But you have to say to yourself, you know, where do I want to stand as a professional trader going forward? Do I want to keep on continuing to chase the drug the next high? Okay, or do I want to come back down to earth? Welcome to Access to Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process and own your future. Hey guys, happy new year everybody and welcome to the first edition of the Access to Trader.com 2021 update. Hope everybody had a great weekend. Hope everybody is having a great weekend. Hope everybody had a great New Year's Eve. This is the first time in my adult life or even adolescent life that I could remember staying home on New Year's Eve because, you know, again, when you're young and you're, you know, even if you're not young, the point is you want to be around with people, you want to have a good time, blow up some steam, kind of make some memories, but because of the pandemic, you know, again, obviously, this is kind of the right thing to do. And again, I'm not judging if you went out. God bless, you know, you have a good time, you only live once. But again, for me and my family, that was kind of the prudent thing to do.  You had the S&P up 15, 16 percent, which is phenomenal. But when you look at the NASDAQ composite, it's basically the the ultimate hold by beer theory, 40, almost 43 and a half percent gain for 2020, which is unbelievable. It really is unbelievable. And the one thing that I will say during the internet craze, and again, I've said this numerous times, we got very, very lucky, I think the market made us right. The more and more I think about it, I think it's I've taken away a little bit, given myself a little bit less credit than I should, I want to congratulate you guys. Okay, if you started in 2020, I don't care if it was by luck, by skill set, the market made you right. The scoreboard is the scoreboard, right? If you started out and you survived 2020, again, at the end of the day, that's all we're trying to do. We're just trying to get it to the next year. I don't care how you got it, right? If you got there by luck, the market made you right again. Congratulations, man. Seriously, congratulations. You made it from your first year of 2020. You made your first year of trading. If you're only trading a couple of years, again, you made it another year. And don't let anybody take that away from you. Don't let the market tell you that, wow, the market made you right. And again, that was my, and I have to admit, that was my mindset for most part of the year. People are getting bailed out by chasing the market, whatever the case may be. And that is all wrong. And that's a subject of a completely different conversation. Your job right now, though, as the calendar turns, your job is not to give it back. And that is the hardest thing to do. Because again, whether you made money accidentally or you made money by your skill set, your process, whatever the case may be, your job right now is to keep it. And that's the hardest part of this business, especially when you're new, when you're involved with an incredibly hyperparabolic market that has no rhyme or reason to be where it is, but it is. And the squalboard is the squalboard. And the most important part going into 2021, especially your first year and especially for your newer traders, the first week is really the most important week. And not because of your profit and loss. It's all about your psychology. And what happens is, you know, a lot of single traders, I mean, single, literally single traders, maybe they were at a friend's house. If you went to a bar, okay, I'm not judging.  We're going to kill it this year, right? We're going to kill it this year. And maybe you will, maybe you won't. But what you're doing is you're building up expectations. Okay, you're building up anticipation, you're building up all this imagery in your head, that you're almost subconsciously expecting the market to do exactly what it did, if not better, in 2021 and 2020. But quickly, unfortunately, people do see this, the dynamics of the market change right on a snap of a finger. And again, we saw that, especially in the last week or so of the market, we saw all the leaders. And if you've been watching this broadcast, you kind of see the value in this tape for the exception of X amount of stocks has been to the downside. All you know, a lot of the names really got hit this week, really hard as well. And they're setting up to actually a lot of value to the downside in this week. But what happens is as you're getting deeper and deeper in this business in the years go by, your ultimate goal is to detach yourself from any emotional value, right? Your ultimate goal is have that FOMO, right? The fear of missing out being removed, and that being replaced with JOMO, which is basically the joy of missing out. So for example, Friday, I sat there, excuse me, on Thursday, I sat there, that was my last day of the year. And there was some pretty good value, right? There's a really good value, some pretty good pivots. I just sat there and I said, I'm okay with that. My year is done. I did what I had to do. I'm happy that I made it another year. My family's healthy. I'm very content. And that's kind of where you want to be. You want to make sure that you're not trading because the market's open because you are getting value. And if you don't want to trade, you don't have to trade as well. And when you're getting at that point of you're a brand new trader, you're going to the first week. And then all of a sudden, that stock that you bought at 10, that went from 2 to 10 that day, all of a sudden closes at 6. Another day goes by. You bought the stock at 8, that went from 4, and it closes at 3. Another day goes by. It's like a heroin addict, okay? Getting off of an amazing high, right? Think about it. Even if you've never experienced anybody, unfortunately, with a drug habit, what happens when they come off that high? They want another one. And the problem is when you run into a euphoric market, and that's exactly what happened during the dot-com era, and that's exactly what happened in 2020 despite all the pandemic, people are at highs, right? They need that next fix. And maybe, again, maybe that euphoria stretches out, right? You have Bitcoin, I think this morning was like a 30, 31,000, whatever it was, 30, 30. So maybe that extends with the euphoria because, again, people are always chasing the next high. The drug addicts are always chasing the next fix. So if you are a brand new trader, maybe Facebook doesn't work anymore this week, or Apple doesn't work anymore. But look, there's Bitcoin. Maybe it goes another 10,000 points or 10,000 coins, whatever it's called. So you're constantly chasing the next high. The problem is when the momentum ends, and it usually does, it doesn't make a difference at what point. The problem is you're going to be chasing the next high, and that next high doesn't exist. And at that point, you really have to say to yourself, well, everything that I got to this point, look, I got it no matter how I got it, again, via luck or via skill set. But now I have to figure out how not to give it back. And that's the most important part. And people have been asking me for the last two weeks, give some predictions for 20. Why? Why give some predictions, right? The whole goal is to get rid of emotions, get rid of expectations.  Okay, maybe it goes, maybe it doesn't. But what you're doing is instead of letting go of emotions, right, you're tacking on to it. Think about that. You know, you're anticipating, and are you going to be very, very disappointed? For example, if you're long at Tesla 700 bucks from Friday, you know, where are you going to be mentally if again, I'm not saying it will or it won't, I'm just using, you know, random, like, where are you going to be when the stock is at 600? Right? Or maybe where are you going to be at 800? Right? Where's your mentality going to be? Is it are you going to keep on feeding the beast and the emotional and the emotional sentiment at 800? Or you're going to start crashing down like a heroin addict that needs their next fix at 630.  And I know if you've been watching this broadcast for the last, you know, even for the last year, I mean, you can constantly just hear me talking about one day at a time, one trade at a time, of course, there's multi week runners on a lot of names, whether they're smaller cap names, whether they're larger cap names, or even the mega cap names. And again, you can make that argument. They did disappoint despite the 43% in the NASDAQ the last two months or so, they really have underperformed so so you can make that argument as well. But you have to say to yourself, you know, where do I want to stand as a professional trader going forward? Do I want to keep on continuing to chase the drug the next high? Okay, or do I want to come back down to earth and look at everything at face value? I don't need the heroin, I don't need the crack, I don't need the cocaine, I know way too many drug references in this update, I get it. But you kind of get the point, right?  Okay, or are you finally going to come back down to earth and say to yourself, look, I'm looking at the market face value, I want to take advantage of prior traders experiences, whether they're trading 10 years longer than me, five years long from me, 25 years long from me, and kind of take a page out of their book to kind of take a scale back, reassess everything is going on, everything is going on, and look at the market from a, you know, from a logical practical point of view. Instead of Tesla's going to 1000 this year, Bitcoin's going to 50,000 this year, Amazon's going to 5000 this year, and maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. But I tell you from from a lot of experience, the faster you can detach your emotional levels to this market, the better trader you'll be. And that's why I keep on reiterating the point. I've never had a fun day. I've never had an easy day.  But I've never experienced that euphoric day that people, especially unfortunately on social media, talk about how fun and easy, you know, and so I don't know what that is. Like, I'm doing this now 21 years. I don't know what that is. And maybe that's a good thing. Okay. Maybe this is why I have discussed in my voice when I have vomit pouring out of my mouth when somebody asked me to give my opinion about this business. And the most important part is kind of going into 2020. We have to put things into perspective from a technical point of view. Because if you don't, unfortunately, a lot of you guys who have had that big, big run, and again, I congratulate you. I applaud you. This is what you want to do for a living, whether it's part-time, full-time, whatever the case may be, good for you. Okay. Nobody could take that away from you. Now your job is to not give it back. Okay. Get better. Well, as we say, there's no such thing as a great trader. There's just a trader who's less shittier than the previous year. And that's exactly our goal. We want to be less shittier than the previous year. And once you get to that point of detaching yourself from emotion and looking at things from face value, that's when you start seeing very, very consistent results because you'll be emotionally removed from what you're seeing on the scoreboard and concentrating on your very specific skill set, whether you're trading Bitcoin or small caps or mid caps or pivots or beta, whatever the case may be. But put yourself in a position of strength that you're not going to rely on anybody else this year. And the most important part is look at the market from a realistic point of view, not the market that you want to have. So going into, again, if you look at the technicals, again, nothing is really telling you one way or another.  I mean, like even Amazon, Amazon that had so much promise this week and had a great pivot. There was 100 points on the pivot, but the problem is it gave it up and you start looking at all the names that, you know, a lot of these retail e-commerce names, you know, you start looking at Shopify. I mean, it got hit pretty aggressively. Zoom that benefited the most out of any stock during this pandemic. And again, we had some serious pivots all week from this 66 level to this 49 level. Now this thing's getting down to this 323, 308 level. There's a lot of names that look really, really crappy. Look at Best Buy. Again, a lot of retail names that had big runs. They're all giving it up. Now again, does that change the fact that they had those big runs? No, but again, the real, the realistic part about it is now they're very, very close to breaking on down. But again, as much as there's really good, still really good setups for this week. And again, you could turn around and say, look, maybe Netflix finally runs back to this 553 level of broke out very, very aggressively on Friday. Again, still a good looking setup. Micron, right? Had a really, really good breakout on Friday. It took out a range that started all the way back on December. So you had a month of distribution. This looks good as well. Again, very, very overextended. Maybe it's not something specifically for me. But again, you could see there's very, very good value there. And again, names, more traditional names like Coke, right? Coke breaking out. Names like Las Vegas Sands that are very, very close of breaking out. So you could see there's still a lot of good value in the markets. But when you turn around and you start looking at the high flyers and you say to yourself, well, there's definitely going to be a market for everybody, the two lowest of the world. Peloton, again, maybe a couple of bucks away, but you have to assume a Zoom came in, right? And docus coming in. All these other ones, you know, Peloton starts breaking down the slobblen. You can see how it got rejected off the five. Maybe you could get a big move down as well. So I think we're in a very unique situation, especially going into the first year of the week, that there's actually going to be value for everybody. If you're a short seller, again, look at the names that had big runs. You could see where the value is to the downside. If you believe the market's going to hell in a hand basket, right? You have value for a week. If you are trading on the long side this week, plenty of value as well. Look at a stock, for example. Again, maybe it's not a stock that I would trade, but look at a stock like Comcast, right? CMCSA, right? There's a lot of value. There's a lot of really good-looking charts. So all you have to do this weekend is do your diligence, put in the work, a lot of good value to the downside, a lot of good value to the upside. Do I expect another 43% rally in the Nasdaq 100? No, I don't. I think if we can get a 10-15% move is considered good. I know that sounds crazy. Only 15% for the year, right? But the S&P 500 for 2020 was up 15%. Would you be satisfied and happy with a 6% rise for 2021? If the answer is no, then again, you're still looking at this market through euphoric rose-colored glasses. And I think if you want to kind of duplicate your efficiency, that's the way to kind of describe it, duplicate your consistency and your approach for 2021, you have to scale back expectations. You have to look at the market for one day at a time. See what the market is telling you. See what the government is saying. Stimulus checks, no stimulus checks. There they're coming. What was it? I think 2000, right? If you made money in 2021, that's great. Congratulate yourself. If you're still getting your feet wet as a new trader and you're still there for the first two, three years, it's okay as well. Your time will come. It will click. The most important part is again, be proactive in your approach. Try to eliminate the noise as far as opinions, emotional baggage. The faster you can embrace technical analysis, the smoother transition from aspiring trader to professional trader you will be. So guys, I want to wish everybody a very happy, safe, healthy, prosperous 2021. May God continue to bless you and your families. And with God's willing, I will see you all on Monday. Okay, guys, take it easy and have a great, great weekend.


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It's a time when women and girls share stories and realize the more we are different the more we are like The thing that I have in my head for these sleepovers is what we are discussing in the makeover room I don't do, I don't do But the thing is I don't think I ever had a sleepover I never slept in anybody's house, actually I tell a lie One time my mom took, but it wasn't just like me, my mom took all of us to her family, a close family friend's house Yeah I think that's, it's only due, yeah because she was very very suspicious of everybody So we never really had that freedom to go but I see a lot of them, oh mom can I have a sleepover like my kids I don't think they've ever had a sleepover with friends Their cousins, yes, my sister's kids, but friends, I'm very paranoid like that I've never had a sleepover growing up Well I did with family though Now I don't want to be sleepovered I'm going to visit your family I'm going to visit your friends But now I mean, okay well Would you be open to that? For my kids to go to their, no No, no, no, no Noma are you there now? They can go, but Why are we struggling to get Noma? I have responsible friends Well, it's not so much the I mean when we get to the point where we start giving birth and I see how they raise their kids That would determine if my own children will go to their house to sleepover But if the way you train your kids is very questionable and doesn't align with my values My kids will not come to your house to sleepover Okay, that's what I hear you But again for me, I think that is Sometimes there are factors outside of your control Definitely The people in their house Somebody who comes and you don't know How do you control that? Again, you're not there So do you have the thing at work? It's alright You can't even control the one in your house Exactly Who can you control? And in situations where really bad stuff have happened They may have happened with strangers They've actually happened with people Family members Close people around Exactly Infantophilia And you won't go to sleepover We were sicko It's not all this to you It's normal There's a lot of crazy things happening I always tell people, you need to have conversations with people You need to sound them out You need to hear their thoughts Where their head is at Because you can't just take people on face value And just think everybody's thinking the same way you think Or have the same values you have Conversations are very important Alright, so what did we find in the news? Jennifer, let me come to you Yes, so for me You are a master's student Reviews, she just received Her identification card Days to the completion of her program So she says she applied for her master's degree in 2019 And started the processing In 2020 And she's glad to inform us That she just got her student ID card In 2023 Just few months I think it's a month Because her defense, her test defense Is next month And a lot of people are just In commenting Some said, oh, congratulations You use your music card To show your children See what the government has done to you That kind of thing So I mean It just goes to show How our process is in Nigeria I don't understand how you started your I mean when you start Your schooling Even as a normal undergraduate Once you start, you've done your matric You should be able to get your ID Not to talk of someone who is coming in for masters You should have your ID card Before, I mean in a month That month is even long But a month must let you say Okay, you're taking time My son never enters school Yeah, I think that already Because he asked for his passport To get him his student ID Because I mean That is what gives you access It's because we do not have proper structures Because ideally A student ID Is what gives you credibility To even work on the On the school ground On the school ground You can't come into that school ground Without an identification If we're doing things right There are some certain places You cannot enter Without that identification So how can you Make your weeks to your To your exiting the program You're just getting an identification This tells you how lopsided Some of the things that we do In this country is It's interesting Do you know what you need to find for us in the news? Norma, can you hear us now? I hear you having struggles hearing us Norma Okay Oh, okay, go ahead Okay, so This is Supreme Court affirms That is the oce.. That is the oce.. That is the oce.. That is the oce.. The oce.. That is the oce.. And of course this has been ongoing Since the elections That was conducted July 16, 2022 You know, in January 20 27 Majority of course Adilike went to the Court of Appeal and they were saying you know there was a lot back and forth they were going to take it to the Supreme so well right about now Supreme has ruled and it's in favor of the sitting governor which is Adilike so maybe we say congratulations to him or I don't know I don't think you can take it any further I mean Supreme is the highest I like the guy I like his spirit all right so I saw a story that Jennifer gave me even though I don't know the guy but I think I want to discuss I saw the way Jennifer was vibrating I want to ask her what up why were you biasing so um there's a young man um I think his name is Toyo right Toyo yeah um so he wrote and I want to read what he wrote about Gen Z so the younger generation are already having mental breakdowns some are already deeply rooted in drugs no morals at all no vision no goals all they want to do is just get high post and look fly for the gram and expect money to fall from the sky so much entitlement and I'm not going to say that word the last word all right so I mean this is a genuine concern the reason I'm actually taking the story because yesterday we talked about older generation and yeah I mean their role and all of that the truth is before you open your mouth or you open you hold your finger to type something remember that every child is born there's something that's called tabula rasa it's plain like there's no stain no nothing the child comes into this world blank so anything you see the child exhibiting right is a clear picture of what the child has been exposed to so either through their eyes you know what they hear what they hear what they feel you know and all of that so all of those things now make up to what you eventually see as a product of the person right so before you open your and we collect your finger and be typing on on social media remember that this generation they didn't just know drop from the sky the way they are saying that you don't they spend money to fall from the sky they also did not just drop from the sky they actually you understand are copying I remember what I said what happens with some of these things that we're doing is that the next generation would do it 10 times better so if it is a bad thing they will be better at doing it very well you understand so you you you can't make that kind of generalization and now try to blame a group without tracing it back in history because all these things they were talking about is because our parents didn't have instagram or all of those things because I know that it was a case of show ah this is a non-biker they want do this yeah even birthing children was sure I must have 10 children to show that me I am I'm Richard and you I'm this and so the issue of maybe posting for the grammar it's always been there you know it's just that technology has changed a lot of things so before you make such summations right check back to your generation that precedes this generation that you're calling out what have you guys done what are you doing you know what are they seeing what have they copied the only thing is that they will copy it and they will do it better so you cannot just open your mouth and say the generation is entitled and all of that I think is a very uh what's it called don't attack them like that because they will also come for you I'm helping them to come for you my own comment is mild the advocate but the truth is my comment is mild but I'm telling him that you can't do that you cannot yeah I mean just like we said yesterday you know there's always the the issue of role modeling you cannot be saying one thing and then be doing something else so if the younger generation is driven about money or if they have redefined success to mean something else it is because we give them that blueprint it is because we said that this is what success means it is because we we have done all those things and then I mean quite rightly like you said unfortunately they process faster uh they they they don't have the locks we it's almost as if they're racing against time you know so they do things and then I mean with the with the internet everything is amplified thank you it's it's just so I told my son like because he was saying something about I say help me verify say mommy but you should be able to do I say please they don't bomb me with a with a tablet and a laptop I'm learning it so I mean like you rightly said it's it's everything's at the speed of light right now yeah you now come and just be typing because you can't type let me leave you there because it's not your problem that's my problem this is me is this parents that are afraid all right so what we come back from the break hopefully we'll be able to get to normal and we'll discuss the fears of parents stay with us we'll be right back


The real reason women ghost men. Okay, first off, we gotta get to the root of why women join dating sites, okay? Are they there to actually meet people? I mean, maybe. Some of them. Like, probably 30% are. If the right dude comes along, Mr. Perfect, right? I mean, they would consider meeting up with him. But the majority of women on dating sites are there just for the ego boost. It gives women a warm and fuzzy when, you know, they have double-digit dudes complimenting them all day long. It's a freaking high to them. It's a Dwarfen release.   The feeling that they are still attractive? They just love it. So they end up getting addicted to these dating apps.  And there's tons of these dudes like pouring in messages to them. Women view dating apps as a never-ending supply of validation, okay? And of course, she'll never meet up with like 98% of the dude she's talking to. But it's fun to leave them on so they'll keep giving them compliments, right? But what happens to one of the dudes she's leading on? Asks her out on a date. Uh-oh, she's gotta make a decision now. I mean, she still wants comments pouring in from him, right?  So he'll continue to woo her, right? So the comments keep pouring in from him. And a few weeks later, he asks her out again.  So a week goes by and he's still feeding her egoboes with compliments. They keep pouring in and it's making her feel great. And all of a sudden, he asks her out again for a third time. And she comes up with yet another BS excuse.  He's had enough. He's freaking pissed. So what does he do now? He flips out on her.   And uh-oh, she receives it.  I mean, she joined the dating app to get positive comments, not freaking negative ones. And just like that, she's crushed. She doesn't take bad comments very well, right? Like all women. She doesn't ever want something like this ever happening again. So what's her solution to something like this? Ghosting. It's genius. So she learns her lesson, right?  So she simply unmatches the guy or she blocks the guy, AKA ghosting, before he gets frustrated and flips out on her. That way she gets to keep all of his compliments, and her ego boost stays elevated.  In the industry, we call this ghosting. And it's the easy way to exit on a positive note.


So yeah about this course. So here is our home base, which is the course page So you see the most important links up at the top The zoom link has been sent to the people that are registered and as we go down you see the general Outline of what we're doing So on Friday was some basic background information that was needed to Sort of help with today Today and tomorrow we go through the HPC tutorials. So you can see the general outline here so some of these are probably going to be pushed to tomorrow and Yeah, so we start with sort of basics about the cluster and then how to access Software and data on the cluster and then by the end of the day we get to actually running things So how to use all of the resources of the cluster itself? And then tomorrow we continue with whatever we left off from last time and we go to Basically doing stuff in parallel and using the serious resources Yeah So what we expect you to have done by now is to be able to be connected to the cluster and be able to access it And to know a little bit about the Linux shell, but we will get to that Later Should we talk about the tutorials themselves a little bit now? Yeah, let's let's talk about them. Yeah so These tutorials have originally been made as a guide to the Triton cluster But over time we've generalized them some so they should be a little bit useful to anyone That's available or that is doing things on On any cluster So if it uses the slurm batch system and you can get a shell on it and it has get installed It has Python available. You can probably mostly follow along for these things So there will be local differences that you'll have to figure out, but well That is something you can figure out yourself But even if your cluster doesn't have a slurm, it doesn't Remind you of this if it uses PBS or a talk or something else it might Like many of the work those are still the same many of the similar kinds of Things you might might need to be mindful of that. We're going to be talking about they will be same because like HPC in as a field is very similar in all kinds of Same problems same solutions in all of the different systems, right? Yeah Okay, oh so with that being said should we start talking about ourselves some Yeah, okay


Good morning and welcome to a New Testament Survey, PC103. Recording is started. So let's pray even before we could begin with our session. Can I request one of you to please pray? Karin, Anand, friends, any more? Yeah, friends, please go ahead. Jesus, Lord, we come to you, Lord Father, this morning. Remembering of your grace, Lord Father, remembering of your goodness over all. Lord Jesus, as we are going to study about your word, Lord Father, help us to understand everything that you are teaching us, Lord Father. Lord, we surrender our minds, we surrender our hearts, Lord Father, into your hands. Holy Spirit, God, come and have your ways with us. And help us to open our ears, open our eyes, open our heart, open our mind. To see the greater and wonderful things of you and help us to learn more and come closer to you Jesus. We surrender everything into your precious hands. Come and have your ways. In Jesus' mighty precious name we pray. Amen. Good morning. Good morning once again. And thank you so much for joining in. So last class we were studying on the book of Matthew, the Gospel of Matthew. Let me share the presentation. So where did we stop last class? Anyone remember? Where did we stop last class? Anyone from the class? What way were we starting? What? Comparison between Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Like how does they say the kingdom, genealogy about Matthew and Mark and Luke says kingdom of God. So. Yeah. Thanks. Check it. Anyone else from the class? Did we lastly study on the things that Mark, the book has, the book of kings? Were we there and covering these points that are seen on the screen? Were we talked about the several elements from the Gospel of Matthew that classifies the book as the book of kings? Like the Old Testament prophets would declare that Messiah would come as a king. And you know, we started looking into the Gospel of Matthew as in the beginning of the chapter, Matthew chapter one verse one. Can we all turn to Matthew chapter one verse one?  And we see, it talks about the genealogy of Jesus, the lineage of Jesus because Matthew showcases Jesus or Matthew portrays Jesus as the king. And second point we saw that Jesus kingly visit. When we turn to Matthew chapter two, when we read from, you know, verse one to 12, we see that the baby Jesus is visited by the wise men or the kingly figures from the east. Not only these kings pay homage to Jesus, they gave him a present. The three kingly gifts were presented. I requested the class to let me know what those three gifts denote. The gold, frankincense and mur. Did anyone went and looked it? Do you all know what does these three gifts denote? Gold, frankincense and mur. Okay. For tomorrow's class, I want you all to do this. Okay. I want you all to go. Okay. Nina Santosh has looked it. Okay. Nina, can you please let us know what are these three gifts denotes gold, frankincense and mur. You can unmute and share. Gold as a symbol of kingship and frankincense as a symbol of deity or an incense which used for embalming and frankincense because worship identity as a son of God. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, Nina. Thank you so much for sharing that with the class. Yes. So Matthew is the only gospel that records all these kingly events. And then the third point we looked as Jesus kingly title. When we read Matthew chapter two verse two saying where is he who has been born king of Jews? For we have seen his star in the east and have come to worship him. So we see the wise men come from the east to worship him. And also in chapter 27 verse 37. I'm turning to Matthew 27. Matthew chapter 27 verse 37. Can anyone read if you have taken it? And they put up over his head the accusation written against him. This is Jesus king of the Jews. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And then Matthew chapter 27 it says this is Jesus the king of the Jews, the kingly title is been given by the people. And the fourth point we also see here is Jesus kingly function. So where do we see that? Matthew chapter 2 verse 6. Can we turn to Matthew chapter 2 verse 6? Matthew chapter 2 verse 6. But you, Bedlehem, in the land of Judah, are not the leads among the rulers of Judah. For out of you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel. Thank you. So it says, for out of you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people. So you see the kingly function. With that we will move on to the next slide. Jesus, kingly forerunner. So in those days like we looked even in the last class that in those days it was a custom that when a king is traveling through his domain that a cryer, one who cries, who brings forth a cry will come before him to prepare the way giving people time to get ready for his arrival that that and and the people, people in that place would pay a due respect, a due homage for him for his actual arrival. So we see in Matthew chapter 3 verse 1 to 3 it says, in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judah and saying, repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah that a voice of one crying in the wilderness prepared the way of the Lord make his path straight. So it was a customary act that God fulfilled it in the life of Jesus according to the custom that Jesus was born in. And with that we see the next point, Jesus kingly long. So we turn to Matthew chapter 5 verse 22. Matthew chapter 5 verse 22. If you have taken, you can read. What I say to you that whoever is with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment and whoever says to his brother, Raka shall be in danger of the council but whoever says you fool shall be in danger of hellfire. Thank you. So the kingly long. So what we see in this gospel here is Jesus is seen as the king of the kingdom. So one of his first official act in this reign of righteousness is to go up to a mountain sit down and deliver a message which subjects the law that he gives to govern this kingdom. So the key phrase you see here is you have heard it said of those of the old but I say but I say to you that whoever is hanged with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. So he is giving certain laws to the people who are sitting there saying this is my kingdom and I'm your king and this is the kingly laws that I'm giving forward and later we also see Jesus kingly connection. When we see that Jesus kingly connection let's turn to Matthew chapter 12 verse 3. Matthew chapter 12 verse 3 we see that but he said to them have you not read what David did when he was hungry and those who were with him how we entered the house of God and ate the showbread which was not lawful for him to eat or for those who were with him but only for them. So he just because he was hungry he went in and ate the bread that was provided but what we noticed in this chapter 12 verse 3 is several times in this gospel the gospel of Matthew that Jesus is clearly linked to King David that he is the son of David and later we see the next point Jesus kingly manifestation. If we turn to chapter 17 Matthew chapter 17 and when we read through the verse like from verse 1 to 13 which talks about Jesus' transfiguration on the mount. So on the mount of transfiguration we see the glory of the son was manifested by the father. So the mountains in the scripture represent kingdom. When I when I speak about this particular passage and here when it talks about the mountain talks about Jesus kingdom. And the last point that we have listed here is Jesus kingly apparel crowns chapter. Let's turn to Matthew chapter 27. Matthew chapter 27 verse 27 to verse 30 or 31 where it talks about about the soldiers who mock Jesus they mock at him. So through because of time frame I'll just briefly explain what the scripture talks about. It talks about where the soldiers who were involved in the crucification were mocking Jesus and they gave him a purple robe to wear. So the purple robe denotes the royalty and crowned it with the crown of thorns and put a skeptor in his hand and little that they knew that he would one day be the judge of all men and ruled with a skeptor of righteous. So this is what this scripture talks about. With that let me turn the slide. So next we will look at how Jesus demonstrated the authority of the kingdom of God through this book of Matthew. So Matthew portrays Jesus as you know who's having all power and authority. When we read Matthew 28 verse 18 the last few verses okay let me read that all three Matthew 18, 19 and 20. Matthew chapter 28 that's the last chapter last three verse 18, 19 and 20. It talks about Jesus came and spoke to them saying all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth go therefore and make disciples of all nation baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you and lo I am with you always even to the end of this page. So what do we see here? Jesus showing that he has a supreme power over heaven and over earth. He has people throughout the gospel. When we read we see that Jesus has been portrayed that he has this authority, he has this power over people, over every kind of sickness and disease and over you know the blindness, leprosy, lepers been healed and he also had the power over the wind and the waves. They come down of the very word of Jesus. We see he also said he has the power over the temple that he will rebuild the temple in three days and we know what was he talking about. He had the power over sin where he spoke to the man who was paralytic. He said your sins have been forgiven. Get up and take your bed and walk. So he had the power immediately. The person who was paralyzed was lying on the bed. He did get up. He did carry his bed and he walked. And then we see he had power over the demons. The demons flew at the very side of Jesus at the very presence of him. We see that he had the authority over the nature, history, human destiny and almost everything because this scripture which we just read 2818 says that Jesus had the power. He had all authority was given to him in heaven and on earth. In heaven and on earth. So with that, these were the certain facts that we need to remember when we study through the Gospel of Matthew. Okay. So with that, I let me give you a story format of, we remember it's easy for us to remember the Gospel of Matthew. Just give me a minute slide. Let me share that. Yeah. So from the Gospel of Matthew, I request you all to please read through this book so that we remember each and every act. So I just, I thought I can summarize a few events from this book so that we remember the form of story. So it is one of the earliest official accounts that Jesus about Jesus of Nazareth which talks about his life, death and resurrection. And the author of this book that the Gospel of Matthew is Matthew Levite and he was also a tax collector who was one of the 12 apostles. So the tradition says that for about 30 to 40 years, the apostles orally thought and passed on the eyewitness account about Jesus along with this teaching that they had also memorized. So the stories were told and retold again and again for about 30 to 40 years. So we see that Matthew had then collected and arranged all these amazing tapestries and he designed the book to highlight certain themes about Jesus. So from the last session we studied that Matthew wanted to show how Jesus continued to fulfill the whole, the calling on his life. So we see that Matthew portrays three things, very importantly three things in the Gospel of Matthew. The first we see that it shows that Jesus is a Messiah from the line of David. You know there is an introduction and there is a conclusion in this book. So the way he introduced Jesus, he clearly mentioned that Jesus is the Messiah from, was from the line of David. And the second point he also says that he is a new authoritative teacher like Moses by quoting many scriptures from the Old Testament. And then the third point he makes it very clear to us is that he shows Jesus has Immanuel, the Hebrew word Immanuel means God is with us. So the very book which started with the introduction which gives the genealogy for a king, he also has a conclusion, a beautiful conclusion by giving a great commission to the people. So Matthew opened the book with genealogy about Jesus where he highlights about Jesus, the messianic line of the son of David and he also said his son of Abraham. That means that he's going to do or going to bring God's blessing to all the nation, the promise that God promised to Abraham in Genesis chapter 12 verse 1, 2 and 3.  So that's why Matthew also in the genealogy he brings the genealogy that Jesus is the son of David and he's the son of Abraham. And after that we get to see that very famous story, it narrates about the birth of Jesus. Just give me a minute. Yes, thanks Lena, thank you. So we've got the clarification of the three gifts. Yes, Francis is for the priesthood, he's the high priest and Murr is connected to the sacrifice. Okay, back to our story form, talking about the genealogy. So where we put genealogy to the son of David and son of Abraham and then we also see all the events from the Old Testament of which the prophets had promised that the nation would come and honor the Messiah were fulfilled in Jesus. Matthew also shows that Messiah would be born in Bethlehem. But even more than that we see that Jesus connection by the Holy Spirit. His name is Emmanuel. All these work put together show us that Jesus is not an ordinary man but he is God with us. He is Emmanuel, God became man. So we see that two things that Matthew brings two key themes right at the introduction. One, he is from the lineage of David. Second, he is Emmanuel, God with us. But Matthew also want to show us how Jesus is the new Moses. There is a comparison in this book for Jesus and Moses. So through the reference of many Old Testament scriptures that he relates, Matthew relates it to Jesus, one of the comparison we see that he relates him to Moses. So like Moses, Jesus came out of Egypt, then he passed through the water of baptism and he entered into the wilderness for 40 days. And then Matthew narrates that Jesus you know goes up to a mountain to deliver his new teaching. Here what he is talking about is teaching on the Sermon on the Mount. So through all this, what is Matthew trying to claim? Matthew is trying to claim that Jesus is the promised Messiah. Or you also comparing by comparing Moses to Jesus, he is showcasing that Jesus is greater than Moses figure who is going to deliver Israel from the slavery. He is going to give them the new divine teaching. He is going to save them from this sin and bring them a new covenant relationship between God and his people. So after Jesus beginning to heal people, I mean he started to do his ministry by healing, delivering people. We see that he takes the followers out of the mountain on the hillside and he delivers that first sermon called the Sermon on the Mount. And here we see that Jesus shares on what it looks like to follow him and live according to God's kingdom. So he is teaching them the practical way. What is actually expected? What is expected from God? So he teaches them you know the kingdom of God. When we talk about the kingdom of God, it is the upside kingdom where there are no privileged members. We all are on the same level ground. We are all equal in the eyes of God because there is a lot of partiality led by the people, by the Pharisees, tribes and others. So here Jesus is teaching there are no privileged members in the kingdom of God. So what we see? We see who came to hear the sermon of Jesus on the Sermon on the Mount. We see everyone, especially we see that the poor was there, nobody's, there were no wealthy people, the wealthy or the religious, everyone came, everyone were invited to listen to the teaching of Jesus where they could repent and follow him and join his family. And here we also see that during this journey of Jesus moving from one place to another the way he thought that we see whenever Jesus when there was a large crowd following Jesus. And we see Matthew records two times that Jesus miraculously provided food for this huge crowd in the desert. Once it was for 5000, second it was for 7000. So one of which is Jewish and the other is non-Jewish people among the crowd they were both type of people. And this is a sign, very similar sign to what Moses did for Israel in the wilderness by providing the food. And here we also see Jesus clarifies to the Pharisees and the other religious leaders who says that he is not here to set aside, they were continuously saying that he is not here fulfilling the Old Testament covenant or fulfilling the Old Testament Torah. But then Jesus makes sure that I am not here, I am not here to set aside the commands of the Torah or the Old Testament, but rather I am here to fulfill that through the life and through the teaching. So here we also see that Jesus transformed the hearts of people through the teaching so that they can truly love God and love their neighbor including their enemy. So the minute the way he taught people, he noticed that their hearts was transformed, their hearts was turning towards God.  Being said that Matthew also records in records about the call of the twelve, how Jesus called the twelve disciples and then how he extends his reach by sending them out. That's what the book ends at, commissioning, the great commission. And these twelve disciples could be doing what they saw Jesus did. In fact, we see that Matthew narrates a bunch of Jesus parables about the kingdom of heaven, like about a farmer throwing a seed on four types of soil, about a mustard seed, and a pearl or a pearl treasure. So through these parables, we see the commentary on the stories that we can read in chapter 11, 11 and 12. We see many parables when narrated and Matthew also collects a group of stories of how people are portraying Jesus has two ways, some of the ways. Some people portray Jesus as positive, like people love Jesus, they think that he is the Messiah. But at the same time, there were others like John the Baptist who was neutral. Is he the Jesus? Is he the Messiah whom we are waiting for? Or even at the extreme side, we can't say only John the Baptist, even Jesus' own family had the same doubt within them that is he the Messiah? Is he the one whom we are waiting for? And along with that, we also see that there were other people who were very negative, very negative, like the Israel leaders where the Pharisees, the scribes of the Bible, scholars, they rejected Jesus altogether. They thought that he is a false teacher, is misleading the people, they thought that he is blasphemous by making himself exalted, claimed like he is the Son of God. One thing through this, we notice that Jesus isn't surprised or thrown at these responses. So, when we turn to chapter 16, when we turn to chapter 16, we see in verse 13, okay, he just says, Jesus asks his disciples, who do men say that I have the Son of man? When he asks those questions to people, you see Peter comes up with the right answer and says, Peter answered and said verse 16, Jesus, you are the Christ, the Son of the living God. And verse 17, Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you, Simon, Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. Verse 18, and I also say to you that you are Peter and on this rock I will build my church, the gates of faith shall not prevail against it. He goes on to say many things. But then what is very clear, something that we need to note here is that Peter's thought about a king is to somebody who can reign victoriously like with the military power and who can rescue the Jews from the Roman slavery, from the Roman government. But Jesus challenges Peter and says that yes, I am going to become a king, but in a different way. And then Jesus narrates to teach them from the prophet Isaiah who said that the messianic king would suffer and die for the sins of his own people. And so Jesus positions himself as a messianic king and he also showcases us that he will reign by becoming a servant, would lay down his life for Israel and the nation. And mostly the way Jesus taught them, I am sure Peter and his disciples didn't get what Jesus was trying to say. But then Matthew records it further and he says, you know, Jesus teaching on the servanthood and servant leadership. So in the community of the servant king, we gain honor by serving others. And instead of taking privilege, we tend to forgive and to go to our enemies. This is what Jesus was trying to teach his disciples and also the people. So in Jesus kingdom, we gain true wealth by giving to power. To follow the servant Messiah, we must become a servant for ourselves. So in the further chapters, chapter 17 onwards, we see that Matthew records how Jesus comes to Jerusalem for a Passover riding on a donkey and the crowds are hailing at him as the Messiah. So Jesus immediately marches into the courtyard of the temple and he creates this, courtyard of the temple and he creates this huge cures that you know, people were turning this temple into a marketplace. So we know what Jesus did. He took a whip and chased all the money lenders and he turned down the tables and he created a rest so that he didn't want it the place of worship to become a marketplace that Jesus withdraws with the disciples. And then he starts telling them what is what is going to happen to him. He's going to be executed by these leaders. He's going to somebody, let me finish, but I'm saying somebody has raised a hand. Okay, yeah, it was gone. So Jesus, you know, is trying to tell what's going to happen to him after this slowly and he also shares with his disciples saying that he will be executed by these leaders but in doing so they are not going to create a downfall to his kingdom but then Jesus is preparing his leaders to what is going to happen. So we also see that there will be ease revealing that after there will be a revolt against Rome. So Jerusalem and its temple are going to be destroyed but Jesus says that this is not the end of the story and it will be he is going to justify after his death and his resurrection one day that he will return and set up his kingdom over all the nation. And, you know, he is trying to teach all that and in the meanwhile he also takes his disciple, okay, that might Jesus takes all his disciples aside and he tries to celebrate a Passover meal with them. So we remember, right, the Passover, what happens that Passover meal, the Passover meal is arranged in the upper room and Passover retells the story of Israel's rescue from slavery, from the death of the Passover, talks about the death of the Passover lab itself and then Jesus takes the bread and the wine and he says that this is the meal, a new symbol showing that his coming death would be sacrificed and you would retain people from slavery to sin and evil. And Matthew narrates just immediately after that, he narrates that so that Jesus has been arrested. He puts on a trial before the Sanhedrin, the council of the Jewish leaders, we know that, right? And they reject his claim to be the Messiah. That's what happened. They charge him with blasphemy against God and then you see Jesus is brought before the Roman, Roman governor, who is that? Pilate. And he thinks that Jesus is innocent but then he gives into the pressure from these Jewish leaders on the other side who is forcing him to put Jesus to death by crossification. Now, Jesus is led away by the Roman soldiers and eventually, the log story cut short that they crucified Jesus. Now, what we notice here, we see that Matthew is opening another chapter and he increases the number of references to the Old Testament survey is trying to show us that Jesus' death was not a tragedy or a failure. He is actually portraying that it is the fulfillment of the Old Testament promises. Jesus came as a southern Messiah, spoken by the Isaiah. He was rejected by his own people. But instead of judging them, he is judged on their behalf, bearing the consequence of their sin. He also shows the crucification scene and where it comes close that Jesus' body is now placed in the tomb. But the end of this book is, it has a different story, the last chapter. Bear rough, let me turn to 28. So, where we discover on one Sunday morning that Jesus' tomb is empty, the disciples, they come and they witness that Jesus' tomb was empty and all of a sudden, people start to see Jesus alive from death. And here we see the book concludes with the risen Jesus giving his final teaching called the Great Commission. So, Jesus says that he is now the true king of the world and so he sends his disciples out to all nations. That's what we read the Great Commission, right? And Matthew 28 verse 18, 19 and 20, he sends them with the Great Commission out to all nations who proclaim the good news that Jesus is Lord and that anyone can join his kingdom by being baptized and by following his teaching. We also see that Matthew ends the book with the message of hope. What is that message of hope that Matthew gives us? It is nothing but immanual God with us. So, from chapter 1, we see that the last words of Jesus in this book that is that I will be with you. It is a promise that Jesus promising all his 12 disciples because they were filled with great fear after the execution of Jesus. In fact, we all know the story that they all ran away back to their own tradition or back to their own chores they were doing. But then Jesus called them, restored them back on the upper room.  So, this is the hope that Matthew ends this. It's a very beautiful book, isn't it? He has a proper start, introduction and a conclusion with the Great Commission. So, just this Great Commission is just not for us 12 disciples, but it is for each of us. Each of us, this promise that God with us, the Hebrew word immanual is for each of us. Just like how Jesus commissioned his disciples and told them, go to the ends of the earth and proclaim the good news, baptize them, those who believe, baptize them, let them follow the teaching. It is the same Great Commission that Jesus is giving each of us through the Gospel of Matthew. So, Matthew says that this is even for you. As you believe in Jesus, as you have set your life aside, this Great Commission is even for you. You are the disciple of Jesus. And also, there's a promise, there's a message of hope that God is with us. He will never leave us and forsake us, that he is leading us. So, as we study the Gospel of Matthew, we need to remember, we need to hold on to this promise, the Great Commission, that we are called, we are the chosen. We are to do what God has called us to do. So, if you have heard the sermon last Sunday, last two weeks, you see, there is a call, there is a purpose. Each of us have in our life. We are not an accident, we are not here by chance, but there is a call, there is a purpose that we need to fulfill. What we need to do, we need to pray and ask God, God, for some of us, our call is clear. We know what God is called and we have started to prepare and move toward that direction. But for those who for who are waiting to get this call of God clear, seek Him, seek Him till He reveals it. Our God is our God who does not do anything as a surprise or a secret, but then He reveals it to His children. He does not withhold any secret from His children. He is the first one to reveal it to His children. So, it would be good for us to seek God at the end of the night till it becomes clear to us, till this call becomes our purpose, so that we can move towards that direction to fulfill God's call and His purpose in our life. So, with that, I end the session. The class have any questions or you would like to share anything kindly unmute and share, so that it would be a learning for all of us in the class. Anyone from the class would like to share? Okay, I would encourage you to study through the Gospel of Matthew, so we understand the facts, what we studied and we also will understand the parables. I have not covered each and every parable in detail. I left that for us to read, okay. So, do you all have any questions? Would you like to share what was your learning from this book, the first book of the New Testament? So, class, anyone? Okay, maybe we should take this time to pray at close, okay. We pray. For the God, we thank you.   Thank you, Jesus, for the word that you did on the cross, that you redeemed each one of us. You have restored us back to God, the relationship you have restored us so that we can look at the Father and call our Father. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you for the great commission that you have called us, you have chosen us. Lord, I pray that you will reveal each of us your call, your purpose, that we may follow you, that we may fulfill your call and purpose in our life. As we studied last semester, the fulfilling God's purpose, Lord, I pray that as we surrender ourselves and collaborate with you, Lord, I pray that you will strengthen each of us in our weakness and you will lead us, you will lead us in the path that will fulfill the call of God in our life. For those who have gone history, Lord, I pray that you will bring us back to that first love. There will be a restoration.  Lord, even as we set this time aside to study your word, we pray that you will give us the mind of understanding that we may understand your word, the purpose of it was written and know the message for each of us personally of what you are revealing to us to our heart and Father. Lord, I surrender each of us into your hands, Lord, that we, as we study each and every book and the letters, we pray that you will transform our life inside out to be more like Jesus. Lord, I pray that Lord, the New Testament, the scripture will impact each of us, will change our lives, will transform us to be more like you. It will draw us close to your Father, where we will encounter you, Lord, through the scriptures that we will encounter you, that you are the true Messiah, the Son of God who ever redeemed us, who has set us aside and here we are in your Father. Lord, I pray that you will reign in and through us. Lord, I pray that you are our God, the revealed King, the Messiah, the true Messiah, Lord.  Thank you, Father, for who you are in us, Lord Jesus, that you are mindful of us, Lord. Thank you, Father. Thank you for revealing yourself to each one of us in the class and who would be watching, who are watching us online and later would be joining, Lord. I pray that, Lord, this book, this teaching will transform our mind and draws close to you, where we encounter you, Lord. The true God is encountered, Lord.  Father, what is impossible by you, Lord? What is impossible by you, Father? Lord, those who are listening to our teaching of Father, I pray that those of us who feel that it is impossible to have a transformed life, it is impossible to follow Jesus, Lord, I pray that, Lord, you will transform their heart, mind and thought, Lord. You will show them that God is with us. You are with them. They are not alone, Father. You are much closer than the breath that they breathe on them. Thank you, Lord. Thank you for being much closer to them and transforming their heart, helping their heart, their mind, their spirit to have an encounter with your Father. May each and every session of this class, Lord, will be an encounter with the Lord, with the Son of God. The true Messiah will be revealed to them, Father. Spirit of the living God, I pray that you will take over each and every session of Father, from the first book of Matthew till the revelation, Lord, where you will show yourself with all power to them, Father. Even as they sit in the class of Lord, but you are with them, Lord. You are speaking to them.  The great and mighty God is next to them, Father. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Let there be signs, wonders and miracles in the class of Father. Let them encounter you, Lord. Let the sickness be healed, O Father. Let your presence become tangible in the session, Lord. Let there be testimonies arising from the class of Father that they have encountered you, Lord. They have this experience of all powerful God next to them, O Father. Thank you, Lord Jesus, for revealing yourself, for showing yourself with us, Lord. Because this is what our Scripture talks about, Lord. When we study about you, your presence, O Father. Because your Word says, when two or three gather in my presence and call upon my name, I am there. Lord, we are more than two and three, O Lord. We talk about you. The experience of the disciples went through, O Father. We pray that as we study, we able to understand and experience the same presence of God with us, Lord. Because you are Emmanuel, O Lord.  You are with us, Lord. Thank you for your tangible presence, Lord. Just not for me, but for each of us where we are, Lord. May we experience you, Lord. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Holy Spirit, that you are present. When we call upon your name, you are there. Thank you. Jesus' most precious name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. God bless. Thank you for joining us in this session. God bless. Yeah. Thank you. Let me stop the recording.


We now interrupt your entertainment to bring you the Daily Dose of Weird News. I'm Darren Marlar. This episode is brought to you by the audiobook Could It Be True Volume 1 Urban Legends by Cindy Parmitter, narrated by Darren Marlar. Here's a free sample of this creepy and true audiobook at DailyDoseOfWeirdNews.com. North Korea invents the iPad. A North Korean company has launched a new tablet and they've come up with an interesting name for it. The iPad. No kidding. Of course, this product, created by a partially state-owned company called Ryan Hung, is very different from the Apple iPad that we know. The Android operating system is far more limited and users have access to only 40 pre-installed apps, including a calculator, a health encyclopedia and an agricultural program. It'll log into the North Korean intranet and has 1 gig of RAM, 8 gig of storage and a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor. Of course, copyright lawyers will no doubt be interested in such a flagrant abuse of Apple's trademarks, but it's kind of hard to believe anybody with Pyongyang's going to care about that. In fact, North Korea has ripped off Western names and ideas several times before, including their own version of Netflix, which generally shows nothing but programs about Kim Jong-un. Mikey says it'll continue to endorse Tiger Woods following his arrest for DUI. He'll be part of their new just-don't-do-it line. A New Hampshire police department has issued a new public service announcement with a message that reminds citizens it is illegal to possess recreational marijuana in New Hampshire, even if you only smoke it in Massachusetts. The idea for the somewhat humorous announcement came after the arrest of 27-year-old Selquett Taylor, who was initially pulled over for using his cell phone while driving. But then the officers saw a bag of marijuana in a cup holder. 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And for the record, most of them are about you. A Massachusetts coffee shop owner says he received a cease and desist letter from Dunkin Donuts claiming trademark infringement for using a play on the chain's catchphrase. Steve Coppolis says he added window art on his Mike's coffee shop in North Attenborough, which said North now runs on Mike's. While he expected a few laughs from customers, Steve says he was surprised to find the letter from the Canton, Massachusetts-based coffee shop chain claiming he was infringing on their America Runs on Dunkin' slogan and his variation implied an affiliation. Also, he took down the sign, explaining he wants to be the exact opposite of a corporate coffee chain. Of course, the bigger question is, why does a guy named Steve have a coffee shop called Mike's? A 30-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder after three dead bodies were found in a Liverpool home where John Lennon once lived. Well, how do we know John Lennon didn't do it? The New York Daily News printed a headline last week that harkened back to their legendary mid-1970s headline after President Ford refused to bail out then financially strapped New York City. That headline read, Ford to New York dropped dead. Well, last week's headline screamed out, Trump to the world, dropped dead. But then this is also the same paper that had the headline Headless Body found in Topless Bar, so it's kind of hard to take them seriously about anything. The nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island will reportedly be shut down in 2019. But, guys, raise your hands if you already thought it was shut down. Yeah, meet me too. A contest named Simply Who Can Drink More Vodka was organized in the city of Volgandosk, Russia, by a local supermarket. A total of 40 men took part and downed vodka, which had been put in buckets. Fire participants had to be rushed to intensive care, and the quote-unquote winner died from alcohol poisoning after downing an estimated three quarts. Okay, here's a tip for you, entering a contest called Who Can Drink More Vodka is never a wise move. A Delaware-sized iceberg is reportedly on the verge of splitting off from the Antarctica Shelf. Man, it's almost as if it was waiting for Trump to announce relieving the Paris Climate Agreement so it could make a run to freedom. Kathy Griffin has said to be disappointed that CNN's Anderson Cooper chose not to stand by her after she was fired from the New Year's Eve broadcast with Cooper, which they've done together now for 10 years. Oh, Kathy, have you not seen the recordings of that yearly disaster? Anderson spent a solid 10 years looking mortified at your antics. Police in Washington state arrested two Papa John's employees Friday for allegedly selling cocaine out of the restaurant. The King County Sheriff's Office spokesperson says they'd order pizza and go out and wait in the parking lot. The employee would bring the pizza out and in the box would be the cocaine. Apparently, the code phrase was to say, give it extra olives when ordering. Authorities seized cocaine, ecstasy, marijuana, oxycodone, LSD, meth and $28,000 in cash. Better ingredients, better pizza, Papa John's. Sixth grader Ananya Venet outspelled 291 spellers from across the country and the globe to become this year's Scripps Spelling Bee Champion. Ananya Venet won by correctly spelling the words Ananya Venet. A woman in Germany who hid her life savings in a vacuum cleaner dust bag just because she doesn't trust banks, well she nearly lost all of it when her cleaning woman threw the bag out. The woman managed to get her $113,000 back after she called the local trash collection service which sent a team to sift through tons of garbage to find the bag. Not only does she not trust banks, now she doesn't trust cleaning ladies or vacuums. Google is facing a $9 billion European Union find for rigging search results. You can find out more by googling, Google is innocent. Kellogg's is closing several distribution centers and laying off a thousand workers. So if anybody is in need of a cartoon tiger to promote their product, well there's one standing in the unemployment line, and he is GREAT! New Westminster Animal Shelter in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada received a very generous donation from the estate of a teacher and animal lover. What's strange is that the late Daryl Mutz never even visited the shelter. But the New Westminster Animal Shelter is grateful anyway for Mutz's $275,000 donation. I wonder if Daryl was an animal lover like I'm a lover of kids. I enjoy them, but only in short doses and on a case-by-case basis. Lindsay Lohan is launching her own jewelry line. The jewelry is expected to be very impressive and desirable in the beginning but then quickly lose its luster and long for the days when it was relevant. An American Airlines jet trying to take off in San Antonio veered off the runway and became stuck in the mud. The pilot said he had no choice, it was either that or collide with Harrison Ford. A brush fire on the side of a Phoenix freeway didn't burn for long thanks to the help of an unlikely hero, Jared Aitton, a carpet cleaner who was on his way home from a job when he spotted the fire burning on the side of the road. He thought, man I wish I could help or do something, and then he remembered that he had a tank full of water inside his carpet cleaning van. He pulled over and got to work using what was left of the water. By the time fire crews arrived, the flames were out. Once the firefighters arrived, Jared told them, I've done your job, now you do mine.  Get to it! Newspaper circulation has dropped to a 77 year low. Well, duh, on the home delivery of the New York Times is over $250 a year. That's a lot of dough just for something to line the bird cage and litter box with. A new book about Saddam Hussein's last days in captivity reveals he was a big fan of the music of Mary J. Blige. Wow, that's gotta make Mary J feel all kinds of creepy. A new study says pesticides on food may cause damage to the brain. So it took a study to figure that out? Was there ever a point where somebody thought, it'll kill bugs, but we'll be fine? There's a dirty little secret about hanging out at the International Space Station that NASA is finally talking about. It seems the cost of transporting water up there is so cost-for-hibitive about $48,000 per liter that NASA engineers had to find cheaper ways of taking H2O into space. Fortunately for science, somebody figured out how to do it. And fortunately for the astronauts, it's turning their own pee into drinking water. I know it's a survival thing, but I would be demanding a lot of Kool-Aid mixed to mask the reality of that. A new Dr. Seuss museum has opened in Springfield, Massachusetts. Although I think they made a mistake with the green eggs and ham vending machine. Wonder Woman made $223 million dollars around the globe over the weekend. Outside it was the biggest opening for a female director ever. And the only film in the new DC movie universe worth spending a buck to see. In Tennessee, 19-year-old Lucinda Luna is dead after she was accidentally shot by her boyfriend with a gun her father gave him as a graduation gift. It seems the boyfriend, 18-year-old Brennan Fields, had taken apart the pistol and put it back together without realizing there was still a live round in the chamber. Fields was reportedly playing with the gun when it fired, and the bullet struck Luna in the stomach while she was lying on a couch across the room from him. Luna died early the following day at an area hospital. What kind of father gives his daughter's boyfriend a gun as a graduation gift, especially if that boyfriend doesn't know any better than to play with the gun loaded or not? Wouldn't a more appropriate graduation gift be a prepaid gift card to Walmart or Applebee's? I mean, if the kid likes guns, buy him the latest Grand Theft Auto. You don't buy the kid your daughter is dating, a gun! A rumor says Kraft Heinz is planning on buying Colgate. Well, that's gonna make for some disgusting tasting toothpaste. Or will it be toothpaste-flavored ketchup? Either way, eww. The first Nutella Cafe opened its doors this week in Chicago. Chicago knows that it can buy Nutella in stores, but it's so used to spending money it doesn't have, it's just habit now. A lawyer in Mexico is planning to launch a Trump brand of toilet paper, with 30% of the profits going towards financing programs that support migrants and Mexicans deported from the U.S. You know, if that stuff's available here in the United States, it's gonna fly off the shelves. At least four major law firms have reportedly backed away from talks with the White House to help defend President Trump in the escalating federal Russia probe. Why? Well, they're said to be worried that our headstrong commander-in-chief won't listen to their counsel. One lawyer familiar with the talks tells Yahoo News the concerns were, quote, the guy won't pay attention and he won't listen, unquote. So now Trump is talking to that annoying ambulance-chasing lawyer dude who advertises during Dr. Phil. George Clooney is a new father. He and his wife Amal this week welcomed their twins, a boy and a girl, Ella and Alexander, into the world. I'm wondering though if this might be a fake news story because I have a hard time believing that a Hollywood couple would name their babies something normal like Ella and Alexander. An NSA contractor named Reality Winner has been charged with leaking classified government documents. Surprisingly, her alleged accomplish document leaker has not been charged. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he is not a fan of President Trump's tweets, which I'm sure will be the subject of the Donald's next tweet. Uber has hired a Harvard expert to help with their leadership problems. That'll hopefully give them a lift. The mayor of London is calling for the UK to cancel their scheduled visit for President Trump. Trump plans on smoothing things over though by giving the mayor a can of Pepsi. Police in Vale, Colorado are warning homeowners to bear-proof their homes after one bear was caught on a security video playing the piano inside an apartment last week. No kidding. The tenant phoned police to report a burglary after returning to what looked like a ransacked apartment. A responding officer determined the culprit was likely a black bear that entered through an open kitchen window looking for food. But it wasn't until the resident checked her security camera and found a honey of a video showing not only was there indeed a bear, but he seemed to be very interested in the apartment piano, and he pawed the keyboard. Play a sa-song, you're the piano bear. Play a sa-song tonight. Seattle is the latest city to impose a sugary sales tax on soft drinks. Diet drinks are not taxed extra. Seattle is already full of depression and suicidal thoughts, and you're going to tax one of the only legal vices that help people cheer up? Yeah, great plan. In Utah last Sunday, an eight-year-old Nebraska girl and her entire soccer team were disqualified from a tournament because organizers thought she was a he.  The Florida mom has given birth to a big baby boy, 13 pounds five ounces. When the doctor slapped him, he slapped back and forced the doctor to give him his lunch money. A Birmingham police sergeant bit into an Arby's sandwich and found a one-inch bolt inside. But then he chewed it up and spit out bullets. That's what happens in the cartoons. Emptying trash cans and dumpsters in Bogota, Colombia's Jose Alberto Guterres one day found a copy of the classic novel Ana Karenina and kept it.  Thanks to additional book donations, Guterres' library has swelled to 25,000 books. Now he needs somebody to throw out a building so he has somewhere to put them all. A new report says it is cheaper to send a kid to Harvard than it is to send him to a California prison. And it looks a lot better on his resume. In a new trend, more women are using marijuana during pregnancy. Is it itty-wonder why we're having more fat babies being born? The moms are always having the munchies. Kim Kardashian says she is done with Caitlyn Jenner. My theory is it's to avoid the whole question of should I still buy her a father's birthday gift? A German man tried to leave his house for work this week only to find his front door had been bricked up. He was exiting his residence near Frankfurt and found somebody had built a wall in front of his entrance. He had to tear it down in order to leave his property. You gotta admit, that's a whole lot more creative than the whole post-it notes all over your car thing. A study says two hours of video games a week makes young people more employable. That should make the kid who lives next door to me 15 times more employable than the other candidates. Contrary to conventional wisdom, drinking alcohol is not enough to make you fat or even gain weight as long as you drink in moderation. Nutrition reviews report that a team of researchers examined 31 different studies on the topic and concluded that moderate drinking doesn't have a strong association with weight gain or a high body mass index. Though good news, you no longer have a beer belly. Bad news, you are still morbidly obese. Meanwhile, a new study warns that even moderate drinking can damage our brains. This news could not come at a worse time with parents everywhere having to deal with kids being home from school. A Russian man recently proposed to his girlfriend, a nurse, by hiding the engagement ring that he bought her in his stomach wound. He asked her to change the dressing on the wound and while doing so she found the ring. The woman said yes to the proposal but washed the ring before putting it on.  A Utah woman is accused of pulling two over seven-year-old son's teeth out with pliers in a Walmart bathroom. See, and people say Obamacare is dead. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up and be sure to subscribe if you want to see more. And click that little bell icon next to the subscribe button to be notified when I post new videos. And if you're already an official Weirdo, please share this video on your own social media. Find even more weird news that I didn't have time for on the Facebook page at DailyDoseOfWeirdNews.com. 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Well hello my friends and welcome back to my channel. Today we're going to be working in my business planner, which is, let's look at the front of it again, this is the Erin Condren monthly, or sorry Deluxe Monthly, I get that messed up every time, Deluxe Monthly Planner. I do have some related videos on this which I will link in the description below, however if you guys are interested in seeing my first impressions and walkthrough I'll throw it up in a card for y'all as well. I get the version that is 12 months, that is from January through December, and I elected this year for 2019 to get all the notes pages. So I do have some pages kind of flagged for what I want to use them for, but as I'm setting these up I'm putting these videos out just to show you guys how I'm using it and what I'm using it for. I've actually put out another video just recently that was on this, which is tracking all of my YouTube income and lots of different revenue streams that I've got going on through my business, so if you guys are interested in checking that video out, again I will throw it up in a card as well as down below for you guys. But today I am going to be talking about my bills that run through the business. So this is anything that's YouTube related or business related expenses that aren't specifically my Etsy shop. I do my Etsy thing a little bit differently, which I'll explain. Possibly when I set that up I'm not sure if I'm going to do that one on camera or not, but we'll see. But this is just YouTube expenses. YouTube is a little bit more encompassing of my life and things like that, so this is kind of more generalized like my LLC if that makes sense. I am not a tax professional. I just want to say that right out the bat, I'm not a tax professional. I do not take my tax advice on anything I have consulted with a tax professional before I put any of these things into my business budget. Depending on how you set up your business and the laws and restrictions in your state or your country, some things you can do, some things you can't do. It doesn't really matter because I'm not actually showing you anything. I am just showing you how I'm going to set this up decoratively. So first things first, I am going to use this beautiful washi that is new for this year through Erin Condren. It's the woven wonder pattern, which is the same pattern that I have on the front, but I elected to go with a really neutral cover. So I did the white letters with, I believe this is taupe or light taupe for the actual cover and I love it. So I'm going to use this as well as there are some little gold flags that have all the months that I'm going to play with as well. And then I've got some of these that are also Erin Condren stickers that I'm going to use as well. They also have the gold foil and then I'm not sure I pulled these out. So I'm going to link them down below, but this is little computers that are really, really cute that I absolutely love from Piper Paper Company. And this sheet here is from Small Town Grace. I love this like little boss sticker. I think it's amazing.  I think I got these from Paper Loving Mommy several years ago, like when I first started planning like four years ago. Also, I'm going to be using this sheet right here. This is from Harriet Wright Designs. And I got to say, like, I love her paper. It's so incredibly nice. Like it's like butter. Okay. So anyway, let's, um, let's start playing with stuff. Oh, also I am going to be using this pen. This is, it's not a pen, it's actually a marker. It is the Pilot Ultra Fine Point permanent marker. And I just love the way it feels. Like I just, something so sad, it's fine about this little pencil here. Oh, not that pencil. What am I trying to say? It's a marker.  So there's the blue. There's also a black. I believe that there is a red and a green. So if you're not into blue, that's all right. There's also this little device here. And I am going to link this down below. I got this on Amazon, um, a Minnesota planner friend of mine had this in her arsenal one day and we were like planning and I was like, girl, what is that?  It's called Slice by, I don't know, I can't see it properly. I know I have the link. So I'll link it down below. And, um, it's also linked in my Amazon shop under planner favorites. So basically anything that I buy for my house or for planner stuff or YouTube stuff or whatever is all in that Amazon shop. So if you guys want to check it out, you can. But the cool thing is, is, um, you're supposed to be able to like cut it. I haven't even used it yet, but it's got like this little, hold on. It's got this like little, can you guys see that? Like little blade, right? And I don't think, no, it won't.  But it's got like a little green thing on the top. So you can kind of see where it's going to go. Let's see if this works with this tape. Yeah, that works. Cool. Um, the reason I wanted to do it with this one is because this is like more of a, like a paper tape. It's not actually like washi tape. So you can't really rip it. I don't think, hold on. Let me try to rip it. Hold on, let's see. Oh, you can rip it. Huh, in years past it hadn't worked. Okay. Well, I'm still going to link this down below, but I probably, I don't know. I might use this. I might not. I don't know. Haven't really decided yet, but it's a really cool little device. And you know, you can just like, I don't know, do things with it. So anyway, uh, moving right along, let's stop messing with things and actually get into the video. All right. So I just laid this down. Sorry, I might have shown it. Um, I like to kind of go like this with the little bookmark here. This is from, um, Erin Condren as well. But I feel like it kind of like smooths that out a little bit. And, um, you know, that's what I need in my life as a little, as a little smoothen. So my vision was originally to put this on here as well as one of these little like half moon shapes and put 2019. I know that's like super redundant because this is for 2019, but I just, I think I would like the way that that looks. So let's try it first with January and see what we like. I don't know. And I'm trying to see if I can like actually line things up properly. Hold on. Let's, I'm a professional y'all. I'm a professional. Okay. I want to try to get this. So all of them look the same moving forward. So like January and then we have February and March and April and May and you know, all that good stuff. But I want to have them kind of like look the same because I like a little consistency in my life, but I want that little tail right here to kind of hit the end of that line. I'll explain what that means in a second. Okay. So you see this line here and then this line right here. You can't see the line anymore because it's now covering it. I wanted to hit like right there that I like that. Okay. So, and then this little guy with the foil on the bottom, I wanted to kind of center and put that right in the middle. It looks like a little hat. Oh, does that look funny? I actually don't mind it. Let's leave it. I think we're going to leave it. I like it. All right. So now I'm trying to figure out where I want to put things. I want this on here somewhere. I also want like a YouTube button on here somewhere and then I also want this on here somewhere as well. But I'm not sure like how I want like all of that to go here. I think, I think I have an idea. All right. Let's pray to the sticker gods that I do this right. Let's see here. Okay. So that just kind of like tells me what it is. And then I was thinking of using this as well and putting in expenses. I can put that right there. Okay. I kind of, I'm kind of digging it. I'm kind of digging this. This is not on the piece of paper. This is just like a reminder to myself what I can put in that budget. I really like this. I think this looks kind of cool. Oh, sorry. I'm like, I should really zoom you guys in once in a while. You know what I'm saying? Whoop-sha-dup-sha. But yeah, I think I'm into this. I think this looks good. So we got our YouTube play button, a computer, expenses, the money. I got my paper tape washi stuff from Aaron Condon at the bottom here. My January, it says 2019 on that little archway thing. I'm into it. Okay. So, and I've got one page for every month in here. So I am going to speed this up and do the rest of them because they're all going to look the same, but I'll flip through before I end the video here. But yeah, I'm like, I'm pumped about this. I really, really like this. Okay. Let's speed up this footage. Finally done. It took a little while and my lighting's a little wonky now. So I'm sorry about the lighting. If it looks a little bit dark right now, I hope I can fix it in post. But anyway, all of my layouts look the same, but I've got my beautiful washi my January, which is they're all gone now because they're all in here and then my little like crescent thing and all that good stuff. All the links will be below. I know I explained what it was before, but I think because I don't have enough of these little boss mugs, I think I'm going to just put one in January because, you know, why not? I'm just going to put it like right up here because, you know, the cuteness and all. But anyway, so I've got January and then we've got February. Sorry if it's a little glary just because of the foil, but I love that. I like, I kind of am into like the little crescent. I think that looks kind of cool. And then we've got March and then April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December. So I'm not 100% sure how I am going to like set up stuff right here. I'll probably end up putting in like the store or wherever it came from, the amount, the date, like, you know, kind of a list of things. I do have like an old tax scheduler. So I do want to do something with like codes and things like that. I might actually use stickers for that, to be honest, like little transparent dots and like codes of like what it means and all that good stuff. So I don't necessarily buy a ton of things. So the page front and back should be just enough for a month. And I think that should be just fine. But let's flip back to January here. I'm going to pull this off real quick and let's zoom you guys in. I'm going to move this up here. Just a scotch, but yeah, that is it for my headers, for my business financial stuff, for 2019, all of my expenses. If you guys have any questions, as usual, you know the drill. You can post them down below. And also, if you want to be a part of the FDE family, feel free to subscribe, hit the like button, hit the little bell notification. So you know when I upload new content. And if you have any video suggestions, make sure to put them down in the comments below as well. I'm always up for suggestions. So anyway, that's going to be it for me today. I thank you guys so much for hanging out with me and I will see y'all in the next video. Bye guys. Well, folks, it's time to kick it old school. So you can feel cool.