If you have any questions at any points, just feel free to stop. So the next slide is the agenda slide. And what we're going to talk about today quickly is what is user experience? Why is it important? Who does it? What's the process? What's produced? And how you can help? And then we'll have time at the end for questions and answers. And if there's any questions along the way, feel free to let me know. So if we go to the next slide, you guys already know a little bit about me, but so this is me. You at least can put a face to the picture or to the name. And I think the first statement on there is important. It says, I like to make things. And I think that's probably why you all do what you do, because you like to make things. So at the end of the day, that's the shared thing that everybody has in common is that we like to make things for other people. And that's an important attribute that we all share, whether we're engineers, whether we're designers, whether we're scientists. It's just the act of making things is very important. So let's go to the next slide, which is what is user experience? We hear a lot about this right now. You hear people talking about user usability, user experience, creative direction, user interface design. It's become kind of a buzzword. But I'd like to broaden the definition a little bit first. So if you go to the next slide, which should show a tablet. So everyone knows that this is a user experience. When we think about usability, user testing, user interface design, technology, we think of something like this. We think of a website, we think of a mobile phone, we think of a tablet. So we know this is a user experience.  Actually, it's a Ferrari, so it's a fun car. And the point there is that, believe it or not, this is also a user experience. The way that the designers and the engineers have decided to present information, the way that they've decided to make the seats feel, the way that they've decided to display air conditioning controls and gear shift levers, the way that the pedal works, the way that the car sounds, all of that contributes to user experience. If we go to the next slide, I don't know if any of you have seen this, but this is a new thermostat, which is available. It's very modern, and it displays the current information, and it's very efficient, high efficiency. But the point is, this is also a user experience. An engineer and a designer came up with this idea for how to simplify a thermostat. If we go to the next slide, this is a copier, a photocopier. We've had these for many, many years. And again, somebody had to think about things like what color should the buttons be? Should stop be red? Should start be green? What is the icon that we want to show on there? How does it feel? What's the size of the buttons in relation to one another? So again, what we're seeing here is another example of a user experience. And then if we go to the next slide, should be looking at a roller coaster. And yes, you know that you may not have thought of it as a user experience, but obviously it is. Somebody had to think of what would be fun and entertaining. So in other words, a user experience isn't simply something technical. It's not just a website. It's not just a user interface. It's anything that is created for other people to enjoy, to learn from, to be productive, to experience. So the reason I bring this up is I think it's important at the beginning to shift our perception of what user experience is away from something very narrow to something very broad. And I'm going to explain why in more detail in a moment. So if you go to the next slide, this is actually the definition that you will find for user experience if you go to Wikipedia. User experience is the way a person feels about using a product, system, or service. I won't read the rest of it. You can take a look at the second paragraph. But what you see in there, the highlighted words, are feeling, perception, subjective, feelings and thoughts, dynamic. The point being that user experience is a subjective field. It's not scientific. There are metrics that we can use to measure usability. We can measure how effective something is. We can measure whether people like it or whether they don't like it. But at the end of the day, user experience is something intangible in a way. It's something at a gut level. It's something that you get a sense for. We all know when a user experience is good. We all know when it's bad. So if we go to the next slide, the reason I'm talking to you is to talk about user experience as a professional discipline. So we often use the abbreviation UX, which means user experience. And UX refers both to the discipline or the profession of user experience, as well as to the kind of end product we build to user experience for people. So the term was coined in the 90s by Donald Normman. I don't know if any of you have heard of Jacob Nielsen or Nielsen Norman Group, but they were very early in the computer days talking about usability. They started to talk about users and what that meant, how important it was that software worked for people and that things actually be positive experiences, that there was more to it than just lines of code. When I started using a computer, you made everything into a DOS prompt. Actually, even earlier than that, you coded in basic. That was how you interacted with a computer. And then with the advent of a user interface, we started to think about how do we present information visually to people? How do we present sounds and sites? How does it feel? What does it look like? So when we're talking about user experience as a professional discipline, we're talking about software, web, mobile applications. But again, I encourage you to always remember that it's much broader than that. Every field in some level has a degree of user experience involved in it. And just to give you an example, even humans provide a user experience. If you go into a store and the people who work at the store are very, again, friendly or not helpful, you could say that that's a bad user experience. So when you're designing a retail store should work, you want to think about everything, not just the way clothing is placed, but also the way your staff interacts with people. So we've talked, if we go to the next slide, which says, fact, users are people. We've talked a lot about user so far, but I really want to just, again, broaden it a little bit. Remember that a user is a person. It's not just this anonymous type of entity. It's actually a human being.  She's a user. We would never think of you never saying, well, my mom's a user.  And you've created a bad user experience. So remember that users are human beings. They're people. That's why we're in this business. We're making things to help people. And a great UX professional is never going to forget that. They're always going to try to shift the conversation away from something cold and clinical like the word user and move it towards people. So for example, when I'm talking to clients at Metsoft, I often talk about them. I often talk about customers, people. I try to move it away from students, employees. I try to move it away from the term user experience and try to talk about these people. Because when you start to think about your end user as a person, it suddenly makes it more apparent that you have to do good work for them. So you're not just designing some anonymous sense that you're actually thinking about people who are going to interact with something. So if we go to the next slide, this is how I think about a user experience. So people will try to make it very cold and cold. It really is two things. It's what's the user? Who is that person? And what's the experience that you're creating for them? Is it fun? Is it helpful? Is it productive? Is it efficient? Does it work? So again, I keep this in my mind when I try to think about the fact that we're designing something for human beings. And it's more than just something cold and clinical. So if we go to the next slide, the question becomes, well, why is this important? Why does it matter? And I'm going to talk about it a little bit in terms of a professional context. So if you go to the next slide, you should be looking at a jet airplane. And there are four buttons on the panel here. If you can't read them, I'll read them to you. It says windshield washer, FM radio, ejector seat, and cabin. And I don't know if you've noticed anything wrong with that series of buttons. But I wouldn't put an ejector seat right in between all the rest of those buttons. Because if the person is flying an airplane in an accident with an ejector seat, they're going to go flying out of space. In other words, the way to present information to people can be very, very important. For example, maybe you have a program where you hit delete and it didn't prompt you to say, are you sure you want to put an ejector seat in? And you've lost the file. Some of you of X designers somewhere failed to think about the fact that there's a possibility somebody might hit delete by accident. In other words, what we're talking about, you have to think through all possible situations. You can't take anything casually. Every detail of what you're building is important. And not just from a design perspective, but also from a technology perspective. So an example is a project that we were recently working on where latency was a real issue. In other words, the response time of the website to the user control was very, very slow. And they said, well, that's a technology issue. That's not a user experience issue. And of course it's a user experience issue. If a person sitting there waiting for something to happen, that's a bad user experience. So we couldn't fix that for the time being. So what we did was we let people know. We sent them a message which said, this may take several minutes. Please be patient. It's not good. Don't get me wrong. Nobody likes to see that. But it's better than not telling the user anything. It's better than not telling somebody that they're going to be waiting for a while.  So if we go to the next slide, we're talking about why user experience is important. Bad user experience can result in unhappiness. We've already talked about that when you have to wait too long and things don't work for you to leave a file that you didn't want to. It can result in ill will. So if you're a business and your competitor starts to offer a better interface to their bank website, for example, then you offer for your bank website. People are going to get frustrated with you and they're going to leave your business. It can result in mistakes like we were just talking about accidentally deleting a file or inputting the wrong information because the user experience isn't clear. It can result in accidents. An example of that is if you're designing highway signs, if those highway signs are not clear, they don't make sense and people have accidents because of that. Fraud. So we've all heard about identity theft. If you don't design the login system to be secure and also clear, you can open yourself up to fraud, lawsuits. In other words, user experience is much more than just visual design. It has serious implications for your business, for your organization. And so it's important not to forget about that. There was a story recently about an airplane pilot who was taking his plane off in a very, very dense fog and he lost his way and he was actually flying upside down for a short period of time and because of the speed nobody could tell. And so he tried to go up, but in fact what he was doing was going down and he crashed the plane and everybody aboard the plane was killed. And it came down to the fact that the display of information was incorrect. It never let him know that his plane had gone upside down. And so you say, well that seems like an extreme case, but it goes to show that somebody hadn't thought about the fact that the pilot might actually end up, believe it or not, it's entirely possible to fly a passenger airplane upside down. And so they hadn't thought of that and what ended up happening was several dozen people were killed. And I know that's an extreme example, but the point is, and it's something very important and depending on what you're designing, it can have serious implications. A little bit of a lighter example is I was on a project where it was a bang website. It actually was a stock website where people could buy and sell stocks and somebody very accidentally traded $10,000 of stock without knowing that they had done it because it wasn't clear to them what they were doing. It didn't make sense. The user interface didn't make sense. And they traded $10,000 that they didn't want to trade. I mean, you can imagine how upset they were when that happened. And it was all because somebody hadn't designed a user interface to be clear. It didn't make sense to the user. So if we go to the next slide, you should see a bunch of dots on the screen. And on the left side, this is not meant to be a laundry list, but these are some of the examples of things that make a bad user experience. And on the right side are some things that tend to make a good experience. So on the left side, we have things like scary, buggy, rigid, meaning it doesn't adapt to me as a user, unattractive, slow, inaccurate, complicated, hard, dumb, meaning it doesn't learn. So a system that learns is actually better than when it doesn't learn, inflexible. On the good experience side, we have efficient, easy, accurate, smart, fun, adaptive, fast, reassuring, responsive, delightful, beautiful. A couple of those might seem surprising to you. So for example, beautiful and delightful. But if you think about it, if a car doesn't look attractive or if a banking website doesn't look like professional and it doesn't look like something you wanna do business with, you're less likely to have a positive experience. We've done tests where we use two examples of the same interface, one which looks very attractive and one which looks different. All the features and functions are the same and people report having a better user experience when the website is more attractive. All things being equal, aesthetics are important and that's where visual design comes in. So are there any questions so far? So we'll go to the next slide which says who does UX? And so I know that I've been bouncing around and talking about how UX is very broad, but for a minute I just wanna talk about the narrow context of a user experience team. So for example, some of you may be working or may wanna work in a company that builds websites or software or mobile applications or equipment. So when we talk about that, there's actually usually a user experience team who does that kind of work. And if we go to the next slide, you're gonna see some of the people who are involved in that. There's a UX lead, that's kind of what I do. That's the person who's in charge of making sure that the user experience meets all of the defined objectives, is usable, attractive. So that person is kind of the person who's most responsible for making sure that the user experience works. That can also be a creative director in some contexts. It can also be a lead interface designer, but we're just calling it a UX lead or UX director. The next is the content strategist. That's somebody who tries to make sure that they know all of the words, all of the copy, all of the information that needs to be presented to the user. An information architect is somebody who will be designing the way that the experience works. So they'll be thinking about user flows, they'll be thinking about user interactions, they'll be thinking about features and functions that the experience needs to provide and how those things should work. And they're not just thinking about the right way things are gonna work, they also have to think about what happens when things go wrong. We have a copywriter, that's somebody who's actually writing the copy, writing the words, that's somebody who's experienced in writing copy for that specific medium. You have a UI designer, sometimes called a graphic designer, that's somebody who's in charge for the way that the end product looks and feels. And then you have a UI developer and that can be a coder, that can be an HTML implementer, it might be a flash programmer, it might be an interface developer, but that's the person who takes all of the design and information architecture and actually makes it work and often ties that into any kind of back end system like a database or any kind of content management system. So, if we go to the next slide, I'm gonna keep parking on this and you'll hear me say it over and over again. Ensuring a positive user experience is everyone's responsibility. So you have your user experience team, but one of the things that I always talk about here at Netsoft is that everyone should be thinking about the user experience, it's not just the people who have that title. And I've actually found that engineers, business analysts, project managers have great ideas. And again, because they are also users, they're also people who have an insight into what works and what doesn't work. I tend to listen to everybody. People have great ideas. I've designed things that I thought worked really well and I've had a project manager say, you know, what if it did this and that's really helpful to me. I've seen engineers who have incredibly great ideas about how to make something more pleasant, more efficient, more usable. So everyone on the project team should really consider it their responsibility.  You know, it's not just what are you building, but also what is the end result of this code, how fast is it, is it reliable, is it responsive. But then also to look at the user interface and look at things that other people are developing and how to say it now. You want to be as collaborative as possible. So we're going to talk about the process if you go to the next slide. You know, I didn't want to show every process here because each project, each type of project requires its own process. I mean, developing software is different than developing a website. But we're going to look at kind of a typical process and we're going to look at it from the UX team perspective. We're not necessarily going to be looking at all the things that happen on the back end or all the things that happen in project management. We're mainly going to be looking at what the UX team is involved in. So if you go to the next slide, you know, you'll often hear people refer to UX as a UI design. Some companies, it's not just people, it's companies will actually say, hey, oh, our UX team. And they're simply referring to the designers, the people who create the interface. And, you know, that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about the whole UX team. So if you go to the next slide, you should be looking at a little funnel here. And in that funnel are three things. This is for a typical client project. You're working in a consulting firm or you're working for a company who makes something like software or websites. And the three main inputs that I think go into a user experience are business requirements. In other words, what are we trying to achieve? What is the goal of this? Is it, you know, and you usually have multiple goals, but so what is the business driver behind this? Or drivers, why are we trying to do this? The technical constraints, meaning what do we have to think about? What's the platform? What's the coding language? What's the timeframe? What's the technological expertise? You know, so these things are important. And then user considerations, meaning what do people, the actual end users of this thing, what are they hoping to get out of it? So, you know, at a very high level, just to make it oversimplified, if this was Amazon.com, you know, the technical constraints would be, it's a website and a mobile application and so there's certain programming languages and things that they have that they can use. There's business requirements, which are pretty obvious. We need to sell as many products as we can about frustrated users during the experience. And then there's user considerations, which is how do we get people to buy things? What are they looking to buy? How do they feel about their wish list? How do they feel about recommendations? You know, how do they want to rate products? So, or do they want to rate products? So, all three of those things come together and they really determine the end user experience. And what you're seeing here is that there's many, many inputs. There's many things to consider when you figure out what the end user experience is. You're not going to put something on there that doesn't satisfy a business requirement, it doesn't make sense from a user perspective and it can't be built from a technical perspective. So, if we go to the next slide, this is kind of a typical user experience process. And now I'm talking about the UX team here. So, the first thing I always want to do, I want to understand the users. Who are they? What are they trying to accomplish? What are their goals? What are their aspirations? What are their limitations? If I'm designing a major, much older audience, for example, I need to understand their technical capabilities. I need to understand what type of device they're going to be using. I need to understand what time of day they're going to be accessing. Understand what I should be building. We would develop our content, meaning we would try to figure out all the information and features that the product under service needs to have included in it. We would organize that. We'd come up with a way to organize it. How should it be presented to the user? We would then design the interaction. So, in other words, how does somebody get to a specific bit of content or a feature? And then as we're getting towards the end, we would design the interface. So, what is the actual thing that the person sees? How does it look? How does it respond? How does it behave? And then I put this last slide on here because this is very important. Test, fix, and repeat. You know, a user experience process doesn't end once you build the thing.  What's not working? How do we fix those things? How do we move forward? And that's an iterative process that goes on and on and on and on. As long as your product is out there, you should be testing it, fixing it, and learning from it, you know, because things change all the time. So, if we go to the next slide, we're gonna talk a little bit about what's produced. So, what are the kinds of things that a user experience team actually makes? And if you go to the next slide, you're gonna see the same steps that I talked about earlier. They're phrased a little bit differently. Research, content, information architecture, UI design, usability testing, and implementation. So, some of the things that you're gonna see are user interviews. We're gonna go out, in the research phase, we're gonna go out, we're gonna talk to users. We're gonna try to talk to them where they're actually gonna be using our product as service, not necessarily in a lab or in a focus group room. We're gonna look at what the competition is doing in a competitor audit, so we make sure we're at least matching what they're doing if not feeding it. We're gonna do best practices. So, in other words, even outside of what the competition is doing, what's the best in the industry? So, for example, if I'm designing an insurance website and there's a checkout process where I'm buying my insurance, I don't wanna just look at the checkout process from insurance websites. I wanna look at the checkout process from all great experiences, whether it's Amazon.com or, you know, someplace else that has a really good technical process, I wanna learn from that. A technology audit, I wanna know what are the constraints from a technology perspective, what platform, what programming language, what's the content management system, because that's gonna help me define what I can build a brand audit. So, what's the brand? For example, we just did a project for Edna International. They're a baby international insurance company.  So, we had to make sure that whatever we built, really supported that brand objective. One of their competitors takes a very different approach. They look at it as kind of a service orientation. So, that website that they designed doesn't have as much hand holding. It's not as guided. It's much more free form. We're gonna do user personas, which is we're gonna try to understand who the people are and actually create a visualization of that that we're then gonna measure all of our work against. And the end result, there's a UX brief. And that's, when I say brief, that's like a document that outlines all of these research steps and acts as a Bible, if you will, or a guiding document for the rest of the work. When we get into content, we're gonna develop a content strategy for how to produce the information and then we're gonna write the copy. Information architecture is often what many people think of as UX in the profession, but actually UX is broader than that. But information architecture is things like use cases. In other words, how are people gonna get through the system? Functional requirements and specs. That's often a shared document between the technology team and the business team and the user experience team. Site maps, user flows and wire frames. We're gonna take a look at a couple of these in a moment. When we start to get into UI design, we're gonna create a visual vocabulary. What does this look like? What are the colors? What type basis? What are the buttons look like? What does photography look like? We're gonna design the face. We're gonna build a prototype oftentimes for testing so it might be partly functional prototype so that we can go out and test on it and learn and see what needs to be revised. And then we'll probably create UI guidelines so that teams that are working on it down the road understand how they should be doing things like buttons and forms, how they should be presenting information. We're gonna do usability testing to make sure that what we're building actually works that people know how to use it. And then we're gonna actually go into implementation where we do the front end or presentation layer implementation. We're gonna make revisions and fixes based on what we learned and we're gonna document as much as possible what we're doing. So are there any questions on this? Okay, so I'm gonna take you through, if we go to the next slide, I'm gonna take you through a recent project that we did very quickly. So we're gonna look at a few artifacts. These are not all of the artifacts but these are a few things that were produced. So this was for an app that we just recently launched to help people eat healthier, to help them make healthier eating decisions for one of our clients. It's an iPhone app and we're actually gonna be building an Android version soon. So this is the user flow and it looks like a schematic or a wiring diagram but it basically shows how the user will travel through the different pieces or screens in this application and it basically is showing how a person will get to different types of information, how they can go to something and back from something. And this is a very simple user flow but I thought it would be better to do something simple so that you could actually read it. If we go to the next screen, we're gonna look at wireframes. So a wireframe is like a, it's like a schematic version of the user interface. It's not designed, it's just usually black and white. These can be low fidelity which means they can be done in paper sketchy form. Literally I've done wireframes that are just paper sketches or they can be more resolved and the more resolved versions allow for testing so you can actually take something that's not designed but which is dysfunctional and put it in front of users to see how they actually interact with it and then you can learn and make revisions. And if we go to the next screen, we're gonna see what those same wireframe screens look like when they were finally designed. And so this is where we were talking about UI design. This is where a designer has actually taken the schematic version of the wireframe and turned them into something that's hopefully more pleasant and approachable and more in line with the brand and more in line with what we're trying to convey to the user on a more emotional level. And then if we go to the last, to the next screen, we see what the final product looks like and this is something you can download now actually. So if we go to the next slide. So I was just saying, that kind of takes you at a high level from user flow through wireframes, through UI design and through the final limerable. These are some of the artifacts that were produced in a user experience project for like a mobile application. So if we go to the next slide which says what is your role, you've heard me say this before. We go to the next slide. This is something that usually surprises people but I've said this in the beginning and I'll say it again. You are a user experience professional even though I have the title of UX director. I like to think that everybody within the firm that I work for is helping to build a user experience. So they should all be thinking about how we can actually create something that meets all of our objectives. But most importantly that everybody is thinking not just about the job, it's immediately in front of them. Whether it's coding something or designing something or writing something, but always thinking at the end of the day whatever I'm working on is going to be consumed or interacted with or used by human beings. And that's, if you hear somebody start to talk about user experience and they're not talking about that, then I wouldn't trust them. Everybody has to be thinking about this whether you're an engineer or software developer or a solutions architect. You want to be thinking about what is the end result of what I'm building, how will people who are using it interact with it? And so if we go to the last slide, I tried to go quickly because I know we were running short on time. I just wanted to open it up to see if there are any questions or any comments or anything that people might have. Depending on what aspect of user experience you're interested in, obviously you want to be an avid user yourself. So if you want to build websites, the first thing to do is visit as many websites as you can and try to learn what works for you and what doesn't work. So that's obviously step number one. Think of it this way. If you wanted to be a novelist, you wouldn't want to read as many books as you possibly can to understand what works. But that said, user experience is a very young profession. Typically if you do go to school, you're going to study something like graphic design or if you are more interested in the technical side of it, you might study human-computer interaction, which is called HCI. You might also study the technical side of things like HTML development or programming, but those are all tools and skills that lead into something else. I do know that if you go to LinkedIn, for example, there are actual user experience groups that you can join and people do links to blogs, links to usability websites and user experience websites. So there's one called UX Professionals. There's the UX Design Group. So you want to do as much as you can in terms of research online, learn as much as you can by reading blogs and websites. I wouldn't say that there's any one specific book. Actually, you know what? I'll take that back. One book that I like in particular is called Don't Make Me Think by Stephen Krug. Okay, are you... The book really kind of goes over the things that I've gone over here, but it talks about it in terms of building a website or an application. And if you think about the title, Don't Make Me Think, what he's saying is you want to create an experience that doesn't frustrate users, doesn't make them have to worry about what they're doing. It's an easy to read book and it's fun. And I found it to be very helpful in helping people understand kind of the basics of usability and user experience. So the user experience is not scientific thought, but do you think that it will not harm the creativity because using all the time of the user's army create and look over and over again, you will not get something extraordinary or something original that it seems you will get all the time in the same things? Incredibly good question. Thank you for asking. So Henry Ford was the guy who invented the Model T, one of the first cars. And he famously said, if you ask people what they want, they'll tell you that they want faster horses. They won't tell you that they want an auto. People think about what they know.  You can't just be thinking about meeting what they want. So if you want to be an innovator, if you want to be on the cutting edge, it's not just about trying to do what users want you to do. You have to be anticipating what the next thing is. You have to be creative. You have to be imaginative. Here's the thing. Most of us are going to end up hopefully doing this for a living. So if you build something that people don't want or that people find confusing or people find frustrating, then you're not. I agree with you that the original idea of the initial concept should be as creative as you can possibly make it. At the end of the day, if you hope to make a living doing this, then you have to listen to what users are saying. So you can't just design in a vacuum. Now, to your question, you have to be very, very careful though because I think you're absolutely right. If all you're doing is trying to listen to people and trying to figure out the next step, then you could get locked into doing work which is very boring. You could get locked into doing work which isn't helping people. So I definitely think you're right. It's a balancing act. And I would just add one last thing, which is this. The more you do this for a living or the more you think about it, yeah, I can oftentimes anticipate what users are going to think about something without having to talk to them. So we do a lot of what we call it. Which is I'll take something that I've designed and I'll share it with people that I work with and I'll say, does this make sense to you? So I don't want to be informed when users are testing on something but I might just ask somebody, hey, what do you think about this? How do you, does it make sense? Do you know where to go to find x, y, or z? What are you looking for? But, question. Question. How many? About the question. My question is about high-level project oriented languages, for instance, I just started to learn, let you and it actually has all the components. And one person, in fact, is controlling various things, starting with the functionality and with the user interface. And the one person is a team, in fact. Is there any kind of recommendation or ideas or some references that these kind of developers may use? Welcome. That's interesting. So what you're saying is that there's one person who's probably a developer who's building the entire thing from start to finish, including user experience, the user interface. Yes. Have this particular domain expertise. If you're not working with somebody who has a bad capability, for example, you obviously run the risk of making something that's not usable. I mean, hey, that is gonna be bad but it may not be as good as it could be. So I don't have a resource because I'm not, you know, there's tons of ways to learn about usability research. What I would recommend is if you're building something like that, you know, either who hasn't experienced or backgrounded this, look at it with you, you know, at certain points or launch it. So, for example, if you're designing an application, it's gonna be used by a certain type of person before you ever launch it. Normally, I would highly, highly recommend that you take whatever it is in whatever form you can and share it with them and get their feedback and ask for honest feedback. Ask them to find, to tell you where it works and where it doesn't work, what they found confusing. And you wanna do that in terms of a task orientation. So, if your product that you're building has to allow you wanna say, show me how you would do this using my product, you wanna watch them do it, you don't wanna guide them and you wanna note every place that they make a mistake and take a note of that and figure out how you can make it better so they don't make the mistake the next time. I'm like a one-stop resource for them but my recommendation again would be if you can partner with somebody who has expertise and then also share it with your target audience before you actually go live.


Good morning Hank, it's Tuesday. Today's video is like the last season of Game of Thrones. It comes to you in seven parts and will be filmed partially in absolute darkness. Part one, so listen, I have to go to the hand doctor because my finger isn't working for reasons hopefully unrelated to the fact that I've signed my name over 500,000 times in the last 10 years and need to sign it a further 100,000 in the next three months, so let's go on an adventure. Part two, the 2021 Project for Awesome is coming soon. It will go from noon on February 12th to noon on February 14th. Quick backstory, the Project for Awesome is a 48-hour livestream extravaganza fundraiser and celebration of efforts to decrease Earth's overall worldwide level of suck. I'm being lit entirely by my phone, by the way. We got a lot of darkness here in Indiana in January. In fact, you know what? Let's wait for the sunrise. Fill in out some paperwork containing information that the doctor's office should already know. Right, so during the first half of the Project for Awesome we raise unrestricted funds for pre-selected charities. This year partners in health and save the children. Two organizations our community has worked with for over 10 years. And then during the second half of the Project for Awesome we raise money for charities chosen by you. In fact, if you make a Project for Awesome video about your favorite charity, tens of thousands of dollars could go to that charity, but more on that in a moment. Part three, an explanation. So we move the timing of this year's Project for Awesome because, one, the holiday season is pretty crowded and two, as you may be aware 2020 was a bit of a mess. Related, a few perks from the last Project for Awesome still haven't gone out, which I'm really, really sorry about. The P4A is an all-volunteer operation and so shipping often takes a while, but COVID profoundly affected our ability to manufacture and ship perks and I'm sorry and we think we haven't figured out and it's going to be better this year. Part four, we need matching donors. Now we know that many of you have donated very generously to our project in Sierra Leone and that many more of you are not in a position to donate and we get that. There are many other ways to be involved in the Project for Awesome, see part five, but if you can afford to donate $500 or more to this year's Project for Awesome, please join our matching fund. There is a simple and easy Google form in the doobly-doo and also you can just email us. Matching donors help everyone else's donations go further and are a big part of the reason why over the last 10 years, the Project for Awesome has been able to donate over $10 million to charity, so thank you. Great news, I don't have arthritis, I have a sprained ligament, so I'm fine to power through. All right, let's go home. Part five, you should make a Project for Awesome video where you introduce us to an organization you care about and make the case that they are doing good and important work that our community should support. People can then watch and vote for your video at projectforawesome.com, which will help inform which charities get the money raised during the second half of the Project for Awesome, so even if you can't donate, you can potentially raise lots of money for organizations you care about. But this year Project for Awesome videos must be uploaded to YouTube and submitted at projectforawesome.com at least 48 hours before the P4A actually starts, so that our community can have more time to watch and share videos, more info in the doobly-doo. Part six, perks. As always, there will be lots of great perks available if you donate, like no spoilers, but Sarah has been making these amazing collages from old magazines. Oh, and also because we're working with the donation platform Tiltify, we can finally accept PayPal donations. It only took 14 years. Part seven, the closing. Hank, I am so looking forward to this year's Project for Awesome. It's always such an encouragement, something I really need right now, and also it reminds me what our little video blog project is ultimately about as it says on my 2021 vision board, more awesome, less suck. Hank, I'll see you on Friday.


In this video, you will get all the information you will need to perform a preliminary risk analysis of an Earth Observation Satellite later on. This technique is part of the risk identification and analysis activities required to develop this case study. Remember, you are participating in a project to design an Earth Observation Satellite able to take detailed images of a chosen part of the world. Our customer has some requirements regarding safety and dependability. One of the requirements is to perform a preliminary risk analysis. First, we suggest doing a functional breakdown at system level. Then, we will identify the different life cycle phases and finally, we will be able to analyze various failure scenarios. The functional breakdown allows us to identify the different parts of the satellite. We can separate the system into two main parts, the satellite and the ground segment. Now, we can divide the satellite into two parts, the platform and the payload. The platform includes the power supply, the transceiver, the main computer, the attitude control system and the thermal control. The payload contains all the image detection, compression, storage and transmission units. The ground segment includes the two antennas, the command control and image center and the data communication network. Now, we will identify the different life cycle phases of the system. There are four main phases. The first phase is the ground phase. It concerns the preparation of the satellite before launch. The second phase is the launch phase when the satellite is sent into space. The third phase is the space phase. Space phase can be divided into four stages. First, the early orbit phase where the satellite is separated from the launcher and is positioned in its orbit and the solar arrays are deployed. Second, the operational mode when the satellite is positioned and operating normally, capturing and transmitting images. Third, the orbit controlled mode when the satellite has to be repositioned on its working orbit to perform its mission. And finally, the safe hold mode in case of detection of any critical event that might indicate loss of control or dangerous conditions. Finally, the fourth phase of the overall life cycle is the disposal when the satellite finishes its mission. Now, we will introduce the risk severity levels used in the space industry, so you will be able to classify the failure scenarios. There are four levels of severity that can be seen both from a dependability and safety point of view. From the most severe to the least severe, there four levels are Level one, catastrophic. Level two, critical. Level three, major. And level four, minor or negligible. The preliminary risk analysis should be done from a dependability and safety point of view. Here, we will only focus on the dependability events. From the dependability perspective, catastrophic risk would refer to failures that could propagate without control. A critical risk would imply the loss of the mission. A major risk would mean major mission degradation. And finally, a minor or negligible risk would mean minor mission degradation or any other effect. Now, we can perform our preliminary risk analysis according to the following template. In the column function, you must specify which part of the system you are analyzing. In the column failure scenario, you must list possible failures associated with the function. In the column phase, you must specify during which life cycle phase this failure could happen and bear consequences. In the column severity level, you have to classify the risks according to the risk level previously presented. Finally, suggest some design or operation recommendations to prevent these failures or to reduce their severity level. Let me give you an example of how to fill in the table. We will consider the solar array, which is part of the power generation unit. Due to volume constraints, solar array is held against the satellite structure during launch. Immediately afterwards, in the early orbit phase, pyrotechnic devices are fired to deploy it. A possible failure scenario could be the no deployment of the solar array during early orbit phase. This would mean the satellite would not be able to perform its functions, leading to the loss of the mission, which corresponds to a severity level of 2. That is critical. We could suggest implementing a redundancy of each solar array pyrotechnic deployment mechanism. You have seen how to do a preliminary risk analysis for a satellite. Now, it is your turn to do it.


I'm excited that we have our Super User Awards, the final thing for this morning's keynotes. So let's watch a video on all the awesome nominees. Ladies and gentlemen, the finalists for the 2015 Super User Award. The first finalist is eBay. OpenSAC is helping us homogenize infrastructure and standardize all the touchpoints between eBay and PayPal, applications and services and the infrastructure. The business firmly sees the value in using cloud to derive availability, agility, efficiency and security. There is a strong commitment and desire to cloudify everything that runs in the data center at eBay and PayPal. And OpenSAC is the foundation of that effort. Next is National Supercomputer Center, Guanzhou. We deploy OpenSAC as a central resource manager to us. It's a schedule part of artificial nodes with container technology. At the same time, we use OpenSAC to provide cloud computing services for government enterprises. With the help of OpenSAC, we utilize the supercomputer efficiently and makes an SSAC at Guanzhou as a basic information instruction of thousands of channels. Next up, Comcast. Key aspects of our X1 set top box run in our OpenSAC infrastructure. We believe in collaboration and we will continue to contribute to the community. Our internal conferencing system is running on OpenSAC. We feel excited to be a part of something larger than us and active members of the OpenSAC development community. Comcast leverages OpenSAC so that we have a elasticity between all our products and services, which have very different peaks and demands throughout the day. We're looking forward to following OpenSAC well into the future. And finally, Walmart. Last Thanksgiving, we did about 1.5 billion page views over the holiday period. So that's huge. So our digital scale is also not to be ignored. November, December are the two months where we have to satisfy all the needs of all the customers. And that's what we built. We built about 140,000 cores. Congratulations to all our Super User Award finalists. And now, please welcome a member of last year's winning team, infrastructure manager at CERN, Tim Bell. So it gives me great pleasure to announce the results of the May 2015 Super User Award. The program started in Paris with the first award, which is made to the CERN Cloud team. Along with being able to fly two people who would have had no chance to come to the summit in other circumstances, we also had a great chance to fly over Vancouver Bay in a float plane. And just like OpenSAC upgrades with the Cloud team, it went smoothly. So the Super User Awards, the intention is to look at organizations and teams that are going through the Cloud transformation using OpenSAC, and in addition to that, are contributing back to the organization with their experiences, their code, and helping to build a stronger community. As part of this process, we had a large number of nominations. They're included in the Super User magazine as an infographic. And so the team, the editorial team of the Super User magazine went through the process of filtering down those nominations to four finalists. As is the OpenSAC tradition, the solution to finding out who should be the winner is left to the community. So we started off the voting process. The finalists, Comcast. So Comcast increased their infrastructure five times in the last year, deploying more than 37,000 lines of code back to the community. eBay. So processing all of the transactions over the 2014 holiday season on top of OpenSAC. Scaling out to more than 8,500 nodes, as we heard from Subu today. The slides are always out of date on the number of nodes. The Guangzhou Super Computer Center in China. So starting off with 250 nodes, and now at 12,000. 800 scientists and users. That's a tough deal. And as we heard earlier, Walmart. So 1.5 billion page views over the Thanksgiving weekend. 100,000 cores and sharing with the community on their experiences. So Mark, envelope, please. And the winner is Comcast. Telling what they've won. Again, going to be sending two team members to Tokyo, which is our next summit. And we'll have passes for the team as well. So we're really excited that you guys are super users and you're giving back. And we're so glad you're here. So congratulations. So we are going to have another Super User Award at our next summit in Tokyo. We'll be doing nominations soon. So I wanted to let everyone know. And that's what we have for you today. So thank you again. And I hope you all have a good time with OpenStack the rest of the week.


I thought Suicide Squad sucked pretty much from every angle, except for one, and that was Harley Quinn. Margot Robbie is a treasure. She's gorgeous on the eyes and easy on the ears. The only criticism I had was she didn't really go all in, I thought, as Harley. The voice wasn't quite there. It was a little shifty. It wasn't always on point. So going into Birds of Prey, my expectations were at an all-time none. I was actually hoping Birds of Prey wouldn't even acknowledge the existence of Suicide Squad. It does, though. There's actually a few moments where it takes you back, even reusing footage from the previous film. That said, there's no Batman. There's no Joker. There's none of those characters outside of Harley that make an appearance. This is very much her film and the Birds of Prey, I guess, although Harley's definitely the focus, which is good because I think that she's easily the best part of this film. And in fact, when we do get these kind of cutaways to other characters, I found myself just wanting to get back to Quinn. Just getting back to my Margo. The presentation of this movie isn't that far off from Suicide Squad either. In fact, I think there was some inspiration taken from that movie, but they just used it correctly. There is a lot of those freeze-frames, scribbled doodles over guys' face with arrows pointing, saying quirky things, but you can actually read them.  It is just usually one or two. And it's like, okay, that's either funny or it's not. It's very quick. And I thought that the movie ran pretty good for the most part. It is very herky jerky. You're jumping timelines often. It'll do four months later, two months earlier. The buddy I went with said the movie had a very Deadpool feel to it. It was going to be DC's Deadpool. I'm sure he didn't come up with that himself. He's not that creative. I think DC was going for that with this film. They succeeded. They won me over with it. I'm excited for more Harley Quinn movies. I'm excited. I don't really care about the birds of prey, though. Harley's fine. She's actually carried the film really well.  Let's talk about the sex appeal, because let's be honest. That's going to drive in views. That's going to drive in people like myself perverts. I have to say it's not underwhelming, but it's not overwhelming at the same time. Margot can pull off basically anything she puts on, and she does get a couple good outfits from here and there sprinkled in.  You don't get to see that classic suit. If you're looking for that animated Batman suit to bust out, no. No, it doesn't. They do a though Wolverine, Wolverine two on us where we're basically opens a chest and you can see it, but it's that level of disappointment. My Scott Pilgrim bride, Mary Elizabeth Winsteads here. She's completely disappointing. I didn't think that was possible, but she's very underutilized. I wish she wasn't even in the thing because that's not my Mary. That's not my that's not my Winstead. And once again, the birds of prey in general, they're there and passing. They get some moments to shine. I just don't I don't care. I didn't care about him by the time the credits rolled. I didn't buy it. Black Canary gets probably the second most screen time played by Jernay, I believe is the actress's name, probably butchering it, I always do.  She's not very interesting in the movie, but she's very nice on the eyes except for one thing. And this is a thing that I could probably rant about separately on my second channel. But I'm gonna I'm gonna do it here because it's relevant.  I don't know if that's the the technical term the kids are using these days. Why do they exist? She has a gold bull ring that is all I can focus on and it's super disappointing to me. Do you guys think it's attractive? Young young kids, do you think it's attractive on a woman?  And women teens, whoever's doing this, stop, just stop doing it. You don't need it. You don't need it. It can't be good. There's got to be infections with that too. Why are you doing this? Stop with the bull ring.  Alright, comb your hair, wash your face. You're good. You're good to go.  It just it was just there. It's just in its gold.  I couldn't help myself from looking at it. And she's wearing a great outfit too. I could have been distracted by other things but that bull ring was calling me. They intentionally did that. I know they did.   I have no idea how those things going to do.  That's that's another rant I could probably do. There's definitely that that side of Hollywood that's super annoying where they're pushing that agenda. And then there's the other side where guys are getting like super upset about even like the most minuscule thing. It's like as soon as you announce there's a there's a female driven film. It's just it's over you have 35 videos over here being outraged that don't actually see the movie.  Yeah, you know, screw men. So it's just both both sides coming together.  What I was going to ranch about not that was this jackass about eight, eight seats down. No, no, he might have been 12 seats down. But he might as well been sitting right next to me in my goddamn ear, because he was chewing popcorn like it was the last thing he was ever going to consume before he died. He had like a feeding time to 40 minutes into the movie.  He's just because I'm a terrible friend, I pointed it out to my buddy. And it was the only thing he could hear moving forward. Thankfully, the grazing period only lasted about 20 minutes, or I was about ready to go over there and feed him my foot. I have kids of my own. I try to raise them right.  This guy's got his mouth fully open. When the popcorn's inside, he's like, imagine this just 20 minutes of this. Maybe I'm on the spectrum. Maybe that's maybe I'm the problem. Maybe I just pick up on these things that I shouldn't be picking up on. Maybe that's on me. I have to do some soul searching after this is done. But let's get back to the film review.  He puts a skull mask on at some point. He gets gayer as the film progresses. And that's not a some sort of a derogatory statement or a slander against the gay community. No, he legitimately becomes gayer as the movie goes on. He's like, he starts out as this kind of just tough, you know, gritty bad guy, he's cutting faces, he's killing people. And then by the end, he's like who got to from Zoolander. It wasn't bad.  That would have been fun character. But as it stands, he's just kind of all over the place. The other suicide-esque quality this film has is the soundtrack, which is rampage with music, both good and bad. It did have a song by Kesha I celebrate her entire catalog. I'm not even joking. Kesha is fantastic. It can often go from song to song to song without a break in between feels more like a collection of small music videos than an actual cohesive story. But at the end of the day, I had a lot of fun with it. It comes together nicely. I want to talk about the action. It's pretty damn good. I'd say 80% of it works really well. I think I read somewhere and I'm not going to check it out and see whether or not it's true. I'm just going to assume it is. I'm going to spew it out at you like it's fact that the John Wick choreographers came back did some reshoots for this movie. If it wasn't them, whoever did the choreography did a good job of pretending it was because I thought it was fantastic. There's a lot of gunshots to the face. There's a lot of kicks through car doors and windows and all sorts of great stuff is going on. It gets violent. There's a couple gruesome parts, couple broken bones. I was all in towards the end of the film. It turns into kind of a PG 13 Batman and Robin affair when the whole crew is together. There's the scene where they're fighting in an amusement park.  That's the only time I didn't I wasn't into it. So to summarize, it's no Deadpool or Deadpool 2.  So subscribe if you haven't. If you have, thanks for watching and hopefully I'll see you next time. Thanks for watching the video. I hope you liked it. And if you did, feel free to subscribe if you haven't to Adam does movies. It's my main channel here on YouTube. If you really like what I'm doing, I have a second one called Adam Olinger. It talks about more than just movies. I rant about kind of random issues that have no real consequence like leaving your shopping cart out in the middle of the parking lot or getting screwed on a coffee size or just something just ridiculous, you know, kind of first world problems. I do have a couple skit shows over there like the cringe where I play a comical character. It's fun. It's dumb. It's loose. 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Amen. So keep your place in 2 Corinthians chapter 4. We'll get there in a minute, but this morning I want to explain to you some things that you're seeing in the world today and why you're seeing those things so you can be aware of What you're looking at? I'm going to read for you Daniel chapter 4. This is something in verse number 4 or Daniel chapter 12 verse number 4 You don't have to turn there I've talked about knowledge increasing many times As regards to the end times and things that we're seeing today the Bible says in Daniel chapter 12 verse number 4 The Bible says but now Daniel shut up the words and seal the book Even to the time of the end many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be increased So I'm talking I've talked a lot about that on the increase of knowledge that we're seeing Today in today's world. We've never seen anything like this in the history Of mankind that just such available knowledge everywhere Through the internet and other things, but this morning. I want to talk about Something that's related to but different and something that we're seeing everywhere in our lives today And I want to talk about convergence This morning you say what it what is convergence? What do you mean? I want to talk about convergence I want to talk about convergence. What does that word mean? Convergence means if you have two lines that are converging that means those two lines will eventually they will meet right Convergence in general means coming together union Things that are going to meet at some point And I want to talk to you about convergence this morning And I want to talk to you about how not only is knowledge increasing a sign of the end times But also convergence is a sign of the end times So we're seeing that everything is converging today.  I'll give you some examples First of all technology is converging. Okay technology is converging An example of technology converging a very simple example from my You know, maybe my generation is the clock radio The clock radio is to converging technologies. You had a clock some some company made clocks and some company made a radio And they got together and they put these two things together and now you have a clock radio you younger people are probably like What's a clock radio? But here's another here's another good one for you. I have a I have a battery pack I was actually going to bring it today, but I have this little lithium battery pack.  It's got a compass on it It's got a flashlight on it. It's got all sorts of different devices that can charge cell phones and all these different things It's it's all this converged technology into this cool little box. I mean, I love stuff like this I mean, it's it's it's a it's a gadget whenever you say something has gadget factor Which I've said a billion times it means it does all these different things. Okay. Here's another thing Here's another thing of converged technology and the only reason I would ever have it up here is because of As an example this what is this? This is a phone, right? Is this even a phone anymore? I mean, this is a computer This is you know a communication device for every type of different thing. It's every video game That you could ever probably have or want is right here. It's it's a television It's I mean, it's all this converged Technology right in this little tiny box Some of you have converged this this device into like your social life Your social life has come to this thing has become your best friend It's so converged Right as a matter of fact, I mean this isn't even I mean I mean it can you can have a conversation with this thing It will literally listen to you and respond back to you All right, but some of you I mean it's it's I mean brother. You're honest I'm gonna use you as an example come up here. Come up here. Let's have a conversation brother. You're honest So brother you're honest. Let me I mean this is how converged the cell phone has become Okay, and how how important it has become to some people. Let's have a conversation. How's work brother? How's everything going at the job? How are the people that you work with or you learn in anything? What's going on? It's good? Yeah, I'm learning the people I work with pretty good learn how to fire. It's all firearms stuff. I like it a lot, but Yeah, I'm learning a lot of different things how to pull cable of all different devices I'm really liking it. Hang on. I'm trading some stocks right now Yes, cool to see all different trades how it all goes together. Okay. Thank you brother. Okay, you see my point though All right. I mean was there anything ruder than that? I'm basically I'm talking to my friend and then I pull out my best friend and I'm like, hey pause I'm talking to my best friend now, but this is a seriously converged device that really doesn't have much to do with the sermon But I'm you know, it's a problem. Okay. It's become so converged and so quote-unquote useful that you know, it's just It's anyway But it's not just technology that I want to talk about this morning Everything is converging businesses are converging Companies are converging in the news this last week Amazon just bought MGM or some entertainment Company, I mean what is delivering packages and shopping have to do with entertainment? But what they're doing is they're getting into a different type of business They're converging their company. What is what is an electric car have to do with going to space? But it's a converging company. What is you know shopping online have to do with sending people to space? It's just converging Companies they're they're doing more and more things so I'm just trying that's what I want to talk about this morning Is just everything is converging. I want to prime your thought with just that idea of convergence So to understand my problem and your problem with convergence The first thing that we need to do is we need to do a little bible study Need to do a little bible study turn back to second Corinthians chapter 4 We need to do a little bit of bible study on satan To understand the problem with convergence So the goal here the goal here and the goal with the sunday morning sermons is to give you something that's relevant Something that can make you you know more aware look as a bible-believing christian you if you understand the bible You should have a completely Aware view of what's happening around you Nothing should surprise you you shouldn't be confused About why you're seeing certain things and why the things that are happening in this world are happening And that's the goal of you know the sunday morning sermons many of the sermons here But look you should be leaps ahead Of unsaved people when it comes to just your ideas and understanding of what's happening around you Let's do a little bit of a bible study On satan so we can understand Where i'm headed with this topic of convergence look at second Corinthians chapter 4 and look at verse number let's start at verse number 3 The bible says this it says let's look at what satan's role is first. What is satan's role in The world what is his role, but if our gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost In whom the god of this world lowercase g have blinded the minds of them which believe not Lest the light of the glorious gospel of christ who is the image of god should shine unto them So notice it says in whom It says in whom the god of this world look this verse This verse in whom who of them that believe not these are people that are not saved. These are people that are not believers Okay, and we see a definite contrast Between the gospel here. I don't want to give it away, but we see a definite contrast between the gospel And this god of this world lowercase g Okay, so look It's super important, but this verse here is showing you the power that satan has over unbelievers The god of this world has power over the unsaved So satan has power over the unbelievers. Okay, you say well, I mean I mean we're saved We're saved. So it's fine. Well, it's not really fine. We'll get to there in in a few minutes, but turn to luke chapter 13 so You say I mean the second creediest chapter four is saying that the god of this world is blinding the minds of those that Do not believe that believe not the unsaved you say well, okay, we're saved, but here's the thing How many people are saved? Versus how many people are unsaved Let's go ahead and look at it in luke chapter 13 I mean the the disciples actually asked jesus this question And this is like one of those things that's super clear in the bible and nobody understands it You go out soul-winning and you're like are most people going to heaven and everyone's like I think so I'm pretty sure everyone's going to heaven You know everyone's like oh, I'm pretty good. I'm going to heaven and what do you have to do? I mean, how bad do you have to be to to to not go to heaven? Well, I think if you ask for forgiveness Everyone goes to everyone believes this Everyone believes this But look what the bible says the disciples actually asked jesus this question Then said wanted to him lord verse 23 are there few that be saved this disciple is saying Jesus are most people going to heaven And look what jesus said to him and he said unto them Strive to enter in at the straight gate straight not meaning straight as an arrow But straight like the straights of hormones or this it's a narrow passageway Straight st r a i t For many I say unto you will seek to enter in and shall not be able jesus says here And then he says in other places that broad is the way That leads to destruction Narrow is the way that leads to life Jesus says I mean look If you're a soul winner, you know this How many doors do you have to knock? Look I put it at 99 percent of the world 99 percent of the world in my opinion is unsaved How many doors do you have to knock we have 40 we have 40 home maps typically How many doors do you have to knock before you find a saved person? Do you find one saved person per map? Okay, let's say you find two saved people per map That's 95 percent Of people that are unsaved Look folks the vast majority of this world is unsaved turn to Ephesians chapter two So satan has power over the unsaved he has blinded the minds Of people that aren't saved turn to Ephesians chapter two And and that is the vast majority. It's not even close It's not even close that is the vast majority of people in this world today the god of this world Is a ruler over most people in the world Is the situation that we find ourselves in look at Ephesians chapter two and verse number one The bible says and you we have quickened who were dead and trespass and sins Where in time passed when you were unsaved According to the course of this world According to the prince of the power of the air. That's another name for satan The spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience once again the unsaved saying again there that you know the the satan Has power over the unsaved look satan works and operates through unbelievers Is what the bible is telling us here, which is most people Go to first peter chapter five. So where is satan? So we see that he's he's ruling over he has influence over and he operates through The children of disobedience the unsaved. Where is he?   Where is he? I mean he's real He's a real being where is he at be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil As a roaring lion walketh about Seeking whom he made his hour made of hour turned to revelation chapter 20 look folks. He's here The reason there's a reason it was called the god of this world is because he's here He is operating through unbelievers on this earth with us Right alongside us look at revelation chapter 20 Look i mean eventually Eventually we know where he's going look at revelation chapter 20 in verse number 10 Revelation chapter 20 In verse number 10 the bible says and the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone Where the beast and the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever eventually god is going to throw him in hell Throw him in the lake of fire. Sorry All right, but look we see that he has control or influence over the unsaved of this world And that he's operating he's active As a roaring lion. He's active in this world There's going to be a time that this ends Okay, that's good news, but for now God is allowing it God is allowing it you say why well look turn to john chapter 12 You say why why is god allowing it? You know to understand this we must understand that there is an opposing force here Okay, so the devil is operating through the vast majority. He's on this earth operating You know he he's running his business on this earth now And he has the vast majority of people to operate through but to understand why god allows it We must understand that there's an opposing force look at john chapter 12 and verse 31 John chapter 12 and verse number 31 the bible says now the judgment of this world Now is the judgment of this world now shall the prince of this world again satan be cast out and i If i be lifted up from the earth will draw all men to me This is jesus this he said signifying what death he should die Jesus said him being put up on the cross. He will draw all men to him This shows the opposing positions of jesus and satan Is what this shows they are opposites and guess what god allows free will I mean god's a libertarian libertarian in this sense That he allows free will and this is why he allows this for now He allows satan to operate on this world for now, but look he draws all men to himself And we could do a bible study on that we could talk about how god gives every man a conscience God gives every man a conscience He writes the law in his heart We studied this through in romans We see that god has has created this world and and creation is a witness to god Creatant is a is a witness for us to see and matches our conscience So we should be seeking for god because there's evidence of him everywhere So look Jesus draws all men to himself, but god allows free will God allows free will it's it's your choice. Look your belief I had I gave the gospel to somebody last week and they said before I even started giving them the gospel They said to me and I was kind of explaining them. This person was not christian They were of a different religion and I was explaining the difference between works and belief Before I even got into the gospel. I just wanted to throw that concept out to them And this person even said to me before I even got into the gospel. They said the thing about your belief is it's completely yours I'm like exactly I can take everything from you I can force you to do anything I can but what is completely yours that no one can take from you force upon you is what you believe I can make you say something. I can make you sign something. I mean Horrible people throughout history have done this type of thing But your belief what you believe is completely yours And that is why god allows free will because it's all about belief What you believe So what do we see so far? Look unbelievers will be without excuse Right Unbelievers will be without excuse because of the fact that god has already given them a head start. He's given everyone a conscience He's given everyone the creation to see What they believe is their choice what they believe and and he draws men to himself And what they believe is completely up to them. So we see number one that satan rules unbelievers Okay, he's the god of this world. He's the prince of the power of the air the bible says We see that he's number two. We see he's operating in the world right now And he has the majority of people to operate through And we see number three that he is an opposing force to jesus. He is an opposing force to the gospel Now let's talk about convergence This morning I already talked to you about technology Business all these things are convert. I mean it seems it seems harmless enough It seems harmless enough. I mean I like cool gadgets. I mean who doesn't I mean is this good? I mean it's more productive Maybe to to have things combined into two different things, you know technological convergence in many ways provides cool things And then it provides a converging atmosphere in the workplace Where maybe a department that used to do a certain thing maybe now all departments do things, but then it turns into something else Let's talk about another type of convergence that we're seeing today How about what is moral and what is immoral? How about moral convergence? Are we seeing this today? Moral convergence. Look, I mean it started in this country if you just want to step through it It started in this country with the turn to 1st Corinthians chapter 7 It started in this country in the 1960s the 1970s and you know just this idea Of fornication, you know, I guess people would call it people would call it the sexual revolution In the 60s in the 70s in this country, you know, and it's basically the acceptance of fornication is what happened Turn to 1st Corinthians chapter 7 1st Corinthians chapter 7 look at verse number two. What does the bible say though? What does the bible say? This is what's happening in our country But what does the bible say nevertheless verse number two? To avoid fornication let every man have his own wife let every woman have her own husband. So here we see We see uh, we see we don't see a convergence here. We see a separation We see a separation between fornication and marriage We see that they're competing they're competing ideas They do not converge The bible here takes them look Where they converge in our world today the bible takes them and pulls them apart It says fornication. No marriage. Yes Is what the bible says They're opposing ideas the bible is for one and against the other Instead we see Open fornication, which means what? It means The putting off of marriage It means the putting off look at a pu recently. Let me read you the latest from pu research Look what research today says the share of adults who have lived with a romantic partner This is being in fornication is now higher than the share who have ever been married Married adults are more satisfied with their relationships more trusting of their partners young adults are particularly accepting of cohabitation This means it's going to get worse not better 78 percent of those ages 18 to 29 say it's completely acceptable for an unmarried couple to live together 78 percent of people you know this age group in the united states Let me just break that down for you have no problem with fornication This is converging morality folks Look, this is what's happened turn to first great things chapter five. Look. I mean that's completely different than what the bible says I mean the bible says I mean look they're just oh just there's nothing wrong with it You must just accept it Just I mean look the bible the bible says in 1 Corinthians chapter five and verse number 11 says But now I've written on to you not to keep company If any man that is called a brother be a fornicator or covetous or an adulterer or a railer or a drunker or an extortioner With such an one no not to eat look people are the bible is commanding us to not even allow somebody that's in this type of situation To be in the church That's how serious it is The bible speaks against fornication everywhere Old testament new testament again and again and again But the moral convergence amongst us amongst our society continues Fornication I mean you see you see things converging Do you see how convergence is not a good thing? The 80s Now what we've talked about the 60s in the 70s. Maybe that was just a fluke Maybe that was just a fluke and things are going to get better In the 80s in the 90s. What do we see it comes homosexuality and all this unnatural behavior Of things that I don't even I'm not even sure I understand it all anymore In 1996 70.  You ever seen a flying elephant? Let's talk about homosexual marriage In 1996 70 of the people in this country were opposed to it Today 75 of the people are for it Talk about convergence Convergence it's all converging folks What folks every society that has ever Fallen has gone through this same cycle So yes, this will be this will be a sign of the end times That's true and I'll get to that in a minute.  You think we'd figure it out Go read on the roman emperors Go read on the caesars sometime. I can't even I can't even bring the things up I can't even mention The things That that society went through and we're heading down the same exact path You know what else? You know what follows after this? You know what always follows after this violence You say, ah, we're never going to accept we will never we will never accept violence in this country We will never converge on our violence is bad Go out on the street and ask any 18 to 29 year olds. Are you for violence? And they'll say no But the greatest trick the devil ever played Was convincing people that he wasn't real Are they look all these people that are following satan? I'm not saying they all they're not all satan worshipers But they're following him all the same Somebody that is that is for abortion Is there any I preached a whole sermon on this is there any better? Look violence is harming the innocent And guess what the roman society our society following the same thing You know what you know who we know where the violence always starts With the most innocent Always the children It always starts against because I mean they're they're the most defenseless.  Look, I don't I don't like talking about this stuff I'll be honest. Yeah, I don't like talking about it. Turn to as a matter of fact Turn to Ephesians chapter Turn to Ephesians chapter five Turn to Ephesians chapter five look we're going to get more and more violent today Look at look at I mean I don't like talking about this stuff But the bible says that it should be talked about in in one case and that's this one right here look at verse number 11 Of Ephesians chapter five and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather Reprove them For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light So look these things they look you need to be aware of these things They need to be talked about in the case of reproving them Look, you don't joke about these things You don't talk about these things in in light circles in the back. Look, they shouldn't even be spoken of They shouldn't even be spoken of but we are a society That is that is converged even on the the topic of violence. We are for it We are failing. I mean look that that is that is one of the missions of this church is to protect Children in this church. Did you know that?  We want to protect the children here We want people we want an organized structure where you know somebody that would would want to come in and harm A child would not even they would not even be interested in being here because there's no chance That's why all the security measures. That's why the ushers are given certain things to watch for and things to do And I make these rules about hey the kids should be here and not here. Look, it's it's all for the protection of the children Because this is the kind of society that we're living in unfortunately But look every single society That falls before it falls it experiences this same convergence We are just we are just failing to recognize these patterns. Look, I remember I went to public school I remember being taught this in public school Imagine public school They taught us that every society that falls they first go through moral decline I wonder if they teach that today in public school Public school is the moral decline Public school is like the gas pedal for convergence here It's crazy What what else what else is politics? We see convergence in politics look We all need to come together We all need to find middle ground We all need to come together We see look we see nations themselves converging, you know with things like like free trade Global taxes I heard this one last week I mean the breaking down of borders. I mean look is this good should all nations become one Turn to Deuteronomy chapter seven Should all nations should all nations become one nation? You know what god has a lot to say about this too Turn to Deuteronomy chapter seven Look the nation of israel was moving into an area with lots of other nations there There was nations everywhere. Look at Deuteronomy chapter seven in verse number one Should we just blur the lines between all nations? Look at Deuteronomy chapter seven in verse number one When the lord thy god shall bring thee into the land whether thou goest to possess it and cast out many nations before thee The Hittites the gurgishites the amorites the canaanites the parasites The hittites the jebi sites seven nations greater greater and mightier than thou And when the lord thy god shall deliver them before thee thou shalt smite them utterly destroy them and make no covenant with them Look don't even make deals with them. Don't find please. Don't find middle ground with them God is saying nor shall mercy under them neither shall make marriage don't don't marry them I mean if there's not a covenant that's a covenant right there Thy daughter shall not give to unto his son nor his daughter Shall thou take unto thy son for they will why why? For they shall turn away thy son from following me and they may serve that they may serve other gods So the anger of the lord be kindled against you and destroy these suddenly Turn to ax chapter 17 and look by the way this had nothing to do with race This has nothing to do with race Okay, because anyone that's that's for you know anyone that is a Nationalist whether it be in europe or anywhere in the world today. They're immediately just called a racist This has nothing to do with race the bible says we're all of one blood all nations Acts 17 and verse 26 The bible said and has made of one blood all nations Of men for to dwell on the face of the earth. Look. It was about adopting their pagan culture It was about culture and turning from the lord Nothing to do with race Now, I mean we're hardly a godly nation at this point Okay, however God does not want all nations combining Why Why why does he not want all nations combining because he knows that Satan controls 99 percent Of all nations He knows that the minute that that happens that is complete convergence And god's people wherever they are Will have a harder time in those situations as everything converges Look, he knows where there if there's a godly nation or even a godly group of people inside a nation That they will need to remain separate Convergence of cultures is not of god That is not of god So when you see that and you hear that That that's not that's not what god wants Satan is in control of this present world folks He is in control of this present. He rules the majority of people in it Whether they know it or not. Look, I'm not saying that you know, look Every government employee and all these types of things principal looks They're they're just following. They're just following what they think is right In their own converged mind Satan has these the vast majority of people following him. They don't even know they're following him Don't get me wrong. There's some people that are just serving him and they know they are But the vast majority of people I believe they don't know they're serving satan even though they're they're carrying out his agenda Is what they're doing His goal in this world is to unite. Do you follow me? That is that is the god of this world's goal is to unite the entire world Throughout all these different categories that I've talked to you about The ultimate goal turned to revelation chapter 17 The ultimate goal in the end and he will achieve this ultimate goal. The bible says The ultimate goal you say he's he wants to converge cultures and morality He wants to blur every line and bring everything together and that's what we see happening today Turn to revelation chapter 17. But the ultimate goal is this The ultimate goal is this and the bible says it will be achieved So this is an information sermon for you So you can understand what's happening and what's going to happen. Look at revelation 17 verse number 12 The bible says in the 10 horns which thou saw us are 10 kings Which thou receive no kingdom as yet, but receive power as kings one hour with the beast these have one mind And shall give their power and strength unto the beasts So this the bible here is saying the same as in daniel with the 10 toes These are 10 rulers of the world that will give all power to the beast to the antichrist And he will rule the world in a one world government That's where this that teaching comes from the bible never says one world government anywhere. It's right here though It's talking about these main rulers of the world giving their power over To the antichrist Who is who is herring out knowingly the agenda of satan? Which is opposed to what now? What's the problem there? What's the problem? What's the problem? It's one. Well, well look what happened read the next verse Read the next verse. That's going to be very problematic for us these This government these people in this government the agenda here of the one unified government shall make war with the land And the lamb shall overcome them for he is lord of lords and king of kings and they that are with him are called and chosen and faithful I mean we went in the end But this government will be opposed to those who are against convergence Satan's for convergence and we already saw that jesus is against their opposite their opposite views and the people that are following The anti-convergence Agenda that there will be war made against them The one world government and ultimately turned to isaia chapter 14 Is isaia chapter 14 ultimately will have a one world government will also have something else Isaia chapter 14 and look at verse number 14 This is why this is why you will see every other religion in the world Every other religion in the world is works based You say there's so many religions in the world. There's two There's two Every religion in the world is works based except This one You say why are they all works based? It's just different works. That's all It's because you know, it's kind of like you see you see airplanes, right? There's lots of different airplanes There's lots of different kind of airplanes out there. But you know, I mean they basically fall all follow the same principles They all have wings and a tail and engines and things like that Look at isaia chapter 14 and verse 14. This is why All other religions in the world are works based except what the bible teaches except the gospel The bible says this is satan. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. I will be like the most high This is why so he could convince you that you can be in the place of god Because that's what he wants. He wants to be in the place of god. I will be like the most high Turn to loop chapter 13 One world religion is the goal One world religion is the goal. So he's going to unite world governments satan He's going to unite world religion satan Look, they're already pretty united in the in the one aspect that I've already told you They're already all based on works There's just I mean, there's just probably some bartering that needs to be done on which works You know, I mean that's the only difference that you see between You know the catholics and the buddhists and the muslims and all these different things is just what you have to do I mean, you have to do these things to get to heaven It's just they all have different things that you fill in the blank and what I have to do to get my heaven checklist But they're all the same. It's the same philosophy so I mean if satan's trying to unite everybody Through all these different aspects. He's trying to unite everybody I mean and jesus is the polar opposite of satan You say what is what is what does that mean? Look at luke chapter 13 Luke chapter 12. I'm sorry. I fooled you luke chapter 12 and verse 51 luke chapter 12 And verse number 51 Let me make sure I have it right here luke chapter 12 and verse number 51 The bible says this it says suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth I tell you nay, but rather division. Are you starting to understand this a little bit more now? Jesus says I'm not here to bring peace between all nations and being pieced together and have everyone united and everyone converge No, I'm here to divide people I'm here to divide From henceforth there should be five in one house divided three against two and two against three even your own house The father shall be divided against the son the son against the father The mother against the daughter the daughter against the mother the mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and the daughter-in-law Against her mother-in-law.  Why is that because of free will? That's why Because god is giving us free will to believe or to not believe and most people are not going to believe So the people that believe And the people that won't move Are going to be dividers Everybody else is going to lump together And the people that won't move Are going to be seen as dividers I mean just think about this the bible is logical. I'm so happy the bible is logical I'm so happy that the conscience god's given me in the logical mind that you all have it matches perfectly with the bible I had a conversation the other day with a young engineer Think about this think about Think about just the how illogical This convergence is this young engineer. He had an idea And I was like, oh, that's great. I mean, I love ideas And we went and we we uh, you know, we did some due diligence on this idea and it just we hit a fatal flaw It just wasn't going to work out It wasn't going to work. I mean it just it just wasn't happens to me all the time I've always said, you know, nine ideas out of ten are bad even my own You just have to recognize when those bad ones are and get rid of them quickly Well, look he the I was I was completely shocked very young person Very young person. I'm like, yeah, it's just not going to work because of this this and this and and the engineers like But it was my idea And I'm like What in the world? I mean, I don't know. I just I just said, you know, well, not all ideas are good I mean congratulations for having an idea, but not all ideas are good But it but it was my idea. I mean must have said it three or four times But it was my idea But I mean I had an idea it must be good. This is a converging culture This is a converging culture. We get everybody in a room and everybody has all these ideas And there's no ideas that are bad and we just oh, oh everything's fine And then the bridge falls over And then the building falls down And then the power plant explodes You know, it doesn't really work in my line of work But the point is this is what's being pushed This is convergence. You have this majority this majority Converging agreeing and then you have this minority that that won't move and they're just like yeah, but that's not right Fornication versus marriage. We're with this one and we won't move Well, I mean that doesn't work in a converging society, so it's going to cause division But look here's one for you. There will be temptation to move There will be temptation to move because I mean people don't like when you know people hate them And the bible says that we'll be hated of all men For jesus's namesake for my namesake The bible says that people are going to hate you for this Like man, I don't want people hating me Look, I don't want people to hate me But you know It is what it is I mean because I'm not moving I'm not moving from this. There will be temptation. No, this is how churches go liberal This is how churches go liberal. You know what you know what another another way to to get christians to converges What's changed the bible itself?   It sort of sounds good Turn to matthew chapter 24 I mean, it seems harmless when we talk about putting a compass on a battery pack It seems harmless Look at matthew chapter 24 in verse number 24 and this is why we preach what the bible says on these topics For this reason matthew 24 and verse 24 This is why i'm preaching this sermon today The bible says for their show arise false christ and false prophets And shall show great signs and wonders and so much that if it were possible They shall deceive the very elect. Look if you stick to the bible, you will not be deceived If you stick to what the bible says about convergence and you know division, you know, that's why i'm preaching this so you will be aware No matter what and it's easy for us because no matter what our actions are the same Look, you know, our actions are the same from all this. You're like, this is bad. This is crazy. What's going on? Our actions don't change Our actions don't change. What are our actions? Well, uh, yeah, it's getting worse and it's worse Now that it was five years ago and it's worse going to be worse tomorrow than it is today What do we do? Well, we preach the gospel to a lost and dying world. That's what we do I mean don't go to work and be a judgmental jerk turn to matthew chapter five to the guy living with his girlfriend Yeah, I mean that's not you know, that's not what we're supposed to do Look at matthew chapter five and we'll give verse number 16 The bible says in matthew 5 16 it says let your light shine before men That they may see your good works And glorify your father, which is in heaven Look that works.  I work hard and I I separate from the things that I should be separated from and I have speech that separates me like within five seconds of most people these days And you know some people just you know, they ask me They're like, what's what's up with that?  Oh, okay. Are they drug addicts too like no not really You know and you know, I mean I'm being extreme But the point is that you know, this is where your life so people can see your good works This is where it matters people will want to know where that light comes from And that will give you opportunities but if you know You know, they have to know that you're not just some Pharisee Because people are on edge about that type of stuff. Just let them see your good works And that'll glorify your father, which is in heaven the bible says But the main reason for this sermon is very simple The last I mean mark 13 is talking about end times prophecy Mark 13 is talking about all the things that are going to happen in the end And the last word in the chapter is watch So watch for these things around us when you see when you see everything converging around you be like, yep I remember the bible says this is going to happen The bible says this is going to happen. I'm not surprised about it. I'm watching Certainly don't get caught up in it Certainly don't get caught up in it and recognize recognize when you see all the convergence Whether it be businesses whether it be nations whether it be Political whether it be moral When you see all that convergence what you are witnessing is the battle between satan and jesus christ That's what you are witnessing It's it's very simple It all comes down to that look so many people are going to be confused on what they're seeing out here And why they're seeing the things that they're seeing but it is simply the battle between jesus and satan. That's it That's what it is And guess what? We're not moving Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer