Hi, good morning. I am Dr. Vidyadarayal, head of the department at Concert & Spine Surgeon at Manipalm Hospital, Bangalore. As you would have heard, our honorable Prime Minister, Mr. Modi, today morning, continuing the lockdown for another three weeks, some of us may have been very worried as to how to take care of our back. Now, we are here to cater to your emergency needs. If you fall, if you break your back, we are here to serve you despite the lockdown. We are working on emergency basis. However, all elective back pains, neck pains, the tinglings, numbness, you can always contact us on the platform of telemedicine with the Manipalm Hospital website. And also, we will be able to contact you, communicate with you and guide you as to how to get about going with your day to day activities. However, unless you lose strength in your legs, arms, or you have difficulty in passing urine and motion, then I don't suggest you to wait at home. You should report to the hospital immediately because these may be the warning signs of a major disaster of losing your leg and the upper limbs or your control of urine and motion forever. So here we are there at Manipalm Hospital to serve you on an emergency basis irrespective of what is the treatment that is required. We are here to serve you.  It is the time to introspect in our own lives, in our own professions, in our own careers. I know many of us would have taken a large haul of coming to where we are today and this is the perfect time to introspect and see how we have to plan our next strategy to take a bigger leap in the years to come. It is a big challenge for the whole nation and the whole world but primary goal is to fight together against Corona. I am here along with the hospital at Manipalm to serve you in case of your dire needs or emergencies which constitute to actually only less than 1% of total ailments of spine. Hence, I request you to take adequate rest and treat minor back and neck pains with painkillers and I think you will be able to sustain this lockdown effectively. And once the lockdown is off, I think we can get on improving regular surgeries, regular treatments, injections and etc. Good luck, God bless mankind and hope we will survive through this successfully as a nation. Thank you for watching.


If you've noticed, there is this push to not only minimize sin, sin in the lives of maybe a believer, but even the sin in the life of a non-believer, sin in the world. There's a push to minimize sin, but also there is a push to minimize the effect of sin, the result of sin, the consequence of sin. Including the eternal effects of sin. In other words, there are people who believe that when you die, if you go to hell, that that's that. You will cease to be exist, maybe you're burned for a moment, and that's that. The term that's given for many is this term annihilationism, which means that you are just annihilated at that moment. Before I get to the ramifications of this view, let's just first see if the scriptures back it up. Let me say this, they don't. Hell is eternal.  And these are people that port to call themselves Christian. Now, the people that I'm going to talk about, I'm not saying that they are not believers. That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is what they're espousing is not Christianity, is not what the Bible teaches. One such person is this man, I think his name is Lex from Unlearn the Lies, and he is teaching this belief that hell is not eternal. For the moment there is a punishment, and then after the punishment is meted out, then that's that. You cease to exist. In other words, he says that you are not living forever in hell. We've been taught that the wicked will be tortured in the lake of fire forever, but the Bible actually says the wicked will be destroyed in the fire.    So let's look at the passage that he's speaking of, and let's see if we can begin to see where he is making an error. In Matthew, chapter 10 verse 28, we see this word that's used here for the word destroy, which is the word apalesi, which is derived from the word apalumi. Now, his point is to destroy as though that's a one-time thing. The word here is to destroy, to ruin, to lose, to perish. What happens is sometimes we'll take a word and give it an English understanding of the word, and not so much even the English understanding, but our own understanding of this English word. As though, because we think if something is destroyed, that's final. It happens one time and that's it. But that's not the context, not the understanding that God is trying to communicate that a person is destroyed or ruined as though it's a one-time event. No, this is a continual event. Doesn't Yeshua say the fire is everlasting? Yes, he does. So let's look at that verse. And he will also say to those on the left hand, depart from me you cursed into the everlasting fire, prepare for the devil and his angels. So why does the Bible say the fire is everlasting? If the wicked are destroyed by it. What does it mean to say the fire is everlasting? Everlasting refers to permanence. The fire is everlasting because there is no coming back from it.  There's no more hope. The punishment is final and lasts forever. In Matthew, verse 25 verse 41, let's read this. He says, then he will say to those on his left, depart from me you cursed into the eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. So these are people that are going into this eternal fire, prepared for the devil and angels. But look at this word that he's talking about. It is this eternal fire. It is, it is Ta-Pur, Ta-Ionian, which means this fire, that the word for poor is fire. Ionian is eternal. So it is an everlasting fire. And then let's drop down a little bit further into verse 26. He says, and to these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life. Again, this word eternal for and punishment. Colossian Ionian, which is describing what the punishment is. This punishment is forever. It is an everlasting, ongoing punishment into the ages. Forever. That's what this word Ionian is. And at this point in time, that's all you're there for. So his point to state that the body and soul are both destroyed in hell. No, they're being destroyed.   Now he addresses this and he makes a grave error in his assessment. We see the contrast between death and eternal life. The Bible teaches that the wicked are destroyed, they perish, they are consumed, and they will not receive everlasting life.  You can't say the wicked are destroyed if they're in a perpetual state of being tortured alive. You can't say the wages of sin is death if the sinners are alive in the fire. And so his explanation of that doesn't hold water because again, as we just looked at it, we're not talking about the result of the fire that's everlasting. The fire is described as everlasting and the punishment also is everlasting. They're both the fire's ongoing because the punishment is ongoing. The Bible even gives us an example of what this eternal fire looks like. As Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them in a similar manner to these having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh are set forth as an example suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is given as an example of eternal fire. But those cities are not still burning with fire today.  This is what the Bible describes as eternal fire. The destruction of that fire is permanent. Well, does that make sense what he just states about Sodom and Gomorrah? Well, no. And we're going to look at a few verses to debunk this. So let's look at that passage and a few other passages. And so the writer of Jude, Jude says in verse 7, he speaks about it serves as an example of undergoing a punishment of eternal fire. This is where guys that help the understanding of the language but even English, I think carries this out but if a person wants to disagree well, you're going to have to disagree with this portion right here. It says that this example of undergoing a punishment of eternal fire. Look what it says that this fire, I own this, this eternal fire. And it's again, calling this fire eternal. It says this is punishment. And so look at this word. Hapakusi, it is a present active participle meaning that this is ongoing. It is continual. When we have the word ING in English, someone who runs and we have the ING running that means they are currently continuously running the same here. This is their undergoing punishment in this eternal fire. Now speaking of Sodom and Gomorrah, Jesus addresses this as well, which is if his point is true then what Jesus says right here doesn't really make very much sense. He's talking about how people are going to be punished in that day. And look what he says in verse 15. He says, truly I say to you it will be more bearable or tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town. Speaking of those folks who are rejecting Jesus or the word going out from his disciples to them. He says it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah in that day. Well, if all everyone is going to get is burned up one time then it's going to be the same. But he's indicating that there's a difference meaning there has to be something that's ongoing to this in order for one to have it better or worse than the next person. If we're all just burnt up one time destroyed, annihilated and that's that then this passage makes no sense. Even when you think of the rich man and Lazarus look what Jesus says, how he says this. He says the rich man in chapter 16 verse 22 of Luke says the rich man also died and was buried. Look what he says. And in Hades being in torment he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus at his table and called out Father Abraham have mercy on me. He says sin Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water to cool my tongue for I am in anguish in this flame. So why would Jesus give us the picture of this person that's going to be in this anguish of this ongoing anguish in this flame if this is a one time event it doesn't hold water that it doesn't make any sense in comparison to what he's saying here as well. And then something real interesting that's kind of also odd tells you what this place hail or ultimately the lake of fire what it's going to be like. There's a noun given to describe this place. So let's take a look and see if you see my point. In Matthew 25 30 says and cast the worthless servant into outer darkness in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Now in the English it has the ing for the weeping and gnashing but when we look at it closely we're going to find that this isn't a verb this is a noun. The word clothmas is the word for weeping but look at the bottom left and corner guys this is a masculine singular noun this is a noun for weeping or crying in other words the reason why it's a noun and not a verb and why this makes even more importance is because this is what you do there is the weep or the cry. I know bad English but see if you can follow me there is here the weep and the cry and the gnash of teeth. This is this is picturing what this place is about. That's why the English carries it out as weeping and gnashing because that's the whole point of this place you go there to weep you go there to cry you go there to gnash your teeth it is unbearable there and that's all you're going to do which is identified by the person in the story of the rich man in Lazarus where he is in this eternal torment. Now incidentally this idea of eternal torment is not a new idea this is not a New Testament issue. This was also brought up in the Old Testament let's go specifically to Daniel 12 too and for many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt. Look at the word here the word is everlasting contempt and so by the way the word here is olam which means it's the same as Ionian which means this is an ongoing contempt or destruction. This happens over and there's no end to this as the writer of Daniel is saying. So now let's also find other passages I want this to be very clear this should even be an issue. I'll tell you why this is an issue in a second and I'll use another very prominent well-known person who's also making the point and I think this is very very dangerous but before I do let's look at some other passages for example Paul tells us in 2 Thessalonians 2 chapter 1 verse 90 says about these people going to hell he says and they will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction away from the presence of the Lord again eternal destruction and the word Ionian is there this is an ongoing thing. This is again this is the same word that's used for our life in the presence of the Lord it is eternal meaning there's no end to it and so if that's how we take eternal life meaning that there is no end to it that we continue to live this way with him then when the term destruction is there also then that means this destruction this destroying of it is also ongoing I understand that we can't fathom how you can be destroyed continuously I get that we would equate being burned in the fire as a one-time thing because all we have to relate with that whole thought process is if we see something burned up in the fire once it's through burning that's it but I do recall seeing fire before where it can consume something but not destroy it totally just like this consuming fire of God in the burning bush obviously is different but we do have examples where the fire of God can rain and something not be destroyed although that's not the whole point with Moses and the burning bush but again we're talking about God we're talking about what he can do now the issue is going to be why would he do such a thing and we'll get to that in a second but the fact of the matter is we should not equate what we think fire earthly physical fire in this realm will do compared to the burning of fire in this spiritual world this is going to be forever another place that we see this is also what John says to us in Revelation 14 speaking about these people who are going to face this this wrath of God he says in verse 10 he will also drink the wine of God's wrath poured full strength into the cup of his anger look what he says and he will be tormented with fire and suffer in the presence of the holy angels in the presence of the lamb says and the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever and they have no rest day or night these are these worshipers of the beast and of its images now it's not just them only obviously the people who weren't even born at that time who are going to hell or in this case like a fire the same thing but notice he says that this smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever and if you notice this is the same word that's used in the Greek it says ice I own us which is same word as I own none here you see I own on again ice I own us I own on meaning forever and forever and forever so it should be clear that this is an ongoing process one of the other people that have kind of prominently also backed up this point it's a false point that that that hell isn't so bad is Tim Mackey of the Bible Project now again I'm not saying that either one of these people are believers that's not what I'm saying but their belief in hell is faulty is one particular misunderstanding or one particular distortion about Jesus that I have found to be extremely common in the other place the bad place will be will be held and heaven if you kind of fish this out of people and in the popular cultural imagination is you know these are both like maybe disembodied non-physical places this has to do with clouds and harps and singing in the presence of God and this has to do with like some subterranean torture chamber or something like that right we're got a sadistically hurting people I mean you guys with me this is what people think that followers of Jesus believe the vast majority of people in the West think that this is what you believe and some of you in the room might be thinking that is what I believe in the beginning God made heavens and what does it not say it doesn't say in the beginning God made heaven and earth and hell God didn't make whatever hell is God didn't make it and so Tim's point is that we might we may have conjured up or given hell something we may have conjured up or ascribe something to hell that the Bible never intended to know it's not that we're making God out to be some angry God but he is a God who does have wrath and will exact that wrath on people who have who do not come to him hell isn't just something about like the end of the game hell is a reality that is present now it's a reality that humans unleash on each other and on God's good world to ruin and destroy relationships and to destroy people and so listen to his point again I say this I'll continue to say this if hell ain't so bad then heaven ain't that good now I obviously believe that heaven is a place worth going but the issue is this and this is the danger this is why this is the problem there are people who will take their lives here on earth because they just want to get over and done with and I would tell those people listen there's something to deal with after this life this isn't it there's more to come where you'll be forever is the point and so leaving this for a place far worse is not where you want to go but if you give the idea that dying and then bam that's it you're through no more existing well that's a that's a bad picture to paint and it gives the idea that God has no rapid God is not a just God that he does not exact punishment on the wicked that's not true again if we all cease to exist well then that's not so bad is it it's like going and getting the shot it's just over and done with real quick no problem piece of cake again that's not the picture that the Bible is painting for us and it's the same thing that the devil has done to minimize sin then in turn also minimize hell the punishment of hell is to say go ahead and live how you want to live here because it's all we know all we know is this earth right now and so if I can get any sort of gratification I don't care about God I'll take care of me and I'll deal with the punishment later especially if the punishment ain't so bad well I promise you guys if that's the way you think then you are literally literally guys playing with fire albeit spiritual fire but it's a worse fire than you could imagine but the opposite is true you will have eternal life living in the presence of the Lord and so reject that the possibility of hell to come by simply placing faith in Christ but do not let anyone trick you which is a trick that I believe comes straight from the enemy that hell isn't that bad and so if it's not that bad well then living my best life here on that earth on this earth is probably the best thing I can do don't fall into that trap it's clear that hell is full of eternal torment amen


So welcome to my talk. I'm giving here and that's quite a long title. I'm kind of bad in Finding a right title in the last minute when the summit went to summit. So I'm going to read that one out Who was in the talk from? Colin and Jonas about multi data center deployments Okay, this is One of the implementations of it it takes up some parts So you heard a lot of theory in this talk. This is We're talking here a little bit more about how we are tackling the approach In Collins and Daniel Stokes. You heard a lot of phpco yelling In our here, maybe you don't see phpco. Maybe Here I'm old man healing at clouds. I'm not the old man, but I'm my name is Marcel Harry I'm leading the architecture within Swiss comms application cloud and the elastic stack I'm also a member of Cloud Foundry's technical advisory board and I'm working with Cloud Foundry for now more than three years What is Swiss comms application cloud? Swiss comms application cloud has public offering It's on developer Swiss comms.com. We're one of The certified Cloud Foundry providers. You can go there sign up push your applications immediately and see the way how we are Provisioning Cloud Foundry and to to our users As Swiss comm as a service provider, we're offering Cloud Foundry to numerous customers. We have some of them are Powered by application cloud before you just had a talk about how Dorma Kabul leverages their microservice services architecture on top of our application cloud We are also leveraging Cloud Foundry heavily internally for all our newer applications to be built Swiss comm has a wide variety a wide range of applications, whether it's for supporting People on the field in in the stores or even just internally and we have also a Much bigger project running on top of one of our virtual private instances. This is my cloud my cloud is the Dropbox offering of Swiss comm it runs purely On top of our application cloud and offers you cloud storage Actually anybody can go there and sign up and you get a bunch of gigabytes to store your stuff So all all of these customers they have customers as well and What you usually expect as a customer with when using a cloud service is That cloud is always on it's it the service is just there it works No matter what might happen, but the important thing is Whenever you want to use the service if you have internet connectivity, it should work As a developer if you look at it and we have is very nice Haiko is as a developer you just want to say well, here's my source code Run it on the cloud for me. I don't care how and this is where we as as a cloud foundry Platform operator are coming in into the game our customers are The developers who are trusting us with their code and and all that we should do is We should provide a platform that keeps everybody asleep. So no outages and It just works So But cloud do fails. I mean there might be Connections getting lost there might be hardware failures. There might be logical Failures within the infrastructure underneath data centers might might have problems whatever and also Since we're getting more and more customers and more and more applications for example Also with our internal application cloud. We're seeing a bunch of requirements that are popping up like Business is actually requiring that The application that is being hosted it runs within multiple data centers. I mean we're keeping up Cloud Foundry within Highly-awayable we keep up your your application, but there are certain maybe regulations or or things that say well You just need to run within multiple data centers and also if you start getting more and more customers on top of a platform and you might need to do maintenance on that platform it finding a Maintenance window that fits all of the customers is just forget about that. That's not something that will work out and as a developer you still want to stick with With that user experience off. I just want to push to the cloud and just It's it's your you're the platform operator. You keep things up and running. I mean I don't need to I Don't I should not think about AJ because I mean I built my application already based on on on on the 12-factor Manifesto, so why I mean my my application is ready to horizontally scale But also being highly-awayable if you as a platform operator do it and then if we We're also running our infrastructure.  This might be exchanging things that failure and that fail and Over time you might also get bigger upgrades to leverage new functionality and these bigger upgrades might not always Work in an interruption-free manner, so and then giving that we just can't forget about finding finding a maintenance window that fits all and The and the the feeling of the people. Well things should always be on We we actually just need what we want to have is that we can simply CF push into multiple data centers and The infrastructure underneath can lifecycle without interrupting the services running on top So We we then started thinking about okay, we were this this requirements is getting more and more important for us and And then how do we want to approach it? One of the classical approaches so far is okay Let's just make infrastructure highly-awayable through throughout multiple data centers But we really would like to keep the infrastructure Simple as possible and and also stupid as possible So we we would really like to for example not stretch storage over multiple data centers In the end we would also like to be able to just tear down a whole stack or a data center Without also having the possibility that it might lose and the only thing that we actually need to do with the application Was pushed into multiple data center? We just need to direct or shift Traffic to the right endpoints and given that we're a telecommunications company network operator It's kind of the things that we we can easily do we can easily Manage the traffic to the right end point So There was recently an xkcd was I think the second last one I'm not going to read the whole one the funny thing is okay Let's just burn down data centers in the end. There was also Colin talking on Monday Saying well, maybe if you're engineering for a thermonuclear war, you're maybe over engineering So let's just find some somewhere the balance in between and so we went off with that and We we we made a few important marks that we wanted to to consider So for us The developer experience is really important. We would like to keep one push. So there are At this summit now a lot of people talked about multi-cloud deploying to multiple clouds folks have presented tooling that supports you in pushing towards Multiple cloud foundry installations, which then mimic kind of that way of of a of a simple One CF push we we think we we would like to to to keep with that without addressing multiple cloud foundries at once one of the things and this was also in Collins and Daniel's talk was in the cap theory. So this is certainly something We we should keep in mind people who were Listening to to Collins taught and you now have all the theoretical details and you know how Cinema seats can get mixed up if you don't add her to the cap theory and Another thing is certainly we we also need to keep network traffic in mind I mean we're building a dispute the we're building on top of a distributed system that itself Provides a platform for a microservice architecture. So network traffic is certainly something that happens a lot and especially if it comes in in together with with a synchronizing state or Keeping things efficient latency is something and we should really care of the good thing is as Swiss We have certain advantages and with regards of that I mean we own and control our stacks the data centers We run it the networks and also the pipes All these things are being pushed through and everything is even in a a metropolitan area because I mean if you compare Switzerland is that small that we don't need to talk about going from east coast to west coast where we're certainly hit hitting Various physical limits of just being fast enough so When we look at how we're deploying our application cloud or Cloud Foundry then we basically It more or less looks a little bit like that. So on the top We have an access layer. So this is where traffic from Other networks flow in to our stack and this is also where for example, we terminate SSL, this is the first thing where load balance a first phase of load balancing happen is happening and This is also the north south bridge between The physical network and and the virtualized network and based on an SDN on top of of an open stack and then we We have Cloud Foundry is is is quite a nice already built distributed system. So it it has various ephemeral components or easily horizontal Horizontally scalable components like The cloud controller API or even the Diego cells themselves. I mean they're usually just running off of ephemeral storage But as we also learned in in other talks cloud Foundry is Itself a stateful system. So it has certain states and this is mainly being provided through console Etcd and as well as the cloud controller database and this one We're running on top of a Galera cluster that is already spanning over three nodes and We have our persistent services persistent services is always the thing that gives you a little bit a headache if you are starting to think about Making things horizontally scalable. It's also the nice thing where cloud foundry says well 12 factor apps where we're the platform for 12 factor apps just consumes the services from from outside But we as we're offering a platform to to run applications people are also also asking for these services But there we're now moving more and more towards highly-awayable deployments of enterprise great service offerings like MongoDB enterprise either sharded or partitioned and and with replicasets and or like Also the Galera cluster with which is already highly-awayable and The other thing where cloud Foundry stores it states is the blob store and within Swisscom. We have Another platform that is offering s3 as a service already out based out of four locations so we we already have an object store that is highly-awayable and Geographically distributed and Then underneath you you kind of like I have the Bosch director and and various supporting services But all of them they are not that important in case of In case of a failure because they're there maybe here to manage But maybe first you can resurrect them and then go on later because running the workload is not being driven by them Another important thing is this all all these components within the orange box They are heavily talking to each another so usually you deploy it either into one or multiple networks But more or less there's they're just they must be routable on layer 3 So they should be able to communicate directly with each another So when we when we looked at that picture and then moved on We said okay, we're going now to take this this thing and going to span it over multiple data centers that are given our the size of the country we offer the services in That they are very close to each another and we're able to get very good a bandwidth and and also be Latency in between those data centers So so we can address various so we we can address various of the problems easily by just having that Advantage of of the infrastructure underneath So this pictures shows you now a little bit how Conceptually which are the important things that you need to stretch out. I wrote it At the bottom that this pictures only shows it for two sides If you know a little bit about quorum and things like that You should always go with three sides, but the third side is left out as left out as an exercise for for people but basically as I explained before We have all these ephemeral already horizontally scalable Parts of of cloud foundry. I mean they we can just deploy them I mean that we just need to replicate them as well and then the the the most tricky thing is is Is is is the CF state as well as the services itself? But there we're already running them in highly-awayable fashion within our stack so and Given that our stacks are very close to each another. We're just going to span them amongst multiple stacks Which then means that we mainly also need to make the network Within the orange box. We need it routable with the network on the other sides. So then the The access layer the one above is the one where we make connections Where we span the internal connectivity between the different side? And this is also where then we direct traffic to to the various stacks This is for example the outside traffic routing it to the right data center and the right stack This is something that within Swisscom. We're already doing for other projects So this is a standardized service that that we're able to set up and then we we can just leverage the things underneath and As I said before DNS NTP This is like usually things that you can anyway just use locally If they are highly-awayable within the stack, it's fine if if a stack it's if a stack is failing and another one Is not depending on it. I mean you don't need to span it anyway, so But as you might see We we really think of keeping For example, the stacks very individual. So we don't want to stretch open stack over multiple sites even As a multi-region approach with keystone and and then you suddenly have rabbit MQ also being stretched and Galera and and then comes storage and network and So there we just said no we just keep the stacks Autonomous so they can also fail on a on a per location site and if we if we look at that a little bit then People would usually say well, this is just an away ability zone within AWS so usually People are deploying cloud foundry over multiple away ability zones and yes It's it's more or less that and I will also pick that up later when when when to show you like for also other Things we develop to be able to do that If we're deploying and life cycling cloud foundry Bosch is is the tool to do it and So we said well Are we now going to split up our Bosch manifests Into two different Bosch manifests that we deploy to each stack on the other side But then like okay now we need to run updates simultaneously. We need to orchestrate that together. Well, let's build something like a meta Bosch and then Well, no, this just gets too complicated. I mean in the end and this is what I mentioned before Bosch is already aware of a way ability zones and it will it is able to deploy into multiple Availability zones the only difference here in our cases. Well, our away ability zones are to those totally different Stacks so it's two different clouds but yes in the end we're just deploying to multiple Availability zones and this is then where where we looked at. Okay, can we do that kind of deployment? with a single Bosch but deploying it against multiple availability zones that are backed by different Clouds and this is where we started working together with the Bosch team on What is called the multi CPI support for Bosch? It means Bosch needs to talk to different clouds it needs to upload the stem cells maybe twice it needs to create resources based on on their away ability zone and Yeah, essentially We're mapping the various resources were deploying with Bosch to different clouds over the Availability zones and then I mean within Bosch Itself Bosch already handles all the away ability zone stuff So it will just handle the deployment as we know and we do one on other single clouds, but multiple away ability zone setups given that we like one Bosch is able to To reach all the components and all the different clouds because we interconnect them with a direct layer free link The current status of that It's ready to be merged. We're we're discussing Like the the the last cleanup things there's a branch up within our github repository of Bosch This is the thing that is currently running in in our premises It's not yet officially merged, but it's heavily discussed with the Bosch team I mean also they already had some plans for that So it's not something where we had the idea and and and now we're just proposing it So it was really something we developed together with with the Bosch team It's as we this week as we discuss it still or as we present here It's it's being discussed with them. It will hopefully be merged At some time and then you also need some changes to the CPIs So The CPIs need to be now know a little bit more, but we were able to do that with backward Compatible changes. So the thing we did as we're Talking directly to open only to open stack is we implemented it with the open stack CPI and And So we're showing it how it will work with talking against multiple open stacks But yeah, so once people are implementing these necessary changes to also the other CPIs You will be able to talk with one Bosch to to open stack and AWS at the same time so That's then in my opinion going to be the real like multi-cloud experience with when deploying things These URLs here are up for for you to look to look at to to to give feedback Also, certainly to to tell people well well if you want to maybe try it out with your CPI you need to adapt your CPI There's the open stack CPI That that shows what you need to change like these changes We will propose these changes to be merged once we have Things merged within Bosch But for example one one of the nice things would be if the Bosch warden CPI would be next Because at the moment if you're running Arrants with Bosch Bosch spins up a VM this might take some minutes and then it runs a job For maybe 20 seconds. So if you could actually say well run all my errands in another way ability zone Which is pointing to the warden CPI then all these errands they could just run Locally on on the Bosch director or or so with where or where Warden is running and and it will would be very quickly because it's just a matter of spawning and container and destroying it So errands could become very fast to be executed This are kind of like the change the changes underneath that that we now did that we're now We're now rolling out things using that and we're certainly sure that there still will be dragons. We We don't think that this this will just work, but it's something that we said well We're going this way around because we think This is the way how How we want to stretch cloud foundry amongst multiple data centers But certainly the capferium will hit us sometime will make us trouble But we're certainly sure that we're finding solutions there Also, one of the things that we see is we do not yet have intelligent traffic routing Isolation segments might be something that come in the future, but at the moment we will still have lots of interTC traffic Because and the go router isn't not a way ability so unaware Also services are not like intelligent in Placeable like apps Like you cannot say well be rather placed there or here because also app placements and think this is things We we want to figure out whether it makes sense or not and then yes only I mean we have some experience when Cloud Foundry parts of it go down within a single stack. Let's see how robust it will be when When it's two totally or three different stacks Yeah, this is certainly also one of the dragon. We mind the counter, but to end we We really think that we should really build the platforms for cloud native applications cloud natives themselves because this will make Operating running them as well as easy as cloud native applications and with that I'm at the end and We're more or less right on time. So I don't know how much time we have for questions if We do not have but I think we're more or less done with all the talks so Questions and otherwise, please catch me later. I'm still here till Somewhere in later in the evening Thanks a lot for listening any quick question No, yeah Between the data centers without that Elegancy gets into your way It really I would say then it will really start depending on on the services for example like how efficient will Etcd slash console still be with the raft protocol How efficient will Galera synchronization still be and all these things this really depend We we We know that we're able to build it way Like to have the latency in between our data centers way below what what what should become a problem? But I know for example that people were building Galera clusters stretched over Europe and Switzerland is still smaller than Yeah, shouldn't be a problem We'll see okay Thanks


Yeah, Community Matters. I'm Jay Fidel. This is Think Tech, and let me say it again. Community Matters. Hawaii had a fabulous community which is so diverse. We all respect each other's backgrounds. We all respect each other's races and religions. In a sense, it was, is, and I hope it will be, kind of, heaven on earth in terms of the diversity of our people. One of the sects, if you will, one of the religious groups is the Jewish people. Rabbi Itchell Kresenjanski, with a Y. He's the leader, the chief rabbi, if you will, of the Hawaii chapter of Kaba Kaba in Hawaii. He joins us every now and then, and we can kind of put things together about what's going on in the Jewish community. Hi, Rabbi. Hi, Jay. It's a pleasure to be here as always. We're going to talk today about Kislev. I pronounced that right, Kislev? Yes. It's a month? Yes. Is it different than the Hebrew calendar? They're kind of different than the Western calendar. It's the third Jewish month on the Jewish year. We just celebrated two months ago the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah. It was the month of Tishrei. Then there was a quiet month with no holidays. It was Tejvan. And this month is Kislev. Once again, we have some very important holidays that we celebrate in this month. Kislev, when is it? Is it synonymous with December? Well, it usually falls out around December. We are today in the fifth day of Kislev. Today we are the third December third, correct? Yeah. So it's pretty close. The difference between the Jewish calendar in general and the secular calendar, the Gregorian calendar, is that the Jewish calendar is a lunar-based calendar. Those by the months are based on the moon, cycle of the moon. The re-emergence and the rebirth of the moon marks the beginning of the new month, the Jewish calendar. The Gregorian calendar is a solar calendar. Oh, Gregory. Yeah. Back in the, I don't know, third, fourth century or something like that. And there's a difference in the amount of days between the lunar calendar and the Gregorian calendar. The Gregorian calendar has several more days than the lunar calendar. So in the Jewish calendar, every couple of years we have a leap year, meaning we have two months of Adar to straighten out because the Jewish holidays are seasonal holidays. The third tie is the Jewish holidays are Passover spring. In order for Passover to always be in the spring, every three, four years in the Jewish calendar we have another 30 days that we insert. So Passover gets pushed off 30 days and always in the spring. How charming actually. In a world of Gregorian, we have the Jewish calendar and lunar reference. Are they both the same 365 days a year? No. The lunar calendar's year is 354. Really? How interesting. Do you have to synchronize once in a while? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's where we have the leap year. Okay. That's where we have the leap year. And by the way, it's interesting, but the calendar and the establishments of the Jewish calendar was one of the first commandments given to the Jewish people right after they left Egypt. And the commentaries explain because the idea of time, the value of time and the sanctity of time is really at the bedrock of everything that we do. Is that a Jewish concept? Yes, that's a Jewish idea. And what's interesting is that we know that the task of the Jew, as Judaism teaches us, is to sanctify and elevate everything in this world, to turn physical things into spiritual things, infusing them with meaning and purpose. The first thing that was created, looked back at Genesis, you actually will probably get it wrong because the first thing that was created, you would think, as it says in the Jewish Bible, the heaven and earth created first with space. The truth is, time was created first because before creation there was no concept of time. There was no concept of before and now and after. That's a creation. So time is really the first thing that was created. So the first commandment in the Torah to the Jewish people was to sanctify time. That's why Shabbat is such an anchor in the Jewish life to this idea of sanctifying time. So you're going to set your watch, so to speak, on these special days of the week like Shabbat and the special holidays in the month and year. Those are timekeeping devices. Exactly. The other thing about time is, and I was telling you before the show, is that I'm connecting the dots of my own worldview these days. And one of the things that, one of the dots I connect is about time. And it's about, you know, we all have a limited amount of time to do whatever we're going to do. And we have to see it that way. We have to see it that way in terms of, you know, what we achieve, what we learn, where we go, what we participate, what kind of projects, what kind of organizations we associate with and also the relationships we have. It's all limited. And so you have to see it as limited and then you have to spend it wisely. Yeah, that's very correct. It's a very beautiful insight. And it's interesting because in the Torah portion that we read last week, we read about Jacob and Esau, the two children that were born from Isaac and Rebecca. Isaac was the second of our three founding fathers of the Jewish nation, four fathers. Jacob is the third one. Jacob is a righteous person. And Esau is, he's the firstborn, but he is a man of the field as the Bible describes him and he was a hunter and the sever, et cetera, et cetera. And there's a story in the Torah portion that we read is that one day he comes from the field and he's very, very hungry and he turns to his brother Jacob and he says, can you give me from this lentil soup that you're making? Jacob says to him, sell me your birthright and I'll give you the soup. It's too long to get into why Jacob said that.  So what value is the birthright? He says, yeah, sure, take the birthright and just give me the lentil soup. So we see that for Esau or his worldview was because time is this finite, I'm sorry, because life is finite and we only live a certain amount of time. So of what value can anything be? Because, you know, at some point we're gone. So therefore whatever is good for the moment, you know, it takes precedence. And yet we find in the Talmud, Talmud says that, you know, that King David composed a book of Psalms. And one of the things that inspired King David seeing these songs of praise to God and faith in God is that he realized he looked at the day of death and that inspired him to sing these songs on the Psalms. You have two different, like a split screen. Esau looks at death and says life is not worth living. Nothing can be as sacred because it's all going to end. And David looks at death and realizes that life is finite and we have to utilize every moment and accomplish it.  And both recognize the essential truth that is finite. So let's go back to the calendar, Kislev. It has Hanukkah. We talked a little about Hanukkah. Maybe you want to talk some more about it. Because we talked before it was coming up. Now it's already happened. It's coming up. Like I said, today is the fifth day of the month of Kislev. And Hanukkah falls out on the 25th day of the month of Kislev. Right around Christmas. So it's in about three weeks. A little less than three weeks. And yeah, Hanukkah is one of the most joyous Jewish holidays. The Festival of Lights. The Festival of Lights, Laska's. Laska's, the Maccabees, the oil they burned in the lamp. Much longer than anyone expected. The miracle of the lights. So we can talk about Hanukkah. But before Hanukkah, which is on the 25th day of the month of Kislev, is the 19th day of the month of Kislev. And Hebrew is called Yud-Tes Kislev. Yud is ten. Yeah, and Tes is nine. Ten comes before the nine. That gives you nineteen. Correct. Okay. Right, just like in English, one nine. Yeah, right, ten plus nine. Right, exactly. So, by the way, because in the Hebrew alphabet, the letters are also the numerics. So, Aleph is one. Yud is ten. Tes is nine. So, on Yud-Tes Kislev, the 19th day of Kislev, a little over 250 years ago, the altar rabbi, he's referred to Yiddish as the old rabbi. He was the founder of the Hasidic movement, of the Chabad Hasidic movement. That's your movement. Right. His name was Rob Schneer Zalman. And that's why the family dynast, he was called Schneer's son. His name was Schneer. The second and third generation were. Schneer was the original name. Right, Schneer. And then this all happened in Russia. The altar rabbi was born in a town called Liyadi. I think it's in Belarusia. He lived in another town called Lyosna. And he began to disseminate the teachings of his master. His name was Dov Bear of Mizrich. That was a town where his master was from. And his master was a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov, who was the founder of the Hasidic movement. Basically, the Hasidic movement was steeped in Jewish mysticism, in the esoteric teachings of the Torah. Can you help me with the mysticism? Mysticism sounds mystical. But what is that? Should we be concerned about it? Is it the kind of thing you don't want to touch? Is it the kind of thing that's hard to understand? That's a very good question. And when it began to emerge into the wider community, there were many people who actually expressed the very same sentiments you were just expressing. That we should stay away. It's dangerous. The mystical teachings of the Torah, the esoteric teachings of the Torah, are the soul of the Torah. Just like a human being has a body and a soul, the body is through which we function. We eat, we pick up, walk. These are functions of the body. But there is a soul that animates the body and gives it life. That differentiates, that soul is what differentiates a living person from a dead corpse. A dead corpse also has all of the functions, all of the whole body before it decays. But it's not a living being. In the same way also, the Torah has a lot of laws and what we call mitzvahs, commandments. That is the body of the Torah. These are the functionary aspects of the Torah. Keep the Shabbos, keep kosher, do this, don't do that. The soul of the commandment, what is the life behind the commandment? And what is the inner meaning, the deeper meaning of the commandment? Things are more than the team. Exactly. You have to look to the next level. That's the esoteric teaching of the Torah. The Torah is almost like a code. The esoteric teaching of the Torah helps us decipher the code so that what the Torah is not just telling us do's and don'ts, but it's opening us up to a whole deeper dimension of reality. There's a building in Shamanad called the Mystical Rose. I forget the full title of the building, but the word is there. And I'm thinking that mysticism is not limited to Judaism. There are other religions too that have mystical concepts that are core to understanding that particular religion. In this case, Catholicism. In Judaism, for example, the mystical teachings of Judaism, we learn about the essence of the person. I'll give you an example. So according to the psychologist, the last generation, what Freud thought is that man is driven by some basic instinct. It's the pursuit of power, pleasure, fame, whatever they may be, whatever the different school of psychology is. And according to this school of psychology, man is basically like an animal. We have animalistic drives. What separates us from the animal is that we can conceal. We have a mind, so we can keep things in check and conceal what's lying at the core or the subconscious. And presumably contained as well. And contained as well. Judaism, in the mystical teachings of the Torah, teaches us the very, very opposite. That man is inherently godly. That if you dig down deep, what you come at is a core of goodness and godliness, a spark of God. That is the essence of who we are. And often that is concealed. You have to, just like when you dig for a well, you got to dig deep, not give up in the same way also. You have to probe and probe until we're able to tap into the essence of who we are. So that's hard to do if you believe that. Then you find that there's some awful things that have happened in the world, the wit, the Holocaust. I've been the terrible, if you haven't seen, the devil, my neighbor is a movie now about I've been the terrible, very interesting movie. But when you find out that there's somebody who doesn't really seem to have any goodness at all in him, zero or only evil, then how do you reconcile that with the notion that everyone at the core is good?  So I guess just a way of an example, this was actually one of the teachings of the Altarebi, the one who we celebrate his release from prison on the 19th day of his life. So he writes that, because we know we all have free choice, that's a given in Judaism, we all have free choice. We can choose to do good, we can choose to do bad. We have these forces within us, the godly soul within us seeks to inspire us to be more godly and more selfless and be kind and caring and good. So we also possess an animal soul within us, this is what the mystical teachings tell us, which drives us to the pursuit of Edenism, pleasure and basically everything ego related. And it's a constant struggle. The old dichotomy is a constant battle. So what Judaism teaches us, number one is that man has the ability, every person has the ability to have their good side, their godly soul come out on top and control and contain the impulses, the evil impulses we have within us. To the point where we can actually vanquish them, we can transform them into forces of good. Good within us can never be eradicated totally, because that's the essence of who we are. But it could be so deeply buried where a person may not even know it's there. So if a person chooses to do bad and to be bad, the person is moving away from their true essence, the core of their being, to the point where they can become totally disconnected from who they are. Will it catch up with him, this person? Or is it possible that it will never catch up? Well, you see, that's a very good question. So if we look at the world and at life from very external point of view, peripheral point of view, then yes, it's possible a person can pass through life and never repent and never change and die an evil person. We see it a lot. But the truth is we all know that we don't see the bigger truth, meaning there's idea of the reincarnation of souls past lives and future lives. And the life that we live now, the snapshot of the present, is just one moment or one part. Back to time. Exactly. So in the larger pic context, only God knows the journey of the souls. Very important stuff. So I'm not sure we're going to get to a lot more holidays. Let me just share with you what an interesting thing. Yeah. When the Al Tarebi was arrested, and he was arrested on Trump the charges that his teachings were somehow stirring some kind of rebellion within under the Tsarist rule. And because also Israel at that time was controlled by Turkey and Turkey and Russia were in a war. In the 17th century. Yeah, right. And the Al Tarebi was sending money to Jews living in Israel who needed help financially poor people. And it was misconstrued that he was sending money to the enemy. So when he was in prison, they had some education minister come in to interrogate the Al Tarebi to try to figure out who this man is and what his teachings are, et cetera, et cetera. And he spoke to him and in a short while he realized that this was a saintly person. And all the lies that were said about him were not correct. So at the end of his interrogation or interview with the Al Tarebi, I have a question to ask. This is clearly your scholar. I'd like to ask you a question that's been bothering me for a long time. And he said, sure. What's your question? So he says, you know, I studied the Bible. And there's a passage in the Bible that has troubled me for a long time. And that is in the very beginning in Genesis. Adam and Eve are in the Garden of Eden. And they sin by eating from the Tree of Knowledge. And God told them not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge. So it says that after they ate from the Tree of Knowledge, after Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge, God comes into the Garden of Eden. And he asks Adam, the Torah, for a human being, to ask him, Ayeko, where are you? The question that this man had for the Al Tarebi is what does God ask him? Adam, where are you? God knows everything. He knows exactly where he is. So the Al Tarebi told him what the commentary say in the basic commentary. Obviously God knew where he was. He entered into a conversation with him and asked him, did you eat from the Tree of Knowledge that I told you not to eat from? He started the conversation by asking, where are you? Kind of like therapy. So that's what the Al Tarebi told this minister. And this just said, I know what this commentary is, but I always felt there's something more deeper here. So the Al Tarebi asked him, do you believe in the eternity of the Torah? The word is eternal. I believe that. Instead, the meaning is as follows. This is God's call to Adam, but Adam is really all of man, all of humanity. That God calls each and every one of us with a question, where are you? And the Al Tarebi says an example. The person is 60, 70 years old. The Al Tarebi actually stated the exact age of this person. And so the question God's calling to that person is, where are you? What are you doing in this world? Have you accomplished the purpose? Within your allotted time. Before we run out of time speaking of which, I would like to go back to something you and I talked about before the show began. And that's a discussion, it's a continuation for me. A discussion a day or two ago, yesterday, I think, about the nature of the family in our society. And it strikes me that Judaism, that the people around you and God have a special value on family. And I would like you to tell me about that. Sure. In Judaism, the family is the most important unit, the most important part of our lives. And so much of the commandments, the mitzvahs, are to strengthen the family unit. Firstly, the Torah believes in the mitzvah, meaning the good deed, the obligation of marriage. Marriage is one of the 613 commandments to get married. So the Torah is telling you us to get married, because it's a mitzvah, it's a good thing. Exactly. And the famous words of the Torah is, Man shall leave his father and his mother and cleave his wife and become one flesh. That's the first thing. The other mitzvah related to that is there's a mitzvah to have children. And according to the Torah, as explained in the oral tradition of Talmud, we have a commandment to have one boy and one girl, a male and a female. That's the biblical commandment. Keep defending the fertility rate up. Be fruitful and multiply. That's the first commandment giving to man.  That's a different story. But someone can. Then the Torah obligates us to have at least two children, a boy and a girl. It also encourages us to have many children. Every child is explained in the Torah as a blessing, as a channel of blessings. So the family unit is very important. The whole idea of Shabbat, Sabbath, and why the Sabbath is such a holy day, is because it's family-centered. And in Judaism in general, as we spoke before, the center of Judaism is not in the synagogue. The center of Judaism is in the home. And it's there where we are meant to express all of the values and the teachings of the Torah in the home. So it's more than just following the time schedule like Shabbat and all that. It's more than just following the rituals at various holidays and times. It's something else too. It's a matter of having the children, but also teaching the children and making them a family. So what kind of detail do we get about that? Here I am in the home. I've performed all the rituals. I've maintained the time schedule that is called for for the week of the month. How do I make a good home, family, family home under the Torah? So for example, take Shabbat for example. I'm sure you remember your childhood experience. Friday night it was the Kiddish, it was the Shabbat dinner. It was the time when the family, whether it was just the immediate family or guests or the extended family would get together and would have a Shabbat dinner. That's something which is critically important to foster family relations and the ties that tie parents and children and siblings between one another. That's what Shabbat is all about. That's what the holidays are all about. Yes, we went to synagogue and we prayed. We went home and we had this meal and discussed everything and the question and the words of Torah or just politics, whatever. So the emphasis on the family and the home is very, very strong in Judaism. So much so we live in a society, at least in the United States, where it's the rugged individual that is, you know, you are who you are. In Judaism you are part of a family.  And that's how you identify yourself. You know, I'm a member of this family. So one last question before we have to break. And that's this. So when you send, you do your duty, you get married, you have children who at least and maybe more. And you have this warm, loving family in the home, Jewish home. And then they leave. They go. Because they have to go. They have to leave their nest. Yes, the family expands. The family may be, you know, for example, my family. My parents live in New York. My older brother lives in Australia. We live in Hawaii. I have a brother that, another brother lives in New York, lives in Montreal. So we're scattered around the world. Well, our children or whatever. You know, especially today with the technology today, geographic distances are really not barriers to that. It's more of a psychological. Is that, you know, one of the big, there are probably many things we can talk about, but one of the big gifts you want to give to those children who leave the nest is stay in touch. Stay in touch with the family. We're still a family. It doesn't matter where you are. We're a global family. And the love that you, you know, the attention, the sense of family that you had while you grew up in our household must continue, should continue. We want to leave that message with you. It does continue. By the way, in a larger sense, but equally true, is that this is what is the blessing of the Jewish people. We're all one big family.  You'll feel like you're at home. It doesn't matter that they may speak a different language, but it's, you know, and... Well, that's why we should do another show. We should go where you have to go. I'll go where I have to go and then we'll come back again. Pleasure. Be a family at this table. With pleasure. Thank you. Wonderful to see you, as always.


January is January. Wait a minute. I've already done a couple of videos this year. I'm thinking this is my first video of the year, but it's not. I've done two or three videos already. But this is the official, the healthy hair journey is over, child. I don't know about you, but I'm glad because I'm ready to try some products.  I'm like, I'm ready for it. I'm ready for it. I'm ready for some conditioner. But we are at, at least I am at the end of my six month healthy hair journey that I started in August. And it went by like that. It went by so fast. This is why when you guys ask me for advice on hair growth and yada, yada, yada, I let you know two things, be consistent and be patient. I had a diagram here. Those of you who don't remember, I shared this and you can view it through my Google's documents. I will be linking it down below. And it's basically a document of what I plan to do in my six months to healthy hair. And this is what basically what it looked like. I know you really can't see there. Can you see that setting? Anyway, like I said, we'll be linking it down below in the description box. But I'm gonna go through some, well, I'll go through all of them. And then I'll let you know what I really learned about my hair last year. Right now it is in a stretch out state. It is looking fabulous. I'll turn around to the back in a minute too. I don't know what the back is doing. My hair is up. Y'all, I knew the front was up but I didn't know the back was up. So this right here is two week. I took it down yesterday. Two week twist basically. So really old twist, really old hair. But yeah, anyway, should probably take this down too. All right. So let me go ahead and give y'all some hair porn and show y'all what my hair looks like. What is this? A bobby pin. Girl. So this is what we're looking at, like. Yeah, she's dirty, but what the back is looking like? Body, body, body, body. So one of the first things I had on my list here was low manipulation styling. Absolutely, that was one of the things that I really, really wanted to aim for. Keeping my hands out of my hair. I don't make something that a couple of you struggle with. It's really not something that I necessarily struggle with. The thing about me is I love to wear different hairstyles. I love, I don't like doing my hair. I know this is crazy. I don't like doing my hair. I absolutely cringe to do my hair. But I like different hairstyles on these, if that makes sense. So I did stick to that. I wore my hair in twists quite often. And it was very easy to do. Very low manipulation. I think I did about, I did about two to three hairstyles a month, which is honestly was a lot more than I had intended on. But I was okay with that. I was perfectly fine with that. So next up on my list is simple wash regimen. Absolutely. I basically washed my hair, meaning with a shampoo every three weeks. However, I put it like this y'all. I really listened to my hair.  If I used a product or did a style that wasn't all that great on wash and go, I wouldn't have had to wash my hair. I didn't wait for another two weeks to wash my hair. So I also did apple cider vinegar rinses in between that. Again, depending on how my hair was responding at that time. I washed my hair in twists quite often. That saved me time to time. And I shipped, meaning co-washed and sometimes I shampooed my hair while in twists. And again, apple cider vinegar rinse in twists. So yeah, I stuck to that. I stuck to a very simple wash regimen. I used the same products, Suave or V05. I didn't use anything. Well, I had that cream of nature. I didn't use anything new, I should say, because I didn't want to shock my hair, basically. So I stuck to the same products. I didn't go out and venture and get anything that, or at least a line that I wasn't familiar with. I stuck with the same stuff. Suave, V05, cream of nature, basically drugstore. Giovanni, I added to my leave-in. And basically, I used the Q-Made tube leave-in as my leave-in, and I've been really good about moisturizing my hair, spraying water, sometimes spraying a mixture of water and conditioner. So yeah, as far as other products, castor oil, Jamaican black castor oil, excuse me, has been my go-to oil. I've been using it along my edges. I've been massaging in my scalp. I'm on my second bottle. I mean, it's a four-ounce bottle, but I went through it fast, kind of down here while I'm talking to y'all.  Here's my second bottle, and it's down here. I just got this, like, three weeks ago. But I've been adding this to my oil mixtures. I've been adding it sometimes to my conditioners, do almost like a conditioner slash oil rinse. I love to make black castor oil. Yeah, so just ensuring that my hair is properly moisturized, and I mean properly moisturized, because it's a little bit cooler here, cooler meaning like 50 degrees, child. But I insured that, I'll put it like this, typically I would wet my hair really quick, do cream and oil. This time, you guys, I really took the time to lift up half my hair, go through, and I mean, it was a process, making sure the product was evenly on my hands, got that Fenepe head to jojoba, squeezing the product in, all the way in from root to end, yeah, really taking my time to do that. So, oh, and the other thing here, excuse me, was eating healthy. I did overall up until like three weeks ago. So the things that I really didn't do was, I wanted to stick to finger detangling. And I just felt that that was just was not feasible for the amount of hair I had, I have, excuse me, and for the simple fact that my hair was in twists for three weeks straight, I need to ensure that I got all that shaded hair out. So I would typically go in between using my wooden comb or a pick and finger detangling. Some detangling sessions, it may just be the wooden comb, the next month, it may just be me, finger detangling. I guess my overall point is that I wasn't afraid to use a comb while detangling my hair, I should say. I didn't do hot all treatments monthly. I think I said that only did hot all treatments twice the entire six months, because I was like, huh, got time for that. So some things that I learned about my hair is that I have to be consistent.  Does that make sense? I cannot, you know, I'm serious with some clapping. I cannot wear my hair loose for more than two or three days. Like this right here, I'm gonna have to do something. And honestly, I just took this down last night and look what it's doing. This is what it's doing. I have not separated my hair. So by day two or day three, it's gonna be a mess. So yeah, wearing my hair loose is not an option for me. I have to retwist by the second day, second or third day. Third day is kind of pushing it. I really do need to make sure that while I'm cleansing my hair, shampooing my hair, I really pay attention to my scalp. I really make sure that the product is all rinsed out of my hair. It's really hard when you have thick hair, when you're in the shower. You know, it's just really hard to ensure that everything is out. So yeah, what else did I learn about my hair? Of course being consistent, my hair responds better to better products. Absolutely. I started incorporating some Jane Carter products to my regimen, which I was a, I'm a huge Jane Carter fan, by the way. And that is all I primarily use between Shea Moisture and Jane Carter. The first three years I went natural. So I do have a Jane Carter wash day coming up, probably in like a week or two. And so yes, I went back to using her shampoo while sometimes using, you know, V05 shampoo or Suave shampoo. And to be quite honest with you guys, even though I enjoy all the products from V05 or Suave, I'll only stick to about two or three. And that is it. I don't go crazy just getting random stuff because let's just be honest, it's 99 cents for a reason. So I'm very curious once I start doing product reviews again to how my hair is gonna respond to some of these other hairlines. So anyway, yeah, my hair, and I think everyone can agree with that, my hair responds a lot better when I use better products. I've been doing, not doing my hair. Some products that I will possibly, I know for sure that I would never ever use again, at least on me for right now. I don't know if I wanna say this cause I feel like I may be changing my mind. Eco-style gel is gonna have to be a no for me. When I've done wash and goes, the best wash and goes, and this is funny, the best wash and goes I've got was with the Icy Fentasia and using Oliveira gel. Isn't that funny? And so yeah, I'm gonna have to stay off of the Eco-style gel for a while. It's a no pink oil moisturizer. We already know about that. Actually, the reason why I mentioned this is that I cleaned out my products just last week and I tossed a lot of stuff that I know I just, I won't be able to be using anymore. Yeah, you guys. So some things that I will continue to do, of course is using Jamaican black castor oil is absolute. Yeah, I'm gonna be adding not as much, but I will be continuing with that. I will be continuing to finger-detangle and use a comb as needed. I will deep condition. I don't even know if I mentioned that. I deep conditioned. Basically it was every time I washed my hair. I made sure I deep conditioned. Sometimes I use a heat cap with heat, but every time I use Queen Helen's cholesterol. So with that being said, going forward, I will look into adding hydrolyzed wheat protein. I'll probably do a protein treatment like every three or four months and then follow that up with a moisturizing deep conditioner. You always want to do that. I did get rid of, I had an extra after that African pride one. I had to disable the comments on that video child. So I still prefer the ORS. Cause it's an ORS has one, like a protein treatment. I still prefer them over African pride or African's best. I believe it's what it is. So yes, hydrolyzed wheat protein as needed. Cause sometimes we don't need protein. We think we do, but we really don't.  I think a lot of us are doing too much.   If that's what you want to do, that's fine.  I'm just not going to be doing all this stuff. At this point, I know what works for my hair. I've been natural. This would be my eighth year. Yes, there's some things I could learn. Absolutely. I think we can always learn something new, but I've been with my hair the longest. And I know at this point that consistency, using the right type of products and basically leaving my hair alone is what's going to help my hair to thrive. As far as growth, do I feel like my hair has grown? This is the funny thing. My hair grows like this. Then it goes down like this. So my hair, of course, it's grown. It's not where I want it to be, but yeah, it has grown. Keeping mine, I cut my hair when we first started and then I cut it a couple of weeks ago. So yeah, it's grown. It's in the front. It's a little bit past armpit length, actually, so. So yeah, and this is my hairline. Hairline is looking hella healthy. This is my baby hair, y'all. Like, I don't hair, like seriously, let me see if I can find it. Yeah, this is my baby hair. At low key, I used to grow hair down here and I would shave it. Yeah, I would shave it because my hair was growing, like, yeah, it was growing. And sometimes it would grow like right here. It still does that sometimes. I'll get patches of hair down here. And that's a blessing. I should, you know, not do that. So yeah, that is it, you guys. If you have any questions, any comments, any suggestions, drop it down below. Yeah, I do know their product reviews are coming up. The Allocate Naturalist is coming up in March, followed by the main choice. So yes, I'm very excited to try some new lines, some new products and see how my hair goes. So that is it, you guys. Thank you so much for watching. Take care, bye.


So this is my Hori Hori knife that I recently purchased off Amazon and this is my first time testing it out in my garden. I have a couple of containers here I want to loosen up the soil. As you can see here it has got a serrated edge if you need to cut something smooth edge. So I also got some measurements on here if you need to measure the depth of something that you need to plant. It's good at just working up some soil here. Got some peat moss here that needs to be broken up. This works good for just chewing it up for you so you can work it into your soil. Here I am just chopping up some comfrey to make some comfrey tea. The Hori Hori knife works great at chopping this down. Overall I think this is going to be a great tool and a big help with me and my garden.


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Today in schools we have a very inclusive environment, inclusive setting, and so including children in a way that they're successful is very important to teachers as well as kind of fits the philosophy that are embedded in schools today. While universal strategies used at Anfit's Gerald help to provide a foundation for positive behavior school-wide, some students who exhibit chronic and pervasive behavior fall within tier one of the pyramid of intervention and require intensive individualized supports. Supporting these children requires a careful development plan. At Anfit's Gerald school an emotional behavior specialist works alongside teachers to develop a comprehensive strategy to address complex behavioral challenges. The cool thing about behavior and what keeps me in this role is that behavior can always be learned, behavior can always be unlearned, and behavior can always be modified or changed. To help students with behavioral challenges, staff at Anfit's Gerald school work to develop an understanding of the origin of the behavior. To accomplish this the emotional behavior specialist or learning coach visits the classroom and as a learning team gather as much information as possible. The first thing that happens is I'll get called in for an observation for any social emotional or behavioral concern and usually we'll start with what the teacher knows. So does the teacher have any information about what is contributing to this child as a person? So do they have any information about their speech and language skills? Do they have any information about any of their motor planning abilities? Is there a previous diagnosis on file? Kind of help me understand if this child is a whole. The student's family is also included in this process. The factors that are considered include are their learning difficulties. How is the student's sleep pattern? How is the student's nutrition? Has the child had any significant changes in the home or family life? And is the student connected to any other resources which could include a school-based multidisciplinary team, RCSD, Community Mental Health or other specialized services? So to begin to analyze the behavior once you have the background information describe the behavior that you're going to be looking at and then you would look for what happens before the behavior and what happens after the behavior. If your plan is to have a plan of action to help them to adapt to classroom life better and that plan starts with observing. You have to observe the child's care what's going on and what's causing their negative behavior. Are they trying to escape something or avoid something or get attention? All behaviors have a function and the function of any behavior depends on the individual child. Typically challenging behavior either serves the student by helping them obtain something or helping them to avoid something. And don't take it personally it's not about you it's about the child so take your own emotions out why is the kid doing this? Observe find out the background and then come up with your strategy.