Welcome to Slaydina. Hey everybody, welcome to Desk of Lady Aida. We're hacking here some hardware finding, just like little stickers on me. All right, doing some hardware here at my desk here on this lovely Sunday evening. It was really beautiful out. Don't forget folks, this Tuesday, Aida Fruit is closed because we give everybody the day off for voting. So if you want to order something and you order it on Monday, it'll ship out Monday, unless it's later in the day, it'll ship out Wednesday because again, Tuesday's a voting day and we give every Tuesday off as a phone holiday. Okay, cool. And sorry, and Veterans Day as well. So next week is a bit, we also give that day off. So next week is a little bit short. Get your hardware from us. Of course from Digikey and they'll ship it to you immediately as well. So that's the news and updates. So why don't we, you wanna go to my desk and we'll get right to it. Okay, first off, doing a lot of revisions and if you remember last week I talked about doing the revision for the 3.5 inch TFT feather wing. Here is the old version. So this version used the STMPE and had a fan 5331 boost converter, new one. You'll notice there's no gigantic diode anymore because I'm using the TPS 61129. This is part number. Sot 89 version of the boost converter. Boost converter's been working great. I've been using it a bunch of stuff. So replace the backlight driver with that. Touch screen converters now TSC2007. Also change the reset button from vertical to right angle. Same on off switch, added a STEMI QT port. Shoved everything over a little bit. Same micro SD. And now we've got this going, show the demo with the TSC2007 and it's working great. Only thing is you saw like one thing I forgot is a pull up on the backlight controller. Nope, like you need to have it activated on. So little flyway. So this is the touch screen. Hold on, let me press the reset to clean it off that little chunk there. You know, I can draw just fine. Swirls, different colors, touch screen's working great. So this hardware is good. I have to do the Pi TFTs after this. Those, I also would love to do with iSquared C but we'll see if that, I don't know if we were able to get the device to overlay working very well with the TSC 2007. So we will check it out. Okay, so this revision's done. And I'm actually like, this is gonna be my 500th revision or, you know, close to 499 or 501. You know, I think there's a couple. I might have missed one or two. A lot of revisions, you'll notice a lot of new photos on the site because, you know, pretty much every product had to be revised because, you know, a chip got discontinued or is end of line, diodes, transistors, voltage regulators. I moved almost all my voltage regulators from the AP 2-1-1-2 because I, you know, it wasn't available to the AP 2-1-2-7. So almost pretty much everything got components swapped out. But pretty much everything's worked, you know.   You know, it's a popular product. We sell thousands of them. I don't want to get this wrong. But so far, hasn't been too bad. And then, oh, you know what's funny? I have the next thing I was going to show. Hold on. It's an intermission. I'm just going to grab it over there. Okay. Are you back to the concession stand? Great. I've got the tester as I put it away because I'm going to bring it into the office for the Metro ESP32 S3 Rev-B. So, it took me just, I had a couple of weeks. I just couldn't get to it. I had to revise this before it even got really out into the store. We put it into the shop and then I realized that I was using the OPI PSRAM pins for SPI. And they were not, you can't because they're used for PSRAM. And my test, you know, when I test hardware, I test it in Arduino. And so I had enabled the PSRAM. And the PSRAM was like, yes, I'm running and I'm detected. And then later on, you know, I would in the test program, I'd have it connect to the SD card. And the test passed because after the PSRAM was initialized, I never used it. Like I tested it to see like, hey, can I communicate with you? The PSRAM said, yes, you can communicate with me. And then I never talked to the PSRAM after I configured it for the SD card. So I didn't realize that those pins were unavailable. This was like my first design with the OPI octal PSRAM Metro ESP32 S3. Learn that lesson. And then of course, you know, that when it came to the QALIA board, you know, that was good to know that those three pins were not available. I think it was like 35, 36, 37. You know, ESP, I know I love the chips, but there's always like, you really gotta watch out for those strapping pins. They expose pins that are like, hey, if you actually use this pin, like really bad things are gonna happen. And I've noticed that they've stopped doing that on modules. Like if a pin is used internally, they don't, you know, and there's really no reason for you to have access to it.  So this version is RevB. It has that fixed. The test procedure is working and done. You know, we got a little bit of a USB waste condition, but TAC fixed it in Team USB. Another thing I noticed is unfortunately, I did a PR to update the pins for this in the expressive board support package, but then like the next day, they did a merge update with like some ESP board support package 5.1 thing and they actually ended up blowing away my changes. So I'm gonna do another PR to fix the pins because again, the old SPI pins are no longer used. They've been swapped out. Hopefully this RevB is done. There's just really all the pins. The Metro use a lot of pins. Like all the pins are used. And so it's, you know, there's no, like I had to start using pins that are normally not recommended like the SPI voltage selection pin and like the NeoPixels driven by like the debug output pin, which we don't use on this board. So, you know, I think next week, we should be able to put the Metro S3 in the shop. I really love this design. So I would love to get it into the shop. If anyone out there has a RevA, you know, we'll replace it with a RevB for free, obviously, because the RevA was like totally a mistake. Learn my lesson though. You know, what's funny is that when we had been, we tested the RevA on CircuitPython and it was hard-faulting because of the pin misusage. But because we'd been having so many weirdnesses with the S3, I was like, oh, I was like, I thought it was a different bug that I was seeing. I didn't think it was related to the OctoPSRM. Lesson learned. Okay, and then for other stuff, speaking of OctoPSRM, the Qualia board. So thanks to Melissa, we have now a touchscreen driver for the 2.1 inch. So most of the touchscreens for these large displays are CST, sorry, FT-6336U is a second very common one, or similar. Yes, this is the next rainbow demo. Of course it looks great in person. Screen through screen, screen looks a little bit flaky, but it looks really good in person. And so now, you know, when you do touch, the capacitive touch works. So thanks to Melissa who wrote that chip library for the CST-622 or something, I can't, I can't, I can't. You know, ever since we moved from printing to laser etching part numbers onto chips, it's very hard for me to read them. You have to like get them right at the correct angle. But if you have one of these screens, we now have a touch driver for it in Arduino and circuit Python. So thanks, Melissa. So the next thing I'm going to do, you know, I have a couple more sample displays, but like this board is pretty much good to go. So the next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to make a version of this for RGB 888 displays because I have a bunch of those that we stock and I want to get some nice, like IPS versions of the screens and capacitive touch and stuff. The only thing is that a lot of the RGB 888 screens don't have this nice cap touch through the main connector. They usually have like a separate little tail that has the capacitive touch. And so, and the pinout for that tail is not standard. Like this, this has a standardized, like capacitive touch is always the same pins, the RGB same pins, each sink, but the 888, the 800 by 480 rectangular displays, the 40 pin connector for the display, standard the capacitive touch, not standard. So I might start with a version that supports resistive touch because that is a standard pinout. And so I'd have a resistive touch like the TSC, you know, the TSC that I use here, this driver, I would stick this on here and use that for the resistive touch. And annoyingly, I think I still need to have the IO expander, even though I'm not using it for controlling the SPI pins to do the init code stuff, because I still need these buttons and the expander for the buttons and for the TFT reset and the TFT backlight, because it says there's so few pins available and I wanna keep all these GPIO down here. So that's okay, but you know, we're making slow and steady progress on all these displays. You know, part of it is just getting the init code going and getting the example code for everything. And then we're gonna do more with these. So that's probably the next step for this board. And then lastly, before we go into the great search, I'm back to working on my camera board, which I've been, you know, solely working on and off as parts have been available. So, WebD has moved. So I had all of these power supply components at the power supply down here, but I actually didn't make as much sense to have it down here because the things that were high current was like, you know, the backlight and the ESP. This camera just take a lot of power, but I wanted to actually keep the power supply away from it because this is temperature sensitive, which I've noticed the camera modules, you notice this one is like metal and you stick it on and I try to heat sink a little bit through the ground plane on the back. But they're, you know, they can use when it's running and like streaming the preview image, it can draw like 200 milliamps. And so I also replaced the 3.3-volt LDO with a little buck converter. And I'm using the TPS, it's the whatever the one I have in the shop, it's the TPS 629 or something, two amp like one megahertz buck converter. And it's like very cheap. It's only like 20 cents. We covered it on a previous great search for sure. And then, you know, the 1.5 and 2.8 volt regulator. But, you know, this fits underneath and then the preview screen is here. And so then I've also got a little faceplate I've designed that looks like this.  And so from this side, I use just plain machine screws. And from this side, you just add a hex nut as a spacer. And now it's, it's not screwed in. Hold on, let me see if I can, yeah, okay.    And so I'm gonna have to add a cutout for the speaker. I had little speaker holes, but I have to add an actual cutout instead. Okay, and then, so you see here. So the last thing I did is the front plate to protect the circuit tree. So like, you know, this is exposed. So I have a little front plate. And I was like, oh, let's add like a neopixel ring. I think like, you know, Phil B and I chatted about this. And we're like, oh yeah, like let's make a plate that can have a neopixel built into it. And I picked RGBW neopixels. The final version will be black. Of course, this is just green because it's fast started to get green.  So I don't know if I can do this. It's upside down so I can do that. Okay, so then, okay. So you can see like the color coming through a little bit. Like I'm kind of close, but, you know, I thought this could be a neat demo for the, I'm asking a lot of this camera right now. Oh, there you go. Okay, so I thought this would be neat because first off, it can act as a flash, but it also can do like some cool like rainbow ring light effects to, you know, like color, colorify whatever subject, you know, like a portraiture or like a pet or something or like, you know, but something nearby. Obviously it's can't throw the color very far, but it can, for close ups, it can do a neat color effect. And it's just like one of the things that you can't get with an iPhone camera. Like, you know, not only is it like a hackable camera, but I wanted to do something that wasn't just like, well, my iPhone can do that. So your iPhone doesn't have a ring light built in, but this one does.  Okay, so that's my hardware hacking for now. All right, so, this is kind of cool. You can see like this. Hold on. You can see the reflection of the ring light. Pretty bright, eight new pixels is quite bright. And I'd love that they're RGBW. The reason I went with, oh, and then of course, it's battery powered too. The reason I went with RGBW is so, you know, when you want the white light, it's extra bright and it's a pure natural white. Okay, so that's my desk. I know a lot of hardware. All right, let's go to the great search. Oh, great search for Dubai, DigiKey, and Adafruit. Thank you, DigiKey. Every single week later, user power of engineering will help you find the things that you need on digikey.com. What is a great search week? Okay, so this week, you know, one thing I look, I do before we, you know, do the show is I always look like, oh, what, you know, I search social media for like, find or search and the word Digikey and just be like, hey, somebody was like, I can't find, I'm looking for something on Digikey. And you know, some of them actually already covered, like somebody was like, oh, I need machined pens. And I was like, I already covered that. I was gonna do that as the great search, but we already did that before. But this one was kind of interesting. So I've never heard of this material before. So people who are doing like overclocking of CPUs and GPUs, you know, you need to water cool or like air cool the CPU, like, you know, the Pi five now has an air cooling add-on. And, you know, you have this cooling fan or this heat sink, whether it was water cooler. And then you have the CPU itself and you have to attach the CPU to the thing that's cooling it. And you want the thermal transmission to be as good as possible between the two. And traditionally people use thermal paste.  And then you clamp the heat sink on and like there's these little clamping bits and the paste fills in the gaps and makes like a near perfect thermal connection between the heat sink and the CPU. And so apparently there's this other kind of material called thermal pads. So I've always used paste, but I have seen thermal pads once in a while and thermal pads are, as you can imagine, very thin pieces of material and they're less messy than paste.  You just, you stick it on and remove it. And they have a benefit of, they can also be a gap filler. Like if you don't, you know, one of the risks of clamping the heat sink onto the CPU is like, you clamp a little bit too hard, you could crack the CPU.  So thermal pads, you know, they have a little bit of give and the one that they're talking about in particular is called cryo sheet. And like, I have no skin in this game. I don't know anything about this product or what this is used for. So, you know, NB, notabain, I did not expert at this.  And I was like, oh, well, I'm gonna look up and try to find the specifications for this. You know, like what is the thermal resistivity of it? And there is no published thermal resistivity. And so again, I know nothing about this market, but let me tell you as an engineer, if you're buying a product like this, that's meant for thermal heat sinking or like thermal transfer and there's no specification, they're like, you can't know if it's any good or not because it isn't like thermal resistivity isn't a feeling, it's a number. And so if the number isn't there, there's no way for you to compare it. And I think that's part of their thing is like, you know, they don't publish the number, they just say it's the best and you just sort of have to trust it. So let's show how you can find on Digikey, graphite thermal pads that do have numbers published with them and so you can actually compare them one to the other. Okay, so go to Digikey. And, you know, is it better than this other cryo thing? I don't know, but I'm gonna show you how to find the real deal. And then, you know, you can compare and contrast and do testing with it. Okay, so let's look for thermal pads. So they've got it, pads and sheets, 8,000 items. And I'll say, you know, they have like, of course, heat sinks and peltiers, you know, active coolers, water cooling, thermal paste, but pads and sheets, again, they're easy to apply. Like, you know, if you're doing, if you want to remove them, adjust them, paste is gonna probably be better because it's thinner, but just for the raw thermal transfer numbers, but there might be times you want pads and sheets. Okay, so as usual, we go to stacked and we're gonna only look for active items and then in stock, just not that there, there might be stuff, you know, that is better that's not in stock, but we only wanna see what's available. Next up, you know, I don't think we care too much about the acrylic adhesive, you know, maybe you want adhesive, maybe you don't, maybe that sounds important, but we do want is the thermal resistivity and we want to have like the lowest thermal resist, well, sorry, let's look for the thickness first because the thickness was kind of an important thing. So sheets, thighs. So these are 0.2 millimeters, thick, so let's look for about 0.2 millimeters. So if you go here, you can see, this is exactly 0.2, but let's be a little bit flexible, you know, maybe up to 0.25, maybe as low as 0.15. So we have like, you know, a range where we want thinner sheets in general. Okay, you'll notice for, if I select graphite, the thermal resistivity for graphite is gonna be the lowest ones, but let's instead of just, you know, specifying graphite, just in case there's like other materials, we're going to just go with, you know, the lower, maybe the, you know, 0.5 degrees C per watt or lower. That gets us down to 42 options. And so you'll see like, there's some very low-cost ones that are, you know, 70 cents, but these are small, they're designed for TO220.  And you put that between that and the heat sink and then use a screw to connect it. And that's what that hole is for, is that's where the hole goes through, the screw goes through to clamp that transistor or LDO to your heat sink with the little pad in between. But we don't want that. We actually want like something like this because we want to be able to cut our own pieces out.  But let's look at larger pieces. Of the cryo sheets, you know, they do have a small 24 by 12 millimeter, but I actually think like most chips are you're gonna like a GP or CP, you're gonna want to have at least one inch by one inch, if not more. So let's in outline, let's just only pick at least, you know, one inch on one direction, but you'll notice that there's going to be a lot bigger ones. And then finally, there's a lot of marketplace options as, you know, pieces as well. So maybe we'll get rid of the marketplace, although these are, you know, you can always get these pieces if you want, those can take a little longer to ship. So let's just look at what's available in stock and looks like there's a couple options for, you know, thickness and the thermal resistivity, you know, I think we can look for the lowest resistivity. So we'll start from the bottom up. So this is the most, these are the best pads for this. This is kind of a vague one, but it looks like it's just like a gray pad. This one is pretty, it exists, these are rather large, this is 600 by 450 millimeters, but this one is fine. You know, this one even has adhesive on it. And 450 by 300 milliliters, millimeters.  So you can cut any size you want as many GPs or CPs as you desire. You keep this around and just cut out of it as needed any shape you want. And so this one I think is gonna be my bet. So it's a tiny bit thicker than 0.2 millimeters. It's 0.254, so it's like, you know, 0.1, 0.01 inch. So as long as it's, you know, not too thick, but again, you want it to be a tiny bit thick so it adds a little bit of the cushioning fills in the gaps. And if it's, if the clamping isn't perfectly even it will still make good contact. And it has adhesive as well, which is great. And yeah, and then there's also a data sheet if you need it. So, you know, what I like is that there's specifications for everything. They do come in different sizes and it looks like all these are graphite. Oh, one thing to watch out for graphite is it's electrically conductive. It's not isolating. So some materials that you use for heat sinking are thermally conductive but electrically isolating. Graphite is both electrical and thermally conductive. So if you look down here at the ohms it's basically zero ohms. It's basically like perfectly conductive. So make sure that, you know, it's okay if that's grounded, it's earth grounded. Make sure that it's okay for that to be touching your CPU. Some past transistors or LDOs of nodes that the heat sink is electrically connected to like the V in or the V out line, it's not ground. You really don't want to accidentally ground it to the case or something through this material. So something to watch out for. So this sheet there's also a sheet that's much thinner if you want 0.127 millimeters. This is the 462 series, 463. Both are in stock.  And that's my great search. That's great search. All right, thanks everybody. That's it for this week. We'll see everybody doing the week. It's lots of videos and more ahead. Thank you so much. And don't forget to check any shipping times because we have a couple of holidays. Tuesday and Friday. Yes, thanks for the holidays. Bye everybody. Have a great week.


The gut and the brain are connected via the vagus nerve. And what I found really interesting is it's like a kind of modem, like this big wire that plugs into your amygdala, which is your fear center in the brain, and then goes all the way around your gut and vital organs and plugs into the adrenals. So at one end, you've got fear. And the other end, you've got fight or flight. The communication going from the brain to the guts or downwards, if you like, is actually only 10%. Whereas the communication, the signaling going from the gut to the brain is 90%. They literally talk to each other. And if you've got imbalances in the gut, the signaling is going to be intercepted. It's not going to be clear.


Nestled in the quaint community of Ancelary is a laboratory for innovation and creative thinking, merging mathematics and science into tangible expressions for learning. Grade 2 teacher at the Ancelary Infant School, Martina Raphael Polio, conceptualized a novel project to create 2D and 3D objects by combining mathematics and science to keep her students engaged, confident and connected to their learning. I want the children to see that there is joy in doing mathematics. There is something about mathematics. Mathematics is all around the world. We use it in baking, we use it in farming, we use it in nursing. We use mathematics all over the world.  And they have been exposed to this content. They have been exposed. So I told students, we are going to do something very creative using mathematics and you will love it. The students, assisted by their parents, designed their project guided by an agreed template which focused on the use of everyday materials such as plastic, metal, cloth, wood or paper to form 2D and 3D shapes to complete their project. They use that information from the template to create a bar graph and a pictograph because these children will expose to data management, representing data in tables and I am very, very pleased that this activity was excellently done by all of the students who presented the project area today. Creativity was on full display as students presented their projects as school bus, model homes, playgrounds, beach chairs and even a one-of-a-kind greater. Katelyn Montute and Janash Michelle explained their projects. I made a pack. I made different, I have different materials like cloth and plastic, paper. So my teacher told me it's not that hard to do math and it's not, we can do math in anything and my mother and father helped me do this project. My project is a fighter jet. It has a pilot in the front and the two wings has two guns on it and the back wings has one gun and under it has four wheels so when it's about to take off the four wheels could make it take off while it's driving so it could kill the bad dinosaur before the dinosaur destroys the world. Albert Joseph is the principal at Anstler Infant. He says the school recognizes the cultural diversity of their community and thus innovation is at the center of teaching and learning. So the children are very much engaged in the creative aspect. We try to engage them in dancing, to music and to theater all of these as well as to marry the academics as well. So our vision in essence, we are looking to ensure that we create a holistic child ensuring that they have all the skills that are necessary so that they can function not just in school but outside in the world as well. From 12.30pm to 1pm is USSR which stands for Uninterrupted Sustained Silent Reading another initiative employed at the Anstler Infant School to encourage the love of reading and improve comprehension skills. We've gotten the children books, we've had them begin to read and as long as they hear the bell they know that it is time to get into their seats select a book and begin to read and they've enjoyed it, they've read so many books. With the challenges faced by the Covid-19 pandemic and the negative effects on both students and teachers the Anstler Infant School has added innovation to make learning fun, engaging and creative for its students. For the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council Glenn Simon reporting.


Good morning. I'm Commander Jessica Woody, Director of Officer Development School. On behalf of the Commanding Officer of Officer Training Command Newport, welcome to the graduation ceremony for Officer Development School Class 23050, consisting of 145 officers. Military guests in uniform, this will be a covered ceremony. The order of events for this morning's ceremony are as follows. Captain Everett Alcorn, Commanding Officer, Officer Training Command Newport, and Rear Admiral Matthew Case, Commander, Navy Medical Forces Atlantic, and Director of the Medical Service Corps will arrive. The guests and class will rise for the arrival of the official party and remain standing for the playing of the National Anthem and the invocation. Captain Alcorn and Rear Admiral Case will then address the graduating class. Following their remarks, they will distribute the class awards and graduates will symbolize the completion of their training by returning their respective company guidance to their class chief petty officers. The class will then reaffirm the oath of office and will remain standing for the playing of the service songs and the final dismissal. Please rise for the arrival of the official party and remain standing for the National Anthem and the invocation. Officer Training Command Newport arriving. Naval Medical Forces Atlantic arriving. Ladies and gentlemen, our National Anthem. Let us pray. O Heavenly King, the Comforter in Spirit of Truth, who art in all places and fills all things, treasury of good things and giver of life, we give you thanks for this day of celebration. We are thankful for the life that you have given us, the parents who have loved and nourished us, and the numerous friends and family members who have encouraged us on the journey of life and helped each one to arrive at this hour. We give thanks for the dedicated staff here at Officer Training Command who helped develop each one of these sailors into our newest naval officers. Vice Admiral Stockdale wrote, character is probably more important than knowledge. We ask that you give each one of these officers the courage to be leaders of impeccable character, models of integrity and give them the strength they will need to weather the rough seas of leadership. May they hold themselves accountable each day, staying true to the values that guide them. Today they follow in the wake of the greatest naval leaders of history, selfless men and women of character who fought for the freedoms that make our country great. May they continue to carry on that legacy as they head to the fleet. Be with us today and forever. Amen. Ladies and gentlemen, Captain Everett Alcorn, commanding officer, Officer Training Command Newport. Admiral Cate, Captain Stevens, Captain McLaughlin, Colonel Bender, distinguished visitors, veterans, Officer Training Command staff, family and friends joining us today and shipmates of Officer Development School Class 23050. Good morning. Good morning, sir. It is an absolute honor for me to have this opportunity to welcome this class into one of the most prestigious and challenging, rewarding careers of our nation, that of a naval officer. Today we will bear witness as 145 officers renew a solemn promise to our nation, reaffirming their oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. For the families joining us, I want to both thank you and commend you for the performance of your sons and daughters, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, friends. Your love, support and encouragement have produced the quality individuals seated here, ones that not only chose vocations that helped their fellow human being, but who chose a path of service to help their fellow citizens. I can think of no finer group to go forth in the fleet than the officers seated here today. They could not have gotten to this point without careful guidance and support of family and on behalf of the Navy and a grateful nation, please accept my most sincere thank you. To the class, I am proud of you, all that you've accomplished while you're here. As you depart for schools and duty stations, know that you're about to be placed in a position to lead and mentor what are truly one of our most valuable national products, the enlisted men and women of our Navy. The foundations we've laid for you here at ODS are solid. It is now up to you to build upon this as you enter the naval service. I'm very impressed with the effort you have expended over the last several weeks, and I want to thank you for all that you have done and will do in the service of this great nation of ours. It is my pleasure and distinct honor to welcome you to the Wardroom as professional naval officers in the world's finest Navy. It is my privilege this morning to introduce you to our guest speaker, we're Admiral Matthew Case, Director of Naval Medical Service Corps, and Commander of Naval Medical Forces Atlantic. Admiral Case is a native of Nottingham, New Hampshire. He commissioned here in 1994. He served operationally with the 2nd Marine Force Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and U.S. Naval Forces Europe 6th Fleet, the Joint Task Force, Horn of Africa in Djibouti, and with the 1st Marine Logistics Group in Helven Province, Afghanistan. He served as Executive Officer of Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, Virginia, and Command of Naval Hospital, Jacksonville, Florida. He's done a lot of other things, fantastic things. His bio is in the program, but he asked me to keep it short, so we'll leave it there. In June 2022, Admiral Case assumed command of Naval Medical Forces Atlantic in Portsmouth, Virginia. His leadership is essential to the continued success of the world's greatest Navy. We're fortunate to have him with us here today to share his thoughts. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming our guest of honor today, Rear Admiral Matthew Case. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, sir! Thanks for the motivation. Thank you for the brief, though still a little long introduction. If you haven't done your military career, there are times you just listen and listen and listen. It's like, this was never about me. It was about being part of something great, so I appreciate not hearing about me, because it makes me think I'm old again, and I'm not. But thanks for the intro. First, I am really honored to be here today, be part of your graduation ceremony. Special welcome to all the family, friends, and loved ones who've traveled from all over the country to be here. Thank you for supporting these great officers, and welcome to our Navy family. As son of wonderful parents who are community service focused and have an amazing spouse with four amazing kids, family really is the heart of what we do. And all these officers, as they go out, they needed you to get here, and they'll continue to need your support as they serve throughout the world. So, some of the best tips for giving a good speech are the three Bs. Be brief, be brilliant, and be gone. So, I'll try for at least two of the three, okay? But as I was working on this brief, I was getting ready to prepare my remarks. I was thinking about my graduation just a few years ago from what was OIS 29 years ago in this hall. What do I remember? My two-year-old son was in the back of the room crying, and my dad was taking him outside. I remember our car was absolutely jam-packed full of stuff. I was a newlywed. I got married three days before OIS, so we had packed the car. My wife was waiting for me and the baby, and we were heading south. So, needless to say, I don't remember much about the ceremony, although I remember we didn't screw up marching in. And I checked, you guys look pretty good, too, so well done. And honestly, I couldn't remember who spoke. Who was the guest speaker? So, given that, I decided I'll keep my remarks short and just give you one thing to think about. You have places to go, and we need to let you go do that. So, here it is. One of my former CEOs had a mirror on his desk, and inscribed in words on it. It was a question, what I want to be led by me. You have all been selected and chosen to serve in the greatest, most powerful Navy that has ever existed on this earth. You wear the uniform of a naval officer, and with that you are afforded customs and curses prescribed by naval regulation. I'm sure you've heard that before in school, right? Okay? These are given to you, but know this, true leaders earn the respect of their crew. Leaders set good examples, they teach and develop, they are fair and consistent, and they know and support their crew. If you as a leader, no matter what your assignment is, you are a leader. Understand this, if you do it right, you gain your crew's respect. And likewise, when you ask yourself, would I want to be led by me, you would likely say, yes, thank you. You see 131, is that the right number? 143, congratulations, we had some additional, no, I don't know, we screwed up. 143, but two are in Texas, right? Okay, good. So 143 of you, you had many paths to get here. But ultimately, whatever path you took, your package was reviewed. And by senior officers, and you were deemed worthy of commission, and the honor to lead. You were selected for your potential, you were selected to lead our country's most precious resource, our Navy sailors. Never forget that.   You have all learned that our job is to complete whatever mission is at hand.  You will be confronted with an ethical or emotionally charged issue or event. It'll be something you will not expect, and you were not trained for. And you'll be required to make a decision that will affect your crew. You will need to respond. What will you do? At that moment, will you be that leader who can say yes when you ask yourself what I want to be led by me? There have been many great books written about leaders facing adversity and how they respond. By the way, as naval officers, I strongly encourage you to, if you haven't taken up the time to read, find the time. It helps you boost your professional, and it just makes you a better person. So I recommend getting books and reading as much as you can. Do yourself a favor, one of the great books I read was called Shackleton's Way. It captures the unbelievable survival of Shackleton and his 27 crew members after a wreck of his vessel, and being stranded on an ice float while on expedition in Antarctica in 1914. Despite being 1,200 miles from civilization, Shackleton led them through an almost two-year fight for survival. Through the expedition from start to finish, Shackleton frequently checked on his crew. He had a constant presence amongst them. He built trust and a true connection with each crew member. Shackleton did not change his approach from his crew from the start when they started their voyage through all the way through to the end. Even when they faced the real possibility of death, he continued to be focused on them, exuding positivity and encouragement. The authors describe the moment the crew was at one of their most dangerous points for survivability, a very tough time. Shackleton and the crew were so concerned, they played soccer on the frozen ice. How is this possible, you ask? Because their leader understood his crew and understood his responsibility, and in the end, with his positivity and support and encouragement, they all survived and their story was told. In his book Highest Honor, Captain Sully Sullenberger recalls the 208 seconds where he encountered a problem, assessed it, and made a decision and executed it. Given his processing information and reliance of his experience and that of his flight crew, he made remarkable decisions that saved the lives of 155 souls on the plane and prevented likely what could have been several hundred thousand deaths or casualties on the ground. In both situations, the crew were in dire straits, yet they trusted their leaders to figure it out, leaders who trusted their instincts and experiences. Shackleton kept his crew spirits up in order to survive, and Sully sought out help from his first officer and the cabin crew, knew that they would be ready to execute an emergency landing. Although I doubt many of us would want to be on an expedition across the Antarctic or piloting a commercial jet in an emergency landing in the Hudson River, I believe we want leaders like Shackleton and Sully leading us. If either one of them asked what I want to be led by me, I believe they would say yes. An expedition 105 years ago, an airplane landing in the Hudson, Admiral, what does this have to do with me, you ask. To me, these are examples highlight incredible leadership to me. I have personally had a few moments in my career where responsibility where in the uniform was very hard, where your crew is looking at you for direction, watching you to see how do you respond, and looking to be led. When something bad happens, how will each of you respond? Leaders set the tone. If a mistake is made by a sailor, do you shame them or do you support them? If someone asks you to do something that just doesn't seem right or appropriate, do you do it or do you don't do it? One of these moments when you receive bad news or face an ethical dilemma, think to yourself, am I the leader these sailors deserve? Would I want to be led by me? I believe using this reflected question and self-evaluation throughout your career will help make you a better leader that our sailors, our Navy, and our country desires. Great officers listen and learn, okay? Great officers listen and learn. And if you remember only one thing from my remarks today, like I asked, it would be asking yourself the question, all together ready? Would I want to be led by me? Okay, keep that in mind, all right? And never forget that. Best wishes to each of you as you start your career. I look forward to hopefully meeting some of you. I know you have a swarm of family coming through, but it's really excited to be here and hopefully get a few minutes to say hello and wish you well. Let the wisdom, experience, and faith in your heart guide you all. And thanks again to the families and loved ones who are here for your unwavering support. God bless all of you, the United States Navy, and our great nation. Thank you. Thank you, Captain Alcorn and Rear Admiral Case. At the conclusion of each ODS class, several students are recognized by their fellow classmates, as well as the OTCN staff for outstanding achievement during the five-week course of instruction. Lieutenant J.G. James Shannon, front and center. The Honor Student Award is presented to the officer who best demonstrates an overall excellence in the areas of academics, physical fitness, and military bearing. Consistently setting the example for his or her peers throughout the many challenges faced at Officer Training Command. The Honor Student Award goes to Lieutenant Junior Grade James Shannon. Ensign Montana Koslowski, front and center. The Alfred Award is given to the officer who achieves the highest military grade, derived from personnel inspections, room inspections, and general military bearing. This award is named for the Continental Slope of War, the Alfred. Commissioned in 1775, the Alfred served as the flagship for native Rhode Islander Commodore E. Sick Hopkins, and is regarded as the birthplace of Navy Medicine, as it was the first ship to appoint a dedicated ship surgeon. Serving as a role model of Navy pride and professionalism, maintaining the highest military standards, and providing inspiration to all, the Alfred Award goes to Ensign Koslowski. Ensign Camille Leone, front and center. The Pickens-Wills Peer Leadership Award is presented to the officer who personifies the highest standards of personal example, good leadership practices, and moral responsibility. Officers were nominated by their peers, and the winner was selected by the Officer Training Command staff. The winner of this award embodies the leadership traits and a spree decor of Harriet Pickens and Francis Wills, the first two African-American women to commission in the United States Navy. Their courage and collaborative leadership style paved the way for today's inclusive Navy. The Pickens-Wills Peer Leadership Award goes to Ensign Leone. Ensign Gregory Ivy, front and center. The Edie Award is named for Lieutenant Thomas Edie, United States Navy. It recognizes the highest achievement in academic and military performance. Lieutenant Thomas Edie, who immigrated from Scotland and settled in Rhode Island, was awarded the Navy Cross and the Medal of Honor for his courageous efforts as a diver during the salvage of submarines SS-4 and SS-51 off the coast of Massachusetts. He was a member of the Southeastern New England chapter of the Retired Officers Association at the time of his death in 1974. In recognition of this accomplishment, in addition to the certificate of achievement, the Military Officers Association of America has provided a three-year membership to the Edie Award winner, Ensign Ivy. For the past five weeks, the company guide-on has been a symbol of spirit, dedication, teamwork, and unit identity. To symbolize the fact that these officers seated before you have completed their training, they will return their guide-ons to their class chief petty officers. Senior Chief Gunners Mate Christopher Lawrence and Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman David Long. Lieutenant Claire will now deliver the reaffirmation of the oath of office. Would all military personnel please come to the position of attention. The Commanding Officer of Officer Training Command would like to present to you your newly reaffirmed naval officers. Please rise for the playing of the service songs and the final dismissal. Class 23050, upon graduation from Officer Development School, you are ordered to detach and report to your duty stations, where you will assume the duties and responsibilities by order of Captain Everett Alcorn, United States Navy, Commanding Officer, Officer Training Command Newport. Class 23050...


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One of the things that I've dealt in ministry and being as a pastor is helping people sometimes to recognize certain things that hold them back from moving forward in their relationships or moving forward in their life with God. A lot of times there are these invisible chains that hold us back to a particular event or a particular person and they're not actually like demonic spirits but they are soul ties. Now I understand so many people say well this is just a charismatic invention of people who do deliverance. This is totally not true and we're going to dive into the scripture and look at what Bible talks about what Bible says about soul ties and most importantly how for us to break ungodly soul ties. Let's start with the first verse Genesis chapter 44 verse 30. It says, now therefore when I come to your servant my father and the lad is not with us since his life is bound up in the lad's life it will happen when he sees that the lad is not with us he will die. So one of the sons of Jacob is saying to Joseph in Egypt he says that Jacob's life is tied his life his soul is tied bound up meaning together bound up to the life of Benjamin. So that means that Jacob had this soul tie to his son Benjamin. Partially it was because Joseph was gone and then the mother of Joseph and Jacob and Benjamin she died a childbirth of Benjamin and there was this very strong tie that Jacob had to Benjamin. Now let's look at another example and this example that most people hear about David and Jonathan in 1 Samuel chapter 18 verse 1 it says the following. Now when he had finished speaking to Saul the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. So I want you to see one soul is knit to the soul it's pretty much like bound up it's connected and so where we get the idea of soul ties it's when your soul becomes knit together with another person's soul. David's David's emotions David's inner being not his spirit but his soul was tied up like chained bound knit together with the soul of Jonathan. Now let's look at the people of Judah the tribe of Judah in 2 Samuel chapter 20 verse 2. So every man of Israel went up after David and they followed so every man of Israel went up from after David and followed Sheba the son of Bikchi. But the men of Judah claved unto their king from Jordan to Jerusalem in King James version claved meaning they got attached they got knit together they are they closely followed they got pretty much infused with David the rest of the Israelites they walked away from David but the men of Judah had this close connection to this leader of theirs their king. So as we're seeing already parents can have very close ties to their children friends can have very close emotional and soulless ties to their friends and people can have these ties to their leaders people in authority teachers pastors or somebody that they look up to as a person of authority. Let's look at one more. Shechem was strongly attached to the daughter of Jacob Dina or Dina and I want you to read the I want you to listen to the verse Genesis chapter 34 verse verse 3. His soul so it talks about Shechem his soul was strongly attached to Dina the daughter of Jacob and he loved the young woman and spoke kindly to the young woman. It's interesting that it followed on the footsteps of him raping her you know they had a physical connection and then something happened she becomes connected to him and he becomes strongly attached he becomes connected knit to her soul and a lot of times that's what happens when people have sex they develop soul ties sometimes these soul ties can develop not through sex they can develop through an obsession that you have with the person or some kind of a thing that you go with the person that can really anchor you in that's not even physical like for example David and Jonathan this wasn't a physical relationship it was very emotional relationship that they had same thing with Jacob and Benjamin he had a very close almost like unhealthy dependence upon his son because the other children of Jacob noticed that if Benjamin is gone Jacob is gonna die and that's not healthy. Now the Bible talks about husband and wife have this relationship in Genesis chapter 2 verse 24 it says that I mentioned leave his father and his mother be joined to his wife and they shall become one flesh they are knit together there is this knitting together between husband and wife and then we're gonna look at one more verse and then I want to talk about how to begin to break those unhealthy soul ties so as you're noticing there's healthy soul ties and they're unhealthy soul ties so soul ties in themselves are not bad the problem begins to happen when we have unhealthy soul ties by which we are controlled dominated manipulated or we are dragged on by our past or we are still connected to some kind of a previous relationship of our past that we need to move on from. Colossians chapter 2 verse 2 it says that their hearts may be encouraged being knit together in love and attaining to all the riches at the full assurance of understanding to the knowledge of the mystery of God both of the Father and of Christ so we as believers we are knit together to other believers in love not in control not in guilt not in domination not in some kind of a you know where somebody exercises this domination over you but in love we are knit together as different parts of our bodies are knit together so is we the members of Jesus Christ we are knit together not just to the Lord but to each other we are knit together in love God is in the business restoring your soul if certain parts of your soul are stuck somewhere else in the previous relationships in the previous episodes of your life in the previous seasons of your life maybe through certain activities that you were involved in that some portions of your soul are stuck somewhere else the Lord wants to restore your soul in fact the Bible wants us to worship God with all of our soul that means he doesn't want us to give fragments of our soul to an abusive relationship he doesn't want us to leave fragments of our soul portions of our soul and these particular things in some kind of a previous relationship he doesn't want to have hooks people to have hooks to our soul and for them to hold us back he wants us to worship him with all of our soul a hundred percent of your soul not just with your mind not just with your spirit but with your soul with your mind with your emotions and the Bible even says that in Psalm in Psalm 23 verse 3 it says that he restores my soul so maybe your soul got broken down as you went through relationships as you went through maybe abusive relationships perhaps you went through relationships where you were manipulated controlled you were taken advantage of God forbid raped molested maybe you had a very unhealthy dominant parent authority that just dominated your life and destroyed and broke your soul down perhaps you had somebody in authority in a spiritual place who destroyed or took certain portions of your soul and just crushed them the Lord wants you to worship him with all of your soul he wants to remove all the hooks from your soul and he wants to restore your soul so you can become a healthy being in your soul the devil wants to tear your soul to pieces and this is where the main verse about soul ties comes from in Psalm 7 in Psalm 7 and verse 2 it says lest he tear your soul like a lion rending it in pieces while there is none to deliver so the devil like a lion wants to tear your soul to fragments to pieces to portions so you're no longer a whole person you're a person with holes your person with hooks your person with fragments you're broken down that's what the devil wants but God wants to restore your soul God wants to bring your soul back so that it with your soul you can praise him and worship him fully so in the conclusion of this message what do we want to do if you found yourself today with soul ties if you found yourself with hooks broken pieces in your soul i'm going to give you just four hours to consider number one is to repent of ungodly soul ties repent of any sexual sins repent of depending on someone even if it's your parent even if it's your ex-boyfriend even if it's spiritual authority where you lost your even individuality where you lost your personhood you got so obsessed with this person you got so maybe admiring you admire this person so much or perhaps you were so fascinated or perhaps you were so weak and this person took advantage of that and you let that happen repent of any known sins where you've opened the door for your heart for your soul become a prisoner broken and torn to pieces by the enemy because of willfully going into relationships that God doesn't want you to be in or allowing yourself to go so deep in depending on the other person that you lost who you are you lost the you lost the freedom to think to make decisions and the freedom to be who you are who God made you to be number two is renounce ungodly soul ties renounce ungodly soul ties of codependence maybe on your parents where you can't function today and you're over 30 years of age and you can't be you you can't make decisions because you're so dependent in an unhealthy way renounce any soul tie you might have to your ex-boyfriend or your ex-girlfriend perhaps to somebody who victimized you renounce these soul ties perhaps somebody that you had a one night stand renounce those things repent of them and then renounce them maybe you had the situation that this guy had it with the daughter of jacob renounce those things because these are spiritual these are like little hooks connected to your soul dragging you and keeping you from going forward where God wants you to be number three remove any objects that connects you to that person or that event especially if it's relationships that ended romantic relationships or relationships that were very toxic and unhealthy gifts objects different sometimes people have different scarves different low necklaces earrings perfume cologne they have different notes photos anything that gets you connected to those things and just let the Lord lead you to that this is not some kind of a law or a legalism where where if something that connects you to that just remove that from your possession remove that from your life because that thing is over and whatever that it was over with it needs to die together with it it doesn't need to that does not need to drag into your future remove those objects that connect you to those soul ties i know people who sometimes hear a message like this and as a pastor you know i deal with people who are trying to get married and sometimes they had a previous relationship where things didn't work out and and they feel this like drawing toward that person they know they shouldn't be with that person this person already the other person already got married and they still feel like man but this is this is it for me and they feel stuck and the moment they take the objects the pictures the the notes the even the i remember one person scarf that was holding her back remove it god just opens the door and they're able to move forward into the next thing that god has for them and number four is receive restoration from the spirit of god this is the work of the holy spirit now you might need counseling you might need professional help but holy spirit is honestly the best helper i'm not in any way discrediting or belittling or minimizing the importance of counseling or therapy or professional help but the spirit of god is your helper as well he wants to repair your soul he wants to bring your soul back he wants to renew your soul he wants to put you back together he wants you to be whole again not the person with hooks and holes but for your soul to be whole again god bless you in jesus name as you go in the process of finding restoration for your soul