This paper proposes a deep learning-based methodology for the design of high-performance solar metamaterial absorbers. It utilizes a metamaterial spectrum transformer, MST, which divides the optical spectrum into multiple patches, allowing for more accurate optimization of the metamaterials properties. Additionally, a flexible design tool was created to allow for customization of the metamaterials properties. The proposed methodology was tested using graded refractive index nanostructures, demonstrating high average absorptance of 94%, as well as exceptional efficiency compared to existing counterparts. This article was authored by Wei Chen, Yuan Gao, Yu Yangli, and others.


Hi, everyone. Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com coming at you with 2022 Panini Immaculate Baseball, hobby edition, two box random number block break, number seven. That's how it works right there. Big thanks to this group for making it happen. Appreciate it. There are the numbers right there. Let's do it. Let's roll it, randomized names and numbers, four and a two, six times each. One, two, three, four, four, there's four, there's four, five and six. Couple Daniels down to Chad. Four and a two, six times for the numbers. One, two, three, four, five and six. After six, we got four down to one. So here's how it shakes out. Daniel with the number four and six, Chad with three, Ed P with nine, Ed A with seven, TJ with two, Chad with zero, Adam with eight, Ed A with five and Chad with one. Let's order these by number here. I would usually give the little blurb, the little blurb about how zero gets any and all redemption, including one of one redemptions, but Chad, you got one as well so your bases are covered. We're gonna pause the video, maybe see if there's gonna be a trade. It'll be a quick little window. And when we come back, we'll have the break. Stick around. All right, welcome back. No deals were done so that list you saw on the previous screen remains the same. Thanks for getting in on this. On a Thursday, thanks for spending a bit of your Thursday night with me. All right, so we've got sets of two, three sets of two, top two, one, two, three on the dice roll, four, five, one, two, three, four, five, six. All right, good luck boxes. Five, one, two, three, four, five, six. Bottom two boxes. Another two box break loaded up. We can and should run this back right now. All right, let's see what we got in here. Well, I guess it's a number block break. I don't need it, it hits too much. Out of 49, Stephen Matz, 25 out of 49. So if you're not familiar with this format, we go by that digit right there, five. So that'll be for Ed A and the number five.  That's 25 out of 49, another one for Ed. We've got to add a 25, three color RPA, Connor Siebel, three color patch on card autograph going to the number one, Chad with one. Another RPA coming up, this time for the Brewers, three color patch and autograph, Aaron Ashby, 16 out of 49, Daniel with the number six. We've got Jake McCarthy, jersey and autograph to 10 and that'll be eight out of 10. That'll be for Adam, last spot Mojo, Adam strikes again, 70% of the time, it hits 100% of the time. And out of 10, jersey and auto, Aristides Aquino, going to number zero, Chad with zero. All right, next box. There's 30 out of 99, Raphael Devers. Must be a gut punch for Red Sox fans who woke up and saw the news that Xander Bogarts went to San Diego. Now this guy's a free agent next year, I think. Harder time to re-sign him or do they lock him up now? We'll see. Dual Relic, that's Ken Griffey Junior and the big unit, Randy Johnson. Nice, that is six out of 15. It'll be for Daniel in the number six. Got an RPA for the Rockies to 49, that's 26. Out of 49, let's see a bit of that Rocky Silver right there. That's pretty cool. It's Ryan Velod, Daniel Anderson with number six. And Redemption's go to number zero, that's for you, Chad and it's gonna be Immaculate Signatures, Mario Feliciano, two more to go. Good luck, everybody. We got another RPA, 75 out of 81. That's Luis Gil, three color patch and on-card autograph, that's for Ed A and number five. And the last one here is a low number out of six. It's got like one of those hat eyelets, silver ink autograph right on the eye black. It's Ronzi Contreras, two out of six. And TJ, you got the number two. There you go. And there you have it, gang. That's a nice little break. Two boxes of 2022 Immaculate Baseball. Another two boxes in the store right now and right next to me, we just need 10 people. We can run it back right now. So check it out on jaspyscaserates.com. I'm Joe, I'll see you next time for the next one.


You know, we do a lot of birthday videos, sir. We do. We do actors. We should come up like, you know how restaurants have birthday songs, we should have a birthday song. I agree. Happy, happy birthday.  I'm Corbin. I'm Rick. And you can follow us on Instagram and Twitter. And we'll see you soon. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. I'm Patreon. I'll follow you on Facebook. They're still pole dancing there. And today, like I said, it is... Happy birthday. Thanks for that. Rajesh Khanna. His birthday today. And we don't know a lot about him. Nope. We're learning because we're still babies. We're not even a year old yet. I believe he is the first superstar of Bollywood. Like the first ever superstar? Like the big... Where's the book? We'll see it because he's in this. Here it is. Oh, that's being used as a book. Yeah, forget it. Anyway, but he's in... Anand. Got it. Anand. Anand. Anand. Not to be confused with. But yes, we saw the trailer for this. This is Bigby's first... I was going to say that's Bigby. Yeah, but he is the star of this. And he... This was his first big time on screen. Got it. So it's... What about Bigby's birthday? It's his birthday. Want to read this? I do. Note. It's... Babachi is a family comedy directed by the master of India's middle class cinema, Rishikesh Mukherjee. The movie stars Rajesh Khanna, Akshay Kumar's father-in-law, who's often referred to as the first superstar of India in cinema, and Jaya Baduri, Amitabh Bhakshan's wife. Cool. Subhairiya. Awesome. Yes. And it's translated to The Chef. So thank you to our subbers, because obviously this stuff didn't... If it had a trailer, I don't think it's the original trailer. You said it was The Chef. I'm not... It's not like John Favreau didn't do a remake of this. No. All right. I would... I would imagine not. Because The Chef is a very modern story. Could have been this with a modern twist. It might be about...  But that was about a food truck. With a chef inside. Which is a good film if you haven't seen it. Here we go. Come on, man. This is not the end of the film. All the money is gone. Now call for the whole house. The entire house is full of clothes. I heard that there's a power cheater inside. I heard that there's a man coming. He's working as a power cheater. He's coming.  Come on. I'm calling for him. I'm calling for him. Subhair, come outside. What? I'm calling for you. I'm calling for you. Come on. Come on. We know that voice. He's like getting out of hats. So who did he just pose to be their chef so he could come in and steal their family heirlooms? Well, that took a turn. It sure did. I was like, oh, he's like a nice happy chef guy. And then he stole their heart. He did. After knocking him out with hairspray. Okay. That took a huge turn. Because I was like, okay, this is like a chef guy. He's going to be the guy that helps heal the broken family. Yeah. Yeah. He's there. And then he poisons them with hairspray or whatever. And then he has a box of treasures. Yeah. But you know what? Maybe they wronged him and he's getting revenge. I hope he's like a psychopath. That'd be awesome. That'd be awesome. Like, he just comes in and cuts people's hearts out? Wow. That's my type of film. He just comes in and cuts people's hearts out. That's what it looks like. Because it looks like a box that they put. What was the film that the heart's in? David Jones Heart. That's what he was doing. He was stealing David Jones Heart back. You could do David Jones, right? Yes. 99 souls. And that is played by Bill Nye. Now to be confused with the science guy. Bill Nye, the science guy. The first time I heard that was his name. I was so confused. I did too. For a split second I thought, No, Bill Nye. Bill Nye, the science guy, please. The shapeshifter. Hold on. Let me look it up. I was actually like, I so loved that character. It was such a twist there at the end. And obviously we know it's not the real trailer, because I'm sure they did. Yeah, no, they probably didn't have one. Or they did, but obviously it's not catalogued. Squabbling Sharma family has a dubious reputation of not having any cook last there for more than a few months. Word spreads out about this family to such an extent that no person wants to be employed as a cook in this household. Ironically named Shanti Nivas. Then one day a young man named Ragu offers to work as a cook and he is hired. Ragu quickly gets a grip on his job and on each of the family members and soon the squabbles and arguments come to an end and then the Sharmas find the family jewels and Ragu missing. So it was jewels and not a heart. Yeah. Well, metaphorical jewels could be. Maybe he's Davy Jones. I thought we had it for a second. And you know this director? Huh? I don't know his name, but I know that last name. Oh, so he's Bengali. Yeah, that's the exact same name and spelling as Indrani. Oh, did he? He did direct this film. Anand. Anand. Which is apparently like a classic. And we will watch it, trust me. Because Big B, and we need to learn about this gentleman who is apparently, according to you, the first big Hollywood star. Big Bak Chan. Jaya Bak Chan. Did they say something about that in the description? Yes. They said that Amitabh Bak Chan's wife, the maiden name I guess was Jaya Baduri. Oh. Is this where they met? Ooh. So they met on set. Well, Amitabh Bak Chan was in this film. Amitabh Bak Chan. This came out in what year? Don't know. Well, but what we just were looking at was 72. Yeah, this is 1972. And then Anand is 71. Ah, okay. So maybe he was the matchmaker for Amitabh Bak Chan and his wife. We don't know any of this. It's all speculation, and I'm sure you've told us before. We've probably gotten messages like our first Big B every reaction. Well, they told us about the affair of the coup in the live. Apparently it's one of the most notorious affairs in Hollywood history. Everyone apparently knows about it. Which we thought it was just a random note and they're like, no, that's important. And I'm like, okay, cool. It's the stuff of legends like your affair with my mom. That's not an affair. That's just a passionate affair.


Dr. O'Neill here. We're going to talk about spores here a little bit. So here you see on the screen I have a comparison of vegetative cells which are living, metabolically active, reproducing cells, and endospores or spores, which are, I like to put it as they're basically, they're living but they've been paused. They're not growing. They don't have a metabolic activity. So let's talk about why an organism would form spores first. When you put some organisms in a very hostile environment, they're able to basically pause their life until things improve. So the type of organisms that can form spores or spore formers are from the genus bacillus, which can lead to things like anthrax and food poisoning or the genus claustridium, which can lead to tetanus and botulism and C. diff and other types of food poisoning and gangrene. So obviously very, very scary organisms. And that's because if you put most organisms in a harsh environment, they will die. If you put spore forming organisms in a harsh environment where it's too warm, they're running out of food, whatever it might be, they will just wall themselves off of spores and wait you out. So as you can see here, the key here is that spores are resistant to lots and lots of things. So if you put them in a hostile environment, they're just going to wait you out. I won't go into the ground. I already covered spore staining. They don't have a metabolism. They've removed almost all their water. They're not growing. They are just waiting for the environment to improve. They're waiting for a signal. Now we can force those signals like heat. Heat is the real high heat is the best way to force spores to germinate so we can kill them. That's why we use really high heat when we're canning our food and in the laboratory why we use the autoclave because it can wake up these spores and kill them. So let's go ahead and look at the spore elation process. This process would take a few hours. So you put one of those two types of organisms, the clostridium or the bacillus, in a situation where they're not going to survive instead of making a second copy of themselves like they would in binary fission, they will make a spore copy of themselves. So this is not a type of reproduction because you see you start with one vegetative cell, you end with one spore. There's no reproduction here. Other types of organisms like fungi and stuff, they actually have spores budding off of them to reproduce but that's a whole different kind of spore. So let's look at the spore elation process and then we'll talk about why it matters again a little bit. So the organism makes a copy of its DNA just like it would if it was dividing. A membrane forms around that DNA so it's almost like a second cell is forming but it's inside the first cell. Then you have the four spore and then you have the cortex forming around it and then the endospore, step five is the key there, layers and layers of protein. This protein is designed to resist radiation, to resist heat, to resist all manner of things.  And then out shoots a spore. So that's the spore elation process and I already mentioned it can take several hours. So the spore is not an entire cell. The spore only has in it the ingredients needed to wake back up and resume metabolic activity. There's DNA in it, a little bit of RNA, handful of enzymes, couple small molecules and that's it. It's only enough to turn the machinery back on to create a living vegetative cell again when the environment would improve. So the opposites and now we made our spore and then how long they can hang out as spores before they germinate is up for debate. We know it's a very long time. So germination is the process of this spore regenerating into a living vegetative cell. So we know that they have been able to germinate spores that are thousands of years old from 3000 to 7500 years old for sure. But there have been multiple reports where people have said they've been able to germinate spores that are millions of years old from two and a half million years old to 20, 30, maybe even 40 million years old. We don't know but we know it's for a very, very long time. So why does this matter? Why is this clinically significant? I would say the main thing is with C. diff is a great example. You have no idea how many of your patients are actually already infected with C. diff. They have clostridium difficile, organisms living inside of them. But most of them are walled off as spores because the environment is pretty hostile to them. There's lots of other organisms that are using up food and keeping the pH low, like these types of things if you have a healthy gut. But this is why almost every person that develops C. diff infection is going to, it's going to happen after antibiotics. Antibiotics wipe out the competition. The spores now realize now is a good time to regenerate and become vegetative cells and someone gets a C. diff infection. So C. diff infections are very, very important. They kill lots of people in the United States and everywhere else. So that's probably my quote unquote favorite example of concerns about spores. If the other big place to be concerned about spores is with canning. You can can your food properly, but if you're not killing the spores, then there can be some issues there. Now most of the spores that are going to be in canned goods that survive the proper canning process are not going to cause foodborne illness. But this is why you have to take canning very, very seriously. Okay, so that should be everything you know about spores. Spore formation and germination, their regeneration. Have a wonderful day, be blessed.


Good morning church Good morning, everyone. This is Ricard from Sweden talking to you today I'm so blessed and so privileged to be together with you in the spirit right now Wherever you are watching us from right now. We just want to welcome you to this wonderful library because we believe that Jesus Christ is gonna touch you today He will meet you at the point of your need Whatever you are going through right now in your life, whatever situation you may be facing Some may be facing the immediate threat of joblessness losing your job or sickness in the family or even you yourself due to corona or other Circumstances what I encourage you today Thank you for tuning in God Almighty will meet you at the point of any today. He's gonna touch your case He will transform your life today in Jesus name. I just want to take an opportunity and Ask each and every one of you that are watching right now to just share in the comments below Where you are watching us from for the glory of God the devil has tried to use Sickness pandemics and various circumstances to stop the people of God from meeting but for the glory of God Almighty We are now in every single home around the world Jesus Christ is being declared more than ever before and we are just so Excited about it Please share in the comments below where you're watching us from from Canada from Mexico from Europe from Asia I'm from Africa and from America, of course here in Europe right now. It's afternoon, of course in US for you It's just morning In Asia people are probably going to bed soon and and wherever you are watching us from we believe that distance is not a barrier For God Almighty to touch your case today. I want to take you quickly to the book of Matthew chapter 8 There's a wonderful scripture. I just want to read for you. I hope it will encourage you before we jump into the message today Matthew chapter 8 And it's when Jesus heals the centurion's servant the Bible says That the centurion in verse 8 Jesus said in verse 7 I will come and heal your servant Mine in verse 8 the centurion answered and said Lord I am not worthy that you should come under my roof But only speak a word and my servant will be healed the centurion here demonstrated an Absolute faith in the omnipresence of the Holy Spirit He believed that wherever his servant was Jesus Christ could heal him right where he was and Jesus in turn answered and said that he had not seen such faith Anywhere in Israel. I believe that today your faith in the omnipresence of God Almighty is gonna Heal you Jesus Christ is gonna see you and he will reward you for your faith in Jesus mighty name We believe the distance is not a barrier. So just being faith and be expecting Jesus Christ really touch your case today Something's gonna happen. You will not remain the same in Jesus mighty name Right now. Let us position ourselves for the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Let us pray Holy Spirit We thank you For technology through technology.  We pray that you will Do something special today Lord Heal those that need healing today Lord. We pray that you will break bondages for those who are sitting in oppression That are watching the screen right now Thank you Lord for your healing touch.  He's only a moment away. He's telling you today. Just Keep praying just hold your faith. I'm only a moment away to meet you at the point of your need I want to encourage you today keep your faith high in Jesus mighty name Today I want to talk about something that I believe that we are all able to relate to to some degree Due to the circumstances that we are facing right now. Many of us are in quarantine We are not able to go out and we are not able to to do our Normal day-to-day life and we are continuing the sermon series today on on the wild in quarantine And some of us that are watching we may be able to to identify in different areas I mean corona and and the situation that we are facing is the most immediate one But many of us have other circumstances that they can also identify I want to encourage you today in Jesus mighty name Lord I pray that you will use my voice to speak to people today Lord I pray that just for that one or those two people that really need to hear this message May just touch them today Lord. Maybe it's more Lord even I pray that you will touch us today Lord In Jesus mighty name the title of my message today and I have to admit it's it's a little bit strange to be talking to the To the screen like this and not having any response from people, you know People use the clap hands when they're excited. So I I kind of just have to Imagine when you are excited and I hope that we are in one accord through the Holy Spirit today and The title of my message today is something interesting And I'm just gonna throw it out there and then I'm gonna share a quick story with you The title of my message today is called striking the colors Striking the colors some of us may have heard this term before Most of us probably haven't heard it and I'm gonna go through just in a few minutes What striking the colors mean but before them I want to share just a little bit on my personal experience I don't know if you know much about my story. I'm my name is Rick I'm married to Brittany in the church here and and About seven months ago something happened in our life that drastically changed What how we perceived our day-to-day life? I traveled to Canada to meet with an old friend and when I came back to USA I was denied entry back into the United States and they said that I have to go back to my country Sweden and wait For my green card to be ready. So here I am seven months later And it's been a really tough time for me and Brittany. We have only met we met twice She's traveled here twice in the past seven months So we met for a couple of weeks and and as a newly wed, it's not an easy situation I do not wish this upon anyone but through it all God Almighty has really been teaching us He's been strengthening us and we believe that what the devil meant for evil God Almighty will turn around for good It was really in the midst of this where I was I was kind of asking God pretty severely Some months back and I was asking God why? Why why did you let this happen to us of all people? Can't you see that we have already paid some degree of a price? Why is this happening to us and and God begin to tell me that? the only purpose that the devil Makes us go through things Whatever it may be it may be temptation sickness rejection isolation whatever attacks Conflictions or adversity that you may go through the purpose of it is for you To surrender your faith There is nothing more valuable. There's nothing more precious than your faith in Jesus Christ and as the devil plans for us to strike the colors Jesus Christ has a different purpose for us. So I realized some months back that wow I feel like this is really a big temptation or a big situation that The devil wanted me to strike the colors But glory be to God Almighty God Almighty has a plan for he had a plan for my situation He has a plan for your situation and he's gonna turn your Situation around there is a purpose for everything that we face It doesn't just happen because we're unlucky. It doesn't just happen because the devil is The ruler of this world. No, it happens because we are children of God The devil wants us to surrender our faith, but God Almighty has a better plan for it Striking the colors striking the colors and I'm reading from my notes here From the online dictionary It says that striking the colors is a military term which means to lower your flag in Surrender striking the colors meaning lowering the flag that's Signific that signifies our ships or garrisons allegiance is a personally recognized indication of surrender particularly for ships at sea so back in the days when Naval warfare was more common where you would have ships Representing this country and ships representing this country They would go to seas and they would have their cannons and they would shoot at each other the moment that a ship Lowers its its flag. It means that it has now Officially surrendered to the enemy that means that the enemy now has legal right and ownership over That ship That is the meaning of striking the colors Hallelujah and Striking the colors means that you lower your flag Lower your flag in surrender to the enemy, and I just want to tell you that as us as Christians when when I Say striking the colors lowering the flag our flag in this particular parable Is our faith in? Jesus Christ our flag is our faith in Jesus Christ It is by our faith that we are known by people People see your faith people hear your faith, and they know Okay, this person has sworn Allegiance to Jesus Christ, and that is why it is our faith that the devil wants to take Wants to destroy wants to bring up down in our lives The devil may be attacking us one way today and another way tomorrow But I want to let you know as long as you're receiving attack It's a sign that your faith is still making noise Let me tell you the moment that your the enemy stops attacking you that means that there's nothing He is afraid of in you So if you feel like you're being very attacked by the enemy if you feel like there's a lot of negative Circumstances and situations that is happening to you if you feel like you're being tempted beyond measure Let me tell you that attack is a sign that you have not surrendered the moment that a ship Surrenders the attacks would stop because now the enemy has legal rights over that ship so attacks is actually a sign that you are Still Disturbing the enemy the moment that you are not Experiencing attack you are not experiencing adversity. You are not experiencing enticement temptation and and issues that that seems to conflict with your faith That's when you should be worried if someone is living on a beautiful peaceful life There's no attacks. Everything is just good. You need to look at where your faith is Is it high up?  Attacks is the very sign that you have not surrendered So please be encouraged if you are facing difficult situations difficult circumstances God Almighty sees you and the devil sees you and he's trying to rub you of your faith Remember what I said it is only when you lower your flag That the enemy can enter your ship The devil can never board your ship Until you lower your flag as long as you're keeping your flag up as long as you are Declaring your faith in the name of Jesus as long as you are standing through the pain the difficulties the sickness God Almighty Has control over your situation and as long as you're doing that the devil can never board your ship I want to go through briefly here today. There are three different Situations and I want to go through this and the reason why I want to share this is I want to really expose Some of the things that the devil is Using to attack us as children of God so that when we see it We can know that all this is nothing else than the plots and the vices of the enemy And I do not need to worry. I do not need to feel afraid I don't need to be discouraged by the enemy because I know that I am Victorious as long as I keep my faith up in the name of Jesus So I want you to take some notes here if you're interested in this. There is three different areas in which the enemy Tries to get us to strike the colors to lower our flag to surrender our faith and Number one is I'm gonna read it right here He tries through Adversity number one. He tries through Adversity this can be sickness long-term sickness Short-term sickness. It can be that someone has passed away in your family It can be that you have lost your job. It can be divorce It can be rebellious children. It can be other financial situations difficulties hardship Adversity the devil tries Through adversity and the purpose of this is that he wants us to surrender our flag in submission to an overwhelming enemy He wants us to surrender our flag in submission to an overwhelming Enemy that is the first way that the devil tries to attack us The second area that the devil tries he tries through Enticement This can be moral compromise. It can be falling into sin. It involves your weaknesses your Temptations things that Conflict with your faith things that cause you to feel guilty Things that makes you to look at the world instead of God Almighty one example is in the book of Genesis 25 where Jacob offered a bowl of soup in Trade for isos birthright This is a perfect example where iso Chose to willingly hand over his flag in trade for temporary pleasure This is an area that many of us as Christians are struggling with Temptations to moral compromise and circumstances that cause us to simply trade it for temporary pleasure The third area in which the devil tries to attack us To strike us to get us to lower our flag is enmity number one adversity number two enticement number three enmity enmity is Basically when you are experiencing bitterness or anger towards God Where you feel like God has not done what he promised he would do to you Maybe you feel like it's taking too long for him to answer Maybe in fact, you're struggling to believe if he even exists. I Feel like this is an area That the devil is striking many when you go through the different areas Maybe you have faced a lot of adversity Maybe the adversity causes you to go into enticement and maybe as a result of enticement You gain enmity towards the enemy. The enemy has struck in every area to try to steal your faith from you So if you're feeling bitterness towards God Anger for how he could let certain things happen to you to your family To your friends Maybe you have a family member that have passed away. Maybe there are tragic Accident that happened in your family.  God, how could you allow such? Situations to happen to me God you better prove yourself or I'm turning away from you You have never done anything for me God. You have never done you have never blessed me You have never treated me in any special way God. I'm beginning to doubt if you even exist Let me tell you that this is one of the areas the strongest areas where the devil Tries to attack us to steal our faith and what he tries to do through enmity He tries to make us throw away our flag Believing that it can do nothing for us These are three main areas and I believe as you are watching today You know the area in which you may be struggling. Maybe it's adversity today Where the devil is trying to get you to surrender in? Submission to an overwhelming enemy Maybe it's enticement Where you feel like the devil is trying to get you to trade to willingly trade your flag for Temporary pleasure, maybe you feel like you already have in some areas of your life Or maybe it's enmity today where the enemy is trying to get you to throw away your faith Throw it away believing that your faith can do nothing for you I want to tell you the fact that you are facing attacks is a sign that there is still hope for you If you face no attacks Then it's dangerous But if you are facing hardships today, if you are facing adversity today If you are facing enticement today, I want to encourage you with the book of second Corinthians And we are getting towards the end of the message now 2nd Corinthians chapter 11. This is Apostle Paul from verse 22 2nd Corinthians 11 verse 22 Apostle Paul he says that he's speaking like a foolish man here. He says are they Hebrews so am I are they Israelites so am I are they the seed of Abraham so am I are they ministers of Christ I speak as a fool I am more in labors more abundant in stripes above measure in prisons more frequently in deaths often From the Jews five times are received 40 stripes minus one three times I was beaten with rods once I was stoned. Let me tell you stoning They don't throw pebbles at you Stoning is an execution method Surviving and execution is a miracle many people don't realize how miraculous a life the Apostle Paul was living Many people don't realize how miraculous a life you are living That you survive that situation that you wouldn't have survived that you got out alive That you are still alive and breathing even though the doctor says you shouldn't When you're still sticking together With your significant other even though it feels like the love is gone When you are going through horde ship doubts Feeling distant from God Almighty, and you think that that's just life God Almighty is Working miracles in your life, and I want to encourage you finally in the medieval times In the medieval times I'm looking where I can drop my Bible for a minute in the medieval times when people went out for war there was always a flag Bearer the flag bearer other people would ride on horses with their swords and their Lances and all kind of stuff There would be one flag bearer this flag bearer would have no weapon He would not be able to protect himself if someone attacked him on the battlefield, but he's so Responsibility was to keep the flag of their allegiance up high So that everyone who were fighting could see the flag up in the sky and they knew as long as the flag Was up in the sky it was something still worth fighting for it was still worth battling for Because that flag gave them hope. I want to tell you today Your flag is giving people hope your flag is the sign that Jesus Christ lives and he never said goodbye The devil will try to bring that flag down don't ever Surrender to that enemy Attacks are coming. You may even be facing it right now. It is the sign that your flag is still up high I want to tell you right now and encourage you keep your flag up in the name of Jesus Keep your flag up through the hardship Keep your flag up through the difficulties through that pain where it seems like you're alone in the battlefield Let me tell you as you're holding your flag up. You are encouraging the hosts of heaven They are coming your way to set you free to heal you to deliver you and to break that bondage I want to end with In in the Bible, there's a place in Acts Exeter 17. After this I promise you I'm gonna be done In Exeter 17 verse 11, I really hope you're getting something from this message brothers and sisters I'm as I'm preaching to you I'm preaching to myself because all what I'm talking about. I have experienced it the last few months I really felt so discouraged. I felt like I was in the battlefield alone and all I had was a flag No way to defend myself, but Jesus Christ has promised as you and I keep our flag up Even in the midst of adversity in the midst of temptation or even maybe enmity The sense of feeling distant or or being an enemy of Jesus Christ He's coming for you because he never Leaves a soldier in the battlefield. You may feel wounded today.  Don't give up your faith Your faith is the only thing that connects you with Jesus Christ He doesn't care where you're coming from your name where you're born or your Circumstances, he only cares about your flag because that is what shows that shows that you belong to him In the book of Exeter 17 verse 11 The the Israelites were fighting against the Amalekites and Joshua went out to fight against the Amalekites But Moses got an instruction from God Almighty and I'm reading from verse 11. And so it was When Moses held up his hand that Israel prevailed and when he let down his hand Amalek prevailed and so it was But sorry verse 12, but Moses hands became heavy He was dropping his hands. He was holding them up and as long as he held them up The armies of Israel were winning the battle, but his arms got heavy He started dropping down his arms and it says So they took a stone and put him under it and put it under him and he sat on it and Aaron and her Supported his hand one on one side and the other on the other side and his hands were steady Until they're going down of the Sun So Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword I want to tell you today You are Aaron to the people around you never you believe that you are called only to hold up your own flag as Christians we are called to go out there see your friends and family those that nobody else notices notice their faith Encourage their faith help them to hold their hands up because as Moses was holding his hands up physically He was holding his flag up in the spirit.  I just pray for every single person under the influence of this video right now I pray that you will bless them right now where they are those that are feeling sickness Pain in their body. Maybe they have difficulties in breathing difficulties in getting up from the chair Lighting down in the bed. I pray for your healing power right now in the name of Jesus Christ If you are feeling like you're lonely Jesus Christ is with you right there right now and he's ready Just open your mouth and pray right now and ask him to come and help you He's only a moment away. All he needs to see is that flag. Oh, yes This one belongs to me. Oh God, I pray right now that you will break bondages right now People that are struggling from joblessness. I pray that you will give new opportunities in jobs God bless them right now Bless them with new ideas right now. I pray for your deliverance power right now Those that feel like they're under the yoke of affliction Those that feel that they are under the bondage of evil spirits I break it right now in the name of Jesus. I break it right now in the name of Jesus You demon I command you be broken in their lives in the name of Jesus Come out of the body in the name of Jesus in Jesus mighty name. We pray in Jesus mighty name. We pray in Jesus mighty name God bless you and see you soon in the presence of God. Thank you


Six chic and stylish looks won Zuvie Halo Hairdryer for summer 2022. Hello everyone, I hope you're all well and ready for lots of outfit ideas and inspiration. Today's video is very kindly sponsored by Zuvie who make one hugely impressive or singing or dancing hairdryer. So I shall be styling my hair in a few different ways and pairing those looks with six different chic and stylish outfits for summer 2022. Let me start this by saying I am definitely one of those people who has put their hair through the mill. Over the years I've gone from brunette to blonde to red to green by accident to brown again and finally settling on this little mixture that I've got going on now. But it's only as I've got older that I've realized the importance of taking care of your hair as much as possible because as we all know when you don't it can really show. For the first outfit idea I'm going to do something straight and sleek and how I tend to style my hair on an everyday basis. So I've dried off the majority of my hair in fast mode and now I'm going to use the styling concentrator and move the setting over to style to get that really smooth frizz free look that I'm after. The Zuvie Halo Hairdryer is inspired by nature's natural evaporation process. Their engineers really wanted to create a more natural, more sustainable and all-round kind of your hairdryer and I have to say the science behind it is very impressive. They've developed a technology called light care which essentially dries water on the surface of your hair with light energy and warm air but it's at a lower temperature than say traditional hairdryers without sacrificing any of the speed. The light care system also helps me retain two times more moisture in my hair which I definitely need and it will make my color last on average 57% longer. So less coloring, less heat, means less damage and less toll on the planet just stronger, healthier looking hair. Happy days to that. So for this first outfit idea I've gone with a new invest top with this really interesting neckline. I feel like I'm ticking the cut out fashion trend box in a really elegant and subtle way and I just adore this shade of mink. I recently invested in a new strapless bra that works perfectly with these sorts of tops so I shall link that in the description box too if anyone else needs one. As the top is quite eye-catching I wanted to keep my bottom half quite simple and relaxed so I went with my accrued jeans that have that typical chino shape, the old favorite strappy sandals of back out again and to complete my summer look that straw bag finishes the outfit off perfectly. Though the essence of the outfit idea is pretty casual I think there's enough chic and stylish elements in there to keep it feeling interesting and elevated. On to my second outfit idea and this time I wanted to go for a silky and polished low bun which is a really easy way to instantly make your outfits look and feel more elevated. It's also a great look to reach for in summer because it will keep me cool it in the heat having my hair out of the way and there's also a certain elegance to looks like this that I really love. I find it easier to create these looks if my hair is already smooth so having done the sleek and straight beforehand is a good place to start. To get a low bun to stay in place all day I simply do a low ponytail first at the nape of my neck and then I twist that ponytail and wrap it around the bubble fixing it in place with an extra elastic. I find that if I go straight to twisting it will fall out and it will look messy within a couple of hours. One of the great things about the light care technology is that it really helps to make the cuticles of your hair remain flat which is especially helpful if like me your hair has a tendency to do a bit of a moniker frizz. Once I have my bun in place I'll go over my fringe in style mode and then switch to cool on the top and the sides just to make sure it's all laying nice and flat. So onto my outfit idea and the first option with this bun I wanted to share would be this gorgeous cover up. Now you might remember seeing this in a recent haul that I did on my channel. There I styled it quite typically as if I'm beside the pool but I was really keen to see if I could also make it work for the evening. So this is what I came up with and I actually really really like this look. Obviously this is something that I would probably only wear in the evenings on my holiday but still definitely something I would wear and must be able to get a couple of uses out of everything that I'm going to pack. I'm wearing my swimsuit underneath which has that perfect lovi at the front to work with this dress but you could easily find a bra that would do the same thing. I've added my new strappy block heels for a sprinkle of Parisian chic and finished with a simple black clutch. Having a low bun with this outfit I think really completes the look and the whole vibe that I wanted to create. Obviously it feels beachy but done in a chic and really refined way for lovely summer evenings in the heat. Don't forget to let me know in the comment section below what you think to all of these looks as we go along. It's always really lovely hearing from you all and your support is always greatly appreciated. Chic and stylish looks out for idea number three. Depending on how you want to style your hair on any given day you can choose between the different settings and attachments. I use fast mode to get it 80 to 90 percent dry and then style mode for smoothness cool air to tame those flyway hairs and now I'm going to do a little beach wave look with the diffuser. So I've wet down the areas where I would like to add a curl. I tend to start like this a third of the way down as I find that curls going right from the root can look a bit wild and cut out of hand. I wanted to look like I've just got it a little bit wet in the sea with those authentic beach waves. I actually don't use an awful lot of product on my hair at all but when I'm creating beach waves I really do like to add a little bit of salt water spray. It just gives you a bit more texture and it stops the curls looking to beauty queen buffon and more boho queen in chilled. Hopefully that makes sense. I think the trick with using a diffuser is to be patient not my strong point but definitely worth it when it comes to hair. Just slowly but surely dry off the hair by lifting it into those nodules. If you move it around too much or really scrunch it up it will end up looking pretty messy. If you take your time it's actually a pretty easy look to get right. So to go with my beach wave hair I'm wearing a new in dress that I bought recently thinking again of my holiday coming up in the sunshine. And like the cover up I shared before something that could easily work from day to night. I love these pretty embroidered details on both the chest and the sleeves and that fluted shape is perfect for the heat too. Made from a blend of cotton and linen it feels cool against my skin and that fabric combination makes it feel a little bit vintage somehow too. I've gone true to size with the UK 10 and the fit is light and loose and it will work both less straight or maybe cinched in with a belt so you've got a few different styling options there too. I shall share another outfit idea with my beach wave hair a little bit later in this video but for the minute I'm going to go back to sleek and straight. The Zuviet Halo hair dryer has been described as the Tesla of hair care which does sum up pretty well the technology behind this brand. I find it quite incredible that I can get nearly 20% smoother and silkier hair just from using a different hair dryer. So running with that chic and stylish look I wanted to replicate that with my outfit idea. Blazers are always high on my list of key pieces that I personally like to invest in for my wardrobe whatever season. I try to avoid polyester and instead opt for more sustainable fabric compositions that will truly last and be breathable throughout summer. Now that certainly doesn't mean you have to spend a fortune. Thankfully lots of the high street stores are offering more ethical and sustainable alternatives these days. It's just a matter of searching them out or letting me do searching for you. I've added a new list of favorite blazers that I found recently in the description box below. Now as you can see this one is pretty bright white and I love it styled against light washed denim. It's been made from 100% linen so really good for wicking away moisture in the heat and hopefully keep me feeling chic and polished for longer. In the warmer months it's quite handy to style a vest top under my blazers to avoid overheating on the sleeves and shoes wise I'd actually wear this look in a few different ways with high tops for something super relaxed, ankle boots on rainy days, flat sandals for more of a casual look in the heat and something in the middle with my block heel sandals. This is a very typical go-to look for me that hopefully you agree is very easy to interpret with your own wardrobe. Going from sleek and straight to a bun again now but this time I wanted to share something more easy going and a bit more carefree than my last look. So rather than get all of my hair perfectly in place I'm aiming for that perfect Parisian undone kind of vibe and honestly the simplest way I can recommend to achieve this is to not use a hairbrush. Literally just gather up your hair in your hands pull down a few little tendrils as you go and whereas before I added a bubble to start with this time I twist straight away rapid around itself and put the elastic over the top doing it this way gives the hair more of a natural kind of slouch you get this slight bagging at the back of your hair here which I personally really like and once it's in place you can then gently pull on those sections to make it feel even more effortless and laid back. Looking and feeling chic and stylish doesn't always have to mean being completely polished to with an inch of your life. You can absolutely feel elevated in the most casual of looks. I think the key to getting it right is thinking about the quality of the base first and foremost and that goes for my hair along with my outfit. I've chosen my fabrics wisely with both my shirt and my jeans keeping it simple but buying into the nicest quality I can afford. I've ironed everything perfectly so they feel sleek even if their fit is more relaxed and my hair too even though the bun is more natural. Because I was starting with the base of smooth and shiny it means my hair looks sleek and healthy no matter how casual the style of bun. My final outfit idea I'm going to be shopping my wardrobe and something I had hidden away and I forgot until recently just how much I love it. One beautiful dress for the evening in this elegant shade of soft pink. Now I think I bought this dress about 10 years ago now and I remember specifically wearing it for a lovely anniversary dinner David and I celebrated in Ibiza. If I can find a picture I will add it here but it was a really magical restaurant outside amongst olive trees and surrounded by all these pretty twinkling lights it's really beautiful. Anyhow I digress my point being when you're on holiday or just somewhere hot generally I do find it easier to go with the elements For instance in the evening my hair wants to go humid crazy but if I start with a really good base of curls that I've created on purpose I find that it lasts far better throughout the evening. The curls are on my terms so to speak beach curls with just a little salt water spray works perfectly and it can be a really chic look for the evening. I also really like the contrast of my hair feeling pretty natural sat against quite a polished looking evening dress. I think the mixture works really nicely. Now if you don't want quite so many curls as me or if you feel like you've gone too far with the diffuser and you want to tame it down a little bit I would just add the styling concentrator to the halo and focus it down at the start of those curls. Just gently tease through those curls with a little bit of heat for a softer beach wave if you prefer. I'm so impressed with the Zuvie Halo and I am really looking forward to seeing the difference to the condition of my hair once I've been using it for a couple of months. I personally spend a lot of time researching for perfect pieces for my wardrobe, the right fabric content, a price within my budget, items that will make me feel chic and stylish and put together so it does really make sense to not forget about giving my hair the same kind of love and attention. And judging from my own experience the halo is exactly what my hair needs but don't just take my word for it please do click the link in the description box below and read all about the technology behind it for yourself. I am very excited about this brand. It's been an absolute pleasure to share it with you all today and I'm really looking forward to seeing what they come out with next. As always I would love to hear from you all in the comments section below. Has anyone tried the halo already or which was your favorite hair look and outfit idea? It's always really lovely hearing from you all so do get in touch. Thank you so much for watching everyone. You are one lovely bunch of women and I feel very fortunate being able to chat to you each week. I shall be back on Sunday with lots more outfit ideas and inspiration so hopefully you'll join me again then. Take care.


Oh no, we grabbed the same noodle, the same right, the same right, Jack. Thou noodle shop is one of my favorite restaurants in the entire world. The city on our Texas tour is Dallas. This city is known for many things, but you wouldn't think it's known for being the center of the fastest growing Lao food scene in the country. And one of our favorite things to do is to showcase authentic cuisines that are not that well known to the average person. So we're here with Jack to eat at the hottest Lao spot in America that's doing its own take on traditional Lao cuisine. When I actually tried out, for culinary arts, La Porte de Blu, I got admitted and then my mom was diagnosed with cancer. So I kind of just like put everything on hold, you know, stuff that I was learning on my own or just learning from my mom. That's why the food is more true to what it is. I bet you my mom is here today, she will be happy to be proud. It says shredded pork floss, chili pepper, shallots, you know, it's plenty of. And then it's just like a super delicious, funky jabon. So then your next one is Jean McLean, it's a roasted tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, shallots, onion, garlic, and then fermented fish sauce. So which is the, like with the mom, which is fish sauce with lime, sugar, garlic. The last sauce right here, which is a roast eggplant sauce with shallots, garlic as well too. Stick a rice, use that, just grab it and set up like that and just, you know, go for it man, dip it in the sauce and take a bite. Hold on, I gotta wash my flanges. Guys, let's take the rice first. Let's just all get one dip. I'm going with the eggplant first. Well, the eggplant, not a bad pick. I'm getting with the tomatoes, bursting with flavor, man. This is so good. I'm really excited, man. I think we gotta go with the beef. All right guys, this is the beef skewer, lemongrass, chow sum, and garlic. Loud beef skewer. Woo. I'm proud. Yo, that's amazing, bro. I'm going to get the eggplant and I'm going to wrap the beef bite in it. He said no rules. Yo, the charred flavor, the green one. Oh. That might have been my favorite beef that we've had in Texas. Here we got the shrimp bites. Wrapped in a perilla leaf. Perilla leaf. This is loud food. It is modernized a little bit, but not in a westernized way. It's just updated with Donny's own twist. Right. I like the leaf around it. Pits you with a bit of sour in the beginning, that fish sauce. These are the pickled greens. Oh my gosh. Dude, you know what I think is so awesome about what he's doing here? It's the Brussels sprouts and the kale. And some of the stuff is not traditional, but the flavors, the sauce is authentically traditional loud. You want some of that tang? That's the pickled vegetables you need. I feel like the food has a more kick to it in a salty and spicy way, whereas sometimes Thai food is very sweet, but with a heavy use of coconut and a little bit of soupy. That little rice paper wrap around the top is really chewy. It's kind of keeping everything together. It was essentially a scoop of rice, but it had so many other flavors to it. Between the seaweed, the meatball, the rice, and the sauce that you dip it in, crazy. That was one of my favorite things so far. Hidden piece of cucumber, really refreshing. I didn't know it was there. It kind of tastes like sushi. Sometimes when we film these food videos, I'm not necessarily looking to eat the cameraman's plate. Yeah, I was about to. I didn't know sticky rice doesn't stick to your hands. Is that a thing? You know what it is? I think you're thinking about the Thai mango sticky rice and that rice would stick to your hands. Okay. Now let's do a little dip into the little dip. Little dip on your chip? A little dip on this chip. Oh yeah, cheese. Do that. Do that. You got a little sweetness, a little spiciness. Also the care that they're putting into food right there, man. They have tweezers and they're putting little garnishes on top. The precision is crazy. It's almost like fine dining back there. The kitchen is maybe 200 square feet as 10 people in there and they're all crunching. They're all working hard. Very impressive, man. That's why the energy here feels like New York. You press it on your palm, it kind of warms your soul. That's true. That's real talk. The next thing we have here is our jerky. Jerky for us is something traditional that you leave meat out to dry in the sun.  This is the heavily beef. Jerky basket.  Heavenly kingdom. They have gold, Phoenix. Heavenly beef.   Ha ha. I buy it. Love that. That was like the right amount of saltiness and sweetness. But when you dip it in the sauces, it's amazing. Try Chicharronis. This is sort of like a mix of Don's background because you've got the San Antonio side, you've got the Laos side. Don is crunchy. Mmm. I'm eating a tripe. Do you know me to be a tripe eater? Because I'm dim sum tripes. And you know what I like about that tripe though? Is that it's chewy. As I went to fried, it almost was like jerky. All right, the side of me that likes french fries prefers the tripe. But then my other brain kicks in and I'm just like, I gotta go with the beef. I would say this is my favorite sausage in the world. Is a lot of sausage. I've actually never been to a spot that served this, whether it was a Northern Thai, Esau spot or a Laos spot and not gotten this. Literally, it's the only sausage I always get. I always get the Laos sausage. No different than any other sausage that I've had. I'm going in for seconds. I'm gonna dress this up. Just top it off with a little tomato and a little bit of this sauce. Oh my gosh. David, that's only you the second. Yeah, that's a good point. You know, I was actually, I was debating. I was debating. My gears turn. I'm like, should I do it? Should I do it? I gotta do it. He saw the joy on your face as you ate that. He was like, the meat dishes here are just a point. Hell of an hour. Here's the sacu.  Donnie told me when he was rolling them, he said, man, this is really hard to make. It's almost like some little mochi balls, but it's not mochi though. It's like a crystal ball, but wow. Would you say a little bit like the texture of the crystal shrimp dumpling? Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A little bouncy.  It's been me like six times. I'm like, no, you bite into it. I thought I knew what it was.  I gotta say, one of the fun parts of this meal is picking which sauce you're gonna dip it into after you take your first bite. You're kind of like, yo, you gotta be creative and kind of know you're going to want a more sour or spicy or what? It's kind of like putting an outfit together. That tastes like a boba poem. No, it is not like a big boba. That was 10 extra better than boba. What? Duh. It hit me like 15 times. It dissolved in my mouth, it didn't stretch as much, it wasn't chewy. I'll tell you this, if you guys ever imagined what a boba looks like at full evolution, like what makes savory, get this to cool. Guys, so while we're waiting for the next dish, I'm actually gonna fix up this random dish that I put together. I'm gonna get some of this. Is that fried onion? Yes. You're trying to sprinkle it? Okay. Yeah. So I'm gonna make my own little roll here based off the condiments. Is this about to be the fun-grown roll? The fun-grown roll. This is the struggle roll, because this is when you're waiting for your food and you still need to eat. You're hungry, is it? And you put a little chili. Uh-oh. It's not bad. The condiments are so good here, you can even make a dip out of just those. The food makes all the dishes. Is this a knife?  Look at it, my drip, look at it drip, drip. Ah! I mean, look at me, I'm killing it. This is the migatee. This is a in-house coconut curry noodle, with peanuts, brown pork. This is a kaput, which is a house-made noodle curry. This one's a funky one of the bunch. So this is called soy. So this is not your typical Thai call-soil where this is coconut curry base. This is fermented tofu and soybean paste. I think it's funny, I'll say this, the bowl of noodles is not that big. It's almost like a tasting menu. But like I said, these dishes are affordable, guys. They're not like crazy priced for this amount of noodles. Migatee. It's curry but not too heavy. A little bit of peanut butter. Sometimes curry noodle soups are too heavy, too much coconut milk. You can tell how fine everything is, chocolate that's different. I actually really like that. Wow. Calcune. Curry paste chicken broth. Go for it. Oh no, we grabbed the same noodle. The same right. This ain't right, Jack. Mmm. Yeah, this might not be appropriate for television, man. This, what's that phobia that people behind me? Oh, the little holes. Oh no. Calcine. Fermented soybeans and pork calcine. Hey. Whoa, that's a funky broth. You did not expect a fermented broth. That is super funky. You like smell the funk first, but then you taste it and it doesn't taste funky. It tastes a little bit crab. Yeah, kind of compared it to Bunreal. But it has this kind of like level of funk that is like different. Maybe it's a taro stem, but I'm not sure, man. What do you think allows people to appreciate a little bit of funk versus when you're a kid, all funk is bad? I think it's a matter of maturity.  Like, oh, it smells bad. No. Once you've got one tasty funky thing, you're open to it all. Bono is a traditional Thai dish. This is my own rendition of it. It's pork blood, super rich, super silky. And then this is sukiyaki. And in our tradition, it's just a sauce. But usually we eat with a broth. I love the sauce in general. So for me, it's just more a dry noodle. Boat noodles. His take on it. I'm afraid to share with you friends, guys. It's not that serious. Put the vinegar on. It adds another layer. Oh. After you put these sauces in, it's almost like it changes the complexion of the broth enough to feel like a different dish. All right, this is the laos sukiyaki. Wow. Can you taste that fruit flavor? Almost like an orange, right? I've never had orange-flavored noodles in my life. Oh. Time to reinvent. Pew. Hit them with the vinegar. Oh. Oh. I suggest you try that. This is like a culinary adventure, bro. Like, I guess I didn't know what to expect when I got here.  All I could tell you is that these are flavors I've never had. You couldn't even imagine these flavors together. It's not even in the Chinese palate range. This sort of reinvigorated my desire to do food videos. That hit right here. And now noodle shop is one of my favorite restaurants. In the entire world. To find this find Dallas, that's a huge surprise because I'm not going to lie, I don't look at Dallas for like good Asian food, but maybe it doesn't do the best like Chinese or Korean food. But man, loud food, what the heck is this? I don't do this at every restaurant. I really don't. I really don't, sure? I really don't do this every restaurant. Along with Burmese, I think that laos sukiyaki is the most underrated Asian cuisine. I need to come to Cal noodle shop in Dallas, Texas, East Dallas. This is one of the best places we've ever done a fun girl's food at. I was just thinking about what my favorite thing was and I think that I got to say it was the sakur. The tapioca ball, the sakur, that was my favorite. Because I actually kept thinking about eating John's. How's that meatball sukiyaki? Yes, that one. La ma sukiyaki? Yeah. You can't always see it in the bathroom. Oh yeah. The kaboom and the beef jerky was like crazy. I drank all the soup for that one. All right, you guys let us know in the comments section below which dish looked the best. Let us know if there's any other cuisines you would like to try. Please let us know what you know about laos food. Make sure you give this video a huge thumbs up, subscribe, turn on your notifications and definitely, definitely, definitely, if you're ever in the Dallas area, fly here if you need to. Come to Cal noodle shop. That wraps it up for our Dallas trip and until next time, we out. Peace. Yo, what's going on everybody? Just want to let you know we do have a brand new podcast called the A3N podcast. We're talking about all types of stuff. We're going to have all types of guests on the show. Obviously, if it's me and David, we're going to get really deep and personal and real. Also, we have a highlights channel. If you guys don't want to listen to the whole entire podcast, there's going to be like the highlight clips there that you guys can just check out. Check out the podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Himalaya, A3N podcast. Leave us a review and a like and listen to it. Peace.


Now go back to center and triple speed, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, like that. Keep your elbows nice and low. Make sure you do not flare your elbows. Your elbows are low, pointing downwards. Make sure you're palming hand over hand. And you notice that my hands are going in a circular motion and extending out to the target. Now I want you to palm as fast as you can for 10 seconds. 1, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Good job.


Our final panel tonight is one that obviously I'm really excited to have, but more so because we're in Philly. Our last three guests are going to join me on stage from Comcast, and I'm pretty excited to welcome them because not just because this is their hometown and I'm really fond of their story, but I also think that the participants on the panel I'm going to bring up to join me really represent so many different parts of the business that I think it really lends itself to a much more broader view of what the journey looks like from both an executive decision making to the implementation of the technology to the power open source has as part of that continuum. So I'd like to welcome on stage with me Rick Roboli, who's the SVP and CIO, Nithya Ruff, senior director of the open source practice, and Mike Chrisifoli, the SVP of platform and product services. Come on up. Practice your names. I did not practice the SVP. It worked on that. You got really bold though, that was good. I did. Yeah. At least I got one thing right. It's been a long day people, it's been a long day. I'm actually excited to end today with a conversation with the three of you because we often talk as I said about the transformation journey and bits and pieces of open source or platform. I think this is the first opportunity we've had to have the entire continuum in one organization on the stage. So I actually want to start first with a really difficult job which is leading this initiative. And Rick, you've been working to transform Comcast now for several years and this has been quite the undertaking. Maybe if you could walk us through how that journey began and the process you've taken, particularly on the culture side because I think you've got a great story on the culture piece. Yep. I love to. So yeah, I joined Comcast about 14 years ago as of last week was my 14 year anniversary. So when you were like 12? I was like 12 years old, absolutely. And it was funny, when I joined the company we were very much a, we had just become the largest cable company in the country and we were very much a cable company. We were all about set top boxes, cable modems, rolling out hardware, trucks, call centers, operational efficiency, that was what our story was all about. And we were self-proclaimed fast follower in terms of product and technology. And that was sort of our story, that was our strategy coming out of the gate back about 14 years ago. We came to the conclusion though pretty quickly that in order to compete in this industry and looking forward that we were really going to have to become a product and technology company. And we invested a huge amount of money and energy into becoming a product and technology company. Just out of curiosity, how many hands, hands for customers, Comcast customers? I know this front row is going to be customers. And just out of curiosity, how many folks have like the X1, the voice remote? Pretty good. Yeah. So that was the X1, the voice remote, XFI, a lot of the product advancements that you've seen come out over the last couple years are the result of a big investment in technology and just a huge cultural change within Comcast from becoming an operational cable company to a technology and product company. And then interestingly enough, over the last couple years, we came to the conclusion that it really even wasn't enough to become a great technology and product company. We need to be a customer experience company. And what that means is what does it mean to really create a great customer experience from the time you buy our products to the time we support you and ongoing life cycle of a customer? And that was like our next cultural shift as a company, was how do we go from not just building great products and technology, but creating great end end experiences? And so that's the big journey we've been on over the last couple years. It's been super exciting. It has been exciting. As part of this journey, and I actually had the pleasure of speaking at your open source day a few months ago here in Philly, feels like it was just yesterday, Nithya. But one of the most powerful things that I got to hear was a lot of your executives getting up in front of the room and talking about not just the culture change part of it, but how important open source was to that journey, which is not something you often think about when you think about Comcast is, wow, open source, right?  Can you talk a little bit about the journey for Comcast on the open source side? Absolutely. So it's really fun to be here and welcome Cloud Foundry to Philadelphia. I consider it my second home, even though I live in the Bay Area. So it was around the time that Rick mentioned around 2004, 2005, we made that switch from just procuring proprietary software or, if you will, commercial software and move to starting to consume open source software in our desire to build our own products, build our own technology. And then very soon after that, around the 2010 time frame, we realized that it wasn't enough to just consume. We needed to actually contribute back any changes we made. And frankly, sustain open source and do our part to give back to open source. And then since that time frame, the scale of open source consumption and contribution has been spectacular. So just to give you a statistic, we did about 13 contributions, I think around the 2013 time frame. And then last year, we did about 165 pretty major contributions. That's significant. You can go check out some of the open source projects we have open sourced on comcast.github.io. There are over 150 projects that we have open sourced of all kinds, libraries, front-end, back-end. A big one is the content distribution network that's at Apache Foundation. It's called the Apache Traffic Control. Another big project would be the software stack that runs on your set-top boxes and routers. And it's called the RDK Project. And it's a collaboration across a lot of different companies. So tremendous growth from consumption to contribution to actually creating original projects. That's phenomenal. It's also phenomenal to think about the set-top boxes on top that are actually running open source now, which has come a long way in the last 10 years. Absolutely. And Mike, you're responsible for the platforms that run all of these things from the technology standpoint. How do you kind of sit literally in the middle of these two things, but I think figuratively also between the directives from the executive and the leadership and the culture change that's happening, as well as the work that's happening on the open source side, how are you bridging all of those things together for the product choices you're making? Sure. Great. No, thanks, Abby. Yeah, I mean, Billy and I, Rick, said what we quickly learned in the journey was we say, happy customer, happy business. And for me in going through a four or five-year transformation, leveraging both the great technology around Cloud Foundry and open source, we learned quite a bit about the people, the culture, and happy developer, happy business. We had to really adjust our internal development, buzzword bingo around DevOps and things like that. But it's really about frictionless, happy developers where we're creating very crisp outcomes that translate the strategy, like Rick mentioned, customer experience outcomes around that and really changing the game there. If our developers in our development community don't experience the same transformation, the same focus on acting and behaving on a day-to-day basis in a very frictionless digital way, how would they present that from a platform or a product perspective? So it's been a great cultural transformation from the perspective of learning, not, and I say just, it's an important part. The technology aspects, but the adaptive leadership that came with that, as well as really empowering the development team through the technology, but also through getting out of the way from a top-down, from a leadership perspective and bridging the strategy through creating that same environment for our development community. You don't often hear that getting out of the way part. Yeah, it took a lot. It was my team will tell you we had some very passionate moments when we had a lot of performance, a lot of resiliency problems, a lot of trust with the business. We went through this big cauldron of change and we had big, great tipping points where you said, let's have crisp outcomes, empower the development community, leverage the open source, really create a true community internal, not just as we contribute externally, and it's been a really fun journey. Yeah, that was actually one of my favorite stats that I got from Greg today. Greg is everywhere. You have 1,500 people that are active on Slack and that they're helping and they're building that community. And I think that we talk about a community a lot in open source. And Nithya knows we always have this conversation about community, but it's also interesting that you're actually building a community inside Comcast, too. Yeah, absolutely. And changing the way that we develop platforms. And clearly we're not there yet. The transformation takes more than four or five years, but there's been some really great tipping points. And we really see this organic drive to this frictionless value that the open source technology, Cloud Foundry, the whole environment that we've created. And it's just so refreshing to see. And it's not having that big top down management style. It's really refreshing. And the outcomes are great. It's great. And you can say that with the management here. Yeah, absolutely. No, it's the same. It's like the management's here. So you can actually say that with a straight face. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, we talked a lot about open source. And you're at an open source conference. So obviously I'm going to lean heavily on the open source. But how is open source and participating and making it part of your core product offering, how has that changed the way that you work? And maybe this is something any of you want to answer. Because I think I look at it from a culture and a technology standpoint. Yeah, I think what it changes, it definitely changes the way we think about the way we build the technology. So I think I was referencing back when I first started. We were really all about buying products from vendors. And the way it worked was we were a big, obviously a very big company. We would tell the vendors what we're looking for. And they would give us these long product roadmaps. And then we would wait around for a product to show up. And in the meantime, we'd be testing and all that. And it was just a very typical like waterfall process. We'd develop product requirements. We'd give them to the vendors. They'd build out a roadmap, so on and so on. And now with open source and with the software development teams we have, it is much more of a dynamic environment. We can control our future. We can come up with great ideas. We can innovate. And then we can build that into the technology.  And then we also get contributions from everybody else. So for us, it's absolutely been a massive shift.  That's awesome.  But that's an open source platform, as well as the surrounding technologies. How is that impacting the way you think about product and platforms? Yeah, it's like Billy Knopf, Rick said, the dynamic kind of flexible aspect that's what was, again, really, if I tie it back to the development community, it's refreshing. It's a very innovative, the great team that we have, the desire to contribute, be part of the community. And then clearly, that provides business value back to what Rick was saying, to what we deliver day to day. And just people participating in that ecosystem, seeing our contributions, it actually pushed on the broader Comcast culture a little bit. Just like what Rick mentioned, in terms of where we've been from either a security or a legal profile perspective, and it's just refreshing to see that kind of all that shift together is kind of driven by the technology and then the impact that it had. So it's all really tightly coupled, really hard to separate those things. The only other thing I would add is I think when it comes to one of the big culture shifts we made when we started to become a product company was platforms. We started to really think in terms of investing in platforms. And I think before that, we used to think about projects and implementing individual things. And I think we made a big shift several years ago. And it was really around the time we were building out the X1 platform where we realized, wait a minute, if we're really thoughtful in the way we develop our software and we're really future looking, we can build things once and reuse it over and over again. And it became sort of a very big mantra within our technology organization is we build platforms we don't run projects. And we not only took that mantra on the product and technology side, but we also brought it over to the IT side of the house and started attacking our problems in a similar way. And that was definitely a big culture slash mind shift as well. That's phenomenal. I'm learning so much during this conversation, even though we've talked a couple of times off stage, just processing that. And thinking about the number of products you're now creating, you're not just contributing back to existing projects. You're creating projects in the open source and using that to power both your business, but also drive that community engagement. Have you seen, and at the end, I'm gonna go off script here for a minute, but I was coming back to the number issue just throughout about the projects you're actually putting out there now.  Have you seen those projects really get people excited? Absolutely. In fact, very often some of these projects start out as inner source projects where teams across the company will contribute to the project and will actually, they're users of the project, they start contributing to the project. And you start kind of honing your skills as a community inside the company and then once it goes outside, it becomes much more successful. An example of that would be a project called Winel DNS, which is DNS as a service. It's used by people across the company and many of these users used to wait for the small team to maintain that project. But soon when we opened it up, they realized that they were empowered to make the changes themselves and they didn't have to wait for the maintainers of the project. And then once we open sourced it, we're seeing a tremendous amount of interest from other users and other contributors who are taking it far beyond what we had imagined. So I'm seeing, it's been a huge shift also in how people perceive us. More and more when I go to open source conferences, people actually see us as a technology player as an open source player, which helps us then attract the right developers and the right technologists into the company. And if anyone's interested, we actually have a booth here and we are recruiting and we have a lot of TA folks here and we have a lot of people and a plug for Philly. Philly is a fantastic city to live in and work in and be in and the culture of Comcast is a terrific culture for developers. And it's a great place to have a conference in, turns out to. Yeah, yep. Well, I mean, I just, I have so many questions. I could actually probably run this for like an hour but because I think you both hit on, or all three of you hit on the points that I think a lot of people are really excited about in terms of open source and technology and platform building, but also the culture and the leadership. I think one last question I'd love to hear from all of you is what are some of the obstacles that you've had to overcome in your organization? I realize again, this is gonna be put you on the spot, but I think we love to hear stories about what are some of the challenges you've had to overcome because we all know, and I know everyone in this room knows, this is not an easy journey. This is not something to your point that you're not gonna do it in three or four years, and it requires everyone to be part of that process. So, if maybe if you could list out maybe a few of the obstacles you've had to overcome as part of this. Well, that one first. How much time do we now? We've got all the time in the world. I think the obstacle, I mean, scale is clearly, from an order change management perspective, if you, with what we have to deliver to the business every day and balancing that with the transformation, but you mentioned it earlier, Abby, but kind of self-awareness to really drive that empowerment, that risk-taking, it's the letting go, like the obstacle of, as either a leader or technical leaders as well, it's letting go, taking more risk and trying to overcome that mindset obstacle. The technology is difficult at scale, it's hard, but I'm gonna say it's kind of the easy part relative to that, you know? I say that often, that's the easy part, it's the change that's hard part. Exactly, and so just the self-awareness from a, like don't try to change everything out of the gate, pick and empower and have clear outcomes, and then let go, and then trust and verify, and I think when we rinse and repeated that, we had some really good outcomes for the business, it wasn't just a kind of nerdy technology thing that we did, and coupling that and giving people a sense of purpose and mission in that context was really, it literally took us about a year to figure that out, and that was one of the biggest obstacles. Yeah, I think I would say, so I'm about to insult everybody in the audience here, but I would say the biggest challenge we have is, I've been leading software development teams for a whole bunch of years, and usually it's the smartest software developers when you tell them, you know, go make a left or go use this technology or go use this platform, this is the strategy, they put like every ounce of energy into proving you why that's not the right answer, right? And they all kind of want to go over this way, and so I think one of the biggest challenges we've had over time is we went from almost zero to over 10,000 software developers within Comcast, and as we grew that community, we wanted it to be a very innovative community, and so we let folks kind of do their own thing, and then as we've built up some of these platforms and technologies and said, hey, everybody, we really think it would be great if you did this, you know, a lot of them would kind of say, oh, if that's what management wants me to do, you know, well, that's probably not the right answer, we probably need to go do something over here. So just kind of getting everybody aligned on getting onto a common technology, a common platform, a common way of doing things, the whole change management aspect to it I have found over time has been challenging with some of the developer community, but what I've found works really well, and I think the way we get there is it needs to be a grassroots thing.  That's, yeah, it's amazing, I think, I know I often hear the question of like, all right, this is a lot to do, where do I get started? If I have 10,000 developers, how do I start? Because taking off 10,000 at one time is a lot. Right. So starting small, and then, you know, Nithya, I'm gonna put you on the spot also because you've built an open source program office at Comcast, and I know I've heard from a lot of users in the audience, how do you get that, how do you get that started? Because there's so many hurdles internally, you know, legal PR, like how do I get that started? So maybe you could walk through a couple of the obstacles that you've overcome to get where this amazing thing is today. You know, ironically, one thinks of legal as an obstacle, and in our case, legal was the instigator of the open source office. And they're fantastic people, we have a great legal team, and the reason is they were getting inundated with developers who wanted to do more open source, had a lot of license questions, and wanted to contribute to open source, and they would say, you know, help me, help me, help me. And so legal said, we really need a center of excellence in the company around open source who could serve as the first line of questions and support, if you will, for our developers, right, and act as a translator between developers and legal. So the first obstacle wasn't really an obstacle because legal was on board. The second obstacle often tends to be leadership. Sometimes business leaders may not see this as important to the business. But again, we had an ace here because people like Matt Zalesco's, the chief software officer for the company, and Rick saw the value of open source as a means of innovation for the company, as this is, we do need to innovate this way, and we need to empower our developers this way. So we had so much support from the top, from the legal team, that it was easier to start the open source program office that way. That's where most companies struggle with starting an open source program office, right? And if you can get your leadership on your side, and if you can get your legal team on your side, developers are already on your side. They're chomping at the bits to do open source. It's just setting up at scale some of these processes, like open source approvals, license, you know, and we want to respect licenses and we want to contribute back. It's engaging systematically with external communities like Cloud Foundry and the Yachto project, for example, which we rely on, and being members of organizations like the Linux Foundation, the Apache Foundation, so that we can learn from our peers, just as Greg shares how he does things, I learn every single day from my peers at the LF and the Apache Foundation and other things. And that's amazing, and I mean, I know you're also given a talk later this week tomorrow. I gave up my talk to a very good colleague of mine, Chris Powers, who will do the talk. There's a talk on this as well, this is honestly, I get, this is a conversation that I have a lot, and it is powerful, and it's powerful to have, you know, Rick, you here on stage, talking about how important it is for you as well, and it's so exciting to hear a company as big as Comcast is to say from their executive leadership on down that culture change is important, but also that open source is a strategic value to your organization, and I think there's a ton of power in that for the future of Comcast. Well, I wanna thank you all for hanging out with us here in Philly, which is a wonderful city, and thank you all for coming to participate in Summit, and Nithya, I know you're gonna be around all week. Yes. So I'm gonna say, if you have questions about open source program office, Nithya is around. Absolutely. So thank you all for coming. Thanks, I love you. Thanks, Adam. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Nithya.


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