The challenge of the Yukon It's Yukon King swiftest and strongest lead dog of the Northwest Placing the trail for Sergeant Preston of the Northwest modern police in his relentless pursuit of lawbreakers Gold gold discovered in the Yukon a stampede to the Klondike in the wild race for riches Back to the days of the Gold Rush with Sergeant Preston and his wonder dog Yukon King as they meet the challenge of the Yukon Butch Ganz was serving a five-year term in the Dawson City Jail But one night in January he succeeded in breaking out of his cell and overpowering the guard By the time his escape was discovered the following morning the snow had covered his tracks and butch was heading north toward the mining community of Poker Bend Late that evening he arrived at the cabin of a friend named Zeke Murdock What do you want? Do you think I want Murdock? Holy smoke it's Butch Ganz It's a dark heart. It didn't recognize it. Don't stand there yapping. Let me in I thought you were in jail down in Dawson. I was but I busted out. Well, how in thunder did you get up here?  Yeah Hey, you're lucky the wolves didn't get you Plenty bold around these parts and they don't go near dead Old pack of them came at me back there on the other side of the ring. Yeah. Oh, what'd you do? Hold up in the cave We took a few shots at him Finally scared the critters off. Why'd you get the gun? It belonged to the guard back at the jail Swiked it after I knocked him out No, it's a funny thing about them wolves With the husky run alongside the leader of the pack looked like a big Siberian Had a white body and black legs. Yeah. Yeah, I've heard about that husky They say just to belong to some kids around here sure doesn't look very tame now Well, what do you figure I'm doing butch? Figure on staying right here for a while.  You can't stay here The Mounties are sure to be trailing it. Hey won't trail me anywhere What's known to hard when I got away they won't have any tracks to follow and I still don't like the idea If the red coats ever catch you here, they'll haul me in for harbing an escaped criminal. You've got a mighty short memory Murdoch Yeah, what do you mean? Looks like you've forgotten about that bank robbery I got sent up for Now what about it? You were in with me on that job Murdoch.  Yeah I savvy so you better do a mighty good job of hiding me Murdoch Otherwise your libel a wind-up serving a five-year stretch yourself News of the jailbreak was telegraphed north to Sergeant Preston in 40 mile The sergeant started for Dawson immediately hoping that King would be able to pick up the escape convicts trail As he passed through the settlement of poker Bend.  Hello, Susie. How's my best girl? Hello there, Dick? Look at the way King's wagon his tail. Oh, you know how glad he is to see you two again. Oh good.  Oh, yes, sir. She's inside. Are you gonna stop for something to eat? Yes, I intended to your mother doesn't mind serving lunch in the middle of the afternoon. Of course. She doesn't not for you Are you and King working on a case now sergeant not exactly thick Soon will be bank robber escaped from jail down in Dawson hoping King and I'll be able to pick up his trail Oh, but anything King will be able to track him down Sergeant Preston and King are here. Well, I'm sick alive. It is Sergeant Preston. How are you, Mrs. Blair? Oh, I'm fine. Thanks King old fellow goodness.  No, I'm just passing through on the way to Dawson. I Was wondering if I could get a meal here at such an awful hour. Oh, you most certainly can You just sit right down here and I'll pick something up for you. No time. Thanks.   We don't have Daisy anymore. She ran away That's too bad day. You sure she wasn't stolen. I'm pretty sure we heard she joined a wolf pack a wolf pack Yes, sir, there are lots of wolves around here You know and three or four different people have told us they saw Daisy running with the pack Could they really recognize her or do they just think it was Daisy because she happened to run away? They claim they really recognized her Daisy was marked in a very unusual way You know white with black lady and they say that's just how this dog was marked and it must be there Gracious. I'm all out of potatoes. Dick. Will you run down to the store? Please and get me a bushel of potatoes Mother come on. Don't bother on my account, Mrs. Blair. Just fix me whatever you have. Oh, that's all right sergeant I'll need some for tonight. Anyway, be as quick as you can children. I can't go ahead with the meal till you get back We'll hurry come on. I Hope you don't mind waiting a few minutes sergeant. Of course not. How's everything going by the way? Oh, I Can't complain. I suppose The restaurant does enough business to keep us all fed and clothed Sound rather worried something on I don't want to burden you with our troubles. I'll feel that way, Mrs. Blair I wouldn't ask if I weren't interested. Well, Sergeant I I had to borrow five hundred dollars to open up the restaurant after John died The notes do in March. I'm not sure whether I'll be able to pay back the money by that time or not Who lent you the money? No a hazing the manner runs the general store. Yes, that's right He's already given me one extension on the note But I don't think he'll give me any more time if I can't pay him back in March. You folks have a lot of friends I'm one of them. I hope you won't hesitate to call on us. Thank you sergeant, but I hope that won't be necessary No a hazing the proprietor of the general store was a grizzled sour-faced individual in his late fifties As Dick and Susie entered the store he greeted them with an indignant scowl. Ah So it's you two Something wrong. Yeah, they're in totem something's wrong. It's that crazy dog of yours the one that joined the wolf pack I had another running with her this morning. What happened? Well, I went over to moose land and to pick up a shipment of canned goods from Dawson City on the way back The wolf started chasing my sled like it's not gonna kill me if I hadn't had my gun with me with Daisy with them You've got your boots. He was with him. She was running right alongside the leader golly I'm sorry to hear that mr. Hayes But I don't see why I should make such a fuss about Daisy the walls would be just as dangerous around here whether Daisy was with them or not Ain't so sure about that young fella gas me. They've been twice as bad since he joined up with the pack She's smart to people's ways. That's the whole trouble. She's smart and she eggs them on Personally, I hope someone plugs her one of these days I'd have done it myself if I could have taken better aim Oh a hazing continued to grumble as he took the children's order Dick was just paying for the potatoes when the door opened and Zeke Murdock entered the store One of these days the folks here about will organize a regular wolf hunt That's what they'll do and believe me that pesky dog. He also be the first one. They get it in the neck I know she was vicious first time I ever laid eyes on her should have been shot long ago Here's your change Come on What's the trouble yeah wolves tagged me this morning when I was coming back from moose land and Run away husky was with him like I just told him kid the dad read it critter It's not a bad idea you had just then huh about organizing a wolf hunt. I mean done toton It's not a bad idea. You had trouble with the critters too. Yeah. Yeah, I have a Packum came at me just the other day over on the other side of spruce Ridge. It was a Fact I tell you them wolves are getting bolder every day first thing.  Hey, you're right about that by Jingu. I've got a good mind to organize a wolf hunt myself. Well, you can sure count me in About setting a time right now Well now what about tomorrow say we get a gang together and farm up about two o'clock in the afternoon over at the foot of spruce Ridge That suits me fine You tell everybody it comes in the store and I'll start spreading the word around as soon as I leave here Hey thunder, I wish I thought of this sooner They can hardly wait to get a shot at them sneaking great killers. Those woes won't stand a chance We'll have every man in town out gunning for him seek Murdoch spread the news about the wolf hunt around the cluster of Cabins and log buildings that form the settlement of poker bend As he had expected the inhabitants responded eagerly to the promise of excitement Was nearly supper time when Zeke returned to his own cabining butch gann spoke to him irritably When did you hear what I've cooked up I'm waiting You know when we were back in Frisco You used to be a pretty good man at opening saves never mind the flattery. What's the deal? How would you like to tackle a safe over at the general store? What's in it plenty the old guy that runs the stores a local money lender Hazen his name is Noah Hazen He's got plenty at door himself And on top of that he stores gold us for the miners around here He had to save hope in the other day when I was in there Loaded sounds interesting. Well, how about it? I? Don't know. I ain't got any tools. Oh now. You won't need any tools Safe as an old cast on job From the looks of it you could open up blindfold. Yeah, but it's kind of risky ain't it and a little settlement like this The old man should wake up start squawking he'd have the whole town on my neck I've already taken care of that angle That's what kept me so long. What do you mean? I've just been organizing a wolf hunt a wolf. Oh, that's right. Hazen gave me the idea himself when I was over at the store It seems he had a brush with the wolf pack and he's way back from moose landing Murdock explained a bunch about the wolf hunt and the way all those sourdoughes went for the idea It looks like every man in town be over on spruce ridged more afternoon So you'll have a clear field from two o'clock Sounds like a cinch. It is a cinch and the beauty of it is I'll be sticking close to Noah Hazen all afternoon That means I'll have a perfect alibi Not that I'll be hanging around long enough to need one. What do you figure I'm doing once we lay our hands in that dough You'll both clear out the territory We'll go back to the states and live like kings Murdock you're a pretty smart character. You've just made yourself a deal Sergeant Preston reached Dawson city by nightfall when immediately to the jail King got the escape convict sent by sniffing around his cell, but he was unable to pick up the scent outside the jail Early the next morning sergeant Preston and Constable Blake took King to a point just north of town The great dog circled back and forth across the trail. Finally he paused and gave a sharp bark What does that mean sergeant?  I don't know but we're certainly going to try Come on King line up the team boy. All right behind you sergeant. All right, honking A short time later that same morning Jane Blair was busy at the stove in a restaurant at Fokker Bend Oh bother fires almost out in the woods all gone Dick, what is it mother run out to the wood shed? Will you please and bring in some more wood? All right We can help you carry it in and be sure to put on your park as children none of this running out bareheaded.    Why not don't you remember how mad mr. Hazen was yesterday He said he was gonna shoot deck at Daisy the next time he laid eyes on her golly. That's right. I forgot But there are lots of people who feel the same way he does If they knew Daisy was out here, they'd want to kill her. I bet they would do Maybe we shouldn't even tell mother. She's not mad at Daisy. Of course not But I've got an idea should be awfully worried about people finding out especially about mr. Hazen finding out that's right, and I think Golly, that's right But what are we gonna do? We can't keep Daisy and her puppies hidden out here forever. I know Yeah, I don't know what to do Let's just not say anything for the time being maybe we can think of something later All right in the meantime, we can take out something for Daisy to eat when mother isn't looking That afternoon the Zeke Murdock prepared to leave his cabin and take part in the wolf hunt He spoke to butch gans, but I'm gonna show off now butch Got everything straight. Yeah, I guess so I'll crack the safe and hide the gold in the gully bag of the store and tonight you and me are loaded on the sled and High-tailored north of the board. That's right. It's a perfect setup I'd sure like to see old Hazen's face when he finds his safe empty And you're sure nobody'll see me when I go into the store. Why sure. I'm sure I Told everybody was plenty excited about this wolf hunt. Didn't I? Why when I was in town just a few minutes ago, they were already starting to stream over to spruce Ridge Another half hour there won't be a person left within half a mile the general store Except maybe that dame that runs the eating house the two kids. Okay, I guess it's safe enough sure it's safe to step your worry I'm gonna leave right now. You can get going another half hour. So Savvy yep. I got you It was nearly an hour later that sergeant Preston and Constable Blake approached the settlement of poker bend King led them toward Zeke Murdoch's cabin The two Mounties advanced cautiously They were close to the wall of the cabin sergeant Preston said you stay here town I'll edge around the corner and take a look through the window Place is empty. Maybe he just stopped off here for a while and then he kept on going north. It could be the explanation Take a look inside Looks like he spent the night here anyway. How do you know sergeant? Look over there in the corner Pile of pine bars You're right sergeant Gans must have used them as a makeshift bunk, which means the regular occupant of the cabins here at the same time he was probably some pal of his What's the next move sergeant? Let's see if King can tell us where butch went when he left the cabin one fella Meanwhile butch Gans was emptying the safe at the general store He'd already carried out four large moose hide pokes full of cold dust Was preparing to carry out one last load when he heard someone come in the front door What sprang up with his gun in one hand whose relief he found that the person who had entered was his partner Zeke Murdoch Murdoch Ladies you're doing here. We're in trouble butch. We've got to get out of here fast. What's up plenty? Two Mounties trails in my cabin. That's right. It must have come all the way from Dawson city They're probably on their way here right now How come you found out about him as a wolf hunt over already? Oh, it's still going strong I was up on the ridge with everyone else. I just happened to spot these two Mounties come around to bend the trail But they passed right below me. I sneaked on the slopes. I could watch what they were up to What about the old guy? No haze and I mean thought you and him were sticking close together We were but I gave him a slip so I could watch what the Mounties are up to. Oh, what happened? Well, I had a dog with them you let him right up the cabin Soon as I saw that I high-tail it into town. Come on. We got a car out of here All right, but wait till I hide the rest of this gold down the gully out back There's no time for that. They make me hear any minute. I'll keep your shirt on Murdoch for all you know They're still back in the cabin. Don't be foolish.  He can leave him here too. Well, wait a minute I'll take a look and see if anyone looks like a couple of teams are coming up the trail right now Yeah, that's them. All right What are you gonna do close up the safe then we'll duck out the back door? I've got an idea a Few minutes later sergeant Preston and Constable Blake halted their teams outside the general store Sake I wonder what's happened to everyone right now the only person I'm interested in finding is butch Gans look King is sniffing at the safe. Yes Apparently it wasn't supplies that butch came here for No sign that the safe has been forced open not likely that butch would leave any marks He has a record as an expert safecracker back in the States They probably open an old relic like this just for working the dial listening to clicks How about it fellow you go out the back door Come on Tom. Let's see where he leads King paused outside the door sniffing the air carefully There were two well-defined scent trails left by the man he was hunting for One led toward the edge of the gully and back of the store the other led away toward the center of town King was uncertain which trail to follow What's the matter is he lost the scent not necessarily just getting his bearings He's going over to the edge of the gully. Yes, we'd better take a look as the two bodies walked over to see what king had found The great dogs scrambled partway down the sloping side of the gully What's he up to now which Gans isn't down there? We could see him if he were not down there now But apparently he's been down there very recently. You're right. King's found something. There's something hidden in the underbrush. Come on Tom Moment later the two Mouties saw what king had found For big pokes full of gold and must have gotten them out of the safe Why and thunder should he hide them down here? We'll find it out later. Come on Mouties climbed back up the slope. They packed the gold and Sergeant Preston sled for safekeeping Then the sergeant spoke to King. All right fellow. We still haven't found the man we're looking for which way to go boy Oh He's heading over toward the center of town. Come on. We'll follow him Which Gans was looking out the front window of Jane Blair's eating house as the two Mouties approached on their sleds His partner Zeke Murdock was holding a gun on the terrified widow and her two children Zeke spoke can you see him coming yet? Then go in the kitchen get ready duck out the back door at the wood shed as soon as I give you the word Okay, a table had been set and a cold meal hastily scraped together on a plate Zeke Murdock had taken a few bites out of the food to make the scene look as convincing as possible Still keeping his gun pointed at mrs. Blair and her children Zeke sat down at the table Stuck a napkin into his shirt front.  I I didn't expect to see you back here so soon sergeant. I didn't expect to be back quite so soon mrs. Blair Constable Blake and I are trailing an escaped convict rather King's trailing in porous The saint led the poker bend and now it turns out that the man were after apparently came here to your restaurant Escaped convict why that sounds impossible What did he look like? He's a big fellow about six feet tall and heavy set dark hair as a small scar on his right temple I don't recall seeing anyone like that That's funny. What's the matter King seems to want to go out in the kitchen all that fellow Not polite to go. We are not invited Mrs. Blair Are you sure nobody's been here that answers the description I just gave you Might have been in for breakfast or lunch. I suppose I'm not good at remembering faces, but I can't tell you definitely he wasn't out in the kitchen No one's been out there except the children and myself The sergeant spoke to Zeke Murdoch who appeared to be enjoying a hearty meal I don't suppose you've seen the man. I'm looking for my nose. I didn't mind.  All right, Mrs. Blair. I'm sorry we troubled you, but What is that like something's going on out in the wood she maybe that's where Gans has been hiding come on down Let's go out and take a look break. Oh, yeah, he's got a gun sergeant. Yes He'll go off a minute. Either one of you lords his hands Don't let that husky make any false moves either that a king sergeant. I'm sorry He was holding that gun under the table all the while you were here. It's all right, Mrs. Blair understand So your butch guns partner, eh, what do you think money keep your hands up high both of you Mrs. Blair you get out from behind the counter and collect your two kids Now if you move into kitchen Zeke Murdoch her to dis prisoners into the kitchen that's better I Don't try any funny business while I'm working over to the door Keeping his gun level at his prisoners Zeke Murdoch move cautiously toward the back door He pushed the door open with one hand and shouted hey, butch come on in here make it snappy I'm holding the gun in these two monies Moment later butch Gans entered the room Despite of his drawn gun.   It wasn't my fault It was a husky out there in the woodshed with a litter of pups Yes, me it's the same husky that runs with a wolf pack I tried to quiet her down then the minute I stuck my head in the woodshed she started snapping at me Well, it's no use crying over spilt milk. Maybe it's better this way We've got the Mounties we got their sleds. What do you figure on doing well time all up Load the gold on the Mounties sledge Make tracks with a border and leave the Mounties alive Why not why it wouldn't be more than an hour or two for someone had come in on time They'd borrow a dog team come chasing after us I'll bet you're ten to one they'd nail us for we ever got over the border. Yeah But if we kill them there's always a chance we'll swing for it. Not if we do the job right. What do you mean?  That's not a bad idea plenty smart idea Everyone will think the place caught fire from the stove or something. All right, we'll do it But first you better take the Mounties guns away from them so they don't try any funny stuff on us I'll just do that little thing with his free hand put your guns remove the Mounties guns and their holsters and stuff them into his own Parker and while you're at it You might as well handcuff the tube with their own bracelets Good idea which helped himself to the pair of handcuffs which each money was carrying then he said all right you two turn around I'll put out your hands and hold them out and back here Keep them covered Murdock while I snap on the cuffs what you put away his own gun and proceeded to snap one pair of handcuffs and Constable Blake's wrists Neither he nor his partner Zeke Murdock noticed the stealthy way in which King was slinking closer to Zeke Suddenly the great dog saw his chance Knocking the gun on Zeke's hands and at the sound of his snarling attack the sergeant world and drove his fist square in a butch ganz face What staggered a reach for his gun two men grappled suddenly the sergeant tripped against a chair He fell to the floor with butch landing on top of it.  All right. All right. You got my gun give this dog off of me She's half wolf.   We were going to tell you about Daisy later on Just that oh, we didn't want to worry you because we knew that people might make a lot of trouble if they knew she'd come back Especially that crabby old mr. Hayes Don't you worry children?  Oh golly. That's wonderful. Oh, that reminds me Since it was really Daisy who captured butch Gans you folks will be the ones who get the reward money reward money That's right When the bank heard about his escape from jail, they posted a $500 reward for his capture the Arjuna I can't believe it's true. I guess you folks will be just as happy as I will when Tom and I report that this case is closed Now here's Sergeant Preston with a preview of our next adventure the case What price King on a millionaire named Cyrus Ogilvy tried to buy King for me for his spoiled young son I naturally refused But the boy was used to having his own way so his father arranged to have King stolen The plot led to some unexpected and highly dangerous consequences both for Cyrus Ogilvy and for me be sure to listen to this exciting adventure Wednesday These radio dramas a feature of the challenge of the Yukon incorporated are created and produced by George W. Trendall supervised by Charles D. Livingston and edited by Fran striker the part of Sergeant Preston is played by Paul Sutton They are brought to you every Wednesday until September when we shall resume our regular Monday Wednesday and Friday broadcasts This is Jay Michael wishing you goodbye and good luck till next Wednesday


Hello friends. Let's solve the following question. It says convert each of the complex number given in exercises 3 to 8 in the polar form. So we have to convert this number into polar form. So let us first write the basic idea to solve this question. If we have a complex number z equal to x plus iota y, then the polar form of z is given by r into cos theta plus iota sin theta. So to convert a complex number into the polar form, we need to obtain r and theta and r is given by root of x square plus y square and theta is called the argument of z. So this becomes the key idea to solve this problem. Let's proceed on to the solution. z is equal to minus 3. Now this can be written as minus 3 plus 0 iota. So this implies x is equal to minus 3. That is the real part is minus 3 and the imaginary part is 0. So r is equal to root of minus 3 square plus 0 square and again this is equal to root 9 which is equal to 3. So r is 3. So this is the argon plane and we have to plot the point x is equal to minus 3 and y is equal to 0. So this point would be here and we have to obtain the value of theta. Now z is equal to minus root 3 plus 0 iota and in the polar form it is given by 3 cos theta plus iota 3 sin theta. Now on comparing, now z in polar form is given by this. So z is equal to 3 into cos theta plus iota sin theta. But we still need to obtain the value of theta. So for that let us first plot the point x is equal to minus 3 and y is equal to 0 on the argon plane. So this is the argon plane and we have to plot the point x is equal to minus 3 and y is equal to 0. So it would be here and we have to obtain the value of theta. Now z in the polar form is given by this and z is equal to minus 3 plus iota 0. Now on comparing we get minus 3 is equal to 3 cos theta and 0 is equal to 3 sin theta. First equation implies cos theta is equal to minus 1 and second equation implies sin theta is equal to 0. Now we know that cos of pi is minus 1 and sin pi is 0 and we can see that this angle is pi. So this implies theta is pi and the value of r was 3. Hence z in polar form is given by 3 cos pi plus iota sin pi. And this completes the question. Bye for now. Take care. Hope you enjoyed the session.


Hi, this is Stu Miniman at the Wikibon World Headquarters in Marlboro, Massachusetts. Having a cube conversation talking about the increase of software-led infrastructure, changing the way IT is consuming what they're doing. Joining me for this segment is Suresh Jaster Saria from the Dell Product Management Team. Suresh, good to see you again. Thank you, Stuart. All right, so Suresh, two weeks ago we were at Dell World, a lot going on. Michael Dell on stage talking about how the company is now private and all the things that it's going to allow Dell to innovate on. And one of the things that's catching, I know a lot of people's interest, is that Dell, of course, has acquired quite a few companies over the past five plus years and done a lot of it to own IP, but it's really stepped up a lot of it to partnerships. And the one that I know we're gonna dig in today is the Dell Nutanix relationship. You're with the Dell XC web scale appliance solution. So tell us a little bit, how is the buzz at the show? What feedback have you had in the last couple of weeks since that is now a GA solution? Thank you, Stuart. The interest in the XC series is very high. The field is buzzing with a lot of excitement about the product. Of course, we have booked a few orders and the pipeline is very healthy. We have pipeline across all the geographies and in multiple industries and in many use cases. So what are you hearing about the product? Yeah, so first of all, I mean, we know we've been tracking Nutanix for the last couple of years. They've had a lot of growth. And good to hear what Dell is adding to it for the first piece is the breadth and reach of the Dell Salesforce and the channel. So good to hear that there's activity across the GEOs. I'm curious, what use cases are kind of bubbling to the top? What's the top things that you're hearing about what people want to use this new type of architecture for? Well, this architecture has had a lot of interest in many use cases, but the one use case where it has been very prevalent has been the VDI. And you know, high availability, lower cost, high performance, high capacity. All these things are nowadays prerequisites for getting an entry into the enterprise data center. However, one thing that this architecture provides that other architectures lack is incremental scalability and flexibility to move from a very low entry point into a very high scale. And that is what is very important for this use case, I think. And we have seen a lot of interest in VDI. You recently did some studies on VDI. What have you found? Yes, sir, I should write up some good points that I want to touch on. So first of all, when you think about the enterprise and you think about the reliability and I want to trust this architecture, that was typically something we built in almost a monolithic fashion. Every single component needed to be hardened and then we put the pieces together and had to integrate them. And while each solution might have been secure in HA and everything, putting together all the pieces was onerous and we have IT staff spending all their time making a bespoke architecture that they have to constantly tweak. And what Wikibon's been talking about for the last few years has been we need new architectures that are really built at a solution standpoint. Converged infrastructure has been a big driver for that. And I'm going to have them pull up actually a first slide from the research that you mentioned. And this is what we call really the new stack, which is it's not just about putting pieces together of server and storage, but really the further up the stack we can go, there's exponentially more value that we have. So VDI was really ripe for disruption because before we had to take a whole lot of pieces, put it together, operationally, we need to make a lot of changes. So really this new architecture fit really well as an early adoption for something like the Nutanix-based solutions. Yeah, right, Stu. Dell has been paying a special attention to application solutions. And in this product, XCC's product, we have released five specific appliances to address different applications, including VDI, private cloud, server virtualization, big data, as well as other database solutions. And this is where we want to educate our customers that once you have requirements for agility and incremental growth, this architecture is a very good fit for your needs. Yeah, Stu, I should bring up some good points because it is a different way of buying the architecture now. Customers want agility. They look at things like the public cloud and say, I want to only buy for what I'm using, be able to use it in incremental fashions. The old way of doing it was much more monolithic. I would buy a big block when I get outside of that. I need to buy another big block. I have to build on top of that. I had to tune it and everything on that. And we think there's huge opportunities for not only from a capital expense, but from an operational expense to make some big savings.  It's usually 70 to 80% and looking for architectures that can really help that environment. So in your research, Stu, are there any specific findings that you had that talks about operational benefits or benefits for getting the environment up and running specifically in solutions-oriented deployment? Yeah, absolutely, Suresh. So we'll pull up one of the graphics that we have. The full research is available on wikibond.org. But we wanted to do something a little bit different here because it would be easy for us to say, take your, not to bash on sand too much, but take your sand that you would have bought five years ago and put that against what I could do with this new architecture. And it would be an easy win. It's going to be cheaper to buy. It's going to be faster to deploy. But one of the big things we've been hearing is, well, why don't I just go to all white box architecture? Won't that be cheaper? I'll take all of the standard IP out. That's what we hear the Googles and Amazons of the world do. So we actually took a white box deployment and stack that up against the Dell plus Nutanix VDI solution. And what we actually found is if you look over a three-year timeframe, it's actually more than 25% savings on just the capex itself, which is a little bit counterintuitive. And it's really because you can just buy it all as a single skew. You know exactly what you're buying. You don't overbuy, you don't underbuy. It's designed for your environment. And from an operational standpoint, it's six times faster. I mean, this is where we can just have huge savings. We can have our IT staff focused on places where their ad value get up and running so much faster. Look at the agility it comes back to, Suresh. You know, from the users they're saying, I really don't want to have to think about my infrastructure so more. I want to worry about my business. I want to deploy to my users. I don't want to, I want to have much faster time from buying it, to deploying it, from going from pilot to going into production, from going to pilot to scaling it out. And we were even saying just the increments that I can buy, the speed that I can do it is really going to help customers in that time to value is one of those new measurements that we look at. Those are great findings, Stu. 25% less expensive per desktop in six times faster to deploy. How could you argue with such a solution? Yeah, so I mean, you know, Dell has a lot of solutions. How, talk about a little bit, kind of the training you guys are doing with the field and the channel. I mean, there's got to be that shift.  Well, as I said earlier, you know, the interest in this architecture is very large. We have been training our field teams around the world. I personally have trained almost 600, 700 folks in face-to-face training. And that is a huge interest. There's a huge interest in this architecture. Yeah, it's interesting. We did a study at the meeting this year, put out the market definition and the forecast for what we call server sand. Some people call it hyper-convergence, really fits under the umbrella that we put. And it's interesting because at the end of the day, this is really the death of the storage array as a separate silo. So it is a big change. It is going to take years for this to move, but starting to see, you know, we're past some of the early adopters, starting to see a growing use case. People will say, well, it doesn't work for everything. Well, you know, that's the definition of the disruptive technology is it comes in, you know, cheaper into niche environments and grows from there. So, you know, really exciting to watch. I want to give you a sort of kind of last words. You know, what do you expect to see from this solution set over the next kind of six, 12 months that we should be looking back and seeing in the future? Well, we hope that this architecture finds a place in the data center with very agile workloads like VDI and private cloud and server virtualization. And from there, I think this technology has the potential to take over major portions of the enterprise data centers. That's what we are expecting. So, great, Suresh, really appreciate you coming here to the Wikibon office. Dell, of course, has locations around the world. It's good to have you here local. I'm sure we'll hear back from you more as this solution grows. And this is Stu Miniman with Cube Conversations talking about the disruption as software is continuing to eat the world, cloud, big data, and software-led infrastructure. Thank you for joining us and look for many more research and videos from wikibon and siliconangle.tv.


that station during the tubs and we're currently a process of rebuilding fire station five permanently in a different location as far as the special equipment goes measure o has purchased two type one fire engines one is currently on order as sarah mentioned it's the funds are encumbered as part of a purchase of five fire engines out of last fiscal year it's purchased one type three wildland fire engine four command vehicles once with water rescue trailer and 55 mobile radios and eight mobile repeaters and with that we'll turn it over to you for any questions or comments you may have looking at council for questions or comments council member rogers yeah thanks chief not to stray a little bit from the topic but we just implemented not too long ago the vehicle replacement fund how is that integrated with this conversation around what we can do with measure o and how's that working out so far so measure o vehicles are not part of the equipment replacement program the capital fleet replacement program so for instance the the one engine that we have purchased previously with measure o it was paid for again at a measure o and same with the type three when it comes to you will pay for it out of measure o so those engines are sort of set aside and kept out of the the general fleet conversation just like the personnel are okay is there any ability within the measure o scope to create something specific for the measure o engines i think so it's something i need to talk to the cfo about and make sure that the coc is good with but it's something we can certainly explore okay great thanks sarah it's good to know that you run a tight ship over there chief thank you so much for the presentation both of you thank you and with that we're going to turn it back over to Veronica to close this section out well thank you very much to the departments as you can tell it's a wide array of staff and resources and talents that go into turning this quarter cent sales tax into all the programs and services and thank you for your questions listening to our presentation so we have two actions for council today one is by motion to accept the annual report for fiscal year 22 23 as well as change the name of the committee the citizens oversight committee to be the public safety and prevention citizens oversight committee formally measure o but for short we will call this the p sap coc and then also by resolution to approve the change of the implementation plan to return to a one-year model so thank you thank you and before i turn it over to councilmember o krepke i would like to thank councilmember rogers for all your hard work you see where the funds are going and you really are providing a service to the community by keeping them coming in to our community so thank you so much for that i want to thank event minor and also the other members of the oversight committee that worked really hard to make this happen so we can continue to get these funds in our our community and with that councilmember o krepke thank you very much i will move a resolute we'll do these in two so first we'll i'll move a resolution of the council of the city of san erosa amending the implementation plan for the measure o for transaction and use tax second we have a motion made by councilmember o krepke and a second by council by vice mayor step actually real quick if we're renaming this do we need to alter that resolution because it says measure o you're you're taking an action um if you're if you're passing the motion first and then renaming and then um the motion is you will be renaming it so then the second action would be the resolution and if you so choose we can make sure to make that correction on the resolution to use the new name which you will have just renamed okay okay so we're going to start we're going to do the withdrawal that it depends how you want to do it if you want to do the resolution first then i think the name hasn't changed if you want to do the motion first then the resolution can have the new name if you so specify we'll go ahead and make that change if you make the name change first you have to change the name right i'm good okay then we'll just keep going the way we are okay so can we call the vote um i believe you need to take public comment first before you take about public comment we have public comment we are now taking public comment on item 14.3 if you are in the council chamber would like to comment please make your way to the podium you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of the period please go ahead when you're ready hello my name is dwayne duwit i'm from roseland thank you for this report i would ask that you also implement a new approach and you have a three-way equal split i believe that now that you've got money left over at both the fire department and the police department that shows that they can get by with what they're getting and you could use this money to help over with the youth you could get this going to where if you're splitting it three ways equally 33 for each this could improve the approaches that have been happening for the youth and as was presented here today everything seems to be looking up and that the youth are being served but there's more youth that need to be served i do believe that if you folks would take the initiative tonight and look at this like we can take the chance now and get more funding over to the violence prevention partnership over to the youth efforts and the other things that make a community not just livable but enjoyable that's something that's really important especially for low-income kids and disadvantaged underserved neighborhoods the disadvantaged underserved neighborhood of the roseland census district actually is listed as the most impacted by the portrait of sonoma county 2021 update in which they showed that that census district is the most disadvantaged according to the human development index that they use these aren't my numbers these are numbers that come from the sonoma county efforts that they put forward with the original portrait of sonoma county finally a boys and girls club was put out on sabbatical road with private funding and that's made a difference but there's such a need i was actually told by youth out there that because there's an agreement with the roseland school district some youth nearby can't use that boys and girls club you have to be a member of the roseland school district so there's these types of things that actually could be changed if you offered up a little bit more money coming with an equal split i think that this type of an approach may seem to the fire department or the police department while you're cutting into our pie you're taking something from us and i don't think that's the case i think if you look at it like we're splitting it evenly you'll find that they'll have less calls for service perhaps from the police because our youth are being served better working with the violence prevention partnership and as we used to call it the gang prevention task force that got this all started and basically you saw we've had more violence so let's look towards doing it this way thank you for your time seeing no additional comment on this item council member rogers thank you so much first of all i want to thank everybody for the presentation as well as the work that's been done on this i want to thank our measure o oversight committee that has been deliberating one of the things that i think is really important and i'm supportive of in the the name change but want to make sure i call it out is that by having it the public safety and prevention tax oversight committee it really does prevent false advertising for folks who get on the the measure the citizens oversight committee their role is to make sure that we are adequately spending the funds the way that voters have said that we need to spend the funds that come in from measure h from that tax so i want to make sure that we're very clear very deliberate for folks when they take that role that they're not telling the chief whether it's the fire chief or the police chief how to spend those dollars they're making sure that the police chief or the fire chief is spending those dollars consistent with the way that the voters ask them to be spent and i just i like that i know there's a pretty robust conversation amongst the measure own members and so i want to call that out as a very specific and deliberate thing that they did when they renamed it public safety and prevention tax citizens oversight committee can you explain to us about the percentages so in the measure that was approved by voters it broke down what percentage of the measure o funding needed to go to each category area that was a discussion that happened more than 20 years ago we briefly discussed it as well to see if there's an alteration that needed to be made before we put that measure back on but the the tax measure itself that voters approved dictates what percentage goes to what department so i know i did hear the suggestion about reallocating the funding so it's 30 30 30 that actually would not be permissive under what voters approved that'd be a misappropriation of the funds based on the city's agreement with with voters if folks wanted to change the allocation amount they could go back to the ballot that's one way that they could do it but our role as a council and as the city is to implement the tax measure the way that the the public asked us to when they passed it and the coc that we're approving their job is to make sure that we do just that thank you councilmember rogers so at this time we have a motion made by councilmember okrafki and a second by councilmember stat and i believe we can now call the vote for the first councilmember rogers hi councilmember okrafki hi councilmember mcdonald hi councilmember fleming hi councilmember alvarez the vice mayor stat hi mayor rogers the motion passes with seven affirmative votes all right for the second part i'll make a motion to accept the measure o annual report for fiscal year 2022 2023 and change the name of the measure o citizen oversight committee to the public safety and prevention tax citizens oversight committee second we have a motion made by councilmember okrafki and a second made by vice member step madame city i mean madame city clerk councilmember rogers hi councilmember okrafki hi councilmember mcdonald hi councilmember fleming hi councilmember alvarez hi vice mayor stat mayor rogers hi the motion passes with seven affirmative votes thank you thank you very much for everyone that came and gave presentations all the departments um so we're moving on to item no written communications item 17 which is our second public comment on non-agenda matters madam city clerk we are now taking public comment on item 17 non-agenda matters this is a time when any person who has not previously addressed the council under public comment item 13 may address the council on matters not listed on this agenda but which are subject matter of the council if you are the in the council chamber would like to comment please make your way to the podium you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period seeing no one approach the podium for public comment thank you um we have no announcements but before closing the meeting i would like to wish miss charlene griner a happy birthday she is a community volunteer um she contributes to the redwood empire food bank she volunteers at the women's shelter and she has been a part of her church for decades inspiring and empowering women so miss charlene happy birthday and with that we will adjourn the meeting thank you so much


On March 28, 1979, the United States suffered its most serious commercial nuclear power plant accident at the Three Mile Island facility near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The accident released very small amounts of radioactivity and had negligible effects on public health and the environment. But it brought about sweeping changes at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The NRC upgraded its regulations related to everything from operator training, plant design and operations, and emergency response planning. The lessons of Three Mile Island still resonate today. Hi, I'm Tom Wallach, the Historian for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. I study nuclear power's history for its relevance to the NRC today and to capture important insights for future generations. Three Mile Island, which we usually just call TMI, taught the NRC a lot. The accident started around four o'clock in the morning when pump failures and improperly closed valves prevented the steam generators from removing heat produced by the chain reaction in the nuclear reactor. Removing this heat is essential to prevent reactor damage and cooling water is pumped through the reactor and the steam generators to do so. When the cooling water stopped flowing to the steam generators, the reactor automatically shut down just as it was designed to do in such a situation. Unfortunately, relief valves that helped lower pressure in the reactor didn't close properly. Pressure continued to drop and cooling water escaped from the reactor. Instruments that should have helped the reactor operators understand the situation provided confusing information, including false indications that the relief valves were closed. As a result, the operators did not understand why pressure was falling and some of their subsequent actions made matters worse when they mistakenly turned off the reactor coolant pumps. The fuel began to overheat. Eventually, the nuclear fuel in the reactor overheated so much the zirconium cladding, long metal tubes that hold the nuclear fuel pellets disintegrated and reacted with the steam to create hydrogen gas. The fuel pellets inside tumbled out and began to melt at over 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit. It was later determined that about half the uranium pellets melted during the early stages of the accident. The NRC dispatched a team of experts as soon as news of the accident reached authorities. Other agencies, such as the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency also mobilized response teams. By midday, TMI's owner and the Department of Energy sampled radioactivity in the atmosphere above the plant. By evening, the operators had restored cooling to the core and the reactor appeared stable. But within a short time, new worries emerged about the hydrogen created when the zirconium cladding reacted with the steam. A large bubble of hydrogen was lodged at the top of the pressure vessel. The steel container that holds the reactor fuel. Experts worried that the hydrogen bubble might explode, rupturing the pressure vessel and the containment building allowing radiation to escape. The state's governor advised pregnant women and young children within a 5-mile radius of the plant to leave the area. The crisis ended when experts determined on Sunday, April 1st, that the bubble could not burn or explode because of the absence of oxygen in the pressure vessel. Today, the TMI Unit 2 reactor is permanently shut down. The reactor cooling system is drained, the radioactive water has been decontaminated and evaporated, the radioactive waste, reactor fuel and debris from the core have been shipped off site. In the months after the accident, thousands of environmental samples of air, water, vegetation, soil and food were collected. Thorough assessments by respected organizations concluded the actual release of radiation was small and had negligible effects on the physical health of individuals and the environment. Nevertheless, the NRC made extensive regulatory changes. New requirements aimed at reducing human errors affected plant design, human performance standards and fitness for duty programs. The NRC also expanded incident response staffing, emergency planning and its resident inspector program. The vigilance of the NRC today can be directly tied to the events of 33 years ago. That's what makes history so important. It's not just about events of the past, but also how it affects the present and the future. Thanks for watching.


Welcome Church family. I hope you're doing well. And as you guys have seen, we have already posted one interview and we're going to be doing this quite frequently. And we have our guest here, Pastor David and Marie. How are you guys? We're good. Good. Thank you. You know, I know our church family misses you and look forward to the time that we can get back together and fellowship and worship and praise the Lord. You know, it's interesting, Pastor and Marie, we see that and we talked about this before is what the enemy has intended for evil. God has turned around made for good. Isn't that amazing? It's amazing to see what the Lord's doing and how the Lord's just moving. I mean, we're talking about the different things that I'm sure you'll be covering in your message to think how the how the gospel is going out in places we thought that would never be reached. Think about that. Wow, it's amazing. It's just and you've been saying this that the Word of God can't be changed. No, no, the Word of God is free, you know, and free to Rome as he desires it to. And so we're seeing that right now. I believe that it's a time for God's Word to be proclaimed even more, more loudly, if you will, to use whatever media we have at our, you know, opportunities that we have at our disposal. And that's what we're doing right now.  You just can't.  I believe he tried to and all the church did is it did what it's supposed to do. It began to function in the home. You know, that's what's happened, John, not in every home, of course, but but believers in Christ have taken this, I think as a call from the Lord. And there are husbands who are finally doing what God created them to do. They're finally giving devotions in the home.  And there are wives who I think right now are very relieved to see their husbands doing what God has called them to do. And so this is one of the ways that I believe the Lord takes that which was intended for evil and turns it around and uses it for his own glory. And because I know that there are, I'm getting, you know, notes and messages and all from people in our fellowship who are are seeing God do some wonderful things. And so in spite of the inconveniences and all that we're going through and everything that pertains to that. I just believe that the Lord can use this and is using this. I do miss, I do miss getting together and assembling together. I really do. But I have seen God doing something through this and I look forward to when we can get back. It's going to be a big celebration. Yes. Worship. I'm looking forward to that. You know, so this just leads me to the topic I want to discuss with you both today. You know, a lot of things have been revealed. The church has been a lot of things have been revealed about the church during this time. And one of the things that that I've seen is that the entertained church hasn't really been the church that people need during this time. So I chose the topic to entertain church, the entertained family. You know, Spurgeon quoted a time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats. Earlier, you and I were speaking and you're sharing that Paul points out that that the church is to be provoking Israel to jealousy. And so what are your guys's thoughts or definition of what the entertained church is? I think that we've always had an awareness that that the gospel in and of itself may not have a theatrical appeal to people that it's not it's not provoking them to an amusement. It's it's something that is very serious and when presented in the fashion that it deserves, which means in a serious and sober minded way. Not to mean you can't smile and laugh and enjoy yourself. I do when I'm teaching and I have opportunity to say something to make us laugh together. I think that's fine. But when the church is built on the personality of that pastor and his his pet doctrines or his current concerns, it's not it's not focusing on Jesus. And what happens is you begin to orchestrate things to capture audiences. And instead of training up disciples, you build up just a group of listeners. And as you build up a group of listeners, you begin to be afraid to offend the listener because that means you're going to lose your audience. With the audience when they like what they're hearing comes sometimes a giving heart. So they begin to support and finances start coming in. Before you know it, that pastor has become an entertainer.  And therefore he has to find ways to appeal to the carnal desires of the majority.  And that's what that's what Spurgeon would have been saying. That's what he was saying. And that's what we see today. I believe that there are numerous quote unquote ministries that are not teaching the word that are simply not giving Bible studies. There have been times when I've heard someone who has used the scripture and then twisted it to mean something entirely different. That you begin to wonder if Jesus were seated in front of that man. If Jesus would be nodding his head in approval saying, oh, that's exactly what I meant. Or when if they were quoting from Paul, if Paul would have sat there saying exactly, you got it right. There's so much twisted scripture. There's so much appealing to to carnality. I'm sorry to say that, but it's true. I've been a believer this year at the end of the year. 50 years of walking with Christ, John. And I celebrate in September, 47 years of opening up the book, opening up the Bible to teach people. That's a long time. And I've seen things over the years that have come into church, waves of doctrine, winds of doctrine that have upset and destroyed. I've seen plenty of those things. And it all goes back to not loving the word. It all goes back to being afraid of the people. In the book to Jeremiah, he said, be not afraid of their faces. They're not going to approve of the things you say. They're not going to like it. They're going to be mad. They're going to do some things ultimately that will cause you to suffer. Don't be afraid of those people. But there are quite a number of pastors that I'm aware of who seem to be very afraid of disapproval, very afraid. So they say things that appeal. They tickle the ear of the hearer, which falls right in line with Paul saying what's going to take place in the end times. So we do have an entertainment oriented nation and we have an entertainment oriented church. No doubt. And the sad thing is, you know, I just was recently speaking to somebody who is going through a difficult time in their life. And it brought a lot of fear, a lot of anxiety. And then was sharing with me some of the teachings that they've been listening to. And I started thinking about exactly what you're saying. How much weight does that really hold when somebody's going to a church that's entertainment oriented and they're going through a difficult time? Then what's the purpose of the church if they can't even help them go through these difficult times? And it really revealed to me that, you know, with the COVID-19 and the cause and the panic and the fear with now people going to these entertained. oriented churches, when they start going through a difficult time, where's their faith? I mean, the Proverbs tells us that if you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. I'm not saying that we have the greatest faith, but when we have the word talked to us week in and week out, we know that when we go through difficult times, we can rely on God's word. And I find that very interesting that these entertainment oriented churches, they're tugging at the emotions of the feelings. They're doing this and they're doing that and they're tickling the ears. And then when the rubber meets the road, what happens? And I'm seeing that. And how do you think that has affected our families? You know, even with our church, we get fed the word and we have a model of you and Maria's for marriages. And the word that is taught from our pulpit, from your pulpit comes down and it's saturating our families and godly like families are being produced because of the word of God. How are families and marriages affected by these entertainment church oriented styles? Well, if all you want to do is go to church to feel good about yourself, then it's feeding into the arrogance of human. What's the word I want to use? Human beings can be arrogant. We think that what we do is right, but everything we do is good, etc.   Everything in their life, I have to do something to make them happy and before you know it, none of us are holy, but all of us are trying to be happy. I really believe that when you don't have a well rounded diet, when God's word isn't taught to you both the blessings as well as the penalties for rejection and you don't have balance, your whole life's out of balance. And so what we have right now, I think you already mentioned in a moment ago, John, is we have people who go through very difficult times who are wondering why they're going through these difficult times because all the preacher ever has told them is that you're not the tail, you're the head. Everything's supposed to work out just fine for you, so there must be something wrong with your faith or the way that you're living because you're not putting into practice the things that I have taught you. And in fact that charlatan of a preacher is out there in his jet, he's living in his multi-million dollar mansion, taking vacations in places that others only dream of going and he's doing it all in the name of Jesus. And so he's not feeding the flock, he's fleecing them. And unfortunately the word of God not being taught, they're not getting discernment and because they're not encouraged to read on their own and to grow on their own, many of them remain deceived and that's going to destroy everything, it destroys family. The beginning of the church, the life of the church is the home. And if in the home the men aren't really leading and the women are not submitting to the leadership of a godly man because he's not godly, you're going to have conflict and that's what we see taking place all the time. In churches like this, I'm not saying that only churches that don't teach like we do only they have problems. No, every church has problems because every church is made up of human beings with problems. But when you emphasize the right things and encourage and hold them to those things and live those things, you've got a better chance of seeing God move in your life. And when the tragedies and when the problems and when the pains enter into your life, you know who to hang on to. You know, these guys a lot of times are looking to the superstar preacher up there, the guy who spends more time in the weight room than he does waiting on the Lord, that guy. You know, it's got to have that tight t-shirt on. What's going to happen when that guy's my age?  I mean, what's he going to do? What's he going to do? It's crazy. Yeah, you know what? In John chapter 14, Jesus promises that their spirit of truths who the world cannot receive is because they can't see him. And I think about in these situations when the spirit of the Lord can't be found, something's taken away their attention. You know, something has been replaced by that, whether it's I'm basing everything on my feelings or I'm basing everything on what they're being offered instead of banking on the promises of Jesus saying, I will not leave you as orphans, going through difficult times. What are your thoughts about that pastor, about not being able to see the spirit of truth in these, in light of these entertainment based churches? You know, the word of God when rightly divided and applied, it creates a new lifestyle. They're supposed to live as if God has touched them, right? And so if they're not being taught how to live, even by just reading the word of God and finding application, well, you end up living as you desire or as you please, but you're not really going to live for him because you don't know what he wants. You know, when Marie and I went on our first date, I might have mentioned this before, but when Marie and I went on our very first date, you know, I picked her up at her apartment at around 11 or so. And we spent the entire day together and then we, I went and dropped her off and I left her place at one in the morning. And all we did was talk, we talked for all those hours. So that was from our very first day, John.  I don't find anybody more interesting to be with. I don't find anybody more enjoyable to be with anybody that that I would prefer being with. And so we have invested in each other in a way that I think God wanted us to do. I don't worship her. She doesn't worship me, but we love each other and we love each other because of Jesus. And so together we have grown. The other day, someone was asking perhaps you, I think it was you. I think it was in conversation with you and maybe the couple of the other guys, but Marie has never had another pastor in her life. She's never had another pastor. I haven't. I've been her only pastor all these years because she was in my Bible study. She came to faith in Christ through my sister in our Bible study. And she has never sat at the feet of another teacher, even when I was in my early twenties. I have always had that position in her life. And I retain it. I have never yielded it up. She has never called pastor so-and-so pastor. You know, even when I was attending church, even when she and I were, when I was a Bible teacher alone, even when I was an assisting pastor. She's never called another man or pastor ever. She has one pastor. And that's been me. She has Jesus, her great shepherd, but she has her pastor husband, pastor boyfriend really, pastor husband. So we've never known anything different. What would you attribute to your steadfastness, Marie, in just being faithful in that area? When I came to this Bible study, I never left it. I mean, it was consistent, pretty much consistent. Maybe once I wasn't there, like Dave said last week. Consistency, you know, and he encouraged me in the Word. He would give me a little assignments and show me some of the scriptures that would help me grow in my walk with the Lord. And it's been like that since then, basically. It really has. My life changed completely, and I'm so thankful. I'm so thankful that I met my husband. And it's been a blessing to serve the Lord all these years. And I can't imagine going back to where I was before. I can't imagine having a life like that because God has blessed us in abundance. And I love him and I want to serve him and serve our church, family, the women. I love the women. I love what he's given to us. A precious people, precious church. A loving church, huh? And a precious pastor. A precious man. A wonderful man. She calls me her precious, but she sounds like Gollum when she says it. My precious. Precious sounds a little sweet, doesn't it? Too sweet, huh?  Was there any, like any type of struggle with that? Not really. I don't think I had that kind of struggle. I think from the very, I respected him. I mean, it's not like we haven't had our times of disagreements and all that. She admits when she's wrong. You know, it's interesting, what are the questions? I'm not wrong very often. One of the questions that so many, some made it last week and I didn't have a chance to ask is, when you guys argued, do you guys speak scripture to one another?  It's something that you live. You know, and so the way we treat each other is reflective of what the scripture teaches us. And we were talking the other day. I was just, we were just talking about this yesterday, Marie and I, and this is true. People can believe it. If they want it, they don't, it doesn't matter to me. Ultimately, it's true. We don't fight.  Yes, when we got together as husband and wife.  There were times that she has her way of doing things. I have my way of doing things. And it took a while for her to realize my way is always the best. It took us a while to learn how to adjust to one another, to learn to respect one another, to communicate, to do those things. And John so, and it wasn't immediate and it wasn't in a week or a month or a year. It was over time. And Marie and I, we honestly don't, we don't argue, we don't fight anymore. Those battles were fought early on. Yes. And so what we do now is if I disagree about something with her, it's never so huge that it has to be an issue. You know, I think people make mistakes when they want to fight about everything. You have to do this, do that or this and that. I think that's a big mistake. So only the major things, the things that really matter are the things that, that we need to say we have to talk about this. And there's so few of those things between us now. I don't even think about it. Do you guys still study one another? That's what you do. That's what husbands are, we're commanded to do. The husband dwell with your wives according to knowledge. Yeah. Why? Because one of the things about a human being is we change over time. Marie's not the 22 year old girl that I knew anymore. And I'm not the 24 year old young man. That's right. We're older. And so we change with time. If you're not changing, you're dying.  We, we grow, you know, if we're not growing. So no, so I'm constantly watching my girl. I know, I know most of, I can read her mind quote unquote. I know her. But one of the beautiful things about being a human being is you can change. And something that mattered to you in one day may not matter to you the next. There's nothing wrong with that. And so I would say that together we've, we've learned to just adjust. And, and we've done a good job. I can't imagine anybody else that I could ever want to be with. You didn't think of being with. That doesn't exist. This person, Marie has been the person I poured my life into. And she's done the same with me. So no, we know each other. We don't, we, we, we honestly don't fight. If I get upset at her for anything, I don't, I don't, I don't raise my voice or anything. I'll just say no, that's not something. And we talk like that. Let's deal with this. She's got every right to tell me the same thing. And if she feels like it, she does. And we don't, we just don't fight anymore. God. It's sweet.  They get sweeter, you know. And again, a marriage based on God's word versus a marriage that could be based on entertainment purposes in terms of the church, the opportunity to continue to study one another here in the endearment, even now between you two. Because it was based on God's word.  When you realize that, you know, I'm not when it's going to exchange a gift. I might, my kids will tell you that about me. Somebody will give me something and they're the ones who try to force me to get rid of it. I don't get rid of stuff.  I don't believe that I am, but I do attach sentimental value to things. And so when, when I have even simple things that were given to me by somebody and you look at my desk, they'll come in and clean it off because my granddaughters just gave me all these pictures. I'll keep them on my desk. So Anna, my daughter will come in and she's going to clean the desk off because she knows daddy keeps these things. So if I keep little pictures or things like that, how about a human being?  I have no desire for anything else. Not at all. That's beautiful to hear. I mean, again, we see so many, so much brokenness in our marriages today. We see men not stepping up and leading their wives. We see why is even in their part, not stepping up and being what God has called them to be. And again, we see that throughout even the church. And it's sad to see that God has really given one another as a gift and the beauty and the love that I mean, if I were to ask you both, is there anything besides the Lord Jesus Christ?  Just our family. We love our babies. Yeah, but no, I'm. I can't imagine anything with, you know, what we have. Listen, look at the, look at this situation we have right now, John, where people are freaking out because of this virus and this and that. You know, people are in home actually having to get to know the person they've been married to 15 years. Think about that. You know, there's a real problem with that. It just shows me the neglect that has taken place in that home. You know, from very early, very early, Marie and I had dates, even as married couples. The dates are not going out and getting dressed up and, you know, going some, you know, our date is, let's get some coffee. That's what our dates are from the beginning. You know, this make Friday a time when it's, we got time just for us. Even when we had small babies, we would find time for us.  We had five pregnancies in six and a half years. You know, we lost one of our babies, you know. So we had to find time. We had to find ways because we did not want to be like ships passing in the night. I wasn't going to be that. And so we chose, we chose each other, you know, before there were kids, there was Marie and when the kids get married and move out of the house, there's still Marie. And that's the way it works for us. That's how it's worked. Pastor Marie, how would you encourage our church during this time as we wrap it up? And, you know, we've been talking about a few different things that entertain church, entertain family, the entertain marriages. How would you encourage the women and our church in these times, pastor and Marie?    So, put your heart into your children. Love them, nourish them, give them the word. Love your, your husband, you know, minister to your husband. Show them how a godly wife ought to act, you know, treat them kindly. Just pour into them, pour into their little minds. This is when they can hear God's word. And this is the time where they can remember it. So this is, it's, it's a vital time to pour into them, especially when they're little, because that will go with them as they grow older. And they'll remember those scriptures later on. And so, and be a good wife to your husband. Be that woman that serves her husband, loves her husband, encourages her husband. I think the men need a lot of encouragement, especially now that some of them have been let go. And, and, and they can be feeling, feeling pretty down, you know, we're, we're, what's happening here that, you know, their lives have been crushed right at this moment moment. And they need to be uplifted and their wives, you know, we have a lot of power. And that, and the fact that we can encourage our husbands and we can love them. And, and we can uplift them. And they need to know that they're, they're so important to us.  It's, it's, it will be fruitful in the end. And for such a time as this, I just think, you know, we have the opportunity to do just such that in a very real way during these times. Amen. You know, the husband has authority. The woman has influence. And when the, when the husband washes the wife with the water, the word, she answers to God. Because she may have a difficult time with her husband, but she answers to God. The wife is to submit to her husband as she says, submits to the Lord. And so if the husband has the wisdom to live out the word and to give out the word, then that helps the wife to know where her proper relationship with him, how that really works. And if he's cherishing her the way God commands us to, then she sees the value of the relationship. Years ago, my dad, many years ago now, my dad and I, Marie and my mom went to, we were going out, which we didn't do very often. It was an afternoon. We went somewhere together. We were in Rancho Cucamonga. I do remember that. And my dad and I stopped at a store and he was picking up some soda and things like that. We were going to have a meal. And so we stopped at a store, a small, small mom and pop. And there in front of me was a man and his wife. And I'll never forget this because the guy put his, he put his groceries on the counter. And pulled out his wallet and put down his money and paid for it. Put his wallet back in his pocket, turned around and kind of marched out.   I'm a Mexican American. These were a Mexican couple about my dad's age. And I looked at this Mexican guy walking in front of his wife like that with that machismo that a lot of Mexican guys have. And I turned to my dad and I said, dad, I want to thank you. And he looks at me. He said, for what? I said, for never treating my mother the way that man is treating that woman. I want to thank you. I really believe that a husband is to cherish the wife, to nurture her, to nourish her, to protect her, to encourage her, to be her leader. You know, the Bible says to us that in 1 Corinthians 11 that the woman is the glory of the man. And my father once told me, son, he said, dude, does not that man who was not treating his wife properly realize how bad he looks because of his marriage? And that was one of those insights my father gave to me because my mom was a little firecracker, John. My mom had an opinion about everything and if she wanted yours, she'd give it to you. That was my mom. My dad was a quiet man. But when my dad entered into the room, when my dad was there, my mom was respectful to that man. Why? Because he loved her. He laid down his life for her. And she knew that there'd never be a man in her life who would love her like my dad did. They would never. My dad was her husband from the time she was 17 years old and he was 20 years old. He was 20 years old. And he loved her to the point that when he died, the last thing I know he ever said was when she walked in the room. The last thing I know that he ever said, she walked into the room in his last words. He never called her by her name. She was always mama.  That was a man who taught me to love my wife. That's how it works. And I taught my sons how to love their wives. And Marie taught my daughters how to love their husbands. And we love each other in the Lord. That's how it works. And so she is my everything outside of Jesus. He's my everything. She's my everything outside of him. And I'm the same with her. She loves the Lord more than she loves me. She loves God. And every husband who wants a good Christian marriage, he needs to wash the wife with a word. He needs to give the prophetic word to her. It's not simply a Bible study, but he has to incarnate that word.  And if he's living for Jesus, and this woman here, I think now at this point, I would probably say that she has a husband who does that. That's what earned her respect. That's where the Bible says husbands love your wife, but wives respect your husband.  With the woman I'm holding hands with right now.  I can say this in front of her because it's true. What I do is true. And that's the key. Love the Lord with all your heart. Love your neighbor as yourself. Who's my closest neighbor? My wife. And so if I love her as myself, what does that mean? Well, like Christ loved the church in the latest life down, then maybe I'll have a good marriage. That is cool. It's a blessing. Again, I didn't get more than honest this time though. Thank you guys for that. That's really encouraging because again, pulling this all back together, the importance of being centered on God's word and not centered on anything else. And again, this is the fruit of again, a church that's built on God's word and a marriage that's built on God's word. Amen. And so I want to thank our church family for tuning in. I thank Pastor David and Marie. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for the good times. And I hope we can continue to interview and question and answer this. We like it. Yeah, it's pretty cool. And so anything you want to say to our church before we leave? Yeah, God be with you. God help you. We miss you. We're looking forward to being together again. Until that moment, stay in the word of God. That's the bottom line. Love you guys.