our prayer time. I'm pretty blessed by what you do up here. It's great. All right, you're the very first ones to actually see this book. No one else has had a chance to see it, so they said we want to reward paradoxes by making it actually be the first to access this. And people say why four editions? Well, we launched Reasons to Believe 33 years ago now. It was based on the principle that the more we learn from the book of nature, the more evidence we'll have for the supernatural, handy work of God. And each of the four editions we've been able to show that advancing research exponentially gives us more evidence for the Christian faith and reliability of the Bible. This fourth edition has been altered more than any other previous edition. There are 80 new pages of content in the book. Now, I did take 12 pages out, mainly because we didn't have a book on the origins of life or the origin of humanity when I brought up the third edition. We do now. So I was able to strip that down and just say, hey, go here. And what really appealed our editors, I was able to take out about 800 citations to the literature because we have those online. And so, I was able to trim down. However, they did notice I added about 800 citations. So I kind of bounced out. But people ask me, what's really new about the book? Well, I basically show you how the case for God creating the universe and designing for a benefit is literally orders of magnitude stronger than it was in the third edition. But I also spend some time dealing with the latest attempts by atheist scientists to try to bypass the God of the Bible. And, you know, we're just talking before class how Hawking's come up with his new statement that we don't have to have a beginning to the universe. We can actually have an infinite period of cosmic contraction that precedes a period of cosmic expansion. Well, I actually deal with that in the book, explain why that's not a viable loophole around the God of the Bible for two reasons. One, interestingly, comes from Stephen Hawking's research partner, Roger Penrose. Roger Penrose pointed this out, gee, almost 10 years ago, that it's impossible to join the geometry of a contracting universe for the geometry of an expanding universe in the same way it's impossible to take the singularity of one black hole and link it up with the singularity of another black hole. How many of you have ever heard of wormholes? Okay, yeah, Star Trek, wormholes. Wormholes are mathematically possible. If you can link up, perfectly link up the singularity of one black hole with a singularity of another black hole, you can travel from one space-time realm through the wormhole to another space-time realm. But here's the problem, it's physically impossible to get the two singularities to touch one another. And even if they were to touch one another, they would instantly evaporate. They're not stable. So black holes make for great science fiction stories, but as I say, mathematically possible, but physically impossible. Likewise, Roger Penrose pointed out, it's physically impossible, especially given the very high entropy of the universe to join a contracting phase of the universe with an expanding phase. But what Hawking was really appealing to, he says, the space-time theorems would fail in what's called the quantum gravity, or you say, what in earth is that? Well, that's when the universe is so young, so compressed, and so hot that quantum mechanical effects dominate the gravitational effects. And since we really don't know how quantum gravity works, they say we can speculate anything we want. And so they basically speculated that the quantum space-time fluctuations in the quantum gravity era, and incidentally, era is really probably the wrong word. We're talking the first 10 millionth of a trainth of a trainth of a trainth of a second. It's the shortest era that anybody ever talks about. So, but they do call it an era. And it's in that era where these quantum mechanical effects could conceivably be big enough that you actually get around the space-time theorems. However, to get around it, the quantum space, the quantum fluctuations in the quantum gravity era have to be large. If they're small, then the space-time theorems hold all the way back to t equals zero. There is no escape. Well, physicists, and I mentioned this in this book here. They've been presuming there's no way we can measure the size of the space-time fluctuations in the quantum gravity era. Therefore, we're free to speculate. Now, in one sense, I'd say that these atheists are on thin ice because they're putting all their faith in something we have no idea what it's all about. I mean, that's like me saying my wife doesn't exist, even though I've been married to her for 40 years, because I may have been deceived by some unknown physics that goes on at a higher dimensional realm that has created this amazing hologram that has been deceiving me for 40 years. I mean, that's a possibility, but it's a remote possibility, and it's based on something that I don't know. I remain married to my wife based on what I do know, not based on what I don't know. Well, likewise, and I got a whole chapter in the book you're talking about, how atheists are now forced to defend their atheism by appealing to what is impossible for us to know. And that's really not how anybody... Well, you know you're in trouble when you can't cite any knowable evidence to support your position. All you can cite is unknowable evidence. However, what has happened in the last 15 months, and we managed to get it in the book here, is what we thought was unknowable as now knowable. In this sense, we found a way to actually measure the size of a quantum spacetime phone when the universe is younger than a 10 millionth of a train of a train of a train of a second. Why? Because the size of these quantum spacetime fluctuations actually gets magnified in the images of very distant quasars as they light travels over billions of years. So if you've got a long light travel time, and it's especially effective if you're looking at a short wavelength, like ultraviolet wavelengths or x-ray wavelengths. So the shorter the wavelength, the greater the magnification, the longer the light travel time, the greater the magnification. Bottom line is, if the quantum spacetime fluctuations are large, it will blur the images of distant quasars and blazars at ultraviolet and x-ray wavelengths. Well, what I report here in the book, those observations have been made. The images are sharp. We measure no blurriness at all. The fact that we can't see any blurriness means that the quantum spacetime fluctuations are way too small to enable the atheists to any possible escape from the conclusions of the spacetime theorems. So there is a God. All right. We knew that all along, but now we've got even more compelling evidence for that. So, but yeah, yes. Yeah, I'm basically saying you want to put your faith in what can be tested, not what cannot be tested. And that's kind of when the new thing with atheism, they're putting their faith in what can't be tested. Well, we're all taught that's not the way to do science. It's not the way to investigate whether a woman should be your future wife at basing it on what you don't can't possibly know about her.  You get to know people to determine what kind of relation if you want to have with them. And that's what the Bible tells us about God, get to know them by what you can know and test. And the Bible is what attracted me about the Bible long before it became a Christian. It's the one holy book that challenges to put everything to the test. Test the spirits, 1 John 4-1, 1 Thessalonians 5-21. Test everything, hold fast to that which is good. If it can't be tested, don't worry about it. Face your faith on what can be tested. Lots of things can't be tested. But we document in the fourth edition here, there's a lot more we can test today than we were able to test in the third edition. And the Christian faith passed consistently with flying colors. Anyway, you're the first ones to have access to the book here over there at the table. And they actually have a special way cheaper than anything else anywhere. I think it's what, if you buy one copy, 15 bucks, you buy two is 20. Why are we giving you that deal? We want you to think of a non-Christian. You can put this book into the hands of why do we say that? Of all the books that we have published at Reasons to Believe, this one has brought more people to faith in Jesus Christ than any other one that we've brought up. Well, as you go through the book, you'll discover that a lot of the chapters are an easy read. But I have some chapters in there for the skeptical physicists with PhDs in theoretical physics. And so I give it to them in the detail that they need. You're willing to take my word for it and just skip on to the easy to read sections. So, but keep in mind, the book was written to be a tool to bring non-christians to faith in Jesus Christ. So yeah, there are a few technical areas here. Nevertheless, it's equation free, not a single equation in the book. The fingerprint of God, I've actually got some differential equations in there, but they told me for this one, no, we got to take those out. So we did. All right, yes. No, it's only in softcover. We're actually bringing this out through Reasons to Believe Press. That's how we're able to get it out so fast. So because you have a go with a commercial publisher, it's another year before you see it. And hey, we want you to have it right up to date. Yes. Well, the title of the chapter I have on that is responding to non-empirical evidences for the no existence of God. So that's what they're doing. They're appealing to that which can't be measured or tested. But as a mark of how secure a Christian faith is that the opponents of Christianity have to appeal to that which is not empirical, that which can't be observed, measured or tested. So all right, I'm going to be jumping into our study on Isaiah. Although next week, I am going to tell you about a brand new scientific discovery.   My guess is the editors are going to change the title. But the whole point is there's a new discovery that shows us that the Hadian era of Earth's history is actually a frozen era, not a Hadian era. Hadian refers to Hades. And that model for the past 40 years of the early history of Earth is that the first 800 million years of Earth's history, the Earth was hellishly hot. There's a new discovery that tells us it was not hellishly hot. It had intermittent hot episodes, but it was predominantly frozen. I'll talk to you about that next week because we need to get into our study. Last week, we burned the whole class with new discovery. So we're not going to do that this week. We need to push on through our study in Isaiah. And what I'm doing on purpose in our study on Isaiah, incidentally, if you don't have the study questions, I've made up a list of 10 questions that we've been going through as you go through the book of Isaiah. So we've got some others here anyway. You can send those around for those that don't have them. We only printed 300 copies of it and we keep running out. So that's the way it goes in this class. All right. But then we're looking at question one. And kind of what I'm doing on purpose in this class is basically showing you the way I research and study the Bible. And hey, big disclaimer. I'm not saying that this is the way you must do it. It's simply the way I do it. Because a lot of people ask me, can you actually show us how you go about developing these studies? So that's what I'm doing. But please don't get the wrong impression. There are many different ways to research and study the Bible. So this is the way I do it. And hey, this is the way it works for somebody who's on the autistic spectrum. But I just wanted to show you that. Now, it's actually the same technique I use for going through the book of nature. And to give you a quick outline, what we're doing with each of these 10 questions is I'm having you do what I typically do, go through the whole book of Isaiah in 10 or 15 minutes, speed read it, and pick up all the relevant verses that you think might apply to the study question. So we did that in the class and it was amazing. Every one of you got through it in 15 minutes or less. Now, some of you did bring out your smartphones into the Google search, but that's okay. You can do that with modern technology. Those people finished in five minutes. But those of you who didn't have smartphones, every one of you got through it in 15 minutes. But what we do next is we actually take that list of verses. And notice what I encourage you to do. When you assemble the possible verses, be generous. Include everything that might conceivably apply to the question. Then you take that list of scripture passages. And that's kind of what we're doing now, going over the list of scripture passages. And we actually look at each passage. And we delete the ones that we say, no, that's not really relevant. It might be relevant for question six. And so you save it. But it's not relevant for question one. As you can see here from the slide, we deleted five passages or four passages from the list that we developed before. But we retain these. And so we'll be looking at this next set of passages that we assembled. And notice I included one that we could put an extra passage there. But having looked at the passage, I think we were more than generous in terms of assembling the passages that pertain to question number one. Okay, that's step two. Step three is we're actually going to look at our reduced list of passages. And we're going to read through the whole list together rapidly. In other words, you just don't try to analyze each passage in depth. What you want to do is read through all the passages fairly rapidly to kind of get a general sense of what these texts are saying about the study question. And step four, we go through one verse at a time and dig up everything we can from the verse that pertains to the question. Then we're done with that. We go to question two. All right. But people ask me, well, how did you assemble the data for the book and probable planet? I use kind of the same approach. Looked at all the scientific journals relevant to the subject matter, read through the titles rapidly. All looked at was the titles of the papers and basically assembled a list of all the research papers that might be relevant for the books content. Then I went back over to second time and I read all the abstracts. And by reading the abstracts, I was obviously not I thought that was relevant, but it really isn't. Then I came down with that reduced list. And then it began to go through each of the research papers in detail, make notes and basically kind of first of all, no party step three was read through all the research papers quickly, get a general sense of what they're saying, how they integrate and go through them in detail. Say, how long did that take you for the book and probable planet? That was three years. So yeah, it took a while, but the net result was the book and probable planet. You say, is it going to take us three years to get through the book of Isaiah? No, it's not going to take us three years. It's not quite the same as having to read 60 different science journals in depth. We're looking at just 66 chapters. So yeah, it's not going to take us that long. And question one will probably take us the longest. The rest of them will be able to get through quickly. Because once we get practiced with this, we're going to be able to speed things up. Okay, if you don't have the question in front of you, question one is, what Isaiah passages address the beginning of the universe? What do these passages say about the universe? How can we use these Isaiah texts to persuade people that God exists and the Bible is the word of God and also looking at exactly how does God bring about the beginning of the universe? Because we're noticing that these passages we go through and not only declares that God is responsible for creating a universe, it gives us insights on exactly how he creates the universe. And I think we're also going to notice how repeatedly these Isaiah texts say, I did it all by myself. I didn't need gravity like Stephen Hawking says. I didn't need previously existing space and time. I did it all on my own independent of anything else. That's going to come through loud and clear. But I think this is where we left off with Isaiah 43.7. And what we're going to try to do, and hey, this is going out in the worldwide web. So I want you to be loud when you come to the microphone here. We're actually going to move the microphone over a little bit so that we can actually get you on the camera. So that's about right. So I would like to get a line here for a volunteer for Isaiah 43.7. And then we're going to go down these different passages. My goal is, hey, that clock's not moving. We've got lots of time. So my goal is, we'll actually get through this whole list this morning. Let's see how well we do.  And then stay here at the microphone because I'm going to ask all of you, is this passage relevant to question number one? And the majority says, yes, we're going to include it. If all of you say no, we delete it. And notice these four passages that we deleted, I noted we got a unanimous vote here. We basically discussed it long enough that people said, nah, Rudy, that might apply to another question but not specifically to this question. And hoping that's how it's going to work out. I didn't really see a split vote on any of the things that we dealt with. I was crystal clear that it is relevant or not. So starting with Isaiah 43.7, come to the microphone. Gloria. Isaiah 43.7, everyone who is called by my name and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed even whom I have made. Okay. Is that relevant to question number one or should we just drop that one? What do you think? Drop, drop, drop. All right. Yeah, I would agree. Isaiah 43.10 to 11. Do we have a volunteer? This is the longest one on the whole list here. So somebody is, oh, right. Somebody's got some energy here. Great. You are my witnesses, declares the Lord and my servant whom I have chosen so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he before me. There was no God formed and there will be none after me. I even I am the Lord and there is no savior beside me. Okay. Is that relevant to question one? Okay. Some are saying drop it. Do I have anybody saying that we should include it? You think we ought to include it? Okay. What are some reasons for including it or some reasons for dropping it? Yeah, go ahead, John. He does say before me there was no God formed and therefore he was formed. Yeah. He says he's first. Yep. Yeah. He's first, so don't drop it. So don't drop it. Well, I think you're getting to it. It doesn't explicitly mention the beginning of the universe, but it does make the point that God alone is the one who is a creator. And did you notice a subtle little addition in this text? Only one creator, but it mentions two creators. Did you catch that? So this question is also going to be relevant to the question we have on the Trinity. Did you see that it was mentioning another participant in creation? Yeah, exactly. So he mentions another person in addition to himself as part of the creator, but then he says, I alone have done it. There's just one creator. So we're actually going to be using this text when we come back to our question on the Trinity. So I mentioned previously of all the books of the Bible, the book of Isaiah, and this includes New Testament books, all the books of the Bible. It's the book of Isaiah that gives us the most doctrinal content on God being three persons and one essence, but there's a hint of it right here in Isaiah chapter 43. And it's in the Dead Sea Scrolls. And it's in the Dead Sea Scrolls. That's correct. Telling us this book indeed dates back previous to the second century BC. I don't know whether you're aware of that, but of all the books of the Bible, the only book that's available in this entirety in the Dead Sea Scrolls is the book of Isaiah. So on display, incidentally, I think there's going to be an organization bringing a replica, an exact replica of that scroll found in the Dead Sea Scrolls here to the Los Angeles area. I'm actually working with an organization that's going to make that possible, let you know when it happens. So yeah, are we going to include it or are we not going to include it? All right. Okay. Well, you know, if it's a split vote, I'm going to kind of throw it in. If everybody says no, we drop it. Okay. Or if only one person says yes and everybody else says no, we drop it. But I think we ought to keep this one. Okay. Next one up. Oh, I need to go over here. And whoops, let me go back to this one. Come on. Can you get out of here? So yeah, we deleted one, but we're keeping that one. How about 43, 18 to 20? Do we have a volunteer coming up? Thank you. Remember not the former things or consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing. Now it springs forth. Do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. The wild beasts will honor me, the jackals, and the ostriches. For I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert. To give drink to my chosen people. Okay. What do you think about this one? Do you recognize this passage or someone in the New Testament that quoted this? That's right. Yeah. So this text does show up in the New Testament. Of all the books of the Old Testament, the book of Isaiah is cited the most in the New Testament. So this is one of those texts. But is it really relevant to anything about the universe, the beginning or God, the Creator? No. All right. So let me exit this and draw it. Okay. And now we got Isaiah. Whoops. Here we go. Isaiah 4424. All right. Got a volunteer here. Good. I wanted to do this one because it really does fit the question. 4424. This says the Lord your Redeemer who formed you from the womb. I am the Lord who made all things, who stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself. That's a keeper, right? How much more explicit can you get? All right. The first, I mean, what's interesting is the Jewish theologians living as much as 800 years ago saw these texts on Isaiah and says, Isaiah is telling us the universe is expanding. In terms of a scientist actually saying, hey, this is true, not until 1925. Okay. A trivia question. Who is the first scientist to speak about an expanding universe? Hubble was 1929. There is somebody in 1925. George Lemaître. George Lemaître was an astronomer, a physicist, but also a Belgian priest. He was a Roman Catholic priest. He based it on the equations of general relativity. So, I mean, after all, he wasn't burned at the stake. In that case, Einstein knew it, but he decided not to tell anybody. Well, yeah, it was George Lemaître that basically pointed out that Albert Einstein's original theory of general relativity, before Einstein altered it, he says that's the correct theory. That's the correct theory. The universe is not static and eternal. It has a beginning and it is expanding from that beginning. Now, he claimed he meant nothing theological about it, but none of his peers agreed with him. So they all felt that as a Belgian priest, he was making points that no, independent of the Bible, I see this just from the equations of general relativity. And incidentally, it was his paper that basically persuaded Einstein a couple years later to say, my fix of my theory of general relativity is the biggest mistake I've made in my life. Because when he published his theory of general relativity, the reigning paradigm is that the universe had no beginning and it was eternal. So he says, my equations tell me that it has a beginning and is not eternal. I need to add a term to the equations to get rid of the beginning and to keep the universe eternal. And so he did that and later realized no, especially with Edwin Hubble. Incidentally, right here in Pasadena, Albert Einstein came, spent some time with Edwin Hubble. Edwin Hubble took him up to the 100-inch telescope, let him look through the telescope and Einstein said the universe really is expanding because he was actually able to see the evidence that galaxies that are farther away from us move at a faster velocity away from us than galaxies that are close. And that's when he said, my fudge factor that added to my equations is the greatest mistake I made in my scientific career. Here's the irony. We brought back that fudge factor. No, we have attached a different sign to it and a different value to it, but it's basically the same fudge factor and that's dark energy. But instead of making the universe eternal and getting rid of the expansion, it actually makes the universe expand faster. So yeah, change the sign, change the value, get what Einstein wanted. But actually what he thought was as big as a mistake once you made certain adjustments turned out to be right on target. When did we discover that? 1999. So aren't you glad to be alive today with all the stuff that's happening? Okay, hey, we got diverted. Let's go back to the text here. We're at Isaiah 45, five to seven. So can I have a volunteer to come up and check that out for us? You need to get to the microphone. I am the Lord and there is no other beside me there is no God. I equip you though you do not know me that people may know from the rising of the sun and from the west that there is none besides me. I am the Lord and there is no other. I form light and create darkness. I make well-being and create calamity. I am the Lord who does all these things. Okay, what do you think? Is that a keeper? Why do you think it's a keeper? Okay, yeah, he creates the light and he creates the darkness and isn't it in the strings? We're going to find out you need both light and darkness for us to be here. He created both. Is it darkness the absence of light though? How can you create darkness? Well, when I was an undergraduate student that's what I was taught. Darkness is the absence of light. We now know that darkness is a substance, is something real. Actually see a hint of that in Job 38 verses 19 and 20. You can check that out if you want where God says do you know where darkness resides? Actually treats darkness as a substance and we now know that the universe isn't predominantly dark. Incidentally, all those stars and galaxies and planets you see have it's only 0.27% of the universe. 99.73% is dark stuff and the dark stuff is tangible. Yeah. I'm looking at the New American Standard Version. I'm wondering what others say. It's in present tense and one forming light and creating darkness. Is there some continuing process? Don't worry, is he talking about the beginning of the universe and what are the translations? Well different translations put it in different ways but actually what you'll see if you look at all the texts that talk about how God creates light you'll see that the Bible claims that God did that in the beginning but there's also an ongoing process. So why he not only sustains it he's reshaping the light and darkness as the universe evolves from the beginning to the present. And we've got a question here that we're coming up after we get done with number one. What does Isaiah say about the subsequent history of the universe? I think we're going to be coming back to this text. So yeah don't be surprised a lot of these scripture passages we're looking at they're going to show up on multiple lists. So this passage talks only about the beginning of the universe but what happens after the beginning. But yeah I think it's a keeper. So we'll keep that one and now we got 45-12. Do we have someone that can read 45? Okay come up. I have made the earth and created man upon it. I even my hands up stretched out the heavens and all their hosts have I commanded. So what do you think? Is that a keeper? Yeah that sounds like a no brainer doesn't it? It's very specific and explicit. So we keep that one and now we got Isaiah 45-18. Do we have a volunteer? What do we do? Thank you. Isaiah 45-18. For thus says the Lord who created the heavens. He is God who formed the earth and made it. He established it. He did not create it empty. He formed it to be inhabited. I am the Lord and there is no other. Let's keep it. Yeah I think that's another no brainer we keep that one and that's going to be a passage we'll spend some time on because it's making some really significant statements that God actually created the universe with the idea of having a planet that's loaded with life. Incidentally there's never been a time in history when our planet has not been as loaded with life as it is right now. We're at the maximum time in terms of the at diversity of species here on planet earth.  We're here at the fullest time. We'll be looking at that. All right 45-18 we got 46 9 through 12. Can we have a volunteer for that please? Or 46 9 through 11 sorry. If no one comes up we got someone coming up great thank you. Starting in 45 first nine. Remember the former things long past for I am God and there is no other. I am God and there is no one like me. Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things which have not been done saying my purpose will be established and I will accomplish all my good pleasure. Calling a bird of prey from the east the man of my purpose from a far country. Truly I have spoken. Truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it. Surely I will do it. Okay what do you think? I think on the declaring the end from the beginning nature of times. Yeah I think that brings in the creation. I think you got a good point there. I agree. See how compliant this class is? You got a question? Yeah but that also tells you what kind of creator he is. In other words when he created the universe he actually had the end product in mind as opposed to something that I create where I don't know how it's going to end up. So yeah it tells us something about that. Okay the next one up is 48 12 to 13. Can we have someone else come up? Well we got one here. Great thank you. You know what I love about the fact is that we're getting different people coming up for every passage. This is wonderful. Go ahead. Isaiah 48 12 to 13. Listen to me Jacob. Israel whom I have called. I am he. I am the first and I am the last. My hand my own hand laid the foundations of the earth my right hand spread out the heavens. When I summon them they all stand up together. Okay I think that's another no brainer. We keep that one. Okay all right. Hey I think we're actually going to achieve our goal. Look how fast we're moving through these texts. Isaiah 50 verse 3. Okay. Well you're waiting. Can you comment on this spreading out? Do you think God in I mean this is how you're just your speculation but is for the ancient peoples I'm seeing them looking at the skies and the vastness. But do you think there was a purposeful insertion of that language for us now in the 21st century? Well that's how ancient Jews theologians thought about it and what's interesting is there's 11 texts in the Bible that speak about God stretching out the heavens and eight of them are here in the book of Isaiah. Probably seven of them are in the book of Isaiah. Well I think the ancient people who are Bible scholars would say this is repeated seven times in the book of Isaiah and the verb forms are in different verb forms. It's not the same verb form every time. God must be making a point here. It's more than just kind of what a painter does in a canvas and so I think that would have caught people's attention and it's something we're actually going to study. The fact that it's repeated seven times in the book of Isaiah using different verb forms tells us this is a larger point and actually we're going to be looking at the verb. It's not well translated into English where it says stretching out. That's basically how it's done in all the texts that we see in the Bible. Jeremiah included, Job included, but the verb natah has its base definition expansion and so one sense we have a translation issue here. So I myself was reluctant to think about this as an explicit statement about expansion until I came across John Ray a Hebrew scholar and theologian and he says let me tell you about the verb forms. He walked me through all the verb forms and said these are not just figures of speech. It's explicitly telling us that the universe is expanding from the beginning and basically said it's a wonderful apologetic for now exactly. Is there only one definition for the word or is there four like with YAH? Well like all Hebrew almost all Hebrew words there are multiple definitions but the first and primary one is expansion. So hey we'll actually look at that but yeah it is interesting how many of these texts we're looking at mention the stretching out of the heavens and when it talks about the earth it's a spreading out of the earth different verb so okay. I say a 53. I close the heavens with blackness and I make the sackcloth they're covering. Okay what do you think? Yes. Okay closing the heavens with blackness. Okay how about 51-13? Isaiah 51-13 the Lord made you with his power he made the earth and spread the sky over the earth but you forgot him so you are always afraid that angry men will hurt you those men plan to destroy you but where are you now? Okay what do you think? Is the verb for spread over the earth that verb form different for the stretching out? Standing right here I don't know the answer to your question I'd have to get out my yeah I have to look at any original Hebrew to answer it. Something you might have a smartphone that actually answers this question so it is different okay see. Yeah wonderful age we live and you don't have to figure out all these books just pull it up on your smartphone. All right pretty soon you won't even need me here right. Okay Isaiah 51-16. We're keeping that one. Basically look at what it says in the first part you might argue against the latter part but the first part I think is quite explicit.  I who set the heavens in place who laid the foundations of the earth and who say design you are my people. Yes another no for anything. Okay yeah we keep that one. All right how about Isaiah 64-8 you will thank you.  Okay is that relevant to the universe? No. Relevant to us maybe but not the universe. Yeah drop it but you know what we're going to be picking it up for another one of the questions we got on our list. So okay look look how fast we're moving through this. Isaiah 66-1 we have someone to come up here we go thank you. Isaiah 66-1 thus set the Lord the heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house that he built unto me and where is the place of my rest? Okay it does mention the heavens and the earth but does it really pertain to the beginning? Probably not. Verse 2 might okay want to come up and read verse 2 incidentally I think that's the most patriotic tie I've ever seen.  Okay what do you think about verse 2? Yeah a lot of people say yes. All right let me go in here and fix that for us. We're going to take away one but we're going to add two. Well okay we only chopped two from the list I mean just said we can also get rid of this one down here. I included this just in case you came up with something that wasn't on the list. So here we go. So we took four off the first list two so our list of 30 is now down to 24 texts. So now how much time do we have left? Because this clock is not helping me. We've got five minutes so that's it okay and we're not going to have time. Okay what we're going to do next week I'm actually going to have all these verses up as slides I've already got them prepared so you kind of see what I got here. We're actually going to be looking quickly at all 24 of these texts and I'm just going to flip up the slides one after the other then I'm going to be asking you the question what do these texts have in common with one another? So it's going to get kind of a big picture of what they have in common so don't focus so much on the specific details let's kind of pull out what they are telling us in common about the answer to question one and then we're going to actually go through each passage one at a time and try to dig out what the text is saying in detail that's where you can ask me questions okay what is the verb what is the noun and we're going to actually try to learn everything we can from the particular texts go all the way through and that will take us to the end of question one then we jump into question two and question two says what Isaiah passages address the features and history of the universe so we're basically going to be looking at what these texts say about what happens after the beginning you know we're going to discover a lot of these texts will talk about the beginning of the universe also talk about the subsequent history of the universe so a lot of these will be including as well and how can we use these Isaiah texts to persuade people that God exists in the Bible is a word of God so I want some discussion here and we already had a little bit here you know the Isaiah texts really are speaking not just about a beginning of the universe but the expansion of the universe this tells us that the Bible has predictive power and some of you were around a few years ago when I did that debate with the religion editor for the skeptics magazine Tim Callahan and our debate was does the Bible have predictive power and he was claiming well you know everything in the Bible is not predictive is talking about happened in the past but here in Isaiah we got some examples this book was written 26-2700 years ago it is telling us stuff about the universe that no scientist knew was correct until the 20th century so yeah well what Tim Callahan was doing a lot of our debate you can actually the debate's available you can see it under in our store at reasons.org we have the full debate in audio form is that he focused on the book of Isaiah or probably the book of Daniel and tried to claim that Daniel was written in the 5th or 6th century AD not the 5th or 6th century BC so it's a predicted nothing everything is in there had already happened it was just a historical report so a lot of our debate was well exactly when was the book of Daniel written and he basically made his case making the point well there's musical instruments mentioned in the book of Daniel that were invented by the Greeks and the Greek technology followed the Persian technology therefore couldn't have been written by the Daniel of Nebuchadnezzar's court but actually there are only three instruments mentioned the Greeks had all kinds of musical instruments only three of them are mentioned in the book of Daniel and those three were actually invented in the 8th century BC and were widely available throughout the Middle Eastern world by the time of Daniel so they already were in the Persian Empire now if he had cited cases of musical instruments that weren't embedded until the first century of BC he would have had a case not all of Daniel's in the Dead Sea Scrolls but portions of Daniel are so how could he claim therefore it wasn't written until 18th well evidently he didn't know about Daniel portions of Daniel being in the Dead Sea Scrolls the fact that they are means that it has to precede the 2nd century BC and if it precedes the 2nd century BC there is no other possible candidate for the author other than the Daniel of Nebuchadnezzar's court and you have to he basically was trying to claim to that Daniel wasn't a real figure but then you got to explain how is it that you got this you know defeat of the Babylonian Empire followed up by the rise of the Persian Empire and then the collapse of the Persian Empire as a result of the Greeks because yeah if you read the book of Daniel it talks about the Assyrian Empire the Babylonian Empire the Persian Empire the Greek Empire and there's actually a couple of texts that talk about the Roman Empire that's all in the book of a Daniel so yeah I think is a dramatic example of predictive success and of course the most significant prediction of book of Daniel is the date of the timing of the coming of the Messiah so the destruction of the temples mentioned there as well as also the second coming book of Daniel talks about two comings of the Messiah gives a date for the first one does not give a date for the second one but yeah it's a text often show Jews saying hey you believe Elijah comes twice look at this Daniel guy he says the Messiah comes twice so why not consider Jesus of Nazareth as a candidate for the Messiah so remember we had a Jew here in the class who became a Christian and uh yeah Alan Feinstein Feynman Feynman Feynman right and uh our class was having a dialogue with five rabbis because what Al would do he would ask questions in the class take him back to his five rabbi friends get their answer come back to here and get a comment on it so we actually had a running relationship we actually had five rabbis attending the class so that I'm actually being here because there's a q and a going back and forth through Al and you know Al is now in Toronto he's probably listening to this because I know he subscribes to this but I think we all miss Al because he was a professional Hollywood comedian and don't you all miss the fact that he would come with these incredible bits of humor here in the class but it was in this class where he gave his life to Jesus Christ so anyway but that I think my five minutes are up yeah I remember him well keep Al in mind because he's watching us uh from Toronto as uh and that's really our biggest audience we have your people here we got people participate live streaming but our biggest audience are people who download the mp3s and the mp4s including a lot of people who are part of the class kind of moved away in fact I think yeah our largest audience is in mainland China so yeah having been there a lot of people there are fluent in English so they've got more Christians than we have so yeah let me bow in prayer father in heaven we do thank you for the worldwide web and the outreach we're able to have here in the paradoxes class thanks to the way you design the universal planet so not only could we have a place where billions of us can live here together but have the technology and the wealth uh that we can learn these things uh from your book of nature and your book of scripture and be equipped with the tools we need to take the good news of salvation through Jesus Christ to all the people groups of the world not in millions of years of literally in decades father may this be the generation that sees the completion of the great commission and our entry from this creation into the new creation so give us many opportunities I prayed even this week to be able to share our faith the reasons you've given us to believe with people don't yet know you and by your spirit lord may we see them respond to you as creator lord and savior in jesus name amen


Okay, here we are. Thanks. My name is Paul Tanigal. I work at Lynn Benton-Grady College in Albany, Oregon. You know, we're Albany, Oregon, in between Portland and Eugene, kind of closer to Eugene, kind of closer to Bilesia. We have Oregon State University. And about an hour north of Eugene, we're at University of Oregon. And we're kind of at a sweet spot, just to our awesome students, kind of a little bit of awesome universities. We talk in the day, of course, about educational technologies. Really drive students and drive educators and technologists. Pretty much LMS people, but any kind of technology people that support instructors and support student learning. So, in the number of the talks in the big room over there, the theater over there, over there, Katie Blomk. I lost her many times with the praise that she gave. That is one of my mantras. But she had said a number of times, it's not about the technology. Well, I'm a technology person. Most of all of us are theater. Well, it is about technology, isn't it? No, it really is about that. It's fun and it's engaging and pure fun, really. Back to that word, as I find the technology that I deal with that I help instructors at my college deal with, really, it isn't, for them at least, about the technology. It's about doing anything they can to contribute to their students' learning and retention of success, essentially. Yeah, through all these cool technologies and processes, but the focus isn't on the tech, it's on the students. So, I accept there's so many workshops and sessions here at this conference and others where I'm just constantly amazed at what we can do with the technology to contribute to that learning and to expand beyond the time and space limitation of the classroom, of course, and also to facilitate a student and contribute to other students and also. So, we're going with this and we're going to start over. Real things comes from which of these, I'll be the person to joke, but real things come from all of these. Now, me personally, what I've experienced from working at Oregon State University and my college, like many colleges, especially my colleagues, it's the middle one that really drives the change. Whether it should be or shouldn't be is or isn't. The reality at a lot of institutions that I'm unaware of that I've worked at is faculty, if faculty wanted or don't want it, that's pretty much the way the college is going to go. So, how can we, as educational technologists, if not drive that change, strongly influence that change, strongly encourage and influence faculty to bend to our will what we're looking for here. So, what I'm getting at is the other reality of faculty driving change primarily, but I believe that we could strongly influence that along the way. I think the bottom line of what I'm talking about right now is on this slide here, and it really relates to building intentional relationships with the people that we serve. Now, in the classroom, one of the strongest components of a good, solid teaching effort by the instructor, it's the instructor who builds solid relationships with her students. You'll learn better from someone you trust and that you can relate to. You have some common with the instructor who lays down that commonality as soon as they can with their students. Those students are going to succeed really well. And so, on our end, even though we may or may not have a teaching role or an instruction role, we kind of actually do with the instructors that we serve. We have to fill them quite a bit sometimes, not the whole thing, on how to use the technologies that are never-wielding. So, if we build honest, good relationships intentionally and find areas of commonality with them, they're going to be much more relaxed coming back to us a second or third or fourth time when they need to learn something new, need a refresher on something. So, my biggest strength right now is when I can find myself standing nicely on a good balance which can mean, and you see the circles of the diet seat down here, I have one foot in IT and one foot in with the educators and the trainers, the people that deliver the learning in my institution. If I can have that balance, if I can speak both languages, if I can be the interface quite often between the hardcore IT people that don't really deal directly with students and faculty and also speak the other language back and forth, that balance is where I've been most successful and I feel like I've been able to drive some change. As low on the total pool as I am, there is some change in my institution. One of the biggest ways I've done that and I've seen that done with others is the ed tech people that back up everything they offer, every tech, every technology they offer with support, training and learning resources and you can't just offer a new technology with, hey, everybody, we have this really cool technology, here is your username, here's your startup password. Good luck. You've got to have more staff. It really helps to have some support resources dedicated before you even announce this new technology. Have some training, whether I'm in a live setting and or online, at least some kind of learning resources, if not fully customized for your institution as far as how you want to use the tech, at least something that the company, the producer that Jan has put together for you, something more than just, again, here's your credentials, have a nice dig, because that is how one technology was brought out at my college with Wild Back. The only thing that I saw coming out for Microsoft 365 two or three years ago was, hey, you'll be happy to know we're rolling out Microsoft 365. Your username is your, I believe it's our own music. Your username is your, I think it's your email address and your startup password and so-and-so. Good luck and go forth and do great things. And very little to none, nothing in regard to that backup, training and support. Here's how you use it. Here's a great way to use it. And to me and a parent until we look for it, if you practice it when of any kind of technology, a lot of them are going to say, I wonder if I can use it in the classroom? So sure enough, I'd give people coming into my office, if they're coming into my office, asking how they can use Microsoft 365 and I don't really use it. We officially support and adopt Google Apps for Ad. And Google Apps for Ad, in my experience, has started off kind of as a rogue, well, not tight, it was a rogue software that I started just as a pilot just to see how we could do with providing content in our middle system in a way that won't require students to have Microsoft Word Excel PowerPoint. So I offered it to a few instructors as a test to see if it was even worth bringing up to ask IT if we could bring it in officially. And so primarily in regard to Google Calendar and Google Drive, so what happened was it gained some grassroots interest, especially in regard to Google Drive, Google Docs. And in about three years, it was officially adopted because it was proven to be a plentiful game, strong enough and viable enough for both employers and students. I went around it kind of backwards, but I found out later on if I had asked permission before even offering it as a pilot, I would have been told no. So I did the right thing, I did the wrong thing, whichever way it happened. We have gained a lot of ground in that regard for both instructors, for both students and all the employees. So on a note about what I used earlier, and I'm kind of one of the rogue people, the rogue instructors that want to use their own elements of their propellant mass. The ed-take people who can have that relationship still with the rogue people who don't want anything to do with the ed-take people, you want to find a balance between telling them they can't use the technology of their choice and using whatever they want. If you've got to find that balance in there, because that's a life statement in there, you can't complete your search or disallow rogue technologies because the next greatest thing that might seriously make a contribution to your student's success might be just around the corner. And if it isn't on your radar, that isn't mean you shouldn't be on someone else's door. Does that make a sense for trying to find some balance between cutting off the rogue and welcoming them somewhere in the middle? That's what I found is that they're the best. So back to that bottom line, as much as we have fun and I have fun playing these technologies and the ones I'm involved in, we're really, the bottom line is how can that technology and the way we use that technology honestly contribute to my primary client, who's the instructor of the student. And my secondary instructor who, my primary client is a student and my secondary client, of course, is the instructor who works for the student too. So having that relationship chain is really what helps things out as far as being able to and for them to know that can come to us with anything they need and all of the right rather than feel like work has a big separation that can be built between us. And that's why I believe that the best way that ad-tech people can drive change and contribute to change, real good thing, is buy through these influential relationships. Does that make a sense, also? Questions, comments, disagreements? Agreements? It isn't about technology. Thanks. I'd like to thank the rightful learners who are living in the past. Thanks so much.


Hello everyone, this is Amit Dan of amitdan.com. Today I'll have another episode of review video And I'll be reviewing the crops simply brew compact filter drip coffee maker So this is a five cup coffee maker and I have it right here. If this is your first time or if you visit Thank you for your support on this channel I'm always trying new and different ideas if you're into thinking outside the box This is the channel to subscribe if you're looking for more review videos There will be links in the description box below so I was looking for a small compact coffee maker and I was searching and Searching then this crops Drew my attention because it looks really nice and this is only you know one to five cups And that's what I was looking for and it's actually not too expensive the funny things when I was Started to track the price on this one I just started at $50 then I noticed that gradually it was going up So it became like you know 55 60 65 70 so right now it's $70 and I was able to buy it at $60 so I Think this is a good buy and today I'm going to take a look at it And we'll make a coffee with this coffee maker. So this is very simple Yeah, there's just you know one button to press and there's another feature is that you know when you're brewing the coffee you can actually take out the Coffee and it would pause the dripping. So that way, you know, you don't have to wait for the full brew to complete Which I'll show you and in terms of Size so it can fit five cups or 750 ml and you can see that, you know There's a large opening here where you'd put water and then there's actually Reusable filter so you don't have to buy filter if you don't need to so you can just use kind of this bucket filter and However, I do use a paper filter even with a reusable filter because paper filter can filter some of the ingredients or chemicals which the Reusable filter couldn't catch it and keep the coffee warm here Even once you finish preparing the coffee. So overall it looks, you know fine and it seems to be working fine And you know, even here is the measurement of water. You can see Let me just move this a little bit. So what I'm going to do, I'll just you know prepare the coffee and Put the water in and then let's start brewing our cup of coffee with crops Simply brew coffee maker. So the first thing I'm going to be doing is I'll just you know, take the filter and I'll put it on top of the reusable filter and we're just going to use This coffee here and just to note that none of the you know reviews or products are affiliated reviews The difference on this channel is that I do not provide any affiliated links and I don't take money from anyone So what you're watching is totally honest and unbiased and I don't have any interest whether you buy or not because you know It doesn't profit me anyway and that way You know, you can be rest assured that you're going to get a totally honest and unbiased opinion So we have the coffee here. So I'm just going to you know get some water here So we'll make just one cup of water and I'll take some cold water Let the water run for a few seconds to get it totally cold Okay, so that should be good enough So the way you put water you have to just like put water in here you can even use this, you know container and But I don't use that I just used my cup directly. So just like in a pour water this way and Then I'm just going to you know, keep the cup here and here This I believe this is called car off, but I'm not sure about the you know pronunciation. So I'm not you know trying to say it So we'll put this container in here and this is made of glass. So that's a good thing that you know, this is a glass and They even included a small scoop or coffee spoon to measure coffee. So I'm just going to close the lid and We'll you know start brewing and see what happens So here you have to just like you know press it once so you have to just turn it on and then you can see that You know it's lit and it's going to start brewing the coffee very shortly and then we'll try to You know pause the brew in the middle So let's see if that works, but when you are doing that you have to be very careful You have to kind of like you know pull this slowly. So it you know stops the Sensor which I'm going to try to do it right away. So there shouldn't be any coffee dripping on the heated plate. So let's say if You know, I can make that work So you can hear the coffee dripping noise, which I actually love so whenever I'm making a cup of coffee It's not just a coffee. I'm enjoying. I'm enjoying the whole process of making a coffee and If you're looking for like you know how to make coffee at home or how to make a Tim Horton's coffee at home You can search My videos or you can just do search Google search How to make coffee at home or how to make Tim Horton's coffee at home and you see my videos there I have a few videos about coffee making. So now we can see that Coffee is coming out. So let's try to take it out and see if we can stop the coffee brewing in the middle so you have to be very slow and very Kind of easy Okay, so what happened? It is stopped, but I think I was not like you know gentle enough So some coffee came out, but you know it worked for me before but somehow it's not working Right now, but I wouldn't blame the coffee maker for this. This is just like you know I was not you know gentle enough to take it out. I think I did it a little bit too fast But basically the sensor detects that you know, there's no container and it would just keep it to just stop Making the coffee, but now You know that This doesn't work if you are too fast So, you know you can be careful next time and I think I burned some coffee. I'm getting some smell here, but What was going to happen that you know I'm not going to you know cut this portion from the video because this is a real video You know, so you have an idea that you know What can go wrong or how to be careful when you are trying to pause the coffee brewing in the middle Okay, so now it started brewing again and I think it's going to be a few more seconds Then we'll have a coffee perfect cup of coffee and then I'll show you, you know how it looks And It should give you The noise or you should tell that you know the coffee is not brewing anymore when you hear that there's no more dripping noise But I can see that you know still it's brewing the coffee. So just wait a few more minutes Okay, I think it's done because you know, I can see it's just like you know drops or droplets coming out It's not like you know brewing heavily anymore So I have a good feeling that you know coffee Making is done except I burned some coffee because I was not careful enough Okay, so I think this is okay to take out there should shouldn't be any more water now And you can see that you know, I have the coffee here and I'll just put it in the cup And I'll just set aside The container or glass coffee container and then here you can see that there's the cup of coffee But you know the coffee Slight a little bit coffee got burned, but that was I think my own fault. I wouldn't blame the coffee maker for that so that's the the review of the Crops simply brew coffee maker. So this is good for one person and up to five persons And you know, it doesn't take a lot of space. So that's a very good thing And it looks very, you know, nice. That's the reason I bought it. So you can see that, you know, it's not too bulky or too big and if you're You know, if you need coffee here and there throughout the day then definitely, you know It's better to have a small coffee maker than a big coffee maker so that's the review of the crops and I'm totally satisfied or happy with the product. I couldn't find any fault or anything and Also, I noticed that, you know, this company before I didn't know them, but after buying the, you know, this I found out that they have been making coffee makers for a while and actually it's a very popular Brand and their coffee makers last quite a while and again, no one paid me I purchased everything with my own money and you know, there's no affiliated links. No nothing Thank you for watching this video. There will be more videos coming up. So I'll see you shortly. Thank you


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What is up you guys welcome back to another one if you are new to the channel I am Goldpony today we are in the new 2019 Chevy Camaro this is the non SS version by the way already reviewed the SS so I'll leave a link at the end of the video for that one if you want to but I am in this one today because I wanted to see if the non SS Camaro was fun as well to drive and we are in this one courtesy of Apple Chevrolet in York PA so without further ado as always let's start with pricing it said there will be a few different trim levels for the 2019 Camaro first one being the one LS that is going to start at twenty five thousand nine hundred ninety five dollars then the one LT for twenty six thousand four hundred ninety five two LT is going to start at twenty eight thousand four hundred ninety five dollars and lastly the three LT which starts at thirty one thousand nine hundred ninety five dollars by the way that was pricing for the coupe version if you wanted to go with the convertible version of the Camaro here simply add six thousand dollars to any of those prices but so that with the exception of the three LT power plant is going to be the same powering the 2019 Camaro is going to come from a two liter turbocharged inline four cylinder engine putting out two hundred seventy five horsepower fifty six hundred rpm and two hundred ninety five pound feet of torque available at three thousand rpm power is going to be sent to the rear wheels through a Tremac six speed manual and if you're curious about that six speed there is no rev matching on this version of the six speed that is going to be saved for the ss version and the zl one of course but then there is the optional eight speed automatic transmission with paddle shifters which actually is the one we have today but if you went that route that is going to add an additional fifteen hundred dollars to the price but overall mpg numbers are going to come in at twenty two in the city thirty one on the highway using premium unleaded fuel and zero to sixty time is going to come in at approximately five point four seconds but so then since i mentioned it when it comes to that three l t trim level that engine setup is going to be a three point six liter naturally aspirated v six putting out three hundred thirty five horsepower two hundred eighty four pound feet of torque once again sent to the rear wheels through a six speed manual or an eight speed automatic giving you mpg number sixteen in the city twenty seven on the highway but before we do any accelerations in this thing i did want to mention the drive modes available for both engine setups as well and that drive mode button is going to be located directly behind the shifter giving you modes like touring sport and snow and ice not that you would probably want to take the camaro out in the snow and ice anyways but it's there for you if you had to it's open now i think it is time to do a quick little acceleration in this turbocharged twenty nineteen camaro here keep in mind it is about thirty degrees out today here in pennsylvania so i'm not sure the grip we're going to get but without further ado let's do that acceleration and see how quickly we can get this twenty nineteen camaro up to speed all right so the paddle shifters do have a slight delay to them not that bad though they are there if you want to know as far as the acceleration goes honestly i have no chance today so i'm not even going to give you an opinion i was sliding like crazy so we're not going to do that on this one but so that you go along with that acceleration braking is equally important and so of course you will get four wheel disc brakes with the camaro just to touch on the suspension and handling a little bit you will get a four wheel independent suspension with the limited slip rear differential and that's really important in any sports car because that is going to help send torque to the wheel with the most traction then would also mention actually for the non ss camaro that we're in today there is a one le package available that's going to add an additional forty five hundred dollars but it's basically going to give you the camaro ss suspension components including the same dampers rear cradle mounts stabilizer bars things like that also with that package you're going to get dual outboard radiators a rear differential cooler rembo four piston front caliper so even more stopping power and then also some aesthetic upgrades and a dual mode exhaust system i'll have you know as well then as far as the steering feel goes i am definitely a fan it does have a very nice weight to it it is on the heavier side so for the price point of the non ss camaro definitely an amazing steering feel as far as cabin noise goes i think we have like 100 mile per hour winds going on right now so honestly cabin noise is not all that bad i've definitely been in vehicles where that wind comes directly into the cabin and you can definitely hear it but with the camaro cabin noise is very much subdued and then to touch on visibility a little bit i think everyone's heard this before when it comes to the camaro visibility is not going to be the best compared to some of the competitors but as with any vehicle i'm sure you would get used to it but because of its shape that rear visibility is not going to be the best but so anyways enough of the driving dynamics you guys let's check out the exterior of the newly refreshed 2019 chevy camaro it's soon to start up front you will first see that redesigned front grille also to the side's redesigned headlights as well and they will come standard led for a little better illumination at night and there are led daytime running lights up there as well but then make your way to the side body colored power adjustable side mirrors will come standard looking down at the wheel setup 18 inch five spoke alloy wheels will come standard however with the rs package that we have today which goes for $2,000 by the way that is going to add 20 inch split five spoke alloys that you were looking at right now and with the one le again you get 20 inch wheels a little different design on that one though then make your way to the back you will find redesigned tail lights for the 2019 camaro the rs and one le packages are going to give you smoked tail lights and black badging back there and again that's what you're looking at right now just below it all dual exhaust lights with chrome tips and quad tips if you go with the v6 one le by the way but you guys know what we have to do next as always here is that exhaust clip but soon else it's we all around back to open that rear trunk there actually is a button on the key fobs to simply press that if you like once opened up cargo capacity is going to come in at 9.1 cubic feet for the coop 7.3 cubic feet for the convertible it is a little higher entry point with the Camaros as well so I figured I'd mention that but if that was not enough space for you simply fold down those rear seats that definitely gives you a lot more space there make your way up to the rear leg room that's going to come in at 29.9 inches so I'll give this a shot for you guys for reference I'm an even six feet tall this is how much space I have back there so back seats are probably better left for small children and car seats then make your way to the front seats LS trim is going to give you an eight-way power adjustable driver's seat that's going to come with the cloth finish 1LT is going to give you six-way power adjustable passenger seat 2LT is going to add leather to those seats and they will be heated and ventilated and I did want to also mention there are optional Recaro bucket seats for a little added bolstering for an additional 1600 if you were interested they take a look up front there is a tilt and telescoping steering wheel it does come leather wrapped for all trim levels and it will come with a flat bottom with a suede finish with the 1LA and so but now when it comes to the startup let me first start by showing you guys the key here you do have your Chevy logo on the one side and when you flip it over lock unlock the button to pop the rear hatch but 2019 Camaro also comes with a remote start for the 1LT trim leveling up so if you wanted to go that route simply make sure your Camaro is locked and press that and that's going to start up for you otherwise if you simply put your foot on the brake there is a push button start just by the driver's right knee but then once started up tachometer is going to be on your left speed on your right and there is a small digital display towards the bottom there but it's going to give you things like your trip a trip b how many miles you have left until you hit empty also your oil life meter that's always convenient tire pressure for each individual tire there's your air filter life and a couple other things as well and they touching a little bit on overall interior quality you will find a leather wrapped shift knob to go with a leather wrapped steering wheel of course power sunroof is available which is nice because the Mustang does not offer that i just figured i'd throw that in there but power sunroof adds an additional $1,000 if you wanted that and it would also mention the frameless rear view mirror i also am a big fan of that always like when they're frameless so i wouldn't mention that as well but let's make our way to the tech on the Camaro here seven inch color touchscreen display is going to come with the LS and LT eight inch color touchscreen display is going to come with the 2LT trim leveling up either way you get bluetooth and audio streaming as well as android auto and apple car play again for every single trim level so if you have a smartphone simply hook it up to the Camaro when you have free navigation and the ability to liken this like your pandora song through that screen as well it's always nice by the way when it comes to the sound system on the Camaro standard setup is going to come with six speakers however there is a nine speaker Bose system with the technology package if you wanted it that's going to add $900 but that is not the one we have today so we do have the six speaker sound system so let's turn on the radio see what we got playing this morning and let's test out the clarity of this one gotta be honest you guys for six speakers you probably saw my camera bouncing a little bit there there is a good bit of bass clarity on this one i guess it's just average but that bass was impressive for a standard six speaker sound system actually but so then last thing on the tech display i wanted to mention is when you do put the Camaro in reverse you will find a rear view camera for every single trim level of course letting you know who or what is behind you which is always is going to lead me into safety and so to start there are front side and side curtain airbags also driver and passenger knee airbags as well that definitely does not come standard on every car out there in the back there is latch aka lower anchors and tethers your children for the rear car seats also we'll find an electronic parking brake just behind that drive mode button again the tire pressure monitoring system that i mentioned and chevy always does something called a teen driver mode which is kind of cool so if that mode is on that prevents your teen driver from turning off the safety features like let's say traction control to do a burnout and if they do indeed turn that teen driver mode off it gets logged in the system so you can then check that and see what your teen driver is actually doing i had so but anyways that is about it for this one you guys thank you so much for watching be sure to like the video and subscribe for free to follow me on social media at the bottom of the screen if you like and i will see you guys in the next video stay gold


Hey everyone, it's Gabrielle with Oxmerotic Group. I'm here today at Oxmer Toyota for Facebook Use Vehicles of the Week. Now this week I'm going to have three pre-owned, certified pre-owned Toyos to share with you. They're all SUVs and they're ranging from the smaller size to bigger one. So you guys can kind of see what we have to offer. So let's go over some details on this first one. Now this is a 2019 Toyota RAV4. It's an XLE Premium and it is all-wheel drive. The exterior color is in a magnetic gray metallic. The vehicle has 19-inch alloy wheels. There is running boards. The vehicle also has the roof rack crossbars up on top and there's a sunroof. There is navigation, Bluetooth. The vehicle has dynamic radar cruise control. Also has the lane departure and there is a power liftgate. Now the interior is a black. Mileage is $7,360 and the price is $33,400. Now moving on to our second vehicle. This is a 2018 Toyota Highlander XLE all-wheel drive. Exterior color is in a silver metallic. This vehicle has 18-inch alloy wheels. There is a running board. Now this vehicle has navigation, heated leather seats. There's Bluetooth. The vehicle also has a sunroof. The vehicle has blind spot monitoring with rear cross traffic alert. That interior is a gray. Mileage is $20,312. The price is $35,316. For our last vehicle, this is a 2018 Toyota 4Runner Limited. The exterior color is in a nautical blue metallic. This vehicle has the XP package, which is pretty rare. It's kind of hard to find. So the vehicle does have upgraded wheels and tires. Now there is a sunroof. The vehicle has navigation. There is heated leather seating. There's a backup camera and the vehicle also has Bluetooth. The interior is black. Mileage is $22,642. The price is $37,900. If you guys have any questions on any one of these, please feel free to let us know. The best phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER> and make sure to check out our new Express Store on the website, which is oxmortwayoday.com. Thanks, guys.


Well, thousands of anglers dropped the line in Minnesota lakes over the weekend, all in search of that prized walleye. In northern Minnesota, many anglers were unsure what to expect for the big fishing opener because of the late ice out on area lakes. Docks have not even been installed in some locations, but that didn't keep anglers out of the water. On Lake Bemidji, the fish were biting. It just depended on the time of the day and the type of bait being used. It's been about the most beautiful opener that anybody can remember in recent years, which has made the fishing a little tougher during the day. The conditions have been almost too good, but for those getting out earlier in the morning and later on in the day, it sounds like quite a few fish were caught. Red Lake was really good, heard some good fish on Andruja, people fishing off the dock. In fact, the public pier down here in Bemidji caught some really nice fish. Docks that are not in place at boat landings that are overseen by the Minnesota DNR are expected to be in place within the next few weeks. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


The Creality Ender 3 Max is the best large 3D printer in 2021 for your budget. Why do I think that? Let's find out today. My name's Jim and this is the Edge of Tech. So right in the beginning of this video I'm going to say I do believe that this is the best large 3D printer in 2021 for your budget. Right now at the time of this filming this printer is only $299. That is absolutely awesome for a 300x300x340 print volume. I tell you I started with the basic Ender 3 and this is like the big brother you never knew it had. This thing prints absolutely great just like the Ender 3 always did for me. And it pretty much resembles just a big version of an Ender 3. Assembly is super easy. It is 8 bolts total I believe. It's 2 in each side and yes it's in the sides of this one. They don't go up from the bottom which is really cool. Two for the screen. Two for the power supply. Then you plug in your cables and you're good. So as far as assembly goes 15 minutes tops once you get it out of the box. It's very very fast. So without further ado let's go through the features that I believe make this the best large 3D printer in 2021. So I've been using my Ender 3 Max for a couple of weeks now and I got to say I really like it. The bed size on this is 300x300x340 and it's perfect for almost all of the projects that I choose to do. Now it does come with this Creality stock glass here. And I got to tell you what this is the flattest glass that I've seen Creality come out with yet. It is super flat very level and just some awesome awesome glass. A matter of fact I saved the best part for you guys and here you go. It has the metal extruder with the filament run out sensor. So you don't have to worry about your filament running out or breaking because this will definitely catch it. And the benefit of the metal extruder on this one is that cheap plastic arm on the plastic extruders won't break on you. The only thing I don't like and I wish they would do a little bit different on these is put in a removable Bowden coupler right here. Because this one right here doesn't appear to be removable and if that ever goes bad we'd have to get a whole new extruder. The upgraded hotend features dual cooling fans here each with their own fan duct underneath which is great for cooling those prints. And a silicone sock right here to keep that filament off of your hotend from underneath. Another cool thing that they added to the Ender 3 Max here is this anti backlash nut. I believe this is the first Ender 3 that actually comes with a backlash nut built in from Creality. And that's really cool because that's going to stop your gantry from falling all the time. Even if I put pressure on it like this with my fingers it's not just going to fall down. One of the things I really loved about the CR6SE was the spool holder it came with. And Creality sent that same spool holder now with the Ender 3 Max. I absolutely love this spool holder. I think these are the ones that should be with all their printers that have side mount spools like this. It does come with a 350 watt mean well power supply so that is great power for this machine. Another great thing it comes with is the yellow upgraded springs. That is really awesome because that means the springs are going to be stiffer and it's going to hold your bed level for longer. In true Ender 3 fashion it comes with a basic Creality screen. I really like the Ender 3 v2 screen but this one is good too. It has a lot of functionality and when you do the firmware update on this it will actually make it easier because you don't have to upgrade this screen. I save this for you. The silent 32 bit board with 2208 drivers sits right under this panel right here and this machine is very silent. So the first print I did was the reciprocal vase by ClockSpring 3D. Now I had to disable the power loss recovery feature in Marlin to make this work right and I'll link a video below to Brian Vines who walks you through that step. It's pretty simple. This vase came out absolutely amazing and it's done in translucent dark red from Alien 3D. If I zoom in here you can see just how beautiful this vase really did turn out. Naturally the second print I went to was the brand new Hot Makes ClockSpring 3D torture toaster and I printed this in Prusa Galaxy Black. As you can see in the back ClockSpring 3D Hot Makes the logos came out absolutely awesome there. If we spin this thing around you can see inside of there this actually fell out the .05 pig and I lost it so I'll have to find it to put it in there. But they do move which is very awesome. The printer really did a great job printing this with just that default profile from Prusa Slicer. If we spin this around this way you can see the overhangs and the cooling. Those dual fans really really help with your overhangs up in here. The cooling on that just is awesome for prints like this on a torture test. And last but not least yes the toast does pop. But this is the Ender 3 Max and while this is an absolutely awesome torture toaster it came out very very good. It's time to go bigger. So we amped it up to 225%. This one came out absolutely awesome as well. If we spin this around you can see again the logos in the back came out great. Of course everything is blown up so the tolerances are not going to be the same. It's not exactly a torture test when you blow up all the tolerances as well. But everything moves. It opens up. You can move pretty much all of them all the way almost down to the .1 and I didn't want to break it. But all of these move in here. I did have some weird layer issues in this one. It's kind of hard to see that but I'm not sure what happened there. Kind of a weird layer issue there. But other than that this thing came out really good. If we spin this thing around and open this door again you can see those overhangs in there came out awesome. The circles everything in here came out really nice at this size. Now this is 225% and yes the toast does pop. Got to do that. But to give you an idea if I bring this one in that is the 100% torture toaster. And that sits very well inside of the 225% toaster toaster. Now this did take just about four days at .02 layer height. And it was worth every ounce of that filament. I used a coax3d mystery filament. It was going to be yellow. I liked that a lot because of the color. It was very bright. And all of the links for the filaments I used will be in the description below. Next thing we need to talk about is the profile. So all I did is I went into Prusa Slicer and I use Prusa Slicer almost exclusively now unless I have to use something different. And I grabbed the Ender 3 v2 profile that is stock in Prusa Slicer. I changed the bed size to 300 to 300 to 340 and saved it as the Ender 3 Max under that name. That is the only changes I made for the profile on this printer so far. And as you can see we just got really awesome results so far. I think that if this thing is dialed in you're going to get just amazing results. Now that you've seen everything you can probably see why I think this is the best large 3d printer in 2021. Now why do I keep saying large? Well I tell you what that's because the word large is subjective to whatever you think it could be. Now I have a Prusa Mini which I absolutely love as well. But it's relatively small build surface. This compared to a standard Ender 3 is a pretty good size build surface. Almost everything I print will go on here. Now there are going to be some people that need their really large build surfaces. I'm talking like 400, 400 by 500 or something like that. And that is kind of the outlier. I think a lot of people could get by with something like this. So I think 95 or more percent of everything you print will probably never take up the full area you actually have to print on this printer which is really cool. I mean if you think about it the CR-10 is just a little bit bigger and that's because it's taller than this. And it's way more expensive than 299. So if you're looking for a second printer, if you're looking to get another one and maybe you already have an Ender 3 or an Ender 3 v2 and you want another printer to add on, I tell you what take a strong look at the Ender 3 Max. You can do tons of different upgrades to it. As you can see on the one on my right I actually already have the TH3D Tough Tube in this one here. We're going to do some videos on firmware. We're going to do some videos if you want on the Tough Tube. And I got new flex plates coming for both of these because I absolutely love the TH3D Flex Plates. With all of the features packed into this thing I really think for 299, actually I think 329 is the price normally even that is outstanding for what you get here. If you have any questions about the Ender 3 Max don't hesitate them to put it in the comments below. I'd love to hear what your questions are or comments if you have one of these. I hope you guys learned something today and as always keep printing.  If you haven't yet hit that subscribe button right here and click the bell right over here if you want to get notified anytime we go live on Monday for hot makes or another great video like this comes out. You guys are awesome.


Welcome back to my channel today's video is going to be my week 47 update of my fitness journey And basically I did everything and that I did last week and honestly, I know it's kind of getting repetitive It's just I found the 45 minute plan. I'll put it on the screen right now That's just really works for me and my schedule Saturday. I did not do anything. I ended up actually doing a shoot for my work It was like an event, but you know, they took precautions and stuff But I was on my feet and like walking around a lot So I do consider that somewhat some exercise because I was walking a lot back and forth from different locations and Sunday, I normally work out, but I was so unmotivated. I don't know what it is about like this time this year I've just been so unmotivated to do anything when it comes to vlog miss I don't know how I've managed to put up a video every day Honestly, I thought I would fail by now and I'll probably maybe you fail in the future I don't know again. I don't know how I have managed to do this because I've been so unmotivated So Sunday, I was really really unmotivated to anything like all I wanted to do is just like sleep because I had to get up Super early the day before for the event So if you watch my videos previously like you would have known this but some people only watch these for like inspiration Motivation, I don't know how much of that you're gonna get here. I was just so unmotivated like I didn't want to do anything I came to an agreement with myself and I was like, okay To just be physically active just do the Christmas dances because it'll like get you in the holiday spirit And I did the Pamela reef Christmas dance I think it's around 10 minutes and then I did the Madfit one the Madfit one's a lot of like jumping up and down and honestly didn't really expect to sweat that much But I ended up sweating a lot.  So if you don't feel like working out Those are great options. Um, and then Monday, I did the 45 minute day six, which includes the Jason Derulo I did the Jason Derulo one the 10 minute hit the dance I typically do the cardio no jumping and then the stretch Tuesday I don't do anything because I work and that's just one of my days off Wednesday. Definitely a workout Wednesday I did the 45 minute day two, which includes the ab and booty I chose to do the weighted booty workout and then the 15 minute booty and then the four minute hit workout That's a really good day. That's a really intense day for like your lower body and stuff I really enjoy it and then Thursday yesterday I exercised yesterday because I thought I had a meeting today, but I didn't so I did the 45 minute day one Workout plan from the 45 minutes sweaty hard plan and I did that yesterday. So that was Thursday I did the abs and weights tone arms happy sweat and then instead of the 15 minute like happy dance I did the R&B dance and that one was really fun If you're not looking for something like too challenging I would just do the R&B dance because it's not too hard yet You're still being physically active and stuff moving on to like food and stuff. I have been so good about portions I don't know why this week has just been really good for me That doesn't mean I won't have a gingerbread cookie because like I Love gingerbread so much. So obviously I had one like yesterday, but like overall like portion-wise I think I've been doing it really well Even though it's that time of the month like it's about to today or tomorrow I am feeling a lot less bloated and I think it's due to what I've been eating and how much I've been eating So I'm really happy in that department considering like Christmas is next week crazy, right? So that is food updates been pretty good pretty chill. I'm happy with where I'm at I want to pose this question It's probably the title of this video, but I want you to comment down below. Should I work out Christmas week? I'm gonna leave it up to you guys. I'll probably run a poll on Instagram or whatever But I want you guys to vote because I don't know I was gonna take the whole week off and say like screw it But I don't know I feel like we kind of built this like a little community in the comments in my videos So I want you to give your input should I work out Christmas week moving on to the photos I don't know because I haven't really like looked at the photos side by side yet But I feel like a lot more or less bloated so I don't know if that's gonna show in the photos But that's just how I feel so Alex on the left is last week and Alex on the right is this week And then here is the side view of that I don't know man I'm feeling pretty good even though the pictures might not show it and then moving on to pre-workout Alex Alex is on the left while current Alex is on the right and then here is the side version of that I think that's about it for my update My big question is you guys have heard it already Should I work out Christmas week because I just don't know if you guys work out? Let me know because I would love to know and now I'm just rambling So if you guys enjoyed this video, give it a thumbs up Don't forget to subscribe to my channel and I'll see you guys in my next video. Bye


And our first question of the day is, it says, why do 80% of midlife relationships go nowhere? Why do 80% of midlife relationships go nowhere? I love this question.  I'm not here to sell you on some fantasy of relationships. In fact, as I said, I've said this repeatedly in the dating process out there, quite frankly, it's a mess. It's an absolute mess because really for the first time in history for the most part in the last 50 years, people who meet are absolute strangers to one another. They have, I mean, while there are the occasions where people meet in high school and those occasions where people meet in college, for those of us in midlife, particularly in midlife, the reality is, is we're meeting total strangers. And the challenge with meeting a total stranger is, you don't know if you share the same values, you don't know if you have blendable lifestyles, and lastly, you don't know if the other person and or you have the emotional maturity to actually be in a healthy, happy relationship. So you might be asking, what does it mean? Why do 80% of relationships fail? Well, let's think about this for a second. Roughly 50% of all first marriages end in divorce and nearly 65% of second marriages end in divorce and 75% of third marriages end in divorce. I mean, that is something to really look at. Why is there so many divorces going on for people on their second or third term? You would think it'd be quite the opposite. They would be so much better at picking people that that number would be substantially lower. But why is it so high? It's because as we age, we actually haven't learned how to pick better people. Let me repeat that. As we age, we haven't learned how to pick better people. Now, some of us think, oh, well, I've learned what I want by what I don't want through online dating. Yeah, that's a little bit, but quite frankly, and I want you to also think about this. It's currently a Friday night when I'm shooting this video. There's probably gonna be 100,000 first dates here in the United States, and it could be even higher than that. I'm just gonna take a guess, there's 100,000. How many of those are actually ever gonna turn into a relationship? I'm gonna say less than 1% of those are actually going to turn into a relationship. So that would mean 1,000 out of that 100,000. And of those thousands, how many of those are actually gonna go the distance and go beyond two, three, four, go be long-term relationships? The likelihood of that is 80%. No, excuse me, 20% of those. This is why I say 80% of relationships fail at midlife because the reality is, is most human beings are focusing on the least important, well, I was about to say the least most, the least important thing, but this isn't true.  Let me repeat that, they focus on the smallest piece of the puzzle and not the biggest piece of the puzzle. And this goes back to the relationship iceberg I've talked about many times, and that tiny piece is chemistry and they do not focus on shared values, blendable lifestyles and emotional maturity. Compatibility is what creates relationship success. So when a thousand people start a relationship together and all they focus is on chemistry and not focusing on, do we really share the same values? And by the way, folks sharing the same values isn't, you like sushi, me too. Do you like stand-up paddle boarding? Oh my God, I do it every weekend at the pier. Do you like the Rolling Stones? Oh my God, I've seen them in concert 10 times. Folks, that's not compatibility, that's familiarity. Compatibility is do you share, are your lifestyles blendable with one another? Do you share the same values together at a core level? And again, lastly the emotional maturity piece and quite frankly, I believe, listen, I have learned the hard way that the number one emotional health issue facing everybody is a distressing lack of I'm not good enough, I'm not lovable and I'm not likable. I'm gonna repeat that. I'm not good enough, I'm not lovable and I'm not likable. That's the number one emotional health issue facing almost everybody. Again, this is why I wrote my book, What the Heck Is Self Love Anyway? By the way, a link below. It's a journey of personal development, self-help and spiritual work to work on the emotional maturity piece. And this is why I continually recommend the book, The Hoffman Process. The Hoffman Process. This is a deep dive into healing childhood wounds and traumas. I'm gonna repeat that, a deep dive into healing childhood wounds and traumas. Do you realize that I am probably the only, I'm one of the few, let me reframe that. I'm one of the few dating coaches that continually talks about childhood wounds and traumas as well as adult traumas that cause most of the frustration in the dating realm.    Take a look at Tiger Woods and his father and what he dealt with.  Okay, as an example, we are dealing, and by the way, I don't care how financially successful someone is or how attractive they are on the outside, there is a good chance there's a little kid on the inside of that person that's deeply hurting because they've done little or no, whether they've not done therapy, whether they've not done personal development work, self-help work or spiritual work to heal that little kid inside of that. And this is one of the reasons why 80% of relationships fail or go nowhere, not to mention the fact that most people at midlife are only operating from a casual basis and not a serious basis. And this is why I continually talk over and over and over again about understanding the mechanics to a healthy, happy relationship. This is why I repeat this book over and over again, Eight Dates by Doctors John and Julie Gottman, I highly recommend getting it because if you wanna be in that 20% category, I recommend reading all the books that I suggest. So you are in a great position to choose the right guy because what's the definition of insanity? Doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results. Ladies, part of the problem is you're choosing, actually, if you're not familiar with the work attached by Amir Levine and the work of Getting the Love You Want by Halor Val Hendricks and Helen Hunt, this is Amir Levine and Rachel Heller. These two books teach you about love attachment style and a mago, and a mago is when we choose people like our parents. Oftentimes, we're choosing the same type of person over and over again because they represent one of our parents that we need to heal from the inside because we're still trying to get either mom and dad's love. And so I'm bragging here as a coach for a second. One of the few people that's talking about this that isn't a professional therapist. And this is why I'm screaming at the top of my lungs just like you would scream at a child, not to touch that flame. And trust me, folks, I'm your big brother. If I could be there for you on a first date with a shotgun and pointed at the guy and say, what are your intentions so we can get the real answer, I want you to learn to do that for yourself by learning the techniques and asking the right questions early on so you can choose a better partner so you don't end up in that 80% of relationships that go nowhere. And I wanna set you up for success that you can be in that 20% that has a chance to be in a healthy, happy, juicy, delicious relationship. Are you with me? Can I get an amen? All right, thank you so much. That was our first question for the day. We're gonna take some more questions.