Now am I audible? Okay. All right. Yeah. So last the week before last, we started off with doctrine of the word of God. We looked mainly at the formation of the Old Testament Canon and the formation of the New Testament Canon. Today we will focus more on one aspect of the doctrine of the word of God, something that is called inerrancy. That's the term that is used. It basically talks about how the Bible is accurate, where there are no defects or errors in the Bible. That is basically what we would be talking about. So people who talk about the accuracy of the Bible, they use two terms infallibility and inerrancy. So it's kind of good for us to know what those two terms mean when we use them with regard to the Bible. So when they say that the Bible is infallible, they basically are saying that the Bible is trustworthy. It's reliable in all the details that it is providing. There's nothing false or wrong in the word of God. So infallibility of the Bible mainly talks about how the Bible is a trustworthy manuscript. We have verses of course which talk about the infallibility of Scripture. So maybe we could have one person read out for us. Second Peter chapter 1 verses 19 to 21. Second Peter 1 19 to 21 please. Either here or online if someone could read out. Second Peter 1 19 to 21 which talks about the infallibility of the Bible. Can I read sister? You will do well to pay close attention to it as to a lamp shining in a dismantled place until the day breaks through and the morning star rises in your hearts. First understand this that no prophecy of Scripture is of any person or private or special interpretation or no prophecy or ever originated because some man willing to build it. But men spoke from God who were born along by the Holy Spirit. In the NIV the very first portion verse 19 it says the prophetic message is something completely reliable. That's the term that is used. I could not quite catch the term that was used in this translation. But yeah so it basically talks about how the prophetic message which is given in the Bible is completely reliable. And then in verse 21 it goes on to say that human beings didn't write whatever they wanted according to their human will. Rather they wrote even as God spoke to them and they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. So because God is trustworthy because there is nothing false in God. We can therefore be confident that the message which he conveyed in the word of God is also trustworthy and has no fault in it. Let's look at another scripture which talks about from where this word of God has come. How it has come directly from the Lord. So that would be 2 Timothy chapter 3 verse 16. If we could have someone read out for us. 2 Timothy 3 verse 16. Chapter 3 verse 16 all scriptures is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for the offering for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness. Yes if we were to look at that original word that is used in the Greek. It literally says all scripture is God breathed. It God himself has breathed out that word. Now what does that mean? Maybe if we were to look at 1 Corinthians 2 13 that would give us an idea of what exactly the term God breathed means. 1 Corinthians 2 verse 13. 1 Corinthians 2 verse 13. And so when in 2 Corinthians 3 16 it's talking about how God's scripture is completely God breathed. It's talking about how the Holy Spirit is the one who's providing the words which are taught. He helps the writer to express spiritual realities using spirit taught words. Of course last time we saw that it was it's not direct dictation word by word. But the Holy Spirit gives the principles the spiritual truths which need to be conveyed and then the writer puts it in his own human vocabulary. So in this sense all scripture is God breathed and therefore it is accurate and it is trustworthy. So in this sense the Bible is infallible and so for quite a few generations right up to the early 1900s. This is basically the belief that was held regarding scripture that the Bible is infallible. It is trustworthy. It has no defects. And then in the early 1900s people began to say that in the early 1900s is when there was a lot of scientific discoveries made. There was an industrial revolution taking place. People began to feel very confident about themselves because they are making so many strides in technology and their lifestyle is improving. So now they did not feel the respect and the dependence on God which they earlier had. And so you had a lot of people intellectuals in the 19 early 1900s who began to question the Bible. And so then they would say see we are making so many advances in science. And when we look at this Bible this Bible is filled with all kinds of wrong scientific facts. So they began to say this Bible is not completely infallible. There are maybe it is reliable as far as doctrine is concerned. But when it comes to scientific facts when it comes to historical details there are defects in this Bible is what they began to say. And I know this was a very dangerous direction in which these people were heading. And so it was finally in 1978 that a lot of Christian leaders came together and they made a formal declaration. So in 1978 there were evangelical theologians and pastors and biblical scholars and a lot of lay Christians who wanted to be involved in this. So they all came together they had long discussions and at the end of it they issued a public declaration. It's something that's called the Chicago statement on biblical inerrancy. According to the statement they declared there are no errors in the Bible. Yes there are no errors when it comes to doctrinal matters everything written in the Bible all the doctrine given in the Bible is accurate. But even when it comes to historical facts even when it comes to the mention of scientific details the Bible is accurate even in those things. So which basically means there are absolutely no errors in the Bible. So that was the declaration which they made. They used various verses to back up what they are saying. Maybe we can just look at one single verse. Psalm chapter 12 verse 6. Psalm 12 verse 6. It says here that the words of the Lord are so refined and so pure it's like gold which has been refined seven times in the fire. You know it's the word of the Lord is that pure it is that flawless there are no defects in it. And so these people who came together in 1978 made a declaration and they said the Bible is accurate regarding doctrine. But the Bible is also accurate when it comes to historical details. It is also accurate when it comes to scientific things which are mentioned. Now in your textbook you know that that little small manual that has been given to you the APC manual in that you will see this particular definition for that word in her and see this is basically what your textbook says. Inherency of scripture means that the scripture in the original manuscripts do not affirm anything that is contradictory to fact. It's a very good definition actually what another one that's given in your textbook. It says that the scripture it does not affirm anything that is contradictory to fact which means everything in the Bible is factual. When it comes to facts it is correct in its presentation of facts. So this being the case how do we deal with the arguments which people raise which critics raise you know skeptics are the things which they say they say oh the Bible is full of defects and they make certain points. They raise certain examples and they say look look at this example the Bible is defective over here and they point to another passage and they say look at the way this passage is you know talking about this particular issue. This Bible is defective. So how do we deal with arguments like that. So we believe that the Bible is infallible. It's completely trustworthy. It will never let us down and we believe that the Bible is inherent. There are absolutely no errors of any kind in the Bible. Now if you were to look at that you know the definition in your textbook it says the inerrancy of scripture is in the original manuscript. So the original manuscript which was first written down by Moses the original letter which was first written down by Paul when he wrote to the Galatians that original manuscript did not contain any errors or defects. So we need to kind of you know hold that in our minds that the original manuscript which was first put down on paper when the writer was led by the Holy Spirit to you know express spiritual truths in using spiritual using spirit taught words. At that point of time there were no errors in the scripture. Now after that I mean as they didn't have Xerox machines in those days someone had to make hand copies so they would take the original manuscript someone would sit down and try to make a hundred copies of the original. And then other people would take those hundred copies and then they would sit down and make more copies so that these handwritten copies can be sent from church to church throughout the you know region of Asia Minor. So when that was going on sometimes these people who are doing the copying they made mistakes spelling mistakes sometimes they would forget to mention an alphabet know that sometimes they would add an extra alphabet. So things like that happened later but in the original manuscript there were no errors because they wrote as they were led by the Holy Spirit. So we need to keep that in mind. Now coming to these arguments which people raise against the Bible. We will look at maybe three types of criticisms that are generally you know directed against the Bible. The first is regarding historical facts. They say that when it comes to historical facts the Bible is defective. Now you know especially in our current age it's mainly the you know the Muslim scholars who are targeting the church and the Bible a lot you know with regard to these things. So they say when it comes to historical facts the Bible is not very accurate you know and the main argument that we can present for this is that based on the current historical evidence that is available to us we still don't know all the facts. So based on the current evidence it may look like something written in the Bible is wrong. But once we discover little more of the ancient history we will find we will realize that whatever is recorded in the Bible is accurate because right now we do not know everything about ancient history. We do not know the names of all the places the names of all the leaders in the different places. There are many things which we still do not know. So as new evidence comes to light it will be confirmed very very clearly that what is mentioned in the Bible regarding certain historical facts is correct. And this has happened in many cases. We'll just look at a couple of examples because you know we have so much to cover and there's no time. If we could have someone read out for us Luke chapter 3 verse 1. Luke chapter 3 verse 1. Luke chapter 3 verse 1. Now in the 15th year of the reign of Tiberius Keza. Tiberius Keza. Pontius Pilate being the governor of Judea. Herod being the treacherous of Galilee. His brother Philip the treacherous of Hittoria and the region of... ... and Lysenias treacherous of Evelyn. A lot of historical details packed into this one single verse. So Luke is trying to tell us exactly at which historical time these events took place. So he very specifically says in the 15th year of the rule of Tiberius in that 15th year when these were the main leaders in Judea you basically had Pilate as the governor. If you were to look at Galilee Herod was the tetrarch over there. If you look at Hittoria and Trichonitis then over there the tetrarch is Philip and he also says that in a place called Abilene the tetrarch in that particular place is Lysenias. So for a long time I mean people have known that these historical facts are accurate except for this last bit where it talks about Lysenias being the tetrarch of Abilene. Now the historical records which were available to the people to the scholars all of those historical records talked about a Lysenias who was actually a ruler of another place called Chalcis. Half a century earlier that man was nowhere around in the 15th year of Tiberias and so critics began to say look this is a mistake. Lysenias was not the tetrarch of Abilene in the time of Tiberias. In fact he was a ruler half a century earlier in a different place altogether in a place called Chalcis and so criticism was being heaped against the Bible. But then a new inscription was discovered from the time of Tiberias. Archaeologists found a new inscription and once they found that inscription on that carving which has been carved onto a stone on that stone inscription very clearly the words are written that Lysenias is the tetrarch in Abilene. So it's just a variant of Abilene. So it says clearly that Lysenias was the tetrarch in Abilene near Damascus which is exactly the place which Luke was talking about. And so now that the stone inscription was discovered it was proved that the historical fact given in the Bible is accurate. So the reason that people think that certain historical details are wrong in the Bible it's only because archaeologists have not yet found details regarding the ancient history of previous times. As and when new discoveries are made it will be proved that the Bible is very accurate in all of its historical details. To use another example in John chapter 5 verses 1 to 15 that's basically where you have the story of the paralytic who was lying down next to the pool of Bethesda. And over there when John is describing that pool of Bethesda this is basically what he says John chapter 5 verse 2 if we could have someone read out John chapter 5 verse 2. Now there is in Jerusalem a pool near the seed field. This pool in the Hebrew is called Bethesda having five porches. Exactly. So it says that this pool was surrounded by five porches.  So there are five porches is what John said and there's a lot of criticism regarding that because they said we have not found any such pool anywhere in this region where you have a pool with five porches. And then of course again archaeologists they made a discovery about 40 feet under the ground when they were digging in a certain place near the sheep gate. They discovered this pool and exactly as told there were five porches around it. So not only is the Bible accurate when it comes to doctrine it is also accurate when it comes to historical details. Now what do we say regarding scientific facts especially because we have evolutionists now declaring that there was never any creation event rather you just had the world evolving as time went by. So what do we say regarding scientific facts. Let's look at one example Ecclesiastes chapter one verse five and if you know if you were to just read Ecclesiastes chapter one verse five you would say oh yes this is definitely scientifically wrong. Okay let's read Ecclesiastes one verse five. The sun also rises and the sun goes down and hastens to the place where it rises. So here it is very clearly that the sun rises and the sun sets and now that we have you know satellites in outer space now that we have actually have people who have gone to outer space. We are all very much aware that the sun doesn't run around anywhere it just stays in one fixed position. So the sun does not rise it does not set it does not hasten back to the place from where it came. We know that. So would we say that this is an error that there is a scientific error in the Bible not necessarily because when God was talked about when God touched upon scientific things he always used human language. He used human thought forms which the people of that particular time would understand. You know if in Ecclesiastes chapter one verse five you know if if God had said you know every day the earth rotates around its axis they would not even understand what God is saying. What on earth is this about earth rotating because they don't feel any rotation happening and they would wonder does the earth have an axis. You know it would not even make sense to them because God would be talking about some scientific facts which are way beyond their understanding. As human beings living in that particular time what did they see with their physical eyes they didn't even have telescopes at that time and of course they had no satellites. So in their limited you know knowledge of that time what did they see with their physical eyes every day they would see the sun moving from east to west they would see the moon moving from east to west. In the night the stars are also moving from east to west that's basically what they're seeing with their physical eyes. And so in their thinking this was the thought form in their mind that the sun it moves and that the stars they move. That was their worldview that was their perspective and so God is not interested in delivering a science lesson. He's trying to make a point you know in the book of Ecclesiastes the writer is inspired by the Holy Spirit to talk about how everything that has that is happening. Everything in the world has been happening since generations nothing new is taking place. The sun has always behaved in a particular way and now it's continuing to behave in that particular way and God wants to go on and talk about other things. He doesn't want to stop at that verse and give a long you know deliver a long lecture on the earth and the solar system and things like that because it would be irrelevant for the audience at that time.  God just touches upon certain details using words which the people of that time would understand and he moves on because for him the emphasis is not on delivering a science lecture. The emphasis is on imparting some spiritual truth which will benefit those people and so from the human viewpoint from the viewpoint of the observers human observers at that time. Yes it certainly would have looked at the sun is you know rising and the sun is setting each day. Okay so we need to look at all the scientific wording used in the Bible in terms of the culture of that time. What would the people of that time have understood. Let's look at another example and I think this is something that we should touch upon because this verse is sometimes wrongly interpreted. Isaiah 40 verse 22. Isaiah 40 verse 22. It is God who sits above the circle of the earth and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers.  Just talking about the awesomeness of God the sovereignty of God and so the phrase which is used over there it says he sits enthroned above the circle of the earth. Now many Christians take that phrase very wrongly and they say ha see in the Bible it states that the earth was spherical you know it was a sphere like a ball. No that's simply not the Hebrew word being used over there. The Hebrew word that is used over there is the Hebrew word called Kug. Now that word Kug is either referring to a flat round object like a dinner plate you know a flat object. Or the word Kug can also refer to a bowl which is turned upside down so it's like a dome. So the word Kug was basically used for these two things either a flat circular object or a dome you know like an overturned cup. So it could be it was used in that sense. So in this scripture basically Isaiah is writing and saying that God sits on top of this circle. It's in no way saying that that word is referring to the earth being shaped like a ball being shaped like a sphere that's simply not the term that is used over there. So because it's like a dome right the horizon is like a dome from the human observers viewpoint when he looks he thinks that there is a dome covering the surface of the earth. So in that sense that word Kug was used. So it is we should be careful not to misinterpret scriptures based on our modern understanding of science. Okay so it can go either way we can either take a scripture and say ha see this is the scripture is saying something completely wrong regarding science. Or we can go to the other extreme and try to forcibly manipulate those verses to line up with scientific facts today. Either thing doesn't really help you know so it's good to understand what those terms meant in those times in that culture and just stick to the understanding at that level. Yeah go ahead you have a question that Hebrew word Kug it basically meant two things. It can refer to a flat circular object like a chapati or like a like a plate a flat. So when they would say Kug they can be maybe they're talking about a flat object. So in that case they are saying that the earth is like a flat chapati and then you know you have gods enthroned about that. On the other hand the word Kug can also refer to a dome when you're standing in open space and you're able to look way ahead. You can see the you know the dome shaped horizon the way the sun is rising or the sun is setting it looks like a dome. So the word Kug could also refer to a like an it's like an overturned cup an upset down cup a dome. So when they use the term Kug they were referring to that they were not referring to a spherical ball shaped object at all. They were not even aware that the earth was spherical at that time. So when it comes to scientific facts we need to understand that God just used human thought forms human language based on what the people were familiar at that time. Because his main goal was not to give a science lecture. The main goal was just to impart a spiritual truth and he just touches upon that scientific fact in that sentence very briefly. And so you know we cannot take those verses and try to derive entire scientific explanations out of that. That would be a wrong way of looking at these scriptures. Another allegation that is made regarding the Bible is regarding Bible passages. They say oh look this passage is contradicting this passage or that verse is saying this on the other hand the other verse is saying something else. And so they say there are contradictions in the Bible passages. One example that a lot of critics use is Exodus 20 verse 5. So if you could have someone read out for us Exodus 20 verse 5. Now in our modern times we have a very wrong understanding of this verse. We seem to think that God is saying over here that he will you know the wording over there it says punishing the children for the sins of the parents to the third and fourth generation. It sounds to us as if God is going to punish innocent children just because the parents were sinful. But if you look at the Old Testament prophets they understood this particular verse correctly. They had a very correct perspective of this verse. So those who misunderstand this Exodus 25 they say look Exodus 25 seems to be indicating that God will punish the children if the parents are sinful. And they say there's another verse which contradicts this verse and they refer to Ezekiel 18 verse 20. If we were to someone could read out for us Ezekiel 18 verse 20. The soul that sins it shall die. The son shall not bear and be punished for the iniquity of the father. Neither shall the father bear and be punished for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him only and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon the wicked only. So critics and skeptics what they say is look in Exodus 25 God is saying that he will punish the innocent children because the parents were sinful. On the other hand in Ezekiel 18 20 God says no no no children will not be punished for the guilt of their parents.  God is not able to make up his mind when one place he says one thing and other place he says another thing. But this misunderstanding has risen because the people have wrongly interpreted scripture. So in this third category of criticisms which are raised where they say that one passage is contradicting another passage. They think that there's a contradiction because they have misinterpreted the scripture. So let's look at Jeremiah chapter 32 verses 18 and 19 where Jeremiah is referring to the Exodus 25 verse. And this is the way he interprets this particular verse Jeremiah 32 18 to 19. You who show loving kindness to thousands but recompense the equity of the fathers into the bosoms of the children after them. The great the mighty God the Lord of hosts is his name. Great in counsel and mighty in deeds whose eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men to reward or repay each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings. Jeremiah has understood Exodus 25 very clearly he says Lord your eyes are open and you're looking at the ways of all mankind.  So when he's talking about Exodus 25 he is clearly interpreting it in the sense that God will only punish those who are doing wickedness. The problem with the wrong interpretation of Exodus 25 20 verse 5 is that we don't understand the context in which it was given. And if you remember Exodus chapter 20 and in fact all the other chapters over there are spoken by God at Mount Sinai.  And so at that time in Exodus 20 verse 5 at Mount Sinai this is the warning which God gives them and he says you know what I am a jealous God. So if you continue in your sinfulness in the sense of your parents you will be punished. This is what the Lord says for I the Lord your God I'm a jealous God punishing the children for the sins of the parents to the third and fourth generation.  If you go back to the sins of your parents the punishment will come even upon you even to the third and the fourth generation. I will not spare anyone who is living in sin. That is the you know wording which God is using over here. Jeremiah 32 when you know Jeremiah sitting over there thinking about the destruction of Jerusalem which is imminent. You know he's thinking and he says yes Lord you're just in your ways. You told us already in Exodus 25 that if we continue to walk in the sins of our parents this is what would happen to us. And yes that is what we see. So if you look at the entire Jeremiah chapter 32 the entire chapter so in you know in that Jeremiah 32 verse 24. He goes on to say see how the siege ramps are built up to take the city because of the sword famine and plague the city will be given into the hands of the Babylonians. And he ends you know with the verse 24 with these words Jeremiah 32 24 is what you said has happened as you now see. So if you look at that entire chapter as one long passage we understand that Jeremiah clearly understood Exodus 25. Where God said if the children walk in the sins of their parents yes they too will be punished they will not be spared. And so Jeremiah says yes Lord exactly as you have said it has happened. And in fact he praises God in verse 19 and he says great are your purposes and mighty are your deeds because he understands that God is fair. God is just. So if the children are living in sin if the children are following the sins of their parents they too must be punished. Why does God say these words in Exodus chapter 20 verse 5 because their parents had been happily living in sin in Egypt. You know they were not exactly saints over there when they were living in Egypt. I mean in fact we saw that when we were covering the Old Testament right. Joshua chapter 24 verse 14 where Joshua very clearly says throw away the gods your ancestors worshipped beyond the Euphrates river and in Egypt and serve the Lord. When the people were living in Egypt they were living in idol worship rather than following the true God. And so in Exodus chapter 20 verse 5 God says to them very clearly if the children continue to walk in the sins of the parents they will be punished they will not be spared. And so when we which is why in Ezekiel chapter 18 verse 20 God again clearly restates and says the child will never share the guilt of the parent. Each person will be judged for whatever they have done. So there is absolutely no contradiction between Exodus 25 and Ezekiel 18 20. Those who misinterpret scripture wrongly think that there is a contradiction. Once we understand the correct interpretation of the scriptures we see that there are no contradictions. Another criticism that is raised I'm just picking on some very popular arguments that are raised against the Bible because we have no time to go through all of it. So let's just look at Mark chapter 15 verse 25 Mark 15 25. If anyone has NKJV that would be helpful because you know that gives the actual literal Greek translation. So NKJV because NIV tries to make help us understand and so it changes the wording to help us understand the actual meaning. But NKJV gives you the literal translation which kind of helps us make the point. So Mark 15 verse 25 in NKJV if anyone has it please. Now it was the third hour and they crucified him and the inscription of his accusation was written above. Mark says over here that Jesus was crucified in the third hour. Now let's look at John chapter 19 verse 14. What does John say when was Jesus crucified? John 19 14 against in NKJV. John chapter 19 verse 14. Now it was the preparation date of the password and about the sixth hour and he said to the Jews behold your king. So according to John the crucifixion takes place in the sixth hour. So it looks as if there is a contradiction. Mark is saying that the crucifixion happened in the third hour. John says that the crucifixion took place in the sixth hour. Now in this case again it's a matter of ignorance which makes people think that there is a contradiction. Mark is using the Jewish time system for the Jewish people of that time. When did their day begin? Their day began when the sun goes down in the evening. I don't know what made them come up with that. But for them their new day, the brand new day begins once the sun goes down. That is when day begins and it goes on up for the 24 hours until the next day when the sun sets again. So the day for them begins in the evening once the sun sets. And so for them the Sabbath, they're very strict about following the Sabbath. They begin celebrating the Sabbath when the sun goes down. That is when their Sabbath day begins and they celebrate it throughout till the next day when the sun goes down again. So Mark is using the Jewish time system. And so he says based on the way the day was divided into time segments. He says in the third hour which should be around your afternoon time, you know around noon. So he says in the third hour according to the Jewish time system in the third hour is when Jesus was crucified. John on the other hand, he uses the Roman time system. Because you know the Roman sundials of that time they would divide their sundial into 12 segments. And so he's using that measurement and he says in the sixth hour which is also noon the afternoon time is approximately when Jesus was crucified. So there's no contradiction over there. It's just that people who do not know what these verses mean would probably get the wrong impression that there is a contradiction. So when arguments are raised by people saying that the Bible has errors, that it is not correct in all of its facts, we just have to tell them wait, wait for the evidence to come out. Maybe the historical evidence has not yet been discovered. Maybe science still has not fully understood certain things which we will get to know later. So wait and you will see that whatever is mentioned in the Bible is factual and it is correct. So we hold that the Bible is infallible. It does not deceive in any way. It is completely trustworthy and we hold that the Bible is inherent. There are no errors in the original manuscript which was written down by the first inspired writer. Yes, there may be mistakes in the copies which were copied later but in the original manuscript which was given through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, there were no errors when it comes to doctrine and there were definitely no errors when it comes to historical details and scientific facts and all the Bible passages which are mentioned. Now, last week we talked about how the Old Testament canon was formed and about how the New Testament canon was formed. Today maybe we can look at how was this Old Testament canon transmitted through the ages and how was the New Testament canon transmitted through the ages. Because the criticism which is made is that these original scrolls were written so long ago and after that who knows how many hundreds of copies were made through the ages. What are the chances that all kinds of corruptions and errors and defects, what are the chances that all the errors did not creep into the copies. So they say that as time passed by as hundreds of years went by the original would have got lost because people would have made mistakes and then they would have made changes. And so they say that the critics say that maybe the originality of the original scrolls has not been maintained. That is one accusation which people tend to make. So maybe first we will look at the transmission of the Old Testament through the ages. And we will see how effort was always made to preserve the accuracy of each sentence of each phrase. Maybe we could start by talking about the Masoretic community. Now around 500 AD which is like basically around 500 years after the ascension of Jesus Christ. Around that time there was a group of Jewish scholars known as the Masoretes. Now these people they took it upon themselves to make as many handwritten copies as possible of the Old Testament scriptures so that the accuracy of the writings would be preserved. The Masoretes spent their entire lifetime forming new copies which are as accurate as possible so that no defects creep in in any way. So the work of the Masoretes is respected right from that time right from the time of 500 AD. Everyone knows that if a Masoret has written down a hand copy he would have taken every effort to maintain the sanctity and the accuracy of every single line which is written down over there. So in fact we even today in one of the museums we have one copy which was written by the Masoretes. This in fact was a copy which was written in around 935 AD and that copy that 935 AD manuscript exists even today it's available in one of the museums. Now what some of the critics in the early 1900s what some of the critics began to say is how do you know this thing this 935 AD manuscript it was written 935 years after the ascension of Jesus. What are the chances that it has any resemblance to the actual scrolls from the Old Testament times because so much time has passed. So that was the criticism which was raised and then of course we know right the all the critics were disproved once you know the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. So we would talk about the Dead Sea Scrolls and how these scrolls have helped prove to us that a lot of effort was taken to maintain the accuracy when making the copies. So these small spelling mistakes did happen but when it comes to entire sentences and passages they are all very very accurate. So we'll kind of get into that after the break. So maybe you can leave a little early and come back. So at 11 o'clock let's get into the next portion of our discussion. Thank you. At 11 o'clock let's get into the next part of our discussion. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 23, 24, 25, 26, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, event, 31, 22, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 35. It's so amazing how such happened in the lobby.


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He fainted twice and had to be carried home. It's the next morning now and the Great Gilder Sleeve trudges downstairs to breakfast. Ugh, can't wait to get some black coffee. Morning, Miss Gilder Sleeve. Good morning, Bertie. Oh, I see you have the baby up already. Yes, sir. Hello, little girl. She's had breakfast and I'm taking her up-stand for a nap.  Do you know what you got me into? Do you know that I am now an engaged man just because I want to adopt you? It's not funny. It's from over here.  Oh, yes, we did. I sure was surprised to hear that Miss Ransom came back. I was a little surprised myself. Well, anyway, Miss Gilder Sleeve, you're all set to take the fatal step. That's the important thing. I think I'll go have some breakfast. Yes, sir. It's on the table. Eat hard, Miss Gilder Sleeve.   Yes, yes. Black coffee will taste good this morning. Good morning, Uncle Marge. Good morning, Margie. Hi, Aunt. We're waiting for you. Yes, oh, I see, Leroy. Will you pour me some coffee, Margie, please? Oh, sure, Uncle. What did she have to say? Who? You know who I mean, Mrs. Ransom. Well, I really didn't have a chance to talk to Lila last night. Why did Mrs. Ransom come back to town, Aunt? Well, that's her house that Adeline lives in, you know. She has to check things. Winners coming on. Oh, sure. I bet she came all the way from Savannah just to see if Miss Fairchild had put on the storm windows. Margie, let's not try to figure these things out. All right. I think Mrs. Ransom did the most dramatic thing, Aunt. Appearing just at the moment your engagement was announced. Very dramatic. What did she do, Aunt? Run up the sidewalk, yell, and stop the music? Nervy. No, Leroy. It must be embarrassing. The girl you're engaged to and your old sweetheart living in the same house. It's not embarrassing at all. If Mrs. Ransom corners you, Uncle Mort, how are you going to explain it to her? Margie, I'm under no obligation to Mrs. Ransom. None whatsoever. Was all over between us when she left town? Of course. However, I should happen to see her. And if she's curious about what happened, I'll just tell her what happened. Poor Auntie.  Margie, you forget that I'm engaged to Miss Fairchild. You can't be fond of another woman. Leroy eats a prune. Hard for Lela to understand at that. I don't know why I should worry about what she thinks. She walked out on me. Still, I'd feel better about it if I had a talk with her. I'll give her a jingle right now. As well, wait till Bessie comes to work. And if I line answers, Bessie can hang up. Secretaries are great comfort. Where is that Bessie? She's 20 minutes late. Lela looked lovely last night. Coming up the walk loaded with furs. Watch it, Gilda Sleeve. You have to remember that line. Good morning, Mr. Gilda Sleeve. Bessie, you're late to work again. Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Gilda Sleeve. I was reading about your engagement party on the bus. Oh? And it was so interesting, I rode at the end of the line. What a secretary. And Mr. Gilda Sleeve, right next to that is a social item that Mrs. Lela ransom is back in town. Isn't that a strange coincidence? Very strange.  Monkey wrench? Figure of speech, Mr. Gilda Sleeve. I know, Bessie.  Yes, sir. Figure of speech. Hooker. Is the water commissioner able to be up and around this morning? Well, there he is. And he's lovely. He's engaged. All right, you old goat, what's on your mind? I'm busy. I won't take a minute, Gilda. I merely thought you'd be interested to know that I have little talk with Lela this morning. Lela, you did? Property matters, of course. Oh? Dad, what a woman. More exciting than ever. The grace of Diana. The charm of Helen of Troy. The allure of Cleopatra. Yeah, that's Lela, all right. How is she, Judge? Well, I can tell you more after lunch, Gilda. We're dining together this noon at the Summerfield Grill. Oh? Could it be my fat friend that you'd like to be sitting in my place? Certainly not. Why should I? That's too bad. Lela has invited you to join us. She has? Well... No. I shouldn't do it. I think I'll just call her, Judge. Calling Lela is never the same as seeing Lela. But, Judge, what if some old gossip sees me? Lela thought of that. She had me reserve that cozy little private dining room, the palm room. The palm room? And I'll be there to chaperone. Well, we'll see you there at one o'clock, Gilda. Fine. I do have some things to say to her. I bet she has a few things to say to you, too. Oh, I won't go. I'm here. Where are they? Cable for lunch, sir. I'm waiting for a woman, Miss. I mean, a man and a woman. We've reserved that little palm room. Guess I'm a little early. I'll wait for them back there. Very well, sir. Probably shouldn't be having lunch with Lela, but what the heck? Hooker will be with us. At least I should see her while she's here just for old time's sake. It is private. A little dark in here. You see, behind that potted palm. I heard you come and show off how to play peek-a-boo. Oh, yeah. I'm also glad you could come, Sartmore. Yeah, and so am I, Lela. I didn't know if I should, though, but the judge said... I know. And, by the way, where is the judge? Oh, I'm afraid the judge will be unavoidably detained. He will? How do you know? I got my property matters so mixed up this morning. The poor man had to take his lunch hour to get them straightened out. He did? So I guess you and I will just have to lunch alone.  Sartmore. Lela, bye, George. It's good to see you.  Well, I was wondering when you were going to say something, and you haven't even looked at my new dress. Well, I didn't... I didn't think I should be an engaged man. When it gets all gushed up, you have to be appreciated, even if it is only to meet an old ox, sweetheart. Yes, I want to talk to you about that, Lela. Shall we sit down? Let's. I didn't get a chance to explain last night. Are you angry, Lela? Oh, good gracious. Why should I be angry? What if a girl's best boyfriend becomes engaged to a girl's cousin who can understand better than that girl? Oh, Lela, you're true blue. I'm glad to see you taking it like this. Of course I knew you would.  Flatterer. Oh, Trockmorton, I'm afraid I forgot. Congratulations. I wish you every happiness. Oh, thank you. And I hope you can find it without a line. Of course, now that you're engaged to be married, I bet you'll never think of little old Lela again. Oh, oh, yes I will. I'm afraid I'll think of you too sometimes. Trockmorton. Yes, Lela? You're holding my hand. I am? Oh, I'm still shaking it from the congratulations. We can't carry on like we used to. No, I guess not. Oh, remember that beautiful summer day we packed a lunch and went boating up at Grashley? The two of us. I was thinking about that just last night.  Because you didn't want me to get my bathing suit wet. Trockmorton, you're holding my hand again. Oh, sorry, Lela. I thought I was leading you back to camp. You weren't leading. You were squeezing. Sorry.  And the nights we'd just sat there. Yeah, I like them best. Have you done that in my parlor with my cousin Adeline? No. Those were wonderful days. Wonderful. Of course we did have our ins and outs. Like the time that hot-blooded Spanish dancer came to town. And then you got sweet on each good one. My you were the busy boy. Well, you were engaged to that Dr. Julian Henry and you nearly married Lightfoot Dupree. You weren't exactly idle, Lela. Just listen to you. But every spring when my lalac bush bloomed we fell in love all over again, Trockmorton. Head over heels. Head over heels. You'd sniff those lalacs a while and then you'd sing to me so beautifully. Yeah. Trockmorton, will you do me a teensy favor? Anything you say. Will you sing to me now? Sing, but Lela were in a restaurant. Now we're in a private dining room. Come along now. I'll play this at Low Rotary Club piano. No, Lela. Come on. She'll ride you on the bench with me. Well, I... Sing to me so. I don't feel like singing. Please, for Lela. I'll sing to you. Well, I never could refuse Lela anyhow. Oh, that's a deal. Now she'll say what I can use you. Speak to me of love and say what I'm longing to hear. The whole thing to you. You know, I found the baby in the backseat of my car. Yes, Trockmorton. You just can't help loving a baby, Lela. But the law says I can't adopt her until I get married. And Adeline was near. I bet she was. And the next thing I knew, I was engaged. Mercy, Adeline should be ashamed of herself. Well, that's like shooting a fish in a barrel. Huh? I want to make a home for the baby, so let just anybody talk you into getting engaged. Well, if you'd been here, Lela, this probably wouldn't have happened. You'd said yes. Come on. Yes, if you want to share in $50,000 in prizes, enter Parquet's final contest now. 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You still have a wonderful opportunity to win a new Ford, but only if your entry is postmarked by Saturday midnight. Well, let's rejoin the man with the ambidextrous heart. Last night, the great Gilda Sleeve had an engagement dinner with Miss Adeline Fairchild. And this noon, as it turned out, he had an engagement luncheon with Mrs. Leela Ransom. Now, he's returning to the office trying to figure out what happened. I have a faint suspicion that Leela tricked me into this. Of course, she's always been fond of me. What will Adeline say? E gods, what will the jury say? Good afternoon, Mr. Gilda Sleeve. Oh, hello, Bessie. Did you and Mrs. Ransom have a nice lunch? Lunch? I don't remember eating. Oh, ho! Bessie, watch it. You were gone so long, I wondered what had happened. Well, a lot has happened. Water department. One moment, please. It's for you, Mr. Gilda Sleeve. I'm not talking to anybody. Oh, I think you'll want to talk to this party. It sounds like your lady loves. Which one? I mean, who? I'll give you a teeny-weeny hint. She has a southern accent. Bessie, is it Mrs. Ransom or Miss Fairchild? Oh, both of them do have southern accents, don't they? Yes, Bessie. Which one is it? Well, it can't be Miss Fairchild. Why?  Oh! Aren't you going to take this phone call? Tell her I'm not in. I'm not. Hello, Pee-Vee. Hello, Mr. Gilda Sleeve. What can I do for you this afternoon? Pee-Vee, fix me a double coke. Very well. And Pee-Vee, bring it to me in the back room. In the back room? Yeah, and Pee-Vee, don't tell anyone I'm back there. Okay. Robert Bank, Mr. Gilda Sleeve. It's much worse than that, Pee-Vee. Keep a sharp look out more than any women I know come in. Very well. I'm on the lookout anyway. I'm expecting Mrs. Pee-Vee to drop in this afternoon. She came downtown to have her feet fixed. Yeah. Oh. Nice engagement party last night, Mr. Gilda Sleeve. Hope nothing's gone wrong. Everything's gone wrong, Pee-Vee. I was trying to explain to Lila how I got engaged to Adeline. I got engaged to Lila again. Mrs. Ransom? My, my. Two women? Isn't that awful, Pee-Vee? Well, no, I wouldn't say that. Pee-Vee, I don't know what to do. Well, if I were you, I'd just rest on my laurels. Yes. Got engaged to two women. You've had it busy 24 hours. Now, Pee-Vee, let's not be facetious.  Oh, now, Mr. Gilda Sleeve, there's always the bright side. There are people who would consider you in a very favorable predicament. How can you say that, Pee-Vee? Well, at least you have a choice. Yeah. That's more than I can say. I was only engaged to one woman. After a long and a minute now, she's downtown having her feet faked. Yes, I know, Pee-Vee. No, sir, I didn't have a choice. Yes. To Mr. Gilda Sleeve, you said to keep a sharp lookout for a woman.  Goodbye, Mr. Gilda Sleeve. Well, did you get your feet faked, honey? Floyd, while you're shaving me, do you mind standing between me and the window? But, Commissioner, it cuts off the light. I might nick you. If you'd rather have an airline, see me right now. I'll take that chance. Commissioner, I got to hand it to you. You have more fun than anybody. Floyd, this isn't my idea of fun. You ought to be proud of yourself, Commissioner. You ought to be the happiest man in Somerfield, engaged to two southern chicks. You're really living. Please, Floyd, I never should have told you. And I don't want to see you. I'm a farmer, a farmer, a farmer, engaged to two southern chicks. You're really living. Please, Floyd, I never should have told you. And both of them cousins. Down south, is that what they call kissin' cousins? Ha-ha-ha. Floyd, I'm in no joking mood. I bet Adeline thinks I'm nothing more than a playboy. So what? You'd rather marry the widow Ransom, wouldn't you? Well, now, Floyd... You know what, Commissioner, I don't think you want to marry either one of them, James. I'm proposing to women with the idea of backing out. Okay, I just had an idea how you could get out of it. Of course, you're not interested. Absolutely not. What is it?  All the way? Yeah. What do you mean?   Floyd, that's ridiculous. I don't even know six other women. So what? Make him up. Tell him you got a manicurist, two waitresses, a traveling saleswoman, and a lady car hop from California. I've never been to California. Well, that makes a good story, Commissioner. And believe me, that James will run from you like it was poison. Floyd, I couldn't stoop to that. Okay, but for a guy over your head as deep as you are, it's either stoop or be a stoop. I'd hustle on over there and burn my bridges. Finish me up, Floyd. Hey, I got another great idea. I just seen that William Powell picture. Tell him you're also engaged to a mermaid out at your reservoir. Floyd. They'd never believe that. Floyd has a tendency to carry things too far, but he did help me see myself as I really am. I wouldn't make a good husband. I'm too fickle. Maybe Floyd's right. As much as it hurts, I'll just have to tell him what a heel I am. And neither of them will want me. Oh, hello, Adeline. May I come in? Are you sure you want to come in? Well, I'd like to. You'll find cousin Leely and the parlor. You know the way. Oh, yes. Right along the hall here. You come along too, though, Adeline. This concerns you. It concerns all of us. I have a big confession to make. Hello, Leely. Hello, Trockmorton. Nice to see you back in town. I mean... Cousin Leely told me all about it, Trockmorton. She has? She certainly has. All about lunch and what happened. Well, you know how luncheons are. One thing leads to another. Leely. I just had to tell my sweet little old cousin. I wouldn't do anything behind Adeline's back. You know that. Oh, no. Me neither.  You sounded so sincere. Oh, Leely. Don't you think he sounds sincere when he proposes Adeline? I certainly do. Always singing love songs. What did he sing when he proposed to you, cousin? Oh, wait a minute, Leely. Well, he didn't sing that night. In fact, he hardly talked. Adeline, Leely, how can you do this to me? I'm sorry, but this is a case where blood cousins are thicker than water, water commissioner. But it grieves me to say, Trockmorton, that the only reason I came up here was to protect my dear little unprotected cousin. Well, I may as well admit it then. That's why I came over here to tell you that I'm not to be trusted. I'm fickle. You've certainly proven that. You bet I have. I'm not worthy of either one of you. I'm just a heartbreaker. Oh, I don't think you've broken so many hearts, Trockmorton. You just don't know, Leely. How do you know that you're the only two women I'm engaged to? What? Well, I can think of at least six other women. A manicurist, two apes, a traveling saleswoman. That's far. Well, I haven't even mentioned the lady car hop in California. A lady car hop? Really, Trockmorton? So girls, save yourselves. Break the engagements. Both of them. I'm just a jiggle-o. I don't care. We're staying engaged. We are? But Adeline, why? You need me to protect you from all those women. Oh, my goodness. Trockmorton. Yes, Leely. I used to think you were pretty dull, but you've uncovered a shot I didn't know you had. Oh, of course. I have.  But Leely. Leely, right. You have a shawing. I don't. It's the two women. And now, the names of the inference of one 1948 four-door Ford sedans in the third week of Parquet's big series of $50,000 contests. Mrs. Ben Rasmussen of Waukesha, Wisconsin, Mrs. Clara Bryant of P.O. Box 534 with Tumka, Oklahoma, Dorothy L. Magry of Cleveland, Ohio, Miss Irene Thayer of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Congratulations to all of you. 140 winners of other prizes will be notified by mail. Remember, please, the fifth week's contest is the final one. Yes. And it closes for good this Saturday. It's now or never if you want a 1949 four-door Ford sedan. Step up your opportunities to win by sending several entries. 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What's up guys? Michael Roojaspi is doing a quick recap for our 2023 Top Scrone Baseball Hobby Box, 6 box half case break, random team number 8 that was done auction style on Fanatics Live. Here is the list and getting into the recap. Half a case here, a Riley Green negative, some Rooks, Akunyas, Groshan's negative, Yoshida Prism, Alvarez, Yoshida Refractor, Jazz to 3.99, Gunner Prism, Hugh Darvish to 75, Jordan Walker Refractor and Prism Refractor, 2.99, Oscar Gonzalez to 1.99, Michael Harris Refractor and Samados, had a Cal Stevenson base auto, Garrett Cole Relick with the pinstripe, Carlos Perez base auto, Brett Beatty base auto, Joey Meneses Refractor auto to 4.99, Nolan Gorman Refractor auto to 4.99 and a Corbin Carroll blue ray wave rookie auto to 1.50. So very nice half case that actually started off our day for us. So thank you to everyone who got into the break. Thank you guys for watching and I'll see you guys in the next one. Bye guys.


This is Zartan, version 2, The Master of Disguise from 1993. This figure was only available in 1993 and was part of the Ninja Force series. Ninja Force was first introduced in 1992, so this figure was part of the second year of Ninja Force. This is the second version of Zartan. The first version of Zartan was introduced in 1984. And he was released with a small vehicle, the Chameleon Swamp Skier. The 1984 Zartan had a gimmick the second version does not have. Both the figure and the vehicle have a color change gimmick. If exposed to sunlight, the skin on the figure and the light green part of the vehicle will change color. As a Master of Disguise, the 1984 figure actually had an accessory that would allow the figure to be disguised. In his backpack he hides a mask and that mask can actually be placed on the figure's face. And so the figure is actually disguised. The second version of Zartan doesn't come with anything like this. Although admittedly it's not very much of a disguise, he has a different face but he's wearing exactly the same very peculiar costume of Zartan. I don't think this would fool anyone. Whether it's a good disguise or not, at least version 1 of Zartan has a disguise which version 2 does not. Zartan is a character with many layers. The name Zartan is an anagram for Tarzan. Zartan is a Master of Disguise, a swamp dweller, the killer of ninjas, and the leader of the Dreadnocks. The Dreadnocks was a rogue motorcycle gang that often worked with Cobra. In 1985, three Dreadnock figures were released, Buzzer, Torch, and Ripper. More Dreadnock figures were released later, including some vehicles. Ninja Force was a set of ninja themed GI Joe figures released in 1992 and 1993. They often didn't look very ninja like. They were often very colorful. They all had action play features. And even though this series is kind of hit and miss and has a lot of duds, there were a few good figures, and the series gave us updated versions of some fan favorite characters like Snake Eyes, Scarlet, and Storm Shadow. The Force was discontinued for 1993, but in 1994, some of the molds for Ninja Force figures were reused for Shadow Ninjas. Shadow Ninjas had Inviso power. They were so ninja like and stealthy that nobody even remembers them, so let's not talk about them anymore. The second version of Zartan was in Ninja Force, but is Zartan a ninja? I don't think so, but Zartan did go up against ninjas, and he would frequently beat them.  Zartan was one of the most important characters in the GI Joe universe. He was connected to so many other characters, including Cobra Commander, Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow, all of the Dreadlocks, and he even had a brother and a sister that had action figures. In 1986, Zartan's brother and sister Xandar and Zarena were introduced. Of the two, Zarena is the more remembered. These two figures had the same color change gimmick that the first version of Zartan had. If you exposed them to sunlight, their skin would change to a bluish color. Let's look at the card back for Ninja Force Zartan, and I actually have a carded example of this figure so we can see what the figure looked like when it was brand new. Looking at the card art, this is pretty typical of 90s figures. We have a pink swirl in the background. We have the character in kind of a knees up, leaping forward pose. This card is actually a variant of my other card back. This one has a small parts warning here in the center, and the advertisement for the action gimmick is over toward the side. On the other one, it does not have the small parts warning, and the action gimmick is in the center. And on this one, I notice that on the card art, the two knives that go on the leg are on the wrong side. The accessories came on this plastic tree, and you were supposed to clip them out. To my eye, this looks orange, but the camera is giving it a slightly more pinkish hue, but to me it looks straight orange. Flipping the card around to the back, we have the cross sell with more Ninja Force action figures and the Ninja Lightning motorcycle. That's one I'd like to get my hands on. A couple other subteams here. Then we have the file card for Zartan, and unfortunately it is in that same pinkish color. Let's take a look at Zartan's accessories, starting with the most important one, the bow. This orange bow is a direct copy of the black compound bow that came with version 2 of Storm Shadow in 1988. And of course, it does look a lot better in black. Disregarding the color, this is actually a really nice bow. It fits very snugly in the figure's hand, so you can see it's kind of scratched up there where he grips it. It also has three arrows sculpted on. This is a very important accessory for Zartan, again despite the color, it makes perfect sense. In the comic book series, Zartan is portrayed as being a master archer. In fact, if you wanted to recreate some of the scenes in the comic book, you could give version 1 of Zartan Storm Shadow's compound bow. His next accessory is this sword, and I believe this is the first time this sword was used. It was used later in the Street Fighter 2 series, and it was used for Nunchuck version 2, but I think this is the first use of it. There's nothing especially remarkable about this sword. It will fit in the figure's hand, but it's kind of a tight fit. The next accessory is this sickle, and this is a reuse of the weapon that came with 1992 Dojo. This weapon doesn't really have anything to do with Zartan, but he's in Ninja Force so he just has to come with a lot of melee weapons. Next we have what is frequently called a machete, even though it doesn't really look like a machete, it's kind of this short sword looking thing. This is a reuse of the machete that came with 1988 spearhead. Next he has two knives, and the knives actually have storage space on the figure. On the left leg, there are two slots where they can be sheathed, and that's a feature that I like a lot.  They're sticking out really far on the outside, and on the inside they're kind of stabbing his other leg. But even so, we didn't get a lot of weapon storage on GI Joe figures, so I appreciate it when we get it. And lastly, we have the accessory that is always the best accessory on these 90s figures, the figure stand. 80s figures did not come with them, 90s figures did. Let's take a look at the articulation on Zartan. He did not have the typical articulation for a GI Joe figure because he had an action feature. His head would turn left and right and look up and down. He could swing his arm up at the shoulder and swivel at the shoulder all the way around. He had a hinge at the elbow that allowed him to bend his arm at the elbow about 90 degrees. He had a swivel at the bicep that allowed him to swivel his arm all the way around. He did not have an O-ring because he had a spring-loaded swivel on his hip, and that was the action feature. If you pull him back and snap him forward, he will punch. They called this the Moroto chop. Being past the Moroto chop, he could move his legs apart about so far he could swing his leg up at the hip about 90 degrees and bend at the knee about 90 degrees. Let's take a look at the sculpt design and color of this figure. He has a huge orange mohawk, and I'm not saying it's not sculpted well, it's nicely done, but this is a huge departure from the hooded look of the Version 1 figure. It was always kind of a mystery what Zartan had under his cowl. He was a master of disguise, so he could change the way he looked anyway, so I guess it didn't really matter. This definitely is not what we expected. I don't think he has this mohawk under his hood. This is something that he did to himself later. He still sort of has his face makeup, but it's bright orange on the Version 2 figure, whereas it was black on Version 1, and had white, pupil-less eyes. He also has white eyes on the Version 2 figure. Does this face look like Zartan? Well, there's no way to tell. Zartan changes his look frequently. That's a trait of the character. As crazy as this head is, it kind of makes sense. I mean, the dreadknocks were not punk rockers, but they were anti-establishment, and so you could kind of imagine this as a dreadknock figure. Although this does not work for him as a master of disguise, I can't imagine Zartan taking on this non-conformist look. There is a scene in the comic book series where Zartan is not wearing his cowl, and he has black hair. But again, as a master of disguise, you can't take that as what he really looks like. That also could have been a disguise. Why did he have the cowl in the first place? Well, the real reason is just so he could fit the mask on for the gimmick on the action figure. On his chest, he has what the file card calls a raw hide leather jacket. It's really a vest. It has a high collar in the back. It has an orange painted chain around his right arm, and it has some unpainted chains hanging over his left shoulder. It is true that this chest is not nearly as iconic as the chest shield on version one. It's really not all that crazy. It's just basically a black leather jacket with an orange chain. The file card calls this a Kusari Fundo Assault Chain, and that is a real feudal Japanese chain weapon. It's worth noting, since this is not an O-ring figure, there is no screw hole in the back. This figure cannot carry a backpack. His arms are mostly bare. His left arm is totally uncovered. On his right forearm, he has a black brace with a couple straps to go around his forearm. The file card calls this a sword blocking forearm guard, and he has a black glove. On the waist piece, he has a purple studded belt with a black belt buckle, and he has bright neon green trousers. On his left leg, he has two purple raised details with some thin purple straps that go around his thigh, and of course, this is where you can sheath those knives. He has tall purple shin guards over tall black boots. Let's take a look at Zartan's file card. We've got a portrait of Zartan here. It says his codename is Zartan, filename unknown, primary military specialty is master of disguise, birthplace is unknown. It has a quote here. It says my personality changes as often as my looks, and they're both bad. Zartan can alter his skin color at will to blend in with his environment. He's a master of makeup and disguise, even though he does not come with a mask. A ventriloquist, a linguist in parentheses, he speaks over 20 languages and dialects, an acrobatic contortionist, and a practitioner of numerous mystical martial arts. Little is known about his background, but captured Cobra documents revealed reports listing him to be as lethal as a two-headed rattler disguised as a garter snake. He changes his appearance and personality so often even he can't keep track of them. Looking at how Zartan was used in GI Joe Media, he first appeared in the cartoon series in Revenge of Cobra Part 1. In that episode, he rescued Cobra Commander from imprisonment. Now, if you were a fan of the cartoon series, and you thought what Zartan had on his head was hair, you're not mistaken, it's not just you. The animators also made that mistake, and sometimes drew his cowl as hair. I would be remiss if I didn't mention the episode in which Cobra tried to take over the world via rock and roll, and Zartan and the Dreadknocks formed the heavy metal band Cold Slyther. Zartan was a popular character and had many appearances in the Sunbow Era, but he didn't make the transition to the Deak Era. So there are no appearances of Zartan in his version 2 uniform. In the comic book series, Zartan is one of the most important characters ever. He first appeared in issue number 24. It took some time for Larry Hama to figure out what to do with him. He was later integrated into the backstory of several characters.  Storm Shadow infiltrated Cobra to find the identity of the assassin. When the truth was revealed, Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes attacked Cobra Island looking for Zartan. But Zartan had switched places with Ripcord and was taken to the GI Joe base, The Pit. He was later rescued by Zirana, Xandar, and the Dreadknocks. During the Cobra Civil War, Zartan sided with the Cobra Commander imposter, Fred VII, against Serpentor. Zartan ended the war by killing Serpentor with an arrow. He later killed another Ninja Master, The Blind Master, and for a while he took his identity. When the real Cobra Commander returned, he imprisoned Zartan along with his other enemies in a landlocked freighter and buried it under a volcano. Zartan escaped. Zartan even appeared in his version 2 outfit beginning in issue number 139. He had to reintroduce himself to the Baroness and Destro because they didn't recognize him.


Russian soldiers complain about heavy losses. Russian troops, many of them pressed into service involuntarily, or under the false pretence of only being territorial guards, reveal that they are refusing to go to the front lines after their comrades are killed on suicide missions. On recent telegram posts, the Russian soldiers suffering from poor morale say they are not deserting but that they will not willingly go to certain death by Ukrainian artillery according to Kiev post-media outlet. On July 2nd, the Russian local news telegram channel Osterozno Novosti published a video appeal from soldiers of Russia's 1428th Regiment. The mobilized men were supposed to serve in the territorial defence are instead being sent on assaults near Bakhmut without training and normal equipment. The Russian recruits say in the video they had been coerced into volunteering for territorial defence and had never consented to frontline fighting when signing their enlistment contract. We don't want to carry out senseless and suicidal orders, they complained. The impressed enlistees say they are not deserting but refuse to follow suicidal orders. They say the situation became obvious when their comrades were killed by Ukrainian artillery fire when approaching the front lines in a convoy. Another similar appeal was published on telegram. On June the 23rd, mobilized Russian men from Zaporizia complained about heavy losses after the Ukrainian counter-offensive began. The soldiers said they have to hold open positions with almost no protection where they are shot at by the Ukrainian forces. The Ukrainians are hitting directly into the trench. There's no point in just sitting there, said a Russian serviceman. He also claimed that many of his comrades were left lying wounded at their posts because soldiers had to be evacuated in unsuitable passenger cars, under shelling on mined terrain.


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering Dell Technologies World 2018. Brought to you by Dell EMC and its ecosystem partners. Welcome to theCUBE. We are live on day one of Dell Technologies World. I'm Lisa Martin with Keith Townsend. This is a huge event, the biggest they've ever had. 14,000 live attendees expected, an additional 35,000 expected to engage with the live streaming and the on-demand video experience. It's amazing. We're excited to welcome from Dell Education Services, Sophie Barat, Senior Director, and Charles Atkins, VP of Education Services. Guys, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you. Good to be here. Thanks for having us. Absolutely, our pleasure. So this morning in Michael Dell's keynote, he talked about, and we're going to hear a lot over the next three days, of digital transformation, IT transformation, security transformation. There's a fourth transformative element that companies need to apply to be successful. And that's workforce transformation. Chuck, Charles, sorry. I'm giving you a new name, Chuck. We already have a Chuck. You're Chuck for the day. We're old friends. Exactly, we get way back. Charles, talk to us about workforce transformation from a thought leadership perspective. What does that mean? Well, it's key when you think about digital transformation at large. At the end of the day, it's all about people. I mean, you can have a common digital vision for your company, for your infrastructure, but at the end of the day, you've got to have the workforce to make that real. So us in education services, I mean, we talk to our customers on a daily basis. We look at, you know, a nauseating level of research and there's a huge skill set gap that continues to grow exponentially. And when you look at the level of automation that's being introduced and all across the workforce, the gap is continuing to grow. So in education, we're taking a long, hard look at, okay, what are the skill sets of the future that are needed today? When you think about machine learning, you know, artificial intelligence, data, data, data.  Now we have all of that data. Now that data is becoming more intelligent. Now we need to educate our workforce to live and work in a digital age, right along with robotics and everything else. It's a pretty exciting time. Well, Charles, I would love to hear both of you guys are veterans of education, veterans of the IT industry. It has changed tremendously over the past. Five years versus when I cut my teeth 20 years ago in IT, it was very step letter. You know, if I got a vendor certification, I learned their product, I was able to get into the industry. How has machine learning, digital transformation, how has that changed your jobs and your approach to how you educate your customers? So great question. I too come up in that age, right? So back in the day when you needed the Microsoft certification or storage level certification, having that kind of siloed view, all of that has changed. And when we think about skill sets needed today, it's across multi-cloud environment, security, infrastructure. The end user devices are as smart as the data center solutions that are driving the clouds on the back end. So now you have to have a broad range of skill set. So obviously times have changed, skill set development has changed and that's a big reason why we in education services are hyper focused on that fourth tower workforce transformation to enable that digital realization. You wrote a blog recently on skills transformation. Can you kind of break it down to some of the transformation certifications that Dell EMC is enabling? Absolutely, so we just launched four net new transformational certifications. Super excited about this. And when you think about, again, the history, you think about product level certifications. Individuals go out, they get trained and educated on how to use that specific product. But as those silos start to go away and the technology starts to become across multiple platforms, we had to take a step back and say, okay, education today needs to change. Both in how learners learn, how they have need personalized education services, 365, 24 by seven across the globe, but also they need to be less product centric. So we launched four new certifications in the security realm. Converged infrastructure, multi-cloud, enterprise architecture, a big one. So think along the line of an enterprise architect building an end to end company to company solution that is a multi-cloud environment, security architecture on the backend, product level. That's a completely different skill set than we had 10, 15 years ago. So that is the workforce of the future is having those individuals really multi-faceted, multi-skill all across not only Dell EMC products and technology, but also all the strategic line businesses. So we have a co-skill, co-badge certifications available today with VMware and Dell EMC starts to broaden that range of the true skillset that's needed for today and definitely for the future. So I would love to hear from you Sophia about the CIO CTO story. What is the ask? Because there's a combination of university, there's combination of vendor training. What's the ask from the CIO C-suite on the services that they're expecting from Dell when it comes to education? So they're expecting us just as Charles had articulated to go well beyond product level training, right? They want their people to understand the context that they're operating in and they want them to be able to see themselves as service providers. They're managing now a portfolio of IT services and they need to think about how they deliver that portfolio to their customers that could be other departments within IT or onto the end customer, which is a very different way of thinking about IT than when you're just sort of operating a product or a suite of products. So that's something we hear from CIOs pretty often. And the other thing I would say is in return we have an ask for CIOs, which is to understand that it's really not just about sort of training and making sure that people are trained on particular solutions, whatever the flavor of the day happens to be, but making sure that as they're thinking about digital transformation, IT transformation, that they're underpinning it with a focus on continuous learning, right? Because the technology is morphed incredibly quickly. The expectations of IT are morphed incredibly quickly. And if learning doesn't happen continuously, the individuals and CIOs themselves are not going to be able to keep up. So we're trying to enable them with a suite of sort of point solutions, as well as that continuous learning environment and sort of cultural affinity that can help them be successful and make IT really a competitive differentiator. In the spirit of continuous development, talk to us about some of the research that you've done recently to understand and really kind of shape the direction of the new education services that Dell EMC is delivering. Sure, well, actually, you know, one of the really fascinating findings, and I sort of started to allude to it just then, was the importance of sort of the commitment from the CIO level down, as well as the individuals up. And that sort of reciprocity between a person, like an IT professional's commitment to learning and their own development, as well as the management team creating that environment where it's okay to learn, right? And it's okay to admit that, you know, you don't know something or that you have an appetite to develop yourself. So we just did some research that showed that where individuals are the most transformation ready themselves, is actually in IT departments that have a very strong commitment to learning. And that inverse is also true. When we look at IT transformation, as Michael Dell even said this morning, as the opportunity for IT to become a profit center, IT transformation has so much potential to enable every part of the business to use data and apply it multiple times to combine it, recombine it, identify how customers are using that. How can IT, as you're saying, seems like there's much more of a cultural propensity to learn? How can IT help influence other parts of the business to have this appetite to learn, continuously learn? Sure. Let me start with that. And then, Chelsea, you can add your perspective. But interestingly, we have a customer advisory panel here at Dell Technologies World every year. And we'll probably talk about it when we have this year's event tomorrow. But last year, this was actually a topic that came up. And IT professionals struggle with that, frankly, right? How they can better partner with the business to talk the same language as the business is talking and translate the business requirements back into a technology solution and architecture that makes sense for that digital future. And actually, that was one of the main drivers behind our new Master Enterprise Architect certification that Charles alluded to a minute ago. So there's a lot there. And there's a big journey for IT departments to travel, but we're doing our best between helping with those continuous learning environments, the training and certifications that can really sort of bridge the gap right between the business and IT. I think most IT organizations are in that transformation or at the cusp of it. And it really goes back to having that digital vision and really that digital thought of saying, okay, where do we want to go? And how do we get there? Workforce transformation is a big piece of it. Obviously, all the IT architecture, the software development aspect on the back end is huge, but you got to come up with that vision first and you really need to think about the future of the IT organization is really expected customer outcomes. So the customers that they service, whether they're internal or external customers, they're expecting an outcome. So really truly becoming an IT customer service organization. And some are struggling, some are at the onset, some are deep into that transformation. And I would like to echo one of the things that Sophie said, when I looked at all of the research, 61% of employees surveyed said they're not digitally ready. 61% of companies said we don't have a clear digital strategy. So the emphasis really is upfront, now's a good opportunistic time for companies to take a step back and say, okay, what does that digital future really look like? Because when I look over, sorry, when I look over the next five years or so, look at the advancement in machine learning, artificial intelligence, get too far behind that digital evolution, some companies might not be here. So I had a really engaging conversation with one of the leaders in open source, serverless, and he was, he debated that enterprises are absolutely ready for this transformation. Me maybe not so much. How do you help to do that heavy lifting? We talked about enterprise IT inspiring other organizations. But Sophie, you alluded to that this is a two-way conversation. This is not just about Dell EMC education going out and producing materials. IT professionals have to feel motivated to actually consume that data and move forward so that they can embrace the digital transformation and help educate. Help talk to me about the boots on the ground. How are you guys hoping to inspire regular enterprise IT folks? The legacy DNS administrator who's sitting at his desk. I've been doing DNS for 10 years. I know how to do DNS. Now we're asking him to engage and maybe not do machine learning, but embrace DevOps, for example. So there's a few tools that we have at our disposal. Actually, speaking of AI and ML and sort of advanced ways of doing business, we're also trying to incorporate some of those technologies in the way that we create learning experiences. So we're also trying to make the learning experiences themselves more compelling to the people. But that aside, in terms of the content itself, we actually recently did a MOOC, a massive open online course around DevOps. And so there are a ton of resources for IT professionals who want to get started and just kind of immerse themselves in this space and learn sort of incrementally, right? Sort of be exposed to it. And then once they decide that they want to take that step and get certified or whatever it is, we have those more formal tracks for them as well. I'm wondering too, even how much in our personal lives, we have everything in our pockets and we expect that. And how many people have a home assistance and are actually using or part of the machine learning user experience at home and not really thinking about that. How much do you think culturally that's actually going to help the IT folks become more able to make workforce transformation real in the spirit of the event by what's happening in their personal lives? I think that's going to be a big influence. I think it's going to be huge. I mean, look at the automobile industry and the transformation that's gone through just the last decade alone and apply that to our everyday life. I mean, again, if you look at it as a core and edge solution, the edge solution, I mean, the amount of data that is transacted on a daily basis, just me driving my vehicle, everything from health and vehicle reports when it's time to change the oil, et cetera. I mean, it's going to be a consumer driven motivator and it's going to force companies to really kind of think through, okay, how do we get more intelligent with our data because the customer expectations have now increased 10 eggs. And it's going to create smarter devices. I mean, whether it's our mobile phones and I'm old enough to remember when that got introduced, I don't know if that's a positive or negative, but in looking how much that one device has changed my life and now the level of intelligence that I see just in the software apps that are on the phones. I mean, it's going to be a key motivator. One of the things I would like to touch on that Sophie briefly touched on, you said boots on the ground. So we have something called skill set analysis and learning needs assessments where we're going to name it, but really it's an opportunity for individuals to go out and really go through and define what their level of technical expertise is. I think it's something that, you know, when I look at learning and development worldwide, even for myself, I need an area I can go out and kind of test my skills to your point about the DNS person, right? And I talked to these individuals on a daily basis, being an old engineer myself, I already know all of that, but getting those individuals to go out there and really do an assessment of what is their true skill set in this net new world of technology and digitalization helps create at least a profile that tells Charles, hey, I'm not really that good in this, this and this. So maybe there is an opportunity to improve my skill set development in those areas. I think having that personalized level of learning interaction and it allows the individual to be honest with where their skill set is and take a step back and say, okay, maybe I do need to go learn X, Y, and Z and that'll help propel it. And I'm wondering too, you know, with imposter syndrome being something that is so publicized, I didn't even know what it was and I had it until I saw it being talked about and I thought, I know, I maybe feel a little bit better, but I'm wondering on the personalization part, you know, we expect our lives and all of the digital assistance that we have in our cars or home or whatnot to give us a personalized help us through life. How are you encouraging participants to take this assessment and go, you know what, I, maybe I've been in this for 20 years, there are things that I don't know. How do you, maybe that's more of a psychological thing, but how do you encourage people to kind of identify, I have imposter syndrome, but I want to actually get better. What's the cultural education component to that? You have to take a personalized social approach. How many sort of surveys have you done that have randomly popped up in one of your apps on your phone or whatever the case may be. Now, obviously we're starting to have a little bit more internal, really looking after our internal skill set and capability, but as this, you know, user interface goes live around the world, I expect both customers and employees internally to go out there and just be curious, where do you fall? All right, and whether you've done an IQ test online or hey, what are your 10 favorite movies, get in that social action or interaction, I think we'll be a key enabler in driving that. And that's really going to create the stickiness because I would much rather not have a conversation, you know, between individuals and well, Charles are really not that good at X. I would like to go out and do an assessment. So wow, I was right, I'm really not that good at X. Okay, now what do I need to do to drive my own career advancement, my own education advancement? And that really puts, you know, learning in the hands of the end user because I want to be responsible for my career. Yes, I want to do great things for the company, but I'm also trying to figure out, okay, where does my career go from here? And this allows that user to be in control of that. I think it comes back also to that reciprocity, right, between sort of the environment in which you're working and creating that safe space or learning culture where you are empowered to take ownership of your own development, your own career, and that you have the toolkit such as this learning needs assessment, you know, that we can provide as well as many other things to be proactive and to take those first steps and then to have sort of air cover if you will from your organization to do that. Last question, how many people are you expecting to go through certification trainings initiated at Dell Technologies World? Several hundred, for sure. We have many people who preregistered to take exams and there's a continuous flow down through the Proving Professional Center. You all should come on down and check it out. Downstairs, Casanova 501, so we are running exam prep sessions, exams sort of continuously from morning till night, all three and a half days of the show. So we expect probably several hundred new certifications to come out of it. It's a tremendous opportunity. I'm afraid if I go down there and take, I'm going to fail all the assessments. I might need your help. The first failure is free, at least you get an assessment of how you are or not. It's my lucky day. I'm going to go gamble. I'll at least understand the questions on this. Maybe you can be, help me cheat. Okay, so Sophie and Charles or Chuck as we're now calling you. Thank you guys so much for stopping by and sharing with us the continued learning opportunities that Dell EMC is providing. Thanks for having us. Absolutely, thank you for having us. And for my co-host, Keith Townsend, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching theCUBE live from day one of Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas. Stick around, we'll be right back after short break.


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