Everybody forced to your ripping Case number 10 of the sports card Almanac high-end multi-sport volume 12 So we do have serial number case 2 of 10 so the set case 2 here since this is the last one we'll randomize draft orders the moment Please no discussing card values during the break wait till afterwards no influencing the draft as well.  I'll be typing in chat. I'm checking YouTube and Twitch Geez Edward Congrats, man Yeah, no memory really only cards raw and graded You to the twitch tats I'm looking at I will ask for your order number or a zip code when you make your pick So just have that ready whichever one you want to use That's pretty much it guys. Let's go ahead and get started Let's do our draft order random and get to it. That is a seven five and two There's my cursor. There it is We will go seven times best of luck after seven the one through ten that you see on screen will be the draft order Thanks everybody for joining one two three four five six seven eight seven only seven what am I doing? Just kept going there. There it is Hilton with the first pick let me copy these over and Make it big and bold so it's a little easier to see Seven I rolled a seven we went seven times. I don't know I kept going there Hilton with one Joe LA with two Garrett with three George K for Brendan g5 Chintot six Dean I seven Joel Le with eight William L with nine and Garrett with ten There's your draft order Thanks again folks. Let's do this Yeah, just be whenever how many likes we have Jake How close ready do you do in your back with 32 likes right now 32 likes? Gotta get those up feels pretty feels pretty low honestly Jake actually can't go home tonight unless we get a hundred likes Yeah, we're just gonna let me out of the building. Hey, Brandon cooks our favorite pretty sweet though. I'm not gonna lie This is true at over 99 35 now, let's keep it going Please let me leave Please begging Yeah, guys, he wants to go home keep it going 37. I don't know why he wants to go home. This is the best place It didn't I mean they're constantly going now 38 Gotta get to a hundred Yeah, we gotta get Said Jake's not allowed to go home tonight. What's we got hundred likes 39? All right, oh that's pretty Desmond Ritter on the immaculate rookie eye black patch auto Desmond Ritter 49 of 99 Yeah, Joe. We got you better that time Nice Ritter good start like the black the black framed mag looks really fire with this card That adds at least a million dollars in value million monopoly dollars So Hey, thank you, Joe. Totally unnecessary, but thank you Christian Watson 2022 prism rookie autograph PSA 10 Christian Watson you guys think him and Jordan love can uh Get that connection love look pretty solid first first game. I know it's against backups, but It's really like it what his second like start of his career of like anything in the NFL. So It was better than it was not good, you know, I mean Something to build on That's it. That's a crazy division this year Next Wow new wave titanium Signatures of Anthony Davis the brow 9 5 10 VGS 9 5 10 the corners got a 9 the centering edges and surface and those right Centering edges 9 5 and the surface actually got a 10 titanium new wave signatures Anthony Davis The brow No serial numbering on this one. I want to make sure All right guys get pop century filled up next in a drop you a link nine to go every spot hits 62 50 a spot again Lot of celebrities in that set this year. It seems like they upped it in quite a bit That is in case. Yeah encased 2020 encased legendary signatures Joe Montana nine mint and a 10 on the auto Excuse me three of five 1314 is Is that AD rookie that is right? How do I think it's 2012? I think that's a second-year auto Or does that count as a rookie auto? It is 1213 was his rookie year. Yeah, 1314. Yeah, so second-year Davis with a titanium I Was thinking the same thing literally when you open it. Is that what everybody thinks though? It is I didn't want to say Montaña nine minutes ten of the auto Montaña three five encased was the last card next up Prism black rookie Jalen Hertz purple That's a sharp card prison black in 2020 looks so good 57 of 125 serial number the centering got a 10 which is insane for prism edges and corners 9 5 and surface at 9 Great Hertz 2020 chronicles prism black That's pretty. Yeah, the all-black background is so nice on those prism blacks. It's not like that anymore But I prefer it. I like the contrast to like regular prism. I like to have both both the The options Yeah, I think it was like his actual rookie year, right like he played as a rookie that year was this oh boy, oh boy 2015 tops triple Threads baseball. Oh geez, oh geez letter plus auto relics Paul Goldschmidt's Holy that is this look at this patch One of one Ruby triple Threads That's my favorite letter plus auto book that is Probably the prettiest card we've seen tonight That's unreal Yeah, this is the last one of these at least for a few weeks. That is to throw back purples. Oh My god Not that I was talking about cards you display right there. That is a card you display.  He'll get in the hole It's too good. It's too good, dude. Whoo. Oh Man, that's awesome colossal Shield one of one auto Gino Smith That's 14. That's rookie year or second year. When was Gino dude was he 14? Oh my god 13 was his rookie year So I believe that is second year I believe that second year either way Colossal shield auto one of one of Gino It is a player award shield as well second year lane says to confirm whoo, man What is going on in this case? Good Lord Good Lord guys. Let's get pop century filled up. Let's get pop century filled up. Everybody's buddy. Everybody's gonna hit Eight to go in the next one everybody hits Random hit style dude this case this did we save the best case for last Number two one ninety nine oh seven oh eight finest blue refractor Kevin Durant rookie BGS nine five You've got to be kidding me 168 of 199 I Think about I think at least once a day tops chrome basketball tops finest basketball coming back when when Fanatics gets the licenses. Oh My god Kevin Durant blur refractor rookie finest nine five out of one ninety nine This case is bonkers That's albinac. There's some people called the all the all the all the crack What's next whoa, but yeah, we knew we knew it was coming. We hadn't seen it yet authentic rookies Rory McElroy auto my number to two ninety nine 2013 upper deck SP authentic I have to say it's mine too. That's Wow, just looking at the cards. Good. God. This is nuts Rory McElroy authentic rookies auto to two ninety nine Another have not been Randy This is a very diverse case as well. There is stuff from all walks of the card world essentially Yeah, this case is fire. This is a great one. Oh God, that's so pretty.  God, man. What a case This draft time again. No influencing the draft And no discussing card values Until I'll until after the draft until after the break pop century guys six to go breaking next links in chat Let me get the cards displayed. It's three now. Just three to go Three to go pop century. I Wish I could display that goal to my book just out of the thing I'll keep it like that for now though I'm gonna show it again for whoever picks it if everyone wants to see it, but goodness gracious What a case What a case what a case what a case Hilton with the first pick best of luck on the pick Hilton you got two minutes I'm glad hill. I'm glad Hilton made it Well, it made it back to a Lane killed it. All right All right, Hilton if you want to see something else, please let me know when it is your pick You're allowed to see cards up close again. Oh geez Geno shield that that gold Schmidt the patch on the patches the letter patch On outrageous throwback purple prison black of Hertz classic Montana three of five BGS nine To to go for pop century number one To to go to to go case number two right behind it's let's get these filled up everybody Hopefully Hilton's still here. You know, it's early morning where he is so Taking the Bichette two one seven three two zero Hilton's taking the bow Bischette. Thank you Hilton for joining That's a monster. That's a beauty great pick Fantastic card Hilton was here last case Joe L Joe L. Joel is a little later All right, there's the back row again Watson back there PSA ten Ricky Otto the Ritter on the eye black patch Otto KD finest rookie Geno shield one of one second here and see there on the auto Yeah, Joe for real. This is this is tough. This is tough What it's not supposed to be easy this is all of an act They're all great cards the Rory and KD closer. Yeah, I'll go Rory first again 2014 Sorry 13 SP authentic authentic rookies Rory map Rory Otto to 99 I show it best I can and then BGS 95 gem mints Surface at 9 edges to 10 centering in corners of 9 5 To 1 99 finest KD it's a wild design. I like it though tops finest rookie card How do you think the Jalen got to be in the break got to be in the hit draft Someone's about to someone's gonna pick it here soon in the draft. All right, Joe, let me see how much time we got Man time is up right about Now You're ready Joe go with the Rory. Yeah, I kind of feel us. I got feel the same way. That's awesome. That's such a cool Congrats Joe. Thank you, dude I'm glad I didn't make you pick in the the bottom three every time Garrett's with pick three that Rory is so cool Jason playing a lot of PGA on it on a PlayStation 5 originally You know it's all about that card now Pop century filled up first one sold out first one sold out So pop century is good to go the next one 32 to go on case to everybody Garrett's going with the Durant congrats on the pick 199 rookie finest gem mints That's a sweet one. Thank you again Garrett George K is up now pick for George. There's been picking like the middle every single break Thanks again, everybody. Almanac is always a lot of fun. Hope you guys had fun with Sam last night I honestly I didn't watch man. I wasn't feeling the best. I was I was in bed at 9 30 Which is I think right and when it started see you soon Joe. Have a good one, buddy Minute and a half for George alright Should be in the next few weeks Jared. We don't have an exact time frame, but hopefully the next two or three weeks George can check your time here 30 seconds George 30 seconds, I would say two to three weeks Is what we what we hope for one four three zero four going with the Gino one-of-one shield auto second-year NT 2014 Sick card man Come back player of the year. That's right. Maybe the franchise give you for this. Yeah, I don't know Sign a big deal did sign a decent deal Hard not to root for him though. I stuck around in the league for a long time Finally got another shot with an organization that it kind of has its has its priorities You know over those New York teams. Oh Brendan G Two minutes starting now Again, if we want to see a card up close, let me know you got the Goldie of the Montana the Davis the Hertz the Ritter and the Who's that guy Christian wants it Chris wants to give his name. I always want to say Christian Hernandez But that's a Cubs prospect zero one nine seven zero Thank You Brendan going with the Hertz Ricky prism black purple nine five gem mints Instead of 125 The black Eagles unis on that too. I like it. I like it. It's a pretty card pretty card pretty card Chin-tah with pick six, I'm not sure if Chin-tah will be here two minutes starting now for you Chin-tah see Thank You Brendan. Thank you all for joining seriously Why we do this man course man when everybody to see maybe cards they haven't seen before or something unique or you haven't seen in a while Want to make it tough for you to pick Sometimes it's easy for people if they know exactly what they want, but You never really know what they're what's gonna be in there One minute 30 left for you Chin-tah Then we've got Some breaks to fill tonight guys Sunday funding mixtures at 11 to go You got spots coming in there NT random team full case And I think at 16 now. Yep. That's 16 to go. I'm pretty good Right. Yeah. Well, yeah PSA will hold value better Crossing from as you see the PSA. I don't know I'm sure you could find like a blog or something online about I know a lot of people do cross grade From all all over the place where you go PSA.  I Personally don't know. I've never I've never done it It should be pretty all gem meant should be like all gem minutes like a nine five BG I should be like a PSA 10 theoretically, right? But different grading companies so tough to say But I'm sure there's some there's some there's probably red. It's about it and things like that All right Chin-tah less than 10 seconds here. So it is time to pick Another few seconds. I haven't seen Chin-tah tonight though. All right. I don't see Chin-tah. So we have to pick four of them gonna go with Gonna go to Goldschmidt It's it's just too nice too unique not picked for Chin-tah here Just unreal card. That's yeah, my favorite card tonight 2015 triple threads Dean I is up now So Davis is a second-year 13-14 titanium new wave signatures 95 gem meant the auto-10 Centering nine five corners nine edges nine five surface 10 All right Get down to it here about a minute left. You want lanes wrong? Sure. Yep pops entries next Montana is 2020 2020 encased Legendary signatures Joe Montana BGS 9 10 on the auto number three of five Well, excuse me. All right about 10 seconds left still some great cards up here all autos left All right, two minutes is up With the Montana. All right, Gene. Thanks, buddy. There you go BGS 9 10 Montana encased three of five Definitely a solid pick for sure Davis Watson and Ritter on the board still Joel Thank You Dean. Oh Dean by the way, I'm sorry. I forgot to respond to your text the other day. I saw I just Went in one ear out the other got to go with the og go. Yeah for sure, man There's not really like a wrong pick up there Wednesday mornings get are like For some reason late the craziest time of the week for me But this Wednesday is Merlin you guys so that's That's my jam right there 30 to go on the first pop century Sorry, the second pop century. Excuse me. The second pop century is at 30 to go Jake, we'll get you guys a link All right, Joel about 50 seconds 5-0 What's up, Brick? Dude, yeah, I couldn't believe that we hit a stars and stripes chase the horn But we've also seen like one or two more. I couldn't believe that Awesome get for like a 99 spot. I think is what the Panthers were at or something something like that Like 150 or something either way a great get. Yeah Stars striped JC Horn. Yeah, I was confused at first but since it was a previous year I was like, okay, but then we also pull stars or stripes Hutchinson at a hobby. That was that was crazy That was crazy. All right. I believe Yep, Joel time is up Nice brick. Yeah the coupon there you go man. You just got to be uh Sign up for the SMS guys Go to the homepage scroll down a little bit past the uh Just a little bit and then you'll see a little place you can enter your phone number you get You know updates on where we list certain breaks Whether it be albinac or release day breaks All right, it's been about like a minute after here. All right, let's say I'm gonna have to pick for Joel There was a Joel in here earlier. It must have been a different one I'm not even singing about it. Oh Joel B was in chat earlier Oh go with the Watson 1874 Yep. All right, cool. Go with the Watson. All right Congrats. There you go Joel. I think I want to take it man There you go Joel. Thank you. Thank you Vice graded Watson there William L with a final pick William L Thank you Joel I like Watson He's so athletic All right It's been guys. There's just four breaks left tonight. There's pyt national treasures football Williams going with the davis nine nine two one three one. Yep Going with the davis Congrats, William And that means the final card Um Going to garret will be the ridder eye black patch rookie auto 49 of 99 immaculate Really cool card there That does it for almanac Thank you very much everybody. I hope you enjoyed it. I enjoyed it Um That was awesome. I got to see some really cool cards. Um, we got pop sentry coming up


Today, we'll be taking an aircraft from Kadina to do some routine maintenance to back to the States and then we'll be returning with a jet that just completed its maintenance. This is an All Girls TDY, so we have all-female pilots, boom operators, and crew chiefs coming with us today. I know that they've done all-female flights before, but this I think might be the first all-female tail swab. This history month is important to me because there are so few females in the Air Force, military, and pilots in general that in a male-dominated community, it's a rare opportunity that we get to go TDY with an all-female crew. This month we are able to showcase what we can do and hopefully be able to pave the path for future female aviators. Whether I fly with male or female, we always get the job done, but when I fly with an all-female crew, it's more of a sisterhood and it definitely smells better.


Let any fish who meets my gaze Learn the true meaning of fear For I am the harbinger of death The bane of creatures sub aqueous My rod is true and unwavering As I cast into the aquatic abyss Find solace in the sea My only friend it's a warm upon my hook hundred percent a big one wriggling You got it. You got it. You're catching it. You're doing it. Struggling to surmount The moral pointlessness that permeates this barren world I'm alone I'm empty And yet ladies and gentlemen I fish. Here Bonnie, how about it? Let's go muddin. All right Wait, I'm still outside you're leaving without me I'm in I'm in. All right, let's go. Let's go. Let's go careful Careful the pole careful the pole. All right, I'm not going back. See you. Don't worry. I'm just Go read a book back here. Not her again. Howdy partner.  Why does she take it down from the house? Man a AC party who? The mountain thank you. Oh the mountain. Well, I thought the mountain was boy Nope I checked You think you're gonna catch fish today? Yeah, when are you gonna catch fish Judd? Anyway a second now You've done everything except for catch a fish.  It's just so tiny. I can already tell it's a big one right here I'm feeling we caught it with a blood worm need some country music out. You don't use blood warms. Yeah Shrimp shrimpy blood worms Come on man, come on man. Come on man. Come on man. Yeah, come on man. Let's see let's check it out So small When he gets pissed you lose his accent it's American accent comes out Oh My god, this is not here every game this dude every single game this happens to me at some point or another dude This game is actually really pretty Look at how detail everything is it's very immersive. It's actually very detailed Well, I want to see your shadow when you run around. It looks like a amnesia. Can you jump? In the car now get in the damn car. All right. Oh, we'll pause it. Okay. Thank you. I'm in now. All right Let's go. All right Calling us.  That's what you're the one driving Are you asking me? We gotta find the water mill the water mill.  I feel like we drove all around. Do you see it on the map? You know how to read the map, do you know how to read? Yes, I know how to read. When did you learn how to read? I didn't see you go to school not First person discovered there's only two people in this town. It's not there isn't even a school I wrote the book on reading. You wrote the book on reading there. You know book on reading. Yes, there is Well, I've never seen it.  That's Actually, it might be right This song is sick, can you turn it up, please? I want to hear it through my bones my bones were trying to hear it Mom and dad, please stop fighting. Incidentally, are we there yet?  I almost forgot that you existed for a second there. My life was peaceful. I Don't know.   Smith All right, let's get let's get to fishing Bro the car Damn No McDonald's around here You can do proper jump right over that they're cracking me Fish and character What's right for a bit? Yeah fun Learn drive are the break saw dad with mrs. Linda from next door and he bribed me with wow girls not to tell you Sorry dad.  She has to come over fix your pops. Yes. Oh, yeah, you were fixer pops Yes, all right. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, this is exactly how I lost my siblings Dad you can't let mom drive Fine. I'm holding just hold on to the handle You never had any siblings remember hold on the ocean handle and you're fine. Remember you never had any siblings remember that Am I going the wrong way John? Look at that. Look at that. Look at the map Well, you look at the map. I'm driving. No look at the damn car. See press that M on the console right there Still can't tell. Oh, yeah, we got a GP that GPS says to go sad. Well Are you having fun? Yeah, are you having fun, sweetie? Oh, yeah, I'm not talking to you. You're not my sweetie What do you mean? I'm mad at you. I heard what he said about you. Hey, we've been married for eight years You say you say yeah, we've been married for eight years except how long you want to act like married man What do you mean 20 minutes? What what are you trying to tell the entire eight years like my friends to me and his parents you're trying to say And watch go live with to me and his parents. This is no fun. Why can't you be like Timmy's dad? Why can't you be like Timmy's dad and be grown already?  Hold on. You're telling me.   All right. What do you mean other other whore?  Anyway What I'm just saying you keep it up. Go home take me home. I hate fishing my stomach hurts Why did you even take me? I want to play roblox.  I don't know how to get out of here I've got a good Lord almighty. No, let me drive. No, look how beautiful.  Yeah, I just read that I'm over some posh. I'm gonna cook them on the whole pops. I'm starving You just driving are you learning what method I'm gonna teach you I'm sorry. All right. Well, whose choice is that I Listen that is your choice you want to quit your fighting The car stuck Devil demon in the back seat telling me about the neighbor The day I learned fishing is terrifying No Marriage is terrified How many dad fishing we still haven't done I liked Brian, but I only got to see him the one time See now you're starting the other fellas. Am I ever going to see early Earl Walter Dan Doyle Darrell and Dan ever again. No help me with my homework. Who's he talking about? He's just talking about that movie. He saw the other day What movies he's watching? He's watching the movie of how to ruin your parents marriage in five seconds. That's what we he's watching He doesn't stop talking.   Do you really love the neighbor? What do you love the neighbor? No, do you love her? No, you don't love her.  I don't know you are acting like you love her how?  I did not screw the neighbor ever When ever no, what do you mean when? What do you mean ever?  That is my son is he not How could you ask that question in front of him and answer me the question woman? Do you love him? Yes, do you treat him like a son? Yes, well, that's all that matters. I Can't believe that you would ever ask if that's your son.  This is so sad. Please stop Sweetie you said you want to go to Disneyland. Well, welcome to the ride of your life the last one The last ride of your life ever. Goodbye You want to cast yeah, I want to cast All right, switch seats you do the first cast out here. Thank you Good, I'm really sorry about what happened earlier.  I want you to pull that right trigger.  They go now pull both now hold both triggers bow triggers Now now you got tension on the side there. You can see that on the side. Oh, yeah, I got it. All right All right, so I don't want to get to 10. That's right.  I'm in there too


that I do have a stutter which sometimes causes me to have breaks in my speech so please bear with me on that. I'd also like to note that Rowan has almost kind of lost his voice so this is my seat kind of interesting so just bear with us. Can you sign language? Yes. Or dance? Yes. But I'd like to say thanks to all of coming along on contributing to the session and in the introduction we're sort of going to really just talk a little bit about sort of how we arrived at wanting to do this session and a bit of our background so I'm trying to explain why there are two guys from Northern Ireland who have an interest in the Central but in the scientific dating in the Central and Western Mediterranean history and then to give a bit of a background of the kind of work which we are doing which can't perform this session I'm hoping that that might be able to direct some of the discussion on behalf so yes and then we also talked about a bit of housekeeping admin as well so all right so really as you guys might have been able to tell from the title it was loosely based off this volume which we're very happy to have both of the editors here so again this is sort of again something which whenever Rowan and I began to work with some of this we were drawn to this volume and thought it was very important and how it brought together and synthesized and I'm trying to really provide an update on the Central a Central database for a reader carton dating in Italian prehistory but bringing sort of impacting on the wider Central Mediterranean and this is sort of again 25 years since the foundation of the or since the EAA but also 25 years since the publication of this book so we thought I could sort of work together yeah I'm very sorry to do that so what we wanted to do was sort of give a quick overview of the contributions or then moving on to talk about well the state of the art as we see it so we've together over the last year have tried to update this database by sort of gathering together many of the reader carton dates that we produced since so we're going to talk a little bit about the coverage and some about and then Rowan's going to talk a little bit about sort of some of our or some of the methods where she's about and how we've been approaching the data set and then moving on to the session proper so yes so this is sort of just a bit of a general idea of what we're dealing with we have some papers that sort of deal with broader regions I think Rowan might have maybe changed the nature of all this talk so this might be a little less yeah yeah so yeah so this gives so this gives you an idea of what we're working on so um um so the first talk is being given by Ruth Whitehouse which is great again because we're getting this uh we're getting this overview of the impact that reader carton dating has had on central mediterranean prehistory um over the course of Ruth's career which is so we're then going to uh move on where Rowan's going to talk um his talking title for interesting chronological problems for central and western mediterranean prehistory so talking about some broad some broad issues and some um things which he has identified over the last few years of working with so we're then going to have a discussion slot and during the discussion slots it would be great if we could get the previous speakers up towards the front so then we can sort of have a bit of a better to improve after the discussion we're going to move on to talk by Mark Pierce and Roberto Magy and the reader carton chronology of the earliest you know west central and north western typically um we're then going to move on to see if you know going to move on to a talk by excuse me uh so yeah by Cristiano which will be covering the uh which will be discussing a new reader carton based sequence for early italian metalwork um after that we're then going to talk by myself which will be talking about rock cartoons in the central mediterranean we will then have another discussion slot and then we'll be then going down to this week we'll have a discussion from Dominica Gulley on the radio carton evidence from the territory um and then we're going to move all the way over to we're going to move all the way over to bronze age so we're we're going to have a um uh a talk led by could actually uh could you identify yourself who's talking about yes um okay so i knew i wasn't going to get nothing and then and then before then it's ending we're going to talk by johnton south san santana where we jump all the way down to just sort of on the very edge what we're talking about but i think there's still a really important case to be to bring in in terms of thinking of island or geologic uh talk title going into the deep blue sea new insights into the colonization of the canary islands in particular so that's just a bit of an overview of the session contents and now we're going to move on to the state of the artist we put would you like to take this yeah i mean this session we conceived of was a kind of uh a big launch pad for a big paper that we both wrote that we thought might be published by now but it's still under review so you know we can't really uh do that per se but we put all this data together for for this big publication and our database we try to get all the real carbon depths from the from the region together in one spatio temporal database and just analyze it to see what sort of patterns emerge uh it's a it's a fresh synthesis so we can both hitley and uh the sort of south eastern corner of france and multiple so uh how many tests do we have can you remember so there's about four thousand real carbon dates in the state of death and so we analyze them uh you know spatially we can plot out their distribution to look at where the most densely sampled parts of the landscape are and then we've been also methods that i've been developing over the last few years coming from ireland where we have this vast radio carbon uh you know like data set here and then there's lots of the richly sampled landscapes of northern europe with their huge radio carbon databases we wanted to do a kind of inter regional comparison to see what the what the trends and this overall scale is overall the overall wave of data actually tell us about the uh the dynamics of the past and today that we use this technique called terminal density estimation uh that produces these squiggly lines and what these squiggly lines are it's a bit like a histogram so if you imagine that the area under these squiggly lines is the relative amount of dates that we have and from these time series it's a bit like looking at the price of stocks or shares and the stock exchange or or you know population numbers or whatnot but it tells us at least at a very basic level how well sampled the archaeological uh the landscape is at any one point in time for how well dated it is i should say and then you can begin to unpack that you can say is this because of where research interests are is this because of where the sites are best preserved or is this simply an artifact of the underlying demographic trends in the past the population and in our paper we discussed this and you know come up with all kinds of uh uh you know ideas about the explanations as to why this maybe so but i suppose our point is that we can actually exist maybe overall general synthesis uh we want to just show you a map of how the all this data that you know the fundamentally we're going to be talking about in this session actually plays out if i can do this so this is this is what happens if you plot a map of the central Mediterranean and and just sort of look at it in each time slice and look at where all the radio carbon dates are so see here in the mesolithic period there's a broader the sparsely sampled landscape with the reasonably well-known mesolithic sites yes i'll reconfigure this you know so this is a familiar aspect of mesolithic hunter-gatherer archaeology everywhere there's new rail easily recognizable pattern that then exists spatio-temporally until really we get into the Neolithic which is about the which is about to appear jump over from the Balkans here it comes there we go so you know these are the early Neolithic sites of southern Italy that sort of impressed pottery traditions it really becomes a lot more widespread as we get into the the six millenniums occurring all over the peninsula jumps down in Malta right now and you can see where the where the just the sort of the northern boot and these patterns are well that's something that you know plays out as we look at all the maps verbs look at all that frames the animation as we get into the copper age there's various you know richly sampled sites and parts of the landscape that are well known then as we get into the bronze age there's the great intensification and you know the pope's land and we see the you know the huge uh you know what's also very interesting is that you can actually visualize really nicely um in the bronze age the the ship the ship from the margins of the alps that they pull out at settlement then down onto the bow valley of the Terramara and you really see that ship in this map and again that's what's so exciting about this kind of coaching that allows us to really visualize some of these important ships and settlement so methodologically it's quite a departure from sort of you know what's going before there's a slightly new way of modeling the dev and thinking about the trends inherent to and uh and then it's sort of as the iron age goes on the really the amount of radiocarbon data that they have just starts to dwindle away because uh partly because it genuinely does dwindle away and partly because uh there's we sort of relaxed our particular pressure of research but this is I mean this is still early days for these sorts of techniques um uh I think really our purpose of showing you this was to just demonstrate that this is an incredibly rich and uh multi-dimensional data set that you know will certainly keep us occupied for years to come and unpacking its nuances so I think really uh that's all we want to say by way of an introduction to the session and an introduction to the to the data set that we've out there


Today, we're looking at Second Samuel. We're going to look at chapter 20 as we continue our verse by verse study through Second Samuel. I have to be honest with you, as we're about to approach this chapter, there are some chapters that seem to leap out when I'm reading and studying, and I say, oh, yes, Lord, that really hits me right between the eyes, that's really, and there are others that I say, Lord, you know, thank you that we'll be able to get through this today. So this is one of those that I'm looking for application because, listen, when I read the Bible, I'm certain you're the same. I'm looking not just for the historical data. I'm looking for application. How does that work in my life? Even though this was written so long ago, Lord, there's something here for me. What is it that you want to show me? And so as we go through this, hopefully we'll find a couple of points of application. So let's begin reading here in Second Samuel chapter 20 at verse one. And I'll read verses one and two, get into our introduction and move into our study. And what we're looking at is Sheva's revolt. That's what you see here in Second Samuel chapter 20. So let's begin at verse one. I'll read to verse two and we'll get into our studying. There happened to be there a rebel whose name was Sheva, the son of Vichri, a Benjaminite, and he blew a trumpet and said, we have no share in David, nor do we have inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tent, so Israel, so every man of Israel deserted David and followed Sheva, the son of Vichri. But the men of Judah, from the Jordan as far as Jerusalem, remained loyal to their king. David has been reinstalled as the king of a reunited nation. When his son Absalom had rebelled, Absalom's rebellion had led to the split of the nation of Israel. The majority of the nation of Israel rejected David as king and followed after Absalom. But Absalom had been killed and after Absalom had died, once again David is bringing the nation of Israel together. Now to secure unity, David has replaced his commander Joab with Absalom's military commander, a man by the name of Amasa. Now there was a reason for doing that and one of those reasons is that he believed that by bringing Amasa in as being the commander of the army, that those ten tribes that had been following after his lead in rebellion against David, as well as those who had followed him from Judah, those tribes, the nation, the military, seeing that Amasa was now being in place, being placed in charge of the military, it may have a unifying effect. And also Joab was known, who was David's commander, Joab was known as being a fierce man, an enemy of the tribes. And so David is assuming that Amasa, by being placed in that position, can bring a calmness and help to bring peace. Now David has been recognized as being the king of the nation, but there's still a great deal of antagonism between the ten northern tribes and the tribe of Judah. The northern tribes, as we saw last time, were upset because the tribe of Judah was escorting David from across the Jordan into the city of Jerusalem and they were upset over that. And as we saw last time in verse 42 of chapter 19, rather verse 41 of chapter 19, the men of Israel came to the king and said to the king, why have our brother and the men of Judah stolen you away and brought the king his household and all David's men with him across the Jordan? They were upset because the tribe of Judah was accompanying David. Now the tribe of Judah, in response in verse 42, had said because the king is a close relative of ours. And so there was a division there that was taking place between the ten northern tribes and Judah. And so this division is something that is about to be exploited. It's exploited by a man by the name of Sheva. What he's doing is he's trying to draw the people away from David in order that he like Absalom had done in the past that he might bring them to himself. Now there's always by way of application, there's always present a person or a group who will take advantage of differing opinions. There is always a person or a group who does that. We see that even in our political system here in the United States you have one political party that presents one thing, you have another political party who rejects that, they have their problems. It always occurs, we see that, and there are those who will take advantage if possible of that division and sometimes they do so in order to call people unto himself. And that's exactly what is taking place here with Sheva. What he's trying to do is draw people away so that they will follow his leadership. Now that happens in the political world, it also happens even in the church world. It can happen sometimes in churches when some leader will see that there are those within the confines of the church who are discontent about something. And so what they'll do is they begin to rally those people around them. As a result of that they end up with a church split or a division. And it's all because that person saw the discontent of a certain group and said, look it, just follow me, we'll start our own Bible study, we'll start our own church. And you can pull away from that and you come with me and that happens all the time even in the church world and that's what you're seeing here in the kingdom. You're seeing that there's a man by the name of Sheva who is trying to draw people after himself. Now what happens here is the fierce words of Judah result in some very evil results. Notice it said in verse 43, the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel. And so these words were tough, they were more firm. The nation's in terrible division. Peaceful words would have brought better results. David had used calming words when he spoke to them and tried to reunite them. David spoke peaceably to them when he was trying to get them back together because according to Proverbs 15 verse 1, a soft answer turns away wrath. But harsh words will stir up anger. And it's always wise to use a softer approach, a gentler way to try and bring reconciliation. And it's not wise to provoke people to getting people's face and all of that. It's always better just to listen to what's being said and to present a calm answer. I've had that happen numerous times in ministry, numerous times when people are upset about one thing or another and I have gently responded to that and I've discovered that a gentle answer will turn away people's wrath. I remember many, many years ago when our church was very young, I was teaching on marriage in the family and I had mentioned the kind of things that I still mention today. I had mentioned to the men we need to be leaders in our home. We need to serve God and be great examples. Just basic things you find in Scripture. I wasn't inventing these things and after the Bible study in between services, I was outside and I was sitting down and one of the guys, one of the men of our fellowship came and he was a good-sized guy and he stood over me. He was towering over me, which pretty much everybody does, even the women in the church. And as he was standing over me like that, he was very upset and a bit red in the face and began to challenge me, why do you do that? I said, why do I do what? Why do you always make us men feel like we're not doing what we're supposed to do? And I said, do I make the men here feel like they're not doing what they're supposed to do? And he said, yeah, you're making the men feel that they're not doing what they're supposed to do. I said, really? I said, are you doing what you're supposed to do? And he goes, yes I am, I'm doing what I'm supposed to do. I said, then if you're doing what you're supposed to do, then why don't you pray for the men in this church who aren't?  You know, sometimes I get upset and I basically just speak gently back to them because it isn't wise to provoke people it never is. It's not wise to provoke a fight. And David knew that. David knew it was wiser just to have a calm answer, a calm way of speaking to them. But here what we're ending up with is the men of Judah who are not using that kind of wisdom. And so they're speaking with tough words, fiercer words, and it gets the men of Israel, these 10 tribes, it gets them upset. And as a result of that, Sheva is about to capitalize on that for himself. Notice it says in verse 1 again in chapter 20, there happened to be there a rebel whose name was Sheva, the son of Vifri, a Benjamite, and he blew a trumpet and said, we have no share in David, nor do we have an inheritance in the son of Jesse, every man to his tent so Israel. And so we're introduced to this man named Sheva. He's an influential leader. He's a member of the tribe of Benjamin. The tribe of Benjamin is the tribe that produced the first king of Israel, Saul.  Notice he's referred to as a rebel. That word rebel literally is a son of Belial. When you're called a son of Belial in the Old Testament, that's another way of saying you are absolutely worthless. And so his character is being revealed to us.  Now remember with me that earlier, as we saw, Shemiah had approached David when David was returning to Israel. And with Shemiah were 1,000 men of Benjamin. Sheva may have been one of those men. So as he's hearing the men of Judah speak so fiercely to the men of Israel, he responds with anger. And the men of Israel are now being insulted. They're angry because of the way that they're being spoken to. And he takes advantage of that. Now as he says that, he makes a comment, we have no share in David nor do we have inheritance in the son of Jesse, every man to his tent so Israel. It's another way of saying, David, who is he? He's no real king. David's not even one of our relatives. We have no share in him. And he's the son of Jesse. His father was a nobody and so is he. And so as he does that, and he calls them to follow him, verse 2, every man of Israel deserted David and followed Sheva, the son of Bikri. But the men of Judah, from the Jordan as far as Jerusalem, remained loyal to their king. And so those who had come to escort David are now deserting him. And they follow Sheva as their leader, but the men of Judah escort David from the Jordan back to the city of Jerusalem, and they refuse to leave him. Now, verse 3, David came to his house at Jerusalem. And the king took the 10 women, his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in seclusion and supported them. But he did not go in to them. Another way of saying he had no physical relationships with these women.  Absalom had been with them. Therefore, they were no longer part of David's harem. He didn't abandon them. He did support them, but he no longer had any kind of physical relation with them. Now, as this is taking place, verse 4, the king said to Amasah, assemble the men of Judah for me within three days and be present here yourself. So Amasah went to assemble the men of Judah, but he delayed longer than the set time which David had appointed him. Now, the men of Judah make some sense that within three days he would have been able to go and get them. Not too many of them were gone and they didn't go too far, and it would seem that within a three-day timeline so that he could have brought them together, but he didn't. He hesitated for some reason. Now, remember that David had replaced Joab with Amasah, and that's why he tells him to go assemble the men of Judah. Now, he didn't do it. And the question has to be asked, why? Why wasn't he able to do this? Why didn't the troops get assembled in order that they might pursue after Shava? There are various answers that are provided. One, it may be that Amasah really was on Shava's side and really delayed simply to give Shava some opportunity to get his troops assembled to come against David. It may be that he was simply lazy and he didn't want to do the task, which is probably not so. And then finally, it could be that the men of Judah were simply unwilling to follow after him. This is a man who had been leading Absalom's troops and they were coming against David and those who had remained loyal to him from that area. And it may be that the men of Judah, just because they were loyal to David, were not about to follow after Amasah. It's really not said. It's not really clear. But the fact is, within three days, he hasn't accomplished the task. Now, David knew it's important for him to move before Shava had a time to grow strong. But it's in his desire to move quickly that he makes a mistake. Notice with me what he does. In verse six, David said to Abashai, now Shava, the son of victory, will do us more harm than Absalom. Take your Lord's servants and pursue him, lest he find for himself fortified cities and escape us. So what does David do? David not wanting to wait for Amasah decides to move quickly and he sends Abashai to pursue and defeat Shava. He knew it was time for him to do that because again, Shava had time to grow strong if he didn't move quickly. But the problem is, he appointed Abashai, Joab's brother, to pursue Shava and when he did that, he now slights Joab. Abashai is Joab's younger brother. David has already slighted Joab by replacing him with Amasah and now he slights him again by appointing his younger brother as commander over the military. And he did so, I believe, impulsively. In Proverbs 14, verse 29, it says, he who is slow to wrath has great understanding, but he who is impulsive exalts folly. David was upset with Joab because Joab had done things that got him angry. Remember, Saul had a general by the name of Abner and Joab was upset at Abner because Abner had killed his brother and so Joab killed Abner and when he did that, David was greatly upset at Joab for doing that. Later on, David had told Joab to deal gently with Absalon, David's son. He said, deal gently with the young man, Absalom, but he didn't deal gently with him at all. It was Joab who took those spikes and plunged him into the center of Absalom and then his guard are the ones who killed and made sure that Absalon was put to death. David was upset about that and not only that, but it was Joab who had recently come when David was mourning over Absalom. It was Joab who had come and had actually rebuked him in a way that got David upset. The way that he spoke to him, he disrespected him and confronted him over his mourning about his son. So David is not happy with this man. On the other hand, when you think of Joab, this was a man who was a faithful man to David. This is a man who in the past had supported him. This is a man who was of tremendous help to him because he had skilled in war. He was a strong leader and he had a strong personality. And as a matter of fact, he's the one who had just defeated Absalom, led by Amassa, these troops that were led by Amassa and he's the one who saved the kingdom. And when he was speaking to David, that's what he said in 2 Samuel 19, verse five.  And so Joab was somebody who actually was a fierce warrior who at one time had been loyal to David and David is now slighting him because David is upset with him for the things that he's done. And so he puts Abishai in charge even though Joab was really the natural leader. Well, in verse seven, it says, Joab's men with the kerathites and pelithites and all the mighty men went out after him and they went out of Jerusalem to pursue Sheva, the son of victory. Notice how it says, Joab's men. And so what that does is it gives us an insight that these are the ones who are loyal to him, his armor bearers and others. And they more than likely would not have followed anyone but Joab. He had the kerathites and pelithites who were David's personal bodyguard. These mighty men referred here to our experienced soldiers and so off they go and they're gonna pursue Sheva. Well, verse eight, when they were all at the large stone which is in Gibeon, about five miles northwest of Jerusalem, Amasa came before them. Now, Joab was dressed in battle armor. On it was a belt with a sword fastened in its sheath at his hips. And as he was going forward, it fell out. Joab said to Amasa, are you in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him. But Amasa did not notice the sword that was in Joab's hand. And he struck him with it in the stomach and his entrails poured out on the ground. And he did not strike him again, thus he died. Then Joab and Abishai's brother pursued Sheva, the son of Bikri. Meanwhile, one of Joab's men stood near Amasa and said, whoever favors Joab and whoever is for David, follow Joab. But Amasa wallowed in his blood in the middle of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he moved Amasa from the highway to the field and threw a garment over him when he saw that everyone who came upon him halted. When he was removed from the highway, all the people went on after Joab to pursue Sheva, the son of Bikri. And so here comes Joab dressed in his armor and as he comes walking up, his sword drops off of his belt. Now that word sword there speaks of that which could also be translated a short sword or a dagger. During the time of David, the soldiers normally would use their right hand when they would hold a weapon. And so that's why it's interesting to note that in verse nine when Joab is speaking to Amasa and asks if he's in health, that's why it's interesting it says that he took him by the right hand, the beard by the right hand. Now in doing that, what he's doing is distracting Amasa because this hand here demonstrates it has no weapon. Now we Americans understand that in a different way because have you ever noticed that we don't shake hands when men or women when we meet? We don't shake hands with our left hand, do we? We use our right hand. That goes all the way back to the time when people would carry a weapon in the right hand. And the reason you shake hands with an open hand is to reveal that there's no weapon in your hand. So at that time when he took his hand and touched his beard, it was a way of distracting him because he had the sword in his left hand. And it was with his left hand that he plunged it into the man's belly and eviscerated him. He disemboweled him. And when he hit him and sliced him open and his intestines spill out, Amasa falls on the ground and begins to wallow in his own blood. And as he's wallowing in his own blood, Joab says, let's go and leaves him there. Now as he does that, one of Joab's followers is standing there and notice what he says in verse 11. One of Joab's men stood near Amasa and said, whoever favors Joab and whoever is for David, follow Joab. Now notice he didn't say anything about Joab's brother there. He didn't say whoever is in favor of Abishai. He said whoever is in favor of Joab and notice he says and or follower of David. And in essence, what he's saying here is to follow Joab is equivalent to being loyal to David. And so what he's doing here is he's usurping the authority of his own brother in order that he might go out and do the work that he wants to do, showing us something again of this man in the way that he is. Now as the people are passing by, they see this one who is just writhing on the ground, dying a slow death. And so the soldiers naturally are stopping saying how shocking this is.  And then it says in verse 13, when he was removed from the highway, all the people went on after Joab to pursue Sheba, the son of Bishri. And so he leaves him there to die in a field on the side of the road, unburied and dying in such a way. Well in verse 14, he went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel and Beth-Makkah and all the Baraites. So they were gathered together and also went after Sheba. And then they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-Makkah and they cast up a siege mound against the city and it stood by the rampart. And all the people who were with Joab battered the wall to throw it down. Then a wise woman cried out from the city, here, here, please say to Joab, come nearby that I may speak with you. When he had come near to her, the woman said, are you Joab? He answered, I am. Then she said to him, hear the words of your maid servant. And he answered, I'm listening. So she spoke saying, they used to talk in former times saying, they shall surely seek guidance at Abel. And so they would end disputes. I am among the peaceable and faithful in Israel.  Why would you swallow up the inheritance of the Lord? And Joab answered and said, far be it, far be it from me that I should swallow up or destroy. And so here they come. And I want to, this is going to be a point of application this is something I think that can be of help to us as believers, I want to show you something. They come to the city. And as they come to the city, they're pursuing Sheba. Sheba has gone to the city that is located in the north. If you were looking at a map of Israel, you see the Sea of Galilee, about 25 miles to the north of that, off a little bit to the west, is where the location is of this particular city. It's an old city that is there. And Sheba has gone into the city to seek refuge. Now as the army has arrived, they begin to besiege that city. They're laying siege to it. And as they're doing so because they're about to destroy the city to get to Sheba, there's a woman there that is referred to as being a wise woman. Now the reason she's referred to in verse 16 as a wise woman is because she may have been a judge in the city and therefore was an honored woman and she begins to speak to him. She asks him why he would desire to destroy an important city in the nation. You see when she says in verse 19, you seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. When you first read that, you might be thinking that she's referring not only to herself but also to all the women who are there in this particular city. And she could be saying, why are you gonna besiege this city and slaughter all of us? We're innocent but that's not what she's saying. When she speaks in that way, you seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. She's saying this city is a very important city. That's why she spoke concerning the fact in verse 18 that they used to talk in former times saying they shall surely seek guidance at Abel. This is an important city. But I wanna develop this with you for just a moment when she says in verse 19, why would you swallow up the inheritance of the Lord? What is she doing? What she is doing at this time is she's actually alluding to scripture. The way she is going to save the city is she is alluding to scriptural principles. How do you end a conflict? How do you deal with a problem? I wanna speak with you for a moment about that. How do you deal with a problem when you've got a problem? How do you deal with it scripturally? Well, first let me say this to you. When she's saying you're gonna destroy this major city and you're doing it wrongly, she's actually referring to Deuteronomy chapter 20. Because in Deuteronomy chapter 20 verses 10 through 13, the law of God says when you go near a city to fight against it, then proclaim an offer of peace to it. And it shall be that if they accept your offer of peace and open to you, then all the people who are found in it shall be placed under tribute to you and serve you. Now, if the city will not make peace with you but makes war against you, then you shall be siege it. And when the Lord your God delivers it into your hands, you shall strike every male in it with the edge of the sword. She was applying a scriptural principle to end a conflict. And that's always the wisest thing. Joab would be aware as the commander of what the law said in Deuteronomy as it relates to laying siege to a city. That's why she's saying, why are you gonna swallow up the inheritance of the Lord?  You haven't gone about it, right? Because there are rules in scripture, there are rules of war and you're ignoring them. So in order to end the conflict, she applies a scriptural principle that Joab is familiar with. And if we, in other words, in our day, were to use scriptural principles when we're having conflict with somebody, we probably could find ways to have peace without conflict. We have to learn to use the scriptures when it comes to dealing with things that we don't like. I mean, let's face it, you can have conflict with people and on the job side, in the neighborhood, you can have conflict with people in your own home. You can have conflicts if you're a husband or a wife with one another. Of course, conflicts do occur and we have to find a way to deal with those conflicts. How do you deal with them? How do you deal with it when somebody is doing something that is wrong and it's creating such a stress that it's threatening to destroy a relationship? How do you deal with that? Well, you use the scripture, you learn the principles of the word of God and you apply them. That's how Valentine's Day. I'm not one of these men who's really like, oh, wow, it's Valentine's Day, by candy and flowers. I just have never been that way, never have been that way. When Marie and I were first married, even when we were first dating, I didn't buy her cards or anything. I said, are you kidding? Because I said, this is just something that's been contrived to rip us off, to have to go out and buy cards and candy. Listen, if you don't know I love you, what's this candy and this card and these flowers gonna do anyway? Now I thought that made sense. Apparently it didn't. I can still remember a Valentine's Day that occurred early in our marriage, very early in our marriage. I really did believe that there's no point in this. I just think this is something made up by Hallmark and others to rip us off. So I came home and when I came home, it was Valentine's Day and I walked in and the kitchen had a tough day at work and all I came into the kitchen and Marie was making dinner and she said something kind of like, it's Valentine's Day, honey. Yeah, yeah. In other words, anything for me? No. Now where's my dinner? You didn't give me anything? Why? I mean, it just like, why? Why would I do that? Well, she wasn't happy. I can't imagine why, I mean, was wrong with her. No, she wasn't happy. So I got angry. I climbed in the car, I drove to the mall, I went into one of the stores, I bought some perfume, brought it back, walked into the kitchen. She was not happy. I took the perfume, slammed it on the counter. Happy Valentine's Day. You ladies love me, don't you? Happy Valentine's Day. She looks at me like, what? I said, you want it, you got it, okay? Off my back. I thought that was being a man. It was.  She took that perfume back and got a refund and brought it back. It's your gift. Thanks, I appreciate that. I had a lot of learning to do, ladies.  And the bottom line is that I was not taken into consideration what was valuable to her. I just wasn't, I just didn't think that way. I really did think it was some kind of con. I really did think that, and look at it, if you don't know I love you every day, what does it matter?  It doesn't matter if I do that on Valentine's Day, it doesn't matter if I do that on Mother's Day, it doesn't matter. I used to tell Marie, it's Mother's Day, she'd say, I say, yeah, you're not my mother. Yeah, yeah, I have a lot of learning. You guys don't like me much now, I don't really care. No, that's what used to get me in trouble with my wife. No, you know what? And God had to break me, because I really believed it. It wasn't being mean, I wasn't trying to be mean. I was just trying to be real. I was just trying to be me. And I don't buy into that. And you don't have to buy me anything. The same thing we'd go out shopping. We'd go in, that's purgatory for any man, to take me into a mall, and take me into sit in a woman's shop, and they have those little timeout benches for all the husbands you see them, and we all sit there, why? Why do I have to do this? And then Marie would try something on and walk out, how do I look? I'm telling you, when we were first married, I'd look at her, I'd say, what does it matter? You're wearing it, I'm not wearing that. You like the dress, buy it, let's get out of here. I mean, that was the husband I was. You like that? Buy it, because I tell her, look it, I don't go and bring you to, I put on a pair of Levi's, how do they look? I don't, I just put them on, I get out, let's go, you know? I mean, and that's the way most men, many men are, those who like to go shopping, I'll do a special service for you. But the rest of us, we just don't, men don't like it. That's not what we do. It's really painful, it hurts, and I had to learn. I had, I had to learn. The reason she was asking me how she looks is because her beauty was reserved for me and she wanted me to say, you look beautiful because it meant something to her. I didn't see that. When she got her hair done, how do you like it? I'd say, do you? Because I don't come back from the barber shop saying, how does it look? And you put a hat on, who cares? I had so much, so many lessons to learn about what's valuable, how to communicate, why you have to be softer with your approach to things. See, Proverbs 15.1, I quoted earlier, is a heart verse that I've learned 30 some years ago. A soft answer because I didn't know how to speak the truth in love, I didn't know how to do that. And now I've learned some things over the years. I've learned that to give her a card means that she's knowing, I took time out of my day to think of her, to give her something that matters to her. And therefore, I do those things now.  No, I've never been afraid that she'd be mad at me. That's never been a problem I've ever had. What I've been concerned about is that she knows I love her. And I had to learn the language of love and I discovered that by reading my Bible and applying the things that I learned. Greater love has no man than this that a man laid down his life for his friends. Husbands love your wives. Bible says cherish them. The Bible says that we should treat them as the weaker vessel. Now that didn't make me a weak man. That made me a man who was in tune with my wife and her needs and that came from Scripture. And so, yes, I had no problem speaking the truth, but was I speaking it in love? Was I really considering her as my partner in life? Was I treating her with the gentleness that she deserves? And I wasn't. And so I really do believe, very strongly, that this one little Scripture here, when she asks that question, why do you swallow up the inheritance of the Lord? That is, there's a scriptural principle that she's using to bring peace to end a conflict. And in applying that Deuteronomy 20 passage to Joab's consciousness, he as a commander over the army knows you are not the lace age to a city without first giving them terms of peace. And what he was about to do is destroy a city and he was violating God's word. Then the conflict that ensued would result in the death of many. And this woman wisely, that's why she's referred to as a wise woman, wisely applied a scriptural principle to this commander and was able to save a city.  How is your life gonna be changed by taking heed to the word of God? By actually saying there are things here, there are principles here that can help me to live at peace if I just begin to apply them. Not every conflict is necessary for me to win. I had a long time ago to learn that there are some things that are just not worth having an argument over. Save your energy. Save the energy and the emotionality and all the hurt because it's just not worth fighting over little things. It's not worth it. There are some things that are important enough to say, honey, look, we've got to talk about this. Or kids, we've got to talk about this. They're important enough to do that. But how you do that, you do it in love. How you do that, you do it with patience. You don't want to exasperate your children. You don't want to cause them to have painful upbringings and terrible memories because you were such a lord over them that they ended up just feeling like their whole lives were being ruled by somebody who didn't understand them. And so I had to learn a long time ago and I'm still learning a long time ago and now how to take the scriptural principle and apply it in my life. So if I have a neighbor who's causing conflict with me, I don't have to go and get in their face. I simply have to apply the word where God says, love thy neighbor. How do I go about this, Lord? How do I do this? And so you get on your face. David made a mistake. David is making some quick decisions. We saw that earlier. And I believe that it is required of me to not make quick decisions, especially over the things that matter the most. And to ask the Lord, give me some wisdom and give me some scripture, give me some principles, give me something that I might cling to so I know I'm doing the right thing here, Lord. Because I don't want to do the wrong thing and I've been doing that for some time now. God help me because I want to end conflict, not start it. So this woman is applying a principle. And so when she gives that to him, notice again in verse 20, Job answered and said, far be it for me that I should swallow up or destroy. That's not so. But a man from the mountains of Ephraim, Sheva, the son of Vichri by name, has raised his hand against the king, against David, deliver him only and I'll depart from the city. So the woman said to Job, watch. His head will be thrown to you over the wall. Then the woman in her wisdom went to all the people and they cut off the head of Sheva, the son of Vichri, and threw it out to Job. So there is more than one way to get ahead. I said that first service. I've repeated that all three. I think it's funny. I'm sorry. Then he blew a trumpet and they withdrew from the city, every man to his tent. So Job returned to the king at Jerusalem. And so what she did is she said, it is better to give up the life of one man so that the city might be saved. That's an interesting principle because later on in the Gospel of John, on an occasion the priests were arguing concerning Jesus and they were saying, if we leave him alone, everybody's gonna follow after him. The high priest who was speaking that day without even realizing that he was speaking into the unction of the spirit, said it's more profitable that one man should lose his life than the entire nation. That's a principle you actually find here. It was better that one man should be the loss of his life to save the entire city. And the city was saved through the loss of one man's life. But in the spiritual way, you and I were saved because one man gave up his life when Jesus laid his down for us. And that's a principle that you see here in the Old Testament. So that's what they did. They satisfied the anger of the military and as a result, well, they blew a trumpet, withdrew from the city, every man to his tent, meaning Shava's rebels just dispersed and went home. And Joab returned to the king at Jerusalem. I wonder how David felt when Joab came back. I'm certain that David was very upset. Joab had usurped the authority of his brother Abishai. Joab had killed Amasa. Joab had laid siege to a city. But David couldn't do anything at that time because the army was once again following after Joab. It would simply have been an unwise thing for David to deal with him. And finally, you see in verse 23 through 26, David's cabinet. Joab was over all the army of Israel. Ben-Yah, the son of Joaoida, was over the carithites and the pelithites, which is David's personal bodyguard. Adoram was in charge of revenue, meaning that he was the one who supervised those who were put into forced labor. And you have Jehoshaphat, who's in charge of the state records. And Sheva, who is the secretary, Zedek and Abiyathar are the priests. And finally, you have Ira the Jairite, who was the chief minister, meaning he was his prime minister. He was his confidant. He was his spiritual advisor. And so once again, David is trying to bring the nation into unity. And we're gonna be seeing as we go through how that really does work out. Bottom line, let us be careful not to be hasty or impetuous in the decisions that we make. Let us seek the word of the Lord when it comes to dealing with conflict. And let us be careful to move only when the Holy Spirit really is actively moving us. Let's be careful because that's where we can begin to save ourselves an awful lot of pain if we just wait on the Lord so that we might renew our strength and he might direct our footsteps.


Welcome to Vancouver! I'm really excited to announce that we are now rolling out our first round of interoperability tests and requirements to define a common core that must be available in every open-stack environment, private, public, or hybrid. And this is really creating an open-stack powered planet. One of the really cool features that was in Kilo, and that I'm really excited to get to show you this morning, was around federated identity. Now this is a feature that's been developed over a couple of releases, but it's one that shows the power of having an open-stack powered planet with a global footprint of clouds. In the Kilo release, I think the most interesting feature we delivered was around the Keystone Federation features because they complemented what they already did for the JunoCycle with extra capabilities for clouds to be able to interpret with one another. So you will authenticate on one cloud and be able to burst capacity on another, and that's really key to our promise to deliver interoperability between open-stack clouds all over the world. Three challenges, essentially. And so what we were able to do is actually boot up an open-stack instance running our applications on top of AWS for those purposes. So really just to prove the point of open-stack interoperability for our business. One of the shows we did this year was this great show called Unreal. Shot in Vancouver, cut in Los Angeles, and all done on open-stack. We really see that open-stack plays a part in the production of this all the way through to, you know, watching it in your home. You know, all of the applications that we showed the last time around like the weather app runs on top of open-stack today. There's a number of other challenging apps that we've moved over to the open-stack infrastructure and really let us do things like for the Super Bowl or for World Cup. You only have a few weeks from the moment when all of the people that are creative decide what they want to implement to when you actually have to have it ready for millions of users. So in a period of about four weeks we can create an app from scratch, get it running, and scale it up for millions of Comcast customers. People are very excited about containers and Docker, right? And for good reason, this is a very exciting technology. There are many technologies that are coming on the scene in containers. If you think about open-stack, again, we're not a hypervisor, right? We integrate with hypervisors. That's exactly the same pattern that I see happening with containers. So what are you doing here? So we're here at OpenStack Summit talking about Kubernetes and basically, you know, we believe in this vision of Kubernetes running everywhere, whether it's public cloud or private cloud. And so we think, you know, from a private cloud perspective, OpenStack is definitely leading the charge on how to do that the right way. To deploy cloud across an enterprise of 80,000 people and 10,000 developers. So there's an awful lot of organizational and cultural change required. So now we're at the point where we're actually, we're running this particular process in parallel to building out cloud and forcing cloud adoption across that enterprise. If you have doubts about OpenStack running in production, this is a proof point for you to say that OpenStack is doing transactions, financial transactions.  That transaction is now going through OpenStack. And in 2016, I'm really excited to announce that we're going to be going back to where it all began in Austin, Texas in April. After Austin, we're going to go back to Europe to Barcelona. So here's our OpenStack story. It's pretty simple. JPL needs an open and free technology that allows us to consolidate our underutilized infrastructure and make it easily available and provisionable by projects who no longer have the funding or resources available while still preserving the capability for the missions that will need the infrastructure in the future. So I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the community for truly supporting our mission and ask you to continue to support OpenStack because it is doing a wealth of good for NASA. The thing that is really cool that we've seen here is, again, how OpenStack is powering all of these different services and so many different things from beginning to end behind the scenes, driving new use cases, enabling new content and really pushing the envelope on what people can do in different industries.


Hi, this is Alex with another not a picking video So I've been working on a whole bunch of these American locks because they're really good for training and they're just fun locks and I'm left-handed And so You know who he's left-handed. Who cares? Let me just give you an example of why this might be interesting This is not a proper Peterson pry bar, but you end up You can't use your index finger You end up with your your thumb on there kind of doing this and You're essentially pressing up the the torque the the Vector is kind of up and I mean even with the the better one, which I can't find at the moment It tends to fly out when I'm picking and I don't like that because then I lose my set and I have to start again I curse and all sorts of things. So I've got a new tension tensor that I've used a couple of times and it seems to work pretty well. I'm not going to pick this on video right now It's this particular lock. I have not picked up and It's kind of grungy and I don't know it's hard, but let me just show you what I did So zooming back in I'm going to try to get in real tight on this I can So this is a piece of I think eight-inch music wire Okay, that I Did a little bit of forging on and it's a whole bunch of filing And I cussed and I was sort of inspired by Kokomo's video on on making music wire tensors But one novel thing I did or I don't know if it's novel but it's novel for me Is that I cut where's my pointer? And it's going to be a little hard to see and I apologize for Camera work as always, but I cut a little shelf here on the top As well as the sides and then the center bit is sized perfectly for the American keyway And then you can see there's kind of a really wacky shape to it and you'll see why that's interesting in a moment so it's got a Zooming back out and getting rid of the magnet It's got kind of a curve here Curve there I bent this and this using heat Heating it up to red hot and and then I'm bending it And then you can see that I reheat treated it You can see the color on there And I brought it to a blue color all the way to the end which is to serve a spring temper That should be pretty tough for For the type of work it's going to be doing So for me I stick this in Okay and Completely obstructs the keyway Did I get that right? No That's better Head backwards For me I'll edit have to edit that out Or not just to show you that I'm a goofball For me That works pretty well. You can see that that is seated pretty firmly in there And you'll also notice I'm pressing it in this direction Which is tending to push the wrench back up into the keyway Rather than down or in some other direction and now I can get in here and pick and Not have to worry as much about the The wrench going flying in all directions when I'm you know one pin away from nirvana Um, maybe I will attempt to pick this But not with this pick It's also very comfortable. I put a little bit of knurling. I don't know if you can see it And I'm not a master knurler But there's the dog Excuse the noise Just used a little triangle file and just cut some marks Perpendicular here and then a couple of diagonals just to give it a little bit more grip right there And uh, so Let's see. Maybe we can pick this open. I haven't ever picked this lock open, but maybe my new tensor And the support of everyone watching will The other thing is I notice that I don't have to apply I actually don't have to apply hardly any tension. Just kind of have to keep it from falling over Right, so in with the even with the petersons if I kind of really let go Um, they will often tend to I gotta listen for the clicks they will tend to want to fall out And so I end up having to apply a lot more tension than really I should Uh for particularly for for americans So this is sized for This particular american keyway. I used this one as a gauge when I was Cutting this so you may have to You know, I may have to make a few more um music wire I got at a Hoppy shop locally I like to buy stuff like this from little stores if I can Because they're they have trouble staying in business But that said you can also buy it off of amazon or ebay or Any probably any metal working supply shop You just want to make sure that what you get is steel carbon steel And the other thing I would note is that this stuff at least the the particular product that I got Was really really hard when I got it as in it ate my hacksaw blade Um cutting through it. I should have probably used the dremel, but I was in the vise and I was in a hand tool mode So when you are going to work it, I strongly recommend annealing it and you can look at my heat treating video for annealing Um a demo of that on a smaller piece of metal, but basically you heat the thing up to the um critical temperature Which is usually somewhere between a cherry red and kind of a little brighter red and that's the um, I believe the for that the temperature is um Right about when it goes non magnetic. So another good time to have a magnet on hand um The then just let it cool For this I had it on a little ceramic plate That I bought it's they called a soldering Plate or something like that But it's a refractory ceramic material It's also nice because it helps hold some of the heat when you're heating it up. So use less gas But I just left it on there and let it sit For 15 minutes or whatever until it was what they call hand cool, which hand warm rather, which means It's not going to burn you when you pick it up And then I um I worked it And uh And then hardened it And uh and uh tempered it so And then while you watch me fail to pick this lock The last little remark is when you are going to Harden the metal which is where you take it up Again past the critical temperature where it loses its magnetism or where it'll no longer stick to a magnet or attract a magnet um You want to make sure that the entire Part that you care about that you want to heat treat Is at that temperature and it's a little easier with the material this thick But with like a lock pick or something something this thin You heat this air and that end cools down right the whole thing. So I set it down on a um On that ceramic plate It's why I was using the stove in the other video because that that has the advantage of spreading the heat out better but um That would have while the wife was getting kind of grumpy about that, but um So I heated on that plate and what I do is I set the plate across a basin of water like a little bucket And uh of cool water or brine or if you're using oil, whatever um, and then Just as the whole thing is at the temperature that I want I just basically shove it in there. I just knock it off the edge into the water um, and uh It'll uh, it's you know, I have quite as much control of trying to get it to the steam to move away and but it Compared to just getting differential Heating and having some of the parts not get fully hardened. It seems to work pretty well Um, and you just leave it in there until it stops sizzling and you pop it out and do your heat treatment um And then a final tip is when you're doing the heat treatment when you're doing the the final tempering um You want to be very very gentle if you especially if you're using a Uh flame which is which I was because I needed to take this up to about What is it 400? 450 c to get it to this this blue color Um, which is holding up very nicely I'm sucking it picking this but this wrench is working awesome um And um It'll go through that temperature really fast and if it gets too far then it softens and you don't want that um, so I I use a map torch when I'm doing the bending and the The annealing and the hardening because it heats it a lot faster when I go to do the um the tempering Which is softening it actually from that full glass hard state I moved to a propane torch and just very gently warm the thing started an area that I care less about watch the Color move Right and then just start sort of moving it around And then you have to be careful as you reach these screw this as you reach the thinner parts because it's obviously there's less mass metal mass there and you And they will they will heat much faster and remember of course that there's residual heat That will continue to move through the piece um, so you just want to You know be really gentle Move the heat up until you get the right Color the color will go away as it rusts and you know you handle it But you I don't know how well the color is coming out there, but that's sort of that cobalt blue sort of color um, that's a moderate spring tension. I got it to a lighter blue here, which is even um Softened even a little bit more, so it's going to be springier Less hard, but less likely to fracture hopefully And then you can see the full range of color here if I can get the Continuing the steel you get from the factory. Um, this was a a full blue temper carbon steel Kind of like you'd see in a hacksaw blade You can see it's that color. It's that sort of a similar color to that somewhere in here, right? It still has the oxidation on it so That's kind of what you're shooting for If you take it too far It's going to be too soft at that which point You basically have to start again fully and nail it re harden it And then heat treat it again Takes a little practice, but once you get it then And that's sort of why I was doing that video before Then you can do stuff like this with a heavier gauge wire this I'm not strong enough to make a bend like that and make it clean And um, you know, you can even thin the metal down Without taking metal away by by hammering on it kind of like a blacksmith type of thing But it allows you to take the heat treatment out so you can machine it with Files and things that give you more precision Or if you have a mill or whatever you don't want to go in there on on hardened steel and then come back And bring the temper back bring the hardness back so that you can use it as a tool So very cool. You have any questions. Let me know also that book by um Tubal cane um as uh highly recommended And he gives some more sophisticated ways of doing heat treatment if you're making tools But I don't have any of the fancy Uh kit that he has So anyhow, um, so the points heat treating working with metal very fun And I think this end on this thing which I will attempt once more to get a Focus shot of But you can see the the chamfer or the the cut out on the side And also on the top And I suppose if you were right-handed Um If you were right-handed you could make sort of the mirror image of this which I guess would look kind of like that um And you'd still have the same type of Thing if you were a bottom of the keyway tension kind of person Well, I'd have to make this differently. Um, I'd have to do it like this Right and that actually works as well For me at least All right wouldn't work for probably for a right-handed person Um, I guess it it could but you probably would prefer to use your index finger But that's hard because the right hand goes anti clockwise. Anyway, that's enough of that Cool idea. Give it a go support your local hobby shops and uh harbor stores um Because they often have cool stuff that they just don't carry at home depot or blows And um, you want to keep them in business. So Anyhow, this is alex Have fun Be safe. Um, particularly when you're working with hot metal and flying shards of metal and um I always stay legal, um, but have fun. So Cheers. Thanks for watching