Hey guys, what is up, welcome to my channel. For today's video, I am going to be doing a Sephora haul, and yes, this is that third Sephora VIP sale haul that I was talking about. I just wanted to give myself some time because there was back to back to back to back Sephora content for me and from every other beauty channel.   I only picked up six things and they were replenishments and all of that. So to make it a little bit more exciting, I'm also going to be sharing with you the ColourPop value sets that I received. Those I did not purchase, but I figured they make great gifts and I noticed ColourPop was 30% off-site wide. So those value sets have an even better value. So we're just combining them so that we can get a little bit more length and excitement. So anyways, if you wanna see what I picked up, then just keep watching. So I drug my sweet, sweet husband out with me. I believe this was the day before the last day of the Sephora sale so that I could go in store to see if there was anything that I was missing. Because shopping online, in my opinion, is a bit different experience than shopping in store. I'm an online gal. I'm anti-social. I'm a homebody. I love to be home. So typically I'm an online shopper but it is a different experience to go into store to be able to feel the product, look at it. So that's what I did and I'm super happy I decided to do that. So the first thing that I picked up, you've already seen, I believe on Sunday I posted the best gift sets ever for this season and this is when I picked up this guy because that was in this video. So this is the Velospa 12 day advent calendar. It's incredible, you guys. Now I believe this sold out super fast because I couldn't find it online but they do have a lot of other Velospa candle sets that I'm going to recommend. But if you missed out on this one, I'm sorry because this one is extra awesome and festive because it's an advent calendar and it includes 12 fragrances. It's a Sephora exclusive. Velospa is my absolute favorite brand of candles. As I've grown older, I'm becoming more and more picky about my candles. I feel like everything gives me a headache now. I used to not be like that but now all of a sudden the forever mood candles while I love the scents of them, they give me terrible headaches. I think I'm just in too small of a room to have these big candles. So I love these because they are nice and small and this smells delicious, you guys. But unfortunately I can't pull these out. I'm not going to show you the candles because I just think this is a phenomenal gift so I'm going to give this to somebody as much as I want to keep it for myself because you cannot find this set anymore. I love Velospa candles so much. This is how I know it's going to make a good gift because I would love to receive this. If you're curious, my favorite candle brands are Velospa and then Nest. But I'm not a candle expert. I'm currently trying different candle brands to get a feeling of what I prefer. I love the price of the candles at Home Goods. I've been meaning to do some research on those Home Good ones because they're affordable but this is just a good gift. I had to get this. I actually put this in my very first Sephora haul for the sale, but I got another one just because I don't know what's going on with my skin. It's making me sad. But my mom is on this so I ended up giving the one I hauled to my mom and so I bought another one for myself. So this is the Ole Henriksen Dark Spot Toner. This is the only thing that cures my acne and if it doesn't cure it and they keep showing up for whatever reason, this really does speed up the process of the acne scarring going away. It's just my favorite toner of all time. It's a bit intense so make sure if you're using this that you're using your sunscreen as well to protect your skin and also maybe, I don't know, in the beginning when I first started using this it was definitely way too harsh for my skin. Switched to every other day. I've been using it less, not every day because it is quite harsh. Every time I wear makeup I'll use this but if I'm not wearing makeup I let my skin rest a little bit but this is one of the most transformative skin care products that I've personally ever used so. Let's pick up that. Okay, I told you guys this one was boring. I picked up a backup of the Dior Backstage Airbrush Foundation. This is my all-time favorite foundation. I love this for events. I love the way that it wears. It's just extremely pricey. It's the type of foundation where I cannot use it every day because of its spray format you run out of it so fast so it's a terrible value, like literally terrible which is why I picked this up on sale. If you use it every day it's not gonna last you very long but the one I had was getting very, very low and I need to always have one on hand and I bought the wrong shade. So I've been using 300 which is pretty, pretty good. It's not my perfect shade, maybe like a touch dark but it's fine. I picked up two N and this is 200 but it looks, it looks darker. I don't know, I think since I purchased this one they've repackaged them and changed the colors because this bottle has lost me a long time honestly I've had it for a while. So I don't know if this is my shade but I love this foundation, it's my favorite so I hope it's the right shade. It looks like it would be. I'm typically too neutral in Dior and this says too neutral. I don't know if they changed the colors they at least renamed the shades to match with their other foundations and I am too N so I hope this is right. Anyways, this is my favorite foundation. Looks flawless on the skin seriously. Don't be dramatic. This is the last boring item that I have. Paddy Alonzo got me to buy this and I just picked it up at the checkout. This is from the Sephora collection so it's pretty affordable. This is the Refresh Mini Daily Brush Cleansers. I happened to run low on the cosmetics ones that I was previously using and I saw this at checkout. I remember Paddy talked about it so I picked up the little baby version of it. So basically it's a spot cleaner. You don't wanna use this of course to deep cleanse your brushes but you know if you're in between uses you can just use this to spot clean to get the initial color off of it and then I would recommend using something like this after every use. I realistically I probably use something like this when the brush has a lot of color on it and I need to clean it off so whenever I see fit and then I do recommend washing your brushes like a deep clean once a month. I recommend it. I personally don't abide by that so you know. But it's recommended. Okay, I did pick up two makeup products though. I mean I guess the foundation was makeup products but these are like two new products and this I forgot was on my list until I saw it in person. I'm telling you that experience of shopping in person is different and Kate the Great Beauty was the person months ago who made me add this to my wish list. So this is from Fenty Beauty and this is the Body Sauce Body Luminizing Tint. I got mine in the shade Pearl Swirl. I saw Kate the Great demoing it when it first came out and it made her skin look beautiful. So I figured, you know, since I'm on camera a lot maybe not this time of year when it's so cold but during like the warmer months I do have my decolletage showing a lot and this really evens out the skin and gives it such a beautiful glow. Let's swatch this. I haven't even swatched this yet. So it's ginormous. This is the lightest shade and I feel like it runs kinda deep. Yeah, right? I feel like this could be used as a foundation. Am I wrong? Look at this glow that it gives, the skin. And I do feel like it's going to even. There is coverage with it. So I will have to let you know. It looks interesting. If you've tried this product before do you use it as foundation? Do you mix it into a foundation or is it a body-only product? The finish of this just looked stunning. So I had to pick it up. Oh my goodness. You know what I forgot to mention of the background? I decorated my vanity. I don't know, this isn't really a vanity but I call it my vanity with holiday decor and I freaking love Christmas and holiday decorations. It just makes me feel happy. I told you guys I hated Halloween but Christmas, I'm a Christmas girl. So I'm that extra with Christmas. I normally, oh gosh. Here's an explanation of what he asked for but I normally turn my desk so that I get the natural light but with it getting dark super early I just, I can't utilize the light that I used to to film. So I'm just like screw it. I'd rather have a Christmas background. So I'm thinking unless the sun is really nice and beautiful for the most part this is gonna be my background for vlogmas. Well, not really vlogmas. I'm not gonna vlog but when I post every day in December it just feels right for me to have this because most of this stuff is from HomeGoods by the way. Nobody asked for that but there you go. I hope you like my background. Okay, and then the last makeup item that I picked up was from Makeup Forever and this is a product that I've always had my eye on. I never necessarily had a reason to pick it up but I was just having a lot of fun at Sephora. I had a gift card from returning some items so it felt like free to me. So this is the Makeup Forever Artist Color Pencil in the shade Anywhere Caffeine and if you aren't familiar with these pencils they're basically supposed to be used for whatever the heck you wanna use them for. Lips, eyes, for the most part I've seen people using these as lip liners. This color is my kind of lip liner color. It's a medium to deep kind of beige. It works perfect to contour and shape the lips under any neutral lip color. It's a beautiful formula you guys. It's like creamy but you still have a lot of control with it. It's everything that I ask for in a lip pencil so I kinda wanna get more colors. This is an older product but I have to see the lasting power because today is the first day that I'm trying it. I love this color. Okay, so that is all I picked up from Sephora. Again, a smaller haul, not too exciting to elevate this video. I happen to see that color pop is 30% offsite white and they happen to send me their holiday value sets so we're gonna talk about them because quite honestly right now with it being Black Friday I'm like gif, gif, gif, gif, gif thinking of whatever I can get my hands on at a good price to give my friends and family and I genuinely think that these color pop sets are awesome for the holidays so let me get the box, hold on. So these holiday sets did just launch. I noticed a few of them were already sold out. I'm lying, not a few. I noticed one of them already sold out but also please forgive this. You guys know I normally like to swatch things but I'm probably not gonna swatch most of this color pop stuff because I don't, it's a lot of stuff so I'd rather give this stuff away as opposed to keeping it so I don't wanna swatch it. But let's take a look at all these sets. Like I said, these were sent to me. I didn't pick them up but they're really fun and I'm happy that I have them. Now I'm not sure how long this is going to last but color pop is 30% off site-wide and let's go over these value sets here. So this is what they sent me. I don't see it on their value set page but I'm just gonna show you it. This is the color pop piece of cake lip duo. It has a lip balm and a lip scrub. Oh excuse me, this is by 4th Ray. Anyways, I'm not that excited about that but there's that. There's this soul body sparkling mimosa mega mood melt which I believe is, it's a bath bomb. So this is actually an affordable place to pick up bath bombs. Who doesn't like a bath bomb and you can put them in like stocking stuffers or just add them to a gift, stick it on top of a present. This is not a value set either but I love the face milks from 4th Ray and this is the matcha face milk. They say it's supposed to be energizing and moisturizing. This one I'm actually keeping for myself because I love the face milks. So is this pretty and green? It's not green. That's disappointing but I love these so I shall keep this one. And then we have another body product. Again, body products are universal who's not gonna like them but this is the soul body sparkling mimosa body polish and cream set. So I just like the packaging that these items come in. Again, I just feel like they make super good gifts but let's get into the value sets. This is where the value is gonna be the best. You can give them as a whole set as a gift which I think is awesome or you can split them up amongst people, you know? Like for example, this set of six quads give like them to six different people or keep the two favorite for yourself. Give the rest away. So they're great to split up and they're fabulous deals right now. So I guess I'll show you this one. So this is the good for you set and it's the shadow palette vault of six different quads. So this is a $54 value. Without a sale, it is $49. But with the 30% off, you get six quads for 34.30. Let me show you what's in here. At the current moment, this is sold out but ColourPop tends to come back in and out of stock but sometimes then they don't. So I don't know if this is going to actually be back in stock but I'm gonna show you the quads that are in here. Like I said, I'm not swatching them. I'm gonna turn the light down just a little bit because I think you'll be able to see the color of the palette better this way because we have a lot. I love the packaging of these. These are just super cute. Ooh, I love this quad. So they come in acrylic packaging and this is the shade Silver Spoon. I like this one. By the way, all of the packaging is really cute kind of like butterfly themed. I'm a fan of it. You have a friend who likes those warmer neutrals. Hot chocolate is in here. This one is plum and get it. This one is really cute. I like this one for like this springtime, you know what I mean? Sorbet is in this one. The shimmers are really reflective. This is a really pretty nude one. This one is cream soda. These are all six of the quads that come in this set. I don't know. People must have liked this one for it to be the only set that's currently sold out but super cute, really happy with this. There are two other shadow sets that I have for you. One is going to be more colorful. One has a little bit more neutral tone. So let's start off with the, if you like it, shadow vault. So the price on this, they say it's a $50 value. The full price is $48, so you only save $2. But with the 30% off, it's 33.60. You get five quints in here. So these are like kind of the copycat of the Natasha Denona ones. I don't know, I like these ones. I think they're super cute and I love how they follow a true color story. So this is one that I'm wearing right now. This is on a wing. I'm only wearing the mats. I used a Terra Moons shadow all over my lid but I used the three purple shades. They were nice, pretty easy to blend. Very good quality. You really can't tell too much but it's the background shades and the look. So I didn't use this one because I think it's really, really pretty. I love both of these sets equally. Honestly, the palettes in here have such stunning color stories. Lots of peachy tones though. I feel like I'm gonna give all the peachy toned ones away. Over the cocoon is also in this one. This one has some really pretty warm berry tones. I like this one a lot. This one is all a flutter. So we have some pinky peachier tones here. This is fly away. This one reminds me of the Tinkerbell palette that they came out with but I'm obsessed with this one. I'm definitely keeping this one for myself. I think it's a stunning green palette. This one is also a fun one. This is social butterfly. Don't these look for some reason really, really high quality in the pan? Not swatching them yet but they look stunning. Anyways, those are the quints in the If You Like It set. Seriously, I think the best thing that you can do is buy a set of these and then split them up. So then the next shadow vault is the same format as the last one that I just showed you but it's different colors. So the name of this one is Nude Notes. With the sale, this one is also going to be 3360 and I didn't think I was gonna be as impressed with this set but the color stories really are super pretty. So this one is not my favorite because again it's still very, very peachy. Like a lot of the other colors I feel like are this is duet right here. Then we have Harmony which is some warmer oranges and copper shades. This one's like a good Thanksgiving palette. Oh, this is my kind of palette. These are the more neutral toned kind of topi shades. This is Couplet right here. I love this one. I'm like stunning. This is a pretty kind of golden palette. This one is Rhapsody. This one is another one that's right up my alley. We're good. We're okay. It just exploded. It's our magnetic pan. So they came out easily and popped back in easily. This one is Poem. I really like Poem. I think Poem is beautiful but those are all of the shadow sets. If you look on their sets, they have a lot of other eyeshadow palettes that are already existing that they have in the line. I'm not sure about the quads but the quints I believe are all new shades that don't already exist. Could be wrong about that but from what I collected when I talked about this on my live you guys said that these were all new shades. Very happy with the shadow sets. Really great deal. This is also a set that I would highly recommend. I've picked these up the last two years but this is called the It's a Dream Cream Gel Liner Vault and I can speak for the past that this has always sold out so if you wanted I would do it. So what it is, it's their Cream Gel Liner Vault. The full value of this is $70 and then they dropped it down to 40 and then with a discount it is $28. You get a collection of different colored liners and a set like this comes a lot more and handy than you would think. If you play a lot with colors and your makeup look I highly recommend having a selection of kind of different colored eyeliners not just black or brown because this will really allow you to play with looks, have fun with them, use them as spaces and just popping in a color that matches your look in the waterline like if you do a green look to put this one or the yellow one in completely amplifies the look. I'm not saying these are the best eyeliner pencils in the world. They're not but they're very convenient, you know. I don't want to pay $20 for a yellow liner to put in my waterline. So that's why I like to stock up on these. So this one I'm keeping for myself. I love my colorful gel liners from ColourPop and you have a lot of different colors that you can see. Now these are not new colors from what I'm seeing. I feel like I have a few of these colors but there's a lot that I don't as well. So yeah, really happy with that one. Highly recommend these. And lastly, I have two sets of the Color Sticks Vault. These are very nice from what I've used but I'm not an expert in this formula. But if you like the idea of a colored eyeshadow stick these are awesome. So they have two offerings. One is Vibrant Thing which obviously is going to have the more vibrant colors here that you can see. And then the other one is in the Bear which is going to have more nude colors. Let me put them side by side for you. So these are a $48 value. The full price on these is $40. But with this sale you get them for $28. So I'm just gonna show you them. I've used these as eyeshadow bases before. That's typically how I like to use them just underneath. Or I will put them in my waterline. Let me show you. So this is from the Vibrant set. This is Bittersweet. I do like to put these in the waterline. So they work fine there. And then you can also blend them out. Use them as eyeshadow alone or you can use them as an eyeshadow base. Look at this one. This is like a glittery blue. Ooh, again, not an expert on these but they look really fun. Especially if you like to play around a lot with creating different looks. It's always fun to mess around with the base. So in that case, I probably would recommend the Vibrant Thing the most. I don't know. These look like really good nude colors though. I'm gonna have to play with this formula because I feel sad that I can't give you more insight but I don't use eye crowns too often if I'm being honest with myself. But I love the idea of them, you know? But anyways, that is actually all I have for today's haul. And then a little example of the ColourPop value sets. I love value sets and gift sets for the holidays. So that's why I wanted to talk about these as well. But I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Just talking about new makeup, sharing the newest purchases that I've had. I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving if you're in the US. Enjoy the holiday. And thank you so much for being subscribed and supporting my channel. I will see you all in the next one. Bye guys, have a good one.


We're here at the NaraConnect 2018 here in Hong Kong, and who are you? Thomas Evansons, I'm the CTO for Embedded Software at SILINX. And you just had a keynote, so what are you talking about? It's really about how you can use an FPGA from a software point of view. Typically what people have been doing is programming these FPGAs, it's programmable hardware basically, so doing that with hardware description languages like VHDL and Verilog. What's new now is that you can actually write your C codes, C++ and OpenCL, and get that automatically then compiled into the FPGA, and get massive parallelism and really high performance. Is that a tool that converts that C code and all that stuff, it converts it into an FPGA code? Exactly, so basically what you do is you write the program and then you point to a function or a few functions you want to have running in the FPGA, and just either with command line options or from the GUI, you tell the compiler so that the rest of the code will go through your regular GCC or what have you, the rest of the stuff that's going to the FPGA will go through our high level synthesis tools and be placed into the FPGA. Because the FPGA is a pretty awesome thing, right? It has lots of performance, but it's programmable, so it's like magic. What is this kind of thing? Yeah exactly, so an FPGA is really different things for different people. From a software point of view, think of it as programmable hardware, so you can, what people are doing otherwise is they're creating their own ASICs for some very specific optimizations like transcoding video or doing machine learning neural networks and so on. Here you can program that, so the hardware is actually programmable, so you can change what the hardware is doing, and that's really exciting, and then you can choose if you want to use your traditional hardware description languages to do this, or now using C code and the stuff that people like me understand. But if you use C code or other kind of software, is that not the optimal way of doing FPGA code? It's optimal, very often from a time point of view, how long it takes. Hardware is very, very parallel, so the trick is always how do you express that parallelism in your C code, which is a very sequential language where you do A and then B and then C. So typically what you do is that you put the stuff you want to calculate in a loop, and then you say that, all right, I want to explode this loop and run maybe 100 of these iterations every clock cycle. That's how you get the big gain in performance. So I'm guessing the super expert engineer software developers in the FPGA field are maybe cutting edge in terms of in general chip programming, because it sounds like the FPGA you can program it to do many different things at a different time. It's not just doing one thing. No, exactly. So customers are actually changing it depending on the use case. They just change the hardware, if you will, the programmable hardware. You can imagine if you have a device, for example, and then you have during the day you need to do something and something else during the night, or even if you push this bottom, then you want to show something on the screen that's very different and you want to accelerate different things. So it's programmable from that point of view, and what's new now is that the software guys can do that programming as opposed to just the hardware guys that's been traditionally doing it. And I guess maybe some of your customers are completely changing the strategy and keeping the same hardware, just loading a new thing and then it's different. Exactly. It's really good for platforms. You can imagine a company that wants to build a standardized platform for lots of different devices. So you can do that. And then depending if you want to put that stuff into a robot, for example, then you have some things that you putting into the fabric, or if you want to have the same platform of doing something with something completely different. You have the same platform from the software point of view. It looks the same and so on. It really simplifies things. And if you want to emulate like the kind of stuff that an ARM sensor does, you can do that too? Well, we have embedded ARM cores there. So you run that stuff on the ARM cores. Do you want to emulate a bigger one? Yeah, so that's another use case of FPGAs. People have been doing it for emulation. So then you have take our really big FPGAs and you put multiple of those onto a board. And people like the emulation companies, they are using FPGAs for that.  Testing out if the design is a good idea or something like that? Both a good idea but also that it's correct. You can look for correctness and find bugs in it. So one of the timing issues. So here the Linar Connect is really cool. You're launching the 96 boards. That means you want to open it up to many more people to start working with FPGA. Exactly. So the new thing here is a board we call the Altra 96. So it's a 96 board compatible which is really important because that means that for software people they know exactly what's there. But then on top of that you can add your own accelerators and we have lots of examples on how you can do that. So you have neural network stuff. You have face recognition those kind of things as an example. So you get the best of both worlds. The standardized software development environment but then this kind of specialized acceleration. It's 249 exactly and it's really aimed for software guys. Typically what we've done before with boards is that we have lots of different connectors so people can try out those kind of things. The other boards you have are like big ones. They are typically big and expensive. Oh they can easily be a few thousand dollars for the bigger boards. This is just 249. 249. And the Altra side plus which is like the latest mass market the most popular right now. Yeah yeah no it is of the new generation of course we sell a boatload of the older generations of course right they're not going anywhere. But of the new 16 nanometers that's a popular. The current flagship kind of right. Yeah no it's it's mass market kind of. Yes and we have different sizes of the FPGA as well right. But on this one is a part that's really popular in automotive for example for driver assist. So this exact part is used a lot in the industry right now. And yesterday I think was yesterday or a couple days ago signings announced next gen. Yes yes the seven nanometer seven nanometer. Yeah it's getting small for sure it is yes. So this is a really exciting announcement. So the current generation is on 16 nanometers as you can imagine. Which is pretty good already. Yeah yeah no absolutely that's advanced. Altra 96 is 16. 16 nanometer exactly. Which is pretty good. Yeah and so but next generation is in seven nanometers. And so we just announced it we sort of announced the high level details of it. But we expect really high performance out of it maybe 20 times for neural networks if you compare it with the current vortex that people are using in like Amazon cloud and things like that. We have the FPGA in the cloud. So we really think we'll get the massive improvement in performance. So companies like Amazon they're like optimizing their AIs with the FPG's on the cloud. So this is not only for cars and stuff like that is for the data center too. Oh absolutely and that's where Everest is really focusing on is the data center. And in the data center you have lots and lots of different use cases. If it had been one killer application someone would have done an accelerator just for that right. But there are so many different tasks as running in the data center and that's a nice thing with FPGA because then you can you know doing a video transcoding for one customer and then the next second you're running something completely different like a neural network some AIs face recognition or something like that. And then the next you do something else. And maybe it's a nice potentially it's a nice platform for people to provide a cloud as a service. Exactly. To thousands of different customers everybody has their own designs. Exactly so for the Amazon example it's Amazon F1 so it's FPGA as a service so you pay for the time you actually run it on the servers. So that's potentially a huge part of this next gen right? Yeah it's definitely an important part of our strategy going forward is data centers and Everest really hitting the sweet spot there. So you call it ACAP and Everest right? So Everest is the so I'm the techie guy here so we've been using Everest is our code name internal code name ACAP is more the official name. Everest is the highest mountain in the world right? There you go. So that may be one of the reasons or something you want to be the some kind of highest. Yeah actually our code names has been mountains for for some reason that I don't even recall so we always been using mountains for for our code names. What's higher after Everest? I know we probably have to look at mountains on other planets I know. Yeah Mars or something. I'm just giving you ideas. So how about this trend that's going on where the ARM SOCs they want to do their NPU neural processing units and stuff like that. How does that compare with running it on FPGA? Yeah no it I mean obviously machine learning is getting big all over the place right and and if you know exactly the network you're going to optimize and so on there you can do very specific things. What we believe is that the FPGA has a lot of value to add because we can do the neural network really fast but you can also do other things that connections into it we can do other workloads as well. So that flexibility gives us we think a leg up really that we can both do machine learning very very efficient but we can do other things as well so it's really utilizing the same hardware for multiple things because in the data center you can imagine they don't want to have one card for that of that acceleration another card for another acceleration they want to have standardized on what kind of cards to put in there. So the FPGA is not just like glue logic or something like that. That's the yeah a lot of people and it's prototyping future stuff. Yeah so a lot of people still of course if you're connecting your FPGA to real world stuff like field buses or industrial ethernet and so on and you want to have some glue still being used for that of course right but the exciting part that we're talking about here is more the use it as an accelerator. I did some videos at mobile office it seems that there's a new also a new growing market for signings to do networking software defined networking maybe or some kind of acceleration in the 5G network and all that stuff. Yes yes so we've been in so wireless has been been a big market for us for a long time you can imagine you get an antenna signal coming in and then you need to do a lot of processing on that parallel processing to figure out exactly what what bits are are in there and so FPGAs are used for that for that calculation because you can do massively parallel calculations with it and a new thing a product that we also introduced here fairly recently last year something called RF SOC where we have integrated the AD converters and the DA converters which means that in one chip you can get the analog signal straight into the chip and then you digitize it and convert it to packets or what have you. So it's one as I see that does RF also. Exactly exactly which is really cool. Very useful for the mobile the telecom industry right. Absolutely because in the past you used to have separate chips for that and then you had a really high serial connection of service into like an FPGA and that consumes a lot of power so if you take away that and immediately go in with the analog signal then the saving is is quite a bit on the power side and there was also a big boost of signings to the embedded world so that's also an important part of signings is the embedded market right. Absolutely well to today so depending how you define the embedded market of course most of the things we're doing today is embedded right so even the wireless when we're in a base station that would be an embedded market we're not in mobile markets but our big markets are wireless and wired you have industrial you have automotive is really big for us things like driver assist those kind of things using our parts quite a bit we're in airspace defense is also fairly horizontal technology that you can use for a lot of different things and that's one of the values for us we can with one chip we can hit all these different markets. Are you in a consumer or professional cameras because I never know what they're using these guys when they do like you know it seems that they update the software the camera suddenly does more codecs it does all these and it sounds like it sounds like an FPGA. Yeah so in broadcast that's another use case for example and and actually we were in a lot of 4k TVs early on when they came out so the interesting thing is that you have FPG's in a lot of different things and sometimes I don't know it myself and some say you know that there's an FPG in in XYZ device and they're all over the place very often a little bit hidden because it's not the thing you talk about right so. So signings is the leader right absolutely yes there's like thousands of engineers doing this. Yeah yeah so I mean just Everest alone has been I think about 1500 engineers involved in that so it's a big problem. Have you organized all these people are you are you part of the organization of all these engineers? So I'm on the software side and obviously a lot of the engineers are working more on the hardware side right what I'm involved is to make sure that we have the right operating systems as you can imagine these kind of chips is very heterogeneous different types of CPUs and you have this code that's getting accelerated. How do you connect all that stuff from a software point of view making it easier for software developers that that's my area that I'm working on. There's also Cortex R on the SOC on the UltraSoc class the Ultra96 right yes and so that means you do you can be compatible with a safety application or something that's important to be like real time or something. Exactly so on that on the Ultra96 board we have four A53s typically people are running Linux on those maybe HyperVisual, Accent or something like that and maybe Linux and other things. On the R5 course which we call the RPUs the real time process unit they're real time obviously a big thing because you don't get as many cache layers in between and so on so it's much more predictable deterministic there but very important when you connect into the to the fabric the program of logic but it's also used for safety so safety certification so we have the hardware itself it's been safety certified and so that's a good place to put your safety certified code. And so it's quite exciting for you to see the narrow and the open source community optimize all the Linux stuff that's going to happen with your with your and is there a special way you have to build a Linux for plugging into the FPGA? Well so that's an interesting question to some extent with the Ultra96 board you have standardized a lot of the different things of course if someone in the program of logic wants to put in another network driver right for example then one way of doing that is to reconfigure the kernel rebuild the kernel what we really are trying to get people to do is to more use device 3 overlays as it's called so that you dynamically load that that driver and tell Linux that it's so you don't have to change the Linux image every time you do something but if the interesting thing when you have programmable hardware basically is that anyone can change so it looks like a completely new SOC from a software point of view so that's why you have to be so careful about putting stuff in user space when you access it or or using a loadable kernel module as opposed to every time recompile the kernel when you put it in the program. So you have standards or something like that? Yeah so the community has standards for for doing those things and what we are pushing standards is how do you interface between different types of course different operating systems that's an effort called open amp that we are leading because that that's really where the future is that you don't have just homogeneous cores that are doing the same thing have this specialized core and then so far people have been doing ad hoc communication between the cores ad hoc life cycle management so we are together with a bunch of other companies like TI and ST and NXP and Comenso1 and ARM of course and Linaro standardizing how to do those kind of things. The heterogeneous multi processing, exactly multiple operating system how do you start up something on another core and and so on so we're doing that both standardizing it but even more important an open source project that's in the Linaro light organization. So one of the things I like with the ARM stuff is the new thing they're doing with the emulating x86 apps on those new Windows laptops is something that could be also done on the PGA is emulating x86? I mean theoretically you can do that you can do pretty much anything on it I haven't seen anyone do that particular one what we do do is that we have our own what we call soft cores so small CPUs that we put into the fabric so you can you know have hundreds of those if you have a big FPGA and then you can program all that so you can create your own massively parallel networks of CPUs in the fabric itself and then you can have the ARM core sort of get the load out to them and lots of really innovative things going on in the fabric and I think I saw on the new announcement the 7nm it's going to have 50 billion transistors it's like a crazy huge amount that's crazy huge that's why Everest is like the biggest there's no chip with that many billions of transistors how do they all work they have to all work right they have to and that's something that's really really important for us of course is the whole quality control every we have a really good reputation on on that because as you can imagine doing a new tape out cost a lot of money so you really want to get it right when there's 50 billion transistors exactly so what you really have to do is emulate that before you get to that point right so all the CPUs and all that stuff you want to emulate that and hey guess what fpgs are really good at emulating it so we really eat our own dog for the next respect and you say there's a lot of hardware designers silings oh yeah they cannot just do whatever they want they have to they have to work for you basically they have to customize the hardware to what the software people want so part of that yes but a lot of that is that on the software side a lot of it's standard we're using standard arm cores and so on on the fpga side so that's something we're working on is creating more standards how do you actually get your so what they are mostly focusing on is making sure that they can accelerate things like their own networks really really fast and this is a new area that a lot of a lot of research is going into and that's why we are doing things a little bit different in the next generation so that we can shuffle the data a little bit differently and and have really massively uh dsp capabilities in it and that fpga that fabric that's your that's your thing right so that's our thing yeah that's your thing and you're the leader in that but i guess you have a proprietary way of doing that but is there any way to to to explain how you defer from another fpga company or how's your secret ingredient well the language that hardware developers are using vhdl and where those kind of languages so you can have design for one fpga and then move to another you have to do a little bit of work but but that's sort of standardize at that level what we're trying to do now and and other fpga companies as well is to use higher level languages like open cell and then the standard becomes the language definition as opposed to of the hardware implements it is there like an app store so don't really have an app store for fpga that's great idea so you know stay tuned that that might come someday because i i think that's as we go forward if you're a software developer would it be nice to just go to an app store and say oh that's excellent i want that one and that one and that one and i need a self-driving thing yeah exactly it'll just take from somebody who would like to provide it to you maybe exactly so so far you know that doesn't exist so now you work if you get stuff from our partners you know you go in and get it from them directly awesome so we're looking forward to 50 billion transistor and see what it's gonna do what it's gonna change the world when people have this stuff like what is what's gonna it's just gonna is it too much is it like is this kind of no yeah personally i think we're far away from from the machines taking over i hope i'm gone by when we get that but the ai that we're seeing now the enormous explosion i think that will help quite a bit with a lot of things that we're doing today the obvious example autonomous cars right and we play a big part on that we have many customers using our chips for really to get to get to the autonomous car commission so it has the best power efficiency yes you want to use too much power but you want to do lots of ai exactly very very often it's like for example if you have a forward-facing camera in a car it can't really use more like than five watts so you're not going to put in a big honky gpu thing there right and then melt the window so that's not going to work so that's why you have the spectrum of but it's always power efficiency is really really important even in the data center right because electricity is one of the big big cost there and it's interesting to see the whole industry doing all kinds of different things some people are trying to do stuff on gpu's the other are trying to make new machine learning chips and the arm is getting faster and all that but it's going to be interesting to see how it plays out it would be interesting and i personally don't think there's a one-size-fits-all here and that's why it's good to be an fpga company because you can have lots of different sizes if you win in the fpga so you can test out a lot of different things but there will be definitely some workloads where a gpu is better than an fpga and yeah then you should use a gpu for it but the flexibility and the dsp guys as well right so but we have that it's so expensive to come up with a new asic so unless you have really really high volumes then something that's more programmable like an fpga becomes a better choice and you know maybe the bulk of the market in the future is going to be lots of small projects that don't have the possibility to make a huge quantities of something so i think that's definitely a trend if you look at things there's a lot of small projects exactly and if you look at the industrial internet of things right there are a lot but it's not the one thing that goes to millions and millions of people you have different things and different factors absolutely


Chris, I'm at each office here at Franciscan University of Studentville, and I'm not alone. I have a very special guest tonight, Mr. Chris Stafanik. Chris, say hello to everybody. How's it going? Thanks for having me on, John. Chris, we're excited that you're here. You know, our topic tonight is about rebuilding the church and the mission of our conference office and where that comes from and how we live that out, not just through our conference outreach, but how all of us live that out. And I really appreciate Chris, because Chris really is somebody I've seen for many years now in service of the church, building the church. And he's had a lot of job descriptions, a lot of titles and ministry, but I think the thing I appreciate most about Chris is that he's just a brother in Christ. And it's always great when you share the work of the Lord with a brother in Christ like Chris. So he brings a ton of experience just on different levels, from Paris to the Dallas, and now with his national ministry, which I'm hoping he'll share a little bit about later on in the webinar. So welcome, Chris. We're glad you're here.  It is an exciting topic. You know, we look around the church right now. We see areas where faith has grown cold and hearts have grown cold, and the love of God is barely a flicker in some places, even in our own parishes. And we can probably want to think that, man, this is just probably the worst time to be Catholic. You know, there's so many challenges inside the church and so many challenges outside the church.  And there's always been, in every generation and every season of the church, a call to all Catholics to step up and heroically go forth and take on this mission of renewing and rebuilding the church and making it all that Christ desires. Before we jump into too much further, I want to do two things. Number one, I just want to kind of give you a little tutorial on your go-to webinar control panel because we want this webinar to be as interactive as possible.  And what you can do, and on the other side, you'll see like a little square with an arrow sticking out of it. Click on that square with the arrow sticking out of it and it'll like expand into like a bar across your screen where you can type in questions for Chris or myself at any time during the webinar. Any comments that you want to make, any insights that you have, anything that you want us to clarify on, just type it in there. And we'll be glad to answer your questions and respond. And we want to make sure that, in the midst of all our crazy rambling that we actually say something that you want to hear. So if you have a question, please, by all means, enter that question right in there. Did you have a compliment? All in cap. Yes. A critique, I put it in 6.0. Yes, big bolded compliments for Chris. And try to keep your criticism of me to the middle. Oh, God, I'm afraid. I believe we're going to be further. I just want to ask the Lord to bless our time. So let's just come before the Lord and ask him to pour out grace. Namely, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and then a good and gracious God. We turn to you now during the season of Lent as we continue to prepare our hearts and ask you to rebuild us that we would be able to celebrate the mission of Francis Union versus Christian Outreach Office and the student conferences, but also be able to embrace in a deeper way the mission that you give each one of us to go rebuild the church, to be that living witness, a living stone in your temple. Help us, O Lord, with your grace to have the courage, the wisdom, the strength and the love necessary to go forth as joyful disciples, bringing your hope, your peace, and your salvation to the world. And we ask this in all your name, Jesus. Amen. Father, Son, Holy Spirit, amen. So before I jump in, Chris, what have you been up to lately? What are you going on, man? A little too much, kind of juggling all the balls, but you know, I'm trying to stay occupied, not busy. You know, a good priest friend of mine, I've asked me, you've got a lot going on, no, no, I'm occupied. And I've taken on that phrase repeatedly to myself regularly. Busy means I'm frazzled, I'm scattered, I'm doing a lot of different things. Occupied means I have one thing I'm doing. One thing only is required.  That could take the form of doing a million different things, but it's only one thing in my heart, and then I'll freak out. So I'm occupied today with putting the final edits on a new TV show we are coming out called Real Life Catholic, which shows the beauty of faith in everyday life. Season one is 10 episodes going everywhere from South Louisiana to Hawaii to Sheboygan. So you know, all these places around the country showing Catholics living out their faith, and how amazing that makes daily life. So that's it, and we're shooting to get that on Netflix. So pray that that happens, and looking good, you know? But definitely on EWTN and YouTube for sure. Cool, cool. Yeah, you know, a good priest friend of mine said, busy is an acronym for burden under Satan's yoke. Yeah. You don't wanna be busy because when we're busy, you're right. You know, we're being pulled by false desire, is the pressures we put ourselves under. Once, yeah, I like that, let's be occupied with the will of the Lord, and the one thing that He's calling us to do in each moment of the moment. I like that. The main thing that's keeping me, the main thing I'm occupied with, with our ministry in general, like the TV shows a special project right now, main thing is these parish renewal events called Reboot Live, where we focus on the basic gospel message and inviting people to it. And we're doing that in a different state every week around the country. We work with parishes for six months leading up to the event to train them to invite their whole neighborhood back to church. Because of that process, we're seeing small towns get 1,000 people at this event. Not from a big region, but their neighbors, their cousins, the people who don't go to church usually. And I'll tell you, man, that's just, I never get tired of that event. We're seeing conversions happen every week. It's so exciting. Just watching the grace of God in action. So that's the main thing. That's the main thing with our ministry. That's cool. That's cool, man. Yeah, we're talking about being occupied. You and I are both graduates of Franciske University. You, I work for the conferences. I speak at the adult conferences. You're hosting youth conferences and you've been involved for many years and you've got other ministries and everything. You know, we can kind of look at the mission of what we do here through our conference office and really trace it back to, first to St. Francis himself, right? He's a patron of Franciske University. And when we think about his influence on who we are and our spirituality and what we received here as students at Franciske and how that has really exploded, not just through our conference outreach, but in alumni like yourself and taking up that mantle. You know, it was back in the 1200s when St. Francis was first going through his initial stages of conversion. And he had a couple of key moments where, you know, he was growing, growing and God just kind of gave him that nod. And he just went further than he had ever had and felt more deep in the mountain. And on this particular day in his life, he was walking through the streets of the Cece and wanted to go into the Church of St. Damian to pray. Just really felt drawn in his spirit to go pray. And as he knelt before the San Damiano Cross, he asked the Lord to give him, you know, perfect faith, perfect charity, right wisdom so he could know the Lord's holy will. And he asked for the grace to do that. And in the silence that followed that prayer, the Lord interrupted it by speaking directly into his heart. Francis told me to build my house, which is in need of repair. And it was such a key moment. Like he went into a state of ecstasy after, you know, after hearing the voice of the Lord and contemplating those words as he prayed before the cross. And so after he came out of his state of ecstasy and ended his prayer, he took the Lord at his word and went down the street, found this little chapel, the Porscheuncle. It was literally the roof was collapsing on the place. And he thought, well, that's what the Lord was going to do.  And now he went to Assisi in the middle of the downtown area. Here's this huge, huge basilica. And in the middle of it is the tiny chapel. They built this huge, this huge edifice. This huge glorification. And in the middle of it is this humble little chapel covered with painted frescoes. And just, it's just an amazing thing to go and see. And that was, that St. Francis built. And of course, was that?  We still often think, we think we're in the right track. And we are, because we just do what's right before us. But we think we got the whole plan in mind. The strategic plan is to keep your eyes on the Lord. You're like, it's a joke to think like five years ago, there's no way I'd guess I'd be where I am right now in the ministry. Doing the things, focusing on the things I am. We just keep going. But what was so cool about what St. Francis did is while he was building this little church, he needed buildings of wise.  His dad was a famous cloth maker.  And he sold it so he could buy buildings of wise. And his dad was furious with him and dragged it before the local bishop and accused him and said, do something with my Renegade son. And in the midst of that, St. Francis had another workloads conversion. He stripped down into his birthday suit and renounced his wealth. Announced all claims. You know, he was raised in a very extraordinary and lost lifestyle of the best of food, drink parties, clothing, everything. He had childhood dreams of being a chivalrous knight and winning wars and being recognized for his bravery and his courage. And then now down the road, after he had really started to follow a lord, all this stuff meant nothing to him. He just kind of really make it into the world he came and make it up from this world back into living in the kingdom of God. He went. And then it caused a stir, but it also caused people to take notice. And other guys were coming along and said, hey, you're building that church, gonna help. And he started forming this community of men and women who were in support of what he was doing. And as he was praying and as he was building, his heart was drawn deeper into Christ to the point where he was finally, I mean, I think this was kind of a turning point. God had, you know, he had always had St. Francis. He always had an aversion to ugliness. Especially lepers, didn't want anything to do with lepers. And in one particular day, the Lord said, I want you to go and minister to the lepers. And he found a leper on the side of the road and was able to embrace him and kiss him. And he wrote in his personal memoirs afterwards, a thing that was most repugnant to him in the world became the sweetest of things. And when we look at, and where I'm going with all this is when we look at the call to go rebuild the church and what we're talking about, you know, in St. Francis' progression, it's like, okay, first I want to build a church, then I'm going to try to renew the church, but in the end it's about how can I align myself most with Christ and become a living stone that God calls me to be first. Beautiful stuff. Hey, man, I'm involved out, man. When you think about St. Francis and his life and his witness, you know, what stirs your heart? His simple focus on the gospel message, and it's all he's trying to do is just live it out. He didn't have this complex rule of life drawn up. He wasn't called a Franciscan, he was, he was a Franciscan. What was the OG Franciscan? Yeah, the name came later after him. He was just trying his best to live out the simplicity of the gospel. I think so often in our own personal lives, in the church, we get lost in all the implications of the gospel, in the life and the beauty and the rituals and all the grandeur, everything that comes from the gospel, and we try to give that to the world. On the flip side, we have a world that gets lost in all the issues.  You know, but at the heart of all this is something very simple. It's the fact that God's calling us to relationship with himself. He's given his life to us, He's calling us to give our whole lives unreservedly back to him. That's what Francis embodied in his life. He was living on his baptismal call. That's all he was doing. So it's that simple focus that I struggle for in my daily life, when I struggle for it in my ministry, and that I've made our whole ministry about with the regular live events where we're seeing convergence happen. You know, I gave an event a couple weeks ago, my cousin came, we got into captain's school for years and years. He got into the church, well, he stopped going for a while, he got into sacraments, you know. But he said, Chris, I've never thought of Catholicism as having anything to do with my relationship with God before tonight. What? How are we missing this? You know, I think the way we convey it and the world perceives us, it's ballooned out into all this exterior stuff that has come from the heart of the gospel. So I've seen Francis' life, what I'm trying to do in my life and work, which is return to the heart of it all. It never gets old. No, it doesn't. And people in there, as people look at the life of St. Francis, right? They're so quick to say, well, he was a poor beggar. He lived in poverty or they look at him or, he was a nature boy. He liked to run around with squirrels and other furry creatures and birds like to land on him for some reason. He attracted birds and other small, little creatures. Father's Neske, right? Well, he kills them after he attracts them, right? He's a... There's issues there, yeah. I've been hungry. But with St. Francis, he didn't embrace poverty for the poverty's sake. He didn't embrace poverty because he thought poverty was cool. He embraced Christ and because of his relationship with Jesus Christ, because of that intimacy, because of that love relationship that you're talking about, Chris, the heart of it all was so strong and because of the heart of Christ beat so deeply in him, he was able to choose poverty out of love for Christ. He didn't choose love for Christ out of his poverty. And I think when we are looking at how do we progress spiritually and how can we become people who bring renewal to our families and people we work with, the first and foremost thing that we need to do is, like you're saying, is get deeper into our own personal, life-changing relationship with Christ. Yeah, that's it. That's it. When you're in a fight, when you're going to fight or flight mode, your extremities get kind of cold.   Because the blood just rushes right away from all your extremities to your heart, so that you can fight for longer or run for longer. But it starts to go where it's really needed to keep you alive.  No, I think this is a time where God is calling us back to the heart of it all. And if we get that right, the church will be renewed and the world will be renewed. Because the gospel message has lost none of its potency. If we don't get that right, we're toast. But that's exciting, because we're gonna get it right. It's another option.  Absolutely, absolutely. And I think of, once again, on our conference outreach, in our day and tonight, Chris, the person probably that would say, had such a profound influence on us and our vision of ministry was Father Michael Scanlon, right? You talk about a man after God's own heart, a man who in so many ways embodied the spirit of St. Francis. You know, when Father Mike had the renewal of his heart and his mind through a profound encounter with the person of the Holy Spirit.  That's a great thing. I'm so happy that I have the Holy Spirit at work in my life. He immediately turned all that God was doing inside of him outwardly and said, I wanna bring as many people as I can into this new outpouring of the spirit so they can have this in alive and a deep, rich life-changing relationship with Jesus Christ. And part of that was, he said, I want to get priests on board. This has changed my priesthood. It's changed the way I view myself, my vocation. So he brought a couple hundred priests to Francis University one summer, 1975. Father Mike and they didn't have a schedule for this conference. They didn't know what they were gonna do. They would actually get together during dinner and they would pray with one another and someone would say, hey, I think the Lord wants me to share that. And they'd all say, yeah, this one's good, go. And then they would have their evening. And what are you gonna speak on? Well, I think the Lord's asking me to speak on that. Oh, cool, go do that. That sounds great. Oh, man, that's cool. And they just were also kind of let the spirit lead every part of that. And then at the end of this priest retreat, this priest conference, you know, the priests were like, we need something like this for our young people. And Father Mike, he's like, I'm not a youth minister. I don't know any young people. I work here at the college. I know my college students, but I don't know how to get high school students interested in Jesus. I don't know how to get high school students to want to come to something like this. And remember, this was the 70s. You know, Catechesis insane for a decade and a half. And it was just a lot of things that were kind of broken and a little off in the church. And yet all the priests stood up and said, Father Mike, all you have to do is put on the conference. We'll bring the teens. And so Father Mike, not knowing really what he was doing, but knowing that the Lord was calling him to do it, said yes. Mm. He said yes. He never said no to the Lord. He said yes once again in faith. He said yes. And out of that- How many young people have been to the conferences? Well, this is the beauty of it. You know, I look at what Father Mike said yes to, you know, to take a step in faith. And this year we're gonna put on 25 youth conferences across the United States, coast to coast and two up in Canada. We're gonna serve 60,000 teens and their leaders at our youth conferences. Since Father Mike's initial yes, over a million people have attended the Studentville Conference. Every year, every year, the ordination class out of all the priests that are ordained in the United States, 15% say, I heard the call to the priest that had a Studentville Conference. You're kidding.  You know, we received so much from being students here at the university. And now, I'm lucky to be back here serving this mission. I spent 15 years doing youth ministry and parishes because I had instilled in me that I had to take on that mission. And you're, and Chris, you're posting. Oh, thank you, Jesus. Yeah. Man, it doesn't have to pull me away. Most of all, the impact pulls me away. Because I know those numbers wouldn't blow me away if it made a shallow impact. I know from years of working with the conferences, live, it changes these things. Because it focuses on the core message of the gospel. It focuses on the, you know, answering the greatest question of our era. Why should I even care? We as a church get too caught up in answering a billion other questions that underlying all those questions is, why should I care anyway? So I'm gonna throw this, that, and the other thing at you. But really, I'm just asking, why the heck, why is it even relevant? Why are you bothering me? Right? That basic evangelization answers that question. Why should I care? That's what we built the church.  I mean, this is, and this is something I saw in his spirit, something I see in Francis's spirit, something I see at the university. And I'm not saying this is a cheesy salesman at the university, because I don't work for the university, right? I went there to be part of the conferences. And every level at the university, you see people who talk about Jesus as if they personally know him.  Someone they're an intimate relationship with. That's how evangelization happens. You and me are blessed to do professional evangelization. It happens by presenting it in just the right way to convince people and move hearts. But for the majority of the church, the reason a million people have been to those conferences, it's not, we're not inviting a million people. It's because of people who are out there in the trenches, live in their Catholic life and actually talking about Jesus like they know him. The early Christians call themselves the living ones. It's people being out in the world that's living ones, where people look at their eyes and say there's something different in you. It's that friend you're talking about. Not to sound cheesy, but you know, it is, it's that heartfelt connection totally transforms the church. Yeah. Now Father Mike, the beauty of and death came very much in a very Franciscan way. And in this way, I think Father Mike reflected St. Francis so well. His entire ministry was built on two words, preach Jesus. And he never went off message. He never missed an opportunity to tell somebody about what Jesus was doing in his life. He never missed the opportunity to give glory to the name of Jesus in his preaching, whether it be a noonday mass homily or a keynote at a conference or an opportunity just to be talking with students as they're walking to and from class and he'd be walking up the sidewalk. He was always preaching Jesus. And the Franciscans attributed to St. Francis, although our Franciscan scholar's question of validity, it's still a good proverb for the Franciscans is that you should preach always and if necessary use those words.  That he's in love, you know, and the way we live, it should be coming home. That's it. Is that dripping from your personality from your every word is emanating from you? And not in a forced way. If you're living that, if we're not busy, but we're occupied, if we're spending time in daily prayer, it's gonna naturally come out of us. As long as we get over the hump of our self-consciousness, I mean, sometimes we wanna hold back those casual words that just show the world who we are.  And we go along with that. I have no idea why we keep going along with that. I was at a campus in Jersey. The director of inclusivity and diversity there said, 67% of our campus is Catholic. They're all afraid to tell anyone. What? Well, why? I know why, because it's caught up in all the exterior things. As soon as you say I'm Catholic, they think, oh, I got you pegged on a million different issues. It's us that turned the ship around, that rebuilt the church and says, you don't have me pegged at all. Being Catholic means I'm in love. That's what it means. And if you understand that context, you understand the rest. If you don't get that context, the rest is rules, regulations, and rituals that have nothing to do with life. Once you get that context, dude, I'll accept the rest. I'll accept anything that Jesus says. Yeah. Well, I think that's true. When Francis came to his United States visit, it was amazing how many people got frustrated with the fact that he didn't come out and say, okay, guys, the church is teaching on gay marriage or the church is teaching on abortion. Let's remember these teachings. Let's be sure that we know who we are through our theology. He wasn't interested in leading with dogmatic statements of truth. Not because they're not true and not because he doesn't believe them, but because the world that we live in is looking at the church and says, I don't care if you're true unless I know that you're good and beautiful. The three aspects of God, goodness, beauty, and truth. And we already live in a relativistic society. Chris, you've spoken more on relativism and how it affects young people than most people I know, but we know that if you come up in front of a group of young people, probably the first thing that will get them to tune up more than anything is if you start with, and this is what the Catholic Church teaches as the truth, you know?  Yeah, exactly. But see, they're waiting to see is the church good? Is the church beautiful? And that's where we come in. We are the reflective facets of the beauty of God's love when we let it shine forth and we reflect that glory to the world. That's our job. That's our job. The beauty of stained glass is that it doesn't really look all that great unless you're inside the church and the sun shining through the windows. From the outside, stained glass can look kind of dark, but we are the ones who are supposed to go outside of the church and shine that brightness and say the church is a beautiful place because Jesus is there. And I'm a different person because Jesus is here. And come with me and see. I found Jesus in this church. Come with me and I will show you where I find what makes me who I am. And unless we go forth and become an axis. Come and see. Come and see. And there's times I wish there would be more clarity from the Pope on different things. However, he has spoken clearly about abortion, about gender, about marriage. He's not getting caught up in like, the world wants us to constantly repeat what we say about that a million times. Why? Because the world wants to make that an excuse for not coming to Jesus. Not being challenged to live different. And they want permission to write us off right there. So yeah, Pope Francis lands here and the whole country saying, yeah, but what about this? What about this? What about this? And he kind of dodges past it all. And he's trying to say, hey, yeah, but wait. What about the fact that God's calling you to a relationship with himself? What about that? Because that's all that matters in the end. And the rest only makes sense in that context. Like marriage. I often think about marriage in light of evangelization. And vice versa, you know? Outside the context of love, all I have is a burdensome relationship that takes up my time and gives me rules and limits my freedom. In the context of the love story, that I need to stay rooted in, that I need to go for dinner with my wife to keep myself rooted, take discipline to be occupied with that. Instead of busy with the stuff of marriage. When I get the context, the rest is, if it's not a joy, it's a light burden. It all makes sense. It's not something I resent. That's the gospel. That's Christianity. If we get that love relationship, Pope Francis recently said, we're in the midst of a love story. If we don't understand that, we've understood nothing of what the church is. If we get that, the rest is, you know, it's easy to take. It makes sense, the burden's light. I agree. I think the reason in the Garden of Eden, even, you can trace the fall of man. Satan went into the mind of Adam and Eve and twisted God's words. He didn't go to their hearts. Because in their hearts, if they would have been, if they would have focused on where their hearts were with the Lord and with God's presence in their life, there's no way that Satan could have messed with it. But he started up here, getting them to doubt. And they kept it right here, on God's commands. And he twisted it and he twisted it. And this is why loving the Lord from our hearts, not just an ascent of saying, I agree with the teaching of the church, but do I love the Lord from my heart? Am I willing to lay down my life for this guy? Am I willing to serve this one I call Jesus? And change the way I see things, change the way I treat other people, because they are a reflection of the one I love. Am I willing to say no to passions because they wound the one I love? You know, and Adam and Eve taking it back to, well, it doesn't matter what you say. I know this guy loves me and I trust him. There was no way that Satan could have tricked them into eating the apple. But of course we're weak and we're probably prone to die. And I'm looking forward to the Holy Saturday celebration where we can celebrate the old happy fault that one is such a great savior. But we only get to pray it once a year, so I love praying it. I know, I know. Yeah, we probably wouldn't have done it any better if we'd been in the garden. We would have been lining up, you know, to make it pretty solid.  You know, all the resolutions to give up things and sacrifice, I don't know how St. Francis did it, boy. It's weak, but the Lord, He consistently leads me through the best lent ever to just by different ways of purifying that I didn't see coming. Yeah. But yeah, but all that's in the context of this is not about my perfect love for Him, boy. Thank God I'm gonna be toast. It's about His love for us. First down in 419, constantly as a reminder of who we really are, it's we love because He first loved us. You know, this is not, we didn't initiate this. We didn't make this up. We didn't create this idea of God's love. We know it because He's loved us first. You know, how could we even comprehend something as beautiful of love unless we actually had experiences. People say it's too good to be true. It's too good to seem true for the beauty of it. It is true. It almost seems too good to be true, but it is. Really? It's the stuff of fairy tales. Exactly. Who'd make this up? Yeah, the prophets could have tried to imagine it for a thousand years. They wouldn't have thought up something this good. I mean, this is what we have to offer in the world. This is why people need to be proud to be Catholic again. This is why the church needs to reset around the gospel again. And instead of being known as the church of the issues and the church has been caused. Yes, we have the issues we have to cause. Don't get me wrong. It doesn't mean we don't speak about life issues or marriage. We have to show the gospel embraces every facet of the human experience. But first and foremost, we have to be known as the church of the gospel. Otherwise, we're noisy gongs playing symbols.   That's how the world perceives us.  We have to be the church of the gospel again. It has a challenge to give to each individual heart that stands before each heart with Jesus Christ saying, we're calling you to something. We're viking you to something. Love you're made for. Amen.  What are some things that we as everyday Catholics, away from, you know, the big picture of conferences, but what can everyday Catholics do to rebuild the church? But before I do that, I wanna say like, you know, we have committed ourselves to one thing here in this office and that's never cut the roots that caused us to grow. You know, we will always be an office that prays. You know, we do two or three different retreats a year to discern topics and themes. There are literally thousands of hours of prayer being put on by speakers and our team here in the office, priests that support us, people that are out there in the field, thousands and thousands of hours of prayer and discernment and conversation and listening to the Lord that go into coming up just like, what are we gonna do at one conference? Why? Because these are Christ conferences. They're not, they don't belong to me. They don't belong to Francis King University. They were stewards of something that's greater than us. And we are blessed to be able to stand on the shoulders of giants like Father Michael Scanlon. And then the second thing is, when you come to a student conference, you are going to hear the love of Jesus Christ preached with boldness and confidence because that's where it's at. You know, the truth is an extension of the love of Jesus Christ. It's a manifestation of who he is as a person. And until you get to know that heart, that heart that beats for you, that heart that bled for you, the heart that was pierced for you and burns like the sacred heart icon, burns with love for you. Until you get to know that heart personally, you're not gonna have much of a regard for the truth that Jesus speaks. Because that truth is a part of that heart. And people will love the truth after they come to know that the person behind that truth has died for them and has risen from the grave so that they can live without fear and live in confidence of knowing that they are loved by a God and has a perfect plan for their lives. That gives people hope. It gives people joy and it gives people the courage to live the truth. Not just, okay, I agree with the church, but I'm gonna live that truth. Today we can say, even Satan knows the scriptures. Even it's- But it is what we do. Yeah, but it's what we do. It's not about how much we know. And it's about how much you're willing to love. There's no love, there's no humility, but he knows it all. Amen. And so we got a number of people on this webinar with us, you know, we have all, you know, the thing is the call to build the church is not the exclusive property of a handful of people, you know, I think we're blessed to have many talented people at Christ being raised up by the Lord in this generation to reach a broad audience. But you know, there's still no substitute for the one-on-one interactions that need to take place to engage in a company of people on a spiritual journey that will lead them back to the arms of Jesus Christ. So Chris, you know, what tips, advice, kind of encouragement could you give people on this webinar to how can they maybe discover, cultivate and live out their personal call to go rebuild the church? Stop underestimating how important you are. Stop underestimating the power that God wants to work in the world through you. And when people hear those words, the first thought is, well, maybe you think God's calling me to preach the gospel from a stage like you? No, that's not what I'm saying. I think we get it all wrong. We use the world standards to judge effectiveness.  And don't confuse simple with simplistic. Simple is powerful.  Just say, God bless you, the God that grows this door gives me change? Yeah, do you know how powerful that can be? You know, what can I do? Tell a friend I'm praying for him when he tells me I had a bad day? Yeah, and then again, I could change someone's life. You know, or a non-believing friend to invite them to church with you. These things are life changing. But what if they get angry? Okay, if they get angry, that's their problem, right? I mean, I'm not saying be obnoxious about it.  We impose our discomforts with sharing the gospel on other people.  Let it be the same with Jesus. A lot of times they'll respect you.  As a famous magician, comedian, atheist. And he said, how much do you have to hate someone to not evangelize them? To believe that eternal life is possible and to not tell them about that? So a lot of people who don't even believe might respect if we just drop a little line about Jesus here and now.  You have no idea the ripple effect of that. Where that could end from the eternal perspective. You know, the most important people in scripture are the nameless people. The most important part of salvation history, the secret sauce, is the most boring part of the Bible, it's the genealogies. It's that long list of names that you don't recognize any of them. Really, that's the billion Catholics in the world.  Give me a break.   The big deal is Jesus, all right? And we all have our small part to play with.  Don't underestimate the power of just having a conversation like me and John are right now. We can see that John, I love talking, so inspired by it, because you can see it in your face. You talk about the sacred heart of Jesus like he's close to you, like you know him. That's not something you can hide if you try to. Whether you're talking to a believer or an unbeliever. And when you talk about it with sincerity like that, it doesn't turn anybody off. Because they know that the place you're coming from is just being real. People respect that. People respect real. I couldn't agree more. I think when we think about the work of renewing the church and rebuilding, once again, it is absolutely essential that we as lay people understand the significant, significant role that we have right now. Especially when we look at how stretched in our priesthood is. Now this idea that, oh, it's the priest's job. We have a youth minister, or we have people who do adult faith formation in our parish. They're the ones that are in charge of making sure people get evangelized. We have a tendency to, okay, I write my check, I throw it in the collection pile. I mean, I'm going to church on Sunday. What more is there? There's an exciting life that God is calling each of us to. And I agree, Chris, I think we have to understand that not only does God call us to greatness, he expects greatness. Not for the sake of our own, I'm great, look at me. But because we're made in his image and likeness. If you don't believe that, just look at the power that he's given simple men and women to help create new life. Let that be a template of saying what kind of power has God given man? That is a physical manifestation of a spiritual reality. We can all produce spiritually children in faith through our sharing of love. When you share love with a spouse in a particular intimate way, new life comes forth. When we share Jesus with anybody in a particular and intimate way, we can bring a new life back to Christ. We can help awaken.  You will cause those who can't see God to see God. And Jesus said, what I'm doing, I am going to send forth and you're going to do the same. And it says in Romans chapter five that every part of our life is to be patterned on the example of Christ, conformed to the image of Christ. And Christ was one who revealed God's love. If every part of our life is to be conformed to Christ, then every part of our life should in some way reveal God's love. That's our call. That's our birthright. That's our destiny. And so, I agree with Chris. Don't sell yourself short. Don't put yourself down. Don't say, well, obviously God's not looking in my way when he says, we all have this universal call to evangelize. It absolutely isn't. It is you. And it's you in a very particular way in a way that no one else can because you're a unique manifestation of the love of God. And you can show God's love in a way that no one else can.  And we need to be willing to do that. I was traveling with my wife this past August down to North Carolina. We spent a week on the beach. And we stopped in Becley, West Virginia to spend the night halfway there. And in the morning we got up thinking there was a complimentary breakfast somewhere in the hotel and there wasn't. So we were very disappointed, but there was a coffee station and sometimes coffee's all you need. And I'm walking towards, I shouldn't say walking, I'm more like shuffling towards the coffee station like I made coffee. And there was a woman there who was very, she seemed very distracted that she kind of cleaned up and put trash in the can and put out fresh cups and made sure that her hand was wiped down. And as I approached her, I looked at her and I could tell that she didn't cry. And immediately like it just fell upon my heart, just say something nice to her, just offer her some clumper. And I said, and I just turned around and I said, hey, good morning. Thank you for being out here and making sure there's coffee. I don't know if I'd be able to make it all the way to North Carolina without some good coffee. And she said, oh, it's no problem. And the fact that she responded, she was very pleasant. But then I just said, is everything all right? You just look a little sad this morning. Well, she went on to explain to me how her sister had just been diagnosed with a brain aneurysm and that she could be very close to death and that she couldn't get off work to go down and see her. It was just, she was just very broken. And at the end of her telling me her story, once again, I said, I'm so sorry for what you're in. Can I pray with you right now? And she said, absolutely. So I just put my hand on her shoulder and just said, Jesus, just come with your spirit right now. I asked her her name was Teresa. I said, come with Teresa right now. Just come with your spirit and follow on her and let her know that she's loved. And we looked up her sister who's in the hospital and Lord, I pray that you're able to open a door so that she can go see her sister. And I mean, I knew this woman who was working, probably not much better than in the middle of ways doing housekeeping in a hotel. So I gave her $40 and I said, I hope this helps with gas money so you can make it down to Charleston to see your sister. Wow, wow. And I don't know how. It doesn't matter. Did she, you know, as she started crying and she gave me a big hug at the end.  And so she gave me the hug and I walked away saying, I don't know, I didn't, I wasn't there to preach the gospel, I was there to show her Jesus. Oh, praise the Lord, that's perfect. You know, and what Chris is saying, like your God will open up doors if you ask him, God, give me an opportunity today to show your love to somebody. You pray that prayer, God's not gonna not answer that prayer every day. I know it. And you know what else you can't underestimate? Even if you don't have these measurable things like that at the end of the day, on my own conversion, my parents dragged me to a youth conference I didn't wanna go to, right? I'm one of them. And what changed my life, I walked into the room. It was, the speaker's great, the music was great. But I looked around, early Christians call themselves the living ones, right? I realized instantly, I'm dead. They're alive. I wanna be alive.  If all we can measure at the end of the day or at the end of a lifetime is that I was one of the living ones, we've been part of the message that the whole body of Christ is supposed to be screened in the world. We've been part of making the gospel alive in 2017, attractive and beautiful. And never underestimate the power of that. Yeah, that's a beautiful thing. And I know that, the centuries have had the prayer, Christ has no body now but yours. He has no hands but mine. He has no feet with which to walk to go preach the good news. He has no voice except for mine. And Jesus is longing. People say, well, why doesn't Jesus speak to people? Why doesn't he make himself more present?  We are to be that, to speak those words of love. And we live in such a broken time. And we have people who are mocking Christianity in the streets of our country, mocking the Catholic faith. And the last acceptable prejudice in the United States that you can have and no one's gonna get upset with you is if you're an anti-Catholic. You can mock, you can mock, preach all day long. And so I think we get very angry and very defensive. But we try to throw out statements like, well, hate the sin but love the sinner. And I'm just like, why don't we just love the sinner? Just not worry about hating sin. Takes too much time, too much energy.  But don't go to war with the sin in others.  But when you encounter people, don't look to hate their sin and love the sinner. Just love the sinner. That's the command. Love more than the sin. So let's spend our time doing whatever we can to love those people that we want to know Christ. And because faith is caught. It's a contagious that we need to be more symptomatic. Yes. Amen to that. Amen, brother. I'll get you back to TV show edits. Alrighty.  You've been on here for 50 minutes.  I know how occupied you are. But before you step out, number one, does anyone have a particular question for Chris that you want to type in before he goes? Any questions whatsoever? Talk to me, folks. I just lost the question screen. Where is it? Where'd it go? You'll have to read the question to me. I don't see the question screen. Oh, there it is. I've got it in front of me. There aren't any questions yet, but I'm going to do a going, once going, twice going, three times. Any questions for Chris before he signs off? That's all right. Chris, tell people who are on the webinar where they can find out more about your ministry, what you have going on, and maybe even find a way of connecting with some of your video content, because you pop up at my Facebook feed all the time, and I'm always blessed by what I see and hear you share, and they're always so well made to production that you put into your videos. It's top notch. The message is spot on. How can more people discover what you're doing out there? Very simple. Go to reallifecatholic.com. Sign up for the newsletter. That's it. We send it out once a month. Don't bug your inbox down. Keep it info confidential, and just get all our free videos, everything to share. We have the Facebook feeds, all that stuff, but the sure way to get it is that. And then the live events. I'm a see Chris live tab on reallifecatholic.com. Love to partner with people who have a heart for evangelization. Usually it's an involved, engaged layman at a parish that starts the invite to a parish. And like I said, small towns. I mean, our first reboot live renewal event was Linton, North Dakota, a town with 1,000 residents, 900 people attended. Wow. You know, it's all about the grassroots effort to invite everybody back to the Lord. So it's the smaller scale of the Billy Graham crusades going on, but it's this thing kind of thing in power. So, honor to be with you guys. Oh, I'm impressed by the kind of job. Thank you, man. Thank you for all you're doing to serve the church. Thank you for being such a good brother and Christ. Thank you for joining us this evening. I'll be praying for you as you continue to work on this next video series, and call me if you need anything, right? Thanks so much, man. Love you. All right. And for everyone else out there, I just want to say, you know, thank you for being a part of this. You know, one of the things that we want to be able to do through the civil conferences is allow as many people as possible to share our mission. And so we actually developed a program two years ago called Share Our Mission where we invite people who are out there who are planning on coming to a civil conference to bring people with them. Why? Because it's the simplest way to help other people have an encounter. You can evangelize without ever having to stand up and preach. You know, by going and finding people, you know that you want to see their life renewed and touched by God, and inviting them to come to one of our five adult conferences. We have the Power and Purpose Conference for those who want more life in the Holy Spirit and understand that in a deeper way. We have our priest-deacon seminarians retreat. So if you know a priest whose ministry could use a renewal, or a hinkus could use an annual retreat, this is an excellent opportunity for him to gather with 150 to 200 other priest-deacons and seminarians from across the United States. It's a beautiful time of prayer. You can gift that to your priest as a thank you. Get him here, and maybe pair up with a couple of other families to make that happen for him. We have our St. John Bosco Conference for those who are involved in the religious education and the passing on of faith. That includes an RCIA track, youth minister's track, faith formation coordinator's track, all the different areas of ministry that's about passing on the faith. You come and you get fellowship, instruction, and there's certification tracks for each one of those different areas of expertise that you might have. Then we have the Applied Biblical Studies Conference, which is sponsored in part by the St. Paul Center for Biblical Studies, who are our next door neighbors under the direction of Dr. Scott Hahn, and it just cracks open the scriptures and makes them come alive in such a vibrant, dynamic way. So if you have a hunger for a deeper knowledge of scripture, you might want to check out that conference. And finally, we have the Defending the Faith Conference, and the Defending the Faith Conference gathers some of the best minds and some of the best hearts of people who know and love the truth and have a gift for communicating it and helping it become accessible to everyday Catholics who don't have theology degrees, so these guys have more letters after their day than some people have letters in their name, but they bring not just a level of education and expertise, but a level of love for what they teach that's inspiring and blessed. So all of these conferences, you can find out more about them at studentvilleconferences.com. And if you are planning on coming and you want to learn more about the Share Our Mission Program or how you might be able to become an ambassador, because we have some excellent tools to help you if you want to become one. And not only that, we have some outstanding rewards, both financial and some other incentives that we've put together to say, hey, look, if you want to share our mission, we want to reward you with a discount. So here's an example.  So there's no limit to that. So if you wanted to bring a group of 10 people to the studentville conference who've never been before and you organized it and put it all together, we'll give everyone in your group $20 off each and we'll give you $200. It's that simple. It's not a commission. It's not a sale. It is simply our way of saying, if you're willing to put forth the effort of bringing people to the Lord, we want to help you get here as well and say thank you for your decision to share our mission because here's the thing, the personal invite that you can give another person and bringing them into a deeper encounter with Christ at a studentville conference is more powerful than any marketing that I could do. And we would rather invest in you because what we've seen and the beauty of this is these people come as groups to a conference. They have these amazing experiences and they go back and they have like a nucleus of community that love and they pray together and they have this shared faith experience that's just causing renewal on their broader parishes. There was a group of 50 that came from Virginia together on a bus and this past fall, they hosted a huge tent revival and invited 500 people to come in and hear an evening of prayer and preaching and inviting people to experience a deep brow pouring of Christ's love. And these are the kind of things that are happening. It's not just about, oh, I come and I have a great weekend and I buy a t-shirt and a couple of books and it's wonderful.  I'm becoming the parish arsonist everywhere I go. I'm trying to light fires of faith, which is not a bad thing when it comes to faith. Real fire comes from the storm. But we would love to be able to work with you, equip you, strengthen you to do that work. So if you are interested, what I would recommend you do is after the webinar is over, your confirmation email for this webinar had my email address, jbolyoufranciscan.edu, embedded in it. Just fire me off the emails and I'd like to learn more about how to be an ambassador, I'd like to learn more about the conferences or if there's anything else that you have questions on that you think our office can help you with. Now we are here to serve the church, we are here to serve you and if you have the desire to bring renewal to your parish and to expand God's working in the lives of people on your parish, we want to help you any way we can. Why? Because that's our mission. We want to go renew and rebuild the church through the power of the Holy Spirit and in the name of Jesus Christ. And God wants to use you the same way that he used Saint Francis, the same way he used Father Mike, the same way he's using Christophantic. God wants to use you. Your circle of influence might be a lot smaller but it'll have a deeper impact. And that's what we really think is so important is if everyone just did one little section of their world and impacted it deeply, the whole world would get impacted. And then Chris can't go to every parish and preach the gospel, but you can go to a lot of people within your own parish and do that for them in a very powerful and personal way. So I want to encourage you, don't give up hope. Don't sell yourself short. Trust in the Lord, be strong heart, strong mind, be courageous and take what God has poured into your heart His love and let that overflow to the world around you.  You will help people get closer to Christ. When you stand in heaven, there will be people standing behind you saying you led me to Jesus and ultimately I made it here because of your witness. And what pauses is those of you like jewels in our crowns when we're in heaven. But in order to do that, we need to put the work and sacrifice in here on earth and take the risk of sharing Christ, even if we might be rejected. Love takes risks always. Love is always a risk. So take the risks that are good. Take the risks that are necessary in order to make Christ known. And thank you for being a part of this. Well, really it's a blessing for us to be able to encourage you. It's a blessing for us to be able to share. I really appreciate Chris coming on board. It was awesome. And just be assured that we're gonna be praying for you as you continue on your one journey and I hope we can pray that you have a gloriously joyful and exciting Easter season. So let's close in a prayer and then we'll say goodnight. And then we have a Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and then Christ, you chose us before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in your sight. You called us by name and you made us your children. And now you send us forth to be ambassadors of your love, to be those who would be the guide, the friend, the person who would not be afraid to share that love of Jesus with others so that your name can be glorified and your kingdom can be built and we can bring the saving knowledge of Christ's love to all people. Pour your Holy Spirit into our hearts that we would have the courage, the wisdom, the love, and everything else that we need to go forth as joyful missionaries, ready to bring the gospel to everyone that asks of us and to share the love of Christ with everyone that we need. And Blessed Mother, you are the perfect disciple. You follow Jesus and you have been appearing across the world for the last 2,000 years, reminding us of what Jesus said and bringing people to deeper faith. You continue to evangelize in your son's name. In the same way, we appear with love and grace to evangelize others. We ask for your intercession, Mary, as we pray.  The Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners. Now and at the hour of our death, amen. In the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, amen. Thank you everyone for being with us. Have a blessed evening and a joyful Easter.