Hey there lads and ladies, it is Petrifying Pumpkins here with another episode of PSVR News that I already recorded, but I forgot to unmute the microphone, so as you can imagine, not in a good place right now. Let's just get to the news and let's just get to the topic, let's get this over with. Alright, first things first, I wanted to talk about is Gran Turismo 7, and that is because today, PlayStation have updated their website on several of their PlayStation 5 games that are coming out, so the likes of Gran Turismo, Demon's Souls, Horizon, all that stuff, got new screenshots, new bits of information, not huge, big things, but you know, updates, the kind of stuff that you'd read at the back of the box, you know, blurbs and what not, but I was kind of hoping that when we got new information about Gran Turismo 7, especially in something like this, they would give us some kind of mention about PSVR support, and that is because of course PS4, we have Gran Turismo Sport and that was launched with PlayStation VR support, and they kind of heavily promoted that, like immediately, it was like when they announced Gran Turismo Sport, I'm pretty sure they announced that PlayStation VR support was coming along with us, no such luck here, so it could be something to be worried about, I don't want to be too negative, I'm not saying it's definitely not happening or anything like that, it's kind of like the same with Resident Evil 8, that game, because Resident Evil 7 had us and it was apparently successful, you would kind of imagine that it's gonna have it again in Resident Evil 8, but they're not talking about it, they're not confirming us, kind of important to say as well that they're not denying us either, they haven't come out and said no, there's not going to be VR, so that gives me hope too, but in terms of Gran Turismo 7 here, I believe this blurb right here, I mean this really highlights it here, you know, enjoy the best features from past installments of the series, if you would ask me, and I guess a lot of you too, because you're watching the PlayStation VR channel, one of what's the best feature of Gran Turismo sports, you would say PlayStation VR mode, maybe, unless you're a big fan of Gran Turismo or whatever, even though that was a pretty anemic mode, it was very basic, didn't have online, I think you're just racing against one AI the whole time, you couldn't even increase the difficulty or whatever, so it was a very limited virtual reality mode, but still it was pretty fun, it was nice to be in those cares, those highly detailed cares and whatnot, and we would like to see something like that expanded upon in Gran Turismo 7, but they will not mention it at all, they'll talk about the key features down here, basically, you know, charging simulation, the garage, and then you got the PS5 features, like the stuff like the adaptive triggers, the 4K, this SSD, the super speeds and all that kind of stuff, but not a single mention of PSVR, now don't get me wrong, all this stuff was really cool, if you're a fan of Gran Turismo or just racing games in general, this stuff here was probably, you know, got your tail wagon, rightly so, you know, because this stuff sounds fantastic, but not a single mention of PSVR, I mean, you know what, just to make sure, PSV or no, no PSVR mentioned once, you know, how about virtual reality, no, look, again, I don't want to be too negative, I just don't understand why Sony won't talk about them, or not even Sony, you know, Capcom, they're not talking about Resident Evil A's either, now there has been, I've gotten feedback from people on Twitter or my YouTube comments and all that kind of stuff, saying, look, that could be a big PSVR event, like January or February or whatever, and then they'll start revealing, oh, Resident Evil A's, Gran Turismo 7, fully playable in VR, etc, etc, I'm not 100% convinced about that, I mean, that would be nice, or even like a stage of play, something like that, I don't know, it just seems, something seems off, like if you were going to save all this stuff for an event, why not save Hitman for the event too, I know Hitman's coming out early next year, maybe that has something to do with us, but yeah, listen, keep an eye on us, I'm not ruling us out, I'm not saying it's not gonna happen, I'm just ever so slightly concerned, you know, same with Resident Evil A's, because of Resident Evil A's, of course, there was TGS, the Tokyo Game Show, they had a Capcom showcase, I guess you could call this, that was two hours long, it was like a long one, they went into detail about Resident Evil A's, well, not huge detail or whatever, but they didn't mention Virtual Reality once, that was another opportunity for them to mention Virtual Reality, and they didn't, this is another opportunity here for Gran Turismo, and they didn't, so you know, we should at least be asking questions, you know, so next topic I want to talk about then is the Walking Dead Enslot, so first things first, I've made a video about the Walking Dead Enslot before, and in the comments, I got a lot of people saying what the hell are you saying, apparently I don't pronounce Enslot correctly, so you guys probably want me to say the Walking Dead Enslot, but I'm not going to do that, I'm going to say Enslot, and if you have a problem with that, hit the road, you've, biggest, you ignorant, biggest, alright, but if you're cool with that, then you can stay, and we'll talk about the reception for the Walking Dead Enslot, so what I've got here are two different reviews of the Walking Dead Enslot, this one from PSU, PlayStationUniverse.com, and this one from Upload Vior by David Jagno, this one here is by Eric Hauser, we'll start with this one, this is the more positive one, very positive, 9 out of 10 this guys, we'll just skip down to the summary at the end, because that's what they're there for, am I right? So on 9 out of 10, Eric says, with a well written story, fantastic world building, and great bloody combats, the Walking Dead Enslot is a fantastic companion piece to the beloved AMC show, and a great viewer game in its own rights, supply runs provide a perfect mix of speedy action and tense combats, while the narrative portions feel carefully and artfully constructed. While the Vior level budget peeks through on occasion, this is an amazingly well made and entertaining game, so very high praise by Eric Hauser here if I'm seeing his name correctly. So let's compare that with David Jagno over on UploadVior.com, and we'll skip down to his end piece, well, we'll see what score he ever first, so 2 stars out of 5, and that is a meh, he's giving it a meh rating, which is not grace, you can see here, they go from avoid meh, good grace, essential. So this game has been met by Servius, and Servius do have a good pedigree on PSVR, I think we all knew it wasn't going to be a trash game at the very least, like there's going to have like some solid foundation in there, that's what prevents it from being an avoid, because it still does have the solid foundation, it works, it's functioning, it's just that they met it too easy apparently, according to all these reviews, we'll look at the pros here, Norman Reedus, a great voice actor, which is fair enough, the gore and blood effects are extremely satisfying, and Alexandria settlement mechanics are interesting, so you'll see there's nothing really here about the actual gameplay itself, I mean you could talk about the effects being satisfying, but that's like visual effects. Over here then in the negatives, scavenger missions ruined by annoying red fog to represent the horde, so from my understanding, you're doing these scavenger missions and they've got like a limit, so the time limits I guess you could say is that there's a wall, a horde, a zombie horde closing in, but instead of actually putting a horde of zombies there, they've got like a battle royale style fog or gas coming in as red, and that's supposed to represent the zombies, you step inside as unlike these bite marks appear on the screen, which is, I mean the limitations of the hardware of course, you can't expect them to have a very you know an actual horde filled with like you know hundreds of thousands of zombies attacking you or whatever, but what they've done with the red fog is pretty kind of shitty looking.  Basically you've already got the best weapon in the game when you start, why would you need anything else essentially? So that's like a review that's very positive, a review that's pretty negative, but I will say if you go on to the YouTube reviewers who weren't on the Metacritic, the likes of Gamertag, he gave it a 4 out of 10, he was pretty scathin about it, he was like waste for it to go on sale for like five dollars or five pounds sterling whatever, without parole gave it like a 6.4 which is you know average, and they shared a lot of the same complaints you're seeing here, the game being too easy, not being balanced, although without parole did compliment the gameplay loop, so it wouldn't make you wonder if maybe a patch can come along, if they can make the enemies more difficult, if they can add adorability to melee weapons so that they're not you know infinite kill machines, maybe that could save the game a little bit, as it stands it seems like the game is a bit of a let down, and even David Shagnos says, I think he says the best here, he says I hate to say this, but The Walk in Dead Saints and Sinners is just a much better example of how to create an immersive viewer world, much better use of the source material and much better game in general, so basically why would you buy the walk in dead onslaught, when The Walk in Dead Saints and Sinners is such a much better game, and that exists, it's disappointing, I was expecting onslaught to be really good, the trailers looked really good, I'm actually kind of shocked that it turned out this way, and I got the reception that it did, fingers crossed, surveyors can pull something out of the bag and improve the game, and then the last thing I want to talk about is Star Wars squadrons, and that is because this character here, this YouTube channel, the gaming noisemakers, managed to get their hands on an early copy, so this actual VR gameplay of Star Wars squadrons live out there now, I'm not going to play the whole video or anything because that will be like you know, stealing content or whatever, I'm not going to do that, but you can play the video, I'll play a few seconds, you'll get an idea of the actual gameplay, so he's playing this on a PS4 Pro, he's not using a hot ass, he's using the DualShock 4, so you'll get some idea, check it out, I'll put the link to this in the description if you want to check it out for yourself, but the game and noisemakers, check that out and get hyped because that game is out in like what, two days? 24 hours? less? and if you've pre-ordered this, you'll get it at midnight, I'm looking forward to this game and all loads of people are looking forward to this game, it's probably PS4's biggest game this year, maybe if you take Dreams, maybe Dreams, there's Saints and Sinners up there too, luckily it's definitely going to be a big game I think, although I believe this guy says that the online isn't up and running yet, so what are you going to see here until the server's go live is just the single player campaign that he's gone through, I think, and so yeah, that is it for this episode of PSV or news, thank you very much for watching, really appreciate it, but before I end the video let me give a huge thank you to my supporters over on Patreon, thanks to their generosity, this channel can stay moist, in particular let me give a huge shadows to the following top tier Patreon supporters, chopped 517, tradition, Daniel the pumpkin patch kid, Pete Hawkins and Crumb, thank you very much for that top tier generosity, I really do appreciate it, if you would like to help me out over on Patreon too, the link will be in the description below, if not I'll be just as happy with likes, subscribes, you know, all that usual YouTube shite, finally let me thank Decepticon for letting me use his music in all my videos, check him out in the link below as well at Decepticon.com and you'll find them in all the usual spots, until next time, stay moist


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session, we are going to discuss about computation of mode for continuous series. In case of continuous series, first we locate the modal class by inspection or by dripping method. The value of mode is then determined by applying the following formula.  The formula is applied in the following forms depending on whether the series is given in ascending form or descending form.    Here we should note that if the modal class happens to be the first or the last class interval then we may respectively take f 1 f m equal to 0 also it is necessary that the class intervals are of uniform width throughout if they are unequal they should be made equal. Let us take an example determining the mode also construct its histogram and the distribution is given as the class intervals are given as 0 to 5 5 to 10 10 to 15 15 to 20 20 to 25 25 to 30 and I represented by x with the corresponding frequency represented by f is given by 2 3 7 12 5 and 1. Since the given series is regular therefore we can determine modal class by inspection which is equal to 15 to 20. Therefore the modal class is 15 to 20 since it has the maximum frequency that is 12 and we know that mode m naught is given by l 1 plus f n minus f 1 upon twice of f n minus f 1 minus f 2 into i. So we have mode m naught is equal to l 1 that is the lower limit of the modal class which is equal to 15 plus f m that is the frequency of the modal class which is equal to 12 minus f 1 that is the frequency of the class preceding the modal class which is equal to 7 upon twice of f n that is 2 into 12 minus f 1 that is 7 minus f 2 that is the frequency of the class succeeding the modal class and is given by 5 into i that is the width of the class interval which is given by 20 minus 15 that is 5 which is equal to 15 plus 12 minus 7 that is 5 upon 2 into 12 that is 24 minus 7 minus 5 is minus 12 into 5 that is 15 plus 5 upon 24 minus 12 that is 12 into 5 which is equal to 15 plus 5 into 5 that is 25 upon 12 on taking the ACM we get 180 plus 25 upon 12 which is equal to 205 upon 12 that is 17.08 so mode m is given by 17.08 now we shall study the procedure for the graphical location of mode and the first step is to draw a histogram of the data for convenience only three rectangles may be drawn that is rectangles for modal pre-modal and first modal class second step is to draw two lines diagonally inside the modal class rectangle starting from each upper corner of the modal rectangle to the upper corner of the adjacent rectangle step 3 is from the point of intersection of both these lines draw a perpendicular to the x axis the point where this perpendicular meets the x axis is the value of the mode we should note that mode cannot be determined graphically if two or more classes have the same highest frequency now we shall construct the histogram for the same distribution to draw the histogram we take class along the x axis and frequency along the y axis and for x axis 1 square is equal to 5 units and for y axis 1 square is equal to 2 units now in the first step we shall construct three rectangles for modal pre-modal and first modal class to draw the rectangle for the modal class we have the class interval that is 15 to 20 with the frequency as 12 this is the rectangle of the modal class now for pre-modal class we have the class interval 10 to 15 with the corresponding frequency as 7 this is the rectangle for the pre-modal class for post-modal class we have the class interval 20 to 25 with frequency 5 this is the rectangle for the post-modal class now we draw two lines diagonally inside the modal class rectangle starting from each upper corner of the modal rectangle to the upper corner of the adjacent rectangle let the two diagonals intersect at point P from P we draw a perpendicular on the x axis and the point where this perpendicular meets the x axis is the value of the required mode which is equal to 17.08 therefore we can say the mode is equal to 17.08 this completes our session hope you enjoyed this session


This will drive the narcissist insane. What I am about to share with you could potentially drive the narcissist insane But it's not something what I am going to be teaching you how to abuse or manipulate the narcissist Abuse is wrong manipulation is wrong and I would never advise anyone to do either of those things But the advice I am about to share with you Which is meant to prove your life Will also indirectly have a negative effect on the narcissist Our positivity is the narcissist's negativity. So just know While this information is intended to benefit you it may also drive the narcissist insane Whether you are still with the narcissist Or you left them or they discarded you This advice can be used in all situations The narcissist likes to have power over you They like to be in control They want to know what you are thinking and how you are feeling at all times They want to have the power to influence your thoughts and emotions It lets them know that they are still able to affect you. It makes them feel powerful As though they are still something significant in your life if you take this away from them It will drive them insane If you take away their ability to affect you It will make them extremely annoyed. How do you take away their ability to affect you? focus on yourself Focus on your own life when the narcissist is trying to get to you Don't react emotionally. They feed off your emotional reactions That is what lets them know that they are still able to affect you So don't give them any emotional reactions If they're trying to get to you don't react Don't be overly negative or positive Give a neutral response It makes it very difficult for them to tell where you are in the mind They might try to test you By giving you a compliment or by saying something positive about you Even when they are doing this It is still designed to let them know if they have the ability to affect you If they can get a positive reaction out of you, it still makes them feel powerful It still makes them feel significant When they give you a compliment Or they say anything positive to you React in the same way as before Don't give them any emotional reactions Don't be overly positive or negative Give a neutral response It will drive them insane It will make them extremely annoyed Because they're not able to get a reaction out of you And they feed off reactions If you're not giving them a reaction They're forced to starve Thank you for watching I hope this video resonated with you Please like, comment, share and subscribe Click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos If you would like to donate My PayPal link is in the video description CoachingInquiries, you can email me at noxforevercoaching at gmail.com Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon


Hey guys, welcome back to Daniel's tech world on YouTube medium and Daniel Russell that tech very very quick video I'm just making these as I do my various backups This is one that I put in the category of very very unlikely to be required backups cloud service backups sas backups been doing some work on my git repository and a couple of git repositories and occurred to me there's probably been a couple of a A couple of months since I since I ran this I'm just gonna as a best practice quickly run this so What I'm just gonna do is I have all my github repositories cloned here on my local It's gonna go for a select all now This is github does have a data export functionality it interestingly doesn't give you All your repositories another interesting thing to point out is there's a few things left out for example Wikis are actually their own repository and if you have project files So this is just gonna get your repositories in that sense I guess you could say that it's imperfect, but it's a it's very quick and just for a Clied backup. There probably is never gonna be required. I think it's better. It's you know It's not it's almost not worth going through the full the data export process each time So I'm just using the GUI over here, and they're just gonna compress these Into a An archive which I'll put on my desktop initially, and I just call it github tar dot gz is a is the compression format being used here Append today's day to the end of it github repos 19 oh six to zero tar dot gz and Let that just Compress onto the desktop. It'll just take a second to run Currently running you can see I've got about 3,000 files spread across my repositories I'm sure there are people with a lot more it just takes a few seconds And that's basically it and I'm gonna drop this into this is a folder on my NAS That syncs up This is automatically configured to sync up to a b2 bucket back back plays b2 storage. So it sinks up to the cloud I'm just gonna pop this in It's a little bit slow, so I'll pause and I'll start the video you can see this was done. This is done in June June 20th, let's say let's add a date the date And the last one I took was in May So I've basically been a month since I've done this So I think that's probably, you know, you don't need to do it too often But if you are actively developing a couple of repositories, and you want a really simple way Just to keep your own backups I think this is a pretty straightforward way and as soon as this is finished copying onto the NAS It's gonna go straight up to the cloud and that'll give me two copies as The 321 backup rule, which I'm always advocating requires. Thanks for watching


Amen, so keep your place there in Romans chapter 2. So tonight we're going to conclude the Pride and Prejudice Sermon series and tonight I'm going to kind of we're going to have kind of an interesting light sermon tonight And I want to explain to you why this book is liked by most people All right, most people that like this book or most people that read this book like this book and this book was written in 1820 1813 or whatever it was and it's still popular today So hopefully I can explain to you from the Bible this evening, and I believe it's pretty easy to see Why the reasons that this is popular with most people the reason that it resonates with people today So in order to get to the points that I want to make tonight We got to do a short Bible study, and we need to look down at Romans chapter 2 so in Romans chapter 2 just the the beginning of Romans you have to understand that Paul is kind of presenting this idea that's kind of it's kind of wrapped up in verse number 11 of Romans chapter 2 Just the context of what Paul's talking about he's trying to you know Kind of break down this barrier of you know these Gentiles are getting saved too So anybody that believes the gospel that trusts in Jesus is saved And this is a new concept to the Jews at the time as the Gentiles are they have all the access To salvation that any other person does he says you know if you you're gonna perish without the law And you're gonna perish with the law is a everybody's gonna in in everybody's in danger of damnation is what he's explaining here But then he points out something very specifically in verse number 14 in verse number 15 That is gonna apply to us this evening so remember he's saying that Everybody is the same as far as salvation goes. There's no respect of person With God and he explains towards the end of the chapter and many other places in Romans that you know It doesn't matter who your parents were it doesn't matter what your heritage was what matters is whether or not you've believed on Jesus That's all that matters. All right, but he points out that there is a standard There is a standard that God gives to everybody in Romans chapter 2 and you know Which speaks to the sermon tonight because look most people most normal people they like certain things They like they can they consider certain things good, and they consider certain things bad I mean just think about it for example just think about just the defaults amongst normal people even today Families are generally considered a good thing by normal people today You'll even notice that if you have a family and you have children and you go You know or somebody calls a man. Oh, he's a family man. What are they saying? He's a bad guy No, they're saying like he's there.  They consider that a good statement Many people most normal people when they see a family with children, you know, I mean well-behaved children Okay, you know they think it's a good thing right nobody likes bratty kids All right, even though you may think that you know, it's cute. Nobody thinks a brat is cute Okay, but most normal people think That a family is a good thing that being called a family man or that you have a family is a good thing All right, here's another thing that most people think are good weddings Most people think weddings are good. I mean do people go to weddings generally depressed and down and angry No, people go to weddings. They're they're happy. They're excited They're wearing all kinds of people don't go to weddings all dressed in black, right? They go to weddings dressed in bright colors They're looking you know to congratulate people because weddings are generally considered by the vast majority of normal people to be a good thing People like these things are happy events people are congratulating one everyone's in a good mood You say why is this why are all these certain things considered good and Certain things just generally universally considered bad not just by us by just society All right, there's a good thing here There's a good thing that we have working for us here look down at Romans chapter 2 in verse number 14 So who's Paul writing to obviously the whole Bible applies to everyone but Paul is writing specifically to Gentiles he's writing specifically to the Romans here and he's explaining this idea that the Romans the Gentiles have access to salvation to the Jews and verse number 3 or a chapter number 3 verse number 2 He explains well What advantage is it to be a Jew if everyone can get saved and he says you know they had the oracles of God They had the law they had the Bible You know the Gentiles they didn't have the word of God. They did not have the Bible I would say that's a pretty serious disadvantage even today People that don't have a Bible don't have the word of God They need somebody to go and tell them what the word of God says look that's people today That's people that you met out so many today You have to go tell them the word of God the Jews had it that's an advantage, but look down at verse number 14 But the Gentiles everybody had this this is what Paul is saying Everybody had this so everybody starts whether you were Churched or not you were Jew or Gentile Everybody starts with two things in Romans chapter one Paul explains that everybody started with the evidence of creation Everybody can look around them and see the world God created Everyone today everyone that has ever lived can see that That's what everyone has so everyone you know people that are like oh what about the person in you know The Amazonian jungle or whatever that's never heard of God or whatever Everybody had the creation number one where they can look around and then in Matthew chapter 7 God says everyone starts with two things one is the creation around you two I'm going to show you but then God promises in Matthew 7 that if you seek the truth you will find it What more do you need? That's a complete Solution right there, but the second thing that everybody has is right here look at Romans chapter 2 Look at verse number 14 the Bible says for when the Gentiles which have not the law they didn't have the Bible Do by nature the things contained in the law These having not the law are a law unto themselves So Paul is saying that the Gentiles people that have never read the Bible What Paul is saying is that people that have never heard of the word of God never read a word of it They will just by nature do the things That are in it They will know that it's wrong to murder they will know that you know certain things are good and certain things are bad He even gets very specific in verse 15. Look at this. It says which show you say how could they know this? Which show the work of the law written in their hearts because God put it in their heart God gives it to them in their heart there what this is where this term your conscience their conscience also bearing witness and Their thoughts the meanwhile look at this accusing or else excusing one another in verse 15 where it says accusing and Excusing what that means is that they will know what's good and they will know what's bad Just by the law that God put in their hearts. They don't have the Bible But they will just inherently by nature Know that what the Bible is saying here what Paul is saying is everyone is born with this feature This conscience inside them Saying that will tell them this is good This is bad. This is why you see these general things that I just went through to help people just think these things are good And these things are bad By the way, this is proof that no one is born a degenerate pervert From the Bible Period but that's not what the TV said Well, we're talking about the Bible tonight if you listen to everything on TV, I mean my goodness You're a mess.  Where's where's Satan attacking today? Where's Satan going and attacking and bringing confusion today? Where's he going to the children to the schools? You say why because he has to see her that conscience. That's why in First Timothy chapter 4 the Bible clearly says that it is possible to damage This conscience to sear it. What happens when you sear something when you sear something you can't feel Anymore you can't feel it anymore. So it's possible to damage this but the point is the good news is everyone Starts with this law written in their hearts. It's something that Satan has to undo He has to work against it This is why people Will always like this book is what I'm going to show you in a couple things Here, I'm gonna give you three points tonight But the first one is this so now that we know that everybody has a conscience Everybody has you know this law written in their heart. I'm not talking about saved Bible believing Christians I'm talking about everybody people just have this Conscience this heart within them that sees something and that their conscience has not been damaged or skewed or seared as the Bible would say They will look at that and they will say that's good. I like that and Other things they will look at and they will say That's vile Satan has to undo all that Satan has to flip all of that on its head So the first reason now that we know this from the Bible now that we did a little Basis Bible study the first reason that people will like this book even though it was written hundreds of years ago is that it's not woke To be quite frank it's not woke.  It's it's a traditional story where marriage is the ultimate goal Here you have a story with a bunch of young people and what do they do? What are they doing? You have a bunch of young people and what are they doing throughout the whole book? They're trying to get married They're trying to find somebody who's decent to get married and as we talked about last week some some succeed and some do not Some find good marriages and some do not but here's the thing folks normal people can identify with this goal Normal young people because guess what even even today in the culture that we have today The vast majority of young people want to get married It is just a car is overwhelming. It's like 85 percent so 15 percent The culture has ruined but 85 percent regardless of what they're into or what they're doing They have the desire to be married because that part of their conscience has not been seared So when they read something like this or they've watched the movie or whatever They're gonna like it because it's traditional and it matches What they like and here's another one more on that line more of the lines of that it's anti woke It's anti fornication It's anti fornication because it is for marriage Because it is for marriage turn to Matthew chapter number five turn to Matthew chapter number five It is for marriage so seriously that when fornication was entered into in this book This is one of my favorite things about the book fornication was entered into in this book It was considered a danger to all those connected with that person It was considered a danger to anyone that was even related to that person that went into fornication Oh, how far we've come This transformation about fornication and people don't connect it because what people will do is they will say I'm for marriage. I want to be married, but then they will be in fornication It's like no one destroys the other and that's what young people need to realize today No matter what modern societies tell you or what our culture today tells you one destroys the other You cannot be for marriage and for fornication the two are diametrically opposed to each other as a matter of fact look down at Matthew chapter five in verse number 32 One interesting thing about fornication is it's considered such a detriment to marriage I was trying to think you know fornication I could read you fornication verses in the Bible on how it's a terrible sin It's a sin against your own body flee fornication I could read you all these verses all day long but the verse that shows that fornication is Against marriage is probably this is probably the best one Because fornication is actually the only reason Given for the dissolution of a marriage in the Bible in the King James Bible by the way Look down at five chapter five Matthew chapter five verse number 32 Fornication is given as the only permissible reason for divorce in the Bible And I'm gonna explain to you here in just a few minutes how this this it doesn't even apply today But look at verse number 32 it says but I say unto you that whosoever shall put away his wife talking about divorcing his wife saving for the cause of fornication causeth her to commit adultery and Whosoever shall marry her that is divorced commit if adultery so the Bible here is teaching that if you get divorced first of all You stay single or you commit adultery, so if you get divorced you stay single, but the only reason for Divorce that is allowed in the Bible is fornication. You're like what? What does that mean? This only really applies to the biblical tradition of marriage the way they had it So if you think about Joseph and Mary, you know when you know, we're coming up on Christmas here So Joseph found his wife with child and they were in this betrothal period. They're in this betrothal period before they actually Got you know married so a lot of people call that the engagement But that's not what it was because the betrothal was considered marriage, but it just they hadn't consummated They didn't come together Physically yet and then they get married and then they have so there's kind of this double stage to the marriages in the Bible That does not apply today. There's no betrothal period today today There's this engagement where people get engaged and they're engaged for like eight years or something It just means nothing you're in our culture today. All right, I'm not playing down if someone's engaged The point is is engagement has turned into some big nothing burger that doesn't even it's something that you know Okay, let's get you know somebody's living with his girlfriend for eight years and they get engaged for another eight years And it just makes no sense Right. It's just backwards, you know culture, but The Bible explains that you know in Deuteronomy chapter 22, and I'm not going to do it in-depth study on this But Deuteronomy chapter 22 Deuteronomy chapter 24 if someone gets betrothal to a wife and then it They find out that she is not pure or he she has been in fornication in the past at that point Before they've even consummated the marriage it is okay to put her away And there's a whole process in Deuteronomy chapter 22 and Deuteronomy chapter 24 But the point is that's the only reason and that reason doesn't even apply today many modern Bibles You say is it important that we have a King James Bible? Let me read you from the NIV what Matthew chapter 5 and verse number 32 says one of the problems with the modern Bibles is they justify divorce Because what the King James Bible is basically telling us in our modern society is there is no reason for divorce people will just change it to adultery Fornication and adultery are two different things Adultery is wicked as hell. It is punished by capital punishment in the Old Testament I'm not downplaying that but God is just saying that fornication in the King James Bible is why you can put away your wife That's what the Bible is saying look at the NIV what it says in verse number 32 Don't look at it because hopefully you don't pull out your NIV right now But look at verse 32 or I'll read you verse 32 it says but I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife except for sexual immorality Makes her the victim of adultery and then he goes into the same type of thing But the Bible is basically saying like hey whatever you want to get divorced kid divorced Because Jesus later says that if a man looks upon a woman He's committed adultery with her in his heart So you go to a grocery store and you look too long at the magazine on the rack and your wife can divorce you That's what the NIV says Because that is immorality Doing that lusting after a woman looking at a something you shouldn't be looking at I'm not justifying that either but the Bible in the NIV is saying that justifies divorce It's a big deal It's a big deal when we change these words and make these false Bible versions because people use these And people use these to justify leaving their husbands leaving their wives People use these wicked verses because guess what when somebody wants to check out of their marriage They're gonna look for any reason to do it They're gonna look for any justification to do it and it's pretty nice when you got a Bible that says you can I Mean it's convenient So I don't even know where I was going with that, but don't get in an IV All right, and I mean that's I mean I try to show you these things as we go along Why we're King James only but the point is it's not woke. It's anti fornication They just made such a big deal when Lydia is taken off with this wicked man by the way This wicked man will get to that a little bit later But George Wickham in this book is considered a wicked piece of trash Maybe we start looking at people that are in fornication a little bit differently today But this is just the culture of that day, but it matches the culture of the Bible. I'll show you that here's another reason it's anti woke It's anti woke because it features it it has as its main Protagonist I guess you could say or antagonist depending on what part of the book you're reading a strong male character a strong masculine lead character Where are you gonna find that today? What kind of bulk or story are you gonna find with that today people people don't but you know what that matches people's Conscience, and they like to see that They like to see that because it's normal People don't want to see some strong female character that comes in and beats up a hundred guys. I mean what in the world I Remember when this started in like the 90s It was just the oddest thing in the world people want to see people want to see a story Like you know I used to have all these old comic books from my from my uncle and like they were like the comic like the Superman comic books from like the 50s and 60s and Superman was like This big I mean you could just like pull down buildings and pick up airliners and all this kind of stuff And it was like truth justice in the American way Superman like saves the day all the time But look this is what now now I looked it up DC Comics Superman saying now is truth justice and a better tomorrow He's like an environmentalist now or something like that But the point is it's all gone woke and then all the characters and all these I guess all these latest You know superhero movies or all these female characters are just you know beating up everybody It's it makes no sense You're being asked today to deny reality is what you're being asked oh But then they'll put they'll put the female superhero in an inappropriate outfit. So then it makes it okay How are the feminists okay with that? It's all backwards folks. It's all backwards But this is a traditional story with a strong male character that takes care of business and gets the girl Gets the bride even better It matches what people want to see we're being asked to simply deny what our eyes can see and what we know to be true today There was a story yesterday that I read about a moving company in Fresno I won't mention the name of the company, but there's a moving company and this moving company they Advertise the fact that if you go read their reviews, I went and I read the reviews after I read this article We've read their reviews. They advertise the fact that they can move you so quickly because the People that work for them run to the house and they get the furniture and they run to the truck And they just run back for more and they're just constantly just go back and forth and back and forth and the federal government is after them for age discrimination Because like okay, you can't you're not gonna hire a 70 year old to do that and the owner of the company was just like what in the world you have to be able to run and And and carry a couch and then run and get another couch It's like we don't care how old you know they I think they advertise that they're they have a lot of student athletes that work for them I mean I it makes sense It makes sense that they would have a lot of strong Young men that work for them, and I mean they probably have women I don't know but I mean I'm sure they have to but the point is it's ridiculous Everything is just it's it's upside down up as down down as up the story of pride and prejudice Is a is featuring the strong male character that while he's not perfect by any means He kind of saves the day He kind of saves the day he he goes and he fixes things that need to be fixed And then he he get he gets the bride and there's a happy ending People like to see that because it matches what they know to be true and what they know They want for themselves and their conscience tells them This is good This is normal right where everything that we see today I mean I recently overheard people talking about a movie that they went to see Overheard people and I haven't been to a movie forever in a day. Thank goodness, but They were talking about this movie that they had gone to see and I won't mention the name of it But I was overhearing this conversation and the one thing that I kept hearing from them was how disturbing this movie was Disturbing disturbing they went out and they went to this movie and it was just so disturbing They're talking about it the next day how disturbing who would go and pay money to be disturbed a Lot of people apparently It's it's crazy. They're trying to break down the culture today. They're trying to break down the conscience Today, they're trying to break down the Christian culture. They're trying to break down the Bible. They're trying to look the family is power They're trying to break that The family is powerful you have a strong family and you're following the Bible. That's power. That's strength That can't be broken down if you don't allow it to be broken down turn to Jeremiah chapter 1 or 50. I think it's Yeah, Jeremiah chapter 1 Jeremiah chapter 1 turn to Jeremiah chapter 1 look at verse number 10 So it's not woke. It's not a woke story It's a traditional normal story and it matches people's conscience and people like that look at what the Bible says in Jeremiah chapter 1 In verse number 10 where it says see I have set this see I have this day set the over the nations and over kingdoms to root out and to pull down and to destroy to throw down to Build and to plant notice what God says here notice what God says to Jeremiah that look you got to go and he's He's telling him you got to break it all down before you can build it back up That's what he's done and that's Satan's exact plan with our culture today. He's got to take Everything in the conscience. He's got to take everything in the Bible everything in the law that's written in people's hearts And he's got to bust it all down He's got to bust it all down so he could build it back up the way he wants it to be That's exactly why you're seeing opposite world clown world out there today You're just like everything's exactly the opposite of the truth that Satan trying to break it all down So he can build it back up the way he wants so he can build the building upside down He can't leave what God put there by default intact. He's got to tear it down Satan never does anything his own way. He never has his own ideas He just takes what God does and he just twists it just a little bit That's why you see so many Christian religions out there that sound like they're true except he just twisted a little bit Oh, yeah, you got to believe in Jesus. Oh, yeah, you know, but yeah, if you don't have the works, you know, it's not salvation. I Mean look at all of the works based versions of salvation out there We're just talking about this, you know, I don't know a few days ago when we talk about stuff all the time I can't even remember what day it was. We're talking about all these different versions of works It's just like another cousin lordship salvation another cousin repent of your sins to be saved I mean look Ray comfort sounds pretty good.  You're like whoa That's not Jesus But you see it's all these different things God Satan just takes what God had He just twists it just a little bit But he's got to tear down the conscience first He's got to break down everything that God put in place so he could Build up what he wants to be there. So the first thing is it's not woke. It matches our conscience. It matches a conscience That is intact. Let's put it that way That's why kids by the way. This is why kids Are much easier to get saved then look I'm not being age discriminatory here But it's true a trend is that it is much easier to get a 12 year old saved Then it would be to get somebody who is 70 saved because somebody that is 12 their conscience Hopefully most of the time is largely intact when you read them the gospel when you read them the Bible Tell them about Jesus and how to be saved when you tell them the simplicity which is in Christ It just matches that conscience their consciousness intact and the gospel is like a perfect key That will fit right into an intact conscience And they would just be like that makes so much sense and it's so simple that a child can understand it And I tell people all the time What how would it be fair? Would it be just if the gospel was so complicated? Like some of these Pentecostal works based Gospels out there You're just like what in the world they're doing backflips and you have to do this and you can't do this and you have to do all I mean, it's just whatever the pastor makes up is salvation But would it be fair if only the the smartest people could understand the gospel and go to heaven? No, it's simple. It's so simple that a child can understand it. And that's why children are so easy To get saved that's why children that are in a family integrated church He's why are we family integrated because that's what the Bible says That's why kids that are in this church that grow up hearing the word of God preached and grow up flip into Bible verses And as soon as they can read they're going to the same Bible verses that their parents are going to they'll get saved like super young I'm talking. I don't even want to name ages, but like four or five six seven years old They're gonna get saved because pretty soon.  It's simple So thank God for our conscience thank God that we all start with that But that's the first reason that people will generally like this book that it will generally resonate with even Gentiles There is no june or Greek okay, but it will just resonate with people because it matches. It's traditional and matches people's conscience Here's the second reason here's the second reason that people like this book Every guy wants to be a Darcy You say what do you mean? What do you mean by that?  Darcy to some Degree here. He is here's this man. He's this strong character Every you know look he's not the most polite or socially refined person He offends many people, but you know what he is you know what he is from the beginning of the book to the end of the book He is respected He is respected by his friends. He is respected by his family Everybody respects him He's kind of he's the alpha male that you know that gets the job done in the book every guy Wants that every guy can can can connect With that see look look men want respect like women want love and affection and Many men in their life will search for respect and they will search for it and search for it and desire it And they will never get it and They will never figure out why But Darcy explains I mean he explains at the beginning of the book why he has it every man wants to be respected But look at Psalm chapter 37 in verse number 23 The Bible actually says that you will get respect You know it kind of matches the answer that Darcy gave that I talked about two sermons ago But look at Psalm chapter 37 look at verse number 23 because many men will chase this goal their whole lives And they will never achieve it. They will not get it Look at Psalm chapter 37 look at verse number 23 the Bible says this it says the steps of a good man Are ordered by the Lord and he delighteth in his way Though he fall he shall not utterly be cast down for the Lord uphold him with his hand You see what the Bible here is saying is that if you want to have respect if you want to be someone who is Honorable as I will use that word and that's that's a it's a good Bible word from Hebrews We'll talk about that in a few minutes But if you want to be someone who is considered a man with honor and have Respect have that good name have that good opinion you will be disciplined in your steps And this is what Darcy said that he was and we talked about this two sermons ago But he said he's very disciplined in what he does say and what he doesn't say which why he didn't say much and People just assumed he was rude or whatever, but he didn't get so much care about that He just wanted to be disciplined and it was the study of his life to live this disciplined life to not make missteps But the Bible is saying that exact same thing if your steps and of course the Bible is talking about Following the Bible the Bible is saying if your steps are ordered by the Bible if you are disciplined enough To follow the Bible in your life you will have respect Many men want respect, but they just can't order their steps This is the problem So what they do is this they look at people that have respect They can't order their steps. They can't control themselves They can't control their members. They can't control their body as Paul said, you know, I keep under my body They have no self-control. They do what they want to do.  He has respect if I just had his job People would respect me too If I just had that position that he's in If I could just get that that manager position Then people would have respect for me. You know what? Maybe sometimes they even do get that manager position But then no one respects them still and they're like what? What must I do? They're like hey if I can just get the money Darcy was rich Like if I could just be rich like him Then I'd have respect it reminds me of the Bitcoin guy. Remember the Bitcoin guy Bitcoin guy that was like a Bitcoin billionaire because he stole that Bitcoin and he used to carry around a briefcase full of a million dollars cash And when the investigators asked him why do you carry around a million dollars in cash? And he's like because I want I want to get you know girls to respect me it never worked They asked him did it ever work? No never worked They get the money and they still can't get respect because respect is about ordering your steps Respect is about discipline on how you live your life From those ordered steps from the Lord it takes discipline and consistency the Bible Bible would call that intelligence Turn to Jeremiah chapter 51 But many men will still like the story because they want to identify With Darcy And look here's the thing folks every man is not an alpha male All right, turn to Jeremiah chapter 51 and While this comes natural to some men You know just to have this strong You know leadership personality and look many times this trait needs to be controlled too if it does come naturally To men if you have this alpha personality if you don't want to just irritate everybody and have everybody angry with you all the time You need to control that alpha personality But the point is it may not come supernatural to some men, but Men are supposed to be manly Men are supposed to be Leaders men are supposed to have that ability as a matter of fact the Bible says that when men lose that That's the judgment of a nation Says when all the men of a nation lose the ability to be strong leaders and strong men It's like that is judgment upon that nation look at Jeremiah 51 verse number 30 talking about the coming judgment of Babylon remember Jeremiah was a prophet during the Babylonian captivity But Babylon was going to be judged too God's judgment is complete God never leaves anybody behind look at verse number 30 It says the mighty men of Babylon have forebored to fight They've remained in their holds there might have failed there were no longer strong anymore They became a bunch of weaklings and wimps They remained in their holds there might have failed they became as women They have burned her dwelling places her bars are broken and I understand that you could like literally apply that to our nation today Literally, but what it's saying is the men became weak is what it's saying. They wouldn't fight. They wouldn't be men They wouldn't stand up. This is what men are supposed to be So when men see a strong male character something inside them says I want to be that way This is why men like this story Every man should have drive and if you don't have drive and you're a you're a man listening to this And you don't have drive you need to teach yourself to get some drive You need to learn to get drive you need to learn to be driven. Look at Ecclesiastes chapter 10 Ecclesiastes chapter 10 in verse number 80. Look, I feel sorry for the woman that hitches her wagon to the young man with no drive Ladies if you don't find someone To marry with drive And look, this is another this is what the feminists will tell the young ladies today to find a man That they can pull around on a leash Find a weak man. That's what feminism will tell women today Women are taught today young ladies these poor young ladies are being taught this wicked philosophy that they need to be in Competition with men you need to compete with men for a job You need to compete with men in the relationship You need to compete with men for the control of the household You need to compete with men for how the children are going to be parented and it's Co-parenting and all these things you need to be in competition with men. So what will they do? They will find a weak man Because if I got to compete with somebody I want a weekly I Remember wrestling matches we used to call them fish You know you'd look at the brackets and you know everybody kind of knew who everybody was in the state You know they look at the bracket You get you got you got some guy in the first match his record is like two and thirty or something like that right and you're like Yeah, I got a fish Because they just they just flop right on their back and that matches over right away. It's not hard Right. This is the problem today young ladies are being taught to marry a fish But guess what? They marry a fish So look ladies appreciate your your this the leadership of your husband Appreciate it men should lead with compassion They should lead with love they should lead in a loving Christ-like way, but they should lead and They should be strong and they should handle difficult situations, but see a woman that marries a fish She marries a fish and then she has children and then problems start coming in to the household And she can't the the household isn't provided for and she has to go out in the world She starts to resent the fish Who's sitting on the couch eating Cheetos off his chest and but you know what hey, that's what that's what you bought into That's what you purchased Ladies you got to marry somebody with drive I'd rather have a lady marry a young man that would you know every now and then say the wrong thing and every now And then step on some toes and you know have to learn some etiquette and have to be kind of have the chips knocked off The the sides of the block a little bit and kind of refined a little bit then have some man some young man with no drive That's a curse And if you are a young man, and you just don't have you better get some drive You better figure it out You're gonna curse some young lady So every man Every man with an intact conscience looks at Darcy and says There's something about that because that it you know God wants you to be a strong leader And that's what he was and look I mean just to flip that around with the ladies Every girl wants to to be pursued by an honorable man To just flip that around so look it's a traditional story It's a traditional story that appeals to men and women even at a day when tradition is being destroyed There's an agenda in our culture today to destroy the conscience to destroy the good and it's to destroy the truth To destroy the idea that a strong man of character would pursue a decent young lady with the goal of marrying her That whole idea is being Attacked today and look turn to Hebrews chapter 13 turn to Hebrews chapter 13. It's I like the story because it's a good Perspective it's a good perspective on what a culture should see look and here's the thing It's a secular story. This is what's messed up about it It's a secular story where they had more right in the way they viewed things than our current culture today It's it's these weren't religious people in this story It was just a secular story, but look at Hebrews chapter 13 In verse number four. Let me give you a good perspective here Let's give you a good perspective of shining the Bible upon our culture today and then kind of Superimposing this story over the top of it. So I hope you all read the story Yeah, I mean if you just watch the movie, okay, whatever But the story really goes into how wicked and degenerate and bad George Wickham was It really goes into a lot of detail on how he he had this Fornication culture in him and he wanted to just steal money from people use young ladies for money and you know Fornication and he didn't care who he destroyed He just had to move from place to place to place you run up all kinds of debts everywhere. It is the terrible person I mean the Bible really I mean the book really puts him across as a real scumbag But the Bible has you know a word for this look at Hebrews chapter 13 verse number four verse number four The Bible says marriage is honorable in all so somebody that is pursuing a young lady Without fornication in a proper biblical way. This is an honorable thing What Darcy did was an honorable thing and the bed undefiled, but look at this But Hormongers and adulterers God will judge all these young men today Or George Wickham, you know what he was you know what the Bible would call George Wickham a Hormonger What do you what does that say about the young girls that were fooled? Into going with him Well, I guess if he's a Hormonger I mean he's he chases horse. That's what it says Say that's offensive. That's the Bible That's what the Bible is saying So why are young ladies allowing themselves to be treated that way today? Why are they taking this this lie that is taught to them saying this is normal? This is okay What? Wickham did not force Lydia to go with him. He was a Hormonger and she played the part willingly What are we seeing today? The point is an honorable man is what Hebrews chapter 13 is George Wickham was not an honorable man The Bible would call him a Hormonger turn the Deuteronomy chapter 23 turn the Deuteronomy chapter 23 I'm gonna give you some other words the Bible uses that people would just be like this is so offensive But this is what's happening today. This is what people are accepting today.  You say that's mean. That's the Bible Even to his 10th generation he shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord that is unbelievable right there That is what God thinks about fornication That is what God thinks about two people that would get together. Look at you say it's harsh. Look women should be disgusted by a man Women should be absolutely disgusted that by a man that would want to have a physical relationship with them and not be interested in marriage It should disgust them They should say, what do you think I am a prostitute?   I Mean this is the Bible These women these young ladies today should be super offended I mean the idea that a lady we get married and be taken care of by her husband.  They start having children don't congratulate that. I Had that happen to me years ago at work. There's a guy lived with his girlfriend They just had all these kids and it was like everyone's like oh congratulations, and I'm like the jerk in the room I'm just like I'm not going to congratulate that Look, I'm glad there's a child and I'm glad the child's healthy, and that's not what I'm saying But this what are you trying to do to that kid? Become a man. That's what I wanted to tell this guy.  He's funny You know this no he's a home hunger He has no respect for that young lady, and you know what that young lady wanted You know what she wanted she wanted to be married Because they all do They're just being taken advantage of by these George Wickham's That's all they are these dishonorable young men There's no honor in it, and they're being fooled and they're going along with it So look it's a secular story. I get it But it's a traditional. I mean it shows how far we have fallen as a culture today And like I said this morning when you look at these stories And you look at these things in the world through the lens of the Bible so many things are opened up to you See these goals these milestones in our lives. They're they're They're written in our hearts You know these goals to be married and to have children and to raise our children You know, I mean that it's all written in our hearts We just have to follow the Bible order our steps according to the Bible and everything's going to work out You know it also shows you you know another thing it shows you It shows you the spiritual battle today because this is a very popular story And if people would would write books like this and even look God forbid I mean if they would even make movies like this they would do very well But see Satan it shows you the spiritual battle of Satan because he's not necessarily in it for the money He's in it to crush the culture He's in it to destroy because Hollywood could make more money by making movies like this I mean there's the saying haven't you heard the saying go walk go broke Because nobody wants to see this garbage You know they still go to a movie because that's what they do and they're like all that was disturbing I'm never going to another movie again, but you know they will go to another movie But the point is they're they're going woke and they're going broke, but Satan doesn't care It shows you that there's a spiritual aspect to it It makes you if you don't see the spiritual you will never understand why a corporation would do things look a corporation's Existence is only there to make money for its shareholders. That's the only reason it's there To turn a profit, but you see these corporations willingly shooting themselves But they're doing it because Satan is in control and he's there to destroy the culture He's there to tear down and sear you see guys guess what when the conscience when Satan sears the conscience of somebody who's not saved When he sears the conscience of a 19 or 20 or 21 year old and they've been watching filth and garbage for 10 15 years and then we knocked on their door. They're gonna be like get out of here They're not gonna want to hear it. I mean you could be a hater of God by that time easily That's what Satan's trying to do. He's not in it For the money. He's in it for the destruction So he can rebuild look I hate to say it, but it's working It's working. He's searing the conscience of people out there So look as long as men have conscience this story will be well-liked So I hope you enjoyed it I mean, I think it was a good study by shining the light of the Bible on to this neat little story But that's why it's popular and it always will be unless we're in an entirely reprobate Society and hopefully we never see that let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer


Hello, my name is Mary Coughlin and I'm Chair of the American Institute for Conservation's Collection Care Network, abbreviated CCN. CCN was created in recognition of the critical importance of preventive conservation as the most effective means of promoting the long-term preservation of cultural property. This means managing risks to prevent damage to collections, keeping temperature, relative humidity and light levels at safe ranges, keeping pests out of collections, putting good policies in place to make sure collections are inventoried, secured and handled properly and much, much more. In this way, museum collections, historic sites and archival holdings can be made accessible not just today but for many years in the future. The following video is one of three interviews that CCN conducted with the 2020 AIC Award recipients whose work specifically focuses on collection care. If you're interested in learning more about CCN, please visit culturalheritage.org and search for Collection Care Network. We strive to support the growing number of conservators and collection care professionals with strong preventive responsibilities and interests, so we always have many projects for you to be involved in. Thanks for watching. Hi, everyone. Thank you for joining us. My name is Kelly Krish. I'm the editor for the Collections Care Network with AIC. And joining us today is Karen Pavelka. Karen is the recipient of this year's Rutherford John Getten's Award, which is bestowed for outstanding service to AIC. Karen is the senior lecturer for preventive conservation in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. She has served as the AIC education and training committee chair and board director of professional education. She is a founding member of the paper conservation education group and is also a former member of the Collection Care Network. So thank you for joining us today, Karen. Happy to be here. So I think we'll just go ahead and get started with our first question, which is hopefully it's something that we all are somewhat familiar with, but just want to hear from you too. Why is it important for conservators and preservation professionals to be engaged in continued professional development? Well, I think that's important for any profession, of course. With conservation and preservation, we have the added complication that materials and our understanding of materials changes so quickly. If you think about it, things that are in our collections now were not even invented perhaps five years ago, especially when you start looking at things like electronic media. So we're sort of forced into it whether we want to or not. And it's just good practice overall. So is that part of what helped in, obviously, you recognized and supported a need for workshops and scholarships in the field. Did it come from that appreciation of the introduction of new materials or were there other experiences or factors that kind of highlighted the importance for you? I suppose that came out of an understanding of how much I need to learn. I teach, one of my classes depends a lot on teaching photographic materials. I'm not a photo conservator, never will be, but I incorporate a lot of information about photo materials into my materials class. And I teach a class on photographic materials. And I've always told my students, this is quite true, that the more I learn about photographic materials, the less I know. When I started teaching this in my materials class, I thought I knew quite a bit about it. And then as I started reading more and more about it and started paying attention to what the photo materials group is doing, I realized I don't know anything. And I think if I have that feeling, other people may not feel it quite as strongly, but I know that we all have quite a bit to learn. I think that's, yeah, that's a good experience. When the more you learn about something, the more you realize there are questions there. I guess one of the things we can touch on is, obviously, you've been deeply involved in education. Are there ways that AIC or the conservation field as a whole can can better address education needs? I think AIC is doing a phenomenal job with that. And I've seen it really grow and expand over the last couple of decades. One of the reasons it has is because Eric Porchaud has done so much to advance things. And Errol, of course, is completely behind him. So it's just been a very strong effort in AIC. And I think we're doing an excellent job with that. I continue to see what the education sector is doing, and I'm amazed. I'm just really pleased and amazed at how well everything's going. One of the aspects of education in particular that's kind of a topic that's been in the news a lot lately is this idea of is the importance of equity and inclusion. And I know you mentioned, you know, social sustainability in your speech and how one of the values you have for conservation is because it's preserved the records. And that's how you know about the past and everything. So what do you see as the role of the conservation professional in addressing some of these issues? I know that's a really broad question. So feel free to take it in any direction you'd like or however you'd like to address that. Well, and obviously, again, this is not limited just to conservation. It's something that we're facing as a society, which is great to see because it has been an underlying issue for a long time. It's nice to see it more in the forefront. When I talked about the history of my neighborhood and how that's evolved over the years, what I was getting at there and what I came to an end is that that information is in libraries and archives. One of the frustrations that many of us have with the field of conservation is libraries and archives are often given a short drift. We're much more concerned with museums and, you know, the sort of fancier end of things. Our profession could not exist without libraries and archives because we wouldn't have the information we need. And I think that's true of pretty much every aspect of our lives. So that's sort of what I was getting at with that. Yes, I have strong political views about all of that, but we'll link that for another time. I think it's good, too, especially in these days and so many libraries being closed or at least having limited service. It's good to remember their importance and, you know, the value of all those collections inside when we can return to using them actively. So with regards to that, speaking about the importance of libraries and recognizing the role they play in our profession, are there any particular qualities or techniques that you think make for an effective advocate, especially when we're talking about something, for example, library materials where so much of the collection may not be seen by people in an exhibit situation? Yeah, I think to be an advocate, first of all, you have to have a natural curiosity to want to understand a situation and all its complexities. Then you need to understand your own bias and what you're looking for and why. Then you need to be able to listen to other people and understand their viewpoint. And when it differs from your own, be able to communicate and balance things out. And then you need to be able to speak up and speak up loudly and effectively and not scream and yell, but present your case and be willing to negotiate. And that's not something that comes easily to people who may have gone into conservation thinking they were going to spend 100% of their time at the bench. Which was never going to happen and never was going to happen, but you know, we all have that. That's why we all get into the field because it's fun. Can you speak about, were there any particular experiences that you found particularly rewarding for you, either within education or advocacy where you felt like it was just a really good project or just feel really proud of the way things turned out? Oh, there have been a lot of moments when I've been incredibly proud and a lot when I thought, hmm, could have done that better. That's just the reality. I guess one of my favorite moments, teaching. I don't teach conservation students. I teach students at the School of Information at large. And most of the students who take my class tend to be humanities majors and not necessarily strong in math or science. And so I present a lot of technical information to them and it's a little scary for them. And so I interspersed it with a lot of party tricks, you know, you do the Beelsteen test and burn a copper wire and some plastic and it turns green and everybody goes, ooh, and besides, you know, they get to burn things and we burn plastics and one of the things I'll do is put one Pyrex beaker inside another and if you fill it with Wesson oil, you can make the smaller beaker disappear because they have the same refractive index, which again, you know, just make students go, whoa. And for that one, that's pretty cool. It's fun. It has to be Wesson oil. It doesn't work with other brands. But one year when I was doing that, one of my students said, whoa, science is fun. I didn't have to be a humanities major. And I just loved it. Another time, you know, we were talking about plastics and, you know, all the pitfalls of plastics and how they deteriorate and how solvents migrate through them and, you know, all of that. One of my students said, but I have a huge collection of plastic objects.  They understood how much it takes to preserve plastics. But yeah, no working with students has just been an absolute joy. What has been one of the biggest challenges in teaching preventive conservation to such a wide range of students? The initial challenge is letting people recognize that it's important and it's not addressed. One of the normal questions I get is, well, aren't they already taking care of that? And people generally don't think about the fragility of objects and what it takes to keep them in, you know, good order to keep them from deteriorating. And so that's new, you know, when they realize that the plastic object is not going to last for eons. In some cases you might be able to intervene and in some cases it's going to be lost no matter what you do. And to understand how expensive it is to take care of all this stuff because there's a mindset, if you're not in our field, that, well, we have it. It's right there, you know, just keep it and it's fine. So presenting complexity and then letting people see that the role of preservation isn't just for those of us in the field, but it's everyone's responsibility. And, you know, if they want things to last, they're going to have to help me monitor and dust things and keep things clean by budgets and all the rest of it. So, you know, it's sometimes a revelation to people to understand that. Sorry, that's not completely articulate. I was interested too, Karen, your position strikes me as somewhat unique with being nested within the School of Information and teaching preventive conservation. Can you share anything about how it is that you have found such a unique position and been able to offer these services to so many students? Well, we did have a conservation program years ago. It was the program that moved down from Columbia. It was founded by Paul Banks, eventually moved down to Texas and for a number of reasons that program ended. But as it ended, we were building beautiful new conservation labs. So we have these gorgeous labs. And I realized it was an incredible opportunity to open conservation up to a wider audience. And so I started just advertising the conservation classes and saying, this is open to everyone. And I'm not going to teach you anything about solvents. I'm not going to teach you, you know, anything where you'd need a chemistry background to actually take the courses that I can teach you a whole lot about materials and preservation and collections care. So that's what we're doing. It's been really fun. And then I guess in terms of your AIC work, obviously you've made major contributions to the AIC community. Do you have any advice for people who may be interested in becoming more involved in AIC but hesitant about how to do so or what it might look like being involved? Oh, just do it. Just jump in and do it. All someone can do is tell you no. It's probably not the first time in your life you've been told no. AIC is a really welcoming organization to work with, which has changed. When I first got into the field, it was actually a bit more scary than it is now. And I think people were a little more judgmental 20 years ago and 30 years ago than they are now. I think that as we've become more secure with our knowledge and with our profession in general, that we've become more open and more welcoming. So I think it's actually a pretty easy organization to get involved with. So just pick the committee that sounds interesting to you. Write them a letter and ask you if you can be involved and there's always a lot of work to be done. I doubt that you're going to be turned away. That sounds good. That sounds good. And I guess just one other question to being as involved in education and AIC as you've been is really broad. But how do you see preventive conservation evolving or continuing to play a role in future years? I'm so happy we've gone in this direction. I can't tell you how happy it makes me. Back in the Dark Ages, when I was in conservation school, as I said, Paul Manx founded the program that I went through and later taught in. He was very, very involved with collections, care and preventive conservation, even if we weren't exactly calling it then. He had us doing collection surveys and looking at broad things. And so going into conservation, I think I was the only one in my class who really wanted to work with circulating collections, not just the rare book end of things. Oddly enough, I ended up with HRC, which is about the most rare if I exist. But what can you do? The gods like to laugh at you. But one of my biggest concerns with AIC for years had been that we weren't preserving the cultural heritage. We were preserving the cultural heritage for the people who could afford it. And that's never been my focus or where my heart really is. And as we've jumped into collections care with CC and with collecting to collections, all of those efforts and outreaches are just wonderful. And I'm thrilled that our profession is going in that direction because there's more than just the prestigious stuff. Well, I think I think that's a really good note to end on. So we wanted to thank you so much for joining us.


Marines and sailors from the Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force crossed this response, returned home in several groups from their Middle East deployment April 5th through 14th. I'm here to see my husband Jorge Duran. I'm very proud of him and really excited that he's coming home. The Special Purpose MAGTAC, which deployed September 2014, conducted several operations including Operation Inherent Resolve. Yeah, we are extremely proud of all the Marines and Sailors of the MAGTAC. I mean what we've done, they accomplished me in the first ones out the door, absolutely amazing and they should hang their heads proud as they did a fantastic job. Friends, family and members of the Patriot Guard, many of whom are military veterans, came to welcome the Marines and Sailors back to Camp Pendleton. The Patriot Guard right now has about 320,000 members and there's 320,000 people that have your back. This is Sergeant Valerie Epler reporting for One Muff Public Affairs.


Monday, today's YouTube Live Day, another kind of shitty, boring day in the markets. Today was a losing day for me. I lost about $3,000, which is more than I wanted to lose, but kind of screwed up today. So we're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about the current market action, and we're going to talk about what you guys can do to kind of stay alive in this market. So let's recap first, right? What the heck has been happening to the market? What is going on? You guys have been trading for six months. You guys are not used to this action.  You guys are used to stocks that you could gamble on every day. You guys are used to small cap companies going to the moon, releasing PRs, all this stuff. That is kind of a hot market cycle, right? So the stock market moves in cycles. It is hot. It is cold. It is warm. It is everything. For the last year, year and a half, it has been the hottest market cycle in existence of day trading. Stock market was crazy hot. There was opportunities every single day. There are stocks moving every single day, and right now in this month of April, it's been the slowest it's ever been in the last two years, right? We got stocks that used to be gapping up 100, 200, 300%. Now the highest gapper is like 10% or 20%, and we really can't make money on those setups because there's not much meat on the bone. So what do we do, right? What do we do? And traders are ravenous. We are animals. We want stocks. We want setups. We want plays. We want these stocks to move.  So I mean, most people that have started trading six months ago or two a year are probably going to bleed out their accounts during the slow market cycle.  They're going to lose money every single day trying to outsmart the market. And I myself had a losing day today, right? I lost on CLOV. I wanted to short the $10 double top, and I ended up stopping out at the dead high, and the stock ended up tanking after.  It feels like every single person is anticipating that runner. And I find myself just basically waiting and waiting and waiting, because I know that when that one runner does arrive, it is going to be hot market action for at least a week or two weeks. And that's where I'm going to make all of my money, right?  I'm getting paid to wait, right? I'm getting paid to stock. I'm getting paid to exploit an edge, exploit an inefficiency in the market.  There's really no money. It doesn't really make sense to be trading in this market. I mean, the only good thing about this current market cycle or the only good thing about this slow market is it gives us traders who have been working for a year, year and a half nonstop every single day, a cycle to go on vacation, a cycle to take some time off, about to go one week trip to Hawaii. I'm taking a one week trip to Mexico this week. And I'm trying to get in this vacation time. I'm trying to reset during the slow time so that while the market is slow, while the market is choppy, I'm not even being tempted to trade. So oftentimes, guys, when there is a slow market cycle, that is your signal to go on vacation. That is your signal to sit back and relax.  So, I mean, this market, very easy to get chopped up. I know some members in MIC are staying disciplined. I know some members aren't, but my advice in this market is just if the trades aren't setting up by 10 a.m., you leave, right? There's no reason to overstay. There's no reason to waste your time.  Today, we had a stock, AMBO, currently traded 96 million shares of volume and had a float of two million shares. If this was a month ago, the stock would be at $20 a share by now. It would be up a thousand percent. But now in this slow market cycle, everyone's kind of scared. No one wants to risk their money. No one wants to do it until it has confirmed. And if the stock is trading 96 million shares of volume, if the stock has a two million share flow and if the stock is at zombie times, I mean, in the past, that was an ultimate signal to go along. And now it's pretty much a signal to really not do anything. And that's kind of what's been happening, right? So what worked two months ago, what worked last month, what's been happening is those setups aren't working anymore. And you keep going and going and going and trying to buy those setups and you end up losing money, you end up bleeding your account out.  It's very, very hard to make money in this market, right? So your job right now in this market is not to make money.  So again, my job, my goal in this market is not to bank. It's not to make money.  But basically, I'm reminding myself, I just got to stay alive. If I'm going to take a trade, I'm going to have to take a paper cut loss on it. I cannot afford to take a massive loss on it. I just need to wait for these stocks to come back to where I need them to be. Because if not, I have no trade. So here are some good things about this market, right? What are the good things? I mean, number one is all these chat room pumpers that are all going to blow up and they're all going to lose their money. All their subscribers aren't going to be around anymore.  And that's basically how it works in a hot market cycle.    Every single day I'm waking up. I'm even thinking I don't even want to wake up at 5 a.m. anymore. I'm thinking about waking up at 8 30 a.m. because the market action is so choppy.  Maybe I'm going to try to plan some more vacations.  We've been here every single day showing up. We've been working hard every single day. And I really just don't want my amazing trades from the beginning of the year to kind of go down the drain just because I'm gambling and trading random setups. So again, guys, take it slow. Cash is a position you do not need to trade. You do not need to force trades. You guys do not need to do anything, right? And now this AMBO, as I am recording this, is now on the high of the days. We mentioned to avoid the shorts on AMBO. Even before this YouTube video started, I mentioned to avoid it. It is strong. It has volume. This might be the potential runner that we are waiting for. And I hope to God, it goes to five. I hope to God, it goes to 10, not because I have a position, but because I know this will ignite the market again. So listen to the warnings we are giving in MIC. If you are a brand new trader, this is the perfect time to learn how to trade because the market is so slow. During the slow market action, you could spend time studying, learning, adapting. We've made a video. We make videos every single day for MIC members, seven days a week. Every day we have a new video that is up to date about this current market action. What happens is if you join someone else, you watch their videos from two months ago is very clear. Those setups aren't working in this current market. That's why it makes MIC unique because we have videos every single day that talk about the current market action, not the past market action. The current market action and that is the best way to learn. So do you guys have any questions for me? So let's take a brief audience Q&A right now and then we will continue. This AMBO continues to go higher. Let it do its thing. But yeah, if you guys have any questions, if you guys have any concerns, you could text us, you could message us. You could text us at two, one, three, four, five, eight, five, nine, nine, seven, if you had a good day, if you had a bad day, if you want someone to talk to, if you want to see if MIC is the right fit for you. Just text us. It's a person. It's Tosh on the other end of the line. It's not a robot. It's not an algo. It's not anything like that. It's an actual human. So do you guys have any questions for me? Is there anything that you guys want me to talk about? I want to make these videos a little bit more interactive. I want to be able to make these videos value add to you. So let me know what questions you have and we'll take it from there. Alex said that AMBO was a long set up in chat for everyone on MIC. I said it 10 times. I said it a hundred times. I just hope that someone made money on it. Is there any live meeting coming soon? I mean, due to COVID, we're probably not going to have another live event until next year, but maybe we're going to have some sort of virtual event.  So we might be doing that again this year. This market actually sucks, man. I'm just watching this AMBO trying to see how high it could go. 104 million shares of volume, which is absolutely insane. Do you think the market woke up? I don't know what that means. Yeah, we are in a cycle right now where large cap stocks have a lot of attention. We are in a cycle where small cap stocks don't really have much attention. So maybe this is a very good time to attend our Tuesday webinars of large cap stocks so that you can educate yourself on how to profit on large cap stocks while small cap stocks are slow. How long does a slow market cycle last? It lasts as long as the next runner comes. It could be a week. It could be a month. It could be two months. All that matters is when is the next runner going to show up? Do you think a lot of dead money is moving to crypto? I think crypto is just a bunch of pump and dumps. It's whoever gets into the coins first and pumps it to the next person, makes all the money. I mean, this reminds me of the OTC penny stock pump and dumps. So I mean, I'm not really interested in getting involved there. I mean, it's very hard to even talk about subjects during this market, guys, because what is there to talk about? Nothing is happening. You know, what is there to educate on? Nothing is happening. You know, that's why all the previous videos, all the videos are making. Tom Diesel made a video on should you be shorting stocks at the open? You know, James made a video on how to trade during a slow market cycle. Joe made a video on how to hedge your large cap account with options in case the market crashes. So my advice, guys, is join, educate yourself, learn.   Yeah, be patient, wait for your edge, watch videos in the meantime.  Don't bleed out your account. Your goal is to make sure that you stay alive until the market heats up again. The worst thing you could do is trade every single day, bleed out your account. And then when the hot market cycle comes back, that you are not confident, that you are not, you don't have enough money in your account. You blew up your account and you can't even take advantage of the best opportunities when they come. I need to know what not to trade. Is that something you teach in M.I.C.? Exactly. That's exactly what we teach. Stock selection is very important, knowing what stocks to trade and knowing what stocks to avoid. The only way you could do that is with experience. And that's something that I pride myself on. That is something that I think I'm very good at is stock selection, narrowing it down. So, yeah, I mean, I don't know why people don't try us for a month.  I mean, we're going to teach you how to make five hundred dollars a day. So, I mean, I know that people have been scammed in the past. And I know people don't trust us because all the other scammers, all the other chat rooms, they lost all their money. And, you know, we consider M.I.C. the best kept secret in the market and just try for a month and you won't regret it.  We have a 98 percent retention rate, guys. When you join, there's a 98 percent chance you don't leave because you make enough money to cover the membership plus more. If you were short in clothe, would you say the biggest risk was upward halts if it did occur? I mean, we're not in the market where upward halts are happening anymore. You can see that that was the market cycle last month or the month before. We haven't gotten a halts up stock in a while because there's not enough demand. People don't care enough. So if your strategy was to chase the halts up, if your strategy was to wait for these halts, all of a sudden, your strategy doesn't work anymore. What are you going to do? Right? So I think I'm going to wrap it up, guys. I'm going to get back to the room. I'm going to answer PMS. I'm going to answer questions. Don't forget to leave a like on the video. Don't forget to leave a comment on the video. And I will hopefully see you guys back again tomorrow. So stay safe. Don't bleed out your account. Take your time. And this is the perfect time to invest in your education and learn a new strategy that's going to teach you how to profit. So thanks, guys, and I'll see you later.