Good morning. Before we begin with one of you be willing to open us in prayer. Jai Lundi Father, we come here under the name of Jesus. We thank you for this, Dave. Thank you for the class we are about to have. For we just pray that He'll help us to understand the subjects as Smitham teaches his Lord. Give us your wisdom and understanding, Holy Spirit. You've been in the midst of our classes. There's nothing to be a distraction for us, God, but help us to grab the truth and store it in our heart, treasure it in our heart so that we can live an amazing life for you so that we can bring people towards your kingdom so that we can be a blessing to others. We just give you all the glory and honor and Jesus' name I pray. So we're at the last two weeks of the semester. We're a little bit behind, so we're going to have to try and cover seven chapters. I think in the next two weeks, so we try and go a little bit quickly. I will be posting your final quiz this week, so just be on the lookout for that. I'll post it online and you can submit it any time before the end of the semester. And then that'll be the last of the assignments, so the final paper and the final quiz. Any questions on assignments, anything you're going to address before we go into the second part of the quiz? Okay, let's go back to, we're going to start with chapter 7, so we will skip our recap for today, but we will have to look just briefly at some things that Paul talks about in chapter 6 to understand what he starts with in chapter 7. So let's begin with chapter 7. If somebody can read for us, just open that up. We can begin with chapter 7, just the first few verses if someone can read that for us. Yeah, let's just read the verse 1 and then we'll discuss that and then go into the rest of the chapter. So having these promises delivered, it is cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Thank you, John. So we see here Paul is kind of looking back at chapter 6 and he says, therefore having these promises. So chapter 6 in verses 16 to 18, he talks about putting away all sinfulness, putting away all idols, coming out, separating themselves from all sin and God will receive them back as sons and daughters. And so here he's saying we have this promise that we will be received back as sons and daughters. And so he says, therefore let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, then perfecting holiness in the fear of God. So there is a call to action here and that is that act of cleansing ourselves is actually something that we should take responsibility for. It is not something we can passively just say, okay, we've received Christ and now we leave the rest of Christ. He has to work out our sanctification for us. That's not the way we look at it. Rather, we take steps to examine ourselves to allow the Holy Spirit to work in us. And this truly is a work of the Holy Spirit. So with the Holy Spirit, we pray for exposure of sin within our lives. We allow God to remove those things within us. We take steps to step away from sin. So we have to take active participation in that to cut away sin from our lives. And then we allow the Holy Spirit to continue to give us grace in all of that. So it's us working with the Holy Spirit to move away from sin.  If by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. So a reminder that even as we're called to that life of holiness, we're doing it by the power of the Holy Spirit. And then Paul ends with this perfecting holiness in the clear of God. Perfecting holiness, perfecting means to bring to completion or to bring something to its perfect end. And holiness, of course, is the majesty and purity and complete otherness of God.  When we do that, we pursue that Christ likeness through the power of the Holy Spirit. Let's go on from there. We read verses 2 and 3. Someone can read that for us. Open your heart to us. We have wronged no one. We have corrupted no one. We have cheated no one. I do not say this to condemn, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to live together and to live together. So here again, Paul, we saw Paul earlier in chapter 6 calling them back to this place of openness to Paul. And we talked a little bit about that, about there being some degree of estrangement between them because of some things that Paul had written in a letter to them, correcting them that caused a lot of grief. And today we'll be looking a little more at that in this chapter, chapter 7. So here again, he's calling them back to that place of openness to him. And based on the fact that they have wronged no one, they've corrupted no one and cheated no one. So they've not done anything to, they've not sinned against anyone. They've not done anything unjust against anyone. They've not let them away from God rather they've let them to God. We have not corrupted no one and we have cheated no one. So we have not tried to take advantage of few in any way. So look at that and that is evidence that you can track them. And so this is something for us also in ministries to be keeping in mind that we do not wrong anyone. We don't corrupt people. We don't cheat people. If we can say that about our ministries, then that is a beautiful testimony of our hearts before God and that we as ministers of God can be trusted. And then he says, I don't say this to condemn you for I have said before that you are in our hearts. So he hasn't explicitly said exactly what he says here, but he has referred to his sufferings that he has been willing to undergo for their sakes. So we see that in chapter six he talks a lot about all of the sufferings that they have experienced. He talks about dying yet continuing to live for their sakes. And so he's referring back to that and saying, we are willing to both die and live with you. Let me move on to verses four to 12. If you could read that things versus four to 12. Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort and exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation. For indeed, when we came to Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were troubled on every side, outside were conflicts, inside were fears. Nevertheless, God who comforts the downcast comforted us by the coming of Titus and not only by his coming, but also by the consolation with which he was comforted in you. When he told us of your earnest desire, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoice even more. For even if I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I perceive that the same epistle made you sorry, though only for a while. Now I rejoice not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing. For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted, but the sorrow of the world produces death. For observe this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner, what diligence it produced in you, what clearing of your sins, what indignation, what fear, what bad men desire, what zeal, what vindication. In all things you proved yourself to be clear in this matter. Therefore, although I wrote to you, I did not do it for the sake of him who had done the wrong, not for the sake of him who suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear to you. Thank you.  And he's now moving into this part which actually will give us a better understanding of this whole letter of why he stopped so much about opening your hearts to us, come back and receive us, all of those things he's addressing in this chapter. So, he started talking about this in chapter two, we look a little bit at chapter two and so he comes back to it here, kind of bringing a conclusion to what he started in chapter two. So, he says, I'm filled with comfort, I'm exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation. And then in verse five, he says, for indeed we came to Macedonia. So, this goes back to 2 Corinthians 2.13, so let's just go back to 2 Corinthians 2 and we can read from verse 12 and 13 in chapter two. So, we remember what he was talking about there and we can connect this to that. Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel and a door was opened to me by the Lord, I had no rest in my spirit because I did not find Titus my brother, but taking my leave of them, I departed for Macedonia. So, here he was talking about going, so he had gone to Corinth, he met with the Corinthians. He actually had a difficult time with them because he had brought correction to them, we see that in the beginning of chapter two. And from there he went on to Troas and then from there to Macedonia. So, in verse five of this chapter, chapter seven, he's saying, when we came to Macedonia, our bodies had invested. We were continuing that journey. So, he stopped there in chapter two and he's continuing here. But we were troubled on every side, outside were conflicts, inside were fears. So, he's talking about the challenges that he faced there while there was a lot of fruit in the ministry that they were doing in Macedonia. He also had challenges, persecution of just dealing with things in the church and so he's not afraid to talk about those things. He is secure enough in who he is in Christ and as a minister of God that he can talk about the challenges openly. He doesn't have to pretend like everything is perfect. So, outside there were conflicts and inside he had to deal with his own fears, the challenges that he faced as a minister in serving the people. So, he's not only carrying the ministry of Macedonia, all of those challenges in his heart. He's also carrying this Corinthian conflict that is happening in his heart. So, it's a lot of his own emotional struggles that are happening while he's also doing ministry and facing those challenges. Verse six, nevertheless, God who comforts the downcast comforted us by the coming of Titus. So, we see this language of comfort again. He talks about it in chapter one. He says, praise be to God, the Father of compassion, the God of all comfort. And he talks about how God comforts us in our suffering so that we can comfort others. So, he goes back to that theme here in verse six, talking about how God comforted them because he met Titus. So, he was waiting to meet Titus because Titus was not in Troas. He went on to Macedonia to meet Titus. And why was he anxious to meet Titus? One of the reasons was because Titus was coming back from the Corinthian church to give him a report of what had happened. Now, to understand what the issue was here, we look at a little more at chapter two. The first few verses, if we can read from chapter two, we just open that up. Yeah, let's just read chapter two verses one to four. Someone can read that verse please. But I determined this within myself that I would not come again to you in sorrow. For if I make you sorrowful, then who is he who makes me glad, but the one who is made sorrowful by me? And I wrote this very thing to you, lest when I came, I should not have sorrow over those from whom I ought to have joy. Having confidence in you, all that my joy is the joy of you all. Out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears. Not that you should not be grief, but that you might know the love which I have so abundantly for you. Okay, thank you. So we have that context of Paul had made a painful visit to Corinth in verse one, chapter two verse one, we read that. And that visit had been to address some issues that were going on there. Now it isn't clear what the issues were, but it seems that there was something that he wanted to address in person. So he went there in person, he met with them, and that was not a visit that ended well. So he left there with great distress and anguish and many tears. So there was a lot of heavy burden that he was carrying from that issue and how it had been addressed, how they had together worked through it, it had not been resolved. And so he leaves Corinth and then he sends Titus to go back to find out how they are responding to what has happened. And so we'll go back to chapter seven verses eight to twelve to read what happened once Titus visited them. Chapter seven verses eight to twelve. For even if I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it, for I perceive that the same epistle made you sorry, though only for a while. Now I rejoice not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly manner that you might suffer loss from us in nothing. For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted, but the sorrow of the world produces death. For observe this very thing that you sorrowed in a godly manner. What diligence it produced in you, what clearing of your sins, what indignation, what fear, what vehement desire, what seal, what vindication. In all things you proved yourself to be clear in this matter. Therefore, although I wrote to you, I did not do it for the sake of him who had done wrong, nor for the sake of him who suffered the wrong. But that I'll care for you in the sight of God might appear to you. So here we see what happened. So Paul sent Titus back with the letter and that letter made the church again quite upset. It affected the church. And Paul actually regretted sending the letter because he knew that that had brought them sorrow. But that sorrow eventually led to repentance. And so he differentiates here between a godly sorrow versus a worldly sorrow. And seeing what is the fruit of godly sorrow versus a sorrow that comes from the world. So godly sorrow leads to repentance because there is a conviction of sin. There is repentance and there is hope and there is change that comes from a godly sorrow versus a sorrow that comes from the world where there is no hope. Instead it leads to hopelessness, it leads to condemnation, it leads to death. And so it's important here to differentiate between the two. When we are bringing correction to people when we are addressing things, what are we trying to do? What do we want to see happen as a result of that correction? We want to see conviction. We want to see repentance. We want to see change. If that is the result of what we have done when we are bringing correction, then it is a good thing. On the other hand, if there is hopelessness, if they are feeling condemned, if they actually are going away from God, then that kind of correction we'll have to reflect on whether we've corrected in the right way or if they have responded in the wrong way. So what is the problem here? Have we done something wrong or have they responded incorrectly though we've brought right correction to them? And so here, although Paul regretted sending the letter when he saw the results of what he had written and saw that there was repentance, there was change, he recognizes that what he did was right and it was the best thing for them. And so we see here there is a list of eight things that the Corinthians did as a result. So the fruit of that correction, so one is diligence. That is they were spotted with an earnest, eager desire to change, a clearing of oneself. So a desire to make things right, indignation. That is recognition of something that was wrong and they were also upset by what was wrong. Fear, that is they were alarmed by the things that were going on in the church. So until that time, they had not been affected by it. But when Paul sent that correction, he sent that letter. They also felt that same level of discomfort or unhappiness with what had happened. Five is a vehement desire, so a longing to change, a zeal, a passion, vindication. So taking whatever actions and needed to make things right and then proving themselves to be cleared. So proving that they wanted to do the right thing. And so because they've taken those steps, they've done all of those things. Paul now knows that they were truly sorry and they truly trusted him. And so he says verse 12, although I wrote to you, I didn't do it for the sake of the person who had wronged, who had done the wrong or the person who suffered the wrong. So here it seems that Paul himself was the one who suffered the wrong. It seems from chapter 2 that there was a conflict between him and somebody else. And so we look at chapter 2 when I had done the recording in that video. The second part of chapter 2, after he talks about his grief or visit, he talks about this correction that he talks about. So some people think it refers back to the sin that was mentioned in 1 Corinthians, right? About the person who was having sex with his father's wife. But this is a different, some people say that this is a different conflict that he's talking about, which was something else that happened after 1 Corinthians was written and before 2 Corinthians. So something in between those two letters. And so that is the thing that he's addressing here. So with that we move on to verses 13 to 16. If someone can read those last few verses in chapter 7. Therefore we have been comforted in your comfort and we rejoice exceedingly more for the joy of Titus because his spirit has been refreshed by you all. For if in anything I have boasted to him about you, I am not ashamed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our boasting to Titus was found true.  How with fear and troubling you received him. Therefore I rejoice that I have confidence in you in everything. So Paul closes this chapter with explaining this is what he found comfort in. So although he was having challenges in Macedonia and he was already burdened by what was happening in Corinth. Once Titus came back with this report, Paul was comforted. Not only because of the good news of how the church had responded, but also because Titus himself had been blessed by his time with the Corinthian church. And then Paul also is comforted in the fact that he knows that his boasting in the church was found to be true. It proved to be true because of how the church responded. And he talks about their obedience and how they had shown respect and love towards Titus and had received him with that kind of love. And so this is what brings Paul greater is that he can have confidence in this church. There will be those kinds of challenges where sin needs to be addressed, where correction needs to be brought, and we don't know if it will always be taken well. So our job is to do that, to correct people, to call them to righteousness, holiness, to doing what is right before God. We have to be faithful to do that as Paul did right. He did that even though it was a difficult thing. And if it was a challenging thing and he himself was wondering whether it was the best thing that he had done. But because he was faithful to do it, the church was able to repent. They were able to set things right and they were able to come to a place of right standing before God because of that. And they had to go through this period of sorrow. They had to go through this period of grief. Paul and the church had to go through those challenges in their relationship. But the end result was a church that was stronger and a relationship that is restored. And that is what brings Paul joy, knowing that their response was proof of their love and respect for him as their leader. But also that they were truly now in a good place spiritually as well. So that's something for us to take away as leaders, as ministers, how do we deal with conflict? How can we best address issues? So we see also how Paul, he visits them, he talks to them. And then his plan was to go back and visit them, right? From Macedonia, he was supposed to go back. But because of how difficult that first meeting was, he chose to send a letter through Titus. So even in that, how did he navigate the issues? Recognizing that sometimes it's better to meet in person. Sometimes it's better to have somebody else go on our behalf. And how do we address the issues that are there? So sending that letter, addressing it through a letter, then send and having Titus there to work that out with the church on his behalf. And so after this is when Paul goes back to Boris, after he receives this report, after he hears about how the church is doing, he goes back and he'll start to talk about that in the following chapters about going back to receive the collection for the saints. So chapter eight, we see here now, chapter one was talking about Paul's visit to the church, what he had planned to do, how the plans changed because of all of this conflict. Chapter two, we saw more about that, about the conflict. And then from chapter seven, Paul was talking about, he was defending himself, his ministry. He was calling the church to open their hearts to him, to be receptive of him, proving by his, the way he had carried out his ministry that he had done it with a heart that was fully pure towards them, his motives were pure towards them. And so chapter seven kind of concludes all of that. And from chapter eight onwards, he moves into this, talking about the collection that we saw in first Corinthians, where they were collecting money to contribute to this church in Jerusalem. And so he will start to talk about that in chapter eight. So we'll just read this a little bit from first Corinthians 16.14, where he talked about the collections. He says, now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given orders to the churches of Galatia, so you must do also on the first day of the week, let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper, that there may, that there be no collections when I come. And when I come, whoever you approve by your letters, I will send to bear your gift to Jerusalem. But if it is fitting that I go also, they will go with me. So this is where he had actually asked them to start setting aside money for the church in Jerusalem. From here, we can start in chapter eight, if someone can read verses one to seven, please. Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Mesudonium, that in a great trial of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep property upon that in the riches of their liberty. For I bear witnesses that according to their ability, yes, and beyond their ability, they were freely willing, imploring us with much urgency that we would receive the gift and the fellowship of the ministering to the saints, and not only as we had hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord and then to us by the will of God. So we are status that as he had begun, so he would also complete this grace in you as well. But as you abound in everything, in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all religions, and in your love for us, see that you abound in this grace also. Thank you. So let's just, I'm not sure if all of you have your notes open. I'll just share this map just so we know where. So on the map you see in the south here is where Corinth is, and Macedonia was up there. So Paul had traveled through Corinth, he had gone to Trois and then gone to Macedonia. And so he's writing from here. And he, in Macedonia, these were the three Philephite, Thessalonica, and Beria were the three places where we know that he mostly was ministry. So he's talking about these churches that these churches were the ones who had given generously towards the church in Jerusalem. And Corinth was in the region of Achaea, so we will hear him referring to Achaea, a little later. So Achaea was in southern Greece and Corinth was a capital of Achaea. So here in chapter eight, he's talking about the Macedonians and how generously they gave. He also talks about the fact that they were actually facing a lot of challenges. So in the midst of their trials and in the midst of their poverty, so it was not that they were very rich. It was that they were poor, but even then they gave generously out of their poverty. Two helped churches in Jerusalem that was having both financial struggles and there was a famine. And so to help out the people there are the believers in Jerusalem. So in chapter three, verse three of chapter eight, I bear witness that according to their ability and beyond their ability, they were willing to give. So why is Paul Scherring the city wants to encourage the Corinthian church by giving the example of the Macedonian? So he wants to say that look at how the Macedonians gave. They had all of these the trials that the church itself was facing, the difficulties, the persecutions that they were facing. And they were poor, but they still gave generously with willing hearts. And not only did they give, they actually begged Paul. So we've seen verse four imploring us with much urgency that we would receive the gift and the fellowship of the ministry in the same. So that they that Paul would take that gift and would give them the opportunity to minister to the saints in Jerusalem. So by giving to these saints, there was a sharing in their suffering by sacrificial giving from whatever they had. They were able to share with the saints in Jerusalem. So that fellowship was there in the suffering of the people in Jerusalem. And then verse five, not only as we hope, but they first gave themselves to the Lord and then to us by the will of God. And this is an important thing that it was because they had given themselves to the Lord that they were able to give in this way towards the church. So they were able to give themselves to what Paul and Timothy and Titus were doing to the ministry through being surrendered. We are giving, we are doing a good thing. And almost this notion of that is where salvation will come from, from our good works. But that's not the right way of thinking. On the other hand, people may give because there is a sense of guilt or there is a sense of they want to make up something that they've done. So all of those ways of giving are not what God is looking for. It is first a heart that is surrendered to God. And then from that place of surrender of finances are an outpouring of that heart that we have towards God. We look at verse six, we urge Titus as he had begun. So he would also complete his grace in you as well, referring back to what they had started in when he wrote the first letter to the Corinthians. And then verse seven, but as you abound in everything in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all religions and in your love for us, see that you abound in this grace also. So just to say we see that you are excelling in your faith, in speech and knowledge. So in all of these ways in your work with God, you excel and also in your love for us. So let this area of financial giving also be an area in which you excel and in which you abound. We have a few more minutes. We can just start with verses eight to fifteen. Maybe we can read it and then we can come back and discuss it after the break. Someone can read verses eight to fifteen. I speak not by commandment, but I am testing the sincerity of your love by the diligence of others. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor. That you through his poverty might become rich. And in this I give advice. It is to your advantage not only to be doing what you began and were desiring to do a year ago, but now you also must complete the doing of it. That as there was a readiness to desire it, so there also may be a completion out of what you have. For if there is first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what one has and not according to what he does not have. For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, but by an equality that now at this time your abundance may supply their lack. That their abundance also may supply your lack, that there may be equality. As it is written, he who gathered much had nothing left over and he who gathered little had no lack. Thank you. We still have a few minutes so we start discussing this. So here Paul begins with saying I'm not commanding you to do this.  Rather I wanted to see if your love is genuine. So I'm testing your love for the other believers by comparing it to how other churches have responded. So now the Macedonian Church is responding this way and I want to see if your love also is genuine as the Macedonian Church has shown genuine love. I want to see if your love is genuine. And then verse 9, we know the grace of our Lord Jesus that though he was rich. So going back to the example of Christ. So Paul is not using his own life as an example or saying you should give because of me, you should give because of who I am, nothing like that. He's saying look at Jesus himself. Jesus became poor that you might become rich. And by his example, if we want to be like Christ, this is something that we should be willing to do. And then he says verse 10, you already began doing this. So they had already started to put away the funds a year previously. But this letter is to encourage them to complete that process. So verse 11, you must also complete the doing of it. So you had this readiness, you had the desire to give. But now we want you to move that desire to actual action and put that to action and complete what you wanted to do. And then verse 11, if there is a willing mind, it is accepted according to what one has and not according to what he does not have. So in your giving, we are not asking you to give what you actually don't have. So we're not asking you to somehow sacrifice more than you actually have, but we're asking you to give out of what you have. So there are some lessons for giving here. We look more in detail at that. We'll just cover all of these verses and then we look more in detail in that about giving specifically. Verse 13, I do not mean that others should be eased in your burdens. That is not the way to give where you are giving so much that you yourself are then in a place of lack or you have extra burdens on yourself. But that there should be equality that when you have abundancy, you give to those who lack and that when they have abundance, they will give to you. So it is that kind of mindset where we want to be equal. We're not trying to be richer, more successful, more in a better place than others. Rather, we are trying to be in a place of equality where we recognize that somebody doesn't have something. We want them to have it and we want to be equal rather than competing with one another. So we'll just stop here and we take a 10 minute break and come back.


Monday morning about a quarter after six and little chilly in New York Frankie boy doesn't have heat in his car so he has to bundle up and that brings us to I guess the overarching point today is financially speaking on Frankie's arranged meat things aren't looking too well which has kind of discouraged me and prevented me from I guess achieving what I've wanted to do and as much you know I come in here every day I look at things I see you know how far we've come even as little as you know products like natures glucose you know the labels I designed myself for the tallows and the lard and all that type of stuff you know where we started I keep that stuff in mind I try to focus on how far I've come in just the past two years and that you know just keep pushing keep pushing keep pushing keep trying to get to that end goal of providing people with as much high quality food as possible but when you look at the bank account every day and it's even it's very disheartening and I didn't do this to make money but I do understand that if I'm not making money I cannot expand the business I cannot provide people with those high-quality animal as well as plant foods which we've been adding recently that being said I'm confident the products I'm offering are better than I mean please guys like butcher it's not even close but I still feel like I need to get to the point that no one else has gotten to you know we need to have our own slaughterhouse our own operation our own full kitchen do more value-added products charcuterie the dairy and the eggs the farm stuff I want all of that to happen you know within a reasonable period of time because guy I mean guys I'm I'm almost 30 years old you know if I can't get this stuff done then I don't think anyone can and at some point you know things just have to kind of give way because honestly I've been killing myself I've spent every waking moment of my life for the past few years doing things I don't want to do and you know when I'm kind of miserable in my personal life and my business life I just don't know how much longer I can push through this but as I said I'm trying to stay positive I'm trying to focus on how far I've come and I'm trying to you know just get through these things and you know I do have an accountant looking at the books this might have to get another account because they're taking way too long to figure it out but point is I'm going to plug along and I'm going to get to that end goal whether it's now or whether it's three years from now so I'm just getting some stuff ready for the food's orders we got some nature's glucose here in bubble wrap new labels came in we had four ounces instead of five ounces box of labels is over there you know had to wag you ran out of labels beef tallow ran out of labels we got plenty of Iberico pork lard hanging around but I'm just kind of bubble wrapping these up so they're ready for the 20 or so orders and then I just put you know the whey protein and the best bars in and then that's it so we're going to pack up about 22 or so Frankie syringe foods orders then I got to fill out some orders for organ supplements so I'm going to do that probably take me about an hour or two and then I can talk to you guys about the farm the Amish stuff the dairy the eggs and how that's going I mean yeah from a business perspective obviously no one wants to say they're not doing so well just you know from any common sensical standpoint but you know since you guys are the reason Frankie syringe meat is able to function and you guys have supported me these past two years I you know I feel a responsibility to tell you guys the truth and let you guys know what's going on and that financial situation you know figuring out what's going on with the books and all that type of stuff it's kind of the answer to why none of this other stuff has been happening you know getting a loan for the slaughterhouse working with these Amish farmers possibly getting a farm ourself you know there's priorities and you know you have to walk before you can run and that's a big part of the reason I haven't been blogging Frankie syringe meat for the past few weeks now I was hoping to have some more positive news but you guys have been asking me you know what's up with the farm what's up with Frankie syringe meat you get in Rotary anytime soon all that type of stuff so we're just wrapping up the Oregon supplements orders now we did the Frankie syringe foods orders so I'll show you guys how many so the guys have been working for about an hour so we have you know quite a few Frankie's meat orders ready these are all the stuff I did for naturals Wi-Fi shielding organ supplements I don't know maybe we got 50 packages total split between the post office as well as some UPS on top got the guys working right now Adams here it's about 915 I'll just give them an update that like we're kind of breaking even in stuff so I was telling them like the farm stuff and the slaughterhouse and the dairy and the eggs is kind of on the back burner for a little bit because obviously we don't want to just do more work and just keep breaking even basically especially with the Amish people like the the raw dairy the farm the slaughterhouse that type of stuff working with these Amish people yeah that's definitely a priority you mean the farm for to do it ourselves instead of working with them because yeah because we're just the Amish want so much money for the product that we're basically just gonna be boxing it up for free shipping it out and then making us very small margin on the product the hope would be that it would bring in a lot more customers but if that doesn't happen then we dig a big-ass hole that we can't get out of basically what worst-case scenario is instead of getting more customers we don't get more customers and people order dairy instead of meat and then that would be a nightmare this week we're doing just the wagyu now right we didn't really push too much last week but this week we'll do the wagyu sirloin steaks yeah we have the bone in the bone out strip one and we can do the wagyu sirloin steak for only 550 per steak so if you guys want to try wagyu for basically five dollars for a small steak it's a great deal how much were we selling the regular sirloin steaks for like four dollars or 350 yeah so no this is a you're not gonna get a better deal than this yeah yeah people really like the the smaller some people like the smaller steaks especially if they're not eaten like a pound two pounds of meat at once yeah exactly so Adam kind of gave you the gist of it the Amish are not easy to work with that's a bit of an understatement you know they want a lot of money for their products they don't communicate via phone they want all their friends all their community involved so there's not just like one pickup site for the product so realistically we would have to do it ourselves which you know puts it way down the line and the problem is from a monetary perspective most of our sales are meat right now so we don't want to really invest or allocate any you know funds or loans or resources to just getting dairy and eggs we want to do the meat products first the charcuterie the sausage the hot dogs bacon have more control over our beef pork and chicken selection you know right now we have quite a few different cuts of beef but you know we don't have complete control over what pork and chicken we're offering you know from the variety of cuts to the quality of feed to offering organs to doing the value-added products so having the slaughterhouse having a meat processing operation on a larger scale is what we need to do first and then shortly thereafter we can do the dairy and the eggs ourselves and I don't even know if I'm going to do raw dairy I might just do high quality dairy just to not run into any legal issues initially because you can't even get that you know I said earlier in this video you know why run before you can walk and that's the same thing you know raw dairy is a giant leap compared to what the average person has access to so we definitely want to do that you know slaughterhouse farm dairy eggs all that stuff's definitely on the back burner I'll keep you guys updated over the next month or two just so you guys have an idea of what's going on and you guys could check out the first light wagyu we do have available I'm trying to get more of the venison but we do have some pretty good deals on that right now so frankiesurangemeat.com if you guys could please drop a like on the video leave a comment down below subscribe so that YouTube can unsubscribe you next week and if you guys do want to support me further check out everything else on frank-tofano.com thanks again for joining me guys let me know if you have any questions what else you want me to show you and I'll see you guys for tomorrow's video


Okay in this series we're going to be looking at cameras and controlling the cameras with our computers and today we're looking at my Canon T3i. Canon cameras are great. I like my lot. Again it's a T3i, a slightly older model, but what I'm showing you today should work on many cameras similar to it. And basically when you hook up USB, you can take pictures, you can take the SD card out, put any computer camera off. You hook up to USB. It's not like old cameras where it showed up as a mass storage device. I guess if you're on Windows or Mac you probably have some software that came with the camera. I throw those things out when I get them because I run Linux and I don't need that sort of stuff. Linux already provides what I need. And the program I'm using today is called GPhoto. So GPhoto, sorry, GPhoto 2. GPhoto 2 is a great little tool that allows you to interact with a lot of cameras. So let's go ahead and just get started. It's using a protocol called PTP. So that's a picture transfer protocol. And I'm going to go through a lot. There will be a link in the description to some notes, but for now I'm just going to go pretty quick. I'm going to copy and paste a lot of these commands because we're going to go through a lot of them, but there's actually a lot more that we're not going to go through today. But once you have GPhoto 2 installed, use your package manager, aptitude, aptget, synaptic, whatever package manager you use, install it. You can run GPhoto 2 list ports. So there you go. It lists a bunch of ports, but I actually don't have my Canon camera hooked up. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to plug it in now and run that command again. And give it a, oh, also the camera has to be on and not in standby mode. If your camera goes into standby mode after 10, 15, 30 seconds, GPhoto 2 won't see it. So you have to make sure that it's not in standby mode. So now that I've done that, there we go, took a picture to make sure, I'll list out. And now you can see compared to before, there is another port listed here. But how do I know that's the camera, especially if I have more than one cameras hooked up that support PTP. So I'm going to paste in here GPhoto 2 auto detect and here I'll list the port and the camera name. So we have that. We can also do a summary by doing GPhoto 2 dash dash summary, which will just give us some information here on the camera. So you can see it's a Canon EOS Rebel T3i. And there's some other camera information there. There are camera, there are images on the camera already. If I do GPhoto 2 list files, I'll list all the files on the camera. And actually, there's just the one that I just took because I cleared out before starting up the tutorial. But we'll run that command again after we take some photos. And actually, right now, if I want, I can run GPhoto 2 get all files. And it just downloaded the one file that I just basically just pictured me sitting here doing this tutorial. You can see it right there. So that's me. It's kind of dark out because there's a storm here. So lighting isn't that great. We can also use GPhoto 2 to list all configuration options. So I can do GPhoto 2 list dash list config, hit enter. And from the camera, it grabs options that it has available. Now some options, for example, if I want to change the shutter speed, I can first list out. So let's say, okay, does this camera have a shutter speed? I can look through the list here until I see where it says shutter speed, shutter count. And of course, you can always grep. There we go. So there is a shutter speed option. And grep is just a command to search through outputs of another programmer file. So now that I know that I can adjust the shutter speed, I can use photo to GPhoto 2. I'm going to mess up the name of this program so many times in this tutorial. And it's so simple GPhoto 2. I can say set configuration last command was get config. This is set config shutter speed. So I can hit enter here. Or I'm sorry, let me back up a little bit. We listed all the configurations. So now instead of set, I can say get. And I can get the configuration options for shutter speed. And I get this error. And if you get this error, no camera found. It's because my camera went in standby because I'm talking too much. So again, I'll just go ahead and make sure I'm not in standby mode anymore. And I'll run that command again. And it's not really giving me options here. And the reason for that is because the camera is set to automatic mode, the physical switch on the camera. And that's why I started to say some options you can't change depending on what setting you're on the camera. Okay, so I set the camera to manual mode. So now I can adjust a lot of the settings that I couldn't adjust when it was in automatic mode. So I'm going to go ahead and run again, GPhoto 2, get config shutter speed. And it gives me a list of all these options from bold to all the way down to one four thousandths. So the number is what we want. So choice zero or choice one. So here we go. I can say now let's clear the screen again. This time last time we said get config. This time we're saying set config of the shutter speed to one. Okay, I just read I didn't take a picture. I just adjusted the shutter speed. So that is how you can adjust the speed. I'm going to set the camera back to automatic mode. Okay, so it's set back to automatic mode. Let's go ahead and take some pictures. So there's two commands to take pictures with the camera. There is GPhoto 2 capture image. And I just took a picture, downloaded to the computer, and then I can also do GPhoto 2 trigger capture. Okay, so and forget what I just said. I said that we downloaded it to the computer. We didn't do that with that command. Those two commands both take the picture and save it to the SD card on the camera. Now, if I wanted to save it to the computer, what I can do is I can run GPhoto 2 capture image and download. It's kind of long, but GPhoto 2 dash dash capture dash image and download. And you can see that it took a picture, put it on the camera. It saved the file to the local computer. And then it deleted the picture off the camera. So it's now on my computer. It's not on the camera anymore. I can list it out here. You can see it called a cap one. And we can even display that out like so. Oh, other screen here. Oh, there we go. So that's me doing this tutorial. Okay, so now if I run that command again, not the display command, but the capture command, you can see it's going to ask if I want to override the picture because by default, unless you're doing a series of picture in one command, in which case it will number them, it's always going to want to name it the first picture kept 000.jpg. And it's going to ask if you want to override. I'm going to say yes, sure, or no, whichever. So what you could do is you could say gphoto to capture image and download dash dash file name. And I can say my photo.jpg and hit enter. And now it downloaded it and it saved it to the computer, erased it off the camera. And if we list out our files here, you can see that it create a file called my photo. Now if I run that same command again, it's going to ask if I want to override that because that file exists. So let's say you want to take a bunch of pictures in a row, or over a period of time, and you don't want it, especially if you're scripting it out for it to ask each time, if you want to override it. Well, gphoto to does no date stamps. So I can say gphoto to capture image and download file. And I can give this which is year, month, day, hour, minutes and seconds. So as long as I don't take more than one picture a second, it's going to timestamp it each time. So it just took one picture, I'll take another picture, and we can list out these files. And you can see that we have this file here and this file here. And so yeah, you can name files that way. Other options, just so you know for the set config is supposedly if you do gphoto to set config capture target set to zero, I can do that. Now when I take pictures, it's only going to use the RAM on the camera. And then download into my computer where right now every time I take a picture, it's saving it to the camera, it's the SD card, copying it to the computer, and then erasing it from the SD card. And that's not good for the SD card. That's a lot of writing to the SD card. So this will copy it to the RAM of the camera. And then before it removes it from there copies it to the computer. And then we can always set it back to one if we want to start using the SD card again. Our next options, just so you can see, okay, so far we've been using the computer to take the photos and store the photos, I can do gphoto to dash dash capture dash tethered. And now this command is going to be running. And now I can use the button on the camera like to take pictures like I normally would, but it's going to store them to the computer. So if you're taking a lot of photos, maybe you're doing a prom gig or something like that, you can take the picture with the camera just like you normally would, but it's going to capture them and save them to a computer, in which case you could script it to upload those photos and edit them or do whatever you want to do. So I was just taking pictures by pressing buttons on the camera. Let me take one more of myself. And I can take a lot really quick too. So it might take a moment for them all to copy over to the computer, but I took them quickly. So that's another option because when I'm capturing them with the computer, I kind of have to wait for the command to finish writing before I can capture again, which is a couple of seconds. Now I can also, well I can use control C to kill that. I can do now the same command that I can do dash equals, we'll say 10 seconds or however many seconds you want. Now it's tethered to the camera and I can be taking pictures. But after 10 seconds, the computer is going to stop. I'll be able to still be taking pictures, but they'll just be saved on the camera and no longer, well actually no, it's not let me take pictures anymore. So I was wrong about that last little part, but it times out after 10 seconds or however many seconds you set it to. Like I said, there's a lot of other options, but the only other thing I want to go over now is what if you have more than one camera that supports P2P or PTP. So for example, I am going to do this and hopefully this example works. So now I have the camera hooked up and just like before I'm going to try to capture and download an image, but I'm getting an error. And the problem here is I actually have two devices that support PTP and it doesn't know which one I want to use. I actually came across this by accident. I was like, why is this not working? Because I have my cell phone hooked up and cell phones apparently when hooked up through USB have the option to transfer PTP, which makes sense. So now I have to tell it which camera I want to use. So just like before I can do G-Photo 2 auto detect, right there it's seeing my cell phone because my camera's got into standby. Let me take it out of standby and run it again. So now it sees both cameras. So what I can do is I can do something like this. So the camera here we can see the name is Canon EOS 600D. So let me clear the screen here. You can see I'm running G-Photo 2 dash dash the trigger capture just like we did before to trigger a capture. This will save the image to the camera. Again you can use the capture image and download option as well. But here we're saying inside quotations dash dash camera equals and it's the output that I got from running the other commands, the auto detect command, which again my camera's going to stand by. So again I can auto detect. If I try to run this command I get an error because I didn't tell it what camera and I have two cameras. I can run that same command again and add in this telling it which camera to use and now it takes a picture. So be aware of that. If you're trying to capture from your camera and it's giving you errors and you don't know why the camera's on, the camera's hooked up, it's not in standby, you might have your cell phone hooked up and it is showing up as a PTP because you can transfer pictures over that way as well. So just like before we were talking about how we can do G-Photo 2 get all images. Well here it's pulling all the images off my cell phone because my camera's gone into standby. So that's pretty much it. Again if you're trying to do something with your camera and it's giving you an error that it can't access the camera for some reason, it may be that you have your cell phone hooked up or some other camera or device that uses PTP and it does know which one to use so you have to tell it which one to use. So I hope you found this tutorial useful. Again we're going to go over more of this type of thing in this series. I hope you enjoyed it and as always please visit FilmsByChris.com. That's Chris the K. There's a link in the description as always. I hope that you have a great day. As well as by night we work long hours. But that's not why you're here. You're here about the videos I put up on YouTube. These videos are mainly about computers and programming which means most of my videos look something like this. And if that's what you're interested in, great. 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I'm speaking to you today from San Jose, Costa Rica. Later this evening, I'll return to Washington, having visited with six neighboring heads of state. Our delegation has seen firsthand the vitality and potential of our new world neighbors. We've also heard and discussed their needs and aspirations and how they affect our own vital national interests. United States interests require that we support our fellow Americans with a hemispheric policy which preserves and promotes democratic institutions, advances and encourages free market economies, and provides the security essential for these systems to develop and flourish. In our discussions during these last four days, I pledged our continued commitment to work as friends and neighbors with the other nations of this Western Hemisphere. We'll stand firmly with them to achieve the promise of economic progress and political stability that is the legacy of peace in the Americas. Through cooperation, together, we can protect ourselves from counterfeit revolutionaries who seek to destroy growth and impose totalitarianism on people who love freedom. Let us remember something very important. If our neighbors, particularly our nearest neighbors in the Caribbean Basin are in trouble, their troubles inevitably become ours unless we work together to solve them. Right now, their difficulties are not entirely of their own making. World prices for their traditional products, sugar, bananas, bauxite and coffee, have been declining sharply for several years. At the same time, the prices for their essential imports, particularly petroleum, have remained high. This worldwide recession, the longest and most severe in post-war history, has hit their economies with all the fury of the tropical storms they were exposed to each year. We cannot afford to ignore these difficulties. Our ties with the countries of the Caribbean Basin are very close. One half of our trade passes through this area. Prolonged social and economic disruption would cause an exodus of desperate people seeking refuge where so many others have already found it in the United States. The interests of Caribbean Basin countries are our interests. Their security is our security. The difficulties in the Caribbean Basin may seem overwhelming, but just as tropical storms give way to sunshine and calmer seas, economic despair will give way to optimism if people have the prospect to build a better life in freedom. Our support for democratic institutions is already helping. U.S. assistance to help these countries defend themselves from outside supported subversion is likewise showing signs of progress. Our Caribbean Basin Initiative, designed to provide economic opportunity by stimulating investment in trade, offers the hope of economic progress which anchors democracy and freedom. In September, the United States Congress approved funds for emergency balance of payments assistance as the first step in this initiative. I also attach great importance to the 1983 fiscal year package of foreign assistance. But our goal is not a temporary boost from foreign aid. Our goal is to help our neighbors strengthen democratic institutions and free economies that stand on their own. We need long-term incentives to expand production and create new jobs. The trade and investment portions of our Caribbean Basin Initiative legislation are designed to accomplish this. I've proposed that we offer our neighbors the opportunity to trade with us freely by eliminating trade barriers for most products for 12 years and by providing tax incentives for U.S. investment in their economies. With our markets beckoning, the inducement to expand existing enterprises and invest in new ventures will increase. This will create growth and jobs, both for Caribbean countries and for the United States. Trade is the path to new progress for everyone. All developing countries, including ours, succeeded by expanded free enterprise at home and by increasing their trade with other countries. By helping them, we help ourselves. As their economies grow, we'll have new markets for our exports. The faster their standards of living rise, the more jobs will be created in the United States. The impact on our own domestic industries of more goods coming from the Caribbean will be minimal. Since the quantity of imports from these small countries will not be great. Moreover, our industries and our jobs will have safeguards to protect them from disruption. Since taking office, I've held numerous discussions with Caribbean Basin leaders. They have assured me that their Caribbean Basin Initiative will provide more fuel for their private economies to be engines for lasting growth. They too have faith that private enterprise can flourish with the magic of the marketplace. This initiative, I'm pleased to say, is only part of a wider undertaking in the Caribbean Basin. Canada, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela have joined us with impressive initiatives of their own. I'm asking the Congress only that we in the United States do our part by doing what we can do best, create economic opportunity. The leaders of the Congress have promised to give the Caribbean Basin Initiative urgent consideration during the current session. The initiative has already received substantial bipartisan support. I urge all members of the Congress to look carefully at the benefits which the Caribbean Basin Initiative will bring to our neighbors and to us. Final passage this year is top priority. I'll be leaving tonight to return to Washington. I can't close without saying how impressed I've been with the leaders I've met here in the nations of South and Central America and the people. I believe we've created bonds which will serve to bring the nations and people of the Americas into a closer accord. These two great continents, joined by the countries of Central America, can be the hope of the world. Until next week, thanks for listening and God bless you.


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