Hey guys, how are you? All right, we're here for a video. I promised a really long time ago, but then life got in the way. So we're talking about the Red Heart all-in-one granny square yarn and there are mixed opinions about the yarn. It's not perfect, but I have to admit I do really like the yarn. It's convenient and I use all of my art, but especially crocheting and that type of thing to deal with anxiety and stuff, especially when I'm doing uncomfortable things like going to the doctor because I have white coat syndrome, among other things.  When we're traveling, we're in the car, we're on a plane, all of those things. I use my downtime to draw and paint and crochet. So I wanted to go over with you today how I go about making the Red Heart granny square. There are instructions on the inside of the skein label, but I also wanted to show you how I do a rectangle. Now I found when I planned out my two sweaters that I made, that if I did squares all the way across, that it was going to be too way too big for me. And that the easiest thing for me to do was to figure out how to do a smaller shape that would allow me to get the width I needed, even if it ended up to be a little longer, which this did, and I had to add rows to the bottom of the squares. But that gave me extra length I needed. It worked out to be perfect. I do have diagrams and notes about how I did this in my Patreon, how I made the sweaters. So if you want to have some of that, go about joining my Patreon. It's only a couple bucks a month. But anyway, this is some leftover of the same color, and it is, what color is it? Frigid? Maybe? Yeah. Yeah. So you start with this green color, and you're supposed to start about four inches from the end. I never pay a lot of attention about that. Let's zoom in just a little bit. There we go. So I'm going to just make a slip knot, and then I'm going to chain four, and then I'm going to go back to that first chain and slip stitch to form a loop. Chain one. I'm going to go in and I'm going to do three double crochet, chain three, and repeat that until you have four. Well, I'll just show you. It's easier. Okay, so we're going to do that again. Whoops. So three double crochet, chain three. So you have two chain three spaces, three more double crochet, chain three. Now we're starting to get where the color changes. So this is where with this yarn, you want to be very mindful of your tension and everything. If you want it to be perfect, it's never perfect. But you may find that with this yarn, you're fiddling with how many chains that you do or how tight or loose you're holding the yarn. For me personally, 99% of the time I found I went down a hook size. So this is a four and a half instead of a five and a half millimeter. And that most of the time just worked for me. So here we would have three chain three spaces, but we need four. So we're going to do three more double crochet. And see, this is where you're going to, I'm running out of yarn. Now if I really bugged me, what I would do is go back just a few stitches, I probably wouldn't go back all of them, hold the yarn a little bit tighter. Whoops, that's four double crochet. That's too many. Okay, so chain three. Okay, I always find that if I get it to that point, that works for me. So we're going to chain three. Then we're going to go into the top of the first double crochet and slip stitch. Then I'm going to go back into that space and do another slip and a chain one. That's how I do them. And when I do that, you cannot tell where the join is mostly, except for right here where there's the yarns not quite perfect. So then I keep doing that now all the way around now for this one. So now we have four chain three spaces. If you keep doing this and we'll chain, we chained, oops, we already chained one. Okay, so we'll do three double crochet. Oops, it's because I'm on camera. Okay, three double crochet. Chain one. And then in each of the chain three spaces, do three double crochet, chain three, three double crochet, chain one, and repeat. And do it again. Three double crochet, chain three, three double crochet, chain one. Now we're back to that starting point. So three double crochet. Keep an eye on the color changes coming up. There we go. It's coming through chain three. So there is a little bit extra this time. If you're concerned about it, again, go back and do a few stitches, loosen up your gauge, and do it again. I am not too concerned.  Is that what I said? Loosen up your tension a bit. But I found using the smaller hook and having the extra yarn causes me less problems than using the bigger hook because then I always have not enough yarn. So I'll go back a few stitches and I'll loosen up my tension here.  I also have found that most of the time where I really have to be mindful of holding the tension very tightly is on the last row of color. In this particular skein, the white color, most of the time doesn't seem to be enough yarn. Let's try that again. I swear I've had on my coffee this morning. Okay, chain one. I brought us a little bit closer. Yep, that worked.  And if you just keep doing that all the way around until you get to the white, which is the end color, you'll end up with a square. So let me do that real quick and I'll be back. Okay, we're on that last row of color and this is the part where I always find, I have to really tighten up my tension. Here's the thread end or the color change for the next granny square. So this is the part, the last color is always where I find I have to tighten my tension. I tend to be a loose tension crocheter. So how it works for you is going to depend on how you crochet. You did see me a few times have a color change happen over here in some double crochet, which I don't like. I don't mind if it happens in the chains when I'm ending that row. I find that that's fine. It doesn't even show. But if it's right here, it's going to show. So then I just frog back a few stitches and tighten up my tension and do it again. Usually I don't have to frog back a whole bunch of stitches, usually just to the first corner, sometimes not even there. But you'll have to play with it and see what works for you. I have seen some crocheters eliminate the chain one in between and then that works for them for the color change. So you'll have to play with it. But we're here to the last corner. I'm going to chain one. I am going to hold my yarn fairly tight. I'm going to go in the space between the two clusters, whether you've chained one or not. Maybe you didn't chain one because that works for you, but you want to go into that space between the two clusters. Do three double crochet and then chain one and repeat that and one more time. And so you just it's through it's all the rows after the first one are the same. So in the corners, you have three double crochet, chain three, three double crochet on either side of that, you'll have a chain one, then three double crochet, chain one, three double crochet, chain one all the way around until you get to that last color. And then it looks like we'll have just enough. So we're to the last corner. We're going to do three double crochet and that's my security system. There's somebody in the driveway, so sorry. So one, two, three and then chain three and then slip stitch into that first one.  I had plenty, so yay. How am I starting a crocheting video without scissors? How's that possible? Okay. I'm going to cut it right here where the change is. There we go. And then so those two chains, put your fingernail there and just pull it tight and then it creates two knots and it will flatten out when you block it. Now I block, I do block them and I get to them to be about six and a half inches square and that works perfect. So now let me show you quick how to do a rectangle. To get different shapes is really just fiddling with the shape. It's all about the shape of that very first row. Okay, so to do the rectangle you start a little bit differently. So I am going to take a little bit like that and I ain't four inches or so up and do a slip knot. Then I'm going to chain five. Again, this is what works for me. Then I'm going to refer to my notes because yes I made notes and the patrons and supporters do have copies of the notes. So if you would like copies of them to know how to do this, you can join my patron, Patreon, Jesus. Okay, hold on. We have different shapes including half hexes, triangles, pentagons, octagons, hexagons, circles. Make myself notes because otherwise I forget and this is my crochet notebook at the moment. It's a little bit messy because I've been traveling a little bit but I always keep a notebook with me with a pen and some washi tape and stuff here in this pocket on the cover. All right, so we want to do two double crochet in the third chain from the hook. Chain one. My notes say two but I think that's a typo. So let's do three. Chain one. Go to that last chain, the starting chain and do three double crochet, chain three, three double crochet. Okay, then do chain one. Then go back to where you started up here and do three double crochet and we might have too much yarn. I might have to loosen up my tension. Yeah, a little bit so let's go back and loosen up a little bit. Still a little off but that's okay. Sometimes I find with these other shapes leaving a longer tail helps you with the color change. Okay, we're going to slip stitch back just like we do. I do all my changes the same way, chain one. So on the rectangle you'll notice we have this sort of like round egg shape um after the first row. Here let me do this there. We have this sort of funny shape like this. Once you do the second row it starts to look like a rectangle. You're just going to have to trust me on that one. It helps if I slip stitch into the right place, which would be up here. There we go. So you'll end up with something like that. Slip stitch back, chain one, do three double crochet, go to that chain one space, chain one, three double crochet, chain one. Here's the chain three space.  Go to the chain one space, chain one, three double crochet, chain one. Go up here to this starting space, three double crochet, chain three, three double crochet, chain three.  So you can see here we've got our three double crochets with chain threes in between at the either end and you just keep doing the pattern around. When you get to this third row in the chain three corners you do the corners the way we did on the square.  It'll start to give you a rectangle. I missed a double crochet so hang on. Maybe I had too much coffee this morning. Okay go to that first double crochet, slip stitch. Our color change is going to be off probably on all of them because it was off here and I didn't bother to go back and fix it. But if you go back and fix it the first time it's usually pretty good for the rest of it. Is it perfect? No. Do I need it to be? No. Okay chain one, three double crochet, chain one, three double crochet, chain one, repeat that around. When we get to the corner we're going to do the corners the way we were doing them. Three double crochet, chain three, three double crochet, chain one in between the two corners. Once you get to there you're like oh yeah wait that is a rectangle. You just keep going and then you'll end up with this.  I do love the Red Heart Granny Square all-in-one because there's no color changes and when I am traveling, yes I'm tempted to travel with a whole bunch of yarn balls but I don't need to because it's all-in-one and there's one loose end to weave in at the beginning and one at the end and that's it. That's enough for me. I hate weaving in ends. So this really works well for me. I like it. Once you wash it it softens up a lot and flattens up a lot and I really am a big fan. For patrons and supporters we are going to have a bonus to this video which I'm going to film next which includes some tips and hints. We're going to talk through doing octagons, pentagons, hexagons, circles and I also have notes for triangles and a couple of other things. But for the rest of you get some of this yarn and give it a try. Now granny squares are just a lot of fun even if you just don't do the all-in-one granny square. If you just get a variegated yarn or a multicolored yarn I wanted to see what would happen if you use the Premier Bloom yarn which is intended to do a particular color pattern in certain rows like when you're knitting but it's just multicolored yarn and you know what it makes a cute granny thing. And this one and this one that's from the same ball of yarn.  And these are easy to make and for me at least they're very therapeutic plus they can be made into blankets and sweaters and cardigans and all kinds of stuff. Anyway give it a try. Yeah give it a try. It's very calming. This is a very calming pastime and it's easy and if you don't know how to crochet and you want to learn there's a lot of really great YouTube channels out there. I will try to remember to link a couple in the video description but if you guys have one you recommend you won't be able to put a link but put the name of the channel in the comments down below and let's share. All right that's it for today. Go out, have some fun, practice making some granny shapes and squares, rectangles, whatever. Share what you do and don't forget to tag me in the post that way I can see it and comment and go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you in the next video. Bye guys.


Good afternoon. Thank you for taking time for going through our presentation. This is something we have done in Capitlone. And that is something we wanted to share with the audience as deep dive on partners redemption capability using the serverless. I hope you guys will have some takeaways from the session before we really dive into the details, some details on Capitlone. Capitlone is the first US bank to exit out of legacy on-premise data centers and go all in cloud. So you can imagine how much of a cultural change or technological transformation a company would have gone through to achieve such a feat. So right now, we think we are a technology company which happens to be in a banking business. And we are still a founder-led company which stays true to its mission, which is change banking for good. There are a lot of things in which we do that. We give back to the community. We do participate in a lot of community events. But when it comes to the tech, we do that in the form of open source. So we have contributed a lot of projects as open source projects, which came from our own implementations to call a few critical stack, which is a security-focused covenanted offering, and Rubicon, which is a ML-based tracking tool. And there is a data profiler, which is more like to ensuring whatever the data you use for your ML-related things to ensure the consistency of the data. So those are the few things, top of whatever we already have for the open source. So I called out a few. We do run some programs like coders. So this program is run across the United States for middle school students who are kind of, we run this program who at least envision themselves as future technologies to see how they can shape up their career. So this is completely run by our associates. So that program is called coders. This is one of the way again we give back to the community. And we do a program called Coda, which is more like non-technology focus associates who want to get into the technology stream. So we run this program for six months, and then we empower with them all the tools and all the things what they need to succeed in the industry. So this is the program. There's a Coda and a lot of our associates come from this program as well. So again, before we dive into this, some detail something. So I am an engineering manager at Capitlone. I have been doing Java-related things and also on the Spark, developing initial days of Java and Spark. And I have written a lot of blogs on our medium and also primarily on big data topics. And I have also spoke in a lot of conferences on the same area. If you're interested, you can hit me in my LinkedIn and Twitter. What do you, Nagesh? Stay here. Thank you. Yes, can you hear me? All right. First of all, thank you so much for showing up here. And I am Nagesh Kumar Vinakota, software engineering manager at Capitlone. And I've been building teams and leading teams to fill full stack applications. And I'm also a tech speaker. And you can follow me on LinkedIn and as well as on Twitter. So what are we going to cover today? So the agenda is like a 10,000-foot view of what we do at Capitlone Rewards. And we will cover a partnership redemption process. So the framework which we're talking about. And as part of that, we'll be covering about our partner specification configurations, which are essential for all the partners. So we call it as 3Ds. So we cover more later in the topic. And we also talk about the data collector. So and also how do we handle the failures in case of handling huge data. And we talk about the restartability and retry as part of these failure scenarios. Then we'll be covering about redemption flows with serverless architecture. And we talk about how do we handle that data publishing part. And how do we ensure that our data is secured and as well as we have processed successfully by enabling the controls and as well as validations. And finally, sending the notifications to the partners. And finally, we end up with question and answers. Okay, before we go into the agenda, how many of you are customers of Capitlone products? Excellent. Ma'am, which one you are using? Is it, which card you are using? Sorry ma'am, what is that? It's a blue card. So venture one. Venture one, okay. And sir, how about you? Which one you are using? I think someone raised up their hand as well. Sir, which one you are using? What's over? Pixel one, excellent. Anyone of you guys from this side? Excellent, like, yeah. Thank you so much. I see like few audience are here like using Capitlone. Thank you so much for that. And like, yeah, Capitlone is using wide variety of products. And Pixel is one thing which gives you 1.5% cash back on all transactions.  Likewise, there are other products, like one of them is like a saver one card. If you are like a frequent person to go to restaurants or dining at an entertainment, you'll be getting like a 3% cash back. So let's say like a small screenplay here, let's say my friend Gokul is interested in like taking a card. Hey Gokul, like, do you have a saver one card? No, I really don't. Okay, so what's your favorite spend? Like, where do you use your spend? No, at least interested in entertainment. I'm not sure about that. I believe like everybody is here, very much interested in entertainment rather than tech talks. Because I agree with me. Excellent. So like, so do you use any Capital One card right now? No, I said already. Okay, so then like, why can't you try for saver one card? You'll get 3% cash back on such things. Maybe I will. Okay, so basically what we want to talk about here is like capital, we came from rewards program, like where a customer will get like rewards in the form of loyalty for the transactions that they made. So what we are going to cover here is, so like we have like a lot of credit card customers like and these customers like one of the customer maybe like maybe Google after he got his saver one card, he went to Starbucks and he swiped his card for a coffee. And well, he will be making like a 3% reward on that. So such transactions will be sent to rewards earn program and we have a series of jobs or processes where we calculate these transactions and we calculate the earn and finally we update our databases so that the customers can use their rewards to perform other action or other redemption processes. Likewise, we're also kind of partnered with other card, other companies like one of them is one of the retail, one of the famous retail is like Walmart. So we are also partnered with that. Likewise, we, Capital One is also partnered with few more companies. So which I cannot disclose right now, but so this partnership redemption process is pretty much like a common generic framework which is across for all the partners. So what we do here is like, we pull all the customer accounts who are like partnered with that further customer for the company and then we will be running this partnership redemption process to issue checks, coupons to the customers. And finally, we also push this data to our data just to ensure that to run internal reports and as well as notifying our customers. So this is at a 10,000 foot view. After that, let's talk about partnership redemption process. What we do here. So each partner has their own specifications. Like one partner will come up and say that, hey, issue a coupon for all the customers who have what qualified with their $25 rewards. Like if a customer is having a $25 rewards balance, they will be like issuing a coupon for those customers. So all such kind of partner specific configurations, we are like coming up with one JSON based format document and we will be configuring those information. And this process, what it does is it reads that partner configuration and reads the data from the database. The data can be scattered across various places which I'll be covering in the next slides. So basically it will pull the data and stays the data by enriching the data or by filtering the data and performing partner specific checks which I called out earlier. Few partners will call say that like, hey, filter out all the customers who are not qualified for this process or else few partners will have an additional checks. They want to send a notification to their customers as well like why they are not qualified for this particular run. In such cases, we perform all these partner specific checks and then finally we have our core set of APIs which does the redeeming the balance and eventually updating our internal databases and finally notifying all our partnership customers. So if I deep dive into this partner specification configuration, we call it as 3Ds here, data source, data select and data sync. So what do we do here as part of data source? As I discussed earlier, the partners data can be scattered across three places. It can be at various places. It could be at tables or it could be in the form of file system or it could be from any other upstream systems. All that information will be configured as part of this partnership specification document and then and also the data select is something where we are saying that like what kind of checks we want to perform as part of these accounts that we are pulling it from the systems. So once the data select and it can also be an enrichment. It is not only just a select kind of a query kind of it, it is more about like enriching partner specific data. And finally, if our framework is, I mean, if the partner is interested in pushing this data to any database, like we'll be pushing that or like if we are interested in pushing to the streams, any kinesis streams like so that other systems can start using it, they can, we can push it to that data sync and as well as file system. So it's purely based on like partners configuration that he's interested in. So before like we are covering this slide, so few years ago, like we have like a series of spark jobs to perform this partner redemption process. That means like each for each partner, we were like having like a series of spark jobs and we are running these machines for all the day. And so our goal is to build a resilient architecture and as well as like a scalable solution which can support all partners and as well as cost effective solution is something which we are considering into it. So for that one, so we came up with this framework which is like reusable and scalable and also we were able to onboard new partners in last time. So which is like huge win for us. So coming back to this process, once we have configured these 3Ds like data source, data enrich and as well as like data sync, the next term would be giving this configuration file to the actual process which is running on a EMR cluster. And this is again a schedule based and as you all know like once a EMR cluster is provisioned and then this partner job will read this configuration for that specific partner and perform all the work it is which is needed for that partner. So let's say once our partner configuration file is ready then let's say if we have like partner A, partner B and partner B and like once the partner configuration is ready the next step would be like giving this file for the dataization part. So as part of that, so we call it as a data collector. So in this case it scans through the configuration file and it says like data source is like hey, you have to pull this information from this data from this Dynamo tables or like from this S3 file or from the upstream systems. Then this EMR spot job which will pull that information and then the next step would be data select where we enrich the data. So as I said earlier like few accounts are qualified for a coupon or few accounts are qualified for a check and few accounts may not and but the customer also want to know why he is not qualified for this run. In such cases, we also send a message so that's where we are doing the enrichment. The question here is like let's say since we are handling with a lot of data if something goes out like if the process got abruptly failed in such cases we really want to take care of not to process any duplicates of it like. So how do we handle that scenarios? In this case for example, once this partner configuration is, he threads the document like A, B, C like three accounts it came up before it pushes that to the data sync it checks the staging table or it checks whether the data is already available in the staging process. For example, in this example, I'm saying like A, B, C out of this like we see that like in the stage table B record is already available. In such cases it will push A and C records to the data sync and once it writes to the data sync it will also update the staging table. Now there might be a question for you guys like hey what happens if the database connections failed for the staging table or else what happens if there is a failure with pushing the data to the data syncs. In such cases we also have handled the retrace logic and in case after the series of retrace if it failed it will also write to a dead letter Q and finally there is another process which will read the data from the dead letter Q and push back the data to the data syncs. So this is how we are handling with respect to the data collector with the restartability and retries and when they call about the restartability again like let's say after like 20 minutes of process like when we are handling huge amount of data after 20 minutes if it failed when it when it restarted it will resume from where it failed. So the next thing here is like we want to cover a board in case like one of the partner is interested in pushing this data to the data sync I mean like Kinesis streams. In such cases we want to cover that scenario. In the Kinesis stream again like we have made completely this as a serverless we don't want to do a batch based processing. In this case and we have a series of lambdas here like let's say lambda A is very partner specific partner specific configuration and where it receives a batch of records from the Kinesis stream and let's say lambda B is like kind of a reusable so where it interacts with like a lot of REST APIs and as well as like maybe interacting with any other source systems. So in this case the record went from the record passed from lambda A processed it and pushed that record to the lambda B and it interacted with REST APIs for writing the data information across our internal systems and there are like lambdas which also do the database interactions. In this case we really want to minimize the number of network database calls that we made so we came up with batch insertions here. So again like lambda C is all about like maybe writing to the database and in this case let's say if any of these messages failed processing by these lambdas so it will also push that message to the dead letter Q and there is another process called retrial lambda. This retrial lambda will process all these it will like reprocess them by pushing them to the corresponding lambdas. For example if you see here this particular process dead letter Q and it also has like this message to be processed on lambda A this message to be processed on lambda B. So this lambda is on a scheduler based and it will like read this dead letter Q and push that message to the corresponding lambda. Well Gokul will cover the data publishing side. Thank you. Thank you Nagesh. So what Nagesh was discussing on the data collect and also the redemption process whatever we have gone through for the particular customer or the customers of the partner. So what happens when it comes to the control and the data validation is something like till this point all the information whatever we have it is only in our internal database. It hasn't actually gone out for the real consumption. The main reason we have some toll gates at this point is we are calling that as a control and the data validation because we want to ensure the accuracy of the data before it really reaches the hands of whom or it needs. So that's what we are calling it as controls and validation. In simple terms the controls is something like the example whatever Nagesh was calling like if a particular account or for the partner if they have defined something like if they haven't spent $28 for that period of redemption process then they're not really eligible to get whatever the means of redemption be it a check or be it a coupon or any of this. So they are not really eligible for that. We know that the partner specific redemption process is going to take care of that. But what control process does is the partner redemption process uses a particular data source to do the redemption but control will go to a alternate data source in order to arrive at the same conclusion and apply the same logic. In this example like customer's account not having $25 it's not eligible for redemption. So that same we do it systematically for all the accounts for the whole partner and for all the partners. So that's what in simple terms we are calling it as controls. And the data validation is something like our DEAs take care of the similar thing but they apply the same logic. So we ensure place doubly all the things before it really goes out for the partner everything is accurate. But as Nages was also discussing not everything goes as per the plan. So we need to have our bases covered. So this process as part of the control or even from the data validation there are ways in which please most not most on a sunny day most of the accounts will get into the case where we are calling it as a thing which makes it to the data lake. Most of the account will get into the data lake and that's when it really goes out to the partner and also to our internal users so that they can generate the business reports and goes out to the partners so that they can really make use of the coupon or cash or check. But there are cases where the controls will find out a lot of followed case even though the redemption has really executed that but still as per our data validation we may not be reconciling. So for those cases we write those things because we don't want to halt the whole process or even for the particular thing. So we go by each and every account and then only just keep the follow-ups as a part of another file then we take care of that as a pack office process and rest of the thing just flows through the data lake and also our partners. So this we have initially done this for one of our partner as Nagesh was reading in one of his slide this was actually previously done as a series of match up specific for the particular partner of those things. So what we would come up with is a specific framework which can be scaled for any partner and use it for any upcoming partners. So we have initially done it for one of the our home improvement chain related partner and then that we have really used it for two or more partners which we have done it in the last couple of years. So that is actually the major win we see with this. That's all we got. What's in your wallet? What's in your wallet? Can you share this? And please show up in level four. We are at S10 and we are like actively doing the hiring as well. So we have our hiring team as well here and you can show up at both S10 and as well as you can also join us today at Zanzibar and we are like also doing a happy hour. Please feel free to join us and learn more about Capital One and we are looking forward your participation. Thank you so much for showing up here. All right, thank you so much.


If you're asking yourself which pot is the best one for your plants, this video is for you. The pots that you pick for your plants will greatly influence the care that you give her, as well as how she grows. And when thinking about this, there are many different factors that we can consider in order to pick the right one for your plants and for yourself. As I always say, when it comes to plant care, the first thing that we want to look at is our plants. So what type of plant do you have? Do you have a tropical plant? Do you have a succulent or a cactus? Do they like the soil to stay moist at all times? Or do you know that they need less water and the soil needs to dry out completely before you water again? If you pick the right pot, this one will help you prevent over watering or under watering. So getting to know your plant is really important to get to choose the right one for her and also for you. And talking about you, this is the second very important factor. Get to know yourself and the care that you give to your plant. Are you an overwaterer or do you usually forget to water your plants? I can tell you, in my experience, the material of the pot has helped me regulate how long the soil stays moist. So this is very important when it comes to me and if I'm very forgetful of watering my plants or if I know that I water them too much. So now that you have an idea of which plants you have and the type of care that you give them, let's look at the pots. And the first one that we're going to look at is one that is very common in plant shops and plant nurseries and this is the plastic pot. Now I can tell you there are many advantages to plastic and this is why this one is so common. The first one of course is that it is very cheap. So if you go to the store you will see that plastic is one of the cheapest pots that you can get, which makes it a good option if you have many plants and you don't want to break the bank. Another very good thing about plastic is that it's very durable. So as you can see here it's not really easy to break. So it can last for long periods of time. If you buy a plastic pot and then you repot your plant, just try to save that plastic pot because you can reuse it for other plants. Plastic retains the water in the soil for longer periods of time. I can tell you, in my experience with tropical plants like alexias or allocations, plastic is very useful when retaining the water inside for longer. And this is really great because these plants actually like the soil to stay moist at all times. If you have a succulent for example that likes the soil to dry out more quickly or even completely before you water again, plastic may not be the best option because the soil is going to be moist for longer periods of time and this may not be the best for your succulent. But if you are someone that forgets to water and have tropical plants that like the soil to be moist, then plastic may be helpful for you. Another great thing about plastic is that it's lightweight. So if you like to move your plants around or you even have to move them around, for example, I actually water my plants all together in a box. So I actually move them around the house when I water. Plastic is very good because it's not so heavy as other materials. You can also use the method of check the weight of your plant to see if they need water. With plastic, since it is very light, you can just put it up and if it feels light, that means that your plant may need water. If you have a heavier material like terracotta or ceramic, this method may not be so accurate when checking if your plant needs water. Two of the main disadvantages of plastic is that first oxygen cannot go through the material because this material is not porous. So the space may be too saturated and the roots will not have the space to breathe. The other thing that is a big disadvantage of plastic is that this is not a sustainable material. As you may know, plastic takes 450 years to decompose. So the pots that you're using for your plant today will stay on this planet for 450 years. On top of that, the production of plastic is not sustainable and it will contribute to the pollution of our planet and to climate change. So this is something very important to consider when using plastic pots. And if you have plastic pots at home, I strongly recommend that you reuse them for your plants as they are very durable. So if you already have them there, just save them and reuse them. Another thing that you can do is to check with your nursery because some nurseries actually take plastic pots back to reuse them over there. So if that's your case, just check with them, wash your plastic pot really well and bring it back to the nursery so it can be reused. This takes me to the second type of pot, which is the terracotta pot. And we can start with the advantage that it's a more sustainable alternative than plastic. Terracotta is 100% natural brown bait clay. So its production is way more sustainable than the production of plastic. And it is a better alternative when it comes to caring for our planet. Another thing that I love about terracotta is that in my opinion, it is very pretty. It brings its natural tones to your house and it is very easy to combine with other colors. I also really like that it's kind of reddish so it looks really great with the green of the leaves on top. As opposed to plastic, terracotta is very porous, which means two things. First, oxygen can actually travel through the material into the soil and it will give you roots the space to breathe. And second, because it is very porous, terracotta will absorb the water out of the soil. This is great for plants that like the soil to try out completely in between waterings because the soil will not stay moist for long periods of time. So for example, you have succulents or cacti, terracotta pots will be great for these types of plants. Does this mean that you cannot have tropical plants in terracotta pots? Of course not. I actually have my Galatia Rufibarba in a terracotta pot and she is doing really great. All I have to do is to remind myself to water more frequently. Another thing that you can do to maintain the soil moist for longer periods of time for your tropical plants in terracotta pots is to use something like this. This is actually a terracotta watering globe and all you have to do is to pour the water inside here and stick it in the soil because then the water will be absorbed by the terracotta into the soil and this will help you prevent under watering or just prevent you the soil to be really really dry for your plant. I can tell you for me has been really great. I use it for my asparagus ferns and yeah, they seem to be really happy in the terracotta pots. Now some disadvantages that come with terracotta pots is that first they can be more expensive than plastic pots. One thing that I can say is that you know of any flea markets around your neighborhood you can actually find terracotta pots there and they may be at a lower price. Another disadvantage with terracotta is that it is very heavy so if you're like me and you water your plants grouped together for example with me I actually bring my plants in a box and I bottom water all of them. Terracotta may make it more difficult to move your plants around as it is a very heavy material so this is another thing to consider and related to that it can also break really easily so if you're carrying your plant and any drops terracotta may actually break and then it's not as durable as plastic. But anyways if you're careful and you don't have to move your plants around terracotta can be a very good choice because first it's really pretty and I love that it is more sustainable than plastic so it becomes a very good option to care for our plants and also to care for our planet. Now does the size of your pot matter? Yes it does and I'm going to tell you how to pick the right size for your plant. When choosing the next pot for your plant when you're reporting her one thing that we really have to remember is to not go too big. So a good rule of thumb is that you go maximum one to two sizes bigger than the previous pot. When you look at the measurement of the pot this is actually measuring its diameter. So when you're choosing a new pot for your plant just look at the diameter and make sure that it goes one to two sizes bigger maximum. This is going to help you prevent over watering and also your plant is not going to be too shocked with the new environment. The last thing that I consider when choosing my pot is drainage. Now many people have asked me do I really need drainage holes in the pot? The answer is no you don't really need them. Now in my experience drainage holes have been very very helpful so when I go buy my pot I always check that it has drainage holes and this is because of various reasons. The first one and most important one is that drainage holes help me prevent over watering my plant. This is because when I water the drainage holes make sure that the extra water drains down and the soil stays moist but not super wet which is really great when preventing root rot and over watering. The second reason for me is that I bottom water my plants so you have to have drainage holes for the water to go up to the soil from the bottom. So again you don't absolutely need drainage holes when it comes to the pot that you're going to choose for your plant. This will greatly depend on the type of care that you give her how you water her and you feel comfortable with the water that you give her knowing that the soil will be moist and not wet. I would love to know which pot that you prefer for your plants and why so make sure to comment below and share with others because I can assure you the whole community will appreciate it and that's including myself because I always learn from you guys. Also if you would like to support this community and the work that I do here we do have a Patreon page and we actually meet every month to talk about plants so we talk about potting mix and pots and plant issues so it's been really great so if you would like to join us there make sure to check out this link right here and as always I will see you in the next one okay adios


Throughout my life I've increasingly found that reading scripture in public isn't just about feeding our own spirits and minds. It's about rehearsing the mighty acts of God for God's glory. So let's think together about Philippians chapter 3 verse 20. And first we're going to need some tea. We are citizens of heaven, you see, and we're eagerly waiting for the Saviour, the Lord, King Jesus, who is going to come from there. I think it's safe to say that this is one of the most misunderstood verses in all of Paul. Because modern Western Christians hearing that we are citizens of heaven will instantly think to themselves, and I've heard this in lectures and from the pulpit, oh well, we really belong in heaven so one day we'll go back there. We are citizens already so we have, as it were, the right of return, as though we're in a far-flung country at the moment but wanting to go back home where we really belong. That is not how the language and imagery of citizenship worked for Paul at all. He is writing to Philippi, which was a Roman colony, and the reason that there were Roman colonies in northern Greece, which is where Philippi was and is, was that the Romans had had civil wars which had spilt over into bits of Greece and into what we call Turkey as well. And when those wars were over, the soldiers who had fought were given grants of land in those particular areas because the last thing Rome wanted was those military veterans coming back to Italy in general or to Rome in particular with all their violent expertise and eager to grab somebody's farm and to settle there themselves. No, we don't want that. The point is we are citizens of Rome and our task as Roman citizens is, as best we can, to be agents of Roman civilization in northern Greece or Turkey or wherever it may be so that the idea of being citizens of heaven doesn't mean for Paul so we are waiting to go back to heaven because after all, God's promise as Paul knows very well as we see in Romans or 1 Corinthians and not to mention other parts of Scripture, God's promise is not that earth is only a temporary residence point after which humans or some of them will end up leaving earth and going to heaven. God's promise and purpose is for new heavens and new earth for a new creation in which the lives of heaven and earth will be joined together in a great act of renewal once and for all. So the point is then to live at the moment as agents of the civilization of heaven here on earth. That is of course central to what Paul is teaching the converts to do. And this is because when Jesus returns, as he says now, we're eagerly waiting for the Saviour, the Lord the King, who's going to come from heaven, when Jesus returns it isn't therefore to scoop people up and take them back with him to heaven. The Bible nowhere says that. The one passage which some have read like that in 1 Thessalonians simply doesn't mean that at all. The point is that Jesus is already Lord of heaven and earth and his return is not simply an act of a spaceman swooping down to do certain things. It's the coming together of heaven and earth under Jesus' lordship, implementing finally and forever the work which he did in his death and resurrection. So that then Paul uses here the language of Jesus which his hearers would have known from the language of Caesar. The language which said we are citizens of Rome and if we're in trouble here in northern Greece, we will await for the King Caesar, our Kyrios, our Lord to come and save us. Saviour and Lord are Caesar titles in Paul's world. Yes says Paul and now their Jesus titles, the Saviour, the King, the Lord. He is going to come from heaven and what will he do? The next verse says he will transform our present shabby old body to be just like his glorious body by the power which makes him able to bring everything into line under his own authority. Here as in 1 Corinthians 15, Paul draws on those Messianic Psalms, Psalm 110, Psalm 8, which speak of the authority of the truly human one, the authority of the King, who is finally going to complete the work which was begun. So we are at the present moment citizens of heaven, not so that we can go back there but so that already we can be agents of the heavenly civilization in the present against the day when Jesus comes and completes the work of transforming heaven and earth and of our bodies in the middle of it. So may God give you faith and courage to get on with your work as citizens of heaven and to look forward to the coming of the Lord, the King, the Saviour. Amen. How is this passage speaking to you? Let us know in the comments. Like and subscribe or check out our other videos.


welcome back to another vlog look at the backgrounds I don't know if I'm gonna make this a vlog or a dedicated video yet but girl it's time the time is now that we tackle this room oh my god girl is so bad and what's crazy is y'all I don't even know where to start I don't know where to start but all this is getting I'm like redoing everything the whole closet so I want to do this side I will all my shoes and then this side I want all my bags and I'm gonna probably go to IKEA maybe tomorrow or the next day and then I'm gonna get some shelves maybe today my mama goes I don't know because my mom was still here and I gotta go through this closet as well it's so bad so and y'all want to know it's crazy I was like my what did you order like I don't even know what this is so but first I'm gonna start out here and just get everything together together but it's bad so pray for me I'm about to turn on some background noise YouTube videos and just go to work and I'm probably gonna be doing this for the rest of the day just so excited to get a new vibe in here and start working in here more and yeah just set the tone in here because it's overdue so let's get to it so I hope you guys enjoyed this beauty room office makeover so let's just get into it because I'm so excited I see nothing I just had a way done picking up everything off the floor I couldn't show y'all because it just got dark is ever what the fuck my electricity just went out my power just went out oh my god all right standby one two reporting life from the news channel Fox six Yeah All right So she wanna sing the song It's giving and it's not brought like a go-go It's like a nice Bronzy it's cute. I like it It kind of matches this period. Okay with the colors That's cute. I like it What do you like for this to be over so do you like the chair? No, actually I did No, you was like which one First of all Exactly so let's get the story straight cuz y'all want people that I put them in the cart and I said Pick which ones you won't and move them back to the cart And I have them in the cart and save them for later and then I move it back to the cart So that's how you chose stop playing with me. Yes This is like a nice neutral color Yes, I Like these they're gonna be tall up in the ball field.   Yeah Nasty-ass big toes about here. Anyways, so let's I'm about to take them off. I'm about to tomorrow. I didn't have time So, let's just I'm back. You don't know I like it. He tripping it matches the painting The great in the painting You just did it out there go in the inside How not not the inside of that. Okay y'all so my mom about this the rolling rack. Where is this rolling right from? Amazon yeah Where's the rolling rack from I'm not sure but she ordered a rolling rack from my storage. So mainly some of this stuff is From my closet that was looking crazy and cluttered in there and I'm gonna just take my winter coats down there as well But yeah, so that's going down there and then I would I can even show y'all how Like me cleaning this up like, you know, like a montage of cleaning it cuz I still don't have no electricity And I don't know how this is gonna work like it's gonna be a hug, baby I'm not gonna have no light in my house like your mama's right back but anyway, so Yeah, I'm just gonna push this down to my storage and Then I don't know I want to keep working on my closet tonight, but I'm gonna see Huh, so you will see what happens, but Today is day two of closet clean out today is kind of a late start off because one today is for the Homegirl being here and I was going through it this morning. I was like, oh my god, I just couldn't move like Yeah, not my first days.  I had to get up and feel myself I don't know like I told job doing self-care and stuff like taking a bath Doing a hair mask really, you know Gets me back up and running. So anyway, so yeah, like I said today is day two So everything is out of this closet at the moment is out here Because I have drawers that go in this closet. So I'm just going to go ahead and wipe wipe the cup Wipe the stuff off the wall cuz really bad y'all. I just be throwing stuff in here And I need to stop that so I gotta, you know Bring out the magic eraser so we can get these walls back sparkling white baby. Okay, and then I'm going to Resolve my floor in here.  So that's what I'm about to do right now I'm about to Go get me a bucket. It's a water and just go to town. So let's do it Y'all my I did that. Okay y'all seen what it was looking like before all the scuffs and Everything is gone. It's sparkly white. Well, it's not sparkly, but it's better than what it was It's not as filthy and my rug and the carpet just has to dry It's pretty wet damn right now But it's smelling so good in here and this is what I used to clean my carpet the resolve I got all up there cuz I had scuffs from putting my boxes and things up there. So I'm about to start Over here in this corner first this column. So I'm just gonna go ahead and Start taking this stuff down. So I Can color coordinate so I'm gonna start with this at your first and I'm just gonna oh Oh And I'm just going to Dust everything off.  I mean, it's cute, but Yeah, I'm kind of glad I am doing it like this Like I feel like it's time for a spring cleaning anyways So might as well. Oh My god, I cannot believe I just got energy out of nowhere. Y'all y'all should have seen me earlier I was like I was just not into it. It was my thing. I Was not feeling the vibe. I want my non most used bag Black bags to be up there. I think I'm gonna keep my black Louis bag at the top like that, and then put Balenciaga there Can y'all see that? so I have my Louis this all Louis bag I barely wear only really wear it if I really feel like bringing it out It is super big But yeah, normally It's not worn that much. So I put my Balenciaga Right here our glass. I'm trying to figure it out because I want Like my black Because I want my like black most worn bags Maybe right here. I definitely want my Chanel still right there But I don't want a Chanel box right there.  So I think I'm gonna split it So I can put like This there cuz it would brown will be next So I don't ever use this like this, but I kind of want to be elevated. So Let's see what this is giving. I'm a So do y'all see The Louis vibe I'm going for in the first section Let me just turn my light in and I am gonna get rid of some things too like this bag I'm not even gonna put a Okay, hopefully y'all can see now Um So yeah in this corner, I think I'm gonna elevate it a little more just a space Moment so it's like travel See I'm gonna stop using this like I was like I Was thinking like I'm gonna stop Using stuff for just show up and actually use it Cuz I want to actually use my That one can't use. Oh my god. Is this my other bitter peach? Y'all I Really ever wear this just because it's in that section and lost cherry is like one of my top five So good. I haven't worn that in so long five. Anyways, let me just really Speed this up because I'm really just Been So yeah, I wanted to wake up early to get a fresh start on this, so yeah, I'm liking how this is looking. I like how all the red, orange, silver, blue, and so now I'm gonna start with on the middle section and then over there, and then I'm gonna add a shelf from IKEA and put it right there. But I might keep Marjolinci boots down there, so I'm probably gonna stop it midway. But anyway, so I'm just gonna finish up these two sections, and I'm gonna move that back leg in a bag and put that bag over there and put it right there, so we'll see how that goes. The bags in my little display is finished, but Marjolinci was like, you should put order of stands, so like this can be elevated in a bag, and then I ordered them. Did I hear a smacking? So yeah, now I'm about to start on the shoe side, so I'm just gonna get into it, because yeah, because I just want to get the best part done, girl, so. Mm-hmm. Get into it. Yes, Boasega Mami. Y'all, I told her she had those. I was gonna sell them, but she was like, I thought you were giving them to me. Oh, is it off me? Okay. It's trap season, bruh. Daddy's joking, because they know I'm the shrewd. And I ate it for my baby, but I'm a bustin. These hoes can't stand me. I'm a bustin. I'm a bustin. I'm a bustin. I'm a bustin. I'm a bustin. I'm a bustin. I'm a bustin. I'm a bustin. I'm a bustin. I ate it for my baby, but I'm a bustin. These hoes can't stand me. I'm a bustin. I'm a bustin. I'm a bustin. R Schöné Lives upper labs. That's прим. That's the street. That's the stink. The spitfire bitches down like Ellis Everybody blame me. front of the process it's my closet okay tell me okay y'all we about to take the old rug out out with the old it was the new so let's do it the top off yes we gotta figure out how to do it already you said that get it together you might have to put adhesive on it or something I wanted to go in the closet yes my door don't do it don't do it it's already pushed out this rug gave me so many problems when I first got it and I'm so happy to be with a baby cuz I honestly wasn't even a fan at first but my new rug pushing me hey girl today is Thursday today is the next day and yesterday we didn't really do anything but resolves the carpet that was underneath the rug do the rug out that's done so this morning me and my mom were stopping at clean juice she went out green juice and I'm about to go grab a TV really quick because I wanted TV in there because I don't know about y'all but I love white noise in the background I don't know I just like working with white noise so I wanted to put a TV like a small little TV in my room and also I can play like YouTube videos and stuff like that while I'm getting ready or music or whatever I want to do put it on here y'all sometimes I just be chilling in my beauty room like I just be like chilling in there so I'm like you know I'm just gonna put a small little TV in here so we're gonna go to Target and see what they have and then I'm gonna call it my homeboy to come put it up for me you already know he's put all my TVs up in my house so yeah if y'all need y'all TVs hooked up hit them up but yeah and then we're just gonna do the last minute touches I did order a candle yesterday because I kind of wanted to do like a little funky candle in like that centerpiece and it's already here and shipped out I ordered a few off Etsy but one of them the shops were located here in Atlanta so that's cool because some of her candles were so good so if I end up liking this I'm gonna order more colors what's going on and then I'm just gonna drop off this chair and some other things off to Goodwill that I've been meaning to drop off and my skin is looking good and I got my lashes removed off yesterday I'm gonna put some lash serum on but I get my nails done today thank God because yeah I'm looking a little rough watching my face this morning I exfoliated and it just felt so nice to just rub over my eyes I don't know it just feels so good to actually be able to do skincare without having to worry about your lashes getting wet this man literally is looking at me vlogging I can't let me stop oh my god y'all this man next I'm embarrassed let me put my camera down I literally extended my camera oh my god I can't why is it so irritating will you lock eyes with somebody it's just like what the fuck I can't okay that why is this yeah so we just hopped into Target and if y'all looking for some TVs right now they have a bunch on sale but I'm getting this 32 inch they had a go in the back and get it for me and it's only a 32 inch so I'm just waiting for a sales associate to bring it out so y'all so my TV man just got here we finna mount the TV so mom what's up yeah so y'all this TV up she's crazy you're gonna man in an hour he finna get me right he's in all my TVs in my house yeah so just right here next y'all so we're in home Depot see where's that so oh oh it's right here it's coming up I already knew it was gonna be by the lights so y'all we are home Depot so I kind of want to put just one light in the middle where oh shit it's fine not that one it's a it's a battery-operated one the one I looked at huh 41 14 wait baby 14 and I don't know we should have asked the man that was thing oh right here I mean it's one of these oh these things over here yeah this one has a remote but yes why it'll blend right grab that one and then USB charge oh shit I can charge it is it adhesive or magnetic that's I don't like the gray I wanted to blend but where is this one oh it is that one no no this one better you operate it no no is this one the indoor battery which one is this all this pop yeah let's try yeah let's try this one and that one cuz it's like white so it'll blend and it's not so big blending blend what's this one oh no that's too big wait what's this all right let's go y'all so back at it with the closet transformation so obviously y'all seen yesterday huh obviously y'all seen yesterday I got a new TV yeah it was just working yesterday I don't know what's going on but my homeboy that does the whole TV mouthing he like actually that means the electrician at this point because how make a whole plug right here I don't know but I don't know why it's not working it's not the cool it's not the outlet it's the TV because I tried both outlets but yeah anyway so I'm working on this display right now to see what I like better you like the box better I think the you she not even listen to me but it was between the box or just having them individually elevated on their own here let me show y'all and then after this I'm gonna work on putting my work down I hope I don't get deminus eyes for a vase that would be so sad right do you like the box look so the box yeah I like the box but I'm gonna show y'all the difference let me show y'all and I like how shiny this is this like that so or do you like that it don't work we gotta take it back it's but I have two book editions I'm about to put it down here so let me just show y'all really quick it's flickering and oh okay we'll wait and see what we'll see what happens okay we'll see um we'll wait till after and see if it's still persistent we'll call you I mean we'll do that thank you so much bye so y'all I thought it was my TV but obviously somebody hit the poll in the Georgia powers out here fixing it cuz my light my LED sign not even turn on but anyway so why I do have light in this room or whatever cuz the lights are flickering in there I'm changing the light bulb in there as well I'm about to make it brighter I don't know why it's doing that but anyhoo I just picked these books up from this furniture store it was really too narrow but girl he is expensive like a chair was like six thousand dollars like go hell go hell but I always see these books on like in those six talks with the girls that be having those funky apartments like all colorful and cute and like just like a groovy style I'll never do that but I did want to make my beauty room to be like an artistic feeling here we're like a little bit of color a little bit of Pazelle so I got these two books one is a toloom book I just like how the colors look with this green and like this magenta is that magenta I don't know I'm acting like I know these colors just like purple and then and I just liked how the it was like kind of shiny you know and then I got this pink book cuz I have a lot of pink over here and yeah and I just like the gold letters of it so yeah I'm gonna see how these books look and then I'm going to roll out my rug and then I'm gonna put my chair together so that's how situation right now but yeah let's get to it so much better but I don't know how like the box situation I think I like the two separate yeah that's better anyways y'all the lights finally came back on I'm so sorry these clearstands you like how this looks it's giving bothie and you want to keep the big one yeah just in case just keep it but when you make your air just stop there why not cuz I need my for this one that one that's yeah I like this one better whoo y'all my beauty room is so bright now turn it on it was given like a yellow tint in here with the lights they had but these are from the container store just so you know normally I get the ones from Amazon like this they're critical ones but these ones kind of got like a tint to it yeah but I have both kinds that one and then like this one so get three of these for one for this one and then that white one so you don't want I took the tapes I do want it oh you can just leave it right there honestly I just need one more just one more why can't this why are you knocked down the blue one was you just wiping it off are you seriously putting a black under that no that's so ugly what no just go get the clear one I am what why did you put this one on the floor because I was doing something or you really don't need to you can really just put the small one no no what are you trying to do like no I know what I'm just put the black one up there here give me I'm not doing anything here I'll do it because you're gonna get why did you take the clear one off the blue she's a collectible okay well that's you see me me she's finna clean clean if you are in this if this is your first time coming on my channel cuz I don't know how YouTube is finna drag this video um but this my mama and she's a knee freak she's a clean freak she cleans everything this is okay I'm so for rugables rugs I believe you it's like Velcro and you just attach the rug to it cuz machine washable this is the bottom the black part is the bottom part it's hungry angel she's about to attack me okay come on your hands in front of you the other side is so wrinkly okay now you want to roll it up a burrito no it has to be nice and tight now you messed up we'll start from that side okay now it's gonna be a one inch overhang why this is a little crack it doesn't look come come come come come come come over here come come come pull this one just a tad tad down okay now get your sandwich it's a burrito everything's food since I ate all day help me okay pop people's get it even cuz this is workers so we're gonna start right here and we're gonna inch over in it overhang a inch got it smooth that out smooth that out I am smooth it out come over here smooth it smooth smooth smooth that's a wrinkle okay smooth it out yeah and then that's what you're gonna do all wait now don't roll this thing out you gotta smooth it I am smooth so you got a smooth it I am no you're not my yes seriously there you go they get a technique yes so yeah we just got the rug down it's so cute it's got this green chair I just wanted a pop of color y'all so I got this half a home depot I would tag everything in the description box yeah and it has a little accent so I got to put this together look what I'm into wasting time I was just doing fine should I find something new or should I be tripping on you these decisions ain't easy believe me I know it's hard to read me and I know these girls don't get greedy cuz I came out so I have my chair up so now I'm gonna add a light in the middle of my closet for like the display area just to give it like a little bit of on it and I went to home depot yesterday and I got two kinds I got this strip right here just like the ones that are under my cabinet and then circle ones they are this one is better you're operating in this one you have to charge so I'm trying to see which one I like better and I really want whatever I like to blend with the I packs so it doesn't you can't really see it that much I feel like you're gonna see regardless I just wanted to look stainless these ones are these circle ones are flat that's why I like them so you can find these at home depot and then these are adhesive so I just stick adhesive to my I packs and just stick it up there and then put batteries in here so I'm gonna see what these look like on with the batteries two together yeah or should I put the okay also I'm gonna show you all the light options real quick I think I want to do the long strip because this one you can change it's all white a white white or a soft white or like the medium


We're talking about people who have flee great harm. They fled great harm and they are coming here seeking refuge and Talk about political theater.  Is anyone actually buying this with their lives?  Oh my god Wait what fill me in on a few of these details So planes in the middle of the night landing in West Chester and other places dropping people off I assume after being picked up at the southern border the United States That's right, we've just followed that route from from Texas from the southern border To white planes and they come via Jacksonville, Florida where they drop off some of their migrants and then They arrive in the dead of night as you said Now there are mothers with sleeping babies getting off those buses Hey, did you know that silver prices are low right now? Investors are selling their holdings because of a turn down in demand once fears subside We could see a surge of demand for silver as customers come back Which is why it's a perfect time to get your silver IRA started right now and this month You'll get an incredible free three ounce silver American virtue coin with a qualified IRA of $20,000 or higher call the team now at<PHONE_NUMBER> To find out more or visit noblegoldenvestments.com And I just think it's an absolute dareliction of duty if you see a problem And if we agree that that we need to address it Then if you're a leader Participate in a solution Right? You are the leader. You're the vice president and you're supposed to be in charge of the border crisis nuts Bonzo no longer in possession of one's faculties three fries short of a happy meal This is what Kamala Harris wants you to believe sending illegal immigrants to border towns and to middle America in the dead of night Equals leaders and plebiscite solution sending them to Kamala's neighborhood and liberal enclaves That's political theater when we first came in office The first bill that we proposed was for a pathway for citizenship Hey, uh, have you been hanging out with that world economic forum chick? Okay Either that's a sign that she knows she's lying or that maybe she was doing a little something before the show So essentially what Kamala and Democrats in their media are doing is admitting that what they do is use immigrants as a political tool Never calling it that when they do it, of course But when they see their political opponents do it suddenly they're casting out that Allegation and of course not getting called on it by the same people who play along when they do it now on The bind who also owned himself without realizing it every single Democrat voted for the inflation reduction act Every single Republican Damn right another way of saying that might be that every Democrat voted for a bill that has nothing to do with lowering inflation according to Forbes the inflation Reduction Act includes creation of a 15% corporate minimum tax rate prescription drug price reform iris tax enforcement Oh great an army of poorly trained in armed tax ages to crack down on the little guy What more could we ask for affordable care act subsidy extension and energy security and climate change investments? You might think I missed something but no there's actually nothing in there to address inflation and according to the Nonpartisan Penn Wharton budget model it won't do shit in regards to inflation So what Republicans actually voted against was a bill that was sold as addressing inflation But didn't so in reality all Joe Biden did was point out that Republicans are blameless when it comes to all the negative consequences of its fake inflation reduction act And most importantly not only has inflation not gone down But as of Thursday is expected to rise even higher Which will no doubt be covered up by the media and somehow transferred to the people out of power All right folks that's all I have for that one. Thanks for watching Please hit that like button share and subscribe then leave a comment to vent some frustration See you all in the next one


Hey, I'm Paul, and welcome to a new Precious Plastic video. In this video, we're going to show you how to set up an injection workspace. But before you start building, there are a few things you need to think about. First, it's good to have a team. Having someone to share the tasks with can make the work a lot more fun. And second, how much space do you need? It's important to be sure you have enough space to move around freely with all of your machines and tools. The space we're using here is roughly four by six meters. And third, what kind of electricity do you need? The injector can run on single phase, but the shredder sometimes needs three phase. So be sure to check the specs of the motor that you plan to use. So you've assembled your team and you've found your space. Now it's time to build. Your injection workspace is only an injection workspace if you have the injection machine. So start with that. You can build one yourself or buy one on the Precious Plastic Bazaar. Next, you need a shredder so you can shred your own plastic. You've got your machines. Now it's time to use them. So you need plastic. It's important to separate plastics based on type, so we recommend using sorting bags or some other sort of container to keep your plastic organized. And it's usually best to further sort your plastic based on color before shredding so that you have more control over the appearance of your products in the end. Now it's time to shred. When shredding, you'll need a container to capture plastic granular. It can be nice to find standardized storage containers that you can shred directly into and store right after shredding. Once the container's full, remove it from the shredder and put it on the shelf. Now it's time to turn your plastic into something valuable. To make a product, you need a mold. It can be welded, machined or even laser cut. Be sure to check out the how-tos to find some inspiration and some cool designs to download. Turn on your injection machine to heat it up and in the meantime, prepare your plastic for the machine. It's nice to set up a mixing station where you can weigh out different plastics and mix different colors to develop different combinations that you and your customers like. As the machine heats up, you might notice some fumes. There are a few ways you can address this, the simplest being to make sure you're in a well-ventilated area with open windows and doors. You can also wear a filter mask and use a filter caddy. Check out the safety video in the academy to learn more about these options. It usually takes the plastic a few minutes to melt so it's nice to have a clock to keep track of time. The machine is hot and the plastic's mixed. Now it's time to load it into your machine. There are a few tools that are useful to have when operating the machine. We recommend installing a small tool board to keep them handy. When you're ready, you can inject your plastic. There will probably be some excess plastic when you remove the mold, so be sure to keep a bucket of water nearby so you can cool it off to shred it again. There are a few tools you'll need to use while de-molding the product, so we recommend having a dedicated workstation where you can keep these tools handy. While you're de-molding your product, your partner can prepare the next mixture of plastic for the machine. When your product's ready, put it on display to show visitors what you can make. Now it's time to put some finishing touches on the workspace. We've made some posters that you can hang on your walls and it's always nice to have some plants in the workspace as well. And one last tip, it's nice to keep all of your workstations on wheels. It gives you more space and makes it more flexible, makes it easier to set up for group demonstrations as well. These workspaces are only meant to be a starting point. Your needs will change depending on your context, so don't be afraid to change and adapt it depending on what suits you best. If you want to start this workspace yourself, you can find all the information in the download kit and watch the next chapter to learn more about how this workspace fits in the precious plastic universe. Thanks for watching and see you in the next precious plastic video. Wait, wait, wait!  Everything is put on online for free, open source, so that everyone in the world can tackle the plastic waste problem. So if you're able and willing, please head to support.preciousplastic.com to make a donation or to find a way you can help out.


Hello, and welcome to theCUBE's presentation of the AWS Startup Showcase Open Cloud Innovations. This is season two, episode one of an ongoing series covering exciting startups from the AWS ecosystem. Talking about innovation here, it's open source for this theme. We do this every episode, we pick a theme and have a lot of fun talking to the leaders in the industry and the hottest startups. I'm your host, John Furrier, here with Lisa Martin in our Palo Alto Studios. Lisa, great series, great to see you again. Good to see you too, great series. Always such spirited conversations with very empowered and enlightened individuals. I love the episodic nature of these events. We get more stories out there than ever before. They're the hottest startups in the AWS ecosystem, which is dominating the cloud sector. And there's a lot of them really changing the game on cloud native. And the enablement, the stories that are coming out here are pretty compelling. Not just from startups, they're actually penetrating the enterprise. And the buyers are changing their architectures. And it's just really fun to catch the wave here. They are. And one of the things too about the open source community is these companies embracing that and how that's opening up their entry to your point into the enterprise. I was talking with several customers, companies who were talking about the 70% of their pipeline comes from the open source community that's using the premium version of the technology. So it's really been a very smart strategic way into the enterprise. Yeah, and I love the format too. We got the keynote we're doing now, opening keynote, some great guests. We have Sir John from AWS startup program. He's the global startups lead. We got Swamy coming on. And then closing keynote with Deepak Singh, who's really grown in the Amazon organization from containers now compute services, which now span how modern applications are being built. And I think the big trend that we're seeing that these startups are riding on the big wave is cloud natives driving the modern architecture for software development. Not just startups, but existing large ISVs and software companies are re-architecting and the customers who buy their products as services in the cloud are re-architecting too. So it's a whole new growth wave coming in. The modern era of cloud, some say. And it's exciting. A small startup could be the next big name tomorrow. One of the things that kind of was a theme throughout the conversations that I had with these different guests was from a modern application security perspective is security is key, but it's not just about shifting lap. It's about doing so empowering the developers. They don't have to be security experts. They need to have a developer brain and a security heart and how those two organizations within companies can work better together more collaboratively, but ultimately empowering those developers, which goes a long way. Well, for the folks who are watching, this, the format's very simple.  We've interviewed them, myself, you, Dave Vellante and Dave Nicholson from the CUBE team. They're going to tell their stories. And between the companies and the AWS heroes, 14 companies are represented and some of them have new business models and Deepak Singh, who leads the AWS team, he's going to have the closing keynote. He talks about the new changing business model in open source, not just the tech, which is a lot of tech, but how companies are being started around the new business models around open source. It's really, really amazing. I bet. And does he see any specific verticals that are taking off? Well, he's seeing the contribution from big companies like AWS and the Facebooks of the world and large companies, Netflix, into it all contributing content to the open source and then startups forming around them. So Netflix does some great work, they donate it to open source and next to you know, small group of people get together, entrepreneurs, they form a company and they create a platform around it with unification and scale. So the cloud is enabling this new super application environment, super clouds as we call them, that's emerging and this new super cloud and super applications are scaling, data driven, machine learning and AI. That's the new formula for success. Then new formula for success also has to have that velocity that developers expect, but also that the consumerization of tech has kind of driven all of us to expect things very quickly. Well, we're going to bring in Surge, Subjinko's AWS Global Startup Program into the program. Surge is our partner, he is the leader at AWS who has been working on this program. Surge, great to see you, thanks for coming on. Yeah, like was John, thank you for having me, very excited to be here. You know, we've been working together on collaborating on this for over a year, again, season two of this new innovative program, which is a combination of CUBE Media Partnership and AWS, getting the stories out and this has been a real success because there's a real hunger to discover content in the marketplace as these new solutions coming from startups are the next big thing coming. So you're starting to see this going on. So I have to ask you, first and foremost, what's the AWS startup showcase about? Can you explain in your terms, your team's vision behind it and why the startup focus? Yeah, absolutely. You know, John, we curated the AWS startup showcase really to bring meaningful and oftentimes educational content to our customers and partners, highlighting innovative solutions within these themes. And ultimately to help customers find the best solutions for their use cases, which is a combination of AWS and our partners. And really from pre-seed to IPO, John, the world's most innovative startups build on AWS. From leadership down, we're very intentional about cultivating vigorous AWS community. And since 2019 at re-invent at the launch of the AWS global startup program, we've helped hundreds of startups accelerate their growth through product development support, go to market and co-sell programs. So Serge, question for you on the theme of today, John mentioned our showcases having themes. Today's theme is gonna cover open source software. Talk to us about how Amazon thinks about open source. Sure, absolutely. And I'll just touch on it briefly, but I'm very excited for the keynote at the end of today. That'll be delivered by Deepak, the VP of compute services at AWS. We here at Amazon believe in open source. In fact, Amazon contributes to open source in multiple ways, whether that's through directly contributing to third-party project, repos or significant code contributions to Kubernetes, Rust and other projects. And all the way down to leadership participation in organizations such as the CNCF. In supporting of dozens of ISVs myself over the years, I've seen explosive growth when it comes to open source adoption. I mean, look at projects like Chekhov. Within 12 months of launching their open source project, they had about a million users. And another great example is Falco. Within under a decade, actually, they've had about 37 million downloads. And that's about a 300% increase since it's become an incubating project in the CNCF. So very exciting things that we're seeing here at AWS. So explosive growth, a lot of content. What do you hope that our viewers and our guests are gonna be able to get out of today? Yeah, great question, Lisa. I really hope that today's event will help customers understand why AWS is the best place for them to run open source, commercial, and which partner solutions will help them along their journey. I think that today, the lineup through the partner solutions and Deepak at the end with the ending keynote is gonna present a very valuable narrative for customers and startups in selecting where and which projects to run on AWS. That's great stuff, Serge. Love to have you on. And again, I want to just say really congratulate your team. And we enjoy working with them. We think this showcase does a great service for the community. It's kind of open source in its own way by co-contributing, working on out there. But you're really getting the voices out at scale. We've got companies like Armory, Cube Costs, Sysdig, Tiedlift, Codefresh. I mean, these are some of the companies that are changing the game. We even had Patreon a customer and one of the partners, Sneak with security. All the big names in the startup scene plus AWS, Deepak Singh, Swami is going to be on. The AWS heroes, I mean, really at scale. And this is really great, Serge. Thank you so much for participating and enabling all of this. No, thank you to theCUBE. You've been a great partner in this whole process. Very excited for today. Thanks, Serge, really appreciate it. Lisa, what a great segment that was kicking off the event. We got a great lineup coming up. We got the keynote, final keynote fireside chat with Deepak Singh, a big name at AWS. But Serge and this startup showcase, really innovative. Very innovative. And in a short time period, he talked about the launch of this at ReInvent 2019. They've helped hundreds of startups. We've had over 50, I think, on the showcase in the last year or so, John. So we really gotten to cover a lot of great customers, a lot of great stories, a lot of great content coming out of theCUBE. I love the openness of it. I love the scale, the storytelling. I love the collaboration. A great model. Lisa, great to work with you. We also have Dave Vellante and Dave Nicholson interview, they're not here. But let's kick off the show. Let's get started. Our next guest, Swami, the leader at AWS. Swami just got promoted to VP of the database, but also he ran machine learning and AI at AWS. He is a leader. He's the author of the original Dynamo DB paper, which is celebrating his 10th year anniversary. Really impacted distributed computing and open source. Swami's introduced many open source aspects of the products within AWS. And he's been a leader in the engineering side for many, many years at AWS from an intern to now an executive lead. Swami, great to see you. Thanks for coming on our AWS startup showcase. Thanks for spending the time with us. My pleasure. Thanks again, John. Thanks for having me. I wanted to just, if you don't mind, asking about the database market over the past 10 to 20 years. Cloud and application development, as you see, has changed a lot. You've been involved in so many product launches over the years. You know, cloud and machine learning are the biggest waves happening to your point to what you're doing now. Software is under the covers. It's powering it all. Infrastructure is code. Open source has been a big part of it and it continues to grow and change. Deepak Singh from AWS talks about the business model transformation of how like Netflix donates to the open source, then a company starts around it and creates more growth. Machine learning is in all the open source conversations around automation. As developers and builders write software as cloud and machine learning become the key pistons in the engine. This is a big wave. What's your view on this? How is cloud scale and data impacting the software market? I mean, that's a broad question. So I'm going to break it down to kind of give some of the vectors on how we are thinking about it. First, I'd say when it comes to the open source, I'll start off by saying first, the longevity and viability of open source is very important to our customers. And that is why we have been a significant contributor and supporter of these communities. I mean, we are several efforts in open source even internally by actually open sourcing some of our key Amazon technologies like Firecracker or Bottle Rocket or CDK to help advance the industry. For example, CDK itself provides a really powerful way to build and configure cloud services as well. And we also contribute to a lot of different open source projects that are existing once, open telemetries and Linux, Java, Redis and Kubernetes, Grafana and Kafka and robotics operating system and Hadoop and Lucene and so forth. So I think I can go on and on, but even outside the database and observability space, say machine learning, we have always started with embracing open source in a big material way. If you see, even in deep learning framework, we championed MX9 and some of the core components and we open sourced our auto ML technology, auto glue on and also we have open sourced and collaborated with partners like Facebook meta on PyTorch running some major components in there and then we have open source edge compiler. So I would say the number one thing is, I mean, we actually are very, very excited to partner with broader community on problems that really matter to the customers and actually ensure that they are able to get amazing benefit of this. And I see that machine learning is a huge thing. If you look at how cloud grew and when you had DynamoDB paper, when you wrote it, that that was the beginning of I call the cloud surge. It was the beginning of not just being a resource versus building a data center. Certainly a great alternative, every startup did it. That's history, phase one, ending in a half, first half ending, then it became a large scale. Machine learning feels like the same way now. You feel like you're seeing a lot of people using it. A lot of people are playing around with it. It's evolving, it's been around as a science but combined with cloud scale, this is a big thing. What should people who are in the enterprise think about how should they think about machine learning? How has some of your top customers thought about machine learning as they refactor their applications? What are some of the things that you can share from your experience and journey here? I mean, one of the key things I'd say, just to set some context on scale and numbers, more than one and a half million customers use our database analytics or ML services end to end. Out of which some machine learning services and capabilities are easily used by more than 100,000 customers at a really good scale. However, I still think if in Amazon, we tend to use the phrase it's day one in the age of internet, even though it's an old phrase now but it's a golden one, but I would say in the world of machine learning, yes, it's day one but I also think we just woke up and we haven't even had a cup of coffee yet. That's really that early. So, but it's interesting you compare it to where cloud was like 10, 12 years ago. This early days when I used to talk to engineering leaders who are running their own data center and then we talk about cloud and various disruptive technologies. I still used to get questions about like why cloud and is it and whatnot at that time. Now with machine learning though, almost every CIO CEO, all of them never asked me why machine learning. Instead, the number one question I get is how do I get started with it? What are the best use cases? Which is great. And this is where I always tell them one of the learnings that we actually learned in Amazon. So again, a few years ago, probably seven or eight years ago and Amazon it's realized as a company the impact of what machine learning could do in terms of changing how we actually run our business and what it means to provide better customer experience, optimize our supply chain and so forth. We realized that we need to help our builders learn machine learning and to help even our business leaders understand the power of machine learning. So we did two things. One, we actually, from a bottom up level we build what I call as machine learning university which is run in my team. It's literally start with professors and teachers who offer curriculum to build this so that they get educated on machine learning. And now from a top-down level, we also in our yearly planning process we call it the operational planning process where we write Amazon style narratives with six pages and then answer FAQs. We asked everyone to answer one question around like how do you plan to leverage machine learning in your business? And typically when someone says I really don't plan to or it does not apply it usually doesn't go well. So we kind of as politely increase them to do better and come back with their answer. This kind of dynamic on top-down and bottom up changed the conversation and we started seeing more and more measurable growth and these are some of the things you're starting to see more and more among our customers too. They see the business benefit but this is fair to address the talent gap. We also made machine learning university curriculum actually now open source and freely available and we launched SageMaker Studio Lab which is a no cost, no set up SageMaker notebook service for educating learner profiles and all the students as well. And we are excited to also announce a scholarship for underrepresented students as well. So much more we can do. Well, congratulations on the DynamoDB paper that's a 10 year anniversary which is a revolutionary product change the game that did change the world and that a huge impact. And now as machine learning goes the next level the next intern out there is at school with machine learning they're going to be writing that next paper your advice to them real quick. My biggest advice is always I encourage all the builders to always dream big and don't be hesitant to speak your mind as long as you have the right conviction saying you're addressing a real customer problem. So when you feel like you have an amazing solution to address a customer problem take the time to articulate your thoughts better and then feel free to speak up and communicate to the folks you're working with. And I'm sure any company that notches good talent and knows how to hire and develop the best they will be willing to listen in and you will be able to have an amazing impact in the industry. Swami great to know you're a CUBE alumni I love our conversations from intern on the paper of DynamoDB to the technical leader at AWS and database analyst machine learning. Congratulations on all your success and continue innovating on behalf of the customers and the industry. Thanks for spending the time here on the CUBE and our program, appreciate it. Thanks again, John, really appreciate it. Okay, now let's kick off our program. That ends the keynote track here on the AWS startup showcase season two, episode one. Enjoy the program and don't miss the closing keynote with Deepak Singh. He goes into great detail on the changing business models all the exciting open source innovation.