Hey everybody Welcome welcome to Monday morning. It is Valentine's Day Everybody say hello Want you to use that chat section ask any questions you have any comments you have I want you to be part of the conversation Today's really cool because I'm gonna explain something today about NFTs, which I had no clue what these things were I really didn't and I'm actually gonna give you a place where you can create them You don't have to be an artist or anything And it's not just pitchers. It's all kinds of things. It's courses. It's it's memberships It's all kinds of things that you can use NFTs for so stick with me today I think you're really gonna like this and I'm gonna give you resources where you could do this You need to get on this. This is important stuff.  I don't call people. I text all the time And I don't even type text. I talked to text. So it's just kind of funny how you don't think these things are important Like NFTs, you know, and first time I heard about NFT I thought well, who the heck's gonna pay for a picture when you could just take a screenshot of a picture But it's not about that. Okay, and in this session today I'm gonna explain to you why it's not about that why that is not the thing And if you have questions about this stuff as I go along because I'm it's a little hard to wrap your head around If you haven't done this before But once you get into NFTs guys, oh my gosh, it's like a whole new world's gonna open up for you. It really is I Guess the first immediate benefits to creating NFT for your business is that NFTs prove authorship Okay, so if you release an e-book or a course or art or music or whatever it is Any type of digital asset think about it that way having an NFT associated with that asset Proves its authenticity. So even if somebody tries to copy or forge your asset your course Whatever your audience has protection because of authenticity. Okay, that's how I want you to think about this This makes it less likely that your community will fall victim to scams and forgeries Okay, I know a lot of people have tried to forge my courses over the years They've tried to copy screenshots. They tried to do all that stuff So NFTs can also be used for access Whether you're selling access to a membership community An event if you're doing an event like tickets to a concert something like that by associating an NFT with a point of access You're giving your audience a much smoother experience Everything on the back end happens automatically and instantly. I mean Coachella Coachella is now selling keys to their events for different Accesses okay, you'll also be protecting your membership or event for potential Scalpers okay, so people can't scalp tickets every time somebody tries to resell your NFT You still receive the funds as spelled out in a smart contract and because NFT proves Authorship you don't have to worry about someone being able to access your membership with forgery It's not going to happen and finally Many businesses are finding that when they use NFTs to amplify and improve their community engagement Whether they're using NFTs to access their community Reward their community for certain action stuff. They're going to do proof of attendance They can use these as tokens for certain activities or to provide the community with additional value And increased participation, so it's not just what you think it is okay I had a really hard time wrapping my brain around it now that I'm there I'm thinking of all the applications. I could use it for Audience members feel more value Invested in the community because they are in part Defining the culture and value of the community by buying the NFT from you Business owners can then connect their audiences directly and protect them online So why use NFTs for fundraising think about it this way Businesses already have access to really good crowdfunding programs. They've got like Kickstarter And they've got all those things right but the primary difference is is the fact that an NFT sits on a block chain Okay, now think of a block chain as an Excel spreadsheet where you can see everything that's going on the block chain makes everything Transparent and trackable allowing the community to follow everything because of the transparency They can see exactly the money that is coming from and where it is going to offering them much more purchasing power than before Whereas you're not going to get that if you put on another site on the other side Because everything is sitting on the blockchain you keep that connection with your investors You can continue to build the foundation You've already started and you can add more value through airdrops to people who have funded your NFT during your fundraisers So that's something else you could do.  Okay, what's your goal in creating NFT in the NFT space? It's specifically about defining what you want the NFT to bring your business and What your business can bring the community or industry with the NFT?  Okay, and I mean like I'm thinking like millions of things I could do really the sky is the limit right now as far as types of NFTs that your business can meant in theory Anything that can be digitally stored on the web can be made into an NFT. So this includes music. It includes sounds It includes images Videos all kinds of stuff courses memberships all of those can become an NFT In fact, even ebooks and guides can be tied to an NFT by putting them as Unlockable content this means the purchaser would have to buy the NFT and then receive a link to where they can access that digital product So it really does protect the stuff that you're creating out there And thankfully NFT art doesn't have to be complex NFT art ranges in complexity and creativity from high detail to intricate to Minimalistic okay to where it's not much to it. You probably Have heard of NFTs you probably you know or kind of wondering what they are Which you're probably also wondering how to start designing your NFT If you're creating an NFT for your online guide or ebook For example, it would be easy to use a book cover or something similar for the NFT art Or on the other hand if you're creating NFT for video Then you may want to look at something a little bit more closely related to the video and what the video is about There may be some limitations as to the size of the art keep that in mind During the mining process. Okay. Yes, there's a mining process The NFT art is combined with the smart contract coding Which contains all of the metadata of the NFTs and they sit on this blockchain or this like Excel spreadsheet type thing While they're on the blockchain. They can't take up too much room. So they can't be too big. Okay, so it is limited But you can find all of those file restrictions and limitations easily during the minting process And when you're actually minting that NFT, you can also look into something called Generative art which is another way to acquire artwork for your NFT The way that this works is you find a collection of art and while you have a general sense of the aesthetic You won't know which piece of art you will be assigned to your NFT until you go through the minting process Okay, the minting process is really the creation process number three You can work with artists to make your NFTs for you You you can find an artist that can help you design your NFT However, there's still a lot of gray area when it comes to things like licensing and creative materials And what you can do with it also. So you need to have that up front Agreed upon with the person working on this a much more effective approach would be to find an artist to create NFTs with you Bring them on as a member of your team where they can help you create What you're trying to do and gain the benefit of being in on the ground floor and a lot of them are very interested in doing that And the fourth thing I'm going to tell you is you want to choose a platform for minting and selling your NFT You do have to have a platform. This is not something you could just do on your own Okay, you're gonna have to have some help you Knowing what you want to accomplish will help you choose the platform that you want to use and the mint to sell Your NFT while some platforms are Invite only okay. They're like a VIP platform There's others that are open to everybody Every platform has its own way of starting the transactions and every transaction will occur in what's called a gas fee Okay, this is kind of like a transaction fee But they call a gas fee when you're dealing with NFTs Some of the larger invitation only platforms have a gas fee when you mint your NFT and Another when your NFT goes to the actual blockchain. So you have to be charged twice Some of the smaller platforms only have a gas fee for minting because adding the NFT to the blockchain doesn't create a separate transaction However, as of right now many of these smaller platforms have a smaller user base. So the NFT availability Doesn't really have any high ticket prices. They're all low-cost items therefore While it may be easier to get started on some of these smaller platforms if you're looking to sell high-end NFT at a High price these platforms may not be for use simply because their use base isn't for high-end NFTs, so you may want to find a different one Okay, now what I want to do real quick is I want to talk about some places that you can actually create your NFTs They're actually marketplaces and I want to upsize my screen I apologize for reaching up here, but I do want to upsize my screen a little bit so I could see some of my notes okay, so Remember an NFT, which is called a non fungible token. That's what it that's what it stands for Simply represents ownership of an asset. That's all it is Okay, so just think of it as a license to a particular product before choosing an NFT marketplace You'll first want to dedicate You'll first want to decide the kite type of digital asset that you're going to be creating If you're going to be buying selling whatever you're doing, okay? Just about anything digital written words videos like I said at the beginning can be used as an NFT They can be tokenized. Okay, that's what they call it tokenized on a blockchain Such as Ethereum. Okay, you can use that the most common blockchain network NFTs are built on So that narrowing them down to your interest is a really a good place to start All right, so another consideration and I got something here on my screen has popped up Let me kill this another consideration is the type of tokens supported on the marketplace You know some of them support a wide variety of tokens others are closed marketplace and they utilize specific proprietary Tokens so when opening an NFT marketplace account be sure to fund your blockchain wallet with the right crypto or token Required to participate in the site's activity You'll be prompted to link your wallet to the NFT marketplace once you've opened up an account also Check to see that the kind of security in the marketplace has the force It is needed to really protect whatever you have so what I'd like to do is I want to go through Probably the top 10 Markets places and let me get my screen straight here. I got something popping up to bug me. There we go Got it off the screen. All right, so the first one I want to talk about is called open C And I probably Let me see. I'm gonna put this in the chat section. Let me get over here and do this I'm gonna put it right here and guys put some comments in there. Let me know what you think about today's training Let me know any questions you may have You know, let me know anything that you need help with okay? All right, so the first one is open C and let me get that in there I'm gonna copy that and stick it over here and there we go And and you could just Google open C. I think it's dot. I oh, I don't think it's calm I meant to put that link in there. I didn't get a chance to do that, but that's the first one now Open C is really the leader in FT sales Open C has all sorts of digital assets They're all available in the platform and it's free to sign up and browse all of these different offerings Doesn't cost you dying It also supports artists and creators and has an easy to use process If you want to create your own enough NFT Known as minting. Okay, the marketplace supports more than a hundred and fifty different payment tokens So the platform's name is appropriate. Okay, it is an open C right for an introduction to the NFT World open C is a great place to start and that's the first one. I'm gonna tell you that I want to tell you About ten of these different marketplaces. They're all really cool The next one is called axi marketplace, and let me put that in the chat section also so that you guys have that boom Boom, there it is. Okay. All right. Oh axi marketplace So axi marketplace is an online type of shop or mark for the video game Axi infinity. Okay, so this is gets a little complicated axes are mythical creature Creature I can't talk creatures that can be brought and bought and trained and then pitted against other players axes Actually earn rewards on axi marketplace players can buy new axes as well as Entire lands and other items as NFTs for use within the game now axi infinity tokens called axi shards are built on the Ethereum Blockchain as such they can be bought and sold in a variety of other NFT Marketplaces as well as some cryptocurrency exchanges such as coin-based global and stuff like that Next what I'm going to tell you about is larva labs Crypto punks. Okay. I know there's all new language for everybody out there new stuff But you know it always is you know, there's always new stuff popping up out there. So let me put this in here paste There we go.  Okay, so Larva labs crypto punks larva labs is really best known I guess for the viral crypto punks NFT project They were originally given away for free back in 2017, but some of the crypto punks Recently have sold for millions of dollars since then Larva labs has other digital art products such as auto golds As well as other Ethereum blockchain based app development projects So there's a lot of stuff out there larva labs crypto punks NFTs are sold out at this point But they can be been on and they can be bought from various third-party marketplaces Think of it as a piece of jewelry, you know, you could sell all the rings in your case out there But those people could then sell those rings to another person. That's essentially what you're doing here Larva labs various projects are worth keeping tabs on including me bits me bits me bits Can be bid on directly from the company's built-in marketplace. All right next one up number four is NVA NVA shot marketplace and let me put this in the chat section also So that you guys have that Alright boom boom boom There we go Now I know on the surface this guy guys is going to sound more and more complicated But as you get your head wrapped around this, it's really not hard. It's gonna make total sense Everybody's gonna be using these I can tell you this NVA top shot is the national backs basketball Association and women's national basketball associations Jump into the NFT world. Okay This marketplace has collectible moments These are video clips and play highlights and art that can be purchased from the world's premier basketball leagues the NBA Built this as a closed type marketplace so you can only buy and sell on top shop That's the only place you can go to get these using flow blockchain built by dapper labs It's easy to sign up and buy directly on the top shot marketplace website Collectible moments can be purchased for as little as a few dollars one up to millions of dollars depending on what you're bidding on and what you want to buy The next one is called rareable and let me put that in the chat section. So you guys have that You're gonna have a list of the top 10 marketplaces. There you go. All right, you got that one in there now And I'm popping and pasting all of these Richard says this topic is like foreign language to me. It was to me too Richard I don't want you to think That this is complicated because it's really not but he does say this topic is like foreign language to me If this is a fad or it's possible to get scammed by any of these crypto NFT digital platforms None of the platforms. I'm gonna tell you about today. You can get scammed or you can't you are protected Okay, so you're good to go There will always be scams out there But NFTs offer you protection on your content and especially you Richard because I know you had some courses early on It's gonna help protect those courses and nobody can scam them because they have to have That code to be able to see the course and use the course So it's actually gonna be very very beneficial to you and I did I put rareable in there? Let's see to the cyberpunk. I did put rareable in there Rarable is like another large marketplace with all sorts of NFTs and it's very similar to open C Because it's got all kinds of art and videos collectibles. It's got music in there You can buy and sell stuff in there and they're all created on that platform However, unlike open C, you'll need to use the marketplace's own token rareable, which is crypto colon or I think it's R. A. R. I to buy and sell in the marketplace rareable is built on the Ethereum Blockchain although artwork can be managed on open C as well as rareable tokens Okay, so you can buy and sell I mean either one of them the company actually has partnered With some notable companies. I mean big companies are in there. The New York Stock Exchange Taco Bell is listed on a rareable Cloud software giant Adobe is on there They also partnered with rareable to help secure NFT artists and creators work. This is not a fad I thought a smart phone was a fad. I really did. I thought who the heck is gonna want to do that This is gonna be pretty much what you're gonna use every day You're gonna use NFTs if you've been shying away from NFTs because you say it's too complicated It's some bad thing and some French thing. You're wrong. You're wrong This is this is something that's gonna be an everyday life. Everybody's gonna be using them very soon So you might as well just go ahead and learn about them because everybody's gonna use them The next item I tell you about is super rare super rare only copy this and I could put it in the chat section It just check out all these sites and kind of you know work your way around it a lot of them have some really good tutorials That will explain some of this to you. I can only explain so much, you know in 30 minutes and training on here but You need a little bit more training Similar now super rare is kind of like wearable, but super rare is also building a marketplace for digital creators The site includes art videos and 3d images, but collectors can purchase artwork using a theorem. Okay super rare Just recently actually announced that they have their own token of the same name based on a theorem blockchain The tokens will be used to find and curate new talent for the marketplace like rare Super rare NFTs can be bought and sold on open C So a lot of these platforms that I'm talking about will tie themselves back to open C Which is the first one I talked about And we're down to number seven now and it's called foundation. Let me get that in the chat box there I want you to have a list of all of these Right paste Let me get rid of that comment there. So super real. Let's talk about super rare Oh, excuse me foundation foundation Uh, and it's I think it's foundation app was designed as a simple, you know No thrill type of way to bid on digital art sales are made using a theorem Since the marketplace launched in early 2021. It's sold more than get this guys. Hang on It was just in 2021 when it was launched. It sold a hundred million dollars worth of NFTs So it ain't a fad. This this is not a fad guys This is something you're going to be involved in if you're doing anything online You will be involved with NFTs Artists are invited to the platform By the foundation community and buyers simply need a crypto wallet Funded with a theorem to start making purchases If you're looking for a quick and easy way to start creating your own NFTs Foundation probably isn't the best place to begin because the marketplace has plenty of artwork that can be perused In a simple format, but they aren't cheap. Okay, so that's may not be the best place to start The next one is number eight and we're going to have 10 of these guys Let me copy this one and stick it in there and just you know, make some notes of this stuff You don't have to Understand every single thing today, right? Just just kind of try to wrap your brain around a little bit I put this foundation in there And now I'm putting nifty gateway All right, so you got nifty gateway in there now nifty gateway Has really made the sale of the most popular digital artists such as bevel and singer musician grimes Part of their offering It's an art curation platform powered by crypto exchange gemini So all of these kind of have different ways of paying But it is controlled by the winkel boss twins And if you don't know the winkel boss twins or you can search that the NFTs known as nifties are built on ethereum Almost all of these are built on ethereum.  So they're the ones actually stored in sometimes you store it your wallet Sometimes they store it While that may not work for NFT collectors who want more flexibility with their own art investments Nifty purchases and sales can also be made in flat currency Like us dollars not all of them can without making a crypto purchase first. Okay, so that's something to think about And I've got multiple actually crypto currencies now. They're not doing well. I do that well with them But it is something, you know jump into but a few hundred bucks in and get to know it The next one I want to tell you about is mintable All right, and this is one of those subjects. I think it's funny I don't get as many questions from you guys from them And I don't get questions because people are still trying to figure out what the heck it is You know if I were to talk about let's say sco. I get tons of questions Uh, so, you know, you may want to wrap your head around it and then come back to the comment section And then ask whatever questions you want. I am going through questions today Um, did I put minimal in there? Yes, I am going through questions today So today would be a good day to get them in there that way you're going to get your answers quick. Um, all right, so Mintable is actually mark cuban. Okay, that's who it's backed by the billionaire mark cuban and we all know him from shark tank He started a marketplace similar to open sea To participate in buying and selling NFTs on mintable. You'll need a thorough. Okay The platform also supports minting of NFTs for creators and all types from Photographers and musicians to whoever who want to sell their work as a digital asset This is going to protect a lot of artists guys and you're not going to be able to rip off artists either Once they have all these NFTs as an aspiring NFT collector or creator You will need to purchase a theorem from a crypto exchange first That's something you're going to have to do then connect their wallet to mintable to facilitate Buying on the marketplace and you can go to mintable also Uh, and you can kind of see how it works. You can you know watch some tutorials on there Um, the last one I have on the left list today is Theta drop. Okay. Let me copy that and put that in The chat section there boom Theta drop Theta drop. Let's talk about theta drop Theta drop is also built on the blockchain technology And it's built for decentralized distribution of videos and tv on the internet so The nft marketplace that had dropped made his debut in 2021 with the world poker tours digital collectibles The world poker tour is an early adopter of theta tv and uses the platform to stream its content So People are getting into this guys. They wouldn't be doing this otherwise. Okay, it was just going to be a flash in the pan Theta utilizes its own blockchain technology to participate in the theta drop NFT marketplace You're going to need to buy theta tokens. Okay On a crypto marketplace. It's theta Various crypto exchanges such as Binance, which is the one I use I use Binance support theta and the tokens and NFTs purchase with them They can be stored in a crypto wallet as well as that is own crypto app. Okay, so That's kind of an overview Now when you're investing in NFTs the marketplace or your path to investing in digital assets collectibles They are but there are lots of options out there You want to make sure that you choose the one that best suits what you're buying and selling and what you want to do Your storage needs you want to think of all that also be aware that this is a new industry It is highly speculative. Okay, so you could go in there and spend $10 and make a million But you could go in there and spend a million and it could be reduced to $10 Some NFTs may skyrocket in value, but there is no guarantee to this guys It is very speculative. It will level out I think but the value of digital art and collectible works much the same as physical art and collectibles Value is subjective and it's also determined by factors such as uniqueness and the reputation of the artists who made it Make a purchase if any with your overall investment strategy network Your investment goals and all that in mind. Okay, buy or be aware and be careful in your investments That's all I would tell you on that stuff. All right, let me get back over the screen here Now if you guys have I know I've gone through a lot of information. This is a lot of stuff to digest This is a lot of stuff to understand Um, but if you have any questions on it if you have any input on this Do you understand it any better than you first started to the hope you do?  I shied away from it so much in the beginning I'm like, I don't know what that is Who the heck would probably pay for a picture when you you could just see the picture and you can screenshot it It's not like that This proves authenticity That's what gives it value if you have a piece of music And you just record it you've got the piece of music But if you've got the original piece of music that you can sell to somebody else It has a lot of value the original piece of art the original Course the original membership whatever it is you can use NFTs for you want to dig into this further You want to study more? I have no other videos on my channel about NFTs This is gonna be the only one right now about NFTs. I'm sure I will have more later on. I'm certain of it Let's see here. I spent $500 on crypto called One coin about four years ago and later collapsed. How can I avoid it happening again? You can't you can't I bought a I didn't buy a lot. I bought a decent amount of crypto But I'll tell you the one thing I would recommend to you Richard is don't buy one and say oh, I hope it works Well But that would be like me doing one video on my channel and going I hope it works well Some of my videos work really really well and some of them tank. Okay Some of the courses I do work really really well and some of them tanks some of the ads I do So if you're if you're picking up what I'm saying here is you want to spread your money out over a whole bunch of Different ones. That's the way you want to do it. I would never run one ad on youtube and go That's my ad. I hope I make a million dollars You won't it's just not the way to do it. You've got to kind of spread out your money Do a little bit of research look at what the past performance was of that crypto. Okay What what was it doing in the past? When did it start who's behind it? It's no different than being in the stock market and figured out what the stock market's doing And right now the stock market's tanking guys because of things that are going on around the world Which you probably know about which I don't want to say because then I get my video demonetized and I don't want that to happen so You can't really protect yourself from losing on an individual crypto However, you can hedge your bet by buying several different cryptos And some of them could do really well and that's what I did. I think I have Let me look at my crypto here Where is my crypto it's up in here somewhere. All right, so I'm using finance Um And I've got eta, uh, which is ada. I have portions of that I've got bnb For crypto. I've got doge doge and I've got vet ved. Okay.  I have not done well I'm not going to tell you I have I've not done well, but I'm figuring it out And you know what overall I didn't do well when I started online I lost my butt. I lost all kinds of money when I first started out selling online since then I've made millions of dollars Um, but it's it's a it's a daily thing. Yesterday. We had a tremendous day one of the best days we've had in about a week Um, and it was a good day for it too. I will share this with you. I went out and bought a big screen tv yesterday And I've been looking at them for a long long time Um, and I saw this one and gosh, it was like it was at Costco and it's the new technology Which is the neo neo q led Uh display screen, which is the newest technology that exists out there Uh, and I brought it home And I would share the picture with it. It's on my facebook profile Um, and we put it on the stand and the tv is so huge And it's not that one of the biggest ones out there. It's 75 I think it's 75 inch Yeah, um, and I think they got them in 85 now But anyhow, it's 75 inch and the tv stand looks really tiny now So now I'm stuck get the tv stand.  You know, the stand is in the middle and supports it fine So I posted the the picture of it one line and I asked people's opinions Whoa, did I get opinions? I got so many opinions on that Overwhelmingly all women said hey get her a new stand And we're in a new house and I bought all those all new furniture Anyhow, we've already spent six figures just buying furniture for this house Um, but it's going to be a new stand now, but she's got to find that I'm not going to look for that. That's all up to her. Uh, but it's kind of funny So anyhow, the reason I share that with you is I spent thousands of dollars for a tv yesterday And I had such a good day it all got paid for within a day and that's nice And it all got paid for while I was driving around town. I just had orders coming in So that's really really nice when days like that happen And they wouldn't have happened if I hadn't tried in the beginning You know some things some things that didn't work out So richard tries some more bitcoins buy some different ones, you know Get a buy-nance account. I had the buy-nance app and you can go in there and you can find all kinds of different cryptos And you know put 50 bucks in each one or you know a hundred dollars or something and just kind of spread it out and see what happens Uh, do a little bit of research. Like I said, I do the research, you know in the stocks I buy It's never enough research, of course, but uh, I do some research So that's what I got for you today A little bit different a little bit different, uh, but it is how to you know start run and Grow your online business in a certain way And NFTs are going to be part of your business. 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Welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast where we're covering the latest stories, trends and innovations with leaders here like Anders in the global connectivity, real estate markets, and the networks within them. So I'm Candice Sipos with JSA and I'm joined today by a very exciting guest. I believe our first time with Horley on JSA TV. So I've got Anders Eklund here and I'm going to read your title so I don't mess it up. So you're director and sector lead of mission critical and data centers for Horley. Thank you for joining us today. Thanks for having me. Yeah, we're excited to have you. So first of all, since Horley was acquired by Tetra Tech back in 2021, we'd love to just get an update about how that's affected your work in the data center industry and how you're kind of supporting mission critical organizations these days. Okay. Yeah, since since the acquisition in 2021 has been very, very positive. So what that's allowed us to do is create a global platform to work with our clients. But previously we were fairly sort of UK centric, but through the acquisition, we can now look at Europe as a target market. We're collaborating all the time with our colleagues over in the US and working on a number of projects that go cross continent as well. We do regular calls. So we're able to talk about best practice, what works, what doesn't work from a design perspective and really look at some of the global trends that are affecting the market at the moment. All right, you set me up perfectly for the next question. Thank you very much. Could you name one of the biggest trends you're seeing in data center sustainability right now? Absolutely. So I mean, obviously data center creates a lot of heat. So from that perspective, it's about how you can close that loop circular economy, whatever you want to call it. So what we're seeing now as design parameters to get planning is to see some use of that waste heat, whether that be in a district heating scheme, or there's some, some, yeah, some schemes where they're heating lobster farms and salmon farms and all sorts. It depends on location, but there's lots of opportunity to reuse that heat, but it's just about how you factor that into the design. So that's one of the main trends we're seeing at the moment. Excellent. You're hitting on some hot topics here. Heat reuse, circular economy, definitely some buzzwords we've been hearing about at the ESG summit this week. So of course, Horley is a leader when it comes to intelligent data centers and AI, which are also huge topics at this conference and every digital infrastructure conference out there right now. So could you tell us your take a little bit on AI as it relates to supporting data centers? Yeah, AI fascinating. And it's growing at such a pace at the moment. I think it's going to bring some challenges, some big challenges, primarily around power, because you're looking at higher and higher density in the rack level. So we need to find a way to facilitate the additional power requirements. I mean, I think there were some numbers mentioned yesterday, possibly 38 gigawatts of additional power required just for AI. People are saying that could be double. So, you know, it's an amazing sort of future to look forward to. But what we're looking at is how we could support those facilities through non grid related sort of power. Whether that be micro grids, possibly maybe a little bit controversial in some countries, but, you know, small nuclear reactor, micro nuclear reactor and renewables, you know, whether that be wind or hydro or something similar. So in fact, on that topic, we actually have a webinar that's planned for the 19th of October, and which will talk through all of those topics and how they can help support AI as it continues to develop. Excellent. Wonderful. You heard it here first about the webinar on October 19th. Go check out the Horley website. It will be on the Horley website. It'll be on the Tetra Tech website as well. So we're just getting it all lined up at the moment. So it should be ready to click the link and register very shortly. Okay, perfect. We'll definitely check that out. You're definitely hitting on a lot of the hot topics that we're hearing about this week. And of course, Horley, Tetra Tech are huge leaders in the industry. So we're excited to chat with you. Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. Yeah, absolutely. And thank you to our viewers back home for hanging out with us today on JSATB. Happy networking.


Good day to everyone. I am Dr. Jawaharlal Eri Senior Scientist and head of the Hybrid Rise Development Consortium. I would like to take this opportunity to invite all the HRDC members and the Hybrid Rise Research community to join us at the sixth International Rise Congress in Manila, which will be held this October 16th to 19th of 2023. This Congress has been convened by the International Rise Research Institute every four years since 2002, and it is the world's biggest gathering of experts and leaders and innovators in the global rise industry. For the first time, a key event of the Congress will be the International Hybrid Rise Symposium, a milestone convention of HRDC members and hybridized stakeholders around the world. The theme of this symposium is heralding a low-carbon footprint price hybrids and will present and discuss the latest hybridized research and innovations, particularly on how the short duration and high-yielding price hybrids can be a part of the solution for the climate change challenges. What's more, after the Congress, HRDC will be bringing our members to the Eri headquarters in Laguna for the 2023 HRDC annual meeting. The annual meeting will provide the news and updates on the consortium activities and showcase the field trials and plan our next steps for advancing the hybridized technologies. So please take advantage of this chance to attend three events in one trip so that we can propel the hybridized into the forefront of innovation and food security. Thank you and I hope to see you at IFC.


Hello and welcome back to the craft box. My name is Brenton today. We are doing some pack openings Trying to get spells because I can So currently Most well all of them are on sale Three pack of loser, which is great. So I thought perfect opportunity to get some spells. Hopefully fingers crossed whereas the Where's the um? Mysterio lower pack. Okay, so what I'm trying to get is pigsy and If we have enough First pack what the heck? What the heck? Wait, what? How the what the what? Oh? My gosh, how did I get that first pack? Oh? My gosh, I'm like what? Well, we are gonna be trying to get a headless horseman now. I suppose How did we get that first pack?  Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. I Was not expecting that I was expecting to like waste so many crowns trying to get pigsy, but Apparently not. Let's try and get Hitler's horseman. And if we also get that first pack I'm gonna be shooketh Okay, we didn't that's good. Oh my god Can't believe we've got pigsy first pack.  That's something Let's see what we can get in here. I haven't actually opened up the gloom thorn nightmare pack Which is this is 20. Did I just get both spells I want in like five minutes? What the heck? Oh My gosh, what the no No, this can't be right. What the heck? Wow, okay That's something. Okay. We will finish off with a couple of But but but but but um a Couple of winter wonder packs just because I mean there's nothing really more that I want I'm just opening opening up packs for luck just to try and see if I can get anything else Crampus wallpaper, okay That's good. Good start. I mean the wand would be nice. I'm not the one the amount the Anyone of them out honestly would be nice Otherwise I think I'm fine. I Mean I got what I wanted in the first one minute. So the first minute. So I mean Yeah We should probably go and cast pixie as well I want to cast pixie snowhopper one day. Okay. I mean, I wouldn't mind that man. That's not it's really cute and the pet as well It's pretty cute Okay, let's open two more and then we'll go and cast these new spells and Do we just oh my god, this has to be like Okay, I'm gonna quit while I'm ahead. I think that's a good idea Where is it? Where is it that needs to be locked ASAP? Lock in that look at this boys. Yes. Oh my gosh. I love it Thank you for watching room to live it. I can subscribe and if you've already subscribed personally little bells So you know exactly when I post another video and remember craft outside the box


Welcome back to the School of Calisthenics, it's Tim and Lani. And here are five pushing exercises that you can use to get started. The pushing exercises in calisthenics can be broken down to vertical and horizontal. We're going to show you a selection of these and they really form the foundations for lots more movements that we want to get into, whether it be a handstand or some more interesting play movements around pushing and push-up progressions. So let's get stuck into them. Frogstand is the first stop on your hand balance and journey towards handstands and other exciting calisthenics movements. So this is a technique of how to get into it. So Lani's going to put her hands on the floor. It's important to remember she's now going to use her fingers like her toes. So the fingers are going to grip the floor to create some stability and some balance and that's going to help us to correct and find the right balance position. When she's done that about shoulder width apart she's just going to bend the elbows a little bit and she's just going to try and rest her knees. Now Lani's gone up right on top of the on the triceps here which is a great nice high position and she just rocks forward until she can find a balanced point and lift her feet off. So if you're struggling with this one you might find that you're not the confidence to go all the way over. So Lani just bring your feet back down and show us a little bit progressively load into that position. So you've just put your elbows on the back of the triceps, gently rock forwards until you find that point. When you feel like you can keep squeezing the floor and you can find the balance you're just going to take the toes off the ground and then you're going to find that you're just resting your body weight on top of your elbows and holding that frogstand. You often feel that you're going to need to go a little bit further forward so you've got to be brave on this one. Well that is a frogstand, keep gripping the floor, push the floor down hard and you're soon going to have those feet off the ground and balancing your hands for the first time. The push-up is another staple exercise that you should include in your training. We're going to go through the technique now. So Tim's going to get into a tall plank position.  We're going to think about dropping your shoulders into the joint and then we're going to turn the elbows so they're facing backwards. Tim is now going to lower himself down so the elbows stay nice and close to the side of his body. As he pushes up he keeps a nice straight line through his body and lowers down keeping that chin nice and tucked and that is how you do the push-up. If you're finding these two challenging what you can do is lower down slowly then put your knees on the ground keep your back nice and straight and push yourself back up lowering down nice and slow knees on the ground pushing back up. If that is still too challenging you can keep your knees on the ground for the full movement. Remember we want you to take your chest all the way down to the ground and then come back up. The push-up plus is an extension from the push-up and we just add an extra move in and it doesn't look like a lot but it really helps us to create some stability and some better movement mechanics around the shoulder getting the scapula to start to rotate into the positions and slide to where it needs to be to make sure the shoulder stays healthy. So Lonnie starts in her push-up position the same coach she incuses before suddenly super tight she's cracking a wall up between the butt cheeks and these shoulders dropped into the socket. When she goes into the push-up she's going to lower down and go all the way down towards the ground she holds her elbows in nice and tight to the body. When she pushes back up she's going to come back to start and then she's going to try and imagine she slides the scapula her shoulder blades around the ribcage the trick here is to make sure we're staying tight in the midsection that we don't end up sticking the bump up in the air so she drops in again let's show it through so we go down nice and controlled shoulders in a great position she pushes back up and then she finishes the movement by really driving those around it's working serrated anterior which is going to help to move that scapula into position it wants to be in when we go into some more progressive pushing vertical and horizontal positions that's a push-up plus but it comes to building pushing strength for the upper body the dip is probably one of the best exercises we can include it's an absolute staple for moving forwards with many of our calisthenics progressions so here's a technique so Loni's going to jump up onto a set of parallel bars or dipping station she drives herself up now the real key thing to this is keeping this shoulder in a good position she's going to drop down pointing the elbows behind the body and keeping that shoulder in a good shape and she's keeping the tummy tight nice straight lines looking for 90 degrees at the elbow and she drives back out what we don't want to see is you're allowing that shoulder to rock it forward so just show us a dodgy rep Loni we allow that shoulder to really round so you can see how far that head of the humus here has gone forward we're trying to keep it in looks hard to get out right so keep it in a nice stable shape one more good rep you can see it sits into good position she's working hard with the elbows and squeezing a pound corner between the shoulder blades to keep the back of that shoulder stable and that is how we set up for a nice dip movement the pike push-up is a great vertical pushing exercise for the shoulders so Tim's going to get into a push-up position he's then going to walk his feet forward his hips are nice and high his hands um fingers spread apart and arms shoulder width apart he's then going to come down on a diagonal bringing his head to make a triangle between his hands as he pushes back up nice straight line and lowers back down so what we don't want to see is as Tim comes down when he pushes back up he arches his lower back and then pushes up as if he's doing a push-up he needs to go back up on the same line he came back down on keeping those hips nice and high also you want to keep those elbows stacked on top of those wrists and that is a pike push-up so there are your five pushing exercises to get you started just remember form is key if you can't do the full range of movement regress it and don't be ashamed to so get started with those guys get them in your program until next time class dismissed


But today we're in 1 Samuel chapter 19, and so if you've opened your Bibles there, we're going to read verse 1. I'll do my introduction, and then we'll get into our study. 1 Samuel chapter 19 verse 1.  But Jonathan saw his son delighted greatly in David. Now verse 1 finally reveals the murderous intent of King Saul. He hated David. We know this is a man who began his reign as a fleshly ruler, and we saw that throughout his time he has been more concerned with power and prestige than honor. And we've seen that throughout his reign. He was somebody who had begun well. He had great privileges, but he had no personal sacrifices to attain those privileges. We saw that he was relatively young when he took over the kingdom. We saw that he was handsome, that he was tall, he came from a good family. We saw that he had a lot of advantages, but none of which he had to earn for himself. Early in his reign he was a successful warrior. He had gained respect initially from the people of Israel, but he had one great flaw. And the flaw that King Saul had was partial obedience. He was not somebody whose heart was completely the Lord's. And because of his incomplete obedience, we saw that God rejected him as the King. That was pointed out in chapter 13. In 1 Samuel 13 verse 14, Samuel was speaking to Saul and he said to him, Your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought for himself a man after his own heart. The Lord has commanded him to be commander over his people because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you. Well that man turns out to be David. As we've seen David and Saul's relationship, we've seen that initially Saul actually seemed to care for him. God had removed his spirit from Saul. A distressing evil spirit had come and began to torment him. But David was a skilled musician and he would play music for Saul and Saul was soothed by his music and his singing. But eventually David revealed himself as being more than simply a music minister. David revealed himself to be a warrior. When the Philistine giant Goliath was troubling Israel, it was David who volunteered to fight him and it was David who defeated him. Well that caused Saul to be taken by David and Saul recruited him to be a military commander in his army. He also gave him his youngest daughter, a woman by the name of Michael, to be his wife. Now as David went about his business as a commander, we saw this in chapter 18. David won the heart of anyone he encountered. He actually won the heart of Jonathan. He won the heart of the men of war of Israel. He won the heart of the women of Israel. He actually won all Israel and Judah and he even won Saul's daughter. They all loved him. And according to chapter 18, verse 30, his name became highly esteemed. Well that was the final straw. Saul could no longer hide his hatred. David was returning with Saul from a victorious campaign against the Philistines.   And that's what we see. Out of envy, he plainly states that he wants David dead. He can no longer take this. So he has something that he's dealing with and I want to begin our study by looking at that for just a moment. He's dealing with envy. Envy is a terrible sin. It's a sin that can corrupt you in every way. It's a sin that consumes you, this sin of envy. It's common today. It's a common sin that many people have. They're not even aware of it and they're not even sensing a guilt for it. Many people don't even know what the word means. What does it mean to be envious? And a lot of people don't really know what it means to have envy in their heart. I wanted to give you a definition and so the word envy simply means this. Envy is a feeling of discontent and resentment aroused by and in conjunction with desire for the possessions or qualities of another. People want what somebody else has, either the possessions or the qualities. Whatever it is that they have, people have an envious desire for that. They want it so desperately. Envy is something that causes discontent in the heart of people and there are a lot of Americans today who are extremely envious and they just don't realize it. They don't even know how to define it. They don't even realize they're fighting it. You see, I've discovered that in some cases it's easier to mourn with those who mourn and it's harder to rejoice with those who rejoice. If somebody's gone through a hard time, you can be seated next to them perhaps and put your arm around their shoulder and even cry a few tears with them and it seems sometimes it's easier to do that than it is to rejoice when somebody's life is being blessed. I think sometimes when we may be crying with somebody, we may be crying that we're sad for them but glad inside of our heart that that didn't happen to us. When it comes to rejoicing though, that's a different thing entirely. Rejoicing is more difficult because somebody's being blessed and you can get the feeling that you're not and so if somebody's getting blessed and you're not, you can become envious very easily. There's an easy way to discover whether or not we even suffer with that. You just have to ask yourself what happens. What happens when somebody's marriage or somebody's work or somebody's family or somebody's business? What happens when somebody's health or finances are great and they tell you. They tell you, man, my marriage has never been so good and you're going through a struggle in your own. The work, I've got work, steady work and you're having a difficult time with your job or our family is doing so good. My kid's on the honor roll and yours just got kicked out of school. How do you feel about that? You saw that bumper sticker where it says my kid's on the honor roll at such and so school and somebody else has a bumper sticker that says my kid can beat your honor student up. That's kind of how we are in some ways. What happens when they say, we sold our house. We're moving into a better home in a nicer neighborhood or they got a razor in advancement.  I mean, what happens?  Oh, yeah, it's a great car. It's because I got a promotion. I got a bonus. And you're thinking, man, you know, I'm hardly holding on to anything here. Oh, yeah, and we're moving out. We've got a new home in another place and how do you feel about that? What goes on in your heart? That helps you. It helps you to gauge whether or not you have envy. Can you rejoice with somebody who's rejoicing? Can you say, you know what? God's hand of blessing is on you and I praise God for that? A lot of people can't. A lot of people get upset over that. How do you feel? Well, in Proverbs chapter 14, verse 30, the Bible says, a sound heart is life to the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones. It consumes you from the inside, envy. What we do as Christians, believers, is we need to really understand that we belong to one another, that the body of Christ is not just a group of people who show up in the same location on a Sunday, but is greater than that. The body of Christ is a family throughout the world, and we rejoice with those who rejoice. We rejoice because we're family members. I rejoice if my kids are honored. I rejoice if my wife is honored because she's my wife. She's my family. Those kids are mine. And so I rejoice if they're honored. I rejoice with them because they're family, and that's how we should do it. In 1 Corinthians 12, 26, it says, if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. All of us ought to be glad to see God moving in their life.   How come they're not here today? Oh really, his church is growing? Oh, praise God.   That's a hypothetical, of course. I never thought that. Well, here's the bottom line is very simple. We see it in verse 1 here. We see that Saul wants David dead, and he now openly makes it known. It's interesting, though, in verse 1, how it says that Jonathan Saul's son delighted greatly in David. So in the midst of Saul turning away from and wanting David dead, you actually have somebody there in the inner court who's aware of what's taking place and has a true friend. Jonathan is going to do his best to protect David from his father, and so you see in verse 2 and 3, Jonathan told David, saying, my father Saul seeks to kill you, therefore please be on your guard until morning, stay in a secret place and hide, and I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will speak with my father about you. Then what I observe, I'll tell you. So he begins to cover his back as what he's doing. This begins about a 10 year period in the life of David hiding from the envy of Saul. Now for about 10 years or so, David is going to learn many lessons through the hardships that he endures, and what is going to happen over that period is he's going to become the greatest king Israel will ever have, but he has to go into hiding. He is now going to be going off and on into seclusion, hiding from the envious murderous intent of Saul. Well, it says in verse 4, thus Jonathan spoke well of David, to Saul his father said to him, let not the king sin against his servant against David because he has not sinned against you and because his works have been very good toward you. For he took his life in his hands, killed the Philistine, and the Lord brought about a great deliverance for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood and kill David without a cause? And so immediately what we see here is Jonathan is speaking well of David. David's been a loyal man. He's demonstrated this by his life. He hasn't sinned against you and his works have been very good toward you.  And by the way, he's innocent.  You can't break God's commandments by doing something like that. And so as he's speaking to him, notice verse 6, Saul heeded the voice of Jonathan. Saul swore as the Lord lives, he shall not be killed. Then Jonathan called David and Jonathan told him all these things to Jonathan brought David to Saul and he was in his presence as in times past. And so his words spoke to the heart of Saul and soothed his anger for the time being. About 37 years ago, I memorized the scripture and I'm encouraging you in the scripture right now. It's Proverbs 15 verse one. Great scripture, a soft answer turns away wrath, but harsh words stir up anger. Soft answer versus harsh words. What do you do when somebody's confronting you? What do you do when somebody's angry? How do you deal with their anger?  Do you just get in their face in return? Do you just return harsh word for harsh word? Is that what you do?  You can do that. Or do you give them a soft answer? We have to learn to give soft answers because soft answers actually will cause the tension and the anger that the other person is having. It can help to soothe that anger so that they don't get even more agitated and possibly even violent. That's what we see with Jonathan. Jonathan has given a soft answer here. He's trying to keep his father from slaying his friend and therefore he speaks to him and says, listen, he's been loyal to you. And dad, by the way, as a warrior, he valiantly destroyed your enemy, Goliath. And beyond that, if you were to go and you were to slay him, he's an innocent man. You'd be violating the law of God. I've had to learn as a pastor to utilize a soft answer approach many times. I've had some very interesting experiences over the years ministry where people have been very angry and raised their voices and on occasion, they've been just very, very angry at me. And I don't know why I'm such a nice guy, but anyway, that's happened more than once. I can remember one occasion where somebody approached me after a Sunday morning, I stepped off to the platform and they were standing at the foot of the platform waiting to speak to me. And as I approached them, they said, listen, the Lord has given me a word for you. And if you do not listen, he drew his hand back. I said, I am to smite you. I didn't feel like being smitten that day, so I listened. And it was interesting that he was just so upset. And it happens sometimes where people will be angry at something that they hear and they get sometimes threateningly angry. And how do you deal with that? How do you deal with it when somebody is really wanting to hit you in the head or do they get loud?  I've discovered over the years that if somebody is raising the voice, I actually soften mine. It has a way of tempering it, and it does. The louder they get and the softer my voice, the more contrast there is and they realize that they're raising the voice. There are times when I have said, please don't be raising your voice. And I'll say it like that. I had a lady one time in my office who was very, very angry at me.  And she came very angrily and was in my office and it was Marie. No, it wasn't, I'm just kidding. No, and she was yelling at me. And I mean raised her voice and I remember very well, this was when our church was very young, I remember very well looking at her as she was yelling at me and I said, listen, I said my wife doesn't raise her voice to me and I'm certainly not gonna let you. If you wanna converse with me, lower your voice. Oh, she got angry, left the church, you know, but the bottom line is there's some people that can get really angry. My assistant pastor who was in the next office over came into my office, knocked on the door, and he said, I thought Marie was yelling at you. I said, what? And I said, my wife doesn't raise her voice to me. That was your wife, no. I said, my wife doesn't raise her voice to me. You see, that doesn't work. It only stirs up more anger. And you know what I'm talking about. If somebody's angry at you and they raise their voice and you'll raise yours in return and then they raise, and before you know it, it just escalates. Where are you going? You're going in a place you don't wanna go.  You don't have to be, because I've spoken about this before, where you're being controlled by their anger. You don't have to let somebody control you by their anger. What you can do is bring some peace into the situation.  It just doesn't work. When you're screaming at each other, it doesn't work, does it? When somebody cools off, when somebody keeps it down, at least you have a chance to embrace and peace later on. At least you have a chance. But you can start saying things that you don't wanna say that you shouldn't have said.  And it just doesn't work. In the case of David and Jonathan in Saul, Jonathan simply says, he hasn't sinned against you. He's done good for you. It's against the law of God for you to kill him. He's an innocent man and this soothes the anger and brings the temperature down, if you will. And so in verse eight, continuing, there was war again. And David went out and fought with the Philistines and struck them with a mighty blow and they fled from him.  So David fled and escaped that night. Well, Saul's promise of peace didn't last long, did it? And once again, David fought, David was victorious. His reputation is enhanced in Israel. Again, Saul's envy is provoked and out of jealous rage. He tries to drive a spear through him. Once again, David escapes. Well, verse 11, Saul also sent messengers to David's house to watch him and to kill him in the morning.  So Michael let David down through a window and he went and fled and escaped and Michael took an image and laid it in the bed, put a cover of goats hair for his head and covered it with clothes. Now remember in chapter 18, verse 21, at one point Saul thought he could use his daughter as a snare against David. Turns out at this point she isn't a snare. And as this is taking place, they come, they wanna take him, she's aware of the plan and so she's protecting him. And as a result of this, David actually composed a psalm. You see it in Psalm 59. David wrote about this in Psalm 59 and he said this, he said, deliver me from my enemies, oh my God, defend me against those who rise up against me. Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, save me from bloodthirsty men. For look, they lie and wait for my life, the mighty gather against me, not for my transgression nor for my sin, oh Lord, they run and prepare themselves through no fault of mine, awake to help me and behold. So David was aware of what was taking place. He actually wrote a psalm concerning this. Well in verse 14, when Saul sent messages to take David, she said, he's sick. Saul sent the messengers back to see David saying, bring him up to me in the bed that I may kill him. And when the messengers had come in, there was the image in the bed with the cover of goat's hair for his head. Saul said to Michael, why have you deceived me like this and sent my enemy away so that he has escaped? Michael answered Saul, he said to me, let me go, why should I kill you?  Sometimes they get pretty polished and it's hard to. Most of the time, you do. It would seem to me that Saul more than likely would know that Michael was lying. Well what's he gonna do? What's he got to do? He can't do anything about this so he has to leave it go. He can't do anything about it. So as a result, verse 18 tells us, David fled and escaped and went to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and stayed in Nayat. Now it was told Saul saying, take note, David is at Nayat in Ramah. Then Saul sent messengers to take David and when they saw the group of prophets prophesying and Samuel standing as leader over them, the spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul and they also prophesied. And when Saul was told, he sent other messengers. They prophesied likewise. Then Saul sent messengers again the third time and they prophesied also. Now I wanna develop this with you and I'm gonna move into some practical things in just a moment as we look at this because there's gotta be some purpose in this that we can take and we can apply to our own life. So let me share a couple of things with you here. Interestingly, that word that I keep mispronouncing, Nayat, that word is an interesting word. Literally that word is defined house of study. That's what that word means. It's not speaking of a city or a town. It's speaking of like a seminary. It's a house of study. It's a place where students who are learning the ways of God would lodge. Now David obviously is familiar with this particular place, Nayat. It's a house of study and some commentators believe that after Samuel had anointed David, that David actually stayed there under the tutelage of Samuel to be trained up in the ways of God. Remember with me that King David is intended not only to be king, he's also a warrior and he is also a prophet. Now sometimes we fail to realize that. We know that David, this great king of Israel, was a mighty king. We also know that he's a mighty warrior. All you need to do is read his life story here in 1st and 2nd Samuel and you see that all about. This man was a warrior, this man was a king, but sometimes we fail to remember that he also was used as a prophet. And so what you have here is you have a man who went to the school of the prophets. This is a man who actually sat under Samuel to be trained in the ways of God. Now as a man who was being trained under Samuel in the ways of God, he also took upon himself a prophetic role. Listen, when you read the Psalms, you're gonna see that a lot of the Psalms are what are called messianic Psalms. These are Psalms that were written in reference prophetically to Messiah who was to come and David wrote quite a number of them. You can see that David wrote Psalm 2, Psalm 8, Psalm 40, Psalm 41, Psalm 69 as well as Psalm 110.  So David was not only a king, not only was he a warrior, but he also was prophetic. That's why David would flee to Samuel. And that's why Samuel took him to what we today would call a student's dorm. And where they're at, where this is all taking places, is like a seminary and they enter in these people, these messengers who are coming to find David are actually entering into, it's like a sanctuary, they're entering into a chapel service, if you will. And there are the students of the Bible, they're the prophets in the school of the prophets are being trained up and what they're doing is they're prophesying, they're speaking forth the mind of God. But it's not simply that they are standing there speaking forth scripture and prophesying to one another and learning how to hear the voice, they're singing. And what happens is these messengers come in and as they walk in, the Holy Spirit moves on them and they join the band, they actually are part of the band and there they are singing. And this is all taking place by the work of the Holy Spirit. Now, as this is happening, verse 22, then he also went to Rama and came to a great well that is at Sekhu and he asked and said, where are Samuel and David? Someone said, indeed they are at Nayath in Rama. And so he went there to Nayath in Rama and then the Spirit of God was upon him also and he went on and prophesied until he came to Nayath in Rama and he stripped off his clothes, prophesied before Samuel in like manner, laid down naked all that day and all that night, therefore they say, is Saul also among the prophets. I want to develop this with you for a moment here. I want you to see something. Notice verse 23, it says, God's Spirit came upon Saul and he prophesied all the way to Nayath. Something had happened like this before in his life. In 1 Samuel chapter 10, we know that Samuel had given to Saul various signs that would come to pass that would make him aware of the fact that he was going to be the king of Israel. And one of those things is found in verses 10 and 11 of 1 Samuel chapter 10. It says, they came to the hill, there was a group of prophets to meet him, the Spirit of God came upon him, he prophesied among them and it happened when all who knew him formerly saw that he indeed prophesied among the prophets, that the people said to one another, what is this that has come upon the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets? He had had an experience like this before when he was to be anointed as the king of Israel. But what is happening here in this case is the Spirit of God is keeping him from harming David. And I wanna develop this with you for a moment. The Spirit restrained Saul from doing harm to David. In the New Testament, one of the works of the Holy Spirit is that the Holy Spirit restrains evil. If you take notes, 2 Thessalonians chapter two verses six and seven says, you know what is restraining that he may be revealed in his own time. This is speaking of the Antichrist. You know what is restraining that he, speaking of Antichrist, may be revealed in his own time. But he goes on to say, for the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way. He who now restrains is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is restraining Antichrist from being revealed is what Paul is saying and will continue to do so until the Holy Spirit is removed from doing that particular work and then the Antichrist is going to be revealed for what he is. The Holy Spirit restrains evil. When we first moved into this church location, I received a letter from somebody who was angry at us because he said, we used to have a quiet neighborhood and your church is now making the neighborhood too loud. And I wished that the church wasn't here. And I wrote back and I said, well, the day is coming when the church won't be here. It's called the rapture. I said, but you need to appreciate the presence of the church in the community because the presence of the church in a community restrains the evil of that community. We are salt and we are light. And God has given to us a responsibility to restrain evil. So the more people showing up at a church on Sunday, the better because the less evil will be found in your city. You ought to rejoice over that rather than to be angry. But if you're wanting the church to be gone, there's a time when we will be gone. But when that time comes, all hell will break loose and you'll wish the church were still here. You see, the Holy Spirit works through us and the Holy Spirit works to restrain evil. And the Holy Spirit does that in a powerful way. In the case of Saul, the Holy Spirit comes upon him and he is unable to harm David. He's unable to do so because the Spirit is restraining him. The Spirit is keeping him from doing harm. God's Spirit is protecting David from his desire to kill him because David is a rightful king. The Psalmist in Psalm 105 verse 15 says, do not touch my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm. And God is protecting this one David. And it's amazing how the Holy Spirit works because I'm certain that the Holy Spirit did not tap Saul on the shoulder and say excuse me, I'm gonna restrain you. The Holy Spirit simply does. The Holy Spirit works in a mysterious way to protect you. Marie and I were driving, my wife and I were driving one time I was asked to speak at a church that was about an hour's drive from where we live. And we're on the freeway and we're driving on the way and it was one of those days there was no traffic. It was amazing, it was no traffic. It was just me and Marie on this freeway in this particular section.  It's just one of those miracles in California that you're on the freeway without being just, you know, hemmed in by cars on every side. Now when I drive I usually drive in the third lane to the, from the right next to the fast lane. That's why I usually drive because I don't like driving in the slow lane because sometimes when people get on the slow lane they're going too slow and it's dangerous. So I have a tendency of driving in the third or the fourth lane from the right. And as I was driving there, there's no traffic in front of me, there's hardly any traffic behind me. And as we're driving there's a chain-link fence that's separating our side of the freeway from the other side of the freeway. We're going west and the other car is traveling east and the chain-link fence there. And I'm there in the third lane from the right for no reason, for no reason at all. I change lanes. For no reason there was, I didn't think about it, I just began to change lanes and I move into the slow lane. And I don't even, I to this day can't tell you there was, you know, a thought process involved. I just decided I'd rather be in the slow lane. And as God is my witness, when I got into the slow lane coming towards us on the oncoming traffic, on the traffic going to the east, an 18 foot stake bed went blowing through the chain-link fence. Blew through the fence and shot into the lane that I was in. And then went past and went back and actually went past on the other side.  Because he was going 65, 70 miles an hour. I was going 65, 70 miles an hour. We would have had a head-on. There would have been no time for me to be able to react because I'm telling you that truck blew through that chain-link fence like it wasn't there and I didn't see it until it was past us. It just blew past us. And I turned to Marie, my wife, and I go, wow, heavy. And she goes, yeah. And we just went going and went and did Bible study. But I started thinking about that. I go, whoa, you know, hippie language. That was an incredible experience. The Holy Spirit, He protects you.  You just chose not to. You just didn't go and it turns out an accident and something happened. If you'd have been there at that time, something would have happened to you. I believe that the Holy Spirit orchestrates our steps in ways that we, it's mysterious in some ways and many times it's to protect us from injury. And you can get this sense, you know, we are invulnerable, we are invincible until the Lord decides to take us home. I know I'm indestructible until the Lord decides to take me home. We were on a flight one time. We were coming home from Israel. We happened upon some very bad weather in New York. It was so bad that when the plane tried to land in New York they had to abort that landing, took off, kept aborting. It got so bad that everything was, there were people who were literally crying on the plane. They were vomiting and I told Raul, come on, be a man, stop it. But there were so many people. There were so many, we were on an all airline and Jewish people were taking us, wanting us to go pray with them. That's how serious it was. They were serious. They're getting Christians, come and pray with us. We need all the prayer we can get. The masks are falling out from the ceiling. And I was sitting in my seat reading the newspaper. And I'm just reading the newspaper and I'm telling you things are, it was really heavy. And they finally took us to Montreal. My daughter Corinne on the flight after we landed walks up to me and she says to me, daddy, why weren't you scared? And I said, the Lord's with me. I said, and I know that God is not through with our church yet. And she looks me straight in the eye and she says, has it ever occurred to you that maybe he doesn't need you to finish the work that he has for the church? I said, not at the moment. Now you're scaring me. What's that all about? Come on now. God's Holy Spirit, God's Holy Spirit restrains evil. This world is not as evil as it can be and will be when the Holy Spirit is removed. And the Holy Spirit has a way of protecting. You know, King Saul came to kill David, but there was another Saul, another Saul from Tarsus in the New Testament who had gone up to the priests and had received from them letters that gave him authority to take whomever he had encountered who were members of the way, Christians, put him in shackles, bring him back to Jerusalem, try him as heretics and have him put to death. That's what King Saul was doing in Acts chapter nine. It speaks how he was breathing out threatenings and he was going to Damascus in order that he might arrest Christians. But he was arrested by the Spirit of God. He was stopped from the work that he was doing. And God saved him. God brought through the same Holy Spirit, not only restraint, but he also brought conviction and ultimately Saul experienced salvation through the same Holy Spirit who convicted and brought him to faith in Christ. Then he was baptized in the Holy Spirit and was used by God in a marvelous way to take the gospel throughout the world before he ended up being beheaded for preaching that same message that he persecuted others for preaching. God has a way through his Holy Spirit of restraining evil. Think about the times that God has spoken to you and has tried to and been successful often in restraining you or me from doing what was wrong. You knew it.  You knew that you could start getting so angry that you could raise your voice and say hurtful things and the Holy Spirit is saying to you, be quiet, don't say anything, leave it alone, I'll take care of it. But no, no, no, you've got to take care of it. And you end up saying things that end up breaking a heart or breaking up a marriage because you weren't restrained.  The Holy Spirit is saying to you, don't do it. You know he's saying, don't do it. You couldn't even find your keys.  You can't find them. You say to your wife, where's my keys? And my wife said, I, you know, the Holy Spirit is giving you a moment to cool down. He's giving you a moment to stop. And you can stop. You can stop it. Maybe you don't.  Are you with your girlfriend or somebody else's wife? You know you're not supposed to be there doing those things. The Holy Spirit is saying, you shouldn't be doing what you're about to do. You're convicted and he's trying to restrain you and he's speaking to your heart and you have an opportunity at that point to do the right things because the Holy Spirit's giving you a moment. He's restraining you, but you have to make the right decision.  The Holy Spirit is saying to you, you don't need to do this. You shouldn't do this. And you make a decision. Should you or shouldn't you do it? And it's all through the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit has a way of working, doesn't he? You're starting to talk about somebody to one of your friends, the phone rings, just as you're about to get to that juicy bit of gossip. Phone rings, the Holy Spirit says, where are you going with your conversation? Oh, it's gonna be a matter of prayer, Lord. No, it's not. You're gonna gossip. You wait until the phone conversation is over and then you say, as I was saying a moment ago, you go right back to the gossip or do you restrain yourself? You see, God gives to us opportunities by His Holy Spirit to do the right thing. And that's what He's doing here in the case of Saul. Actually, with King Saul, what he's doing is he's just keeping him from doing the wrong thing.  What's interesting though in this, and I want you to see this in verse 24 and we'll close with this.  Therefore, they say, is Saul also among the prophets. It's interesting that he removes his clothing. He's stripped off his clothes. So that means he removes any armor that he has. He removes his royal garments. And this reveals that God is rejecting him as king. He completely strips him. He's rejected as king. No royal garments, no armor. And what God does is he begins to work in this manner. It reveals to us that God holds people's hearts in his hands. And Saul cannot do what Saul wanted to do because God restrains him. And as this is taking place, people are wondering, what happened to Saul? Is Saul also among the prophets, they say? But what is sad is this is the last time the Spirit of God ever rests on Saul. This is it. He has stripped naked. Naked he came into the world. Naked he's going to leave it. He doesn't have the authority anymore. It's being removed from him. The Spirit isn't going to move on him. This is it for him. And it was all due to his partial obedience, yielding to his envious spirit. And he ultimately is rejected completely as we will see as we continue our studies. So when the Holy Spirit speaks to us, do we listen? That's the key. Father, I ask that you continue to move in us today. Lord, I ask that we would have hearts to hear what the Spirit says. And that we would be sensitive to his leading. For your word says that the steps of a righteous man are ordained of you. That we can walk by the Spirit and thus not fulfill the lust of the flesh. So I'm asking Lord that you might work within us today that we might walk in your spirit and be sensitive to your restraint to make choices that are proper and honoring to you Lord. Our eyes are closed, our heads are bowed. Perhaps I have some in this room right now who need to get right with the Lord. And you sense that you need to get right with him.  If you need prayer to get right with him I want to pray for you right now. Would you raise your hand and let me pray for you right where you're at? Lord you see these hands and you know the reason why they're being raised to you right now. I'm asking now in Jesus' name that you would reach down and touch them as their hands are raised to you. Reach down and touch them Lord. Unburden them as they yield to you. Wash them, cleanse them, empower them as they open to you. Refresh them and Lord from this day on use them for your glory. Make all things new, make them new right now Lord. As their hearts are open to you and we receive. Thank you Lord, bless you. You can put your hands down. In Jesus I ask that you keep moving in us today. All of us that we might serve you. In your name, amen. Let's all stand. May the Holy Spirit work in us today so that when he does lead us and does restrain as we recognize his voice. Our Father we lift up to you our lives. Tonight as we gather, tomorrow night, Wednesday night whenever it is that we get together Tuesday morning I ask that you continue to move within us and through us and use us, equip us for works of service.  And Father we thank you for this nation that we live in. We thank you for the military Lord that are on duty even now. We thank you Lord for the work that you do. And I ask that you would work in us Lord. We lift up our president, we lift up our Congress. We lift up Lord this nation. And we pray that you would guide us Lord, give us wisdom, surround us Lord with those that love and serve you and hear from you so that this nation may return to the place that it once was and can be again Lord. A place that's aware of your presence. So we lift up to you our lives. And we ask that you use us as we go into the places of ministry, as we go into a field that is in need of Christ, use us to bring him to others. And we ask this now in Jesus' name, amen. God bless you.


Morning everybody picked up those tires in Burlington, Iowa They've got to go to a town called Langbank's a sketch one and the last time we were in my not We were talking about bad service that we had at another truck stop on the other side of town So I went to the Shats Crossroads now Amazing. It's very nice Thank you all blues ready to go now I'm ready to go From the border they're expecting me My custom says cleared already cleared last night, which is awesome So we're good to go. She's started her up Is our rolling down the road you want to come with me? Don't forget to make sure you're subscribed to my channel down below Make new videos every day as we're shuckin across North America My region and everything that I do is described in the description of all my videos The only thing that's changed is that we sold our land I was reading my description and video yesterday. Oh, that's still there Because I don't put that in every day. I just have it as default It always goes in there We had land and we're gonna build our dream house on it Our dream has since adjusted since we've had our baby and we're gonna be staying in town where there's more services available So we won't be building our house on that land anymore But that doesn't really have a lot to do with what we're doing right here today. So let's get to trucking I'll leave that subscribe button to you right down below the video pause the video right now Just go make sure you're subscribed. Sometimes you get unsubscribed for no reason just by YouTube. I don't know. I don't know Just make sure double check for me if you don't mind Hit that like button when you're ready to Let's hit the road customer. Let them know that hey, I'm at the bar or I'll see you soon Dining and dancing over there in case you want to go dancing. I've never seen that I don't think it's open anymore. There's a for rent sign in the window if you want to rent a dance hall Portal North Dakota it's your place. So this is portal North Dakota Just over the line there this little invisible line that runs runs through here behind that green building the line there That's North portal Very original with their town names out here. I know I believe this used to be just one town and then one day They're like, you know what we're just gonna cut you in half that half's ours that half's theirs So this is portal North Dakota. The other side is North portal Saskatchewan once we cross the line We're also in mountain time zone because Saskatchewan is smart and does not participate in the ridiculousness of daylight savings time So they stay the same all the time. So in summer time, they're off partying with Alberta in mountain time in winter time They fall back to Manitoba to keep us warm together So winter time there on our time Alberta summer time there with Alberta. So it's summer time We gain an hour as soon as we cross the border because here in North Dakota. This is still central time It's confusing, right? You got a right on the line You got to make sure you know what time zone you're in so that you can make your delivery appointment accurately I forgot that that happened. So I just looked at the time now I'm like, oh, okay So I should be at my customer at about two o'clock and I punched it into my GPS here and it says oh You'll be there at one o'clock Hey Better check her work, right? You never just trust your GPS a checker worker. You're actually taking me to the right place Why am I gonna save an hour? That's right daylight savings time. So we have to give credit where credit is due. I hate saying this. It's hard to say Thanks Karen Reminded me that once we cross the line I gain an hour. So I'm not gonna be at my customer at two o'clock I'm gonna be there at one o'clock in an hour early. It worked out for me At least it's not the other way around of being an hour late. I'll be an hour early So let's go and let's go get these tires off this trailer I'm gonna make a quick call into the office before I get moving see if they've got any plans for me I might be just heading back to Manitoba for a reload. Maybe they'll send me to Waverne that's close by sometimes I pick up loads there Call in and see what the load gods have for me. I got a kneel down and beg and grovel at their feet I'm just kidding. It's not like that. They're great people. They'll find me something That's why I'm happy that all those headaches are Or I don't have to sit somewhere, you know, like search through load boards myself looking for the perfect load They do that for me and then they ask me. Hey, how's this look? Hey, how's this one look? We got this on this and are this one which one do you want?  I have the message saying that my load has been cleared so I can show up at the window there And they're expecting me like I always say never show up to the border before they're expecting you They really don't like that. It messes up paperwork messes up your whole day They have to know what's coming. Who's bringing it in what truck where to come from? Where's it going? What's in it? And then they might want to double check and take a closer look at it. Maybe Depending, you know You when I hold when I used to hold drive ads for six years, you know, they'd ask what's in the trailer They'd have to you know, take what's on the paperwork and my word for it or they'd get me to back into the dog And they double check right, but I have an open deck now. I'm on open deck division. I like it a lot better actually And they can just see what's on my trailer like so what are you hauling my tires You see But you know, they may want to run me through scanners and stuff to see that there's nothing inside the tires and they they got to make sure that you know Canada and us are very friendly countries. We're I don't want to say we're practically the same because We're not we have separate histories and separate issues and stuff, but we're very we're like siblings, you know two brothers Are related have the same last name have the same family name have the same parents But they're two different people right they get married to different people and they start their own families That's sort of Canada and the u.s. We're siblings We get along very well, but we still need to know what goes across our border this way and what goes across our border that way You've got to keep track of everything.  I don't have an issue. I cross all the time like a couple of times a week Usually at Pembina and Emerson sometimes here at North portal and portal You know, I'm sure my name is all over in their system. They know me when I pull up They know my truck some of them watch my videos. I know that because they've told me That's usually that a very Decent experience a good experience. They're not there to be my friend. I show up at the window They ask me all that they need to know usually they'll be like, you know, where'd you come from? Where'd you go? How long were you gone? Did you buy anything? Is there any weapons aboard? Is there Any drugs alcohol tobacco on board? Do you have anything to declare you're not allowed to take fresh fruit or meat across the border? Yeah, typical questions and sometimes they'll like throw throw in a weird one in there just to throw you off Or they'll ask you the same question, but like three different ways Just to see if you'll come up with the same answer Just just answer them. They're just doing their jobs speak when spoken to I never go into detail I mean if they want to know the details, they'll ask I'm not going to tell them my life story. They want to know more they'll ask and I'll tell them more Got nothing to hide so I got nothing to worry about Don't be nervous when you go up there They're just doing their jobs I mean unless if you got something to hide then you should be nervous because they're gonna they're gonna find out They're they're trained to know these things All right enough bibble babbling Let's give her let's get across the border. All these trucks are cutting in front of me. Oh dear. My fault. My fault. I stopped Now they're getting in front of me I'll see you on the other side The great white north Currently the great green north. I like that one better Is that you wanted to use the 44 kilometers?  I got googles. They were both giving me different routes I chose to go with google I will tell the government now that I am on duty unloading cargo. I always want to know what I'm doing. What are you doing now? What are you doing now? What are you doing later? Blah blah blah. Why does it want to switch me back onto american hours of service? I'm nowhere near the border right now my friend. No, this thing's acting weird on me here Now it wants to change back to canada. Well, why can't you change in the first place? Of course, we're in canada Technology, I tell you there we go. Okay, we're on duty for unloading cargo Are you happy government?  I'm just joking. It is a little bit excessive. I think but I understand the need for regulation and laws You don't want it just to be a complete free for all. I'm not a libertarian in that way I'm a conservative guy.  My zipper hasn't been working that great on this thing lately I'm gonna have to get a new one soon. Let's see if it works now. It opens it I know I'm working on it and trying to bring my weight down That's what I tell the scale every time I roll over it. I know I'm a little heavy. I know I'm not going on a diet. I'm just trying to get more active I know I'll talk to you when we're out of here. I can put on my Scottish hat when I do that. I have one I think it's still in here Right. It's in here somewhere So we have our marching orders. My trailer is empty We're gonna call it a week Going home. The trailer in the yard is the tri axle I don't want to drag around a tri axle for longer than I have to just in case it's needed for a heavier load, right? Head back to the shop Should be at the shop tonight then sometime I think Unless if something else comes up Nice and sunny like 10 minutes ago across under Manitoba and boom A little moist out there for the crops. I think all the farmers around here have got their fields seeded already so I'm thinking they're probably pretty thankful for this rain I'm in the burden Manitoba on the west side Over a few hours from our yard It should make it to the shop tonight You did good another week old blue. That was a good week Slowly Finding places for everything in here Definitely not finished yet probably have to build quite a bit of shelving in here but First things first, I mean maybe this weekend I'll get to Tape the lines on the floor again like I had in the other shop Oh whatever that's okay for now I rinsed her down before I brought it in here It's time to go home and hold my baby That was a good day, you know started off in Minot, North Dakota Delivered into Langbanks the sketch one And then came home empty dropped the empty trailer off the triaxial because I don't need it and leave it there for someone who does need it And old blue is back home So I guess I'll talk to you soon. I gotta go home right old blue You have a good night Enough we go a bit of a short week this week while we left early monday morning And when I'm filming this it's a thursday evening feel a little slow towards the end of the week sometime I wish I would have scheduled old blue in for a service tomorrow then if I would have known I'd be home that's what I would have done but Usually I schedule the services for mondays because it's easier to make sure i'm home on a monday because I leave during the week And If i'm taking a load through past the house and I happen to go past here on the weekend It's much easier to stop in and make sure I just stay home a little extra longer So that the truck can get serviced on a monday, right? Fridays is kind of unpredictable sometimes i'm home fridays sometimes i'm not Not complaining though. I've got some work. I gotta do at home. I'm gonna start painting the outside of the house soon I don't think I don't think that'll be a this weekend or this month project. I think that's going to be a july project I gotta get a hand sander palm sander Sand down the old paint just a little bit and uh, I already got the paint and everything to uh Repaint the outside of the house Oh, there's that there's always projects. There's always something to do, right? And now that we have a baby in the mix too The list is endless And that's why I say everybody's trucking life and trucking work life balance is different When I show you how my life is it's not necessarily how your trucking life is going to be When you're on the road you got to find out where your balance is And what works for you? I know kurt on trucking with schmidt was saying the same thing uh about a week or two ago I would how staying out longer for him doesn't really equal more money Depends on the load. I guess. I mean i'm on percentage. So it depends on what you're hauling Depends on many empty miles That depends on a lot of factors, you know, it's not the same for me every month either It's not like a set in stone like every single month is the same. I don't work by the hour I work by the job and the jobs are always different