Hey, John Crestani here. And in this video, I'm going to be showing you how you can make $500 a day with just your keyboard. And I'm going to be going over a few steps and a few ways that you can do this. For those of you who don't know, I've been making thousands of dollars every single day, just me and my handy dandy computer right here. As you see, I have a couple more monitors than maybe some of you do, but I'm still just making money with my keyboard. And I'll show you how you can too. Hey, John Crestani here. So, the first way to make money is pretty obvious and pretty simple. Again, you don't have to reinvent the wheel when you're trying to make money. In fact, being original is the worst idea you can possibly have in trying to make money. Money does not favor originality. What you can do to make money is simply reteach what I'm already teaching you. You can see that I've made just from YouTube ads alone, I've made hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars and you can teach the same stuff that I'm talking about because you already know it and you're already watching the videos. Now, the way you do this is really simple is just take notes on the items that I'm teaching you about marketing, about sales, about motivation, about mindset and write up those notes and then perform the teaching yourself that you can share your own videos on sites like Facebook, on sites like Instagram. Obviously, you're going to share it on YouTube already. You can share your videos in Facebook groups, in LinkedIn groups with people on LinkedIn to help you make money as well. Again, you can also share your videos or your notes on sites such as Medium.com. Again, you don't even have to perform a video, you can just literally take the notes of the stuff that I'm teaching you and put them on a popular blogging site like Medium to start making money. Another way you could do this is you can take what you've learned from me and just perform your own videos and put it up as a Udemy course and then you're making money again so you can create multiple streams of income, literally just re-teaching what I'm already teaching folks about affiliate marketing and making money from. Remember, I've been selling a training course for $1,000 and all the knowledge that I've gone over is somewhere within the 500 videos that I've already put on YouTube, everything I've known about marketing I've taught on YouTube. So you can take that knowledge, you could even repackage it yourself and sell it again, sell it on Udemy for $50. I don't care, go out and just help the world and proliferate information. It's not a big deal and it can create multiple streams of income for you. Now, another thing you can do is make Facebook posts sharing the content that you learn in my videos. So just take content that you've found the most helpful from my videos and create notes on Facebook and share it inside marketing groups or home business groups or work from home groups consistently because people love consistently free information and you'll start building up a following for yourself. Arrange your notes in a way that it's most useful to folks because a lot of people don't watch all my videos because they don't find all of the content important to them. So if you help organize content from top entrepreneurs such as myself and make it more useful to the average Joe or the average Jane, then you're adding value to them and that value translates into social proofing for yourself. It translates into an audience and it just creates value for the world because you're taking videos of mine that are usually 10 minutes and you're packing them in to notes document that may take people 45 seconds to digest. People love it when they get shorthand cliff notes versions of things and it's also a way for you. You don't have to be an expert yourself. You just have to organize content from experts and get it out to people. Now I used to do this and I still do this in terms of taking notes on things. Back in college, my first business was selling study notes and how I started that business was literally I just took good notes on things and I would go to classes. I'd take good notes and then I would share them for free with my friends and my friends were always happy because they didn't have to necessarily even go to class if they didn't want to. They would just ask me for the notes and I just share a Google document or a file with them of all the notes in that class. People loved it because it was so easy and they didn't have to do any of the work, any of the listening, any of the learning themselves. I did all the learning for them. I took all of the hours of learning and I just compiled it so that my friends would only have to spend instead of five hours. They'd only have to spend 30 minutes learning and I did that for free for a long time until I finally started selling my study notes and what I did was I packaged them into huge documents and I would take an entire class that I'd taken notes on. I'd even include sample quizzes, sample questions and I'd include them all in a note packet and I'd sell that note packet for $400 and that was my first business. I started making over $1,000 a day in college or over $10,000 a month if everything averaged out. I mean $10,000 a month when I was 19 years old just by selling notes. Again, it's not very complicated. This is selling notes to college students who are broke. Again, I wasn't going to a rich college. I was going to a community college. So these are not people who have a lot of money but again the benefit for them to not have to go to every single class and the benefit for them to be able to do whatever their life was at the time. They were willing to pay me that money and I also had some really cool guarantees and all this other stuff. I put marketing around it and I was able to make a lot of money that way. This was to broke people for class notes. If you're helping people learn real world skills or information about marketing, about topics that can actually make them money, not just save them time on a college course, you can make way, way more cash and if that doesn't spark any ideas of ways for you to apply this for yourself then you probably shouldn't be an entrepreneur. Again, you should probably work a job. Entrepreneurship is not for everyone. Now here's how you make money from taking notes on things is first off, you know, you could do what I did, which was take good notes, build up an audience and start selling those notes once you've got people who are happy customers. But what I would recommend if you want to make immediate money is put affiliate links to useful products at the end of your notes. So for instance, if you're taking notes on these videos right here or on anything that I talk about on my channel, you could put an affiliate link for my course at the end and earn a $500 commission every time somebody signs up. An example of what you'd say is at the end of your notes on my videos, you could put a little line that says all of this information was learned from John Crestani. He's a multi-millionaire affiliate marketer and he has a training course if you want to go deeper into this information in this world and you put in your affiliate link, you could also put an affiliate links for other products, you could say John recommends click funnels, you could put your own affiliate link for click funnels, you could say John recommends this hosting provider, you could put in your own affiliate link for a hosting provider, or you could take notes on a million other subjects and just pass them off to people and put an affiliate links for the respective products in that particular industry. There's a lot of ways you can do it. But at the end of the day, add value, add value to people, save them time, help them make money. Add value is the way to help people out, reach people and give them something that would help them out. He doesn't get much more complicated than that. And in order to do that, remember, God gave us two ears, one mouth, which means listen more than you speak and listening, truly listen to people, find people with money, listen to their concerns. This is the easiest way to make money. At the end of the day, anything I say doesn't matter. If you don't listen to people with money, listen for their problems and find ways to add value to them. If you just do that, find the richest people in your town, in your village, in your family and just hear out their problems and find ways to solve them, you'll become very rich if you just listen to rich people's problems and figure out how to help them out. It really doesn't get more complicated than that. Find people with money, find their problem, fix it, right? So I hope this helps out. If you want to engage more in the community we're building here, make sure you join our discord group. There's a link in the description where you can interact with other entrepreneurs, help other people out, again, listen to what problems people are facing, find ways to solve them or just communicate with other fellow entrepreneurs. So I hope you enjoyed the video. Make sure you subscribe, make sure you like, also make sure you hit the notification bell. I've been giving away a lot of money recently. Yeah, $10 whole dollars. No, we got last week, we gave away $100 gift card.  I mean, I gave away $500 on last week's live stream and there were only 100 people on it. That means like one in every 20 people got $100. And like a lot of my followers are from like weird countries like Rwanda and like China and New Guinea. I mean, it's weird country to me.   Who knows? But the point is we've been giving away tons of money and just kind of for supporting my channel. So hang out every Monday morning Pacific time. I'll be giving away money. Talk soon. Thanks for tuning in. Hopefully you learned something today and hopefully you can go out and make some money doing this stuff. Bye. I've been struggling to pay my bills and now I have an internet business and within two days I got my first sale. Just wanted to call and let you know that I just started with the program last week and I got my first commission. I've been with John's program for a few years now. I remember when I first started out making my first like $100 was a big deal but you know I've stuck with John's program and you know changed my life completely. Able to you know afford a mortgage and just live the lifestyle that I want right here in Vegas.


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Hello, and welcome to the How Small Is It? video book. This is a sequel to my first video book on how far away is it, where we started in my backyard and went all the way to the edge of the physical universe, explaining along the way how we knew how far away things were. In this video book, we'll start again from my backyard, but we'll move down to how small the smallest things can get. I've been motivated by two things to do this video. One is the success of how far away is it? Hundreds of thousands of hits over two million minutes watched. It's been very gratifying. The second is that in 1972 I studied quantum field theory for my master's degree at Oxford University, and recently the Higgs boson has been discovered. It's the boson for a field that was just beginning to be talked about back in the early 70s. So it's very exciting, but I noticed that the explanations are are so oversimplified that they're actually misleading. I heard one explanation and called the Higgs boson kind of a glue, molasses that slows things down. It's not anything like that, but it's not so mysterious that we can't understand it. So as we get down to how small things can get, we'll finish with the Higgs boson, what it is, the Higgs field, what it does, and the CERN Hadron Collider that finally found it. In our first chapter on the microscopic, we use microscopes and the wave duality, the wave particle duality for electrons to understand how an electron microscope works, and then use the electron microscope to see down to a carbon atom. In the second chapter, we'll go into the atom. We'll scatter alpha particles into the atom to find the nucleus. We'll cover the rules of quantum mechanics as we get deeper and deeper into the workings of an atom to help us understand how fields can have sizes. And it's set to stage for the Higgs boson. In the third chapter, we'll find a whole lot of new elementary particles, some of them not so elementary, a lot more than the electron, the photon, proton, and the neutron. They came from cosmic rays bombarding us from outer space. We'll also probe the proton, much like Rutherford scattering was used to probe the atom. We'll discover quarks on the inside of the proton and the neutron. And we'll lay the stage for the standard model. In the final chapter, we'll finish off the standard model by explaining force particles, bosons, the gluons for the quarks in the proton, the photon for the electromagnetic force, and then we'll get into the Higgs boson. Like we did with how far away is it? We'll explain along the way how we know how small things are. The pictures aren't as grand as the Hubble pictures of grand spiral galaxies, but I trust you'll find the story is interesting and informative. Thank you.


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Saya yang chooses my own tool stack and I said I was going to look for some of the best tools in the category. And I found out that Amazon was actually the best. Microsoft developers can argue but I found out that it's actually one of the best out there so I picked it up as I was using it. So this is just my own experience. I officially committed to the Amazon web services May last year. This is me paying for the hosting and doing everything myself. So this website is my personal site, trustinalender.com runs on Amazon web services. Some of it is my own experience, some of it is the experience of just running other services. Now you can tweet about this event by going to this hashtag. So if you're tweeting just remember to use this hashtag. I hope you can all see that. So please just remember to use this hashtag when we are tweeting for this event. I will just increase the font and then. So let's remember to use this hashtag if we are tweeting on this event. Thank you very much. Now, a little about me. I was born, lived in Lagos my whole life. I started using WordPress in 2012. This is my WordPress site. You know WordPress will never close on an account so it's still up and running. I study system engineering at the University of Lagos. Currently I head training at Spark Academy. Once upon a time I used to be a game developer. Once upon a time it didn't work out but it was a very interesting experience. Now for me I say this personally. You have to be a developer to use Amazon web services. You can't not know how to code. I don't know if many of us have opened Shell Prompt before. Shell Prompt, Command Prompt. How many of us have done Java? So if you've done Java you know what the Command Prompt is. If you've opened Command Prompt and you get a headache. I think this is the wrong session. Like if you open CMD and then you get a headache. You know what we're talking about. This is the wrong session. There are civilian sessions in this place but this is the wrong. This is military. Now the thing is this. You will be responsible for managing your entire server environment. That was coming in at the end of that session where the lady said something about SSL certificates being flagged as unsecure on websites by July. Now if you use a hosting provider you have to contact them or they'll do it for you automatically. Most of them are offering it like if you go upstairs there's this hosting provider upstairs. They're offering it for free already. Okay yes. I don't want to mention names on this stage so you understand. Now they're offering it for free already. But that's the luxury you have when you have a hosting provider. In my case I have to update my sites by myself. So I'm responsible for everything. Is it good? Yes. Is it bad? Yes. The answer is let me talk like a lawyer. It depends. You get so much control but with that control you also get so much power. So you can't crash your entire website and have to rebuild it because that's happened to me before. So what is Amazon Web Services? Infrastructure for applications. That's how I like to think about it. It's you knowing that you have a base on which to build any app you want to build. It's storage, computing, databases and management tools. And if you understand that it's going to be a lot of work it's going to be you building your infrastructure from scratch the only beauty being that you would control your infrastructure end to end then Amazon Web Services is something you want to try out. It's a cloud computing platform which we've already said. An example of which will be Microsoft Azure, Digital Ocean, Heroku. Now, okay. So pros and cons. It's easy to use. Now then again I think if you've already done the learning curve of being a developer a lot of things are easy. So for me I would say it's easy to use. It's reliable. It never goes down. It's absolutely beautiful in that. It's secure. For me a big con is it's a unique environment. So it's not... Yes I use Windows and I started with Windows.  I mean I also saw Star Wars where Luke Skywalker became that way there.  That's your transition. So there's a learning curve. You have to read. I hate reading but it's something that is necessary. And then there's a high cost. So on average if you run one website my personal website costs like 3,000 naira a month. Now that means every two months I can buy a cheap domain. I don't even understand what I'm saying. Every two months I can spend 6K and buy a cheap domain and hosting. And I'm only spending that because I put in emails I put in a bit of hosting I'm not even doing storage but it cost me on average 3,000 naira a month. So I have like 15 minutes so I'll just quickly run through the slides. I will apologise because somebody registered this appointment like this should be practical. And I agree. I agree we should sit down and really could not hear me talk. So let me apologise ahead of time. Now why did I take the leap? So I have 15 minutes. Why did I take the leap? Fonstration from web host. I don't know if you it might have gotten better in 2018 but 2012 no let me talk because you know somebody is not in his head but there are some web host are sponsoring this event.  So I also please do not mention names I beg please it's live this session has been recorded so I'll rather kill myself than commit suicide. Now some web host were really performing excellently in 2012.  So I just decided that okay what's the problem is it not to be a developer is it not to look at it is it not to look at the show and that was my own decision. Now digital convergence this is really the part where it's worrisome. When I did I left systems engineering department it was all you needed to be was to be a programmer. You didn't have to understand electronics but today we're talking about IOT we're talking about things that there's so much convergence that in order not to be obsolete you might have to crossover I mean of you are CCNA people CCNA you know that the recent CCNA boxes run on Python so Python please that's the next point digital obsolescence the reason why my mouse ruled the world it's not because we got here first it's because the dinosaurs failed to evolve and that's the danger with being a programmer there's always new tech there's no JS there's Laravel there's one new form of technology I feel regardless of what technology does next car computing is always going to be there as a standard so I would rather just future proof my career for me it's insurance now this is another site that I'm running I built a site for them it's syriareset.com because of the faces of the project it was a very good strong it was a very good case to make for cloud computing so the first phase is where we run WordPress which is we run a basic dynamic website but the second phase is where it starts to get tricky where we'll be running e-commerce so the plan is to sell data online and in the third phase they'll have a data analytics dashboard there's a lot of coding behind this but when you see your roadmap and this is where you have to use cloud computing when you see the roadmap of a project you realize that if I go with conventional hosting at some point in time I'll be stuck remember Amazon Web Services first and foremost infrastructure so it's not stomach infrastructure like a dear governor I won't mention the name of the state but it's not stomach infrastructure you're the one who said it it's not stomach infrastructure it's infrastructure it's cloud computing infrastructure and when you realize your project specifications and you see the complexity of the project sometimes you might want to assume control now the first step is you go to this website you need a credit card most banks in Nigeria have become online friendly so I have like 10 minutes left so I'll just really rush through this part is easy you just log into your console there's this email verification process it's quite easy then you get this dashboard this is my own personal dashboard my five most important services are billing, work mail I use EC2 which is the computing part of it which is where your servers your WordPress is hosted I use Amazon Lex which is more for research how many of us have heard of Alexa? okay what of Amazon Poly? Amazon Poly now let me that's another reason why I think cloud computing is going to become more important a lot of stuff that is cutting edge will be rolled out on Amazon first for their developers and Amazon Poly is a service that allows you to convert your blog posts to podcasts so once you've written your blog posts it's a what's it called Amazon Poly the plugin is text to speech it's a text to speech converter it just allows you to do that seamlessly now if you're not running on Amazon web services you have to wait until civilians get it sorry now root 53 is perhaps one of the best DNS management services in the world now I didn't put this in the slide but I will mention it because I can also skip through very quickly that the alternative to this in traditional hosting like C panel hosting is VPS it's like you're running your own virtual private server you're not running a dedicated server but you're running your own virtual private server so it's right in the middle that's the alternative to Amazon web services so with root 53 basically this is how I registered my own domain you check for the ability of a domain you add it to the cart now if you watch the shopping cart on this side that will be your left the moment you add it to cart it shows up there you pay 12 dollars every year and then the rest is easy you fill in your contract details you verify your details it's a very self-guided process I promise you if you read through the documentation it's self-guided and that's why the best way to stack our computing is buy your own domain eat your own dog food I have probably redone this website three times so like the first time I did it and I'll come to that point now WordPress cloud image how many of us know bitnami okay so bitnami is a great way to just package your and then they give you as an installer think of it like a portable installer you just take that and then you install it so you use the cloud image and then so you use that cloud image you go to the AWS marketplace and then you this is you choose an instant type and basically all you are doing is you are attaching your bitnami cloud image to your Amazon account and that's what T2 does T2 is one of those microservices that it's not as powerful as most of the things it was a great place to start on the free tier it's a learning curve and you have to give yourself time to just learn it and you name your instance and this is all in the documentation and then you launch it now this is the part where you might have to redo your site twice how many of us have seen this movie Matrix what happened what went wrong in Matrix it was we made the machines and then the machines what happened the machines took over and that's what happens when running cloud computing you need to be very careful on the documentation they will tell you that you don't need a key pier but trust me on this if you don't put a key pier this is what happens that guy is evil so it gets to a certain point in your development where because you didn't put a key pier the crocodile shows up and eats all your files but you cannot access your WordPress website they will ask you for something that inevitably is still a key pier because we try to FTP sometimes and when you try an FTP and then you don't have a key pier let me explain a key pier because I have time to talk about it a key pier is basically authentication so you authenticate with that server and if I said write a secret number we shared the number but he doesn't know the number then we now agree on the basis of it's cryptography we now agree on the basis of the coding what we have shared now you must have a copy and then you will have a copy the dangerous thing is if you don't have a key pier you put yourself in jeopardy once you get to a place where as you are running certain services certain plugins require root access in WordPress I hope you understand what I am saying some plugins modify your config file now once you meet a plugin like that the crocodile shows up if you don't have a key pier because you need your key pier to talk to your server and say allow this plugin modify settings at that point if you don't have a key pier even though the documentation says you don't need a key pier please use a key pier because it's the documentation it's a safe environment but if you run this for yourself you might have to redo your work it's really painful but it's a learning experience so these are the two instances I had I had to terminate this one from experience and the rest is easier at this point you get your public IP and then I really had to rush the session I really apologize but what I would just say is this it's really easy once you've done the learning curve of being a programmer this is really easy this isn't work this is like a master's degree is where I think developers need to start going because the technology is not going to wait for us Amazon Poly is already on version 1 there's technology now that can allow you convert your blog posts into podcasts there will be more services like that chatbots are becoming crazy and to be left behind as a developer is I've been here for some time I think I would say I've been developing long enough I've seen I was one of the few Delphi programmers who didn't become extinct I use Delphi as a programming language you know what happened with Delphi the maker of Delphi switched over to C Sharp it became the architect for C Sharp guess what happens with Delphi so programming languages come and go so this is one thing I think as technology developers have to start thinking about will it be easy it depends I think that's a fair answer but the easiest way to get started is use a sandbox and that's your personal website I can crash my personal website I've built my personal website three times so you just get a good backup plugin you export you make your tweaking you crash your site you've learned something you've learned what doesn't work if you do enough nonsense you get to sense but the thing is there has to be enough just remember with great power comes great responsibility thank you very much


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So we've heard about, we've heard about the program from the, from the open group perspective, how it was built, what it's, what it's aimed at doing and, and a very high level points about the, about the program and the details. So, what can it do for your career and for your organization is our next topic and to. To speak to that, we have Dr Scott Scott, who is the program director, global C. T. L. education and IBM architect, professional lead. And IBM global technical sales. Scott has more than 30 years with IBM, having served in technical sales education and sales management roles across several IBM organizations over the course of his career. He's currently serving, as I said, it as the IBM architect, professional lead, and is responsible for global technical education and skills for the IBM architects in the IBM global sales organization. And in this session, Scott's going to discuss an experience experientially based point of view on the value of the open profession program as we've been talking about it as seen through the eyes of a global education skills and technical professional leader. He'll focus on the value to the individual technical profession in terms of skills, credentials, community engagement and career progression. And likewise for the participating corporation, he'll discuss the impact on standards and practice quality of service risk mitigation, and the benefits of having a career framework necessary for maintaining an agile qualified responsive for workforce. So, a warm welcome from the open group please for Dr Scott now. Over to you Scott. Thank you very much. Thank you Steve and apologize for the overly long introduction that I must have written. So, I'm happy to be with all of you here today, whether it's live or on the replay. I do want to emphasize that that I have two complementary roles right now. As Steve mentioned, one is focused on skills and education for the architect profession within IBM subset of the of the architects globally. And the other also global role is architect profession leader, which means that I get down into some execution details with regard to the career model and how we make this all work as a predated certification program with the open group. So, complementary roles and I'll try to express some of that as I go along. I realized this is a very short period of time and I've just a few charts. So, as Steve mentioned, I'm going to talk to perspectives one is the individual and the other being the benefits for the corporation. Two points on this on this chart. This is truly a global perspective so all of the feedback and the, the direction that we drive our program here at IBM has to do with global, a global perspective. And it's also the other thing is is and Steve started with this was the very challenging environment I wanted to reflect some of the current. The very dynamic environment which we find ourselves, whether that's the virus or just in, in, in broader terms, just the dramatic change in technology. The portfolio changes that we in many companies are undergoing right now. And there's an incredible requirement on technical professionals now to change their skills over, which is impacting, you know, how we fit with profession certification. So, for those new to the role. Certification does define open certification defines a journey for what experiences they need to prioritize to build their career. This is particularly true of new hires. We get a lot of accolades from new hires. Millennials and such that are newer to their careers. This type of professional guidance really helps them sort out where to go what to focus on who to make acquaintances with and, and what types of experiences to have. It's also true that professional hires and we do a lot of professional hiring. A lot of people come into this and they're, they're pleased that they can use the experiences that they bring with them. In terms, in terms of the accreditation itself. And it really provides, you know, a plan for role based skills and this is. These are skills that stand the test of time so regardless of what product you are selling or supporting or integrating, implementing or what technology area you're focused in. These are skills that transcend all of those things and they're really investments that do make sense for the long, the long period of time. So. Conformance criteria is, is one of the key aspects of our relationship with the open group. This is, we use the conformance criteria in all of our levels levels 1, level 2, level 3, and for the architect certification. So these are strategic skills. Again, these are skills that have to do with how you approach your job, your client, the decisions you're called upon to make the risks you're called upon to mitigate, etc. So very important in terms of success of these architects in client engagements. We also can focus in the profession on the career beyond the current job or assignment. And of course, there's a lot of change, a lot of very dynamic environment people make changes within the corporation and they move from corporation to corporation. This is something that they can take these consistent skills with them. It provides a community and you'll see this when I talk about the career model. This really provides an opportunity for profession professionals regardless of their stage in their career to engage with others to be reviewed by others to review others to mentor and be mentored. That's really important aspect and important for the development of the individual. And then we lastly, we really reinforces the program reinforces the value of earning credentials. Sometimes technical people are very good at promoting themselves other times they're not and I think this, at least we've seen that this provides visibility. And it provides a way to share best practices and so. So those are some of the thoughts that come to mind with the advantages of the individual. Now, what I'm sharing with you now is we, and this will be similar to what James described is we cheap we looked at it will constantly looking at at our profession model. And what we did in 2017 is we moved away from the big bang. Here is your application for certification is James was describing we moved to a journey where you collect credentials and this is the chart we used to talk about. Profession has both short term and long term benefits. We used to think of profession more as career less as, you know, tactical benefits, but the truth is it puts you right immediately on to a path to develop skills that are useful in your job right away. As well as the skills. It's, you know, again, stand the test of time. So we said, look, if you're an IBM architect. We have simplified the requirements.  It's something that you can accumulate over time with your job. We have conformance criteria that is very clear. It's very explicit and it changes by level. The credentials can be externalized through the open group, which is always been seen as being very attractive, particularly as people change, change jobs. And we referred to it as bad as you go. This was about the same time that digital credentials became very popular. So this is just five years ago. We streamlined the certification. And this is what one important point to make is that simplification remains a goal of ours. I mean, we, we probably created perhaps too many digital credentials at the beginning. So we learn over time every few years. We take another look and we try to simplify the certification process to focus on where is the value. Where is the value, not the work digital personal elements. This is again a way to show showcase your badges as you earn them your credentials. And then the portability, whether you are moving from roles within IBM, or you're moving to other companies in both cases, we've made a decided effort to make sure that you can take those credentials that you've earned. Port them to other professions or to other companies. So let me give you an example. This is again, another chart that we used in 2017 when we announced this move from a Big Bang career model to a journey. And the conversation here was, look, this is certification is important to you. It's important to your career. And we at IBM have specific education and skills we want you to develop early in your career. So we provided this example and we had 3 or 4 case studies like this, where we have Jay meet Jay and Jay is coming to IBM from from a competitor. So he is able to bring some of his project experiences with him to earn credentials or digital credentials rather. So he joins and what this chart represents is maybe a year 18 months of where Jay is focused on becoming a level 1 certified architect. He's working this in with his job requirements. So he's having a front, he's having a career conversation with his manager. They're looking at the going out to the career website. They're looking to decide what elements of credentials he needs to earn. He takes architectural thinking, which happens to be one of IBM's core education courses and I'll mention that again later. And he gets that badge, which is a requirement. And then he visits the architect profession site and he reviews what else he needs. There are profession core requirements, which in IBM's case happened to be IBM will enterprise design thinking and industry skills. As he engages with clients and has successful projects he earns project badges. At seven here you see he's earning leadership badges he's giving back he's doing presentations he's teaching classes perhaps he's doing something for the profession. He continues and there may or may not be his business unit might require him to take a certain course or certification or maybe not. In any case, when he collects all these badges, and this again could happen in slightly under a year to slightly over a year. He then applies for level 1 certification he gains his certification. It is it is complimented with the open group certification. He posted to LinkedIn he shares it on social media. So this is meant to be a journey that is integrated with the job itself. So this is basically this is the process we've been involved in and for the last 5 years. This works very well, particularly again for people new to the role or new to the company or both. So what can the, what can open certification do for a company. So, the one thing that's important a couple of things important on this chart, one is, you have the implementation flexibility, if you have the accredited certification program as IBM does. We use the conformance criteria from the open group, which is wonderful because a lot of different companies. The intellectual capital from a lot of different companies get involved in creating this conformance criteria. So you get, you get the broadly vetted role based conformance criteria. And really the thoughts and leadership from a lot of different entities that are associated with the open group. So, the company specifically, you know, it provides the guidance very specific guidance that varies at different roles levels one level to level three at different levels. It defines the career levels for the role and the criteria and skills do change with the levels as you would expect. It enforces standards of practice. So whether that be education skills, engagement methods and IBM of course has some methods that we require within this journey. So you have people right from the beginning gaining the experience that are specific to the company while conforming with the open group conformance criteria which is universally accepted as being best practice. Peer review. This is a very interesting distinguishing factor of open certification.  This is peer review. This is unique. It comes back looking for ways to use the peer review involved in profession certification to also confirm that there are level four plus skills involved with our hybrid cloud solutions, for example. So this idea of using peer review is really a game changer in terms of vetting the capability of employees. So this is a value to the corporation. This is your continuity across jobs and roles. This is lateral career growth, whether it's moving from profession to profession, or perhaps you're just moving to business units. You take the profession skills and accreditation with you. Same is true if you leave the company. And the rest of the process of credentials. This is something that has been very popular in the last couple of years. IBMers are very pleased to have an external credential when they earn the IBM credential. That to them is a value because it's externally recognized, something they can take with them. If they go to another company. The next thing I wanted to share with you is the way we organize our career model. This is a little bit more detail, but it'll give you a sense for the community that is created here and the consistency with which you can drive people. Their skills, their activities, their developmental experiences towards certain milestones at level one, level two, level three. So this is our portal. Essentially it is the one stop shop for anybody who's interested in becoming certified in the architect profession. So on the left, you can see that we started a very early stage. We're focused in on people that aren't architects, but maybe want to become architects or they think they have an interest in the profession. So we describe what the role is, what the careers are, what IBM architects do and aspiring architects. We have a billy for them to go in and kind of get a taste for the types of activities that would be involved in people talk about their own careers. And then you get into the more mainline certification content itself. These are for people that are committed to the architect profession and now want to certify. So we really focus in those areas describing what credentials do you need at level one, two and three. What is conformance criteria. This is the time to really get comfortable with the open group conformance criteria at each of the levels. So this is how we support the career model. It's important because it allows you to find people allows you to create that community, which is so important to the career. The next chart I wanted to focus on. Oh, so this is, this is really commenting a little bit on my other role, but they really came together nicely education and the certification. We had the opportunity. I mentioned earlier that we have a couple of education courses required for our certification. And one of them is architectural thinking. And it's really. So this profession investment that we've made over time and we continue to revisit has given us an ability to invest. And one of the investments we've made is on improving our education and it's not a coincidence that, you know, the pandemic of course has accelerated this, but we've moved to digital education as many of you I'm sure have. But it's given us a way to change how we do education. So what we do is we have hybrid models of delivery for this class. This is the example. If you look on the right hand slot. Part of this of the chart. You see everything in blue is kind of pre pre recorded video lectures by architects. Everything in pink is the instructors. So it's a mixed model over 3 weeks used to be a 30 day class. You just, I'm sorry, 30 hour class that you would just get through in 4 days. Now it's over 3 weeks, couple hours a day. The thought here is that you can continue to develop yourself while staying engaged with your clients staying in the field. And the instructors love it because they spend their time. In pink areas, as you can see, they're not doing lectures anymore. They're collaborating and answering questions and guiding and mentoring people. And the green are the case studies. So the point is, it's a hybrid delivery model. It allows you to stay in the field. And we think it's a much more effective way to drive some of the key skills that you need for the profession. So this is an example of where our commitment to the, to the profession, to the open profession has given us ability to make investments around a portfolio of education that really drives the value of the career. The next chart. The business impact over the years we've tried many different ways to assess the value what I would say is important on this chart is. We can see increased quality and engagements of architects that are certified. We can see reduced risk in projects. And in some cases we can see quantitative results not always easy to find. We did involve ourselves with MIT last year we did about an 8 month study they looked back through 10 years of data that looked at skills and architect levels and certification levels. And so I'll share with you just a couple of the findings here. So the peer review model I've mentioned a couple of times really contributes to the ability to assess skills in a way that's I think very credible. And we think about learning in terms of you learn something you practice it you apply it and you get the results. And so we really think that peer review drives at the latter stages of this the apply and the results. So we're very happy about that. And the individuals on a certification path typically have me they make their quota essentially we call business objectives performance. They make their quota 10 points higher than those that don't. That's something that we found in this study last year. Certification provides a structure for learning. And we found that continuous learners experience 15% higher probability of promotion. So that's career progression. And then open certification drives higher levels of mentoring leadership. Our career model by its very nature requires peer review smear subject matter expert review. Mentoring all kinds of collaboration throughout the process. So we see that is accelerating the base capability of the organization. So that's another benefit that we see with with open certification. Finally, just to summarize. So the elements that are particularly valuable for IBM for the architect profession we feel are this ability to drive strategic applied skills through the conformance criteria. It also creates a culture of support for people whether they're new, or whether they're just progressing through their careers. So it's a culture of mentoring leadership and skills. It creates a very progressive well structured journey for technical professionals to know where they need to go next and what they need to do to get there. And honestly, we're benefiting from the broader technical community that contributes to the open group. So in a sense, you know, the rising tide is lifting all of the boats. That's true. I think for participants in the open group, I think it's true for participants in the IBM ACP program itself. And again, external credentialing and reciprocation credentialing is very popular. It gives people a sense that they're really investing in their future. And that portability is there for them to take it no matter, take it wherever they go. So we see amazing results both at the individual and the company level. As I said, we're continuously looking to try to simplify. That's definitely a theme again this year as new technology really amps up the need for people to take other types of skill building activities such as product certifications and so on. So we're competing a bit with that. And it's just been a very exciting journey. I would say the last five years with the badge as you go has been very successful. I think there's ways for us to simplify that focus on the value. That's what we're going to continue to do. But we've just had a very good experience with with open certification. So I don't know if we're going to hold questions, but that's all I had for today. Thank you for your attention. Scott, that was fantastic. Thank you very much for that. We're going to ask the questions in the panel session later. So please don't go away because we'll have some for you. But it's a great insight into into what it means for the individuals and the organization that's that's investing in those individuals. And it's great to hear it summarized so so succinctly and I'm sure people will have some questions as a reminder please put those in the Q&A channel and we will ask those later in the day and meanwhile, warm virtual round of applause for Scott now. Thank you Scott.


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She constantly held a patterned handkerchief to her jaw to absorb the ever-seeping pus. She had also seen her friends dying before her. Eerily, those damaged bones the women were suffering from began to glow from the radiation embedded deep within them. The light that does not lie. Sometimes, the moment a woman realized she had radium poisoning was when she caught sight of herself in a mirror in the middle of the night. For a ghost girl was reflected there, shining with an unnatural luminosity that sealed her fate. I'm Darren Marlar and this is Weird Darkness. Welcome, Weirdos. I'm Darren Marlar and this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained. Coming up in this episode... A man is forewarned about a traffic accident that probably would have killed him. Was it a guardian angel or is there another explanation? While the search for extraterrestrial life here in this universe is complicated enough, the problem becomes even murkier when you account for the multiverse theory. Could an alternate universe or dimension still be habitable by humans? It has been proven that the Nazis were horrible war criminals and not only did some cruel and inhuman things to their prisoners, but even dove into the supernatural and paranormal in the hopes of turning the tide of the war in their favor. But I'm guessing you've not heard about how the Nazis used Bigfoot to further their plans, have you? Sometimes a horror film will haunt you in your dreams, but for one woman, those hauntings became more real than the movie itself. But first, during World War I, hundreds of young women went to work in clock factories, painting watch dials with luminous radium paint. But after the girls, who literally glowed in the dark after their shifts, began to experience gruesome side effects, they began a race against time fight for justice that would forever change US labor laws. We begin with that story. If you're new here, welcome to the show. While you're listening, be sure to check out WeirdDarkness.com for merchandise, to visit sponsors you hear about during the show, sign up for my newsletter and our contests, connect with me on social media, listen to my other podcasts like Retro Radio, Old Time Radio in the Dark, Church of the Undead, and a classic 1950s sci-fi style podcast called Auditory Anthology. Listen to free audiobooks I've narrated, plus you can visit the Hope in the Darkness page if you're struggling with depression, dark thoughts or addiction. You can find all of that and more at WeirdDarkness.com.  On April 10, 1917, an 18-year-old woman named Grace Friar started work as a dial painter at the United States Radium Corporation, or USRC, in Orange, New Jersey. It was four days after the US had joined World War I with two soldier brothers Grace wanted to do all she could to help the war effort. She had no idea that her new job would change her life and workers' rights forever. With war declared, hundreds of working-class women flocked to the studio where they were employed to paint watches and military dials with the new element, Radium, which had been discovered by Marie Curie a little less than twenty years before. Dial painting was the elite job for the poor working girls. It paid more than three times the average factory job, and those lucky enough to land a position ranked in the top 5% of female workers nationally, giving the women financial freedom in a time of burgeoning female empowerment. Many of them were teenagers, with small hands, perfect for the artistic work, and they spread the message of their new jobs appeal through their friends and family workers. Often, whole sets of siblings would work alongside each other in the studio. Radium's luminosity was part of its allure, and the dial painters soon became known as the ghost girls, because by the time they finished their shifts, they themselves would glow in the dark.  Grace and her colleagues obediently followed the technique that they had been taught for the painstaking handiwork of painting the tiny dials, some of which were only 3.5 cm wide. The girls were instructed to slip their paintbrushes between their lips to make a fine point on the brush, a practice called lip-pointing, or a lip-dip paint routine, as playwright Melanie Marnick later described it. Every time the girls raised the brushes to their mouths, they swallowed a little of the glowing green paint. The first thing we asked was, does this stuff hurt you? May Huberly, who instructed Grace in the technique, later remembered. Naturally, you don't want to put anything in your mouth that's going to hurt you. Mr. Savoy, the manager, said that it wasn't dangerous, that we didn't need to be afraid. But that wasn't true. Ever since the glowing element had been discovered, it had been known to cause harm. Marie Curie herself had suffered radiation burns from handling it. People had died of radium poisoning before the first dial painter ever picked up a brush. That was why the men at the radium companies wore lead aprons in their laboratories and handled the radium with ivory-tipped tongs. Yet the dial painters were not afforded such protection, or even warned it might be necessary. That was because at that time a small amount of radium, such as the girls were handling, was believed to be beneficial to health. People drank radium water as a tonic and one could buy cosmetics, butter, milk and toothpaste laced with this wonder element. Newspapers reported its use would add gears to our lives. But that belief was founded upon research conducted by the very same radium firms who had built their lucrative industry around it. They ignored all the danger signs. When asked, managers told the girls the substance would put roses in their cheeks. In 1922, one of Grace's colleagues, Molly Maggia, had to quit the studio because she became sick. She didn't know what was wrong with her. Her trouble had started with an aching tooth. Her dentist pulled it, but then the next tooth started hurting and also had to be extracted. In the place of the missing teeth, agonizing ulcers sprouted as dark flowers, blooming red and yellow with blood and pus. They seeped constantly and made her breath foul. Then she suffered aching pains in her limbs that were so agonizing they eventually left her unable to walk. The doctor thought it was rheumatism. He sent her home with aspirin. By May 1922, Molly was desperate. At that point, she had lost most of her teeth and the mysterious infection had spread.  But worse was to come. When her dentist prodded delicately at her jawbone in her mouth, to his horror and shock, it broke against his fingers. He removed it, not by an operation, but by merely putting his fingers in her mouth and lifting it out. Only days later, the entire lower jaw was removed in the same way. Molly was literally falling apart and she wasn't the only one. By now, Grace Fryer too was having trouble with her jaw and suffering pains in her feet, and so were the other radium girls. On September 12, 1922, the strange infection that had plagued Molly Maggia for less than a year spread to the tissues of her throat. The disease slowly ate its way through her jugular vein. At 5 p.m. that day, her mouth was flooded with blood as she hemorrhaged so fast that her nurse could not staunch it. She died at the age of 24. With her doctors flummoxed as to the cause of death, her death certificate erroneously said she had died of syphilis, something her former company would later use against her. As if by clockwork, one by one, Molly's former colleagues soon followed her to the grave. The young women's employer, USRC, denied any responsibility for the deaths for almost two years. After suffering a downturn in business because of what they saw as gossip that wouldn't go away, in 1924, they finally commissioned an expert to look into the rumored link between the dial painting profession and the women's deaths. Unlike the company's own research into radium's beneficence, the study was independent, and when the expert confirmed the link between the radium and the women's illnesses, the president of the firm was outraged. Instead of accepting the findings, he paid for new studies that published the opposite conclusion. He also lied to the Department of Labor which had begun investigating about the verdict of the original report. Publicly, he denounced the women as trying to palm off their illnesses on the firm and decried their attempts to get some financial help for their mounting medical bills. With the report hushed up, the women's biggest challenge was proving the link between their mysterious illnesses and the radium that they had been ingesting hundreds of times a day. Though they themselves discussed the fact that their work must be to blame, they were fighting against the widespread belief that radium was safe. In fact, it was only when the first male employee of the radium firm died that experts finally took up the charge. In 1925, a brilliant doctor named Harrison Marland devised tests that proved once and for all that radium had poisoned the women. Marland also explained what was happening inside their bodies. As early as 1901, it had been evident that radium could harm humans dramatically when applied externally.  Marland discovered that when radium was used internally even in tiny amounts, the damage was many thousands of times greater. That ingested radium had subsequently settled in the women's bodies and was now emitting constant, destructive radiation that honeycombed their bones. It was literally boring holes inside them while they were alive. It attacked the women all over their bodies. Grace Fryer's spine was crushed and she had to wear a steel back brace. Another girl's jaw was eaten away to a mere stump. The women's legs shortened and spontaneously fractured, too. Eerily, those damaged bones also began to glow from the radium embedded deep within them, the light that does not lie. Sometimes the moment a woman realized she had radium poisoning was when she caught sight of herself in a mirror in the middle of the night, for a ghost girl was reflected there, shining with an unnatural luminosity that sealed her fate. For Marland had also realized that the poisoning was fatal and now that it was inside of them, there was no way of removing the radium from the girl's beleaguered bones. Despite the radium industry's attempts to discredit Marland's pioneering work, it hadn't reckoned with the courage and tenacity of the radium girls themselves. They started banding together to fight against the injustice and there was an altruistic motive to their battle. After all, dial painters were still being employed all across the United States. It's not for myself I care, Grace Fryer commented. I'm thinking more of the hundreds of girls to whom this may serve as an example. It was Grace who led their fight. Determined to find a lawyer even after countless attorneys turned her down, either disbelieving the women's claims, running scared from the powerful radium corporations, or being unprepared to fight a legal battle that demanded the overturn of existing legislation. At that time, radium poisoning was not a compensable disease. It hadn't even been discovered until the girls got sick and the women were also stymied by the statute of limitations, which ruled that victims of occupational poisoning had to bring their legal case within two years. Radium poisoning was insidious though, so most girls did not start to sicken until at least five years after they started work. They were trapped in a vicious legal circle that could seemingly not be squared. But Grace was the daughter of a union delegate and she was determined to hold a clearly guilty firm to account. Eventually, in 1927, a smart young lawyer named Raymond Berry accepted their case and Grace, along with four colleagues, found herself at the center of an internationally famous courtroom drama. By now, however, time was running out. The women had been given just four months to live and the company seemed intent on dragging out the legal proceedings. As a consequence, Grace and her friends were forced to settle out of court, but they had raised the profile of radium poisoning just as Grace had planned. The New Jersey Radium Girls case was front-page news and it sent shockwaves across America. In Ottawa, Illinois, a dial painter by the name of Catherine Wolfe read the coverage with horror. There were meetings at our plant that bordered on riots, she remembered. The chill of fear was so depressing that we could scarcely work. Yet the Illinois firm, Radium Dial, took a leaf out of USRC's book and denied responsibility. Although the firm's medical tests proved that the Illinois women were showing clear symptoms of radium poisoning, it lied about the results. It even placed a full-page ad in the local paper. Quote, if we at any time had reason to believe that any conditions of the work endanger the health of our employees, we would at once have suspended operations. Its actions to hush up the scandal went as far as interfering in the girls' autopsies when the Illinois workers began to die. Company officials actually stole their radium-riddled bones in their callous cover-up. If the women weren't killed by the same jaw problems that had taken Molly Maggia, they eventually suffered from sarcomas, huge cancerous bone tumors that could grow anywhere on their bodies. One dial painter, Irene LaPorte, died from a massive pelvic tumor that was said to be larger than two footballs. In 1938, Catherine Wolfe, Catherine Donahue after her marriage, developed a grapefruit-sized tumor that bulged on her hip. Like Molly Maggia before her, she lost her teeth and had to pick pieces of her jawbone out of her mouth. She constantly held a patterned handkerchief to her jaw to absorb the ever-seeping pus. She had also seen her friends dying before her, and that rather steeled her spirit. When Catherine started to fight for justice, it was in the mid-1930s. America was in the grip of the Great Depression. Catherine and her friends were shunned by their community for suing one of the few firms left standing. Though close to death, when her case went to court in 1938, Catherine ignored her doctor's advice and instead gave evidence from her death bed. In doing so, and with the help of her lawyer, Leonard Grossman, who worked pro bono, she finally won justice, not only for herself, but for workers everywhere. The Radium Girls case was one of the first in which an employer was made responsible for the health of a company's employees. It led to life-saving regulations and ultimately to the establishment of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which now operates nationally in the United States to protect workers. Before OSHA was set up, 14,000 people died on the job every year. Today, it is just over 4,500. The women also left a legacy to science that has been termed invaluable. But you won't often read their names in the history books. For today, the individual Radium Girls have largely been forgotten. Drawing on the women's own words from their diaries, letters and court testimonies, the book The Radium Girls attempts to redress the balance, because it was through their strength, suffering and sacrifice that workers' rights were won, and we all benefit from their courage. Grace Fryer and Catherine Donahue, to name just two, are women we need to honor and salute as fearless champions. They shine through history with all they achieved in their two short lives. And they shine in other ways too. For Radium has a half-life of 1,600 years, and it is still embedded in their bones. The Ghost Girls will be glowing in their graves for a long time yet. Coming up, a man is forewarned about a traffic accident that probably would have killed him. Was it a guardian angel, or is there some other explanation? Plus, sometimes a horror film will haunt you in your dreams, but for one woman, those hauntings became more real than the movie itself. But first, while the search for extraterrestrial life here in our universe is complicated enough, the problem becomes even murkier when you account for the multiverse theory. Could an alternate universe or dimension still be habitable by humans? We look into the possibility when Weird Darkness returns. Your Haunted Lives True Tales of the Paranormal by G. Michael Vasey, a collection of creepy, often downright chilling, true experiences of the paranormal submitted by visitors to the My Haunted Life 2 website. The tales have been carefully selected and edited and range from apparitions to hauntings to demons through to the downright bizarre. This terrific collection of true stories of the paranormal will keep you looking over your shoulder. Your Haunted Lives True Tales of the Paranormal by G. Michael Vasey, narrated by Darren Marlar. Here are free samples on the audiobooks page at WeirdDarkness.com. While the search for extraterrestrial life here in this universe is complicated enough, the problem becomes even murkier when you account for the multiverse theory. Our universe might be one of many universes that make up a collective multiverse. Theoretical physicists have long assumed that the vast majority of parallel universes would be unable to harbor alien life, but that assumption is being challenged. A research team of scientists from Durham University, Western Sydney University and the University of Western Australia have now found evidence that upends previously held notions of why the universe formed as it did and suggests that the conditions to create a habitable universe are much more likely than previously imagined. Just as Earth is an assumed rarity in our universe, a Goldilocks planet not too hot, not too cold and full of liquid water, our universe as a whole was previously considered to be an extreme rarity among potential alternate universes. Why? Dark energy, the strange and baffling invisible force that is driving our universe's expansion. Jamie Salcedo, postgraduate student at Durham University, told Newsweek, the multiverse theory suggests that our universe is only one of many baby universes being born like bubbles in a bigger universe, with a wide range of physical laws and fundamental constants. The existence of life seems to depend on a small number of fine-tuned, fundamental physical constants, such as the strength of gravity and the amount of dark energy. The formation of stars and galaxies is the result of a tug of war between these values, gravity causing matter to clump together, the dark energy causing the universe to fly apart. Scientists thought that if there were any less or any more dark energy in a parallel universe than what we find in our own, dark energy makes up about 70% of our observable universe, the alternate universe wouldn't have the physical laws that allow galaxies, stars, and planets to form in the first place. To test this, the Australian research team studied computer models of the formation of the universe, because we can do that now, using EGLE, or Evolution and Assembly of Galaxies and their Environments, the most advanced computer simulation of how our universe was formed. They found something surprising. It seems that celestial bodies like stars and galaxies can form even when the amount of dark energy is nowhere near the amount predicted to be necessary. In one case, the researchers added 100 times the amount of dark energy to the system, and a functioning, potentially habitable universe still formed. Salsito says, our research shows that even if there was much more dark energy or even very little in the universe, then it would only have a minimal effect on star and planet formation, raising the prospects that life could exist throughout the multiverse. Interdimensional aliens are objectively more awesome than regular aliens, so that's pretty cool. The findings do cause a bit of a problem though. The multiverse theory was created as a way to explain the amount of dark matter and the relationship it has with the fundamental formation of the universe. That doesn't work anymore. While the researchers say this doesn't disprove a multiverse, it does mean that our understanding of dark energy was rather flawed. It seems that we need a new physical law to understand dark energy. The puzzle remains. But then it wouldn't be fun if it was easy, right? This happened to me while I was coming home from school. I used to walk down the side of a busy main road. Most of the time it was absolutely filled with traffic and I'd be very careful to stay as far away from the road as I possibly could. There have been several people run over on that road, but it was essential for me to take that route to get home as quickly as possible. I walked that road four times a day. The only strange thing that happened was the time I was walking home from school when I heard someone yell, Move now! Get into that driveway! I belted into that driveway and nothing happened. I waited a few seconds and then a car came along, hit the pavement and smashed into the wall where I had been standing. No, maybe about it. I would have been killed instantly. The driver was drunk and out of control. When I got home that day, I started wondering about that helpful voice. I couldn't tell if it had been a man or a woman. I can't tell you whether it was in my head or I heard it through my ears. Maybe it was more of a feeling, but it came across as actual words. I just reacted and ran into the driveway next door to the wall. So I may owe my life to an unseen entity or angel. If so, I'd like to thank them for saving me that day. I've had a lot of weird unexplainable things happen to me when I was younger. Some of them I've tried to share with my mom who would brush me off despite her being a believer in the paranormal. Some of them I haven't shared with anyone. I think she thought like any other kid I was making up stories and I definitely did. I don't deny that. I have a huge and sometimes overactive imagination. I think the thing that she never realized is I always stayed away from anything that may have been scary. I was and still kind of am a scaredy cat. I'm sure I will eventually come to share more of my weird happenings with you, but this one is by far I think the one that stands out to me the most. So I said I was a scaredy cat and that's very true. My parents however are not and have always enjoyed watching horror movies. We moved around a lot and no matter how the house was set up I would always find a way to sneak out of bed and hide near them while they watched their scary movies. I had no interest in watching and usually it was because I had a bad dream and just wanted to be close to them that I would find myself out there. They were young adults and like most young people they didn't want to be in bed at 10 p.m. They'd stay up late watching movies and talking. So it was an often occurrence that I would crawl or tiptoe out of my room and hide on the stairs or behind the couch.  One movie that truly scared my poor five-year-old self was the remake of The Shining or more to the point the bathroom scene. The dead women in the movie made me scream and my parents found me. They pulled me onto the couch and tried to calm me down. It was just a movie. It was only made up. It's just a made-up story sweetheart. It was just a movie. Well the woman from that scene would become the haunt of my nightmares and I swear actually literally haunt me. I don't remember any more what the nightmares were about but it very quickly became more than that. In the bathroom mirror I would see her form reach out not in the reflection or someone with their hand out kind of way but in the pushing at it and out way like the mirror was a substance that would hold in the shape of her reaching out like a bad scene in a 3d movie. It's very hard to put into words how it looked. The same would happen from my closet door but in this case she would be the texture of the wood. It was as though she was reaching from what was always a barrier she was trying to break through. I became petrified at the thought of getting out of bed at night. I thought if I did she would be able to actually grab me. It didn't matter what apartment we lived in as we moved many times since the night I first saw her and it didn't matter whose bathroom it was I would see her. I started to hear a voice whispering my name and the feeling that I was being watched. It sat in the pit of my stomach, this fear. I would rather have an accident and deal with the shame of that than encounter her. As time passed for me it seemed to have passed for her. She became very rotted and decayed. I know this sounds a lot like a child with an overactive imagination but it wasn't that she was in my closet or in the mirror. It was that she would reach to me from the thing itself, pushing out from it as though it was a portal or something. She wasn't some boogeyman sitting in the shadows. I don't care if no one believes me here, this is the experience I have never had before and will never forget. This was a nightly occurrence for me, the whispers, the feeling of being watched and if I dared to peek to my closet door the dead woman reaching to me from the door. I remember trying all the normal kid things. I slept with a ton of stuffed animals which lined around me in an attempt to protect me. I'd sleep with my blankets over my head because if she can't see me she couldn't possibly harm me, right? I started to pray before bed because Graham said Jesus would protect me. I did all these things and every night I still had the whispers, the feeling of being watched and the woman reaching to me. Sometimes I'd try to hide from her, I'd sleep in the living room. There was a large mirror in the room and she would reach for me from that. I'd sleep in my baby brother's room and she would reach for me through his closet. If I slept at Graham's house I would see her there as well. I remember at one point feeling like she was being more insistent, like she was getting annoyed with me for not coming to her. She was getting angry with me. A feeling of dread began to set in. Nothing I had done was helping and when I told my parents I was dismissed. As cryptic as it sounds, I had a night where as I laid down I knew it would be my last. This feeling washed over me as I got ready for bed. She was going to get me tonight and there was nothing anyone could do or would do for me. I was going to die. I knew what death was despite being rather young. I saw it in movies and I had been to a few funerals. At the time my Aunt Bev had passed away maybe a few months before, I understood what it meant at ten years old. So I lay in bed, covered in my blanket, surrounded by my stuffed animals. This night I lay on my side, face towards the wall. I didn't want to see it when she came for me. I was scared enough as it was. The whisper started and the feeling of being watched set in. This time I could practically feel it as she moved from the closet, no longer just reaching. I couldn't hear the footsteps but I could feel it, all of it, each slow step. I could feel that she was moving towards me. Feel it as she leaned in towards me. Feel the hand reach down towards me. Feel it as it almost touched me. Feel the end coming. Then I was gone. I lay there trembling and confused. I couldn't feel her. I couldn't hear her. Should I look? Was she toying with me? Then I felt something else. A soft gentle impression at the end of my bed. It felt like someone had sat down. A calming voice told me not to fear anymore and that I would be safe. I laid there in silence. I realized I didn't feel afraid anymore and that I no longer felt like I was being watched. Is that my mom's voice? She wasn't home from work yet. This was her night shift night. It couldn't be her. Who else was in the house? Dad, my little brother, my newborn sister. I had to see who was sitting there. I sat up and no one was there. I scrambled out of bed and ran down the stairs to find my dad on the couch. He looked up startled, seeing tears down my face. He comforted me and let me fall asleep next to him on the couch. I never dreamed of her again and have not seen her reaching for me. I have rewatched the movie as an adult. I realize now the woman I would see was not her, not exactly. I believed what would visit me in the night was something else, taking the face of my fear and worsening it. Something or being wanted me and someone saved me. I have no proof of it, but I think that it may have been my aunt who had passed not long before. I think she chased away whatever that thing was and that she now watches over me. I have always been sensitive to these things and as I said in the beginning, I have had many weird unexplainable things happen to me. I try to avoid places that may have things in them still. I'm terrified of the idea of something else latching onto me. Coming up, it's been proven that the Nazis were horrible war criminals and not only did some cruel and inhuman things to their prisoners, but even dove into the supernatural and paranormal in the hopes of turning the tide of the war in their favor. But I'm guessing you've not heard about how the Nazis used Bigfoot to further their plans, have you? That's up next on Weird Darkness.  If that feeling transfers to your taste buds as well, I've got some great news for you. Weird dark roast nutty mummy coffee. Wrap your taste buds around this medium dark roast blend with shrouds of almond, honey and chocolate. Each bag of nutty mummy is exclusive to Weird Darkness and is roasted to order.  Entomb your old coffee and bring your taste buds back from the dead with Weird Dark Roast Nutty Mummy at WeirdDarkness.com slash coffee. That's WeirdDarkness.com slash coffee. In 2016, the author of the book, The Bigfoot Book, wrote, depending on one's personal perspective, it's either the best evidence that Bigfoot exists or it's one of the world's most enduring, outrageous hoaxes. It's a fascinating and controversy-filled piece of film footage shot by a man named Roger Patterson at Bluth Creek, California in October 1967. It's also a piece of film upon which the Bigfoot research community cannot agree, since the entire matter is steeped in debate, claims and counterclaims. Of only a couple of things, can we be 100% certain? The film exists, and it shows a large, humanoid figure in a forested setting. Indeed, the Patterson film is an integral part of not just Bigfoot research, but the larger field of cryptozoology too. Just a few days ago, I was speaking with a friend who sits firmly on the fence when it comes to the matter of the real versus hoax issue concerning the 1967 footage. This then got into a bigger and much wider debate on other cases that may have involved not a Bigfoot, but a man in an apesuit. Personally, I think the Patterson film is probably the real deal. Well, most of the time I do. But there are a few cases which clearly demonstrate that the apesuit slash gorilla suit angle is an integral part of Bigfoot research, like it or like it not. You only have to check out some of the beyond dubious footage that can be found at YouTube to see that. It's a little known fact, however, that the issue of people masquerading as apes is nothing new at all. Indeed, 17 years before Roger Patterson filmed something out at Bluff Creek, the world of Hollywood was already making good use of this odd scenario of man becoming animal via a suit. All of which brings me to the matter of this particular story, a now largely obscure movie titled Mark of the Gorilla. It was one of the 16 movies produced by Columbia Pictures between 1948 and 1956 and which chronicled the African-based adventures of Jungle Jim. He was somewhat of an Indiana Jones type character who was played by Olympic swimmer Johnny Weisbühler. The 26 episodes long series followed on television from 1955 to 1956, also starring Weisbühler. Prior to starring in the Jungle Jim movies, Weisbühler was made famous by playing Tarzan in 12 movies from 1932 to 1948. The Jungle Jim movies were and still are entertaining pieces of Holcomb for young kids and for kids at heart. Jim and his buddies, Skipper the Dog and Kakao the Crow, spent their time solving various mysteries and bringing to an end certain dastardly goings-on in the Jungle. And of course, they always captured the villains. Not quite Scooby, Shaggy, Velma, Daphne and Fred, but you get the picture. In 1950, Columbia Pictures released Mark of the Gorilla, which is without doubt the weirdest and most mind-bending of all Jungle Jim movies. In the movie, Jim, Skipper and Kakao investigated reports of attacks carried out by gorillas in one particular part of Africa, not known for having a gorilla population. On top of that, the gorillas have reportedly killed people too. This is puzzling to one and all since gorillas, despite their size, are peaceful creatures. It soon becomes apparent that the gorillas are really nothing of the sort. They are actually, wait for it, German agents on the trail of a huge horde of gold that the Nazis stole from the people of Shalakari. That's right, to protect their quest to find the gold, the Germans dress in entertainingly ludicrous gorilla outfits and masks as a means to try and ensure that no one realizes what they're really up to, namely, searching for the priceless treasure. Of course, Jim and his animal friends save the day, and the gold is returned to one princess, Naiobi. And the German would-be gorillas would have gotten away with it, if it hadn't been for those meddling kids.  Thanks for listening. If you like the show, please share it with someone you know who loves the paranormal or strange stories, true crime, monsters or unsolved mysteries like you do. You can email me anytime with your questions or comments at darren at WeirdDarkness.com. Darren is D-A-R-R-E-N. WeirdDarkness.com is also where you can find information on any of the sponsors you heard about during the show, find all my social media, listen to free audiobooks I've narrated, sign up for the email newsletter, find other podcasts that I host, including Retro Radio, Old Time Radio in the Dark, Church of the Undead and a classic 1950s sci-fi style podcast called Auditory Anthology. Also on the site, you can visit the store for Weird Darkness t-shirts, mugs and other merchandise. Plus, it's where you can find the Hope in the Darkness page if you or someone you know is struggling with depression, addiction or thoughts of harming yourself or others. And if you have a true paranormal or creepy tale to tell of your own, you can click on Tell Your Story. You can find all of that and more at WeirdDarkness.com. All stories on Weird Darkness are purported to be true unless stated otherwise, and you can find links to the stories or the authors in the show notes. Nazi gold in Bigfoot costumes was written by Nick Redfern for Mysterious Universe. Is it possible to live in a parallel universe is by Sequoia Kennedy for Mysterious Universe. It was just a movie was submitted to Weird Darkness by Caitlyn G. A Radium Ghost Girls is by Kate Moore from BuzzFeed. The Phantom's Fatal Four Warning was submitted by Mark Ferris from MyHauntedLife2.com. Weird Darkness is a registered trademark. Copyright Weird Darkness. And now that we're coming out of the dark, I'll leave you with a little light. Proverbs 15 verse 18. A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict, but the one who is patient calms a quarrel. And a final thought from John F. Kennedy. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. I'm Darren Marlar. Thanks for joining me in the Weird Darkness.


From a comment today in the live stream, I've decided to do something different So I've gone through and I've distro hopped to manjaro and What I've decided to do is do a an in-depth comparison between the three Main arch based distros that exist out there today arco endeavor and manjaro So what I thought would be interesting is to get some feedback from you guys to see what you'd like to see in such a series So in the comment section below Let me know what you'd like to see in such a comparison different features. You'd like to see compared Performance perhaps whatever leave those comments in the section below and sometime in February or March or so I will do an in-depth comparison between these three very popular arch based distros. So thanks for watching. I'll see you tomorrow