Revelation chapter 11, beginning at verse 1, I'll read to verse 14. We're looking at Revelation 11 verses 1 through 14. The subject as we'll see in a moment is two witnesses. John writes, then, I was given a read like measuring rod, and the angel stood saying, rise and measure the temple of God, the altar, and those who worship there. But leave out the court, which is outside the temple. Do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles, and they will tread the holy city underfoot for 42 months. And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy 1,260 days clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the God of the earth.  And if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this manner. These have power to shut heaven so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy. They have power over waters to turn them to blood and to strike the earth with all plagues as often as they desire. Now, when they finish their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them and kill them. And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where our Lord was crucified. And those from the peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations will see their dead bodies three and a half days and not allow their dead bodies to be put into graves. And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, make merry and send gifts to one another because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth. Now after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered them and they stood on their feet in great fear, fell on those who saw them, and they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, come up here. They ascended to heaven in a cloud and their enemies saw them. In the same hour, there was a great earthquake and a tenth of the city fell. In the earthquake, 7,000 men were killed and the rest were afraid and gave glory to the God of heaven. The second woe is past. You hold, the third woe is coming quickly. Let's go home, I'm scared. Now as we're looking at this passage, let me remind you that in chapter 10 in verses eight through 10, John had been given a command to take the little book out of the hand of a mighty angel and as he did so, he had been commanded to not only take it, but he had been commanded to eat it. In other words, as we looked at that, that was a command that was basically saying to him to assimilate and absorb the message of this book. And so by way of application, we would know that he's to assimilate and absorb what God has to say or God's word. Now, as we were looking at that, he was told that the book would be sweet to the taste but bitter to the stomach. It'll be sweet to the taste, but bitter to the stomach. And so for believers, there's really nothing to be more greatly desired than the sweetness of God's word. And so on one hand, the word of God is sweet and it is God's word and the sweetness of God's word is also nourishing to us. And because we're believers and because we as believers ought to love the Bible, we ought to love the word of God, then indeed to us, we would consider the word of God to be sweet. In Job 2312, Job said, I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread. Jesus in Matthew chapter four, verse four said, man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. So God's word is sweet and God's word is nourishing.   And therefore there's a sweetness to that. Now, when I first got saved back in 1970 and into early 1971, we would sing this song. It was found in Psalm 19 and it was about the word of God and all and we used to sing it and in verses 10 and 11 it says, more to be desired are they, speaking of the word of God, more to be desired are they than gold, ye then much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them your servant is warned and in keeping them there is great reward.   But it also has a bitterness. In verse nine in chapter 10, it said, it will be bitter. Now, why would it be bitter? It would be bitter because a future that awaits unbelievers is gonna cause you pain. And I was mentioning to you that if you ever want to have an effective ministry and the dispensing and the sharing of the gospel, then there needs to be within you a depth of sorrow for those who are lost.  If everybody's going to go to heaven sooner or later and one way or another, because after all like a recent book states love wins, plus everybody ultimately goes to heaven, why would you have any kind of concern? Why would you? But if it's true, the gospel word is true, unless a man is born again, he shall not see nor enter into the kingdom of God, that came from Jesus, then maybe we ought to be sharing the gospel. And John is saying, well, it's being said to John, on the one hand, because you love God's word, there's a sweetness, but it's also going to produce bitterness because those who don't love God's word ultimately will be judged, these things will come upon them. So having a sincere concern for other people will always cause pain when you understand their future without Jesus Christ. That's why Paul would say something that I think is absolutely remarkable. I frankly have not embraced this, I have not come to the point where I could. I'll be honest with you, up front, because he said in Romans chapter nine, verse three, I could wish that I myself were a curse from Christ, from my brethren, my countrymen, according to the flesh. I would go to hell, he says, if they would go to heaven. I would give up my salvation. What an incredible thing for him to say, but that shows you the power of his love that had come because he had gotten saved. He had said in Romans 10, verse one, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. That was his great desire, so in obeying God's word, in obeying God's direction, even as we saw a moment ago, there's great reward, but for those who refuse to do so, there is great penalty. John 12, 48, Jesus said, he who rejects me and does not receive my words has that which judges him. The word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day. In John 15, 22, he said, if I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. So he came and gave this message that they are now responsible to respond to. And so we were seeing that in chapter 10 of Revelation, we now move into chapter 11, and John continues by saying, I was given a read like a measuring rod. Now, these events, this is taking place during the last half of the tribulation, and I mentioned to you that the tribulation is a seven year period of time, and we're gonna look at this in some detail tonight, it's a seven year period of time where God pours his wrath out on unbelievers. Those who have rejected Messiah. So what we're looking at takes place during the last half of the tribulation, and the tribulation is actually called tribulation, and then the second half is called great tribulation. And so we're looking at great tribulation. In Matthew 24, 21, Jesus said, then there will be great tribulation, such as it's not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And so we're looking at the period of the last half of the tribulation that is referred to as the great tribulation. During this time of great tribulation, God will raise up two bright lights in the midst of great darkness, and you'll see that in just a moment. So in verses one and two, let's begin by looking at that. This was all introduction, let's get into our study. Then I was given a read like a measuring rod, and the angel stood saying, rise and measure the temple of God, the altar and those who worship there, but leave out the court, which is outside the temple and do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles and they will tread the holy city underfoot for 42 months, 42 months or for three and a half years. Now as we begin, the events mentioned here in verses one and two of Revelation chapter 11 will take place in the city of Jerusalem. Jerusalem is found around 806 times in the Bible, and the word Jerusalem is translated city of peace, which is interesting because in the history of Jerusalem, there really hasn't been that much peace. More wars have been fought in Jerusalem than any other city in the world. In its history, the city has been burned to the ground no less than five times. And in recent history, it has been the center of no less than four concentrated wars. Now, as we look at this, I want to develop something because this may pass you by without it being pointed out. In verse one, notice what he says here, when it says the angel stood saying rise and measure the temple of God, the temple is referred to. That means that the city is once again under the control of Israel. Now to us, we say, well, yeah, of course, but you need to understand that Israel ceased to exist as we know it now had ceased to exist since 70 AD because when Titus of Rome had come in to the city of Jerusalem and destroyed it, Israel ceased being a nation until 1948, rather. And so this prophecy is real important to point out here, by the way, this prophecy that we're looking at could not have been fulfilled in any other time other than the time that we're living in right now. So these events that we're looking at actually have a possibility of being fulfilled because Israel once again was resurrected as a nation in 1948. And then in 1967, after the Six Day War, Jerusalem once again came at that time under the authority of Israel. And so these are events that are taking place in the last day that we'll say somebody in the 1700s or the 1800s, when they read through Revelation, they would spiritualize these things because Israel had ceased to exist. There was no nation of Israel. When you go to Israel to this day, there are those referred to it as the land of what? Palestine.  Do you know why they call it Palestine for those who may not know? Because the word Palestine was given to that place by the Romans. The Romans called it Palestine simply because it was their way of saying Philistine. So that region was taken out of the authority of Israel and the Romans would refer to it as Palestine, the land of the Philistines. From AD 70 with the destruction of the temple and the taking of the Jews and the scattering them throughout the four corners of the earth, this land that we know of as Israel ceased to exist as we know it is today and did so. It ceased to exist century after century after century after century on and on and on and on for almost 19 centuries. It is unheard of in the history of man for a nation to have ceased to quote unquote exist to once again have an existence as Israel has. You read your Old Testament and you see the different people that were there. I mentioned the Philistines. Where are they now? And you can see the different peoples that are mentioned, the Edomites. You can see the variety of people, the Canaanites. You can see the people like the cellulites and the uptites and the outisites. I don't know why I like to say that, but I really do. All theites. But there were no Israelites. But now there are. So when you're reading the Revelation, you need to remember that Revelation was given to John somewhere in the middle of like 95, right in that area, 95. You have to keep in mind that as this was given to him in 95 AD, Jerusalem had already been sacked and destroyed. That had happened 25 years earlier. So you have to keep that in mind to see what's going on here. Because he's referring to an event that would have been unheard of during his day because Jerusalem didn't exist anymore. And yet he's speaking concerning this event that will take place in the latter day. And it speaks concerning the Jewish temple. So he's saying the temple that does not exist at this moment must be rebuilt for these things to take place. Now remember, Jesus had stated that the temple would be destroyed. Remember that in Matthew 24? In Matthew chapter 24, it says Jesus went out and departed from the temple. His disciples came up to show him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said to them, do you not see all these things? assuredly I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another that shall not be thrown down. And so his men had shown him the beauty of the temple. Indeed, it was a beautiful structure. Herod had worked on it for many, many years. And it was an unbelievably beautiful structure. And they were just really in awe of the beauty of the structure in awe. And they said, look at this. Isn't this glorious? And Jesus said, do you think it's beautiful? Well, the stones are going to be thrown down. And when you go and you look at some of the remaining, some of the portion of the wall that remains. And you see that some of the stones that were used on that, on the wall weighed 70 tons. Just to imagine how that must have looked, that the beauty of it and the temple itself would have been glorious and beautiful. And the disciples were so taken by it. But that's why Jesus said it's all going to be thrown down. As mentioned, that occurred AD 70 under the Roman general Titus. So that would mean that, again, that the temple had already been destroyed by the time of the writing. And so that makes it clear that the temple spoken of is a future temple. Now, Jesus spoke of events that would transpire during what is called the great tribulation. When you look into Matthew chapter 24, you see much of that. But one of the things he said in Matthew 24, verse 15 is this. He said, when you see standing in the holy place, the abomination that causes desolation spoken of through the prophet Daniel, then it says, let the reader understand. He's speaking at this time, concerning something that takes place in this holy place. Again, that's in reference to a rebuilt temple. Now, in this passage of Matthew 24, something to remember is that Jesus is speaking specifically to Jews. We know that when he gets to verse 20 in Matthew 24, because he says, pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath. And so he's speaking concerning this time that will take place. It's called the tribulation. Now, the question has to be asked. Well, when you go to Israel today, and you look at what is called the temple mount, there is no temple there. How will that temple be rebuilt? How is that going to take place? Well, let me give you some things that I hope isn't too confusing to you, because it can be, especially the way I teach. I can confuse you terribly. I'm gonna do my best to confuse you. There's a prophecy that you can find in the book of Daniel. If you're taking notes, it's found in chapter nine, verses 24 through 27. In Daniel chapter nine, verse 27, we get some insight into how the temple will be rebuilt. The temple is going to be rebuilt, we believe, because there is going to be an agreement that will be signed between the nation of Israel and the one who is coming, who is called Antichrist. In Daniel 927, it says he will confirm a covenant with many for one seven. The seven speaks of seven years. In the middle of the seven, or in a three and a half year mark, in the middle of the seven, he will put an end to sacrifice and offering, and on a wing of the temple, he will set up an abomination that causes desolation until the end that is decreed is poured out on him. The Antichrist is going to, according to Daniel 927, have a covenant with the nation of Israel. The covenant that he has, undoubtedly, is going to make it possible for the nation of Israel to rebuild their temple on the site that is called the Temple Mount. The Bible makes it very clear that that will take place. Paul, in 2 Thessalonians chapter two, verses three and four makes reference to this, when he says, don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed. That's another title of Antichrist, the man of lawlessness, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or worshiped so that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God. Antichrist, and we'll see more of Antichrist as we go through the book of Revelation. We're just getting an introduction, really. But Antichrist is going to set an agreement with the nation of Israel, make it possible for them to rebuild their temple and their temple will be rebuilt. Revelation chapter 11 points to it, Matthew 24 points to it, 2 Thessalonians chapter two points to that. Now, when we go to Jerusalem, we go to a place that is called the Temple Institute. Some of you have been to Israel and some of you have gone into what is called the Temple Institute. You'll go into this place called the Temple Institute and they'll show you various things that they've already prepared for the rebuilding of the temple. They will show you the articles of clothing for the high priest. They'll show you the different knives and various things that they have that is to be used in sacrifices and offerings. They have everything pretty much set up and they're just waiting to rebuild. The temple indeed, in the mind of those who have the Temple Institute, that temple will be rebuilt. As a matter of fact, if you go to, and all you have to do in this age of the internet is just Google Temple Institute, Jerusalem. And their page will open up, which I did today and I just cut and paste this out just to read what they say. It says this, this is on the Temple Institute page. It says, the Institute's activities include education, research and development. The Temple Institute's ultimate goal is to see Israel rebuild the holy temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem in accord with the biblical commandments. They have this desire to build that right now, right now. And every time we go to Israel, we will take you in to the Temple Institute and they will give you an entire conversation related to their plans to build it. They have Levites who are instructed in sacrifice and the art of sacrifice, the whole nine yards. All they're waiting for is the opportunity to rebuild this temple. That exists even as I'm speaking right now. Their desire and their plans are already formulated. They're just waiting for the opportunity to do it and they've been waiting for some time. But there's a problem. The problem is Islam has two of its most important buildings on the Temple Mount. Here's something interesting. Oh, Pastor David, everything's interesting. No, this, here's something. Last time we were in Israel, we had gone someplace, I forget. And we had a taxi driver who has taken us from an area that is inhabited by Muslims. And he was taking us back to our hotel in the city of Jerusalem. And he was not a real friendly guy. A lot of the cabbies are nice guys. This guy, he really wasn't very friendly. He had kind of like an antagonistic feel to him. And he asked us, what have you been doing? Well, we're here on a tour. What have you seen? Oh, we've been seeing various things. My wife Marie says, we're going to the Temple Mount. Immediately, he gets upset. Immediately, there is no Temple Mount. There hasn't been a Temple Mount since the first century. That is not Jewish. That belongs to Islam. And so I smiled at him and smiled at Marie. And I said, shut up, we want to get back to the hotel. He was not a very happy camper when we said Temple Mount. There is no Temple on the Temple Mount. What you find on the Temple Mount is the Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. That is there. Those are two of the holy sites in Islam. And especially the Dome of the Rock because there are Muslims who believe that the Dome of the Rock in their legend is where Muhammad ascended on his horse to heaven. So for them, it's a very, very holy site. The idea that there would be a Temple built there, well, there have been times in the past where zealous rabbinic students following the rabbi have attempted to get up so that they could blow up the Dome of the Rock. I mean, when you go to Israel, you'll go in these tunnels that we go into by the Western Wall. And they will take you to certain areas and you get to see foundations and all kinds of things, very interesting. But there is a certain section that is bricked off. You cannot go in that section. And the reason you can't is because that was a tunnel that led actually to underneath the Dome of the Rock. And a rabbi and some of his students had tried to get in there to blow up the Dome of the Rock so they could build their Temple. And they were discovered. They heard noises and they discovered them down there and it created a tremendous problem as you could imagine. So here's your question. How are you going to build the Temple when the sensitivities and the emotions are so, so caught up in protecting the alexa mosque and the Dome of the Rock from any intrusion like that? How's it going to happen? Well, the Biblical Archaeological Review, which is a magazine, states that the actual place of the Temple is not where the Dome of the Rock is. I want you to notice something here. In verse one, Yen and verse two, the angels stood saying, rise and measure the Temple of God, the altar, and those who worship there. But verse two, leave out the court which is outside the Temple. Do not measure it for it has been given to the Gentiles. They will tread the holy city underfoot for 42 months. When we go to the Temple Mount, which we do every time we go to Israel, you have to go through all of these checkpoints. Well, there's a major checkpoint and that you have to go through. And there, you have to leave certain things behind and also, when we go there, we don't carry anything on us because you have to leave it at the checkpoint and all because they're afraid of any incidents that could take place. And so the Muslims control that area. And so the last time we went, when we went up onto that site, we had all of these people walking on the site, there were these children that were being marched around and they have, and these are Muslim kids, and they have their religious instruction that takes place up there in that area. It's a good size area. And they have these kids receiving religious instruction up there. And the teachers, I can't help but believe that the teachers, when they saw this Christian group coming up, marched the children past us. So you see these children who are seven, eight years old, nine years old, small babies, beautiful, beautiful babies. As they're walking by in columns of two and maybe 40 kids, and they're yelling at us when they walked by. And they were yelling Allah Akbar and things like that at us. And with some of them had these real angry little faces. They were kind of clenching their teeth at us and they're yelling at us. And Marie, my wife, is looking at the babies. We love these babies.  Jesus loves you. And they're going by, Allah, Allah, Allah, like that. They really are, I'm not kidding, I'm not exaggerating. And a lot of them.  And as we're walking, it just had, there was a bit of tension. It's not, I wouldn't take you anywhere that you'd get hurt. But you can feel what you don't necessarily feel here. You will feel it there. That there is an antagonism because according to certain elements of the Islamic faith, you are basically, you're an infidel and Jews are descendants of pigs and monkeys.  And so it can be somewhat awkward.  You know, it can be a bit, I'm used to that. I get that at home, but you might have a problem with it. It is a place that the idea of building a temple is so foreign to the Muslim. The idea that somebody would actually come up there and build a temple on what they consider to be one of their holy sites. Well, the idea of doing that or even the attempt to would start jihad throughout the entire world. I mean, Islamists from all over the world would descend on Jerusalem instantly. That's what would happen. There's no doubt about that. We know that. So how was that going to happen? When we go up onto that site, some of you have been with me or some of you have gone there with other tours and you've seen this, we will go up and we will walk to where the dome of the rock is. And we pass the dome of the rock and we go north past the dome of the rock. And as we go past the dome of the rock, we come up to a place called the dome of the spirit or the dome of the tablets. When you stand at this place called the dome of the tablets and it's like a little, it's like a small gazebo. The biblical archeological review, Asher Kaufman has pointed out that the dome of the rock is not the highest portion on that area, but there's a higher portion, dome of the spirits, dome of the tablets. When you stand at the dome of the tablets, and this is what we'll do, I'll have you if you were with me right now up there, I would be facing the eastern gate by the dome of the spirits. So I'm looking towards the eastern gate and I have you standing in front of me. And then I will have you normally just kind of come around to me. And I normally will have my pocket Bible and I'll pull it out and I'll read this passage and then I will point. So it's like this, let's imagine for a minute, I'm at a place now, the dome of the spirit. I'm looking towards the eastern gate. Off to my right is the dome of the rock. The dome of the rock's about 26 meters away. The eastern gate is directly in front of me. We can actually walk to see where the top of the gate is. You can look down and see that this is the eastern gate. In front of the eastern gate, when you pass that in the wall, there is a graveyard that has been put there. Some would say they believe that that graveyard was placed there to keep the king of glory from entering in because scripture says that's where Messiah will enter in. And so as we're there, I will say this is, according to Asher Kauffman, according to Pastor Chuck and many conservative Bible scholars, the actual site of where the temple will be rebuilt. So how can you build a temple when the dome of the rock and the alexa mosque is in the same geographic location? And I'll say to you, because this says in verse two, leave out the court which is outside the temple, do not measure it, it has been given to the Gentiles. When you look at the temple in its ancient diagram, it was divided into four courtyards. If you're looking at the temple in your mind's eye and you have rectangles, it was four courtyards. It had the court of the Gentiles. It had the court of the women, the court of Israel and the court of the priests. The court of the Gentiles simply means that you as a Gentile could enter into that area which Jesus, by the way, did a lot of teaching in this area called the court of the Gentiles. You could, as a Gentile, as a non-Jew, you could go into the court of the Gentiles and you were safe. If you were to enter past the court of the Gentiles and to the court of the women, and you are not Jewish, the Jews had been given permission from Rome to put you to death. There were actual signs that said that you enter into this area at your own peril and the death penalty will be enacted. And so you, as a Gentile, would not be permitted to go beyond that, but you could go into the court of the Gentiles. You could, as a Gentile. And so the answer would seem to be this. And this is the study we give on the Temple Mount. Anti-Christ will have an agreement that he makes with the nation of Israel that will make it possible for the Temple to be rebuilt and to be able to coexist with the Dome of the Rock because that actually has been given over, it's called given over to the Gentiles, but that's been given over. So they can actually coexist. You can have the Temple rebuilt because the Temple structure will fit there and coexist with the nation of Islam. That is going to take place through the diplomatic genius of the Anti-Christ. Ezekiel indicates that there's going to be a wall separating the Temple from the mosque. In Ezekiel 4220, it reads he measured the area on all four sides that had a wall around it, 500 cubits long, 500 cubits wide to separate the holy from the common. So there will be a division. Now, as we're looking at this, and then we're going to look at it a little bit further, on the days here as we're in the Revelation, we're in chapter 11, obviously, the days are increasingly growing darker, judgment is increasingly falling upon the world, but in the midst of all of this judgment, God is still able to and continues to witness his greats. Remember earlier, we saw the 144,000, they've been referred to as Jewish Billy Graham's. 144,000 evangelists, and remember how they have a seal of the Father upon them and he protects them, and so they are protected by God during this time and they are witnesses, but they're not alone in their witness for the Lord, because in verses three through six, you see the two witnesses, and he says these two witnesses are given power and will prophesy, he said 1260 days. So we're introduced now to the two witnesses. Now there are those, and let me say this very briefly, we don't know the names of these two witnesses, and I'll look at that with you in a moment, but there is a lot of speculation concerning this, but let's look at it here, because it says here that these are the two olive trees and the two lamb stands, who stand before the God of the earth. Now these two witnesses are going to be witnessing more than likely in the last half of the tribulation, that makes sense because Antichrist's openly evil rule is dominating the last half of the tribulation, and they're referred to as the two olive trees and the two lamb stands. Now this picture for those who take notes is found in Zechariah, the Old Testament, chapter four verses two and three. It says there, he asked me, what do you see? I answered, I see a solid gold lamb stand with a bowl at the top and seven lights on it, with seven channels to the lights. Also there are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl, the other on its left. I asked the angel, what are these two olive trees to the right and the left of the lamb stand? It says in verse 11 of Zechariah four, in verse 14 he said, these are the two who are anointed to serve the Lord of all the earth. These are two witnesses that is being referred to you. Now the question is asked, who are they? There's a rumor and that's why I'm gonna give you the rumor and then I'll give you what I think. There's a rumor that it's Rawl Reese and Greg Laurie. I think that's not true. Rawl's been teaching that but that means he'd have to stay when the rapture happens and I think he probably will but I don't think it's one of these. You can tell him I said that. We don't really know of course, they're unnamed. There is speculation though. Some would say and I think with good reason, one could be Elijah and the other Moses. That is very commonly believed, why Elijah? Well in the book of Malachi chapter four verse five it says there that God sends Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. And when you look at the works that they do you see that Elijah did similar things. Notice it says in verse five, if anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouth and devours their enemies. If anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this manner. These have power to shut heaven so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy. They have power over waters to turn them to blood and to strike the earth with all plagues as often as they desire. And so you know that in the case of Elijah that Elijah according to first Kings 18 verses 20 through 40 he called fire down from heaven. In first Kings chapter 17 verse one as well as James chapter five verses 17 and 18 God allowed Elijah to cause the rain to stop falling for the space of three and a half years. And so you see that they have certain powers like it says in verse six to shut heaven so that no rain falls in the days of the prophecy. So there are those who would say this sounds very much like the Lord has brought Elijah to work. Moses, when you look at Moses, Moses brought the plagues. And as Moses brought these plagues they included the waters turning to blood. Another reason why some would say that this could be them is because both of them were with Jesus in Matthew 17 one through five and what is called the Mount of Transfiguration. And so that's why people say and they only speculate we don't know of course that it could very well be Elijah and Moses. Now they're wearing sack cloth. Sack cloth is a symbol of mourning and gives you an insight into their ministry. Now as they're going out and they're doing this ministry think about this for a moment. When they're being opposed it says that and someone's trying to harm them.  That would be kind of cool. No, you're sharing your faith with somebody on the job and they don't want to hear it and you go, the burned up. Next, you'll have revival I promise you. Well, they have this ministry but it's limited to a for a certain time because in verse seven it says when they finish their testimony the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them and kill them. Their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt where also our Lord was crucified. That's the city of Jerusalem. Those from the people's tribes, tongues and nations will see their dead bodies three and a half days not allow their dead bodies to be put into graves. And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, make merry and send gifts to one another because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth. Think about that for a minute.   They were unable to do it because God had protected them but she gives to us some insight and I'll say this briefly but it gives you some insight and it's been said this way you are indestructible until the Lord determines you're coming home. Keep that in mind. You are indestructible until God determines you're coming home and that's a great thing to know that God's taking care of you.  Not everybody appreciates conviction and sometimes in the Holy Spirit is convicting somebody they can get angry, they can do strange and odd things. And as they're given the word out there are some who are trying to violently oppose them but these people haven't got the ability to do that. Why? Because they're able to take care of their enemies in that fashion but at a certain point God says, your ministry's over and I'm taking you home and they end up dying. It says in verse seven they finish their testimony the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them and kill them. And this beast that's being referred to is the Antichrist. This is the first of 36 references of the one referred to as the beast in Revelation. 36 references as the beast, the Antichrist. We will see him more closely in chapter 13 and 17 but the beast is a man, his power is derived from Satan that's the image of coming up from the abyss.  The Lord removes them and takes them home. It's interesting, notice again their death is an occasion for great rejoicing because they're no longer preaching. I had somebody write me a letter a while back now it's been a while now and this person was upset because they lived in the neighborhood across the street and they weren't happy because members of our church were parking in the neighborhood over there and they were mad. They were mad because our people apparently were pulling up in front of their house and sometimes our people would open their door maybe and drop their trash out in the gutter and stuff like that and I didn't blame this individual by the way for being upset. Of course we shouldn't use somebody's yard for our trash can but they were real angry and they wrote me a letter and they said in the letter I can hardly wait for the church to be out of here.    I don't have to hear it anymore. Do you know that that actually is true? There are those who really do believe that but that's actually gonna happen. They rejoice. They actually make this kind of like a anti-Christ celebration like a Christmas celebration it's an anti-Christmas celebration where they're actually giving gifts to one another and they're partying because these two men that they were so afraid of and could do nothing to harm while the beast made war against them, killed them they give all credit to the beast, the anti-Christ and they rejoice and they leave their bodies in the street. Now this is interesting now I want you to see this by the way they leave their bodies in the street and people can see it and see this notice first time those from the peoples, tribes, tongues and nations will see their dead bodies three and a half days how would that have been possible 2,000 years ago? They're gonna be people and well maybe this sounds a bit crass to you but who are taking selfies next to the bodies and they're gonna be putting it on their Facebook or Instagram or whatever and they're gonna be posting it. There's gonna be a live satellite feed of these dead bodies where the whole world will be able to see it. Now again, remember with me 2,000 years ago that was unheard of how would it have been possible for the whole world to see this? In our day we know exactly how because we receive news every day from around the world you know we're around the world in 80 seconds you know we're in Africa here we're gonna be in India here we're gonna be in China here we're gonna go to Mexico here around the world in 80 seconds and you're getting pictures live sometimes feeds from around the world and that's what's gonna happen. So the bodies will be lying they're dead now by leaving them unburied that is a great insult because in the Jewish religion and the Jewish faith you bury the bodies immediately you don't leave them out like this so this gives you insight into them desecrating them and devaluing them it's a great insult that's why they leave it out in this fashion and the way that they do it and they're celebrated celebrating these it's like they're gonna be saying these self-righteous haters are dead they're dead as they send their instant messages to one another about these haters all being dead so everything is gonna be great for about three and a half days and then something happens they rise it says in verse 11 after the three and a half days the breath of life from God entered them they stood on their feet and great fear fell on those who saw them and they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them come up here they ascended to heaven in a cloud and their enemies saw them in the same hour there was a great earthquake and a tenth of the city fell and the earthquake 7,000 men were killed the rest were afraid and gave glory to the God of heaven the second wall was passed, behold the third wall is coming quickly they're supernaturally resurrected slowly they ascended to heaven the people are watching them as that voice has come up here and great fear of course hits everybody imagine, it's hard to imagine isn't it? Imagine as they're watching this they stand to their feet I mean it's like they have the little party favors that they've been going all of a sudden it's just the little hats and they watch that take place what's interesting, I want you to note this in a couple of thoughts and we'll close the great fear comes upon them the enemies saw them but they also gave glory to God that means that some when they saw this took into consideration what had been said and some of them actually were going to come to faith in God through these judgments they give glory to God this earthquake hits a tenth of the city falls 7,000 men are killed the rest are afraid they give glory to the God of heaven so even in the midst of this God is still saving people God still saves people this emphasizes to me the righteousness of God but it also emphasizes the grace of God because even after all that was taking place there are some that see this that would appear to a genuine faith in the Lord it only takes trusting God to be saved remember that in Romans chapter 4 verse 20 through 22 Abraham did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief he was strengthened in faith giving glory to God and being fully convinced that what he had promised he was also able to perform therefore it was accounted to him for righteousness you can have a relationship with God even at the last moment as these did many died but some came to faith


This week on the International Space Station, astronaut Samantha Christopher Reddy conducted the triple-lux B experiment to monitor the function of immune cells in space. This is your space pod for April 8, 2015. The triple-lux B experiment uses immune cells from the blue muscle mytilus edulis to look at how well cells can perform phagocytosis in space. This is the process by which one cell engulfs or eats another cell or solid particle. In the case of immune cells, phagocytosis is used to attack foreign material, such as bacteria. Once the immune cell eats the bacteria, it destroys it by attacking it with toxic compounds known as free radicals, which, as you may remember from my video last week, can be pretty damaging to DNA. Specifically, these immune cells produce a group of free radicals known as reactive oxygen species. So how do we know if these toxic compounds are being produced by the immune cells? We use a compound called luminol. Luminol produces light in the presence of reactive oxygen species, and this light can be easily detected using a camera. We know how much reactive oxygen species are being produced by the amount of light that is detected by the camera. This experiment was conducted in the Columbus laboratory using the European Space Agency's Biolab Facility, which contains cameras, centrifuges, temperature-controlled cabinets, and other equipment needed for this study. This week, astronauts Samantha Christopher Reddy defrosted the cell culture from the onboard minus-80 degrees Celsius freezer and added it to a nutrient-rich broth. She then added a man-made compound called Zymosan, which is meant to simulate bacteria. I guess you could call it fake bacteria. Anyway, the cells were left to grow and ingest the compound, and the amount of light produced was measured. The video footage was sent to Earth for analysis. We don't have the results of the study just yet, but previous work on parabolic flights and centrifuge-simulated microgravity have shown that there is a decrease in reactive oxygen species formation. This could indicate that our cells are less capable of ingesting and destroying foreign material while in space. We already know that astronauts undergo many physical changes while in space, including muscle wastage, fluid shifts, and weakening bones. This has allowed us to enact countermeasures to these effects, such as on-orbit exercise programs. Understanding immune system responses in space means better healthcare for our astronauts. This is really important when we consider long-duration missions to the moon, Mars, and beyond. There is a risk of infection from opportunistic pathogens, where the normal bacteria that live on our skin and in our gut and normally cause us no problems can take advantage of our weakened immune systems. This is especially relevant when we consider that E. coli and Salmonella have been shown to become more lethal in microgravity. There is also a risk that human space travelers could transport microgravity-enhanced bacteria back down to Earth. The recently-launched one-year mission to the International Space Station will be monitoring astronaut gut-bacteria populations as part of the Twin Astronauts study. Finally, any advances in the knowledge of how our immune systems work in space will help people with weakened immune systems down here on Earth. There are so many experiments running aboard the International Space Station that it's hard to pick just one to explain in detail. Do you have a favorite experiment? If so, let me know in the comments below or via social media, and perhaps I'll talk about it in a future space pod. For more information about the triple-lux B experiment, check out the references in the description below. I'd like to thank everybody for watching, and I'd like to thank the patrons of tomorrow for helping contribute to making this video possible. If you love space pods and would like more information about how you can help crowd-fund this show, head over to patreon.com slash space pod. My name is Lisa Stodzianowski, I hope you enjoyed this video, and I'll see you next week.


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D-that'll do Alright, here we go Here we go guys, wow Yeah, there they are Put a bunch of cuties So hello everybody and welcome to Jurassic World Alive I would say hopefully this is my last Mortem Raid But I realized that even if I unlock Um, Mortem Rex I'm gonna have to keep on doing this Cause we need it level um 20, well we need it, it starts at level 26 I think is what you unlock it at Um, and of course you need to get to level 30 And apparently there's already people That have managed to get it at level 28 already Some people have got it 2 or 3 weeks ago Which is crazy And I've seen some channels clickbait the hell out of it saying Unlocked Mortem Rex And they haven't Ha ha ha ha Just they've used like screenshots that people have posted on these uh Discord groups and stuff on Facebook Oh, bless But here we are, this could be No clickbait The actual time That we managed to unlock Mortem Rex We were on 270 Out of 300 Uh So destruction, destruction I mean if we all distract we're good I think we all just distract I think it's the tenon that just needs to heal Yeah we're good So we're going with the double Killer chicken strat because it's friggin insane Uh one has 1,860 attack Right so you think the strat of the bat will do instant You know instant attack What's that 3,600 That's a lot of damage isn't it What, well this guy Uh has 2,734 attack Oh my god that is ridiculous That is ludicrous numbers Think about that Right imagine your team right now You see that phosphor or whatever it's called 5,400 attack in the first hit And it's a priority move So unless you're quicker than it And you also I don't know Uh we're not going to kill it now are we No they're both going for a basic sidestep so they can miss it Uh so maybe we'll just go for the big hit Might as well Just see how much damage we can do to it Hey, hey what are you going to do Oh so yeah this is the second video of Jurassic World Live In a row basically Um I've got some idea what I want to do today Um whether that video is up or not already Uh it's just something that I want to talk about Cause it's um It's going to affect a lot of people Not only yeah well you will not talk about it now Don't spoil that you have to watch another video Yay Um oh 7,800 Okay who's it going to hit Oh no it's me Did you get a crit Oh he didn't Oh thank god Right what I can do now is just go for a sub superiority But I don't think there's any point I think we just all distract him I don't think it's 15,000 I don't think it's 15,000 No it's definitely not going to be 15,000 No way yeah So that's 1,800 yeah It's it's it's not going to be But the next time we should be able to kill him So I saw somebody else like there's another strategy With Irritator as well with the hadro hadro looks Um so it was Irritator level I don't know I've seen some crazy wacky strats with the hadro There was one that had a level 9 Um I can't even remember what the hybrid is It's one like it's like a common hybrid or something ridiculous It's really terrible but People have managed to make it work Okay so what you're going to do now Is it the biggest hit Cause if it's the biggest hit we may as well just distract him again Yeah it's the biggest hit so Uh if we distract, distract, distract, distract And then he just goes for a heal I guess I mean I'm not even that I mean I could have went for my priority heal But he's already missing some Some attack so we got this It's we're not going to kill him the fastest that you can do But it's pretty much a guarantee Like and if we all do this We'll make sure he doesn't do any crit And we'll also make sure that I think he doesn't do any damage either Immute HP changes Oh it's poopy Haha Well it is October now Good lord I'm assuming that uh Halloween's probably got to be cancelled I would assume Um I don't think parents are going to let their kids take candy that Oh Uh uh Sweets Sweets Not candy You Americans Hahaha What do you call candy? Candy's chocolate right? You call if you say you want some chocolate You wouldn't say you want some chocolate Say you want some candy I think right And cookies That's right because cookies over here are completely different Uh oh hold on what's he gonna I think I do need to heal Um Who who said that? Shall I heal? I'll heal then I'll heal Go on then I'll heal myself Um I don't know what The Antonia Antonia probably had Uh it's good then too So we might not have had it But I definitely need to heal myself That's for sure So these two raptors are dead Hey because over here If you were to say cookies in England Cookies mean like chocolate chip Cookies Otherwise you mean biscuits Chips and potatoes Or is it chips and crisps? Do they even have crisps in America? I don't think you do You say chips Chips for Chips for No then fries That's right chips and fries Chips are potatoes for us But chips for you are crisps Oh my god so it's a lost introduction Before you talk about it I love that episode Where Biba talked about crisps and chips Ha ha ha ha I was going to do a lot of damage Oh well that's okay That's not too bad So I'm going to go for I mean Ternotto can go for the group heal That's not a problem I'll go for the distraction Because I don't think he's just going to do a big hit Everyone else just do distraction And then Ternotto can heal Uh and I'll just say I Wait oh okay Yeah sure I guess You could completely be a Uh do no damage I guess I'd thought too It just it seems very easy doesn't it Oh look You see those mountains in the background Oh they're the um Kauai mountain range That you see all the time If you ever see like some sort of movie It's set in like a tropical island Whatever Just look out for that mountain range It's in everything I think last time I saw it was in Jumanji I think it was I was like Up They're on nooblar again Hehehehe Okay so How much damage are you going to do He's going to do nothing no Oh yes Could this be it Could this be the one guys That we unlock Mortem Rex Okay there it is There's a group heal And we'll just go for distractions And he's he literally can't do anything Because I think Ternotto's actually Carries over To the next round I don't know about ours I think ours are only for the one specific round But because we've got four Because I think it takes four In order to reduce him And we've got Ternotto's working still From the last round Because it's for two turns Where he's ours is for one He's still only going to do one damage So now I mean Let's think about it right We've got I mean does he Does he have armor? I don't even know if he has armor Does he have armor? No he has no armor So let's think 5700 damage Already coming through from one of the chickens One of those kill I need to get me I need to get myself a killer chicken That's what I need And I need one of those So now We just go for the biggest hits Can we do 14000 damage in one turn?  Here we go Bam 6,284 And Easy peasy But But but but Are we able? Are we able? To unlock Mortem Rex Please don't invite me to a raid Like you did last time Oh thank god we get to see it Good good good Cool we just need 30 We need 30 It's not a big ask Really when we think about it Hold on Can I?  Oh no Oh I mean it's not as bad as it could have been Really not as bad as it could have been It could have been 10 It really could have been 10 But 20 Have they changed Mortem Rex's picture? I feel like they have Ooh Ooh so next week Next week we have guaranteed Unlocked Mortem Rex Oh I cannot wait Oh that's going to be loads of fun Ooh Rain notifications Never miss a raid Ooh Turn it on No thank you Loot here I'm okay So with that out of the way How about we have a look at our collection So this is what I have at the moment Um Of course we still We still got Dennis Maxima Because it has all of its health boosts on it And I really don't want to waste those Like 1,850 And 59 What can I do? I can't do anything with it Really Uh I'm sorry 9,600 I'd love to take them all off I'm just waiting on Loot here If they are going to refund Um I really think they shouldn't have the You know you lose 50% of them If you take it off Really think that actually just hinders Everybody who's part of Who plays this game It's so much nicer to just switch and Match and say okay let's Let's try this strat Ooh I want to mess around with this Because You know what's gonna What's the end game there? Oh you have all your dinosaurs With um With boosts I mean really all you need is like a team of 8 To have max boosts So eventually you will hit that point Because you're not losing any ever Uh but losing 50 Taking them off Ah And I've never done that I don't think I've ever taken Or maybe once So in total From all of my boosts I've only ever lost I think 50 And I've played this game since Of course boosts were out And I only have Ordenus Maxima Which was kind of like a max creature Now a waste of creature Because nobody uses it I've got a deal of Charis Which I think is 29 out of 30 And really In the grand scheme of things It's not used now anyway Because Tora Molok has taken its place I thought deal of Charis Oh I could use it in competitive And I could help out with raids But now Tora Molok's just the best So if I could I would take all my boosts off of Dilo I'd take all my boosts off of Ardents And the only other creature that I do use That has boosts on it Is Magnetator With that 2300 attack I think I've got one more speed Or something to put on it Which I really don't know what I'm going to do And that's it Trico Utarnix Thodor Erledom Gemini Titan None of those have boosts on And this guy Eventually or at least at one point I was using him But it just It didn't I don't know what was changed about it Distracting rampage isn't too bad Nullify and counter Evasive stance Instant distraction I can't remember exactly why I didn't Why I stopped using this guy But it might even be better To be fair my arm I actually just used this There's a delay on the distraction Maybe that's why I can't really remember I think it nullified Cleans damage over time Yeah, I think I nullified the other team Reduce critical chance by 100% Reduce damage 50% for two turns It was I think it was just nullifying The nullifying just helped Whatever boosts they had Now a case No nowadays It doesn't do anything It just removes their critical chance And that's it So it's like Is it really worth it? No, not really It had the nullifying And that's kind of what made you set up For the next go But Gemini Titan I think I'm tempted Still to use Gemini Titan Because It's a good health tank It has some good move sets 120,000 coin May as well I'm not spending on anything else Apparently what I would actually like Is that Phosphoracus The Phosphorvervus I don't even know If that's a creature That a lot of people use And for me to spend loads of DNA And coin onto Turamola Seems like a bit of a waste Now that Pretty much everybody I mean Turamola looks really good But And I think I have a lot of DNA for it I have 85,000 Tijongosaurus And Paramoloc I have a load of Paramoloc With the Stigamoloc So if I really wanted to I could make Turamoloc Level 30 But is there any point Is there? I don't know I don't know I've seen a lot of people use Model Rhyme But it's only level 21 And it's going to take me a long time To get it useful And even then I'm going to need to put mods on it So it's like Oh boost sorry I don't know Tenor to Rex is a solid choice I've definitely seen Tenor to Rex use a lot But Maybe I just need to boost Uh Trico Trico I mean actually no you're right Yeah I have boosted Trico I put 10 on health and 10 on attack Huh No never mind And then Trico got nift So it's like Ah I don't really don't know what to use Well anyway guys I was really hoping I would showcase Model Rex So this is going to be a little bit of a quicker video Um which is okay Because I've got other stuff to get on with But hey ho We're this close Getting it Oh my god so close Well anyway guys if you enjoyed this video Leave a like and until next time I'll see you cuties later Oh bye bye


This little delay, welcome to the second session about one of the non-Western language groups. I'm Ayal from both the Hebrew and the Arabic user groups, and we are talking about the state of right-to-left language support in Libre Office. And we're in 2022. The last time this session was given was in 2018 in Tirana, so four years since this last update. What we're going to do today, we're not going to talk about right-to-left languages. I hope you all know what those are, or at least, anyway, not a lot. We're not going to talk about how to switch between languages and what Libre Office already has. But I am going to remind you about where we need support for these languages. We're going to go over a few bug statistics, some important fixes in the code, improvements to right-to-left language-related functionality over the past several years. And we are going to talk about challenges that are outstanding today as well. So right-to-left languages, oh, this shows some stuff from the previous... Ignore the example column except for the first two cells for some reason. Well, just ignore it. Anyway, so the most popular written language or script is Arabic, and a lot of languages use it, including in different parts of the world, not only in the Arab East and Central and Western Asia. There's the Nicole language or script that's used by languages in Africa, which is the second largest. There's the Adlam script used by the family of languages. And unfortunately, I've not seen a single person in this conference who uses any of these scripts, except perhaps for our Turkish friend whose name escapes me. I'm sorry, and for him it might be a second language, but no native language speaker from any of these groups. You also have Rohingya, then you have Hebrew, which is well over-represented with me being here. We're only eight million people who speak it natively. And there are actually more, both languages and scripts. And later, if you watch these slides and want to see the long list, then it's on w3.org, they have a nice list of these. What's important for me to note is that not a small percentage of the population of this planet use write-alive scripts or writing, and something like 8% of the most popular written languages, those with over 10 million speakers. And it's even higher for secondary languages. But if we look at the number of write-alive language users among overall users of LibreOffice, this is very difficult to estimate, and I've cut a few slides where I was making a backhand cocktail napkin estimate, so you won't have that. But it is low relative to the percentage in the overall population size, and it's still low even if you want to normalize it, say for development indices or number of people who use a computer at all or things like that. It's still low, so that's a problem. Write-alive language support. This few slides were actually a better fit for the other room, and less for the more technical nitty-gritty room, which we're in. But it's not just in the code, so we need the document model, the structural representation of it, the ODF specification, the way it's rendered both on screen and in print, different gadgets in the document, like comments and footnotes, need aspects of functionality that are write-alive specific. And that's not all. There's actually a lot more, so there's the user interface, which is still within the application, and even there there are several aspects of the user interface which require some functionality that is write-alive specific. But no less important is help and documentation, the websites of our projects and related sites, the platforms we use for discussion, the Ask website, Telegram channels, IRC, and even programs that we have for opportunities that we offer, or that the document foundation offers for training or for certification, need to have at least some aspect of cognizant awareness of write-alive issues. And before I get into the more application-specific aspects of write-alive support, I need to make the point that write-alive languages are generally not well supported outside of the applications themselves. This is not an accusation because this is also the responsibility of our language communities, some of which don't even exist, but even the ones which do. We have websites, like localized websites, which are entirely missing or are out of date. We have web pages which are the target of links in the applications which don't exist in localized versions. We don't have any translated user guides, not even for older versions of LibreOffice, and the relevant sections of ask.libreoffice.org are either missing or have very few questions. But after this rant, I'm going to switch over to the aspect of support that's within the applications themselves, within the different modules, so we're putting that aside. And also the negative tone, because within the application things are better and improving, certainly not perfect. But let's talk about what happened over the past four years. Since it's been four years, we're not going to be covering everything or going into the details. So first, where you can track this progress yourselves if you want to. Some of the aspects of support are not trackable, especially those that are not within the applications. But if we're looking at in-application technical issues, they are tracked on the Document Foundation's bugzilla, and there are several, there's more than one, several meta-bugs. There's the RTL CTL, RTL is for right to left, CTL is for complex text layout. There's also RTL UI, which are meta-bugs. RTL CTL is the equivalent of the CJK meta-bug which Shinji mentioned in the last presentation. And we also have language-specific issues. And we have meta-bugs for Hebrew, for Nicole, and a single meta-bug for Arabic and Farsi, and meta-bug for languages which are relevant to minority groups in China, minority language communities within China. Not that many issues there, unfortunately. There is under-reporting that corresponds, I believe, that corresponds to the under-representation in our active user community and in the user statistics in general. And of course, each of these meta-bugs attracts the actual bugs. Just to give you a sample, because we're not covering all the bugs, in the 2017 State of Right to Left support talk given by Leo Kaplan, who I want to thank also for the work on this presentation, which he helped me with. He listed six typical bugs, three in Ryder and three in Impress. That were bugging, well, not just him, but not necessarily the most important bugs, but important ones. And by 2018, a few of them were fixed, and by now they've all been fixed. That doesn't mean that all Ryder left bugs have been fixed, but at least putting things on the table here and attracting developer focus does have a positive effect. So you can see when more or less each of them was fixed. Hello statistics for you. So 69 Ryder left bug fixes within the span of these four years. And these bugs, about half of them were filed within that period. That doesn't mean they appeared within that period, just filed within that period. And about half, a little less than half are older bugs with respect to components. So the almost a majority, almost half of the bugs were Ryder bugs, Ryder specific. Eight of them Impress or draw, seven and calc. Eight bugs were assigned the UI component, but we could actually associate them with more or less with a specific application. So about the same distribution. No base bugs, by the way. And of course the Impress bugs are also relevant to draw, mostly. Seven bugs were project-wide, so regard all applications. And we have some smaller categories with fixes in there. Now what kind of bugs were fixed? There were issues with the display right to left text and cells and calc. There was some navigation issues. But over the past year, so since 2021, not a single bug related to calc was fixed. In Impress, the layout issues were even more significant. I think in Tirana, Leon mentioned that. So there's been significant improvement there. One issue in animation, one crash, one powerpoint import issue. And now if we go over to Ryder, more than half the issues regard the import of DocX and RTF. And that's not necessarily because there aren't many issues importing powerpoint. I think it's mostly because people don't do that as much. But definitely if you were in Gabo's interoperability session, he also made that point. And some UI issues, behavior with selections and also layout in bottom to top left to right. And project-wide issues, which are a bit more interesting. So we had some issues in spacing when you have both left to right and right to left issues. I'm sorry, text within a text box. There's old Hungarian, so there's a script that was used in the past in Hungary that is written from right to left. Sometimes you couldn't use it at all, and that was fixed. And some cursive control trouble. Oh. So yeah. Nastalik is a kind of Arabic font and there was a rendering issue there. So I'm not going into the details. That just gives you an overview of what kinds of things were fixed. I do want to highlight a few of the issues that were fixed because they're interesting to look at, not just as issues, but also as a process. The first issue is, or the developers and designers worked on, it was mostly a design task, is reworking the dialogue that we used for font selection. And this is the bug number. And Xinqi actually showed you, let me see if I can get a mouse. So let's go through the text first and maybe we'll see the before and after pictures. So the situation we had was that it was decided that we need some work on the font selection dialogue and there was a commit. And the design team was involved in the change of the dialogue design. And it did mean an improvement in the user experience when you had multiple language groups enabled. So here I actually do want to click the link. So in Western only, this is the font selection dialogue if you only have Western languages enabled. And this is the baseline. It's kind of reasonable. But for another language group, and here you see the text in Japanese, so never mind the Japanese, pretend it's in English. We didn't get, we couldn't use the, or we wouldn't use the full area of the window or the window pane for each of the language groups and we had to fit and we were fitting all the features of the font for each of the language group in the same dialogue and so less area for each widget and it was kind of, it feels crowded. And the idea was to change it. But the thing is the change resulted in a situation where if you also had CGK or right to left languages enabled then you can no longer see the font that was selected, the non-Western font that selected when you opened the dialogue. And the thing is, which is annoying, process that led to the initial design change and commit was somewhat flawed. It was flawed because even though the CGK user group was consulted because of either a miscommunication or there was not, weren't active users when this question was asked, then the feedback on the suggested design either was not made or did not make it into the decision-making process. And so the commit was made. And our group, so the right to left language specific groups nor the general RTL group, we were not consulted at all. Not sure why. Not the designers or whether. But then, so it was reported as a regression after the commit had already gone in. So that was a bad part of the process. The better part of the process is that once the regression was reported, we caught up on the discussion that should have happened before and happened on the regression bug page. And Tey Kotitze suggested an alternative design, a new layout which was well received by all interested parties, I hope everyone that I can think of. And the new design is something like this, so it splits the dialogue in half. So you get sort of a vertical split and then you get not all the area for each of the language groups, but each of them gets more area and more visibility of the font family list at least than was the case before. And we like this. It's not perfect when you enable all three language groups, but it's certainly much better than the change that had gone in before. But of course it's also a lesson that if we do the process right the first time, then we don't need to wait for the regression and people don't have to complain and it will take less time overall, et cetera. Another thing I want to highlight is a fix to a justification issue with the Arabic script. It's a justification mechanism which involves lengthening horizontal lines in letters rather than using spaces. And I'm not going to go into the details of what that means because there is another session, the following session is exactly about that. It's by Hussein Nureka. But the bottom line that I want to mention here is that Khaled Hosni in one fell swoop, one commit fixed eight different right to left, well, justification related bugs and that's legendary and awesome. But there's a bit of work that remains following that change and if you want to see what that work is so this is the link to the bug. So this is an example of how sometimes if someone takes the time to do a deep dive and make a fix that's very deeply into the code and never mind the details, then you can fix a whole bunch of issues rather than aiming for workarounds or something that's specific to this situation or that situation. So that's definitely, if we can have more of those that would be great. One last issue I want to highlight that was fixed is a change of the default fonts for Arabic and Hebrew by Yusuf Philips who was no longer very active but was more active a few years ago. Several bugs that relate to that. There was zero development effort here so nothing was changed in the code but these issues had very high visibility and the changes had very wide effect including to our public image. There was a long community process of discussing what would be best what are the best combinations. We had candidates so there was more than one round and there were also some supporting fixes to rendering that allowed this to happen for some of these fonts. However, this process was not finished so I want to ask people in this room and out of this room to help me push for this process to finally be finished and it's not finished because we're missing community feedback. The Arabic language community has not been very active and I'm not a native speaker so I don't feel qualified to make the choice so this is not done yet despite the great work that has already happened. Finally, some with the say five or six minutes I have left some noteworthy outstanding challenges things that are not fixed. So perhaps the most visible one is that damn PDF text run flipping issue. So if we take the document on the left and we save it to a PDF and we open it again in Ryder or in Press or wherever we get the document on the right which also has the wrong font but that's not the bug I'm talking about. The thing is the characters appear in the opposite direction. So look at this square character a final man in Hebrew so here it's on the right instead of on the left and here the Arabic is also reversed so this is super annoying effectively means we can't open PDFs with right to left content can't even view them certainly can't edit them so there is a tender for this to be fixed this year but all of the tenders are blocked because of some secret legal trouble that I don't know what it is what that's about but for some reason it's preventing us from getting the fix that we want that we need to work on it and maybe if you can accept that thing from whatever legal reason it is that tenders aren't happening we really want this to go ahead. Another issue which is more fun the rest are more fundamental ones that have seen no work or almost no work is the issue of start and end versus left and right and this is the bug number so if you think about paragraphs that are written left to right they start on the left of their first line and they end on the right of their last line but right to left paragraphs well not necessarily in English but if a paragraph is right to left it starts on the right edge of the first line and it ends on the left edge of the last line but we have a lot of settings in the UI and possibly also in the format I'm not sure because I haven't looked into it certainly in the user interface which say start and end but actually main left or right or maybe not and it's not consistent and sometimes you want all options so for example if you're looking at paragraph alignment we have left alignment and we have right alignment but then if I switch the direction but maybe I want my paragraph to be aligned to the start and right now I can't do that when I change the paragraph direction I also have to change the alignment so the alignment is visual and not logical in that sense so we need two extra options here but if you look at the last line part here you do have start or end so here we do see some partial work towards this goal but it's not uniform in other cases we see this in the other direction so the UI says before or after rather than left or right but it can mean either left or right depending on what the direction is and you're not sure exactly what it's going to do so you have to guess where the column will be at it sometimes it is a better idea to say to the left or to the right and this also depends on what direction is the table's column progression but actually we don't have a well-defined concept of table column progression at least not in the user interface and what happens if you take one column and you make it right to left but the column progression direction of the entire table so I don't even know what the answer should be but it should be something and there are a bunch of these issues throughout LibreOffice that need to be addressed at some point and the last issue I will highlight specifically is deepening the support for languages not for specific languages for languages so LibreOffice does not let you set the language of a piece of text which might sound weird to you but it's just the case LibreOffice doesn't really support languages not really it recognizes language groups but it doesn't properly support languages but what if within the same language group I want to distinguish what I do with Arabic and what I do with Hebrew or even in the western language group I want to do something for Russian and something else for English and the very specific example I want to define my paragraph style or my character style to have a different font for Russian and for English or for Arabic and for Hebrew this is not supported at least not in the terms of the user interface I don't know about the the ODT format hopefully it's better there but there's no visibility for it in the user interface and I also don't know about the code yes, Regina I'm going to the character style when you consider the language in English in the character style in English I see a lot of problems there oh but when I said a character style for several characters some of them might be in English and some of them might be in Russian or in Hebrew no I do not I want the same style to encompass font and from right now the style encompasses font information for the different language groups I can have a different font set for western characters and for right to left characters and for CJK characters so three settings but I need a per language setting same thing for paragraph styles by the way challenges which I'll only sketch briefly there are a few RTL issues defined as severe which are open compatibility with MS office formats is very painful in general but it's even more painful for right to left and for a lot of people okay this is only anecdotal this is not a proper survey a lot of people have told me that the reason that they will not switch from Microsoft Office to Libre Office for right to left incompatibilities with their file formats and then there are the less represented languages which have their own idiosyncratic features among the right to left languages for example in ancient Tibetan the entire document is a single paragraph and there is a problem when you have a single paragraph over say 50 pages Libre Office doesn't like it that much and that makes some Tibetan texts I can only say because the bug says that I've never worked with Tibetan myself not usable so different languages have their own like weird idiosyncrasies we shouldn't wait for users to report these issues there should be at some point some effort to go over different languages and at least you know just from reading the Wikipedia article which is you can tell that oh this might have this issue this might have that issue and not wait for the bug report and finally the number of bugs has increased significantly 4 years ago sorry number of open bugs it was 72 4 years ago now it's 195 with 21 unconfirmed bugs it's more because that under recording has lessened rather than that a lot of new bugs have suddenly materialized but there are there is a large number of write-a-last specific bugs and it's increased and it might increase further the more people use non-writer apps and import PowerPoint and things like that so thank you for that and see you next year in a few years who knows


We're going to talk to the manager of the New York Yankees Aaron Boone. His team will begin the 2019 season on Thursday at 1 o'clock against the Orioles at Yankee Stadium. Aaron, it's Michael, Don and Peter. How you doing? I'm doing well. How are you doing guys doing great? So how do you feel about your team as the season begins? Really good You know, obviously dealing with some some injuries to some key guys But we think we're the good news on we feel like we're probably gonna avoid some long-term situations But we also feel like, you know, we have the roster to be able to cover those things up on the short term and feel like the guys that are Ready to go for opening day are really in a good place. I've had a had a good spring by and large I feel like the workload they've had has been good sprinkled with the proper rest So I feel like by and large our guys in a really good place as we get ready for Thursday You better than you were last year. I Think we are. I mean, look, I was sitting here last year thinking we're really good and obviously we were But I do feel like we're a deeper club and you know, even with some of the injuries Significant guys. We're talking about being down right now I still feel like we're we're in a really good place and able to cover that maybe more so that We were this time last year now when you say you're better Does that mean you'll win more games in the regular season you did last year or that you might be in a better position To make a run in the playoffs You never know how it's gonna shake out win total lies. There's there's so many things that go into that But I think we have a chance to be a little bit better of a club. I think we're a little bit more versatile I think we're potentially a little bit more more deep You know, I think our pitching has a chance to be hopefully even a little bit better with some of the additions we've made so Whether that means more wins less Being able to go deeper in the postseason win a championship. I mean now that You know, that's that's what we're setting out to do But we got a long way between now and then to to get to that point But I I feel really strong about who we have Going in starting Thursday 267 home runs last year by the team that's a record in Major League Baseball both judge and stand and told me Individually they think the team will shatter that record. Do you have that same feeling? I? Think we'll hit a lot of home runs you know But I need you know, we want to we want to shatter that win total and in the month of October That's that's our ultimate goal and we want to you know, we want to hoist the championship That's what we're playing for and whether that means we hit a ton more homers or slightly less whatever it may be we our power is is A big thing and what that number ends up being we'll see I know you and Michael have got into the whole Too many home runs sometimes hurt you in the postseason thing because history does show that if you hit a lot of home Runs in the regular season or are too reliant on it that it could hurt you in the playoffs But with everybody trying to hit home runs Aaron, I guess that there's a new way of thinking right? well No, I just Sometimes I I get this is it's one of those issues that riles me up a little bit It's you know, why don't you just get hits with runners and like that's a skill, too That's you we're trying to be the most complete best offensive club we can be you know, but You know, it's not an easy thing to Be the best offensive club, you know, you got to be pretty well rounded I think we have a chance to be there I think some of the additions we've made plus some of the improvements I think guys are continuing to make as all-around hitters will allow us to be that but you know Sometimes getting a big hit the situation off a tough pitcher isn't necessarily a choice as it is you got to be really good With the home runs obviously come a lot of home strikeouts and Aaron judge kind of adjusted to strikes this year He's not going to stride as much Do you think a team could strike out too much is that concern you about your team? Because there's not much negative about this team as far as I could tell the strikeouts concern me a little bit But I guess I guess that's the price of doing business now Well, there's no question. There's a value in being able to put put the ball in play and and that that is a Really good thing. I think we have the ability to improve on You know who we were last year you mentioned judge, you know I think Aaron's one of those guys that went into this winter Having a healthy offseason as opposed to last year when he had the the shoulder issue And he was rehabbing his shoulder after surgery this year He was able to go tanker with some things and work on some things and then he brings it into spring training and and is able to apply It and get results. So You know, he's one of the guys that you know work that looks like he's made adjustments Hopefully that allow him to become an even more well-rounded better player and I feel like a lot of our players Have made some strides in that area. Do you see yourself having to use an opener this year? Are you comfortable with that? Yeah, I think it's possible I'm not even necessarily likely but I you know, it could be really possible here early, especially with you know with CC and Seve down to start the year You know depending on how our pen usage is in the days leading up You know, you could see it here very early in the season, but We'll just kind of see how it unfolds, but it's certainly a possibility after I left Tampa You announced that you know her mom would get a start and says it would be in the bullpen says that a great great spring training Why did you go that route? Well, we feel really good about all three That's a her mom and Lowe is again for that matter We feel like that there can really be Dominant guy in the role we envision him in kind of that long man Picking the right lanes for him within a lineup for multiple innings out of the pen on a given day There could be a situation though where he pops in and gets a starter or works in an opener kind of situation You know, but being out of options You know, it's hard to keep him built up as a starter Especially as we move forward when we get fully healthy and we have all our guys back It's gonna be hard to keep him built up where with her mom and the wise ago Probably a little easier to to keep them built up over the long haul now You don't have to get specific Aaron, but I just wonder when you look back at 2018 Do you say to yourself now with that year of experience and look at specific situations ago? You know what now I know better I would have done that differently now that I'm a little bit more experienced No, I don't I don't necessarily look back on it because every single day of this job has been a Reflection and evaluation and take take stock up of what's gone on. So I I just feel like it's been this Living thing that's never never stopped, you know, the offseason came and I kind of dove right in to you know being a part of our our offseason and You know planning for spring training in the regular season and being a part of you know some of the moves We we make in the winter time and and just so the job never stops So I don't know if I You know had a day where I sit and reflect on things because we kind of do that good and bad every single day During the season Tyler Wade was not happy when you told him he didn't make the team after the acquisition of Touchman from the the Rockies There's part of me that thinks you know, I don't mind a player reacting like that. What did you think? Yeah, that's how I feel. Yeah, I mean this is look Tyler Wade is Really highly thought of player by us In our organization. He's worked really hard to to become an even more versatile player He worked really hard on his offense. He came in ready to go. He came in and had a really good spring and the reality was Was probably a few days ago set to make our club So yeah, I mean I want a player to be a little ticked off or frustrated but now it's it's all you got to be able to focus that That frustration in the right way and go out handle handle your business because We still think he's gonna play an important role for us this year at some point and and hopefully And what is the championship season? He's gonna be a part of that so he needs to keep his focus and continue to work on his game and You know, there's there's a scenario where even as we get healthier you can envision him on the roster In a lot of different ways. All right So with Hicks out at the beginning of the season with the bad back is your outfield most of the time Stanton Gardner and judge? Yes, in that order. Okay, and then your DH will either be void or bird Yeah, it'll probably be in there. Yeah, it could be void and bird You know if you want to get talk man in there a day, you know, obviously we'll spell guardian a little bit But you know if you wanted to spell one judge or stand or give them a dh day Talk man, we feel good about being able to play all three and and being a guy that that also has them upside Offensively. All right now since it didn't happen that you had to choose between bird and void Because of the injury to Hicks. Why don't you just tell us who was gonna be the starting first baseman? Here we go Three two one go Well, just stay tuned I've actually been it's what's one of the things I've been doing a lot today. It's kind of you know, especially when when When when the Orioles switch from cop to Cachner, you know it changes things in my mind a little bit But trying to kind of in my head and even on paper a little bit kind of laying out the first several days of our season How I visioned it When I had vision given a guy a rest and I Would say Early on here there they're both gonna play a lot now about that that that's fine And I know that I knew that you wouldn't tell me which one would have made it But did one of them separate themselves from the other because they both had really good springs. All right. No, I would say The way I put it is we're looking at two impact first base We're looking at two of the top half in the league first baseman. That's that's what I'm watching right now I'm watching, you know, we saw what Luke Voight was able to do In the second half of the season last year and he's come in and looked every bit of that player the guy that just Controls the strike zone powered all fields the ability to drive the ball the other way which is so big in our yard I feel like it's made improvements on the defensive side of the ball He's worked really hard in that area over the winter But the first time I watched Greg Bird take batting practice before Can't even started over at Hines two swings in I was like right away This is a different guy and he looked like he's looked like that guy every single day in spring training There's just a different way. He's impact in the ball, you know, he's he's added weight I believe in a good way significantly bigger than he was last year and clearly Beyond some of the, you know, physical things that were limiting him a little bit last year He's in a great place and I feel I feel great about both guys What's our real it's the realistic expectation for Brett Gardner? That he's gonna be a really good player for us, you know, hopefully You know, we'll Give him his days off here and there But we're expecting a really good player and even though, you know, some of his numbers fell off a little bit last year You know, I think some of the underlying things suggest that it wasn't that far off from where he was the year before The homeruns were a little bit proud but the way he was impacting the ball Night in and night out were similar, you know, I feel like with some of the injuries we had last year We probably had to lean on them a little more than we would have liked So there probably was some some wear down a little bit late in the year And hopefully this is a year that we can we can protect him a little bit more Give him his days off because we think he's going to be a really good player for us on both sides of the ball Aaron Boone, the manager is our guest. I was a little concerned, Aaron And one of the last games that I did down in spring training that The velocity wasn't there for Chapman You thought it was because he either he had been used for two innings a couple of days before Is there any concern that he's he's okay No, I feel I feel like he's he's good. He threw yesterday in a minor league game and was basically 95 96 And I think he's a guy that at this point in spring, I think, you know, you get into the to the To the big big league games with the third deck and it's go time And I think that adds a couple miles an hour now Now I think it's are we going to see the 103 104 miles an hour A role is Chapman. I don't know. Maybe maybe not But do I think he's healthy and you know, he's going to be A dominant reliever for us. Yes All right before we let you go, obviously, this is a very very good team how star marizan yesterday thinks it's better than last year You think it's better than last year for what is worth. I think it's better than last year But what's your biggest concern? What do you fear most with this season other than injuries? Um Well, I just think first and foremost Guys that we have injured right now, you know, those are really important players for us and impact players for us So it's important that we do get them back at some point, um, you know, because You know, especially when you look at our rotation right now, uh with sevby and cc starting on the on the injured list, excuse me um, you know, well We're a little thinner there, obviously So, you know, we can't afford to have a bunch of guys go down in that in that regard But um, I feel I feel great about where our guys are at and I feel like their frame of mind is really good I feel like it's a hungry group with with their intentions in the right place and Um, we're excited to go out and show the world that you must be pretty excited about sitting next to me during the Welcome home dinner tomorrow, right? Yes, I am Are we right next to each other? Uh, we weren't last year. So I requested it again. I'm sure you did I understand the part of the lots of condiments out on that table. No, I meant no, wait, man I understand that you've got to get along with the players. It does not extend to the announcers We before you became manager. We got along don. Yeah, but I've known you for 20 years I wouldn't describe myself as excited to sit next to you during luncheon Wow. Well, I'm excited. I am genuinely excited. See that's an issue. No because you're a good guy. I think that's a problem No, he's a good human being Don. I'm like you The only thing it worries me about is that maybe Aaron's social life isn't great. That's right The only thing he can do is so much better. Sprinkle. He's working too hard. Yeah, you're working way too hard I will see you tomorrow. Thank you. All right.