a most warm welcome back to this our show, Thinkpec Hawaii's Human Humane Architecture, and I'm your host, Martin Desbang. This is my very first show in 2024, because last week, my fellow host, Distotl Brown was kicking off, and we will both be back next week. So for today, we're gonna continue to find out what's going on in Honolulu. We are having the biggest building boom ever since the heydays of statehood here. And while in statehood, trying to question us if we're nostalgic or not, but I think we can say we're not, at least not entirely, when America was at its best and then people who came to Hawaii tried even better, that is as some feel us included, not the case anymore these days. And we try to find out and we thought we find some clues in a fellow city in the heartland of the USA, which is Chicago, Illinois, and we're in our 25th investigation episode of trying to find out. So we also don't wanna have an isolated, insulated view here. We wanna get ourselves out. And I have to say, while I obviously wanna wish us a happy new year, it's harder than ever because what's going on in the world makes it increasingly. And even me having just come back from the holidays where we sent me out half around the world to my native Germany with coming back, these impressions here, it's hard for me to feel like I'm back in paradise when I see fighter jets over me here in Waikiki. And there are two kinds of fighter jets, first the ones that we wish that wouldn't have come back so much, which are the war fighter jets, which are fighting both utmost challenges that we have these days, which is people and planet peacefulness. So they fight both because we kill people with these machines and we also kill our planet with the carbon that these machines put out. But our private sort of passenger machines that get us here, me including, are only better because they're not killing directly but indirectly because they're also climate killers because they have a very, very high carbon footprint, me including. And on top of things, this is the bottom row of pictures here. I came back from the Northern Hemisphere, which is relating then to Chicago because usually even in my very days in Nebraska and then even in Arizona, I could not avoid the Northern Hemisphere and most of my flights back home had to go through the city of Chicago. And in many cases, what you see down there is what happened to me. My plane had to be DI's and you can only imagine, you know, the additional impact on the environment, on that stuff having to be sprayed on the wings there. So this is pretty bad. And, you know, on the on the bottom right, the news quote there is, you know, just trying to probably make me feel better when United Airlines, which is my carrier partner of Star Alliance together with Lufthansa, promised that they will try to make the A380, the Airbus, that I consider to be my plane. You see a little toy model of it in the bottom in the middle there, which is in my little shelf up on my wall next to Nick Cushar poster that reminds me of my American citizenship, which I was granted in that Hawaii theater. So that airplane there was put in place, first introduced the year of 2005 when I returned to the U.S. And I've been flying with this. It's a great plane. It's very comfortable. They got the air pressure right. It's a big plane. And that's why it was, you know, it's not very efficient and effective. Both you need to have a lot of passengers and it consumes a lot of fuel. So it was actually out commissioned during COVID but coming out of COVID and getting us back to almost full capacity as it feels of tourism as our major economy here in Hawaii, it is back. And again, it's back with both a smiling and a crying face, because again, it's good to have it back, but also we have back its environmental impact. And we want to encourage you to think about all these things more than ever these days, whatever you do. Like for example, when mine is a Lufthansa plane, not Singapore Airlines here and it only goes through routes, I flew this time not through San Francisco, but through LAX. So in the airplane, they were serving us as they do dinner and breakfast. So this is my cutlery for dinner and this is the breakfast one. So we also kicked off our first Tim class two days ago, which is the tourist industry management that Martin Anselini, who was our guest for many of the shows, his proposal for Lahaina, the two of us are also now coaching the coming hospitality managers. And we gave this out as food for thought and we said, what's good about it? It's reusable, right? Bad about it is in comparison to this one here and what's the pro of the one is the con of the other one. This is heavy, this is light. So this is reusable, but it puts on weight. So it uses more kerosene as of now. This is basically biodegradable. It even decomposes almost in your mouth, which is a little weird, but it's very light. So again, there isn't just black and white. There's shades of gray in between that we want you guys to look at. LAX again, so coming here, people coming here, in tourism has a big impact. I had in the cold there, I had one day of skiing, which again, we should feel bad about things we do and think about it. The heaviest impact, which I did not know having grown with skis on because my mother is Austrian, high mom is actually not what you do while being there. The ski lift and the increasingly because of climate change, artificial snow, but it's actually getting there. So the closer you are, the less is basically your transit, your commuting. So that is the point. And that's for us here also, how people come here because in the pre-state of days, they came with ships, right? The steam ships by Metz and then came Jet Age and ever since we come with jets. Again, we're not yet there. Hopefully United Airlines is successful with converting the A380 into hydrogen. But until then, again, we can do the carbon trading and pay extra and try to offset it. But it's still, we have that burden here. We have that impact that we carry. So having gone through LAX also architecturally, again, this cutlery has also, we have the Venice Biennale Curatorship just announced for 2025. It's an Italian, Carlos Redi, who's doing everything that one should do these days. He's all over the place, maybe a little lost, but we might say that because I'm the same and our emerging generation is doing that too. The last Italian having curated the Venice Biennale was, and the turn of the millennium was Massimilano Fuchta's fellow Italian who gave out the agenda of ethics and aesthetics. So there is the aesthetical part, which in the sort of existential threat of mankind and womankind in that order, because we men do cause most of the harm to the world, aesthetic seems to get on the back burner, but we shouldn't because there is something about nature as our best raw model that we should return to and nature is beautiful in a performative way. This cutlery as the link in the middle at the bottom is by Wolf Carnagel. This is a legendary German Gestaltter who has created this one here. And this is why it lasts. Things that are designed, gestalted in a beautiful way, they last. And it's an increasing awareness of us that one of the main columns that we call sustainability is lasting, keeping things in the life cycle. That is true for everything. That is true for automobiles, for cutlery, for clothing. And it's certainly true for architecture because this is what the show is about, human human architecture. And the main piece that LAX, which I went through in our main mid-century modern master, Ron Lindgren has just sent me his newest or asked his newest movie recommendation, which is Ferrari, the beginning of Ferrari from the 1950s. Thank you, Ron. And you said the two of us are automobile fans, the Soto and I, but you are the third one and we have to reconvene our respective show to this extent. Again, airplanes and automobiles are vehicles for thought to think about so these mobile devices, so to speak, are vehicles for thought for immobile as how in the German and the French language we call real estate. So the most recognizable real estate piece of architecture that's been around is that thing that we see in the top rows. And this is from the 1950s, early 60s by architect William Pereira and Lukman. Pereira is of a Portuguese descent, which we have a lot of ties to here on the island. And he's also known, I flew out to San Francisco and in San Francisco, he's known for what he had built a decade later, which is the Trans American Pyramid, which is still considered to be one of the most iconic lasting and therefore sustainable high rises. Actually, some argue, including us, more sustainable than what's recently been built in topping it in height, which is the Salesforce Tower by Cesar Peli. And we will talk about that a little bit later in this show. So a little bit more about this theme building here, which is that sort of space age spider thing that ever since this one, nothing better has been built. And this is kind of ironic and striking. You see in the very center of the image shows what's around it these days. These are pictures I took just three days ago. You see that very hideous tower to the left of it, which is probably from, I couldn't even find the date when it was built. It looks like the days when I had to go to architecture school in the early 90s, when postmodernism had just hanged. And it's this kind of really desperate attempt to make something that looks historic but isn't. And then there is these lighting pictures that look futuristic, but not anywhere close to what that theme building there is, which is, again, talking movies, there's just Priscilla out, which is the movie about the life of Priscilla Presley, Elvis Presley's wife. Last year, there was one of the many other and the most recent Elvis film out. And there is a scene, I think, that we have a reference to in our, probably coming up in our automobile architecture show where Elvis and Priscilla drive in the Mercedes 600 to the airport. And it's specifically staged then around that most iconic building. And people dismiss it as the Hollywood architecture and from that sort of Bauhausian point of view of structural and material honesty is a steel structure that covers itself up with makeup and that stucco fell off some years ago. So there's all this criticism. And you can say this building doesn't really have a function and necessary and essential function. It's not a navigation tower, like we assume the tower, the ugly tower to the left of it in the middle picture. But it is a very iconic building. And the image is that the middle on the left and to the right is pictures I took on my moving here to Hawaii in 2012 when it had been reanimated because it originally had something very, very innovative and provocative that has a lot to do with us in Hawaii because it had this restaurant that was a revolving restaurant. And that reminds us of one of our favorite buildings show quoted in the middle at the top, this is the Alamoana building by John Graham. Same year in 61, this was America at its best, right? Everywhere it tried to do the coolest stuff. The Alamoana building was not just cool but also cool literally and figuratively because it was recognizing our tropical condition here and it had retractable sun shading louvers that unfortunately in these bad 90s that I was talking about somewhere they took off and was cranking up the AC and ever since is there, you know, too naked. So we're saying bring it back. So also here they brought back the restaurant at Disney and its Imagineering Department was maybe going a little too over the board with the interior kind of Jetsons like but it was nice. And the picture at the very bottom the very middle on the right is one of the most delicious I think it was a spicy chicken burger that you see there that I've ever been eating. A little did I know that the year after the restaurant has closed and has ever since been closed and the building really waits to be reanimated with some meaningful function. There's a Bob Hope veteran institution at the bottom that's very meaningful run.  Also a Vietnam veteran, that's good but we need that restaurant back. We also need the restaurant back in the Alamwana building. And both had been rotating and they're both now locked. So we need to unlock them, bring that back because again, it is shocking that ever since LIX, LIX was by the way also designed by Pereira, the whole thing and the horseshoe layout is a little bit annoying I have to say from a point of view of a passenger because it's a long, very unattractive walking along with caps and cars and not interesting scenery along the way. So there's some serious need for some updating, some upgrading. But again, the centerpiece of that one is really up to these days, the coolest. So we need to get America back to its coolest period. That gets us to the next image because it was even intended to be even cooler because this was the original idea that the spider is sort of the water down compromised. It was by Pereira again envisioned to be this gigantic dome. And while we're pulled this from NPR the comments are manifold. Some say, hey, great, these were the greatest days which we agree on. Some then say, which is also legitimate in these days of climate change just would have been a big microwave and look at the amount of glass. And but we say there's technology out there today that we pointed out actually in the last show, episode number 24, how one could retrofit that Helmut Jan building in downtown Chicago. So it was very visionary. And again, we had that too. DeSoto just talked, show quote top right about the Kaiser dome that was built around the same days. And the other big show quote at the top left is our show about Henry J. Kaiser's avant-garde with the Kaiser dome is the most funky example of that one. And again, that did not happen. And unfortunately for us, the Kaiser dome is gone. Fortunately, LA still has the theme building. So talking welcoming architecture when you come with aviation, please go back to our tropical brutalist shows where we were looking at our airport which is by the legendary Vladimir Asipov which is where DeSoto grew up in a house designed by him. Here up the diamond had volcano. And the airport was recognizing our tropical climate. It was very easy breezy. And it's decreasingly that because what they do to the airport is not living up to the additional dimension of innovation that it has. And in fact, next slide where I came from is actually now reconnecting us to Chicago although this is Munich. This is Munich, Germany. This is my destination and my departure point. And this is how I am greeted pretty much. And you see two pieces of architecture. One is the one on that big banner which is what we have been talking about a lot. And we will continue to be which many consider us included. The best architecture that we Germans have ever been coming up. And this is the 72 Olympics by Fry Otto and Günter Behnisch here used by this cell phone service provider O2 as a backdrop. And the architecture it's placed around is the airport center. And this is by Chicago based but German born architect Helmut Jan who we talk a lot about in the show and we will sort of continue to do this here. And doesn't this architecture look very Hawaii, right? This is roof architecture. This is what we should have here. It protects you from the main elements of the rain and the sales from the sun. So while we have that in Munich, Germany and the recent sort of additions to the airport does not have that to that extent at least not in such a thoughtful way. There's some solar panels and some canopies there but they don't really serve this function here that this year saves. There's also I remember that Helmut was blamed and I think even sued for some really fancy stairs that had glass pavers and people in the snow slipped on it and broke their legs. So I think it needed to be retrofitted to some concrete. Again, we don't have that snow here so we could do these things but we don't do these things anymore here these days. So I took this picture here upon arrival around Christmas. You see the Christmas market there and you also see a gringe at the very top right which Soda would say, hey, this is the Germans adopting American culture. So next slide. So this slide here is Chicago Airhair International Airport and the author of the D.O.M. book that we had as a guide it was just out and I was given the confidential digital version that I had promised to destroy which I did and it's author Vladimir Belogolovsky here. I respect the lot because he's doing what we're dinking around and doing on a volunteer basis once a week. He's doing this to make a living, to write about architecture and being an architectural critic. So he's the pro. And I'm also jealous of him because we took on to write the Honolulu city guide, Distoto and Bill Chapman and Don Hibbert with the students. And Vladimir took, I wouldn't say the easy way out but for him the comfortable way out because he said, okay, there has been so many architectural guides about because Chicago is considered to be one of the cradles of modern architecture. So there's so many books about the history of the Chicago School of Architecture, Louis Sullivan, you know, Frank Art Wright with Oak Park, Mies van der Rohe that he says, I want to start in the late 70s. And that's why there's a heavy emphasis on postmodernism and these pages here that I'm holding his book showing for example, again the Thompson Center that we were talking about last time and it's retrofitting for Google and these beautiful postmodern drawings on the top right out of Talmud's office. And also when you come to Chicago and you leave Chicago internationally United Airlines hub isn't Chicago, but I just updated myself. There are plans to move it permanently to Chicago, hopefully not because they have just, they were out there in the burbs and they have moved actually to what used to be the Sears Tower, which is now renamed as the Willys Tower but they used to be in there or they're still in there recently but they want to move to a Denver instead. So, but this United Airlines terminal again built in the mid 80s by Helmut is really kind of iconically memorable and it is very, you know, Helmutish and it reminds me of Arcaneering which one year in my school of architecture in my youth I had with Werner Stobach as my structural professor and he was teaming up with Helmut and their theme was Arcaneering. And that only lasted for a while. Dan, our patron told me there were two egos clashing into each other so that only lasted so long. So another connection to us is here that we had Jeannie Gang come and we dedicated many, many shows to her because we thought she did the most ambitious high-rise tower in our Cacaaco that we encourage her to do that a little bit better to stay a little bit less sort of suggestive but be more explicitly natural and perform more natural but Jeannie is certainly one of the most promising, you know, stars in the orbit of architecture and the female architect and we need more of these. So we're very happy to also see at the bottom right Jeannie is commissioned to design the next extension of the Chicago O'Hare global terminal. So that's what I will go through if I again transition through Chicago again. And you see here that it looks like it's the hybrid construction of concrete and wood and it's a joint venturing as we point out at the very bottom there in the text between her firm Studio Gang and guess who? Solomon Court will be wins which is that firm that we see here predominantly blessing us with high rises that we wish they would be more environmentally and with that culturally responsible. So again, hopefully, you know, if whoever developer comes back, maybe, you know the Solomon Court will be wins guys, man needs again the teamwork with Jeannie and hopefully they take our criticism as it's meant to be constructive as to go to the next level of making their architecture the equivalent to our nature here, which is most beautifully performing both literally and figuratively. So in the three minutes left, let's still go to the next slide because this is another reference to automobiles and architecture. The office of Helmholtz is so, I guess, luring for our patron, Dan Kubrick that as Joe quoted at the very top in the left that he when I met him had a Pontiac GPO which Ron by the way, again Ferrari Ferrari was owning that title for a model of their car and Ford was challenging that. And while in these days, they probably would sue each other back then and it was more supportive and they basically had a race and Ford won and they could keep that. Dan then basically because of the obsession with Porsche's in the office of Helmholtz Jan that we will see next week or next week we're gonna go back which I'll tell you in a minute because that's important how we will do the next two shows but after that when we reconvene and do the volume 26 of this one year you will see where that obsession comes from. So this is Dan's mid-70s to mid-80s model the Porsche, the Porsche has always never mind times move on and their architecture moved on and Dan also drives a Boxer which is a new Porsche new kind of Porsche but this 911 iconic one has always been kept and Dan goes to the extent that at the bottom left you see that he also works on the engines the guts of his car is in his loft he lives pretty close to downtown which we were pointing out at the beginning of the show and you can see his place is a hybrid of a car shop and a dwelling. And at that time about now a year ago or more than a year ago almost one and a half years ago when we did the footage for the show here Dan was moving the office from where it was previously which will remind you with a slide when we do pick up from here but here you will see where he moved it to the office which is the Wrigley building. Yes, it's that chewing gum company that now actually stops doing chewing gum. Ironically I find this is from 1921 this is Brayhem Anderson Probst and White one of the firms that our Tropical Tutor Bill is excited about so Dan again moved it. So an office and contemporary architectural office recognizes the legacy of architectural quality and so it is with automobiles will be treasure the legacy of the 911. So next week is important because the Soto end a project that he will put at the very end of his show which is about the beginning of a statehood and actually just predating statehood and these are small hotels in Waikiki before everything went on steroids and got big and this was 70 years ago and that was when the Soto was born so the Soto's birthday is coming up so next week he will sort of lead into that and then conclude with the breakers hotel and Ethel please listen to me because I will finally show up at your breakers hotel the week after and we will do the anniversary celebration footage with you for the Soto and your breakers so please look forward to that. So until then you see the accumulated viewer you are down there so please keep joining us keep subscribing us keep supporting us this way because we're doing this all voluntarily so we do this thank you for that and until next week please stay people and planets peaceful. Bye bye.


Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Code Emporium where we are now going to talk about A.B. testing concepts. So A.B. testing is kind of a concept that is largely overlooked in the job of data science description. You know, when people think of data science, they think all we do is modeling, but we actually just don't do modeling all the time, even though sometimes we would like to. Testing is super important and I thought in this video, I could impart some knowledge to you about what A.B. testing actually entails in the industry. So whether you are trying to apply for a job or you're already a data scientist in the industry and want to learn more, or if you're just super curious about A.B. testing in general, then this video is for you. And so in this video, we are going to talk about five data science concepts that you should probably know. Before we get started, please do give this video a like because if you do give it a like, it'll help me spread this video out to other people who are just like you and just want to learn about testing too. More likes means more impressions, which means more views, which means more knowledge shares, which is great for everyone. And also if you like content like these, please do subscribe and we have a Discord server right in the description below. So do check it out after this video. Join the community of geeks because we're going to have a lot of fun here. Starting hot at concept number one is A.B. testing itself. That's right. So I think the best way to explain A.B. testing is to actually start with an example. So let's say that you're running an e-commerce platform and business looks pretty good. You get a lot of purchases on your site, which is amazing. But then you start, you know, doing some data analysis and you see that a lot of the time people add to a cart, but they don't actually complete the purchase. And you think there's a lot of money that is probably just going out the window because of this. And you would be right in thinking so. But how do we actually solve this problem? So one of your buddies, like one of your coworkers over there just says, hey, why don't we just send emails out to people who have added to their cart and just not completed their purchases? And maybe we can give them like a lead time of like three days. So if they haven't completed a purchase in three days, then we'll be sending them emails saying, hey, you have something in your car. Why don't you like finish that transaction because I think you need this product. Now they could have just forgotten this product. So they put it in a car and they just forgot it. Or they might just genuinely have lost interest in the product itself. But you don't know. And that's why we are conducting a test here. As for particulars on how you would kind of conduct this test at a very high level is you have, let's say millions of users or something. And then you'll only take a subset of these users and use them for the test. So you take these users, split them into two groups, one group that gets no email at all, and the other group that actually does get the emails. And then we start sending the emails out to this one group and then compare their purchase conversions over time. If purchase conversion of the group that receives email is indeed greater than that, that doesn't receive emails. Well, you know, you kind of have your win there. And so you're able to close in an opportunity by probably just sending out emails, maybe, you know, periodically or just, you know, a couple of days after a person has added to card and maybe just left it there. This kind of A.V. test is actually known as a holdout test. And it is super common in e-commerce platforms and is also pretty widely successful too. It's a holdout test because we are holding out from sending emails to a group of users, because one of these groups actually doesn't even receive emails. It's a very common test, pretty easy to conduct and also can drive very high value to your company. This is now a good segue for concept number two, SUTFA. Now, SUTFA stands for Stable Unit Treatment Value Assumption. It's basically the fundamental assumption that needs to hold the true when you are conducting an A.V. test. Reading off the Wikipedia page here, it states that the potential outcome or observation on one unit should be unaffected by the particular assignment of treatments to the other units. What this is essentially saying is that, let's say, for example, I am a user in an A.V. test and then I have a buddy Sam, who is also a user in an A.V. test and both of us receive emails. My probability of actually making a purchase should be completely independent of whether or not Sam decides to also make a purchase. In email campaigns where users are typically just randomly selected in a holdout test, this is typically not of concern too much because it generally is just assumed to be true, but depending on your problem, the situation can be different. And you might want to make sure that this assumption does hold true. If it doesn't hold true, that means that the output of your test just may be bias either in favor of one group or the other. And if it's bias, that means that the results might be inaccurate or just like not predictable. So you want to make sure that this assumption is true before conducting your test. Let's go into some more details on topic number three, which is sampling and distributions. A question that you might ask here is, why don't we just send the email to all of our users? And why are we only sending it to a few subsamples of them? Well, let's say that we have like millions of users on our platform. And let's say we do send an email. What if that email just has no effect? Or even worse, what if the email had a negative effect on users? If we were to send it to such a large scale of users, then that means we would observe that negative effect like many times over, which is catastrophic in some cases, depending on the situation and the problem. And so what we would do is we would try to get a subset of the total number of users that is representative of all users. And this subset is what we call a sample. And the total users is the population. So essentially we are trying to get a good sample that represents the population. Another term that we've thrown around is the term distribution, which is essentially a curve of probabilities of these users or of these samples. So sometimes data can be modeled as a normal distribution or a log normal distribution or some other many types of distributions that are out there. Since the population is typically large, we don't know its distribution. And so we would take a subset of users and analyze their distribution. So that's the samples distribution and using the samples distribution, we would conduct experiments, make verdicts, make decisions. And the idea here is that the samples distribution is representative of the total population's distribution. And so we're able to make appropriate decisions that are representative of the millions of users on your platform. So it's typically these samples and sampling distributions that are used in 80 tests coming on to our next topic of interest, which is concept number four, and that is hypothesis testing. Hypothesis testing is essentially a framework of implementing an A.B. test. So it's a type of A.B. test where we have a hypothesis and we try to prove it with sampling data. In our current e-commerce setup, our hypothesis would be something like sending emails does not affect purchase conversion. The way that we would typically implement this is we would now take a subsample of our population, which is a small group. We split it into two groups. Then we now have a control group, which does not receive any emails. And then we have a test group, which actually does receive those emails. And so when we conduct an experiment and try to monitor purchase conversion for these two groups, we want to see, we want to actually prove or disprove the initial hypothesis. In the end, we want to make a verdict to see how ridiculous or plausible our initial hypothesis was. And when we make that verdict, that leads to an actionable decision. A lot of the interview questions I see typically revolve around hypothesis testing. So I do think it's super important and super useful to know. Coming on to topic number five, and this is our final topic here, and it is Bayesian testing like hypothesis testing. Bayesian testing is another framework of implementing an A, B test. Bayesian testing relies on the famous Bayes rule. Let's say in this formulation, P is a probability distribution. A is purchase conversion. And B is just the sampled and observed data that we're seeing when conducting the experiment of comparing users who receive emails and users who don't receive emails. So the way that you would kind of break this formulation down is that we have some prior knowledge of how purchase conversion is for users who don't receive emails. We then conduct the experiment and then update our beliefs on how users behave if they were to receive emails. And so we have a prior and a posterior, posterior meaning after having some knowledge or after seeing the data prior is before seeing the data. If you kind of understand these symbols in their inherent meaning and how they're actually used as like prior and posterior, I think it becomes easier to memorize this formulation and you don't have to spend too much time on it. Bayesian testing is something I increasingly use in my work, and it is super fun to know and also very useful. Although I do expect only like fundamental questions and foundational questions to be asked during an actual interview. And a lot of the interview questions are typically hinged on hypothesis testing, since that's more widely adopted in academia. And I guess that's what students learn in general to begin with. If you're interested in getting more details on Bayesian testing, I have a couple of videos that I've walked through examples with real data on how to conduct Bayesian tests for, you know, actual Kaggle data. And I highly recommend you check that out. And that's all I have for you today. So thank you all so much for watching until the end. Please do give this video a like to spread this word around. Please do subscribe if you like content like this. 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Samira says, hello, I want to create a flow that can convert the Excel files extension from XLSM to XLSX and upload it into a SharePoint. I want to know if a model that can do this action exists in Power Automate. I believe you can do a file save as, but there's some cautions that you need to know. The XLSM extension is a macro-enabled Excel file, and if you load that into the browser as an XLS, those automations no longer work, which is a safety thing. There's script that runs those, can actually touch all the way to your machine. It can activate and do things to your computer with that VBA Visual Basic programming languages behind those. It's dangerous and you want to make sure that all of your files that have the M extension instead of just the X, are either stored in a trusted location or when you open them, you can store them in a SharePoint document library, but that document library, you have to either enable the file to be opened directly into the desktop application. You cannot open and do any of those automations in the browser. There's some cautions on that one. If you had that in that SharePoint library, without taking those additional steps, would it just not open? Would it throw an error? It would open, but it would definitely give you the nasty gram that there are macros in here that have been disabled, and it's because there's script, there's actual. This is one of the ways, if you ever get those emails are like, open this email because somebody sent you money and you open a file and it actually runs a script because there's an on opened that is attached to that. So this is for the safety of the people that are using these files. You need to know where they're coming from, who wrote them, and then designate. The best thing to do best practice is create a trusted location on your computer, which could be a synced OneDrive, which is what I do. It's either OneDrive or a SharePoint library. They sync to the local drive where the M files are and I open them from there. I don't open them from the browser because they will deactivate the macros on the browser. But yeah, this is a whole lot of caution, and it depends and be wears in this question. So I don't know that I would add an automation on top of a file that's already got script in it. That's a little dangerous, I think. Well, did we answer the second half of the question though? There's you can convert and it breaks the macros, is there maybe they don't care about that, and just want to do the conversions. Is that something, is there a Power Automate command that can rename file extensions? File save as, you can do file saving, you can save any file as an extension. I'll look to see, I'll do some research and see if I can find a resource for that. I've never done it, but I also didn't want people like, oh, this is a great idea without knowing all of the pitfalls behind it. I'll do some research.


Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States and Mrs. Reagan, accompanied by Congressman and Mrs. Lago-Marcino. Mr. President, Mrs. Reagan, Congressman and Mrs. Gallagley, and of course our own Bob and Norma Lago-Marcino. Mr. President, it's always exciting to welcome home a local boy who's made good. We in Santa Barbara are certainly honored to have you in our neighborhood again. It is my distinct pleasure and privilege this afternoon to introduce a man who has devoted much of his life to public service, service in his hometown of Ojai, service in Sacramento, and service in Washington, D.C., and a service that has touched and improved our area in many ways, environmentally as well as economically. His peers have called him a hard-working legislator, an adept and intelligent veteran politician. But most of all, he is one who will continue to provide us with the solid leadership that we need in Washington to carry out the programs that have been so successful for the last eight years. I think what is most significant about Bob Lago-Marcino's work is that in the Congress of the United States is that he represents all the people in this very diverse district. I'd like to give you a personal insight to this man. One of my daughters, Colleen, was fortunate enough to work as a summer intern in Bob's office in Lago-Marcino while she was a college student. And if you know teenagers, you know how critical they can be of adults and how they rate them on their idealistic scale. I want to tell you when she finished that summer, Bob had her respect and admiration and it was the highest and still is. And one incident I think shows the type of representation that he gives. One of Colleen's assignments was to research and to make draft replies to constituents who had asked for some information from the congressman. One particular letter she set aside for a few days because she felt she had to do something else that was more important. Well, she did get the letter to Bob's desk with the others where he does revisions and checks the draft. But in a short order, the letter came back to her with a question from congressman why this constituents reply had been delayed. And that's the kind of representation that we have in Congress. And that is why not only Republicans but Democrats and independent voters have put him back in office again and again. And I'm constantly amazed how often Bob makes that 3,000-mile trip to meet his constituents. And they know that they don't have to show their party affiliation or registration to get his attention and his concern for their interests. It's given to those who back in politically as well as those who do not. Bob is a key player in Washington. He serves on the House Interior and Foreign Affairs Committees and, of course, as a member of the House Republican leadership, he meets weekly with the President while Congress is in session. That kind of seniority cannot be replaced in Washington, D.C. by someone who will need on-the-job training in the nation's capital. It is my honor to introduce you to the man who has served us for 13 years in the State Senate, the past 14 years in Washington as our congressman, and who will serve at least the next two years as our representative in Congress, Congressman Bob Lagermasino. Thank you. Thank you, Gene. You know, if it wasn't for the hot sun and the fact that my face is probably red from it, you'd see me blushing after that introduction. You know, Mr. President, Mrs. Reagan, my good friends, the Galaglies, my very close colleague, Elton Galagly and the House of Representatives, and Janice, as I say, our very good friends in Washington, and Norma, my wife. I couldn't do it without her at all. I probably wouldn't even try. And thank all of you, all 1,000 of you for coming today. This is absolutely incredible. And, of course, the committee for putting this all on. Now, I've been, as Gene told you and most of you know already, I've been around a while, been in the State Senate and then on the Washington scene for 14 and a half years now. So I'm not so much of a novice that I think you came here to hear me. Although, you know, you can do that from time to time. Our next speaker, in fact, is the reason you did come. A man I've had the privilege to know now for over 24 years. Hard to believe that that has been that long, but it has been. I was already in the State Senate at the time, 1964, when I first met him and introduced him to a crowd in Ventura County. But I recognized immediately, as many did, that here was a man with a gift, a gift for leadership, for persuasion, and for integrity. I thought to myself, this guy will go far if he ever decides to run for office. Well, you know, history has borne out that thought more than I could have anticipated and more perhaps than anyone could have anticipated. You know, it wasn't long after that first meeting, not even two years, that Ronald Reagan became Governor of California defeating a two-term incumbent to boot. The rest, as they say, is history. People in the state legislature, and I was there, didn't know what to make of this new Governor. Some of them saw him as a flash in the pan.  The guy down in the corner office, they come and go. He won't last, they said. The press underestimated him as well. Still do. But anyone who knew him would not underestimate him. Ronald Reagan brought a breath of fresh air to Sacramento that was long needed. He was easily re-elected, beating a man many considered to be the smartest politician in the state, if not in the nation, Jesse Unruh. It was during his second term as Governor that he really began to shine, that things really began to happen. And I was privileged to be able to work very closely with him on a number of major bills. It was a watershed time in California politics, and he really literally rewrote the book on state politics. Some even talked of higher offers for this man. Others didn't take it too seriously again. In 1974, when I had the opportunity to run for Congress, I went down to that corner office and I asked Governor Reagan what I should do. And he said, well, you know, we're doing pretty good here. Do whatever you want to. I'll help you, but I just soon you stayed. We're doing okay here. And I remember saying to him somewhat irreverently, well, why are you trying so hard to go back to Washington? But I did run. He did help me. He did encourage me, and I have been there ever since. It actually took another six years for that to come to pass when he with a twinkle in his eye at that same meeting said, see you in Washington. But in January of 1981, I found myself, Norm and I found ourselves, at the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan. My prophecy had come true. A lot of things have happened in those almost eight years now. An assassination attempt. A miraculous recovery. A tax cut. Even more of a miracle. Another election. And the Russians at the peace table after six long years. You know, this president, this president who people, some people said was not interested in reaching agreement with the Soviets, reached the best agreement we've ever reached with him. You did it, Mr. President. The Reagan years will go down in history as a watershed event in American government. You brought a common sense approach to government. You brought back pride in America. And you brought us, and you brought us the longest stretch of peace and prosperity in modern times. I have to keep rewriting my speeches. I used to say 67 months, 68. Over 70. As I said, I was in elected office before you, Mr. President. And God willing, I will be in it after you leave. But, but only because the Constitution prevents you from running again. Mr. President, you have brought our nation safely through one of the most perilous periods in history. And you and Nancy did it with humor and good grace and masterful leadership. God willing, your legacy will continue for the next eight years, and I hope to be there with George Bush to do it. Thank you, Mr. President. Robert, I thank you very much. Councilwoman Norma, the Legleys, and my roommate. Well, I thank you all today. I realize, looking around at the neckties, that I'm out of uniform. But you have to, if you haven't been informed, we have just come from another fundraiser down to the San Fernando Valley, there raising money just generally for the party, which is always useful to all of us concerned. And there the uniform was prescribed. So I brought a coat along so that I could put a coat on afterward. And since in Arizona, a bolo is legally now a necktie, I figured that I can get by. Well, we're here today because we support an outstanding congressman, our congressman, and that includes me, because I'm in district two, Bob Lagomassino. The job that Bob has done these past 14 years, believe me, has earned my vote this year. Sure, he has a tough race, his toughest ever. But I'm confident he'll win. We Santa Barbaraans know that Bob didn't go to Washington to make big government ever bigger or to mess around with our defenses. He's in Washington to help build a stronger and sounder America. And that's why on November 8th, we'll choose George Bush for president and Bob Lagomassino for congress. Now, it's no secret that when I'm strolling down the street in Washington, a house of representatives isn't the friendliest house on the block. But it sure would be there if there were more people there like Bob Lagomassino in it. He's a stand-up guy and he stood with George Bush in me-time and again for what's right when too many of his colleagues turned away. The freedom-loving people of Nicaragua know Bob. He's their champion. He knows that they thirst after the cool waters of liberty and he's made heroic efforts to satisfy their thirst by working to aid the freedom fighters who want to free them from communist domination. Well, I don't know about you, but when it comes to freedom in Central America, I like a stand-up guy like Bob. Bob's also a dedicated supporter of America's quest to free itself from the shadow of nuclear assault. Time after time and year after year, he has voted for the Strategic Defense Initiative. That is a defense plan that kills weapons, not people. But while Bob was standing up for our space shield, the House leadership wanted to slash away at it so they could find more money to spend on their pet projects. Well, I don't know about you, but when it comes to national defense, I like a stand-up guy, and that's Bob. Some people say it's time for a change. I agree. For 52 of the last 56 years, the House of Representatives has been in the hands of the other party. 46 of those 56 years, the other party has controlled both houses of the Congress. Now, I've heard a lot in this campaign from the other side about the evils of deficit spending and I'm responsible. Well, Congress is the only one in government that can spend a dime. The President can't spend any. Congress makes the budget. You bet it's time for a change. We can solve our spending problems. And let me tell you something else about that more than half a century, in which every 10 years they have been in charge when it came to reapportionment of the districts throughout the country. And in 48 of those 56 years, there were deficits. Each one of those 48 years. Four of the eight years that there weren't deficits were in the term of Dwight Eisenhower, who for two years had a Republican Congress in both houses. The only time that a Republican President has had that, well, I was fortunate I had six years of my term with a Senate. And I have to tell you, I don't think we could have gotten what we did and the reforms that we did. Had that not been true, but now we're back in that with both houses on the other side. We can solve budget problems. When it comes to Congress, the American people know that if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. And the solution is to re-elect Bob Lagermasino and elect 434 others like him to the House of Representatives. I have a good feeling about this year's election. Particularly, after seeing a speech last week that I found moving and yet, and yes, inspiring. I don't remember when I've ever been as impressed with an orator, and I know he's going to be an even more impressive president, George Bush. George spoke about completing a mission, the mission that he and I began side by side eight years ago. And look how far we've come since then. We've seen 17.5 million new jobs. Hundreds of thousands of new businesses. A greater proportion of Americans that worked than ever before. I had to go to Washington in this job to find out how the statisticians determine figures about employment and unemployment. Did you know that the considered potential pool of employables is everybody, male and female, years of age and up. And today, the highest percentage of that total pool is employed than ever in our history. 62.6%. And that pool includes all the young people that are still going to school and in college and so forth, the people that are retired. But that's the percentage of that overall segment of our society. Then there's the restoration of our national defenses. The recovery of our national pride. An INF treaty that abolishes an entire class, as Bob has told you, of US and Soviet missiles. And just a few years after the liberation of Grenada, the Soviets are pulling out of Afghanistan. Now I want you to know that I know that some people have expressed a fear that maybe I'm being taken in and now that I'm just plainly as I should. But I want you to know that I have made the General Secretary very familiar with the stalwart American term. Trust everybody, but cut the cards. I want to ask you a question. Is this a record we can show proudly to our fellow citizens in California? You know, we've done a lot, but as George said the other night, the mission is not complete. There's more to do. We're appointing more judges who know the difference between criminals and victims. Shutting down the drug trade. I have a special assistant in that. But more work for the cause of freedom around the world including in Central America. And of course developing and deploying a technology that will protect humanity from the specter of nuclear war, the Strategic Defense Initiative. And how about a furlough for the Pledge of Allegiance? And yet we must not forget that all we've done and all we are on the very threshold of doing can quickly be lost. We Californians saw it happen in the years of the last liberal administration in our state. Things got so bad that we had to rise up and say no more to the soaring taxes that were strangling economic growth and crushing the budgets of ordinary families. So Proposition 13 was passed. We don't want to have to go through that again nationally and there's one way to make sure we won't. George Bush is going to America with his own Proposition Number 1. No new taxes. You know, I have to say one thing and it's one thing here that must be said. If you remember back there in our feet after the father who preceded the son as governor and we began to accumulate surpluses and some of you will remember every time we accumulated a surplus we gave it back to the people and the last one we gave back was 850 million dollars and if we need a difference between the two parties a very reputable leader on the Democratic side of our Senate who stormed into my office after my announcement about giving that money back and he said giving that money back to the people is an unnecessary expenditure of public funds. Well make no mistake our economy and our national defenses are strong but they're also under threat. They're threatened by those laws to engineer the changes in our nation that the American people do not need and do not want and that would hurt. Our liberal friends seem to love to fiddle around making big government even bigger but they never seem to achieve their goals and so they fiddle around some more but they still don't get anywhere and then before you know it they fiddle around so much that they sent the ship of state into dry dock. I know George Bush knows and after all we were called in to get the ship of state seaworthy again and the way to keep it seaworthy is to have a crew of republicans in the congress and George Bush at the helm. Now Bob will be critical in that effort and so will a great senator who will continue to be a great senator after the dust has settled on November 9th Pete Wilson and let me add one other thing our statewide election this year is also critical in two years it will be time to put a stop to the 1990 census the results of that census will determine the composition of California's congressional districts now we all remember what happened after the last census the opposition controlled the two state houses and the governor's mansion so they redrew the map and what did they do they shattered the state of California each congressional district looked like a piece of broken glass but we can make sure such a travesty state legislative leaders Pat Nolan and Ken Matty to elect good republicans to the state assembly and the state senate that's vital I'm going to do my part and I know you will too every once in a while I feel we should all be reminded that one of the great secrets of the success of this country is that we are a federation of sovereign states and our opponents over those long 50 years, hard years and control have tried to usurp and take away from the states more and more power to reduce the states to administrative districts of the federal government well we've been having a program for almost eight years now called federalism in which we have been restoring as much as we can the power and authority that properly belongs to the states and never should have been taken from doing all these things I'm going to do my part and I know you will too yes there are still promises to keep there's the promise to keep America strong there's the promise to expand the frontiers of freedom there's the promise to continue freeing the creative enterprising energies of the American people and with our help on November 9th George Bush, Pete Wilson and Bob Lagomassino will get to work on keeping those promises so now let's us get to work on getting them to work I don't I don't want to be even those last few weeks there without Bob Lagomassino in the Congress but thank you all for all you've done and God bless you all thank you I have a t-shirt I'd like to present to you Mr. President look on the back Congressman Bob Lagomassino I'm backing Bob since I'm out of uniform at this do you suppose maybe I could be out of uniform and wear this at the first leadership meeting when we get back thank you


Blockchain, algorithms, the management of algorithms. How do algorithms tell me more about my customer or my customer's customer? How can I use algorithms and artificial intelligence and machine learning to create a personalization working rapport with my customer or my customer's customer? If I have a modern customer and I have old processes, and this is one of the things that came up in our meeting this week, which was, if I have a modern customer and an old process, I'll never satisfy that modern customer. I have an obligation and they have an expectation of me to use modern processes to apply to their modern way of living.


A film in three minutes. Mission Impossible Good morning, Mr. Voight. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to start in the film director, Brian De Palma's 1996 box office smash, codenamed Mission Impossible. Tom Cruise will act as co-producer and point man, playing protagonist Ethan Hunt, who will ensure all action sequences contain spectacular set pieces, highly strung tension, and of course explosive panache. Henry Cherney will be Hunt's nemesis throughout, and will provide for you some of the mission's most memorable moments. But you'll need to collaborate with a wider team of highly trained, highly skilled supporting Vespians, each with their own on-screen distinctiveness. May I suggest Ving Reims, Jean Leno, Emmanuel Bea, and Vanessa Redgrave. The mission will be to locate and extract a half-complete top-secret government non-plist of fellow agents before it falls into the wrong hands. However, should you or your team encounter any unforeseen difficulties, there may be a wider conspiracy at work, one which Hunt will have to uncover without being apprehended by the impossible mission force. Your choice of locations is plentiful. I've taken the liberty of selecting Prague, Langley and London to suit your purposes. You may need to infiltrate certain government's facilities. Should that be the case, I have no doubt that De Palma's direction will help to visually elevate such covert objectives, using his trademark cinematography and clever set construction. A particular highlight I have arranged will be for when your man, Cruz, will need to steal the remaining half of the before-mentioned knock list at the CIA's headquarters. Another challenging mission development may arise when Cruz will have to survive riding on top of a high-speed train travelling into the channel tunnel. Should such an eventuality arise, I trust I can count on your discretion. Your tool kit comes equipped with composer Danny Elfman's score, easily one of the best he has ever written. Just don't ask about what happened to Agent Salvestry's attempted composition, we lost the file. Remember, your job is to create a taut spy thriller, using all of the latest technology – for 1996 – at your disposal. It's imperative that you look past the overly convoluted plot in order for your mission to succeed, even if at times you'll simply have to get away with style over substance. You'll need to lavish the audience with twist upon twist of confusing narrative developments, so confusing that you may need to replay the mission several times. But rest assured, with a likable agent such as Tom Cruise at your disposal, there will no doubt be other missions that will follow from this one. But this first installment will arguably still be the best. Rest assured, should you choose to accept this high-octane, tantalising 90s thriller, you'll no doubt succeed in achieving major box office success, and the beginnings of one of Hollywood's most profitable franchises. As always, should you or any member of your team be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. So, Mr Voight, good luck. This message will self-destruct in three seconds.


Ranger Bill, warrior of the woodland, struggling against extreme odds, traveling dangerous trails, showing rare courage in the face of disaster, in the air, on horseback or in a screaming squad car. Ranger Bill, his mind alert, a ready smile, unswerving, loyal to his mission, and all this in exchange for the satisfaction and pride of a job well done. Did you ever hear the expression he's a no-account kid? I'm sure you have. Well, let's change that to he's a no-account dog for our story today. Shameful as it is, our town of Naughty Pine has a wrong side of the track, social barrier, like all the rest of the towns in our country. Now, in the Lord's sight, the one who sweeps the floors and does other menial tasks is just as important as the corporation president or the chief ranger or the doctor and so on. But this isn't true in man's sight. Those who have to do the menial tasks of unsavory work to earn their living are not from the right side of the tracks. Well, let's find out what happens in our story today called The No Good Dog. Now, this story has a lot to do with two fellas by the name of... You know, Skinny's got a proper first name and last name and probably one that goes in between, but all we've ever called him is Skinny. Say, wait a minute. Great Wolf. Yes, Bill.  You were directly involved in it. By the way, what is Skinny's real name? Well, it's Horatio Thornwall Skye. Oh, sure. Now I remember. Go ahead, Bill. Okay. Well, the boys nicknamed Horatio Skinny first off because he hated name Horatio and because he very thin. To start at beginning, Skinny was working after school for Jarvis Angle. Jarvis is one of few beaters and trainers of Bloodhounds. He has strain of Bloodhound that's very popular and well known. Skinny like work for Jarvis. He loved the dogs very much, but they're one thorn in his side, the young master angle. Ed is about Skinny's age, but think he very smart. Skinny showed up for work after school as usual. Well, here comes the great dog lover. That's right, Ed. I sure love them dogs. Aren't you ever going to learn how to talk English? What butt is it to use? Anyhow, I got work to do. I'll see you later. Oh, stand ahead. Yes, sir, Mr. Jarvis? Come here, man. I got something for you. Sure, Mr. Jarvis. What you got for me, Mr. Jarvis, huh? Would you like this Bloodhound puppy? Yeah. What do you mean you give him to me? For keeps for real? For keeps for real, Skinny. You want him? Do I want the pup? Do I want him? Oh, boy, I'll say I do. Can I have him right now? Sure, sure. Here he comes. Oh, thank you very much, boy. Oh, nice. Come on, take it easy while I take you, Mr. Jarvis. Thank you, Mr. Jarvis, real much. I'll take careful care of the pup. I know you will. That's why I gave him to you. Boy, this is the best-looking pup I ever seen. And he's all mine, like my own pup. Best-looking pup, he says. Why, that pooch is a runt.   I don't care if he is a rut pup.  Ed is right, but I want to tell you in a different way, Skinny. What do you mean, Mr. Jarvis? Well, you work for me for a long time now, and we've learned a lot about bloodhounds and dogs in general. You said I'm out for death, sir. When I spotted this from the letter, I knew we'd need special care. And I decided you'd be just the one to give it to it. Oh, boy, will I ever, will I ever? This pup has very fine parents, young fellow. He could develop into an exceptionally fine dog, but all he needs is extra care. He's pure-blooded and blue-blooded as they come. You got the papers on him? I'll say I have. Tomorrow I'll give them to you, and just as soon as I've recorded the transfer of ownership, then you can find a safe place to put them. Well, what's his name, Mr. Jarvis? Oh, that's about a mile long. You'd better give him a short and handy one. What you gonna call him? What do you think? I know.  Because he's so small. Peanut? Huh. You know, that sounds like a good name for him. Well, you'd better take Peanut home now. Oh, but I can't wait today yet. Oh, no, you know, this is your day off with pay. Oh, boy, when will I tell me what about this? Thanks, sir. Thanks a million.  He belongs on the other side of tracks just like you, skinny kid. Peanut and skinny. Skinny Peanut.   Yes, Father. You know, Ed, skinny has one thing you don't have.  That's why I gave him that runt pup. You mark my words, someday Peanut will be a great dog. That's how it all started. That same evening, I had boys club at school gym. The usual plan is to run steam out of the boys with games and sports. Then we sat down for a devotional time. I found reverse work better with group. We were just winding up a basketball game. Ed, that's all for tonight, fellas. That's it. Let's get next week. Why aren't you heading for a locker room, skinny? I want to ask you something special, Grey Wolf. Oh, sure, go ahead. I want you to come over to my house tonight for a while. Who's used to? You know, using Bill. Oh, tonight? Eating now? Yeah, me mother says it's Jake with her. Will you come, huh? Well, sure, but what's it all about? All right, it's a secret. You'll see when you get to me house. Okay, I call Bill, so he'll be ready when we start by to pick him up. Come on, don't wait. Ain't he the most politely beautiful puppy of a seed? He most certainly is, skinny. Easy boy, come on. And he looks in the pink of condition, too. I agree. He's fine, puppy. Of course, he's a little skimpish and undergrown, but Mr. Jarvis says that with a lot of poissonal care by yours truly, he'll get to be a real grown-up dog. I'll say Jarvis right there. Good bloodhounds are hard to come by these days, young fella. Yes, I know it. We think it honor to be first of your friends to see your puppy, skinny. Do you really? I say we do. Say, you're getting close to 10 o'clock and you have school tomorrow. And we've got to hit the trail early in the morning. I ain't even thinking about sleeping tonight. You'd better. You're going to be awfully tired in the morning. Yeah, I guess. I'll knock off after a while. First, I got to stay up and take care of peanut. Dad? Yes, son? When are you going to give me a pup? Well, I never thought of it, Ed. All these dogs are just as much yours as mine. You know that, don't you? Sure, but it isn't the same. I'd like to have one that would be just mine. Well, I'm glad to hear you say that. You've never shown any personal love for them, so I assumed you weren't interested. Oh, but I am. I am. Fine, fine.  I'll transfer the papers into your name. Well, you see, Dad, I... That is... Well, you know how it is. Well, speak out what's on your mind, son. Don't be around the bush. Come on out with it. I want you to pick out the pup, Dad. Oh, you do? Yes, sir. I'd like that very much. Why? You know Bloodhounds almost as well as I do.  I know, Dad, but you've got the experience. Oh, have I? Was it that was criticizing some of my methods just the other day? Who called the run-pup I gave skinny a no-good dog? You know, that remark was more of a slap at me than from when it was intended, young man. I know, Dad, but I didn't... That is, I didn't... Oh, come to the point, young fella. You know, first, I was pleased about your asking for the pup. Now, I'm not so sure. Why not? Because I smell a cold trail, son. You're not dealing with a pup when you deal with me, young fella. I've been on lots of trails. Some of them were hot-scented and they lead to results. Others were just a waste of nose muscle. Spit it out! We didn't like always. I want you to pick out my pup because I want the best there is in the kennel. You wanted my experienced eye as insurance against peanut, ever taking top field or show honors. Isn't that right? Yeah, that's right. Will you do it? Of course I will. You will? I've got you pretty punchy, haven't I, son? That's for sure. But I don't understand. I expected a battle. All I wanted was the truth. Just the plain, simple truth. Yeah, I'll pick you a sure winner because... And for one other reason... Yes, sir? The other reason I'll pick your pup is so you'll never be able to say I favored peanut to your dog.  What words did I give you the other day and told you to mark them? You said peanut would be a great dog. You have a good memory. He's going to be a tough competitor. Really tough. But then why didn't you give him to me? Because you wouldn't have any part of him. Ed. Oh, love, for the weak, the unfortunate, the sick.  Well, at last I found a way to teach you the real values of life.   You've been lippy and smart and hearty. You've even shown disrespect to your mother and me. I prayed night and day that the good Lord would help me stop this disease that you have before it consumes you entirely. Your egotism is sinful. Downright sinful. You're talking to me like I was some... No good kid. Yes, I'm your own flesh and blood. You're supposed to show affection toward me. Why, you seem to be enjoying all this. Well, if I appear to be, it's only because I've waited so long to be able to tell you what's on my heart. Never been able to get through to you before. You weren't receptive. Wow, you sure are getting through now. Well, that pleases me, son. It does? Yes, because at last I've been able to talk to you straight from the shoulder. It's because I... Well, I love you and your mother loves you that we're concerned. You will understand someday when you have a son of your own.  Well, what's the use? Maybe I don't stand a chance since you've got your heart set on peanut as being the great dog. Now, did I say that did I really? No, but you sure sounded that way. I'm merely predicting what I believe to be right because of... well, because of the bloodline. But I'll not help either of you take an advantage. In other words, I won't favor one over the other. You mean you won't help me just a little extra? I'm your son Ed, remember? That's why I'm doing this, because you are my son. Ed, all my words in this heart-to-heart talk boil down to just this. Yes, sir?  You want me to pick your dog so you can have an unfair advantage. So you can constantly rub it into skinny. You're going into competition because of jealousy and the superiority complex. Skinny will raise his dog and train peanut on love. I wonder which dog will win in the final analysis which master will win. Jarvis knew he had put down challenge and Ed knew it and with set heart he made up mind to show he and his dog could win. About one year went by and one day Skinny and Ed were working dogs under careful and skilled eye of Jarvis' ankle. Hey, Prince! Sit! Sit! I said sit! When I tell you to sit, you do it! Oh, so you won't do it, eh? That's more like it. I'll show you who's boss. Your turn, Skinny. Okay, Mr. Jarvis. Say, what's that for? I'm teaching him some whistle signals. I only got one done so far. That one tells peanut to pay attention to me for commands. All right, peanut. Stay! Stay! Come on, stay! Oh, this is rich.  Why, he doesn't even know what the word means. Why don't you whistle him a tune and maybe you'll understand that? Maybe that's what confused him. What do you think, Mr. Jarvis? Uh, whistle commands are new to him. Yes, sir. Maybe a couple of days, not more I teach them them. I think you're right. Try again. Okay. Peanut, you just go back to the start and try again now. And remember, no one knows it in my pocket if you goof it. Okay, go. Go, boy. What's this nose in your pocket? Oh, I carried these here dog candies in my pocket. When he does it right, then he can nose one up. I see. Okay, pay attention, peanut. Stay now. Stay, boy. Good boy. Good dog. Sit. That's fine. Okay. Come. Come on, boy. Sit. Good dog. Come on, peanuts. Come on. Get your candy. Come on. Oh, any dog would do that for a bribe. I can't eat no bribe. It's a reward. He only gets it if he does it right. Yeah, sure. You don't see me, baby, and my dog. Mimut always says a little love and kindness go a long way. And that's what the world needs and ain't got much of.  Oh, you train yours your way and I'll train mine my way. Mimut, it doesn't beat me when I don't do what I'm told because she says she wants me to do it because I want to please her. Not because I get beat. Someday, Prince ain't gonna do what you tell him because you beat him. For your information, Prince will always do what I say. And he'll become champion, not because he wants to, but because I want him to. Prince is the finest pup in the kennel and that's more than I can say for yours. What Ed said gave Skinny first hint that two dogs and masters were competing against each other. This bother him. He came to talk it over with Bill and me. Good evening, Skinny. Hi, Skinny. Come over and sit down. Lay down over there, Skinny. That's a fine-looking blood dog you have there, young man. I say he is. Look at sheen on coat. Thanks. That's what I come over to chin about. You look strange, Skinny. Is something wrong? I take me and Peanuts make a dead angle jealous. I don't want nothing to do nothing to hurt Mr. Jarvis. What make you think he jealous? Oh, it's the way he acts and what he says. He keeps rubbing it into Prince as the best pup of the kennel and a champion. Which means that Peanuts a runner to litter. Of course he ain't no champion, but well I don't care one way or the other about Peanut. I just like him because he's my dog. But I don't want no hard feelings because that ain't right. Ed rides you quite a bit, doesn't he, Skinny? Sure, but I don't care about that. I think I'll tell Mr. Jarvis that I don't want to show Peanut and keep him home. I learned enough now to train him by myself. Wouldn't you be playing right into Ed's plan by doing that? Yeah, I never thought of it that way. Well, thanks Grey Wolf, Bill. I'll see yous later. Come on, Peanut. Come on. Bill, you know more about this than me die. My eye, especially. Yes, Grey Wolf, I do. Mrs. Skynes asked me to thank Jar for giving Skinny the pup and tell him how much good it's done for Skinny. This triggered Jarvin to unloading what had been on his heart for a long time. He wants the two boys to compete to see which dog wins. The one raised on love or the one raised with a club? After this, Skinny seemed to know what to do and he worked hard to train Peanut. Maybe the Lord gave him much great understanding of the problem. We know the Lord works in strange ways to answer prayer and bring about his plans. The days went by for boy and dog. School, work at the kennels and field and training bloodhound kept Skinny going full blast. In spite of bad English, Skinny is very smart lad and has much common sense. Skinny asked me to help him several months later. I met him at the office one Saturday morning early. Hi, Grey Wolf. Good morning, Skinny. Are you Peanut? Well, what do we do at this time? Well, we trail trade old Hose Nose here. Hose Nose? Where do you get that? You watch that Peanut when we get going. He pushes his nose right along the ground like it was a piece of hose. I have to watch close. What do I do? Go get lost. Oh, boy. You're sharp and awake. Where do you want me to go? Well, that's for Hose Nose to find out. Ain't that right, Peanut? Okay, I get started. Make it easy, Foyce. It's been hot each time.  Sure. All about my handkerchief. Sure. Now you go get lost and we'll find out what kind of a nose me Bloodhound has. Hello, Engle Kennels. My name's Alf Weems. I live on the north side of Naughty Pine, right at the edge of town. Our little girl's missing for several hours and we can't find her. We think maybe she's gone into the forest. Can you come right away with your Bloodhounds? Sorry, mister. Today's the big dog show here and we haven't got time. You haven't got time? Well, what about my little girl? She might be in danger right now. We've got to find her. I'll pay whatever you ask. Please bring your dogs, please. Nope, can't do it. Haven't you any heart at all? You've got to help us. Say, I'll tell you what. Do you know Horatio Skynes? He's a kid called Skynie and he's got a Bloodhound called Peanut. I think I've heard of him. Well, where's he live? Over on your side of town. His mother does washing. He'll find your girl. He's supposed to show his dog today, but he won't win anyhow, so it doesn't matter. All set, Skynie? Yeah, I think so. I'll make sure now. We've got to get going to the show. You'll be late. Yeah, I'm ready. Let's go. Keep Peanut's nose back from door. We not want to hurt nose. Wait a minute. Bill, that elf weems and he look kind of scared. Hey, mister, you look bad-winded. What's chasing you? Your name, Skynie? What else? Look at me. Elf, do you need a Bloodhound for an emergency?  I can't find her. Please, don't go to the dog show. Please help me, please. Who's going to the show? Get in, mister elf. Me and Peanut will find your little girl.  I'll get you all the clothes you need. Skynie, we're proud of you. Very proud. You don't know how proud. I'll cut it out. The man lost his little Goyle. And, well, Bloodhounds has defined lost things in people. Here you are, son. Thanks. Get Peanut. Come on. Come on.   Come on. Okay, he's got it. Come on, let's go. I thought you'd chicken out, Skynie. I didn't chicken out. I was busy. You're important busy. Okay, so you were busy. I'm glad you know which side of tracks you live on. Why, you didn't stand a chance. Look at these trophies. Yeah, those trophies are sure pretty nice. Wish me and Peanut said one. But I ain't no cry, baby. Stop jabbering, boys. Load the dogs into the truck. What's up, Dad? I don't know, but Bill just called. He's taking his upstate somewhere. Snap to it now. The ranger's car's on its way. Captain, I'm sure you know Jarvis Engel. Yes, he's done work first before. What's the problem, Captain? A wealthy man on a lone hunting and camping trip disappeared three weeks ago. They waited long enough to call for help. I'll say they did. Didn't want publicity and tried to find him on their own. Now they've come to their senses and asked for help. I need an article of clothing for the dogs to pick up scent. Well, here's a jacket. Oh, fine. Ed, let the dogs smell this and you and I'll get rolling. Skinny, you stay here in reserve. Yes, sir. All set, Dad. Let's go. Great, Scott Jarvis.  Skinny knows his business. Besides, I'm so black and blue around the waist from three days of trailing, I can hardly breathe. It's no use, Captain. Trails over mountainous and rocky terrain and it's too cold. The dogs can't hold a scent. And these two here, old mod and sneaker, the best cold trailing bloodhounds in the business. I know you've worked very hard on this job and you're an expert, but isn't there one more chance? No, not a one. I've tried the dogs at sunrise and sunset, hoping the dew might help pick up the scent. I've tried all during the day. I get so far and... That's it. Hey Jarvis, how about peanut? You found the weans, youngster? When? The day of the show. Well, it wasn't I called. I don't know. Forget about that for now. How about peanut? Yeah, can we try peanut, Mr. Jarvis? Can I please? Certainly, but your dog isn't here. Well, what dog are you talking about? Does the boy have a special dog? Nah, just a run pup, that's all. I'll get peanut up here on the double if you give the word. Yes, by all means. Let's get in and peanut have a try at it. But how are you gonna get him here? Helicopter and lure the dog in a harness right into our laps. This is amazing. What's that, Jarvis? We just passed the place where the other dog stopped. See, why does peanut dig up and turn over those small rocks and stones? Scent. Once or twice in a lifetime there's a blood hung with a super keen nose. It's a rare gift. Looks like this dog has that gift. Come on, peanut boy. Keep your old nose working close to the ground.  Oh, peanut's trailing on better scent ground now. He's got past the rough spot fine.  What about that rich guy? Said he wanted to be alone for a while. I guess he didn't figure on me and peanut.  That rich guy gave me ten bucks to buy you dark candy, peanut. How about that? There, look at him. Did you see the front page of the paper, skinny? Yeah. My mother says I look like I didn't wash behind me for a month. Of course, then she nearly busted me and peanuts in half hugging us. She even kissed peanut. That's the toyed lady that's kissed him.  That was pretty good. You've established yourself as a really expert trailer.  He'll save many lives, and so will you.   It almost did. I wish I were in skinny shoes right now.  Skinny, you've got a great dog. Thanks. I sure am proud of me, no good dog. And there you have it, boys and girls. A story well worth remembering, because it proves that it's not what you are, but what you do and how you do it that counts. Well, see you next week for more adventure with... Ranger Bill comes to you transcribed from the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago.