I knew a man in Christ above 14 years ago, and then he says, whether in the body I cannot tell, or whether out of the body I cannot tell, God knoweth. He says, such and one caught up to the third heaven. So here Paul is saying that he met somebody, whether through a vision or actually did God put this person in front of him, he's like, I'll ask God when I get there, and we'll ask God when we get there as well. But he's saying he saw somebody that was caught up, he saw somebody that was saved and went to heaven, went to the third heaven. What is that? That's the spiritual heaven. That's the heaven that we were all looking forward to when we die physically on this earth. We're going to be caught up to the third heaven. All right, now go back to Revelation chapter 21. So all that to say this, there's three heavens in the Bible. Whenever the Bible uses the word heaven, you have to kind of decide, all right, what's the context of this verse? Which heaven is it talking about? But clearly when it's talking about us dying and being with the Lord, it's talking about this third heaven. Okay, look at Revelation chapter 21 and look at verse number one. So after the millennial reign of Christ, the Bible describes what heaven is going to look like to us, what this new heaven and new earth, this is where we are in Revelation 21 and Revelation 22, after the millennial reign of Christ, after all the things of the end times prophecy have happened, this is where we are going to spend our eternity. Look at verse number one. The Bible says this and it says, I saw a new heaven and a new earth. Now one of the guys asked me, the other kind of took me by surprise a few months ago and asked me, now do you think that this is a new heaven or in a new earth or do you think it's kind of like the same earth that's been all kind of fixed up? And I think that now that I've thought about this, I mean I believe what the Bible says, it's a new heaven and a new earth. It's not like refurbished or anything like that. So it's a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away and there was no more sea. So tonight we're talking about the third heaven. We're talking about spiritual heaven number one and then number two, we're going to talk about where we will spend eternity in this new heaven and this new earth. Now I'm going to answer three questions. I'm just going to answer three questions about heaven that people commonly ask. And I'm going to show you what the Bible says, not what some book somebody wrote says. I'm going to show you what the Bible says and I'm going to kind of give you my opinion on why the Bible doesn't answer some of these questions and why the Bible does answer some of these questions. But I think we can get a good idea about this. The first question that a lot of people will ask about heaven is when we get to heaven, how old will we be? Look at 1 John chapter three. Go to 1 John chapter three. So people are always asking how old will we be in heaven? In 1 John chapter number three, the Bible kind of gives us some detail about what things are going to be like, what we're going to be like in heaven in verse number two. But look at 1 John chapter three in verse number two. The Bible says this. It says, Beloved, now are we the sons of God? Now you've been adopted into God's family if you're saved.  You've been adopted into his family.  Beloved, now we are the sons of God and it doth not appear what we shall be. But we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. So of course I've preached extensively on the first resurrection that we're all going to be part of the first resurrection and at that point we will have our glorified bodies. This is talking about Jesus coming back in his glorified body and it's saying we are also going to have these glorified bodies after the first resurrection. So here's why. The answer is the Bible doesn't say how old you're going to be when you get to heaven. The Bible simply doesn't say next question. But I'm going to tell you why the Bible doesn't say. Because age, when you think about what people are asking when they ask how old I'm going to be when I get to heaven, everyone in their mind has an ideal age of what it would like to be. And I'm sure that number is different for everybody. But just think about the idea of age. It's really to answer the question, it's really a silly question. It's kind of an irrelevant question is what I'm showing you is because age is a function or a measure of your failing body. It's a function or a measure of your dying self, your physical flesh. And we're going to have glorified perfect bodies when we are in heaven and we are in eternity. Even going into the millennial reign after the first resurrection we are going to have glorified bodies. So it's really an irrelevant question is age is just a measure of our remaining time on earth. Turn to James chapter 4. Age is just a measure of our remaining time on earth. Or it's a measure of what we think is our remaining time on earth. You look at somebody who's older or what you think is older, you think when you're 15, well when you're 8 you think somebody that's 20 is old. When you're 15 you think somebody that's 25 or 30 is old. When you're 40 you think somebody that is 60 is old. And you start to kind of realize, oh man am I old? At that point. But it's just a relative measure of how much time you think you have left in this body on this earth. Look at James chapter 4 and verse 14. And I know we've read this verse before but I just want to focus on the very beginning part of this verse. It says, whereas you know what shall be on the moral. So here's the irony. How old you will be in heaven is irrelevant. And guess what? What James chapter 4 is saying in the very first part of this verse, you know it says what is your life? It is even a vapor. Talking about how quick your life goes by. But the first part of the verse, you know what the Bible is saying here? It's saying your age today is irrelevant. It's saying today that it doesn't even matter. It doesn't even matter how old you are today. Because the 15 year old doesn't know what's tomorrow. And the 90 year old doesn't know what's tomorrow. So this is why we go out and we tell people that you know, hey you know you should be more concerned about your salvation. Because you get this idea amongst the general population of people today that I'm young, I've got time.  But the Bible is saying that's not the case at all. Because if you're 19, if you're 18, you don't know what's on the moral. And if you're 100, you don't know what's on the moral. You could die in five seconds no matter what age you are. And then the Bible is saying that whatever that time is, whether you have 20 years on this earth or you have 90 years on this earth, it's short either way, the Bible is saying. It's just a vapor. So we will not be children that are growing in heaven. We know that. But what is the ideal age on earth? Because they want to be that age in heaven, which makes no sense. Because anybody would have a different number.  You couldn't pay me a million dollars to be 20 again. A lot of people are like, oh I want to be younger. You couldn't pay me every dollar in the world to be 20 again.  And I'm not ashamed to say it. I know a lot of the 20-year-olds today, the 19-year-olds today in this church and other churches like ours, they're a thousand miles ahead of where I was when I was 20 years old. So as hard as I am on you young people, just remember that.  But look, what's the ideal age? It doesn't even matter. Maybe if you ask me today, like I'll take the wisdom over being 20, no problem, any day of the week. So anybody that really preaches a sermon or writes a book that says you're going to be this age when you're in heaven, they're just making stuff up. They're just making up details that aren't there. It's an important note, and I've said this before many times, but it's an important note that when the Bible doesn't say, the Bible just doesn't say. We can just, you know, we'll know when we get to heaven. But the point is in the measure of eternity, in the measure of eternity, and in the glorified body that we're in that will never age, the Bible, I don't think the Bible says because it literally doesn't matter. It literally makes no difference how old you are.  I mean, does it start like ticking at the resurrection, or how does that work? You know, we can just ask Jesus those things when we get to heaven. Go back to Revelation chapter 21. So in the measure of eternity and the measure of what our glorified bodies are going to be versus what our bodies are now, age is just a, it's a measuring stick that we put on our mortal bodies. And we are not going to have mortal bodies. We're not going to be slowly dying in heaven. We're going to have glorified bodies. The eternal age is irrelevant. Revelation chapter 21, look at verse number one. The next question is, what will heaven be like? And that's what I really love about Revelation chapter 21, especially, is it kind of gives us the end state of heaven. After everything is done, after Jesus Christ has come back and has ruled and reigned for a thousand years with us, by the way, in our glorified bodies, we've been ruling and reigning with Jesus Christ for a thousand years, what will heaven, what will the eternal place for us to be be like? Look at verse number one. It says, and I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away and there was no more sea. That's kind of sad to me because I like to fish. But number two is, but it won't be sad. We'll get to that in just a minute. And I saw, and I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, behold, the tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people and the God himself shall be with them and be their God. Look at verse number four. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away. So look, you have to remember back in the millennial reign before the new heaven and the new earth, there were still people that were born and died. Not everybody was in their glorified bodies in the millennial reign of Jesus Christ. And I have preached a whole sermon on that. But here all that is going to be gone. There is going to be no more death. There's going to be no more opposition when you think about it that way. There's nothing more opposition to Jesus Christ, opposition to the saved. During the millennial reign there was opposition. And you remember the devil was led out of hell and gathered everybody and there was this final battle after the millennial reign of Christ, the battle of Gog and Magog. But all that is over in the new heaven and the new earth. Look at verse number five. It says, And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Right, for these words are true and faithful. So this is the heaven, the place that God has prepared for us. So what is it going to be like? Look at Revelation chapter 22 and look at verse number three. The first thing it says is that there will be no more death up there in Revelation chapter 21. It says there will be no more death. Let me turn there myself. I'm going to turn back there. But look at Revelation chapter 22 and look at verse number three. Revelation 22 3 says, And there should be no more curse. What is the curse? The curse was that which came upon creation. But the throne of God and the Lamb shall be in it. We'll get to the last part of that verse. So look, there's no more dying. Again, why the concept of age is just completely irrelevant because no one is going to die in heaven. No one is going to age in heaven. So how old you are?  It just makes no sense at all, right? It's an irrelevant concept. In heaven. But look at this. Look at this in Revelation chapter. Let me see. Let me go back here. Look at verse number four of Revelation chapter 21 one more time. So we're looking at what heaven is going to be like.  That's number one. Neither sorrow nor crying. So the Bible is saying that there's going to be no sorrow in heaven. Now that, look, that's a kind of a hard concept to wrap your head around.  And the Bible is saying there's going to be none of that. There's going to be no crying, no sadness, no sorrow. You just think about just, I mean, just think about things that make you upset. Some people are upset all the time. You know people that are just upset all the time? You ever have a friend? You ever have a friend that I used to have a friend that I would never even want to ask him how he was doing? It was just something bad all the time. And he was just the kind of person that no matter what was going on, bad or good, it was just bad. You just saw the bad in everything. You almost don't want to even say, how was your week? Because he would just find something bad. Things weren't that bad for him. But he just was a very negative person. We've all met negative people. We've all been negative at times. But there will be none of this in heaven. You will not be upset anymore ever in heaven. That's what the Bible is saying here. That's a hard concept for us to wrap our heads around. What you will never be upset, you will have no more sorrow. Because look, if I got upset, like say I was a really positive person, which I hope that I am, but maybe I'm not as much as I should be. Say I'm super positive. I'm upset at times. Look, if you're on this earth right now and you never get upset, something is wrong with you. As a matter of fact, I don't want to preach a different sermon. But this is what they're trying to get you to do, is not be upset about anything. It's trying to just get you to accept everything. But there will be no more being upset. Because there will be no more evil. There will be literally no reason for anyone to ever be upset. I mean, it's never going to happen. Think about people that are depressed. I mean, think about depression. You know how I like all-time highs and all-time lows? In our country today, I just went and I refreshed. This is one of those stats that I refresh every year when I bring it up in a sermon. And yep, it's getting worse. There's never been a time in our nation's history when more people are clinically depressed. And look, this is staggering, by the way. This kind of shocked me. People today in the United States that are diagnosed with depression. Think about that. Diagnosed with depression. Meaning they felt depressed. Look, we all feel depressed from time to time.  That's normal. Everybody's depressed from time to time. What I'm talking about is people that are just depressed so much, they're literally called a doctor and they're like, I need to come in because I'm depressed. And then they go into a doctor and then they're diagnosed with depression. So they've gone down several steps. So what I'm trying to get you to see is it's a major problem for them. It's like a real thing for them. You know what the percentage is? 29% of people in the United States are clinically diagnosed with depression. I mean, turn to Isaiah chapter 41. Turn to Isaiah chapter 41. Let's talk about this for just a couple of minutes. Isaiah chapter 41 and look at verse number 10. Look at Isaiah chapter 41. Look at verse number 10. So depression's a real problem today. This will not be in heaven at all.  But look, the Bible even gives us the answer for depression. So the irony is, is the reason that there's no depression in heaven is kind of the same way we can get rid of depression here. Look at Isaiah chapter 41 and look at verse number 10. The Bible says this. It says, fear thou not for I, look at, I mean, there's a word that just keeps popping up here in this verse. See if you can recognize the pattern. Be not dismayed for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee. Yea, I will help thee. Yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. Look what he says. Be not dismayed. You know what that means? Don't be depressed. And then he points out what is the answer for depression? The Bible here is saying is the answer for depression is the I in this verse. Who is the I? It's not me. It's not me just because I read it. The verse is talking about the Lord, the Lord your God. The Lord your God is the answer for depression. So look, I mean, this is what this is why our country is so depressed today. I'm just kind of giving a general statement here is why. It's because they've left I. They've left, they've turned their back on the I. In Isaiah 41 verse number 10. They've turned their back on the Lord. Turn your back on the Lord more. You're going to be more depressed. United States of America.  Look, you take a kid. You take a kid that should be happy.  That's what kids should be doing and laughing and enjoying their life. You take that kid and then you just confuse them. You just confuse them about the most basic things about them. Instead of a father going to his son and saying to his son, son, I'm going to make a man out of you and I'm going to teach you how to do things and I'm going to teach you how to be a man and how to take care of your mother and how to take care of your sister and how to use tools and how to work hard and how to do all these things that the Bible, the Lord God says that you should know how to do as a man instead of doing those things that will build him up to be a joyful, strong, Christian, young man. Let's confuse him about whether he even is a boy. And then he's depressed. It's a circus and you can't even believe that it's happening.  What's happening? You left the Lord. That's what's happening. I mean, it's not complicated. We're not building the space shuttle up here. I just explained why depression is eating this country up in two and a half minutes in one verse from the Bible. Turn your back on your God and what he tells you to do and what not to do. That's another thing. Sin, what'll it do?  It'll tear you apart. Self-focus, which the Bible, which the Lord your God teaches against. You know, just focus on yourself more and more and more. I mean, just think about the idea of aging. Look, I am getting older. I understand. I look at a picture of my wedding, my wedding photo. I don't do this, but if I look at a picture of my wedding photo and I've told my wife this, she looks the same and you couldn't even tell that it was me. But who cares? Who cares? I mean, aging is just something that just, whatever.   As long as she's with me, I'm good, right? Go back to Revelation chapter 21. There's no more depression in heaven. It's all gone. There's no more loneliness in heaven. You think about, that's another one. Everyone's lonely today. Loneliness is rampant. Nobody has any friends today. And they're just lonely. All of that is over in heaven. Look at Revelation chapter 21, verse number 10. What else is there about heaven? There's several verses that talk about this next attribute of heaven. But first, we see that there's no more death.  There's going to be none of that. You can't even wrap your head around that because you literally need to be upset over things today. It is literally your Christian duty to protect your family to be upset and pass judgment on evil today. You have to do that.  I mean, isn't that true today?   Every letter you get in the mail, every phone call that you get, is how's this person trying to rip me off? You're constantly on your guard. Every single thing that they're trying to teach kids, whether it be in movies and cartoons and whatever, there's always some kind of angle where they're trying to, I mean, if you just get rid of all of it, it's going to be easier, but there's always some kind of angle where they're trying to get you, they're trying to drag you into the mire. And it's, I think, it's just going to be like a load of bricks removed. You just don't have to worry about any of that anymore. There's going to be none of that anymore. There's going to be no being on your guard anymore. I mean, it's hard to even imagine, but it's going to be great. Look at verse number 10 of Revelation, chapter number 21. What's the next thing about it? The next thing is that it's going to be beautiful. It's going to be so beautiful that it's hard to even imagine reading these verses. Look at verse 10. It says, He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me that great city, the Holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God. And her light was unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone clear as crystal. Skip down to verse number 18. It says, The building of the wall was of jasper and the city was pure gold. The streets were pure gold. It was pure gold like unto clear glass. It says, The foundations of the wall of the city were furnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth and emerald, the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardis, the seventh chrysalite, the eighth barrel, the ninth, a topaz, the tenth, a chrysophorus, the eleventh, a jasinth, the twelfth and amethyst. I mean, there's all these verses just describing the unbelievable beauty of heaven. It's going to be beautiful. Now, look, I believe that beauty, this is another thing that they're trying to take away from you today. They're trying to take away what is beautiful today. I believe that the reason, I mean, you think soul winning. So you go out soul winning, and I remember, I remember in Sacramento, one of the soul winning tips that Pastor Jimenez had was, don't walk on people's lawns in Sacramento. Make sure you take the sidewalks, don't walk on people's lawns. I don't really give that tip so much in Fresno because there's just not a lot of people that take care of their lawns. There's not a lot of lawns here because it's so hot and whatever, but people just don't put as much effort into their lawn. But the point is this, a nice lawn looks nice. We all were stopped yesterday. I'm telling you, like all of us stopped, we were done soul winning, and we stopped and we looked over at this yard, and this yard had these, I don't even know what they were. They were like flowers, part flower, part cabbage or something, but they were all these weird, neat colors and they were placed and these great, and my wife took a picture and I'm like, I got to find some of those. I like landscape. I like doing, I like making things look beautiful like that. But look, I don't care if you have a nice lawn and this is a very superficial example, but I don't care if you have a nice lawn or you don't have a nice lawn. Nobody thinks that an overgrown lawn of thistles and weeds is beautiful. No one thinks that. But people, they go to a yard that is well groomed and is symmetrical and orderly and everyone, whether they have a yard like that or not, whether they've chosen to put that effort into that, everyone looks at that and says, that's beautiful. That's nice. I believe that's kind of written into us. What beauty is and what beauty isn't. Whether you have a spotless, clean house or not, I can't imagine that anybody enjoys just walking into a garbage pit for a house. Maybe they've just chosen to not, you know, to not put the effort into making it beautiful and orderly and clean, but the Bible says, you know, all things should be done decently and in order. We like order. It's in our conscience. We like it. But isn't the world trying to teach us that it doesn't matter?  Not talking about being, you know, a good looking person or anything like that, but God cares what you wear. God cares what you put on your skin. God cares about all these things.    I feel sorry for her. I feel sorry for her. I'm like, who lied to you? Who lied to you? Who led you? Where was your dad? Is what I think. I feel sorry for that. Look, there are certain things but the world is trying to tell you, no, everything's beautiful. No, it's not. No, it's not. Just like it's trying to say that everything's good. No, some things are evil. Some things are evil.  Look, heaven is going to be beautiful. Heaven is going to be so beautiful that we will not, it will be unimaginably beautiful. And I look forward to that. Turn to Revelation 22 now. So Revelation 21 shows us that heaven will have no death, no sorrow, no depression. You will never be upset. That weight of being on your guard looking out for evil people, there will be no evil people there. It's only the people in the Lamb's Book of Life. What's the Lamb's Book of Life? Is that a different Book of Life? It's the Book of Life. I mean, it's not, we're not going to create some, they use the Lamb's Book of Life instead of the Book of Life and we'll create a whole new, weird doctrine out of it. The Book of Life is the Book of Life. It's going to be all saved people in heaven. There will be no sin there. We will have glorified bodies. There will be no death, no aging. Look at Revelation 22 in verse number three. Here's a question. What will we be doing? What will we do all day? Look at Revelation 22 in verse number three. Revelation 22 in verse number three. The Bible says this. It says, there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and the Lamb shall be in it and his servants, that's you, shall serve him. And they shall see his face and his name shall be in their foreheads. There's your mark right there.  Satan never has his own ideas. He does things and changes it a little bit.  I'm going to be serving Jesus with my life in eternity. Turn to Matthew chapter 22.  How many people have you seen that write books and they say statements and they give notes to their wife saying, you know, I can't wait to or God forbid somebody's spouse has passed away and they're saying, well, I can't wait to go to heaven and spend eternity with my wife or spend eternity with my husband. Well, I've got some bad news for you here. We're going to look at what the Bible says. Look at verse number 23 or maybe good news for you. We'll see. Look at verse number 23.  Yes! Verse number 23 of Matthew chapter 22. The same day came to him the Sadducees would say that there is no resurrection and asked him, saying, master, Moses said if a man die having no children his brother shall marry his wife. So we know this doctrine. This is kind of the thing that happened with Ruth and Boaz, the nearest kinsman. His brother shall marry his wife and raise up seed into his brother. So you have a man that dies and now his wife is a widow and she's got children and it's the duty of his brother if he has a brother or the nearest kinsman to marry this lady and raise a family with her. Now there were with a seven brethren and the first issue left his wife unto his brother. Likewise the second also and the third and unto the seventh so all these men just keep dying. I mean this woman is very suspicious first of all. Like what is going on here? I think this story has been in the news in the last few years and the last of all the woman died also. So what happens is they're trying to like they're trying to catch Jesus. Right? They're trying to catch him with some you know extreme situation and they're saying alright so this woman dies or this woman dies he's got seven brothers and then he dies and then she marries the brother that brother dies marries the other brother that brother dies marries the other brother so she's married all seven of these brothers alright she's been married to them all and they all mysteriously die alright. Look at what the Bible says in verse 28 says therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven for they all had her so all of these seven brothers were married to this girl and they're saying in heaven who's she going to she'll never be able to answer this one and look what Jesus says Jesus answered and said ye do err not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God for in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are as the angels of God in heaven so you're not married in heaven is what the Bible is saying here it's you know you're married on this earth so guess what make the most of your marriage here is what you should do and hopefully your wife isn't on her deathbed you know thanking God she's released from you at that point you know but it's a it's a good measure if you think about it look I've literally known people I have literally known people and maybe you have too where you know they get older and ever you know they and the women just can't she just can't wait from to die just please I've had enough and you know that's a good measuring stick for us I mean you know my thought is on this with my wife I'm like I know we're not gonna be married in heaven but like hopefully she lets me visit you know she's pretty much gonna be living on another part of town I wanna be the guy like on the south side of the railroad tracks and then she's gonna be in the nice part of town hopefully I can come over every now and then while we're serving Jesus but it's a good measurement for us in our marriage that make the most of your marriage here cause your marriage is for you on earth your marriage is for you pay attention to it now pay attention to it cause you don't know what you don't know if you're gonna live another 5 seconds you don't know if you're gonna live I don't care if you're 15 or you're not married when you're 15 I don't care if you're 20 or 30 but you don't know how long your marriage is gonna be you don't know when you are gonna pass away or your wife is gonna pass away and go to heaven but when that happens that's your marriage at that point so please pay attention to your marriage now you know John chapter 14 and look at verse number 2 John chapter 14 and verse number 2 so I haven't mentioned rewards in heaven but we know that we will have rewards in heaven and even in Revelation chapter 22 I'll just read it for you but Jesus literally says he says behold they come quickly and my reward is with me to give every man according to his work so in chapter 14 2 the Bible says in my father's house are many mansions if it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you look God is preparing heaven for us he is preparing this place that the Bible gives us these great details on but it's just we these details are such great details we can't even really wrap our heads around these things I have no experience at all with having a life of no sorrow at having a life with no sad feelings or no bad thoughts I have no experience with that look it's better it's going to be better than anything we could possibly imagine it is really all you know we should need to know it's really anything we could possibly imagine or read even in the Bible so on that note no one no one should choose to go to hell because if people go to hell they literally chose to go there when you think about it that way they made that decision you know but many people most people will choose they will just think about it think about it from that perspective all the things we just learned about heaven and people will choose to go to hell my wife met a person the other day that said that believed that when you die you have seven minutes to choose between heaven and hell and like I mean you kind of want to chuckle but it's really kind of sad when you think about it that this person actually believed that but if you have seven minutes there will be no one in hell if you have seven minutes to sit here and stare at this beautiful heaven this beautiful place that God has prepared for us and then seven minutes I mean you wouldn't need seven minutes you'd need about a second to be like I don't want to go there you know hell is not a place hell is eternal suffering we were talking about with the guys today hell is not a place you know one of the guys had a bunch of friends they were like I'd rather be a ruler in hell no one's going to be ruling in hell they're all going to be screaming all my friends are in hell I want to go there if you have a friend in hell none of them want you there they're all screaming for you to get saved so you can go to heaven right now they're doing that that's what the man in hell said in Luke 16 at least God told them when Abraham told them you can't get out the last plea that he made was please send somebody back to tell my family to tell them because why he didn't care about it he knew that it was too late for him at that point but what did he think about next everybody he used to know he didn't want anyone that he used to know his friends his family coming where he currently was where he was currently stuck for what? for eternity it's the worst thing you could possibly imagine so no there's not seven minutes it's right now in 2nd Corinthians 6 this is where you know Paul says it says now is the accepted time he says now behold now is the day of salvation he's saying there's no seven minutes so the choice the decision and where you put your trust it must be done here and it's an easy choice when you just look at all of these things that are in heaven all of these things that are going to be so great that we can't even imagine what they're going to be like but it's ironic that we're going to be doing what we were doing in heaven we're doing the exact same thing that we're supposed to be doing here which is what serving Jesus and heaven is going to be prepared greater in Luke he talks about how you know the guy that had ten talents gets ten cities and Jesus in Revelation 22 and all over the Bible talks about who he's bringing his reward with him the better you serve Jesus here the better your eternity is going to be so the better that you serve Christ in this moment in this vapor the better your eternity will be talk about like the best investment that you could ever make in your life you're investing into your own eternity so that's heaven let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer


Hi, I'm Keith Fleer. I'm a technical marketing engineer here at InForce Computing. This is our robotics development platform, the PACCAR. Here you can see these parts here. This allows it to be Arduino shield compatible. Also you can see right here we've got our grove sensors. These are made by SEED Studio. It's a standard connection style. Any of their sensors that fit this connection style you can actually use directly on this board. That includes a color sensor. We've got a gesture sensor down here. Other sensors that you can use include carbon dioxide sensors, temperature sensors, humidity, barometric pressure. You don't need accelerometers because those are actually already built into the board. We've got a 10 degrees of freedom. And what is this? This here is a camera and allows you to take still and video images. You can use the built-in video hardware encoding and decoding. Right here we've got pulse width modulation outputs and inputs for servo motor control, which is a big part of what makes this good for robotics. It's all interconnected with our 6410 plus board, which is based on the Snapdragon 600 processor. You can see it just underneath here. Nice. And as you can see, all of the pins are brought out through the expansion header on this side. And then we've got power coming up to the board. So all you do is you plug and play. There's a software image that lets you communicate directly from the board to these sensors and outputs. It takes a lot of complexity out of programming something like this.


Attempt to avoid deer causes rollover crash. Sex assault charges filed after hotel assault. Multiple vehicle crash shuts down I-43 Friday night. These stories and much more coming up on Community News Review. This is Community News Review, a service WSES TV news content provided by WHVL. Hello, I'm Maddie Fister and welcome to the Monday, October 15th edition of Community News Review. One person was seriously injured in a rollover crash in the town of Mosul Saturday night. The Sheriff's Department says the 2004 Ford Explorer was northbound on Lakeshore Road near Lake Orchard Court when the driver swerved to miss a deer. She lost control of the vehicle and it rolled twice before coming to the rest in the ditch. The driver, a 31-year-old woman, was taken to a Green Bay area hospital to be treated while her passenger had minor injuries. And one person was hurt in a motorcycle crash Saturday morning on Sheboygan's north side. The Sheriff's Department says a 36-year-old Sheboygan man was negotiating the roundabout on Highway 42 at 43 when he lost control and the motorcycle hit the gravel. The cyclist was thrown from the vehicle and then taken by Orange Cross to the hospital. A union grove man's facing charges for sexually assaulting a family member at an area hotel. Javier Mata was arrested after the family member contacted the authorities about the incident last month. Court documents say the two got along well and spent the day in Milwaukee before coming to Sheboygan where Mata rented a hotel for the two to stay in. The victim says Mata brought a bottle of vodka for the two to drink and after she passed out Mata undressed her and she woke up to Mata kissing her shoulder and touching her. She said she was afraid to stop him because he had been in the military and he knew that he had killed people before. Mata is facing 40 years in prison if he is found guilty. Inattentive driving caused an accident that shut down I-43 southbound for several hours Friday evening. The Sheboygan County Sheriff's Department says they received a report of multiple vehicle crash on I-43 north of County Road MM in the town of Mosul. Sergeant James Gotzacker says two vehicles were stopped on the shoulder of the road because of an accident involving both vehicles. While they were stopped a straight truck hit both vehicles. Scanner reports indicate that there was debris everywhere and no one was injured and the driver of the straight truck was ticketed for inattentive driving. A 46 year old random lake man has been arrested and charged with child abuse after a drunken beating at a home in random lake. Prosecutors charged James Klug with a felony child abuse charge after Klug's wife called 911 last Friday to report a disturbance. When deputies arrived they learned that Klug had come home drunk and fell asleep. The mother and one of the girls had knocked on the door of the room he was in and when he opened it he slammed both of their heads together. The mother fell on the floor and was on the floor reaching for her phone when Klug kicked her several times before going back to bed. When deputies tried to talk to Klug he refused to come out of the bedroom and was finally arrested when the officer removed the locked door handle to get in. He is facing more than six years in prison if he is found guilty. The Baron County Sheriff's Office says they believe a 13 year old girl is in danger after her parents were found dead in a western Wisconsin home. Multiple reports indicate Jamie Kloss parents were shot dead earlier this morning before she was taken from the scene and Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald says Kloss is not considered a suspect and the department's main focus is finding her alive. She is considered to be in danger. Kloss is described as five feet tall 100 pounds with strawberry blonde hair and green eyes. As of now details of where she may have been taken to have not been released. A motive for the shooting has not been determined and the names of the victims have not been released. But officials have confirmed that they were the parents of Kloss. Anyone with information about her whereabouts or anyone that has contacted her is asked to contact the Baron County Sheriff's Department at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Milwaukee County Sheriff is investigating how and why three people tried to storm past a gate at the 128th Air Wing at Mitchell Airport. It happened Sunday afternoon around 3 o'clock p.m. according to a Wisconsin National Guard spokesperson. A member of the base security force fired a shot after the three subjects tried to rush past. They have been arrested and are being held in the county jail. No names have been released and the motive is still unclear. The 128th was holding a ceremony to welcome back about 250 airmen at the time. It is unclear if they had any ties to the event and the base went into lockdown and normal operations resumed later on Sunday. And finally the Wisconsin Department of Transportation announces completion of the environmental study to expand Highway 23. The new release from the DOT is below. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation or WISDOT announces signing of the Wisconsin 23-2018 Limited Scope Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement. And the record of decision or ROD, the Federal Highway Administration, FHWA and WISDOT signed the documents on Monday, October 15th. The ROD allows Wisconsin 23 expansion in Fond du Lac and Sheboygan counties to move from preliminary design to final design and construction. The environmental document finalized today clearly show a four line expansion of the Wisconsin 23 is needed for safety and efficiency of on the corridor, says WISDOT Secretary Dave Ross. It also addresses 100% of the court's concerns that halted this project two years ago. I would like to thank FHWA and the team at WISDOT who have been working diligently to move the project forward. The project will reconstruct 19.1 miles of the Wisconsin 23 as a four line on alignment divided highway from US 151 in Fond du Lac East to County P in Plymouth. Numerous Wisconsin 23 intersections will be improved as part of the project. Additionally, Wisconsin 23 will be designated as an expressway to preserve future right of way for improvements that could be implemented as needed. Expressway designation is completed using authority under Wisconsin statute 84.295. WISDOT will start construction on Wisconsin 23 project next summer in Sheboygan County. Reconstruction will conclude in 2022 when the Fond du Lac County portion of the project is complete. And that is all for today. Join me again next time for another recap of our local news on community news review.


Hey, welcome back everybody. Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We are on the ground at the VMware headquarters in Palo Alto, California. Beautiful day, beautiful setting, a lot of green. It's green on the outside. It's actually a lot of green buildings as you heard in some of the other segments. And we're joining this next segment by Milan Desai and he's the VP Products Networking and Security Business Unit from VMware. Welcome. Thank you. Pleasure to be here. Absolutely. So networking was kind of the last child to this virtualization. Storage was early, servers were early. And then a lot of movement has happened over the last several years about networking and virtualization networking software to find networking. Why don't you give us kind of a quick update where we are as we kind of come to the close of 2016? Absolutely. So you're right. I think when you think about networking, it's been a journey. And before we talk about where we are with networking, it's important to understand what's happening in the industry as a whole. If you look at organizations, whether it's a retail organization, a healthcare organization, a manufacturing organization, everyone is looking to leverage technology as a way to differentiate themselves. And the term being coined around is this idea of digital transformation. And when you think about digital transformation, each of these organizations are trying to deliver a unique set of interactions and experiences for their customers. And these are happening at a much more rapid pace. It's a much more iterative process. And that's in turn is driving how applications are designed. And so applications are being designed now in a much more modular fashion with microservices, which means applications are getting disaggregated. They're running in the public cloud, in the private cloud, maybe in hybrid mode. And so the network and security model needs to align to this disaggregated application. And so fundamentally now looking at 2017, at the end of 2016 and beyond, I think the approach of network disaggregation or delivering networking and security aligned to the application model, wherever it may run, independent of the infrastructure is going to become the leading cause. And NSX and its ecosystem and its approach is going to lead the way in this disruption, right? It is a long ways coming. It's been six years to this point, but now with all of these things coming together, I think that's where you will see networking and security evolve with what I call as network disaggregation as applications disaggregate. It's just this continualization of the consumerization of IT, where the expected behavior of what I can do, when I can do it, where I can do it, driven by my interaction with Google to find a restaurant or Amazon to buy something really now drives the perception of why doesn't this work at work? Where before you started with the infrastructure, then what can you build on top of it? Now, as you said, it's really an absentric world with APIs that should connect to everything and now that infrastructure has to support the app as opposed to the other way around. Absolutely, and think of this world where we used to build infrastructure and applications on-prem and we used to deliver a set of services that application is now running on a cloud where you don't own the infrastructure. So how do you deliver a same set of policies for connectivity and security in that model? It's fundamentally delivered in a different manner. It's delivered in software because you don't own that physical infrastructure. And that conversation is essentially driving how people are thinking about networking and security, but in general infrastructure going forward. And I think going beyond 2017, it's going to be a fun ride. Right, and security just has to be baked into everything. It shouldn't, it doesn't exist on its own. There are no walled gardens anymore. There are no moats that you can build big enough. It really has to be baked in to every piece of the infrastructure and the application. Absolutely, from end users to applications, security needs to be baked in, whether it's a end user device, are we, do we know what's going on? Is a jail broken? What type of services are running on it? All the way to the application. What are the different communication paths that should be allowed? Are we monitoring those communication paths, removing all the other unnecessary connections? That's the end to end security model. It's baked into the infrastructure. It's no longer, let me build a perimeter which will protect all the things on the interior. It's in every aspect of what we do. And a lot of conversation for years. Pat Gelsinger was on theCUBE at VMworld a couple years ago talking about hybrid cloud and private cloud, public cloud, true hybrid cloud, whatever. Now that's completely getting mixed mashed together, probably no better symbolized than having Andy, Chassis and Pat Gelsinger stand up on stage together a month or so ago and talk about VMworld infrastructure is now available on AWS cloud. So even the lines between what's on-prem, what's not on-prem, private versus public is starting to come together because at the end of the day, I just want the application to work, right? I couldn't agree more. And I think the partnership with Amazon signifies what VMware brings to the table. We fundamentally, when you look at virtualization back in 2007, we talked about bring your server vendor of choice. Then there was storage virtualization with vSphere where you brought your storage vendor of choice. And then with NSX, you were able to bring your network vendor of choice on-prem. And now we are going to do something similar where we are saying, hey, you can run our software and Amazon is going to bring the infrastructure in this case or its IBM who will deliver the infrastructure where cloud is the new hardware. Right, right. And then the role of IT is shifting, right? It's not going away. It's not going to go away, but it's shifting significantly from racking and stacking and configuring now to managing and managing across all these multiple environments. And the other piece that's so important is the community, right? Everybody wants developers, they're a really important part of the puzzle. How do you see community working in what you do and how is the role of those individuals changing as there's more automation? I think if there's one thing we've learned in our journey over the past couple of years, going through NSX deployments and talking to our customers is the shift in people and process that needs to take place. Typically organizations were built around areas of excellence. My operating system and server infrastructure team, my storage team, my network team, my security team. And as you mentioned, it's about the app. And the application wants it instantaneously. It cannot wait for tickets and teams to coordinate and interact in that order. So what we've learned over the past couple of years is people and processes have to be looked at. And it's not like things, roles are going away, roles are transforming. The networking team has to lean in and understand what the application wants to do. They have to understand the system level architecture of the application. And as a result, you're delivering now as a team to the business application. It's no longer the different teams or silos in there. And so bringing the people and process together is very important. Part of this is training. Part of this is enabling these teams to be successful. So it is incumbent, not just on us, to provide training and certifications, but leaders in IT to provide the right forums for these teams to work, train themselves and enable the next set of delivery items for IT. It's just wild. This digital transformation theme, we've talked to Clorox a while ago. And even Clorox, you think, is kind of a very data-centric CPG company that they're full in on transformation. We were at the GEMinds Machine show earlier month ago and Jeff Malt is basically all in on transformation for G&G software, what Bill Ruz built over in the East Bay. But one thing that stuck with me with what Beth Comstock said at that event is organize around the flow, the process flow. That's the key to transformation. As you talked about all those silos, I couldn't help but think, the silos are no longer relevant. The silos are support of organizing around that information flow. If you organize that way, you're going to deliver better to your customer. I think it's about, to your point, what is our goal as a business? What are we trying to do? It's not a technology goal, it's a business goal. We are going to deliver a better experience for our end customers. And how do we go about achieving it, bringing the teams together, allowing them to fail? Because there will be when you embark on a new project, how do you handle failure? How do you provide training? How do you provide, in terms of when there's a failure, you just can't say, this person did it or that team did it. How do you handle these situations? It's a cultural shift and it takes time. And to your point, creating small milestones and goals of achievement, celebrating those achievements, learning from failures, and building on each of those steps so that that end goal is achieved of giving better interactions and customer experiences. I think it's not just about technology, it's about bringing people together and driving that. Right, and I think everyone knows that the technology is easy compared to the people and the process and the transformation in game. Much, much more difficult to get people to start to change their behaviors, think differently about the way they work. So as you look forward to 2017 and don't give away any secrets, we didn't do the non-disclosure, whatever the SEC statement at the beginning of the interview, I wonder if you can share some of your goals, what are some of your priorities in your team as you look forward now to this next calendar year? Yeah, so we've had a really good success with NSX in terms of with our customers around automation, security, and application continuity. And multiple customers upwards of now, starting with 150 at the beginning of the year, we are well over 700 plus now and growing. So the number of deployed customers is growing. And I would say what we're hearing from them is, how do we scale this environment more? How do we add it to more use cases? So give me a service-like experience, make the people process piece easier and help us integrate our teams better. And so it's no longer a discussion around, hey, what can NSX do? It's about how can I use NSX to grow my environment or deliver a better business use case? So I think it is incumbent on us when I look at our goals that we deliver a better service-like experience, better training, better people and process tools for our customers. But of course, we are a technology company and we do need to evolve. And you've heard these announcements, one being CrossCloud, where NSX can now provide network and security for applications that are built natively in public clouds. So the VMware on AWS, of course, will have NSX. But even in environments where applications are built natively, can we deliver a consistent network and security model so that you get on-prem, off-prem, you get the same visibility and security that you are used to. And then of course, the last piece of the puzzle is new apps. We talked about the applications. How do we work with the community of these new application frameworks that are out there and build and integrate into them so that we are the de facto networking and security model in these new microservices-based application architectures? And the community is such an important piece, right?  So being part of that is super, super important. Open source community. So I think a lot of folks talk about open source. I think open source is very important, but I think it's the community that makes the whole process very interesting, which is open source plus a community that supports it, that's there for each other, that works on the integrations together, can make for a solid delivery vehicle. And I think that's where you will see in our 2017, as you look at new app frameworks, people talk about Kubernetes and Docker and these communities are developing. How do we work with these communities? How do we integrate together as a ecosystem of providers is going to dictate the success of IT going forward? All right. Well, then, well, thanks for taking a few minutes out of your busy day. It's going to be an exciting year for sure. I'm looking forward to it. All right. Melinda Sy, I'm Jeff Frick. You're watching theCUBE. We are on the ground at the VM World, excuse me, VMware headquarters in Palo Alto. Thanks for watching.


What is going on guys today? I am back with another destiny video now Normally on a Tuesday morning.  It's a bit later than normal a bit later than what I would normally do this app But I'm gonna give you guys My recommendations of what you should probably have a double look at this week now There's nothing this week an absolute must buy. Let's just get that straight straight away because there isn't not in my opinion Anyway, but there are a few weapons, which are definitely worth your time checking out Now before we go anything over guys if you do enjoy the video leaving a like is much appreciated on my behalf It really is okay, so we're gonna start with the crucible called water master and and He has two okay weapons and the first one being the B 29 party favor on this we do have Glass half full perfect balance or rifle would barrel and rodeo now this thing does shoot pretty quick You do need a little bit of weight need stability not no point in line You need stability on this we have two stability perks Or if you wanted to you could have one stability perk with crazy range With glass half full which would be a great setup for you. It really would now. I have a party favor I actually enjoy using it. I really do isn't the best pulse rifle definitely at the Best in its archetype, but it's definitely one to try out You may enjoy using it and the other weapon the crucible has Which isn't too bad is the Antons rule a sidearm if you're a sidearm lover You're probably like this. He's got any reactive reload feet stuck or lightweight and outlaw or cascade I'm not great sites, but Okay, they make a difference. They do make a difference. You can't say they don't when they do but it isn't a True biggie. So outlaw. I'd probably go with outlaw probably lightweight and reactive reload on this Because getting a kill or getting a headshot you reload instantly and react if reload kicks in and you will drop enemies in an Instant so yes, they are the two that crucible have this week, which in my opinion Definitely worth your time dual checking out. So we're gonna move on to Factions right now. Okay. So new monarchy this week has one decent weapon a weapon I am definitely gonna actually purchase. I think I need to switch my wall up to do this Also, I don't have to change faction on my Hunter and it's this one right here the assembly to know if you're a fan of the doctrine of passing or that archetype of Auto rifle so you're like the unbent tree the fastest fire a auto rifle is it in the game You should definitely check this out on it We have counterbalance perfect balance and I'm a piercing rounds or quick draw probably go with I'm a piercing rounds here Could you get that little extra range? But two stability perks on this is definitely needed and it would definitely Destroy at close range. I'm definitely gonna get this try it out I'm probably bring you guys a review video on it in the next few days So stay tuned for that. So we're gonna skip to a another faction right here Okay, so we're at dead orbit and this week the dead orbit has One decent weapon to offer and that being the keystone zero one scout rifle It's been a highly high impact. Sorry low rate of fire scout now I've been waiting for this for ages because I've had this before But it does it does bounce. I mean even though it's a slow rate of fire scout It's still feel like it bounces. Oh stability is what you need So we've got a little bit of stability there with perfect balance. We've got extended mag and we've got hidden hand I'm gonna purchase this and try it out in PVP. I've got a feeling it will be a monster So now we're gonna switch to the third and final faction, which is future walk-outs, okay? So future walk-out here we go now this week They have one weapon to offer that being the pulse rifle the waltz this week It drops with counterbalance outlaw arm and piercing rounds or light weight Or you can have small boy if you want but this thing because it shoots so quick for a pulse It does need stability and counterbalance is the best ability perk you can get Paired with outlaw for instant reload when you land a headshot and high caliber rounds to stagger your targets I think this thing could be quite a B. So definitely worth your time Checking out. Okay. So now we're gonna end the video on vanguard and vanguard this week Have a couple weapons, which you may want to take a double look at you may just want to take a double look at The first one being the Parthian shot now the Parthian shot We all know is a two burst headshot kill if you can land two burst to the head It has to be at relatively close range Ain't gonna do it across map because a damage fall off doesn't allow you to do so But this week we have on it counterbalance small ball which include increases so range and stability But lowest magazine size or feather mag which also lowers magazine size, but hires the reload speed And we also have our outlaw or life support now. This doesn't need that many bullets I mean 21 22 23 24 bullets would be fine You would still drop your enemy because if you miss 21 bullets if you can't kill an enemy in 21 bullets Just give up now. Let's put your controller down and go play river pinata or something because this game isn't for you So, yeah, Parthian shots probably worth your time checking out another weapon this week is their teacup tempest Which is the sidearm? We have on it reactive reload fitted stock or high caliber rounds and then moment or army of one sight We have steady hand sure shot and quick draw so you definitely want to go with sure shot there But this is and it will be a great great sidearm It really will so if you need a sidearm probably worth your time checking it out Now the less weapon I'm going to end this video on which probably no one's even thought about taking another look at is this one right here They're continental. I think this could be a hidden gem. I really do on it We have hidden hand we have a pending mag and we have focus fire now this weapon We know it shoots relatively quick for an auto rifle So it does something well you most of time it needs stability But when we've got focus fire focus fire actually slows down the weapons of a fire So it doesn't bounce as much it doesn't recoil as much so it will be a lot more easily a controllable It really will focus fire a pending mag So I don't know how many bullets you'll get you probably get 44 45 plus with hidden hand I think this weapon could be a hidden gem and if I do get enough legendary marks by the end of the week I would definitely be picking it up But guys that is it for another video Hope you enjoyed it. Like I said, none of these are must-must buys Don't sweat your ass off trying to get them legendary marks you buy a certain weapon because It's obviously gonna be better rolls of every weapon I've mentioned this video coming sometime in the future So yeah, but they were just my recommendations of what you should have a double look at I hope you guys enjoyed the video thanks for stopping by as always. I will see you on that next one Going where we stand


My YouTube channel and you're gonna ask me all the questions. You're correct So I'm hijacking it now, so am I correct in saying that you recently learned a bit more about yourself? I have recently learned a bit more about myself. So when I was hospitalized with anorexia, then I got a diagnosis of autism Which was incredibly helpful because it meant that my treatment got completely changed, but it was also a bit of a yeah Mind-blown moment. Okay, so there's loads there and I've got like a million questions But first of all, I think, you know, I'm really interested in Diagnoses and the power of knowing and labels and how that what that means to you So I've got two questions raised now with what does that don't know diagnosis mean to you now and What would it have meant do you think if you knew that earlier? So it's complicated. So now it's really helpful so it's helpful because it meant I was able to get the right treatment And in terms of kind of getting and staying well Generally and with the anorexia and stuff it's been helpful because I now have a much better understanding of what my limits are and why and I'm a Lot more forgiving of myself So I've completely changed how I manage my life. So it's been helpful in that point of view But on the other hand Yeah, I have this issue around being really high-functioning and a lot of my experience in the past having worked with special schools with You know very severe autistic children and things and kind of thinking I don't really feel like I have the rights to that Label I don't feel like I can own it. So I'm struggling a bit in terms of identifying Yeah, and I suppose for me that probably highlights the fact that you know every reason individual. Yeah, and actually Simply that the diagnosis see, you know means a lot more to different people depending upon who you are and where you are Yeah, yeah, so yeah absolutely and it's not like I guess some people don't you know You wouldn't want a certain label and and some kinds of labels certainly some of the ones I've had to do with my mental health have sometimes got sort of stigma or shame or you know Different things attached to them and there's nothing like that with it You know, I'd be perfectly happy to be out and proud about being autistic except that I just I don't know I I don't feel like I I don't I don't know it's a bit hard to own it because I just feel like I don't struggle enough Compared to so many people and I think that's really interesting this notion of struggle sort of legitimizes a diagnosis And again, I think thinking back to what might it have meant earlier I think that's something perhaps that young people find really hard, you know when they say teenagers or certainly when we think about the Diagnostic criteria for autistic girls and that you know that the misrepresentation of that group really in our world Well, you know, what do you think it might have meant differently if you knew this at 11 for example? I think it probably would have meant I would have been a lot more forgiving of myself and also just simple things Like I did find you know school was a place that I loved and it was a real kind of you know Safe space to me, but there were lots of things that I found really difficult I mean I spent basically all of my lunch times and break times hiding And things like the lunch hall were always hugely overly complicated for me So I didn't really go into the lunch hall in my secondary school for basically the whole of my secondary school career And you know things like that I think Understanding it yeah, it would have helped and I would have perhaps been a bit more forgiving and wouldn't have kept on trying to I was constantly trying to force, you know I was a square peg trying to go into a round hole and particularly around social stuff And again, you feel like you you want to want to do things, but it doesn't mean you ever enjoy them and yeah Even throughout my adult life I think I've always kind of had this idea that if I get better then suddenly I'll be the person who wants to have like Dinner parties and do all this kind of thing and I suddenly become really sociable and I yeah come into realization That that's never gonna be my thing. It's actually quite Freeing yeah, yeah, sure and I suppose You talked there about how the diagnosis meant your treatment was different. Yeah, what's that mean? So when I was inpatient with anorexia then the ward that I was on was an eating disorders unit And they did basically all their treatment as group therapy, which for me was really I mean it was actively harmful rather than anything else and other things like I had So so I stopped having to do the group therapy, which is great Everything that then became completely individualized which made a big difference But the other thing was that lots of my behaviors around food were much more around like Autistic type behaviors and traits Rather than being traditionally anorexic So when people were trying to help me overcome, you know fears about getting fat and calories and that kind of thing It was nothing to do with any of that. A lot of it would just be really quite irrational fears and Yeah, just very very rigid choice structure So I remember for example being in a really difficult place at one point when I wasn't eating any solid food And I was living entirely off this this liquid supplement But I would only have one flavor of it and at this point it was before the diagnosis and the doctors wouldn't understand Why it had to be that flavor and it caused a really really big issue And I was absolutely adamant and refused everything and had to be restrained and all this sort of thing Once I've had that diagnosis and they just understood look, okay We don't necessarily know doesn't make sense to us But it's got to be that one and it causes huge distress Otherwise, then we just cracked on and and did the one flavor and we're able to just stop worrying so much about little things And just accept them really so this sort of brings out some challenging questions for me And I suppose, you know I always want to say if you feel they're too casual you don't want to answer something don't answer it Okay, so you're talking there about the sort of the co-morbidity of me even the complexity of those interactions within things Do you think Actually the diagnosis was more important to the people treating you or should they have been able to understand The need for that personalized approach for you irrespective of the diagnosis No, I think the diagnosis was really helpful actually because the thing with anorexia is it does You kind of you do quite a lot of unreasonable things and you do become quite manipulative and you there are some strange behaviors and difficulties that go with it And you would often see some of these quite challenging behaviors from people And and and one of the jobs of the of the clinician of the doctors of the nursing team is to actively challenge those things But for me that wasn't helpful that challenge wasn't helpful. It was actively making things worse Whereas if I'd been Yeah, more traditionally anorexic rather than the sort of yeah, atypical autistic kind of line And then that that challenge would have been helpful. Um, but yeah for me it was it was it was actually helpful So yeah, I think it was important for them and and yeah giving permission to revise their treatment I mean it meant we were all then slightly a bit like yeah, because this is quite a young field And I suppose again, I think that's an important word Giving people permission. So it's it's it's almost like it's allowing a certain court, isn't it? And I'm wondering whether actually some schools think like that when there's a label of diagnostic Criteria or some information comes out that they feel they are legitimized and approached that they wouldn't otherwise And I suppose I'm thinking why do you need that to do that if it's right for the person? Why don't you just do it? I guess yeah, I guess so I yeah, that's true. Although I think I don't know in a way I think it it does help It can help to understand and also just some of the the tricky things day to day So really it sounds like a really silly example, but it was a big deal for me The room where I had therapy when I was inpatient had this clock that was really loud in it And I literally like I I really struggle with with with the sort of sensory overload And this clock I remember in particular whatever was going on in that session I couldn't focus in on anything. Yeah, um because of this clock and and it really really really bothered me And you know and I've said so many times I want to get rid of the clock and literally after the diagnosis Then then they kind of like oh, yes, that's fine. It's sensory overload will get rid of the clock And actually then I was able to focus in on the therapy and before that they felt like I wasn't engaging And it wasn't it's just that my therapist was asking me really hard questions and all I could hear was this blooming Do you know what I mean? Yeah, and I think that happens in schools a lot with things like projectors and things like that where perhaps a A person who has a sensory overload or some Heightens needs in those areas is sat under the projector. It's buzzing away all the time And you literally cut and that's it and I think I think I think the thought I was making excuses up until that point I think literally, you know, they're like, look, it's a clock get over it But then once you're like, I'm autistic and it's a clock. They're like, oh, you're autistic and it's a clock the clock can go So I suppose thinking about who might watch this or who might understand this story or how it might improve other people's experiences You know, how do you think the people in those clinical settings actually might go about things differently? I think I think one one of the things is actually just bearing in mind that autism is a possibility Because for me, it was something that was Suggested really late. But when my psychologists and psychiatrists, they basically like how do you not already have a diagnosis? I thought I was they thought it was pretty obvious Um, but I think it just hadn't been considered before that and I think it often does get masked by eating disorders So we think that there is a quite a high degree of comorbidity And the other thing is that when your brain is starved like anorexic thinking and autistic thinking often there's quite a lot of similarities there So I think people who are treating for eating disorders having an understanding of autism Anyway, that will help them to understand some of the really rigid thinking of their their underweight patients um, but yeah, I think being kind of open-minded really and also just perhaps Yeah, maybe seeking a diagnosis where there is the possibility of one not kind of closing it off So I think we can get so hung up on, you know, I think my treatment team At the time were so worried about, you know, the physical danger I was in because I was so underweight that they're perhaps not really thinking about the bigger picture But actually for me, I wasn't able to get better and get out of that physical danger zone until we revised the treatment quite radically I mean I was just getting iller and iller So, you know again thinking more about So the work I've been involved with I suppose my lack of knowledge in this area really Um, you know, I suppose you go to hospital.  So what what, you know, do you think there's conflict within the understanding of that? um Yeah, and that's something I'm still kind of very much sort of coming to terms with really is understanding Because obviously it was one thing when I had that diagnosis and I was very ill And I just had so much to manage every day anyway But now it's about what and what does this look like when I'm well because for me, you know Well and managing day-to-day and being healthy. It doesn't mean the autism is going to go away So I have to learn to manage that and know what that looks like and know how I own that And if that's something I share and I yeah that I don't really know the answer to any of this And so, um, I suppose I often think of things like this in terms of quite crudely in terms of risk and resilience factors And and what builds in the resilience to help mitigate or support those those areas of risk And what would you say personally on your biggest resilience factors? I think the people around me so everyone around me has been incredibly Helpful and kind and I have generally found that if I'm a bit more open about that, you know The autism and the things that I find difficult people are really forgiving So things like is you know, I work at a lot of conferences and I love, you know I love the work that I do but it is it does really take its toll on me And actually explaining to people when I'm working with them actually, you know I might not want to have lunch with all your delegates So I might need a room somewhere and then providing that space and time Um can make a big difference. So yeah being able to be open and honest about it And people having a bit of an understanding is helpful I think the other thing for me, as you know, I've gone on about climbing So yeah for me though the climbing wall is somewhere I can go and however, you know Whatever state of kind of overwhelm I'm in and and I can get very very anxious But I'll go to the wall and it's literally like you hit this big reset button And then I'm I'm ready to go again. I can do people again after that And I think, you know, again, I sort of term it in school sometimes like these positive care Rootings things that you do all the time that feed into a really important sort of So baseline to help reset in a way and I think again for some of our learners it might be Pets and animals which is important for some people in sport And I think what we found recently when we're doing some work with some of our autistic girls is that A lot of the activities they were engaged in were wholly reliant on an adult A parent or carer taking them to the activity and really investing in that And when they didn't have that opportunity or it wasn't possible within the family group Actually, it limited their opportunities to engage in different things. So I'm thinking and I don't really know the answer to this That actually lots of properly supported community activities and sport with understanding Is really important to give you that opportunity to find that thing the grounding point or whatever, you know Yeah, yeah being able to find the thing that that works for you. So you don't yeah That's it for me. I kind of stumbled upon it almost by by chance But but by the same token and say lots of different things can be helpful So again, you know for me and my dog actually getting up and getting out with my dog every day is really important routine Having a routine every day and knowing so for me again that the holidays are off in the time when I really struggle And now I understand why that is, you know, I'm someone who needs and thrives on routine And school holidays come along and suddenly my kids haven't got to be up and out every day And everything goes to pot Actually now we have an understanding in our house that that routine kind of needs to stay and And again, my family have been great about that and that does really help and actually I think it's good for all of us Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I sometimes think that the kind of accommodations that you make to kind of manage autism They're actually a lot of those accommodations are good for everybody in many ways, you know It's a bit like you're saying actually you find after these things having a bit of time out on your own So I'm I'm literally sometimes a bit like after all this people in I want to be in a darkened room on my own But I think actually to some extent that's that's that's normal, isn't it? Absolutely, and I think you know understanding the importance of routines. I think it's essential, you know, and again It is different for everybody, isn't it? You know people can actually Manage and function really well with quite unstructured routines, but in effect that is their routine, you know And I think we underestimate sometimes by thinking a routine is about constant fixed state As opposed to this idea of the flow between them and understanding that which is fascinating Definitely one of the things that I find I found hard about diagnosis is I find sometimes when I tell people who I've known For a long time and they can be quite dismissive and go well that's obviously wrong because They know me and they've known me for a long time and they'll say but you're not like this and you're not like this Because people have this really, you know that a they have a view of what autism is like But b they have a view of what I'm like because of how I present myself to the world So and I think that's something people don't necessarily understand is how hard work it is just to be normal like when when You know the whole world is this massive kind of calculation the whole time and I'm always kind of you know 10 steps ahead in a conversation trying to understand what I'm meant to be doing and how and what this body language means and stuff And I'm more aware of the fact I'm doing that now But it is really tiring and I think yeah people don't get that actually that's complicated for me because I've worked really hard all my life where it's a not look for does that make sense? And I think the key thing there is what you're saying what I'm meant to be doing It's almost like you know that there's a perception or there's an expectation perhaps even that Individuals have to play a part You know and and somebody else is imposing the role on them saying this is the role you've got to play and actually I think Talking about your interactions with people you've known a long time You know about that to me is also about education and knowledge, you know a lot of people who are Very experienced and perhaps have a you know perhaps a high academic profile or whatever You know don't necessarily understand what autism means, you know, and I think people still learn through Misconception a lot. Yeah. Yeah, and the other side. This is obviously I haven't suddenly become a mathematical genius, which is Yes Well, it's fantastic and I learn so much Thank you All right


There are 36 stories in this book, spanning 20 years from the 1970s to the 90s. Most of them are super short, some of them are only a page long. Rudy Rucker doesn't think like the rest of us do. This is some real variety in science fiction. He's a stream of consciousness kind of guy, in addition to being a scientist, a mathematician. Some of these stories are hilariously funny, some of them are horrifying, some of them are even x-rated. In fact, the first story in this book is x-rated. I don't mean r-rated, I mean x-rated. This is not family reading. The reason I bring this up after reviewing Flatland last week is because there is two stories in this book that feature Flatland. In fact, I've never seen a Rudy Rucker book where he does not talk about Flatland.


Which is great. I think it's great. Yes. This is a case where bias data is A-OK. My name is Sarah Jane Schmidt, and I'm from the AIP Potsband. I'm Jim Davenport from the University of Washington. My name is Stephanie Douglas. I'm an NSF fellow at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. That's a good question. Science you think is on camera. Right here, what? You're not drinking coffee. I've got a lot of coffee, which is not surprising. Oh yeah, I need a high grade. I'm not drinking enough water, and this counts a little bit. All right, so today I'm having coffee with Stephanie Douglas and Sarah Schmidt, two of my closest science overlapping friends in astronomy. We have been friends for a long time, and our science interests overlap massively. Today, the goal is to talk about the gender survey that we've been doing, which both of them have contributed to throughout many, many years of it going on. And we've been scheming about what the future is. So hopefully this video will just be sort of a behind-the-scenes scheming session. Okay, so over the course of the project, how much data have you gotten? I think, well, when we did the nature paper, I think we said something like a thousand talks roughly. You pointed out we've got really good coverage for this meeting. Yeah. And so from the Cool Stars talks, we probably have now hundreds, maybe 200 total. You both did such a good analysis of the last two Cool Stars that we should be able to do, like, real evolution now. And we've had interventions this time, right? Like, the game changed a little bit. The rules changed just a little bit. Well, and that, as we've talked about, has been getting some grumbling from usually the more senior, but not exclusively the more senior people. Things that we thought should make the fraction of women asking questions increase, and none of, we didn't really see a significant change, only a very slight one. And so I'll be interested to see if the sort of, at least semi-sustained and intentional interventions by the SOC actually make a difference in how that balanced out. We've also seen very different chair styles, and even amongst the ones who are correcting, some of them seem to approach as a joke, and others seem to really kind of get, like, what we're doing and why. Most people know how to play nice, but... A few bad apples. Well, I think even if we could provide, so I didn't, unfortunately, ran late and didn't see the intro on Monday, but I think providing some guidance of, like, can you rephrase your comment as a question, which may not necessarily be ideal either, but even just to, like, have you considered X instead of, well, you know, X contradicts what you say or something, can come across as at least more polite and putting the respectful of maybe the speaker just didn't have time to put it in? I always just think, like, oh, if only people understood, if we could make them understand. I keep on, and it's sometimes a mistake, thinking that we're scientists. If we show them the data that says we're doing things wrong, they'll change. So part of me is, like, we should show them the data and give them another chance, but I know you're never going to get everyone. I think you're right in that we definitely should show the data. I keep thinking, like, this has, it has reached its peak of people knowing about it. Like, if they're not following me on Twitter at this point, or either of you... Or watching a vlog. Or, yeah, or watching the YouTube vlog, hit that subscribe button. But every year I run into, like, 20 more people who are like, oh, that's awesome. If we can find a large enough audience to speak the data to, I think we'll find a lot of kindred spirits. I think we'll have some people who will, you know, have said that the survey was impetus for her to stand up and ask questions. Like, just to skew the statistics. And I've heard other people say the same thing as well. Right. Which is great. I think it's great. Yes. This is a case where bias data is a-okay. Yeah. Bias your data, everyone. We're changing the world. What do you think of the people who say, oh, this effect you're seeing, it is only due to new senior? I mean, there are some ways we can take data to counteract that. I've definitely made that argument in the past. To me, my gut says that... Yeah, it's a secondary effect. Yes. Yeah, gender, age. Gender and then age, yeah. Well, I think the argument I've heard some people make is that the seniority is the primary effect and we're actually observing the secondary effect. I guess anecdotally I disagree with that because I know quite a few senior women who have talked about this study and how important they find it. Yeah, but I think you may, you could also see a senior effect where if that's the type of questioning session that they're used to, if they don't see a problem with it or that fits them well, then they're not going to necessarily want to challenge it or they're not going to necessarily want to be seen as the woman who rocks the boat on it. You made this comment to me maybe two years ago that are we, like on a deeper philosophical level, are we measuring the thing that we care about? Like, is asking questions actually something good? I mean, it's nice because it's a measurable thing. You can put it in different boxes and add it up. There's an onslaught there that says the right interaction is Q&A. But that is the correct way to engage at a meeting. You know, our stated goal is to make meetings better or whatever. But like, why don't I just make them more chatty? Better. Well, we want interactions at a meeting and the point is we want all people to come to the table. Not this table, it's very small, but we want to make the table big enough for everyone. And I think one of the problems we're encountering is I don't think everyone is on board with that goal. Often it's true that you have to provide, and this is co-opting a term from the accessibility and disability community, a multimodal access where you want many approaches to being able to do an activity so that people with different abilities can come to the table. And you know, sometimes it's ability, sometimes it's what your personality is, right? Like, some people are going to function well in a giant lecture hall, and others aren't. Some are going to function better on Twitter or snarking amongst friends. We don't do that.  But I think that also affects the type of Q&A or discussion time you can have. Right. She's a seamless cat.  Because you're cutting off the chance to have a good discussion.  But in a two to five minute Q&A section, how much of a discussion are we having? Or is it just a couple of people standing up across the lecture hall with microphones and saying things at each other? I go back to this idea of what the Q&A is for. Obviously it's for points of clarification. After my last Cool Stars talk, several senior people did raise their hand and say, have you considered that this might be an effect on your data? Right. And I went, no I haven't, but let's talk about it afterwards.  Some people can, but I also know that others can't, right? If there was a grad student who gave a talk, who was clearly just blindsided by all the questions, and I bet that if he'd been somewhere in his element, he probably, presumably, would have been fine with at least some of those questions, right? Often the comment during the talk is, again, as I phrase it, to like draw attention to the commenter. Like I know double AS has the session chair breakfasts, so I don't know if there's some way at Cool Stars, because clearly the SOC here has been on board with a lot of these changes. I'm sitting down with the session chairs and saying, hey, this is why, this is our motivation, here's some guidelines we want you to follow, maybe practicing interrupting people, because I think that's a thing that, especially before the first time, doing those kinds of interventions takes practice. And so if you, spitting out the words the first time I know from experience is really hard. What about the structure, the dynamics of how we ask the questions? So at double AS sometimes it's, there is a microphone in the middle of the room, please line up. It can be very good for certain rooms, for certain audiences, but I don't think that's usually good for three minutes. Worse for mobility-challenged people, and I think also people with anxieties sometimes. You can just stand there waiting in line, going like, God, oh God. It's too much time to think. Just get spooked. On the other hand, a very big room, mic running is good, but mic running can be hard. Very often the dictatorial control of the moderator is saying, it's in the back, and then you, and then you.  One way we've done it, and we did this for part of my splinter, was any questions, and then just let people raise their hands and let the old people like, wave their hands back, and then be like, uh, yes ma'am.


Hello and welcome to Embedded World 2015 in Nuremberg. I'm on the ST stand talking to Bertrand Denny about the first samples of the new STM32L4. Now you're the product line manager, so what are the headlines for developers? So we just introduced the STM32L4 which is a new Ultralow Power MCU. This product uses a new architecture to reach best-in-class Ultralow Power figures thanks to its high flexibility. This is proven by the score obtained during the ULP bench by Embassy. This bench is a fair and reliable way to measure the MCU efficiency and the STM32L4 gets the best score known in the market, 123. And in addition to that, the STM32L4 blows away the competition in terms of performance, reaching 100 rexomips based on the ARM Cortex-M4 with 14.8 and display instructions. Sounds like a really exciting innovation for developers. Yes, exactly. So the STM32L4 also embeds a high-memory size, so up to one megabyte of flash, 128 kilobyte of S-frames. So this combination of high-memory size, performance and excellence of Ultralow Power is unique in the market. And it's very interesting for a lot of customers. So what are the key innovations and features there? So the STM32L4 uses the state-of-the-art Ultralow Power. So it goes down to 39 ohm in low power mode and down to 100 micro ohms per megabyte in active mode. One of the key benefits is that it embeds a lot of innovative peripherals in the parts, especially analog sections. So there is a 16-bit ADC DAC comparator, but also a lot of communication peripherals like Quad SPI for example. What are the target applications for the STM32L4? So all the battery applications can be interested by the STM32L4. So fitness tracker, internet of things, wearables, but also industrial and medical market where energy-conscious is key. Well, can we see it in action? Yes, sure. So here is the STM32L4 Nucleo. So it is used in conjunction with Blue Energy Radio and Digital Microphone. So it's connected to your tablets and the STM32L4 does the voice recognition. So all these boards are just supplied by a small coin by tree. And when the sentence is detected by the STM32L4, it launches the Wheel of Chance. So let's have a try. Hello Blue Genie. So it's detected and then the Wheel of Chance is launched. And you can win power bank or a nuclear boat. Or nothing. We're not so lucky. And listen Bertrand, thanks so much for talking to us and I look forward to an update at Embedded World 2016. Thank you very much.