I am choosing to go. I am choosing to follow Jesus. I am choosing to obey the Great Commission. I am choosing to love the way that he first loved us. I will not settle for anything less. I am choosing to be a disciple of Jesus. Well, radiant family, I'm so grateful that I have the opportunity to bring the Word of God to you this weekend.  We've been in all fall called Disciple. And the title of the message this weekend is transformed. We're going to be talking about spiritual transformation. And before we jump into the word, I just want to express my heartfelt gratitude and thankfulness to all of you who sent condolences and encouragement and cards and different things to Jane and I at the loss of my grandfather, my grandpa Cummings, who went home to be with the Lord last Saturday this week. Jane and I were up north and conducted my grandfather's funeral. And yesterday, we actually buried him in the ground knowing though that his spirit and his soul is in the presence of the Lord. And that overjoy fills our heart with so much joy. And we just feel so encouraged and so strengthened by all of you. So we just wanted to say thank you so much for that. And you know, today as we're talking about what it means to be a disciple of Jesus versus a cultural Christian and the process of spiritual transformation, my grandfather is a great example of that. He lived and loved Jesus for over 70 years. Every day of his life, he read the scriptures. He was a disciple of Jesus, but he wasn't born a disciple of Jesus. He was formed into a disciple of Jesus, into the image of Christ, the one that he loved and he served by the spirit of God. And so today I want to bring this teaching to you called transformed. And as we've said, every weekend so far in this series, our definition of a disciple is a disciple is someone who finds, follows, and is becoming fully formed to be like Jesus. A disciple is someone who finds, is someone who follows, and someone who is being fully formed to be like Jesus. This is the definition of a disciple. It's not just somebody who's prayed a prayer, even though that's where it starts. It's not somebody that just ascribes or mentally ascends to a belief in a historical figure named Jesus. Although that's definitely part of it. Those who come to God must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of those who diligently seek him. Believing in God is important, but it's not the end of the story. A disciple is three parts. You find, you follow, and then we're transformed. We're formed by the spirit of God to what? To be like Jesus. And that's what I want to talk to you about today, because it's important that we understand these three facets. And the first two, the find and the follow, are significant because they set the trail for us, the way of Jesus to go from where we are when we find Jesus or when Jesus finds us. And it leads us down the path and the process of being transformed. So let me just give you some thoughts about this definition as we lead into the discussion about transformation. Number one is this, that it's important that we know that we find Jesus at our born again experience. We don't find Jesus in just a book by reading about Jesus. We don't find Jesus by going to church, but it's important that we have a born again experience when we're confronted with the reality that Jesus is who he said he was, that John 14, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes into the Father except by me. Well, how do we have this encounter with Jesus, this finding of Jesus, this born again experience? Jesus spoke about it in John chapter three. He's having a conversation with a Jewish rabbi whose name is Nicodemus. Nicodemus comes to him at night. That's why they call him Nic at night. And he comes to Jesus. I'm sorry, I just had to throw that in. He comes to Jesus so that nobody else would know that he's doing it and he wants to know how to receive eternal life. And Jesus says to him in John three, verse three, he says, truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. And then he says in verse five and six, truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh. And that which is born of the spirit is spirit. Jesus is speaking about a born again, a spirit birth that each and every one of us need to have in order to see the kingdom and to enter the kingdom of God. How are we born again? We're born again when we willingly, when we encounter Jesus, we're confronted with the reality of who he is and we submit our lives to Jesus. That's the beginning. That's where we find Jesus. And for me, finding Jesus, I always knew about Jesus my whole life. My grandfather talked about Jesus. My mom talked about Jesus. I sat in church, but I encountered Jesus as a 12 year old boy where Jesus encountered me. I knew he was real. I knew that I was a sinner. I knew that my sins separated me from God. And I knew that Jesus had paid the price for me on the cross.  And I've never looked back. And so each one of us need to ask ourselves, when was it in our lives that we found Jesus? Because Jesus said, you can't see the kingdom without this, without being born again. You're going to look for it, but you can't see it. You might be able to know where it's at, but you can't enter it, Jesus said, unless you're born again, born of the Spirit. This is where we find Jesus. This is our salvation experience. It's where we find Jesus. And where were you when you found Jesus? Think back today. Where was it that you had a salvation experience? Maybe you're watching this and you've never had a definitive salvation experience. Maybe today is the day that you actually find Jesus and begin the journey of following Jesus on the Jesus way, the narrow way that Jesus spoke about. Number two, we not only find Jesus in our salvation experience, but we follow Jesus in our daily direction. So remember, a disciple finds Jesus and then follows Jesus. How do we follow Jesus? Well, we follow him in our daily direction. Let me put it to you this way. A lot of us have good intentions when it comes to serving and imitating Jesus on the Jesus way and his way of living life. It's our intention. We come to church on Sunday and it's like we feel the anointing. We feel the presence of God in worship. We hear the message of the Holy Spirit works in our life and we make a decision. It's like that intention of our heart says, yeah, I want to live for God. But then Monday comes with increasing your regularity. I mean it's there every other day from Sunday. It's like you hit Monday and then Tuesday and Wednesday. And a lot of times we set the direction of our heart in the opposite direction of following Jesus. We go places that Jesus doesn't want us to go. We set our eyes upon things that Jesus doesn't want us to set our eyes on. We are walking a pathway with people that Jesus doesn't want us to walk with. Psalms chapter one, it's very clear. It says, don't stand in the path of the center or sit in the seat of the scoffer. So think about that. Intentionality does not determine the direction of our life. It doesn't determine whether we're actually following Jesus. You can have good intentions. We've all had good intentions. We've all had good intentions about getting in shape, changing our diet, restoring a relationship. I mean lots of intentions. But listen, it's not intention that determines the direction of our life, but it's the determination, the decisions and the determinations of our life that determine the direction and ultimately the destination. You will arrive exactly where you aim your heart. You will arrive exactly in the direction that you aim your determination. So it's not just intentions. Intentions are a starting point, but then we need to have decisions. In other words, we need to give Jesus our yes every single day, not just Sundays. It's easy to just say, Sunday, so Jesus, I want to serve you. But what about Monday? What about Tuesday? What about today? Every single day of our life, we need to re-up our yes to Jesus. What does that mean?  Today, when I wake up, I make a determination. Today, I'm a follower of Jesus, where he goes, I go. What he says, I say. What he thinks, I think. What he suffers, I suffer. Because making that decision yesterday was like the manna in the wilderness. It was good for yesterday.  If you try and store it for tomorrow, it will stink and it will grow worms.  This is what it means to follow him in our daily direction. Luke chapter 9 verse 62, Jesus said this, no one who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back is worthy of the kingdom of God. What's Jesus saying? In other words, we put our hand to the plow. We say, I'm going to plow up this field. We put our hand to the plow. But if we look back, what are we looking at? We're looking back at the farmhouse saying, you know what, I don't want to be out here in the field where it's hot and where it's sweaty and there's a lot of work to be done. I don't want to plow up the roots, pull up the rocks. I don't want to have to deal with these animals. I want to go back to the house. I want to go back where I came from. I set my hand as a hired servant to plow this, but now I want to go back there. In other words, if the direction of our heart keeps shifting back where we came from, then our intentions are not enough. We have to daily follow Jesus. Number three, and this is where the rubber really hits the road when it comes to transformation. So we are formed to be like Jesus by aligning our habits with our hopes, which transforms the inner man. Aligning our habits with our hopes. This is where the spirit formation begins to take place. Listen to this scripture. Romans chapter 12, I'm reading from the New King James today because it's the most holy on this particular verse. They may put it up on the ESV, but the New King James, you need to like dig it out because it's so rich. It says, I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service or the ESV says your spiritual worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is the good, the acceptable and the perfect will of God. Did you get that? Do not be conformed to this world, to this world's standards, to this world's belief systems, its values, its priorities, but what? Be transformed. In other words, shift from here to here. Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. In other words, the way you think. This is where the inner man is transformed and changed. It happens when we begin to align our habits. That's what Paul's talking about when he says presenting our bodies as a living sacrifice. Because listen, a lot of times we can talk about discipleship just from a spiritual in a very ethereal point of view where it's all very heavy. And it's like, well, praise the Lord. And, you know, I just believe God's leading me and directing me in the spirits flowing, but the rubber really hits the road when it comes down to your daily flesh and blood habits. That's why Paul says, present your bodies, not just your soul and your spirit.  But listen to me.  I remember when our kids were in a charter school, it was a phenomenal school. They were in elementary school. We would oftentimes go to their assemblies. Every morning they had an assembly with these kids. They would sit down Indian style and the principal would walk up and she was just an amazing lady and she would kind of snap her fingers and the kids would come do attention and they had this mantra and she would say, and I'll probably get it really wrong, but she would say this, I watch my actions because my, let's see, I watch my thoughts because my thoughts become my actions. I watch my actions because my actions become my habits and my habits determine my future. And these kids were getting this and they were reciting it and repeating it with her and it was so absolutely full of biblical truth because that's what happens. We have to watch our thoughts. What are the guiding grid and database of thoughts that guide what you do habitually on a daily basis? See, last weekend we passed out this document called A Rule of Life and if you didn't get one, we have the PDF that you can download online and it's just a resource to talk about some holy habits because holy habits are not legalistic, check the box rules of engagement, but they're actually some guidelines and some guardrails. We call them holy habits or rules of life that if we put them into place intentionally and determined, they will actually begin to shape us and affect us from the inside out. You don't know it, but you and I are being discipled every day of our lives. We're either being discipled on purpose because we've made determinations about what voices we will listen to and whose opinions matter especially on kingdom issues or we're just by default letting in the voices and the loudest voices or the voices that appeal to our sinful nature, that is our default setting, the Bible calls it the flesh, it will begin to feed our flesh and our pain and our experiences and our fears and begin to shape how we engage with our physical body in this world in all of the different ways that we relate. The only way that you change that is by making a decision that I want to bring my body, every part of me, body, soul, and spirit under the submission of Jesus and I'm going to be transformed starting with the way that I think. I want my mind to be renewed. I want my habits to align with my hope. Well, what's my hope? Jesus is my hope. Jesus is my only hope. Why is he my hope? Because he's the only salvation that there is to be found and right relationship with God is found in Jesus. And so if Jesus is my hope, if Jesus is the one who went to the cross and suffered for me, if Jesus defeated death and rose from the dead, if Jesus can heal the sick, if Jesus has mercy and compassion upon the worst of the worst, if Jesus is sitting at the right hand of God, the Father right now, reigning and ruling over the universe, and I align my hope with that reality, if I really believe Jesus is going to return soon to the earth and set up his kingdom and rule and reign, and I'm going to be right there with him, that should change the way that we live our lives, beloved. Because if Jesus is just kind of a fantasy mythological archetype of the best of humanity that we're subscribing to, well then we can live like the world and this belief in Jesus won't change that. But if I really believe Jesus rose from the dead, that's my hope. And my habits need to get aligned with that hope. If I believe Jesus can heal body, soul, and spirit, then I've got to align my heart and my habits with that hope. If I say that I believe that Jesus is coming back, then how am I living today anticipating that reality? If I believe Jesus has given me the responsibility to go into all the world and preach the gospel and make disciples of all nations, then am I aligning what I do with my time, with my focus, where I go, who I do it with, the people I commit and trust, the people I listen to, what I'm putting into my spirit? Is that aligning with that reality? Because whatever you take in will begin to shape you, which leads me to number four. Spirit formation is a holy collision that takes place at the intersection of us practicing God's presence and God's spirit changing us. That's a beautiful idea, church. Spirit transformation, it's a collision, a holy collision that happens at the intersection of us practicing God's presence. I love that phrase, practicing the presence of God. There was a book written a couple hundred years ago by a man named Brother Lawrence called Practicing the Presence of God. Because our practices or our habits or the things that we do by default, the things that we just kind of do subconsciously, practicing the presence has got to become part of that. And when we intersect that with a holy spirit that the Bible describes, the spirit within us earnestly or jealously yearns for us. When we're hungry for God and the spirit of God, which is hungry for us, intersects at the speed of love. That is a holy collision. And that's where change from the inside of us begins to happen. Second Corinthians chapter three, it says, and we all with unveiled faces, it's referencing Moses in the Old Testament on Mount Sinai going up into the presence of the Lord. It says, beholding the glory of the Lord, beholding the glory of the Lord are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the spirit. And so the reference here is to the fact that Moses goes up on the mountain to receive the law from God to bring back to the people. And he's in the presence of the Lord for 40 days. What's he doing? He's practicing the presence of God. When he comes down off of the mountain, it says that the people put a veil over his face because his face was so affected by the glory of God that it literally radiated the glory of God. And people couldn't even look at Moses for several days. So if that's the Old Testament, which is a weaker glory, than the new covenant that we have with Jesus, what happens when we begin to practice the presence of Jesus in our hunger and in our thirst for Jesus, not just in our toleration of Jesus, not just in our acknowledgement of Jesus, but I'm talking about God, I want to be like you. Lord, I want you to change me from the inside out. And I know that you can do it. You are my hope.   Romans 8 29 says to be conformed into the image of his dear son. The Holy Spirit's hungry to do this church. And the question is, are we hungry to practice his presence? I'm not talking about working harder. That's legalism, where we think that we have to earn the right for God to change us. That's a fleshly, carnal mindset that's called religion. And it's exactly what the children of Israel said to Moses when he came down off the mountain. They said, don't let God speak to us personally. Tell God to speak to you and then you tell us what to do and we'll do it. Well, we just want to live our lives one degree of separation. We want to be social distance from God. Tell God to stay six feet away and Moses, you wear a mask. That's what we're asking because we don't want to be contaminated by the glory of God. Listen, we need to get contaminated by the glory of God. We need to practice his presence. We need to come out of his presence like a trucker at 3 a.m. out of Denny's. He's been sitting in the non-smoking section, but if you've ever been into Denny's at 3 a.m., I'm talking the old days before they ban cigarettes, but if you used to go into a Denny's at 3 a.m., it didn't matter if you were sitting in the smoking section or the non-smoking section. When you came out of Denny's, you smelled like smoke. And you know what? We need to be people that when we come out of the presence of God that we practice daily and our hope is aligned with Jesus. We're walking out of his presence with the fragrance of his presence, with that glory shifting and changing on the inside of us from one degree of glory to another. It doesn't all happen at once. I know we would all love it to happen at once. I know that we would love to say a prayer and receive Jesus and to be instantly transformed and walk around perfect and holy and sinless and never struggle, but it's actually the battle of transformation that causes us to mature as we partner with God, that God doesn't do it all for us. Listen, every parent who's watching me knows exactly what I'm talking about. There are so many times it would just be easier to do it for your kids. But if you do it for your kids, all of their lives, they will never grow up and be mature adults. They will always need you to do it. The goal of a parent is not to create dependency. The goal of a parent is to help children understand their true identity and to be full functioning human beings that can reproduce themselves. That's what a disciple is. We start with following Jesus, practicing the presence of Jesus. We become like Jesus so that we can help other people follow Jesus. We're not talking about sin management techniques. All right, I'm going to stop sinning. I want to be a disciple of Jesus, so I'm going to stop sinning. The best way to stop sinning is actually marinating in the presence of God, in his word, in worship, in his presence daily. You know, Paul talked about this. He said, pray ceaselessly without ending. What does that mean? It means to walk daily in an awareness of the presence of God in our lives. It isn't self-willed. It's not some self-help program that we're talking about. We're talking about humbling ourselves daily, yielding to God's perspectives, practices, passions, and pursuits, yielding to that. Because listen, I want you to hear me. Whatever we worship, we become like. Whatever we worship, we become like. Psalm 135, when it's making reference to the idols of the nations, it says this in verse 18, those who make them, the idols, become like them, and so do all who trust in them. So it's saying that the people who make idols to worship actually end up becoming like them. Well, if that's true of making idols that we become like the idols that we make, it's even more true that we become like the God that we worship when we practice his presence, when we align our habits daily, when we come daily to the altar and we create an altar, a secret place between us and God. Andrew Murray called it the inner chamber, where it's us and the Father and we're in his word and we're praying and we're worshiping and we're repenting and we're asking, petitioning God to meet our needs. When we're sitting there in silence, when we honor the Sabbath and we take a day off and have rest to worship God, when we express generosity towards others, when we invest time and energy, all of these habits, as we do these, are practicing the presence of God. We become like what we worship and we become like what we meditate upon. Psalm chapter one, my favorite Psalm, verse number two says, but his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law or in his word, he meditates day and night. Who is he talking about? The man who's blessed. The reason why he's blessed is because he's becoming like what he meditates in. It gets in us, which leads me to point number five, centering our lives in God's presence and God's word becomes the foundation for all transformation. Did you get that? Centering our lives, centering our lives on God's presence, did you know that you can experience the presence of God wherever you are? Because what it means to practice the presence of God is to be intentional in your awareness, regardless of your circumstances, that God is in you and with you. All it takes to sense and to know the presence of God is to make a decision to become more aware of God with you than any other circumstance around you. As soon as you do that, he's very clear, I'm here. There's times where I'll talk about testimonies of ways that God has encountered me in the past or even talking about revivals of old and just by meditating on those things or a scripture that has come to life will help me tangibly feel and experience the presence of Jesus and go, I can feel him. I know he's with me. Do you know that you can experience the presence of Jesus in the midst of the most difficult hours of your life? Think about the Hebrew children, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. They were thrown into a fiery furnace because they refused to worship or to bow down to the idol of Nebuchadnezzar. And you know who showed up with them in the fiery furnace? It says that there was a fourth man like the Son of Man. It was Jesus. His presence was with them in the fiery furnace. You see his presence, like Paul said, no one stood with me except the Lord who stood by my side. And he wrote that when he was in prison. Paul knew the presence of God. Jesus knew the presence of God in the midst of difficult times. In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus knew the Father was there with him. Paul knew when he was in a dungeon in Rome that God was there with him. The three Hebrew young men in the fiery furnace knew that God was with them.  Listen to what Jesus said in John 15. He starts by saying in verse four, Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches, and whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit. For apart from me, you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me, he's thrown away like a branch and he withers. And the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned. If you abide in me and my words abide in you. Did you get that? Abide in me and my words abide in you. Ask whatever you wish and it will be done. By this my Father is glorified that you bear much fruit. So prove to be my disciples as the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in His love. These things I've spoken to you that my joy, this is Jesus, my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. When Jesus is talking about abiding in him, he's talking about centering our lives, practicing his presence, walking with him daily, and anchoring our life in his word. Just like Jesus said in Matthew chapter 7, he said, the man who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a man who built his house upon a rock. It's foundational. And when we live words centered lives, practicing the presence of Jesus, not out of a legalistic list of expectations, but of an intentional determination in practicing an awareness of Jesus, aligning our habits with our hope in Jesus. I'll tell you what begins to happen. Jesus on the inside begins to re-align and remodel. He begins to renovate our lives. Our desires begin to change. Our perspectives begin to change. Love begins to grow for God and neighbors. Conviction, the volume of conviction and our conscience begins to elevate. Hunger begins to be stirred for more because hunger and thirst in the kingdom of God are different. They're the polar opposite of in the flesh.  In the flesh, when you're thirsty and you drink, you're thirst is quenched. But in the kingdom, the more you eat, the hungrier you get. The more you drink of the living water, the thirstier you get. Jesus said, I am the bread of life. I am the living water. When we drink of him and we feast on his faithfulness, we don't quench a hunger and a thirst. It's stoking the fires of our spiritual appetite. And we want more. And God wants more. And that's where change begins to happen. Listen, it doesn't happen all at once, but it happens daily. Second Corinthians says this, we are being transformed and renewed day by day in the inner man. It's not what happens in one day that transforms you, but it's what happens day by day as the Spirit of God renews you. Isn't this beautiful saints? God is at work in us. So no matter what you're going through today, no matter what you're disappointed in today, no matter what yesterday wants to remind you of, no matter what tomorrow wants to make you afraid of, today we can practice the presence of Jesus and we can live in his Word and we can let this become the foundation of our relationship with him and we can be transformed from glory to glory, from strength to strength and from faith to faith. I want to pray for us today and wherever you're at, I want you to hear this, you're not alone. Even in a room right now with maybe two or three or four, maybe more people, it's possible that you still feel alone. You might be all by yourself today and I want you to know you're not alone because Jesus is with you. He's in this moment right now. He's stepped into the room and for those of us who are watching right now, I want to specifically speak to those who can't look back and see a moment where you truly were born again. It's like I've always believed in God, I guess, and tried to go to church to be a better person, but I don't know that I've ever had a moment of being born again. What does that really mean? It means number one, you acknowledge Jesus is the only way for you to be saved from yourself and from your sin and the judgment that you deserve. Jesus paid it all on the cross and that by faith you can receive that forgiveness in the sight of God and by grace, unmerited favor, you can today be transformed, born again. A new life, eternal life, begins right now if you will surrender. If you'll say, Jesus, I'm so sorry that I've sinned. I'm so sorry for the way that I've lived my life. I know I'm a sinner and I'm convicted of that, but I'm asking you, save me, rescue me. I believe that you died on the cross for me.  From this day forward, I don't want to just believe in you from a distance.  I want to be a student, Jesus. I want to be a disciple of Jesus. I want to walk in the way of Jesus. You can have my old life. It's broken, it's flawed, it's filled with pain, scars and sin. You can have my old life if you'll give me your life in this moment right now. I want to be born again so that I can see the kingdom and enter the kingdom. Come into my life, be my Lord and Savior in Jesus' name. If you're somebody who's needed that, whatever you just heard me pray, that's what you need to cry out to God with to say, God, save me. And we have some prayer partners that are online right now that want to pray with you. So if you have prayed that or you need to pray that, right now, listen to me, not tomorrow, not 10 minutes, don't negate this. Jesus said, if we'll acknowledge him before men, he will acknowledge us before the Father. I'm asking you right now, if you know that you need to get right with God, or you just prayed that prayer, and you are being born again, you've been born again in this moment. This has been your salvation, finding Jesus moment. Right now, I want you to just comment or I want you to email us at info at radiant.church. Follow the prayer partners that are online or the comments with the links and let us know. Why do we need to do that? Because you need to acknowledge Jesus. We want to pray with you. We want to help you now. Learn to follow Jesus in the Jesus way. And the last thing I want to say is this for everybody. You may be listening and say, I'm a Christian. I'm a disciple. I want more than anything. I'm more than anything to be more fully formed like Jesus. Well, then for you, what I'm going to encourage you to do is to take and evaluate your habits of practicing his presence. Because what happens in his presence on a daily basis where we align our habits affects the way that we walk the way of our life. Jesus went and prayed and then he ministered. He went and he spent time with the father and then everything he did was a result of what he saw the father doing. And he heard the father saying, that is a pattern for all of us. And I want to encourage you, don't just continue to do what you've always done, expecting different results. Take the time, stop in where we need to realign our habits with our hope. And if you don't have the resource, the rule of life, it's available and you can download that. It's absolutely free. It's going to help you take a look at some of the holy habits that maybe you don't have or are inconsistent or you'd like to add into your life that's going to help you grow. Prayer, fasting, reading the Bible, celebrating and honoring the Sabbath, giving and generosity, lots of different habits that will help you grow into everything that Jesus has for you. And the last thing is this radiant. We love you and we're hoping, pray with us very soon, hopefully next weekend, but we'll be communicating that this next week. We'll be meeting in person again and we're looking forward to getting beyond this whole season and celebrating. We're going to be a stronger church. We're going to be an incredibly strong people and our city is going to experience the presence of a living Savior like never before because we've been with him. Thank you. We love you. God bless you and be radiant.


They realised that they had found the well-preserved remains of a man killed nearly 2,000 years ago. The mysterious ancient Celtic priesthood of the Druids have long been associated with human sacrifice, yet outside of biased Roman sources such as Julius Caesar, there is little concrete evidence to prove that the Druids actually practised human sacrifice, or is there? On the 1st of August, 1984, Pete Cuttles were working in a bog in Cheshire, England, when a piece of wood got stuck in their shredding machine, one of the workers threw it away without a thought. His co-worker, however, noticed something odd about it, and after closer inspection, it turned out to be the remains of a human leg. The police were called, and after further examination, they realised that they had found the well-preserved remains of a man killed nearly 2,000 years ago. Today, he is known as the Lindow Man. The body was so well preserved, because the peep bog kept out oxygen, with the watery bog also being rich in iron and sulphur. This had meant that you can even still see the grim stubble on the man's chin. There are many fascinating features of this man's death that indicate that he may have been the willing victim of a Druid's sacrifice. Firstly, the stomach of the man contained mistletoe pollen, a substance that the Druids were known to use in their rituals. Secondly, there is no obvious signs of a struggle outside of the blows that killed him, leading to the theory that the man willingly participated in his own sacrifice. The way the man was killed also seemed to suggest he was sacrificed, probably to three Celtic gods, Tarnus, Esus and Tautatus. He was struck twice on the head and once in the back. He was then strangled by a thin cord around his neck. Finally, after death, his throat was cut and he was placed in a pool in the bog. Following examination of the body, it is believed that the man who was in his mid-20s to 30 years old was most likely a member of high class and stature in Celtic society. He had a lack of calluses on his hands and feet, meaning he had not worked in the fields, and his physique suggested good nutrition. This has led to the speculation that the man may even have been a Druid prince. Evidence from the man's stomach has sparked one theory that the man drew the short straw in an ancient Druid lottery that determined who would be sacrificed to the gods. After pathologists examined his digestive tract, a partially digested cake was found. It is believed that this was a bannock, a ground barley cake that the Druids used in the rituals, which was estimated to have been consumed 30 minutes prior to death. One side of the cake, or bannock, was allowed to be scorched when cooking. The Druid priests would then break the bannock into small pieces, place it in a bag and pass it around the group. The person who drew the scorched piece of bannock would be sacrificed to the gods, also the story goes at least. Determining for certain whether the lindo man was sacrificed by the Druids is an impossible task, yet all the evidence seems to point to this fact.


I'm Christian, I'm Deputy Head of Archeology at Historic Environment Scotland, and Rebecca Jones sends her apologies. Unfortunately the Llemes Congress clashed with this, and the Romans have won in this particular case. So as I say, I'm Deputy Head of Archeology at Historic Environment Scotland. That sounds like quite a grand typal, and it sounds like I should be kind of deputy boss of every archaeologist in Historic Environment Scotland. Unfortunately that's not the case, but it reflects the fact that I've got a role in trying to pull all the archaeologists in HES forward in the same direction. And that direction is Scotland's archaeology strategy, which is what I'm going to talk about today. So the archaeology strategy was developed following public consultation in 2015, taking its lead from our place in time, which was Scotland's first ever strategy for the historic environment, and going further, which is the national strategy for museums and galleries in Scotland. It brings together organisations in the sector which are key to kind of pulling the archaeology in Scotland in the same direction, and that direction should involve essentially promoting best practice in Scotland, working together to achieve this, promoting professionalism, the sharing of resources, greater collaboration, better communication, embedded archaeological education, and advocating skill building and innovation throughout our sector. So in this paper I'm going to reflect a little bit on our progress to date, and any issues which we've encountered which I'll approach delicately, because I'm aware that there are other individuals in the room who are also working on Scotland's archaeology strategy, and basically look at the progress that we've made so far, and also the ways in which we've tried to acknowledge the multifaceted nature of the discipline, and address underrepresented areas and underrepresented parts of that discipline as a national level. Translating the commendable aims of the archaeology strategy into a high level document, well, from a high level document into realistic deliverables which can be resourced and are sustainable, has been challenging, also dealing with the fragile bunker mentality which can exist in certain areas, and also managing our expectations. So Scotland launched its first ever archaeology strategy in 2015, which was accompanied by a delivery plan which came along approximately a year later, and we're with a number of other organisations leading on a range of activities which aim to meet the aims of expectations of the strategy. So the strategy has five aims, and these are delivering archaeology, which is led principally by Historic Environment Scotland, enhancing understanding, which has been led by the Society of Antiquities of Scotland, caring and protecting, which is led by Algeo, Association of Local Government Archaeologists in Scotland, and also the National Museum of Scotland, encouraging greater engagement, which has been led by Archaeology Scotland, and innovation in skills which has been led principally by Cifa. So, as I mentioned, Historic Environment Scotland is leading on aim one, and has a key role in the delivery of all five areas, and also providing funding to support the delivery of the strategy. So aim one states that through communication and innovative practice, we will foster a culture of collaboration and ambition, locally, nationally and internationally. At the heart of the strategy, necessarily, is a desire for collaboration across the sector, and closer working relations. Basically, if archaeology is truly for everybody, then its aims must be determined collaboratively, and we should all be pulling together in the same direction. So that's a little bit more about the various aims of each bit, the strategy that we're looking at. So I'm trying to skip forward ever so slightly, because I don't want to miss out on five, as I say, Cifa in the room. So I'll be apologising yet again if that's the case. So moving on just briefly onto who Historic Environment Scotland are. We are the lead public body for the Historic Environment in Scotland. We were also established in 2015. We are given a grant from the government every year, which enabled us to carry out our activities, in line with our corporate plan, together with income from charging and revenue through our properties and care. As part of our agreement with the Government, Historic Environment Scotland supports the Historic Environment through the provision of £14.5 million in grants every year, out of this £1.4 million is set aside for archaeology. Originally set up to deal with rescue archaeology, the archaeology programme, which is what our archaeology grant scheme is known as, essentially, the rescue remains a key element of that. We're also using it to deliver the five aims of the archaeology strategy and to prioritise decision making around funding. So our programme is oversubscribed annually every single year, so we help to use the archaeology strategy in order to determine where our resources are going to go. So that's just a little bit more about our grant funding in various different places it goes to. So the crux of aim one, as I mentioned, is to ensure that archaeological practice in Scotland works for everybody, is open to everyone, and is visible to everybody. Here I will outline some of the key actions from our delivery plan and what we've put in place so far and some of the issues which we have encountered. So this is one area which we've progressed reasonably far on to date. We are looking to produce a source of information for postgraduate students and others on projects which have remained unfinished across the sector in Scotland and for a variety of reasons have been left uncomplete and need to be written up or possibly readdressed. So this aim is all about making information available from projects which, as I say, for whatever reason haven't been completed, maybe the excavator has died or perhaps funding has run out, they haven't been properly resourced through to the end. Historic Environment Scotland has its own legacy list and these are projects which Historic Scotland and its predecessor bodies, which are our predecessor bodies, resourced and didn't quite take through to completion for whatever reason and also there's obviously many more projects across Scotland which have not been completed. So this aim is all about making information available from these projects and enlivening them with new thought and new method. We've begun this process by looking at Historic Environment Scotland's own legacy list and projects which have not yet been completed by ourselves and the first region to be tackled is the Highland Local Authority Area, which is an area roughly the size of Wales. The reason why we've gone with this area in the first instance is because it's currently in the process of setting up a regional research framework through ARCH, which are a community archaeology group, and they're looking to identify research questions and gaps. So allied to this aim is a survey which we've opened up to get people's opinions on what sort of portal or online access point they might like to look at in the future where possibly information on other incomplete projects alongside our own might possibly be accessed. So the survey is actually open now and when I get to the end of this presentation there'll be a web address for the archaeology strategy and if anybody wants to go in and put their opinions in that will be much appreciated. So basically we've put up a short list online for the time being of projects which we think are quick hits, but through consultation with the rest of the sector, moving in tandem hopefully with the regional research framework so I've hoping to add to that list gradually as we've communicated with some of the individuals who are involved in these projects. A little bit too far ahead. Right, another area we're going to be looking at in the near future is to commission a review of the national approach to archaeological protection and recording to include comparisons with other countries and recommendations for improvements. Now this is a slightly grand aim, well it sounds fairly grand, it's been a difficult part of aim one for us to tackle. Essentially we're intending to look through a series of workshops at some areas where essentially where archaeology is falling slightly short and archaeology practice is falling slightly short in Scotland gaps in the, where things aren't quite provisioned correctly. So our intention is that this objective will be filled as I say by a series of workshops which will be run jointly by Cifa, FAME and Argeo Scotland with support from Historic Environment Scotland to allow representatives across the sector to look and see how archaeology is funded and what is being lost through loopholes. However there is potential for this particular area, a particular review to cause some conflict of interest. Obviously there are people working within the archaeology strategy whose current jobs are kind of dependent on the way that archaeology is funded and structured in Scotland as it stands at the moment so it's something we're having to approach quite carefully and as I say that aim is still a work in progress. So moving on to aim two. So aim two enhancing understanding. I want to touch briefly on each one of the other aims if I've got time to do so. We're just mainly looking at the areas which require the most kind of cross-set to collaboration and collaborative working. So aim two of Scotland's archaeology strategy aims to make knowledge discoverable and accessible and furable and reusable now for future generations. Again a very kind of high level aim but translated down into delivery plan. This currently involves the creation of our local and regional research framework which has been led by the Society of Antipres of Scotland. So this is a really good way of kind of exploring that we've managed to kind of pull together a collaboration across the sector in Scotland because essentially when the same was initially set up we kind of looked at what areas of the country already have regional research frameworks looking at what historically them had already done and we've ended up with a kind of a patchwork of different organisations picking up regional research frameworks and leading on these across Scotland. So as I already mentioned a Highland Archaeological Research Frame which was kicked off this year that's been led by a community group the one in Argyllun but which has just completed that's been led by a museum. There's one there, the South East Scotland Regional Research Frame which has been led by a local authority and then the Highlands Regional Research Frame but rather it's been led by a university. So essentially different groups are picking up different regional research frameworks depending on which of those groups has the strongest interest in that part of Scotland and the Society of Antipres are kind of forming a pivoting body in between all of them which allows them to all speak together and actually reflect the same model because all of it is modelled on Scotland's existing national research framework which is SCARF. So that's just some of the regional research framework which is currently kicked off under our Archaeology Strategy. Sorry, I will rush ahead so I did worry I wasn't going to get to aim five. So just looking briefly at aim three aim three, caring and protecting. This is all about how we look after the historic environment in a very practical sense. The area that I was going to focus on here was looking at the museums and archives working group which has just been set up. So this is looking at storage capacity, disposal practice, conservation and dissemination in museums and the working group for this actually was set up only a few months ago and this is representatives from across the museum sector in Scotland all got together in a room in the Hollywood Park and they're now talking about the various challenges which the museum sector faces. So they're looking to address those over the course of the next few years. A slight issue for us in funding this one because as I say the Archaeology Programme is providing a lot of the funding for this project because Historic Environment Scotland cannot fund other parts of the Scottish Government because NMS have got quite a major role in this in the National Museum of Scotland. We're having to look at alternative ways to resource that we can't provide funding directly to NMS. Some nice museum related images. Aim for being led by Archaeology Scotland. So Archaeology Scotland are looking to try and get more archaeology into education in general and kind of integrate it into the curriculum in Scotland more completely. So as part of this there's been an archaeology learning working group which has been set up which brings together archaeologists working in education and also educational professionals as well to try and talk about the different ways in which we might kind of integrate archaeology more formally into the education system that is currently the case. And actually this is some work that we ourselves are doing at the moment. This is the Go Roman soldier thing, teaching path and handling bot. She can tell that Becky Jones is handling putting these slides together. But essentially we've also been looking through the other half of my team and some interesting ways that we can promote individual sites. So this is an app for the Antonine Wall which is currently available. You can download this from Google Play or from the iStore as well which actually tries to sort of make the Antonine Wall in Scotland which is one of our world heritage sites much more interactive. And then moving very quickly onto Aim 5. So I jumped dramatically ahead in my... So Aim 5 is all about skills and training as well as supporting innovation in everything from archaeological project management through to the application of cutting-edge scientific techniques. So whilst there was a desire to embed innovation in science across the sector as a whole of the strategy's five aims, we are conscious that we wanted to state as a clear aim to ensure that this is something very tangible and that we have very definite objectives against this to deliver. His serve environment Scotland's contribution to this aim is the appointment of our first ever archaeological science manager somewhere in order to ensure that archaeological science is embedded within our own practice and actually start to promote new innovations across the archaeological sector in Scotland as a whole, working very closely with historical and science advisers. So alongside this, I'm probably well over my two minutes now on that yet. OK, right, I'll run ahead. If anybody wishes to discuss the fantastic work that Seafore are doing on skills and innovation particularly in relation to archaeological apprenticeships I would encourage them to novel Kate's and Pete's in the future, but I will jump dramatically ahead. Just to say that as part of our archaeology strategy and working with the four other lead bodies we do have the social media presence as well and if anybody is tweeting out from this talk today please use the hashtag, it's got our abstract because that's what we're trying to use to kind of integrate all of our activities together under one heading on Twitter. And this is our web address at the top where you can get more information and I think that's about everything I've got to say. Thank you.


Welcome back to The Rig Review, and today I'm going to take a look at the super cute Lego Wally rig. As always, the link to the rig is in the description, and I will also post it on the Animation Buffet site, and feel free to browse around on that one where I collect and review all kinds of rigs. And speaking of browsing, feel free to browse around my channel as I post lectures and other reviews and product reviews, animation news, and all kinds of things. Feel free to check it out, and if you like it, subscribe, why not, and that way you don't miss any of my uploads. All right, so that's the rig, let's turn on the controllers, bam! And here we are. Now, when you download this, you also get two other assets. So let me turn this off. You have a plant, here is the plant, and then there's a switch here. So let me just quickly go through that. This is your main controller to do this. You can rotate all kinds of things. You can scale as well, so the test here, everything seems to be okay. You have options here, secondary controls. Turn this on, you got untouchable visibility, model visibility, reference, normal, templates, and so on. Lots of options there. So you have that main controller, then you have this one to move this around, and then you have another one to move this around. I'm a big fan when you have lots of options in terms of all of these. Then you got the inner one here to control, and you can see how that pivot is like this. It's completely model like a Lego piece. Very dark, you can go in there and you see a little bit of definition there, but this is what it looks like for free to change your color if you must. Then you got the box controller here to move it around like that, but you can also move it around like this. And you have secondaries, turn this on, and then you get a secondary controller as well here. Then let's go back here, you have that round controller here that turns this around and rotates like this, bam, also secondaries as well. Then you got this one that is a rotate and it pivots off of down here to do that.  So this is the same deal, you got all your secondaries. As you go in here, you have this one that moves this around, again this one has a secondary as well. Then you got this one here that rotates the bottom piece here, as you can see, as you can see here again, a Lego piece separated like that. There's no translate, just rotate on this. With this one you have everything to move, you can see the little blue piece in there as well. Then you have this one here where you can move it around, so that will detach the plant, this has also secondary controllers. And then you have plant controllers as well here. So for the stem and the leaf, rotations, no translates, and no scale here, same with this you can only rotate around, but that gives you lots of interesting Q control options for this. So let's look at the main rig here. So same thing here, you have the main control, bam, secondary, control visibility, joint visibility, untouchable visibility, so if you go in here, let's go back and you can see what that does here. So that's the thread warp mesh with the drop off and the smoothness, so you can check that out for yourself there. And then you have model this again on off and all the reference options there. This little controller here is just rotation, and actually just rotates like this. You got the pivots off the side which is super cute, he does that a lot. And also forward like that, which is cool because you can see how it's just the wheels, how the wheels don't rotate, just kind of pivot off of there. Very cool, I love this. Speaking of wheels, let's get closer here, you got these guys. You can translate these around and detach, you can rotate them around like that, you can see here, pivot is in that middle piece. So if you take this out, you can see here, and you do that, this is as far as they go, just like real pieces here, and it will pivot off that middle part. There's a little bit of room there. Then you got a distance, so you can go, you can animate that. You have auto distance on as well, and then you have to follow for different pivots. So with all of these options here, you can check this out. So I'm going to put this back to zero here, not that it makes a difference. But as you can see, when you grab this guy, and there's a little pointy here, you drag this, oh, the wheels turn, yeah, yeah. That is fantastic. I love it. Speaking of wheels, let's go back. So you got pivot here, let's say body, so when you select this here, you can see the difference where now the wheels are turning a little bit, but that whole thing stays with the body versus this one is not.  And then this one, when you have the pivot here, let's go back here. You can move this up and you can see it's like that. Then you go back in here, change the pivot to body. So you can see how that is resting like that. And then also you have the option of match, translate as well. Again, this will all work like this and pivot like that. So cool. And then at the bottom, you got inherit noise and speed amplitude and amplitude XYZ options. The same thing here. So you got those options here as well. And they give you rotational options to change this like that until it breaks, of course, but you have that here as well. This of course is on both sides, so like legs, you can have both. Then let's go might as well here, you can open up this here. And let's love look at that. How fantastically modeled this pieces. I love this. So cute. All of these have the noise options as well. I'm going to go to the main controller. Same thing here. You can of course move this around. So if we translate this all the way up, you can see it will detach, but you have a little bit of a things you can do. You can rotate this around, but you cannot scale. Let me close this up is also closer with the limits. I can't break through. Then you got that little button here. When you select this, you can't do anything with it because it changes color. So this is for you here to change the colors that you need. Also very cute. Let's go to the arms. Let's start here. You got your shoulder. So you can rotate this around again has nicely set limits depending on the model here. So you can't rotate like this, you can't go like that, but you have a little bit of up and down. There is a bit of a translate though this way, so you can see here how it follows along like that with a limit again. Very cool. When it extends control here, you can see how it comes out like that. There's the slide option. I don't know what that is. Then you got your controller here only this part. So cute though. But this rotates freely. So there are no limits there. When you take this one, it will rotate the arm like that. And if you ever in doubt what it's going to do, you can see it's in the channel. So it only marks what is possible. Click on this here. You have your IKFK switch. You got fingers and like that curl and meta. So if you do all of them, let's get a bit closer. It will rotate them like this. You have that. These are all separate, right? So you can do these separately. You have all curl like that. You just have thumb curl index and pinky curl. And of course you have options to select these separately and do whatever you want to do with that separately too. Now this is an IK mode at the moment. So when you do this, you can see there's no elbow, but you can move things around freely like this. You do have secondary controls here. So when you have that, you can move it around like this. You can also rotate that wrist around like that. When you turn this off, again, you can do the same thing like this and you can also rotate. There's also a stretch function. It is like that has a limit as well. You can go in and out like this. And of course stretch on, off, like that. Same thing with the follows here. You got world global body and shift and match as well with all those options here, lots of cool details. And let's go back here. You switch this to FK and you can see it adds a controller here that you do all kinds of rotations freely here and the rest stays the same. Of course, you have also again follow options here as well. And going back to this, let's just throw here, when you have slide on, off it changes how the arm, it's affected by, for instance, rotation, we rotate this back and you can see how that arm stays put, but let's go back here and turn slide on. You can see that it's a little bit of a switch and it changes with the body, but you can go back here, for instance, let's go world. So now when you do this, you can see actually let me just bring this guy a bit more into the middle. Now you can see how it changes and slides depending on that world setting there. It's brings all back to normal, more or less arms with difference. This is of course, on both sides, these arms, you have this one here.  So you move this around and you can see it's the middle part that you translate like that. But you also have these guys, if you want to rotate, you can see here, it falls right through there. There's no limit this time on that. You can see the rotation is just in this and all of these have the noise option here. This guy will have that rotation as well. You can see here, as it pivots through that, there are no limitations on this one. You can go through and do what I want to do. No translates and no scale, of course. Then back here, you have the head origin. So you can translate and you can move this up here. So you can move that head around here, around here, whatever you need to do. Back here, you have a rotation that opens this flap here has inherent noise and all the speed controls here as well. And then going back here on the backside, you have this one that moves this up and down. You can see this here, just in one axis here as well. Secondary controls and of course the noise. And you got this one on the side here. This one is for the rotation instead of a translate. So if you want to do both, it's their different options. Of course, this is on both sides. Coming up here, you got another neck control. You got rotations and this is on all sides, no limits there.  Now the head, you can translate around. You can see this forms like an IK with a little bit of a bend here, like an arm. You can rotate with this top controller, no scale. And as you go closer here, you will see you got secondary controls. You got the follow here as well, as well as noise and speed controls. Then we get to the eyes. These are both the same controllers. You have rotations where you can move this whole socket. There's no limit on this one. So this will go through this here. If you have an eye scale, let's go back here. You can really scale this up like that. You have an iris scale, which is like this. There is a limit on this, but there is no limit on that. And the same inherent noise and speed. You can turn off the polys, you can see all the little rig options that you have. All those controllers is all very neatly laid out. Super cute model. I want to play around with this and move this around so you can really see how the threads are functioning and the noise controls and all the secondary stuff will be very interesting to test that out. But the rig again is super cute. Obviously you got limitations as you should given that this is a Lego piece here. It would be kind of cool to be able to translate this around and kind of potentially destroy the model a little bit more, maybe to take a couple of pieces out. This will probably unravel all kinds of things. And I'm not seeing anything here in terms of more options here. There's joint visibility, model vis and all that stuff and secondaries. But it would be kind of neat to be able on some level to detach certain pieces. I mean, I know it would be crazy to have controllers for all of these, but it would be kind of fun. I say to be able to just completely break this apart and animate how it would maybe assemble. I mean, that would be really cool, but I can also imagine a nightmare to set up. But that concludes the overview on review of that rig. If you have any rig that you want me to look at post animation buffet or review for free to send me an email, feel free to check out my channel as I post lectures and acting analysis clips, animation analysis clips, product reviews, animation news, all kinds of things on the channel for you to browse through. Go check it out. Feel free to subscribe if you want to so you don't miss any of my uploads. And that's it for me. I will say bye bye. Oh, wait, I can do this here. Bye bye and see you in my next upload.


I recently reviewed Black Panther Wakanda Forever and didn't like it. It was a spoiler free video. This is going to be the spoiler of it. So I'm going to go over some of the plot points, some of the things that really rub me the wrong way and you know we'll chat about in the comments for a little bit. We'll have a great time unless you love the film and you can't take criticism then maybe just don't watch. Let's get started. I would also implore you to subscribe to this channel if you like honesty, if you don't like people that just kind of half ass do reviews and really let you know what they think without being scared of getting some mob after you because at the end of the day this is a silly comic book film from a company that's making billions of dollars. Okay they're gonna be just fine. I like plenty of bad movies too.  It's just if I see something I don't like I have a rubric that I follow. Visuals, storytelling, audio, you know just the production in general, the acting, the the characters, all of that kind of fits into place and then I say all right how did it fit into place? Like a like a well-constructed puzzle or the pieces that I'm forcing in or the puzzle only has half the pieces. I think you get the metaphor. Let's talk Black Panther Wakanda forever. Now my memory is gonna be cloudy with the chance of meatballs. I'm not gonna get everything touched upon. I will forget things. I'll say things incorrectly. You're just gonna have to deal with it. I'm just a basic run-of-the-mill guy. Okay I don't consider myself like a Cisco or Ebert, just a regular Joe Schmoe. So the movie starts decently strong, mourning the loss of Chadwick Boseman, T'Challa I guess. But really it's kind of Chadwick Boseman their mourning. He died of a blood disease I think they said. I mean they don't even show how he died really. He was just ill, it's off camera, you don't see any of it and Shuri's struggling with this fact. She's trying to find a cure for him by replicating the plant. She can only get it to like 25% though. So it's not gonna be enough and really it's too late anyways. He's already gone.   So they have a nice scene where they're carrying the casket and then this is quickly followed by a very bizarre shot. One of many questionable decisions that Ryan Coogler will make. And that's the coffin going vroom and flipping up in front of the camera so you see the symbol and then it gets taken up into the ship. Via these blue sonic waves that rise it up into the air. I don't know what his deal is with these in the film but he uses them like four or five times. We're constantly seeing people get sucked up into the UFO. And it never looks good. It's always awkward. We then jump to a scene out at sea at night featuring a new female protagonist who will I guess die. I really don't know. They kind of build it up like she's going to get away and then a helicopter crashes and we never hear or see her again. This scene amongst many is very puzzling to me. The government is out here in the ocean looking for vibranium down below. They're drilling. So how do they check what's going on down there? Do they send a drone underwater, a remote controlled device that you can easily maneuver in between the rocks and it's very low risk? Or no, you send two people down there. Just like what? With all the technology available in the MCU not just to the superheroes but to the government they're still sending two assholes down in suits to check things out. Naturally things go south real quickly. They're taken out and then the whole ship is overrun by Aquaman and his friends. Namor. Namor. No more. Do I care how to pronounce his name? Has a crew go out there, take out the ship?  It's unclear. It doesn't matter.  Grab the chopper and do this Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes-esque spin. Wheeeeeeww! Woot woot woot! Into the water below and that's the end of that scene. It's to establish not only is there a kingdom down in the ocean ruled by a guy that's got the dumbest looking wing feet ever but also that there's vibranium outside of Wakanda's borders. Borders mind you that apparently don't monitor the ocean below at all because Namor and his crew are able to just swim under there and pop up whenever they want. It's so strange because Wakanda's supposed to be this large, vibrant country that's got all this immense resources, a great army, and all this tech at their disposal yet they let Namor's crew in like two or three times. You would think after the first you would maybe build something below that could monitor. You know, you think you'd put a team there but that's another problem with this film. The scale is so tiny. Wakanda seems like it's five women with spears and like a group of bros that work for that other tribe that like just hang out. That's it. That's the whole army. Occasionally in this film Martin Freeman will show up for reasons I can't possibly understand. He has almost no purpose here. It's just to keep the government off Wakanda's back because Wakanda's got a secret that they're keeping from Everett. So Everett's got to like tow the line and be like, it's not Wakanda but it might be someone else but I can't say but it's probably someone else but you didn't hear it from me. It's so ridiculous towards the later half because at that point Princess Shuri's already kidnapped they've already like gone to war once with Wakanda and still you have Everett like I don't know. It's just not Wakanda, okay? But I don't know. Also Julia Louis-Dreyfus is in this National Treasure. I love her. She's hilarious. Feels very out of place in this movie but also all those scenes do but to be fair all the government scenes feel out of place. They could be removed and nothing would really change at all and they probably should have been because then this would be shorter and be over faster. Queen Ramon to lost her husband she lost her son. All she has left is Shuri and Shuri's really keeping up with her labs. She doesn't want anything to do with anyone else. She's focused on her work. Fine, fair, whatever. Doesn't really change the character much from the first film so nothing's really seeming to be much of a struggle for her even though she says she's sad about her brother. I need a little bit more evidence of that. Akoi wants her to go on a mission with her. They need to head to the MTI campus because a new character named Riri I think I think that's her name, I don't know strong female 19 year old lead she built a device to prove to her college professor that she could that will locate vibranium. This fell into the hands of the government and they've been using it so naturally this chick is a major threat.  I mean he doesn't he actually imprisons her because I guess he had a change of heart. Things are really unclear in this movie. At certain points they want to do something then in the next scene they change their mind entirely for reasons that don't ever add up. Oh I should point out Lupita she shows up the second half of the movie not really doing a lot but I have to say I have to say damn she got some cake.  I turned to my buddies and I'm like now we're getting somewhere. Now I'm invested. Just keep your eye on the prize coogler and we can get through this movie together.  Like I already lost these other two I don't want to lose Shuri and Akoi's like I got full responsibility she's with me what's the worst that could happen? The princess gets kidnapped and all I'm thinking the whole time is you took one person with her? It's just Shuri and one of your guards. Where are the rest of these ladies with the spears? What are they doing? Like this is supposed to be a major country in the world that has all of this tech and all you send is one lady with a spear with your daughter your last remaining blood relative your own child who you were already concerned about but yeah send her with the spear chick and everything's gonna be fine except for it's not. This takes place like 45 minutes in and I think it's genuinely the first action scene in the movie and it's not good. It leads to a really lame car chase and a scene where Dominique Thorne's character takes these guys to a secret location in like a hangar where she has all this technology she's been working on including an Iron Man suit that she hasn't really tested is unsure if it'll work but flies perfectly and she can control it like she's been doing it her whole life seamlessly deaking and dodging out of harm's way and the effects are so bad look at the visuals from the original Iron Man and then look at this new shit it's like night and day I probably don't have clips I'm just I'm just saying it for when you see it in the theaters take a mental note and how bad this stuff looks now how rushed it looks so Namer ends up capturing both these two dumbasses meanwhile Akkoi's fighting on the bridge against three or four of them not really doing much damage they get stabbed and then instantly heal so I'm sure that'll be a big factor later on in the movie not really not at all really upon returning to Wakanda Akkoi is instantly stripped of her role within the community she's just a regular peasant now regular street urchant has nothing to say it's just so unnecessary because not very far later the next time we see her in fact she's already doing something else for the cause she's basically in the same role as she was before but now wearing a Power Rangers suit that's right sure he has designed some of the fuggliest looking suits imaginable for the guards to wear they all look like Power Rangers now and at one point they do everything but say it's morphin time Oh and RiRi's got a suit of her own that she's building back at Wakanda now the timeline of this whole thing is such a shit show this brings us to the point where fancy feet breaks into Wakanda again they already kind of know he's coming but I guess don't put up any defenses engage all defenses my ass these guys didn't even put up a fence they certainly didn't put up a fight this leads to the one oh shit moment of the film where the queen is dead I'd say it's emotional but that would be a lie we then cut to another funeral scene it looks like it was shot the same day as the previous one nothing's really changed about it and I also like the fact that I don't know what the fuck happened at this point because Namor is like let that be a warning to you guys we'll return if some I truly forgot I forgot what happened there but they stopped killing them for whatever reason and they leave and then they just give them all the time they want to build up their defenses or their offenses I guess because then we have what has to be months of time go by where they're building new Iron Man technology they somehow have a Titanic size ship maybe that was already built I don't know where they park it and I don't know why they have it because it is ridiculous it's like Wakanda's flexing to the max like yeah we're rich check out the uh check out the ship have you seen it it's just a giant mammoth of black stone that slowly goes into the ocean and their genius plan is to now go on the attack by driving this big-ass hunk of crap out into the middle of the sea and then just dropping some of the guards off the side with ropes like this will get them we know we can't really penetrate their skin but we do have spears and a complete disadvantage what what is the logic here at all to going and fighting out on their turf on a giant rock that's it that's all they have there's nothing there's no like gunners there's nothing to fight with oh yeah you do have Iron Man girl flying around in her Gundam shooting stuff that thing looks atrocious and then we have Shuri who finally gets the flower perfected so she can become the new black panther I guess there was one more oh shit moment and that's right here when Killmonger shows up in her vision instead of her father or her brother or any of her ancestors it's Killmonger why? because people like Killmonger that's it it's not because of whatever lame reason they said where she has to confront her vengeance she has to avenge her family and the only way to do it is becoming like Killmonger there was such a lame excuse to use this guy again I'm sorry it just was suit looked kind of cool although Leticia Wright is so small it's so tiny like a little wire she's like a little stick that I feel like a gust of wind would send her flying off into the stratosphere just I'm always ready for war again this ends with a mission impossible to fight on the beach there's some slow motion there's it's a decent fight it's pretty good um ultimately she doesn't kill him though and instead they're like hey why don't we be best friends and you you scratch my back I'll scratch yours not literally because that hurts I scratched you up a lot and I see you're bleeding don't want that but yeah you take the sea we'll take the high road you know literally and figuratively and I won't kill you and we'll work together and this all could have been done like two hours ago if they would have just had the same conversation instead of him kidnapping her and the other woman and I don't know what the plan was there prophet like there is one end credit scene it's just as dumb as the rest of the movie and that is the revelation that T'Challa actually had a son who looks to be like eight or nine at this point was hidden kept secret from the family the mother found out but sure he was left in the dark the whole time didn't get to hold him as a baby because they didn't want him to be in the spotlight didn't want him to have that immense pressure I guess fair but also like kind of shitty that she didn't even know he had a kid like I don't know this was supposed to be a touching moment but I was just like what kind of a de-bag move dude and now you're dead and like it's just kind of yeah just a messy thing and also she's the Black Panther now but she's probably looking at the kid like oh shit this is awkward are you the Black Panther now have I just been demoted because this is still like a man's world yeah I'm probably gonna have to kill you dude I have no connection also when she extracts that juice from the flower from the magic flower there's like a whole bowl of this crap she takes a teaspoon there's a ton left what do they do with it they just pour it down the sink right down the drain I mean I feel like they should have bottled it up a little bit but she did plant a whole garden full of them anyway so I guess they don't need it still it just seems like an awful waste of that good stuff right should also point out the underwater world weird like what is their technology who built this stuff I understand it's a comic book movie but at one point he's like check out that thing and a sun comes out of a pyramid structure and he's like yeah I gave that to my people how what how do you have a sun down there how is this working but whatever we don't spend any time on it it's just yep I did this I'm great let's move on now we have some nets down here where people like to lounge on over there you'll see another portal thing that I sometimes drop down and rise up from because I guess we have a hard on in this film for people floating up in the air I'm over it it wasn't good I just didn't like this movie top to bottom I went with a couple people one actually loved it he gave it a 10 out of 10 no joke no irony there and I love the guy so it's okay I'm glad he liked it the the woman we went with she thought it was good I don't think she I don't think she thought it was great and then the other guy fell asleep halfway through and he woke up turning the action at the end he thought it was trash I'm more in the trash camp this just did nothing for me at all it's messy visually way too colorful it's got a Disney afternoon vibe to it the story's all over the place not very compelling and Shuri the actress Leticia Wright she does a good job the actors are all kind of trying but nothing's really sticking for me those are my scathing thoughts 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Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we are going to discuss the following question and the question says that describe the sequence of transformation that results in transform of triangle ABC to triangle A prime B prime C prime. Let us move on to the solution. In this question we are given a triangle ABC and its transformation emerged if triangle A prime B prime C prime. If we compare the two images we see that triangle ABC is rotated at 90 degrees in clockwise direction with center as origin. Then it will shift from second quadrant to first quadrant. Now if we see reflection of rotated image in x axis then it will be of shape that is given in fourth quadrant. Also the size is reduced it means figure is dilated with scale factor line between 0 and 1. So we say that first time the figure is rotated then reflected and then dilated. So first we find coordinates of A, B and C. From the figure it is clear that vertex A has coordinates minus 3, 1. Then vertex B has coordinates minus 2, 4 and vertex C has coordinates minus 1, 1. Therefore we can say in triangle ABC we have vertex A with the coordinates minus 3, 1. Vertex B with the coordinates minus 2, 4 and vertex C with the coordinates minus 1, 1. Now let us rotate it at 90 degrees with center at origin in clockwise direction. We know that any coordinates say x, y changes to y minus x when rotated at 90 degrees. So we can say A with the coordinates minus 3, 1 on rotation at 90 degrees in clockwise direction changes to 1, 3. Similarly B with the coordinates minus 2, 4 changes to 4, 2. And C with the coordinates minus 1, 1 changes to 1, 1. So we have a new triangle in first quadrant with vertices having coordinates 1, 3, 4, 2 and 1, 1. This is the rotated image of triangle ABC when rotated at 90 degrees in clockwise direction. Now we reflect this image in x axis. Now we know that any coordinates say x, y on reflection in x axis becomes x minus y, vertex A with coordinates 1, 3. On reflection in x axis becomes 1 minus 3, vertex B with coordinates 4, 2. On reflection in x axis becomes 4 minus 2. Similarly vertex C with coordinates 1, 1 on reflection in x axis becomes 1 minus 1. Now we shall plot these points on the graph and hence we get the reflected triangle in the fourth quadrant. Now from the given figure we can see that coordinates of A prime are 0.5 minus 1.5. Similarly coordinates of vertex B prime are given by 2 minus 1 and C prime are 0.5 minus 0.5. That is we are given vertex A prime with the coordinates 0.5 minus 1.5 B prime with the coordinates 2 minus 1 and C prime with the coordinates 0.5 minus 0.5. If we compare these coordinates with the coordinates of vertices A, B and C after reflection in x axis we can say that these coordinates are multiplied by half which will be the scale factor reflected image is dilated using 1 by 2 As scale factor hence we get the triangle A prime B prime C prime with A prime having coordinates 0.5 minus 1.5 B prime with the coordinates 2 minus 1 and C prime with the coordinates 0.5 minus 0.5. So these three transformations of rotation, reflection and dilation are used to obtain triangle A prime B prime C prime. This completes our session. Hope you enjoyed this session.


والله the most merciful, the most compassionate Our dear viewers, brothers and sisters السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته to welcome to Imam Hussein TV3 with today's episode about Abel Fadl al-Abbas the brother of Imam Hussein the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad a personality beyond all these corruptions who represented the utmost altruism we have ever heard Abel Fadl al-Abbas is the son of Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib who was such an excellently دستنكوشed personality who held and represented the values and principles of Islam perfectly on top of this he sacrificed his life and devoted all his efforts towards defending the religion of Islam by protecting the true leader of Islam Imam Hussein علي السلام and he embodied the true brotherhood through sincerity and loyalty that he showed to his brother Imam Hussein علي السلام not only during the battle of Al-Taf but also at every stage of his lifetime in addition to that Abel Fadl al-Abbas on the day of Ashura was the bearer of the banner of Imam Hussein علي السلام and Imam Hussein علي السلام felt powerful and protected as long as Abel Fadl al-Abbas was there and still alive for Al-Abbas was the striking force that rebelled any harm that might encounter Imam Hussein علي السلام against the enemy's aggression Abel Fadl al-Abbas on the day of Al-Taf showed such a great steadfastness and determination beyond all the secretion through his unshakable self-control and fortitude he represented an undefeatable army that frightened the troops of Awadallah ibn Ziyad and beat them both mentally and practically in the field of Al-Taf Imam Hussein علي السلام كرس بونيكتو 680AD بغنه أفضل رباولوشن من which he illustrated the book of Allah both ideologically and practically and made it a lesson for aspiring brilliant minds and he was able to demolish the fortresses of injustice and castles of tyranny and the battle of Al-Taf approved to be the everlasting movement led by Imam Hussein and his kinsmen and presented to the world characters approved that the numerical superiority doesn't count when it comes to the truth and falsehood and that legendary event of Karbala is the most significant international event and one could say even it's the most unprecedented and remarkable achievement of all humanity when it comes to the struggle against injustice and tyranny it's changed the course of the history of Islam when it comes to the rise for rebellion against wrongness and tyranny when Imam Hussein with his family and his loyal supporters reached Karbala none of them were permitted to gain access to the water of the Euphrates River which was found in a short distance from their camp because it was fully controlled by the army of Ibn Ziyat thus the family of Imam Hussein the Euphrates River was cut off on the 7th day of Muharram so the young, the children and women grew extremely restless and overcome by the banks of thirst the foes of Imam Hussein during the battle of Faltaf practiced all kinds of trustees when Abu-l-Fadl Al-Abbas heard the children's cries for water and when they were calling out we want water and when he heard their painful cases and how they were on the verge of death and that horrible scene astounded him and the stormy bane pierced his heart Al-Abbas is a priest felt crowned and he became bored after the martyrdom of his brothers and his cousins the brilliant stars whom he saw falling down and slain on the scorching land of Karbala so Abu-l-Fadl Al-Abbas was the next one to sacrifice his life and seeing this situation too crucial to bear so he insisted in playing his role into the battlefield of Karbala so this chivalrous and noble man rose to his feet and he was determined to get his warmth of water by force so he sought his brother Al-Hussein's permission and hurriedly mounted his horse a water bag with him to fetch to the children water who were about to die thirsty and he approached those rugs whose hearts were empty of animosity and leniency he started to breach and warn them against a last wrath and chastiment he waded through the Euphrates river and the enemy's guard fled away in front of him he was able to clear the area which they had embossed on the water by occupying it he reached the water and tried to drink it but as soon as he remembered the daily past of the children and the women those who were with him he spat the water from his hand and prevented himself from drinking for the sake of consoling them in their current misfortune that is the state of altruism which surpassed the limits of time and place was the remarkable merits among the distinguished features of Abu al-Fadr's private equalities hence Abu al-Fadr Al-Abbas was given the title of a سقاء the Water Pira Abu al-Fadr Al-Abbas during the mission of fetching water from the Euphrates river both of his hands were severed one after the other arrows pierced his body and made him bleed one of the arrows penetrated his right eye and when Imam Al-Hussain saw that scene he wept profusely and he said that I have become spineless Al-Abbas breathed his last as his brother Imam Al-Hussain was holding him this immortal legend kindled the emotions of the free people pushed them to struggle to operate the whole society from the yoke of slavery and humiliation and rescued them from illegal rulers and one of the exalted lessons we get from the martyrdom of Imam Al-Abbas is that he wanted to bring to the man his freedom and dignity by eradicating injustice and tyranny and to contribute to establish a society of any color of horror or fear that's the martyrdom of Imam Al-Abbas was a great disaster that afflicted Imam Al-Hussain and every follower of the Ehl al-Bait so peace be upon you or my master peace be upon you