2 Kings chapter 4 verse 4 and I'm going to read that verse it comes from a story of a woman who was a widow whose husband died and left a lot of debt to the family and she had two sons and the creditors came and they wanted to take two sons and make them slaves and she came to the Prophet Elijah and said hey what should I do and Prophet Elijah said in verse 3 and I'll read verse 3 and verse 4 he said to her go borrow vessels from everywhere from all your neighbors empty vessels do not gather just a few and when you have come in to your house you shall shut the door behind you and your sons and then pour it into all those vessels and set aside the full ones means pour a little bit of oil that she had and so she went from him shut the door behind her her sons brought the vessels to her and she poured in and it came to pass when the vessels were full that she said to one of her sons bring me another one and he said there is no more vessels and the oil seized this woman had a very interesting problem she had a money problem the problem was actually very severe it wasn't really her problem it was the problem that happened because her husband and her together they borrowed a lot of money and they could not pay money back to people and in those days you couldn't you couldn't file for bankruptcy what you did at those days is actually you did nothing what people did to you is they would come and they could kill you sometimes could make your children slaves or a lot of other really bad things could happen and this was the case with this woman she was a widow she had two sons she as a widow was waiting for her sons to grow a little bit and begin to provide for her take her into their houses to take care of her because she had no husband and now her sons are gonna go into slavery because she had dead that she couldn't pay and these two poor children it wasn't their dad it was the dead of their father and their mother that got passed on to them it's important to realize that we never really leave our problems when we die those problems get passed on to other people spirits curses and a lot of problems they don't die when people die many times they actually get passed on to other generation and the other generation has to deal with the issues that some other generation didn't deal with and we as Christians must realize that we must deal with our issues because if we don't somebody else will have to do that for us and so these boys they grow up and they have this problem the mama has a very interesting idea instead of going to the welfare of their time on instead of looking for the billionaire of their time instead of looking for the rich person she goes to a profit with the money problem now she didn't go to a profit with the money problem because profit was loaded she didn't go to the profit because profit somehow made money or he had a money machine in his backyard or he was dealing gold she went to the profit because the profit had anointing on his life anointing means he had this power of God on his life that even though he did not have much money per se he had the power of God and he could make things happen even though he did not have money she went to the profit it's important to realize all of us in here as Christians have anointing we all have anointing the Bible says that that we all have anointing on our life but anointing is like money some have more others have less right you have all money and Bill Gates has money too the difference between you and me and the Bill Gates is the fact that we have money very little but we are not millionaires we're not billionaires and the brother Bill Gates who lives in Seattle he has a lot of money and sometimes you have a problem that you don't have a money for correct let's say your car breaks down and the expenses for it is three thousand dollars and your money is two hundred dollars what do you do in that problem you still have money but not enough to fix your problem we all have anointing but sometimes the level of our anointing is not big enough for the bigness of our problem sometimes the amount of the anointing we carry is good for the problems that we are facing but there are times when we face a problem that we look at our anointing box and we look at the problem and we see big problem small anointing what do you do then you find someone who has enough anointing for the problem that you face this woman's husband was a prophet son of a prophet she had anointing in her life but she hit a problem that she had no anointing for and what she does she finds a man whose anointing is bigger than her problem when you face a problem that's bigger than your anointing find someone whose anointing is bigger than your problem and your problem will be over because somebody say amen the reason why we go to Africa the reason why we connected with other ministries is we recognize that many times not only our problems are smaller than our anointing sometimes our dreams are bigger than our anointing our dream is not just to have the full sanctuary and these seats seated our dream is far bigger than that and for that reason we must hook up with people who have anointing enough for the size of our dream because somebody say amen if you if you broke and you got big bills you gotta find somebody who has a lot of money that's what you do that's what I do if you have financial problem you don't go to your broke cousin or your broke uncle or auntie you go to someone in the family who is loaded and you ask them please hook me up with some give me some Benjamins send send them some way that's exactly what this woman does she has anointing but it's not enough for her problem and she goes to someone who is loaded on the anointing who has so much of it and she comes to him and says hey I got a problem and you got a solution can you help me out we've seen many people in our church who were delivered here at prayer lines when we've seen many people who when we took them to Africa they were delivered there why because of the level of the anointing somebody say amen our desire is to get more of the anointing but while we are getting more we must recognize when you face a problem bigger than your anointing find someone who has anointing the size your problem that's what this woman does so she goes to him excuse me and she says help me out and he tells her okay I will but this is what we need to do I want you to notice what the prophet does not do he doesn't write her a check I want you to notice what the prophet doesn't do he doesn't cause the bills to evaporate or her deptors to die I want you to notice what the prophet doesn't do he doesn't call the king and says could you fix this matter could you help you guys welfare problem for crying out loud she's a widow help her out he doesn't do that even though he could what he does is he asks so a question what do you have in your house and she replies a little bit of oil he said that's enough he says you're gonna go back to your house and with that little bit of oil that you do have God is going to do a miracle it's interesting that anointing many times does not create something new but it enables something that's small to become something that's great I remember a pastor Vladimir Muntian from Ukraine he said when he got married at the age of 17 and his wife left him because she was not a believer and he was not a believer because at that time he was sitting in jail and he came out of jail he got saved and his wife completely left him it's been years and so now he's praying every day God give me a wife and he put a description you know the figure the the eyes the hair everything he just told God this is this is the kind of wife I want to see and make sure she's not worse than the one that I married before he keeps praying and praying and praying I mean he had different people agree with him in prayer and God told him to go get his old wife back he says God no give me you know new one and he got the old one back she got saved and this is what he said he says I realize that God gave me a new marriage with the same spouse God is able to give you a miracle with what you already have maybe you look at that and you say ah that no but God when he touches it that becomes something beautiful and somebody say amen so that's what blind people when God heals blind people he doesn't give them new eyeballs he just touches the eyeballs they already have when God touches lame people he doesn't give them new legs he touches the legs that they have many times God's anointing will touch what we have and what we have sometimes is enough with God to make a difference in our life we must understand God created the world out of nothing but everything else in the world he created out of something he took dirt to make man and then he took men to make a woman and then he took men and a woman to make a child God always uses something to make something else and many times we come to God and we say God give me something something brand-new out of the sky shipped by UPS and God says what do you have in your house listen no I don't have what it takes and God says if I touch it you will have what it takes Jesus took five loaves and two fish it's not enough to feed a multitude Jesus says watch when it lands in my hands it will feed the multitude and you will have enough for the next three weeks to take it to work to eat when God touches what I have what I have will become enough to meet my dreams and to fix my problems in Jesus name can somebody say amen therefore when you come to God you must not limit God in expecting always to make something new but in expecting him to touch what I already have and to bless what I already have so that will make something great and glorify his name this woman prophet says you are gonna go home and take this little bit of oil and start pouring into the jars and you pour into the jars God is going to do a miracle she closes the doors brings the jars the vessels they're empty completely empty and she begins to pour and she realizes a miracle is happening all right in front of her eyes a little bit of oil is not ending it's pouring she goes to another vessel it's pouring it's pouring the sons are watching there is no cameras no iPhones to record it no YouTube to upload it to but they are watching they're amazed fire is being coming back in their eyes hope is rising up we're no longer gonna be slaves we have a miracle in our own house this is awesome all vessels are filled with oil and this is happened from the this small jar of oil they're so excited but they're still broke a miracle in the house but on the outside of the house there's still mess on the inside of the house is a miracle on the outside of the house the same thing and that's what the woman goes to the prophet and she says what should I do I had a mirror I see a miracle this is incredible but prophet I gotta let you know I am still struggling with finances even though I have a miracle in my house I want to point something out to you and me today the God wants to do a miracle first in the house before he brings a change to our life the house represents today you and me the house represents your mind and it represents your soul the house represents your thoughts your motives your intuition your mindset it represents your conscience it represents your inner world when you come in contact with the anointing of God the first miracle that begins to happen is not in your pocket the first miracle begins to happen is in your head when the anointing of God begins to touch your head and begins to change your mind and it begins to change the way you look at things and when your mind is changed your life has a chance to be transformed when the mind is not changed and life is transformed that transformation will never last through the test of time and therefore we must make an effort like this woman to do whatever it takes and sometimes you have to dump your vessels from all the garbage that you have and come to God to have a miracle in your mind the reason you and I are in church is not just so we can socialize you and I are here so you and I can have a miracle in our head the reason why there's sermons and the reason why we have podcasts in the Bible is so that you and I can have a miracle in the head so your vessels can be full of oil but their vessels can never be full of oil until vessels get empty of junk when you come to church bring empty vessels to church bring a notebook bring a pen when you read the Bible don't be a scholar telling God what he should do be read the Bible like a student learning what God is saying for you to do approach God as a child say God I'm here to learn Jesus says if you don't come down and be like children you will never enter the kingdom of God in order to have a miracle in the mind I must present to God an empty vessel a vessel that's hungry a vessel that's says God I don't know nothing even though I read the Bible five or six times but I know nothing I'm gonna take my notes like a madman like as though I've never heard anything why because I want to have a miracle in my mind when the miracle happens in my mind my life has a chance to change present to God an empty vessel and watch what you pour into your head a woman poured oil into the vessels and the miracle happened every single person in here is pouring something into each into our vessels and the two holes through which we pour everything into our vessel is our eyes and our ears watch what you pour into your vessel make sure what you pour is oil Holy Ghost good things most of us don't have a money problem we have a mind problem when our mind gets fixed our money will be changed when our house gets filled in the house there's a miracle a life has an opportunity to be changed and that's exactly what has happened to this woman she has a change in her house her house has a miracle but everything on the outside seems the same and then she comes to the Prophet and says nothing changed on the outside but on the inside everything is so different what should I do then and the Prophet says take what you have now in the house hire a truck or a donkey load it on the trailer find a marketplace find a place in the market set up a table set up a booth put the prices and sell everything God has made in the house can you imagine you're a widow you're not a salesperson you didn't sell anything before you're shy you're not really good at talking to people and the Prophet tells you if you really want to have money and you want to go from having a miracle in the house to having a miracle in your pocket then you got to take what God has done here and take it out there and actually work at it and the woman does it the problem we have with us many times is when God does a miracle in us it never goes out of us and it never gets worked at and therefore it remains a miracle on inside and a mess on the outside because what God works in I must work out and the only place where success comes before work before success that comes before work is in dictionary everyone else in life work always goes first the only place where people are successful before they work is in dictionary every other place people work first and then they have success this applies to salvation this applies to every area of our life what God does in us we must be eager to work it out of us and see that become a miracle in our own lives this really helps me I think in pictures and this illustration might not be most theologically correct and it might not be most oppressive could be corny but I want to illustrate the point this is your mind and those people who are listening or will be listening and who cannot see I'm holding a cloth in my hand there is a bucket that has water and there is a little bin that has no water the bucket that has the water represents the anointing of God it represents the word of God it represents preaching it represents teaching this cloth represents your mind this is your mind it's dry this bin represents your life well it's empty when you have a dry mind you will have an empty bin when our mind does not have a miracle out of life wouldn't either and the first thing that God wants to do to bring water into our life the first thing that God wants to do to bring change into our life is not just dump water in not just dump blessings in usually that's not how it happens people who get blessings dumped into them five six years later end up worse than they were before people who win lottery's or people who just get inheritance from the family whose mind is not changed very soon because of so many cracks in their life they lose everything they get very soon so God's method in God's way is to make your mind which is dry empty full of nothing God dips the mind in his word and he soaks it with his anointing and when your mind is soaked see when you read the Bible when you come to church when you listen to a podcast you're soaking your mind in the word of God can somebody say amen you are soaking your mind in the principles of God you are soaking your mind in the ways of God but your life is still empty and then it starts slowly dripping slowly you begin to notice small changes you begin to notice better things at work but they're very small so you keep going more for more soaking more soaking and and with time you get little bit more it's dripping a little bit more but this is what we must understand when you soak into the presence of God your mind is changed your life only changes when you squeeze what you soaked when we squeeze God said to her you go what God has done in the house and you take it outside and you sell it you work it out of what God has worked inside and when you work it out what God has gone inside your life is gonna change not just your mind not just your heart but now your whole life is gonna be completely transformed can somebody say amen that's exactly what happens when people get delivered when you get delivered let's say you know you were tormented by a spirit of pornography you get delivered you come home and you notice man I'm so different but I met with many guys who after their deliverance still fall and their life still has pornography why because your deliverance is not meant to just stay like this you have to soak stuff out of your deliverance you have to soak stuff out with discipline you have to soak stuff out and only then you will begin to notice the change in your life can somebody say amen same thing happens with salvation when we are saved we are soaked into the presence of God but the Bible says we have to work out our salvation with fear and trembling if you don't squeeze water out of this how many of you know if I hold this cloth for two three hours this cloth will become dry and many times what we do as Christians is this is we come and we get a revelation from God we hear a message or we hear a sermon and it soaks us in oh that was so good but we do nothing about it and after a while that revelation gets dry it becomes useless and we go back to God and we say God give me another revelation and we keep going like this and this and that and we keep getting dry and keep getting dry you have to understand one thing God wants you to soak yourself in not so that you can dry up but so you can squeeze everything you've learned and put it into your life success is soaking your mind into his spirit and squeezing into your life by application of what you've learned Jesus said people who hear my words but they don't do what I say they're like men who build this house and understand a storm came and they fall apart when we don't squeeze out what God has worked in something happens we eventually dry up here young people all the time they say I want to know God's personal will for my life whether I should be an FBI agent or if I should be a politician I want to know whether God wants me to be a missionary or a stay-home mom okay you want to know God's personal will God already revealed his general will which is for you to save souls now imagine God standing there sees that his personal will his per general will for which Jesus Christ died and a cross for for which he died this will to see people saved man I don't invite people I don't really mind I don't really have time and that's not for me I'm not social like Nazar shared I'm not one of those people so you disregard his general will but God give me your personal will God give me your personal will God is not gonna do that we must understand for us to forgot to give us a new revelation we must squeeze of what already we have and work it out in our life if we apply what we've learned God is gonna give us something new and God is gonna do a miracle in our life I went to the school and three times every single time I went honestly that's exactly what happened I fell like spiritually I got soaked in but when I would come back you know would be encouraged but there's something that in my mind that was wrong I expected God to one day come and just take all of this water and dump it into my basin somehow in my mind I expected that it has to happen with God just flooding people to our church with God that I will come up on a stage one day and without me ever practicing without ever me trying before it just will come anointing will come upon me and I will just become this like unrecognizable person and many people be healed and delivered and that's it and I already went twice to the school and after coming back you know notice changes in my prayer life but but not much changes and one question by one person that provoked me last year and it provoked me deep on inside and this person doesn't even know how he provoked me he asked me this question it was in Vancouver he said so you've been to the ministry of Prophet to be Joshua he said what has changed in your ministry since you got connected well I said well everything changed and then I thought about like really because when I look at my ministry at that time when we look at our ministry I was like really on the outside it looks the same as it used to be before we met ministry of Prophet to be Joshua the problem was not with to be Joshua the problem is there are people who go to the school and and to be Joshua looks at them and they go back to their churches and they realize I received what I had I'm gonna squeeze stuff out of it and there are people who keep to get soaking soaking soaking soaking and they hope for a water to get into their bin by just soaking not realizing no matter how many so kings you do you gotta do some squeezing that means when you come back there has to be your part where you say you know what I'm gonna start acting and what God has deposited into my life and then if I run out of it I'm gonna go and get me some more I'm gonna start acting in faith and pray for the sick I will start acting in faith and inviting people I have enough to start acting right now and somebody say amen I want us to believe for more but God wants us to use what we already have God wants us to step out already and this week to recognize you have enough soaking to invite one person to Jesus Christ we have enough soaking to lay hands upon the sick in our cell groups and to see them healed now maybe we don't have enough soaking to see people raised from the dead but we have enough soaking as the testimonies have been poured in today so the people's backs people's nightmares people's anxieties be completely healed in Jesus name when you receive deliverance at the prayer line and you walk in and two weeks everything is fine you must understand you cannot simply wait till you dry up you have to squeeze things out of your deliverance live different after your deliverance strategies completely work out what God has worked in this woman sold things and she immediately got out of her debt she didn't get out of her debt because she had a miracle in the house she got out of her debt because she took things out of her house and she went to the market and she started to sell it when I was in Ukraine and the ministry that I observed for a while was the ministry of Vladimir Montián that I mentioned we mentioned a few times in our church and it on the outside on the screen it looks so beautiful it looks so easy they do an altar call and you don't even understand whether it was an altar call or something and you see hundreds of people on the altar call like wow this is so awesome and so when I went in there and I expected that I'm going to see that God from heaven just takes and just just pours it pours it for them somehow like one a lottery number and God just loves them and all other churches in Ukraine they're just bad and God for some reason chosen these people when I saw how much these people pray when I saw how hard they evangelize when I saw how like passionate and how zealous they are to win souls and for sell groups honestly I was disappointed that they did not have more and this is what I left home with God does not pour nothing into our bins he pours everything through our heads into our bins God first does a miracle in our mind and then when he does a miracle in our mind he expects us what we learn here to apply with our work to with our hands and with our lives that God expects when I pray on Friday night God give me souls that I do my job make sure my friends they come to Jesus Christ make sure I do my job that my cell group it grows and people in my cell group receive prayer and they receive instructions of how to maintain their miracle can somebody say amen God expects you when you learn about marriage that you don't just walk out being an encyclopedia about marriage that you apply what you learn when you learn about personal finance that you don't just tell other people what to do but you apply what you learn if you don't apply what you learn what you learn will get style it will get old it will get dry and it will just become useless to you and your life will never change even though your head has it's possible to have a head full of revelation and the life empty of miracles we want to be a church that has a revelation in our head but also has miracles in our pocket and miracles in our life miracles in our church miracles in our cell groups and that's going to happen when we apply what we have as a revelation because somebody say amen apply squeeze of what you know every person here today has something that God asks you to do that you still want him to give you a little bit more before you actually commit to do it do it today ask you three questions what is the problem that you're facing is the problem bigger than your anointing are you connected to someone who has more anointing than you a second question that I will ask you what are you soaking your head into every day is your head soaked into just the TV is your head soaked into just anything latest that comes out on itunes when it comes to music remember whatever you're soaking your head will reflect in your life and the third question is when you learn something from Christ when you have a revelation are you squeezing it are you working it out are you walking it out as a church we are going to do that we have been doing that and we are going to squeeze it out more and that's what my decision is before next month before we go to scorn my challenge and my prayers God I want to squeeze out everything I've received already there's so many people laid hands on you you got so much anointing that you can shake the world with and you're barely moving things with your pinky squeeze what you already received squeeze out what God already revealed to you begin to squeeze out begin to walk to the fullness of what you already have somebody says graveyard is the richest place in the world because that's where people did not squeeze things sermons were not squeezed poems were not squeezed songs were not squeezed ideas businesses were not squeezed relationships every single thing it died there why because people live their life being loaded with information and revelation and never squeezed anything into their life they just hope God one day will take all of these blessings and dump it into my bin and God doesn't do like that God soaks your mind with revelation and it challenge you to squeeze your life with application


What's up everybody, it's Jason here for jasperyscasebreak.com, we just sold out 2023 Top Scrum Update Breakers Delight 10 box casebreak PYT number 5. And here we go guys. So here's the customer names I bought in. Thank you guys so much. Last but not most is one of Michael, we got the Blue Jays. And here is the case. We got Keishi Schmidt, Soto, Miguel Amaya, we have a Tommy Fan, Cole Regans, Jesse Winker. First one we have here is a Matt Mervis for the Cubs, going to Nicholas to 175. We have a Luisa Reyes to 299 for the Marlins, going to Steve, Steven. Then we have a Luis Guillormi for the Mets, going to Joe, Andreessen. And then we have a Patrick Bailey Youth Quick with an Oscar Gonzalez for the Guardians. Guardians is Kev and a Javier Assac for the Cubs. And Patrick Bailey Youth Quick, Nardi, Lestela, Garrett Hill. A Matt Strom for the Phillies, going to Joe. We got for the Orioles, Joey Ortiz, Matt Kay with that one. We have a Tyler Anderson for the Angels, going to Pops. We got a Braden Schumann Youth Quick and a Josh Lester for the Orioles. And a Nolan Gorman for the Cardinals, X-Line on the board. That's a blue to 150. Street Continues, man. Reyes, Jake Irving, Matt Strahm, Solano, Nico Horgis, Moore, and a Joey Ortiz for the Orioles. We have a Tailscar Hernandez for the Mariners. We have a nice color right there. What is that? Yellow Mini Diamonds? Dylan Dodd for the Braves, going to Bobby to 75. And behind Jordan Groeschens is a Tanner Beebe and a MJ Melendez. Arts and Padres there. An attendee. Jay Gallo, Tailscar Hernandez. And a Gavin Stone for the Dodgers to 199. Alright, looks like we have a case hit potentially behind Grossman. And it is Masataka Yoshida to 399. Dominance. That is going to the Red Sox and Jacob. Very nice. Alright, there's Yoshida Youthquake. And behind this right here is Evan Lee for the Nationals, T.J. Poirier. And then we have a Purple Mini Diamonds. And it's Ezekiel Tovar for the Colorado Rockies. Poppy, that's a nice color match too as well. 219 out of 299. Sweet. Phillips, Stout Velasquez, Acton, Kiermeyer. We got a nice Michael Bush color match there for the Dodgers. That's Troy to 150. And then behind a Gold Almedez Diaz for the Oakland A's, DY. We have a Garrett Stout for the Phillies. 275. Bryce Terrain, we got a Gold Wave. And then there's Peyton Battenfield for the Guardians going to Kev. And behind that is another Ezekiel Tovar. Jesus, back to back, literally the same cards. Wow. All right, we'll take that. 150 out of 299. Another one for Pops, Alexandros. Here's the case guys. Jeter Downs, Miller, Perkins, Lodey, Edward Julian, J.P. France. We got a Kenley Jansen for the Boston Red Sox. Julian, that's a nice one there for the Twins. And that's what a Twins is going to bend to 125. Another one for the Twins. Donovan Solano to 399. All right, then we got a Refractor for Washington, Jake Alu for TJ. And then we got a Rochio, Brian Rochio. Guardians having a nice break, Kev. There you go, man. Casey Alexander, Jolts. What is this? Action Stars. Boba Shet for the Blue Jays Action Stars. That's numbered out of 50. Last spot, Mojo. Michael, there you go. Yuri Perez and a nice Anthony Volby for Tristan to 399. And a very nice negative Josh Young coming up, too, guys. Negative Josh Young for Texas and Alexandros. And we have a Dominic Fletcher. A Tristan Casas for the Red Sox, Jacob with that one. And then a Braden Shoemake for the Braves going to Poppy. Nice Casas there to 150. Power Boxes. Shuster, Bobby Miller. Aller, Sable, Marvis. First numbered card. Ryan Walker for the Giants of 399. And then we have a Mason Englert for Detroit, but a Michael. And a negative Hunjin Reeve for the Blue Jays also going to Michael. All right, looks like we might have an Orange coming up. We have Yanar Diaz for Houston, which is Ben. And then we have an Orange autograph coming up, guys. Good luck. Come on, baby. Be someone good. It is a rookie. Corbin Carroll, there we go. Orange All-Star Game is 21 out of 25. That's a big one right there, man. Tony, just like this yesterday. But this is a rookie, Corbin Carroll. Might edge that out. And also rookie of the year this year, too. You might see that reaction video of the Altanis soon, either today or tomorrow. I clipped it yesterday in our files. Keeping myself then, Poppy. I don't need to burn it. Harris, Bellinger, wisely. Let's go, Anthony Volpe. Wow, is that red? No, I thought that was a red for a second there. Very nice. Tristan, getting some nice hits again, man. How about this, Dylan Moore for the Mariners, Kev? This is actually out of 10. I forgot what they call this one, exactly. It's like a red-orange. But it is out of 10. Nine out of 10, man. There you go, Dylan Moore. All right, we have two more hits. We have an Israel Pineda for the Nationals, for TJ. And then behind Yuri Perez is a blue. And it's a Yankee. And it's Carlos Rodin. Going to Tris to 150. Guys, this has been a solid, solid case again, guys. Shout out to my wife. She picked it again. She picked yesterday's case and today's case. Let's just do the top ones here. Joyce, Ruff Schneider, Gonzalez. And Connor Wong, the Red Sox. Drew Hicklin for the Royals. Going to X-Line. And a Grant Anderson for Texas. Going to Pops. All right, we have two more autos here. First one is a Randy Vasquez for the Yankees. And last hit of the break, guys. It is a rookie. It's a Red Sox. It is Emanuel Valdes. Again, Red Sox had a killer break. Congrats, buddy. $199. And there you go, guys. Another nice case. I know obviously not everybody hit, but I'm just happy we got some nice ones here, though, in general. Again, all of these will be top loader guys. Do not worry. So we'll top load all this. Got some really, really nice colors. Love the lava lamps. Some gold, some yellow mini diamonds. All this stuff. We'll do a quick recap right here. Panera, Rodin, Moore, Let's Go. Anthony Volpe. What about that Corbin Carroll? Orange to 25. Tristan Casas, Josh Young. Volpe colored action stars. Boba Shet. Rochio, Alu, Julian, Battenfield. About two Ezekiel Tolvars back-to-back, which is kind of cool. Another short print dominance there. Matsutake Yoshida. And then we got a Nolan Gorman as well. Some solid stuff there, guys. Again, I did post another one up if you guys want to run it back. But some overall, some pretty solid hits here, guys. Thank you guys so much. JaspysCaseBreaks.com.


Today in Staples, the National Joint Powers Alliance held an open house to celebrate the 40 years it's been in service and highlight some of the work they've been able to accomplish in the area. Our AJ Feldman has more. What started as a small organization working with regional schools has grown to a powerhouse that has over 50,000 members. Today the NJPA took a step back to celebrate 40 years of growth, achievement and service. It's a chance to thank the region for all the support they've given us over the years and all the things that are coming into the future. We're celebrating the relationships we have with our schools, our cities and our counties and our five county area. We're just excited about the relationships we have with them, the services we're providing and we wanted to pour everyone together being that it's our 40th anniversary to celebrate those relationships. The NJPA works with local schools and communities to help them achieve goals they couldn't on their own. By providing training, shared services and other resources. We're excited about continuing to partner with our members, listen to where their needs and their challenges are and work with them to come up with some innovative solutions to help cities, counties, school districts and really build on community and student success. Without our local regional members we wouldn't be providing the services we are. They really bring to us the ideas, the innovation and we just help fuel that in a partnership that brings those to fruition. The open house not only celebrated the organization's past but looks forward to the future as it will be rebranding this summer as Sourcewell. We are really more focused than ever on our members and we really wanted to name and a brand position that was going to really demonstrate that focus. Right now this is the smallest we plan to be into long into the future with positive growth projections for service so today and now is the time to make that change. Reporting in Staples, AJ Feldman, Lakeland News. The NJPA will officially be known as Sourcewell starting on June 6th. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


This is Think Tech Hawaii, Community Matters here. This is Think Tech Hawaii, I am Cynthia Lee Sinclair, and this show is Finding Respect in the Chaos. Today, I'm here with Catherine Icao, and she has an important story. She lost her son to domestic violence. Domestic violence often strikes the children. We call them collateral damage, and that's the name of the show today, collateral damage. Because so often we forget that the children become victims from just being exposed to watching that kind of behavior in their relationships at home so that they end up growing up to perpetuate the problem to the extreme version of having a child loses life. Today I'm here with Catherine. Catherine, welcome to the show. Thank you for having me.  Yes. Okay. I want to say, first off, that you're so brave for coming out and sharing your story, and I really admire your courage for being able to come out in hopes that you can maybe help somebody that's in the situation you were in so that the outcome is a little different.  Okay. Cynthia, well, thank you for having me. On June 13th of 2017, Reef was three months shy of his eighth birthday, and he was stabbed to death by his father who then was addicted to ice, and then the father stabbed himself and hung himself. And unfortunately, Reef should have been in Greece with me, but before I talk about his death, I want to talk about his life because he really was an incredible kid. So just to share a little bit about Reef, he was actually a CEO of his own company. That's me. ReefKids 808. Wow. Since he was three, and he sold fish hats, and they sell out at Sea Life Park. I just dropped off an order on Friday, so they're still ordering them. I think we have a picture of the fish hats. Don't we have a picture of those? Exactly. They're so cute. And that's Reef in the middle. In the middle, yeah. And he sponsored various events. That was a preschool outing. He sponsored the Haliva Menehune contest, surf contest, and he sold the hats at Bishop Museum. Wow. There was a shark hat, a pink hat, and then the one that you saw, and so he was a little entrepreneur. At seven years old. That's remarkable. And he started at three. Wow. Wow. And he was actually, he's the great nephew of Clyde I. Cow and Eddie I. Cow. And my husband was a surfer, a surfer instructor, a certified lifeguard, and then I was actually number one in the nation in swimming. Oh my goodness. So he was a swimmer then, right? So he came out surfing as soon as he could walk. Wow. Yeah. So, and then I was a ski instructor, so he could basically ski in the entire time. He learned to ski when he was two. And then by four, five, six, seven, he was snowboarding. Oh my goodness. I think we can go, we, I think we have some pictures of him swimming, don't we? And he was on both splash aquatics and Manoa aquatics because he did surf at such a young age that he. Is swimming. Oh, you can't see that one too good. I think we have one of him on the blocks that I love that one. Yeah. He was just ready to take off. That's Manoa aquatics. And like I said, because he could surf at such a young age and he started competing and surfing, then we had to, there's a picture at the Puffer Fish surf contest in Makaha. Wow. And the waves actually overhead. But because he was surfing at such a young age, we had to get him into swimming. So by the time he was six, seven, he was swimming two and a half hours every day, five days a week. Two hours a day?  With the big kids competitive swimming. Oh my goodness. I'm a swimmer, so I know what that's like. I swim an hour. And he was just the little guy. Can imagine being, having a little guy swim that far. Yeah. So, and he would get mad if I would bring him even a minute late to practice. He was so dedicated. Wow. So, and he also received a full scholarship to the Honolulu Museum of Art School. Wow. And he had a full portfolio. He was an artist and a musician. He played guitar and so. It's like, is there anything he didn't do or couldn't do? No, he's skateboarded, snowboarded. I think we have a picture of all those trophies, yeah. There's his swimming ribbons and his surf trophies and that one, that picture of him in the middle right there, I think he's probably four, three or four. For any one, oh there is a little snowboarder, look at how cute, how old was he there? Probably three, three or four. Oh, he's so adorable. Yeah, so anything, any kind of board, he tried to ride it. Right there. So you can see skateboard, snowboard and surfing. Wow. But he was already competing and surfing and swimming. By the time he was five, I think. So he was just an incredible kid and he loved school. He went to Noelani School and he loved math and science and he loved computers, you know all the kids nowadays. Yeah, right. So he's just, he's an amazing, well-mannered. He could talk to anybody. That's when he went to the Honolulu Museum of Art School. Right. This is his first day of school actually and he would literally do art from eight to three, eight a.m. to three, the whole summer, so. What a great life. Yeah. And that's the kind of summer school every kid wants, right? Yeah. And he loved Noelani and that was just the best school and yeah, he loved his teachers.  Yeah. Can you tell us a little bit about what happened and what maybe some of the events that led up to it? Well, I had been married to my husband since 2009 and this happened October, the event happened October 23rd, 2016, so we'd been together, you know, eight years. And my husband had always had kind of an anger issue, anger management issue and he was physically violent to me but in 2014 he had altercation and he just, I mean it changed him and he quit, he wasn't violent anymore and because I was about ready to get a divorce every time something happened I would say I'm going to get a divorce and it just stopped. So from 2014 until 2016 he seemed like he was getting better and none of his anger, the hard part for me was none of his anger was ever directed at his children and besides Reef he had another stepson and a daughter and I mean I had a stepson, it was his son. But so the hard part for me was I wanted to leave him but he had such a close relationship with Reef and his other children that that was such a redeeming quality and it was hard, I didn't want to take Reef away from his father. So then I think a lot of women are in that situation so the abuse continues and then like I said the abuse for me quit or stopped. So but then in 2017, I mean 2016 he got a job, my husband got a job at Island Club in Spa and there was a gentleman that my husband told me was dealing ice and my husband became addicted to ice. It doesn't take long you know and it's such a destructive drug that just changes people so radically. And I had no, I didn't even know that he was addicted to ice I mean he was becoming more and more erratic his behavior and again but he didn't direct any of that to my son and he and he emotionally it was starting to be he was starting to become abusive again. Right. And then on October 23rd, he literally destroyed our whole house and oh my gosh I don't know if this picture can if it can show on the camera if it shows up. So this was actually Reef's room. Oh my gosh that's your son's room. So he did that too. I don't know if you can see but um this is all the hats and stuff from his oh the inventory of his hats and then Reef and his board here all of his competitive surfboards and my husband broke all of his surfboards maybe like eight to ten surfboards and then um the whole house was destroyed our my husband took a baseball bat to the to the large screen TV took a knife and and cut up our sectional sofa and literally the every oh we had a stairwell that was lined with pictures all the glass was just broken everywhere oh my gosh. And so that and then um the general had had grabbed me and I had bruises etc. And so um Reef Reef was not in the room at that time but um when the police came the police actually told me not to file or press charges and not to file a restraining order. Did they give you a reason did they even they they did they said that it would be if um like if my husband violated the restraining order then each violation would we would have to go to court and etc etc and um and for for they didn't really give a reason they just said it would you know it would be try to work it out or oh my goodness was this the first time the police had come or had the police been there before they had been there before my husband was very loud and and like I said he did have an anger issue and he didn't yell a lot so the neighbors would call the police and right from the multiple houses that we had lived in um so this wasn't the first time but this was the first time that I wanted to press charges and they dissuaded me and then um my friend actually came over to get Reef you know to take him away from this situation and she was a advocate for the military for domestic violence oh okay so she when she got to the house she said cat absolutely press charges and absolutely and get a restraining order right away right so that's what I did good for you wow so unfortunately uh if if the one thing that I've learned out of this um is right away if anybody is in that situation you can call right and domestic violence action center and they have resources to help you and it's so important to call them and not be on your own there's no reason to be on your own through this right and if it is a domestic violent situation there's actually an advocate that will come out with the police that's what I just heard I I had interviewed a gal um in the first episode for this show and that's what she was saying is that they now have an advocate that goes out to the site at the time of the um the situation the abuse and when it's happening so there's going to be somebody right there and they will stay with you the whole way through even all the way straight through to a lawyer well unfortunately that wasn't my experience of the lawyer right yeah no and that's what I would like to tell um I think it is so important in the situation if you have if you're in a domestic violence situation and then there's um substance abuse involved and violence involved then right away you need to again call domestic violence action center and they will provide an attorney right and they have a scale so if you don't have a lot of money or depending on your your wages etc they will they will subsidize you know oh wow so that you can for sure get that lawyer yes right and that's huge because when I went to get the TRO I didn't include Reef on the TRO and what I'm pushing for um with the courts and with anybody that will listen to me the senators etc is that I believe if there's children involved if there's domestic violence involved and if there's substance abuse involved then right away there should be a TRO and the child should be on the TRO and there should be no visitation I I totally agree and I think that we need to talk about that a little bit more but right now we're just about ready to go to a break and again I want to thank you Kat for having the courage to come out here and tell your story because it's an important story that people need to hear so we are going to talk more about the different ways that we can maybe change some laws to help victims stay safe so I hope you'll come back this is Think Tech Hawaii and we'll be right back. 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Welcome back to Think Tech Hawaii this is Finding Respect in the Chaos and the title for today's show is Collateral Damage I'm here talking with Kat Iqau who has a really important story that everyone needs to hear and right now before the break we had started talking about the different things that are in place that actually hurt victims shame being the biggest one it's like society wants to shame victims into silence it's like we're embarrassed to to say something like when there's domestic violence happening in the home it's like well if you don't bring shame to the family or whatever and and so it kind of keeps quiet and I think that's why we need to all tell our stories as much as we can exactly I feel the complete opposite I feel that that for the victim or survivor of domestic violence there is no shame there is no stigma or should be yeah they should be able to speak out freely I agree to anyone that will listen and that's what I do because of this the situation that happened I want to make sure it doesn't happen to anyone again and there is no shame there's you know the only shame is for the perpetrators of domestic violence right exactly those are the ones that need to feel the shame and for some reason it gets turned around and if you're going up against somebody that has money for me when I went through this whole thing not to the extent of losing a child but my ex-husband fractured my skull put me in the hospital a couple of times and the shame was ever for him um he was such a nice guy out in public everybody thought he was such a great person that at first nobody even would believe that it happened so and he would say that nobody's going to believe you everybody's going to think it's your fault and so I just kind of was programmed to fall in line with that and so when I finally got a a TRO which is the temporary straining order the police told me the same thing I had the TRO he violated the TRO I called him he came over put his gun to my head and they caught him with the gun and everything and they told me I shouldn't press charges and I was like no way I've got to by that point I was finally at a place where I was strong enough to press the charges and that was when I finally stood up and said no more and that's the reason that we have to speak up as women as mothers right because we have to be the voice for all the people who are hearing what you heard because I don't believe at all that I'm not going to be heard now I'm going to be heard good for you absolutely I'm I'm honored that I get a chance to give you this platform here today to share your story because like it's such an important story so for for me what happened was originally with the police they said don't press charges don't file the TRO so I did press charges and I did file the TRO but I did not put reef on and there was violent substance abuse or violence from the substance abuse right in the situation so absolutely again if I would have called DVAC gotten an attorney and the attorney would have gone to the TRO hearing with me and if somebody had like hopefully what I'm doing told me get that get your child on the TRO and no visitation that's a big thing because they don't automatically put children on a TRO and I think that it should be automatic automatic I think it should be absolutely automatic if you've got evidence that this that you know the man has crossed the line with violence and like he destroyed your house all of that stuff and if you can find any proof that he's on drugs I think it should be automatic no visitation like you say no visitation and the problem with with when I went through the system the criminal case against my husband for the for the injuries and the destruction kept getting postponed and there was there was even a witness with a video but because they kept postponing it she quit coming and they were even calling Reef into the courtroom and to just to to say that he didn't see anything if he'd seen something it would have been a felony so I'm not sure why they were even trying to bring him in but he didn't see anything so it was traumatizing and I asked the judge does Reef really need to be here just to say he didn't see anything yeah and and but but besides that I had um filed uh I wanted to take Reef to where you were telling me about that tell me something so because of the destruction the destruction to the house it was very traumatic for Reef and I so I bought a boat because I grew up on a boat and I thought it would be therapeutic and fun and help him heal right now I haven't sailed the boat and I wasn't the captain I mean I've sailed I grew up sailing but I haven't sailed the boat as a captain so I had signed Reef and for um in Greece to learn uh boat safety and and sailing skills so you have a really great job obviously yes something like that like you that's wonderful and so you have a very steady job you had the financial means to take care of him and I had just bought the boat I bought the car to to carry all the stuff for the boat I'm not a flight risk but my husband wouldn't sign for the passport so twice I filed for the to get the passport so I could take Reef and try to heal right and and the court wouldn't the court kept postponing wouldn't give me the passport even though I wasn't a flight risk and and just every every the and then I filed for um sole custody and everything kept getting postponed postponed postponed so there was no urgency and my husband even even um even uh reported me to CPS and I've never even had more than a speeding ticket 10 years ago for going 71 on the freeway I mean I have no history my my husband had a long rap sheet including prior TROs from two or three women and the court held him up held his case like that that's horrible every kind the civil case the criminal case that he violated the TRO twice but basically he violated it basically every day but the two that I reported were serious enough that right I mean they were all serious but those were he was claiming um you know abuse of Reef and so and all of those there's no urgency in processing these right or protecting the child right and they just kept getting postponed or or it was often you know postponed postponed and if Reef should have been in Greece with me so this so three days before I was supposed to come back from Greece my husband again stabbed my son to death and he never should have had access to him they shouldn't have been around is right and that needs to change we've got to make changes to our legal system and you know when we were when I first met you was at that the women's legislative caucus a few weeks ago and legislators are trying to listen and they've they've got to listen because they've got to make the kind of changes that need to happen for kids to stay safer I honestly feel at this point right now that there's no focus throughout this system when it comes to domestic violence and there's no focus at the number one focus should be protecting the children they shouldn't be exposed to any of this and if it's men if it's women you should not be angry at your spouse or hitting them and especially if you have children because that negative energy it just seeps right into their everyday life it does and so if you if you don't think that domestic violence is hurting your children it is it doesn't matter if it's not directed at them just being around that whole situation and then don't underestimate if somebody is is addicted to ice or addicted to crack don't underestimate how violent it can become and how quick in a minute in a second they just flip and change and you think you know them and then there's somebody and there's resources there are resources get again get to the domestic action violence center and get an attorney because the thing for me the attorney what this process was so slow and drawn out and I didn't know how to navigate it and that's what the get an attorney right away again they will help subsidize if you can't if you think you can't afford it you can and you need from the time you need to file the you know file the TRO etc you need to have that attorney because it it's just so much more effective right and the people will be there who who know what to do that's exactly right and you have something coming up I believe um called the reef run right when you tell us about the reef run we do okay so I'm excited too much time left but I want to make sure everybody hears about the reef run okay so quickly we are doing in memory of my son reef I cal the reef I cal fund run on April 15th and probably at the capital but we have a um we have a website set up right now and it's reef run R E E F R U N dot org and it's very important that you put in the dot org so reef run dot org or you can put in the full name the reef I cal fund run dot org but we're going to raise money for for funds for families in domestic violence who need emergency housing um medical costs utilities paid bus passes and legal funds so we're hoping to raise a lot of funds for that and there is currently a go fund me account so if you go to go fund me and look up reef I cal R E E F and A I K A U and you can donate there and then we will have the registration forms up on the reef run dot org website uh by the end of January awesome I'm so proud of you it's going to be a run and then a finish line celebration so it's going to be a lot of fun I'm so touched that you're going to make something good come from this yes that's the only way we can turn this kind of stuff around we have to protect the children we do others we need to protect our children I love your heart and can you tell everybody what that is these because I think everyone should know what's really special this is the locket that I wear and it's reef's ashes so he wanted to travel the world and so I take him wherever I you know wherever I go he goes with me that's really beautiful who well I'm sure everyone today needed to get out their clinics I know I did what a what a powerful story that is thank you for letting me share it I thank you for coming I feel really honored and this has been think tech Hawaii finding respect in the chaos don't forget the collateral damage don't forget the children we need to change the laws so that we can protect children better than we do now thank you for tuning in and I hope you'll come back week after next to see finding respect in the chaos


starring Dane Clark and John Beale in Storm on the Cavalcade of America sponsored by the DuPont Company, maker of better things for better living through chemistry. But first, here is Ted Pearson with interesting information about two weed colors made by DuPont. Weed pulling and digging is a very hard and back-breaking job at best, and in the case of Poison Ivy, well, it's a dangerous one as well. Now, DuPont has two chemical products which destroy weeds, many kinds of weeds. Carmack's 2-4-D weed killer, which comes in tablet form and is mixed with water, destroys weeds and lawns, but doesn't harm the grass. The other DuPont weed killer is Amate. It's quick and sure death to such noxious weeds as Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, and Poison Stumax. Both weed killers are easy and safe to handle. Simply mix them in water and spray until the weeds are thoroughly wet. Carmack's 2-4-D and Amate weed killers are two more of the DuPont Company's better things for better living through chemistry. The DuPont Company presents Storm starring Zane Clark as the narrator with John Ville as Markley on the Cavalcade of America. Man lives by the weather and throttling. Man is made bankrupt by the weather. His works are destroyed, his life takes it, but until the earth grows cold, the cycles of life and weather will go on. This is an incident in that unending cycle. This is the story of a storm. In January, the sun rides deep in Capricorn, far from the northern pole. Unbroken darkness flies over the Arctic, and from the ever-deepening chill of that night, the cold air sweeps down. For two days now, from death's cold Siberia, a wide torrent of air has been sweeping southward. The great wind poured over the desert of Gobi, stormed against the Great Wall, and merciless it swept down upon the plains of China. The river of air moves southward along the coast of China and then out over the sea toward the far reaches of the Pacific, carrying with it the dust of the desert. The freighters' course lay over due west across the Pacific toward the coast of China. At nine that evening, the radio operator came on deck and spoke to the second officer. Wind shifted, hasn't it, Mr. Spencer? All right. You radioed the weather report back to the shore station, Jeff? Just about to. Something clear is happening. Look at the smoke from our stack. Look in the water. Something's getting ready to begin, all right? Well, I hope it's not for us. I want to be back in San Francisco by the end of March. My kid's birthday. Hey, that's funny. What? What is it? Well, we're hundreds of miles at sea, but I swear I smell dust. An hour before sunset of that day, one section of the coast front hit a small island. This obstruction caused a break. The southern air no longer yielded passively to the northern but actively flowed upward. Rising this air grew cooler and from it, a fine drizzle began to fall. As from the union of two opposite German cells begins a life, so from the contact of northern and southern air, there sprang something which before was not. A new storm was born. Weather Bureau. Hey, Chief, I'd like you to take a look at this map. Anything special? We just received a report from a freighter, the Byzantium. 300 miles southeast of Yokohama. There's a storm developing out there. Let's see yesterday's map. Should we use some rain? There it is, Chief. Yeah. Looks like a fast mover. Keep an eye on her. On the curve of the earth, the storm moves eastward, leaving Asia behind. Now a torrent of thundering wind and water, and electrical energy, it swirls over the darkened waters. In 30 hours, it has grown into a great rushing river there. Five miles deep, 500 miles wide. But the preacher's words illuminate. He too is of the land. He knows that the grass is withering and that his people suffer and are afraid. And if it be thy will, oh Lord, on this thy day, send us the rain. As of old, when thy people thirsted in the desert, thou didst command thy servant Moses to smite the rocky horribles, and the waters did blow forth. So raise thy hand, oh Lord, we beseech thee. Fast and grows fast. Now in its fourth day, it centers between the Hawaiian Islands and Alaska. Its northern fringe sweeps Kodiak and Dutch harbour. The rain pours heavier. The winds rise through gale and pensive. On the Pacific, the storm is merciless to the desertion. The rudder controls a smash, and there is no defense against the batter in the pound of the waves. The men still keep steam up, and the radio is working, and the crew wait. Weary and wet and bruised, they hang on minute by minute, waiting for the giant waves to hit, and wondering when she'll start breaking up. Markley, this is the lodges statue. You read about that ship that went from San Francisco called the Storm. Sure, any news on it yet? Yeah, another ship, Markley. That storm is moving this way, be on your toes. We'll be ready. Okay. Good night. Tough guy. A third of the world away, this storm has taken shape. Now in its sixth day, it is no longer a young storm racing its thousand miles a day. Now it moves with a steady, sure pace of majesty. It's coming as announced by neither thunder nor lightning, but along the beaches, the vast, unhurried pounding of the ground swell makes noise. That's far off. Some great force moves upon the water. What's the map look like, Case? Finished, Chief. Yeah, there sure will be plenty happening in California today and tomorrow. Yeah, there sure will. Why do you get on the phone? Storm warnings keep flattery to point conception. Small craft warnings, south of conception. Right, Chief? Uh-oh, that must be the newspaper again traveling for the forecast. I'll have it complete in five minutes but tell them to set the headlines and get ready. It's rain. Right here on page one, rain predicted, the storm of large proportions has now centered a thousand miles west of California. Take it out of that building, it's going to rain. Paper says so, going to rain. Going to rain. Rain. The storm roars in from the ocean and strikes the mountainous coast. Along the 500 miles from Cape Mendocino with the point conception, there is rain. Rain on the rocks and the headlands. Rain on the beaches and the goons. Rain on the high grass slopes. Rain sweeping in and over the surface of the shrunken rivers. Sweeping toward the broad valleys where the clouds were dry and the Earth's lake cracked. John, it's raining. Look, it's raining. Sure, honey, but don't get yourself all excited. It's only rain, not silver dollars. Dolls? I was just... I'll get it. Superintendent speaking. A couple of them went to San Francisco. I'll get them back. Check the lines. Anything wrong? Not yet. It's going to be Aurora. Right, we'll get right on it. Okay. Run over the gun. What's the matter, John? The LD's worried. About this rain? No, honey. About a storm. Over thousands of square miles, the rain is falling. The wind's swirling and the clouds are creeping close, close and swirling. In the mountain region, on the edge of a canyon stands a dam in a powerhouse. Links from the vast network of power and light. And here, too, stands the home of John Martin. Dear Daddy.  Happy birthday, Johnny. Thanks, darling. Thank you, son. Let's cut the cake now, huh, Mommy? Let's cut the cake. Oh, as we've had our dinner pulled. But I'm giving this present now, can't I? Where is it? Yes, dear. Here, Daddy. From your ever-loving son and wife. Open it, Daddy. Open it. Oh, let's see now. Well, son of a gun, a new suit. Put it on, Dad. It's double-sets. Sure, fella. After we eat. Oh, it's swell. Just a cup. Oh, dear. Keep your fingers crossed, honey. Powerhouse superintendent. Markley, the French bar 60KV line just went out. Well, we patrolled every inch of that line. Couldn't find a thing. I'm not blaming you. Plenty bad. You can't see 100 feet. OK, Markley. Get your men going. Well, there it is. You and Paul go ahead and eat. Later, Slugger, later.  You are listening to Storm starring Dane Clark as a narrator and John Beale as Markley on the Cavalcade of America sponsored by the DuPont Company. A maker of better things or better living through chemistry. Overall, the valley rain is falling. Unceded land and stubble on pasture and fallow and orchards. It pours upon the fields of new wheat and barley. It turns the alfalfa bright green. Against all the long ramp out of the coast rain, the storm is beating. On its fourth day, the storm has taken a tremendous toll in property damage. Six lives have been lost. The storm is arising fast, and in many parts of the state, emergency crews have been mobilized to fight off possible floods. At the Sacramento gauge this morning, the reading was 23 years. From Fisker to San Diego, the storm ruled this domain. Over all of Central California, six days of rain saturated the earth. And now the streams move toward the valley. Into the North Fork and the South Fork. And the Middle Fork, the water pours out from every side canyon and gulps and gullies. The streams pour out from Willow Creek and Pilots Creek. From Nicobarca Creek to Widow Creek from Devils Creek and Roberts Creek and One-Eyed Creek. Out of the knoll and a hundred more, the waters come foaming. Johnny Marley wakes in the night. His house is near one end of French bar dam and close to the lip of the canyon. The house is of wood solidly constructed. He can feel the tough timbers give before the wind pressures. He hears the crash of the rain. Oh, Johnny! Johnny, what is it? A cloudbird. There'll be a lot of water down the North Fork. The dam's about to be full to the top now. Suppose it's still over? Oh, now, Rose, stop worrying. Then why don't they open the cruise gate? Johnny, they'll give me the order when the time comes. I've never seen it as bad as this. By dawn at the French bar powerhouse, everything is awash in the cloudbird. The gang is out tending to the line. Johnny Marley half drowned under the downpour. He's trying to do a dozen things at once to control the water. Yeah? Telephones. Coming. Thank you. So true to the bones. It's a load, this bag. Well, Marley speaking. What's happening up there? The water's up close to the top of the dam now. She's spilling no time. Okay. They're away working on the KV breakdown. I'll have to go myself. But you can't handle it, little old baby. I'll have to handle it. If that dam goes, the valley goes. Okay, boy, do it your way. I'll send help of... Johnny! I gotta get to the dam, Rose. What's the matter? There's a leak in the living room ceiling. What a pan under it! You're Johnny Marley, you don't wait. You said about doing what has to be done in the very best way you can. You hurry along the narrow trail at the lip of the canyon. A dozen rivulets cascade off to the space to the floor of the canyon 300 feet below. You pick your way along the trail. Your footwork as neat as a lightweight box is. It's not a healthy time or a place for a split. When the rain and wind strike against you, you crouch and pity yourself against the rocks on the upper side of the trail. You're in a hurry, but you take it slow. You've got to, all the way up to the top, to the dam. You cross over the narrow, stiffest concrete to the other side. You unpadlock the little steel door just below the overhang of the dam. You go in, close behind you, and snap on the light. You're in a narrow passageway inside the solid concrete of the dam. A few yards away is a hole just large enough for a man to descend. As far down the hole, one electric light after another, far apart, glows with a dull west gleam. You lower yourself to the hole. Your foot climbs a steel rung, ejecting from the concrete wall. Your hand grasps the upper rung. You begin to descend. Your shoulders and hips scrape against the concrete. The water drips down on you from above. You go down steadily, without hurry. You know you have 230 feet to go. By yourself is something to do. The great dam, millions of tons seems to press down on you. The air is so wet now, you seem to be breathing water. Sure is a busy day. Always washing away, a leak in the living room ceiling. Sure is a busy day. The lights, they're blown. Maybe I opened those gates too late, and the dam's filling. That's all, brother. I'm finished. No. Easy, guy. Easy. The lights are out, that's all. Might be for any reason. Sure. No jitters. That's stuff for the kids. The ladder's right here someplace. Walls do not run to the nearest exit. The ladder. Where's the ladder? Okay. Let's get out of here. Your right hand finds a steel rung, wet, cold, slick. You begin to climb upward and you count. One, two. You know every detail of the dam. You have to climb upward 230 feet. The rungs are 10 and a half inches apart. 269 rungs, hand over hand, foot following foot. 98, 99, 100. You rest now. There is a pain across your chest and your ankle's in numbness. It's just a little bit. I gotta rest now. I cut the climates and got sick. Son of a gun, he knows his stuff. I gotta get out of here. You may be spilling it. There's too much water coming in here. You move on. You take the next 100 rungs without stopping and you rest again. You take the last 69 rungs with a rush. You're wondering what's happened to your powerhouse down below in the canyon. Is something's wrong? Are the diamonds okay? Are they too late? Is it spilling? Just tumble towards the door where the light is leaking in. You fling open the door. You're too late. The dam is spilling.  You're trapped. You look around for an opening. In front of you, only the sheer wall of the dam, the water pouring open. Behind you, a few feet away, the ground falls off and disappears into the canyon. No. Can't wait it out here. It's not in the gun. I gotta get down to the powerhouse. Those dynamo's a delicate as baby. Yeah. But daddy's up here. High on the side of a giant cup and the bottom 300 feet down. But if I'm careful and lucky, maybe I can do it. Maybe I can belly crawl my way across under the spill of the dam. But to get through this wall of water. I'm pinned on this slippery rock shelf like a butterfly on a blotter. Okay. Stand still. Now, just look around. Right outside the iron door. You've just come through. You see a worn and rusted half inch table. It looks long enough. It'll hold a man. Just beyond the fall of water. Three rock stands close together, close to the rock shelf. You know that if you know every inch of the stand. You loop one end of the cable and you pound it with rock.  One. Twice. Doesn't happen. Seven times. Eight times. On the 12th throw it holds. You grab the cable. You feel your lungs full. You're pushed out of the screaming space and headed to the waterfall.  You're hanging in space, but you hold on with every inch. You don't dare move. Then you move your right knee and you feel the rock. Only then do you loose one hand and move it up on the cable for a fresh grip.  And with the water running out of your skin, you stumble down the pass of the powerhouse. And suddenly for some reason, you notice that your panties are going out. Son of a gun. Now I'll have to find time to try on that new suit. The tent on the 11th. For 11 days the storm had flourished and had been strong. And now in the 12th day of its life, the storm has died. And the weather bureau of the teeth traces a new storm wave forming off the coast of Japan. But the present storm, the great and terrible storm, finished. Is it the preacher, the son of David King and Jerusalem? Wind goes toward the south and turneth about, but whirleth about continually. And the wind returneth again according to the system. Tim Clark and John Beale will return to our cavalcade microphone in a moment. Now here is Ted Pearson. Last week in Detroit, Michigan, the center of the automobile industry, automotive engineers and designers started a fashion show, an automobile fashion show, at which were exhibited a dozen cars of different models and makes, finished in new glowing colors never seen before on any automobiles. These new Yuko Metallochrome nitrocellulose lacquer colors came from the laboratories of the DuPont Company, where Metallochrome is the latest addition to DuPont's famous line of Yuko lacquer finishes. Forty years ago, automobiles were finished by skilled coach painters. Slowly, laboriously, they build up coat after coat of paint and varnish, waiting for each coat to dry and then rubbing it to a high polish by hand. Weak even months were required. It was the invention of Yuko Lacquer, which made the mass production of automobiles possible, in the sense that Yuko Lacquer provided a finish that dried in minutes rather than hours or days. And now, we have Yuko Metallochrome, which surpasses in beauty and durability lacquers formerly used for this purpose. Yuko Metallochrome lacquers are different in two ways. First, the hues are different. There are new shades in gray and green and brown never before seen on cars. These new colors are made possible by a new technique for dispersing pigments. Some of them employ a new pigment material, both developments of DuPont chemical science. Second, Yuko Metallochrome colors have a property which can be described only as a glow. They glow because they're translucent. Light actually enters the paint film and is reflected from within instead of merely being reflected from the outer surface. It is the case with conventional opaque finishes. As a result, the colors have a subtle iridescent quality. They enhance the graceful flowing lines of the car. Not only are these new Yuko Lacquer finishes more lustrous and beautiful, but they're also more durable. This extreme durability has been proved by over four years of laboratory and road testing. Yuko Metallochrome Lacquer is the worthy newcomer to the ever-lengthening list of the DuPont companies better things for better living through chemistry. Our stars, Zane Clark and John Beale. Hey, Dwight, John asked me to tell you that. Say, what was that? Well, that's what I had to tell you. It was John rushing back to the voice of the turtle who's appearing in that Broadway hit you now. What's the show up next week, Dwight? An exciting story of the Old West starring Dean Arthur. Dean Arthur? That sounds good to me. I'll be listening. Good night, Dwight. Good night. Zane Clark can currently be seen in the first kind of man produced by Warner Brothers. The music for tonight's DuPont cavalcade was composed by Arden Cornwell and conducted by Donald Voorhees. Our cavalcade play was written by Milsen White and was based on the book Storn by George Stewart. This is Dwight Weese inviting you to listen next week to the Petticojury starring Dean Arthur on the cavalcade of a lyrical brought to you by the DuPont Company of Wilmington, Delaware. This is NGC, the national broadcasting company.


You can help a child learn about adding by using any small objects, like buttons.  The child can count them and say, two. Then you can add three more and say, if we get three more buttons, how many are there now? The child can count them again and say, five. And you could say, that's right, when we have two and add three more, we have five. This activity will help a child start to understand basic addition.