How does this sound? 96.5, K-O-I-T.  So my father is a very deep part of the things that I write, and he's a deep inspiration. And this poem really deals with his complexity. And it's called My Father's Music. My father's music percolates and palpitates like hot coffee dreaming, a tap dancer's arrival, hitting throat with the right note, going back deep, unopposed. And my father's music is caught in a kettle whose grease endured screams and flame of gastove decisions where curling irons bent notes and contemplated hooks landing on the chin and announcing a verdict on a rippled canvas. And my father's music is an empty cup of my favorite things where soup is made from pain and love is made from rain. And my father's music is made in wood when he would, then wouldn't, then would again, and would is softer than stone, and wouldn't you know it? And check this out, my father's music is the chamber of cool in the greenness of the son's estate of ecstatic static. Can you dig that, brother? I said my father's music is the chamber of cool poking into the greenness of the son's estate of ecstatic static. And my father's music is sky minus rain divided by sun, multiplied by incense in the smoldering pyramid of branches. And my father's music is the in-time panemime of the heaven-held debate whose defense rests on the eighth day. And my father's music floats and glides from head to thigh and on that other side where up is down and down is up, sticking like flapjacks whose wings lap, lap, lap the tick-tock oil of greasy time. And my father's music skips, bumps, burps, slurps, sizzles on the sunny side of the street. I said my father's music skips, bumps, burps, slurps, sizzles on the sunny side of the street. Crackle, pop, bop, pan-fried with an egg on top. Can you taste that? Crackle, pop, bop, pan-fried with an egg on top. My father's music. So, you know, he was a very complex individual. I would sit at the dinner table with him and, you know, I'd be staring at my food as if it were not food at all, like it was like some kind of like sculpture, you know.  And that was some real complexity, right? You know, it's funny, you know, when you look for poems to read from your book, you can't find poems and sometimes you can't even find your book because you don't even have a copy of it. You gave all your copies to friends, right? How many of you know what it's like to trip? I mean, really, you're tripping, right? You're tripping. Hold on a second. What is your name, partner? Darius. Darius, and when was the last time you were tripping? Maybe like a month ago. Can I ask you what you were tripping on?  And then this poem's for you. And the poem is even for those of you who don't trip, okay? But this is the trip. Okay, so anyway, tripping, it's called tripping. Tripping over thoughts, tripping over the past, tripping over shoelaces, tripping over yesterday's news, tripping over mirrors that reflect every bad move made on the chessboard of my skin, tripping over the years that hiccup then never fully developed. Tripping when I should be walking, tripping over the extension cord connecting to a record player that doesn't play, radios whose innards have been gutted, tripping over empty cans whose contents doused the flames and left a trail that followed me into the potholes gasping for breath. Tripping over warranties and warrants that extend over lifetimes, tripping over cigarette butts and sucked wind, tripping and slipping into something I can't get out of, tripping over sentences not fully formed, sentences sent, sent to a detention I still trip on. Still tripping, still slipping. What was that old song? Slipping into darkness. Still tripping, still tripping. Don't trip. And anyway, there's this thing that I was, I think I was watching Dr. Phil or Judge Judy or something. And Judge Judy was talking about, say Judge Judy, let me explain. The guy, you know, I was, you know, I put the insurance and partially my name because he couldn't pay the bill. So I put it in my name, make it easy, we had a relationship. So Judge Judy says, hey, look at me, look at me, right? He said, he's a hustler. He's a hustler, right? But anyway, during Dr. Phil, there was this thing called, like mansplaining. Did anybody know what that is? There's a guy that explained it to me one time, right? You know? So anyway, this is a poem, it's called Mansplain. Okay, all of it has collected in my ears. It has hardened over time. All those bosses and supervisors and others deemed superior. Their voices thick with the hoarseness of time. Let me explain something to you. Let me run it down to you. You must not have heard me the first time.  If I gotta repeat myself, I'm gonna knock the white, black, yellow, red, blue off of you. And it was all explained to me. I was listening. Those men had plenty to say, and most of the time, no one was listening. And my ears became overloaded with their excesses. But once in a while, those men would say something like, it's good to see you, how you've been. Have you heard from your daddy? What's mom's been up to?  And those things stayed with me. Too many to write down. Too much to explain, so I won't. Well, I'm gonna offer you some choices. Would you like to hear a poem about washing dishes in a restaurant? Can't find anything in there. I'm gonna do one first. It's called The Painted Ladies. We know The Painted Ladies, right? The postcard image, right? Well, these are a pair of Painted Ladies, so you could assume the position of somebody that is taking a walk down Mission Street, one gloomy afternoon, you know? And you're seeing, as you're going block after block, you're seeing the years pass by and you're seeing what's happening now and you're tripping on what happened then and you're trying to make sense of certain things in the town that you were born in. The Painted Ladies. The ladies I see are not painted but have been stripped of much love, trust, rest, dreams. Somehow they keep going forward, presenting themselves in a harvest of hues, despite the weather. And this lady carried the hurt down Mission Street one Friday, walking past the suitcases, looking for a place to unload what is left. Into her cell phone, she unloads.  I told you not to mess with me. And her blackness was dyed another shade and walking towards her was an older black woman pushing a grocery basket. And the younger woman continued into her phone. Listen, motherfucker.  Excuse me, sister, she said. She walked over to the younger woman and gently took a hold of her arm. And words were said. And soon the younger woman and older woman were laughing. And the younger woman waved her hand as if touched by the spirit and said, Lord, have mercy. I know that's right.  And Mission Street kept going. The street sweeper kept sweeping. The paletero kept selling his ice cream. The palm trees kept being what they were. And the older black woman pushed her empty grocery basket.  Gut the innards of our homes. Condemn the history in our walls. Frisco body, frisco soul. Bullet from a cop's gun piercing the black body. Scarlet ripples shiver over the skin of the bay. Frisco body, frisco soul. Our block, our home, our playground, our corner store. The place where I took my first step. The real estate developer's wet dream. Frisco body, frisco soul. The word frisco removed from our flesh and bones by high pressure hoses leaving behind the smell of death. Strip the murals of color. Strip the hearts of blood. Strip skin from bone. Frisco body, frisco soul. The city sits deep in our skin. The light still shines in the sockets of our eyes. The city sits deep in our skin. The light still shines in the sockets of our eyes. Frisco born and bred. Frisco body, frisco soul. Someone fell and skinned their knee. Some poor soul twisted their ankle while marching in a protest. I've walked the streets back and forth, forth and back. I've paced, stomped, slipped, slid, and tripped over various streets with various names. I was a multivariate motherfucker. I've even stubbed my little toe. I have mistaken manhole covers for Aztec calendars.  A spiritual gulf for alms given and spiritual gulf for alms given and lives taken, these sutured streets of ours. And I would like to welcome a poet and an artist in her own right who was a good friend of my uncle. And what we're going to try to do with this poem is we're going to try to incorporate a song. I'd like to welcome Sabrina Taylor. Sabrina? So you got the poem, right? Well, I'll tell you what. My part is sung, so I guess you can have the mic and then where it says, which says me, that's me, and then where it says Jagdan. How many of you like Oldies? Anybody that knows me knows that I like Oldies. Anybody remember Curtis Mayfield's song called I'm So Proud? 96.5. Does anybody remember a song called I'm So Proud by the Impressions? So we're going to do a riff off that with the poem. So why don't we start it? If I shatter glass, please forgive me in advance, okay?  Don't nobody like the word frisco? They say it's a curse. That is, it should never find a place on the tongue frisco. I feel you in the poetry of your movement, in the grace of your shoulders as it dips to the amplitude of the deep brass moans that move the sacred frisco ground under our feet. Frisco, where you been? Frisco, have I told you I love you?   Your frisco pain I have felt Your frisco evicted heart I have seen I have tasted every drop of frisco rain That has collected in the empty pots Of the places we called home I can't keep the frisco love from my home My pots are filled with frisco love With down home love With adobo love With beans and rice love With gumbo love And cornbread love With arroz con leche love With pancet love With sopa deres love With pupusa love With frisco love Part black, part brown And one big pot Compliments to you From all the people we meet And I'm so proud, I'm so proud Believe me, I love you too I'm so proud of being loved by you Frisco, no earthquake can shake us apart Our love is tight Our frisco love Our frisco blood Our frisco life Our mural of skin Our mural of love Frisco love I'm so proud of being loved by you And can everybody sing that on the count of three? It just goes, I'm so proud of being loved by you. So I'm going to go one, two, three, okay? One, two, three. I'm so proud of being loved by you. Thank you. Very spontaneous, right? Thank you, Sabrina. Yes. All right. So anyway. Yeah, that was an oldie. It's like 1964 or something. That's like way before my... You know, during the Frisco Five, there were times when the mom, right, would come out and Mama Christina, she would take communion, right? And recently they did a march to Sacramento to call more attention to, you know, to start charging, you know, police with these killings, right? And, you know, it was moving to see her strength, you know, the mother of, you know, I think she was the oldest in the Frisco Five and it was nice to see her there taking a stand. So when I looked at her, I was almost looking like she was the mama of a lot of folks, you know. So this poem was about just assuming the position of one of those folks who was coming to Mama Christina and just telling her how he felt. Day 14, hunger striker, Maria Christina. Mama, I'm hurt. I'm sick. I ain't got no food. No place to go. Mama, they took everything from me. Mama, I'm sad, but I don't know how to cry. Mama, my name is Frisco and I don't nobody want me. I've been shot at, spit on. My face pounded into the ground.   Can I come and stay with you? Mama, I ain't gonna make no trouble. I just need a place to get it together. Mama, I see what you've been doing out here. I'm thinking about you and Alex Nieto and Maria Woods and Amilcar and Luis Gangora are thinking about you too. They said to me, they said, Frisco, check on Mama for us. But Mama, you know we can't survive without our Mama. None of us could make it if they didn't have and they Mama looking out for them with Mama eyes. The day is cold and the wind is trying to cut me and my name is Frisco. I was just checking on you Mama. Is there anything I can do, anything you need? I'll do anything for you Mama just like you would do anything for me. Maybe I'm overdoing this Frisco thing when we do it again, okay? I was in the Philippines last year, right? And I was in a place called Makati which is in Manila. And I thought, okay I'm in Makati right now I'm not going to think about Frisco because I'm in Manila, right? Vacation, right? So this is what happened, okay? On the balcony of the motel in Makati the buildings in the distance do not hold back the glitter swallowed from streaks of light in prisms split in a thousand pieces. I jump into the Frisco lights whose pools gather below on the streets of cast aside shadows. I leap head first into Frisco feelings like unclaimed fish that escaped the intricate weave of net. Frisco feelings that say, where are you from? Fleeting Frisco feelings whose taste remained when you got on that plane and tried to forget Frisco for a minute, for a lifetime. Frisco, your grip is tight your voice cuts through the smog Frisco feelings fermenting in a bar a flickering neon match keeping Frisco feelings alive in Manila. So yeah, you can't really get away from Frisco I'm gonna check my phone real quick if you don't mind. Let's see here, get to the point. I don't really like reading poems from a handheld device but sometimes there's no choice. How many of you here are single men? One, two, three I know you gotta have more single men than that, okay? You got three single men, four? Okay, all right.  I won't even get there. But anyway, this poem... Can I see your hands again, the single man? Oh, my man, okay. Okay, all right. This poem is for you. Okay, it's called Disarm. Brother, you raised your hand, right? Single guy? Okay. Brother, there's nothing like it. The feeling of a woman taking a hold of your arm at just the right time. You know what I'm saying? Curling around your arm with her own in a move you didn't see coming but cannot forget. So many of us are armed with so much equipped to do damage to get him before he gets us, right? But let me tell you, brother, there's no feeling like when a woman takes a hold of your arm, man, can you take a hold of his arm? It says more than a book. It says more than can be said, right? When a woman takes a hold of your arm, disarms you.  When a woman takes a hold of your arm and gives it a squeeze that reaches your breath, can you give it a squeeze? A squeeze, yeah. Hey, Luke, you know what I'm talking about, right? Yeah, okay.  It takes a hold of you and takes you to another place. It takes a hold of you and takes you to another place. It takes a hold of you and takes you to another place like another poetry reading in the basement of the library. It takes a hold of you and takes you to another place.  There's no feeling like it. There's no feeling like it when it's the right one. There's no feeling like it. No feeling at all.  And I think about my father, he worked on a high-class hotel on Knob Hill, and when I told him I was washing dishes, he said, oh, you're diving for pearls, huh? And one by one, they'd come in, waiters and waitresses and cooks, and there was Fast Eddie who rode a motorcycle and spoke about a bad case of crabs he had caught in New Jersey, and there was another guy from Oklahoma who was a mass of freckles topped with a wig-like head of red hair who had said the Beatles were overrated music that was too commercial. And there were more folks from everywhere else, and I was from here, and I washed those dishes between classes at City College. So I was washing those dishes between classes at City College, man, I'm telling you. I was putting them in the machine, but I was washing those dishes between classes at City College. And there was another guy who'd worked at the restaurant who'd recently arrived and he was reading books about my hometown, my city, compiling facts and visiting landmarks and places I had missed. Soon, this guy knew more about my hometown than I did, and I continued doing those dishes, and the guy kept telling me about every inch of my city as if he were born here himself.  How many of you guys know Equipto, the rapper? Equipto? You know him?  He reminds me of a lot of my uncles when they were younger. He kind of has this vibe that they had, you know, have a great deal of respect for him. And this is called Frisco 5 Hunger Striker Equipto. Equipto. Brother. Capatid. I thought you were Filipino. But you are pure Frisco to the core with a voice chiseled with the landscape spirit of our city. Root of black and brown. You echo the Filipino black-brown spirit of my uncles. So much has been taken away from us, even our voices. Our tongues have been ripped from our mouths, uprooted, discarded, heart swelling with unsaid words crying out for justice.  You give us your voice, which is our voice in frequencies that run the course of our streets and in our blood. You give it back because you realize that you can't have nothing if you don't share. The Filipino youth that dropped by asked me, is he Filipino? And how could I tell them that you were Japanese and Colombian when you looked straight up Filipino? And I said, yeah, he's Filipino and a lot of other things too. Then they asked, isn't he part Latino? And all I can say was, yeah, he's that too. And he ain't eight. That was day eight. How many of you like to eat carrots? I noticed, brother, your hand's going up quite a bit at these questions, you know. How many of you like carrots? Let me get into... This is the Bugs Bunny part of the show. Carrots. At 8.50 Bryant, they give you carrots in cellophane bags. They are not carrot sticks, but grated carrots.  Also in the sack are sandwiches and cheese, peanut butter or bologna for the grown-up crowd. The carrots for the most part are ignored. As you chomp on those grated carrots, a couple of the fellows adorned in orange, like the carrots, toss you their carrot rations. And you sit looking ridiculous, popping those carrots into your mouth, getting bits of carrot between your teeth in the holding tank. And the guys in the holding tank are being held for all kinds of stuff. Some had injuries.  An older black man who had done time before skips the carrots and gets to the point. I was with my woman 20 years, he said. It didn't work out, you know. It hurt me for a long time. For many years I was hurting. I liked that song, she used to be my girl. Remember that one? She used to be my girl. She used to be my girl. Man, she was a good woman. He sings a few verses of the song, an oldie that came out when many of us were fresh in high school. Before we had girls, before we had jobs, before we knew anything. Others shake their heads or hum along. He shakes his head and gazes to the floor. Sometimes, he said, you just got to take the loss. And the carrots become sweeter as we chew on the man's words that linger in the holding tank, hovering overhead and into ears and squeaking by under some of our noses.  After all, our moms used to tell us that carrots were good for our eyes. That was long before we slipped into these orange uniforms. You know what I mean? One more jail thing, okay? The holding tank, trying to hold on to consciousness, attached to a flimsy string, seconds melt into minutes, minutes into hours. The hands on the clocks embrace armored flies swarming in regiments of attached detachment. The benches are narrow with marrow in the grains, moving in one direction while our minds go the other way, dropping in and out of consciousness like senseless yo-yos. The bench is cold and no amount of bench warm memories can alter the temperature. Noses and throats are instruments lubricated with snot and spit enough to lubricate the springs and coils of the apparatus that constricts throats and torment's eyes. The deputy believes he conducts such instruments in a conspiratorial orchestration whose notes are written in fingerprint smudges and hidden from public view with the approbation of God, snores from the deepest places, throb, bump, boil, octaves knocking into octaves, sounds of missteps and hiccups through the nose. It is a choir of snot and the god of ear, nose and throat speaks in deep low baritones, a chorus of woodwinds and brass through the nose and mouth, seeking light in the upper airway, short-changed notes stored in jars that break free. And there's a man black with the skin of burning brass snoring while standing, a vertical expanse, the ember in his throat stoked and a solo takes hold of his dream and he is on stage, the deep notes heading towards the face of the moon, the sleep in his eyes, the pulp of misdirected sunlight, the deepness of sleep hidden in his bones and old cans and dusty covers and whole-ridden clothes and shoes never intended to fit, burst forth in a symphony of sound, a symphony of snores, of solos as we wait in the holding tank, trying to hold a note. So anyway, again, I appreciate you all coming. I'm going to just read a couple more things and there's a couple of events that are happening. We'll be reading at the Daily City Public Library and also at Eastwind Books in Berkeley in the next couple of weeks. I have a blog if you'd like to check it out. This, I don't know if I mentioned this, but this part of the tour it's called the Fingerprints over Frisco Book Tour. So please, you know, let people know that this book is out. And we talked about hunger strike and the hunger. There's a hunger here for a belly empty of lies, for a belly empty of arrogance, for a belly empty of emptiness, for a belly empty of death, for a belly empty of silence, yet there is no hunger.  It's growing, spreading. It's here. And I'll just do one more, and that'll be in this book. My brother, his name is Ace, right? He did the wonderful illustrations for the book. And again, thank you very, very much for coming. I'd like to dedicate this poem for all of you. It's called Thank You. And thank you very, very much. Thank you. You were born... How many were born in San Francisco? Okay. Okay. You were born in San Francisco, and it was said that you never became anything, never achieved anything. And the rumor was that you wanted things to come easy. So you started with your smile, which was readily available, and completely evident, okay? A commodity of the rarest kind that was never for sale. It was as permanent as the hug, as the fog hugging the Golden Gate Bridge in a soggy embrace. And I remember seeing you when I was a kid, hey, it's that guy, I'd say, when I catch a glimpse of you from the backseat of my father's car. And my father would tell me, you got to stay away from guys like that.  Study. Don't get involved with those guys. You know what I mean? Don't get... And that's all I really knew of you, a glimpse. And as the condos and office buildings planted themselves into the ground and stabbed into the sky, you stayed at about the same level, eye level, more or less. You were a part of my childhood as adulthood snuck up, sanctioned by the powers that thought they knew me. But you knew me better. All it took was a glimpse, which was both my future and my past.  All right. Thank you. Thank you very much. We'd like to thank our audio and visual person. This is going to be on YouTube.  Please do likewise. Give it a view. Thanks.


proudly we hail from New York City where the American stage begins here's another program of the cast of outstanding players public service time has been made available by this station to bring you this story as proudly we hail the officers and the men of the United States Army anti-aircraft command our story today is titled the sky sweepers and it's the story of Sergeant Kenneth Walker a member of the anti-aircraft artillery forces that guard the skies over America cities and of a blonde model who made a choice between the success she always dreamed of and the man she loved our first act curtain in just one moment plan ahead to get ahead now that's sound advice for you you high school graduates and here's how you can act on that advice your United States Army is offering a bright future in such interesting technical fields as radio radar electronics mechanics photography and many many others and all there are over 100 courses to choose from now perhaps you're not qualified in any of these urgently needed skills well I get the answer to that one your army through its reserve for you training program will train you in the course of your choice and you pick your own training course before you and live great opportunity your opportunity to plan ahead to get ahead so for full information visit your nearest United States Army recruiting station ask all about the reserve for you training program remember there's no obligation and now the first act curtain of the proudly we held production the sky sweepers on any average day an average of 30 unknown or unidentified aircraft show up on the big plexiglass map deep inside the combat operation center of continental air defense of Colorado Springs when they do con at swings and back then back comes the report a Canadian charter flight is off course and con at goes back to its never-ending vigilance and so it goes day after day what what happens if the aircraft is unfriendly what happens if it strikes at one of our cities are a defense target that's where the job of the anti-aircraft command begins the Army anti-aircraft command with its guided missiles high altitude artillery rapid-fire cannons and deadly machine gun it forms the final barrier that any attacker from the skies must cross the final barrier between a peaceful sleeping city and the attack that signals a war has begun that's why the gun crews and missile units are on their toes that's why the training never stops your name is Kenneth Walker you're a gun sergeant in charge of a crew manning a sky sweeper a twin-mounted automatic radar controlled pair of 75 millimeter cannons that can spot and knock out an enemy aircraft flying at supersonic speed your gun is part of the battery that guards the skies over Florida prepare to fire you're on the firing range today can walk and Atlantic Beach that stretches empty and wife in the brilliant sunshine all around you gun crews are tense waiting for the commands that will send them again into action of a smooth and deadly team then finally you hear the tech through voice of your buddy Sergeant Ed Evans as he calls to the battery commander an archer a radio controlled aircraft target going at targets leave at somewhere up in that bright sunshine you turn to your gun crew Ken Walker you wait at the moment stick fast slowly then the order comes next morning Ken Walker you and your buddy at Evans are standing before battery headquarters looking at the bulletin board when the head says hey how about that I told you B battery had walked off with it are we sure did best score on the annual practice year as far as I can see Davy Crockett couldn't attack that any better my boy great jumping horn toads you know what this means I'm sure we're hot shots every other battery will be gunning for our mark the next time round that's in the future old friend I'm talking about today all right what about the day don't tell me you forgot we're the top gun crew right so that rates us a special 12 hour pass right right what are we waiting for anybody with all that racket you should be standing at a training for not changing when you hear those fine text words back home in Texas yeah tell me something man how did you ever tell yourself away from the lone star state all those pretty sexist cows those oil directs five miles tall those taxis plants despite big enough to use a tent pole that big ranch your family I see you've been trying to finish you while I talk old friend I'll tell you the secret I decided I joined the army and see if there really is anything outside the Texas border oh and why bother to go into town today why not just sit on your radar set and think about Texas and you got the wrong outlook on life those Texas boys have got the means over the other folks that's what my pappy always says otherwise people are getting the notion that we're conceded about our home state and that'd be terrible that's why I'm gonna take in a show and really take the town some mighty nice look the Phillies here in Florida you want to try your luck with me no it's not this trip I think I'll head for the beach and just take it easy and all that high-price sunshine beach hey you you've been reading travel posters didn't you get enough of look at the beach out to firing range I may be so but we were pretty busy with other things out there now this time I want to look down at the sand instead of up in the air him in a towel the beach man how dope an hour later you're walking on the white sand the fresh salt smell in the bright sunshine all around in swim trunks and with a towel slung over a shoulder you scroll past vacation is brown from the sun suddenly you stop and look around you look up there on the top of the lifeguard platform a tall young man is waving you shot back Jimmy Jimmy Stevens what are you doing point stuff there all right just a second what's the scoop right of my dad's got me a job for the season the lifeguard what about you I thought you were in the army and the aircraft artillery I'm here on a pass not much like the old days when we were keeping an eye on the servers at the YMCA camp is it I guess not that beach out at the lake never looked like this and you can say that again acres that I don't wear these sunglasses just because of the sun I know what you mean look why don't I go grab a swim we'll get together later we stay with the other lifeguards over at the reef's hotel hey girl out there trouble just in time for the old rescue right let's go together you and Steven's race across the beach and you're on the beach miss you're okay sure you're all right hey miss you're one of the New York models of sea breeze fashion show and I'm Cindy Taylor and the Taylor oh sure you're one of those gold bathing suit and just like you are now what's your name Max Walker Sergeant Kenneth Walker oh no did you say sorry that's right I'm in an anti aircraft unit station near here what are all the questions for I'm a photographer the paper here cover the beach beat I got a tip there might be a story out here pretty well with a city desk rescue stories always good really not a life well I was one but that was a couple years ago I'm afraid I'm the lifeguard this section but can I your old friends who got to you quicker than I did hey Sarge I've got an idea why don't you take Miss Taylor out to dinner so I can get some more shots you know you in uniform or an evening dress will you make the morning edition with the whole thing no it's not up to me how about it Miss Taylor well come on Miss Taylor give us a break to make a good story publicity for you and I'm sure if I ask all right the charcoal room connection at seven you've got a date I haven't tasted a steak like that for a month yeah quite a dinner and quite a day I still feel pretty silly about being photographed on the beach and just now in this restaurant I wonder if any newspaper would be crazy enough to use them I guess I have the advantage in my job to get used to being photographed oh I forgot you were a model very not very glamorous nice tell me Kent what made you decide on an army career well a lot of things I guess the one thing I have an older brother in the army captain now but it was more than that I figure it's an important job anti-actress any particular army ambition I've applied for admissions in Nike school well it's a ground away a missile named after a goddess and the Greek legend it's pretty complicated but basically it's a rocket you fire at an attacking high altitude bomber it's got its own electronic control inside to steer it and Nike travel so fast it's practically impossible to dodge it and there are Nike launching sites around the big target cities in the company now you know I should think you would have to go to school to learn to operate on rocket like that you sure do the course can run as long as 32 weeks they really pour on the electronics and math out there I've got a good chance of making a top non-comrating or maybe a warrant officer great if I get a point now help it works out for you if you seem to know what you want thanks but I could go on all night what about you Cindy all I know is that you're a New York model and you look wonderful across the dinner table you're good for a working girl who rouse very bad well there's not much to tell really besides I'm not really from New York City I come from Vermont I want a high school beauty contest and decided I wanted a job as a model I don't know how many pairs of shoes I wore out making the rounds of New York photographers are you very famous Cindy say the same as a matter of publicity I've done fashion work and some television commercials but I'm not what you'd call famous not yet at any rate most of the time you can hardly see me because of the advertising the place all the public doesn't know what it's missing you're good from around again I'm I've had a lovely time and I hate to break this up but I've got a passion show to do in the morning back to me but can I walk you back to your hotel I was hoping you'd ask me I was hoping you'd say yes nice night cigarette that's my hotel will I see you again yes it is my night like how about this weekend if I can get a pass I'll try to teach you how to swim I really was a lifeguard once I knew this was too good to laugh another guy I guess it's not really very important not now at any rate let it go that's how it whenever you say Cindy you are listening to the proudly we hail production of the sky sweepers and we will return for our second act in just one moment you know the United States Army is now offering you an outstanding opportunity to get free highly specialized training through its reserve for you training program here's how it works you visit your local Army recruiting station make your choice of over a hundred fascinating training courses if you qualify and vacancies exist you'll receive a letter of acceptance guaranteeing you a seat in the course of your choice that's before you enlist then you're all set through the reserve for you program you not only get the finest training in the world but you'll have an excellent opportunity for a satisfying career so at your earliest opportunity get all the facts about the wonderful advantages of an Army career visit your local Army recruiting station and ask about the reserve for you training program and now the second act curtain of the proudly we hail production of the sky sweepers you find yourself very much back in the anti act for after artillery the day begins revelry formation morning an hour of artillery instruction in the latest techniques of anti-aircraft defense anti-aircraft artillery must be ready to meet in a matter of minutes from 08 30 to 09 30 all equipment assigned to each batteries motor section must be checked the jeeps the three-quarter ton trucks the two and a half ton trucks and the big powerful artillery trackers that are the prime movers for gun carriages and ammunition more training every man on duty at a gun site must be skilled not just in his own military occupational specialty but in the jobs of all other members of the gun crew as well in the afternoon to be more artillery training tracking missions loading and firing practice but right now it's messed up and time for an artilleryman to relax that's just what you're doing when your body sergeant Ed Evans comes over to your table well here's the boy hero hero is spouting off about what's behind your back oh just this morning's paper I just thought you might be interested in seeing yourself in the middle of page one what hey give me that there it is page one blonde model rescued by army sergeant at beach there you are coming out of water carrying it boy you really pick a nice one see there's a name is Cindy Taylor and they are again in a restaurant with what do you know me I go to town I wait in line to see a movie I saw last month I tried to date a cute redhead before I realized she's waiting for her husband and three kids almost missed the last bus back to the base do I get in the paper no well I told you to come to the base with me that's just what I mean the beach you pick the most unlikely place in town wind up with this living dog just because she can't she can't swim you get a fancy dinner and you picture in paper how can I ever face my radar scope after that finally the weekend arrives and with the pass for you Sergeant Ken Walker to shine fresh shave uniform press you enter the lobby of the reef's hotel on your way to your date with Cindy Taylor under your arms the small green box from the florist with a corsage in your mind there's a picture of light blonde hair green eyes and the kind of figure that stops traffic you walk to the house phones can and you pick one up and this Taylor please hi this is Ken you ready for a swimming lesson who wouldn't be five minutes no more you sit down and you try to read a magazine but you find you're looking at your watch but you look up as you see a well-tailored tan stranger coming your way excuse me you're Ken Walker aren't you Sergeant Ken Walker now that's right my name is Miller Maury Miller I'm head of Miller Associates publicity I recognize you from that page one photo on the paper oh I guess everybody in town has seen it the guys in my outfit haven't stopped kidding me yet I can imagine listen I just wanted to tell you Ken how grateful we are for helping to make our little sense such a big success well it's nothing really a stunt bit on the beach you know you're rescuing Cindy she's a model in the seed breeze fashion show you know we handle seed breeze the great publicity break for them as well as for her they're one of my biggest account wait a minute mr. Miller let me get something straight but that rescue business Cindy Miss Taylor it was all false we're sure Cindy is the captain of her swimming team in school as much at home in the waters out of it look sergeant I thought she told you all about it no that's something that she didn't tell me publicity stuff figures and sorry if I'm causing any trouble I certainly that's all right for getting you leaving yes or do me a favor will you mr. Miller we're sure anything I give her these really sure to be here any moment happy glad to have flowers yeah an orchid if I'd known I'd have made it water lilies meeting someone here that's a sergeant in horse yes have you seen it I'm afraid I did he left left hi I guess I talked out of turns and I thought he knew you didn't tell him that the rescue stuff was a put up job did you I thought he already knew I'm sorry we're going to tell him myself nice the nerve to tell him before somehow they're all arranged with a lifeguards that's why I tipped off the press how could you know we'd get there first yes I'll get on with it in the next few weeks you concentrate on your job as a gun sergeant Ken Walker and you try to forget Cindy Taylor to chalk it up to experience there are plenty of other girls you tell yourself but somehow it doesn't sound very convincing even from you then one afternoon you get a letter with a New York postman really ashamed that we made you look foolish it's certainly not the way I would have wanted it again can't well what's this miss oh nothing just a letter for my sister your sister wouldn't be a blonde named Cindy with me whatever gave you that idea I'm just kidding I'm sorry fella I thought you'd gotten over her I did it's just family male good well boy shine up your shoes a bit straight and you try the captain wants to see us over at battery head for why what's up I don't know I know a good way to find out how the captain wants to see us so we'll go see the captain letting him tell us. Addies man Walker you and Evans both applied for transfer to Nike school a while back yes sir and I think I've got some good news for you you both got excellent records I recommend you both been accepted to be shipping out of here in a few days as soon as your orders are ready on it's great thank you I must admit I'll be sorry to lose you to and a fine job here and you won't be too easy to replace but I'm glad to see that you're going to get missile training there's a big job to be done there. Thanks very much and one thing more Evans sir you'll be glad to know you're going to the school of Fort Bliss Fort Bliss Texas or that's right well that's right sir give me a chance to show Sergeant Walker around sometimes I get the feeling that he doesn't believe all the things I've been telling him about Texas. Can't hear the orders day after tomorrow which of all fine I'm all set I wrote my path we were due to come out to Texas and he's promised us a barbecue out at our place first pass we get good deal I could use one right now you sound hungry I am hungry I'd like to tie into a nice thick steak with a baked potato big green salad apple pie with all right cut it out it's an hour time it could use a steak right right we're fine I'll tell you what we'll do let's go to the beach tonight and celebrate I know a restaurant where the state is this big enough lead me to it. I didn't know you meant the charcoal room but stakes in town anything wrong with it no no I suppose you never been here before and once just once oh yeah let's not talk about it okay Roger hey what time exactly 7.25 oh really well excuse me a minute that I'll be right back I gotta make phone call yeah I'll order you something long and tall Cindy what are you doing here I flew down last night since I got the telegram what telegram the one Ed Ed what is all this it wired me that you were being transferred to the night school oh he did I know that is pretty handy with a telegraph blank I wanted to tell you myself how happy I am I know how much you wanted pretty nice of you Cindy but you suddenly didn't have to come down here to do it in person I didn't want to write I wasn't sure that you got my last letter I got it all right Cindy I'm sorry I was carrying a chip on my shoulder and I don't think if you want the truth I'm tickled silly you're here I even forgive all Ed for putting his big Texas nose in my business hey what about your modeling job I told Maury Miller I don't want to commit myself and you wouldn't by any chance I'd like to spend the honeymoon in Texas with you did I hear somebody mention Texas Ed I ought to wrap a gun barrel around your neck you can't it wouldn't be fair no why not you might at least wait until I've had a chance to kiss a bride well I suppose all of us at one time or another have seen the principle of strength through unity demonstrated by a handful of sticks singly they can be broken very easily but when bound together well then it's practically impossible to break them and so it is with our America working together as a team we can be certain that our democratic way of life will never be broken one of the most important members of democracy's team is our United States Army a highly spirited organization that offers unequal opportunities to modern young men and women today the army has a new career program in operation one that permits you to choose your own course of training and the skill at best suits your aptitudes and interests so we can't suggest you find out about it real soon how do you do that go down to your local United States Army recruiting station and talk it over with the real friendly folks down there remember fellas team up with the army and you team up with success this has been another program on proudly we have presented transcribed in cooperation with this radio station proudly we hail is produced by the recruiting publicity center in New York for the United States Army and this is Richard Hayes speaking inviting you to tune in the same station next week for another interesting story on proudly we hail


Hey there lads and ladies, it is Petrifying Pumpkins here and welcome to another edition of PSVR News.  So let's start off with the PS5 reveal event that happened last Thursday which I'm sure most of you already know by now but in just in case you didn't PlayStation or rather Sony had their PS5 reveal event they showed off the box itself in the video you can see behind me they showed off a bunch of games but let's just start real quick with the box itself or rather two boxes because they showed off two versions of the PS5 one of which has the disc the Blu-ray disc drive and the other one is digital only you would imagine the digital only one is going to be cheaper personally I'm not sure which one I'm going to go for yes I think I just want to wait and see what the prices actually are a lot of rumors going around that this thing could be pricey so I'm just going to wait and see if there's a big difference if it's like 50 dollars if it's 100 dollars maybe I'll go for the digital one instead of the the disc drive one it all depends on you personally whether you want that disc drive whether you have a big library of ps4 games that you're hoping would work and the ps5 based on discs or whether you're someone who actually saves money in the long run by buying used games and trading in and all that kind of stuff so do keep that in mind if you're someone who does trade in and who does do the whole use game sale stuff and game stop or whatever you're probably going to be better off paying the extra 50 dollars or 100 dollars because in the long run you're going to save more money if you get the disc version now it's also worth noting for us psv or enthusiasts that when they showed off this box they showed off a bunch of accessories to go along with us including a brand new hd camera now this camera raises a few questions is this camera intended to be mainly used just for streaming purposes as in you know streaming from the console you have your face in this corner of the screen or whatever is the camera going to be needed to play ps viewer games on the ps5 and then of course more worryingly or most worryingly is are we going to need this camera in the future for when ps viewer 2 eventually rolls around fingers crossed that's not the case i want to be done with the camera tracking but i don't want to go into that too much today because there's just not enough details it's been like just 100 speculation we have no idea what's going on yet so let's just talk about the games instead so sony showed off a whole bunch of games during this reveal event you had big stuff like you know spider man ratchet and clank stuff like that now of course me and a lot of you who follow me would have been looking out for those ps viewer logos or something like that just to give us a little tease or a little confirmation that we're getting something coming our way now unfortunately not a single thing that was shown had ps viewer confirmation anywhere to be there was no mention of ps viewer whatsoever throughout the whole show which was over an hour long but we were keeping our eyes open for certain games now i did talk a lot on this channel about resident evil ace i thought it was going to be revealed based on the rumors and speculation going around and two months ago i covered a bunch of leaks that turned out to be true down to some very kind of minute details including the title the characters the setting that kind of stuff so all that stuff and those leaks in that video i did like two weeks two months ago all turned out to be pretty true and that guy who leaked that stuff was saying that ps viewer support was included at least at the time but he has said also that the ps4 version was also been worked on and apparently now that's been scrapped all of resident evil ace is just going to be next gen only now we also saw grantor's most seven in action and of course if you're following ps viewer adult you probably know that grantor's most sport which came out for the ps4 did have a ps viewer mode it was very limited it wasn't great at least not in terms of the content that it had it didn't have enough basically it was good but it just didn't have enough content so when we all saw grantor's most seven i think a lot of us are kind of were expecting that you know ps viewer support to be confirmed unfortunately it never was so despite there being two big games with you know heavy ties to veor we still don't have any confirmation resident evil ace grantor's most seven we still don't know 100 for sure if these are coming to ps viewer or not because there's no official confirmation so the way i see is this could mean three different things so possibility number one and this is the worst case scenario is that neither of these games have viewer support they just don't want to do us probably funny digital is like nobody really liked it in the first one we're not going to bother doing this again capcom even though capcon apparently were happy with the numbers maybe they're just like well it's not worth our time we'll just focus on next gen and do it that way that is the worst case scenario i just for the record i don't believe that's how it's going to be or i don't believe that was the reason so another possibility is that sony themselves didn't want to mention the ps viewer once during this show because they did not want any possible confusion whatsoever they did not want to muddy their messaging they just wanted to say ps5 because if there was a ps viewer logo somewhere on the screen someone will be like hey that ps viewer thing isn't that for the ps4 isn't that last gen why are they showing last gen stuff maybe although you know that's kind of countered by gta 5 being showed off as last gen as well so you know whatever plus that doesn't account for the fact that you know in a blog post afterwards they could have said also supports veor or something like that which they never did which is kind of why i don't believe that one either although i do think it's more possible than the first one i hope so then the third possibility as i see us is that sony if they're serious about virtual reality if they're serious about going forward with veor for ps5 then they're probably going to want to have their own event dedicated just to virtual reality where they tell us in detail you know how is your ps viewer is going to be supported on ps5 you know maybe they'll show off a new user interface just for veor stuff like that and of course they might show off like a sleaze of games confirmed with veor support for ps5 and that could include resident evil ace and grand charisma seven that's the possibility that i'm kind of putting my money on i might be wishful thinking i'm really hoping that's what they do now might not be an event it could be just like a small stage of play which maybe that's all that needs to be but either way hopefully something like that comes along within the next few months before ps5 comes out obviously so that you know we can put our fears to rest about whether these games are coming to ps viewer or not because of resident evil ace doesn't come to ps viewer and that's going to be a huge gut punch i think and that's going to be a big red flag for the future of veor you know because apparently resident evil seven wasn't successful so if that's a successful game and a sequel is still dropping veor then you know that's a red flag so topic number two then is very much related to the first topic i've had a couple of you reach out was including dig and another guy called tax refund when i was watching gts streamed the last day so they raised the question did we actually see veor gameplay being shown off in the resident evil a trailer in the grand charisma seven trailer so i thought you know what why not bring it up why not look at it right now and we'll see if we can see now did you give me some time steps to look at 24 seconds and 42 seconds i think but we'll see it anyway but i just want to look at it in finer detail i want to see is this veor or is it just fancy tricks with cameras and cinematic views and whatever so i'm just skipping ahead to i think he said 22 seconds around here i've got the volume turned off so here this is what he's talking about and what tax refund is the guy who said it to me he said hint look for blinders so as you can see in the corners it does look like there is a blinder effect going on but what i would say is these are also known as vignettes and vignettes are like a very common technique in cinematography i suppose if that's the correct word but just because you see a vignette in a trailer especially a trailer where they're messing around with camera angles and stuff like that doesn't necessarily guarantee veor support so while i miss it does look like this like it has a veor kind of feel to it it's first person has the vignettes on the side i'm still not convinced especially when we go to the other example which i think is like 40 something seconds see this is the second example then 48 seconds he says this part here i'm just gonna pause it here so first thing to notice is that the vignette isn't present in this part and i would say that the camera location is kind of weird as well as in like his hands are kind of to the left the camera looks a bit more centered so unless the player is going like this kind of a way then i'm not like i'm definitely not convinced that this one is virtual whereas the first one is much more convincing that it could be veor because of the vignettes i suppose boss i'm still not convinced either that this is veor it could be it might be or you might notice a reduced level of fidelity in the graphics and stuff like that because obviously even though it is ps5 running us on ps veor it's still not going to be as high fidelity as it would be on flash if you know what i'm saying but maybe someone who has a better eye for this kind of stuff than me can kind of tell right now the only evidence i'm seen right here is that it's there's a bit of a vignette that could be a blinder and it's in first person not solid not concrete let's take a look at resident evil a's okay so i didn't get time stamps for resident evil a's plus basically i'm guessing we'll know when we see us keep an eye on for blinders again okay um i would imagine this is the fussage they're talking about this is the parrot in the trailer they're probably talking about basically once again we got this huge vignette going on uh which could be argued that's veor and i would also say there's a little bit of kind of a little bit of shakiness that maybe you could kind of see in virtual reality that you wouldn't see in a smooth pan or dolly or whatever they call it boss certainly not impossible to do without veor this could just be you know a shot of trying to put you in the eyes of of ethan if you don't understand of course the game is first person uh it is night time as well which you know if he's only using a flashlight that could be a big explanation as to why it looks like there's a huge vignette around but yeah as i've watched the trailer already but there's you know it's definitely nothing nothing that stands out to me as concrete's evidence that virtual reality support is included in resident evil a so although i do believe it will come uh oh here we go so that's much more convincing just by the way it's kind of moving we've got the vignette again it's just this snowy area it's going to really thrown a lot if it was an interior you might have a better idea in terms of vignette and stuff like that right now he's just walking through kind of sparse woods with a bit of snow it kind of looks like veor that's probably the most convincing shot of this whole trailer that that's something that maybe should give us hope this shout out again to dig and tax refund for pointing this out to me but while i'm still not convinced i still don't see it as 100 proof it has a veor look to it doesn't it but it's such a quick tease it's just in the woods there's no it's hard to say for sure but it is definitely something you know it has me intrigued now you know i was doubting us i'll be honest i was doubting us i didn't think they were going to show any veor footage i still obviously i'm still not saying that that's what it is but that does look very veor-ish like compared to this scene you know there was just something about the way the head movement or the camera movement i should say was kind of it looked had that veor look to us so look nothing definitive but hope nonetheless i would say let me know in the comments below what you think of that is that foot like in Gran Turismo was that fuzzage is that just a vignesses that's just an art style type thing or is that a little bit of a hint for us psv or enthusiasts and same question obviously for resident evil ace is that what you guys think it is or rather is that what we want it to be i should say let me know down below but enough about games that may or may not have veor support how about a triple a game that definitely will have veor support i am of course talking about star wars squadrons that just got announced yesterday see the gameplay well gameplay it's an engine fuzzage that's playing behind me now apparently ea are doing a showcase this week or this is very likely we're going to see gameplay of this the release date for this is the second of october so it's not fair away at all so that's why i'm saying it's very likely we'll see the gameplay for this boss exciting news for us is that 100 of this game will be fully playable on ps viewer and this is not a ps5 game by the way this is going to be playable on what you have right now the ps4 and any of you pc viewer fans out there it's also going to work for you and it's going to be crossplay between ps viewer and pc viewer so it's going to have the campaign now might not be too long the price is kind of like the 40 dollar 40 euro mark so that kind of indicates maybe it's not going to be a full campaign thing i think the multiplayer of this game is the bread and butter really 5v5 first person space combat well i'm not sure if it's first person entirely obviously veor is probably likely to be first person maybe flat version we're gonna have a third person angle i'm not too sure we'll know when we see gameplay but yeah i'm not a big star wars guy but just the fact that this is a support in retro reality it's a triple a title pretty much it's been backed by a big publisher like ea and i know people have their doubts about ea and we should definitely be cautious you know that they don't add in surprise mechanics but according to them everything that you unlock in this game will be done through gameplay so they're pretty much saying no loot boxes will they keep their word let's hope so look it's exciting 5v5 we'll get a new multiplayer title space combat i don't know if you guys played the battlefront demo the x-wing fighter demo or whatever it was called that came with battlefront it was only like 15 minutes long but it was really good obviously do not expect it to look this good on the ps veor maybe it'll look a lot better on pc veor and of course it'll look probably something close to this on flat maybe or at least a lot closer than it would on veor but if you're looking for a reference point on how this game is going to look you should probably look at battlefront one that free demo thing it's probably going to look something like that which is fine with me because that was like a very impressive experience in its own right so let me know what you think in the comments below are you excited for this is this a day one by and if you're someone who suffers from motion sickness i know i've already had someone reach out to me saying you know they're concerned that they won't last five minutes in this game is that something that's bothering you as well is that something you're worried about you know if you're one of those unevolved flat apes that are susceptible to motion sickness is this something you're kind of worried about let me know all this stuff in the comments and so our last topic for today is just a small little update about alvo and a lot of you are like really anticipating this game myself included the last thing we heard about this is that they were still waiting to hear back to get a submission days so that they can resubmit the open base of build that they have ready to go there has been an update as of yesterday it's a small update but it is an update i'm just going to read it out we have finally had contact back from our representative at sony that our new day request is underway and we are eagerly awaiting a response on the new days from them so it's you know we still don't have a new days basically but sony have confirmed they're aware that they want a new date things are in motion basically it's going to happen fingers crossed sooner rather than later i don't think we're going to see then june now probably july at the earliest but still there's the update and a lot of people thirsty for any bit of any bit of juice about that game at all and so that's it for this episode of ps veor news before i go let me thank each and every one of my patreon supporters whose names are on screen now thanks to their generosity they're helping me keep this channel going in particular those on the top tier over on patreon we got pete hawkins we got tradition we got columbus thomas the third we got chopped 517 and we got mr crumb himself thank you very much gentlemen for the generosity i really do pre-setters if you want to join over on the patreon the link will be in the description but if you don't want to spend any money a simple like a share subscribe all that usual shies will do me just fine one last thing before i end the video is thank you to decepticon for letting me use his music if you want to check out decepticon stuff then the link will be in the descriptions decepticon.com you can find them on spotify bank camp all that usual stuff that you'd listen to and 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There is A.V. Paulson, and so now we have Stephen Walton, Trevor Clark, Ilya Hayes, Hongkwan Tran, Caleb Nistazi, Juan Serrano Pineda, Pinedo, and Jonathan Jacobs. Hi, we're the Gibbs Group, and we're going to start with a little bit of history on the phenomena. So originally, it was discovered by Wubelheim in 1848, but no one really cared about this paper until 50 years later when Gibbs published an article in Science where he didn't notice it originally and published a correction in 1899. The paper that Gibbs originally noticed the phenomenon was analyzing the convergence of Fourier series to the sawtooth wave, wherein he noticed that no matter how good of an approximation you made to the sawtooth wave, you still got an error, and it would never converge to the actual function that you're trying to approximate. One of the interesting things was happening at the same time was a man named Albert A. Michelson developed a device to decompose functions into their Fourier series and then recompose them back just using analog computing techniques. So what you can see here is you can kind of see the Gibbs phenomenon happening as we do more and more terms in the Fourier series. What you can see is that our series will approximate the function as we do more and more terms, like that yellow one is the most, the blue is a fewer, and red is fewer, and so on. But you get this overshoot that doesn't go away, it just gets thinner and thinner. So to try to get a number for how much that overshoot happens, one way we can do that is take our Fourier series and with this particular series, we can actually just take the derivatives term by term and find the critical points and that will give us that very topmost point and the very bottommost point and then we take the limit as n approaches infinity and we get this really nice integral of sine x over x which gives us about 1.17 and that's the sum of the overshoot and the undershoot and that's the Gibbs constant. So when we're approximating a function, a natural question to ask is how can we get rid of this Gibbs phenomenon around the discontinuities and kind of a natural way is to take, is instead of approximating this function by finite Fourier series is to take the average of those first couple finite terms. And so that's given formally by a Chisaro sum and as, it's pretty well known that the Chisaro sum converges to the same value as your Fourier series and sort of argument for that is if you go far enough out, you have infinitely many terms that are really close to your limit and so the terms before that won't really contribute to your average. So in particular, if you have a Fourier series that converges to a function, your Chisaro sum will also converge to that function. So the Chisaro sums though eliminate the oscillation around the discontinuities that the Gibbs phenomenon that arise from the Fourier series. So here we have the step function in blue and we have the first 20 terms of the Fourier series in green which really oscillate around the discontinuities and then we have the Chisaro sum which still has a little bit of undershoot and overshoot but doesn't oscillate nearly as much. Okay, so another way that we saw of deriving the Gibbs constant was by considering a truncated Fourier series where basically you multiply the terms of the Fourier series by one out to n and you basically take the limit as n goes to infinity and something that we thought would be kind of fun to play around with is instead of doing that filter there if we just considered you know different filters and for example, I tried seeing what happened if you considered instead of that filter, a filter more like that and to see if maybe the first few terms kind of contributed the Gibbs constant and so the top three lines are kind of the equations that the paper brought up and the last row kind of what I brought up and it ended up still producing the same Gibbs constant. All right, so one of the things that you can also ask is that you can try to approximate functions using other complete orthogonal bases and so on this slide up here we have an example of some polynomial orthogonal bases that you can use and so we looked at three of them Legendre, Hermite and Jacobi polynomials. These are the three Rodriguez formulas for all of them and the reason that these are important is because when you're trying to figure out what the constants of your approximation need to be you're taking an inner product with respect to a weight function and the Rodriguez formulas all have the weight functions for these respective polynomials contained within the formulas. So again, the thing to notice here is that we're constructing these series in pretty much the same way that you would construct a Fourier series. You have a constant which is dependent upon an inner product derived from a weight function multiplied by the polynomial you just take infinitely many terms and so what we have along with some of these pretty pictures is you can see even if with n equals 20 you start seeing this Gibbs phenomenon appear closer to the discontinuity and if you look at the third column in the data tables you can see that we are still approaching this about 1.179, the Gibbs constant is still appearing and this holds true for Hermite and Legendre but you notice that the Hermite polynomials we had 50 terms there and with these Legendre it's closer to the appearance of this Gibbs phenomena even though there's only half as many terms so the convergence rates differ depending on which polynomials you use and we also see that this holds true for Jacobi polynomials which are the most general case. Okay, yeah and that last slide showed another with a couple of other parameters for that so this affect the shape of your distributions. I do want to mention on that that was the Jacobi polynomials which actually generalized to Hermite and Legendre that was shown to converge to the Gibbs phenomena or the Gibbs constant by a paper by a copper in 2006 so we didn't include numbers with that. Okay, so anyway so we wanted to ask why is it that you get the Gibbs constant for these generalized orthogonal functions? So one plausibility argument that we found is this. So basically the idea is to take the Fourier series of your orthogonal functions, right? And so what you can do is if you've got uniform convergence for that Fourier series for that function and uniform convergence for the Fourier series for the original function that you want to approximate with your generalized Fourier series, let's go to the next slide. You can actually truncate both of those. You can commute the sums and you can push the original constant from the generalized Fourier series through. And so what you have here, it looks a lot like just a Fourier series for your original function that you wanted to approximate. And so the next one is we let M go to infinity. You provided the uniform convergence things that I stated before, you will actually get those constants out. And so this is one argument for getting the Gibbs constant. Thanks.


Amen. So I want to go straight into the Word of God. I just share a couple things, something that God's been helping me to understand more clearly, something that I've been putting to practice in my life and continue to work on. And so a title of my message today, or just a small talk, would be Two Keys for Success or Two Keys for Successful Life. How many you want to be successful? Okay, about half of you? That's okay. Maybe this side wants to be successful. How many of you guys want to be successful in life? All right, that's awesome. And so success is very, it's very broad term and success is, it's defined differently for everybody. For somebody, success might mean own a big business. For another person, success might be having a good career, good paying job. For another person, success might be a stay-home mom. For another person, success might be having a big ministry. For another person, success would be having a great home group. Success is really just living to the full potential of what God has for you. That's all what success really is. To not miss anything that God has prepared for you. To take full on what God has prepared in store for you.  Okay, so this is what success is. And I want us, I want us to look into the Word of God and take from the Word of God, look into the principles from the Word of God. What will help us to be successful in our life? What will help us to achieve the purpose of God and the calling of God in our lives? Do you want to learn this morning church? Okay, so if you open with me to Matthew chapter 7 and we'll read from verse 24, Matthew chapter 7 verse 24. It says this, therefore whoever hears these sayings of mine and does them, I will liken them to a wise man who built his house on a rock and the rain descendant floods came and the winds blew and beat on the house and it did not fall. Say it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. But everyone who hears these sayings of mine and does not do them, he will, he will be like a foolish man who builds his house on the sand. The rain's descendant, the floods came, the winds blew and beat on the house and it fell. Say it fell and the great was its fall. And I want us to read the second scripture just to read the foundation for our talk today, Joshua chapter 1 verse 8. And I know these pictures are very famous and you probably know them and memorize them. If you went to Sunday school, it's probably one of the first verses that you memorize in Sunday school. Can you give me a little bit more on the mic? And it says this, the book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it, say meditate. You shall meditate on it day and night so that you may be careful to do, say to do according to all that is written in it, for then you will make your way prosperous and then you will have good success. Say good success. So today we're going to talk on the subject, two keys to success, two keys to a successful life. From the scriptures that we read, we see two things clearly, that in order for us to be successful in life, in order for us to have success in our lives, in order for us to be wise, as we read from the first scripture, we must hear God's word. In order for us to live a life of success, your success will depend on your knowledge of God's word. Your success will depend what you feed yourself with. Your success in your life and your success as a Christian, and not as a Christian, but as a human being will depend on your knowledge and your ability to hear and listen to the word of God. Word of God is a manual to our life. See, when you bought an iPhone, when you bought any product, any tool, every time you buy something it comes with a manual and a manual is an instruction of how to properly use the device and to utilize it to its full potential. For example, one time, I was using a drill, one of those power drills and the manual clearly says that you're supposed to use it, you put a drill bit and you drill on it and drill things to it and do all kinds of things. The drill bit wasn't meant to use as a hammer, but sometimes for you, those of you that work in constructions, you know what I mean, sometimes when you do things and you do things with it and the hammer is not around, so what you do is you just turn the thing around and you smack with it, right? And so one time, when I was doing that, I turned the drill around and I hit it and the nail, I mean the nail was kind of in the board was pretty stiff and so what happened, the nail went through the back of the back of the drill and the drill was ruined, okay? So if I would have carefully read the manual or had some common sense, I would understand and I clearly know that using a drill as a hammer is not a good idea and 200 dollars were wasted that could have been put to a better use. How many times in our life we do things in our lives, we use our life in a such, in a particular manner, in a way that end up, that we end up broken at the end. Thank God that we have a God that repairs things, that we don't have to toss it away. Thank God that we have a God that he can salvage any situation and make it better than even was before, but why go through a break up? Why go through a heartache? Why go through brokenness? Why go through things that leave us shattered?  We don't know how to live our life or we don't know how to use our life and utilize our life properly.  And so sometimes when you hit it and the nail doesn't go all the way through instead of you know kind of taking hammer and just you know one hit and done you know what you do a lot of times you flip the gun around it has the the the butt of the of the gun is this metal and you go you know hit it and usually it works well except this time my, unexidentally my hand wasn't a trigger and so when I hit it the nail on it missed me by like a millimeter you know it could have been the nail could have been in my eye and I actually heard and had friends and know the stories were when they did people did these things they actually got severely injured simply misusing it not knowing well no I knew I'm lying but using a device for the purposes that it wasn't meant for you for it to be used you must commit to reading God's word you must commit to reading it consistently systematically you must spend time with God's word every single day you must allow his word to come inside of you his word is life itself spending time with God's word is spending time with God himself because Jesus is the word of God every time you spend time in his word you spend time with Jesus you figure out more about yourself you figure out of who you are made to be how you are made to function what is God's opinion about your marriage what is God's opinion about your business about your career what is God's opinion about your ministry what is God's opinion about the situation you're going through and therefore you are able to react properly you're able to to to um to align yourself according to the word of God and you will have good success amen bible says that faith comes by hearing and hearing of the word of God it's also says that without faith it is impossible to please God our faith is a contact point is a channel that we receive through God but faith cannot come without the hearing faith cannot come without you feeding your spirit that's why so many Christians are spiritually bankrupt spiritually broke when they pray they don't receive the answers when they ask God they don't hear back and they get into religion and routine and they have the form but without the power when the word of God is not part of you not part of your mind not part of your conscious and subconscious not part of your of your heart and not part of your being you will not have faith when you don't have faith you will have very difficult time receiving from God bible says you can't even please God and it's important for us to have a good relationship with God and be in good standing with God amen you have to understand from the scripture that we read in Joshua he said yes you have to meditate on a day and night you have to I have to understand and know one thing clearly your mind cannot be neutral your mind is like a vacuum it has a vacuum it will always attract one thing or the other it will not be able to stay empty you either fill your mind with God's word you either fill your mind of the instructions of God for your life or Satan will automatically push his thoughts fill your mind with his thoughts and his thoughts are thoughts of fear thoughts of anxiety thoughts of all kinds of like I'm not good enough I will not make it I failed look at where I came from where you know I can't amount to anything who do you think you are when we don't fill ourselves with God's word Satan does satan is not like God God is a gentleman he respects free will and he says here is my word here is my instruction read it learn it meditate and apply it in your life satan on the other hand he comes and he forces Bible says he shoots those fiery darts fiery arrows into our lives he forces his agenda his thoughts toward us his idea about us and trust me it's not good so therefore you have to fill you have to take time out of every day of your life to feed yourself feed yourself with spiritual books feed yourself with podcasts feed yourself with the word of God get into it figure out what God thinks about you about your situation amen church above all else God honors faith the most because faith faith is like what faith says to God is like I trust you you are my provider you are my source faith just that have faith like little children and you know I knew the scripture and quoted the scripture even preached in that scripture but when you have your own child you kind of begin to understand and see things from a different perspective and so as a child the child completely trusts the parent they completely they're completely giving are giving themselves to the parent sometimes when you try and hey come to me you know if you stretch out the hand they just simply fall into your arms trusting that you will catch you will catch them and so this is what faith is it's it's it's falling to God's arms falling into his into his embrace falling into his will understanding that he is good he has the best in mind for you and he has best intentions for you and faith says God I trust you you are my father you will supply all that I need commit to reading God's word commit to systematically continuously to meditate in God's word that's the first key this is the first point is the first key is you have to feed yourself you have to fill your mind with God's word amen but that's not all there's a second part to and this is for very long time when every time I quote it and read Joshua 1 8 I always kind of focus on the part meditating in God's word meditating God's word study God's word and you will be successful I always kind of I don't know why until like two weeks ago three weeks ago it kind of the scripture came alive to me again but this second part is that do according to it meditation is a first step meditation sets you up but if you never take that knowledge and apply it if you never take that what you read what you learn and begin to walk according to it begin to do according to it you only have gone halfway that's why a lot of a lot of times even in my own life sometimes I'm like you know I'm reading God's word you know I'm spending time I've developed a habit every morning to read God's word and you know why certain things are not are not happening in my life why why certain things I you know I'm not you know I I know the scriptures but why they're not happening in my life because there also is a second side to that coin you have to begin to act on God's word you have to begin to work according to God's word you have to begin to work out what God puts in and this is where if if Satan will if Satan failed to stop you from reading God's word he tries his best to stop you from acting on it through different means I'll show you in a parable of an apparel that Jesus shared about three three men a master was leaving to another country he given to one five talents to another three talents and to one he's given one talent according Bible says according to what they were able to handle and so first two they received it they received instruction from the master and they went out and worked it out they worked on it they invested it they worked on it and therefore when he came back and asked of them they had something to show for and he entrusted them to be rulers of the cities he entrusted them with more but one of them received an instruction he knew what was required of him he knew what he was supposed to do but he went and buried it and came and said here is yours what you gave me and the master called him wicked and lazy what I see from the scripture is that all of them heard the word of God heard of them heard instruction two decided to apply it brought profit and were promoted one decided to just come to church just hear it just listen to it go back and live their own life and was condemned and never succeeded in life never was promoted and behind it was wickedness and laziness a lot of times if satan is not able to stop you from hearing God's word if you're able to overcome that barrier he tries to send all his schemes all his tricks wickedness laziness passivity a lot of times when you encounter those things those feelings oh man I don't feel like doing this oh I don't feel like reading God's word behind it is the wicked spirit is the evil spirit behind it is demonic thoughts that produced feelings within you to stop you from succeeding in your life God wants you to succeed God wants you to move forward God has already prepared he paid a price for it he already has it in your bank account he wants you to activate he wants to receive it he wants you to to be the best you can be in your life he already put into you he doesn't want it to be wasted you only have so much time in your life to to to work all of these things out because in eternity you won't need all of these things you're gonna have you're gonna be in perfect place in need of nothing but a lot of times what satan does through laziness through complacency through his wicked schemes he stops us he makes us bury our talent and we never succeed in our life you have to act on God's word turn to your neighbor say act on God's word turn to your other neighbor say act on God's word you know a lot of time for for a long time in my life I've you know I've been praying and asking God God please help me to hear your voice God please help me to hear your voice God I want to hear your voice and then I realized that God speaks all the time the problem is that I don't act on it all the time so I actually stopped praying and asking God to hear his voice I actually start asking him God give me the grace to heed your voice not just hear it let me act on it because the success is hidden not only in hearing but in acting on God's word knowledge is something you get to know so when you read but wisdom is how to apply the knowledge and so when we read this parable God says that a person that acts on God's word is a wise man is a wise person why is he wise because he takes the knowledge and he applies it here let me put it in this way knowledge is knowing how to use the gun wisdom is knowing when to use it okay you can know that God is your healer you can know that God is the one that forgives you all of your sin you can know that God is your provider you can know that you are blessed with all the heavenly blessings but if you're not gonna act on God's word and begin to work it out you will never see those things materializing your in your life God says you will be blessed as you go in and as you go out but if you don't go in and don't go out how is the blessing of God gonna come manifest in your life God says that he's gonna bless every work of your hand but if your hands don't work how is he gonna bless it God says that me in my house in justices me my house will will serve the Lord but if you don't pray for your house if you don't share faith with your house if you don't bring them to church how are they going to be saved God says that in these stripes we are healed that we have fullness and health in our body but if we go and begin to if we don't drink water if we don't sleep enough if we don't exercise if we don't eat properly and then we wonder why we don't have health in our life when God clearly given instructions how to use our body properly is anybody receiving anything tonight somebody said that knowledge without application is like a book that was never read you know we have this we have this saying you know well at least a thought that's all that matters well I try pulling that trick on my wife once you know she said I haven't been seeing flowers at my work for some time and I said well I thought about it doesn't work thoughts is the first process is the first step but you gotta go to the store you know and you gotta go take good one you know don't be cheap you gotta go buy it and and send it and so that your thoughts are materialized and people can see it in same manner with God in same manner God has good thoughts towards you God has great plans for you you have to take his thoughts make it yours and you have to begin to act it out on it you have to begin to apply it in your life you have to begin to act on God's word turn to your neighbor say act on his word um a personal story that's kind of always stuck to me it it it shocked me and it's just it's one of the things that I will never forget to the day I die there was um there was a man there's a guy in my home group many many years ago and and so every time he was a firecracker he was one of those guys kind of like evangelist and you know he was one of the very social people always inviting people his passion and fire for God and you know even though I was his leader and some deep inside I was like you know I wish I could kind of have that outgoing personality and this kind of pretty fiery kind of character that I could you know kind of being like him and then and here's another thing every time without a fail every time some kind of preacher prophet comes to our church and they always prophesy to him you're gonna be you're gonna be this great man I see this you know there's an angelic anoint you know in your life you know you're gonna turn nations to God and blah blah and then without a fail no prophecies for me and so it's like every single time and times when I do would receive a prophecy it's kind of like they go prophesy to have the whole church and then they like see me there on the keyboard for like two hours playing for them and they're like you know I feel bad for the guy let me go tell him something and so it's kind of like how I felt and so sometimes you know I was like God I mean I don't know what you're trying to do or you know I if you want me to be his servant and and serve him and you know you're gonna make him I'll do it God you know I have no problem with that at all you know my heart I was like he already came into terms and peace with it but this story is not as fine as funny as it sounds because it has a very tragic ending you know while he was receiving all these prophecies and all these words from God and he was hearing from God and and everything you know everything seemed like wow his future is bright his future is great so many things great things spoken over over his life but he had a problem of obeying the instruction and following through and acting on it you know his life through series of mistakes and misfortunes and series of of things that he disobeyed were things that God really put on my heart said hey don't go to this place that's you're not ready to do that and he's like you know but you know God you know sent me to to to evangelize for my family and I'm gonna go and I was like listen this is not a time for you need to get shown on God and God will take care of your family for now just just just hold off he went he just he he disobeyed he went and and kind of he slicked back slowly but surely you know step after step after step and got back into drugs got back into bad lifestyle back into where he was and at the end two years ago it was three years ago now I went to his funeral and he died because of overdose now all of these great things that were spoken of his life all all of these great prophecies all this great future that God had in store for him what happened to them this is what I was asking I was like God I mean I was still matured in my face still trying to figure things out I was like God what happened were there's were those men and women of God were they were they false prophets were they were they you know were they uh not hearing from God what are these just more emotional hype what was it until I come across the scripture in Timothy where where apostle Paul says to his to his disciples to to to him and he says fight according to the prophecies that you were given you have to work it out you have to work it out God has great destiny for you for sure whether you receive the prophecy or didn't the most true prophecy is the word of God whether somebody spoke over you that you have a great destiny or not you have a great destiny God has great things in store for you but you have to work it out you know if some of you maybe kind of feel the same way you know you're sitting here in this place and sometimes you know you hear this amazing an awesome story is you know the people that receive it word of prophecies the people that receive great things you know what the life I was spoken sometimes you might you might be like I was sitting back there and saying wondering God I mean do you have anything for me you know am I supposed to be somebody am I supposed to achieve anything you know I realized through this example even though it's a terrible example a terrible experience I've lived through but I realized one thing God speaks over your life God always speaks he always has good thoughts towards you he always speaks great things over you work it out work it out act upon it if you received God's word that God's gonna bless you financially that you're gonna have a great business you're gonna have a great career work it out start a business well what if I fail start another one on average I read it I don't know how true the stat is but on average they say you know a millionaire in their lifetime goes bankrupt five times but they don't give up they work it out they work it out they work at it they work out what God put in the destiny the gift the talent that God give them I want to ask you this morning what are you working on today why are you working out maybe you're sick in your body but God says you are healed work it out maybe you are in poverty laying from paycheck to paycheck you have this great dream to be you know independent financially what are you doing to work it out what are you feeding yourself with and how are you acting on it maybe God put a dream in your life to be in a ministry or doing great thing to be to be a great man and woman of woman of God what are you doing are you spending time in prayer with God are you digging in his word are you feeding with your past yourself with podcasts what are you doing to work to work it out what God has worked inside of you what God has put in and inside of you I want us to to to get the sense of urgency to to understand that we don't have all the time in the world our time is limited our time is the value of most valuable resources begin to work out today today what God has put it on the side of you and I tell you one thing the moment you're going to begin to work out even the smallest thing that you got maybe you want to have big things but right now you have small things the moment you're going to begin to work out small things God's going to give you bigger ones the talents that people were faithful with three five and then two talents when they were faithful with those small talents God gave then that the master put them over the cities rulers over the cities you work out small what you have in you maybe you were entrusted with the home group and you only have one or two people work it out work it out be faithful in it work it out let God use you to impact those small people that not small people but those small group that you are influencing God will God will give you more maybe you are working a minimum wage a job right now work it out come back to work and come to work on time leave on time put your 100% in it be an asset to your work be a benefit a benefit to your work God will give you promotion you're not working for money working for God work out what God has put in you so many people so many Christians get stuck at the stage I have a promise well Israel got a promise they were supposed to conquer so much more territory and they conquered they had this promise of God yet they settled for very little and because they settled for little now all these countries that surround in them which they were supposed to possess as a land are their worst enemies and they constantly leave you you turn on the news almost every week you hear some kind of stabbing here shooting there bomb bomb exploded there because people failed Israelites failed to work out what God had worked in them say work it out one just two more minutes practical steps really practical step have an action plan the three kinds of people those that make things happen those things that watch things happen and those that have no idea what just happened what kind of person are you what kind of person are you number one when God speaks to you write it down have a journal whether it's on your app whether it's on whether it's on your notes whether it's in your book whether it's in your Bible whatever it might be the words that were spoken over you prophecies or maybe you read you read the word of God and felt deep in your spirit they touched you write it down write it down write your goals down write things down what God speaks to you number two share it with somebody now you don't have to you have to be careful who you share it with because we know the story of Joseph he shared with people that didn't quite support his dream and his vision okay find somebody that that this that has the same vision that has that has the same burning desire that has a that's striving for something a lot of times people make a mistake is they they get this they get this inspiration they get this desire they get this earning fire in them and they go share with people they don't want nothing with life they gave up they gave in they collapsed and they don't want to move forward and so they're bitter with life because maybe they've been they had so many setbacks in life so because they give up because they give in they're gonna try to convince you to give up they're gonna try to convince you not to move forward find people that share your vision find people that share your passion find people that want to move forward share with them okay number three keep accountable whether it's with your leader with your pastor whether it's with the person that you shared keep accountable how far what are you doing with your goals how far are you've gotten through that what are you what are you doing to stir up that gift that talent within you are you moving forward there's many blessing there's many scriptures and I'm not gonna go into because the time has already gone where when the Bible says when you act on his word you will be blessed I want you to understand I want you to to see what it says here then you will make your way prosperous and you will find good success not maybe not if not depending what kind of character you got depending if you got these weaknesses or these strains not depending if you came from if you were born on the right side of the tracks God's word is has no prejudice against no one whether you were born rich or poor whether you're black or white whether you have things or you don't have God gives you a guarantee you will find good success let's put our hands together for Jesus Christ


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