What's shaking? My name's Cam. Welcome back to another video. It has been about four months since I tried writing for 10 hours straight and live streaming the whole thing. Uh, it wasn't the funnest thing I've ever done. I'll be honest, but it did have its moments. This is amazing. I think everyone needs to follow Cam. I want nonstop alerts. You should have seen when I first did a stream with like the alerts on, I didn't know how to adjust the volume. So it was just really loud. So every five seconds, because it was the first time people knew I had to switch to, it was just going off like every couple of seconds. Everyone's like, it's so loud. Yeah.  I... It's been about three years since I tried writing for 24 hours straight. I didn't live stream that one, but to put it in a few words, it sucked. I didn't plan it very well, truth be told.  I only made it about like 12 hours in the end, but to be honest, the last four hours, the last four hours or so probably shouldn't count because most of it was just like gibberish. I didn't plan it as well as I could have. I think if I tried it again, I could make it to maybe 12 hours, at least a lot easier. But I still don't think that I could sit down and write for 24 hours straight. Even with breaks, I just don't see that being a reality. It's with that in mind that I'm extremely proud of my friend and fellow boomer, Kate Kavanaugh, for making it 22.5 hours into a 24-hour write-a-thon. Technically, you did still fail, Kate, but at the very least, I think you deserve a single clap. I popped in on one of Kate's live streams during a write-a-thon because she did a couple of live streams throughout the day and night. So in just a minute, I'm going to show you some of my favorite moments from that live stream that we did together. If I'm being honest, I don't plan on ever doing a 24-hour write-a-thon because truthfully, I think I would come out the other side of it more manic than Donnie from the Wild Thornbreeze. However, I am thinking of doing a 12-hour write-a-thon. Not just that, but a 12-hour live write-a-thon. 12 hours of solid live streaming. Kind of like the 10-hour one where we would just chat and write just continuously. Like that live stream, I would want to have other author tubers popping in as well. I did make it the full 10 hours last time, but I have to admit, I was a bit nauseous by the end of it. I think next time I do it, I do need to put like a good half-hour break in the middle there. A good stretch of time where I can just kind of kick back, maybe have a meal or something like that as opposed to like a couple of random five-minute breaks, which is what I did last time. If I do do it again, I also want to make it a bit more fun and interactive with the people in the live chat. I want to include like games and giveaways, that kind of stuff. Like, just as an example, maybe there's a wheel that I spin that decides something random. Like, for the next 20 minutes, I have to write standing up. Stuff like that. Anyway, Kate said that she's cool with me posting my favorite moments from the live stream that we did together from her write-a-thon. Links will be in the description, of course, if you want to go watch the full thing on her channel. Just check Kate out if you haven't already. Here it is. I've just learned recently it's not an anthology if it's one person.  Being like, yeah, I'm writing an anthology and everyone's like, oh, who else is involved? And I'm like, no, it's just me. Anyway, apparently it's called a collection. But what we did earlier was we've been doing dice rules to determine how long we sprint for. So you're turning this into like a whole game show just to figure out how long you want to write for. Okay. So apparently, let me show you. Which I'm down for, by the way. Yeah, there's a spinner option that you can do that I did early and we could really make it be a game show. You set that once and it has been in my brain this whole time having like an author to live game show kind of thing. And I'm like, how could we do this? And in my, I've got to figure something out of it. You would be the perfect host for that as well. If anyone does that, it has to be you. I'm very excited. I just have to, you know, put it all together. Whoever wrote the most words gets $300 from Kate. How many words do we want people in the chat? Give her a number. She has to hit it. Everyone has to keep sprinting until I hit the number. Exactly. That would be miserable. And if you don't hit the number, everyone unsubscribes at the exact same time. Do you have like a phrase or like some kind of prose that you find yourself repeating a lot? Because I found one in particular that I somehow inadvertently I think of put in like every single short story. I've written like written really. Is it like a phrase? It's like a descriptive phrase. Yeah. Oh, okay. What is it? Well, do you have one first? Oh, I don't want to be sure. I'm not crazy. Well, I say I have a crutch word. I use just way too much just back like they turned back around or whatever. I have crutch words. I don't know that I have a phrase that I use repeatedly, but I'm sure I do. I just don't know what it is. Mine is and I'm sure I would have put this somewhere in my book as well is when I'm describing blood, I always say it was so dark. It was almost black just because like I think I said it once and I was like, Oh, that's so true. Blood blood is very dark. It's much darker than people think because it is like when you see a lot of blood in one place, usually it is so dark. It's almost black, but I was reading back through my short stories and I found it like three or four separate times and I was like, Oh my God, I can't keep saying that. I think it's hard because also reviews usually aren't meant for the writer. Anyways, like for other readers to tell them what I did and didn't like. And I think if you get enough of them saying the same thing that can be helpful for writers, but so many people like if I even if I give stuff to beta readers like 50% of the time only, you know, a handful of them will comment on the same thing, but then the other handful of people were fine with it. So I'm like, okay, they all had an issue with this, but then their issue that they pinpoint is different. Whereas as the writer, I'm like, okay, if I fix this one thing, it might fix that. I think something maybe I'm kind of in the middle in that whole regard. Like, you know, there's people that say reviews are only for reviewers and not authors at all. And then there's people that are like authors absolutely have every right to get involved, blah, blah, blah. I'm kind of in the middle where I think or I don't think, you know, how it's like death of the author versus authorial intent or whatever. I feel like the author shouldn't be disqualified from joining conversations about something that they put that much work into as soon as they publish it. I feel like they should still be allowed to join in conversations about something that was very personal to them. But at the same time, you know, it's a whole. Anyway, at the risk of getting into too much of it. No, no, I have watched so many videos about that recently in the book to worlds where you're like, this is the exact conversation. Yeah, no, I don't know where I feel about that. I don't know at what point it's like the author just needs to like shut up or when they can chime in with something. I think there's I think it's hard plus then you don't. Yeah. Who do you alienate? And I do wonder though with Jennifer's question, if this doesn't change a little bit like for indie authors, I feel like reviews tend to be. I mean, reviews are always important, but I feel like for indie authors reviews are much more important than for traditionally published authors.  Yeah. Yeah. There's so much more involved that I could see the, you know, reviews being much more of the feedback that you might need. Whereas in Trad Pub, you have a whole team of people for this is their job exclusively telling you that your book is, you know, commercially viable or so they thought. And then at that point, it's like, what do you do with the reviews after? Well, an entire team put money into my book. So I don't know. I think the simple answer is that it's very complicated. There is never a simple answer to any of these conversations.  Do you want to hold yourself for that cam? No, I take it back. It's just going to be the very end. It's our last sprint. I'm going to ask you how many you got and if you do not get that many, I'm just that's it. Okay. What was the number? He said 250. I think I said 300. No, 250 is fine. That's sweet. What everyone's like, I hope you guys are ready. Is this like an attempt to distract me or something? Yeah, it is. And it's working. I could tell how many words did you get? All right. I'll count them up now. Are you like hovering your finger over the button to kick me from the stream? I am. I'm ready. You seem too keen to look you. You're the one who is setting the metric here. I'm just following what you set for the stream. I think I'm all right. I definitely have got a lot. Yeah, I'm fine. I've got 742. Dang. All right. You think about it because that's double. I should actually get the kick you from the stream now. It's only fair. Thanks so much for watching. All of the links are in the description below. Especially thank you for watching all the way through. I appreciate it. Good luck with the writing and I will see you in the next one. Catch ya.


Why does it ever have to be silent movies? Why did they not know how to make them talk? There were no radios when there were silent movies, I bet not. If it was in old time, this pickleball me free would just show the pictures of black and white. I can do a silent movie talk right here. Sure, go ahead. What did I say? I have no idea what silent is. And I would just like to tell. Silent movies are, you know, very permanent. And why do we have to have silent and talking movies? What if just movie theaters, they had silent movies if it was still not back in the day?


Prius owner freaks out after seeing couple in big diesel truck. No two vehicles are perhaps more different than a Prius and a diesel truck. So, it comes as no surprise that the owners of each might have some differences of opinion on things. But, when one Prius owner saw what a couple was doing in a diesel truck in a parking lot, she freaked out, and it was all caught on video. Although details about the situation are few, the video provides enough information for us to have a good idea of what's going on. From the moment the clip starts, it's obvious that a woman has taken issue with a diesel truck that's sharing the parking lot with her. Immediately, she tears into the couple in the pickup, going on an insult-loaded rant and completely disregarding the presence of their young children. After the angered woman storms over, we soon realize that the dark Prius in the background belongs to her, and her frustration is made clear by the many four-lettered words she's throwing around in front of kids. I came over here because it was quiet, we hear the Prius owner explain, referring to the area of the parking lot where she is parked. The Prius owner is obviously upset by the diesel truck's presence.  That's when things go from bad to worse.  For a moment, viewers anticipate things getting violent, and we aren't alone as even the man behind the camera seems to warn his wife Cheryl with a simple, don't, as Miss Prius also chimes in, saying, don't even touch me. Then, comes the irony. The Prius owner and the man's wife exchange words. After getting in the couple's face, yelling at them and using foul language, she says, I'm just asking you to be pleasant and courteous, and you guys aren't willing to. With those remarks, so many cliches come to mind, like the pot calling the kettle black or practicing what you preach. At this point, we learn that the diesel truck owner tried to appease the Prius driving woman, but his solution wasn't good enough. I backed up, he alleges, but she's still furious, pointing out his exhaust pipe and that the wind is blowing in the direction of her car, which we see with the windows down. Then, she demands to know why the truck is running. Because my daughter is in here, the dad says before being cut off by the woman who makes it clear that she thinks he should turn off the truck and roll down his windows instead of running the truck in order to have the air conditioning on for his child. As noted by the captions in the video, his daughter was sleeping and she has allergies.  The Prius owner becomes increasingly unhinged. After questioning his need for such a vehicle by inquiring about his career, Ms. Prius goes on to call the man irresponsible and inconsiderate, even though he explains that, although he has an office job, he also has horses, defending his need for a truck. Then, she points to his kids and says, you got two kids, and you're going to train them to be the same way. That's when Mama Bear's claws come out. Since the pushy Prius owner established that name calling was acceptable, the mom, who was on the phone, had a few choice words of her own to describe the woman as she started to walk away. Insisting on the last word, the eco-friendly car driver turned back to the family to spout off again. But, this time is so much worse for obvious reasons. Getting entirely too close to the woman and her child while speaking in an aggressive tone and waving her arms around, the Prius owner is lucky that exhaust fumes were the only thing in her face that day since she presented herself as a threat. It's clear the dad was concerned as he hollered his wife's name in a tone of uncertainty when he saw the crazed woman circling back around to have words with the mom, who was standing at the truck in a protective mode, guarding her kids against the unhinged woman. The angry Prius owner should have never gotten this close to the woman and her child. Although this guy did a great job at staying calm, you can't argue and expect to make any progress with an irrational person. It's impossible to have an honest dialogue with people who conduct themselves like tantrum having children. But, his restraint was praiseworthy, and even other Prius owners applauded it when it made its way to a Prius Chat forum, where the Prius driving woman was highly criticized for her behavior. Sometimes, you have to accept the fact that there's a time to stand your ground, and then, there's wasting your time. There were plenty of empty spaces, so the senseless confrontation could have been avoided. Let's face it, this dispute was just an argument for the sake of an argument. But, they gave the rest of us a great example of people behaving badly and how to remain calm when dealing with them.


Today I'm going to talk about a small implementation which was done in JavaScript and it came for actually came for a code review and then we just applied very basic principles. I would not even say it's a p-principle, it's applicable even for others but yeah a few of the very basic stuff and then how did the application design evolve and it's kind of started and how it kind of made it more modular and how we could you know just add features on top of it like incrementing features on top of it. This was a 45 minutes talk which I planned early so now I'm just condensed it to 20 minutes so just go a little bit faster. So I'll skip this okay so this is again like so I'll not be going into details about the design and architecture or design stuff and what really happened so just go through the entire flow of what really the changes that we went through. So this is the app so it's a kind of a messaging adapter so we have this I won't use the real name so it's like some kind of a free messenger so it's in the cloud and there is an enterprise messaging so you want to bridge these two like there are some users from outside it's to be able to reach your enterprise users so this so the adapter that's that's a component which we built which enables us to know bridge these two messaging and the signaling part of it so that's that the subject of this discussion and of course I talked about this is this is running on node this adapter and this is what it looked like when we finally said we are done we are done in the same scheme for the review like completed the intimidation that means it's a all all it's like one more one node module which embeds a glue to connect to that FM or the messenger service in the cloud and it does everything like it reads its config it uses it it bridges the messages it bridges signal it does everything it talks to the enterprise it's all in one so we talked to it got the messages from the FM and send it to it enterprise and reverse direction right six signaling and messages so it's a single module which does did everything so I'll okay I'll skip this part now challenges around display so I will go through at the end like comparing the what was there initially and what what end product so what did we do that it's a very first step so it's it's pretty I think it's straightforward like it's doing a lot too many things right so it's not just doing one thing it's doing too many things and so you decouple what the interactions that has to do with that free messenger service versus the interaction that has to do with the enterprise messaging service so it's at a higher level function to see why higher level capabilities you make that more modular so again there is really space really know that thing here's a general practice so what it created is these two probably quite a sub modules or something like that but in which all the FM part in one end and all the EMPM part in another end and the distinction here it is it's community they are they are exchanging messages they don't like FM really does not know what is happening so it just sends the message to you it does taking care of you know talking relevant API so on to enterprise messaging service so there's no doubt it's totally decoupled and it is the interface between them is data that is the message that is that's being sent it's actually a recipe client so next step so this was the first of it we did that and the next what we did is if you see the previous image this has like a config FM glue so that's those are like mutable state which is at the global level like the config changes my global state changes if I need to support another set of credentials or another messaging service my FM blue changes no it's it's it's so it's it's at global level and it could change so what we did is we took that out and of course when you take that out you add it as a parameter in various function that needs it so parameterize the functions and another point which we did is wherever possible to a limited extent we made some of the functions beyond like all the side effect impact took it out not to the full-scale but certain part of it so that gave us this where in which yeah you have some entity which is kind of treating the config it's creating the blue and then passing it on to your actual module so it's it's these are like injected parameters so I've shown you're only like the major ones the actual changes are largely because it's a lot of function for using these and other parameters so here again it's essentially the most important thing is parameterizing the functions that's all it is and remove the global state so that was a step two and step three this is again very specific but I thought it's a nice idea I wanted to bring it out here it's like use function instead of a value if you see that config config was a value earlier and we had challenges around in multiple places like if that config changes how do you know kind of handle those changes propagating the changes to multiple places so what we really passed on is actually not a config it's a function like you invoke it and you get a conflict so that kind of took care of like you know at any point of time if conflict changes like every time somebody wants to wants a conflict you invoke the functions you get the latest and the last one we look at the actual part of the system that does stuff right for example these fm of the messenger service invokes their hooks that means so you have some APN point defined so that's those and there's a lot of I.O. and similarly to the enterprise messaging you have to invoke APA this is essentially the rest APA client that's again I.O. these are the part of the system which does did real job how do you make those parts pure so we didn't want to do that but then again we were facing issues or rather we are test were not looking that good I mean like a lot of mocking and we are to to you know kind of validate various scenarios where the payload changes the response changes you know to do it by a mocking was a bit challenging or it was not straightforward somebody who is coming and reading it out it's not straightforward so you thought okay why don't we make that pure so all side effects wherever like you are like making an API call essentially in this case there is no DB or a file or config reading is a file actually but moved to a smaller part of your application so that gave us this were in which you have those pink circles that's that's the part of the system which actually does all the job so these are like calling it as effect turner so that that that does the job restaurant or pure functions so if you had a we had a we had a function like you know send message to user that was actually invoking any pay with a specific payload and all those kind of things now it no longer does that what it does is it returns you a structure JSON or a message data which say which is given to the effect turner and say that oh the effect turner will know that for this data I need to send a I need to know the corresponding API so to test that message the test case is like okay you don't need any mocking for various in type of inputs here is the message that I expect in this content again some of these were done like you know to really trying out like if I want to move all this thing away into one place and then how does our application change how do I handle what is my response channel so with this what we got was so in the original implementation we had this there was one module all the methods were doing some kind of you know the effects were actually all over the place it's like typical stuff where we have something okay send message send receive message add user in case let's say group channel like you were adding another user and all this kind of things and you had a there was a tight coupling between your external messaging service in this case and the enterprise interaction because all are done from one single place there is no decoupling and it was kind of difficult to support newer one let's say if you want to let's say add WhatsApp or Facebook or any kind of messaging it's it's kind of difficult you need to kind of tear apart things to get that out or more yeah more than that it's about what if you're an enterprise messaging changes that's again bunch of effort to tear things apart so that's a last point it was kind of restricting only for one FM EM pair that's for that you scared it was beautiful it was beautiful and that was only use case we need to support but anyway so that's that's what it is but after the refactoring of course we don't have a no globally mutable shade state as I told before like all the effects are done only in those two effect runners which is a which is like probably 20-30% of the code and all these effects like I need to do something goes as a data like this and structure like what needs to be done and it enabled testing the rest of the part like except the effect runners first all the modules we could test it very easily and it's kind of supported it was very I'm really not to make many code changes okay I need to support additional service or I need to support more than one you know instances of this like for example your integration with your third-party messaging is through using one one set of credentials one account so I need to support like multiple accounts like that it's essentially you call the same function again with the difference of parameters that's what it is okay so now let's look at the original implementation and what happened after the factoring alright so I'll I'll take I'll show like okay not that great but still I think it's readable is it is it readable from the back font size okay okay alright so if you see the this is the original implementations we had one thing called add from route to the express module in the node which gave us the API's and what it does is it reads a config and it says it okay it's at for a particular uri it adds the route but let's rest of the intelligence is showed in this implementation of this so that's that's all here so this is again the original one of that so here if you see so it's exporting these of course the uri the initialization part of it so this so if you this points to a thing like okay it's checking whether this is set and it's not set in each line so this is the global state right so we'll check it so that's what it is so this this is global and it's kind of used in across all the methods and all the all the functions over here are like directly in working the corresponding API because this guy will do the actual API invocations so send action and text so all those things are directly used in the API so that means all of the functions that you defined here are actually making API calls outside either to the outside world or to the enterprise what offers now yeah this is what it is so two files the one which did everything another one which actually you know registered the route now as per the first step what I told you we separate out the enterprise part with the external part right so that created a new new module so this is like enterprise message gateway stuff so this is again press API client around it and the important thing is now how did the application evolve right so now here if you see so there is so now this is an example where we are at two different channels like one two different integration this is one this is the second one it's just a test service which is running so here if you see so what it what it did is okay it's initializing the channel it's telling what type of channel it is and it is providing a configuration it's another function which when invoke will give you the config of config for it similarly for another one it's again the same function you're calling out this is of type different and this is a corresponding so if you go to each channel so this again yeah so it takes the type and it gets the corresponding config so essentially the your initial module which loads with which which takes the different objects the different data and then passes it on to the relevant functions essentially it's only the parameterizing the function that's that's done over here and here yeah so here if you see the exported functions over here yeah so it's an uri it's an init and it's with router it all of these things it's passing all the parameters over here and the interesting thing is okay we have something called do so in this module and this do is the effect runner actually so do accepts whatever it needs to run and any messages that it receives it translates to the corresponding stuff if you see the defect turner so this is what it is so it's all the things are over here like sending the problem sending the text sending the buttons sending text message all of things are effect runner and how that is triggered is this one right it's like you get a message for this message ID this is what we need another message is what we need so that's it's actually the same concept even here where you have a dispatcher in case starting the chat so all the business logic stuff like if I need to start chat it will create a message called start chat and send it over to the defect turner so it does the job any questions so what that gave is kind of something like this where in which you have an outer layer which does all the effects in this case actually there's no db over in this case it's just invoking API that's what it is doing but you have two systems in working API source and target of two different systems and there is an inner core which is done fully using pure functions and these layers talk to each other over messages that's it yeah so there are there's a comp in certain cases these functions return the corresponding message I'll show you that let's say so now I'll go to this sorry factor stop right so now here so this is an example let's say start chat earlier this was actually invoking doing a bunch of stuff and invoking API so this guy is now actually returning this message it was start chat with the data that is needed so this is a very simple case like and I just need only two strings so it is returning that particular message now let's look at whoever invokes this so that will give us so here this is invoking okay so let's look at this okay so in this case this handle post backing session this was earlier doing all the work so now it is returning it this guy is getting getting an effect and it's doing dispatch effect so dispatch effect yeah it's it will find the corresponding executable for that particular effort and send it to that so this this this in certain thing where it is not it's only


All right guys, it's time to battle. And today's battle is between the Galaxy Buds 2 and the AirPods Pro. Find out which is better, so let's jump in. All right, there are so many true wireless buds out there, but of course, the big names in the industry are Apple, it's Humongous sales for the AirPods Pro, and of course, Samsung with their expanding Galaxy Buds line, right? Now, both of them bring some very unique features to the table. Now, let's start off with battery life, all right? The Galaxy Buds 2 come with 7.5 hours per use case, if you're not using ANC, and about five ANC, while the AirPods Pro come in about 5.5 hours with ANC over them. Now, in terms of long-term battery life, you're looking at 25 hours of the case for the AirPods Pro and 20.5 hours for the Galaxy Buds. So, Apple takes the cake there for battery life, and that's a little bit sad, because the Galaxy Buds have traditionally done much longer battery life in general, but again, 20.5 to 24 hours is close, but not that close. Now, what about design and fit? Both of them have very unique different designs, right? The Galaxy Buds 2 have gone a little bit more traditional, not traditional to its original Galaxy Buds, but a more traditional fit, and it's super, super light. It feels really comfortable in your ear, and the ear tips also really good. I will mention one caveat though, if you work out a lot and you do a lot of heavy workouts and you sweat within your ear, they will slide out because they are a little bit slippery, so I would suggest some Comply Foam. Now, when it comes to the AirPods Pro, they've got that traditional stem design that they do have, which works well. I do use mine with Comply Foam because they help them fit better. I would have actually completely dissed them without the Comply Foam, just because for me, it just never used to stay in. So, that's my suggestion there, but again, they do work for a lot of people, so I would say in terms of fit and design, they both work out pretty well. Now, with that, there comes a couple of functionality. You've got touch controls for each ear pod, which is nice, and when it comes to audio, we are looking at something that is very, very interesting. So, both devices give you some really nice audio. The AirPods Pro give you some really nice solid highs, the mids are well balanced, and the lows can be punchier times, at least for me. Soundstage is really good, it's well set up with the AirPods Pro. While the Galaxy Buds 2 come with also very nice soundstage, the highs are good, not as high as the AirPods Pro. The mids, I think, are well balanced, probably much better than the mids here, and the lows, not so much. They are almost in the opposite direction. Now, that doesn't mean you cannot get your bass in because the Galaxy Buds 2 do come with an app where you can customize your listening experience to change your different EQs, and you can go within your smartphone to also change your custom EQs there as well. So, it gives you a differentiating feel in terms of using both of them for audio. Now, how well do they sound? I think both of them sound very similar. I think there are certain things you'll listen to on the AirPods Pro that sound a little bit richer, especially if you're listening to more contemporary tracks. When I try listening to rock, I prefer rock and metal on the Galaxy Buds 2 while I prefer more hip-hop on the AirPods Pro. So, again, it's more on preference than anything else, and I think they're equally balanced here in terms of audio experience. Now, of course, since we have audio down, we also have active noise cancellation. Both of them have active noise cancellation, and honestly, they both do a really good job. The AirPods Pro really set a standard for a lot of companies to match with the true wireless Buds, and it's been really solid since launch. The Galaxy Buds 2 have taken what they've done with the Galaxy Buds Pro, and giving you something that also matches that experience. So, whether you're on the subway for the Galaxy Buds or even the AirPods Pro, or you're walking down the street, you've got great noise cancellation. Now, the AirPods Pro have, of course, what's that mode again? There you go, transparency mode. So, it does have transparency mode, and you can also turn it off. Oh, wow, the Galaxy also has their transparency mode, or I guess you could say noise isolation or whatever they call it. I feel like that part's gonna be in the video. So, the Galaxy Buds also have that, but they do have it in several stages, so you can customize that experience there. But when it comes to active noise cancellation, you're gonna get a very similar experience altogether from both of them. Now, so what you've heard from me is active noise cancellation is pretty much the same. Audio, pretty much the same. Battery life, it's close, Apple takes the lead. What about the microphone? That's really important, right, for everyone. Now, I am not doing a mic test for you guys, just because I've been getting, I always get varying results that don't match my experience, but I can tell you, from using both of them, especially using them phone calls with different friends, jumping on Zoom calls, which is what we do nowadays, both of them do a very good job, and I've not had issues from anyone, and most people think it sounds really clear. So, whether you're using the AirPods Pro or the Galaxy Buds 2, you're gonna get a very good microphone experience. So now you're saying, okay, thunder eating, right? Which should I go with? Because they're pretty much similar across the board when it comes to battery, except for battery life. Now, honestly, again, if you're on the Apple ecosystem, the AirPods Pro really fit you quite well because of just the ease of use in jumping from device to device. That's if you're in the ecosystem and you have other Apple devices. If you're not and you just have an iPhone, then yeah, the Galaxy Buds will work well for you too as well and will work for any Android device because you can use your gear app on your iPhone as well. But honestly though, granted that these two are really good, I would suggest you should pick up this guy. This is the Sennheiser CX Wireless. Now, the reason that I put this last year is that, well, you look at the pricing. The AirPods Pro are 250 on Apple's website. If you go to Best Buy or Amazon, you get it for about 189 and the Galaxy Buds 2 are priced at 149. Again, really solid prices for the kind of performance you're getting. But this bad boy here is priced at 129 and honestly, the audio experience blows both of them out of the water. Now, when it comes to active noise cancellation, yes, it is a little bit below both of these other two and it doesn't also have wireless charging like the Galaxy Buds 2 or the AirPods Pro. But it does have a really good microphone and again, the audio experience is truly phenomenal. The highs, the lows, the mids match pretty well and I think at a price of 129, it is a good compromise deal in between both of these that you can definitely pick up. But either way guys, honestly, there are options for you to pick up, be it the AirPods Pro, the Galaxy Buds 2 or even the Sennheiser CX Wireless. Let me know what you guys are using for two wireless buds. If you have any questions or any comments, leave them down below. If you wanna pick up any of these, I have links for you as well. Otherwise, don't forget to like, share, subscribe and always enjoy entertainment.


Jesus said, repent and believe the gospel and repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. When I tell people that nowhere in the Bible does it say, repent of your sins to be saved, they might point you to one of the earliest messages that Jesus preached actually, which is repent, so let's take a look. In Matthew 4.17 Jesus said, repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. In Mark 1.15 he is documented as saying, the time is fulfilled, the kingdom of God is at hand, repent ye and believe the gospel. Now Jesus quoting Matthew 4 is almost identical to what John the Baptist said in the previous chapter, repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. So it's fair to say that Jesus is carrying on the message of repentance that that John the Baptist started and most Christians would agree with that I think. Now I've already covered in previous videos what John the Baptist's message of repentance was about and we saw that he was pointing people to the Christ that was coming and telling them to believe on him. So we simply carry forward that message into Jesus' message of repentance. So the first and blatantly obvious thing about these two verses is the lack of mention of sins. In Matthew 4.17 it does say repent but it doesn't say repent of your sins. Likewise in Mark 1.15 it says repent but it doesn't say repent of your sins. Now people will say to me but that's what repentance means. Well we already saw in the previous videos that this is not true. Yes there are some verses where sin is the context of repentance but there are other verses where God repented and we know that God has no sin. Or sin is not the context of repentance and sometimes there are bad types of repentance. If we take away the religiously distorted definition of repentance the core word means a change of mind or a change of direction, a change of action or a change of course. It's synonymous with turning and it may include being sorrowful but not always. So with this in mind then we could substitute repentance with one of its synonymous terms to help us understand these verses a little clearer. So for example instead of saying repent to you and believe the gospel in Mark 1.15 we could say change your mind and believe the gospel or turn ye and believe the gospel or change direction ye and believe the gospel or change course ye and believe the gospel. So what does this mean then? Well compared with John the Baptist's message of repentance Jesus' message doesn't really give us a lot of context in the verses surrounding it. In Mark 1 Jesus starts preaching in verse 14 when John the Baptist is put in prison and in verse 16 he walks by the sea of Galilee and recruited his disciples. So verse 15 contextually is very isolated. In Matthew 4 verse 12 is when Jesus started preaching after John is put in prison. Verses 13 to 16 confirm that he was fulfilling prophecy from Isaiah and verse 18 is when he went to call his disciples. So again verse 17 is quite isolated in its context but at least we do have some context in Matthew about the scripture from Isaiah that was being fulfilled. It says in Matthew 4 16 the people which sat in darkness saw great light. When we looked at John the Baptist's message he was preparing the way of the Lord and pointing people to the Christ that was coming and that's who they needed to believe on and trust in. Well now Jesus is here. The crucial part of the message here is that the kingdom of God is at hand. This is the key part of Jesus' message and so what exactly does Jesus mean by this? What is this gospel? There are many passages we could turn to since Jesus talks about the kingdom a lot but for the purpose of this video let's make it simple. Let's pick something quite simplistic and we've got a basic answer to work with. In John chapter 3 Jesus told Nicodemus that except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. Jesus goes on to say something synonymous in verse 5 but he says enter into the kingdom of God instead of sea. So we might assume that seeing the kingdom of God and entering the kingdom of God are interchangeable. Jesus then goes on to explain later in chapter 3 that the Son of Man must be lifted up, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. So the most basic simplistic definition of the kingdom of God or the kingdom of heaven would be that it's synonymous with eternal life for salvation and so the reason was given in John 3 the Son of Man must be lifted up, that's Jesus and it's whosoever believes in him. Matthew confirms that Jesus is coming to fulfill scripture and people that were once in darkness are seeing a great light. So just as John the Baptist was pointing people towards the coming Christ the narrator of Matthew is pointing us again to Jesus as he preaches the kingdom. Likewise in John 3 Jesus is speaking of himself and what he must go and do. You could interpret him as being lifted up as either glorified, crucified or ascended but the end result is still the same. Jesus is doing the work needed to bring salvation on to men. The outcome of what Jesus will do is that those who believe in him will have eternal life which is synonymous with entering the kingdom and Jesus told us in Matthew that the kingdom the long awaited for Messiah has now come. The person to whom the prophets of the Old Testament prophesied about is now here and with that the gospel or the good news of the kingdom which is bringing everlasting life to those who will believe on this Messiah. The Jews will need to move away from their Old Testament mindset of animal sacrifices and circumcision to the New Testament mindset of Christ crucified and raised. Now ultimately we know that many of the Jews did not believe on the Messiah which was sent to them as it is written. He came on to his own and his own received him not and just as Matthew 4 tells us that Jesus was the great light the people were seeing John 1 also tells us that Jesus is the true light and just as he said in Mark 1 to believe the gospel so John 1 also confirms that those who receive him or believe on him they are the ones who are adopted as the children of God which goes hand in hand with getting saved and entering into everlasting life. The end goal then of saying repent for the kingdom of God is at hand or repent and believe the gospel is to tell people to turn towards Jesus who is the light and he's bringing the kingdom and this goes hand in hand with believing on him. Let's try to illustrate this to make it as clear as possible. You were wondering in the dark not really aware of or concerned with everlasting life. All of a sudden you see a great light and turn towards it. It's Jesus bringing the good news of the kingdom eternal life on to men.   Remember that for the people at the time this was a rare and a once in a lifetime opportunity. You know most of us who exist on the earth will never get to meet Jesus in person at that time anyway and he would only be in certain places for limited amounts of time because he used to travel around. They were called to believe on him while he was yet near and the window of opportunity was still open as Jesus himself said.  Just as the people had a limited time frame or window of time if you like in order to hear Jesus directly to see his miracles and to believe on him. So do we have a limited time as well to believe on this earth? Okay so a modern analogy would be like hearing the gospel when it's preached on to you okay so let's say a soul winner knocks on your door or you see a youtube video about how to be saved and get to heaven okay. Cease the opportunity while you have it all right. Today is the day of salvation don't waste this opportunity because you might forget to check youtube later about that video that you saw or it might be that there will never be another soul winner who's actually saved that knocks on your door ever again to explain the gospel to you. So in conclusion the meaning of repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand or repent and believe the gospel is to turn towards the Christ while the kingdom is near i.e the message of eternal life is still yet available for you to hear and believe on him and you shall have everlasting life. There is no evidence that this message of repentance has anything to do with sin because in Matthew 4 and Mark 1 accounts sin is not mentioned in Jesus dialogue nor the prophecies he was fulfilling. The closest thing we have that suggests sin has any relevance is that the people sat in darkness in Matthew 4 16 but the solution was that they saw great light. So the remedy to their darkness was not inwardly looking towards themselves to correct this darkness by turning their own lights on but actually looking towards Jesus who is the light that overcomes darkness. Now if you still insist that well I just think this message is about turning from sin well then you're not looking to Jesus for everlasting life and to walk in the light you're looking inwardly to yourself and you continue to stumble in darkness it's that simple. Repenting of sins will only make you a repentant sinner but a sinner all the same. You need to instead believe in the good news that Jesus takes away the sin of the world only by trusting in him can you be cleansed of your sins. This is no nonsense Christianity reminding you that nowhere in the Bible does it say repent of your sins to be saved.


Welcome viewers to our ongoing program focus coming to you from Burlington, Vermont to this the Channel 17 studio, the Center for Media and Democracy. Here we are and my guest I'm your host Margaret Harrington and this is our last program of focus for the year 2020 and we're going out with a dynamite book called No More Time by the poet Greg Delanti and welcome Greg Delanti coming to you from across town here in Burlington, Vermont. Hello Greg. Hi Margaret, thank you for having me both Kevin and Margaret. We've been here before but not on the Zoom but this is great and I'm very grateful to be helped in the book. Oh it's so good to see you and welcome to Kevin Harms who is directing the show. We're so happy to be able to do it today. So I'm looking at the cover of your brilliant and wonderful book on the climate crisis and it's a very interesting cover. It says No More Time and there's a little animal there. What is that animal Greg? It's actually the I.I. it's called it's a little linear that's in trouble that's been we made extinct really. Oh it's okay that well that's a theme of the book right the theme. Well before I say anything before we say anything about the theme of the book it was done by Fabulous artist Amber Geneva who lives in Vermont and who I asked to do it sort of for me and she did a great job really and the creature has a long middle finger and the first poem is about the I.I. well the first poem of the main part of the book there is a promp poem and the beginning introductory poem before that. You asked me there something Margaret excuse me. No I will let us read why don't you read the prom the introductory poem and then go on to read I.I. I would love that. The first poem was in my selected actually but it's a kind of an epigraph poem to the book and using the loose strife it was never an individual volume so I'm using it as an introductory poem here loose strife you know the kind of very attractive and beautiful really a little plant that goes wild and kills the it came probably well it did come from Europe and we don't really know how in the boats or in the ballast or whatever and was even brought perhaps for healing purposes but it's it's grown now here and it's killing a lot of the the local the native plants and it's a it's an American sonnet and which in other words means that it's 14 lines and it doesn't rhyme and it doesn't look you know it doesn't sound it's not 10 syllables etc and but that's what it was called it was published in the Atlantic and that's what they called it the sewage I laughed like an American sonnet but anyway loose strife you have become your name loose strife carried on sheep spurting up out of ballast the cure brought across the deep to treat wounds sooth trouble there have been others like you the roller dendron the cat tails that you in your turn over run voices praise your magenta spread your ability to propagate by seed by stem by root and how you adjust to light to soil spreading your glory across the earth even as you kill by boat by air by land all before you the hardy iris the rare orchids the spawning ground of fish you'll overtake the earth and destroy even yourself all loose strife purple plague beautiful us so I poem really I thought it ends with us with significant but you know it's homeboat overpopulation it's humans taking over everything which is the big problem one of the big problems that's causing the planet to be in such a state for all the living creatures including ourselves this is the II and that's the start then of of the book which is really one poem you know but it's the fact that the first poem is a sequence of 26 poems sonnets dealing with animus plants uh creatures and plants that are either in trouble that are being um extinct made extinct are are are thriving the first two there would have been harmed by human beings the why they've gone extinct or were in trouble is due to human beings it is really made up of a kind of a poor good heaven the hell of the hell porgo tree and heaven plants the the plants that are gone is hell porgo tree is the one third in trouble heaven and trying to mirror Dante Dante's divine comedy which is um um it's all human centered which is significant because it's christianity the western world is built against the backdrop of christianity it's kind of base and therefore um I want to put the elements of plants because that's where we fall aside in the christian world thinking of human being as centered at the only that everything else is to war uh is is is we can use it to where we want that's not true of course we're all connected and need them and they need us and so forth and so I put a heaven hell and porgo tree and I made the poems into Dante's terzarema um sonnets 12 lines three three lines each in terzarema the same as Dante used in the divine comedy for heaven porgo tree and hell and then a couple at the end these are really silent love poems as well as poems of yonderworld which are really poems about our world okay sorry I hope I haven't gone on too long the ii is one of the creatures that are in trouble and uh the name of this lemur which is an unusually long middle finger is derived from a person's alarmed utterance and seeing the anime you can see there like you know and I mean that's that's correct drawing you know I mean it's it's true to that so the start of the terzarema sonnets so that's how the name came about ii solitary shade spirit of the night your face caught in the light seems to ask why you're given no quarter shot on sight the picture shows your battered head large as a baby's staring in fright your extraterrestrial wide eyed dread and manicured long nails scare magnifying to nightmare folks are misled by their imaginations to needless fear you are the bringer of bad luck happened your of death ii you continue to glare back your face a mirror terrors dead ringer with a long middle finger you give the finger the middle digit I made a mistake again with a long middle digit you give the finger okay and they're we viewers we have the humor that's also within this dread seriousness of Greg Delanty's poetry yeah I mean the humor is important well humor is the is kind of I mean it makes it buoyant I mean this is a dark subject and it's probably the gracious as you said yourself I think sometime to me that is it is definitely the greatest crisis human kindness ever faced and the world has ever faced the animals and plants and so entire right about it you know and without but but humor is a refuge and a kind of a way out and and kind of a holiness really and it's another interesting fact of course that I mean I grew up in a creature world but we lack a bit of laughter and Christianity and there's no laughing even Christ has never talked about as laughing and I think it's one of the holiest things and I think in other religions like Hinduism it's it's never been there there should be a god of laughter there should be because laughter in its best form is a way into understanding and accepting and knowing something now there are different types of humor like you'd see on television like I remember Johnny Carson and so forth yeah it's humor did not the president where it was Regan so forth but actually it was letting the Regan off it was releasing a valve for watchers so that they felt all right about the president and forgot about it you know and and that's not my humor here I hope certainly it's not I know that and more of your humor do you want to read chimpanzee next would you read chimpanzee I love that I love them all Greg yeah again so you know you know they're alphabetical it's a kind of alphabetical plan system it's all the way true yes chimpanzee as a chimp usually the adult male approaches on the roar of the water booms louder you see him without fail hurry up his demeanor starts to alter hair bristling arriving at the fall he stands swayed from one foot to the other bows geniflex answering some call he dips his hand as if in holy water clashes head and shoulders in the flowing prayer shawl tests the ropes of draping vines lashes his body securely to several takes flight over the deafening water as it crashes he swings like a durable above that veil of white the spray is the incense of the monkey's water right and that that actually is taken from sighting by the great environmentalist you know she lived gen good all yes yes she made up when she was with the gyms and you know we're just we're you know coming quickly into our general airwaves that animals feel and think creatures or the idea of bored brain the stupid I mean so many crows crows are so clever and they communicate and they have whole family situation and they talk to each other in their way I mean I'm not romanticizing this this is just a fact you know they feel and so forth we know this now but you know Margaret so what can I do now next but it's it's wonderful here now in your language you use the thurable and a lot of people Greg don't know what a thurable is and but that is is from the the Catholic Church it's yeah yeah yeah well it would be from the church in general you'd have it in the Russian Orthodox churches a Greek Orthodox as well the thurable that they shake and the incense comes out and that smell that beautiful sacred smell to make kinds to make things sacred really and when I was growing up there was always one used at the end of the more major ceremonies at a funeral of course and so the yeah that that is the spray becomes the durable you know the the the incense it's brilliant I love it and Greg would you go on to elephant I know we I hate to skip any of them at all but there's also an irony in this one yeah and this is a record of of an elephant in Dublin and zoo um Arcus you know this is just the underworld another word for the underworld Greek and Roman underworld sometimes you see something so dire so dreadful that the mind's camera instantly shoots a video of the scenario a close-up lasers it into your retina a replayed flashback for as long as you live a teacher thrashing a child or the trauma of an elephant we saw given a sedative so she could rest that time in Dublin zoo the aged female was trapped in our repetitive back and forth on her haunches unable to stop ourselves her keeper explained to us that for years she had been confined locked into a circus van her only way to move in this Arcus was to rock rescuing her was our unforgettable bonus a creature I mean it was terrible to see I remember seeing Dublin's you know I was just so shocked that the creature couldn't stop back and its haunches up and over I had my son and we just sad to see the creature tormented really but it it brings to mind you as the poet see things with with new eyes because I was thinking that you were a child looking at this but you were with your child with your with your son when you saw this elephant that's so touching as a as an augmentative fact regarding this poem I hate to skip that as we go along but which one do you want to read from the the the first book the jellyfish tree do you want to skip to that how about the honeybee I would love that yes it's not that I want to skip them but you know we can just give the same yes and this is written also partly to the poet George Caligeros a Greek poet who gave me actually honey from Speely which is a part of Greece but honey was this picture honey was used in in Delphi by what were the intermediary spirits which were women actually mostly that that these the seers are the future Delphi would read the future out of through their visions at Delphi so it also the two as I said the two great sort of bases and scaffolding of western civilization western europe and western america and so forth are christianity and also of course the greek mythology and roman mythology honeybee it is time anoint thy tongue with honey local time honey from Speely a gift from the greek poet Caligeros amusedly musing honey to give your wards wing lift back in the day it was taken by the Delphi bee wake up get busy make a move a shift apply propolis pronto impossible not to be a drama queen nowadays without apis the abyss will take over unbloom mani a garden field and wood the honeybees are more waning than waxing warms apiology queens drones nurses guards whole communities protect them the amber labor force of ecology already this world comb is a fossilized apology such connections in depth and that is is it the abyss without apis is it the abyss or the abyss yeah it's a it's a play on words yeah without abyss which is the the study of the bees themselves the lack more for bees the abyss yeah yeah well we're destroying the bees and they keep that so much a part of nature alive and replanting and pollinating and so forth yes without the apis without the bees the abyss will take over it this that makes sense yes of course and oh you know what i'd like to read now is um i never read it actually and me can i read um i would sorry i should what would you like me to no no please please greg it's up to you what what next um the lion also there too you know i mean okay i have it right here page 22 oh 16 okay sorry okay but i see the lion on on the e-book oh sorry excuse me excuse me yeah okay um the lion has the humorless bearded face of a amish elder as he patrols the edge of the pride females north the cobs the strictness that is tender the young gamble snap at each other's tails relapsarian oblivious of threats typical of youngsters e-catalogs details sniff the humid atmosphere threats something alerts him a hunter or roguelain in the tops of anagras whatever upsets the pride is unknown but like a wagon train they form a circle as if with one will the same that earlier brought down cool the main an elephant with the natural savagery of the kill the savannah draws taught finger on the trigger still that brings me all over the place in in that poem i mean every location from the amish to the the uh the savannah and uh and the gun and can i read the monochrome one which people tend to like oh of course i love that one and and of course right outside my window here in burlington i've seen the uh the disappearance of the monarchs you still see them doing summer but they're they're getting less and they aren't they're getting rarer and rarer as you come down from canada down down to mexico all that long long journey these creatures and and it's kind of also playing and talking about great well the greek idea uh and roman that the word for that butterflies were supposed to be spirits you know human spirits gone going out into next life or another world and uh there's a lot of greek let it the uh house of adreus is you know the house where in greek the house of adreus where all the trouble or estes and so forth started and were ultimately led to trey and deliad and so forth so um a monarch has landed on the rainbow dexter presumably taking a breeder from her odyssey of thousands of miles hear soul rest there soak up the sun we know that your journey has its own cyclops sirens shilia that you will need elias's assistance see to think mit maps apply solely to us human crew the blueprint of the house of adreus is imprinted in our molecules we seem to ignore the house is coming down around us that nature will enforce its own inhuman laws the heated gods rally on mount olympus do for the v of your wings hold them in a pause in prayer then open and close them in applause so that's the end sexual moon well um and that that's broken the 13th sonnet which there's not a 13 coming on the other side but the middle part is breaking news which is more of kind of a commentary a news commentary on how we're going to handle how we do handle how the situation we're in and then it goes back into the second set of 13 solids with all our trans creatures and situation um but i would do will i read some from um the breaking news section yes and which would you choose then i don't know really um i love them all but but uh um you could read the red eye i like that okay that's good that was an idea that's that's a good one to do um actually some of these are also and i are and her terserema but that's another story i won't go into too many details the red eye um admittedly it's woman weeps down the aisle rests her head against the window pane her dyed loom brown hair is out of style gray creeps back at the roots i wrack my brain she reminds me of someone i can't put a finger on who knows why in the world she cries what pain or hurt i want to ask her if i can help if she's okay perhaps she'd not be embarrassed welcome concern while actually shelly she closes her eyes nowhere else to go now but sleep the angle of her head on the pane reminds me of the tilt of the earth bingo i know she looked familiar gaya leaning on the window great i can't tell you this red line here by the way wait what's that i miss let i miss red a line but which one was that i do not remember no but i know i remember it's just the wrong got inverted just a matter it's fine okay because i was i wanted to tell you that the the poem moves me so much but it moves me physically when you say the angle of her head on the pane reminds me of the tilt of the earth i can feel the earth tilts with it with reading this poem and then then your then your illumination bingo i knew she looked familiar gaya leaning on the window oh i love this poem i love them all now where will we go from here do you want to go you pick it which one would you like more map it well will do you want to read on viewing the roses of helio gabalus yeah sure that that that if you look down the side and it's t it's uh the caustic t the first letter of each t or u m p trump d or a donald on underneath the second verse i'm upset thank you we'll just talk to my own have no laugh really and well but also i mean it's such a character i mean he's and but helio helio gabalus was uh one of these drunken edpers that sort of outdid nero uh any terrible things like um like the the thing like the story in the poem i've actually changed you have to figure out why at the end i said pink roses at the end in the in the book but i've changed it i should have had red roses that's a mistake but you figure out why and but there is an epigraph to the poem it's a short poem and emperor gaelic but helio gabalus and his cronies sought to confound the order of seasons and climates to sport with the passions and prejudices of his subjects and some vert every law of nature and decency it's from edward gibbon anyway this is the poem the emperor and his hobnobbing retinue recline on the high desk everyone gazes up at them from the floor he wings to his chosen few mothers watch this for a trap follows let's play bring on the grand finale brings his cup the sign to drop the false ceiling of flowers on everyone below you can feel nauseating petals catching noses and crying thoughts levels rapidly rising drowning everyone in red roses i mean it's extraordinary he killed people by dropping this he's from a roof double a trick he played just to watch people die in this convupseen way and i don't know what else you'd like me to do now um well let's let's so because we we have limited the time unfortunately but i love the trees would you read trees please um yep i've stood in i've stood in many silent vigils over the years down outside the church and outside city hall and so forth but anyway this is i don't know what page is it only page is it on my breast i have it i have it well it's on mine it's on 46 so yeah no sorry i forgot i have it trees yeah okay stand in silence the way citizens stand outside a church city hall or party office in a speechless vigil saying listen wake up you are our sisters and brothers without us you're nothing without us you will be nothing save us we are the ventriloquists of silence like that that was kind of shoved in at the that poem i wrote right at the end and i put it in and would you like me to read our form i'll just just go on really okay no no read it read earthworm and then canticle of the sun if you would i know that we're we might not get to we want to get to section three we maybe won't know the section three i mean there's no and should we skip to the section three now yeah whichever you like okay so we'll choose choose choose at least two from section three do you want to do the northern gastric frog no not that one i don't and you know after trees let's do four of all tropes which are all the things that give us oxygen green trees and so forth so much more and i i sometimes de familiarize the names at the tops well why didn't i just call them trees well that's actually more than trees give us oxygen i mean and so much more but this is the all that what the oxygen givers are called and and it's good to come after trees the little trees or all tropes or this comes also from my life i used to lifeguard in the beaches and carry maybe i'm for that and i did save one young woman and he gets into the poem who's no mother herself have you ever been given the kiss of life you have you know you're getting it right now every five seconds or so depending what you do going for the bus swimming reading feel how the green leaves press on your mouth and nose your chest falls and rises they silently bow on their knees above you you're lost in the daily throws unconscious as the gare at the time i resurrected back to life in my beach guard days she insists she owes me the rest of her years emailed again lately reiterated thanks updated news of her kids who'd be nowhere without you they're a breath of fresh air she restated wanting to to stand me a beer i raise my downed pint here propose a toast to the glass brimming with nothing but air and she still writes to me i haven't heard from her for a while now but you know i hope i can i hope that kevin kevin our technician if that is coming through okay the sound okay because it's breaking up on thank you kevin so so let's let's choose at least two from the third book okay okay maybe um maybe finish up with a another beautiful um in the x poem you know page 61 which is also set in perry which is where i when i gave that the young woman a kiss of life and i pulled her out of the water and also i went out to swim uh with the famous dolphin there who's just actually disappeared and he's not it looks like he's gone he's he's died but he's been coming into dingle harbour continually and basically he prefers humans than dolphins it's extraordinary i mean um they call him fungi like it's also been a tourist thing but you know it's the open bay there it's a huge bay right in the next on the atlantic and i i went out to try and see because i see him and i swam out maybe a half mile right over to the channel and of course i did not win really we were going to dingle and i the next thing he came up so amazing down by my face and stood and he let but i'll give away the poem too much now but um and it was uh special see the creature looking in your eyes like the way you look at a dog look at the horse but that's probably a little bit more unusual for me to be and i'd know i'd know gear like i'd know i just had goggles and i was in my swimming club uh i don't like to give him a name like i think that sometimes we humanize everything and there's an orderness of both of this well even though he was given a name surely there are others in your life who make you feel worthwhile are a safe haven i am lucky enough to have a stable view and know this other a befriending dolphin i swam out deep again to me i can't tell even myself what i felt when i first saw the fin slice through the surface the swell then to see this undine stuck still at my feet we hooked each other in the eyes for well over a minute a millennium his sweet kind gaze i wonder what he made of me in only my pelt and goggles what a treat to be allowed to touch his greening head before he undulated back across dingle bay the channel's leafy a minute a millennium i love that well there was a special timeless i went down again and he came out again which was special you know i left like that and greg would you want to read zanzibar leopard from the book three and then finish up with the with the uh the one which is the uh the fugue no more time yeah and zanzibar leopard i actually had left it out there are lots of poems they're actually all pinned up in my garage like there was about i wrote maybe a hundred of them and i put them all down to 26 and had to figure out which that could maybe cdf and so forth but um there is a note to the back of the book this is one of the ones that with me made extinct uh and it ties to how presidents and everywhere use religion as a reason to have the right to kill things and so forth but um and it wanted they think one has been cited in recent years like in the last few two years but they're not sure so i have ignored in the back of the book that's that knowledge is that but they had been said to be extinct the zanzibar leopard and then there's a little lore about the zanzibar leopard and a tagline lore about the zanzibar leopard included the belief that waifu which were that's the award for witches in zanzibar sent them to harm villagers and so the zanzibar leopard were killed on site um after the zanzibar revolution in 1964 there was a leopard extermination campaign which sealed the leopard extinction he's a tiny he's a small animal like him he fears looking scary anything this is it kill evil incatenate kill kill kill the zanzibar leopard this island devil this vampire vermin obeying which will dispatched by the waver to bedevil villages you know the old strategy demonize and the demonizer will revel in playing god the paw of the almighty this leopard survived since the ice age slowly shrunk itself into a dwarf cat royalty even changed its to outward human categorizing yes it is daft but this cat hardly likely to be found in a cage or ruling the night forest now when statecraft bands with religion there's no better witchcraft i just noticed a typo here what is that what was the typo cats yes it is daft but this cat oh no no it's all right no no it should be this is oh it's fine it's fine sorry i thought it was good good that last line hits me with a big bang in the then in my chest when statecraft bands with religion there's no better witchcraft i mean i you've seen all how many times we've seen that in our lives northern and in america god is on our side so we can do what we want abdillon but on our side other religions doing the same killing people and being they're right to be they're they're they're right and everybody else is wrong so yeah and i read the the last poem that you say and well before that before that i i want to tell people that you're donating any proceeds from this marvelous marvelous book of poetry no more time to 350.org and people should check out 350.org and of course one of the people who who supports your poetry so much is bill mcgibbon so let's hear the last the last year the last one you'll read and and our our our helper here Kevin probably maybe have it in in the beginning too this poem is a sound a soundscape isn't it you know it's a sound no matter what way you look at it read the title of the poem as any way you look at it and even down it reads the same as across no more time is down all the way down it's repeating it's another way you look at it reads the same it reads the same thing so um i have i have i don't know i'm not sure about how to read this poem yet i think i actually think it could be song and i'll try and sing the end of it in any way at all it could be it could be some traditional Irish music it could be song and jazz it jazz it could be blooms it could be it could be changed different all the way through but we'll try it anyway and and listen Greg i'm going to say goodbye thank you Margaret say goodbye and for now say goodbye but and we know there's no more time and and you've awakened us and you've illuminated us and we love you for it and so you come back again to channel 17 center for median democracy but but we'll we'll say goodbye with this this poem and you're wonderful may i say sorry that that there is some hope in the poem that's real hope not just the token gesture hope the no more time it's no more time for lots of animals now it's just they're gone and and it may be no more time but it will be for other creatures there's thousands been wiped those extinct every year and but not just that or owns the planet and everything so there is hope and there are hopeful poems that are realistic and i live my life like that as Kevin has 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Hi, good afternoon. John Basile, DC student, term 4 of 10. Started playing basketball in high school. Figured out that sports medicine was actually my passion and my go-to. So, switched gears a little bit instead of being a student athlete. Ended up working on the student athletes. During my athletic career, I actually did have a partial meniscus tear. Decided not to go with surgery, go the conservative route. Saw a chiropractic, saw a physical therapist. Worked out for me and honestly inspired me to keep going into the conservative medicine route. So here I am. Like when I was considering medicine, I was always thinking about like what medicine can do for me and because I was injured at the time and still figuring out what I wanted to do. But my big pivot shift was what I can do for medicine and what I can bring to the medical field. Best advice is to go hard. Whatever you think is it, I promise you can go harder. I tell myself that every day so I like to listen to my own advice and I promise to do it if you do.