Hello everyone, I'm A. Andrew Joyce. Welcome to week six of Armchair Quarterback presented by Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwiches in the Pikeville Commons. Armchair Quarterback is a weekly high school and college football shows spotlighting local high school and college football in the mountains. Tonight we'll have a complete recap of last week's high school football from around the region. Top individual performances, upsets and blowouts. This edition of Armchair Quarterback will include highlights from Shelby Valley, Hike Central, Belfry, Mingo Central and Floyd Central. And tonight we'll unveil the Super Seven High School Football rankings and this week's AP. College football, the cats are now three and one. U-Pike Bears have even their record at two and two. We'll get to those a little later. We have a lot to get to. Last week's scoreboard is loaded with blowouts, shutouts and crazy finishes. Check these out. It was Belfry, 63-8 winners over Sheldon Clark. Brethig County held off Knot Central 50-43. Arlen Blank Jenkins 62-0. It was Hazard 29-7 over Prestonsburg. Johnson Central defeated Boyd County 58-0 while Leslie County rolled over Eastridge 42-15. Painesville defeated Lawrence County 43-14. Perry Central with a 44-34 win over Letcher Central. Pike Central rallied to defeat Floyd Central 35-34. It was Powell County 50-12 over MacGuffin County. Shelby Valley defeated Betsy Lane 42-6. Each week we review the best of the best performances around the region. We love the spotlight. Huge stat lines. Time to look at who shined last week. This week's top performances from Eastridge. Mickey Thompson had 14 tackles. Floyd Central, Ethan Howard, 20 tackles. Dylan Cotto 160 yards rushing in two touchdowns. From Hazard, Bailey Blair with 283 yards. Total offense in four touchdowns. Reese Fletcher added 15 tackles defensively along with Braxton Whitaker. From Johnson Central, Blake Gamble with 115 yards rushing and two touchdowns. Lawrence County's Noah West ran for 108 yards. He's now at 1150 rushing through six games. In other top performances this week from Mingo Central, Jeremy Dillon 216 yards. Total offense in four touchdowns. Dawson Eli with 193 total offense and 22 scores. Tanner Smith of Paintsville with three touchdowns. Perry Central's Jayden Neese 264 yards rushing in four touchdowns. Jacob Woolham had 19 tackles and two interceptions. From Pike Central, Seth Kahn had 318 yards of total offense and five touchdowns. Isaiah Hess with 105 yards rushing and Logan Hillerman doing it defensively with 10 tackles. From Shelby Valley, Seth Johnson had 339 yards on the ground and three scores. Dalton Mead added 246 rushing and two touchdowns. Some huge performances and after those big games we've updated some season stats. Here are the top five touchdown guys in the area. With 17 touchdowns already, Noah West of Lawrence County, Jayden Neese of Perry Central with 14 touchdowns. Seth Kahn has 13. The Shelby Valley running back. Seth Johnson with 11. Dawson Eli from Mingo Central with eight along with Tanner Smith of Paintsville with eight touchdowns. And the top five area rushing leaders. Three already over 100 or over 1,000 yards and a couple closing in on that thousand yard mark. Noah West of Lawrence County with 11.53. Seth Johnson of Shelby Valley with 11.26. Jayden Neese of Perry Central 1,098 while Seth Kahn of Pike Central is closing in at 842 rushing. Dawson Eli of Mingo Central with 716 yards rushing through this week. Of course, each week we take a look at game trends. Last week we saw games across the bluegrass trending to be more competitive but still plenty of huge offensive outputs. 70 plus points in a game. There were two of those 60 plus 13 games and there were 27 games with 50 plus points. The low score of the week 12 to 6. Somebody's still playing defense and shutouts. There were 15 one possession games a little more competitive. There were 22 and two overtime games in the bluegrass. We've got a lot more armchair quarterback on the way. Stay tuned. We'll have more highlights this week's AP and sports guys Super 7 rankings. U-Pike, UK and more. It's armchair quarterback presented by Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwiches in the Pikeville Commons. And this has been my definition of fresh since 1983. If you're looking for a fun, safe, friendly atmosphere to achieve your fitness goals, be sure to check out Heavenly Strong, a Christian fitness group that supports your physical and spiritual journey to wellness. Call<PHONE_NUMBER> for more information. No matter where you are on your journey to physical and spiritual wellness, Heavenly Strong is here for you. Folks at Howard Family Pharmacy grew up right here in Eastern Kentucky. They know this town just as well as they know their customers. You want to be greeted by a friend and a pharmacist you know and trust. Come see Wes Howard, Tiffany Jacobs and Lauren Mullins at Howard Family Pharmacy located at Eastern near Allen Central High School. Call or visit HowardFamilyPharmacy.com. Most insurance plans are accepted, laid hours and open on Saturday too. Howard Family Pharmacy. It's the high school football game of the week presented by Paul Howard Jr. Attorney at Law and the Golden Corral restaurant in Pikeville. This week, the state champion Belfrey Pirates head north to challenge the surprising Floyd Central Jaguars. The game of the week airs Saturdays at seven and Sunday at four and eight thirty only on EKB-TV. Welcome back to armchair quarterback. Take a look at more highlights. The Shelby Valley Wildcats hosted Betsy Lane at Tico Field Friday night. It was homecoming for the Wildcats in a double A district matchup. A beautiful night at Valley. Shelby Valley offensively. That's Seth Johnson already over a thousand yards rushing on the season. That's another six. He goes untouched. Johnson number five. You'll see him do it again. He gets to the corner down the far sideline. That's a 29 yard touchdown run. Johnson finished with 339 and three touchdowns. Now Dalton Mead will do it defensively. Here's the double pass and the pass is picked off. Interception for Dalton Mead. Now Mead will get his number called from the backfield. He'll take it right side into the end zone. Touchdown. Johnson of course finished with three touchdowns. Dalton Mead had two of his own. Here's Seth Johnson once again. He'll take this one. Forty eight yards. Outruns everyone. He's got some quickness, hesitates at the five and walks into the end zone. Betsy Lane will get on the board in this one. We'll see the Bobcats with the ball offensively. And this is Big Cam Donaldson. He'll take it right side on the sweep to the corner of the end zone from ten yards out. Touchdown Bobcats. Shelby Valley wins it. Forty two to six over Betsy Lane. Seth Johnson finished with 339 rushing. Three touchdowns. Dalton Mead 246 and two scores. Eastridge will be at Betsy Lane next. Shelby Valley is open. And the Sheldon Clark Cardinals traveled to Belfry's Cam Stadium to face the Pirates in triple A district play. Cam Stadium rocking as always for homecoming 2017. That's Tavion Hunter taking care of business. He takes a handoff into the end zone. Sixty yards. Justin Adkins this time for the men in red. He'll take the pitch down the far side line. Lots of quickness from Belfry out of the backfield. Adkins will take this one to the end zone for the touchdown. Belfry does it on the ground. This time Avery Browning will look to throw. Deep pass to Devon Varney. He makes the catch and he's drugged down near the goal line. But that long game will set up this touchdown from one yard out. Peyton Hensley punches it in for the Pirates. Belfry wins it big. 63-8 over Sheldon Clark. Belfry now four and one. They will travel to Floyd Central next week. Sheldon Clark is at Lawrence County. And the Pike Central Hawks in week six of the Kentucky High School football season. Many teams across the Commonwealth began district play. Two of those. Pike Central and Floyd Central at the home of the Jaguars. Floyd Central in the red zone. They're looking to score for the back Dylan Cotto. With the keeper he'll get to the corner. Outruns everyone for a Jaguar touchdown. Here's Cotto again. He'll look deep down the near side line. That's Brady Kahn runs under it for the catch. He plays later from about the 25. Cotto takes a snap. Doesn't like what he sees. So he'll tuck it and he'll get into open field. Makes a man miss and into the end zone to extend the early lead for the Jaguars. Now Pike Central with the ball looking to answer. That's Isaiah Hess. He'll take the handoff up the middle. Finds the opening and picks up 25 before being knocked out of bounds. He plays later in the red zone. Seth Kahn. He'll look to the air and he finds Parker Eads makes the catch. Touchdown Hawks. At the half it was 20 to 6. Floyd Central in the end. Pike Central rallied for a 35-34 win over Floyd Central. Seth Kahn finished with 194 yards rushing and three touchdowns. He threw for two touchdowns as well. Ethan Howard of Floyd Central had 20 tackles on the night. Next up Eastridge is at Betsy Lane and Shelby Valley is open. Next up Pike Central will host Perry Central and Floyd Central will host Belfry. Week six in the books and the Sports Guys of East Kentucky Broadcasting have released their Super 7 high school football rankings for the week. The Super 7, you will remember includes the top seven teams regardless of class or state line. How tough is it to break in? In other various rankings three of this group are number one in their respective class and another is at number two. This week Super 7 rankings at unanimous. Number one, the 5-0 Johnson Central Golden Eagles. Belfry second, Mingo Central at 5-0 at number three. The Paintsville Tigers four and one at number four. Hazards Bulldogs fifth. Pike Central makes a jump to number six and Pikeville's Panthers at one and three are still there at number seven. Stay tuned coming up many more highlights and this week's AP rankings. We'll talk to you Pike. We'll talk to UK and more. It's armchair quarterback presented by Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwiches. Pikeville Conference. And this has been my definition of fresh since 1983. The good folks at Howard Family Pharmacy grew up right here in Eastern Kentucky. They know this town just as well as they know their customers. You want to be greeted by a friend and a pharmacist you know and trust. Come see Wes Howard, Tiffany Jacobs and Lauren Mullins at Howard Family Pharmacy located at Eastern near Allen Central High School. Call or visit howardfamilyfarmacy.com. Most insurance plans are accepted late hours and open on Saturday too. Howard Family Pharmacy. If you're looking for a fun safe friendly atmosphere to achieve your fitness goals, be sure to check out Heavenly Strong, a Christian fitness group that supports your physical and spiritual journey to wellness. Call<PHONE_NUMBER> for more information. No matter where you are on your journey to physical and spiritual wellness, Heavenly Strong is here for you. Heterologist Layton Hopkins, for the clearest most up-to-date look at your weather, it's the EKB Weather Cam brought to you by American Heating and Cooling. We give you a bird's-eye view of the skies above Pikeville, rain or shine, day or night. Watch for the EKB Weather Cam every day at 6 and 10 brought to you by American Heating and Cooling. Welcome back to armchair quarterback. The Pikeville Panthers off last week, they've struggled to a one in three start after playing one of the toughest, single-a non-district schedules in the state. The Panthers this Friday begin district play with Mountain Rival, the Hazard Bulldogs.  I spoke to Pikeville head coach Chris McNamee about this week's showdown. I think up there we've always go up there kind of thinking we're we may be behind a little bit going in and I'm sure they think the same thing coming down here but but we know it's always going to be a physical game. We've got to keep the quarterback contained defensively. Got to get a lot of people to the football.  Offensively you know as good as they are defensively. We've got to be able to take what they give us. We can't turn the ball over the way we have the past couple weeks or past couple games and and we've got we've got to somehow come up with a big play of our own whether it be on offense special teams defense and we're looking for a score from that way too. I think it's I think it's a classic Class A mountain football battle. Not not like the old days when Hillard and Paul Reigns were going at it with you know just them wing T and that's grounded pound. Both of us going to spread it out. I think both of us have a good stable athletes we can choose from and that are able to make plays at any time. Pikeville one in three Hazard three and one Friday at 7 30 a Daniel filled in hazard. If you can't make it complete coverage on hit city 98.1 FM. EKB Sports and the Associated Press released its weekly rankings of Kentucky High School football teams across six classes after six weeks of the season. 11 coverage area teams receiving mention and three of six number ones in single a it's paintsville in the top spot followed by Beachwood hazard at number three. Pikeville in this weekend number eight and the Phelps Hornets received votes outside the top 10 in double a it's Danville. Number one been the sales mayfield lex into Christian and Christian Academy of Louisville fifth receiving votes in double a Preston's work and Shelby Valley in Kentucky class three a developing pirates at number one then Corbin Boyle County Louisville central in the town. The fight central Hawks and Lawrence County Bulldogs received votes outside the top 10 in Kentucky class for a Johnson central unanimous number one then Wayne County Collins Rock Castle County and Ashlyn Blazer in five a cuff at number one then Bowling Green and Christian County Perry central from the area at number six in Kentucky class six a Louisville Trinity number one then Sanex and Louisville male. EKB radio and TV are voting members of the Associated Press football poll. The Mingo central minors continue to climb in the West Virginia high school football computer rankings. Last week the minors rolled over polka. Beautiful night at Buccarla Stadium on the mountain. First we see poker quarterback James Cook. He'll find Bronson schemes for a completion cook again looking and he'll throw downfield but this time it's intercepted Caleb Hurley comes up with it big return. Nope stopped right there. We'll see polka take the kickoff Kenneth Gibson. He'll look for running room and boom. This won't last long. Great coverage by the minors. Tough game for the Dodds all night long taking hit after hit. And it's been all Mingo central all night long defensively there. Now we'll see Josh Reid. He'll come up with the catch. He'll take this one to the end zone for another minors touchdown. The final score 62 eight Mingo central gets the win in the West Virginia high school football computer rankings this week. Single a St. Mary's number one from the area tug valley at number eight in West Virginia double a blue field at number one. There's Mingo central right behind at number two in triple a it's Huntington and University tied for the top spot. Huge district games are on tap for this weekend. It's time for us to take a look at the schedule around the area Friday September 29th kickoffs Eastridge at Betsy Lane. You'll hear it on the rock 103.1. Phelps goes to fair view. Belfrey is at Floyd Central. Complete radio coverage on WDHR Jenkins is at Hanon West Virginia. Let your central goes to Harlan County. Pikeville visits hazard. You'll hear that on hit city 98.1 FM East Carter is at Johnson Central while Sheldon Clark is on the road at Lawrence County. Morgan County visits McGuffin County. Perry Central goes to Pike Central. Not Central is at Powell County and Leslie County is at Preston's bird. Stay tuned. Coming up we've got you pike and UK and a lot more armchair quarterback. It's presented by Jimmy John's gourmet sandwiches. Pikeville comments and this has been my definition of fresh since 1983. It's the high school football game of the week presented by Paul Howard Jr. Attorney at law and the Golden Corral restaurant in Pikeville. This week the state champion Belfrey pirates head north to challenge the surprising Floyd Central Jaguars. The game of the week airs Saturdays at seven and Sunday at four and eight 30 only on EKB TV. Eastern Kentucky, beautiful, green, peaceful, friendly, but there's a darker side to these mountains. When crime is committed, sometimes cases go unsolved. Occasionally the perpetrators even get away with murder. On our latest news segment, the scene of the crime, I'll be working with local law enforcement to help find justice for victims and their families. The scene of the crime Fridays during the EKB news at six and 10 starting August 25th. And this has been my definition of fresh since 1983. Welcome back to armchair quarterback presented by Jimmy John's gourmet sandwiches. Last Friday, the University of Pineville Bears hosted Ave Maria, Florida in Mid South Conference action. At the Hamley complex, the bears in all black from the opening kick, the bears got a big break. This time, Sonny Warren with the past completion to Braxton Whitmore for 16. He'll go on the way. That's a 30 yarder by William Chandler. Now here's Ave Maria. The offense is there. They make the completion but wrapped up quickly. No game. Sonny Warren again looking to throw this time. R T's Clark, a great spin move away from the defender and all the way to the end zone. Touch down bears. You bike offense. Not the best of nights, but good enough. That's Willie McLeod. He heads right. The play design there. Nothing doing. He'll reverse field change direction and takes it to the end zone untouched for the touchdown. Willie McLeod. Here's Chandler with the extra point. It's up clears the fence. It's good. Sonny Warren again. He'll hand off this time to McLeod. He'll pick up short yardage and again, Willie McLeod with the carry. The bears will get the win 31 seven over Ave Maria. You bike now two and two next up at St. Andrews, North Carolina Saturday at 130 complete coverage on Z 107 five beginning at 115. Saturday night, the Kentucky Wildcats were looking to put to rest a streak that had lasted 30 years, a losing streak to the Florida Gators. Kentucky hadn't beaten the Gators since 1986. It looked like the Wildcats were going to finally in the 31 year streak. Everything changed in the fourth quarter. Kentucky up in this one. That's bone with the touchdown catch. You'll get the feet down. The Gators took the get a touchdown and took the lead late 28 27. The cats will get the ball back late. They were in range for a field goal. A holding call set them back to try the 57 yard and that comes up short. We heard from coach Mark Stoops about the loss and how far the team has come leading up to that game. Just very, very disappointing loss. It's heartbreaking to our team, our fan base to a lot of people. Um, it hurts because our team is invested so much. We've worked extremely hard to get in that position to win that game to play quality football and to come up short hurts a lot of people. They really work hard during the week to put themselves in a position to be successful on Saturday and that's been like that all year and all off season. And again, it takes an awful lot of work by those players to put themselves in a position to play the way they do. Um, the Kentucky Wildcats will host Eastern Michigan this Saturday at Kroger Field. Formerly Commonwealth Stadium coach Stoops shared his thoughts on the game. Very well coached, very sound. Just a very good football team. Um, they have some impressive games this year, you know, winning on the road at Rutgers is a big win.  We all saw what Ohio you did against, uh, um, Kansas. And so these are good sound, tough football teams. And, and, uh, I like the way they play. They're just, they're just very sound. It's always a big point of, you know, whether you win or lose games is how you play in critical situations. And, uh, we need to get back on the right track of that. For defense and, um, you know, we, you know, we talked about all last week and we, we need to continue to get better at it. And we are going to practice with some serious crowd noise, uh, you know, defensively to help us, you know, make us communicate better with our hand signals and different, um, you know, not just the two plays that everybody think that that's, um, everybody, uh, I would say that that's not a, that's not communication, you know, I mean, that's just, that's a mistake. Kroger field in Lexington, we'll see Eastern Michigan at two and one. Take on the three and one cats at four p.m. kickoff Saturday afternoon. Well, another week has come and gone and now we prepare for another huge weekend of high school and college football. There's some great matchups this week. Will the undefeated remain unbeaten? Will the windless find their first win? We'll find out. And of course, the Bears on the road in North Carolina and the cats at Kroger field. We're looking forward to a great weekend and bringing you a recap next week on armchair quarterback. It's presented by Jimmy John's gourmet sandwiches in the bikeville comments. Thanks for tuning in.


A snowmobile crash has claimed the life of a 46-year-old Monaga man. The crash happened around 7 this morning, just south of Monaga. The state patrol says Jesse Jones was driving in the ditch of Highway 71 when he tried to get onto the shoulder of the highway but was hit by a car. The patrol says Jones was wearing a helmet but died at the scene. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Well, it was a good run, albeit maybe a short and misguided one, but after just three years Microsoft announced on February 1, 2023 that they are going to retire the MS-600 exam and the associated Microsoft 365 certification for Teams application developers. While they hinted at some sort of replacement, those details are missing and just vaguely mentioned in a new experience in passing. Why are they doing this?  Well, in this video I'm going to answer those questions and I'm going to explain what they're telling you just isn't the whole story and most importantly for the students of my MS-600 exam prep course, you're going to get some guidance regardless on what stage you're in if you're preparing to take the exam or if you already passed it and are currently certified. So, let's get to it. Now, if you found this video to get the low down on news, then you want the facts. So let's start there. Microsoft's blog post has a lot of information in it about the changes to multiple exams and certifications and the MS-600 exam and the MS-365 Teams Developer Certification. That's just a part of it.  On February 1, 2023, Microsoft Learn announced on their blog that the MS-600 exam and the associated certification that you get when you pass the exam, which is the Microsoft 365 Certified Teams Application Developer Associate Certification, those are going to be retired on March 31, 2023 and that means that on March 31st of 2023, that is the last day that you can take the MS-600 exam. Not just register for it, but you have to take it by the end of that day. Now one exception to this is if you work for a company that's part of the Microsoft Cloud Partner Network and if you're a cloud partner, you can get a special code from your partner portal to register for the exam until December 31st of 2023. Now regardless of how you take the exam, if you pass it, you achieve the certification and it's valid for up to a year. Now if you've already achieved the certification, it's going to remain on your transcript and furthermore, you'll have the ability to take the renewal exam, which is a smaller exam than the MS-600 exam, until January 2024. Wait a minute, that's what the picture says, but the fact below the picture says six months after the December 31st 2023 retirement. Uh, let's see, checking my notes, yeah. I know only a subset of even Microsoft people use Bing, but even Bing says six months after December 31st 2023 is June 30th of 2024. So that's quite a contradiction. I've asked for clarification, so we'll have to see what they say. If I get an answer, I'll mention it in a pinned comment below the video. Now I'm assuming that the renewal is good for a year, so what happens after that year? I assume it's just going to show as retired on your certification transcript, just like my old MCDBA certification from 20 plus years ago as it does today. Now why is Microsoft doing this? Now in the post they say, and I'm quoting here, we heard from learners and organizers that the certification should be better aligned with current needs, and right now the measured skills are too specific and are covered by other roles. To focus on developing the right experience, we'll retire the certification and the corresponding exam. So I've covered the facts and the impact of the retirement decision by Microsoft Learning. What's next for Microsoft 365 developers? Are we going back to the pre-2019 days of no certification? Well, that's unclear, because all Microsoft has said in their post is, the future of work is fluid and dynamic and cloud powered. Uh, okay, great, but what does that mean? What's this new experience you refer to? No clue. They haven't elaborated on any of that yet, so we don't really know what that is. But according to the sources that I've talked to at Microsoft Learning, it seems that they haven't talked about it because they don't know either. So it sort of makes sense why they're being so vague at this point. Now do you wonder why Microsoft even created the MS600 exam and what's behind their thinking and retiring the exam just three years after launching it? Now look, at the risk of boring some of you, let me talk a little bit about the history of this exam and certification both from a public and behind the scenes point of view. If you're not interested in this part and you're a student of mine in the MS600 exam prep course that I have, you can skip ahead using the chapter links at the bottom of the video to jump to the next section of the video where I explain how this retirement is going to impact you and what my plans are for the course. Now let me be absolutely clear at this point in the video. Up to this point, I've only covered facts and no opinions, but what follows is a mix of facts, my experience in working with Microsoft Learning and my opinions. The MS600 exam and the associated certification was creative response to customer demand. For a few years, Microsoft has been pushing the idea of a Microsoft 365 developer at their conferences and in their marketing, but customers were left asking, so what makes someone a Microsoft 365 developer and other questions like, how do we identify candidates as a Microsoft 365 developer and evaluate their skills? So Microsoft created a certification, the Microsoft 365 certified developer associate, to answer this customer request. The idea at the time was that it would measure developer skills on five different workloads that they defined as being core Microsoft three developer skills, things like Microsoft identity, which really meant Azure AD, Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Office Addends. Now if you want to learn more about how they created this exam, check out my video that I'll link to here where I went behind the scenes as I was deeply involved in this process along with a lot of other people throughout 2019. But in my opinion, initially this was way too broad of an exam to adequately test your knowledge of being a Microsoft 365 developer. Each of those workloads is pretty big. How can a single exam with a two hour time limit measure someone's knowledge? And while we did the best we could at creating the exam, I still think it seemed like it was flawed to me. Each exam usually has an instructor led course that Microsoft offers at the same time, but the course that they created was supposed to teach developers not only what they needed to know, but the topics that they'd be tested on was also captured just five days long. So you're telling me that I can take a developer, send them to a class, and in five days they know Azure AD, Microsoft Graph, SharePoint framework, Microsoft Teams app dev, and how to create Office Addends? Would you trust your enterprise app using that model? Maybe if they stated a holiday and expressed the week of the class, but I'm just joking, never mind. Microsoft even asked me to create the course, but only gave me three weeks to do it because they had to have the course go live with the exam announcement. Yeah, well, I passed on that opportunity. All that being said, that's why I created my exam prep course with a different approach. I didn't want to teach you everything, but instead, I wanted my course to be more of a guide telling you what you needed to know, what to focus on, and what you could avoid. And then I also included free resources that you could use to prepare for the exam. And it was working great. Hundreds of students were passing the MS-600 exam using my exam prep. But it seems Microsoft wasn't too happy with the way things were going with the exam and the certification. Customers weren't registering for the exam and being certified in the numbers that Microsoft had hoped for. And to me, this made sense. The companies that I talked to told me that the reason they weren't sending people to get certified or making a requirement for job applications to be certified is that they thought the candidates that they were getting using this criteria were too light on all the workloads. Now, the word associate in the certification in Microsoft Learning terminology, that means that someone has the equivalent of four years of experience and can not only design a solution to a business problem, but also implement the solution on their own. Maybe these candidates were good SharePoint framework developers, but they didn't have Azure AD or Teams experience or vice versa. It makes sense. Two hours of a multiple choice questions on an exam used to determine that someone has four years of experience on five big workloads? No surprise there, it's not working. So either to fix the little registration numbers for the MS-600 or to promote their marketing messages to promote Microsoft Teams app development. In the fall of 2022, they released a big change to the exam and the certification. It was now a Microsoft Teams app developer cert. They took what they had with the current MS-600 exam, cut office add-ins to make some room, added some generic questions for app dev and testing and added more of an emphasis on Microsoft Teams. And after doing that, they said they started getting feedback from customers that some of the areas of the exam are better covered by other roles or other exams, presumably workloads like SharePoint, Azure AD, Microsoft Graph, and others. That's the thing that I mentioned earlier in this video, why they said that they were retiring it. It's funny, right? It seems to me that they put themselves in this situation and all the while customers were giving the same feedback. At least that's what I was hearing from the ones that I was talking to. So I have to assume and hope that they were sharing the same things with Microsoft if Microsoft learning was really soliciting and collecting feedback. When it comes down to it, people weren't registering for the exam and the numbers that Microsoft had hoped. Because in my opinion, the whole point of this was flawed from the start. It's classic product development, solve a customer problem. They said give us a tool to adequately measure and quantify a candidate skill set as a Microsoft 365 developer, and they weren't doing it. So now they claim the measured skills are too specific for teams at depth. So they're retiring it and replacing it with something new. And as I said previously, whatever that something is, we still don't know. It's they still haven't articulated it. So what does this mean for my exam prep course? And what does it mean for my current and my past students? Well, personally, I'm extremely disappointed with such short notice on the retirement. Not just as someone who's selling a course, but Microsoft is really giving developers less than two months notice on this very significant change. If you're enrolled in my MS 600 exam prep course currently, I strongly encourage you to take your exam by March 31st of 2023. And if you're an employee of a Microsoft Cloud partner, you've got a little bit longer. You've got until December the 31st of 2023. So what about the course? I'm going to continue to sell the course through the public retirement of March 31st of 2023. But at that time, I'm going to retire the course and pull it from the Voitano store. If you're an active student of the course, you still have access to the content. Now, note that when you enrolled, it granted access to the course for three months and then started a $50 a month automatic subscription once the 90 days access was over. You can cancel this automatic payment at any time in your account on your own. However, once the course is pulled from the store on March 31st 2023, I'm going to terminate all the automatic subscription charges so that you're not going to be charged again. And then one month later on April the 31st 2023, the course is going to be pulled from the course library. So yeah, it's disappointing, but I can't say I'm all that surprised by this decision. Honestly though, I'm really disappointed that the official statement about why Microsoft Learning is retiring the MS-600 exam is a little disingenuous in my opinion. But I guess it's not surprising to put some marketing spend on some bad news. So in conclusion, I really want to thank all of my students who trusted me with helping you prepare for the MS-600 exam through my prep course. What's the future going to hold with this exam and the certification? We just don't know what that is, that story is yet to be written. If you've got a question or a comment about anything that I've covered, please post it in the comments below the video. So until next time, see ya.


the statistics or the studies have been done and they said that if you're an adult of average weight here is what you accomplish in 24 hours your heart beats a hundred three thousand times six hundred eighty nine times your blood travels a hundred sixty eight million miles in 24 hours you breathe 23,000 times you inhale 438 cubic of cubic feet of air you eat 3.25 pounds of food some of us do a little bit more you drink 2.9 quarts of liquids you lose seven eight pounds of waste you speak 4,800 words it goes a little bit more for the women you move 750 muscles your nails grow by this much your hair grows by this much and you exercise 7 million brain cells that all happens in 24 hours God has designed our bodies in a very unique way in the scripture in Exodus chapter 15 verse 26 and I want you to look to the screen it says if you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in his sight give ear to his commandments and keep all his statues I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians so God is saying that if we obey what God wants us to do now for the nation of Israel obedience to God did not just mean moral things it not did not just mean you know not to get drunk not to commit adultery but a lot of the things in the Old Testament included also the diet laws there were certain things like they were not allowed to eat pork and God was saying if you obey my statues he says you won't get sick now we all understand that we live in a broken world even if you obey God this you still able to catch a flu and everything and that's where God ends that in case you do for I am the Lord who heals you and I want us to understand that divine healing and divine health are equally important divine health is as important as divine healing and that scripture tells us that God is the healer but it also tells us that if we listen and live alive by certain guidelines we can prevent sickness and disease to happen in our life and both as the trainer and the doctor have told us today that it's actually proven today by by studies it's proven today by the medicine that if you live a life in the way that God wants you to live you will prevent certain diseases that you will not need healing but even if you will need healing we have God who heals us healing is divine but health is our obedience health is our discipline health is based on our choices in Solomon King Solomon said in Proverbs he says that wisdom has built her house and she has established seven pillars and most of you will agree and I think the doctor will agree as well there's there's about I think they have five pillars of health the first one is to drink water and the reason why is because you know our body is 70 or more less a percent of water our lungs are 90% of water our brain is 95% of water our skin is 80% of water our bones are 24% 24% of water our muscle are 75% of water and our blood is 85% water it's very interesting that our Lord Jesus Christ doesn't call himself great coke or great juice he is the living water your body is made out of water and when you give it water it replenishes itself I'm gonna be the first one to admit this is one of those things that did not come naturally and did not come good for me I dislike water I think it tastes pointless there's no like if I have water I have to have something in it but that changed some time ago when I heard a story of another minister who mentioned that this minister went to the doctor and the doctor told this minister how much water they drink you know they recommend eight by eight so eight cups of eight ounces a day or taking your weight divided by two that's how many ounces he's to drink and the doctor asked her do you drink that much water she says no I don't drink water at all and I don't want to drink water and he used the illustration to her that helped her and it helped me he says if you go and use or use a toilet in your house and you don't flush the toilet and you don't remove the nose nasty liquids out of the toilet for a day what would happen she says well the house the bathroom will stink after a second day what would happen she said it will stink more and the toilet will stink and everything is gonna stink he says imagine going for months without flushing your toilet she says that no of course I would always flush my toilet he said your body every time you eat it collects all kinds of bacteria and the water flushes that out when you don't drink enough water what happens is your body becomes like that it only collects the bacteria it only collects those things and then you will get sick not just by what you eat but by the fact that those things don't get flashed in your life and so really want to encourage each one of us in church be a people I love America because in America every restaurant you go they give you a cup of water you go in Ukraine and you're gonna have to pay a foot and a leg to be able to find water because they don't offer water and so people don't drink as much and in our country it's been extended to do so number two is we all know this is very basic is healthy eating is healthy eating in the Bible Bible tells us a lot about food first people Adam and Eve ate themselves out of the garden first temptation Jesus had wasn't smoking or drinking it was with food he saw ate himself out of his promise out of his inheritance we see Sodom and Gomorrah one of the major sins Sodom and Gomorrah struggled with was gluttony we see Apostle Paul warns us in Philippians not to make our stomach our God now sometimes people have a disease or like doctor mentioned in genetics they're they're prone to you know excessive weight and everything but we have to examine our life we have to monitor as believers one of the seven evils that the church early fathers passed on to the church is the sin of gluttony sometimes we're so passionate about other sins we don't struggle with and completely pat the sin of gluttony especially it's so easy to do that in America because we make enough money to be able to buy what we want in a Mark Twain mentioned ones that I really like this quote he says the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want drink what you don't like and do what you rather not but it's truth in order to be obedient to God as a Christian you have to watch what you eat a lot of things in the Bible God specifically told Israel which animals to eat which not to eat Bible specifically told us in Genesis that herbs and the things that grow out of the ground are for our food and we see today a lot of the food industry not all of them but a lot of food industry it's all really money industry it's not necessarily caring for your health it's caring for their pocket and we have to watch what we eat can somebody say amen you have to monitor our diet and monitor what we eat and then the third pillar of our health is active living and some of you may say well Jesus didn't talk about exercise maybe you came to church today and you were surprised to have you know us talking about fitness right from the pulpit the only difference is Jesus did not work in the office and he didn't drive a car everywhere Jesus wanted to go he used his legs today we use our cars the way people work there had to do involve their physical strength all the time today most of the work most of the work today involves sitting or more sitting and after more sitting at the work we come back home and we do more sitting behind the TV and so that's why active living has to be a prioritize prioritize I remember I went to my into the Ukraine and I saw my grandpa who is 90 90 or 93 years of age they're still debating how old he is I just stick with a 90 and I saw and my grandpa started out telling I asked him how are you doing grandpa he said this is the first year I don't have a horse this is the first year I don't have a pig the first year I don't have chickens and this is the first year I'm not planting tomatoes oh but last month I chopped all of that wood he showed me how much wood we my dad bought a machine that chops wood that kills wood because it's painful my grandpa is 90 years of age and he chopped that wood by himself he says and last few weeks I cut the grass you know and he showed me the lawn where he cut the grass and no he didn't use a lawnmower use this long stick with hatch this sharp blade and you go like this you go half of that lawn and you will lose 20 pounds for sure it's very intense workout and I'm looking at him and I'm like how in the world he is able to do that my dad my grandpa never went to the gym but every day he lived was the gym my grandpa you know didn't care about his diet because he grew all of his food and everything he ate was organic his pork was organic because he ate only good food and no wonder people like that they live longer and they live more healthier and so if you live your life more active and you don't have to necessarily just go to gym to be active it's just about going hiking it's about going rollerblading it's about going swimming it's about going doing doing those things where your heart is constantly pumping and where you're constantly living an active life and somebody say yes the fourth pillar of health is restorative sleep and you can say amen to that sleep is very good and the best sleep is between 10 to 10 p.m. to 10 to 2 a.m. and it really helps a lot of the things in your brain because of shortage of sleep 27% we have a higher risk of obesity when we sleep less they say that 48% higher heart disease your five times have a higher risk of diabetes 20% of accidents are due to lack of sleep which is about a hundred thousand a year of accidents happen because people didn't sleep enough it results in a thousand 1500 deaths 71,000 injuries 32% reduced alertness with 1.5 less of sleep they said that if you sleep less than five hours it's equal to 5% blood alcohol in your blood so if you sleep less now understand that most of us who are younger you know they recommend you know it was a seven to eight hours of sleep but if you go on less than five hours of sleep all the time it's equivalent your ability to act think is equivalent to the person who has five percent of alcohol in their blood and I understand it's very it you know if you have to work very hard and you go for seasons but God created sleep and we have to enjoy the only place we won't sleep will be after we die because we're going to be in heaven amen and the last one is the pillar is positive attitude having positive emotions constantly feeling yourself with positive feelings watching positive films reading positive things surrounding yourself with people who are positive having faith in the midst of trials and tribulations the studies have been even done when people had certain diseases and they would watch comedy for hours you know it would burn certain diseases in their body many people have diseases today because of worry and anxiety with that said we understand that this is most of you this is nothing new it's common sense and you've been told that by the doctors you've been told that by your parents and today you're being reminded of that in the church but like you already have heard and we already have heard there are chances and there are times when we do things like these or we stay active we work out we eat right and we still have certain attacks or certain diseases or certain things that come and attack our health and this is for just few minutes I want to talk about and this is something we're going to pray for the story I want to bring to you is the story of Samson it's recorded in judges chapter 16 that when Samson was captured by Philistines and he had to grind weed he was blind his hair was cut and therefore he lost his power and as he was there his hair started to grow back and he had his power again he came to the house where all of the princes of Philistines were gathered all of the big dogs you know the officials all of the people who were responsible enemies for this enslavement and the and the difficult life that Israel has endured they were there in that house and Samson asked a little boy said could you lead me to the pillars of the house and when a little boy let Samson to the pillars of the house Samson the Bible says he felt the pillars and he leaned himself against the pillars and when the pillars were shaken the house collapsed and the enemy all the chief enemies were destroyed many times in our life there are invisible pillars that uphold our enemy sickness and disease these invisible pillars can come in a form of demons they can come in a form of generational curses we see that in the scriptures that many times people were sick in the Bible and Jesus instead of healing them he would cast out an evil spirit he would destroy the pillar for example one woman was coming to church to a synagogue for 18 years and the scripture says that she was bent for 18 years most likely she's been to the best doctors but because she had a spiritual problem Jesus cries through the power of the Holy Spirit push the spiritual pillars in her life by delivering her by casting out the spirit of infirmity and the Bible says she was made straight when the enemies were defeated she regain her health we see that in apostle Peter's mother-in-law she was sick with fever now we all get sick with fever we all catch fever but Jesus comes to his mother-in-law and instead of laying his hands and healing her the Bible says that he rebuked fever the word rebuked there is the same word that is mentioned when Jesus faced a demon possessed man in the synagogue and rebuked a demon that means behind that fever it wasn't just a call that she caught it was a demonic attack on her health we as Christians believe we are responsible to God to live our responsible life in our health but there is one more aspect of health that we have to address and that is in a spiritual world that are pillars many times that hold sickness and disease and you can attack one disease and attack one sickness but if those pillars are intact they keep the house alive but today I have to tell you about a friend that we all have his name is the Holy Spirit Samson's head Samson had hair the Holy Spirit has power and if we the lads if we are those little children today that the Holy Spirit comes into our life and the Bible says if the spirit of him who raised Christ from the dead lives within us he is there to give life to our mortal body the Holy Spirit does not just come to stand by the pillars by the problems spiritual problems in our physical health he is asking you today lead me to the pillars and let's push them apart the Holy Spirit wants to destroy the spiritual forces that are affecting our physical health the Holy Spirit is not just here to tickle us and just to make us cry he is not just here to make us just feel better about ourselves he is a spiritual force and he is very powerful and wants to destroy other spiritual forces we've seen countless times when a man who came through four years ago he had leukemia he was diagnosed for over a year and a half of leukemia his insurers will spend a seven thousand dollars every single month on the medications he already wasn't able to work he worked in one of the best restaurants in his town he wasn't able to work and when he came to the services that we had in the track four years ago during the service when prayer was being offered and the Holy Spirit was going in the audience and pushing pillars away he started to feel uncomfortable like he wanted to throw up he was brought to the front where he vomited all kinds of things all of that vomiting was simply Holy Spirit pushing pillars away when he got up from his knees he said I felt so much better and he went back home he actually didn't even think that he got healed he just thought he got freed from some demonic activities in his life as he went back to the doctor the doctor examined his blood and found out he was a hundred percent cure of leukemia he came back to our church brought his medical report and it's four years and this young man Nabil is completely free from every trace of leukemia in his body every pillar of sickness has to be brought down today in Jesus name why because in the Old Testament when Israel traveled to the promised land there was a pillar they had it was the pillar of fire the Holy Spirit is a greater pillar that we have and because the Holy Spirit is on our side through him every generation occurs can be brought down every disease and sickness they cannot be cured or explained or there is no connection to it you've lived healthy life you've disciplined yourself you ain't right nobody in your family maybe have had that and it just came out of nowhere you have a friend his name is the Holy Spirit join hands with the Holy Spirit today see Holy Spirit I invite you in my body you live there let's push away every pillar of arthritis let's push away every pillar of diabetes let's push away every pillar of cancer of growth let's push away every pillar of every skin disease every blood disease every bone infection every other disease it has no legal place in my body because I'm a friend of the Holy Ghost has somebody say amen with that said I want us today to prepare for prayer we're going to pray today and the prayer that we're going to offer today together with the Holy Spirit I want you to imagine in your mind right now you're not alone if you're facing a disease if you are facing sickness if you have been diagnosed and you have fought the best I want you to know today one message you are not alone the Holy Spirit is with you and he wants to fight with you he wants you to hold his hand if you are believing for someone's healing I want you to remember you're not alone the power that heals it's not the preacher it's not a certain charm it's not a certain chant it's not a certain word or certain phrase it's a person and his name is the Holy Spirit and he will do what diet cannot do he would do what doctors cannot do he will do what fitness cannot do he can help us in the areas we are completely helpless just a few years ago three years ago there was a mother that came and mother and the father that came with her child from Olympia they had a he had asthma for over six years and he was already by been diagnosed and they just said there is nothing we can do the best professionals they took him to the best professionals because the father himself was a doctor and he was completely helpless and when he came to receive prayer during the prayer we were not just praying God heal him we were praying to break every chain of the enemy and these prayers may seem just charismatic some people may seem like oh these just young rustic boys running around here screaming they don't know what they're screaming about yes to the extent we might not know what's going on in the spiritual world but the Holy Spirit used Samson used a little boy and the Holy Spirit uses me and you he uses your prayer and my prayer to push away the pillars when that prayer was being offered I remember because I was praying for that young man right here on this side curly hair I actually thought it was a girl so when I was praying I said Lord God heal this girl I didn't know as a young man not a girl nevertheless in our lack of understanding God still used our prayer six months later we received a message from that family that ever since that prayer the little boy was no longer needing any other equipment to help him breathe it's been now three years and they come every single year to our service just to give glory to God and they were completely completely experienced a miracle in their family let's put hands together for Jesus Christ less than six months after the boys healing the mother was diagnosed with tuberculosis she was already placed in a different housing she lost her job and most of you remember those of you who were here about two and a half years ago when she came she even had a covering over her mouth and she came with faith she says the same Holy Spirit that defeated the spiritual forces in the life of my son he can help me he says I'm seeking the best physicians and I'm seeking the best therapy but I also know Jesus is the greatest physician he is the best doctor and I came to an appointment with him and when prayer was being offered spiritual forces were pushed down she went back home her recovery became miraculous she recovered in two weeks out of that disease in a month or so she was released back got a clean bill of health now she's working and TB is no longer part of her health to God be the glory I ask you that today we agree together to bring down every pillar of the enemy and establish our health in Jesus name do you receive it today in Jesus name