So my dear craft family, this video is very special just because you have to watch me in person and I felt that this, what I would like to say, it has to be face to face, even I don't like to be front of camera, I literally hate it, but for now please, but with me I need to say something and I hope I will not mess up. In the past few years I received amazing heartwarming support and encouraging support from each and every one of you and I will be forever thankful for everything you do for me. But last week when I made a video just to explain why I am not on YouTube, it was something that I didn't expect. I've been pretty much down with my thoughts, with my feelings just because in my personal life I had huge expectations from something that I wanted and it didn't happen, so I felt I need to apologize and I didn't expect the reaction I received, your amazing comments, sharing your stories which was quite surprising how many of us are single moms who went through the very similar story, it was really wow, it was eye opening, it was, I felt sad and honored at the same time and that was so huge mix of feelings and your awesome support, encouraging words, even say hello, it was everything what I needed at that time and I will be forever thankful for the courage, the hope you gave me through to all your messages, that's why you need to watch me right now because I felt I need to say it, I need to say it in the person and I need to thank you in the person for everything you did for me and I hope my channel will always bring good feeling to you, I hope I will always find a way how to get back to you what I just received, the heartwarming feeling, amazing support and togetherness, the time is most important value in this world and you shared your time with me and for that I would like to say huge thank you, I will remember this one forever and I will always try to bring some good content, I hope you will always enjoy my videos and I will always bring you this happiness and this joy and good feeling back to you so thank you so so much for all your amazing support, I read all your messages and I treasure them all, I need you to know how I feel about you and how thankful I am so today's video it's continuing of that newspaper craft but if you don't have newspapers just try it with book pages, I hope you will enjoy it in today's video I put together videos I made when I created basket from newspapers I didn't know what I'm doing actually so my explanation through the video will be more like here I did this one but it wasn't right, it was many mistakes if I will make it one more time in the future I know I will make it probably a little bit different way hopefully I will get there I'm not sure I hope you will enjoy today's video thank you so much for sharing your time with me today and I hope you will enjoy these baskets you can see now are used in a Czech Republic to store strawberries mostly and it was the biggest inspiration it was the actually inspiration for me and I tried to kind of copy the pattern and made it from newspapers first I cut it two gray boards in the size I needed to big enough to store to make a platform or base for my baskets I cut it in the size which can fit my journal which I'm making from newspapers and then I had to create kind of like flat strips from newspapers so I took newspapers folded newspapers around my metal ruler cut the strips and then glued these strips together I made needed to make these newspapers a little bit stronger to make sure I will have good base so I always folded these newspaper strips on half and then one more time on half then I folded the sides to the middle fold I applied the glue to glue all these folded sides and that way I have created nice strong strips my ruler measure five centimeters so I had base strips 10 centimeters wide each of these strips and in the end when I folded those strips it was two and a half centimeters wide strips and I have created 22 strips like this from my newspapers 11 on each side I mean 11 vertically 11 horizontally placed in that pattern when I started to put together this this waving pattern I took two of these strips and I glued them together in the middle so first I folded them on half to mark the middle of each of them and then I glued these folds together and then I just started to place my papers in the waving pattern which means one on the top of one strip next one under that strip I hope it that makes sense I hope that you will understand what I mean with that waving pattern always on the vertical one strip I glued a line of or row of strips horizontal way one on the top one on the bottom I hope that makes sense at least what I'm doing on the video it will make sense once I had strips glued on one one vertical strip I started to add those other vertical strips I think that this was the part where I made the mistake if I will do some kind of this waved pattern ever again for making the basket I would definitely glue these vertical strips just in the middle on that middle horizontal strip and then the edges I will only wave through the horizontal strips to make them free and make them flexible for a future weaving or waving the basket so when I glued these strips all together I started to fold this waved pattern in the size I needed for my journal so I placed the journal inside I folded the base and then I started to fold it those you those other sides to make base for my basket and I also realized that the sides of this waving pattern are not too long so I had to make another strips from newspapers and I had to extend the sides of this waved pattern to make the side strips long enough so I can continue with that waving around the corner of the future basket I hope that makes sense because I have no idea how the other way I should explain it so to make a beautiful this this basket beautiful I used gesso white gesso and I applied white gesso all over of these newspaper strips and then I started to sewn this this pattern on my sewing machine and here I noticed how much easier my work will be if these strips will be not glued together I had to rip them off apart here and there but I made it through so then the next step was to make stronger my chipboard pieces I wrapped them to the brown paper and I also created my template for punching the holes for future kind of like legs of my basket I used paper fasteners and I applied those or fixed those paper fasteners to the corners of the bottom of my basket so it will be stronger and then I glued two chipboard pieces together to make that bottom of the basket stronger I also wrapped these papers to my collage paper from newspapers to make it you know all work together so here you can watch me how I am wrapping to that collage paper it was quite fun this was really easy to do and I did enjoy it and I know that basket looks really awesome with this bottom with this strong bottom and it holds really well the journal I have created this basket for once I had my bottom of that basket done I did glue the chipboard piece on my waved pattern and I let it dried through the night with many books on the top to make sure that it's all glued together and here you can see my waving continuing waving of these extended edges first I waved these papers together and I fixed those ends with paper clips to make sure it will hold until I'm finishing the corner then I needed to kind of create that corner so I folded these papers with my hands to create actual corner of that basket and this was it wasn't that hard I thought it will be hard but it actually wasn't that hard there was a really important to keep those strips fixed with those paper clips together so it will be not unweaving while I am trying to glue these strips together it was quite fun and I did enjoy it so much but as I said I didn't know if I'm doing doing it right so it's not proper tutorial it's more like sharing how I get to that pattern I have to say I will probably do something like this again because it makes really beautiful storage for the journal so once I had all corners done I chose the size I want and here I went with those little squares they were kind of like navigating me where I should cut the ends of these strips even they were glued together these strips that pattern was glued together I wanted to make sure it will don't get ripped off so first I sewn all the edges around that basket on my sewing machine and then I also added the ribbon or trim all around and sew it a few more times again to make nice and vintage shape or vintage shape on that basket I did use my colors it was I think brown stone acrylic brown stone and I did paint all that basket with brown stone so I always applied a coat of that brown stone acrylic paint and then wipe it with wet wipes to make just shades not to properly change the color just to make a vintage looking shade on the basket and I did this technique on all around of this basket also on the bottom and inside and for decorating all around around that gray trim I did choose this nature style of trim it's really beautiful and I do believe it gave to this basket really nice look so I used my hot glue gun and I glued this trim around that top of that basket and as a last decoration I chose a book metal label I forgot the name label maker not labor maker book label frame metal frame this one and I just fixed that frame first I applied to that frame a small paper with what is there magazine I think yeah magazine and then I glued this metal label onto my basket with my hot glue gun and I fixed in fix there those brats and that was all what I did with this basket it was quite fun even I didn't know what I'm doing but I did enjoy it I hope you did enjoy this walk through of the process making of this basket and I hope you will try it yourself it's lots of fun thank you so much for watching have a wonderful day and I will see you soon bye


First of all, just now in the debate, there seemed to be a sort of partition, you being sort of the realist against the idealism of Anel Vadu. Yes. Don't you think the world needs a bit of idealism? No, I think it leads a bit less idealism. And the 20th century was created by idealism. Communism and fascism and Nazism were all based on idealised systems, what the world should be ideally and how it isn't what it should be. And therefore, we're entitled to change it radically and take control of it in order to do so. And the immediate result is genocides, as we've seen. And I think idealism of Vadu's kind is extremely dangerous. I was there in 1968 in Paris at the time when he was in the streets shouting out his ideals, and it was enough to convert me to the other side. Really? Yeah. It was that bad? It was that bad seeing these arrogant young people pretending that they represented the workers whereas in fact they were wealthy byproducts of the middle class and wanting to dictate to everybody the system of politics which they had conceived from their half-educated reading. And it stayed, it stayed in that class of French intellectuals ever since. And I think people like me have a duty to be realist in opposition. Say, look, you know, this unity between the intellectuals and the workers. Who was actually creating it? It was you intellectuals. How many workers were involved? You know, very few. Only those that you could control through trade unions. You know, and let's get rid of all those illusions and treat people as they are. All right. I want you to say the word crisis. Surely you must think that there are things in the world today that are wrong and that should be changed. Yes, of course. There are lots of things that are wrong and should be changed. But the question is how? The revolutionary way of addressing this question is to form together a small conspiracy of the elite to craft a solution and then impose it from above on the mass of mankind. I take the other view, which is the classical English view, which is that people should be given the freedom to understand their problems and address them from their own or existing repertoire of social and political gestures and gradually come to some consensus. And that is a very different approach. So it is, absolutely. You're not saying, then, that we need a new aristocracy? No. Things, of course, would be better if I had more of a voice than I do. But there's no way in which that can happen. But, you know, I'm lucky that the Nexus Institute allows me to speak. But in my book on Green Philosophy, I do describe what I think of as an alternative to these top-down solutions. So the big problems of the environment and how my alternative is to make the space for ordinary motives of ordinary people to take charge of the problem. All right. And how would they then take charge of the problem? Well, the problem, first of all, has to be local. And I think this is one thing I agree with in what Badiou said in his lecture, which is that the great points of transition in communities and also in individuals are local. That they involve some problem that you are living through and which also makes you recognise your dependence upon other people, how you need them to join with you in order to solve this problem. And the Dutch did this very well in the 17th century. They had a huge environmental problem, after all, and they built the dykes to solve it. That is one of the great achievements that was not done by some committee of revolutionary vanguard imposing upon the ordinary Dutch people a solution they didn't want. It was ordinary people locally getting together to build their own dyke. And gradually the country solved its problem. And I think many of our environmental problems today can be confronted in that way as long as you keep those intellectuals out of them. Finally, you mentioned that you think the sacred should return to our society. Can you explain that a little bit? Yes. I think human beings are incomplete without a concept of the sacred. They must have a sense that this world in which they live has moments, places, events, people, etc., which are in some sense standing outside the ordinary course of events. They're not just things to be bargained with, things to be bought and sold, but as it was stand in judgment on us. And all of us have that sense when we're children, because that is instinctive in us, but it's wiped away by materialism and by the ease of satisfying our wants and so on. And the result is that we are in a certain measure bereft, bereft of something that is needed for our happiness, which is the sense that we are in good relations with sacred things.


Yes. So before the break, we were looking at the example of Demus and how even though he was in full-time ministry, even though he was a man who knew the word of God and shared the gospel and all of that, he allowed himself to be drawn away by the attractions of the world. So how can we keep ourselves from making the same mistake? Let's look at a few scriptures. Maybe the first scripture that we could read is Mark chapter 4 verses 18 and 19. If someone could please read out for us, Mark 4, 18 and 19. Mark 4 verses 18 and 19. Okay, so we know that the word of God is supposed to bear much fruit in our lives. And when we choose to practice the word of God, when we choose to think in alignment with the word of God and have the priorities which the word of God is recommending for us. When we live in that way, the word of God becomes fruitful in our lives. It accomplishes the purposes for which it has been revealed to us and we grow in God. We become more like Christ and we also enjoy the kind of full abundant life that we are meant to. All of this happens for us when the word of God becomes fruitful in our lives. But over here, we see that there are some people who hear the word, start getting to know the word of God, but then they are drawn away by something else. It talks about the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things. So they start looking at the wealth in the world and all that it promises, wealth promises status. People are going to think better about you if you have money in your hands. If you have wealth, then you have more power. You can control people, you can get things done which normal people cannot. So wealth gives you a lot of power to be able to do things that others cannot do. Wealth also looks like as if it can make people very happy because you have all these pictures of smiley faces in rich surroundings having a lot of money and we assume that wealth will make us very, very happy. So deceitfulness of wealth. We start thinking that if I can get wealth, then my life is made. Which is why people have this strange idea that if you win a lottery and you win some huge amount of money, then automatically you must be a very, very happy person.  Money doesn't actually make things better. So deceitfulness of wealth. So you start focusing on earning wealth, becoming more rich, assuming that that will make you more happy, that that will take care of the problems in your family, that that will solve all your issues. So the deceitfulness of wealth makes you start spending more and more time in earning that wealth. And what happens in the process, the word of God which you have heard a few times, that word of God gets choked, it gets cut off because you have no time for it, right? I mean, practicing it, following it is going to take a lot of time.  Where's the time? You got to make wealth, you got to earn wealth, you got to chase after it. So the deceitfulness of wealth, it draws you away from the world and you have less and less time for it and this word of God gets choked in the sense it can no longer operate freely in your life and help you to become all that you're meant to, you have now pushed it off into a corner.  So the word which has got great power within it to actually make a person's life and establish them, that word of God is rendered unfruitful in that person's life because they are now really, really busy chasing after this wealth which has deceived them and in the same way, all the other desires, the desires for other things. You know, the Bible says, you know, place these things first, these desires first, the kingdom of God, His righteousness, you know, loving people and putting other people's interests first. You know, see this, the Bible says, you know, desire for these things but over here the word is saying that you've got to desire other things, you know, which are all completely self-focused. So when you start chasing those things, the word of God gets choked. There's no room for it to operate in your life any longer and accomplish the things that God wants to accomplish and so the word of God is rendered unfruitful. Okay, so what happens in such a person's life? We see the details being mentioned in 2 Peter chapter 2 verses 20 and 21. 2 Peter 2, 20 and 21. 2 Peter chapter 2 verses 20 and 21. If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. So you see, it's a very dangerous thing for believers to get sucked back into the world. We were in the world once, our priorities were the same as the world's priorities and, you know, we had no interest in what God wants, we had no interest in pleasing the Lord. We were in that state, but then we came out of that condition and we got to know the way of righteousness, you know, the way it says over here in verse 21. We got to know the way of righteousness. We got to know our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. So we started to move away from the world and now our priorities completely changed. We began to want to please God. We began to renew our minds and we began to realize, oh, there are things which are more important, more precious and which have long-term benefits for me. So we began to understand all of that and so the hold of Satan upon our life started to get weak. You know, he could no longer control us the way he controlled us before. We were now in no longer in the kingdom of darkness. We were now in the kingdom of the sun and so we started to live free lives. We started to become the Christ-like people that God wanted us to be. Now such a person, if they neglect spending time in God's word, if they neglect praying in the Spirit and allowing the Holy Spirit to strengthen them, if they neglect these things and they start spending more time on worldly things and allowing its attraction to start growing in their lives, when they start doing that, then Satan really sits up and pays attention because now he is able to gain a foothold in that person's life and so he will start making every effort to literally drag them down into the pit with him. I mean that person is in a very, very dangerous state because now they have deliberately chosen to allow the word of God to start getting choked. You know, they're pushing it off into the sidelines. They have no time for the things of God. They're very, very busy now spending more and more time on the attractions of the world and when that happens, it's very, very dangerous because they start getting entangled in it and one day if they continue to delay and continue to not take care of this great danger, the entangling will increase more and more and one day they will be completely overcome and when they're completely overcome, like demons, they will say no more. They'll turn their back on Christ, walk away. So, and it says over here, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness.  But now these are people who came into the family of God, who knew the Lord, you know, and who knew the way of righteousness and now when they turn their back on it, you know, the Satan's grip on them will be so strong now that he will drag them down probably to the lowest levels and then the judgment upon them, the eternal judgment upon them will be really, really great. It's a very, very dangerous thing to do. So once you're in Christ, better to stay in Christ. You know, if you get careless and if you allow Satan to gain a larger and larger foothold, you will get so entangled that one day you will no longer be able to free yourself from the entanglement. You know, you will be overcome by it. So these verses here are talking about the serious danger of a believer allowing themselves to get attracted by the world. So every time we see the attraction of the world increasing, you know, the promises which wealth makes, you know, the things which the world is regarding as important and chasing after, then all those things start becoming more and more important and we start realizing no time for church, no time for prayer, no time for the Bible, no time for all those believers who want to come and say hello and sit with you and talk and talk and talk. No time for all of those things. If you start noticing that, immediately understand that this is the first sign of danger. It is no time then it means that you're literally choking off those things of God. No time for them. And this time which you're taking that you're now investing upon the world is increasing and increasing. The entanglement will start getting tighter and tighter. You know, the ropes with which the world is tying you starts getting tighter and tighter.  Now it is so attractive that God is not looking attractive in the least and you no longer have that desire to come to him, to return to him because now you have been overcome. So it's a very, very dangerous place to be and so we believers have to take a strong stand and choose not to be drawn into the world. And so the advice given to us in James 1, 27 is this. Is someone could read out James 1, 27. James 1 versus 27. Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this. To look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. So you see what is actually true religion which God the Father finds acceptable. I know which he considers as pure and faultless. True religion is this where you are actively involved in the world in a sense. You see, you can see the need of people. You're going out to them whether they're believers or unbelievers. You're getting involved in their lives. You're doing whatever you can to help them to raise them up out of the difficulties that they are in. You're fully actively involved in the world. You're not sitting on a mountain somewhere meditating. No, you're very, very actively involved in society. You're very, very aware of the needs which are there. You're very, very aware of the people of that strata of society that has nobody to look after them. And you can see all the evil that is being done by those in power, how they are taking advantage of them. You can see all of these things. You are extremely aware of your current affairs. You know what's going on and you are fully involved. But you're not allowing yourself to be polluted by the world. So true religion, what God finds is pure and faultless is this. Being fully involved in the world where you have been placed, where you are very aware of what is going on and where you want to bring in God's values and establish them. So you're very, very active in that.  So you meet with powerful people. You interact with them. You raise up funds for whatever project God has laid on your heart.  You go and meet politicians. You work towards having legal policies brought into place which can make society better. Your name gets published in the newspaper. You're among the big people. But you're not allowing their priorities to touch you. You don't allow their priority to start coloring your priorities. You stay true to God. You stay true to what the Bible is teaching. Because you know that having your name in the newspaper today is very nice. Having your photos taken with all the big people is very nice. But it's so temporary.  But you are one who is going to one day go into the New Jerusalem and be there for eternity in the presence of God. So you have bigger things on your heart and mind.  So when they invite you to their parties and they ask you to join one more extra project because that's going to make a lot of money. You say no because you know that you need to create time for the things of God. So you only take on the things which you have been enabled by God to do. But you say no when it starts choking out God. So immediately that becomes a warning sign to you. The day you realize that you don't have time for the Bible. The day you realize that you have to start bunking church. The day you realize those things, you immediately realize the world is taking over and I better pull back. I better pull back and give the word of God breathing space. Enough room in my life to do what the word of God wants to do. So you choose to keep yourself safe and not allow yourself to get polluted by the world. Because that's how it happens. The pollution is very slow and gradual in the beginning. And that's what must have happened with Demas. He never even realized that he was getting polluted. He was ignoring the warning being given by the Holy Spirit.  He became so polluted. He became so entangled that he could no longer overcome the attraction that was so strong. He could no longer overcome it. And he chose to go back into the world. So we choose not to do that. And we can keep ourselves from being polluted. Why? Because of 2nd Peter 1.3. If someone could read out for us 2nd Peter 1.3. His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. So we have been given the divine power. And we have been given everything we require for a godly life. So it's not impossible. It is not difficult. Because from childhood we are taught you need to get the best marks in class. You need to be the highest scorer. When you take up extracurricular activities, you need to shine in those extracurricular activities. Our parents kind of drill that into us that you got to be the best. You got to be the highest. And when you start entering into college, you say go for those career options which will earn you the highest salaries. Where you can live a comfortable luxurious life. That's basically what is taught to us. Right from the time that we are a toddler. And we just want to go and play over there in the sand and in the mud. And your parents are saying no, the mud and the sand is not important. Come read your books because that is going to make your life. You are going to earn a lot of money. So we are taught this from a very young age. And so we think that these things are the most important things in life. To be able to grow up, get a good job, make a lot of money and establish myself in life. So from a young age we are literally tuned in our minds to think that this is the goal of life. And how do you fight something like that? When you become a believer, you grow up and you become a believer and you suddenly realize that this is an entirely different system in place. A godly system in place which is saying exact opposite of everything that you were taught from childhood. And you are now trying to reprioritize and you think, my goodness, how do I reprioritize all my life I have been told that I am supposed to become rich and get a really grand job and make a name for myself in life. And now here I am in this kingdom of God and over here everything is upside down. Here everything God is saying, put other people's interests before your own. How do I change this whole priorities and all of this? How do I renew my mind? If you are thinking that and you are wondering how you can ever overcome the attractions of the world, this is the worst for us. Over here is divine power and what kind of power is this? It's the resurrection power of God that's being talked about over here. That power has given us everything we need for a godly life. So even as we go to him humbly and we say, Lord, what am I to do? My whole life I was taught that this is what I should aim for. And now here you are trying to teach me an entirely new set of things which is like so different and so new. I don't even know how to be this other person. But Lord you said in your word that your divine power has been given to me. You know your own divine power which that resurrection power which raised up Christ from the dead.  So Lord you enable me. You help me. You help me to renew my minds that I start reprioritizing everything. So that I start looking at everything in a new way and the Lord will help us to live in this new way. He will enable us to put on God every day to such an extent that these attractions of the world will not look that attractive.  So we start seeing things the way God sees them and we realize that oh what the world is actually offering is very very attractive is not attractive and we are able to stay true to what the scripture is teaching us. So these are things that we start learning through the power of the Holy Spirit who is working in us and he has already given us everything we need for a godly life and so he will empower us, he will equip us. So we can turn to him and say Lord you promised in your word that I will be able to live a godly life in you so you help me oh Lord to keep myself you know from being polluted by the world I want to put on God every day, I don't want to make any provision for the flesh you know so even as we say all of those things he will enable us not to be sucked into the attractions of the world. Coming to the second point you know which is very similar to what we have already talked about the cares and pressures and responsibilities that we have when we are in this world you know because we have to earn our livelihood which means that we have to you know spend a huge chunk of our day at our workplace you know doing the things which are required for our job then when we come home we have responsibilities at home we have our family members who are depending upon us there are things that we need to do for them and then there are all these you know things which are not going right you know at the workplace here at home in our relationships you know the pressures of life as in you know the finances maybe are not adequate then there are people who are working against us trying to you know pull us down you know blackening our name all kinds of things are going on so all of these other cares and the pressures and the responsibilities and those things start weighing down upon you and you think my goodness there's so many things to struggle through in 24 hours where's the time for God so that also becomes another thing which chokes the word so when we look at Mark chapter 4 18 to 19 which we have already read not only does it talk about the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things which choke the word another thing which chokes the word is the worries of this life that's what it says in Mark 4 19 the worries of this life choke the word so when we find ourselves so caught up in our job so caught up in the things that need to be done at home you know when we are so caught up in all these responsibilities that are there on our shoulders and the word of God gets getting choked starts getting choked at that time we need to sit and ask ourselves Lord how did my priorities go off balance how do I get back on track because the Christian life is all about balance and God is the one who helps us to stay in balance he helps us to maintain the right balance between our responsibilities in this life and our responsibilities towards him the one who has saved us the one because of whom you know we are able to even think about having an eternal life so in fact we have a huge responsibility towards him yes we have a responsibility towards our work we have a responsibility towards our families we have a responsibility towards those in society who are you know looking up to us we do have a responsibility towards all of them but our ultimate responsibility is towards God because of him we at least have eternal life now because of him at least now we have you know been a peace with God has been made and our future is now secure so more than anything else we have a responsibility towards God so he gets to decide how to strike the balance he gets to decide how much time I should spend on my work he gets to decide how much time I should spend you know on responsibilities regarding the family you know regarding society and all of that and he will enable us to strike the right balance that's what Jesus says right he says all those what tiring and weird heaps of burdens on your shoulders come to me come to me and he says I will teach you he says I am a gentle and humble teacher is what he says in Matthew 11 the verses are Matthew 11 not 28 to 30 or something like that and over there in those verses he says I am a humble and gentle teacher I will teach you you know so rather than putting on the yoke of the world and allowing it to tell you how you should live put on my yoke I will tell you how to live in a balanced way I will teach you the right priorities so that you will be able to fulfil the things that you're supposed to do at the same time you will be able to grow in the things which I want you to grow in so that your future is established firmly so that your family is secure in my hands so the Lord says he will teach us so Jesus Christ will be our teacher he will you know speak to us even as we spend time in his presence he will show us how to balance things how to get things right you know so he will enable us to balance the cares of this life with the heavenly priorities that we also need to be watching out for the Lord will do this for us so we need to go to him and he will help us another thing that maybe we could keep in mind would be 1st Peter 5 7 to 9 if we can have someone read out 1st Peter 1 no sorry 1st Peter 5 1st Peter chapter 5 versus 7 to 9 just all your anxiety on him because he cares for you be alert and of sober mind your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour resist him standing firm in the faith because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings it says in verse 9 you know resist the devil standing firm in the faith so we choose to believe and trust this Jesus and say no Jesus knows what is best he is my teacher he said take my yoke upon you you know he gave me the salvation invitation Jesus Christ gave his salvation and invitation and said come to me don't follow the world anymore come to me and in me you will find rest is what Jesus has promised so you stand firm in the faith and say I will choose to live according to Jesus priorities what he is guiding me and advising me on a daily basis you know during my quiet time when I am spending time with him you know on my knees what is he conveying to me what lessons is he teaching me I will choose to hold on to that I will stand firm in faith it may look like as if you know my job is going to suffer because I am not giving it enough time it may look like as if you know people are going to be angry with me for all those things which they are asking me to go for fine no problem let them be angry but if I can hold on to Jesus he will work it all out so resist the devil and don't allow him to you know forcefully suck you into the world but resist him and say no I will stand firm in faith and trust this Jesus to you know tell me what I should do and what I should not do so when you hold on to him like this in stubborn strong faith saying no whatever the world is saying whatever people are saying about me I choose to follow what Jesus is asking me to do I will prioritize my day I will give this many hours for this and I will give this many hours for God and if you make up your mind and you choose to live in that well balanced manner the Lord will take care of your needs because it says here past all your anxiety upon him because he cares for you he knows that you have a job that you know and you need to earn your livelihood he knows that you have family members who need to be taken care of does he not know these things in fact he says if you come to me and take my yoke and learn from me you will find rest for your souls so he is interested in giving us a good life but he says you got to trust me to you know to decide for you what your priority should be I will tell you how to work out your you know work and you know home family life balance I will show you how to balance between the responsibilities of the world which you need to fulfill and my your responsibilities towards me and towards the kingdom of God I will show you how to do these things and he is a very very practical God he will bring very very practical thoughts to your mind even as your spending time in his presence he will guide you and lead you on how to live out your life because you can really cast all your past and it says over here you know believers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings and trials so it's not like as if what we are undergoing is something exclusive and God the same God who is strengthening them and helping them to take a stand will come through for us you know if we could actually go to Matthew 11 and look at that before we you know move to the next point Matthew chapter 11 I think it was verse 28 onwards where Jesus you know makes his salvation invitation to us Matthew 11 28 Matthew 11 28 come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light my yoke is easy and my burden is light you know Jesus does not lie so he is not saying that life will be easy because he says you know you will have trials as long as you are in this world he has made that very very clear so he is not saying that all your problems will go away but what he is saying is as you learn to depend on me and learn from me you will discover that what I am teaching is actually practical you will be able to do it you know so because there are people who are taking on so many responsibilities and they still have time for God and they are doing something significant for his kingdom they are not in full-time ministry I mean they have their own routines and responsibilities that God has given to them but they are able to make an impact for the kingdom of God in their own way why because they have discovered that if you really take on Jesus yoke and follow what he is saying and do things his way he will work out the details he will make sure that all aspects of your life are taken care of and you will find rest for your soul in him so we have this beautiful promise of Jesus and so we choose to stand firm in our faith with him we do not give in to Satan's temptation to allow our entire world to revolve around our anxieties revolve around the attractions of the world we choose rather to keep our trust in Jesus and follow him coming to the next the third thing about overcoming the world so we looked at the attractions of the world how to overcome those we looked at the case and anxieties and responsibilities that we have and how to deal with those in the right manner and coming next to the hardships and the difficulties and the trials and in fact even the persecutions that we face in life you know how do we overcome this aspect of the world so just going to that verse which talks about the trials which will be there in the world and how Jesus says don't worry I'm still there with you that would be John 1633 so if someone could read out that for us John 1633 John 1633 I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace in the world you will have trouble but take heart I have overcome the world so Jesus is saying you will have trouble in the world because we are living in a fallen world and that fallen world is following a very crooked system with very crooked priorities they are giving a lot of importance to things which are minor and things which are really really important they are not giving any importance to them and that is why so many people are suffering the rich are getting richer their lives are good but then the ones who are poorer are really suffering because of the way the priorities are all wrong all messed up and that is why the world that we are living in is in such a mess and things are not going to be smooth living in this kind of a world so there will be trouble there will be hardships but Jesus says you know you can still have peace in me in me you may have peace is what he says so he says take heart I have overcome the world I know exactly how to deal with all these issues that you are facing so even as you choose to trust me keep your eyes focused upon me do the things which I am guiding you to do and even as you are doing that I will make sure that I will guard your heart and mind so that you will have peace in spite of all that is going on in your life so this is a promise that God makes to us so there are times when we will be persecuted because of our stand for Jesus we are not willing to compromise we are not willing to do the crooked things which the world does and so when that happens the hardships that we face will increase because the people are opposed to the lifestyle that we have chosen the godly lifestyle which we have chosen so they will oppose us so not only will we have the normal hardships which other people face we also have this additional hardship of standing up for Christ and that brings trials into our life but Jesus says take heart don't feel discouraged don't feel like giving up you never have to feel that you have to give up because as long as I am there I will always make a way I will find some way for you to come out of this situation so it says here, Jesus says here take heart in the sense don't get discouraged don't think that this is finished now it's all over no more hope, never ever think that take heart because I have overcome the world I know exactly how to deal with this world because Jesus says I lived in this world, I was part of it I know exactly what's going on over here I know what the pressures feel like I know what people are capable of I know all the things that can go wrong I am aware of it, I have undergone all of that but I overcame all of that when I was in the world when he was not even using his divine powers he was completely relying upon God upon God the Father and he was choosing to be 100% human so in his humanness, he overcame every aspect of the world including the trials and the hardships and the case and anxieties of this life and all of that so he knows how to overcome it and he says, I will be your teacher come to me, take my yoke upon you learn from me you will discover how gentle and humble I am in the way I teach you such a beautiful thing that the Lord can do for us so we choose to trust him and he will enable us to live our lives right just moving very quickly into some points which are given in our notes regarding how to be overcomers in this world so the first of course is that we should we've kind of talked about all these things already so this is like, we are summarizing it so the first point is we choose to set our desires on what is above because as long as our eyes are upon the things of this world and we are going on feeding those desires those desires will grow strong obviously so rather than keeping our eyes on material things and allowing those desires to get stronger we choose to set our desires on the things above so okay we will need to look at maybe two Bible passages just to get the both sides of the of the situation maybe we could first read out Ecclesiastes chapter 3 verses 12 and 13 Ecclesiastes 3 12 and 13 please Ecclesiastes chapter 3 verses 12 and 13 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live that each of them may eat and drink and find satisfaction in all their toil this is the gift of God okay let's just hold on to that scripture and now let's look at another scripture this would be 1 Timothy 6, 17 and 18 1 Timothy 6, 17 and 18 command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth which is so uncertain but to put their hope in God who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment command them to do good to be rich in good deeds and to be generous and willing to share okay so we see this is a balance that has to be struck so in Ecclesiastes 3 it talks about how it is good you know for us to be happy for us to eat and drink and find satisfaction in the work that we are doing all that is a gift of God but there's another side to it the other side is mentioned in 1 Timothy 6, 17 to 18 which we read out just now where it says you see even though you're having a good time and you're enjoying all that you have all that God has given and gifted to you you are not placing your hope in those things continue to place your hope in God so he continues to be your first priority so keeping him in mind you know you choose to be rich in good deeds you know in the things which God has you know purposed for your life so you allow him to be your first priority you do the things which please him you do the good deeds each day that God has set before you to be done for his kingdom for his people you continue to do all of that because even though you're enjoying your life and you're having all these good things that God has gifted to you your focus is not on them your focus is on eternity your focus is on what God is preparing you for for this amazing future which is awaiting you and therefore you choose to be rich in good deeds and you choose to you know not just hold on to your wealth but generously share it with other people and you choose never to become arrogant where you think oh I don't need God I'm well you know I'm well established I can take care of things so now I'll start doing things my way no never allow yourself to reach a point where you say I will do things my way rather you always choose to say no Lord my hope is in you so I will choose to do things your way I will submit to what you are asking me to do so there is a balance to be struck God has gifted us with things that we can enjoy we must be happy we must enjoy those things God likes that in fact it says God who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment so yes we are meant to enjoy the life that we have in the world but we do not allow ourselves to grow arrogant we keep our eyes focused on the heavenly things of God and we choose to have our priorities you know in line with whatever he is asking us to do and that is why it says in Matthew 6 31 to 33 this is the advice that Jesus gives in Matthew 6 31 to 33 yeah if someone can read out Matthew 6 this is 31 to 33 so do not worry saying what shall we eat or what shall we drink or what shall we wear for the pagans run after all these things and your heavenly father knows that you need them but seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well it is so plain and Jesus would never ever lie never he would never lie he says here all these things will be given to you as well so he is saying keep your priorities right seek first what is good for the kingdom of God seek his righteousness living in the right manner according to godly values keep these things first in your life and all these other things will be given to you as well the pagans they run after these things you see because they have nobody else to provide these things for them either they do it for themselves or they know they have finished but you have a heavenly father who knows that you need these things so he will take care of these things and that is why we saw in the previous scripture where it says put your hope in God who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment so we can trust God to take care of us we don't have to worry about that but we don't have to desperately run after these things to the point where we are choking out the things of God no we don't need to do that we don't need to go to that extent so as long as we keep our priorities right God will our father it says our heavenly father knows that you need these things so he will take care of all that we require and so in the context of all these verses which we have looked at you know we now finally come to this verse which you know says what you should be setting your heart upon so if someone could read out Colossians chapter 3 verses 1 to 3 Colossians 3 1 to 3 since then you have been raised with Christ set your hearts on things above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God set your minds on things above not on earthly things for you died and your life is now hidden with Christ in God yeah so it says over here your life is now hidden with Christ in God so set your mind on things which are about Christ set your mind on things above and the word used over there that's the Greek word which which basically means what exactly does it mean setting your mind on something basically you direct your mind towards that particular thing you know you start striving towards that particular thing so whatever you are okay let us say you know I have set my mind on you know on winning the marathon so what do I do my entire thinking you know I align it towards you know how do I win that marathon what are the things that I should be doing how do I equip myself so all your energies everything that you are doing is focused towards that marathon you are going to be running that you want to win so over here it says set your mind you know your entire mind is focused on and the direction of your thoughts your energies everything is now directed towards God towards what he wants towards the priorities that he has set and it says set your mind on things above not on earthly things so rather than allowing all your focus your thoughts your energies to be focused in in the direction of earthly things you choose to focus them towards heavenly things because we know that Jesus Christ will take care of whatever we require for our everyday life okay so that was point the first point you know about being an overcomer in the world there are another couple of points and we'll you know cover them next class so next class we'll continue this topic of overcoming the world and then we'll also get into overcoming the devil so I think sure we'll have time for both of those things next week so the focus will be more on overcoming the world and the devil you know in the next session that we will have so we need to close now so let's just close with a word of prayer thank you so much a lot for all the important lessons that you reminded us of today we pray your father that we will be people who will keep our eyes focused on you even though many things appear attractive when we look into your word we realize that there are things which are more attractive there are things which are more permanent and of eternal value so we pray that we would be shaped by your word shaped and led by your by your Holy Spirit rather than being following the world following the worldly system and following what the people of the world are saying so we pray a lot that we would always keep our priorities right so that our lives and our families can move in the correct direction where we can have fulfilled blessed lives in you so that you can always continue to provide us richly with everything that we require for our enjoyment because that's what you have promised in your scripture help us a lot to strike the right balance between the responsibilities of the world and placing you first so that all other things fall into place in our lives and in our homes thank you Lord in Jesus name Amen thank you so much for being there in the class and we'll meet again next class thank you


Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating video and today we've got something special Army painter was nice enough to send me this which is the 50 paint fanatic mega set and So this has 50 of the new war paint fanatic set in it and in this video We're gonna go through we're gonna put it through its paces and we're gonna see exactly what this stuff is capable of It's the new paint. It's supposed to be completely reimagined So my question is does it live up to the height? Is it any good? We're gonna find out Let's strict techno man sir. That is Vincy V. Let us get to the technique and learn it Vincy V style Alright, so some basics first out of the way for this particular set. I there's other sets out there I'm just talking about this one of the 50 paints you get in this basically you've got Four different washes two different sort of effects three different Like blood and rust and guts and then you've got three metal paints and then everything else I didn't say that's all matte paints. So that's what you're looking at. It's a pretty good spread of colors It really heavily lives leans into the green and blue tones I'll say that as per usual It's not as heavy on the oranges and purples as I would like but I guess suppose that there's a lot more call for that That being said there is some nice tones in here that I did really like Now the important part to understand about these paints right out of the gate is that they did completely Reformulate from their original line The original line of paints of army painter paints, which so the version of these that was before How do we say this nicely? It was bad. It was very bad They just weren't good paints. They were thin. They were transparent. They were often highly inconsistent and so What I was first Considering when I looked at these was is that changed is that improved? Do we actually have? You know Consistency in the paint and how it's applied and it's finished and its opacity and I'm happy to say that on all of those accounts I'm actually really happy with this Without getting into the the details which we will over the rest of the video. I found these to be Quite a bit better in performing now From everything I've heard the pigment density was vastly vastly increased something like a 3x Pigment density increased they changed their suspension in their medium So it's a lot more stable. I found it could be thinned a lot easier The finish was much more matte and consistent across the line There are still some minor variations, but that's always going to happen in paint And and it should Different pigments have different finishes and that's how it should be if they're if they're all Exactly the same then you kind of often have to add too many additives and it messes up the paint so on the question of opacity smoothness of application finish it is already leaps and bounds ahead of its former the form of the previous generation It's not even close So let's put these things through some paces. All right first up We're going to do the basic stuff here and now I'm going to be putting these out on a wet palette to use them and An important thing to note here is that I found they performed very well on the wet palette over time They weren't particularly hydrophobic nor hydrophilic They for the most part did what I was looking to do on the wet palette They absorbed an appropriate amount of liquid and stayed workable for a lengthy amount of time So that's not nothing. It is something that I noticed some paints will sometimes have struggles with And The other interesting thing to note before we get into the actual painting is that these paints exist in I well I almost want to call it a triad system because that was what this is classically known as but it's not that means three and this Is six so it's a say say says add six hex add system hex add system. There we go It's a decimal. I like to reboot to that was a great cartoon. So at any rate There's generally these six paints so when you look at the bottle you'll see that the paints exist in this range of six colors and It will show you exactly where this paint falls So you can understand what would be a reasonable shadow color and what would be a reasonable highlight color now I will say that of course as you progress on in your painting journey you need this kind of guidance less and Moreover it becomes more inaccurate because you actually want to use other environmental colors as your shadows as opposed to just More blue for a highlight and less and darker like lighter blue for a highlight and darker blue for a shadow That becomes sort of inaccurate if you're actually trying to paint credibly to the real world But for beginner painters I think this is an excellent addition as it really gives beginner painters an easy map to say yes Here's my mid-tone. Here's my highlight. Here's my shadow and approach that with confidence So I very much applaud them putting this on all right So now to begin there is only one model We could possibly test our new paint set with and that is a space marine Specifically not just any space marine. We're gonna paint this awesome terminator. This guy is from The Leviathan box set. This is the you know redone terminators. I really love these dudes I think they're probably my favorite space Marines. They've ever made So our first test here is just gonna be about layering and in fact most of what I'm gonna show you here Is just layering up the colors And we're gonna just get a nice ultramarine sort of color scheme going the blue boys are boring and basic but they are emblematic of space brains and a good test for paints because blues one there's a lot of blues in this set and To their blue is often quite challenging to get correct to make it have the appropriate amount of saturation and richness And to have it have the correct finish. So I thought that would be actually a nice test So I went along and basically just layered this space marine up starting from a dark blue Which I applied with the base coat just a big brush and base coating the whole thing And then just layered my way up 50 50 mixes up into a highlight color on the highest parts Going for more of the spotlight effect on this guy one because I'm lazy to because I didn't need to paint the whole space marine for the video And to like I'm not going for Golden Demon here. I'm trying to test paints And three because it just looks kind of cool And so as I layer and highlight my way up what I found was the paints working in layer consistency Responded well and smoothly So they took to thinning well all layers you're seeing here are thinned basically Consistently one-to-one with water. I found that across the different paints. I tended to thin them mostly the same So in most of the paints I've tested so far, which is about 35 out of these in here. I put a lot of these through the paces The the consistency is quite similar. They're all very creamy They are a little thicker than you might expect and I saw that in the layering So you do want to thin these at least one-to-one So one drop of water to one drop of paint or one brushful of water I should say to one drop of paint To really get them flowing and smooth and what you'd expect. That's true. Even if you're working on a wet palette So and I think that's because these are so pigment dense and because they Reformulated they're actually really nice. They start quite thick Which can be a bit shocking when you first start with the paint especially if you're new but It's great for the long term because it means you really it's very easy to make a paint thinner You can just add water or medium. It's very hard to make a paint thicker So starting at this much heavier creamier thickness is actually really nice Because we can control our layering up from very thick paint if we're doing heavy wet blending Which these do excel at quite well all the way down to very thin glazes So having layered our space marine all the way up that brings us then to The next and most important challenge of any paint where oftentimes paints will fall apart the next challenge is of course glazing and As I said, we're starting really thick It actually surprised me how much I could work these down and still have them retain Their intensity and effect so you do have to thin them quite a bit So here with my glazing. I'm working about Three sometimes four brushfuls of water to one drop of paint So it is quite thin But I had to get a lot of water in there to actually get them down into a glaze again not a bad thing I rate that as a positive It means you have lots of control Throughout that process of exactly how thick you want your paint to be The glazes held up just fine the colors went on smooth I didn't see any coffee staining the paint didn't break up anything like that So their pigment density again the sort of statement that it was higher This gets proved out when it maintains its consistency across there as well as the suspension was working just fine. So Past the glazing test with flying colors had no issue With that at all. I wanted to do a test of some skin tones I think skin tones are a really important part of any range This box comes with several different colors. You can use as skin tones both for light and dark colored skin tones So I just I only have a little tiny face on this marine, but it's still something So I just gave it a quick test and I actually really like how this came out This is no more than three simple colors of paint quickly applied You can only see sort of this much of his face up, but I thought it came out really well It was nice. It was smooth I've actually been very impressed by their flesh tones thus far even in this set It is one of the things I'd like to experiment with more Anyone who watches this channel knows that I have an obsession with painting models with a lot of skin showing and I'm Fascinated by painting skin. So I am going to experiment with this a lot more I already use speed paint 2.0 in my high-end flesh display painting as filters and finishes I made a video on that sometime back and I Hope that these could you know also become integrated into into my process So that's gonna take some more experimentation, but for this brief test on our marine I think his face came out just fine very impressive This was you know, maybe all told I don't know four minutes of layering paint And I think he looks you know pretty great for that amount of time pretty pretty easy Our next test is metallics. So as I said, there's only three metallics in this box Which is a bronze a steel and a gold.  So I put both of these over straight black No challenge with the opacity there. I actually saw good coverage in one layer So that is a a strike in their favor or I don't know something in their favor for sure But they had good solid coverage good smooth application again. I actually did thin this paint now here it was maybe One brushful of water to two drops of metallic paint the metallics didn't require as much thinning as the matte paint But it did Still require some amount of thinning and Overall, I thought this was Pretty good on the application my honest answer is I think I like the speed paint 2.0 metals better than these But these are legitimately fine Which I know sounds like not that great of a review, but keep in mind I think that basically every metal paint on the market except for Vallejo metal color and Speed paint 2.0 metallics are garbage that should be thrown in the trash and forgotten about So if I say it's fine, that's actually a pretty good rating. I would give these metals the steel Came out. I'd say a solid B. The golds and bronze are probably a B minus I I think I said I think the speed paint metal 2.0 are better But these are certainly serviceable and if you're doing tabletop stuff They are way better than most other metals you're gonna get on the market in finish in opacity And in final shine and effect now the one bright spot in army painter's original line Was actually their washes so light tone strong tone dark tone all of those things Were legitimately my favorite thing from old army painter now These were meant to our are meant to obviously be I don't know competitive with the traditional GW citadel washes so agrax seraphim sepia nolan oil and so on and What I found using the ones from the past is that they were probably better I liked them more honestly than the citadel equivalents and So this was already a good product I think and so I was eager to test how these worked here I'm happy to say that in my testing of the strong tones and you'll see them applied here Both strong tone and dark tone. So that's the agrax equivalent and the nolan oil equivalent They came out really nicely. I found they actually worked pretty decently over the metals They flowed really well. They still had a strong impact, but didn't seem to coffee stain much It was an improvement over the previous version in the end These are still washes and have limited application Like a wash is a wash. It does what a wash does You're not going to use it to try to win golden demon But you are definitely going to need it if you're going to get that whole army churned out by this weekend So washes are super valuable And all in all I thought this came out pretty well. I thought the wash is past It wasn't improving over the old one which was already good. So these are, you know, great No complaints about them whatsoever Next up will they airbrush? The biggest question when you get a new paint set is is it going to go through the airbrush without issue? So let's give a test of that. I've already painted the space marine. So the space marine people, they're happy You're good to go if you're a space marine person I hope I showed you that you can do a really high quality nice space marine here But of course we can't do a paint review video without our old friend Larry the ogre And so I wanted to give this a test of the airbrush I just used again the same simple skin progression that I used now You can see Larry skin is an absolute mess right now from previous videos. I've used him in and But we you know, I just airbrushed over it from the darker pink brown tone up into the pale flesh tone and The progression of that was again pretty straightforward pretty simple just three quick layers up and All in all, I think it came out really well I thinned these basically Three to one for the airbrush of three drops of airbrush thinner my standard airbrush thinner is an 80 20 mix of thinner and flow improver and I so I put three drops of that to one drop of paint and I found that worked really well no issues everything flowed through the airbrush really really nicely as you can see here I get nice smooth effective transitions. I like to work a little thin and build it up The advantage to the airbrush is it works fast and you can build it up easy I found these worked really well for that I was able to thin them down more as well and go for things like filters or doing other color changes when you Want to just create these very very subtle changes and blends with the airbrush and they performed in that regard No problem. So all in all they passed the airbrush test and came out really well now my last point here is more of a Personal one. I I think that oftentimes you might wonder okay Vince, you know, you have this paint You did basically a quick marine. I mean this guy took you know 45 minutes or something like that and You know your airbrushed Larry in five minutes, but are you ever going to use these in your actual display painting? So this model which again was featured in a recent video I didn't mention it at the time given the timing of everything, but this was one of my test models for these Fanatics war paints. I actually painted used a bunch of these on that model So basically the entire model I mean it probably 90% ish of that model was painted using these fanatic paints and only the colors that came in this box The only time I deviated was to get like some fluorescent orange and stuff like that because if you're gonna do fire effects you got to have a good fluorescent and I found them they performed really well They let me do display quality work the finish was really matte like it was just excellent It was everything I'd want out of a display quality paint job And it is great display quality paint. So I think no matter what level you're at from beginner to Master or whatever that means. I don't know advanced display painter competitive painter who knows what we're all called here I have no idea Whatever level of hobbyist you consider yourself to be I do think these can work just fine for you And we'll perform accordingly and meet you where you are without issue. So in summary, I really like the fanatic paints Honestly, I think they came out pretty great. I liked putting them through the paces. They will become a part of my Sort of paint process. So all in all they're they're good paints for me I would put them basically on the level of the best paints in the industry right now Which I consider to be pro acryl At sort of number one and ak interactive basically right there on the same level the ak interactive third gen These army painter have risen to that standard. There's nothing incredibly unique and magical. They're doing but there are things about them I really like I like that. They're Thicker that they that you can really control the blend they work really really really great for wet blending and stuff like that Expect a future video where we kind of deep dive into different blending methods, you know, and I'll you'll see some of these paints being featured but Overall they actually performed really well So for things like weathering or fat blur sorry feather feathering wet blending to brush blending all of those things they These actually have excelled in and I thought performed really really Admirably so I like the consistency. I like the creaminess. I like the finish. I like the opacity And and all in all they're going to become part of my regular paint rotation Which as I suppose the best review I can I can give them so I take check them out If you're interested in new range of paints, you can't go wrong as I said, there's nothing magical There's nothing special if you already have a whole paint range and you're happy with it These aren't going to change your life.  That's not what's in this box What's in this box is a solid set of paints that is easily Is easily on the level of the market leading best performing paints that are out there today And I think that that is to be applauded from Army painter because they they produced a really quality product here So if you are looking for a new paint range, this could certainly be one you could look at so with that I'll say thank you very much if you liked this give it a like Subscribe for additional hobby cheating in the future. 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Hey everyone, we are part of the Corranities Code of Conduct Committee and we're here today to talk a little bit more about who we are, what we do and kind of our latest project we've been working on which includes a transparency report. And so to start I'm going to have us do intros. Celeste, you want to introduce yourself? Hi, I'm Celeste. I'm a staff technical writer for the CNCF, though I participate in the Code of Conduct Committee as an individual contributor, not a representative of the LF. And yeah, that's more or less me. Tim. I'm Tim Pepper. I'm a senior staff engineer at VMware and similarly, obviously not a VMware Code of Conduct enforcer, but a member of the open source community here. And Karen. Hey, so I'm Karen. I work for Microsoft Azure and I'm a community manager on a few of our different open source projects like Helm and several others. But I am also a member of the Code of Conduct Committee. Well, with that, let's jump into the Code of Conduct concept and what our committee is. Can either of you talk about what we do, why we exist, and kind of what our scope is? All right, I'll take it. So the Code of Conduct Committee is a body we are elected by the steering committee and nominations can either be self nominations or nominations by others. And we are here to effectively enforce community safety. And what community safety really means in this regards is ensuring that any disagreements that people or different groups within the Kubernetes community have are resolved in a helpful way. Trying our best to sort of encourage good behavior and uphold the community code of conduct. And as of yesterday, publishing transparency reports on the work that we do. Tim, is there anything you'd like to add? I think a key thing to understand there is that we're an independent body. We try to be neutral and unbiased. And I think people maybe see a Code of Conduct view it and potentially cynically think, oh, there's no accountability behind these things. It's just a feel good statement. But this body exists to make sure that there can be accountability. And as we approach that, we try to do it with a restorative mindset. It's also really common when you see a body like this to sort of presume it's the police or it's punitive. We're here to kick people out. But we're actually here to try and find positive, mutually positive restorative outcomes where there is conflict. And that's a really critical part of a healthy, sustainable community. All right. So we mentioned the transparency report. Can we talk a little bit more about what this is? What it isn't? And then why did we start doing this? What is the purpose? I'm going to tell you the charge this time. All right. So this is a concept that's out there in multiple forms. Like if you do a Google search for transparency report, you'll come up with a variety of pieces of information on how these things are done. But the basic concept is to demonstrate that there is accountability. We need to give some sort of evidence of that. But it's also really important that it be confidential. If people are being escalated or escalating or being escalated in some way to the Code of Conduct Committee that needs handled in a confidential way, and again, without bias and investigations need to happen. But somehow we have to give a way of indicating that that has happened. And the transparency report gives a form for that. So our goal here is to twice-yearly do a report that gives some statistics and describes the types of areas in which conduct incidents were reported, demonstrate that investigations happened, and also give some statistics on action to show that it's not just sort of looking and shrugging like, I don't know what we could do about that, but that we are actually engaging and we are finding constructive outcomes. Yeah. Absolutely happens basically. Yeah. I think the other thing that I would add to is that I think both A, the concept of a Code of Conduct Committee and B, the concept of a transparency report are a little bit intimidating to other people. Again, as Tim mentioned, people tend to think of Code of Conduct Bodies as being very punitive, being the cops, being like the teacher in the classroom and you go and tattle on your friends too. And similarly, I think transparency reports tend to be really intimidating for a similar reason in terms of like, oh my God, no, they're doing stuff. But the thing to keep in mind is being able to publish a transparency report, I think really means that the Kubernetes community is at a certain level of maturity where we can reflectively look at the work that we're doing, reflectively say that we all are humans and that we do human things like have disagreements, and that as a Code of Conduct Body, we are mature enough to publish that information in a way that doesn't out people who have reported to us. So it's really just a mark of community maturity, and I think we should all be proud of ourselves. So let's get concrete on that. I'm going to screen share and we can drop an url into the chat for folks to see. Hopefully everybody can see that now. Okay, yeah, there is the link there in the Twitch stream I see. So things are coming through. So if you're looking at this document that's now committed and get, you see a little bit of context on the front matter of this page. But then the key thing is some obviously anonymized statistics. These are sort of raw accounts to say that we've had incidents reported also through a variety of forums that these things come in. It's not just the Code of Conduct Committee, there's sort of a federation of moderation on different platforms. And the number of incidents is actually, you might think, wow, 85 incidents, I never heard about these things. Wow, interesting. And then we also, we do thorough investigations and some of the things are clearly a violation of the Code of Conduct. So we go and take action there. And I think one of the key things that we want to highlight in just this first instance is like these numbers are non-zero. There is activity happening, there's accountability happening. And probably that people generally are not seeing this, it's a sign that it's working, it's confidential and restorative outcomes are happening. You're not seeing these big fireballs of flame and conflict. We're going somewhere positive and constructive. Yeah, I think the other thing that I want to call out is the Slack number looks really high. Like 68 incidents seems like a lot, given the contributor community size. It's important to note that Slack is probably the biggest platform or community space that we have actual numbers on. And I think there's over 100,000 people in the Slack instance, which is huge. I think we're actually one of Slack's biggest instances. So given that, and given if Tim scrolls down, there's a bit of analysis. Basically, all of these issues with Slack were people being banned from Slack for spamming others. 68 out of 100,000 is actually not, it's not too bad in the grand scheme of things, though it does seem a little analogous without that piece of context. So definitely give it a read through. You're liable to have a spammer or a troll of some sort on a massive internet platform in any given week. So it's not surprising. I mean, you'd think every day this could be happening. And it's a sign that people are, we have a set of moderators who are watching and constructively handling things. Well, it also means that people are sharing things with these trusted moderators, right? And that same thing goes for us as well. And I just wanted to note, like this is our first transparency report. So it's kind of going to be our baseline for the next few ones. Yeah, we don't have strong, strong statements about whether something is really good or really bad right now. Again, this is our baseline going forward. And we, we hope that within this, like, is if people are seeing this and seeing that it's a constructive way to maybe get ahead of problems instead of dealing with things that are really, really falling apart, that maybe discussion is opened a little earlier on things. And we actually see an increase in potential incident reports because people want to constructively get ahead of something they foresee might be a problem. So we're not, we don't want these numbers to be low. We feel like that would be a bad sign of, of trust in, and this body is a, that restorative function. And I mean, just to, to mention it, because I don't think we've mentioned it before. The code of conduct is published both on kubernetes.io and in the cncf slash foundation repository on github. We actually recently updated the code of conduct to version 1.1. So what's on kubernetes.io has not actually been updated. First off, because that literally went through like earlier today. The second thing is, if you are involved in the kubernetes project or attending kubecon cloud native con, you can report incidents to conduct at kubernetes.io. If you are another cncf project, you want to go to, I believe, conduct at cncf.io. If you're, yeah, I guess the only other thing I would say is, if you're on the fence about whether you should email us or not, email us. It's usually better to, to hear from people and say this actually isn't an issue, then it is to not hear something that is potentially an issue. So I really like that Celeste mentioned that the kubernetes project's code of conduct is coming from the cncf's code of conduct. And within our aspiration to do more transparency reporting going forward, this become a regular thing that this is our first baseline. We also aspire to bring more of the concept of code of conduct committee of transparency reporting of restorative action to the broader cncf community. So whether that's through the contributor strategy body at cncf or just putting the word out like this here doing conference talks where we are a body specific to the kubernetes project. But kubernetes project is kind of unique and having done so many things around contributor experience from the early days and trying to formulate a strong governance system that enables community health and safety and sustainability that we're feeling a need to try and take that to other places as well to kind of level it up make it more generic and maybe make repeatable processes or documents or training and things like that that other projects could leverage as well. Yeah, cool. I think that wraps up our goals and messaging pretty well. Any parting thoughts? Give the give the transparency report a read. I think over time it will end up being a very interesting measure of health for the community. Again, if you have if you have any questions we also have a public channel available I think as of last coupon. So on the community slack instance that's code dash of dash conduct. Please don't report anything in that channel because it is public. But like if you just want to ask us questions, that's the best way to find us. And yeah, again, if there's anything going on at coupon that you see, you can either email conduct at kubernetes.io. You can report it to any Linux foundation staff. Please be safe and please be respectful of each other and have a wonderful convention conference. Hard to add much to that. The one thing I would say also though is as you hear the code of conduct mentioned in meetings or in forums reminding here's your reminder where we adhere to this code of conduct. It doesn't hurt to every now and then glance at it read it over and especially as there's a new updated version coming in just to kind of have a little more concrete awareness of what it means. But then also know as we're here trying to demonstrate that there's a body behind it and we care we care about the project and the project health and safety and what they're for you. I will be at coupon and if anyone anyone wants to ask me questions about the code of conduct committee in person, I'm happy to chat. I'll let you two speak for yourself. Yeah. Hello. Cool. All right. Well, thank you everyone for joining us. Like I said, we'll be around and hopefully you take a look at our transparency report. Thanks. Thanks everyone. Bye everybody.