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We'll get the um points one two three four five six and seven AFC south why not man She's what a break for you there All right, let's do a quick recap just going to read off the names not going to say every division here Uh, Eric azucanma trailance Trayvon Walker Kyle Hamilton Jameson Williams James Cook Jahan Dotson Damian Pierce Garrett Wilson Malik Willis And isaias spiller We've got our non-mab cards chrysalodicon uh, george pickens sauce gardener zamir white Trayvon Walker John meshy the third terrian davis price isaias spiller sam howell jaylon patre Uh, kyler murray that's gonna be so nasty when it comes in um, danie gregg drake london kyler gordon zamir white sam williams jaylon tulbert gelani woods wandale robinson And uh, trustin ebner we had our mag cards up next We had a malik willis 28 out of 99 going to the titans afc south nice one there We had a bailey zappy six out of 35 that's going to the afc east We had another malik willis this time at three out of 49 Go into the afc south again And then again go into the afc south Traylon berks one of one nfl shield patch auto so nasty That'll do it for the break guys. 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If you have your Bibles, would you please turn with me to Matthew's Gospel, chapter 12. Matthew chapter 12. Heavenly Father, we're thankful for this opportunity now to dive into your word and we ask God that your Holy Spirit would minister to our hearts today, that you would strengthen our faith, that you would lead us into the truth, God. Lord, have your way here with every person we pray, and it's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Well, as you read through the four New Testament Gospels, it's easy to see that Jesus claimed to be more than a good teacher or a spiritual leader or a prophet. He claimed to be the Son of God, equal with God the Father in nature. That was a radical claim. But of course anyone could make that claim, and Jesus knew that. So Jesus backed up his claims by proving that what he was saying about himself was true. How did he do that? Well, he opened the eyes of the blind. He healed lepers, he unstopped the ears of the deaf, he caused the lame to walk. He walked on water, he stilled storms with a word just to mention a few of his miracles. But for his critics, these kinds of things were not enough. Look there at your Bibles. Matthew chapter 12, verse 38, if you don't have a Bible, I'll put it on the screen for you. It says, then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered saying, teacher, we want to see a sign from you. We want to see something miraculous. Well by this point in Jesus' ministry, he had already performed several miracles. And the Pharisees had already rejected those miracles as being wrought by the power of the devil. Verse 24 says there in Matthew chapter 12. So it appears by this point that they were really interested only in seeing a miracle for the sake of entertainment. Well, Jesus, knowing what was going on in their hearts, answered them in verse 39 and said to them, an evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given it or to it, rather, except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Jesus here graciously told them that he would provide them one more sign, one more proof that he was who he said he was. And that would be his resurrection from the dead three days after his death. Well, as you Bible students know, a short time later, Jesus was handed over to Pontius Pilate by the religious leaders and executed, just as Daniel chapter 9 and Isaiah chapter 53 had prophesied six to seven hundred years earlier. Jesus' crucifixion was no accident. It was part of God's providential plan for Jesus to receive the punishment you and I deserve for our sins so that we could be forgiven and reconciled back to God. But then an amazing thing happened. Three days later, Jesus' tomb was empty. Jesus rose from the dead, just as he, David and the prophet Isaiah had foretold. Jesus' resurrection, of course, was a monumental event for help to prove that Jesus was indeed the long-awaited Savior, the prophesied Messiah, that that Savior that God said he would one day send into the world as a way of providing forgiveness to sinful humanity. And it also proved that God the Father had accepted his death on the cross for our forgiveness. If he had not accepted that death, he could have left Jesus in the tomb. But he rose him back to life and that put his stamp of approval on Jesus' death. And this is why millions of Christians all over the world celebrate the resurrection every year. And of course, we'll be celebrating that next week. But can an intelligent person living in the 21st century really be confident that Jesus rose from the grave 2,000 years ago? I believe the answer is yes. And because we're just a week away from celebrating the resurrection in our time together this morning, I'd like to lay out for you five reasons I believe Jesus' resurrection actually took place. Five reasons I'm confident in the resurrection and five reasons I believe you can be confident as well. If you'd like to recall any of these reasons in future conversations with people, you can remember them with the acronym RISN, R-I-S-E-N, each one of those letters will remind you of one of the five points we'll be considering here this morning. The first reason I believe Jesus' resurrection is a fact of history, this would be the R in our acronym, the rise of Christianity in Jerusalem. The rise of Christianity in Jerusalem, what am I talking about? Well, it is an accepted historical fact that the Christian faith, a religion built upon the preaching of the resurrection of its leader, originated in approximately AD 32 right in the very city of Jerusalem where Jesus had been publicly crucified and buried. Now this in itself is a good piece of evidence that the resurrection actually occurred. Why is that? Well, because a message calling people to repent and put their faith in a risen man could never have gained any substantial following amongst the Jews if the tomb had not actually been empty and had the Jewish people not seen Jesus alive after his crucifixion. The message of a risen man could not have been maintained for even a day in Jerusalem if the grave was still occupied. However, Jesus' disciples did not run off to Athens or Rome to preach that Christ rose from the dead where the facts could not be verified. They went right back to the city of Jerusalem where they would have been quickly exposed and disproved if what they were teaching was false. The critics could have said, hey, here's the grave and here's Jesus' body and that would have squashed the whole movement and Christianity would never have spread. But that never happened. And not only did Christianity originate in Jerusalem, it thrived there. Luke, whose writings have been confirmed by numerous extra-biblical writings and archaeological discoveries tells us that 3,000 people believed the first post-resurrection sermon preached just a few minutes' walk from the tomb. Luke talks about that in Acts chapter 2. His credibility in the first century would have been immediately discredited if his estimates regarding the size of the church weren't accurate. By Acts chapter 4, just two chapters later, Luke declares that there were 5,000 believers comprising the early Christian church in Jerusalem. That would be considered a mega-church even today, here in Southern California. And there were more converts coming in. By Acts chapter 6, verse 7, Luke says the number of disciples continued to increase greatly in Jerusalem, apparently by that point they had lost count. And not only did Christianity originate and flourish in Jerusalem, it went on to triumph over a number of competing ideologies and eventually overwhelmed the entire Roman Empire. By the early 4th century, when the Roman emperor Constantine converted to Christianity, historians say there were around 30 million Christians. Question for you. Is it reasonable to suppose that thousands of people within those early days following Jesus' death were actually deceived into believing a man rose from the dead? I don't think so. The best explanation for the immediate rise of the early church right in the midst of the community that had witnessed his crucifixion is the resurrection. People had seen Jesus. Acts chapter 1, verse 3 says that Jesus presented himself alive after his suffering by many convincing proofs appearing to them, appearing to people over a period of 40 days. That's how you explain 5,000 people joining the church in Jerusalem within such a short time of Jesus' crucifixion. The miracle-working Messiah, who many people had already become familiar with, had conquered their death and hundreds of people had seen Jesus with their own eyes after his crucifixion. The first reason you can be confident Jesus rose from the grave is the rise of Christianity in Jerusalem. It flourished in the very city Jesus was publicly put to death in. That's an indicator that the resurrection actually took place. The skeptic of Jackson says, hold on a second here, Charlie. Islam came on the scene 600 years after Jesus and grew rather quickly. Well, yes, it did. But Islam's growth had absolutely nothing to do with people witnessing something miraculous. The Quran itself makes it clear that Muhammad was not a miracle worker. How did Islam manage to grow so quickly then? While Islam was forced upon tens of millions of people by military conquest, it is an undeniable fact of history that Islam spread by the sword. This is far different than the spread of Christianity. Christianity spread over the first three centuries through the simple preaching of the gospel, calling upon people to repent and place their faith in a resurrected Savior. In fact, it was often the Christians who were being put to death as they sought to get that message out. And that leads me to a second line of evidence for the resurrection. Number two, if you're taking notes, the eye in our acronym Risen reminds us of the incredible persecution endured by the disciples. The incredible persecution endured by the disciples. When Jesus was arrested and led away to be crucified, the gospels tell us that his disciples fled in fear and went into hiding and had even lost hope. A short time later, though, we read that something amazing happened. These same fearful men went through a dramatic transformation. Within a few weeks of Jesus' crucifixion, the same men were standing face to face with the people who had crucified their leader, boldly telling them to repent and that Jesus was alive. Well, to prevent this belief from spreading, the same authorities who had Jesus crucified threatened the disciples, flogged them, beat them, imprisoned them, and forbade them to speak the name of Jesus. You've read about that in the book of Acts. So what did the disciples do? Well, they didn't back down. They told these leaders we must obey God rather than men. There are times when it's right for Christians to stand up, to government officials and disobey their mandates and even their laws. For example, when government officials would try to prevent us from doing something God has commanded to do or when the government would seek to force us to do something God has commanded us not to do. The early disciples knew this and they told the officials that we must obey God rather than men. I love their courage. I'm inspired by their commitment to get the gospel out, even though often it met imprisonment and persecution. But their courage had a cost. Flavius Josephus, Eusebius, Tertullian and other independent early non-biblical sources record for us that many of Jesus' earliest followers, including the apostles, suffered intense persecution and even death for their ongoing belief and preaching that Jesus was Lord and was risen from the dead. We are told in these historical sources that Matthew, the author of the gospel of Matthew, was slain with an ax in Ethiopia. We're told that Mark, the author of the gospel of Mark, died in the city of Alexandria in northern Egypt after having been cruelly dragged through the streets of that city. We're told that Luke, the author of the gospel of Luke and the book of Acts was hung to death on an olive tree in Greece. We're told that John was tortured and then banished to the island of Patmos. We're told that James, the brother of John, was beheaded in the city of Jerusalem. Luke refers to this as well in Acts chapter 12 verse 2. We're told that Philip was hung up against a pillar in the city of Hierapolis and then stoned to death. Bartholomew flayed alive. Jude shot to death with arrows. I think you guys are studying through the book of Jude here. That's how his life came to an end. He was willing to lay down his life so that you could study the book of Jude and learn what he had to say. Andrew, bound to a cross and left to die. He was one of the 12, Peter's brother. Barnabas, we're told, was stoned to death. We're told that Thomas was run through the body with a spear in Southeast India. And we're told that Peter was crucified in the city of Rome upside down. In his letter to the believers in the church at Rome, Paul described what was going on like this in Romans chapter 8 verse 36. He said, for your sake, for God's sake, we are being put to death all day long. We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered. And not too long after pinning those words, Paul himself was beheaded with a sword in the city of Rome. What these men endured to get the gospel out is pretty sobering, isn't a question for you? Is it reasonable to think these men invented Jesus' resurrection? I have a hard time believing that. But someone might say, Charlie, people make up crazy stories all the time. Big, big lies. And yes, they do. For some sort of financial gain, some sort of benefit, maybe even, or to get out of trouble. There's usually that kind of a motive going on as to why people would lie and make up stories. But what the early Christians said about Jesus didn't get them out of trouble or result in any kind of benefit. The things that these men said and wrote and preached about Jesus got them in trouble. What they received was persecution, rejection, torture, and martyrdom. Hardly a list of perks. That, to me, is compelling evidence that these men were telling us the truth about Jesus and his resurrection. So the first reason you can be confident, Jesus rose from the grave, the rise of Christianity in Jerusalem. Number two, the incredible persecution endured by the disciples. A third line of evidence for the resurrection, the S in our acronym is the shift in beliefs and practices by thousands of Jews. The shift in beliefs and practices by thousands of Jews. What am I talking about? Well, shortly after Jesus' death, thousands of Jews in Jerusalem and the surrounding region began abandoning at least five cherished beliefs and practices. The beliefs and practices they abandoned had been taught to them from childhood by their rabbis and parents. There were beliefs and practices that had given them their national identity and allowed them to be accepted by society. There were beliefs and practices that had even given them a supposed right standing with God. What beliefs and practices did thousands of Jews begin to abandon? I'll quickly mention two. The first one, the practice of bringing sacrifices to the temple. The practice of bringing sacrifices to the temple. Thousands of Jews whose families had for centuries been going to the tabernacle and later temple to sacrifice animals as a way of having their sins covered suddenly stopped. Why? What would explain such a major shift in behavior? Well, here's what the explanation was. They realized Jesus was the Lamb of God, who for once and for all takes away the sin of the world. They realized that all those Old Testament sacrifices were only a shadow, only a dim preview of the good things to come, Hebrews 10 says, a foreshadowing of what God would accomplish through his son's death. They heard of the veil that had been ripped miraculously from the top down there in the temple. They remember that Jesus had told them that the temple was even going to be destroyed. And so they realized things had changed. They realized that they were living under a new covenant with God, the one Jesus had told them about on the eve of his crucifixion. If they were mistaken, abandoning the sacrificial system would jeopardize their well-being socially and spiritually and yet thousands of Jews began to do that very thing. And they didn't stop there. Thousands of Jews began to change, here's a second example, their Sabbath day worship from Saturdays to Sundays. They changed their Sabbath day worship from Saturdays to Sundays. For the Jews, the Sabbath was not only a day they were to rest from physical labor. It became a day when they would meet together in the synagogue, worship God together and study the scriptures. They had been doing it on the seventh day of the week, Saturdays for some 1500 years. But now, almost overnight, thousands of Jews began meeting on a new day. The first day of the week, a day they began to call the Lord's Day. The Lord's Day, why did they call it the Lord's Day? Well, because that was the day of the week Jesus rose from the dead. So thousands of Jews, including the disciples making up the early church said, let's start meeting on that day in commemoration of our risen Lord. And the book of Acts chapter 15 tells us that they even opened up their gatherings to Gentiles, something they had not done previously. This was a huge change. These Jews who made up the early church believed that the coming of the Messiah, along with his death and resurrection, cleared the way for a new relationship with God, one that was based not on bringing sacrifices to the temple or on keeping the mosaic law, but on the sin-bearing, life-giving help of a resurrected Savior. The fact that so many Jews are willing to abandon their previous beliefs and practices is a third evidence that Jesus' resurrection really took place. Now there's more examples of those practices and beliefs that shifted after the resurrection. I don't have time to get into them this morning. If you wanna do a deeper dive into that, you can go to our website at alwaysbeready.com. We've got an A to Z menu there on our homepage. You can go down to the R's, click on Resurrection, and you'll find several articles on this subject that will take you deeper. But let's quickly recap the first three. Number one, the rise of Christianity in Jerusalem. Number two, the incredible persecution endured by the disciples, and number three, the shift in beliefs and practices by thousands of Jews. But we can strengthen our case for the resurrection with number four, the E in our acronym Risen, the evidence for the trustworthiness of the Bible. The evidence for the trustworthiness of the Bible. The account of the resurrection was not passed down to us in a supermarket tabloid or via a long chain of people playing the telephone game, thankfully. It was passed down to us in a sober-minded collection of historical documents that were written by eyewitnesses of Jesus' life in the first century AD. This collection of documents making up the New Testament has been corroborated by extra-biblical, historical writings, and dozens of archaeological discoveries, just to mention a couple of the evidences that point to its reliability. In fact, non-biblical historical sources have confirmed more than a hundred details recorded about Jesus in the New Testament. For example, consider the writings of Flavius Josephus. Josephus was a historian for the Roman Empire in the first century AD. He mentions more than a dozen individuals written about in the Gospels, including John the Baptist, Herod the Great, Pontius Pilate, Caiaphas the High Priest, and Jesus. Notice what Josephus said about Jesus. I'll put it on the screen here for you. He said at this time there was a wise man who was called Jesus and his conduct was good and was known to be virtuous. And many people from among the Jews and the other nations became his disciples.  And those who had become his disciples did not abandon his discipleship. They reported that he had appeared to them after his crucifixion and that he was alive. So here in this one quote, we have verification for us outside of the Bible that Jesus was a real person in Israel in the first century. He was known to be virtuous. He had many followers. He was put to death by Pontius Pilate, but then he was reported to have conquered death by his followers. Pretty astounding. I've talked about some of this kind of evidence for the trustworthiness of the Bible. The last time I was here, so I won't rehash it this morning. If you weren't here for that previous teaching or could use a refresher, I'll point you to a couple of my books that are available out at the gazebo. Scrolls and stones there on the left lays out 10 different lines of evidence for the Bible. And then there's a book on archeological evidence for the Bible that has about 100 color photographs in it of these kinds of artifacts and evidences for the Bible, if that might be helpful to you. All right, let's consider a fifth line of evidence for the resurrection. This would be the N in our acronym Risen, and that is this, none of the skeptics theories for the empty tomb are convincing. None of the skeptics theories for the empty tomb are convincing. Even skeptical scholars today acknowledge that Jesus' tomb was empty. As I mentioned earlier, there's no way Christianity could have spread if Jesus' tomb was still occupied. The Roman authorities or Jewish leaders could have just gone to the tomb and paraded the body around downtown Jerusalem for everyone to see and squashed the whole movement. So the tomb was empty, that's widely acknowledged by historians today, but critics have come up with some other theories to explain the empty tomb, none of which are convincing. Let's briefly walk through a few of these. The first theory is that Jesus is a myth theory. Some critics of the Bible say the reason why the tomb was empty is because Jesus never even existed. The whole story about him was just invented by some clever deceivers 2,000 years ago. Well, the claim that Jesus is just a myth may be popular out there on the internet today, but it is a ludicrous position to hold to. And one of the reasons why I say that is because more than 30 non-biblical sources mentioned Jesus within 150 years of his life, including first century historians like Josephus, who I just mentioned, Cornelius Tacitus and Suetonius, both of whom were Roman historians. The Jewish Talmud mentions Jesus as well. So the evidence that Jesus was a real historical person is very strong, so strong that even Bart Ehrman, one of the most zealous critics of the Bible alive today, acknowledges that Jesus was a real person. In an interview in The Huffington Post sometime back, actually it was an article he wrote for The Huffington Post, he said this, and I was happy to see him say this because he's not friendly to Christianity, but he got so tired of his atheist friend saying there's no evidence Jesus existed. He wrote this article mainly for them. So they'd stop saying that. Here's a quote, he said, there is no scholar in any college or university in the Western world who teaches classics, ancient history, New Testament, early Christianity, or any related field who doubts that Jesus existed. With respect to Jesus, we have numerous independent accounts of his life, sources that originated in Jesus's native tongue and that can be dated to within just a year or two of his life. Historical sources like that are pretty astounding for an ancient figure of any kind, the claim that Jesus was simply made up falters on every ground, end quote, Bart Ehrman. So the Jesus is a myth theory utterly fails as an explanation for the empty tomb. Surely he did exist. A second theory to explain the empty tomb is the stolen body theory. This theory suggests that the tomb was empty because Jesus's disciples stole the body. But the stolen body theory raises some difficult questions. How could the disciples have stolen the body? That would have required sneaking past an armed and trained detachment of Roman soldiers, breaking the Roman seal that was put upon the stone, then moving a two ton stone away from the entry to the tomb without being detected. Certainly the Roman guards that pilots put on guard at the tomb to prevent this kind of thing from happening would have heard something and quickly put an end to the attempted thievery. Roman soldiers were highly trained in the art of defense and killing. A band of fishermen against Roman soldier detachment, that's kind of like a suicide mission. They would have been more than capable of protecting the tomb. And I find it hard to believe that the disciples who fled in fear when Jesus was arrested would risk their lives trying to steal a dead body from the very people who executed Jesus just three days earlier. Another difficult question, the stolen body theory brings up is this, why would the disciples steal Jesus' body? What benefit would come to them for doing that? Is it reasonable to believe the disciples stole Jesus' body only to suffer for preaching a message they contrived? I have a hard time believing that. And if they had a dead body on their hands, how were they able to then convince thousands of people in Jerusalem that he rose from the grave? Maybe prop him up for a press conference? But then answer all the questions for him? Sounds preposterous, right? That would work. So I find the stolen body theory utterly unconvincing. A third theory for the empty tomb is known as the lost tomb theory. The lost tomb theory, some years back, the Discovery Channel aired a documentary called The Lost Tomb of Jesus. It claimed that the tomb that contained Jesus' bones had actually been unearthed by archeologists. The primary evidence for this radical conclusion was the discovery of six bone osheries, like this one, found in a grave in Jerusalem. The osheries dated back to the first century and had the following names engraved on them.  Well, those names sound familiar, don't they? And so the Discovery Channel documentary concluded that these osheries belong to the very persons mentioned by those names in the New Testament. And thus the whole story of Jesus' resurrection, the Discovery Channel said, is just a farce. He was actually married to Mary Magdalene, had a son named Judah and was buried in a grave with the rest of his family. Happy Easter. They aired this just a couple days before Easter, like they always do. They always time these attacks on the Bible right around Christmas time or right around Easter. So happy Easter, we found Jesus' body, all deceived who celebrate this. Well, there are several reasons why the Discovery Channel's claims should be rejected. We've listed maybe 10 on our website. I'll quickly share with you two. First, the names inscribed on the osheries found in the tomb in Jerusalem were very common names in Israel in the first century. In fact, Joseph was the second most popular male's name in Israel in the first century. Jesus was fourth. Matthew was the sixth and among women, Mary was far and away the most popular woman's name. The New Testament mentions six different Marys. It's hard keeping them straight. Have you ever had a problem? Like, what Mary is this? This is Jesus' mom Mary or Mary Magdalene? There's six different Marys in the New Testament. It's a testament to how popular that name was in the first century in Israel. Well, that being the case, a tomb with some osheries in it that mention of guiding Jesus and Joseph and Matthew and Mary is not sufficient proof that the cave was the burial site of our Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth. Archeologists have pointed out that there are more than 900 buried tombs just like the alleged Jesus tomb within a two mile radius of where this tomb was found. And of these tombs, 71 of them bear the name Jesus. And the name Jesus, Son of Joseph, has been found on three or four different osheries. So these were very common names. That's one strike against the supposed discovery. Another blow to the documentary's conclusions is this. If Jesus' disciples were making up a religion and basing it on a fabricated resurrection, they wouldn't bury his body in the very city he was put to death and then inscribe his name on the outside of his oshery and then bury the other members of his family in marked osheries in the same grave. That would be foolish. I was never part of the mafia but I think you would get rid of the body, right? Not many of you nodding. No one wants to look like they're an expert dealing with dead bodies, right? But that's what you would do. You would invent a religion on the resurrection and then mark his grave and put all those family there. No, that's not how you'd pull that off. So those are just a couple of problems with the lost tomb theory. A fourth and final theory I'd like to respond to briefly to explain the empty tomb is what's called the hallucination theory. The hallucination theory suggests that the early Christians were just hallucinating and only thought they had seen Jesus alive after his crucifixion. Well, this theory is not convincing either. Hallucinations for non-drug users are very rare. And the things people see and experience while hallucinating are wildly different. You never hear of a large group of people having identical hallucinations. So to suggest that hundreds of Jewish people in the first century who were not known for their drug use. To suggest that hundreds of Jewish people had hallucinations wherein they all saw and interacted with a resurrected savior is very problematic. And another problem with the hallucination theory is this. If the disciples were just hallucinating the religious leaders in Roman authorities could have dragged Jesus' body out of the tomb and exposed the fact, but they could not do that because the tomb was empty. So this is the fifth reason you can be confident. Jesus rose from the grave. None of the skeptics' theories, rather, for the empty tomb are convincing, none of them. Friends, at this very hour, the ashes of the body of Siddhartha Gautama, now known as the Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, lie in a grave at the foot of the Himalayan mountains. Muhammad, the founder of Islam, is buried in Medina, Saudi Arabia. Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, is buried in Navu, Illinois. Charles Darwin is buried at Westminster Abbey in London. Karl Marx buried at Highgate Cemetery in North London.  Only Jesus Christ proved that what he said was true by rising from the dead. Amen. What a great reason to rejoice this week. Christian, your shepherd, your savior is alive. You're not following the teachings of some dead man. No, you're walking through this life with Jesus, the true and living God who can be known, called upon, and trusted daily. So I urge you to do that. If you haven't yet placed your faith in Jesus Christ, I want to encourage you to do that today. A day of judgment is coming. The Bible says you will stand before your maker one day to give an account for the things you've done in this life and you want to make sure that when that day comes, your sins have been washed away and forgiven, lest you end up being judged for your sins and cast into hell. And the Bible says there's only one way that can happen and that's if you put your faith in Jesus Christ. God did all the work on the cross. Jesus died there in your place, the Bible says, bearing the punishment for your sins so that you could be forgiven and reconciled back to God. But he rose from the grave three days later and now he offers all of humanity the free gift of everlasting life, forgiveness of all your sins and peace with God. What a gracious offer. God has made humanity. How do you lay hold of that offer? Jesus said whosoever believes in him would not perish but have everlasting life. That's it, God's done all the work. He just wants you now to place your faith in Jesus and what he accomplished on the cross. And you can do that today. God is a prayer away. You can call it to him this morning before you walk out of the doors of this place and I would encourage you to do that and just pray something like this. God, thank you for loving me. Please forgive me for my sins. I trust in Jesus Christ to save me. Come into my life, be my Lord and Savior. If you'll call out to the Lord like that, the Bible says whoever calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved. So do that today, stop putting it off. For the rest of you, let us not be ashamed of the gospel. This is news that's too good to keep to ourselves. I encourage you this week to be praying about who to invite to Easter service. There are a lot of people who are actually willing to go to church if someone will invite them and this will be a great opportunity this next week. David's going to do another message on Good Friday and then on Easter Sunday talking more about the ramifications of the resurrection. Maybe God would use you to bring a non-saved friend to church. So be praying about that. Amen.


Hello CESA teachers, it's Angela, and I'm here to walk you through four things you need to know as you approach the end of the school year. This is specifically for those of you that are out there using free CESA. So here we go. Step one, archive your free CESA class. So here I am in our free CESA class. Up or right our wrench, and then we're going to scroll all the way down to archive our class. I'm going to do that right now so you can actually see this. So it's giving you a warning making sure you want to archive your class. So I'm going to go ahead and archive this class. If I want to bring that class back, I'm going to tap on the gear icon and go into account settings. When I scroll all the way to the bottom of my account settings, I see manage archive classes. If I click there, there's my third grade rock stars. I can restore that class. Here we are back in the same class. All right. The second thing I want you to know is that it's really important to make sure that your families have been connected to their child's CESA portfolio. So when we go ahead here and talk about step two, if you haven't yet connected your families, I encourage you to watch the first video about connecting family. So families can download their child's work for free. The good news is when you archive your class, an email is automatically sent to your families with all the information they need for how to download their child's content. If you're using our paid service, CESA for schools, families actually have unlimited access to archived content. If you want to learn more about CESA for schools, just visit our website. Step three, we want to make sure that you don't make some of the common mistakes that some teachers do at the end of the school year. So listen up. Here we go. Tip number three, don't delete or remove students from your class. That is a big problem. Don't turn off family access. And last, don't delete your class. Just archive it. And as a reminder, there is no way to recover deleted classes or journals or students. So we really caution you about that. CESA teachers, we know there is still lots of learning taking place in your classroom every single day. So we want to support you with new ideas. So if you want to get some fresh ideas, go ahead and visit our activity library right inside CESA. Very soon, when you tap on the green add button as a teacher and browse the activity library, you are going to see some of these amazing collections. If you have any questions, make sure you visit help.cesa.me and have a great end of the year.


Hello, my name is Jan Knodl, I'm an Extension Entomologist for North Dakota State University. This video describes scouting for the Red Sunflower Seed Weevil, which is an economically important insect past of sunflower in North Dakota. Red Sunflower Seed Weevil is about an eighth of an inch long and reddish brown in color. The larvae consume about a third of the kernel. This reduces the seed weight and oil content of the sunflower. For scouting you want to start when the sunflower is in the R4 stage, when you can see the yellow ray petals on the face. And you want to continue until you make a spray decision, or the sunflower becomes R5.7. The .7 refers to 70% of the area on the face of the sunflower as having florets on. For scouting you want to check at least four locations in the field. You want to use a X pattern, avoid sampling the edges of the field, walk in about 75 feet and then randomly select five heads. And you can use mosquito repellent to spray the head. This will force the weevils to move up from the back. You can see there's one right there on the face of the head. Then use the table to estimate the total number of weevils per plant. To decide whether to use insecticide to control the red sunflower seed weevil, it's necessary to determine the economic threshold for this year. The economic threshold is based on the cost of insecticide per acre, the market price of sunflower and dollars per pound, and the plant population per acre. Given the cost of insecticide between 8 and 10 dollars per acre, the economic threshold is near 4 to 6 weevils per head this year. The optimal time for insecticide treatment is when the sunflowers reach the R5.1 stage like this one here when you have the florets on the outer edge of the face. And you also want about 30% of the plants in the field at this stage. For more information on red sunflower seed weevil, please go to the following links on the NDSU Extension Service website. Thanks for joining me and learning how to scout for the red sunflower seed weevil. Using economic thresholds and scouting protocols are important principles of integrated pest management.


While solving some problem in our journey in the startup, we encountered one use case where we need interactive user interface. So we wanted to take input from the user in an interactive way so that they don't feel difficult. So one use case was gathering complaints from a user. So if you take any CRM, so people mostly get a ticket and they are later emailed or something like that. So they are followed up on my email. So if you have a phone application where you have like WhatsApp or Telegram and you use a Dane, you don't need to install any particular application again. So if we can take leverage of this application and we build it a bot on top of this, then user will feel like it's the same thing and you are not moving outside of what you are using today. So you are in the same way. So the vendor and the user, the merchant and the user are connected by a common app which is installed by many people. So that's how we figured out. So Telegram is one of the open source apps and they have an open API. So we figured out one bot. We created one bot and we started taking complaints from the users. So today I will discuss how to create a bot, how to send requests and how to store the information collected from the users on the server. For that, I think I will share this screen. You can actually increase the font size a little bit. It's easier to read. Yeah, this is my website. It's visible, right? Yes. That's my website. You can visit it at kandikiran.in. I will share this screen. First requirement is Python. So check the Python version. It should be at least 2.7. And one of the library we are going to use is Python Telegram bot. So it's available here. So this is the bot we will be using to create automated replies to the users. So the requirements here is pip. So in order to install pip, you need to use this command. Since pip is already there, it says it's already the newest version. Then pip install and also need virtual environment. So Python virtual environment is also already installed. So we will be creating a virtual environment. So what virtual environment does is basically it will create a clone of your Python installation into one of the folders where you will be working on. So that you will be having same... You can keep track of your packages and you can collaborate with others also. And also you can have different versions of the same library for different projects. So in order to activate your virtual environment, we need to use the activate command. So in order to confirm that you are in the virtual environment, you can see your virtual environment name in the parenthesis before you use the name. So once you are inside the virtual environment, you need to install Python Telegram bot. You need to install Python Telegram bot. And we also will be using a flash server to relay our data received from the users to the server. So pip install flask. When you type pip phrase, you will know what all packages have been installed. So we have flask and these are the recursive requirements from the first flask. And two important things are flask and the Python Telegram bot. So we will be writing our first Telegram bot. You can open your favorite editors. So in order to see the debugging messages, we need to log in. We will give the format here once you are done with this. So in the previous version of the library, we used to have telegram.bot where we give the token. So now the library has been updated and we have an updater which all has the calls. Something like we have these functionalities. So you can call updater.bit.me, updater.sendmessage, power message and all these functions are written with updater class now. So it's easy to have your encapsulation and less cluttered way of writing them. Just ask a question. Did you have to set up an account with the telegram first before you did this? Yeah, we need to have an account on the telegram. So your potentials for that will be something including this? Yeah, so actually there is a web interface for telegram. You can use this here. Web.telegram.org. So in order to create your account, you can directly go to web.telegram.org. It will ask you for your phone number. You need to give your phone number, you need to get one password. So once you are in, you can use it either through your app or we have built up this. But if you have more than one, so you have to have more than one. So it's like the phone that you are using. So you cannot have a second one or third one. No, you can create bots. You can use this bot further. So there is something called a bot further where you can create bots. So if you are using the telegram bot LA, you can see this console. So this is how bots look like in telegram. So this is how the welcome screen for any bot will be like. So when you enter a bot for your search bar there, you can see this screen something like this. And you press start. It will give you all the commands and options which it has. And now if I want to create a new bot, I go for a new bot. All right, a new bot, how are we going to call it? Please choose the name for your bot. Say, POSAsia. That is my bot. And good. Now let's choose a new name for your bot. It must end in bot like this for example. So whatever name you give, you have to append it with bot or underscore bot. So let's say POSAsia. I don't want to take up the names here. So if you want to create a POSAsia bot, so that you can create it. I want to just enter tg, tg means telegram workshop. So I'm going to give this name. Let's see if it's not taken up. It's not taken up. So done. And you get a token here. So you need to notify, take care of this token, save it somewhere or you can get it again. Maybe later. You can generate a new token in case you forgot it. So you can use slash token command. And you can cancel your bot. You can revoke permissions. You can set name, description. There are many options available here. You can go through that. And set commands. So we'll come again to this topic in set commands. And for now I'll take the token from here. What basically it does is, an updater will look for any updates from the user. So if user sends a message, you get an update. That's an update for the bot. So the bot keeps on checking in intervals 0.1 second or 110 seconds like that. And using that it will again, so based on the command it sends, it will run some handler. So it's the same event handling mechanism here. So we'll start with basing the function. So I'm going to write one function where if we send a command like start, you might have seen when the welcome screen has come. I've pressed the button start. So when we press that button start, what should happen? So I'm going to print and also... So in this, when we send a message, we need to take care of to whom we are replying. So we get updates from many users. So the bot can be used by many users. So each chat has a unique ID. So we have to reply to that specific unique ID. So we need to send that parameter. So in the parameter of update.message.chat.id and the message. So message is text. Hi. I am for cishia.eji.com. So command name is start and I'm assigning that start command to this method. Keep polling it. So this is our basic script for making a small start telegram automated board. Now I'm going to... What's the default in the other kinds of checks? 0.1, 100 ms. Would there be a portal in case you need it? Yeah, you can change that speed. Would there be an assign? Would there be a telegram portal in case? Telegram has volumes. They have scaled the servers so they don't have any trouble in it. But that can be a delay or a service again? They can be actually. So if we keep on requesting and I have been using the bot. So sometimes I have been kicked out like after one or two hours of continuous updates, pooling updates, I have been kicked out sometimes. So I think we need to use some cron job or something again here to keep that running forever. Dispatcher does this. So every telegram bot, we have some event handling mechanism, right? So dispatcher, we can use it to assign your commands and say if you have... In routing, in web applications, you have four or four handlers. You have controllers to do. So similarly, you have your dispatcher where unknown commands can be handed, where eco commands can be handed or where you can have your own specified commands and inline queries. So we will go to inline queries next. So dispatcher is used to basically handle your message, set your handlers. So we have added a telegram handler. So it says, this is the logger. So telegram updater debug one has started and entering the set web. So it goes to the api.telegram.org slash bot slash your token. So it authenticates itself and it starts pooling itself now. So if we go here, go back here, we have created a bot. Now we go to the bot. So since we haven't set any description or any about text or any help text, we won't get anything, just a starter. So click on the start. So you have got a message saying, hi, I am possession tgpoin. So this is basically your start method being executed. And we have written print hello. Let's go back to console and see what's happening there. So here it says, so as I said, it keeps on pooling. It takes from updates. If it gets any update, then it goes to the particular handler and executes it. So here, before entering senders, it has got an update object. The update object has been in that it has seen the start command. So it goes to entering send message. We've got the whole information of the bot, say possession tgpoin, and from where the request has already been sent. So my user name is Krantikinum01. And my name, first name, last name, type. So it's a private account, not a public account, and ID. So this is the chat ID and date and the message ID. So again, there's no message, so it keeps on pooling and says there are no updates on. So let's stop this. Go back. At this point, your bot is a public bot. Yeah, it's a public bot. Anyone can actually connect with now. Yeah, you can go to web.eleagram.org. So while you're testing and building this, is there a way to say, I'm not ready yet, I want to just keep it private first before I reset an option when you start this. I think there is one in the bot further where you can set option. So you have something called set privacy here. What message will tell your bot seeing groups and what it's presence like? It can get an attesting mode or it can be public or private. Only the ones who have the link or the user name of the bot can access it. And actually, since we are automating everything, we can use actually tokens to talk to each other. If a user has to talk to the bot, send a token. Then the bot that indicates you, then you can have services aware from the bot. So let's write one more eco bot where we send some message and it echoes. If you look, we have written a hello world in that. So this is a hello world printed here. That is not part of the debugger. So this is just a print command coming from the Python input for your eco bot. So for the start command, you don't have any arguments. If you give an argument, it will be from your URL. So say you have any bot has your own something similar to this. Web.elignant.org. At the rate, your bot name. Slash, if you give something like a get parameter, that can be taken as an argument here. So in your start, you can retrieve it as an argument. Then you can set, say, if some user is giving, my name is x or y, you can get the name from there. So for eco bot, I'm going to take a text. So any message you send, it can be handled by this function. So whatever method you give, it will be handled by that. So any message you type without any command, say if you do not give any slash equals slash something, this method is going to take care of that. Sorry. In eco bot, you don't need to give an argument here. So since we are taking the text whatever is entered, we just need to eco the text received by the updater. So the text received is, so what updater receives is, it receives a message update, which is a JSON string. So if you go back to telegram API, you can, I'll show you the JSON string, how the format is like. It has, the format is like this. It has from, and first name all the user details and also the date message ID. In here, we have message.txt. So we are passing the same message back to it. So if I say slash eco, which is not a command date which we did not write, slash echo hello world. So this should basically give us back the same slash echo hello world back, not just hello world. Which one? Same one. I'm not able to write it. It's pausasia.tg underscore word. Yeah. This is waiting for them to accept. It's still running, it's running in the back. It's running. I think you can send a message maybe. Are you able to find it on the? Yeah. Are you able to find it? Yeah. Sudeesh has sent it one. I got it. It's fosasia.tg underscore word. I'm trying to do a secret check. Secret check. With the bots, it's not working. Yeah. Handle command exists or you command not for. So it is similar to your handle underscore for not for function or any Django. If you have used Django or Plasma or any other web application, you might have written a route where you handle your for not for it. So this is similar to that. Any command which is not projects with the pre-registered bots or commands, it will throw an error saying command not. Let's convert some text to cap and return it. Captains. So we will take an argument here. We need to add the relevance this handler. So we call it caps. We got a reply from makeitcaps. So this is the argument we have taken. And it has converted into cap. And if you want to throw some HTML. Caps comes in. You might have. So shadow is working. I think you need to be there because of the camera. I will add all the new stuff here. Using HTML, you are trying to make a bold output. So if you use some process, you can throw a bold argument. So what do we say? Possession here should be tax. And we should be able to see that as strong. Let's try. This is how you get bold results. So you can use anything in HTML. So very few syntaxes like strong italics and font size you can play around with. You can even send emojis. As such in the library there is no validation. So you need to use validate as library. You can check the message size. So that's entirely up to the robot itself. And in telegram you have video upload limit of 50 MB. So even someone sends you a file. You can know the file header length and check the length of the payload you are getting. And if you think it is correct, then only receive or don't download. These are the emojis available for the telegram work. You can use any of this. So let's say if you want to use ant, you give telegram what emoji you got. And I am not writing any argument. I just want to see if it works. I got an emoji back. How you send your photo. So you can load it from your local disk using the open command. Or you can even specify a URL. So you are in here or you can specify your... You have to open your file and you send it. The command here is send photo. You can replace the photo with voice and video to send video and voice. Till now we have been... So there is no command option here. You can only just type in the messages. So in order to make the user experience better, so we have to go here and go down to set commands. It will say choose a bot to change the list of commands. Pause it, set the reward. So you need to give some... In the specified format here. So what all command do we have? We have start, make it caps, make it bold, emoji and photo. We don't need to specify start and default, make it caps. This is our entire... Telegram doesn't accept any capital letters in your commands. So all should be small case and no other special characters. You can use one to use those. This bot for father has no automatic. So if it's on a telegram and maybe they are in a couple of updates, you will get there. Maybe they will release an API for this also. Command list is updated. So when you go back to the bot, you see something like command slash. So when you click on this, you get all the options. It doesn't, you know, have a hit prediction as to what it does. It does. Say if you have... It does predictions. For the commands only. Why? If you didn't define the command as now, you already defined it. So now we try to get data from the user and save it on different services. So whenever a user comes to a bot, so what businesses require is, you want to know who has come to you so that you can contact them later back. Either through telegram or different means of communication. So let's try to build a feedback bot for this workshop. And we will be using a Plasma for that. We'll be creating a file in the same directory. Basic class. We'll be doing that in Plasma. Plasma app. For publication, you might be having something called a login attempt. So whenever a user tries to log in, you record it. So we'll have a start attempt here. Whenever a user clicks on the start button, we'll record it. This is recorded. This is recorded on the suffering database. So this is a different server. The script keeps on running. It checks for the updates from the user. And it sends a request to this server whenever the user connects to that. Is there any more for this? For the bot assistant administrator, more for the bot that you can check? Is it not recorded for problems? How many users have used it? I don't know. It's not there on the telegram. Request library. So I've installed request library. So people install request library. You'll send a request. Then retrieve the username as. Let's carry the ones which I'm trying right now. It's not working. So previously I've created one bot. So I'm showing the example from that. So this is the password which I created last night. So when you press start, what it does is take the username. And this is a text document. And we send a request to this class server with a start attempt. And we send the parameter username, start at the end time. So this is basically the log which we need to store. And if we have received a particular response, then send the text message as, it is a successful response. I'll say our class server is down. Then we have to say that our server is down. Please try it in data. So on the server side, if you see the console, so they have been a post request sent from our telegram bot. So we have a 200 and that means a success. And that post request had a user name. So from the bot it has been sent, and the chat ID and the time. So this is basically how you log, create records of the user. So similarly you can send any parent, any argument taken by the user, say it takes something, or some text has been here. Send it to the server, store it on server, analyze whatever you want to do. Or on the server you can search on different, or we can use another API to use with data. I guess you can close down this thing. Thanks.


Hey there, this is Vlad Trochenko with Insurance Sales Lab. In this video, I'd like to go over a new team member training schedule that you can put your new hires through. I'm an insurance agency owner in Dallas, Texas. I've worked with thousands of agents over the last six years and I've helped them hire and train their new staff. And one of the biggest pain points for agency owners is that initial phase of the first one or two months where you have to teach your new hires is so much about selling, about quoting, about the product. And we've been trying to put a very simple and easy to follow training schedule that all agency owners could use when they hire new staff. And that is what we're going to go over here today. And this PDF that I'm showing you here on the screen, you can download, it'll be right below this video, and you can modify and make it your own. But let's go through the 10 day schedule. Let's start off with day one and two. The first couple of days, what you want to do is have the new hire completes the company-required training to get binding authority. So every carrier has a version of that. Farmers calls it the activator course. You need to complete that in order to get binding authority.  So in this case, day three, you complete an exercise called insurance made simple. Now this is an exercise I created a while back because I've found that a lot of new hires that start working in agencies have no idea on how insurance works. And I don't blame them because the pre-licensing course doesn't really go into depth on that. It just teaches you the legal talk, but it doesn't teach you the actual terms that you'll be using in a day-to-day basis. For instance, the difference between comprehensive and collision, a new hire must know what that is. The difference between actual cash value or replacement costs on a homeowner's insurance policy, a team member must know what that is. So what we do with this exercise, as you can see here at the top, it's called insurance made simple.  And one day may seem like a lot, but it's necessary for the new hire to really grasp these concepts. And what they'll do is they'll go through all of these terms for auto insurance, all of these terms for home insurance, these general key terms, concepts around insurance, and they'll go on Google, they'll watch YouTube videos, they'll learn how to take these concepts and break them down in layman's terms in practical English so that a teenager would be able to understand these terms. So what I like to do at the end of day three is sit down with the producer and have them go through each and every one of these key terms and explain it to me as though I'm 12 years old. And if I can't understand as a 12 year old, it's not good enough. So we ought to be able to explain these complex insurance terms in simple ways. So that's really the purpose of day three. So once that is completed, then we transition to day four. That's the internal systems training where you teach your new hire how your phone system works, how your CRM works, how you document notes. If you have a gift card platform, how that works, what lead vendors you buy leads from, you teach them how you do stuff in your particular agency. So that's the first four days. Day five and six is where you now have the new hire prepare mock quotes. Even if you're hiring a CSR who's not going to be doing any selling, they should still learn how to prepare quotes. So what I like to do is have the new hire first prepare a quote on themselves and their friends, family members, just so they can understand how the whole process works from beginning to end. And then we can assign additional leads to that new hire. It could be old leads that we have in our database. And the goal here is to knock out 10 auto quotes, 10 renters, homeowners, and five umbrella quotes. And it could be on the same 10 people. You can have the same prospect, the same lead, get an auto quote, renters, homeowners, and umbrella quote. So once you have the quotes prepared, then you transition to the next step. But here's one quick note that I want to make is that if you take a little bit of extra time during the first few quotes that the new hire is preparing and you just teach them all the nuances and details, I encourage you to just back off, leave the room, and let the producer, the new hire, prepare the quotes on their own and really go from beginning to end with the remainder of the quotes. And then you can come back and verify everything. Okay, so once you're done with that, then you have to teach the new hire how to sell. That's what you do in days seven and eight. There's a couple of ways you can do that. You can either take time, two days, and spend with your new hire and teach them how to start a call, how to build value in the policy that you're going over so that they're not focusing on price. You teach them how to multiline the other line of business, how to present the price, how to ask for the sale, how to overcome objections, how to set the onboarding appointments, how to ask for referrals. You can take the time out of your day to teach your new hire how to do that or you can have our training platform do that for you. There's not a better training platform out there that can teach your new hires how to sell better than the OneCall Close Masterclass, which you get with your insurance sales lab membership. And one thing before I give you a quick 60 second overview of the OneCall Close Masterclass, I want to make this point very clear that this is not just for new hires. If you have a team member in your agency who's crushing it, they're writing 40, 50, 60,000 a month in PNC Premium, they too would benefit from going to the OneCall Close Masterclass. What you see here on the screen, the OneCall Close Masterclass is a training that I built specifically for PNC insurance agents to teach them how to sell effectively and also generate referrals from the new business. So I'm not gonna go through all the lessons but really what I want to point out is how detailed this OneCall Close Masterclass is. Where we go through the hook, the hook objections, we go over how to build rapport, how to build value, everything you need to know about selling insurance is covered in here. Someone needs to teach your producers how to handle these objections that you see here on the screen, such as email me the quotes. Your price is too high. I need to talk it over with my spouse. It's either going to be you teaching your new hire, how to do this and how to overcome these objections or you can have the OneCall Close Masterclass do that for you. Okay, so that's what you do during day seven and eight is complete the sales training, the OneCall Close Masterclass. Day nine is where you put all of that together. You take the quotes that your producer already prepared and you combine it with this new sales process that your new hire just learned called a six step script to the OneCall Close and you go through six mock sales conversations. So I'm not gonna go through all of them individually but I'll point out the first one here where you pretend that you're making an outbound call, you start off with auto insurance and then you transition to renter's insurance and you sell it as a bundle. And you do that by using of course the six step script to the OneCall Close. And what I would encourage you to do is have your new hire record their screen. The way they can do that is they use a Chrome extension called LOOM, L-O-O-M. It's a free Google Chrome extension where you can record your screen and speak into the computer and record a video. And then once the video is recorded, your new hire can just send you a link so you can watch that video. Here's an important note. I have seen this time and time again that team members, new team members want to press you, their new boss and make these videos perfect. What I always tell new hires is don't worry about perfection with these six videos. Just get them done in one day. Even if they're not perfect and you're stumbling through the videos, that's okay. All we want the new hire to learn is how to navigate the system while also using the six step script to the OneCall Close. Hopefully this is making sense. We are now on day 10. This is the final certification. This right here is where the new hire has an opportunity to earn a $500 or a $1,000. Really, whatever number you wanna attach to that, a sign on bonus. So here's how this works. What I tell every new hire on day one when they first start is in 10 days, on day 10, we're going to have a final certification. And if you can recite three steps verbatim from the six step script to the OneCall Close, I'll give you a sign on bonus. 500 bucks or $1,000. Different agencies do different things. So the first step is the hook. It's what you say in the beginning of the call. You have to be able to recite that step verbatim, no mistakes. And then you recite step four, which is cost presentation. Again, verbatim, no mistakes. Step five is asking for the sale. What do you think this will do if your new producer, new hire, learns these three steps? Well, on day 11, they can start calling real leads and start closing business right away because not only do they know how to quote and they know the lingo that they're going to use, but they also know how to sell. They know how to start the call, how to present the price and ask for the sale. So look, as an agency owner, you are a business owner.  You do whatever you want to do. No one can force you to do anything. But my advice to you from a business owner to a business owner, from an agency owner to an agency owner is that the 10 days, when you, the first 10 days of when you hire someone, those are the most critical days of bringing on new staff. And by following this 10 day schedule, you'll get your new hires up to speed. So with that all said, if you're a member of the Insurance Sales Lab training platform, start using this right away. If you're not yet a member of the Insurance Sales Lab training platform, then you can enroll in that today. Simply go to insurancesaleslab.com and you'll be directed to a website that looks similar to this. You can click get started and you'll be taken to our order form and within minutes, you can have access to the most powerful sales and referral training that exists in the insurance industry. You can just fill out this order form and get access right away. There's a lot of video testimonials that we have here on the website of what agents say about this platform. You can watch those if you'd like. With that, I hope you found this video to be helpful. If you'd like to download this PDF, you will find that right below this video. And as always, if you have any questions about anything that we've covered, you can ask them in the comment section below this video and you can also email us directly. You could find that information on our website. Hope you have a great rest of your day and I'll see you in the next video. Take care.


Take two, let's go. Welcome to Code Corner with Katie. Let's kick it! Let's see what's on thinking man's mind today. How are the codes in Canada different from the United States? That's another great question and thankfully we've got Joe Mayer here. Joe, welcome and can you just briefly introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about what you do. Hi everybody. As Katie said, I'm Joe Mayer. I am the training guy for Assa Abloy Opening Solutions in Canada. I've been with the company for, I don't want to age myself, but quite a few years and have held a number of roles and now I look after all things training. Awesome. So can you tell us briefly what the differences are between the United States and Canada when it comes to the building codes? Sure. The language itself is actually fairly similar. The IBC is a very influential model code, so a lot of that is sort of picked up in the Canadian codes. We use the National Building Code as our model code. The big difference for us is that our codes are objectives based codes. And for those of you that aren't familiar with that, what that means is whereas a code like the IBC has some prescriptive elements to it. Are you trying to do this? Okay. Well, as long as you do X, Y and Z, you're good. In an objectives based code, it's more about what we're trying to accomplish. So here's the objective. Here's what we're trying to do. And it's up to you to provide a solution that meets the objective. In theory, an objectives based code is meant to foster innovation and provide room for alternative solutions and that kind of thing. And it does do that. But in practice, it can also get a little bit tricky because it means that the fire marshal or the provincial inspector or whoever the authority having jurisdiction is has a lot of responsibility on their shoulders because it's up to them to interpret whether or not you've met the objectives of the code. So I don't know whether Canadians are more polite than Americans, but we definitely have to be more polite to our code officials up here because of that. Gotcha. And it looks like there's different additions depending on what province that you're in. Exactly. Yes. So the actually the most current addition of the National Building Code of Canada is the 2020 edition. But as you can imagine, it takes, there's a little bit of a lag between when a code is published or released and when it's actually adopted by the provinces as a part of their law. There are a number of provinces that use the National Building Code, but the most current version that's in play in Canada at the moment is the 2015 version. Most of the provinces are on track to adopt the 2020 National Building Code in 2023. You've got the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador and New Brunswick and Saskatchewan all using the 2015 version of the code. The Yukon uses the 2015 version of the code, but they use a version that was amended specifically for them. So that was adopted in 2022. And Alberta uses the National Building Code 2015 edition, but they use the Alberta edition of the National Building Code, which was adopted by them in 2019. And they move that will surprise nobody that doesn't live in British Columbia or Ontario. British Columbia and Ontario feel like they need their own building codes. So the British Columbia or BC Building Code is the 2018 version, and the Ontario Building Code is the 2012 version. And for those of you that are thinking, you know, get with it, Ontario, what's going on? There are regular amendments that are made to that 2012 code. The most recent amendment was September 2022. And there was a big amendment made that took effect in January of 2020 that covered a lot of accessibility issues and that kind of thing. So amendments are being made. It can make it a bit tricky for people in Ontario because they're using the 2012 code, but they've got to make sure that they're up to date with the amendments. Got you. So where do people find information about the codes? Good question. The codes, as they should be, are free to anyone that wants a copy of them. So the National Building Code, including the Quebec edition and the Alberta edition can be downloaded from the Canadian Government website. And there's, I think you're going to offer a link to that. The Ontario Building Code can be downloaded from the Ontario Government site. The BC Building Code can't be downloaded. It is an online only resource, but that's available from the BC Provincial website as well. The downloadable codes are locked to a single computer, so that's something to keep in mind. It's not like you can download it and sort of share it around. Whoever wants a copy is going to have to download their own copy. Okay, awesome. Well, thank you so much, Joe. For more information and continuing education opportunities, please visit Osa Abloy Academy by clicking in the link in the comments below. I'm also going to include the links, as Joe mentioned, to getting the building codes, the resources that you need. Please click like and subscribe to this channel. You can follow me on Twitter at Art Consultant and or connect with me on LinkedIn for updates. You can email me if you have any code questions. You may see them on a future edition at Catherine.Flower at OsaAbloy.com. And as always, thanks for joining me in the Code Corner today. My name is Katie Flower, and my goal is to help you achieve safe purity in the built environment.


Live from Houston, Texas. It's theCUBE, covering Grace Hopper's celebration of women in computing. Welcome back to theCUBE's coverage of the Grace Hopper Conference in Houston, Texas. I am your host, Rebecca Knight. Our guest today is Marissa Elena-Yanez. She is the founder and CEO of Empoder, which means Empower in Spanish. This is a nonprofit that promotes technology in communities of color. Marissa, welcome. Thanks so much for joining us. Thank you. So, just to clarify a little bit, we do, I wouldn't necessarily consider us as a nonprofit that promotes technology in communities of color. More so, we promote computer science and engineering and education. That will allow, yeah, it's really the educational component that will allow. So we don't want our kids just to be fascinated with technology. They're already fascinated with technology, but they don't see themselves as the innovators of this technology. And what they're really missing is the educational component. And so our tagline is Empowering communities of color through computer science and engineering education. And it's really that educational component, which isn't necessarily as sexy as like, oh, look at this app and create kind of a silly app, but it's really like creating the skills so that they can be the next Mark Zuckerberg or all of these founders and CEOs in the tech world.  And that's what we're trying to do with our girls. So you grew up in Silicon Valley. And I had assumed, oh, she must have had access to robotics classes and coding clubs as a kid. And you said, absolutely not. That was not my experience. So what was your, tell me your story. So a couple things. I grew up in Silicon Valley. I was really fortunate. My family were first generation immigrants to this country and they worked very, very hard. And by the time my father was in his early 30s, he bought a piece of land in Los Altos Hills and we were born there. I was the only girl of color in the schools. I was born and raised in Los Altos Hills. The majority of my family lived either in East San Jose or in East Palo Alto. And that's where I spent a lot of my time. And so I really was very, very familiar and had a unique insight on kind of like the two sides of Silicon Valley, the, you know, where all the minorities hang out in Mountain View, which at that time was very, very low income. Google hadn't gotten there yet. And it was really like, it was the kind of place where you walk down the street and it's like, don't walk after six o'clock at night because there's gangs on the streets. And I mean, it was very, very much a different, this is in the 90s, it was a very, very different landscape. And so, and that's kind of like where I grew up, but yet I grew up in Los Altos Hills seeing what the benefits of growing up with my father as an engineer. I know that was a school teacher. And most of the kids that I went to school with their parents were lawyers and doctors and really appreciating how that influence in the house shapes what you see for yourself and seeing how the kids of color and the communities of color, despite the fact that as Silicon Valley has continued to progress in the last 20 years, there's this huge conglomerate of power in tech. And yet that tech community is very, very separate from this low income communities that are all throughout Silicon Valley, that although they're surrounded by the epicenter of tech, they're completely disconnected from it because it doesn't exist in their household. Their parents aren't engineers. They aren't computer scientists. And so while they may go to school in schools that have robotics clubs and have computer science classes, they don't see it as being something that's for them. So unless you actively go out into those communities and engage them and show them really how they too can be part of this process and how they too can gain the skills to code their own app or to create their own computer programs, their own algorithms, there really is a disconnect. They just, they see that it's all around them, but they don't think that it's for them. So you have this unique perspective on the digital divide in Silicon Valley, which is amazing because this was a 90s, as you said, a burgeoning community. Facebook, Google of course didn't exist then, but yet there was, there were people still working in technology of course in a burgeoning community and yet on the other side of town, really a different story. Or really in the same side of town. Or in the same side of town. It's a different one straight over, two straights over. A really different story. So what can be done, so you said, you need to change the experience. How do you do that? So there really needs to be a significant effort to create not just opportunities, but opportunities that specifically engage low income communities. So what we have created is a summer boot camp where for seven weeks, it's a seven week boot camp and then it's four weeks for middle school students. For seven weeks we train high school students who have already taken AP computer science to teach middle school students, middle school girls, computer science. And we teach low income middle school girls material from advanced placement computer science classes. So they're learning Java. They aren't doing this drag and drop stuff that in my experience, I've seen that kids who learn the drag and drop, it's fun and it's engaging. But as soon as they encounter real syntax in computer science classes, which is really the frustrating part, they're like, this is so different than what I learned. This is not for me and they run out of class and they don't learn to work through that frustrating period of time that it takes to really learn how to code and syntax.  And yet we have them create games or create programs that are fun for them. And so we tailor the curriculum to engage these girls, but we create our boot camps so that they're only open to low income students. You have to qualify for free reduced lunch in order to be able to take it. And so because of that, 95% of the girls in our programs we're working primarily in Mountain View and East Palo Alto and the community there is Hispanic. And so they think that we're only open for Latino students, but we have really, it's an economic cutoff for who's available. And then we go and we go into the community and we go into churches and we go into parent meetings where the Latino parents come and we talk to them about the program and we engage them and we talk to them. So instead of just like kind of creating the opportunity and hoping that people come to us, we go out into the community and engage the community and say, these are the reasons, you know, look at the tech industry around us. Your kids, to me, I look at it as the way out of poverty. You know, your kids become the next innovators in this tech industry and in one generation. And are the parents open to this or is there some resistance? You speak to them in Spanish.  You talk to them about how apps and technology and websites are changing the world and their community. But the thing that they, that really gets them is I say, look, if everybody in the tech industry right now, if the majority of them are male, if they're largely white and Asian population, they're creating technology based on their experiences. So much technology is needed in the Latino community and the African American community and the, you know, there's so many advances that could be made just to deal with, you know, the unemployment issues or the health issues or all the different issues that affect low income community. But if people from our community are not the ones creating that technology, then who's going to create the technology that actually addresses the problems that affect our lives? If we're not there being part of that, then who's actually solving the problems that exist for us, you know? So you show them why this is such a big problem. Why it's so necessary. And then they realize like, oh, like, you know, and so for me, Empor-Dead is not, it's not about kind of like the rich empowering the poor.  But it starts with them recognizing there is a problem and why it's important to change. What about the girls who start out with you and you were talking a little bit about the differences that you've observed in the sense of how they come into the program and what is needed for success? So when I started Empor-Dead, it's our tagline is empowering communities through computer science and engineering education. Kind of our, it's really communities of color only because we look at low income communities. But I didn't have a discrepancy between boys and girls. The first after school programs that I started offering at these palliants were both boys and girls. And this was for what age? This was elementary and middle school because I was still experimenting with what is really the sweet spot, you know? Like where is really the ideal age? I'm an engineer, so I'll start with something and that's kind of why, you know, a lot of organizations start, they decide what their model for their program's going to be and then they just do it and then they scale it and it grows up. I'm kind of like identifying what is the way we can make the most, the biggest impact. You took an agile approach. Yeah, and we're kind of tweaking it before we really try to get it everywhere. But so I worked first with elementary and middle school students and I worked with both boys and girls. And I found that the girls, especially in middle school, just would not speak up. So what I started doing, they wouldn't speak up. They wouldn't participate. They were a lot less engaged. So what I started doing is, because I couldn't just change the program midway, I put them in all girl groups and all board groups because I found when they were in co-ed groups, the boys were doing everything and the girls weren't doing anything, you know? So suddenly when it's an all girl, it's groups of three or four. So we did a lot of stuff with robotics in the first year. And when suddenly with these groups, everything from the assembly to the coding to figuring out what kind of, how the algorithm's going to work. Girls, how to take the lead because we only had groups of girls and I realized how much they flourished when it was only there, when it was only them. So when we did our first summer program in 2015 last year, I was like, you know, I need to get girls away. I need to get them separate, especially in middle school. I find that once they gain that confidence that when it comes to high school, we can kind of reintegrate them with boys and they've developed a sense of like, wow, I'm so good at this, you know? I'm kind of like, this is for me, but that has to, they have to be able to go through that period of empowerment and building confidence and realizing that they themselves can do it. And you just, you separate girls and especially Latino girls who are really taught to kind of like stay quiet in the home, that the boy takes the lead. It's a very machismo society still very much. They are, they just flourish when they're on their own. And so I realized, you know, they are the most vulnerable, like young, low-income girls of color in Silicon Valley and everywhere really. But the reason why I focus on Silicon Valley is because we have such an opportunity there. We have such a lack of diversity in the tech force. And yet at the doorstep of all these tech companies are communities full of talent of color that are not being tapped into it. And in one generation, that pool can become the next generation. And you're tapping into it. And so that's what I'm working on doing. And I see that all of the resources and all of the expertise and everything is right there. It just needs to kind of be connected. The tech industry really needs to connect with these communities. They need to get more involved in supporting programs in local communities that bring kids to their companies where their tech employees go out to the schools. Like I have a vision that it would be an expectation that all tech employees in Silicon Valley did like, I don't know, five hours a month or something like that. Like just some kind of like social community service where they visit a school, even if it's once a month. Can you imagine how many employees there are in Silicon Valley if they were all doing once a month? Well this is your public service announcement to Silicon Valley. Get out here, volunteer at Empoderre. Marissa, Elena Guiness, thank you so much for joining us. You've been a real treat to talk to you. Yes. We will be right back with the cubes coverage of the Grace Hopper Conference, live in Houston, Texas after this short break. Was there a moment?


Today we're celebrating our grand opening of our 18th clinic in here in Pikeville. This will be our 13th clinic in Kentucky, and we also have five clinics in Indiana. So we're very excited to be here today. So, you know, we're in the service industry and to me personally being able to help people. I'm not a physician, but we have certainly some great caregivers here, and you know, it's all about how we treat people. I think they'll find a difference and we're really big on just being a very good friendly place to get your service. Our hours are eight to eight, seven days a week, so a lot of times I know when my kids were sick, they would always get sick at nights or on weekends. So to be able to be open and to be that accessible, seven days a week, eight to eight, we think is very helpful. We also accept all insurance, especially Medicaid, and I know Medicaid is sometimes some providers don't take Medicaid, but we take all Medicaid. And then we also have self-pay pricing. If somebody doesn't have insurance, they could pay $89 and have X-rays or stitches or get tested for the flu, which is going on right now. So there's a lot of things that we feel like we're offering to this great community. We are blessed to be here in Pikeville and to be able to treat people. I'm familiar with Pikeville and know how great the people in this community are and we're just excited to be here, and we just hope to see people. Hope they don't get sick, but if they are sick, we'd love for them to come see us.


We developed a new system that utilizes nanosecond slash subnanosecond pulsed laser excitation in holocore photonic crystal fiber, HCPCF, based fiber enhanced Raman spectroscopy, FERS, to induce stimulated Raman scattering, SRS, enhancement for gas analysis. The results demonstrated the effectiveness of the system and an energy threshold for SRS initiation was experimentally observed. The SRS-capable FERS system shows great potential for analyzing complex gases such as propene, which is a volatile organic compound, VOC, gas, serving as a biomarker in human breath for lung cancer and other human diseases. This work contributes to the advancement of gas analysis and opens alternative avenues for exploring novel Raman enhancement techniques. This article was authored by Mariam Sher-Mohamed, Michael A. Short and Haishan Zhang.