Yeah, the people too. Yes, I think so. All right I'll get the master can write it. I'm still hung up. I got Tom man to prove my statement. I can't locate Rusk Bill more you have the feeling that by saying it to the disturbing signs We might pull those three communist parties together if we talk about the people trained outside Seeking the grain control. We might drive them together. I I have this feeling Bob if we don't take over that island Within the next 24 hours or before they last man foals we never will I may be wrong But if I am wrong, I won't you tell me Well, I don't think those sentences are critical to your speech Mr. President I think the speech or the statement is required whether you have the sentences in or not And I don't think that they add very much to it and they may cause a lot of controversy Which you could avoid by having some of the rest of us put those out I've been going through all the press statements today, and there's running through it time after time and from from San Juan and from From various places in the in the hemisphere a statement that the communists are associated with the rebels So I don't think you have to be the source of that information On the other hand, I don't Fear what bill does I doubt very much at those sentences would push the communists together or the rebels and communists Well, what would he then take an eye on liberal do you think I think so? I think you get more of the clerks and the pells and the churches and the Fulbright's and that crew Excited if you leave those sentences in Tell them louder when you see I a Cuban man The Secretary tells me that Havana still seems to be off-balance as a result of this and called by surprise As a result of the of the rebellion in the communist ascendancy in that rebellion Their hope is that we don't give some Pursuit to Cuba to try to get in there in a way. They're not in there right now Well, I wouldn't think the sentences would do that bill, but but I am in general agreement that they're not required And why do you think they would do that? just Why do I think that because it would make them think it would raise their prestige in their state They're Cuba the Cuba state because it makes us Publicly that we believe the communist and Cuba is behind this although we don't say that explicitly And so their stakes immediately are raised in the world market because if they are defeated now After this statement that they suffered a political blow If we don't isolate them and spotlight them then and we get out of this thing. They have lost anything Yes, I did. I don't quite share that reasoning that's present I think Cuba's got all the incentive it needs to do everything it can and no matter what you say They're gonna push you go ahead and I'll get the food stuff and get back on what they say Yeah, and you haven't heard about the brain yet. No Well, you sure cut that out. I'll tell him we don't want to have to read about it 20 30 minutes first here Let me say this I don't have the details, but I do have a statement that we've suffered some casualties We don't know how many okay


Everybody, this is Christian Buckley doing another MVP buzz chat and I'm talking today with Angeliki. Hello. Hi, Christian. Thanks for having me. It's great to have you.  So, my name is Angeliki Patsyamu. I'm a Senior Change Management Consultant with Avanade. And I am based out of London, UK, however originally Greek-Italian. Excellent. And so this is an interesting space. I mean, so a lot about going into your bio, it's like it's a lot of what I focused on a lot of my career. So I'm always interested in kind of the side topics there. So like what does that actually mean? You focus on change management in your role. What does that actually look like? Great question. So I look after adoption of new systems, new technologies, new processes, you name it. Very much the people side of change. So I work alongside development teams that deliver other new solutions or new products to make sure that the business gets the money's worth by making adoption a successful milestone and part of the process. You know, historically, so this is the portion of the funding where companies say is like, do we need that? People understand the technology, they just get it. They don't need this kind of help for change. So you and I, I mean, we know our experience is that, you know, that that is the fundamental flaw. You can have a perfectly designed solution. And if people don't use it, it has failed and you've spent a lot of money. And so companies need to, it's like training. What's the first thing that happens in a market downturn? They cut the training. They cut the adoption services. And then they wonder why they struggle with productivity, they struggle with a lot of their deployments. Absolutely. And I'm really glad you mentioned it because there's such a misalignment in the industry. So it's not specific to a company or a client. It's actually something the industry faces. So change management or business readiness, however you want to name it, is seen as a nice to have sometimes or even a luxury when there's budget constraints. And also as an end product that you look into at the 11th hour, however, to do it right, to do it for the benefit of the customer, you actually integrate organically throughout the development process and throughout the life cycle of your solution, which means that by the end of it, it becomes an organic stage. And this is where also the industry gets it wrong. It doesn't view it as something organic that is part of the development life cycle. It becomes a separate nice to have stage. And that separation and working in silence is what's really harms implementations. Do you have to do a lot of selling to convince customers that it has to be this integrated? Did they try to remove it from solutions that your company deploys? Sometimes, sometimes it's education for specific clients, specific industries, also internally when you get involved in a big project. So it's very important to go early on and say, this is a pre-sales conversation. It's not just about later down the project, but also explain what are the benefits as well as what are the risks? The reality is whether the consultants are doing it internally or someone else, it has to be done. So it's very simple to go back and have a conversation around, I understand your concerns are on budget or this particular activity. How are you going to do it? And once you start unpicking it and giving that education back, they have this fresh perspective and they really do understand that if they want to give their solution the best chance to actually be implemented, then they do see that they need to implement it. Yeah, my experience again is the companies that have been through that cycle to see like the differences, like they buy into that. They understand that they're like, oh, yeah, future projects. No, we have to do this. It's essential to the success. And it's those that have cut it every time that don't get it and then feel the pain. But it's one of those things again, it's kind of like a security breach. Most companies don't take action until they've experienced a breach. They've experienced the pain. And it's just unfortunate that more companies don't understand the importance of change management. Sorry, I get soapboxed or whatever. I get up and sound very preachy on this. But so what? So you are brand new MVP, business applications. So let's talk about that. What was your journey to becoming an MVP? So it's been a fantastic whirlwind. It started just over a year ago. So officially May 2022, whereby I started officially speaking in the community, I was involved about a year before, but I was more of a participant and observing and trying to figure out what is the best niche and story to tell. And so I started in the community participating in South Coast Summit, which is in Southampton in the UK, a fantastic opportunity to to get to know the community, but also understand how everything operates. And I got a mentor and a coach early on that really believed that I had a story to say as well. So we started scheming and ultimately came up with the first few up trucks and the year and eventually got picked up to start in May last year. And it's been amazing. I started from never doing any public speaking to three sessions in one month. So it was quite that's a lot of work to create the content around those. But yeah, it is it is. But also to prepare a thing mentally and physically for something as demanding. I went from having never spoken to speaking in front of a crowd of a few like maybe 400 or so people in a massive amphitheater. So that was a lot of pressure. But what I realized that if you have the passion and the energy for it, everything just clicks in the moment. And that was what kept me going. And since then I've been doing a variety of conferences and user groups just to be able to communicate this important messages around building applications that have the right user experience, that have the right personas in place, you know, who you're building for. One of my taglines is built for real users, not senior egos, which is all about building for the actual needs of your users and not just whoever has either the budget or the loudest voice. And there's a lot of found sessions. I think them around movies, so that has definitely kept the community going. Every session is really engaging. And the reality is that it's not specifically about change management. That's a natural topic, but it's about having learned from all the failed implementations as I've been in CRM for the last decade. So I've seen so many implementations and so many different cloud solutions. I worked around four different cloud solutions, Microsoft included. So I really have a lot to say about how things could do better. Yeah, well, it's I also like part of what you said about your your journey of of trying to figure out, you know, messaging as a marketing guy, I mean, messaging and positioning and how you stand out. I mean, that's so critical to to marketing. And to some degree, you know, if you whether you have a formal goal to become an MVP or not, having a strategy for like your personal brand and how that fits with your company and what they're trying to do. And I mean, you work for a company that's very supportive of community and MVPs and you're very lucky that way, as I'm sure you know, I've worked for some that have been supportive and some not so much. And there's definitely have as an appeal to work for a company that supports community, but finding that voice and that message. I always advise people that are starting out like regardless of what else is out there and tell what your personal experiences are. Over time, it sounds like you refined that to find things that were unique. I mean, maybe we can talk about that process because because that's us. I think we are our own biggest editors. We are self editing. And so we don't speak up. We don't share ideas. We don't write things. We don't take action because we think that somebody already kind of did the same thing. So how do you find, yeah. So the first thing is, as I mentioned earlier, observe, observe what's available, what's other, what do people speak about their style? I'm really glad you mentioned the marketing background. I actually have a strong marketing background. So I think it's in my blood to think that way. Getting MVP was a fantastic achievement, but it was never a goal per se. For me, it was just very important to get out there and speak about certain topics that I found were not spoken at all. So by going into conference, I realized early on, I mean, there's amazing, super smart individuals that know all the products, they showcase how they function. But it felt like a very technical community that did not have enough of the sessions around the human impact of technology. And it really is early on, not only how important that gap was, but how passionate I was about that. I think because I have a mixture of having the marketing background and always being the end user, I suffered through all of the bad implementations, but I also suffered by not having an active voice in all of the solutions that were implemented on my behalf and my colleagues' behalf. So I think there was a massive opportunity to talk about democratizing technology. Obviously, we're in the citizen development wave as well, which gives us more power in the era of gen AI and the co-pilot products. So there's so much to say about all of this massive technology and achievements. What are we going to do with that? There's a human impact. There's the moral obligations, the ethical use of technology, and also how to make it fun and engaging. That's also part of adoption, making sure that it has a sustainable impact. So I realize that this was missing, but there was a fun way to do it as well. Another thing that I'm sure you've noticed is that this conference is depending on the duration and the amount of sessions. Sometimes you do have a bit of fatigue. So really early on that I want to do it in my own geeky, but also fun way. So, you know, theming it around movies, memes, all it became quite engaging. And I realized that people saw it as an opportunity to disengage from a little bit of that fatigue. So that's again, part of observing what's out there and what you could do. Well, there, look, if you're going to be on stage doing things that and I think some speakers forget this, there is a certain performance factor to this. You don't want to put people to sleep. You can have fantastic information and be really incredibly boring. And so it's I I like to make an audience laugh and try to build in jokes and stories within that. So it to personalize is that as well as, you know, I could see if people are snoozing on on too much data, too much information, too quickly and need to kind of change the pace a little bit. And so that's it's important to go and do that. But like what you said, too, about, you know, the goal was not the MVP. And I say this a lot in most of the MVPs that I interview about this. Yeah, we we'd all do this regardless of the award. That's it's just part of our personas. It's, you know, I'm passionate about learning and sharing. And and so I would do it regardless of the status. And I think that's a it's an important part in Microsoft. You know, the people that are adding new MVPs, they look for that. They there has to be a certain level of humility at the same time. You have to self promote. You have to get the word out about the things that you're doing. So what what are your kind of promotional? Well, let me ask this. So what are your primary community outputs like video, blogging, speaking kind of all those things and how do you promote those things? Great question as well. Because I think a lot of people are trying to find their journey. They need to make some choices around those. So I I'm primarily a speaker, so this is why I do a lot of events. I really enjoy the in person opportunities, the engagement, the ability to directly interact with the community. And at the same time, I get involved in conferences, well, from an other organizational perspective in terms of, for example, mentoring, I really enjoy that it's about passing it on, right? Creating that legacy the way I've received that mentorship and coaching. I try to pass that on or helping with evaluations, which is actually quite educational because you put yourself into the organizer's shoes and you really appreciate both the hard work, but also the immense effort in goes through the CFP process. So I definitely enjoy that quite as well and helping out. And in terms of channels, of course, social media really helps. So Twitter, LinkedIn and so forth, but also word of mouth, the networking through the in person events. But also word of mouth in terms of the kind of brand you bring together. So one of the things that I've done, which I think is part of the marketing background, everyone should aim for is have certain branding around yourself.  You have a lot of tech evangelists around. We talk about product, but you never had a human evangelist, which is all about how do you champion the users behind every solution, the human impact of everything we do. So having that branding really helps with word of mouth and just putting it as part of how you socialize everything you do. Yeah, that's well, again, that's kind of a marketing one on one. It's, you know, having some kind of brand to go and build around. And I mean, if you get to the point in your career where it's just your name and that's enough of a brand, I mean, we have the, you know, we have the Madonna of, you know, each of the different communities.  But yeah, until we get to that point, having that clear messaging is optimal. So so as a biz apps MVP, what specifically do you focus on there? What's your technology strength? So my background is in CRM, so Dynamics C, but that quickly evolved into Power Platform as well. There's a massive opportunity, as I was saying earlier, very passionate, not only about the human input, but democratizing the way we use our tools and IT generally. So the Power Platform offers a lot of opportunities around that. So that has also been my recent focus. So it's a mixture of Dynamics C and Power Platform in order to bring that bigger vision together. That being said, there are no far apart anyway. One is built on the other side. It's about bringing those principles around how to build the right applications, how to bring teams together, fusion teams and making sure that this collaboration is going to lead to ultimately adoption being the organic success and not something that is forced and ultimately fails. Yeah, there's the discussion around change management of business applications. The business app service, the Power Platform solutions is a big deal. I'm governance and change management are kind of my two biggest topics. And I'm honestly, I'm surprised still at how few people are out there speaking on these topics, which are so essential to the scalability and supportability of these solutions. I mean, Microsoft went out with their COE, so the Center of Excellence Model, which is just kind of a placeholder, a starting point for organizations. And there's just still a lot of work to be done. And there are certainly vendors like my company that have solutions around that. But it's such an important topic. Is that something that is kind of general, like how to go and build a supportable model around Power Platform? Is that something that you're building a lot of content around or speaking to? This is definitely an important topic. And it's one of the topics that I would like to focus further on. So I'm talking a lot about enabling governance purely because the word governance on its side, it's usually quite a cake, quite scary, and it's not really feeling like a modern workplace. However, as you said, of course, the starter COE kit is great. But it's also about enabling the organization and the different profiles of individuals. We live in an era where technology is extremely fast paced. Obviously, on one hand, we're super excited about announcements that are coming in day in, day out. But at the same time, we've noticed that there's a lot of uncertainty about what it means for individuals, for roles and whole industries. So I think this is the most amazing time as change managers to go out there and create the right kind of environment where we harness this either concerns or this confuses into something that will enable the ecosystem. So you build the right roles, enable the flexibility around structures. So there's some amazing research that Garner has been doing around the role of business technologies, which is how they use the term for citizen developers so that they enable the ecosystem and they are able to harness the power that sits outside of IT department. So in that sense, yes, absolutely. This is actually what I speak about to the point where one of my research and is about how do you create fusion teams within DevOps, which is a little bit different than the usual material because I'm talking purely about DevOps principles. But the idea is fusion teams and building applications is not just within the business space. It should be around traditional development as well. And it's all about enabling that user centred design throughout so that governance is about empowering individuals, not the scary framework that is opposing modernizing and speeding up innovation and scalability. Yeah, look, there's a we could go and we can talk for an hour just on that topic. Absolutely, because I think that there's you know, we have a lot with the citizen development is kind of kind of what you indicate with the fusion teams is kind of bridging the traditional software configuration management, you know, SEM space, you know, the true DevOps space. And I think that there is a lot of change that's going to happen. Certainly, there's a lot that's being done in the Microsoft world around that space. But well, maybe for a future topic, we can we can discuss that. But in the mean time, folks that want to find out more about you, get in touch, where are you most active out in the social networks? Where can people find you? LinkedIn and Twitter, feel free to reach out. My name is a longer name, so it definitely stands out. I mean, a lot of community activities and I love people reaching out and we pick in each other's brain on this topic. So they're more than welcome this week. It's actually a very active week going all out. So tomorrow evening, speaking of the Portland platform user group about how to build resilient applications within the platform. Wednesday, Microsoft 365 user group about how to use the Microsoft 365 solutions around user-centered design and finally collab days in Zurich on Saturday against similar topic, but just different products. And it's just a very exciting week because these are very different audiences. But at the same time, we all have the same energy and interest in the community. Yep. Oh, it's great to have, you know, similar topics across different audiences and compare the feedback and find the exactly, exactly. Well, Angelica, you really appreciate your time today. And of course, you'll be able to find all of our contact information out of the blog as well as out on the YouTube page. So thanks so much for your time. My pleasure, Christian.


After you've removed the contents from the home and open up the walls you'll see areas of mold typically there'll be other contaminants from the flood waters. You want to use water initially to get off as much of that just physically remove it with water. Then after that you can use a water detergent solution. You want to read the label on that product and make sure you have the right amount of that that can be used for that as well. But those products, the detergent products would be more effective if you do that initial washing with the water and then come back later with a detergent type solution. We usually use a two bucket type system. You can use any number of different brushes but we have a solution in one bucket, a clean solution and then a rinse bucket in the other and that is a more efficient way of cleaning. You can use pressure washing during the process but using a high pressure washing system sometimes can be a cause more damage than good so you want to be aware of using not too high of a pressure water and then lastly you could consider using a bleach type solution to sanitize but in most cases removing the mold is the important aspect of it. It's not just enough to kill the mold, you have to physically remove the mold and that's your main focus when you're trying to get into this cleaning process. When you use different cleaners or detergents make sure you take a look at the product and read the label. It'll give you an idea of what the different concentrations are and how it can be used and so that's an important aspect when you get into the clean out phase trying to remove some of the mold and other water contaminants that came from the flood waters. If you sanitize with a bleach solution you can use a common spray bottle to do that but it's important to keep the surface wet for about five minutes or more and so you can use a system like this which are a little more efficient at doing that. Sometimes it helps you get into cracks and crevices better as well and so those can be important tools to use in the sanitizing process. The other note to make on sanitizing is that the bleach type solutions tend to be more effective on non-porous surfaces like bathtubs for example. On wood it just because of all the porous nature of the wood it's a semi-porous material it tends to be less effective at killing microorganisms so keep that in mind as you go through sanitizing and always read the label on that to get the appropriate concentration and use the product in a way that's going to be effective.


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We are doing a video that I have not done in a while and those of you who love it absolutely love it I've been getting a lot of requests So I have another swatch and sip if you don't know what swatch and sip is this is for all my people's who wake up in the wee hours Of the night and swatch their body in eyeshadows and that's basically what we're gonna be doing today I got some new things sent to me from Sydney Grace in honor of their Christmas and July sale And I thought I would bring out my old denessa merrick's light work volume 3 palette since this also just kind of relaunch And we're just gonna get some pretty juicy creamy shimmery metallic little shadows Yeah, let's get into it I'm gonna start off with the Sydney Grace stuff because I have two new eyeshadow palettes to swatch for you guys I love featuring Sydney Grace eyeshadows because they swatch like a buttery thick delicious creamy dream So they're a good one and then we'll do the multi chromed shade So my sip for today pause right now if you don't have a drink and go make yourself one The presentation is not the cutest, but I just mixed up some matcha and it is so good And yes, I did choose matcha Intentionally to go with the green look and we do have a tutorial on the eye look that I did today So the Christmas in July sale for Sydney Grace actually started Monday on the 25th It's running until Monday August 1st So every day there are different deals and if you don't know Sydney Grace, they are an indie brand however They create such powerful Amazing eyeshadows the mattes are buttery and creamy and blendable and the metallics You'll see the work that they do here how they recommend checking out the sale and the different deals on different days Um, they very kindly sent me some stuff So I'm excited to swatch them with you guys or start off with the palette that I am actually wearing So this is the mountain trail palette and yeah, she's green. You know, I'm all about that So let's do man Let's turn the lights down and take a look at what she had to offer and since we're all up close and personal and you Can see everything all of the makeup that I'm wearing my face will be linked down below It's my third day testing the hourglass foundation and I just need to update you if you saw my review We're still going strong. I I'm in a relationship with that foundation now and it's it's very good So this is the mountain trail Palette, okay, here we go. You ready just have a mirror inside and boom. It is a beautiful Green eye shadow palette. You have some neutral greens. You have some warm tones up here Let's get to swatching. I probably should have gotten my nails done before I did this But whatever it's fine. Let's do dirt road Backwoods and then be the sunshine be the sunshine. I can't speak all of these are on my eyes right now. Here we go dirt road Yes Backwoods you can see how smooth they are and then here's the first metallic that we have and I didn't even press that hard into It but you can see the impact that it has on my eyes. I haven't yet used this shade I'm excited because this is almost like a taupey green. I have a scape on the center of my eyelid and have not tried rusty Let's see now. We're picking up the impact that Sydney Grace can give here. We go So rusty is not as impactful as I thought I was gonna be it's actually more of a setting as opposed to one of Sydney Grace's metallic very interesting and then we have the deepest row down here wild life I'm not wearing to earth, but I'm wearing the other two matte shades down here, right? Okay Hmm that one didn't swatches good, but it actually applied great so I can actually speak on Experience this one swatch pretty good. Okay, so this is the mountain trail palette have this tutorial of how I got the look that I'm wearing on my eyes because it was with this palette and this palette I can tell you application and all of that super good So that is the new mountain trail palette that you can pick up during the sale Here is the other one that they sent over. This is California coast right here Love the beachy vibe and then these are like more warm rosy kind of tones right here I don't know see it when I initially opened this palette I was like, oh, this isn't my vibe but now that I'm looking at it more. It definitely is I'm really intrigued by these rosy tones I have not yet used this palette. So let's take a look here So we're gonna go into Half Moon Bay, which looks incredible Laguna and Glass Beach I feel like Half Moon Bay right here is gonna be a winner. Let's see. Oh Winner winner chicken dinner. Yes, okay Match it, you know the matcha's are boring We like swatching the shimmers, right? We have three more mats and then we have a whole roll of shimmers butterfly beach Malibu and La Jolla Shores This actually is quite a cool tone palette when I first saw it I thought it looked kind of warm, but I feel like it's not okay I don't know. I feel like the mats here aren't giving what Sydney Grace used to really give Swatching wise right, but they applied fine on my eyelids at least in the other palette I'm trying not to make my fingers look gross, but they really do get quite gross When I do these videos, okay, we have Big Sur, Santa Cruz and Caramel Beach Yeah, this palette is actually kind of surprisingly cool. Let's see. Oh Oh That's what I'm talking about. Oh my gosh This row right here this taupe shade Ooh, I mean don't get me wrong. I'm into the green shades, but I am surprisingly into this California post palette So here we have it These are the first few shades that I wanted to swatch for you all. What do you think? I think we look good I'm looking at the Sydney Grace website right now and the shadows that they have they look so nice The shimmers like look tell me that that's not appealing, right? So pretty and they are just as pretty when you get them in person. Okay Mmm matcha break. Let's get into the Remaining Sydney Grace shades that I have to swatch they sent over a highlight and then for individual shadows So let's take a look at these so we have a highlighter here in the shade heaven. What do we think that looks nice? Let's see. Oh Ooh, nice. That would be pretty doesn't really go with my makeup look. Otherwise, I would give it a chance, but I feel like that's Someone of like a pinky a shift. I don't know it looks like they sent over three mattes Even though mattes are not as exciting, you know that they're so important So we have heart and soul, which is a really soft muted pink That looks pretty that's a great base shade and right here is you have me Which is a warmish brick kind of shade See these are swatches and really nice a little nicer than the ones I played with in the palettes And then we have together forever, which is a little bit lighter. This is like a really great base shade Lovely and then the last shade that we have is yours forever, which is kind of like a metallic Branberry shade. Let's see. So all of these are very Romantic kind of shades, right? So those are the remainders. I have one more item that was sent to me So this is a Sydney Grace cream eye shadows. I love these I have a few in my collection and this is in the shade stolen kiss. These are gonna be good Look at this. Here's a little bit of stolen kiss. Let's see how it blends out. Oh Yeah, this all over the lid definitely look into their cream eyeshadows because they have some Insanely beautiful shades. This is just an example. All right, and then that is all I have For Sydney Grace to swatch for you I was really excited to swatch the new palettes because yummy, right? So let me clean off my arms and then we're gonna get into some multi-dimensional shades Which oh, I'm excited about so definitely wanted to give Sydney Grace her moment since we are in the midst of her sale But also wanted to give some de nesta my ricks some love because she recently launched the light work 3 Experience palette and it's basically a condensed version of this palette that came out over the holidays last year This is the light work volume 3 palette and it sold out so fast never came back So this is kind of a mini version of it that is available everywhere that you can get my overall Thoughts on this and by this I'm talking about the new experience one. It's expensive. It's $85 Is it a must have absolutely not but it's a good way to get multiple shades of multi-chromes in your collection without buying them Individually from indie brands because if you buy them individually from indie brands it actually ends up being more than $95 Multi-chromes are not cheap to formulate at all and the indie brand multi-chromes, and I'm talking, you know Cleona Terra moons those are my favorite those are better than the de nesta my ricks But the de nesta my ricks is not a formula to be shamed I think it's a pretty good value with the de nesta my ricks believe it or not But that's only if you want to add multi-chrome shades in your palette So I'm gonna swatch these it will be up to you They are very very good quality not as good as Cleona or Terra But you also pay for what you get because the de nesta is a better value You see what I mean, but I'm not discrediting the de nesta because it is super-duper good And I do recommend it if you're interested. So let's swatcher matcha break It looks a little different than what I have but I have all eight shades that are going to be featured So what's going to be featured in the new palette? Laris Galaxy Martian and souls so these four strawberry moon will be in here and then we also have Aurora Gaia and solar rain so this this and then these four let's get to swatching now Keep in mind. It's always a little hard to get these to show their true dimensions on camera But I'm gonna do my best so let's hop into Polaris now Polaris is like a cream shade So you'll feel that it's hard to pick up on camera, but it's a cream and we have galaxy Martian then let's get soul right here So Polaris is the only cream of these four Hopefully you can kind of see and sometimes it's easier to take a look at the dimension on my finger So take a look at that. You know, I say the more expensive ones are better And isn't that hard to believe because these are so gorgeous. Okay, Polaris Stunning right you can see that green gold shift and we have Galaxy I built on a second layer just so you can kind of see it better Martian Gorgeous and then soul is not as multi-dimensional, but you can see she packs a lot a lot a lot Right so those are the first four. We have four months ago in this palette So strawberry moon is kind of more of a duo chrome as opposed to multi-chrome It's almost like a highlight kind of shade. It's a little thick though I and we have Aurora Gaia and then solar rain all of these are powders as well Then take a look here so you can see how you can get a little bit of fallout with strawberry moon So here's strawberry moon. You can see now it has that pinky shift to it Then we have Aurora, which is kind of sexual terrestrial vibes from pomegranate this one is Gaia Maybe this one is more sexual terrestrial goes from like green to gold And then the last one is solar rain Which is kind of neat because it's almost a little Transparent with a very warm turn to it and those are the eight shades that are going to be in the light work three or are in The light work three experience palette so you can see it's very shifty. It's very unique You're working on about ten dollars the shade Individually for the palette which if you compare it to multi-chromes, which are typically 15 to 20 dollars Individually is a good price. So yeah, if you're interested, I definitely recommend it I think it's such a fun palette and I wanted to re-swatch it so that we could bring it back to life And so that you could see it and just because how fun are these to swatch there we have it That was my swatch and sip cheers I hope you guys enjoyed your drink and I hope this inspires you to go and play and swatch those eyeshadow palettes We don't need to just put them on their eyelids Okay, you can pay to put them on the arm and go ooh ah, right and again Shout out to Cindy Grace for gifting me at these items definitely you check out their sale This is not sponsored or anything. 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Hi, I'm Shamal Bahir and I'm here with the Mitaka series. We're about a week after design summit so far and today with me, I've got Dim. Dim, please tell us a little bit about yourself. My name is Devanam Srinivas. My nickname is Dim. I'm the project technical lead for Oslo project for the Mitaka cycle. I work for Merantys. I work from home just south of Boston. Great. Thank you. And today we'll be talking a little bit about Oslo. So Dim, what were the hot topics that the Tokyo Design Summit for your project? Oslo is really a family of projects. So we talked about some old projects, some new projects, and some drivers for new projects, some old projects as well. Got it. And what did you identify as user needs or problems to solve in the upcoming release? Yeah, this time we concentrated on a few things. One was feedback from operator summit. The other one was how we work closely with the logging and security work groups and also ongoing feedback in terms of bugs and things like that that come our way to construct some really good answers to the ongoing problems that we see in different projects. Got it. And what are the top three priorities for new features and enhancements and then the top three that we can accept from Oslo? So there's a few things coming down the pike. First of all, we are trying to evangelize some of the existing projects that we have built over the last few cycles. One example is Taskflow. Taskflow is for making distributed systems easier. And a new project example would be we are trying to come up with a new idea about how to solve the privilege mechanism problem previously that we used Oslo root rap project for. That's another one. The third one is how do we introduce distributed locking mechanisms in different projects by using things like zookeeper which will help with, you know, sharing locks, service existence and things like that. And what are some of the key things that your project will apply to Mitaka? One important theme that came out of operators was hardening the messaging infrastructure. So in Mitaka, we will be working on Oslo messaging a lot. We are introducing new drivers for zero MQ, probably a driver for Kafka, at least for notifications. We will be working on a new Oslo messaging driver that uses a brand new library called Vika that we haven't used before. All these are an attempt to stabilize the infrastructure so we can scale out to a huge number of nodes, or compute nodes for example. Anything else that you'd like to add that we didn't mention? Typically Oslo developers work primarily on other projects with larger code bases. So we tend to be folks who work part-time on things that we really care about at Oslo. So we welcome folks to start and contribute and we usually quickly promote them as a course. Great. Well, thank you so much for your time, James. Thank you, Shamay.


Odd Taxi, the sleeper hit cult classic you should watch. Odd Taxi is the latest work from OLM Studio. The story is set in a world with anthropomorphic animals. In it we follow the character of Otokawa, a 41 year old walrus taxi driver. He usually converses with others that rides his taxi on their journeys around Tokyo. These conversations unravel into a series of mysteries, including that of a missing high school girl. The world of Odd Taxi is similar to our own with the same trials and tribulations. But where the series shines is through its cleverly written dialogue. Characters have witty conversations commenting on everything from the mundane to the complex. This show is built like a puzzle. Every character, every conversation, every detail. No matter how insignificant contributes to the overall plot. Look, if you're new here and you're watching me for the first time, you might not be aware, but I'm kind of a sucker for anthropomorphic animal stories. I find it fascinating that you can examine human behavior through the lens of the characteristics of these animals. And this show, Odd Taxi, it's a very heavy dialogue kind of show. The entire story is told through conversation. You'll listen to quick based exchange between characters and still miss out the meaning behind certain words or phrases if you aren't paying close attention. All these little details about certain events, character traits and so on, contribute to the exposition of the lingering mystery that builds in a crescendo of sorts. Occasionally stopping for us, the viewer to catch a breath via a funny scene or dramatic confrontation happening to our lead walrus. Now the characters in the show don't really fit the typical anime or manga trope. Otokawa isn't your typical lead character. He will avoid social interactions unless it's necessary. Often maintaining a melancholic attitude and enjoying different radio programs on his taxi. Miho Shirakawa, a young alpaca nurse at Goriki's clinic who seems cheerful but has her own trials that she's overcoming. A.G. Kakihana, Otokawa's drinking buddy, a middle-aged white-gibbon who works as a janitor and tries to pick up women through a dating app. Rui Nikaito, a toy poodle and the lead singer of Mystery Kiss, a new idol group looking to make it big. A baboon gangster who suspects Otokawa is somehow involved in the missing girl case. The list goes on and on. Otaxi has a phenomenal roster of characters, each complex in their own right. They all have a weight to them and don't feel like throwaways or cannon fodder, if you will. Each animal's plight gives us a sense at how rich the world building in Otaxi really is. But also, let's not forget about the city itself. She's a major factor and is sort of the silent character in all of this. The city's the one that bears everyone's weight, expressing herself visually through the taxi driver, unbeknownst to him as he connects all the stories together. In a way, the concept of the killing joke from Alan Moore can kind of be applied here. All it takes is one eventful moment in your life for it to spiral into a heap of trouble. From the pressures of internet fandom, addiction and catfishing to even selling drugs in the black market, all it takes is just one bad day. I think that is what I love most about Otaxi. Yes, these are funny looking animals, but deep down, they're all facing real issues, real problems. Otokawa, our main protagonist, has a very unorthodox and without spoiling anything, a pretty sad past. But I think it's through his love of vehicles and his job as a taxi driver that he evolves as a character, starting as a social walrus and moving forward, meeting the right or wrong individual, which leads him down a path of growth. And some would say, ending up a more confident animal as a result. Meanwhile, the other characters in the series are also facing various problems. Their futures, hopes and dreams, hanging on a thinly strung thread, then sometimes can be cut indiscriminately without warning. It is how they react when the time comes that sets the narrative into high gear, whether that be the disappearance of an idol member, the perils of trying to become a social media influencer, online gambling addictions, facing the reality of being old, single and bored and looking for love. Each of these actions have consequences and when push comes to shove, will these characters have what it takes to grow and solve their dilemmas? On the technical side of things, the art in Otaxi, well, at least to me, oozes grit under the nightly neon lights of the city. It's drenched in style as the oddly CGI cars pass the fuzzy drawn backgrounds, blending the two with the focus being placed on the wonderful character designs. In what is probably one of the best shows of 2021, the cleverness of having a moody landscape and display with vibrantly rendered animals and an otherwise Aranoia thriller adventure is not lost on me. I also have to give praise to the voice acting from the different say you that are going for a realistic mundane city folk minding their business instead of your standard anime vocal fanfare. Look, at the end of the day, this is just a spoiler free review, my take on Otaxi, but I think this is a show about growth in the face of adversity, overcoming your fears and conversing with others. It isn't the taxi that's odd, but rather the people on board and the journeys to their destinations.


Is Jeffrey Dahmer in heaven? This is the question that people are asking this week. Ever since the docu-drama dropped on Netflix about Jeffrey Dahmer, Christians and non-Christians alike have been obsessing over this guy. And numerous videos from Christian content creators have come out talking about whether or not he came to faith in his last days. Today, I'm gonna respond to some of the conversation around this topic.  Let's go to the studio. Quick warning, Christian TikTok is currently celebrating Jeffrey Dahmer being in heaven in case you don't wanna see that. What if I told you that serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer became a Christian while he was in prison and went to heaven when he died? Is Jeffrey Dahmer in heaven? If it offends you that Jeffrey Dahmer professed his faith in Jesus Christ, maybe you don't realize how big of a sinner you are as well. Sin is sin. A lie is just as much of a sin as murder. Why? Oh, that's actually good. That's actually a good point there. Hey, you know, hey, by what standard?  But according to God's standard, man, if we're looking at him for the objective standard of right and wrong, we all fall short. So that's a good point. Hey, good job on there. After murdering 18 people, Jeffrey Dahmer is in heaven right now? Absolute. Clip may be taken out of context. I'm not sure what the deal with that is. I don't think we should be saying who definitely is in heaven or who it definitely is not in heaven. And that's definitely not my position. I don't know if he went to heaven or not. I think he did some sort of interview with Focus on the Family where he said, I believe Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior and stuff like that. So I think that's cool. Okay. Like, you know, great. It's like when Kanye, not that Kanye is a serial killer, some people put them on the same level, but it's like any popular person, celebrity, whatever says, I'm a Christian now. Okay. Like that's great. But also like you don't know what's going on behind the scenes. You get one interview, you get two interviews and, you know, a lot of people are getting up and are like, yeah, let's go, man, he's on our team now. Yeah. I just don't think we should be making those assertions. And I don't think it's biblical to make those assertions. Who's going to heaven or who has went to heaven because you don't know.   I don't know.  And you make a profession of faith. Okay. You're with me. You're one of my brothers. That's great. But I do totally get the draw of the story, man.  That's a great testimony. Absolutely.  I think someone who murdered like 17 people can go to heaven and be rewarded for eternity because at the last second they confess Jesus as their savior. But someone could be completely good, only put love into the world their entire lives and burn for eternity in hell because they just don't believe in God. Oh, that's an interesting premise here. Okay. So you have Jeffrey Dahmer who's done all this bad stuff like terrible, terrible stuff. I haven't really looked into it that much because I'm not big into the crime, drama, serial killer space. That's not my jam. And I don't know. I'd be careful if you're a Christian to get caught up in that because that's kind of dark and dirty, honestly.   Why is this the case? How could this be the case if God is truly good? So she's putting forth her own standard of goodness. She says that, you know, as long as a person holds to this kind of standard of goodness, then they're a good person. But who is she to define what that goodness is? She claims that a person can be good according to her standard, but what is goodness in a world without God? What is right and wrong? What is morality without an objective morality giver? It is all subjective. Like if you asked her if murder was wrong, she would say, yes, unequivocally, yes. But then you ask her, okay, a little bit more. How do you know that?  Well, it's culturally against, you know, the world that we live in and it's just, it's just a wrong thing. Well, there's cultures where certain killing certain people isn't wrong. Is that still wrong in that culture? And she'd be like, yeah, yeah, it's still wrong. It's always wrong. Well, she's holding on to some sort of moral standard. So it's not that atheists or people that deny God don't have this sense of morality. They do, but they deny the foundation that that's grounded upon. And in the meantime, they actually distort it too. Her question really goes back to is this fair?   Well, have you been good all your life? They say, well, I've been trying to try to be a good person. Well, have you lied? Have you stolen? Have you coveted? Have you looked with lust? Oh, man. So you're not actually as good as you portray yourself to be. And maybe you have this, you know, the standard of justice that and goodness that is based on your neighbor or the serial killer. And to them, you seem like a really good guy. But to God, who is infinitely holy and infinitely good and infinitely just, man, we all fall infinitely short. The problem is we compare ourselves to Jeffrey Dahmer and we're not comparing ourselves to God. When we look at Jesus, he took the punishment that we deserve for our sins against God on himself. He did that. As Ray Comfort says, we broke the law, but Jesus paid our fine in his life's blood. And that might not seem fair to you. You don't understand how God could die for somebody like that.  But we don't understand how he could die for somebody like that. It's yet, we have yet to understand the goodness and the grace and the mercy of God. And we've also yet to understand the own depths of our own depravity. And this is not a system that an all-knowing perfectly just God would create. Either God is an egotistical abuser or this is a man-made idea. And it's important with these things. Interesting. So how she's drawing her own standard, she says, this is not the way a good and just God would set things up. Really? You know? You know how God should set things up according to your personal standard of what is right and wrong? You know, you're really putting yourself at the judge's seat and looking at God and saying, God, you know, I don't think this is very good. I don't think this is very just. You're putting yourself as judge over God, which is not your place. Not only that, but we talked about earlier, man, without God, you have no objective standard for morality or goodness. And you're just kind of star stuff without God. You're fizzing chemical reactions. And why are you so upset about these moral things if we're just animals at the end of the day? But you know you're not because you were created in the image of God. Made idea. And it's important with these things to think who benefits from a teaching like this. The church does. It creates a dependency on the church.  It's a control tactic. Second of all, the interesting, interesting. So she says the church is the only one with the key. Bro, have you heard of the printing press? Have you heard of Martin Luther? Have you heard of the fact that we all have the word of God with us? It's not just this big, you know, organization that we have the keys and you need to oblige by what we say in order to unlock the keys to heaven. It's like, no, you can actually have the word of God yourself and read it for yourself. You know, this whole idea that it's all for control and to me, it's just somebody that's not as connected with what Christianity actually is. They see it as some big cult where everyone is forced to kind of do the same things and say the same stuff and wear the same clothing and maybe they're getting that confused with Mormonism. I don't know, but it's not a control thing. Maybe for some people it is. Some people distort it. Some people abuse. Some people, you know, make a church pastors and all this. I think we've heard enough of these stories to recognize that there's some people out there that will use it for their own benefit. But for the most part, man, we're all just trying to serve Christ. So.  And then hype it up is like an inspirational story that advertised their religion. Yeah, win for Christ. What? What does that say? Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Okay, I'm just trying to follow her logic thinking here because it's a little bit challenging. She's saying if we're claiming as a white evangelical church, I don't know what that even is because my church, we got all sorts of ethnicities. So maybe it's different in the United States. I don't, maybe it is. I don't know. In Canada here, we're very multi-ethnic. So kind of weird. Anyway, how could God forgive somebody like Jeffrey Dahmer? And how could Christians forgive somebody like Jeffrey Dahmer and say that he might have come to Christ if he did all this mean stuff, mean stuff? That's okay, putting it a little bit lightly. Did all this terrible stuff to these people from different ethnicities and all this. And it's like, yeah, I get that. But also like one of the principles of Christianity is forgiveness and kind of this restoration and people repenting and turning to Christ. It's not like it's say, we're approving of what somebody did in their past and saying that's all yippy-skippy. It's like, no, you need to kind of repent from that and recant that stuff in your past and you're made into a new creation. Well, that was a ride. But at the end of the day, God can save anybody. I don't know if Jeffrey Dahmer is in heaven or he's not. And I think speculating about it isn't super helpful because we just don't know. But at the end of the day, what I'm convinced of is our standard of goodness is often distorted and we will compare ourselves to other people claiming that we're good people when in actuality we're not. James 2.10 says that if we stumble at any point we're guilty of all of it. Romans 3.23 says that we've all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. But through Jesus, we can find forgiveness, restoration and new life in Him. Well, I hope you guys enjoyed today's video and got something from it. If you did, subscribe because I'm putting out new videos all the time. I'd love to see you over at the Daily Disciple Club on Patreon.  It's a huge help to the mission of equipping people to follow Jesus daily. It's what I'm passionate about and you enable me to continue to do that. I will see you guys next time. God bless.


May Allah make our today better than yesterday. May Allah make our tomorrow better than today. ومي الله سبحانه وتعالى وانا دعاء سيد أبو بكر صديق رزي الله وتعالى who used to make he used to say this in his every khudba at the end of his khudba and oh Allah make my last days the best days of my life and make my last actions the best actions of my life and oh Allah when I stand before you make that the best time of my life This life respected listeners is slipping away we need to remind this constantly because otherwise our hearts are so engrossed in the material and the worldly life someone needs to remind us and we need to remind others also وذكر فإن ذكراتا فعل مؤمنين الله سبحانه وتعالى says remind each other because reminder benefits the believers if pious predecessor says I learned an amazing lesson for my life about my life from a person who was selling ice so I saw a man selling ice on the streets and he was yelling out saying oh people buy something which I am selling because his ice was melting and I couldn't find the buyers to buy his ice it was a hot day and he was announcing to the people oh people I am here to sell one of the most precious possessions I have before it melts away our life is Allah سبحانه وتعالى has given us is the most precious possession we have in our hands may Allah guide us not to be melted away from us in front of our own eyes every morning every evening respected listeners is a trust from Allah سبحانه وتعالى this time given to Allah سبحانه وتعالى given by Allah سبحانه وتعالى to us is a trust from Allah سبحانه وتعالى for us to make us prepare for the everlasting life of the year after رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم asked رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم asked him كيف أسبحت يا معال how is your morning و معال و معال و معال و معال و معال how is your morningango بس ا bab every statement has a Brothers what is the manifestation or verification out at you that you woke up as a بل جبال رزي الله طالاما ، ربما أردت لأن شخصة المستشفين من العربية الصلاة والسلم أنهم ل nett من المدbولين الصلاة والسلم وعليهم لمساعدة برسول الله a.s. و愋اء لما يجعلونه من어�شة صلاة وماذا they weren't expecting in the life of the Heer after. They convinced their conviction was so strong. They would believe in the things they would not see and would believe in the things more في الأشياء التي لا ترى فهم ، و الأشياء التي ترى في أجلهم و قالت ، يا رب العالم ، أحاول كتب كتب ما هو الحكومة التي تحاول كتب كتب؟ يا رب العالم ، يا رب العالم ، أحاول كتب ، كل morning I wake up I'm not sure I will live until the night time before death takes me away Every night I go to sleep, oh Prophet of Allah I'm not sure I will be able to wake up in the morning before death takes me away oh Prophet of Allah I see all the nations on the day of judgment kneeling in front of Allah سبحانه وتعالى I see the blessings and the bounties and the joys of parodies in front of me oh Prophet of Allah and I see the torments and the punishments of the hellfire in front of me oh Prophet of Allah سبحانه وتعالى what mindset respected listeners he didn't say oh Prophet of Allah I need to run to my work and you take care of this this this I have a very stressful long day in front of me he said I woke up as a believer oh Prophet of Allah I do not know if death is going to take me away in the daytime or the night time every step I take oh Prophet of Allah every step I take oh Prophet of Allah I'm not sure whether I'll be able to take another step before death comes and takes me away when Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam I heard this from a young man he says oh Muaz oh Muaz you have spoken to the truth you stick to this belief oh Muaz you stick to this the Sahaba the companions used to say about Muaz Muaz was like an umat for us he was like an entire nation for us he was Hanifan this time respected listeners this time Allah سبحانه وتعالى has given us Allah سبحانه وتعالى everyone all of us Allah is saying this all of us are in a state of loss Allah سبحانه وتعالى swears in two surahs everybody is in a state of loss then Allah says Allah swears by the figs and the olives produce of Jerusalem by Tulmakhbas Allah swears of Mount Sinai Allah swears by the city of Makkah tul Mukarrama the city where Rasulullah received revelations Mount Sinai Musa alaihi sallam received revelations Jerusalem many prophets came to that land Allah is swearing by three places and he says we created human beings in the best of the modes in the best of the fashions and then we reduced them to the lowest of the low we reduced them to the lowest of the low the ulama say about this verse when the animals get old even then still they're beneficial to the mankind they still carry the loads of the mankind they're ready to be slaughtered to be eaten by the mankind their furs are being used for the mankind when human beings become old and senile and decrepit they become useless they become burden on other people and may Allah save us from becoming burden on other people but Allah says in both the surahs Allah says except those who do good deeds those who have iman and those who do good deeds now a person doing good deeds when Allah has given him or her time in the youth in the thirties in the forties in the fifties even in the sixties when they keep doing good deeds the meaning of the words when the scholars say the meaning of the words لقد خلقنا الإنسان في أحسن تقويل Allah سبحانه وتعالى will write them perpetual continuous rewards even when they become old and senile even when they become dependent on others for those pious people when pious people become old and senile Allah will not make them dependent on others in their old age because even in their old age even in the very old age people are benefiting from the spirituality people are serving them people are doing the khidmat people are taking the du'as and people are benefiting by their spirituality because Allah سبحانه وتعالى is not only writing rewards from them after here Allah says we are writing everlasting rewards for them the rewards start from this word even when they become old even when they become sick if they were praying their Salat if they were reciting Quran if they were doing zikr if they were maintaining their good akhlaa good character Allah will tell angels to keep on writing these good rewards even when they are sick even when they are old even when they do not perform keep writing them the rewards we thank Allah سبحانه وتعالى for giving us this life for creating us in the Ummah of Rasool الله صلى الله عليه وسلم and above all for giving us this time Allah has blessed us with time and there are special moments which are special to Allah سبحانه وتعالى like the day of Juma is very precious in the eyes of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and there are certain times on the day of Juma Rasool الله سبحانه وتعالى the duas are accepted and the ulama are unanimous the four imams Imam Ahmad ibn Hamal Imam Abu Hanifa Imam Shafi ar-Rahmatullahi Imam Malik ar-Rahmatullahi are unanimous the time that Allah accepts the duas فلتمسوها فلتمسوها ساعة بعد الأسل the moment the time Allah accepts the duas on the day of Juma they said Rasool الله صلى الله عليه وسلم is the time between Asr and Maghri and the ulama have deduced from this that even the exact time when the duas are accepted are just a few minutes those moments before the sun sets on the day of Friday evening that's when our duas are accepted those are the times we need to take advantage make our families sick with us make our kids let's make dua this is the time of acceptance of the duas little we do respected listeners the specialty of this Ummah of Rasool الله Allah rewards the Lord من قرأ صورة الكحف يوم الجمع فهو معاسوم إلى ثمانة أيام من كل فتنة إن خردت دجال أسما منه رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم who ever recites صورة الكحف in the 15th Jews and part of 16 Jews who so ever recites صورة الكحف on Juma إبني كثير رحمة الله عليه quotes this from Ali رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم whoever recites صورة الكحف on Friday Allah will save him or her from the trials and tribulations until the next 8 days until the next Juma even if the jal comes during those 8 days Allah will save them from the fitnah and trials of the jal imagine the trials of the jal all the prophets took refuge and the trials we are going through are nothing compared to the trials of the jal but the promise of Allah whoever takes time out to recite صورة الكحف on Friday Allah will save them from all kinds of trials and tribulations may Allah give us the understanding may Allah make us value the time may Allah make us prepare for our death may Allah make us prepare for the everlasting life of the hereafter may Allah make it easy for all of us ربنا أتنا في الدنيا حسنة وقل آخرة حسنة وقنا عذاب النار ربنا لا تزكولو بنا بعد إذ هديتنا وهاب لنا من لدن كرحمة إنك أنت الوهب إباد الله إن الله يعمر بالأدل والإحسان وإت أيض القرباء وينهان فحشاء والمنكر والبغي يعيزكم لألكم تذكرون وشكروا لي ولا تتفرون وأقمي السر


So we hear the ID Tech Act show here with the Abalonics and so who are you? I'm Rune Wendelboe I founded Abalonics 14 years ago and with the idea to make tough coatings and after a few years we came across graphene oxide which we could make in only a few grams batches over the years after some requests to deliver larger batches we developed a safe process safe and scalable process so we now make one kilogram one gram was enough to work for one year making thin films so the challenge now is that there aren't many people who really need those quantities so we have over capacity but we work closely with now a list of six professional customers who industrial customers who who seem to be at either production or pilot level in there this is a graphene what is this this is this is actually a free stride graphene oxide which is one of the derivative products we have so this is just 0.5 grams filling a container of 50 milliliters you said 0.5 grams yeah 500 milligrams so that means this stuff is very very very light it's the same quantity as in this one which is a more dense powder so how do you make it undense how do you make it what's called expand oh well it's just free stride so that's a very normal like freeze-dried coffee and so what do you say from graphite to battery yeah so yeah about the graphene batteries he already been through a graphene oxide right not yet everything but I was just checking here and you say from graphite to battery what do you talk about here so it's basically related to what one has been doing in a balonics basically when I get his raw material graphite from Norwegian sources and converts him to reduce graphene oxide which we utilize in some battery applications specific battery application called liquid sulfur battery people call it next generation the battery technology after lithium ion batteries and then we try to find the final application final end users liquid oxide no this is lithium lithium lithium sulfur yeah sulfur is gonna be the big successor yeah next generation yeah successor to lithium ion batteries there are two candidates to my little sulfur or little mayor batteries little mayor is considered like 230 40 years maybe some some as some claims it will never become commercialized so lithium sulfur is considered the next generation because of his high energy density because of its abundance and environmentally friendly materials using environmental friendly materials like sulfur because it's abundant it's cheap it's everywhere it's by product of the chemical industry and the interesting thing here is that we combine these two companies these are sister companies Rune makes reduced graphene oxide we try to utilize in our batteries which finds a specific application in lithium sulfur batteries unlike using this material as the electrode active material we are using it as a very small amount of additive in battery formulation electrode formulation so what does the graphite do with the lithium sulfur what is the connection there is no graphite there is reduced graphene oxide so basically in order to make reduced graphene oxide you have to start with graphite there's a natural source of graphite in Norway graphite coal mine and you basically get graphite through modified humerus method you exfoliate graph graphene layers and oxidize it and then reduce it to form reduced graphene oxide so we are not directly using graphite in the battery but we are using a converted graphene oxide and that part it goes inside the lithium sulfur lithium sulfur but lithium sulfur doesn't mention anything about graphene yeah it doesn't but if you go to the literature you will see that people are utilizing different polar compounds to solve some intrinsic problem of sulfur electrode and reduce graphene oxide is one of them is that the best way to do it to what it is it is cheap it is easy to tune graphene oxide you know when I say chip it might a little be misleading because we have full access to reduce graphene oxide from a ballonics which is the sister company however it's very easy to tune the surface properties so surface chemistry of graphene oxide so you can just tune it to specific problem to solve specific problems in the battery what does it say here on this one oh that is again a ballonics yeah that is again a ballonics very scientific detail that I cannot explain what's going on here yeah so since there weren't any real need for large quantities what we did we we took our graphene oxide and developed a range of derivative products like deacidified geo graphene oxide is very very acidic so for many application you may need this acidity may be a problem and we see customers now buying different products and actually the increase in sales over the last few years has not been in the basic graphene oxide but in all these derivatives products and the first real industrial application we see is also in one of the derivatives which one and that's I I don't cannot say which one because it's yeah but it's I can say who it is it's a company in Sweden that does I'm joking no actually they talked to IKEA and many other also because it's for anti-corrosion and replacing chromium and things but this one is on the plate or make a anti corrosion plate plating on parts for scania tracks so the company is called Provexion is in Gothenburg and they now do this from 1st of January so you need to put it on all the train tracks that's a lot of that's a lot of exactly that's big yeah so they dip in this suspension and they do some treatment and they add other component that's the one way you can use all your material right yeah and all the train tracks on all of them well a train tracks is not it could it could be and the heat exchangers for example is what on the list they were and and bolts because there is often a lot of corrosion on bolts so corrosion is no good a corrosion represent a loss of 2% of world economy per year well and if you can reduce reduce that to 1% it's 1% of the total world economy which is a lot of money that's a good idea that sounds like great what are you showing here and on this wall here well can you say this yeah this is actually a nitrogen-doped geo which has some advantages in the sulfur batteries we talked Tesla talked about before it holds sulfur in place more efficiently than pure graphene oxide it holds the sulfur in place so is it related to the batteries it's related to the batteries the problem with sulfur batteries is that sulfur migrates from migrates from the cathode to the anode and the graphene oxide can be used to hold it in place in the cathode and it says ultra sonication yeah we mean it means we have to disperse it in water so we have it in ultra sonification bath for half an hour this is very standard it's not something we invented it's very general practice in Norway one of the best mines or what yeah the biggest source Norway's very expensive country so this mine can operate because they have one of the highest grade graphite fights in the world it's 70% pure graphite in what they dig out whereas other mines in Africa and other places China have as low as 1% so as graphene is it going to be huge in the future or is it already huge or a lot of people are talking about graphene right yeah there's a high isn't going to be and there's a lot of fake news so many people claim things that are not true or they wish would be true I think this will go ahead there will be a development where we first see some uses in high-end products like sports equipment and sensors and things where the kilo gram price could a kilo gram price of one thousand dollars or more is not a problem and then we once we scale up we can lower the price we have estimated that when we come to real industrial scale production we can come down to 25 dollars per kilo a kilo production cost and then that opens up a lot of new application like what like in smart clothes yeah everywhere and for example concrete there's a lot about talking about concrete I think much of it is fake news but they could be also real advantages like does it improve the concrete yeah the strength and the corrosion like stopping micro cracks from forming so that salt comes into the concrete and corrodes it so that means you're gonna solve potholes it's not gonna be potholes anymore because the concrete is gonna be stronger yeah hopefully I'm not doing that myself but there are many claims in the literature so once we come down to low prices these applications can be mass massive volumes so here you are with a scallant graphic partner company right and you have other people around here to boost doing different things or talking about different things or yeah I mean we the applications we know sees this corrosion protection and also some protection of PCBs and we have a customer who develops membranes for fuel cells our actually our biggest customer in a actually in a country in East Europe and we have people working with water treatment the graphene oxide has some properties that are very different from other materials and very high surface area so and it's easy to work with compared to many other non-materials so it definitely has advantages and that we think will materialize over years in real real industrial applications but it will take years are you the leader in Norway for this kind of stuff yeah I would say yes yes and no is a leader for this kind of stuff in the world no because of the graphite mines no there are many others from China much lots of graphite mines so we don't depend we think we the scallant graphite now develops a new pure graphite powder which we will use in our production until now they have just sold unrefined graphite to Germany and that contains too much silicates for our application so but we see it as a very high quality graphite so there is there is room for improvement in all levels here is this R&D that needs to be invested in certain fields or yeah partners doing everything or you have to do it even if this anti-corrosion coating now is good there's no chance it's the best we could achieve so we will work with this customer to constantly improve and tune the properties of our graphene oxide and they will tune and improve the the all the other ingredients so to improve further it will never stop