from strangers. I've had people say, oh, how come you wear those shoes? Or why do you have that shirt? You can't believe the pettiness of people who say they love Jesus. And the things that can be said, you shouldn't drive that car. I had a red car. You shouldn't drive that car. Why it's red? Really? What color should I be driving? This is true, true statement.  You should drive a white car. And I said, really, why is that? Because white is the color of purity. And I said, and red is the color of the blood of Jesus next. I mean, what are you talking about? I'm supposed to dress and go and do what pleases you. I don't think so. If what I do pleases the Lord, then those who love the Lord will be pleased too. And if you're not pleased, take it before the Lord. But if I'm in sin, I'll repent. I will. Because I want to be a pastor. I want to be your pastor. I want to be the one who brings God's word to you. That's what I want. Nothing more and nothing less. Fame doesn't matter. It comes and it goes. The only thing that lasts is whether you know Christ and how he blesses you. And that is my true heart to this church, that you may know Jesus Christ and that you might love him and serve him and that he would bless you and be with you. That's all I care about. Why? Because he cared for me. I love you. And that's how it works. And that's what God has called us to. And my heart goes out to Paul. We've read so far all these accusations. Have you seen how petty they are? They're petty. But this poor man has to address every one of them because infiltrators had come in and said, this is what he's like. He wants to be known. He's peddling the gospel. No. I'm just a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's all I am. That's what Paul said. And guess what? That's all we are too.


Welcome to Access a Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Hi everybody, welcome to another edition of the Access a Trader dot com nightly wrap up show. It's Thursday, right? Thursday, the last update of the week. Obviously, we have another one coming up this weekend. Wow, right? Absolutely wow. So I was thinking about it this morning and I said to myself, well, why try to pick a reversal? Right? Why try to put yourself in a position that you have to expect something is happening? And I almost thought about it. I almost said to myself, it's almost like the last couple of days, although again, it doesn't make a difference. Long short, the market is giving you incredible value. But I woke up this morning and I said to myself, well, why does the market have to do anything? Right? It's like that. It's almost like I almost fell into line a couple of days ago with all those people that was sitting on the sidelines for the last three, four months talking about, well, the market's erratic. The market doesn't make sense. The market can't go up. Look what's going on in the economy. The market can't go higher. And I just realized today at Morning Strategy that just go with the flow. It doesn't make a difference. I thought about it one day. I was waiting for a reversal that never came. And the next day I kind of got my reversal, right? Kind of got my reversal. Today, you know, we kind of got a reversal. We kind of got some amazing action from both sides. And I think the key is not trying to sit there and say, well, this has to happen. Again, I'm the first person that will tell you nothing ever needs to happen to be prepared. Absolutely. To be, you know, to be eyes wide open 100%. But the idea that the market needs to do anything is absolutely silly. And, you know, it took me two days to kind of realize that and kind of come to conclusion. Again, didn't really affect my trading the last couple of days. But kind of going into tomorrow, my new theory is, well, look, again, be very, very conscious that, again, we are linear, right? And then, you know, again, just looking at the queues. The queues have gone from March from 164. We're talking about 100 points on the queues, right? So irrational, absolutely. But the idea that we need to pull back at any given day is kind of on the table. And I will going forward, I will keep my eye for it. Like today, you'll see in a few minutes we had some aggressive long, some aggressive, some aggressive shorts. But I think keep one eye open, be conscious that they could pull at any time. But at the same time, you know what? Go with the flow. The market's incredibly strong. The action, especially today, two-way fantastic action today, really, really aggressive action.  And then the day end, you had a big pivot to the upside. And that's the greatest part about what we're seeing in the market. I'm just using Tesla as an example. Roku has been a beast, right? And that was definitely my trade of the day today. Roku has been a beast. Amazon is going to a completely different, Amazon now is literally going up 100 points a day. It's literally going up 100 points a day. So the action is absolutely phenomenal. The scoreboard means absolutely nothing if you look at the Dow today, right? If you look at the Dow, matter of fact, if you look at the Dow chart, the Dow was down 350 points. When we were down like around 450, you know, you could start seeing these beta names get stronger. There was some pretty good pivots to the downside today. But you could see these pivots getting just stronger, excuse me, these stocks getting stronger and stronger and stronger. And I joked around around 12 o'clock when the Dow was up, you know, down 450 points. I turn around and say, well, what time does the market go green? What I mean, the market doesn't mean the Dow. It means the Q's. It means the Nasdaq composite. And again, there's a huge disconnect in the market. Does that really bother me? Probably not. Again, if you look at the Dow, and I'm just using the diamonds as kind of a side note here, you could see this range, this really tight channel. The Dow has been kind of doing a ping-pong, you know, up and down, up and down. Same thing with the Russell today, right? With the IWM, the smaller cap names. Again, stuck into this channel, but again, held the bottom, and it looks like every single time held the bottom, it kind of bounces. That's kind of what it did today.  COMPQ, I guess, right? Composite, right? I mean, it doesn't make a difference what you do. I mean, the Nasdaq composite was up 55 points. So there's a huge disconnect a lot of times in the indexes, okay? But I think at this juncture of my life, and I think a lot of you guys, especially in the live webinar, really appreciate this. It doesn't matter. It just doesn't matter. It's individual value. Certain days, like yesterday, for example, we had value. We talked about this on the video yesterday. We did have value yesterday, but it was spread apart, it was really, really spread apart the whole day. I caught a couple of short scouts in the morning yesterday, and then it took like two, three hours before another pivot. Today was really just incredibly aggressive, right? Like there was logs, there were shorts. The number one play today was definitely Roku. We've been talking about Roku now for like four or five days, the 130s, the 135, the 140s. And we saw today, once it finally broke out, and we'll talk about the pivot in a second, once it finally broke out, we started seeing 140 calls, 145 calls, 150 calls. We saw 170 calls. We saw September 200 calls, okay? Again, that's where the market is. That's where the mindset is right now. People are willing to chase. And if you have the flexibility to stay patient, right, eliminate the FOMO and say to yourself, look, I don't want to chase the stock that's incredibly overextended. I'll wait for the value. I'll wait for the range. And you'll see an example today. It wasn't just Roku, right? It was space for God's sake, SPCE. A couple other names, right? A couple other names as well that had nothing to do with beta, but the point is the value now is not in the Amazon. As much as Amazon looks amazing, right?  All these stocks are out of control. The value is still on names right like this, right? The value is still on names like this. The value is still, you know, first leg up today on Roku. Man, this thing has more room, right? This thing has more room to go. That's where the value is. The last thing you want to do is keep on pressing the names that go up 100 points a day. It doesn't even make sense. And if somebody would even tell you four or five months ago when this whole COVID started that I would be saying, forget about the names that are going up 100 points a day, you would think I'm speaking in a completely different language. But that's kind of where we are. Maybe 100 points and everything is a little bit of an exaggeration, but you kind of get the point. Stocks are just going absolutely nuts. There's value on both sides of the market. The airlines, you know, the airlines, for example, a couple of days ago broke down, right? You can see exactly what happened here. So you're getting the macro companies, right? The cruise ships, the airlines, you're getting the macro companies that were weak because of COVID are starting to be weak again because of reality. And you look at Boeing, for example, right? Same thing. This is, you know, this is the first close below rise and support. This Boeing, if this thing confirms tomorrow, it's dead, right? Again, there's no such thing as subjective technical analysis. You could be wrong. You could be a day off. But there is no such thing as subjective technical analysis. Once it confirms and you believe the theory that stocks trade from supply to supply and demand to demand. Well, here is demand. First close on the demand and look how much room it has all the way down to the 167, even 162 if things get very, very aggressive. So again, this market is just incredibly violent in a good way. You do definitely need to be patient. You definitely have to understand the ramifications. Keep that one eye open, right? Make sure again, if you see softness, don't start buying into strength. So you have to be aware of that. But overall, you are getting, we are getting, you know, some really great value. So let's talk about the day. This was by far, right? This is by far my number one play today. I mean, to catch like a $3 and change candle on Roku right from the word go was pretty good, right? Like I thought it was going to stop today about 143. Went to 150. Okay, release is about to go to 150. So amazing, amazing move. So here's Roku. We talked about this 136 level for many updates, right? Many updates. We've seen it and I kept on saying, well, it still hasn't, you know, we're still watching, we're still watching. Here's the 136 top here, 136 top here. It finally broke the 136 and just exploded. The next level of interest is this 150, 120 area. So for Roku, I know a lot of you guys are still holding runners for tomorrow. Excuse me, my Disney Cup, right? But for all you guys who are not in Roku overnight, okay? The gift tomorrow is a week open. If they can give a week open and go into rising support. You see this, you see this orange line? A lot of you guys at home are not going to know what this orange line is for us. This is our lifeline. This is the whole point of identifying the shortest term trend where stocks bounce. And if you see here, right? It's the orange line bounce. It's the orange line bounce. It's the orange line bounce. It's the orange line bounce. So any move tomorrow into rising 60 minutes support, we have to get long, obviously red to green and confirmation about today's highs, but really super move there. I was waiting for this area and beyond and never got there. I still like this 147, but the problem is it's not anywhere near it. Shop, 1040 rejection needs to reclaim and build. Here's Shop. I think it's going to, assuming the market stays alive tomorrow, here's the 140, right? Here's the whole 140 area, excuse me, 1040, 1040, 1040. It went to 1053. 52 week high is right here. 52 is high. If they start confirming this 52 week high, we could see a move to 1090, 1100. We saw, I forgot what month it was, but we did see a buyer come in for the 1100 call short term. I think it was either end of July or August, but we did see 1100 call buyers. So I still like it for tomorrow. Nice move there today.  Envax 1050, 10101 needs to build. Not a big move at all. Here was Envax. Not a big move at all. So it took out this 1050, right? It took out this 1050, 101, only went up 20, 30 cents. Nothing completely turned around and died. Again, it's not beta, right? Space, this was a monster, but we saw a lot of really aggressive call buying coming in today. The 19s, the 20s, we even saw the 24s short term expiration. Space, 1750 needs to build, explode it. I mean, absolutely explode it. And we talk about this all the time. You don't need to trade beta, right? You don't need to have a $1 million account, $5 million. There's such weird, you know, when people talk about beta, they don't know. They think you need like a $15 million account to trade. You don't. You absolutely don't. You're trading the process. You're not trading the stock. So if you want to trade a space compared to Tesla, that's your priority. It's going to work for small caps, again, as long as they have ranges. Small caps, mid caps. It works for futures. It works for Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, anything, anything to do, forex, anything to do. As long as there's volume and there's a range and there's expansion potential, it's going to work for it. So here is 1750 on space. This whole channel here, it broke. It just exploded, went to 1950. A lot of call buying. I know a lot of you guys are still long this thing overnight. Huge move here. Zoom, right? Zoom 1270 needs to build. Again, not a huge move in Zoom, but again, this is one of those names that were overextended. So again, you're not looking for a $50 move on an overextended stock, but here is 170 and went to, excuse me, 270, went to 273 before a reverse course. Again, we had a pretty good conversation today about expanded charts, right? Stocks have already made a big move compared to stocks coming out of an intermediate or bottom channel. Your expectations should be really, really curved for the ones already exploded because they're so far away from the original pivot. So you have to take faster profits there. Here is the first, there was three pivots today on Tesla. Okay. 1,400. I said 1,400. Initially, I said, look, 1,396, 1,397 needs to build, measured move, 1,410, 1,411. I said, you know what? 1,400 better. So here is the first move on Tesla, right? Here is this morning's. So it took out the 1,400. I don't know what this thing is. It took out the 1,400. It went right to supply. Didn't quite get to the 1,410. It got a tad under 1,409. But again, that's what we were expecting. Just expecting a move right into the lower Bollinger Band, excuse me, the upper Bollinger Band for rejection. And we'll show you several more pivots on Tesla in a second. But Tesla's a monster all day today. Again, huge move. I mean, really, really huge move here. 1,36. My highest sales were in the 1,40s. I mean, big move. I mean, really, really big move. Again, it's hard for me not to take a big spike like that. It's so much easier when you're managing a trade and it goes 20 cents at a time. But these beta stocks, when they give you 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, how do you not take it off? And the most amazing part is it never gave you. It really never gave you a dip. So for tomorrow, I have to look for kind of a makeshift entry to kind of validate a second wave. Again, nice spike on space. Shop, again, 1060s to 52 week highs. Spike, ZM takes them off. And here is to the downside, right? Here is the downside as well. Again, Tesla to the upside, 1,400. Went to 1,409. Now Tesla, it's 1,373 if it builds a bloke and flush. Experienced traders, and again, that's the most important thing, guys. Always take second entries. You cannot hit bids. Number one, these stocks are now trading $1, $2, $3 spreads.  They're going to spread you out back the other way. It has to be a second entry. So Tesla, it broke the $1,373, put in a low of $1,370 and then rallied and look what happened on that second entry below $1,370, right? So it takes out $1,370 and goes all the way down to $1,351. Just a huge move, right? So you've got an $8, $9 move into supply. You've got another $20 move into support. And it doesn't be another one. It doesn't be another one in a few minutes. Shop, Netflix got killed, well, killed in Lehmanstern. It's got killed. If builds below $500 can flush, this is when they started pulling the futures. So here was Netflix, right? Here was Netflix. Here was the $500. You see it? $500, $500. It broke $500 and went right to the next support. Again, stocks trade from supply to supply, demand to demand. So traded down to the $496 area and then obviously it held. Again, this is what these stocks are doing. They're holding support and they're going right back up. So if you are an inexperienced short seller and don't know that these supply or demand zones are there, you're literally the emotional seller into a technical buyer. You're going to lose literally nine out of 10 times. So it's very, very important to understand where the supply and demand zones are. So nice move on Netflix. This should be actually an airplane going down, but it's not. So yeah, so $13.45 on deck, went to $51. So $45 on Amazon, obviously now we got there. And this was the final pivot, right? This is the final pivot on Tesla. $13.85 needs to build on the wake up, right? To wake up, okay? So, and I said, look, take on the way up. And obviously now use break even as your stop. And I said, look, $13.99, $14 is supply and Tesla. Here's the $85 pivot. I don't know what this line is. So forgive me. Here's the $13.85 pivot and went right to supply of like $14.00 and change. So really, really nice move there. I also put in a pivot on, was it Netflix 506? I didn't see Netflix into the close. Let me see what Netflix didn't close. Yeah, so yeah, I wasn't even here. So yeah, 506, you can see here's the 506 pivot. And Netflix looks like one to 510. So if you call it Netflix, great job. I was already playing basketball with my kids. So ideally for tomorrow, again, we have long setups. We have short setups. And again, the new mantra is expect the market to do good things. I know that word good is a really, really broad statement. But it's giving us again really great opportunities every single day. You're getting your washes. You're getting your long pivots. You're getting your short pivots. You're getting your monster option flow. I think it's time to realize, you know what? We're just in a good tape. Always be cautious. Have one eye always on the futures.  Great job, everybody. I will see you tomorrow for all you guys who are just getting this recording. I will see you guys on the weekend update. Have a great, great night, everybody. 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you're completely bs-ing yourself. You think you know this, but you actually don't. And really quickly this is how it works. So imagine you had a blank piece of paper, I'm just going to use a sticky note here, and you have told yourself that you have memorized everything from lecture one. A good test is saying perfect watch.  And you're going to quickly find out that there are going to be places where you're like, oh man, I know that there was three bullet points about this topic, but I only remember one of them. Those are great opportunities because of the gaps in your knowledge where you can just say I'm going to mark this on the piece of paper. I'm going to do the rest of the lecture or whatever topic you're reviewing.  And you fill in the holes and then you do it again. And this essentially in my opinion is one of the best techniques you can use to prepare for the test, because now you can no longer be as yourself. Visually, you can say, actually Lux you don't really know that or you don't feel very confident.  And if I couldn't, then I needed to roof do it.


All right, no sound. Let's play this in full It's more a more fleshed out one between the poses set changes Especially at the end. Ta-da Cool, I think what I want to dress here are the broader strokes In terms of timing was there some cool stuff Through there There was the complexity and the turn and all of that like I'm not super worried about Almost detail work to me. It's more about timing and pushing poses. So when she comes out there's something I've never mentioned that before but It's a bit busy that background with her Which just could be a clean and so many lines in here that from tensions and busy up the silhouettes Never have I mentioned that before if you want to you know, short Short, what's it called? Make the set smaller add something here Whatever you have that keeps her in the clear But the general thing would be There's something I think it's better for sure like everything is better. It just needs like a fine-tuning of This feels like it's like an in-between pose it could be more dynamic in terms of Holding this out in terms of a big stretch in the body and the and the legs almost close it together She feels a bit halfway through almost holding in that pose. I know she's changing I can see it But it seems more like an overall global rotation change where Arms and legs always kind of the same. So I wish like you would do it and then really stretched out Pose so that you have it's almost like a squash bot within a stretch. That sounds a bit weird but Like that, but you know the legs are closer together. Maybe even arms could be to close it together and then She comes out into that's your in-between you break down between those two poses into another stretch And I'll probably cheat that leg over Get a bit of a cleaner That's cool here with a cleaner Leg silhouette, but timing wise it feels like you want to It still feels a bit like You're pulling her down There's always been that remnant from the beginning and I think it's because the timing of that jump through here Into that hangtime is all fairly soft and suddenly we get that pull-down frame and what's happening too is that This gets very small like you have suddenly acceleration in the timing here through the spacing But then suddenly this feels Smaller in spacing and then suddenly an accelerates in it especially through here But then from here to here not really so to me feels like there's so inconsistencies in the spacing where I would go Take a couple frames out of this. It's a bit faster Hang hang hang in that pushed pose then turn into this. That's a bit more Bump bump bump bump bump bump You really feel that shmoop around going down so it doesn't feel small small big small and then another big change here The shape-wise blond to gray That's that section then There's so much energy in that roll Going forward and that translate that suddenly right through there. It suddenly gets slow You got to take a couple frames out of that so it goes from this this this To this take this one out take all of these out to maybe already up here and then getting up.  It doesn't help that. She is never really You know if she will go down and keep her head up and then eyes go forward to keep the focus But she feels looks so spaced out and feel so stiff through there quite Same thing here and talk about that having a bit of a stronger Cepation to this feels like that much of a jump I'll go a bit Brought and again through all of this. I'm just sensing a lot of stiffness in the chest and head relationship How there's nothing really going on there terms of compression and change even through here This happens later on as well. You have a jump and then we're suddenly Spacing wise, you know, I know this there is a camera move so it's Hearts to fully track, but even within this you can see That sudden jump through there, but I'm not feeling it's a in the pose Where she brings that leg up, but then she gets to this but then we kind of staying put to me as opposed to She's like that and she will go lower Really bring bring that down and then on this you can stay in that I would drag that foot a bit But on then that leg is up maybe extending this a bit more Curling you're bringing that that line of action more like this versus this and then forward And just being able to hold that leg up a bit longer for you want to feel that Extension full extension with a slight swing over the arms as well like this arm goes up But now we have a down up up here and then we're staying in that pose We're not following through with that swing up and also bringing the shoulder up the shoulders feel low here So like a bigger swing bigger full extension stretch then you can get into this Here it's cool Getting into this great compression there, but then it feels like oh we want a full extension But we're not we're already bent and we staying kind of bent Which again takes the force out versus stretch Then for this And the same thing where I would have her Like she feels like she is about to go this way and then she sounds she suddenly goes this way There's already kind of you know bent there basically what I'm looking for is a full stretch really towards the goal and Then towards the end she can bring Her body up of it into that bend for that pose to get ready And I think the legs are okay Yeah, I think that feels better The idea of this force going this way this going this way then down this colliding I think it's okay It feels a bit stiff just because This feels straight as it goes forward and then the legs do more Maybe there's something where I can do where that's on stop will actually bend the knees Bend the knees then the knees catch up And then it's a bit more Like that right you got something bend in the legs and then they shoot forward feeling of snap This feels slow too. I would go and then To to slow hold on if I speed this up here Even that feels slow. This is 25% faster. Let me just play this at 50% and That feels better 50% faster How about What is this twice as fast? How about twice as fast? bit fast maybe 50% maybe a bit more 60% Now we're back at Normal speed we are so slow Even this here feels a bit slow and then we're also getting stuck in that pose at the end You might look like well He's going down there so she's dragging but to me feels like we're seeing that top and then we keep seeing that top And I would just cheat so that you're landing here That's your length there. All right. Hold on. Let me delete this and put onion skinning So that's your length of the body, but then at the end Cheated that the head is here So this the cheated impression of the rotation that has her go Continue to go down into this, you know That's cool. I don't know if I will compress a bit more. Maybe here if you can Wow, and the same thing here in terms of the hold I will go and shot It's kind of Here bit deeper jump up down hold Slow and fast Right now it feels all bit even here one two three Give this a bit more flourish of whole and then All right Hope that helps. I know these are a lot of notes a lot of hopefully not too destructive. There's a timing notes But that's what you paid me for. I want to be honest. This is kind of well, you know, it's my subjective view But I feel like it's all cool. It just needs a little bit of Spicing up the timing to push certain elements. It doesn't feel slow and even Alrighty. Thanks. All right There's an email you can sign up you can start whenever you want you can submit whatever you want You get 16 submissions either way a like and subscribe would be awesome. All right. Thank you


When you share your good news with the narcissist, normally people will be happy for you when you share your good news with them. They will see it as something positive, encouraging and uplifting, but this is one thing that narcissists do not like. They hate it when you're happy about something that they are not responsible for, something that is outside of their control. When you share your good news with the narcissist, they will become rageful, they might be openly aggressive to you, or if you share your good news in a public setting, they may become passive-aggressive, because deep down they know that their response is not logical or reasonable, but when you share your good news with them, they see it as an attack, as though you are taking the spotlight away from them and leaving them in the dark, which is why you should not share your good news with the narcissist, no matter how excited you are, no matter what that good news may be, it doesn't matter if you've won the lottery. You should not share your good news with the narcissist. You might not see it as though you're doing anything wrong, you're not saying anything bad about them, but they really see it as an attack, because it makes them feel inadequate, it makes them feel very envious and jealous, because they're very insecure, they need everyone to stay down so that they can feel like they're the best. Everyone has to support this illusion, and if you dare to stand up straight in your natural position, they see it as a threat, it makes them very envious, it triggers them to reflect on their shame, but the narcissist is not going to lie low with their head down, they're going to do whatever it takes to make you feel the same way, and they will do that by insulting you or giving you back-handed compliments, they will minimize your good news, and act like it's nothing special, they will ignore you, or they will talk about someone else's good news or accomplishments, and portray it as though it's so much better, they will do all of this because they feel threatened by your good news, they feel like it takes something away from them, so when you share your good news with the narcissist, they will always have some minimizing or dismissive comment for you, all they can do is take away from the moment and experience, because they have nothing to bring to it, they're very empty people, they only think about themselves, they have no regard for your feelings, they will always leave you doubting yourself and thinking that your good news isn't so good after all, no matter how good it is, they will always find a way to downplay it, because they don't want you to feel good about yourself, they look at it like, why should I give you compliments and praise, when that's just going to make you feel good, and I'm still going to be left feeling miserable, so no matter how impressed they may be by your good news, they will withhold it from you, they will act like it's nothing special, even though they may be deeply threatened by it, but they can't let you know what's really going on in their minds, because they feel like that takes something away from them, and they're very egotistical, they want everything to revolve around them, which is why they will withhold their attention from anything that does not concern them, no matter how impressive it may be, because they're very envious and jealous people, they're constantly trying to extract their sense of self-importance from other people, while constantly feeling like other people are leaving them to feel unimportant, which is what happens when you share your good news with them, it makes them feel inadequate, it triggers them to reflect on their shame, and then they throw away temper tantrum, or they act in different towards you, which leaves you not wanting to share your good news with anyone else, which is exactly what they want, they want you to play down your qualities and abilities, and anything that may be good for you, because they can't stand you getting all the attention when you share your good news with a narcissist, they will always find something wrong with it, they will always find something wrong with anything that is good about you, they will find a way to make it all about them, they will use it to play the victim, they will leave you feeling like you're doing something wrong, by sharing your good news, when you receive some good news, share it with people who are kind and supportive, share it with people who care for you, people who can share your happiness and celebrate with you, rather than sharing your good news with the narcissist, who is only going to ruin the moment for you, although the narcissist may become rageful, when you share your good news with them, they feel entitled to know about your good news, and they may also become rageful if you do not share it with them, so you really can't win in their situation, whatever you do could potentially trigger the narcissist rage, because they want to have the opportunity to trash your good news, and they could seem like it's nothing, they want to prevent you from enjoying an occasion or event, they want to spoil things for you, so only share it with people who are deserving of your effort, attention and respect, people who don't have to reduce your good news to their level, because they have qualities, abilities and accomplishments of their own that they are proud of, so they don't need to trash yours, they don't need to make you feel like it isn't that great, they have something to bring to you, from their own sense of pride and accomplishment in their own lives, your good news is never going to win the narcissist over, it's not going to persuade them to agree or be friendly with you, or to accept and support your ideas, it's going to make them even more resistant and accepting of you, it's going to make them angry, so don't give them the opportunity to steal your joy, be happy for yourself, and share your good news with those who are kind and supportive. 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Please remember to bring me during the presentation questions during the presentation can be typed in chat and we'll answer at the end of the presentation. Once we have open things for questions. This presentation is being recorded anyways, and I will be the project manager for this project. This is a 2021 concrete restoration contract for. It has 2 major locations. 1 is the McCart Avenue. And the other 1 is South Helens Street. So we'll see the project limits and the project budget. In short while, so this is the a brief. Description about the project and the construction cost and 10 project schedule. My name is Salman says, and I'll be the project manager will be assigning 1 of the city inspector in that and we'll be communicating that to the public. The contractor is is the urban infrastructure and this project is approximately 1 million dollar in construction. The project is anticipated to start in July 2021, which is next month. And it is expected to finish by February 2022. The project scope is basically the panel replacements, which is on the roadway and some of the driveway approaches if they're if they're damaged and needs to be replaced. So, we have basically 2 phases for this, this, this project we have divided into 2 parts. 2 phases, the 1st 1 is the South Helens Street from Columbus trail to West or isn't your road. And we are anticipating to start this phase 1st, and we'll be working on South Helens Street from from July 2021 all the way to October 2021. In the next phase, we'll be doing the McCart Avenue from second more school road to the West. And the schedule for that is anticipated for October 2021, all the way to February 2022 project limits are from you see over here at the McCart Avenue is from Seekham or school road in all the way to West. And on your left, you can see the Helens Street from Columbus trail to the West. So, this is the existing condition of the current on the left, you can see the South Helens Street. And you can see how the road has been damaged. And we'll be replacing all these damage panels, removing them and replacing them. And on the right side, you can see the McCart Avenue, which has some of the. Pen failures and we'll also be replacing those. So, this is basically the existing condition of the road right now. So, what to expect during the construction? So, what we'll be doing is placing all the damage panels are taking them out and we'll be putting a reinforced concrete for these panels. And in the picture, you can see how individual panels are being constructed. So, something similar, you will be seeing on the side and we'll be fixing the base failures if there's any. And then we'll be putting reinforcement and then the concrete to match the existing pavement. So, what to expect after the construction? So, you'll see some of the relatively new construction panels than the other one. It would be having a new look. So, on the picture on the left, you can see a few of the panels have been replaced. So, it would look something similar to this one. But definitely, it will be having much smoother ride and level pavement. So, every concept usually bring some kind of inconvenience and you'll see some of the some section temporary impacts. Which might include like a loud construction noises and dust and debris. And you'll also see construction equipment throughout the project area and some of the traffic load would also be impacted by that. To minimize these construction impacts, we are focusing more on the efficient communication. So, that can mean the impact of the temporary consequence. So, you'll be seeing several notices during various times in the construction. And we'll be communicating if there's any changes to the garbage or postal service in advance. And any community communicated well in advance and we'll be placing the construction signage in the project area. So, if any need to communicate with city, they'll have a project name and project number also the contact information on those. The regular work hours have been set for this is from Monday to Friday, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Second will only happen during this time and will not be working during any weekends or in the public holidays. Except for some permissions would be granted if it is required. This is my contact information. My name is Salman Shahid and my phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER> and my email address is salman.shahid at fortwardtexas.gov. If you have any questions, you can email me. You can call me regarding this project. So, now, if you have any questions, you can go ahead and ask if any questions you have. Well, there's nothing in chat so far, but if anyone has any questions about the project, feel free to unmute and ask Salman and we can get you whatever information you need. Hi Salman. This is Kendall Locke from Council Member Williams office. I don't have any questions. I just want to say thank you so much for the presentation. And if possible, if you can share a copy with me via email, I'd appreciate it. And other than that, good work. Thank you very much. I will share that with both council members and thank you for joining on his behalf. I will definitely share this presentation with you. Alright, if you don't have any further questions, so we're going to adjourn this meeting right now. Everyone have a nice evening. Thank you.


Here we go again, lovely people. This one is another all beauty purchase. So they have a fantastic sale on. Here we go. This is Cabotine Gold by Gray Parry. Order toilet. Really cute bottle. Super cute. And Jennifer Lopez live. Tastic. Let's open these up shall we? Okay so this is Jennifer Lopez. Okay I'm going to confess now that I have no idea whether this is supposed to be live or live. So here we go. Oh my Gideon, look at that bottle. Okay I love the bottle. Green and purple. Some of my favorite colors. This is such a fancy bottle. Oh I love it. Okay next one is. I'm gonna open this one up. Look at that. So these are blind buys which... Oh check that out. Just embossed little flowers here. Beautiful. I'm surprised at how expensive this box looks considering how cheap this perfume was. And it's an Oriental floral perfume. Oh my days. Look at that. I cannot believe that this perfume only cost me 10 pounds. It's got really good quality box. You know with embossed details and some gold color there. And then you've got this. Super impressive. Right let's try them on. We're gonna start off with the Jennifer Lopez. Now I bought this because it's not from Josephine mentioned this in one of her videos I think. Or it was some other YouTuber. It's all getting a little bit mixed up. But what I did find out was that the nose behind this perfume was Dominique Rupione and he's the same guy who did Portrait of a Lady. Now I have Portrait of a Lady as a sample and it's a beautiful smelling perfume. It's like a million roses packed into one little sniff because I have roses. I love gardening and I've got quite a lot of rose bushes. But it's a very expensive perfume. So I thought okay well let me try something that he made before he hit the big time. And so this is the Jennifer Lopez one. So I love the bottle. Can I just say that the bottle design on this is amazing. I think this has to be my favorite bottle so far. Look at that. So I'm expecting something to smell ethereal but light. So yeah let's have a look. Oh wow. The top notes are supposed to be pineapple, Sicilian lemon, Italian orange. There's some red currant blossom, peony, violet. And the base notes are supposed to be caramel, sandalwood, tonka bean and vanilla. So I think this is like the seventh perfume that I've bought now that has got vanilla and sandalwood as the base notes. So I'm immediately getting that similarity. I can't say that I'm picking out any pineapple or anything like that because if anything has got pineapple I expect it to be sickeningly sweet. But one thing that I'm learning about perfume notes is that they don't necessarily smell like the real thing in real life if that makes sense. Some do like roses I think that they do but it's like peonies. There are a couple of things that I've smelled that are supposed to have a very strong peonies in but I have peonies in my garden and peonies don't have a very strong scent or anything like that. So yeah. But anyway let's have a sniff at this. Oh there we go. Nice little atomizer. I'm definitely getting sandalwood. Quite soapy right off the bat. A little bit tropically although I don't know whether I'm seeing what I want to see because of the notes but it does feel like a fresh tropical vibe. I like it. I think it's quite sweet and quite fruity but it feels a little bit more complex. Like I keep on wanting to smell it to get more out of it unlike say some other frequencies where I just smell it and I get just an initial thing. So it's quite intriguing in that regards. I like it. I mean the combination of the bottle design and the pear degree just makes me really like this plus you know kind of used to be a big fan of Jennifer Lopez back in the day. Not too sure what she's been up to recently but I do like this. Looking forward to trying it on my skin and I will let you know how the longevity is and how it goes. Was it love? It's the first sniff. Probably not. There's some other perfumes that I've just been like oh my gosh but this it warrants a second date. Moving on to the gray cabotine gold. I got this after watching Anna's from Josephine's video. I'll put the video link in the description box to go check her out. She's got so much knowledge about perfumes. The full range of perfumes from like your budget celebrity perfumes you know all the way to whatever budget you have but fantastic information and I found very helpful. So I was quite excited to try this out because the price point is also quite attractive. Definitely not one for super super super hideously expensive perfumes. I like smelling good but not so much so that I can't afford to pay for my five kids college funds. So that's what it's like. So if that's your jam if you like the perfume journey of somebody who is looking for good quality budget perfumes then do subscribe and also hit the like button but here we go. So this one when I looked up the note profile I was very interested because it's got mandarin orange pink pepper and melon as the top nose although I'm quickly beginning to realize that top notes don't really matter all that much what matters more the middle and the base nose because I've realized that the top notes they kind of dissipate quite quickly so just because I'm learning to sort of disregard the top notes and not place too much weight on them but the middle nose are jasmine, tear, flower and peony. So this one's also got peony just like the live or live from J.Lo and then the base notes are patchouli, vetiver and amber. Patchouli I'm familiar with because I have patchouli essential oil as part of my essential oils kit. Amber I'm not too familiar with what to expect from an amber smell and vetiver is something that is quite new to me although I think it's the one that's used in creed fragrances I think it's one of the base thing but I may be quite wrong but yeah let's have a smell oh wow clean golden just quite funny because it's called gold and crisp let's see I'm gonna spray you oh I love the handle of this bottle it just holds so nicely it fits into my hand oh wow oh this is it's dazzling it's very very vivid it's not sweet this is not a sweet smell at all I'm not thinking sweet bubbly lovely did I say it there's a little bit of sourness to it getting a little bit of melon the jasmine is beginning to come through now I'm definitely getting the jasmine oh my days this is quite this is possibly one of the more sophisticated perfumes I've come across and by sophisticated I mean that each time I'm holding it up to my nose I'm getting different things that I'm distinctly picking up on but it's dry it's not um it's not luscious I'm not thinking of like juicy tropical vibes with it wow wow wow wow love this but what I'm getting from this is that this is sophisticated I'm not going to be wearing this perfume whilst I'm wearing my sort of girly vintage style dresses this is for when I'm like wanting to feel like a you know top top class moments this is very very classy and I cannot believe that this was only 10 pounds so wow um I love the perfume youtubers because they are just teaching me so much and introducing me to so many wonderful perfumes and that's really really fantastic I like this I really like this and I'm excited to try this on my skin because it looks like it's got a lot going on and possibly something that develops I don't know about the longevity but I will be back with a video talking about this so these were the two uh the all beauty purchases um that I got that youtube made me buy love the bottles I think that the bottles are very nice and very classy thank you so much for watching again guys you know I'm crazy about perfumes and I will see you next time


test Okay, welcome to Intel session Today Our topic is let's accelerate the design process of hardware device Okay, let's begin This is today's agenda. We will cover the following topic introduced the user scenario and firmware validation Compatibility validation and show the benefit here is a real user scenario from Shanghai hardware Validation team this overview is automated development Validation cycle let's quickly go through the workflow at first after developed modified firmware component and Check code into the source code repository this action will trigger the CI system to pull the code from the rebel and Asigned a compiling job to the build agent VM each component will be merged into one firmware image And then the CI system will flash the image to the specified SUT after that the system will run the test case on yet and Collect the result at last the subscriber could receive the report mail And our mission else We focus on the Red area and aim to help hardware team to improve the process What's the problem statement in this case and the hardware validation team needed to test the mainboard Call it as system under test Acronomy as SUT you can see the left instrument Left illustration. This is the original logical topology of one set of the SUT test platform there were two instrument between the automation test host and SUT And The left one is the control box the test host will command the control box to Through the USB cables and then the control box will operate the SUT to flash the firmware and around the test case The other one is the IP based KVM The test host used yet to record the mainboard video output for image comparison and ensured all the test procedure could be traced back And The middle picture is a real photo from hardware teams lab You can see it is messy on the bench and take a lot of space and Hardware validation team have to purchase the Desktops to act to the role of the test host because they'll test framework decide one test host Correspond to the one SUT but not only that when bench could only place two sets of SUT test platform so lab space cannot keep the pace with the SUT number groups. So engineer have to share the limited lab space as for different SUT as and it's It's difficult for them to set up SUT as many as possible in the same time Here's our improved solution Ideally without change the CI framework. We use the VM to take place with the physical automation test host and use the USB over Network solution to connect all the physical devices to the VM Set up NUC as USB agent server to Converge the USB uplink and then redirect the USB connection to the specified VM and meanwhile we use the Multi-port KVM to replace the single port model. The result is there's no physical test host in lab All these devices in the topology could be mounted in the standard server rack So make them make their life easier Okay Sounds good first problem is how to redirect a USB connection. Now, let's put a question to Zhenzhen Thank you Mo. So We have moved all the test host into the our open stack cloud And then we also Consolidated all the USB cables into an USB cable appliance So how could the test cases in the cloud to still be able to use those USB devices? It's obvious that the USB appliances should redirect those USB devices Over the network. So we have two options here This one is the first option is to illuminate the USB host of controller interface that is our HCI in virtualizer test assistance. I mean the guest OS Actually, this is the approach of for most almost all the commercial Solutions and we also found an open source project called the USB IP Of course these solutions can work but What's the question? What's the problem? So this first is a traditional virtualization way It's difficult to manage in our open-style cloud environment and we Of course, we also want open solutions Just like most of the people and we don't want when they're locking So unfortunately The open source project at USB IP seems to not actually maintained And it's not good enough to be used in the production environment so another option is to Enumerate the USB HCI in cumul either hyper risers Fortunately, we already have support from hyper risers either hyper way over the IDP or spice for cumul As we are using the KVM. So we did some investigation for cumul We have two options for the cumul solution One is the TCP redirection and the other is a spice USB Redirection channel both of them depends on the same open source library called the USB redirection So to emulate the USB HCI in cumul we need to thanks Red Hat They provide the USB spice protocol with USB redirection channel in the spice which is a stable and easy to use but You have to use it in the spice client because it's a one channel of the USB protocol So we are bonded to the spice protocol So this is not good is not feasible to use in our environment Because we concentrated all the USB devices into the USB appliance so we cannot to run Tens of us spicy clients in just one USB cable appliance and The person had to sit down Before the screen of this USB appliance clients appliance so and The USB spice candle also does not share the USB channel at the moment. So We cannot use this in our environment So in the other world in the other side USB TCP redirection, it's not a bond with any special display protocols So it's just implementing the cumul hypervisor and it's simple and the pure So we can be it can be used with all kinds of access methods. For example You'll redirect this USB device over the TCP redirection Socket and you can access the virtual machine with either SSH or VNC or spice You are you can always get the USB devices redirected to their guest So but it also has some downside to Currently the USB direct server is too simple. We do not find any Good solution for the USB redirecting server In the open source. So we just got a one test us code from the library USB redirect So another another problem is that the code in the queue side You can only try to connect to the USB redirecting server at the boot time So if when you are boot the instance or the the guest if the USB direct server is not ready Cumul will die. So this is it's not good So with with this limitation, we won't have Reconnection and hotplug support, of course We can improve this For example, we can have an agent running in the same machine as the cumul runs and the agent We are fixed. We will use the agent to fix the recollection problem and the hotplug problem so With this agent we can also because we don't put code the end of code in the cumul process So for any kind any version of the cumul Which supports the TCP reduction we can use it so we We don't need to depends on Ops in or put merge our code into the cumul process But it's still not good enough why because We are not using the traditional virtualization way. We are using open-style cloud So we still need a way to work with the cloud cloud environment This is our answer so we are Planning a new project called a potter It's going to be a service to manage All network redirectable hardware resources So the user can use those Resources in an on-demand and self-service way just like a single volume or For example, ironic notes, right? We can add the add you this kind of redirectable resources and Then attach this resource to a specified Instance so here's a high-level design Well, how to say is is a very early stage. We're just a planet so At the left we have hardware direct services To export the hardware resources, of course, they have to have to be able to be rejected over the network in our case it's a this is the USB resources and They are running in the Consent data USB cable appliances The We have a part agent in the right side, which is running together inside of the node computer the computer node so with with this agent the Instances running by a cumul they can connect to the agent at first So because the agent can always run it, right? So we don't need to well the chemo wouldn't be there and then we always have the connection and the agent will also help to fix the reconnection and Hot plug kind of stuff So we at the top at the top layer. We also have a part of CI which will Find this hardware resources and register this hardware resources into the part of service So the part of service is a key to manage all the resources it will Manage the resources and also when you try to Have a boot instance and then you want a one USB USB device to connect it is USB this instance you can use this CI to say but attach this device to this instance so With the help of the part agent The part agent will then see establish the connection to the hardware with their services In some remark, we also have to use them a part of proxies just like as a no VNC proxy because of the network may be not can we they cannot be connected directly with the Computer node and the outside network With regular service So as just I said, it's still in the very early stage and we will appreciate all kinds of any kinds of help from the community That's all any questions Okay, so I know I will Give control back to moon Thanks, Jen Jen's answer tell now. That's all for the firmware Validation how about the compatibility validation and telling it's your time for always provisioning? Okay, thank you. I will talk about the OS validation like the competitive edition But before that I just want to make a short survey I Just want to how many people in this room know about ironic before so please hands up Wow, that's more than I expected Okay, then let's start So recently we have our internal internal customer to build a deploy system based on ironic our customer is mainly working on hardware design and provisioning and They will want to validation their device for the functionality So they have a very strong and high frequency request to do the OS provisioning So then we to we introduce ironic to them so here is our Abstract infrastructure of our solutions So we use ironic as a standard project without any other Projects in open stack and this it is located in our at data center and using internet work ironic is able to access the And the hardware device like seo t1 seo t2 and seo t3 which are located in hardware validation lab and ironic is able to do the Control this device and do the provisioning so Even some of you already know ironic, but I would like to introduce ironic again So what is ironic ironic is an integrate project of open stack It provides a Biomental as a service So you can either use ironic with other projects That's neutral or Nova, but you can also use it for standalone like what we did So ironic is mainly make use of pxc technologies But it also has some many advanced features like the First is the BIOS configurations and the BIOS upgrade and also like disk arrays So here here ironic is able to fast deploy the probe OS and So here is a Simple use case for how to use ironic So we have one central node which is running ironic service like the ironic API and ironic conductor and the database and We have a bunch of bare metal nodes which without OS installed so The admin it's only he he's only need to send a simple request to the ironic service and says hey, I want to deploy on Fedora 20 on the node one and then ironic will help will choose a note one and and Set the node to pxc boot and using ascasti and the DD to deploy the Fedora on the node And then then in in two or three minutes you get You get a system install on the node. So it also works for Windows That's pretty simple and fast so first At the first stage when we talk about our customer we want to use ironic directly, but unfortunately It's not gonna enough Of course, it's not because of ironic is not good enough. That's because our customer Have some specials request But they are our customer, you know that we have to satisfy them So They have some request like they want to deploy the system with your efi and the legs they sit and They also want to make use of when pe when pe agent When pe the small windows image is it small wins small windows systems It is running on the memory. You can it's a very useful tool you can use that to manage your bare metal machines and Deploy windows images Our customer are very familiar with this workload. So they want to ask to help them to keep this one So so then we decide to use ironic to put when pe agent directly to the dedicated nodes and The search requires a little special because Our customer is working for the hardware device Validations they want to validate the compatibility of their device with the drivers So they don't want us to install the Image Install the window complete the windows image. So, you'll know that during the windows image first install process their step to restart the system and Load the driver they want to keep this step to validate the functionality of their device so we will provide a semi-finished product of the windows image to the past this image to the node instead of Provide a complete image. So with that we can mimic the driver instance driver install process so after Many rounds of discussion and redefine redefine Our solutions finally we get a final usage scenario So the deploy system will still has a regular PX manual and The device I mean the SUT will put into PXC put into when pe agent as default But the admin is still able to select Dedicated OS and the select the dedicated node to install to install using ironic So some future work. So our citizens work well, but Currently we are only able to use command tool to send request. It's not good enough. I mean it's not vivid So we want to create a dashboard So in the future our customer should able to select get the status of their nodes from the web and They can select the dedicated OS and dedicated nodes from web as well and Another work we want to do is for enable ironic advanced futures Like hardware management and something else. They are very helpful and useful for our customers but this next step and Personally, I think ironically they are very useful and well developed software So I would encourage everyone who is interested in this to play around by yourself So that's all from my side. Thank you Thank you. Telling introduction all being said it is important to show the benefit About benefit the first one. Yes Previously a user could leverage the IT OS provisioning tool to rebuild the desktop OS via the network and then to set up the test environment by themselves After they migrate the test to platform On the cloud they just need to renew the template and quickly replace the bench of the test environment on demand And also it is easy to extend or shrink the scale The second one yes after the couple the cable connection between the SUT test platform and Automatic test host we can easily to switch the USB connection from the SUT to various A test or debug VM environment user don't need to move the SUT to the other place in order to connect different Work environment in different workflow stage. So it is flexible for development and validation transition The third one yes after the whole workflow running on the cloud It means the test the test case the report a benchmark and others value the data will be saved on the cloud no data right to Desktop in the custom lab and rely on the access control on the cloud It is good way to prevent the information disclosure and hardware disaster You can see that we could only put two sets of the SUT Test platform on one bench before now we can land eight sets of the SUT Test platform on the rack actually we can make it higher density than eight So one rack could help to replace two bench lab space at least After convert to the square feet the saving proportion is one to ten with increasing number of the SUT test the requirement. This is good proposal to prevent the lab lab space sprawl Also, this rack infrastructure support a various SUT model such as the server board the mobile device board and etc and Also the rack tray could be customized for different SUT or peripheral instrument Okay That's all any question Okay Excuse me You will bring the ironic and The part I know you have the part of what the next statement you said. Ah, okay So for for the product project, right? Yeah, it's still in the first stage and you know for We we have a several components to be implemented Yeah, this one is that we need to enhance the USB redirection server so For the proxy at the first stage I think is it's okay without this But the port agent we already did a very initial implementation This one we are trying to Leverage other open stack project as code. So we plan to be Get the first Initial I mean the initial risk in the M risk, maybe Yeah So does it looks like interesting for you? Thank you. Ah, not yet. So Yeah, the plan is to we are get the first initial release in the M risk M cycle and we are definitely we are put into the GitHub We we want to you know as a big patent model Obstacle foundation is encouraging everybody to put your Projects under the cover of all the stack, right? So we are trying to do that and we also of course we also leverage a bunch of offer all the source code is so Stay tuned In our case, this is a USB redirection service USB redirection server. So it's a if you have if I were other devices for example, maybe RDMA or other slow slow speed PCI devices which if they if they can be over redirected over the network So we can use use this use the portal to manage them Yeah, we use this to redirect the USB devices into the instances running in the cloud How? In our case that we you know, we have a USB redirection protocol, which is implemented by I think it's a very high guy Yeah So we also talk about as I like we can use the spice right spice also have a USB reaction channel But it's a bundled into the spicy protocol and you can only use it with a spice kind so What we both probably both it's a little bit of Cp redirection. That's that's a library. Yeah You mean the library or our code? Hmm. Yeah, that's I think it's I don't remember it But it's on the get up. It's on the free desktop GitHub git repository. I think it's Apache or MIT. I cannot remember it any other questions Okay, so stay tuned for the portal project and we we are appreciative any kind of help from the committee. Thank you