Well, hi there. I am Sandy Almak, and I am here celebrating Ellen Hudson's 11th birthday anniversary for her company by using distress oxide inks to make a Christmas thistle wreath We were asked to use some of our favorite products This just happens to be one I hadn't used yet But I'm going to use some other favorite Ellen Hudson products with a couple of these stamps These are just some solid stamps that we can use to make a Christmas wreath card But this is one of my favorite Ellen Hudson products. This is the craft assistant. It's 12 by 12 and it's metal And it's so easy to clean up. It's like way easier than anything I've ever used So I'm going to grab some arches watercolor paper cut squares To do these because you're going to be able to make something round a little bit easier If you have a square if you want to make a rectangular card draw yourself a line So you know where your your square is I'm going to throw some distress oxide peeled paint onto the craft assistant And I'm going to spray half of it So part of it is going to be watery mushy and part of it is not and I'll show you why So that bottom half is kind of wet and soupy and the top half is not So I've got my stamp here. You can see how much water there is underneath that stamp And I'm just going to stamp it someplace on here To start off my wreath and look at how beautiful and watercolor that looks I can take a brush my silver brush number eight and Finish off the leaf but not perfectly no need to make it absolutely perfect Because it's all going to blend into a bunch of other leaves anyway This distress oxide ink. I've been doing a little research. I'm slow to the game This is my I have only bought two pads of it So I don't know much about them, but it's partially Acrylic and partially distress ink. So it's a little little properties of both and it does some really interesting mixing things So here I'm stamping part of like that bottom part that I just did I wanted to create that inside edge of the wreath So I just pushed part of that leaf stamp down And then I can join it all up with a little bit of water and just mush it around a little bit with a brush I'm gonna turn it and this is where the square comes in handy because you can start to Create that roundness by keeping all of those outside edges around the same distance away from the edge of That square card if you were to do a rectangle I'm just gonna tell you I tried it on a rectangle This is why I'm telling you to do it in the square tried it in a rectangle and I ended up with Oval's instead of round wreaths. So there you go. It's a little bit easier if you do it as a square So I'm just stamping now a couple times over a Little bit more of the ink so that I can then finish my painting Along here and just create some fun edges for my wreath There are a number of stamps in this thistle set that you can do this with and of course You can paint that thistle is the same way if I had thistle colors in the Distress oxide inks I might try a thistle But since I do not have a purple or a blue or anything other than red or green Because I got these as a treat for myself to practice with Christmas guards Yeah, then I can't do thistles. So here I'm gonna use a little bit more solid ink because I want a hard edge See that inside edge that it created It's just a little bit more detail when you don't use as much of the water with it so keep part of that ink as the just the thick ink and part of it as mushy and Have that water in it and you have the option then to do both so I'm gonna go around my My wreath with just stamping a little bit of the edge. I'm only pushing on that outside edge so that I get that little delicate kind of Contour to my wreath And if you have some areas that don't look perfect just throw some water on them Otherwise just do a little bit of stamping to create that beautiful outside edge I'm gonna throw a little bit more in here because I was noticing I was looking a little oval and not as roundy and I think the wreath is just about done now I've got this like I said I've got my my red got my fired brick and I'm gonna toss a little bit of this in here if you Like the look of what I'm doing here.  You could also do your berries with Stickles with all different kinds of products So I set that aside to dry so I can finish the card later but I'm going to show you a different stamp from the thistle set and this is one of the little fissile heads and This one I was skeptical that I could get this to work But when I did I thought this this is even a better stamp than that leaf to make a wreath and Once you start doing these you're going to be thinking okay How many colors could I do this with because I could I do a spring wreath a spring wreath Would be really pretty in some bright spring colors. There's just so much you can do. There's swags you can make with just a thistle stamp set Because look at these delicate edges. I can get with this little thistle head Isn't that beautiful and I can alternate using the the thicker pigment and The watered-down pigment to give myself hard edges and softer edges As I go around my wreath and I mean this is this is just highly addictive I can't tell you how many of these cards that I made already and I'm probably going to make a lot more because there's so much fun I might even do a whole bunch of them Like for one of my church groups or something because I want to have excuse to make more of them But I don't like giving everybody the same card. I know a lot of you guys love to make Like a hundred of the same thing and that's your Christmas card of the year I like having all of them different But for this particular thing I think I'd love to just sit and play with these stamps and see what kinds of wreath shapes I can get out of this set and some of the other Ellen Hudson sets too. She's got lots of different flower type things and That would be just a wonderful way to spend an afternoon. I could see myself wilding away way too much time But doing it with the craft assistant is of course super helpful. Sorry the colors getting all of a sudden really light here on the screen Maybe because my hand is moving so fast. I'm having so much fun doing all this crazy wild stamping So now I'm gonna take the brush and move some of that color around Just mush up a few areas and leave some of that outer edge. Ah now the colors coming back. Thank you camera and Soften up some of it, but leave some of those feathery feathery feathery areas So that I have a different kind of wreath edge And I like these distress inks or these distressed oxides because look at the different kinds of greens that you get There's that really light pale green and then that kind of thicker heavier darker green all out of peeled paint Which is one of my favorite distress colors, by the way And so again, I'm gonna drop some red little dots into the wet pigment So they're gonna be real soft and mushy and feel really Loose on top of all of this beautiful green pigment. I Have a feeling I might have to ask Santa Claus for some more distress oxides Yeah, because who doesn't need more of this in their life, right? So for my sentiment I pulled out this other set called modern Christmas It has a to and from that you could use but it also has these beautiful simple Merry Christmas and holiday cheer that are outlines of the words And I thought that would be a really classy thing to put on top of these panels And then I've got a really thin layer of black around each one of them And then I have that on a red card base to just accent that color And I think they're beautiful. I think they're just gorgeous Now since we are also talking about our other favorite Ellen Hudson products I have to tell you I could not live right now without these storage envelopes They're nice and thick and they now come in four sizes if you did not know that they have this teeny ones Little itty-bitties for small sets They have the regular size ones which they've had for a long time and all the Ellen Hudson products come in her envelopes And then there's these tall skinny ones that work for all my MFT sets because I'm getting a growing collection of them And then this one is from Winnie and Walter and it's a huge set and They have these really giant ones as well So there's four sizes to store all of your lovely stamps and I could not live without them So thank you for joining me for my lovely beautiful wreath cards today Be sure to go to my blog so you can pick up the link to the next stop on the hop celebrating Ellen Hudson's 11th birthday Yay for Ellen Hudson LLC could not do what I do without Ellen and all of the goodies That she has in the store that I have to buy talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye. Have a really awesome day


Billy on censored too. Where do you think the Palestinian refugees will go after Israel pushes them out of Gaza? Israel will not be able to push them out of Gaza. The only way Palestinians will leave Gaza is if Israel kills them all. And if Israel kills them all, you can pretty much guarantee that Israel will no longer be. It'll be mass suicide. It's a suicide pack. Basically what the Israeli government is trying to convince people to do is to join their suicide pack.


I think that there's real value in discovery learning and the best example that that I know of this It may not be the best example, but it's the best one. I know is City Hall School I don't know if any of you have had the opportunity to to take a class to City Hall School or have Linda Hut Who's are who's conned from the public school board to City Hall and she's based out of a room and there's a classroom We got 25 or so classes a year that come through and spend a full week at City Hall And they go to the journal and they learn about the media angle They go to go to the mustard seed and they encounter homelessness and they they make sandwiches and interact For an interact with homeless people so that you know they go to police headquarters and they they go to a bus garage and And they discover the complexity of what a city does and I think this is phenomenal because whenever they added local government to the grade 6 curriculum The chances for civic democracy went way way up because I didn't do it in school I I did this by accident only because I played too much some city as a kid. That was my discovery I was interested in cities, right? I came to it by accident but there's all these kids today and I remember visiting a grade 6 class and talking to them about local government when I was first running for council seven years ago and I actually get choked up talking about this but there are kids from that class who I ran into in the last election who were 18 and who were voting for the first time and Part of the reason why is because they were captivated not by my visit necessarily but with what was going on at the city Back in grade 6 so engage that curiosity early and nurture that citizenship instinct The reason why grade 6 is so important is they haven't hit junior high yet. They're not cynical yet So I haven't turned it to grumpy citizens. They're they're genuinely curious citizens and so feed back and and They're there opportunities to bring kids through at other grades for half-day trips and do a model a mock council and those kinds of things So if so reach out to City Hall school because it's a phenomenal example And we're trying to figure out how to scale it actually because I want every kid to have some of that experience in our city Because I think it will strengthen our civic democracy over a generation to would be Storytelling so well, we don't need to memorize the dates of what happened in history It's really important that we tell ourselves the stories about the triumphs and the mistakes that we've had Historically so that we can learn from them And so one of the competencies that I think is kind of between the lines here is one becoming good storytellers and two Being able to interpret stories and we're we're that's how we learned, you know from an evolutionary biological point of view That's how we pass down knowledge. So we need to keep doing that We need to figure out what that looks like in the 21st century And sometimes it's making videos on your phones and beaming them to your friends around the world But so the mediums have changed but the art of storytelling is still absolutely integral to our learning and To our context for making complex decisions. So we can't lose track of storytelling I think lifelong learning plays into that and and so the story I'm reading right now is I'm reading that Abraham Lincoln Biography that the movies based on and I'm going to forget all of the who and when details But the salient stuff about what he did For leadership, that's the stuff I'm learning from that's the story I'm Listening to right now and and it's one that I'm going to be able to take and use in my day-to-day work too So I'm trying to model lifelong learning and I think teachers have an opportunity to do that as well by talking About what it is that they're learning What it is you're reading by getting a library card and going to the library and taking out free books from our public collection and Or or DVDs or CDs or video games or whatever and staying current and talking to your talking to your students about what you're doing to Remain an active learner and some of it's going to apply to your work in the classroom directly And some of it's just going to make you more interesting or better at trivial pursuit, but it's still worth doing The two other things I want to talk about though briefly our diversity and inclusion and and nurturing debate and and on diversity and inclusion I think We've still got some work to do with English language learners from immigrant communities who deal with Particularly from certain populations they deal with racism still in our society and it's sad, but it's it's it's a fact and I'm not sure we're Providing all the wraparound supports of kids and their families need to be as successful as they could be And that's not necessarily a classroom thing alone. That's a larger policy issue But with the influx of people we need here To deal with the growth that we have and with people coming from all around the world And Dennis is absolutely right about that intercultural learning that ought to be strengthening us But not if we're not equipping kids to be full participants, and I'm not sure we're doing that yet


Amen. Exodus chapter 28. So for the next few weeks on Sunday evenings we're going to be looking at the garments of the high priest or the garments of the priest here. Now the Bible is giving this whole chapter is just showing us, first of all, like the great detail that God goes into with his directions to the priest. So you say, why is this important to us? Well, first of all, we are kings and priests. The Bible says Revelation chapter 1. So these things all apply to us and there's nothing in the Bible that's there by accident. Okay, so when there's things that are detailed out in the Bible, we should pay attention. There's always things that we can learn from this. Now we look at the detail. I mean this is just one of those examples in the Bible that just shows you like how great detail God puts towards things. Look at all the garments, all the things that these priests, this priest is supposed to wear and how these things are supposed to look, what they're to be made of, and everything has a meaning for us to learn from. So this morning we're going to kind of lead into the Sunday evening service with the service this morning, but we're going to talk in both services about the robe of the priest this morning and this evening. So the priest's robe is detailed out in verse number 31 through verse number 35. Let's just go ahead and read those verses. We see this great detail here.  A couple times in this chapter we see, look at verse 43, it says that they bear not iniquity and die. So this is a life and death situation for this priest that he has things that he's wearing these things that have been built and manufactured and made in this specific way that God designed it to be. Look at verse 31 of Exodus chapter 28. We're looking at the robe of the priest. And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod of all blue. And there shall be a hole in the top of it in the midst thereof. And it shall have a binding of woven work around about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an haberjarm that it be not rent. And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue and a purple and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof, and bells of gold between them round about.   Again, you know, important, you know, it's a life or death situation that it is done in this way. So this morning we're going to look at just one verse, and then tonight we'll look at the following verses. We're going to look at verse number 32. We're going to look at the purpose of the robe this morning. And tonight we'll look at the characteristics of the robe that are detailed out in the following verses. But in verse 32, the Bible says, And there shall be a hole in the top of it in the midst thereof. And it shall have a binding woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an haberjarm that it be not rent. So there's a lot listed here in verse number 32. This is what we're going to look at this morning. So first of all, the Bible here is saying that this robe is going to have a hole in it, obviously, so you can put it around yourself. But it's very detailed about what the hole of this fabric, the details of it, it shows you have a binding of woven work around about the hole of it. Why? So it's saying you're supposed to bind and wind woven. You're supposed to sew a hem around the hole, as it were, the hole of an haberjarm. A haberjarm is a coat of chainmail. So if you've ever seen like, you know, knights or a suit of armor underneath, a suit of armor many times, the knight, they would have cloth, they'd have a cloth shirt, then they would put the chainmail over the top of them, and then they would put the steel heavy armor of iron over the top of the chainmail. So chainmail, what it's explaining here is it's saying you're to weave around the hole of this robe, so it's like a shirt of chainmail. What does that mean? It says that it be not rent, so it won't tear. So it's saying you're to weave around.   They don't just take a scissors and just cut the pants, right? They tuck it under and they sew it and they hem the pants because if you would just cut the pants they would fray and they would tear. Okay, so the Bible here is pointing out, God is pointing out very specifically that the hole in this robe is to be woven or hemmed. So it will be strong like chainmail is what God is saying. So it'll be strong like chainmail and it will not tear.  Turn to John chapter 19. It's super important that this robe does not rip. You say why? Let's look at that this morning. Let's look at what the Bible says about, you know, the tearing of fabric. Let's look at John chapter 19. Let's look at Christ's robe or Christ's coat in John chapter 19. There's something that's very specific that's pointed out about Christ's coat when he was being crucified on the cross and his clothing was being, you know, was being sold and, you know, people were taking it. Look at verse number 23 of John chapter 19. The Bible says then the soldiers when they had crucified Jesus took his garments and made four parts to every soldier a part and also his coat. Now the coat was without seam woven from the top throughout. So the coat wasn't, it wasn't made of several different pieces of fabric. It was just one piece that was made the whole way through. Look at verse 24. They said therefore among themselves, let us not rend it. Let us not tear it up. They said let's not cut it up but cast lots for it. Who's it shall be? That the Scripture might be fulfilled which say that they parted my raiment among them and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did. So again it was not ripped. Christ's coat or his robe was not torn. Turn to Isaiah chapter 22. Let's look at kind of like what the robe pictures, what the robe pictures. Look at Isaiah chapter 22. So we see in Exodus chapter 28 that this robe is supposed to have a hole in it so you can get over your head and it's to have a hole in it and it is to be woven so it's not torn. Look at Isaiah chapter 22. In Isaiah chapter 22 God is rebuking Shabbat. He's rebuking one of these servants of King Hezekiah and when he's rebuking this servant he uses an interesting analogy in verse 21 where he says that he's going to, he's going to give his responsibilities. He's going to give this servant of Hezekiah that's become lifted up, that's become prideful, that's become arrogant. He's going to give his responsibilities to somebody else. He's going to give his title to somebody else. Look at verse 21 of Isaiah chapter 22.  So when he's talking about taking the responsibility away from this man Shabna and giving it to Elkaya, he's saying I'm going to give him your robe. He's going to get your robe which means he's going to get your title. He's going to get your responsibilities. Go to Hebrews chapter 4. So we see that this robe is to be an identity, a title and it's not to be ripped. Now the high priest is to wear this but guess what? Look at Hebrews chapter 4 in verse number 14. The Bible says that Jesus has become our high priest now. Okay? Jesus has now become our high priest. Look at verse number 14 of Hebrews chapter 4. The Bible says, seeing then that we have a great high priest that has passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God let us hold fast our profession. So we see that the robe is important. We see that Jesus's robe was not torn. We see that the robe that the high priest wore was to be hemmed in a certain way to not allow it to be torn. And then we see that how a robe is to become your identity, a robe kind of signifies your title. So let's look at this idea now of torn clothing. Okay? This idea of torn clothing. Why was it such a big deal that this robe did not tear? That Jesus's robe was not torn. Turn to 2 Kings chapter 22. Because look, the priest's robe was not to be torn. Jesus's robe was not torn. And we see that the robe itself, you know, has important meaning for a person's identity for their title. Okay? But look, the Bible teaches again and again and again that tearing of clothing, tearing of clothing signifies, it signifies destruction. It signifies tearing down. It signifies being brought low. It signifies, you know, bad things being done. Bad things happening. Look at 2 Kings chapter 22. Here Josiah is just an example of a king who's found the book of the law. They've read the book of the law. And he hears the words of God and he realizes that these words of God are so different from what they have been doing in their kingdom that he's immediately just brought down to the ground. Look at verse number 10 of 2 Kings chapter 22. And Shafan, Shafan the scribe showed the king saying, Hillchiah the priest had delivered me a book. And Shafan read it before the king. So they were fixing the temple, they found the Bible, they read the king the Bible and look at verse 11. And it came to pass when the king had heard the words of the book of the law that he rent his clothes. The king himself just took his clothes and he just tore his clothing. He's like, we're destroyed. We haven't been doing any of this stuff is what the king says. Look at 2 Samuel chapter 13. Let's look at an example where King David rents his clothes. Where David rents his clothes. So the king sees that we're in trouble, we're in a bad place, we are destroyed. God is going to destroy us and he just tears his clothes. Look at verse number 30 of 2 Samuel chapter 13. There's a lot of examples of people in the Bible renting their clothes. We'll just look at a few. So this is of course when David's son is killed by Absalom for you know the assault of his sister. But look at verse 30 of 2 Samuel chapter 13. And it came to pass when they were in the way the tidings came to David saying Absalom has slain all the king's sons and there was not one of them left. The king arose and tear his garments and lay on the earth and all his servants stood by their with their clothes rent. So David thinks that all the sons were killed not just you know, Abnon. So he doesn't realize you know he gets fake news here.  Instead it was just one of his sons that died but as soon as he hears that he's like I'm destroyed. He's like I'm destroyed. He tears his clothes and then all his servants also they tear their clothes. They're like this is bad. This is a horrible thing. Here's an interesting version of someone's clothing being rent. Look at verse Samuel chapter 24. Look at first Samuel chapter 24. So what do we see about the robe? The robe signifies you know your title.  Look at first Samuel chapter 24 and look at verse number 2. Now this story makes a little bit more sense to us. Look any little detail in the Bible you have to remember that any little detail in the Bible is there for a reason and it means something. God didn't just put things in the Bible just for fun just so we can see some cool stories. They're in there for us to learn very specific doctrines. Look at first Samuel chapter 24 and verse number 2. So Saul he's hunting David now. Saul's trying to, David's already been anointed king.  Look at verse number 2. And then Saul took 3,000 chosen men out of all Israel and went to sink David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats. And he came to the sheep coats by the way where it was a cave and Saul went in to cover his feet. Okay he went into, that's Bible speak for he went in to use the restroom. Okay so he goes to the cave to go and use the bathroom and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave so here Saul comes into this cave and David and his men they're like hiding on the walls of the cave and Saul goes in to use the restroom and the men of David said unto him behold the day which the Lord said unto thee behold I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto me. Then David arose there so they're like they're like we've got him. Here the king came in all by himself he doesn't have to have any, he doesn't have any protection, any soldiers with him. Talk about if there's ever a vulnerable moment that you know you could be in it's that one. And then David arose and what did he do? He didn't kill Saul but David arose and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily. So privately it says he snuck up to Saul when he was you know using the restroom and he cut off you know the bottom part of his skirt and it came to pass afterward that David's heart smote him because he had cut off Saul's skirt so here he cut off the lower part of his robe and David felt really bad about that why? Because he knew what that signified because he knew that that signified you know Saul being brought low Saul being you know he basically rent Saul's robe is what he did and he said unto his men the Lord forbid that I should do this thing unto my master the Lord's anointed to stretch forth my hand against him seeing his the anointed of the Lord. So I mean David I mean it kind of shows you David's heart right here it shows you how humble David was but it shows you the symbolism of what David did because David here was God's anointed which was David at this point David was already anointed in 1 Samuel chapter 16 and Saul he lost the kingdom back in 1 Samuel chapter 13 and 1 Samuel chapter 15 Samuel told him the same thing. But the point is is that Saul had already lost the kingdom and David was already anointed as the new king by God and here we see a picture of this with David literally renting the robe you know or the you know he's basically renting the throne from Saul is what this pictures turn to Leviticus chapter 19 all that to say this renting is bad tearing is bad especially the robe turn to Leviticus chapter 19 turn to Leviticus chapter 19. So look you shouldn't walk around with ripped clothes here's the sermon right there no but you shouldn't I mean you shouldn't walk around with ripped clothes I remember actually this was a bigger deal than it is today because I remember that you know just my grandfather you know 30 40 years ago you know as a kid if you would have like ripped holes in your jeans or something or it was like an embarrassment it was an embarrassment like what can't you can't you know what why do you have a hole in your pants I mean it would be an embarrassment to my parents or grandparents if you would have kids walk around with holes in their pants like it was just like a dishonorable thing of course that's a whole another story of what's going on today mostly it's just to show everyone your nakedness is what's going on today but look Leviticus chapter 19 look at verse number 19 Leviticus chapter 19 and verse number 19 look at look at what the law says you ever wondered why this this seems like this is really obscure and people you know you hear people talk about this all the time like why is this in the Bible and I mean this is my opinion why this is in the Bible what we're talking about today but in Leviticus chapter 19 and also in Deuteronomy chapter 22 there's a weird you know kind of seemingly obscure rule about what you should wear look at verse number 19 look God cares what you wear God cares how you look okay look at verse 19 he shall keep my statutes now she'll not let that cattle gender with a diverse kind now she'll not sold I field with mingled seed then look at this last part says neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon me it's saying it's saying you shouldn't wear a shirt or a garment or pants that's made of linen and wool you say why well I mean I think that there's some spiritual separation aspects there but I mean just from the practical sense of it you linen is made from a plant is made from flax and then wall is made from obviously you know the wall of the sheep but here's the thing wool shrinks and flax doesn't and linen doesn't so if you make a shirt that's half wool and you're you know you're a bar not a barber but you're you're a tailor and you make a shirt that's made of wool and then you make a shirt that's made of linen for the bottom half it's going to tear at those seams it's going to tear you're going to have ripped clothing is what the Bible is saying here so look you're not to wear ripped clothing because ripped clothing I mean wool shrinks and linen doesn't it will result in this tearing so we see that tearing torn clothes it's a picture of shame destruction lowliness okay we should think about that I mean you shouldn't walk around with ripped up clothes turn to Leviticus chapter 13 here's another example of ripped clothes is not something that we should be we should be wearing I mean it's not something that is a good thing okay it's something that's always pictured lowliness and destruction in the Bible which is why there was so much detail put on the priest's robe that it would not tear okay look at verse number 45 Leviticus chapter 13 the Bible says and the leper in whom the plague is this is like this is what happens if you have somebody that's a leper somebody that has a contagious disease this is what you're supposed to do this was the law okay and the leper in whom the plague is his clothes shall be what you're to tear his clothes tear his clothes set him apart look he is his head is to be bare and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip and shall cry unclean unclean all the days wherein the plague shall be in him shall he be defiled his unclean he shall dwell alone I mean this is just like practical quarantining advice right here for somebody that has a contagious disease it's saying tear his clothes leave his head so look people look in old time Israel if these people walking on the streets out here with all their jeans ripped up people would be like ahhh they're a bunch of lepers and they would run away because it's to set them apart and signify that they are to be by themselves we need to be able to see that they're a leper so the Bible is saying do this and do this so everyone can know that they're a leper and stay away from them and they're just trying to stop disease spreading in the nation turn to Matthew chapter 27 turn to Matthew chapter 27 let's look at something else that was ripped that was torn in the Bible so we see that it's practical we see that God doesn't want clothing ripped it has spiritual meaning to it it signifies that you're destroyed of Matthew chapter 27 look at verse 51 of Matthew chapter 27 the Bible says and behold this is right after Jesus died ok and what happened so we remember that there is a veil we'll talk about that specifically tonight but there's a veil in the temple that goes into the holy place of the temple and where only the high priest could go only the high priest could go there look at verse 51 it says behold right after Jesus died on the cross the veil of the temple was what it was ripped it was torn in twain, torn in two from the top to the bottom and the earth did quake and the rocks broke as well but the veil was torn the veil was destroyed the veil was taken away we'll talk about that in detail tonight but look torn to have a piece of fabric torn means the person wearing it is destroyed it signifies destruction now turn to Isaiah chapter 61 let's look at the robe itself let's look at the robe of the priest itself this is really what the robe pictures this is really what the robe pictures look at Isaiah chapter 61 and look at verse number 10 or look at the front of your bulletin it's the verse of the week it says in Isaiah 61 and verse number 10 it says I will greatly rejoice in the Lord my soul shall be joyful in my God for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation he hath covered me so he's saying you are clothed in salvation he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels now we see the importance of why this particular robe is not to be torn what it pictures what the priest robe pictures is it pictures your righteousness you are saved not because you are good not because you are doing good works or whatever of your own you are clothed with Christ's righteousness and that is what this robe pictures it pictures us with the robe of righteousness so when God sees you when you die and you go to heaven and you stand before God God will not see your righteousness he will see the robe of righteousness that you have been covered with that is what this pictures and look that can't be torn that won't be torn it will not be ripped turn to Jeremiah chapter 23 it pictures us covered in Jesus's righteousness we will have no tears and no end it's a picture of eternal security this idea that this robe is woven it will not be torn as a picture of our eternal security our righteousness in Christ look at verse 6 it doesn't I hope you get saved and I hope you get your life right and we'll talk about that it's never going to be your righteousness that gets you to heaven it's the Lord's righteousness look at Jeremiah 23 6 it says in his days Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely and in his name whereby he shall be called the Lord our righteousness that's what you could call Jesus you could call Jesus the Lord our righteousness is Jesus's righteousness Romans 4 5 says but him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifyeth the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness so look it's never going to be your righteousness that gets you to heaven it's going to be your faith on the Lord Jesus Christ that is your righteousness it's things that are counted for your righteousness it's not ours it's not ours it's not just like we don't go to the door and tell people isn't that what everybody believes everybody believes that it's their righteousness that's going to get them to heaven the people that are like super confident that they're going to heaven the people that are unsaved that are super confident that they're going to heaven they think they're pretty good that's why they think that they're pretty righteous there's none righteous there's none righteous this is not this this robe of the priest is picturing Jesus's righteousness being covered on to us it's not salvation is not a repair it's not a repair of your righteousness our righteousness is a complete replacement it's Jesus's righteousness on you go to Matthew chapter 9 go to Matthew chapter 9 it's a complete replacement because your righteousness is no good it doesn't exist there is none righteous look at verse number 16 of Matthew chapter 9 so the robe of the priest it pictures Christ's robe it wasn't torn it pictures it clearly pictures his righteousness put on us look at Matthew chapter 9 now this verse will be a little bit more interesting to you now that you know the importance of this garment this righteousness being put upon us and that it's not rent but look at verse number 16 of Matthew chapter 9 it says no man put a piece of new cloth onto an old garment for that which is put in to fill up, take it from the garment and the rent is made worse you know what this is saying it says no one would take no one would take so like I ripped up my jeans I ripped my old jeans and no one would take a piece of this is actually true by the way because like if you've ever had somebody who used to patch pants or patch clothing you would never take my mom would always like keep old jeans around she would always keep old jeans around because if she needed to make a patch yeah she patched our pants if you need to make a patch you don't want to patch like a patch with a new patch because then it'll shrink again it'll make a tear it'll tear so the bible here is saying is that nobody takes a piece of new cloth and patches an old garment with a piece of new cloth because it's just going to tear okay that's why the bible says turn to Ephesians chapter 4 turn to Ephesians chapter 4 that's why the bible but Jesus is explaining a bigger truth here he's explaining that you are not to just take an old garment and just put new patches on it in your life that's why in Ephesians chapter 4 look at verse 24 the bible says when you get saved like when you get saved this is what you're supposed to do when you get saved and you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you're saved in that moment look at verse 24 it says and that you put on the new man which after God has created in righteousness and true holiness look he's not saying patch the old man he's saying put on a brand new man this is the problem with many Christians today right here as people like sometimes I see that it's hard for people to embrace this Christian life to embrace this because they never really figure out what this means right here in Matthew chapter 9 in Ephesians chapter 4 this is the guy that's going to you know he gets saved and he's going to like dip his toes into the Christian life he's going to kind of feel it out a little bit and see how things go the thing is he's taking new patches and he's putting them on an old garment and you know what he's going to do he's just going to you know what he's like I'm going to modify the old man you say that sounds pretty good to modify the old man maybe get some things out of my life here and there and I'm going to modify the old man but here's the thing it's not going to work why because you're just going to like you're going to get a bunch of tears in all the patches all the brand new patches are going to put on the old man they're going to tear that's what Jesus is telling you in Matthew chapter 9 that's why look that's why the Christian life is best when you're just all in it's really the only way it works is what Matthew chapter 9 is saying if you ever heard Pastor Jimenez say Pastor Jimenez has said this in sermons many times when we were going to church at Verity but he says I feel like I've pastored several different churches at this point I mean he was maybe when he said that he was maybe seven, eight years into his ministry and he says I feel like I've pastored several different churches and the reason for that is because the average Christian life they say is about two to three years long you say why is that why after two to three years do people just fall out of the Christian life here's why because people are just somebody they quit drinking they quit drinking hey great good job but then they just keep going to the same places they keep having the same life they have the same friends they're just putting patches on and those patches are going to tear those patches are going to tear it's somebody that you know they go to the same places it's somebody that maybe they get saved and they're like you know what I'm going to take my life that's right now I'm going to take the old man church, church is a patch it's not going to work I mean great I mean it's going to tear though it's going to tear that's what Jesus is saying in Matthew chapter 9 and just because you're putting it on the same garment it's just going to keep tearing and then you know it tears and they put another patch on and pretty soon they got patches on top of patches and look here's the thing it just turned to Romans chapter 6 it just gets irritating it's just constantly repairing patches everywhere constantly repairing patches look at Romans chapter 6 and look at verse number 4 because they're patching the same old garment look at verse number 4 of Romans chapter 6 this is why in Romans chapter 6 when Jesus is talking about like the first thing you do after you get saved you should get baptized but look at what it says about baptism right here it says therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death that like as Christ Jesus was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Lord even so we also should walk in like a modified life we should walk in an improved life we should walk in a patched life no you should walk in newness of life is what the Bible says but here's the thing the reason these people quit after 2 or 3 years and the reason that you know that church and this church will probably look different in 2 or 3 years is because people are just using patches and after so many patches they just get tired and they just throw the whole thing away like somebody is just constantly just taping this old you know you've got a pair of cowboy boots with all these holes and you're just taping it and patching it and taping it why don't you just get a new pair of boots that's what Jesus is saying the problem is and we talked about this a couple weeks ago the problem is is that when those people they get tired of patching and they just see they never tried the new garment that's the problem and it's sad to see as a pastor you have the perspective you can really see that they never tried the new garment and then they throw the whole thing away and then they go back again and again and again it's the same story I mean it gets boring but this is what the Bible I mean this was Saul's whole life this was King Saul's whole life he would get better he would apologize and then he would just get worse he would just get worse but it's dangerous because you garnish and sweep the house to a degree and then you just get 7 times worse the Bible says in Matthew chapter 12 when they never tried the new one that's what just kills me when they never tried the new one look you got to think about that's why the Bible says born again when you get saved you're born again and you're to walk in newness of life not become a teenager you're not a teenager again it says you're born again it's trying to just portray this newness that you are supposed to be in look it's all about the desire to have a consistent life is what it is I mean to me I always wanted to be consistent I mean we see inconsistency in beliefs all the time if you go soul winning you will see inconsistency in people's beliefs some people just don't have the desire to have consistent beliefs but the people that have a desire to have consistent beliefs beliefs that make sense here's an inconsistent belief how do you know you're going to heaven because faith in Jesus but I also have to be good and get baptized and go to church three times a week and all these different things and whatever it's like no it's either faith in Jesus or works it's either faith or works which one is it they're like both but faith that's an inconsistent belief if you go soul winning you will find those people every time you go people that just don't seem to have they don't sit down with themselves and their thoughts and their beliefs and decide you know what I'm going to have consistent beliefs I want to be able to read the Bible and I want to be able to have the Bible make sense to me and I want to be able to have beliefs that are consistent in my heart and in my mind those people if somebody is honestly looking for consistent beliefs in their life those people will get saved for sure because the Bible I mean the Gospel is just completely consistent it's just it's not by those things it's by trusting in Jesus that's it and then it's not it's not about I have to trust in Jesus and then I get saved and then I got to do those things to stay saved no it's completely consistent once you're saved you're always saved that's the only consistent but so people that want to have consistent beliefs they will get saved but then you want to have so many people out there they get saved but they just don't have to have they just they don't seem to have to need consistent actions in their life so they end up with all these patches where they just have like you think about what am I talking about think about any any struggles you have in your Christian life think about any areas in your Christian life where you could be a hypocrite basically when Jesus was talking about hypocrisy and if you have hypocrisy in your life that's where there's a patch that's tearing that's the problem to have a consistent Christian life you have to get a new garment you have to be a new man and look there's going to be struggles along the way but the point is is it's brand new you're not patching something that's old okay and look I mean you will have struggles in the Christian life but the struggles in your Christian life should come from should come from people not liking that new garment that's where they're going to come from it should be you put on a new garment and you're like hey this is my life now this is my Christian life now this is what I'm doing and it's like people won't like it but those are the normal struggles of the Christian life of the person that's put on the new garment you shouldn't be if you're struggling with hypocrisy in your own life it's because you're patching old clothes is what the Bible is telling us here okay I mean in Acts chapter 5 we just studied Acts chapter 5 we just made it all the way through the end go to Acts chapter 5 go to Acts chapter 5 the Christians in Acts chapter 5 they had some struggles but the struggles that the Christians in Acts chapter 5 had it wasn't because they were patching old garments they had some struggles because they were new men they were new men but they were new men and so how did they handle that look at verse 51 41 I'm sorry verse 41 of Acts chapter 5 the Bible says they departed so here they had been put in prison they had been beaten they had been put in prison a couple of times at this point and it says they departed from the presence of the council rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name for the struggle you should have in your Christian life right there now because you're trying to duct tape some old torn up piece of garbage that you were wearing before you even got saved throw the patch kit away just get a new garment that's what the Bible is telling us here okay so look first of all the robe of the priest it's a salvation picture it's a salvation picture that this robe is to cover the priest and is to not be torn it's a picture of salvation it's a picture of all your eternal security that this robe is like a robe of Christ's righteousness put over us it's not ours it's something that we have been given and then it's a reminder to us as well that we are to have a new garment we are not to just try to keep the old garment that we had and just patch it and patch it and patch it let me just predict the future for you it's not going to work it's not going to work you're supposed to walk in newness of life and look and in that point once you just decide I'm going to be a new man I'm not going to say you're not going to be struggling but here's the thing notice in Matthew chapter 9 notice how it didn't say that they had a notice how it didn't give the scenario of having a new garment to patch on it you say well if I get a new garment am I going to have to patch it have you ever had to do that have you ever bought a new shirt and had to patch it the next day maybe Jacob has but have you ever bought something new and then had to patch it with an old patch no because it's new you won't have to patch it that's the whole point of putting on the new garment so that's why you see the things that you see that's why churches look different after 5 years after 8 years after 12 years because people are just duct taping themselves and you can do that until you get annoyed and it gets irritating but you're supposed to put on a new garment and they don't have to patch it all the time yeah you might have trouble because people aren't going to like that new garment they're like I don't like that they're like hey praise God you don't like it just like Acts chapter 5 and verse 41 so tonight we'll look at the characteristics about this robe so we see what the robe pictures that it pictures Christ's righteousness put on us tonight we'll look at the pomegranates we'll look at the bells we'll look at the color of the robe and see what that shows us as well super interesting stuff folks nothing in the Bible is on accident and it is beautiful how the Old Testament just fits perfectly with the New Testament that's how we know that like these fishermen if these fishermen wrote the Bible they must have been geniuses to figure out all these connections and to figure out all this but look God wrote the Bible and God put every detail in the Old Testament to show us things that apply to us today and the robe is a perfect example of that we'll look at it in more detail this evening let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer


Listen, we are aware, just so you know, that people parent their children differently. We are speaking from our personal experience, and we're not experts, and we're just letting you guys know what worked for us. I would say the best advice I receive from my parents, we have four siblings, we are all distinctively different. So don't compare each child. Each child is different, and each child has their own needs, and actually discipline them, and treat them accordingly. You know, what works kind of like what Adam said, what works for Aiden may not work for Aria, and I feel like as parents, it is our responsibility to be attentive enough to see those differences. Another advice that I got. Can I play off that too? Because off of that, you hit a point there that I remember the other thing my parents said when I was a kid, mom and dad would say, see so-and-so, or see so-and-so. Their parents are their best friends. That was wrong. Don't cross that line. You want to be their friend. You want to be their friend. But not their best friend, because the fact is, that crosses a line. That can happen later. Yes, it can happen later, but there's still a difference there, it still has to be a line. Right, it's my best friend. But there's still a line. Like she still knows that you're her mother. But I think, when you have to understand, we're different. We're a different age group. We're different. We're different. We're the same, but we're different. And I think it's really important that that line remains there. Be their friend. You want them to come and tell you anything. But don't be their best friend, because then they become too comfortable and you want to make sure that they still respect that and still respect your opinion when you have something important to tell them. My mom would always say, hey listen, look, I am your friend. I could be your friend, but also know that I'm your parent as well. Don't cross that line.      Don't forget that. And that's basically what she was saying. Like just don't, don't forget that we can, we can have fun, but don't lose that level of respect. And I think nowadays, I mean, we're more of the old school way of raising kids. I think nowadays that is sometimes what you see some homes are, might be missing again. Don't want to judge, but I'm just saying you want to make sure that there is that parenting and they know the line. Yes, they, they know the line. Another great piece of advice that I got. It actually did not come from my parents. Um, I came from, uh, I forgot who it came from. Oh my God. But I remembered it. It was remember. Oh my God. What? No, it came from Tia. Came from my sister Tia. What? Am I talking too much? Oh my gosh. I am. Focus. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I was so short of time. If you notice I haven't talked over you. Have I? Anyway. Okay. Just really quickly. This is really important. Remember, you only truly have God willing 18 summers, 18 summers with your children. They usually go off to college. They usually get jobs. Uh, you usually want them out of the house or they usually want out of the house and it goes by so fast. We've already had seven summers with Aiden. We've already had now it's going to be five summers with the ride. literally I know there are moments where it is hard it is exhausting I call parenting blissfully blissfully exhausting it's a blissfully exhausting job but remember we don't have this we do we're gonna be parents forever but we don't have those really sacred beautiful moments where they're staying at home for a long period of time and I feel like that helps me we actually agree on a lot of the parenting things that's what I recommend too is that we don't we're not gonna be the same parenting style that's pretty much impossible for anybody to be exactly the same I think we're on the same page way more than we're not but we've come to understand there's times when she's like hey listen I got to handle this this way or also listen because there's times you don't know what's going on earlier in the day or whatever so I think we respect each other and then we're also willing to call each other I go listen he's been tired or she's been and I think that being able to work together and understand it's us versus the problem or it's us dealing with the kids together it's really helped I'm a little more laid-back I was about to say I think I'm a little and people are usually shocked when they hear this definitely more laid-back I think I'm more of the I don't want to say more of the disciplinarian I am just more I'll give you an example I'm just more like strict you know you there's always one in the household Adam will give the kids maybe three chances I give them one I'm just like you have one if I say no I mean no but there's one other difference though she's all that I tend to once I make a decision your phone is gone for today I think he's not my phone the phony uses to play his game well when I make that decision it's gone for two days it sticks once in a while even though she's very strict she's definitely more desperate I am I'll come upstairs I'm like hey you said like five hours ago it's because Aiden has those gorgeous blue eyes and I'm has these big gorgeous like brown eyes and these these big cheeks and she's so cute when she cries I know that's weird to say but she's even beautiful when she cries I'm just like and I will tell you this though it's really really important we never say wait till your mom gets home or wait till your dad gets home we never want one person to be seen as the bad parents we work together we think that's really really important even if one of the parents out of the house more than the other because that's what my solidify that yeah household that's one of the things that my parents going back to somebody advice I was given that was given up on my mom and dad both separately early on when we first had Aiden whatever you do don't make the other one don't make Tamara to be the bad guy because you don't want to deal with it and I was like huh and a couple times I actually caught myself going wait till your mommy gets home we're gonna deal with you together that works actually like you should still a threat when mommy gets home when dad gets home we're gonna we deal with you together what kind of parenting styles you guys have I know for a fact I'm not a helicopter mom I was all I I'm when they were younger I was they would the labels the labels don't make any sense to me cuz it's like all right what's a helicopter usually do that I think I know dad dad's don't really I mean maybe they do you know why I actually love that you just said that Adam because the problem with labels is then it gives an open to judge oh you're a helicopter mom oh you're a tiger mom you know I think it's how about you're a great mom how'd you deal with the terrible twos well in our house the terrible twos weren't that bad it was the three majors oh my gosh nobody tell you about that twos weren't that bad we learned that Aiden is more communicative than Araya so for him it was very communicative is it tomato tomato I don't know I thought it was communicative guess what if I've been saying it the wrong way I'm the dad I'm making the word up it's communicative I don't know I'm maybe so the point here she comes let us finish that us finish okay daddy you want to sit have her in your lap okay I'm a little more laid-back I was about to say my princess Aiden was more he we had to realize he was very he had a very big vocabulary at a young age so he but he would try to communicate things and he couldn't get so frustrated we were good we get frustrated and so three the three those those 11 12 months of threes into the first part of the fours were rough can we ask you how was how our mommy and daddy his parents do you like mommy and daddy's parents oh you don't want to you don't want to do this anymore wait but you got to ask the answer the question do you like mommy daddy's parents do you like mommy and daddy's parents yeah yeah I beat it no so I would say because the question I think was how do you deal with terrible twos I would say just have patience have patience with yourself have patience with your toddler like Adam was saying you're gonna have frustrating moments because everyone's learning and I find the frustration comes from them wanting to them wanting to express themselves but not being fully able to and then no it gets better soon they will really know how to express themselves and you'll be like oh well I think understanding is a lot of it I think that depending on your child it could be twos it could be threes like a riot was tougher at twos I think cuz you're the more crying and threes were easier for us Aiden was easier at twos I'm like oh my gosh Tuesday's not bad threes were miserable so I think that I think it's depends on your child and when that communication those breakdowns and under also understanding rules starts to begin also with Aiden in his defense when he was three a riot was just born so Tamara was going through postpartum she had a child she was working at the real traveling so I think that yeah Aiden had the new child in my house a new energy he'd been he'd been the guy for a long time so in his defense threes may have been harder because of all that was kind of piled on his where when a riot came through the three we already we've been doing this for a couple years now we got into our routine there's one thing that I will say I'm a little nervous about is when the kids become teenagers because so I have heard oh you think that it's challenging now raising kids but in in you know in these ages wait till they become teenagers you hear that a lot and I remember asking my friends why well they say it's because you're battling the mind yeah at one point meaning and social media and social media now which was completely different when we were growing up wasn't there but I know just speaking from my personal experience when I was a teenager I thought I knew everything and now that I am like my blue I realized I didn't know nothing so I feel like one or something but I didn't know as much as I thought I did but I now I understand why the parents are like it's just so frustrating because you're trying to teach your teenager listen look no no no that ain't it bud and they're like yeah it is I can drive I can do this and then dealing with the hormones my brother my brother I remember telling he had his Elena was older and Alex was younger so was the other way around from us remember calling him one day and he was frustrated my brother's not usually frustrated on the phone he's funny as can be and so I remember like what's wrong is like Elena turn 13 and I have no longer have any answers and I think that's some of the things I worry about but the good news is for us I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna put this out there that Aiden being two years ahead of her in school and we've already been pushing them as being friends and protecting each other we're on the same team he's gonna be my weapon in disguise well a riot is not gonna like that because women are very smart and she's gonna realize that she's gonna realize that there is a spy in the house and they're gonna be going to be going to be in the same team so I think ultimately he's gonna not be on the same team all the time no all time he'll protect her I know how I watch I know he'll protect her but what's gonna happen is that she's not gonna want his protection that's what's gonna happen he's gonna want all of her friends over though you know that yes so maybe that's the deal that they can make but I will say this I feel like I don't know I have two brothers that we're so close we're very close there was a moment in time you know I'm very lovey lovey huggy huggy and there was a moment in time where they're like don't talk to me don't kiss me and if you wave at me wave at me from like football field distance apart so I feel like you have a sense yeah I am prepared a little bit I'm joking but so I do think I'm a little bit more prepared I do know how the mind works you know there's a lot of slamming the doors leave me alone you know and I feel like that is the age of where they start learning about their insecurities you know because I like a girl like guy they don't like them back and I like to think of myself as a natural encourager so maybe I'll be good I don't know well give us your in it together give us your advice yes we're gonna need we have absolutely no idea I mean listen we have an idea what to expect but also we don't know what's up I mean there's so many things that happen along the way so how you handle your teenagers what can we expect any suggestions feel free to leave in the comments below because we do read them we may not comment all we read and I think you know for us it's just continue to adapt continue to put those things we just talked about into use which is communicate communicate communicate can I tell them you gave me the greatest advice when you really have to start parenting teaching them skills teaching them not to punch or kick or bite you know their their friends or their schoolmates that's when the ish starts to get real that's when you take on the responsibility as a parent to make sure that your child is a positive addition to society not the other way around and we take that seriously and there are times when my my kids you know they it just appeared that they weren't listening and I would question myself I would sense that I've I've I failed and Adam you would say don't take this personal yeah don't take it personal I forgot I told me that that's a great yeah don't ever take it personal but it's not because I mean in the end your kids are gonna love you and they're gonna respect you more if you obviously love them back but also of course they're gonna cry when they don't get what they want that's the other thing structure my brother told me that and you know we again with Aiden at the threes the crazy threes I call them you know we weren't we were kind of disjointed structure wise we had a lot of things happen in a new child in the house we I was you know I was working yeah Tamara show you know there's so I you know structure structure structure kids need structure now granted you want them to be free thinking and all that stuff as well but ultimately there has to be some sort of structure faith to faith is huge whoa lots of praying yep I was I was prayer and praying it's okay they got it yes don't forget to subscribe to the house


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Hello and welcome to CMC Markets on Friday the 23rd of February and this quick look of the week beginning the 26th of February and it's been a little bit of a status quo for equity markets this week after the big rebound seen in the aftermath of those two big weekly declines that we saw at the beginning of February. I think the big question in the moment is where do we go from here because ultimately while US yields have gone a little bit higher the 10 year has been as high as 2.95% but in more interestingly is that we've actually come off quite considerably from the highs that we saw in the early part of the week and as a result equity markets have stabilized and appear to be holding below some key resistance levels on the daily chart in the aftermath of the rebound seen in the middle of the month. We can see it best illustrated here on the DAX still below the 50% retracement level of the overall down move from the January pinks to the February lows but what is interesting I think in this regard is despite the fact that we made record highs in January is the fact that we've actually looked on course to post a significantly negative closing month for February we still have a number of days to go so there's plenty of time for that particular scenario to not play out but ultimately the declines that we've seen have been much more prominent and prevalent in European markets than they have in US markets and I think the big question at the moment is where we go to next. Now the fact that we backed off to 3% for US yields has appeared to suggest that ultimately despite the fairly hawkish Fed minutes that we saw this week that expectations around what rates might do this year are still very much tiered towards 2 to 3 rate rises so far this year as opposed to the expectation of 4 because I think if there was an expectation of 4 rate rises we would see a much more concerted push towards that 3% level or maybe the trade is becoming a little bit crowded in terms of the 3% trade and maybe we are going to see a little bit of a pullback from highs we saw earlier this week we're certainly seeing that played out in bond markets at the moment and that's been reflected in the rebound in US markets that we have seen in the latter part of this particular week this this is the weekly chart that we're looking at now for US markets we can see we had a very strong week in the third week of February we've got a little bit of still a little bit of negative still a little bit of negativity for this week but what we haven't done is we haven't pushed below beyond rather that 2745 area on the S&P and I think that particular level is going to be particularly important in the overall scheme of things as we move into March next week we look at the monthly chart we can see that despite the losses that we've seen in February we still remain very much off the lows of the month and we have also seen a nice little rebound in the US dollar index from the levels that we saw at the end of last week but we're still within that trading range that we were talking about this time last week we did make a marginal you low on the dollar index if we look at it on a year-to-date basis this is potentially a bullish reversal but ultimately I'm not going to get overly overly bullish on the US dollar until such times as we've taken out this series of peaks through here now we can we can draw that on on this particular chart here by a horizontal line all the way through that level there it's around about 91 give or take give or take the odd people to but could be could be the makings of a potential double bottom on the dollar index but we won't know that until such times as we're able to take out that 91 level now that's also throws open an interesting development you're a dollar you're a dollar finding a little bit of a top around about 125 here we can see that on this daily chart here key day reversal there finding a decent area of support around about 122 and below that 121 60 so again a potential potential for a little bit of a a top-building formation at the moment but until such times we break out of this range that we're in the likelihood is it's probably going to be a continuation of sideways consolidation that we've been in over the course of the past few days so what are we looking at for the week ahead well again yeah it's going to be inflation represses that I'm going to be paying particular attention to so it's the latest flash CPI from European Union this week we saw January prices confirmed at 1.3% on the headline and 1% on the core but we've also got core PCE from the US now that's currently trending at around about 1.5% this time last year is 1.8 so there is still no evidence at the moment that we're seeing a pick up in inflation repressions despite the optimism from the Fed minutes that we saw earlier this week so it's very much a it's very much an inflation of inflation perception for this week's data but we've also got a whole host of February PMI data coming out from France Italy Spain and Germany and we did see a little bit of softening of those numbers in the preliminary numbers that we saw in the early part of this week so looking ahead to next week expecting to see that slight softening confirmed we've also got Chinese PMI's for manufacturing and services and they're expected to hold up fairly well but there is a word of warning with respect to these Chinese numbers they are likely to be affected by Chinese New Year celebrations so you could get a significant negative skew on these numbers don't read too much into them because of the fact that half of China is probably closed the Chinese New Year at the back end of February so but those are the key economic numbers that I'm keeping a particular eye out for in the coming week as well as the upcoming Italian election on March the 4th key numbers on the company front to keep an eye out for are capital groups four year 17 results after their profit warning at the end of January hopefully there's not going to be any new nasties coming out of that and the latest four year results from standard Chartered Bank otherwise that's it for this week thanks very much for listening it's Michael Houston talking to you from CMC Marcus


من الع coisa لانه لدonde has now they are they are becoming more severely becoming more aggravated drought in some areas some areas become so dry in other areas شرار's are happening that we have never seen them before when others flooding are becoming more frequent rainfall is becoming erratic it either come too early or too late and when it come it is too heavy in some areas especially in coastal areas we see the sea level rise causes movement of salinity Inlands و نحن نتنقل بشكل جيد جداً في مدينة تروبيكية و كما تحدث هذا العام في ساوز و في بانغالدش و مع ذلك تأتي بشكل جيد في التحديدات و التأكيد و المساعدة من ذلك is that people who are living in these less favorable areas are always impacted with low productivity because their system is not productive بسبب تجربة أو بسبب تجربة أو بسبب تجربة و عندما يستطيع الناس لا يمكن أن يجعل هذا أسرعاً أسرعاً لأسرعاً و كانوا أسرعاً بسبب تجربة لذلك ما نفعل في إيري عندما إيري بدأت في العام 1960 فرصة أسرعاً لكي تنظر أسرعاً في أسرعاً وهذا فرصة أسرعاً حين نحن مع فرصة أسرعاً magic which is a short variety that can produce more when ever you give it more nutrients and it'll not fall off it, not large but unfortunately these varieties have lost all the tolerances that can allow them to survive in less favorable areas especially in drought areas and salt affected areas and in flood affected areas so farmers in these areas did not benefit from this phase, great revolution in the 1980s, when it realized وذلك بدأنا بعمل على جيمبانك لتحاول أن تحصل على مجموعة رائعة التي يمكن أن تطلق هذه المجموعة ومن ثم تطلق هذه المجموعة إلى مجموعة أخرى مثل المجموعة العربية لكنها تأخذ من السنة الى السنة لن يستطيع أن تقرأ مجموعة ما هو المجموعة؟ مجموعة مجموعة ومجموعة مجموعة now we are able to do that لدينا عميشة ومجموعة that can help the crops to rise to survive these less favorable areas ونريد أن أعجب شخص واحد is the development of flood tolerant varieties مع المجموعة of a single gene called Sub 1 or Submergeous Tolerance 1 ما يحدث with that gene is to protect the plant under water if it is completely flooded for up to two weeks sometimes up to 18 days and this is exactly what happened in flood affected areas where flash floods come in وعندما يتجهد المشاركة لأكثر من 10-12 أو 14 يوم ومالذي يتجهد المشاركة وكل هذه المشاركة تحتوي على هذه المشاركة وكيف ترى أن هذا في المدينة هذا هو مجمع التبايلة من المشاركة إذا كنت ترى هذه المشاركة، يسمى كهران كهران المشاركة هي actually a famous variety from Indonesia يخيفون جيدة ومعالجة ولكن ممتعينة عندما نحن نرى المشاركة من المشاركة، يصبح ممتعينة نحن نستطيع أن نضعها في الكثير من المدينة في ساوية أشياء في إنديا، في بنغالدش، في نيبال وكذلك في إندونيشيا وكذلك يمكنك أن ترى when it is flooded for about 18 days here in this field وكذلك يجب أن تقوم with someone who will completely survive and produce good yield وكذلك يجب أن ينزل with someone who will vanish completely فهذا is a real typical solution for farmers when flooding happens لذلك they are now assured that even if it is flooding they will have something out, they will have good production وكذلك يمكنك أن ترى that causing a lot of social change in farmers in flood affected areas where once they have secured their food they can think of other alternatives you see increasing their income by diversifying their options they are taking better care of their crop right now because they know how to produce at the end so they are putting more input and more care for their crop they are getting more and more credit for their farm operations and also they are diversifying their crops now so besides that they are producing other crops and migration we see also is decreasing to some extent and the good thing also we have salt tolerant varieties we have more than 30 salt tolerant varieties now released all over the Asian countries and also in Africa the good thing about these varieties is if there is no stress the yield is as high as irrigated varieties very good yield 67 tonnes easily but when stress happens say flooding or if there is incidence of drought of salinity suddenly become high during the season the farmers still can get reasonable yield more than 60% of the yield they can get when there is no flood or when there is no stress while in the past they can normally get zero and that would be a disastrous year for them so these coping strategies now are really helping us to adapt to climate change and make sure that the farmers will be able to secure their food supply even in the face of climate change


Hello, DDS Stevens here, Senior Handler at the Internet Stomp Center. Someone posted a comment on my blog about Xavier's diary entry about the DDE that is seen again in office documents. Some time ago, a couple of years ago, I wrote Yara rules. Here you can see them on my company's website and visa. I wrote Yara rules to detect a DDE in office documents, so OOXML files, so Office Open XML files and also in O&E files. Now these rules, they are designed to be used with Yara itself. So Yara, the rule and then here the sample, and you can see this rule here triggers on the sample. So this is a rule to detect the DDE autofield inside O&E files. And if you use option S, Yara's option S, then you will also see the string. Here the rule and here the location and here the string. And then you can see the PowerShell command and the URL. So that works with Yara. That doesn't work with OleDump. So you have OleDump, you can pass it Yara rules with option Y, and then the sample like this. And then it will apply all the Yara rules on each individual stream. So it will not apply it on the complete document but on the streams inside. And you can see that nothing is matching and there are no matches, no triggers. And that is because of the way I designed those rules, they are actually designed to work with Yara. Because here you have the O&E files, I also test if the file where I do the test if that file is an O&E file. So if the first four bytes are D0, CF, 11, E0, and by the way this is kind of lead speak for DOC file. So if you look at that sample, an ASCII dump of let's say the first 16 bytes, you can see here the first four bytes of the O&E file. And this is this test, read the unsigned 32-bit integer Bigendian at position 0 and match this with this value. If this matches then also check the test. And since the streams inside O&E files do not start with this, the rules will not match. What does start with this is O&E file itself but not the streams inside. So we actually need to suppress this test for these rules to work for O&E streams. And that's something that I'm going to do. So here I will not just suppress these two tests, I will make a copy of the rules, change their name, SA, stand alone and remove this test here, SA, remove this test, save this and now here we have six rules. And now O&E dump, YARA, DDE like this and now the rule office O&E DDE auto SA, stand alone that triggers for that stream. And you can use option YARA strings just like option S with YARA itself to view the strings that are matched. Here you see the DDE auto string with the PowerShell command and here the URL.


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