Hello, everyone, I am Josbelasco and I am really happy to be here and share this English version of my talk that I was able to give at the WordPress World Cams and Jose at Costa Rica. And the name of the talk is how to build your professional career using the WordPress site editor. So I am a WordPress consultant at Dreamhost and I focus on trying to solve complex cases to support or to help the support team on the company that I work. And I have been able to solve some of the complex problems because I used to be a web developer for more than 14 years using WordPress. So you can find my WordPress.org profile, you can have it there and more info at my website. And I wanted to include also my master don't page because I really care a lot about open source lately. So to start with the talk I want to introduce to you my wife, she is a girls woman and WordPress volunteer out of my obligation. She was able to present some of the speakers of the World Cams and Jose. And she has had a website for a long time and there you can find her drawings. And I will say that she is an average WordPress user. She is the one climbing on the photo. And that is something amazing because we can contribute in several ways to WordPress and the WordPress photo directory is one of them. We could say that she does not build her professional career with the WordPress site editor because she is not interested. And that's okay. You know, not everyone has to build his or her professional career with WordPress and in a more profound way with the site editor. So I can or I want to introduce you and the program. If you don't know him, he is a trauma and critical care surgeon. And as a hobby, he updates and installs. No, he's in charge of the update install component. He's a maintainer of that component. He's pushing new cool stuff like the auto updates component, auto updates rollback. And well, I thought that this image would be very fun to illustrate. And Tofer, this photo is by Tofer. He has this amazing website that is Europe Press in which you can find the more interesting people that build their careers using WordPress. And we could say that Andy does not build his professional career with the WordPress site editor because he already does too much for the world. Okay, so my sister-in-law learned to set up discussion forums because there was no community in Spanish for her favorite group tattoo. And sometime later, she also built up this forum or I will say like configured. I think that she used PHPP at that time or something open source for her favorite series, the L word. And she began this journey as a web developer as a hobby. She is not there, but I thought that that photo is really fun by Nilo Vélez that he also contributes a lot to WordPress taking photos of the work camps. And this massive group or family photos sometimes are from him or the Europe or Spain mainly. And then later my sister-in-law from my very young age fell into the clutches of WordPress, helping my father-in-law with an online store that was built with WooCommerce. So that hobby started to transform into something more professional. And I would recommend you if you want to take the path of a web developer to really, really focus on what does you want. If you want to keep your friends and your family happy, you must put very clear what you are going to do. Like maybe those are going to be your first customers, but try to make them like not too seriously because I mean avoid problems at all costs. And that photo is because my father-in-law loves planes. And now she works at a research agency whose projects often require a website to publish their results. So we could say that she doesn't code. She's not too technical. She really likes to find out things and search things. She's really good. And she's a developer because she, at the end of the day, gives their customers, in this case the company that she works for, solid results with WordPress. So that hobby became her job. And that's why I chose that image that with WordPress you can lift heavy stuff, right? And we could say that she builds her professional career without the WordPress site editor because she uses commercial builders. And why is that? That was because she wasn't aware of the native WordPress editor. So that's one kind of a problem, you know, because sometimes when you start using WordPress and you have all your tool sets, you are okay just by repeating, you know, the same steps. And that a lot of the time will work for you, but not so much for the community. Because if you only take from the community and don't give back, then the growth of the, for example, the editor is going to be a little bit slower. Okay, so WordPress meetups and work comes became virtual during the pandemic. And new platforms such as our tools such as live streaming had to be learned. And that's where the community is like really important to share knowledge. And in this picture we can see Garden from Spain. And I mentioned Spain because they were like the first ones to start using a streaming platform to distribute the work comes. And there were people like Frank Calderon. He is full stack developer from Guatemala that he really enjoys making friends at the work comes. So I believe that he reached this Spain people, people from Spain, and learn how to use that tool. And from there he helped with the Mexico work on that was virtual. That's part of that was because he's really interested in also in audio visual production. It's a company that does that. So that's one of a kind of a work hobby I will say like he because he started learning so much. Not only producing videos but also streaming them. And he told me that he has been re investing with those the, you know, at the pandemic. He used to do a lot of social events. But he keeps doing streaming stuff like in the case of the San Jose. He helped with that. Pre recording the talks and for me that's very special thing to do because the case of these work come there were like several talks like at the same time. And it was really smart move for the organizers to pre record them the talks and then focus on the actual day on other things. And I gave them the organizing thing on the speakers time to do like a rehearsal. And in that photo that was taking in a coffee of what the mall. We have like, it was by Rita Robles, the main organizer of the work on San Jose. And we could say that Frank yields his professional career without the worker site editor.  He's like, like this close to use the full site editing and all the things that the site editor brings. But still they want to have like more, you know, control. So the next person that I want you to meet is C. C is a core representative of the WordPress marketing team. She creates websites for a long time now and is a small business consultant. And that's what I chose that image. She's like always moving. And I will describe her with one word, which is community. And she really cares about the WordPress community and what people. How can they really contribute and how can we as a community. Make sure that our job is recognized. And the direction of WordPress is like very, very important for her. So I recommend you following her job. She builds her professional career sometimes with the WordPress site editor. Because as the previous people that I presented to you, she used another tools to build. And for the small websites, she is now using the WordPress site editor. But one thing that I really like about C is that she is involved in projects that give back to the community that they belong. For example, she has participated in the creation of art directories. So she works for government but also has a direct impact in people and people sometimes thank her. So because there are these small professionals that receive help with these kind of projects that she's involved into. And then I mentioned her before, Rita Robles, the main organizer of the WordPress, San Jose. Welcome San Jose. But she works also for a housing company that uses this commercial WordPress builder. And that's not bad because she's like streamlined her process making these websites or small websites available like real fast. And we could say that she builds her professional career without the WordPress site editor. But for the work and San Jose website, she builds her professional career with the WordPress site editor. Because she has no choice. The thing is that all the work and websites are built with the site editor. So in this case, I don't know if that's a good thing or bad. I think it's a good thing to make people at least know a little bit of what's going on. And then I want you to meet Paul. Paul likes to give feedback. Like that's one of the persons that is always trying to test new products and really enjoys like talking about how to improve them. And he is part of the WordPress site editor testing program. And the official name was something like call for testing. Something like that. And it's like the only person that participated in the 24 editions of these calls for testing. And that's really cool to have. Like he told me that the feedback that he gave sometimes was applied. And it was like a better use of his time. Like not to calls. He's a web developer also. But to test things out. And this testing programs are really interesting because they give you a list of tasks to test and to follow. And then you gather this information, this feedback and try to solve the puzzle. That's why I chose the image. And I believe that this is community work that can also sometimes give you like some projects like in this case, Paul is an actor. So one of the things that he mentions whenever he's acting in the set is that he also makes websites. And that's like really interesting at least for me. So he also organizes part of the like these meetings in Slack in the core editorial channel. I recently saw that those are maybe going to be closed like since the conversations are mostly now on the tickets. But there are some different kind of events that are really important to have. And that people like him are kind of pushing like remembering us that this is like a constant work to be done. And who helps Paul, people like and McCarthy. And is the for me is the bridge between many people in the WordPress community. She creates tickets from the feedback that she receives. Therefore, she builds the builder. She built the site editor. I think I didn't mention but in the case of Paul, I believe that he. We could say that he partially like constructs like his professional career using the site editor because some of the projects that he has inherited are were made in some other, you know, builders. But the he also has a remake some of the websites or using only the site editor. So I will say that he builds his professional career with the site editor. And obviously, and McCarthy does that as well. And Carolina. She develops teams for the WordPress core. And is very heavily involved in the development of the WordPress editor. So not only by creating websites or testing the editor but also suggesting and making patches. A lot of accessibility issues CSS. That's a picture that you can find in the WordPress photo directory from where she is. I don't know how far but yeah. So we could say that in the case of Carolina she builds her professional career with the site WordPress editor. That would that would be it for me. Thank you so much for all the data and I hope you enjoy this little journey. And I'm here to answer all your questions and maybe you want to talk about more people that are involved with the site editor because there are a lot of or many more people. You can do so. So you can follow me there. Yeah, I myself I really enjoy using the site editor. And I really like a little bit of everything that we saw like testing, making websites, not a lot of code, but and performance stuff really excites me. I'm really happy to share with you. Thank you.


Namaste, welcome to the session stability of systems and poles on s-plane. At the end of this session students will be able to explain the relation between stability and poles on s-plane. In this session we are going to discuss conditionally stable system, asymptotic stability, relative stability, relation between stability and poles on s-plane, conditionally stable system. In the last session we have completed types of systems where the types of systems are stable system, unstable system, marginally which is also known as critically stable system. So moving further to the types of system one of the system is also known as conditionally stable system. A linear time invariant system is said to be conditionally stable when it use bounded output for the condition of certain parameters of the system. So if condition of certain parameters of the system are not satisfied then the system becomes unstable. So if you remember in the last session we have seen a video on the car system it goes uncontrollable and sometimes it becomes unstable. So a car where it is a system it depends upon certain parameters where those may be braking system or acceleration system. So a car may be a conditionally stable system because it depends upon parameters, condition of the parameters. So that is why conditionally stable system is also important factor as in static stability. Zero input response, the output response of system that is driven by no any external input but initial state of the system only is called zero input response. So before proceeding further now take a pause here and recall what do you mean by BIBO system which we have seen in the last session. So I think you have remembered and recall what do you mean by BIBO system. So when output of a particular system is bounded with respect to bounded input then that system is known as a BIBO stable system. But if output is not bounded for the bounded input then it becomes unstable system. So for any bounded input if the output is bounded then system is said to be BIBO stable. Zero input stability or asymptotic stability if the zero input response c of t of a system subjected to a finite initial condition is bounded and reaches to zero as k tends to infinity. Then the system is said to be asymptotically stable. So a system having zero input stability so a system is called as a zero input stable or asymptotic stable when it fulfills these two criteria where m is greater than or equal to response of a system and less than infinity. And second condition is if response of the system tends to infinity then its output will be zero. So simply a system is asymptotically stable or it is also known as a internally stable when it is having bounded output as said in the first condition and it has a value zero when time reaches to infinity. So let us see relative stability. For a system whether it is relatively more stable or unstable depends on how fast its transient settles. Relative stability is related to settling time of a system which is decided by poles on s-plane. If poles are away from left half of imaginary axis is considered to be relatively more stable compared to a system having poles close to imaginary axis. Let us observe relative stability using poles on s-plane. So for example here we have a pole which is close to imaginary axis shown by blue colour and let us have one more pole which is on real part which is away from the imaginary axis shown by red colour. Then its response will be you can see the response for blue coloured pole which is near to the imaginary axis it takes more time to settle as compared to a pole which is shown by red colour which is away from the pole it settles easily and quickly. So we can see here red coloured pole which is away from the imaginary axis takes very less time to settle as compared to the blue coloured pole which is close to imaginary axis. So one more example if you have complex conjugate pole on the left hand side of the which is close to imaginary axis and let us have two more poles which are having complex conjugate property on the left hand side but away from the imaginary axis. Then response will be you can see here it is a decaying sinusoidal shown by black colour graph here for the black poles and red coloured response for the red poles which are away from the imaginary axis which settles quickly which settles earlier as compared to black coloured pole. So you can see here the poles which are away from the imaginary axis settles earlier. So here you can see we can conclude that relative stability improves as poles moves away from imaginary axis on left half of s plane. Now let us see relation between stability and poles on s plane. So for absolutely stable system the conditions are first the poles should be real and negative on left hand side of the s plane. So here we have an example. So the pole which is on left hand side of the s plane having the response step response which is bonded so it is absolutely stable and when poles are complex conjugate and real negative on left hand side of the s plane then step response will be decaying sinusoidal which is also response of absolutely stable system. Now for unstable system the conditions are poles should be real positive and should be on the right hand side of the s plane as shown in figure here. So step response will be which is which reaches to infinity and second condition is poles should be complex conjugate real positive on the right hand side of the s plane. So the step response will be increasing sinusoidal signal. One more condition for unstable system is if there are repeated pair of poles on imaginary axis with no pole on right hand side of the s plane. So as you can see here shown by blue colored poles which are pair and one more which are shown by red colored then step response will be increasing sinusoidal. For marginally or critically stable system the condition is the poles should be non-repeated on imaginary axis with no pole on right hand side of the s plane. So I can see here the poles are there on the imaginary axis which are not repeated and there is no pole on the right hand side of the s plane. So response will be bonded one where the sinusoidal signal is neither increasing nor decaying. So thank you.


The point source fire ignition technique is a modified version of the strip head fire.  The first line of spots is started on the downwind side of the site. Spots should be placed the same distance apart to ensure predictable fire behavior. Point source fires burn in all directions, but most fuels are consumed by the head and flanking portions of the fire. The intensity of point source fires is intermediate between head fires and backing fires. Managers can increase or decrease the intensity of the fire by changing both the distance between lines and the distance between spots. Intensity of the fire will be increased when two spots converge. Because point source fires burn in all directions, they often create a mosaic of burning intensities that result in diversity for wildlife.


The Tree of Life, of course, said our hotel concierge excitedly. You must go see it. 30 minutes later, the six of us were squeezed tight in our rental. The directions were easy, he said. Drive straight out to the capital, onto the main highway, and you'll see the signs that will lead you directly to this majestic and mystical tree. Seemed easy enough. Two hours later, driving back and forth with the full repertoire of changing a flat tire behind us, and without reason being held for questioning at an army base, we were still at a loss. Asking people for assistance, some would answer, oh, you still need to drive further, or others, smirkingly, would clarify that we had passed the infamous tree many, many kilometers ago. We still couldn't find it. Another hour later, at a spot on the highway we'd passed numerous times before, we realized that there was a lone tree far off into the distance, now with a couple of cars parked beside it, so far away from the highway, access only off-road and without any major signage to be seen, reflecting the overly hyped importance of the place. Could it be? We had finally arrived at the iconic tree, only totally frustrated and overwhelmingly unimpressed. You know I'm only joking Bahrain, your tree of life is both inspiring and beautiful. Many civilizations have created the concept of the tree of life to explain existence and its meaning for humanity. The fundamental bases for these varying concepts ranged from the mythical to the religious, some were mystical and even philosophical. For the people of ancient Egypt, Buddhism, Mandeism and Bahá'íism, the tree of life reflected the path to knowledge and enlightenment. For the Assyrian Empire, ancient Greece, ancient China, Judaism, Hinduism and those following the Christian faith, the sacred tree symbolized the cycle of life and immortality. Early Persian civilizations believed that the sacred tree depicted the origins of all living beings on earth, whereas for Islam, the tree represented the code of life and the pursuit of goodness. Many other cultures or peoples, like the Old Norse, Mesoamerican, Turkish and North Americans, believed that the tree of life symbolized the connection between heaven and earth, life and the afterlife. In whatever era or civilization, these concepts were all linked to the thoughts and beliefs at the time and not necessarily the tangible reality these peoples lived through in relationship to a real physical tree. Don't misunderstand me, most of the peoples had a real physical manifestation of the tree of life. These physical species ranged from the phychus, baobah, to the oak, a fig tree and many others. But were any of these trees really a tree of life, meaning that human life was reliant upon them? Some will contend that their tree was fundamental for their survival as a civilization and hence an applicable tree of life. But which tree has provided to its people most abundantly? Which species can truly be designated as the tree of life and deserves to be given such a title? The answer is not what you think. For this tree has never come close to being labeled a tree of life. Its extremely high level of importance for life has been vital for the people of its region for over eight millennia, with its effectiveness for human survivability receding only several decades ago. This tree is the Date Palm, Phoenix Dactylifera, a tree that is so common and abundant in the Middle East, North Africa and the Indian subcontinent, yet is overlooked as the ultimate candidate for the title, Tree of Life. How can this tree that gives exponentially more than it takes be ignored for so long throughout history? The Date Palm asks for nothing. It has existed in the harshest habitat known on Earth, asking for no assistance, neither for water nor for any care, but it gives and continuously gives on all fronts. Its benevolence has no measure, from the medicinal qualities found in its heart, pollen and roots, to its highly nourishing dates that can sustain people across extremely lengthy and arduous journeys. Leaves and stalks used for the construction of various structures, with the same leaves interwoven in the making of household items and furniture. The deeper one looks, the more one finds in the practical uses of the Date Palm. But it doesn't end there. Before you revert back and look through the same other worldly lens that ancient peoples viewed the Tree of Life, then we'll discover how the Date Palm, since antiquity, has been regarded as a physical reflection of humanity. The palm's anthropomorphic attributes have been clearly documented by all those who benefit from its generosity. First, the facts. Date palms are daisious, meaning that they are divided into female and male plants. Their lifespan, in fact, is virtually identical to that of human beings, ranging from 80 to 100 years. Impregnation is identical to that of humans as well, meaning a male tree must fertilize the eggs of a female tree. And finally, once impregnated, the female Date Palm will cease to produce any seedlings for the duration of the fruition period. The other main attribute that links Date Palms to humans is their real emotional range. As with other plants, a Date Palm feels happiness when kind words are heard and feel sorrow when hurtful words are spoken. The Date Palm feels fear and senses stress from those in its vicinity. The Date Palm loves and feels the love of others, both that of other palms and that of humans, male or female. A palm attracted to another tree will physically lean towards it. And in the opposite, when offended by another, will turn its back on the palm that has provoked it. We are blessed with a Date Palm. Its benefits to us in today's day and age have been whittled down substantially. But we still salivate at its sweet fruit and the endless variety it comes in. We take pride in its stature and presence around our neighborhoods. We still seek its refuge in its shadow. Even now, its blessings are many. For the young and old, be them rich or poor. And to deny the Date Palm its rightful title would be sacrilegious. A name it rightfully deserves. The Tree of Light.


Don't get too cocky, though. There are many other magic beans out there. Chickpeas, split peas, lentils, kidney beans, and yellow split peas. This is what the graph looks like. Two of those in that list belong to the same antioxidant-packed class as black and pinto beans have. But there are three relative loser legumes. Now, number three is those wonderful dark red kidney beans. But what's number two? Four of them I'll choose from. Three of these are relative losers, but one is the second most power-packed antioxidant legume on the planet, or at least so far tested. Chickpeas, split peas, lentils, or yellow split peas? If you said yellow split peas, peas, take your seat. Green split peas, also wrong if you said yellow split peas. You're right, lentils, number two, chickpeas, number seven. Now, chickpeas are still super healthy, but comparatively less so compared to these superstars.


Sharon was just kind of joking that this team has the memory of a goldfish when you come in every day It's like you forgot what happened the day before almost like you lost more hungry each day than the next Where do you think that mentality comes from? um I just think that we were a group of just guys who have Been around for a while to know what it takes every day to get ready for a game in the mentality it takes every day to get ready for a game and Um, just celebrating a win and When we lose, you know, we we get over it quickly and just prepare the next day to go on a baseball game What do you think has been the difference for you at the plate over the last 13 games? um, just ebbs and flows of the season Just working on working through kinks and just always trying to find the the right the right position to be in and Um, it's kind of just the ebb and flow of the season of staying with it and having good at bats and I think you know when I get hit by pitches I feel like it really blocks me in more just staying on the ball and whatnot Can you describe as an offense what an inning like the fifth feels like? Uh, it's fun. I mean especially after our our long travel night last night. Uh, we're kind of just kind of rolling in everyone's we know everyone's tired. It's uh the long night and The energy on the bench was really good early on Knowing that our levels were a little lower. So When you do get the home run from g and then just add on quick next pitch I think was a home or two Back to back right and then labor with the double. So It's fun for us because we we always say it could happen fast and when it does happen fast Those are always those are always fun fun moments for us


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Okay, it's taking a bit too, yeah, it's time to check on it. All right, so we're now in chapter eight, where we will read about the strategies of Satan. Till now, we are very clear. We have discussed many instances, where God's power was released in scripture, in personal life. We've also talked about how Christ Jesus has won the victory for us on the cross and defeated Satan. We've seen how we can apply that in our lives. But then we might have a question that has believed us. If Jesus has won victory in such a grand way, why is it that the enemy, though he is defeated, is not stopping his works? One reason we have already given, we've said that there is a time at which he will be completely removed from this earth and he will receive his punishment after judgment. But then while Satan is here and he knows that he's defeated, his works have not stopped in that sense, but they still continue, he's defeated. But should he not accept his defeat and just resign from the work that he's doing? So why is it that he continues to attack believers? Why is it that he continues to cause destruction in people's lives? So the way we can understand this is, though Satan is defeated, also notice that his time here on earth is very, very limited. He knows he's defeated, he knows his time is limited and he continues to be with that deceit and pride in himself where he will not stop the activities that he's engaged in. So any enemy who has very little time and who knows that they are going to be imprisoned or caught, what will they do? They will use all the energy that they have in their remaining time. So that they can cause destruction in their life, so that they can cause sufficient destruction, isn't it? Even in places where there are enemies that are defeated and they want to take over a land or something like that, they know that they don't have the full victory or the capacity, what do they do? They just play around in something called as gorilla tactics where they will go, they will try to influence the people, they will try to, in an illegal unlawful way, get a hold of people's resources. So it's like playing from, it's like backdoor entry and playing, not in the fort, but sort of just being around and still causing destruction. And that's exactly what Satan is trying to do. He knows he's defeated, he knows he has a little bit of time but he's doing his best. He knows he can't enter through the main gate, so he's entering through the back gate and causing as much chaos as possible. So that is why all the more as we see the days leading up to what God has spoken in his word, the way this world will end and all that, you see, he's trying to be very aggressive and show his power just so that he expends all the energy that he has to cause maximum destruction. So that is how you see the enemy working. Now, more specifically, talking about believers, what does he do? Being defeated for and being so aggressive in his schemes, his plots, his methods, what does he do with the lives of believers? So there are three main things that he tries to do in people's lives and that's what we are going to look at today. One is mind games. So he tries to really maximize on this mind games. Second is he tries to enter in through open doors. Now, the third one is violations and intrusions. So we will look at all these three one by one. Because we have understood that Jesus has won the victory and that Satan is defeated and yet active, what we need to do is we have to be wise and take authority. So if we keep him out, then we will be able to overcome all these methods and games which Satan is actually playing with us. So coming to mind games, we saw that scripture from Second Corinthians 2.11 which says, Satan should take advantage of us for we are not ignorant of his devices. So there are devices, plots, schemes that Satan has and we have to be aware of it. It means mental tactics. So when we are aware, that's when we can create defenses against what Satan is doing. So how does he work? He works in our minds. In the lives of unbelievers, we've already said how he influences them and brings about spiritual blindness. So that's something he does with the help of his teammates. And when it comes to believers, okay, he works on their minds to sort of take their thoughts away from God's word. So he's working in the area of the thoughts. He's working in the area of the progression of thoughts. If you recall, when we talked earlier about the methods of working of Satan, we said that if we are not careful, then a thought can lead into an argument in somebody's mind and that can move further and become a certain reasoning that the person has and then turn into mental strongholds. So which is why we are told that we must take every thought captive. So everything begins with a thought. Satan can even plant thoughts in our minds now. These thoughts can be thoughts of unforgiveness. They can be thoughts of pride. They can be thoughts of lust. They can be, it's just a one solitary thought that comes to our minds. And if we don't take charge of it and immediately the way Satan spoke to Jesus, we saw that in Luke 4, when Jesus was tempted and Satan comes and he says, all these kingdoms I will give it to you. So he presents, he puts thoughts in Jesus's head. What does Jesus do? Immediately Jesus responds with, it is written. So immediately he brings that thought captive and aligns it to the thought of God. Now if we fail to do that, only then we will see the progression. So what is the progression? Arguments, there's nothing wrong, it's okay. Everybody does it at the age that you are in. It's all right, this is how normal life is. Arguments within our minds will begin. Then reasoning, we will have that reasoning that yeah, at this age, people should do this. That's nothing wrong with that. It's not sinful to talk about something immoral to do or some sort of a habit that people are getting into. So there is a reasoning. So they are comfortably able to do those things repeatedly because a certain reasoning has set in their minds. And strongholds, where the name itself suggests strongholds are like a fortress. They're like a fortress. And it is said that demons, right? When we say a person is demonized, demons don't live in our spirit. They can live in our soul. And where do they usually live? They live in these strongholds, emotional strongholds, mental strongholds where we have given permission to lies of the enemy about anything, right? But for a long time, we never brought those thoughts but let's say fear started with the thought, went on to becoming an argument. We gave it to it. Now it has become our reasoning. Yeah, we can't do this because if we do this, Satan will attack us.  You're so paralyzed by fear and what does enemy do with a stronghold? Demons can now come and they can take charge and slowly they are taking charge of the mental faculty.  And though he would love to continue to do this, plant thoughts, he can be very crafty because you know that he's a deceiver. He will try to speak lies as if they are truth and he will try to weaken us. He wants to, in fact, weaken our will, weaken our thought pattern, which is as per God's word so that it becomes corrupted. And we are willing to do whatever he's suggesting. So what we see more and more is that Satan will do his best. Remember we said the one Peter five, eight, we talked about how the enemy is like a roaring light. He's waiting. It's like you're waiting to charge. If you have a pet at home and you ever trained it to eat the meal. What happens? The moment they see their favorite food, they smell that they're ready to bounce. And that's how Satan is. All the more because his time is less. So he's doing everything he can to attack the believers and especially through mind games and it starts generally through thoughts. He can put blindness on the spiritual understanding of people. He can be very crafty to deceive people. So in all these ways, he tries to go about attacking them. But what can a believer do? He will study about the weapons with which we can come against the enemy soon and we will study about it in detail. But for now, if you can think of Ephesians chapter six, the armor of God has been mentioned there which a believer can use that can help the believer to stand against the attacks of the mind. So what does this armor work as? One, the parts of the armor. Helmet of salvation, helmet of salvation. What does the helmet of salvation cover? It covers our mind. So spiritually, this means that our minds are aware of what has happened through salvation for us. So what has happened? We understand that Jesus has forgiven us. We understand that now we are placed in Christ Jesus. Now we understand that we have been given authority. We have been given dominion. We have every blessing. We have the blessings of the cross. We have the blessings of Abraham. We have an inheritance in Christ Jesus. So helmet of salvation is the knowledge of salvation. Now when a believer lives their life with the knowledge that they have all this, it's not easy for Satan to come and plant a thought and say, God doesn't love you. Immediately what will the believer say? With a renewed mind, because they have the helmet of salvation, they have understood what salvation has done for us. So the believer would say, hey, that's not true. God really loves me.   So, you know, we can come up with all these scriptures and put it against the devil and say, no devil, it is written. And that is how the helmet of salvation really helps because it helps us know who we are in Christ. And if Satan is trying to touch us in any way, we can immediately say, no, I have been redeemed by the blood of the lamb, you know, I have been redeemed. Satan, you can't do this. So a believer can use the helmet of salvation. In other words, the knowledge of what salvation has done for the believer. And that becomes a part of the armor that you and I carry. Now, coming to breastplate of righteousness. So what is the breastplate of righteousness? We know what is right and wrong. Yeah, according to the character of God, we recognize that. And so when Satan tries to induce us and say, it's okay, little bit of sin is not going to do anything or some lies here and there or some, you know, compromise here and there. But for a believer who is protecting himself, he will use the breastplate of righteousness. And we will say, no, devil, it's not right. The scripture says that Jesus also said, I am the way, the truth and the life. So when my God is the truth, how can I lie? God does not lie. So we must be like God. We should not lie. So based on the word of God, we are constantly realigning, recalibrating ourselves to what is right and wrong, so that we can put on, you know, that righteousness that Jesus already, the scriptures say, right, that we've already become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, but we have to live it out. So we're living that righteous life and that becomes a covering for us. And that is the breastplate of righteousness. So Satan is trying to penetrate our mind, but hey, no, I am carrying the breastplate of righteousness. So you can't penetrate. Belt of truth, now the belt of truth, once again. It's like sort of working together with righteousness itself, isn't it? So the truth of God's word, what is the truth about the word of God? It is the final authority for us. Now Satan might come and say, no, no, why do you want to believe that God's word is the final authority? How about, you know, you take from some other philosophies, there is so much wisdom there as well, but when you know the truth, you're saying, don't try to deceive me. I know what God's word says. God's word is established in the heavens. And so, no, I am not going to receive your lies. Or let's put it more practically, the truth about different things in life, the truth about faith in God, the truth about hard work, diligent being diligent, the truth about treating people well in relationships. So these are all our everyday practical issues, okay? But when we have the truth about all these matters, then the enemy cannot shake us. But you truth about justice, so many things are happening in the world around us. What is the standard that I should have? Get into God's word, try to find out, okay, what is the truth? So based on the truth of God's word, I'm going to make my standard. Then what happens?  And I am protected. When I'm on the side of truth, what happens? I become protected. No wonder it is known as the armor of God. So we have to put out the armor of God, shoes of the good news of peace to move forward. So what is this? Basically, I have chosen to walk with, in a cordial way, in a loving way. I have chosen to avoid strife, ill will, anger, bitterness, evil, doing evil to people. I have decided. I'm not going to engage in those things. So when I'm walking with the Lord in this manner, I put on the shoes of peace and of the gospel of God. So gospel is I'm ready to share. Whenever there is an opportunity, I'm ready to share what the Lord Jesus has done. So then what happens? This also becomes my defense. So all these pieces of the armor, they are not an object, but they are something that we are aligning ourselves to as for what God has spoken. And that gives us protection against the mind games that the enemy is playing. The shield of faith. The shield of faith is very, very important because what Satan loves to shake our faith. If a believer in a believer's life, their faith can be shaken, Satan knows I can get this person. So that is why it is known as shield of faith. In the mind, he could plant thoughts of fear, he could plant thoughts of anxiety, he could plant thoughts that say that God doesn't care, God has forgotten, God has abandoned. So then what happens to the believer? The faith starts shaking. Oh, if I don't have the certainty of salvation, if I don't have the certainty of God's help, what will happen to me? Then it's like the attacks, if you want to imagine with me those days, this armor of God is taken from the Roman soldiers with the kind of outfit that they used to have in the front lines. So you would notice that they had all these elements in the armor and in front, they'll hold a metal shield like that.  So it was very important for the soldiers to hold the shield and sort of keep covering themselves all the time. If they missed it, if they missed holding up the shield, then what happens? The arrow will hit you. Where will it hit? It would generally be directed to the heart or the chest areas where you have some of your vital organs and you could just die. In the same way today, Satan wants to affect our hearts or the core of our being through the thoughts that he plans. And many of these thoughts are like those arrows. They're coming and hitting us every day. But as a believer, I have to hold up my faith. Every day I have to hold up my faith and say, what God says, I'm going to say what God says about me. I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. You say, I have not received a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. No, I have not received a spirit of bondage, but I have received the spirit by which I cry out, Abba, father. So I have to be so grounded in God's word and my faith in God's word. Because if I can do that, his mind games will just fall to the ground. He can't play with a believer who is sound and rooted and grounded in the faith. So that is how we overcome the mind games, the enemy tries to play. And he does this with all the believers. He does it with all the believers in different ways. So we can understand in our own lives, what are some of the regular things that he uses. So you can take some time and think about it. It'll really help us because when we go for battle, as much as we are prepared, I might have all the weapons, but I also have to think, how will this enemy attack me? Will he attack from this side or that side? So when I have some idea, then I know, okay, then I should be ready. I should not give him chance in all these angles. I know many of us have not directly been soldiers in a war and all, but think of games that you play, even badminton or shuttlecock or all that, because then you're thinking or chess, you're thinking, he could do this. So I have to be like this. So in our daily life, we can know ourselves and our challenges and know that, okay, I must make sure that if I am going through anxiety, then I must make sure that I take time and prayer because I know that is an area where Satan can play mind games with me. So I make sure I take that time or if I'm having doubts in a certain aspect of my faith, then I know, okay, I must make sure that I study God's word and equip myself in that area, then I'm strong enough. Or let's say in the ministry flowing in the gifts of the spirit, you're finding it difficult. I'm not having the faith to do it. Every time you come under condemnation, then you know, okay, I will study about the gifts of the spirit, then I'll know how to flow it in better. So basically take charge, understand that these are ways in which Satan works in general and more specifically he has done these kind of things in my life. So how can I protect myself? So personally, you can give time to study of God's word, prayer, or keeping certain scriptures, okay? So when you know, okay, I know that I'm suffering with these evil thoughts, then what should I do? Okay, immediately some scriptures, okay? I can't have, I cannot accommodate evil thoughts in my mind because scripture says that may the words of my mouth, may the meditations of my heart be acceptable in my sight. So it is the will of God that we be sanctified, be holy as I am holy. So I can immediately switch to war mode and start bringing out all these verses. So this is the way which we will protect ourselves from the mind games of the devil. Also one more thing which is mentioned here in our notes is Ephesians 4.27. It says, nor give place to the devil. Nor give place to the devil. So we have to be alert about our own lives and think, okay? Is there in any way, is there any way through which Satan can enter, you know, into my life or my family or my ministry? And if you sense that, then take charge of it. It could be a sin. It could be a sin. Let's say some compromise in our, I'm just giving some random example. Let's say finances. I'm willing to compromise in the way I handle my finances. I don't mind a little bit here or there. So that's how it starts out, but what is happening? Now Satan got a foothold. Right now it's not a big matter. But as we move forward, he knows I can now completely enter, I can make a big mess of this person's finances and thereby his life, his family, his ministry, everything. So footholds, we have to be careful. It could just begin as a thought. It could just begin as a suggestion, but we have to be aware. We should be quick to catch the devil like Jesus and say, no devil, it is written. So don't try to change my standards. These are my standards. I will go by these standards. So don't give the devil this verse as, right? Not give place to the devil. It means don't give the devil any opportunity. Don't give him any power or any occasion or anything to enter into our lives. So we have to be very, very careful. So mind games is something that he loves to play against the believers. The next thing here is open doors. The open doors. What are these open doors? As I already said, the foothold into somebody's life. Sin is a classic open door. Believers who, you know, one foot in the world, one foot in God, and we think we can just make it like that. But if you wanna put it this way, we are playing with fire. Satan is not so, you know, he wants to make sure to destroy. So we can't say that, yeah, I will align little bit within what is wrong, nothing, I'm getting pleasure out of it or I'm getting, you know, fame out of it or I'm getting power out of it, I'm getting money out of it. But sooner or later, it will lead to destruction. So sin, as a believer, no wonder the Lord's prayer please start outside and daily prayer, he taught us to pray, Lord, forgive us our sins. As we forgive those who sin against us. So it's very important for me on a daily basis to come to a place where I say, Lord, everything that I know is wrong. I confess it. And I say, Lord, help me to align myself to you. So then what am I doing? Through confession, one John one, seventh through nine, we see there John said, if we confess our sins, then he is faithful and just to forgive us and remove sins as far as the east is from the west. So God is faithful to do that, but he wants that attitude of humility, repentance from the believer. So when I can walk like that, I think in the prayer and intercession course I have told us, keep short accounts with God, daily accounts with God, where you're dealing with things immediately, then what happens? When Satan comes and he's checking, any note, did they leave it open by mistake? You know, is it open? Nothing will be open. We have dealt with sin, right? We have confessed it. We also repent. What is repentance? You know, repentance in our language, it just means making a U-turn or turning around in the opposite direction and stopping that sin that we were engaged in. So living a life like that will not leave any open doors for the devil. In the case of unconfessed sin, okay?  Sometimes sins are unconfessed because you probably didn't know that you made a mistake. So that's a different scenario. But I'm talking about knowing something is wrong and not dealing with it. So unconfessed, unrepented sin, now that is something Satan loves. It's an open door, inviting the devil to come in. So he can easily come in. So we have to deal with sin in our lives. Now, apart from this, we also see, you know, scriptures talk about unbelief, scriptures, how that fear is not a godly thing and, you know, unforgiveness, hatred, all these things in the heart of a man. But these are all what works of the flesh, works of the flesh. And they are sin and leading us deeper and deeper into, you know, other kinds of things. So we have to get rid of these things. And who is our best example? You know, when we talk about living righteously, people usually tend to suggest, oh, be like this person, be like this pastor, be like this leader. But you see, our best example is the Lord Jesus. Now, maybe even the people who we are looking up to, for whatever reason, their standards are not like the standards of Jesus. So Jesus is our standard. We can't justify our lower standard saying, oh, but even my mentor is doing it or my leader is doing it, so I can also do it. We can't justify like that because our standard should be the standard of Jesus. And anything that is of this, what is sin simply means missing the mark. So if we have missed the mark, as far as God's word, God's standards are concerned, then do we just need to sincerely confess, repent, and shut the door on the devil? That way, he will have no entry point into our lives and we would have received the cleansing work of the blood of Jesus in ourselves. So we have to, through sin, we might open the doors to keep it shut. Now there's a little bit more explanation in our notes here and I will just share that before I move on to the next way in which doors can be opened, which is the words we speak. So when it comes to sin, why do people fall into sin? One is our fleshly weaknesses. We have not dealt with those weaknesses. So again, these are things that our flesh craves fame, pride, or food, or whatever, just laziness, you just don't wanna do any work. So our flesh wants things contrary to what God has told us to have. So it's our own issue. These are our weaknesses, these are fleshly weaknesses and there are many ways to overcome this. The first and foremost, as I've been saying, you can study God's word because God's word will transform us inside how it is sharper than any two-edged sword. So we can apply God's word, we can pray, we know that our spirit man is strengthened when we pray. We can pray in the spirit because you know how clearly Paul writes that one is edified and you pray in the, when you pray in terms of what happens, we edify ourselves, but prophecy edifies the body of believers. So we understand, okay, fine, I can pray in terms. So you're overcoming the weaknesses of your flesh in all these ways. Fasting also helps us overcome the weaknesses of our flesh and also walking in righteousness when you keep denying your flesh. No, no, you can't do this, you can't do this. You're literally taming your flesh.  Yeah, self-control, what is self-control? It is a fruit of the Holy Spirit and it is produced through our lives as we continually keep walking with the Lord so we can overcome our fleshly weaknesses. And Satan, on the other hand, so this fleshly weaknesses is an internal issue which we have to deal with. The other issue is external, that is temptations or influence of Satan. He will try to induce or he will try to cajole us, he will try to attract us, invite us to do something or think, usually it's not do first, usually it is think first. And if you're not careful enough, we might think but I didn't do anything but it's going towards that. Remember we saw in passages from James and all that when desire is full grown, then it gives rise to sin. So things begin with thought desire. So external, that is temptation of the devil. How do you deal with the temptations that Satan means? Again, same thing, be ready with the word. If you know that some area is my weakness, I'm weak in this area, then be ready with four or five scriptures because you don't know what time you might be tempted.  So these are all things that believers can do to keep the door shut and notice both of this, whether we are struggling with fleshly weaknesses or external temptations are coming. We still have the capacity to overcome. So the choice to whether I want to sin or I want to do the right thing, it is mine. I need to yield to what God is saying and that way I can walk in righteousness and I can overcome what the enemy is doing. Now, in order to overcome again in your notes, the same things that I have kind of mentioned, submit to God through his word, crucify the flesh with the help of the Holy Spirit, make no provision for the flesh. Okay, so make no provision for the flesh just like, you know, example is, let's say I am tempted to eat a lot of sweets. Good thing to do is don't buy sweets, don't keep sweets in your fridge, don't keep sweets in your cupboard because if you keep, then what happens? You make some provision for the flesh.  So in this way, in all other areas of our life, if something is tempting us, just stay away from it and make sure that, you know, you're very careful. And one more thing we can do is you can pray because prayer also helps us to keep a guard, you know, pray that you may not fall into temptation. So prayer also really helps us to overcome, okay? Yeah, so we will go on to the next, yeah, okay. I think that's a question. Who's this? Okay, no question, I thought I heard a question. All right, so any thoughts, questions, everyone? Okay, nothing much, all right. Yeah, just give me a moment, I'll, my bar is low. Okay, great. So we've understood, you know, that we have to live a righteous life and that prayer said we will not be able to enter. Now, open doors, true words. So words are emphasized in scripture, we know from Proverbs 18, 21, that life and death is in the power of the tongue. And God has designed some sort of an authority and a creative power in the words that we speak. Even when he created the world, he said, let there be light and there was light. So God spoke to release his authority. And so in the same manner, when we speak over our lives, we are releasing authority. Now, this could be the correct kind of words, these could be words of blessing, these could be words in line with God and his word. They could be words that, you know, how we said that angels, when we talked about demons and angels, we said angels are ministering spirits and we saw in Sam's how they act in accordance to the word of God. So when I'm speaking God's word, the angelic activity is activated. So all this happens when we speak God's word and we can see its power, but then when we speak opposite to God's word, that ends up being the open door. Okay, so we are simply classifying that as wrong words. So let's say instead of words that affirm who we are in Christ, we go ahead and say, no, but I'm not forgiven. I don't feel sanctified and holy. I am fearful. I am filled with fear. It becomes an open door for the devil. Then we are constantly, you know, it's not the truth of God's word, isn't it? So when we speak the right words, we are believing that the power of those right words are ease. Same thing happens when we speak wrong words also. The power of those words are being released over either our life or we could speak unbelief. We could speak fear and condemnation over people around us, any people who God has given under our authority. So especially family, right? Children, so when we speak these words, we end up, you know, allowing space for the devil to work. Now, taking this to, you know, just understand the dedications that we had spoken about earlier, remember? We said that sometimes people dedicate using the words that they speak. So there can be words of dedication that people have spoken over their children or their grandchildren many years before. And now there is an open door through that. Satan is actually able to attack people. So how do we overcome it? Again, speak God's word. By faith, we speak the opposite of what the enemies say, right? And we can also, because we said that we can bind, we can rebuke, we can cast out. So we can take authority and we can also cancel.  So when you do that, what happens? The doors are shut, okay? Now remember, we said, Job, Job said that, whatever I feared has come upon me. Whatever I feared has come upon me. So sometimes we end up releasing that fear through our words. We say that, okay, God, I know God will help me, God will help me. And when you don't see what you expected, suddenly the words come on, I knew nothing is going to happen. You know? So what's happening here? Our faith is showing itself what we truly believe and it's coming out in the words that we are speaking. So how do we work on this? Again, best way is meditate, meditate, meditate on God's word, because that is our standard, isn't it? And how in Romans 12, we say, we have to renew our vines. Take this analogy. An analogy is, let's say that this room in which I'm sitting and teaching all of you, if it is made with mud bricks, somebody has laid mud bricks and they've made it. Now, for me to make a stronger cement, like a strong cement brick room, I have to sit and remove every mud brick and in place of that mud brick, I have to put a cement brick. So think about that. Remove everything, again, put. That is what renewing the mind is. Our mind has already got thoughts, patterns in it, but God's word says that we must renew our vines. Don't be conformed to the ways of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of our mind. So replace, replace every lie, every deception, every standard, which is not aligning to God's word, but God's word. So for that, what should we do? Get into God's word. Then we will know this is the truth. I'm putting it into my mind. Now mind, let it settle down, let it settle down. Use it, use it. And then that's what we believe. What will start happening? It'll start coming out from our mouth. Don't worry, brother, God is there. God will help you. Why? Because that's the faith you carry. Now it's coming out in the time of need. So in that way, we can really work on the words that we are speaking, and if wrong words have been spoken, we can again, with our words, cancel those wrong words. So that way, we are closing the doors for the devil. So now let's, one more thing here given is situations. Situations, I think this also we have seen quite a bit, but yeah, we'll have to look at it a little more in depth. So let me stop right here. We can pray and close for today. I wanna request somebody to please go ahead and pray please so that we can wrap up today's session. Okay, let's pray. Loving Father, once again, Lord, we thank you so much for speaking to us, Lord, through your daughter. Lord, this afternoon Lord, we especially pray that you bless us, Lord, that we will be a lot in our personal spiritual life. Lord, we will not compromise in any certain things, Lord, but Lord, I pray that you bless us. A holy spirit, Lord, you always lead us in all the truth. And Lord, you bless us that Lord, we will come to you, master, not to second master. Once again, Lord, I pray for myself and all our dear ones, those who are learning together. Lord, you bless us that in the days to come, Lord, we will see a spiritual growth in our life and a family, Lord. So thank you so much for a faster, continuously bless. In Jesus' name, I pray, amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, Subhashesh. And thank you, everyone. May God bless you, continue to be strong in God and look forward to meeting you next week. Have a great weekend. Bye.


Well, hello there everyone. It is Chad. I am back. I am so sorry for those of you who have been sending me emails over the past few months wondering where I've been and why I haven't been posting anything on this page. It's because I've been working on something else. I've got a course called App CEO entrepreneurial skills for the trades that I'm teaching at BCIT. So that's been taken up a ton of my time but I really appreciate you guys watching these videos. I appreciate you checking in and the feedback so I thought I would just throw together another one. Now I'm just gonna get right to it. Make sure that you're checking out the page www.TheElectricAcademy.com. That goes without saying. I also want to make sure that you guys are going to that Learn More tab on this page.  So you want to check that out. And you also want to make sure you check out my YouTube channel because I've got videos there that I do post and I haven't posted a few. I haven't posted a couple or for the past month or two but I'm posting more. So these little Facebook Live videos that I do generally get posted there as well. So you want to go over there and check it out and subscribe. Alright so this week what I want to talk to you guys about. I'm just gonna get into it. We don't need to talk about what's going on in our lives and your lives and all that fun stuff. So what I want to talk about this week is power factor correction.  There's been a little confusion on some things so I put together a little keynote presentation that I took them through and I thought what the heck I'll share it with you guys as well. So let's take a look at it.  So there you go. I'm gonna go with this.  And here we go. So I'm starting with power factor correction. So what I've got going on here. If I can see where my mouse is. There it is. I've got three loads. I've got a motor A, motor B, and motor C and they're all in parallel with each other. What we're gonna do is we're gonna try to take this guy, this capacitor, and we're gonna try to improve our power factor. And as I go through this presentation, I'll show you guys why I think it's important that we improve our power factor. So here I've given these loads some characteristics. Load A I'm saying is 4.7 kilowatts with the power factor of 56%. Load B is 13 kilowatts with the angle of 60 degrees. We'll talk about that in a second. And we've got a load C that's got 21 k bar with an angle of 45 degrees. And I haven't given you anything to do with the capacitor yet. So what we're going to do is we're going to figure out what this overall circuit is with these loads. So my first thing that I tell all my classes to do when I do this is draw triangles underneath the load. So I got triangle A, triangle B, and triangle C. From there I can put all my information is because when I talk about this stuff and you can go over to my YouTube channel. And if you're watching this on YouTube, you can go over and check out all the videos I have on this, but I go into greater detail as to why triangles are so very important. But trust me when I say that you want to get these triangles drawn. So I put in the characteristics of each triangle. Let's take a look at it here.  So they're always going there. Then what I do is I take the power factor, which is generally going to be right in this area here and I take 4.7 divided by the power factor to get my KVA of that load. Then I use Pythagoras to go that squared minus that squared gives me the square root of this, which gives me the seven K bar. Now you notice that I don't put the KVA there. I don't do that intentionally because I don't want to get confused and end up adding it in to make my one triangle to rule them all, which I'll show you in a sec. What you do need to know is your kilowatts and your K bars for each load. You do not need to know the KVA for each load. All right, trust me. So that's that. Now second one, I do the same thing, except with this angle, the 60 degrees, what I do is I go 13 kilowatts divided by the cosine of 60 degrees, which will get me this KVA. And then KVA squared minus kilowatt squared gives me K bar squared. So we're using Pythagoras again. Remember that angle, your phase angle and your power factor are completely connected.  If you take the power factor and inverse cosine that you're going to get the angle. All right, so that's that. See here, I had 21 K bar. It's an angle of 45 degrees. The nice thing about 45 degrees is you know that each side is going to be the same. So 21 K bar, you get 21 kilowatts. The next step I got to take here is I've got to add up all my likes. So you can see that I've got my kilowatts, they're all heading the same direction, right? They're all in the bottom of the triangle. So what I can do is I can add up all three of these to get the total kilowatts of this circuit. I can also add up the K bars. I can add up this K bar plus this K bar plus this K bar over here to get the total K bars of this circuit. And then I do I take this these three triangles and I create one triangle that rules them all. So by adding all those up, I ended up with 38.7 kilowatts, and I ended up with a total of 50.5 K bar. And then using Pythagoras just going 38.7 squared plus 50.5 squared gives me the square root of 63.6 KVA. So that's my overall of KDA of the circuit. It's important that we use this KVA because this is my voltage amps, my apparent power. This is where we get our current from. So I'm going to take 63.6 KVA, and I'm going to divide it by 600 volts. And that will give me my overall current in this circuit, which is 106 amps, which isn't that great, we got high current, we're going to get rid of that current, we're going to bring it down quite a bit in a second here. Then I can figure out what my power factor of the total circuit is, just by going 38.7 divided by 63.6. And then I inverse cosine that, and that will give me my angle, or I can just go 38.7 divided by 63.6. And that will give me my power factor for the whole circuit. All right, so let's take a look here. That gives me a power factor of 61% lagging. So we say it's lagging because it's a mostly inductive circuit, meaning that the current legs the voltage. Alright, so there we go. That is the circuit as we have right now. So we don't like this so much because 61% power factor is pretty bad. Your utility company is going to be charging you a huge premium for that. So we want to fix that. How do we fix it? We throw in a capacitor over here. So let's just say that power company comes along and says, hey, guys, 61% really fix it. We want you to be at 90%. So we need to get a power factor capacitor that is going to take this and bring it down to 90%. Now we have to remember that capacitors, capacitance and inductance are 180 degrees out of phase with each other. So what we need to do is we need to figure out a size of capacitor here that is going to push these kvars down. Alright. So what I do is this with my students, I get them to take the triangle that we just worked out the one triangle with them all. And I say, okay, this is the triangle we have. Okay, this triangle we have. But we have another triangle is the triangle we want. That's the skinny triangle over here because what we want to do is our power factor, while it gets greater, the angle gets smaller because we're trying to push these kvars down. If we push these kvars down, this angle gets smaller in here. Am I right? And if you push these down, this angle gets smaller, this kva gets smaller. So we have to remember the one thing that doesn't change in the power triangle, we just talked about it, we see that this can get changes.  So we can take those kilowatts over and put it into the triangle that we want is the actual work being done. So we take the 38.7 kilowatts over to the triangle we want. We also know that we want this triangle to be at a 90% power factor or 0.9. So what we do then is I have 38.7 kilowatts. I have 0.9 for my power factor in here. I'll just go 38.7 divided by 0.9 will give me my new kva. Pretty cool, hey? Then I take that kva squared minus my kilowatt squared and I get my kvar. So let's see what that looks like. So I've got 38.7 kilowatts divided by 0.9 or 90% power factor. I end up with 43 kva. 43 squared minus 38.7 squared gives me 18.7 kvar. So again, this is the triangle we have. This is the triangle that we want. Now, if we put that proper size capacitor in here, which I will talk about in a second, then this triangle that we want becomes a triangle that we have. All right? This is the one we had. This is what we want. We put the new capacitor in. And this now becomes a power factor that we have. Or sorry, the triangle that we have. So my amps over here, this 106 amps, those are going to change. And we know that that power factor definitely changes. So let's take a look at that. I take 43,000 and divided by 600 volts. And I get 71.6 amps. The machines are doing exactly what they were supposed to do before. They're nothing's changed. You don't hear machines speeding up or slowing down. But my current has dropped drastically. That's huge 71.6. And we also know that we already told you that we had a 90% power factor. So that's awesome. But how do we decide what size capacitor we need to do that? Well, let's take a look over here. We have a 50.5 kvar capacitor. We want it to be down to, or sorry, not 50, we have a 50.5 kvar of Wattless power or of inductive power. We want it to be down to 18.7. So we need to get rid of we need to push it down from 50.5 to 18.7. How do we do that? We take 50.5 and we subtract 18.7. And therefore this capacitor here has to end up being 31.8 kvar. And that's it. There's no it's not a huge rocket science formula. It's actually quite easy to deal with. Let me just get you back with me on the screen here. So that's how we work out our power factor correction with this. It's not hard. You just need to get with the triangle method. I find that the triangle method helps so very much. It makes it way easier to deal with. And some guys use charts and all that. I find that can be quite confusing. But if you get the triangles down, you can get each three trying each triangle for each load. You know that you can always add your kilowatts, you can always add your bars, you can never add your KDA on the individual triangles. Remember that, then you make one triangle to rule them all.  So that's how we work this. I'm just trying to get this program to work. It's been a while since I've done one of these that I can't remember how I use this ECAM live program that I've been using to do these little lessons. Alright, guys, that's it. I just wanted to quickly go through power factor correction. If there's anything you would like to see, please feel free. You can email me at chat at theelectricacademy.com or you can Facebook me. Just go to the Electric Academy Facebook page. I've got another one comment I'm working on for motor control, which is just basically how an eight pin and 11 pin relay work and how to wire those up properly. I've had a few people actually ask me about that one. So it's it's out there. And away we go. So if you guys have any other issues or questions, let me know. Thanks, Arvind. It's good to be back. I would love to help out. I know some of you guys are approaching third year. So you've got some three phase questions. Make sure I've got a bunch of three phase stuff starting to pop up onto YouTube. Go over to the Electric Academy YouTube channel and it should be in there for you. Alright, have a great week. I will try to do another one of these next week. Again, eight pin 11 pin relays. How do you wire them up? Have a great week guys. We'll talk to you later.


13-year-old Bradley Hansen left his home on November 10, 1995, without telling his mother that school had been cancelled. Instead, he snuck over to a friend's home and never returned. When trash collectors visited the area later on to empty the bins, workers noticed some concerning evidence inside one of the neighborhood trash cans. But unfortunately, this small amount of evidence wasn't enough to lead to a conviction, at least not yet. But when investigators finally revealed their primary suspect, Bradley's family was shocked because the crime hit much closer to home than any of them could have expected. Bradley Hansen was your average teenage boy growing up in the mid-90s. Being 13, he had just reached the age where he was starting to become interested in finding a girlfriend, and there were plenty of girls his age at his school in Phoenix, Arizona. Bradley was enrolled at Centennial Middle School in Phoenix, where he'd established a core group of friends that he felt he could depend on. One of his closest friends was a kid named Jeremy Bach, and Jeremy and Bradley were pretty much inseparable. The two had often hang out before school started, and they were the first two kids to meet up after school had ended, too. It was November of 1995. Brad and Jeremy were speaking sometime earlier that month about Veterans Day, a popular holiday here in the United States. Knowing that the two would be off of school for the holiday, they'd been excitedly planning on what they could do with all their free time. But the crazy thing is, Brad's mother didn't even realize that the children would be out of school for the holiday, and Brad had no plans of telling her. We don't know if he kept this information a secret from his mother because he feared that she may interfere with his plans, or if he simply didn't realize that his mother was unaware of the holiday. But whatever the case was, Brad and Jeremy had quite a day ahead of them. When Veterans Day finally rolled around, it was November 10th, and Brad woke up that morning, got dressed and prepared for the day as it were any other. He then hopped on a bike that he had borrowed from his neighbor, and headed off in the direction of the school. His mother watched him leave and, obviously, believing it was a school day, didn't think much else about the situation. But as we know, Brad had no plans of going to school that day. Somewhere along the way, Brad changed course and began heading toward his friend Jeremy's house. We all just believe that one of the reasons why Brad was so excited about his plans that day was because a girl named Taylor was expected to show up at Jeremy's house later on that afternoon. Taylor was a friend from school, and if I had to guess, one or both of these boys likely had a bit of a crush on the girl. And considering everyone's parents were at work for the day, you can only imagine what must have been going through these teenagers' minds when Taylor agreed to stop by for a visit. Now we don't know for sure what the boys had planned on getting up to while they had the entire day to themselves, but the fact that they kept their plans a secret from their parents seems to allude to the idea that they may have been getting up to no good. Now, I can't say this with any certainty, but considering what would take place just a few short hours later, well, this theory may not be as far-fetched as it seems. No sooner than Brad arrived at Jeremy's house, the two ran into Jeremy's stepdad, Daniel, in the kitchen. It seems that Jeremy's dad also didn't realize the boys were off from school for the day, as he claims he was under the impression that the boys would be heading off soon after he left at around 7am that morning. Needless to say, the boys were over the moon that they had managed to fend off their parents and claim the entire day to themselves, meaning they could do pretty much anything they wanted with no supervision, a scary thing for two teenage boys. But their plans were nearly foiled, because at around 8am, Brad's mom, Rhonda, had a sudden realization that it was Veterans Day. She began paging Brad repeatedly, mind you this is 1995, but Brad never responded. She sent him several pages all throughout the day, but Brad simply refused to answer. Rhonda didn't get off of work until 2pm that afternoon, but once she got back home, she still couldn't locate Brad. This was very much unlike him to not respond to his mother's pages and calls. While Brad was your average, reckless teenage boy, he always made sure to stay in touch with his mother, so the fact that he'd suddenly dropped off the map sent every alarm in Rhonda's head ringing. Rhonda reached out to several of her neighbors and friends and tried to determine if anyone had seen Brad that day, but no one had any idea where he may have gone. She even called several of Brad's friends and classmates, but no one reported anything. Rhonda eventually decided to call Jeremy, and that's when things got interesting. He opened up to Rhonda about what the boys had been up to that morning, but the problem was Jeremy claimed that Brad had left sometime early that morning, but he had no idea where he may have gone. As far as Jeremy knew, he simply hopped on his bike and left, pedaling off into the distance. Rhonda asked Jeremy that if he sees Brad to let him know that if he's not home by 5pm, she'll be calling the police to file a missing person report. Jeremy agreed, and the two hung up the phone. Now, there's some unusual information about what took place immediately after this call with Jeremy. It's been reported that Rhonda decided to call Jeremy's stepfather, Daniel, who explained that he'd last seen both of the boys at 7am that morning. Daniel explained that he'd speak with Jeremy as soon as he got home and that he would report back with any information he managed to find. But immediately after the call, Rhonda decided that she just couldn't sit around and wait for Brad to show up. She had to do something. Thus, she hopped in her car and started traveling to all of the nearby hangout spots, desperately hoping to find some trace of Brad. But she never did. And later that evening, things took a turn for the worse. Once Jeremy's stepfather, Daniel, got off of work later that evening. He spoke with Jeremy just as he said he would. But after the two spoke, for reasons that remain unclear, Daniel never bothered calling Rhonda back. He knew that Rhonda was still actively searching for her missing son, yet never bothered to pick up the phone. When police arrived to take statements from Rhonda, it seems as though they initially classified Brad's disappearance as a runaway case. They didn't know why, but they believed Brad had likely run away from home. But Rhonda didn't believe this to be true. She felt that something terrible had happened to her son and believed there was no chance he would run away like this. But it seems as though detectives were largely undeterred by her claims and pushed forward in their own way. When Brad still never returned home that night, Rhonda's fears and concerns began to grow to epic proportions. Police seem to have requested that Rhonda not go around and investigate her son's disappearance on her own, seemingly for fear of hindering their own investigation. But Rhonda didn't obey their wishes, and she went to the ends of the earth to try to find her boy. She spent the entire weekend speaking to everyone she knew that had ever met Brad, hoping someone had some sort of information, but no one did. That is, except for a couple of Brad's classmates. After Brad had disappeared, there were rumors circulating around the school that something terrible had happened to him. The rumors would suggest that a gunshot had been heard ringing out in the mid-afternoon on the day that Brad went missing. These rumors suggested that Jeremy and Brad had found a weapon inside the home that day, and Jeremy had accidentally fired a single round, which narrowly missed Brad and got lodged into the wall. But these rumors grew far more concerning when it was suggested that Brad was now in possession of the weapon, and he may have planned on using it to end his own life. Now, this may sound like a sudden and unexpected jump in the story, and it certainly is. Rather obviously, up until this point, there had been no reason for anyone to suspect that Brad would have been capable of such a thing, nor was he ever described as being depressed. This only made Rhonda and the police all the more suspicious about these rumors. But the thing is, a rumor has to start somewhere. So it's possible there may have been more truth to this story than anyone else cared to admit. Daniel, Jeremy's stepfather, would call Rhonda sometime around November 13th, about three days after Brad had gone missing. During our call, Rhonda opened up about the rumors that she had heard regarding Brad's intentions. Daniel assured Rhonda that these were nothing more than rumors, and even when as far as calling home to his girlfriend, asking her to check to make sure that all of the family's weapons were safely stored away and accounted for. When Daniel's girlfriend Debbie checked the safe, she confirmed everything was in order and nothing was missing. This did a lot to calm the nerves of Rhonda, but in a sense, it also made things worse, because this meant that she was back to square one. This is when Jeremy decided that it was time to speak with Brad's mother personally. Jeremy called Rhonda shortly thereafter and explained everything that had transpired that day. Now, we don't know all the specifics of their call, but Jeremy said that he'd last seen Brad when he left and rode off on the bike that he borrowed from his neighbor. He added that Brad wasn't in the best of moods when he left that day. Jeremy was able to confirm that as far as he knew, he had been the last person to have seen Brad, but he also added that in the last conversation that he had with Brad, Brad had allegedly claimed that his life, quote, sucked shortly before pedaling off on his bike. By the following Monday, when Brad still had not been located and rumors were beginning to grow far more frequent and far more concerning, the school decided that it was time to get involved. This is when Ann Shelling stepped in. Ann was one of the school's lead administrators and she spoke with Jeremy twice that day, as well as dozens of other students who had some sort of relation to Brad. Now, according to Ann, she was able to determine that Jeremy, Brad and Taylor, the female friend who had stopped by, had all been hanging out that day. Now, prior to this, it doesn't seem as though Jeremy had ever mentioned that Taylor had been at the house that day. It seems that this information was first brought up when Ann had spoken with Taylor privately. For whatever reason, Jeremy was doing his best to keep Taylor out of the situation, but now things had escalated. Ann decided to bring both Taylor and Jeremy into the room at the same time and that's when Jeremy adapted his story slightly, saying that the two had last seen Brad heading off on his bike with Brad claiming that he would return in about 10 minutes, but he never came back. This is where things get incredibly interesting and the story that Jeremy shared with his parents and investigators, well, they began to fall apart. Jeremy knew something about where Brad had gone, but he wasn't willing to let this information slip. Realizing that Taylor and Jeremy had each been telling completely different versions of the story, Ann decided to pull Taylor aside and ask her what had really happened that day. Taylor was incredibly honest, even when she realized that her confession made it Jeremy in a lot of trouble. Taylor admitted that she had made plans with the boys to meet up at Jeremy's house that day. She added that when she arrived, she noticed Brad's bike in the driveway, a fact that didn't align with the story that Jeremy had shared, claiming Brad had already driven off on his bike. But strangely, when she entered the home, Brad was nowhere to be found. She noticed Brad's backpack sitting on the kitchen table alongside his pager, yet Brad wasn't inside the house. When Taylor asked Jeremy where Brad was, Jeremy explained that Brad had left. Taylor obviously didn't believe him. All of his things had been left behind, so where had Brad gone and why would he leave all of his stuff? Taylor felt that Jeremy was playing some sort of a joke and believed Brad must have been hiding somewhere in the house. But after wandering all throughout the house and calling Brad's name and getting no response, Taylor finally began to believe that Jeremy was telling the truth. But no sooner than she believed him, she began to doubt him once more. That's because as she wandered into the laundry room, she found Brad's shoes covered in red stains. After finding Brad's shoes, Taylor continued looking around the room and noticed that Brad's t-shirt was in the washing machine. It too had been stained red. But the most concerning detail was that there was a small hole in the front of the shirt. Immediately after, Taylor found a few red drips in the kitchen. When she asked Jeremy what had happened, he explained that he and Brad had gotten into an argument about her. One of the boys had called her a name and the other boy took issue with that. A fight ensued and Brad eventually hit Jeremy with a bar stool, causing the hole in his shirt, the red stains and the spots on the floor. But Jeremy clearly didn't have any wounds on his body. But then Taylor noticed a small hole in the kitchen wall. Jeremy claimed that Brad had grabbed one of the weapons from Jeremy's stepfather's cabinet and fired a single shot. Thankfully, it missed Jeremy, but it left a hole in the wall. Shortly after this is when Brad ran out of the home claiming that he would be back soon. After Taylor revealed all of this and decided to bring Jeremy back into the room, she asked him about various aspects of Taylor's story and he finally admitted to nearly all of them. But when she asked about the hole in the kitchen wall as well as the weapon being fired that day, he denied all of it. Jeremy claimed it was nothing more than a rumor. When Anne reached out to Daniel, Jeremy's stepfather, he stood by his son's claims and insisted that no weapons were used that day, nor was there a hole in the kitchen wall. Police would speak with Jeremy a few weeks later at his school and Jeremy would alter his story once again, this time claiming that Brad had attacked him with a butter knife before leaving the home and never coming back. Jeremy also added that he believed Brad had run away to Arizona with a man named Poppy or that he had run away to California to find his dad. He wasn't entirely sure. But the following month, December 15th, Daniel reached out to two detectives who were working Brad's case and asked to speak with them. He explained that Jeremy had finally admitted that he and Brad were playing with the weapon on the day that Brad went missing. He claims that Jeremy came clean and admitted that a single shot had been fired that day. Jeremy even dug the slug out of the kitchen wall and held onto it all this time, with Daniel turning the slug over to investigators for further research. But my question is, if all of this is true, how would Daniel not notice the hole in the wall until now? When detectives later showed up at the family's home, they asked Jeremy to reenact what had transpired the day that Brad vanished. And he claimed that the two got into an argument and Brad grabbed a weapon, firing a single round at him which narrowly missed his shoulder. But when detectives took note of the location where Jeremy claimed all of this transpired, they realized how low the hole in the wall was. And there was no way that the slug could have narrowly missed Jeremy's shoulder. It would have gone right through him. When Jeremy was confronted with his evidence, it's reported that he slumped down a bit lower so that the hole in the wall would align more closely with his shoulder. Detectives then realized that there was something fishy going on here. About three weeks went by and this now brings us to January of 1996. The detectives who were working the case had thought long and hard about the situation and they no longer believed that Brad had run away. They felt that there was much more to the story than Jeremy was willing to admit. They didn't know if Jeremy was guilty of something or if he was just covering up for his best friend, but they knew something was off.  Now, I've heard one version of the story that claims that the detectives were tipped off by local trash collectors, but other resources claim that the detectives seized the can purely off a gut feeling. I'm not sure which version of events is true, but admittedly it's largely irrelevant to the case. When detectives gained possession of the can though, they noticed a brown pool in the bottom, as well as some brown trippage on the outside. According to detectives, they believed there was a small chance that this dried liquid may have belonged to Brad. Unfortunately, when samples were taken and compared with Brad's mother, there was a direct link between the two, meaning that whoever the evidence belonged to, they were a direct relative of Rhonda. Around the same time, Jeremy and his mother decided to uproot and move to Las Vegas. The two never explained why they had decided to do this, especially in the middle of an active investigation, but thankfully police were able to make the proper connections with Arizona police, and they maintained contact with Jeremy, and thankfully so, because in February of 1996, about four months after the disappearance of Brad, Jeremy decided that enough was enough. He finally opened up with detectives and confessed what had really taken place that November day. When Jeremy arrived at the police station, he quickly confessed that he and Brad had in fact been playing with weapons on the day that Brad was last seen. He says that they'd been playing with multiple weapons when he aimed one at Brad. When he did, he bumped his hand on something, causing him to flinch and the weapon went off without him ever having his finger on the trigger. The slug struck Brad, but he was still alive. But what's crazy is that Jeremy had begun to panic and clean up the crime scene, leaving Brad there, desperate for help. Jeremy dug the slug out of the wall and tossed it into the trash, along with several cigarette butts that the two had been smoking earlier that day. Now, Jeremy's version of events is incredibly graphic, but based on what he told detectives, Jeremy insists that the whole situation was an accident. He claims the weapon wasn't even cocked when it went off, but this is completely impossible. According to experts, there's a distinct possibility that Brad was alive for an entire hour after the shot had rung out, meaning there was more than enough time for him to have been saved. Yet because Jeremy panicked, Brad lost his life due to sheer negligence. We don't know if Jeremy was afraid that his parents would find out that they'd been playing with weapons, or if he was afraid that he may go to prison. This has never been fully explained. But regardless, Jeremy was too busy cleaning up the scene of the crime and covering up his own mistakes to have taken the time to actually help his best friend survive what was apparently an honest mistake. In the end, Jeremy claims that he hauled Bradley out to the family trash bin and tossed him inside. Bradley would remain in the trash bin for an entire week before trash collectors even dumped the bin. Now, we don't know how they didn't discover Brad's remains inside, but somehow they didn't. In the end, Jeremy was arrested and charged in the second degree. Investigators believe there is zero chance that the weapon went off that day accidentally. After inspecting the weapon, detectives say that there's no possibility a simple bump could have caused the weapon to have been discharged. They believe that the trigger was pulled with intent, even if the demise of Bradley was truly just a mistake. Though many people, including investigators, refuse to believe that this was a mistake at all. The sheer fact that Jeremy went to such great lengths to conceal his wrongdoing suggests there may have been far more to this case than Jeremy is willing to admit. After all was said and done, Jeremy was convicted and sent to prison for 22 years after being tried as an adult, despite only being 13 when the crime was committed. He entered prison in January of 1998 and was set to be released back in December of 2021, meaning he's now a free man. But the main thing about this case that I just can't wrap my head around is what about Jeremy's parents? Now, I'm not accusing them of anything that's certainly not my intention, but how could all of this have unfolded without them realizing anything? After all, Jeremy's stepfather, Daniel, claims to have inspected the weapon and even smelled it, yet claimed it had never been fired. He also claimed that all of his ammunition was accounted for, but it couldn't have been because one round had clearly been fired. He also claims that all of his weapons were locked away in the family safe. So does that mean Jeremy had a key or a code to the safe? It's certainly possible that he stole the key from his father without him knowing, but that still doesn't explain how his father claimed there was no hole in the kitchen wall when there certainly was. It also doesn't explain how when Daniel reached out to investigators shortly after the crime, he opened up to them and explained that Jeremy had admitted a weapon had been discharged that day. He even handed in the slug that had allegedly come out of the wall. But this couldn't have been the one that ended Brad's life because we know that Jeremy had already thrown that one away. So this would mean that a total of two rounds had been fired from this weapon, yet Daniel didn't notice the missing ammunition. But if all of this weren't enough, what about the trash bin? Did no one ever take the trash out in the four months since Brad had vanished? Surely one of Jeremy's parents would have noticed all the liquid that was in the bottom of the can and dripping down the sides on the outside of the can. Surely someone would have noticed a boy in the bottom of the bin for that first week. Worse yet, surely someone would have smelled something. Now, like I said, I can't with a clear conscience accuse Jeremy's parents of anything. But the whole situation just feels suspicious to me.  So much more could have been done to save this boy. I even hate it for Jeremy, too, because if this was some sort of simple accident or mistake, Jeremy's own panic caused him to lose his best friend and be sent to prison for 22 years when all of this could have been avoided with a simple phone call for an ambulance. This whole case is just tragic from beginning to end. I just hope that Ronda was able to make peace with things, even though there's nothing in the world that could bring back her little boy. Thank you guys for tuning in to another episode of True Crime Stories. If you enjoyed this video, check out this other interesting case I covered and don't forget to subscribe. It's totally free and keeps you up to date with all of my future videos. You can also click that join button below to support the channel and see new videos long before everyone else does. But my name is Ty Nottz and I'll catch you guys in the next one.