Ranger Bill, warrior of the woodland, struggling against extreme odds, traveling dangerous trails, showing rare courage in the face of disaster, in the air, on horseback, or in the screaming squad car. Ranger Bill, his mind alert, already smile, unswerving, loyal to his mission, and all this in exchange for the satisfaction and pride of a job well done. Naughty pine mines, that's right, that's what it's called. Mr. Liebersen, I'm sorry, he's in conference at the moment. Oh, just a moment please, I think he's through. Well, that's about the picture, Andy. I really appreciate this opportunity, Mr. Liebersen. That's all right, you proved yourself to be a good man, rung mine. We're always looking for good foremen. Now, best of luck in your new job with us. Thanks again. Mr. Liebersen. Yes. I have a phone call here for you. Will you take it in your office? Yes, it's what you did in there, please. Oh, Randy. Yes, sir? I knew there was something else I wanted to tell you, but it slipped my mind. What was it, Mr. Liebersen? You'll be heading up the crew down in tunnel 13. Yeah, that's the one you said, sir. Well, over the weekend, a few of our lab men were down there checking the area, and they said that you're in the middle of a kind of sandy patch. I'm glad to know that. We'll take it easy, only small blasts. Better not blast today at all, at least not until you've cleared that sandy area. Whatever you say, Mr. Liebersen. Only, I guess you know that'll really slow things up down there. Not in the long run, Randy. How do you mean that? Well, I figure it'll be faster in the long run there if the whole crew make it through that area safe and sound. Looks that dangerous, huh? You never really know about that kind of thing. I ain't as strong as Gibraltar, men again. Yeah, you know. Okay, sold. You don't think I want any accidents on my crew the first day I'm forming, do you? No, I don't. So go slow. Use only the light power tools. Shouldn't be any trouble at all. You and your men have been around these mines long enough to know what you're doing. Well, better get going. Those crews ought to be forming about now. Tunnel 13 crew over here in Canada, Snyder, Morris, Reed, Peterson, Peterson, and Peterson. All right, let's head for the lift, men. And don't forget your lunches. We're not coming up till late this afternoon. And never thought I'd see the day. That's a matter. Him, foreman. Or I should say the new foreman. Big deal. Huh? I don't get it. You're new around there, ain't you? That's right. And I started here last week. I worked in the mines in East for a while, though. What's the matter with the foreman? I ain't no real foreman. Around here, they make a guy a foreman for a week every once in a while. Try him out. That guy is just a flunky with a higher pay rate this week. That's all. Yeah, they feed him. Just a guy like you and me he ought to be okay to work for. Most of them foremen don't know what it's like to do a good day's work. Then get your hopes up, fella.  Just a guy like you and me. You know, Randy Williams, I need something special, at least why these things so. Is that right? Yeah, that's right, all right. When you work with him a little, you'll see what I mean. You better not get smart with me. I'll tell him where to get off faster than he's ever been told before. Yeah, I'll be too sure. We're going to tunnel 13 today, and he's a foreman, you know. What's that to me? I've worked in other mines before, and I can work in other mines again. I don't have to take nothing from nobody. Is that how you came out here from the East, Snyder? As a matter of fact, yeah. I had a couple of fights with guys who thought they could tell me what was what. I don't think you're better tangled with Randy. I've seen him do some pretty strong things. I've tangled with bigger guys than him. But don't you worry, I won't give him no trouble if he don't give me none. Why don't we just settle it with a little blasting powder? I told you my instructions were to go easy through this area because of its high sand content. Blast through here might start a cave-in. In this stuff? Why, back east, we didn't look twice at dirt like this. We just blasted right on. One blasted settle the whole thing. One blast might settle more than you think, Snyder. Just keep digging. You don't get enough sleep at night, Snyder, but this isn't the place to catch up. I thought I'd give it a try anyhow. And this abandoned shaft was just the place, huh? It amazes me how fellas like you find these places almost right away. Fellas like me? What do you mean by a crack like that? Come on, let's get back to work with the others. For all you knew, this tunnel might have been filled with gas. But it wasn't.  I suppose this is as good a time as any to tell you, Snyder, that I expect top performance out of every man on this crew. I don't mind you grumbling if you feel you have to like your friend Morris, but I won't stand for gold-breaking. Now, you've had your little try at it. Now, you know where we stand.  Well, I thought you only preached about religion. I don't know what you've heard, but don't confuse what I just said with a sermon. There's no choice involved in this. It's either shape up or ship out. Now, you listen, Mr. Foreman. I'm not used to people telling me what to do. I don't like it. And I don't listen to it for long. If that's a threat, Snyder, you can keep it to yourself. I don't scare easily. Now, how about getting back to work? Maybe you can get rid of some of that energy in a decent way. Sure. I'll go back to work. But don't forget what I said. You push me too far, and it'll be at your own risk. I thought lunch would never get here. Seems like we've been down here for 10 days. Well, sure does.  It takes forever that way. Well, you know what he said about that sandy patch? I guess he just don't want to risk a cave in. Ah, nuts. I look to this area myself. There's no more sand in this part than anywhere else in the tunnel. Yeah, I saw you looking around. Where'd you go there for a while? I just back into one of the old tunnels for a nap. Really? Yeah, but old head in his hands caught me. Oh? Look at him over there. Oh, you mean Randy Williamson? I see what you mean. Yeah. And I finally figured out what he's doing when he looks like that. Now, what's he doing? He's praying. Praying? Yeah.  What happened? I tried to throw his weight around a little. I told him to get off. Yeah, really? Not for a while anyhow. Well, I figured we're gonna have trouble before the day is over. Yeah. Try to sell you on religion yet? Nope. Maybe he figures I'm too far gone to start. Yeah. And I'm sure I'm glad somebody finally came along that he can't get the best of him. Made in me? Made in you. Some of the other guys myself sure don't like the way he always has to do things according to the rules. Always holier than now, you know. You know, they made him form him. Well, I should tangle with him. Yeah, I don't know. I suppose we like our jobs. I know what I mean. You know, back east, when we didn't have too much use for a guy, he usually had some kind of accident down in a tunnel somewhere. Yeah. Now, just say something was to happen to the saint over there. Who'd take over? Guy of the most seniorly, I guess. Now, who's that? He could see all the guys from here. Well, it looks like it'd be me. Very interesting. Hey, wait a minute. What you got in mind? I don't want anybody... Hey, easy Morris. Just take it easy. All I wanted to know is who would take over if anything would happen to him. That's all. I'm worried about the work. Yeah, but you said that back east when you didn't like somebody. I just forget what I said about back east. Come on. We'd better finish lunch or he'll be over here calling us loafers and making me mad. Yep, that's what I heard from Brenner. How long did he say? Since right after lunch. Hold it. Here comes the big chief. We'll settle this thing right now. How are you fellas getting along over in this branch? We got a little question for you. Yeah. Okay. We heard that we're all through that sandy place where we were supposed to go slow. Yeah. That's right. We passed it just a little after lunch. Why? Well, then how come we're still picking our way along? Why don't we get back to blasting? Why? You men have worked around mines long enough to know that? Yeah. I have to get far enough away from a dangerous spot before you can blast. Thought you were experienced, man.  What are you talking about? Yeah. I'll tell you what I'm talking about.  Big foreman's pay for a week and all that. Push the other guys around. Oh, wait a minute. I haven't... Now you wait a minute. Looks to me like you plan on taking as long as possible with this job just to make sure you can get all the extra pay for working down here in tunnel 13.  How much we get paid doesn't depend on how fast we go. We'll have to work down here all week anyway. I don't know what's getting into you, Snyder, but you can be sure when we get up and we get to the top tonight, I'm going to do a little checking on you. Now how about both of you getting back to work? What's the matter, Mr. Big? Did you trip? I tripped all right. And if I'm not mistaken, it was over your pick. Well, accidents will happen, you know. That's right. They will. But that kind of accident, it better not happen again. What are you trying to say? Did I caused it to happen? I'm just saying that it better not happen again. Now I've got to get back to the others. Looks like you tripped again, Mr. Boss. And the way I figure, you just ran out of cheeks to turn. What are you after, Snyder?   You know, boys, I think he likes it down there on the floor. That's the third time in the last five minutes he's gotten down there. Yeah.  Just tell me. Sure. I'll tell you. I don't like anything I've seen and heard about you. You're the good guy. The one everybody's supposed to look up to. Even the religious bit. Well, I don't look up to no but. That's why I'm going to keep putting you down there. You think that's a safe way to live, Snyder? Knocking everyone above you down? That's my way. What happens when you get older, Snyder? What happens when you meet somebody who's tougher? How long do you think you can go on? I haven't had any trouble so far. And I don't think I'll have any here. But what happens when you get into a situation where you're helpless? Helpless? Get that, Morris. Me. Helpless. Oh, that's rare. Ah, that day I'll never come. That's where you're wrong, Snyder. The day's coming when we'll all be helpless. Looks like yours is a ride. I'm talking about the day when we face God and can't do a thing about changing the past. There we go with the religious bit. I figured it'd come. As soon as you guys get in a corner, you try to talk your way out with religion. Well, that kind of thing doesn't work with me, Mr. Preacher. So you can put your sermons away. I'm gonna rip you right in two. That's so? Yeah, that's right. And when I face God, if I ever do. And he reminds me of the day that I beat his little pet to a pulp. Laugh myself. There. Snyder, maybe you'll better not laugh. That's how I matter with you. I thought you didn't like this guy. Well, he ain't really so bad. Yeah, I'm just doing you and the other guy's a favor. Besides, I haven't had a good fight since I came out with. He's pretty strong. Now let's see how strong. See if you can catch this pickaxe, Mr. Religion. Well, you did. Now here, try another one. I got your hands nice and full, huh? Good. Now catch me.  You're right. It was pretty tough. He ain't moving. Did you kill him? I don't know. Harry better take a look. Nah, he's still breathing. Looks like he's bleeding pretty bad. That's nothing, just a few scratches. Come on, we've gotta get back and tell the other cities it had an accident. Looks like you're the boss from here on in. Me? That's right. But you'll do things the way I see him, won't you? Sure, sure. I'm the boss. So you see, man, it looks like I'm boss from here on in. I think randomly he'll be okay, but we better leave him to rest. Snyder here was only scratched up a little in the small slide, so we'll keep right on working with the rest of us. Now let's show the boss we can move things right along now anyhow. First thing we're gonna do is blast our way down Tunnel B. Hey, didn't Randy say the least yet? Yeah, but he told us we're all set to blast just before the accident. Yeah, he did. So Peterson, get all set up at the end on Tunnel B there. We'll blast as soon as you're ready. See, Morris? Told you there wasn't any danger. No cave in, nobody trapped. That two-bit foreman was wrong, and he was wrong about a lot of things. Yeah, I gotta admit he was right. Snyder, what was that? Look, what happened to the lights? Who do you think it was? A cave in. That's right. A cave in. Now stop sniffing along and get your flashlight working. There. There's Snyder. Look, in Tunnel. Number 13 has collapsed. We're trapped. That's the only way out of here. Where are the other men? They must all be under there. Snyder, what are we gonna do? So you see, Bill, we've come a long way since we first took over the old naughty pine mine. I should say so. Your whole setup is very impressive, Bob. Looks like you've reduced danger to a bare minimum. Yeah, too. Now the only possible danger spot is Tunnel 13. If someone were superstitious, he could really make something out of that, huh? Yeah, I guess so. Anyhow, 13's away at the bottom. Men stay down all day because it takes so long to transport them up and down. What do you have in there? There's always a... Boss! Well, what is it, hook? The signal is trouble. Looks like a cave in, Tunnel 13. 13? That's where William's in his crew are working today. Oh, come on, Bill! Your mind had dropped, didn't you? It's a dime to me. Some help! Only a figure of the oxygen will hold out. With only two of us breathing, it should last plenty long enough. If only that cave hadn't packed the dirt so tight. My hands are bleeding from trying to scrape a pan. Keep digging. It's our only hope. Me? Why don't you dig for a while? You've got us into all this. Hey, boss! I don't want to hear that kind of sock. Now you just do like I say, and we'll be all right. I am for sure. The only reason we're here, and who knows what happened to the others, is because I did what you said. No, Snyder. I don't think we're gonna be all right. I think we're... we're dead right now.  I don't want to talk like that. I'm the one who decides what happens here. Me! That's not true, Snyder. Boss! That's right, Snyder. You're not the one who decides what happens here. I suppose you are. No, Snyder. I'm not the one either. Yeah? Who then? I... I think he means God. God? That's right, Snyder. We've all had our chance at being boss around here. Look where it got us. Now the only one who can really direct things is God himself. We're all helpless. Helpless? Not me! I told you once before I'm not helpless. I can take care of myself, can you? You can't do it, Snyder. There ain't a thing you can do. For the first time, I'm beginning to see what Randy here's been talking about all these days. It's hard to see when everything's going the way you wanted to, but no... That's right, Morris. When things are running smoothly, it's a lot easier to believe that you can run your own life. But what happens when the mind caves in?  No, it's too late. I got just as long as that oxygen holds out and bends. It still isn't too late, Morris.  I'm trying to figure a way out. That's wasting time. The only way out of here is through that locked tunnel. The only way any of us will make it through there is if someone comes in to get us. You know how hard it is just to get men down here. Not long equipment of any size. I said it wasn't too late, Morris. If you're really interested in being right with God... Well, I... God? What does God have to do with anything down here? He doesn't care about us. You don't know what you're talking about, Snyder. Yeah, I forgot. You're one of God's pets. I suppose he does care about you. I think he probably cares more about you and Morris than he does about me. He knows me, and he knows I know him. Yeah, double talk. That's all it is. Come on, Morris, help me dig. I...  You what? I said I can't. I'm not so sure that all the digging we could do would get us out of here. I gotta know what Randy means.  We're all in the same boat down here. Now, your talk is just using up air that might be put the better use. Like trying to dig out of here. Go on, Randy. It never seemed important before... before now. That's funny, isn't it? We all know that we have to die sooner or later. It isn't until we're really faced with death that we even give the afterlife any thought. Yeah, I... I guess so. But God has given it some thought. You see, he wants us to spend all of forever with him. I wouldn't want me, not the way I've been. He wouldn't want any of us, the way we've been. It only takes one sin to make a sinner. So, you see, in one way, Morris, you're the same as everybody else. And God doesn't want anyone. You might as well start digging. It does seem like the right answer, doesn't it? There's not a person in the world that doesn't fall under the title of sinner, if it only takes one sin. The Bible even says if you break one commandment, you're guilty of all of them. Yeah, I thought you was going to give us a little hope. Oh, I really am scared to face God. Of course, I would be too. But that's only half the story, Morris. The other half reads, Christ died for our sins. Yeah, you see, that written all over, on signs, you know. Right, but you don't often see what it means. Morris God is no dummy. He knows what we all are. In fact, he knows us better than we know ourselves. He knows if we have a choice of good or bad, we'll take whatever looks like it'd be more fun or to our advantage, whether or not it's good or bad. Now, that's sure the truth with me.  Jesus. That's right. He lived the life that God meant for us to live. God lived in him, and he pleased God with every thought. That's what God had in mind for us. Ah, that's crazy. Nobody could do that. Morris, how long you got on listening to that stuff? Go on. Well, Jesus lived this life for more than just an example to us. All the examples in the world couldn't make us clean before God. I know. We taught a lot of good things. Even more than that, Morris. You know as well as I do, the teaching or rules don't make a lot of difference when we think we can get ahead without them. That's why we're here. The whole purpose of Christ's life was to make you, me, anybody, holy and clean before God. And he did make that very thing possible. How? God so loved the world that he made Jesus Christ the one to be punished for the sins of the world. When he was tortured and murdered, he then faced the terrible punishment that should have been yours and mine. He, he did that for me? How could he? He didn't even know there was going to be a you. Just before he was crucified, Jesus prayed for his disciples. And then for us, you and me, he said, neither for these only do I pray, but for them also that believe on me through their word. That's anyone today. Believe? That's all. Just believe what you just told me. That's right. And allow God himself to get together with you and clean out those dusty corners. You won't have to look far to find my dirt. And once you've accepted his gift, holiness and righteousness with him, you must set about to live what has happened. Like you do. Not like I try to. Listen, who's talking about living? Wake up, little dreamers. We're trapped in a cave in. It doesn't look like any of us will have to worry about how we live anymore. I see it, Randy. I get what you're saying. Jesus death rides me with God. And now I have to live like he did to please God. Oh, this little meat is very inspiring, I must say. But what good's the whole thing gonna do you? You big preacher.  A lot of say that if there was a chance in a million that he could get out of here, why Morris had dropped this whole thing faster than you could say Jack Robbins? Well, that sounds like it is. It's Ranger Bill Jefferson. Here it comes, Morris. You and me, we made this whole mess.   You better decide in a hurry. That's the whole story, Mr. Loverson. Your whole story doesn't completely jive with Snyder's story, Morris. What do you say to that, Snyder?  And don't bother about firing me, Mr. I quit. Snyder, it wasn't for the fact that I don't even want to smell you around here. I'd make you pay for what you've done. I send me a bill. I'll put it on a stack with all the others. As for you, Morris, taken into consideration all that Randy has told me, I'll keep you one. But keep your nose clean.  You won't have to worry about me. Well, if what Randy tells me is true, I'm sure I won't. It's just a good thing for both you and Snyder that all the other men were far enough back in the tunnel not to be caught by the slide. You might both be serving time for the rest of your lives. Yeah, that's about it anyhow. Huh? What do you mean? Well, the way things turned out, the rest of my life is going to be a serving time. Only it won't be for the state. It'll be for God. Well, boys and girls, I didn't have a lot to do with today's adventure. But that wasn't the important thing. The important thing is that the call of Jesus to come unto me was answered. I hope you know how important it is for your own life. Well, see you next week for more adventure with...


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In this video, we provide the solution to question number 15 for practice exam two for math 1210. We're asked to compute the limit as x approaches one of x cubed minus one over x squared minus one. Now the tempting thing to do is just to plug in x equals one and you get one cubed minus one over one squared minus one. That's equal to, well, one minus one over one minus one which gives us zero over zero. That's an indeterminate form. So that's not going to give us the limit. That just tells us we gotta do something else. It does tell us though that since we got zero on top and bottom, there's some common factor to the top and bottom which is necessarily going to be x minus one. The only way that the top could be zero is because the top's factorable by x minus one. Same thing with the denominator as well. So we're gonna have to factor these things to, we're gonna have to factor these things in order to compute the limit. Try to simplify it here. Take the limit as x approaches one of x cubed minus one x squared minus one. So many of us will probably see how to factor the denominator as it's a difference of squares. We can factor it as x minus one and x plus one. So we can see that factor right there. The numerator can also be factored. This one is a little bit less known but it still has very special factorizations. We're putting on a note card, I would say. You know, you should study this one. The difference of cubes factorization. So we're familiar that a squared minus b squared can factor as a minus b and a plus b. But some other factorizations worth remembering if you have a cubed minus b cubed, the difference of cubes, this factors as a minus b and you get a squared plus ab plus b squared. So the way I like to think of it is if you have the difference of cubes, well, one of the factors is a difference but it's like you forgot the cube. Yikes, I forgot to bring the ice cubes to the party guys, I forgot them. And then the other one is a squared plus ab plus b squared for which, if you multiply out, you see why this thing works but you can kind of compare this to like the perfect square trinomial. If you have a plus b squared, this multiplies out as a squared plus two ab plus b squared right here or right. And so you see like there's the two that's missing in this factorization. So the first factor is you forgot the cubes. On the second factor, you forgot the two. And so in order to remember the difference of cubes, you need to forget, right? So remember the formula, forget the cubes, forget the two. And that also applies if you wanna do the sum of cubes. There's not a sum of squares formula because that would involve imaginary coefficients but for cubes, you can get away with it.  So the same thing, forget the cubes, forget the two, that's how you remember. The other thing to remember is that this negative sign will be the same here, but you'll see an opposite sign there.  So these are some special factorizations. If you don't remember them, maybe put them on a no card. It could be very helpful in the situation because if you take x cube minus one with this factorization in mind, specifically this one, you'll get x minus one times x squared plus x plus one. So with that factorization in mind, you can simplify this thing very effectively like so. And so now you see that as x goes to one, these other things don't have any problems. You don't have the zero over zero anymore. You have x squared plus x plus one over x plus one as x approaches one. So now we can just plug in x equals one. We get one squared plus one plus one over one plus one, which will end up giving us three over two, which is the correct limit of this value. Now, before ending this video, I didn't wanna make mention to you that if by some horrible chance you forgot this formula, but you need a factor, it's like, oh, yikes, x cube minus one, I don't know how to factor it. Well, factoring is just dividing, right? If you're trying to factor this thing, you can just divide it instead. And like I told you, the reason why you got zero over zero when you take the limit as x goes to one, it's because x minus one is a factor. And so let's factor, let's divide x cube minus one by x minus one. Again, it's not the most ideal way to do it, but if you're in some type of desert island calculus scenario, it's better than not being able to solve the problem. So x goes into x cubed, x squared times, that is just to say, just take x cubed divided by x, you get x squared.  You're gonna subtract it from above, the x cubes cancel, and then you have a double negative, right? You're taking a negative negative x squared, so you get a negative x squared, bring down the negative one. You rinse and repeat, x goes into x squared x many times, for which, again, where that x come from, it just took x squared divided by x, you get an x right there. Then we're gonna take x times x minus one here, that gives us x squared minus x, subtract it from above. Again, the x squares will cancel, and then you're gonna get a negative negative x, so you get negative, negative negative x is positive x minus one, and then x minus one goes in x minus one exactly one time, and the remainder there is actually gonna be zero, so you get zero. And so there we go, we get the quotient right here. And so that's long division of polynomials, you can use it if you have to the factor, but it turns out even easier than that is if you remember how synthetic division works, since we know, again, the limit, we're taking the limit as x approaches one right here, we know that since we're approaching one, our polynomial, we have to divide by one, that's what we're doing here. And with synthetic division, you typically just write the coefficients here, so one x cubed, zero x squared, zero x minus one, you can do the synthetic division, bring down the one, one times one is one, plus zero is one, times one is one, plus zero is one, times one is one, minus one is zero, in which case then, we see these are the coefficients of the quotient, x squared plus x plus one. So I don't want you to get in a situation where you feel like you're stuck because you don't remember one of these special factorizations because there are solutions to do, to get around this. One, write down the special factorizations either in your brain or on a note card that you can use on a test. And if per chance you don't have them but you need to factor, factor is just dividing. If you get zero over zero, which is very probable for question number 15, that means there's a common factor in these situations. And so, factored using division if you have to. Now, these are techniques that are gonna work if you have a rational function. We had x cubed minus one over x squared minus one. If you have something a little bit more convoluted, if there's like fractions involved, you might have to clear the denominators. If there's square roots involved, you might have to rationalize by multiplying by conjugates. If you combine these algebraic techniques, then you should be able to calculate this limit.


Hello, denizens of the internet! I am Kim, and I was tagged by Hummingbird Books to do her fresh face booktuber tag. That's a tongue twister. Away we go! Question number one, why did you name your channel Dustmoats in Velikor? So there's a lot of debate about whether or not Velikor is a real word. I put that term in air quotes because it seems that the people who use that term don't seem to understand that at any point in history words were made up. Language is a societally constructed concept. So the concept of made up words is a concept I generally disagree with, but that was a tangent. Let's get back to the point. I'm fairly certain that the word Velikor originated in 2013 on a website created by a man named John Koenig, and the website is called The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, and I just love that. That's amazing. It was created to give us something tangible to express things that we don't really have words for, to communicate the uncommunicable, the things that we know exist but don't really talk about. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows defines Velikor as the strange wistfulness of used bookstores which are somehow infused with the passage of time, filled with thousands of old books you will never have time to read, each of which is itself locked in its own era, bound and dated and papered over like an old room the author abandoned years ago, a hidden annex littered with thoughts left just as they were on the day they were captured. And dust notes just seemed like a thing that you would find in such a place. The original title was going to be Velikor and Metacognition, which is thinking about thought, which is what books make me do, but I was worried that if I named my channel title Velikor and Metacognition that people would think that I think that I am smarter than I am, which I do not. I do not. I just, I really like good words, words that you can chew on, words that feel good when you say them, words that, that communicate the incommunicable. It was created so that you would know more about me, but now I feel like you know too much about me. Hi. Okay, we're moving on. Question two, what inspired you to start a booktube channel? I had been thinking about making something to talk about books for a while, a blog, a newsletter, just something because I find that a lot of the people who live where I live, I live in LA, and a lot of people don't really care for novels, interestingly enough. I'm never going to get down on someone for reading books of any kind, like whatever your motivations, just read books. I love, I love reading books. I find, however, that people in LA read books on acting technique, which is a genre I detest. They read books on how to be successful, because everyone here has amazing ambitions and I really, I want to support that, but you know, like I also want to talk about, you know, novels. And the other struggle is that so often people will read novels to find the next thing that they can browbeat into a TV show format. And I really respect that. Like that is a career. Like that is a well-paying career. Don't get me wrong, these are all worthwhile pursuits, but I love books for their own sake. For the worlds within their pages and the lessons they can teach us, the things they make us think about and the way they change our view of the world and life and each other. And yes, I would love it if some of my favorite book series become TV shows. Shadow Hunters is excellent and Raven Boys is possibly coming to TV. I don't know, but Maggie Steve Otter tweeted about it, and I was hyperventilating for a solid like half hour there, when that happened. But if you are reading a book solely to create profit from it, then you won't love it as much as you could, as much as you should, as much as you need to if you're going to adapt it to another medium. Too long didn't read. I started my channel to talk to people who love books for their own intrinsic value, because books are amazing and everybody should love books. Third question, what was the last book you read and what are you currently reading? Does manga count? I'm blasting through Attack on Titan, so technically the last book I read was Attack on Titan Volume 16. Volume 17 is taking a really long time to get to me from the library and I don't know why. I don't know, but the end of this one is so crazy and I need to know what happens next. But if manga does not count, then the last book I read was Traders Kiss by Erin Beatty, which I loved and everyone should read it. I'm probably going to do a review on it when I get back from vacation. And I am currently reading Spindle's End by Robin McKinley, which I love. I read Hero on the Crown and I read The Blue Sword when I was really young and I honestly, I don't think my library had any more of her work, because I was under the impression that Robin McKinley hadn't really written anything else. And then I found this one in the library in LA and I was like, wait a minute, when did this happen? This book came out in 2000 and I didn't know about it, which is just so... Question four, do you have a favorite bookmark? Usually I just use the yellow hold slips from the library, but honestly, really, I use whatever's on hand receipts, ones I use to pack a gum. And if I don't have a bookmark handy, I'll just remember what page I'm on and I'll have to say it out loud and then later I'll flop the book up and be like, what... what page was I on? Question five, where is your favorite place to read? I will read anywhere. I will read anywhere where there is enough light in order to read. Sometimes I will read in places where there is not enough light in order to read and I really should have gotten glasses several years ago, but my vision is still fine. Weirdly. Question number six, do you prefer physical books or ebooks? That little girl in that commercial looks like, we're focused, we're focusing, we're focused. Question number seven, do you have a favorite book that is not hyped enough on booktube and you wish it was? That would be The Queen of Atolia by Begginwheel and Turner.  Boom. Question number eight, how did you come across booktube? Actually, my roommate is a lot better at the whole like social media-y thing than I am so I was talking about like making a website, making like a Twitter or a blog or something about books and she was like, oh yeah, you should make a booktube channel and I'm like, what? What is booktube and why did I not know it existed? Like this is baffling. This is just baffling and it is a relatively small corner of the internet but like it's such a wonderful corner. Anyway, I will be forever grateful to my roommate Leah for introducing me to this. Question number nine, who are some of your favorite booktubers? I really love um a Clockwork Reader because she recs books that I always end up loving. Just always. Hands down. Like if it's in my genre, I will read it and then it's like, oh my gosh, she was so right. This book is amazing. I also love A Book Utopia because Sasha is just adorable. Okay, she's just adorable and like I'd read Outlander before I found her but then like I had to read Outlander again because she loves it so much and she's so right. Question number 10, where can we find you? I'm on Twitter, I'm on Tumblr, I'm on Goodreads, the links to all of which are in the doobly-doo as well as the link to the original video for this tag. With the powers vested in me by the hummingbird books who tagged me in this video, I hear by tag anybody who wants to do it. Anyway, I'll be in though.


For several high school students, attending college is next on their graduation list after graduating high school, and while it can be stressful for some to choose a field of study, Central Lakes College, partnered with Bridges Career Academy, will engage students in a career exploration day to help them with their decision. Our Taylor Archer has more. Central Lakes staff and community business members gathered at the Brannard campus as part of an ongoing process to prepare for the Bridges Career Academics event. To prepare for this, it takes about six months of energizing preparation. We work from November until the end of March with the event being in March, and what we do today at Central Lakes College was to gather together about 200 of our businesses and of course the college faculty from both Central Lakes College and M State, and we really prepare what is called our cluster teams. These cluster teams specialize in different fields and work in small groups to brainstorm how to engage students and activities on the actual career day. These clusters will meet maybe one to five times before the event and really prepare those hands-on activities for the kids. You want something kind of fun and kind of exciting, but then hopefully then you get the kids there to stay a little bit longer so they can talk about, hey what do I need to do if I'm interested in this particular career? 24 school districts and more than 2,000 students plan on attending the Bridges Career Exploration Day and CLC faculty credit their success to the Brannard business community. You know if you were going to the different cluster areas that met today you would see business people in every single cluster area. So what became and what has become of this event and Bridges itself is business drove this program. And once all the plans are made, Career Exploration Day will allow students to explore more than 200 career options in Brannard, Taylor Archer, Lakeland news. Career Exploration Day will be held on March 10th. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Howard Wigg, Code Green, Sink Tech, Hawaii. We are gonna be talking about productivity in the workplace. And if you're any, if you have the same perception that I do and read certain psychological books, you know that the average office person, I'm almost afraid to say this, because it might include me, is not very productive. There's a lot of wasted time and a lot of what does get done is really not contributing to the well-being of the business or the agency or Mother Earth. So here to address those big issues and then hopefully get down to some narrow issues also, Dr. Phyllis Horner, Organizational Psychologist and CEO of Great Places and Spaces and with her, the bitter half, bitter half I think, Manford Zepka, the COO of Great Places and Spaces. Dr. Phyllis as mentioned is a psychologist. Dr. Zepka is a building systems engineer. So welcome to you both and give us an introduction of what this organization, Great Places and Spaces, is all about and then Phyllis send with some details. Well, Great Places and Spaces was formed out of the work that we've been doing individually for about 30 years in the building science side and in the workplace productivity side and culture. And it was formed because the time is now for us to advise leaders on how to connect the dots in the side and to really say when someone isn't productive and things aren't getting done, what are the factors that are causing that and how do you reduce the fact? That's really what we're after and we've created a few new ways to do that. One thing that comes from my side energy efficiency is the fact that lead buildings, leadership and energy and environmental design buildings are generally more productive, the occupants are more satisfied and the building managers can actually charge higher lease rents for them because people are happier in there. Yeah, absolutely right. And even in our current market, which is one of the lowest open commercial residential square foot right now, that is still the case. We're here to talk more about the health and wellness even in a lead building and the fact that not everybody responds equally to any given work setting. So for example, I could be cold right now and man could not and in the old days wouldn't bring it up. Now it's different. The employee expectations have changed and they're speaking up and that's really good for employers. The reason it's good is because once we know what they really need, we can add in for example, personal control of air flow and things of that sort. And one of my fields is lighting and we're getting more and more and you may introduce the topic, human-centric lighting. Right, right. For retirement homes, nursing homes, you can emulate even though the occupants may very rarely see the outdoors, you can emulate the cycle of the outdoor sun and then the setting of the sun. Wow, that's great. So yeah, so Matt and I are working together on this and when we first started out, he was doing maybe the physical side and I was doing the cold side. And what we realized by doing some deep dive research is that there are stats on the physical response to a culture and there are stats on the psychological or psychosocial response to a physical setting. So it's all across like the two sides of our brain. So Manfred, you've been interrupting us now and stop, why don't you give us a little, say an example of the type of work you do. First of all, I really have the pleasure to work with you because you're actually the expert here in energy code and it's a lot of work in energy-efficient buildings and actually it came up to a point then where I realized there's more than only energy. I didn't see only because we have to, I mean, there's no question we have to save energy. This is like imperative for us, otherwise we cannot save the planet. But actually there was one point where I started to read some research which came a couple of years back, 10 years maybe where they raised the specter of if you're making the buildings to energy efficient, all of a sudden it might become not as healthy. So then afterwards the health aspect came in. So I did specifically like occupant centered comfort health in terms of indoor air quality and how is the temperature inside, is it comfortable? So at this point in time actually we joined forces and we saw that actually you cannot really address the problem of productivity in like a silo. It has to be reaching over to the other side. And we also realized that Phyllis is really an expert in her field in the organization of psychologist engagement and I actually know a little bit about buildings, healthy buildings and energy efficiency or effective high performance buildings. So we came to the understanding. The best is actually that we joined forces and that's what we're doing right now. We actually offering ways actually to make a really big difference. And it's really a revolution how it's going on right now. It's not only we have to make it energy efficient but we have to make it healthy because when it comes down to it like what actually if you have a green building if the people inside is not healthy they are not satisfied. So we think it's red and what we saw it's really new front. The new frontier of green building doesn't push it away. It really the roots are there and we have to go further. That's right. And looking at the total cost of a building energy is just a little Manini thing and the manpower, the salaries are the big that's the 800 pound gorilla there. And the more you can improve the environment the more productive people are. Yeah. Is it 1% and 90% or? It depends on the mainland. Yes, but here might be three percent energy and 90 percent of the personnel cost. Yeah. And actually you bring up a really fascinating point that sometimes it's like lacking in the green building or this inability movement is that we have some more problem of putting a value. What is the immediate value in terms of power for a company? If we save energy for instance we can say all right we actually we save so much on the energy but in terms of making it more productive let's say you just make it 10% productive. 10% of 90% is much more than 30% or 1%. Yeah. And that's why he's the mathematician in the group. But it is true that like you say in both of you that really if you thought about it long and hard you would realize that the built environment is the first step and that's I think why well came along and also why a lot of books on the human psychological side like best place to work for all and best places to work and all of that kind of thing started to focus on something that they called the employee experience. And that is also a revolution, right? Because before when we did comfort studies for example it's 80% is that right? 80% is the acceptable level of satisfaction code. But what that means is that one out of every five people could be completely dissatisfied and unproductive and we're just looking the other way because we stop at the code and you would know about that, right? I don't know, what is your thought about that? Well, what comes to mind immediately is in our conditioned environment here in Honolulu a lot of people say that building is so inefficient it's so cold, I am really uncomfortable I have to wear a jacket and still my hands are cold. And number one it's wasting energy, number two it's making that person unhappy and they feel compelled to go outside and take a walk and warm up a bit. Right, so we're looking for helping to transform the workplaces in the United States so that that doesn't happen anymore. So that a person who is cold, number one people know it the bosses usually don't know, yeah they don't bring it up. And two that if in fact they also need a plant nearby that they have access to green space. Right now there is no measure for the individual at work experience that allows that except for the one that we've created. I personally have plants all over my office. Yeah, it really helps, right? And we do have some images, is it time to bring up an image yet or? Yeah, why don't we bring up image number one and see what's going on with that. Yeah, I should speak to that. Speak to that please. I'm the physical, you know, the physical person. So what do you have in a space? The space there are two aspects. One which usually we say, you know, it's a nice space that actually it feels good. This is the psychosocial response to occupants. That you come into a place, you know, the proportions are nice, it feels good, it has a sense of belonging, of place. So that actually is something which the architects excel and it is important, but it's not all. On the right side, you see actually is the physiological response of documents and there you see a lot of icons there which stand for like air quality, for ventilation for lights, what you know, how it was already saying for temperature for sound and ventilation inside. It says, you know, it indicates we actually have, we have something outside of green something. So these actually, all these conditions, we actually have a direct effect on productivity on how people can perform. For instance, like if it's the more and the amount of the biggest deficiency is noise. If the noise is too loud, actually people can actually lose in their productivity by 50%, 50%. And ventilation, for instance, and there was a study by the Harvard, you know, healthy building program where they said, on average, it takes $6,500. You can increase per person per year. If the ventilation rate is actually increased by twice as much as required by code, it might take some more energy, but right now, you know, on the other side, you can actually, you know, increase a lot of revenues. Would that be the increased ventilation? Would that result in a greater uptake of oxygen in the human system? Yes, you know, there's carbon dioxide. You know, if OSHA, for instance, says 1,000 ppm is acceptable, but right now studies have actually shown that already when it goes over 700, you know, your cognitive functions goes down. And we did some studies at the university where we measured the carbon dioxide levels in school classes, which was 1,400. I wouldn't know, because in a classroom, you've got, say, six and seven-year-olds, they are restless as heck. They're moving and squirming all over the place and they're breathing madly. They're metabolism-designed. And so they're exuding all of this carbon dioxide. How do you get it all out of there? Yeah, definitely. And again, like, if you don't get rid of the carbon dioxide, it accumulates. Other things is also indoor pollutants, like VOCs, what it's called, you know, all kinds of material we have inside, or inside germs, you know, if they are not expelled outside, they make people sick. So ventilation is a huge component. Yeah, I think you talk to a hospital manager, he will know something about ventilation. Yeah, he knows the germs out of there, yeah. So the return of investment, even by that, it's just... But then you run into the... It's a contraindication of your increasing your energy use because those fans are spinning real fast. That's exactly.  But if you tighten up the envelope, we don't have so much infiltration. We have to get medical ventilation, which costs energy. But also right now, it's not sufficient. But really, you know, increasing the ventilation that we get an energy penalty. But, you know, as you know, there are technology which we can avoid that. And I think that's really important that we not only make it healthy, but we also make it energy efficient. We need to take a break, but as soon as we get back, let's talk about the most scintillating topic under the sun, namely, controls. I know that warms the uncles of your heart and as it does mine. We will take a break one minute, be back with Dr. Phyllis Horner and Dr. Manfred Zepka. One minute called Green Hawaii. Hi, guys, I'm your host, Lillian Cumick, from Lillian's Vegan World. I come to you live every second Friday from 3 p.m. And this is the show where I talk about the plant-based lifestyle and veganism. So we go through recipes, some upcoming events, information about health regarding your health and just some ideas on how you can have a better lifestyle, eat healthier and have fun at the same time. So do join me. I look forward to seeing you and aloha. Hey, aloha everyone and welcome to the Think Tech Hawaii studio. My name is Andrew Lanning. I'm the host of Three Matters Hawaii. We air here every Tuesday at 10 a.m. Hawaii time, trying to bring you issues about security that you may not know, issues that can protect your family, protect yourself, protect our community, protect our companies, the folks we work with. Please join us and I hope you can maybe get a little different perspective on how to live a little safer. Aloha. Good afternoon again, Howard Wake, Code Green, Think Tech Hawaii. Dr. Phyllis Horner and Dr. Manfred Zepka. What a scintillating team and speaking of scintillating topics controls. You were talking about buildup of CO2 in carbon dioxide in different areas. Let's take a big hall, the Waikiki or the Waikiki Hotels and these great big meeting rooms. Sometimes they've got 300, 400 people in them and sometimes they've got three or four janitors in them and other times maybe two dozen workers who are shoveling the tables around. The CO2 buildup in each of these environments isn't totally different and then you've got three o'clock in the morning, there's absolutely nobody in there. How do you keep the CO2 levels, the oxygen levels and the temperature all in an extremely energy efficient mode while delivering maximum comfort and maximum health through the occupant? Oh, the answer is actually our AC technology is too old because it has to have ventilation, it has to have sensible cooling and also dehumidification in one system and we can't do that. So we have to split it up, technology is there so then actually we can control ventilation differently from control, differently from dehumidification and again like dehumidification is to take the humidity out. And I think right now, one is of course the technology aspect but the other thing is the psychological aspect. I think it is. Well, before we go into that you missed my favorite, favorite topic namely CO2 sensors. We now have CO2 sensors, yeah. Definitely, yes. And if there's an excess increase of ventilation get that CO2 out of there because as we discussed earlier I think we've reached a conclusion that the greater the CO2 concentration the lower the level of awareness and human activity and energy. Yeah. You know of course if we increase ventilation then actually cooling will be affected and dehumidification. So we actually, the best would be that we step away a little bit and think out of the box and with new AC technology we can. So very important. Now the easiest example of that is we know or finally in Hawaii getting into our cooler weather and you walk into a building, oh it's cold. What happened? The AC was set for the hotter weather and he didn't dial down for the cooler weather and we're wasting energy and we're uncomfortable.  Yeah, cause actually it's like a lot of psychology involved. Well we should just disclose since Howard outed us that we're partners in work and we're partners in life. So this is my spouse and my business partner. Nine years. Nine years. Nine years and counting. Yeah, that was a good person. Yeah, so I think that the idea of what you brought up earlier was also fascinating, both of you. When you said Howard, you know that the person walks in and they're freezing and that might be something that people notice is affecting their productivity. If their hands are so cold they can't fight for example or change a light or whatever they're doing. But this one with the ventilation is really much more insidious because if you really have not enough ventilation the person's gonna feel less productive and maybe even sleepy. And maybe then their manager walks by and says, it's a matter with Phyllis, she's like slumping at the desk. And that person could get a bad performance review simply because the systems of the building weren't set properly for them to actually be productive. And I think that's really a shame and something we really need to work on. And I think it's an easy fix because if you know it and you can measure it, you know that X% of your workforce, say it's 70% of your workforce is sensitive that way, you need something better than code, then you really need to put in something better than code than otherwise you are leaving money on the table. You're causing productivity dips. And a lot of us in our office jobs are paid to sync I think it requires energy. And I have been in this situation, mainly that lunch slump where I'm supposed to be undertaking a difficult task. And I know, I know the answer, I'm just too... Yeah, yeah. So how do we fix that now? Well, basically we have to have a way to measure. Maybe we'll pull up the next slide just for 37 or something. Let's do the next slide. Slide number two. Slide number two. There we are. So, I mean, this is basically something that many people have seen a version of. It's kind of like a modified basalos shark. It looks familiar. Right, and so you can see that the foundation is physical and psychological safety, which means that they feel like they're not marginalized, that they're not going to have too much darkness and trip. There's not anything that's volatile that's going to harm them, chemicals or otherwise. And then psychologically, they won't be yelled at when they make a mistake. So that's all in number one. Number two is belonging and acceptance, which is, do I fit in? Am I treated like a team player? Is there a sense that this is the kind of place that thinks the way I think? Is there a sense of camaraderie in the workspace? Yeah, and the teamwork, right, absolutely, absolutely. And all of this is like in surveys like Gallup, et cetera, in achievement and focus is, do I feel like I'm doing meaningful work? And then the prime part, the thriving work settings is that combination we're talking about, which basically says, I believe in the values. I would refer other people to work here and I don't want to leave. And the thing that we're trying to show to our clients is that we're skipping a lot of steps. We're skipping number one. And when we do that, when we skip that physical and psychological safety aspect or we have poles in the foundation, the ground can shift and people will leave. Right now is the biggest time where employees are ready to walk out if the environment doesn't match them and it's only gonna get to be a bigger issue even if we had a recession. So we're saying plug the problems in your lower levels before you try to just do a mission and vision and say, oh, we're now a really progressive workplace. So do you have like a checklist to take care of number one? Yes, actually we do. You can go into the workspace and interview the boss or whatever. Yes, we actually have, we've created an assessment and you could show us line number three and maybe you can talk about it, but it actually is a way to measure this. All right, this is my favorite slide. All right. And so when you see the physical workplace, it's at the X axis below, right? So it goes from low to high and then you have a Y axis, this is the culture. What is the culture of the place? So I will be addressing only a little bit and finish with jump in and not only is productivity a problem, but a lot of CEOs, when you asked him what keeps you up at night, they would suggest retaining an attracting talent. This is actually the biggest thing. So if we actually provide a workplace which is not conducive and attractive, people will just not come. Business might have to leave regions because they cannot attract talent and so on. So let me see like number one. Number one, you see this quadrant, let's get out of here. You have a physical work score, a work space score which is low and you also have a deficient culture. So you don't wanna be in there and that's not surprised that actually people are just running away from that. And when you go to quadrant two, you have the gilded cage. The workspace might be really nice. We have all kinds of amenities. We have beautiful interior and so on, but still people and but if the culture is not good, people also are not productive or run away. We feel this way. Or they call that golden handcuffs in the old days. Actually also Google had some of this because they had the beautiful workspace and they ended up thinking that they were treating everyone fairly and that people were happy. But then they had a big walk out of women and men that supported them because of an unfair work culture. And so it caught up to them and I guess that's our main message is you could catch up to anybody. What you really need to do is to ask each person what is the ideal work setting that makes you productive. Roll all that data up and then say, okay, so of all the things that are important to our people, they're gonna make them wanna stay because it's not only what's important to you, but how does it compare to what you have now? What are the biggest priorities that would give us ROI without going, blowing the budget? And it's our contention that the amount of money they're wasting on lack of productivity right now would be more than made up for by the small investments in some of these changes. Maybe can we bring it back to slide number three? Also thank you and see the quadrant three. Yeah, well, quadrant three is a place where you love your work so much that you look the other way on the way that it's laid out. You try not to let it affect you. So we call it first colored glasses. And then quadrant four is what we are helping business leaders to do is to maximize and optimize both the physical and the psychosocial response to the workplace. One last, sorry, go ahead. We've only got a little time, but one example of improving the interior environment we talked about earlier is plants. I personally just love having plants around. That's one of the easiest. Speaking of which, what do they absorb? Absorb? They absorb CO2. Yeah, exactly. That's actually what we have come up with what we call an ROI. Actually, you don't necessarily have to make everything optimal. What is the biggest or the smartest investment? For instance, you see it like that with the plants. Plants are absolutely a perfect example. They're very relatively cost effective. They could be the first step. And then we just move from there. And we've got about one minute. Give me some other examples of how you might suggest improving the workplace. Well, basically, I think on the physical side, on the physical side, logo wear for people who are cold. Yes, yes, yes, yes. You just like, you invest a little bit of money in a person and then they feel like they're proud that to wear your logo wear and instead of all these different assortments and things, that's an easy one. Yeah. And asking people, what do you want? That you invest into things which afterwards it's not considered to be. And on that very cherry note, we must fund farewell to Dr. Phyllis Horner, Dr. Manfred Zepka. Thank you so much for being on cold green, safe take away. Thank you so much for having us, Howard. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Thanks.


So please tell us what your name is my name is Everett and I'm an intern here awesome Where where are you originally from San Francisco area, California? Nice, so for all of our California is watching out there This is one of yours and he's one of what we're borrowing him. So thank you So Everett tell us just start from the beginning man Yeah, so I grew up Basically, no knowledge of the Bible no knowledge about Jesus just typical secular upbringing no Sunday school nothing like that and You know as life progressed I started wondering, you know the deeper questions because What I was grew up with didn't explain everything so in high school. I started, you know dabbling with the spiritual questions Philosophical questions and sort of got into Buddhism meditation Started smoking marijuana getting a little hippie-ish, you know trying to I love the deep questions going deep and stuff like that so um and Then as college came around I still loved this and it was my passion like philosophy and and spirituality But I took a degree in business just for the practical reasons because I like studying that on my own so I started meeting a lot of people because I went to Boulder, which is like the New Age capital of the United States and I started meeting a lot of people in the New Age and I thought it was fascinating and More and more I just knew that the supernatural was real and that what I was learning in psychology and then and then Addressing sort of mental health it there was a cap, you know It didn't explain everything about the nature of the mind and thoughts and emotions so I knew that the supernatural was real and You know, I started witnessing You know people who who were tormented in ways that that psychology couldn't explain, you know They were supernatural in their nightmares and their dreams and in ways like that And so I met a lot of people in the New Age who seem to have known how to address these things With their own little modalities their own healing modalities. I was so into healing I was looking for like what is the best way to heal? You know, there are so many people suffering I went through my bout of depression anxiety.  I had to quit football That's when I started smoking a lot of weed and getting into those things. So, you know, I had my own issues, but I Was so passionate about finding what is the the ideal way to heal and and how can I help those around me? I really felt called towards helping others Just as my calling and and so in Boulder. I just met a lot of people who who Psychics Channels, you know energy Energy healers and these types of modalities that I was sort of experimenting in trying to look for, you know What was effective? Little did I know there's a big dark Realm of that and you're opening a lot of doors that you don't realize and that Deception is real even if you have good intentions if you're deceived you are going to pay for it And it could cost your soul literally and I didn't realize that until you know I was saved by Jesus Christ, which I never in a million years would have thought would be happening to me I like the whole word Christian Christianity.  I didn't really know much about it but these kind of Supernatural things started happening to me and One of them was I was just having lunch with my friend and I get a FaceTime on my phone And I pull out the phone. I'm like, oh it's from a guy named Luke Abel and I'm like Luke Abel And I'm like trying to think about his name. Oh, this is a guy on freshman year on campus He said hey, do you believe in God and he like tried to have a conversation with me and I'm like, oh I love these types of conversations, you know, not a hundred percent sure whether God's real blah blah told him a little about Buddhism and We exchanged numbers just because I wanted to be nice to him never ended up doing Bible study or talking or anything like that But three years later here. He is FaceTiming me and I'm like, okay I'm gonna have lunch with my friend and later that day. I said hey, what's up, man?  Maybe he's lying So I'm like alright I felt something just divine about it and then the curiosity of like I want to look into this guy's eyes and and ask him like Did you click FaceTime like did you did you call me? So that was an element but I felt something divine kind of pushing me towards learning about Christianity because I learned about all the other different religions and kind of modalities but never really gave any thought to the Bible, you know or to Christianity and So I'm like alright. I'm gonna go learn about this and I did Bible study with him once a week and He was praying over me teaching me the basics, you know The wages of sin is death and Jesus lived a perfect sinless life for us And he died for us on the cross and all we have to do is to believe in him to be saved and I was like, oh man this feel sorry for this guy, you know, he's He's This guy is just settling settling for this, you know to feel good, you know He's settling for Christianity just to feel good and not explore the real deeper questions so part of it was like me trying to help him with his deception and So like a month and a half go by and he's really just trying to convert me trying to you know bring salvation and and I'm just like, you know, I Felt he was a little too pushy.  We stay in contact a little I try reading the Bible walking to class I'm reading like Habakkuk or something not really knowing where to start and I ended up putting it down for a while but I started God was there moving and I started in my life in the New Age and and in this in this quest for For searching, you know the demonic, you know, because entities are real I would see people channel entities their whole body would change and they do automatic handwriting They'd have these like divine teachings and doctrines about, you know the nature of reality and souls and psychics and all these things and Talking to the dead where they can literally tell you what, you know, your your your parent was like So you start to believe these things you're like, wow, this is fascinating, you know Every human has these capabilities and everyone should activate these capabilities. That's what I thought so You know, I'm going I'm doing my meditation. I'm trying to you know, just maximize life in every single way I I honestly believed that there was an evil force I believed in Satan before I believed in Jesus because I knew there was an evil force Attacking people trying to dumb people down trying to to make people depressed and kill themselves And I really felt called towards fighting that so my quest in the New Age was you know I thought I was like a light worker, you know trying to bring light to where there was darkness and So I see these entities and I start watching Bob Larson I said because I start researching the demonic and I read few of his books another like some like Catholic one and then some other New Age entity removal books and so I'm really diving into the to the subject and I'm watching a lot of Bob Larson like man, there's something going on here There's definitely something going on this guy has a gifting this guy is some sort of you know a supernatural ability so I'm trying to People in my life who are you know, I'm trying to help I'm trying to look for like the demonic root because there are people, you know involved in and and you know worshiping astrology Goddesses and these spirits and things and you know from what I was watching like that seems a little sketch You know, there's good and there's bad entities, but I didn't really know what meant a good and a bad spirit so I started having encounters with people manifesting and me being able to sense these things and It would manifest just like a Bob video, but it was a smirk the whole time It was a little laugh and then and then they would come back and say what's happening And it would be it would be like what a Bob video does and I was trying to use my New Age techniques I was trying to use my meditation techniques just to push it out You know with my light that I've been building my light through meditation and then no fear and all these things nothing was working Nothing was working and after a really big one You know that I honestly felt like I was I honestly felt guilty after this one I'm like, you know, I don't know if this is you know, multiple personality or an inner child Or maybe it's a spirit that this person was because this person was channeling entities, but they were tormented They had suicidal thoughts. They had depression and I wanted to to do what I could to help that and So after a one big event I look and I'm like I need to know what this is What is this and I look up Bob Larson and I look on a schedule and he's in my town in a month and So I'm like, oh sweet. I'm seeing this guy. I've seen him on TV on YouTube. I got to meet this guy So I call his office and I talked to his assistant and I asked him I'm like, is there any way I can meet with Bob one-on-one and she's like, yeah You can just schedule an appointment and I'm like, okay And she's like, let me check and see if he has any appointments pretty last minute So she goes on hold and she says yeah We have one appointment left out of like some 40 that he had scheduled for that week that he was in Denver and I'm like book it booked it right away and I brought two of my friends who are unbelievers as well to his seminar and we witnessed this woman who had been tormented with a spirit Divorces horrible relationships with men you could feel her soul just struggling, you know We are we could just feel something in that room going through and multiple people manifested and we saw the power of Jesus Christ And this demon was scared this demon was so scared of Jesus and this crucifix that Bob was holding up to it And we were like wow like there's this is real and and then she was delivered and then just this massive love Just came throughout the room and everyone was just in such an amazing state of like love and Enjoy and then I go up on prayer line to talk to one of his ministers And he's he's trying to tell me like you have no authority over these things Unless you have the authority of Christ unless you have the Holy Spirit and you don't get that until you confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior Come on. Let's just take a moment there.  Maybe there's something here, but maybe I don't think he's God You know, I don't think he's God in flesh But right next to me this guy's fully manifesting like Like right and I'm like talking to this guy. I don't even want to be talking to him I just want to be looking at this guy getting a demon cast out of him by one of Bob's ministers and then another dude next to me and my two friends are like, what is this? This is insane and and We end up talking to a lot of people there and they're all just so nice and But I don't I'm still kind of like no, I think I got to do more research got to do more research. I'm not sure so we leave and the next day is my appointment with Bob and One on one meet him in the lobby. We go up the elevator We go into this suite in the hotel and he's got four of his ministers there. He's like all right if they're in here I'm like, yeah, that's good the first 40 minutes of our talk was just debating just spiritual Topics to the Bible the claims of the Bible all these things everything that I believed why I believed we were just back and forth back and forth back and forth and but during this time I just felt this conviction kind of brewing in me and It came to a point where I remember just looking away from Bob looking out the window and this massive sense of importance came across me and just fell on me and something so important came over me and I'm like You know, is this really what life's about? You know, is this just believing in Jesus Christ? Just believing, you know, and I felt this such strong importance. Why aren't why is it so hard to just believe this and I Felt my soul was in danger. Honestly at this stubbornness. There was this stubbornness in me So I'm like I eventually make up in my mind. I'm like, I don't want to I don't I don't want this stubbornness anymore And and I I feel like I feel like there's something here and I look at Bob and I say Bob I'm ready and he looks at me. He's like because the point was just getting It was getting drawn out, you know, nothing was nothing was happening. I'm like, I'm ready She's out of nowhere. He's like So he puts his hand on me He leads me through the sinners salvation's prayer and at this moment. I knew my whole life was gonna change Come on, that's worthy of a little bit of praise guys And you know, I said the prayer and the moment I opened my eyes from that prayer I Just started Balling and weeping and his love just consumed me and I had an encounter with Jesus And it felt like this all of this all of this sin that I didn't even know was sin that was in me I felt so sorry, but then instant forgiveness instant love. He had been with me my whole life He had been sending me these signs and I was continuously Rebelling in ways, but he was sending me coming after me seeking me and this love Like he knew my soul more than anyone in my whole life knew my soul more than I knew who I was He knew me more than I could even imagine and I was just weeping and balling and all of the ministers were around me Everyone was crying and I got up and I thanked Bob I thanked all of them and I I left that place and got into my car and just boom started crying again Crying and crying and crying. I couldn't believe it. You know, I felt like a new person I literally felt like it was the most important moment of my whole life that my whole life had been leading up to and And I just kept crying and the next day I went home the next day. I bought a Bible I put in worship music and I just stuck my face in that and tried to understand it as much as I could I'm like, I'm so far behind. I got to know the truth. This is the truth, you know And so that one month after I was saved I cried more than the previous 10 years Just in awe at his love Honestly, that's what it was and just tells and some repentance to things that I did not want to live with anymore Things that I didn't even know I had in my soul character flaws You know things in my thoughts and my intentions were just so Impure and I didn't want to live with that anymore and in his grace Month by month month by month just things just started leaving me just problems I had loneliness and depression and hopelessness that I didn't even know were down there They just were leaving me and that's what I see as the grace of God. I wasn't doing anything I was just being with Jesus fixing my eyes on Jesus and all these things I was trying to meditate through and help myself feel from or being healed without me knowing only months later I realized they were they were gone from my life and Amen Now you were a pretty popular guy still are pretty popular guy You had a pretty big circle of friends. Can you tell me a little bit about what that started to look like? Yeah, so, you know, I knew that something massive changed with me and I knew that I want my I wanted my friends to know, you know, I wanted my friends to experience what I experienced so with I would tell them my testimony my close friends and Hallelujah, many of them were saved and gave them their lives to Christ And then others, you know, that it was just associates within the New Age There's I had no desire, you know, I had no desire and there were there were some were very against Christ Who you know, I couldn't couldn't tell them to there were others who I did try to tell, you know, but Yeah, and then then my mom ended up accepting Christ months later and God's been moving in my whole family and in every heart. He's just been working and working and working and You know, I believe he's gonna move even more powerfully and and all of my friends and all my family and Yeah, it's just so amazing. He's so good. Yes. He absolutely is so okay So now I know that there are gonna be some of you that are dabbling in New Age It just is what it is. You're hearing a testimony here about the true power that is found alone in Christ and You have somebody here that can testify Directly so please tell us and for those who are watching who may be dabbling in New Age Buddhism meditation all that stuff What is your what is your advice to them? You know, I would say Research Jesus he is he is not just some other enlightened human. He is unique and he is Different than everyone else and everything else. He is God and if you want to know him just reach out to him Just just call out to him and he will reveal himself to you and there is no power greater than his power There's no force in the universe greater than his force and there's no goodness and light and holiness greater than his holiness And if you just reach out to him He will reveal himself to you and his love will consume you and he knows you more than you know yourself If you're seeking right now, you're meditating, you know You're experimenting with drugs trying to find the secret to life. The truth is in Jesus Jesus is the way the truth in the life


Chadwick Walton making a century for the Jamaican Scorpions at Sabina Park in the Cricket West Indies four-day championship, raising his back. Not many at Sabina Park to see it, though. It's round two of the four-day championship. It continued today with day-to-action from four games, two in Jamaica and two in St. Kitts and Nevis. Yeah, let's start at today's featured venue. Sabina Park, where Gerard Marsili has been taking in the action for the past two days. Gerard, take it away. Thank you so much, Ricardo. Yes, I'm here at Sabina Park. Let me start by giving you the position of the game, Jamaica Scorpions. They trail after day two by 48 runs of scores in the match so far. Come by campuses and colleges, 307 all-out Scorpions, 259 for six in their first in his reply. And yeah, the stand also for Jonathan Carter starting the day on 108 from a 260 for seven, which CCC would have started, and he finished on 135, his sixth first-class century. O.J. Schuels and Gordon Brinder would have picked up three wickets each for the Scorpions, giving them the opportunity to bat today. Chadwick Walton, though, he definitely eclipsed that century from Jonathan Carter with a century of his own. Of course, the first centurion for the Jamaica Scorpions since 2022, Aldean Thomas and Jermaine Blackwood the last two before him. But he was definitely the man of the day, a wonderfully constructed and is very aggressive, very patient at the end as well. Unfortunately, he was dismissed coming on to the end of the day's play. Carl Brown, he had some support from Carl Brown. They put on an opening stand of 169. He had a 48, the 24-year-old. But Zishan Matara, he was a bright spark for the CCC team for 69, well, the 70-year-old taking four wickets, his first time in first-class cricket. And yeah, it was a really good performance from him. Of course, in all the Westonese players in the Scorpion team, McKinsey, Bonner, Blackwood again failing, not providing that support to Walton that he would have wanted. McKinsey, he was out for nine, Bonner gone for six, although his dismissal was a bit questionable and then Blackwood being removed for eight. But of course, like I said, the stand-up for today, Chadwick Walton, 164, let me talk to him now and get his views on his innings. Chadwick, well played to you and you must be very happy about the position of the game right now. Thanks again. Not necessarily say that I'm happy with the position of the game. I would have liked for us to have a lead going into the third day, but unfortunately that's not the case. At the end of the first session, that's when you would have really started your innings in it, but you are totally dominated in the second session after lunch. What was the mentality like because it was very aggressive, very natural. We didn't see that from you in the first game. You took a little bit more time and then you paid for it with your wicket. But this time around, you were more aggressive. You were hitting boundaries as we know you to do. What was the approach like for you this time? The approach was just to be a little bit more positive. I went on Sunday and I did some work with coach Sam was in the net and I just came out and expressed myself to Danon. Unfortunately for me, he came up, but unfortunately, I won't be starting the innings tomorrow. Yeah, I talked to me a little bit though about that dismissal, where you did seem annoyed. Just tell me what was going through your head at that point. At that point, I just wanted to come out of the park and start the game again fresh tomorrow, but it just didn't happen. You think if you had continued to play naturally, then you would have been there tomorrow morning? I wouldn't have changed the approach. I think that approach was the right approach. Just unfortunately, like I said, it didn't happen. Yeah, well, the 64 runs behind. Do you think you can get the lead early in the morning and how much are you pushing to make the CCC team back again? Well, we'll try to overhaul what they have already and then we'll see how far we can get a lead. Thank you so much, Chadwick. Well played to Chadwick Watson. There are 164 runs for the Jamaican and the CCC team, they would have opted to bat first on this wicket. They didn't really prove enough for them. This wicket is very, very flat. It is not producing a lot for the fast bowlers. The spinners, that's why you saw Martara taking four wickets. They would have been able to get all the wickets so far in this, well, in this, in this, in this so far. But yeah, really good performance from the Jamaican Scorpions on day two. And Chadwick Watson especially, standing out 164, the scores so far. Once again, to remind you viewers and to you, Riccardo and Lance, 307 all out. The CCC team batting first. And yeah, going into day two, the Scorpions trail by 48 runs. They are on 259 for six. That's it from here at Sabina Park after day two, Jamaican Scorpions against CCC. Yeah, thanks very much, Gerard. With that report, the Scorpions in a very strong position at one stage. As Gerard pointed out, a 169 run opening partnership between Walton and the Carlos Brown who fell too short of his maiden half century, but unable to push on. All right, let's find out what else is happening around the league. There is another match happening in Jamaica, Lance. It is the Barbados Pride. And of course, they are taking on at Kensington Park, the Winwood Islands Volcanoes. And it's been an excellent performance from the Winwood Islands Volcano so far. Of course, they did so well in the opening match against Jamaica. And here we are seeing them again. So Barbados Pride 214 and 72 for four. The Volcanoes getting to 325 and Gerard spoke about the West Indies players not quite coming to the party. And we see it again in the second inning, Scrog Brathway, the West Indies captain getting just 18. Zakhar Makski, who was in the West Indies squad for the Australia tour getting nine. Those two haven't gotten off for the tournament just yet. Akim Jordan, I suspect, came in as a night watchman, not out on four with Jonathan Driggs getting 20. So Barbados Pride trailing by 39 runs with six second innings, wickets in hand, entering to Mars third day. And this one looks as if it has a three day look about it, Lance. Yeah, courtesy, no small measure to the Winwoods Volcanoes replied to the Barbados Pride total. One and a half centuries for Kimman, Emilius and Sunil Ambrus. And there was another half century, I think, at the top of the innings, Solizano, the Trinidadian player. So a strong performance by the Winwoods Volcanoes and showing that their dominant performance against the Jamaicans the weekend before was no fluke. This is a Volcanoes team that is strong. Yeah, very much the case and well led by the young man, Emilius. So here we go now to St. Kitts and Nevis, Leeward Islands Hurricanes 352 and 52 for one. They are in control against the Guyana Harpy Eagles who were bowled out for 188 in just 57.3 overs. So the Hurricanes lead by 216 runs and they have nine second innings wickets in hand. They are very much in control of this one and it would take a brave man to bet against them going on to win that one in Trinidadian and Tobago versus West Indies Academy. The Academy side trailing by 82 runs with seven wickets remaining. Trinidad and Tobago, Red Force 329, the West Indies Academy 163 and 84 for three. That's the position in that game. Let's take a break. We'll be back with more on the Sports Mag Zone and we'll be back tomorrow with more regional four day cricket.