I have to tell you, this is one of my favorite conferences to speak at, speak all over the country, speak a lot in Texas for whatever reason. Seems like we're always down in Texas, but it's always nice to be on my home turf, you know, have a home game. And I love, I love this Bible conference that I've been speaking here for about 10 years now and just always a wonderful chance to share with you.  We're gonna, we're gonna be looking at Philippians 4, 4 through 9. And this passage out of Philippians 4 is like my life verse. You know, people talk about having a life verse. It's just kind of thematic for your vocation. This is, this is my life verses. Okay, these are the verses that I have committed to memory and often recite to myself at night. I did many years of urban ministry in the African American community in West Michigan, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. And in the African American spiritual tradition, there's a term called the midnight hour. Okay. He will come to you in the midnight hour. Okay. And that's, that's profound, this concept of the midnight hour. What is the midnight hour? Okay. The midnight hour is those times at night where you wake up and you cannot sleep because you're filled with grief and anxiety. Okay. And of course, the suffering that, that the African American community has gone through in their history has led them to be very familiar with the midnight hour. Right. But all of us who follow Christ experience the midnight hour. And I do a lot, or the 2 a.m. hour. Okay. Or the 4 a.m. hour, frequently. And when the midnight hour comes on me, one of the things I do is recite Philippians 4, 4-3-9. And I meditate on that. And Christ consoles me through these words of Scripture. This is actually one of the first texts I ever preached on. It would have been back something like in 1993 when I was a young Protestant pastor. But whether Protestant or Catholic, many of the, the instructions that St. Paul gives us in this passage are equally applicable, but I would say as a Catholic, they're even richer as we understand them within the fullness of truth and within the sacramental ministry of the church. Amen. Amen. Okay. Let's begin in prayer in the name of the Father and the Son, the Holy Spirit. Amen. Heavenly Father, we ask that you pour down on us now that spirit of love, joy and peace, the Holy Spirit, which you have given to us through baptism, sealed in us through confirmation, which you renew in us at every Eucharist. Now enliven that spirit within us so that we may understand the words committed to writing by your apostle Paul. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen. Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Amen. It's not unintentionally that Pope Francis entitled his first major exhortation, the joy of the gospel. It's not unintentional that he linked those two ideas, joy and gospel, because joyfulness is essential to evangelism. Years ago, when I was living in Grand Rapids, Michigan, I had a neighbor who was a devout evangelical Protestant man, and he had a great concern for other people's souls. And next door to my neighbor, there lived an elderly widow who had led a rather wild life, and although she had been raised as a Christian, had drifted far from the faith. And so my neighbor, being the apostolic soul that he was, took it upon himself to reach out to this widow, and he did this in a beautiful way by acts of service. He would come and knock on the door and ask if she would like him to walk her dog, and he walked her dog regularly for her because she was a bit frail to get out, and she was not strong enough to do yard work, and so he volunteered to do those things, and he would invite her over for meals on holidays to make sure that she had somebody to spend those times with, and so in many concrete ways he tried to show her the love of Christ. Unfortunately, my neighbor never made much progress in bringing this widow back into the church because he was a sourpuss.  She was like, well, if that's what these church people are into, you know, I don't want any part of it. And that's what Pope Francis warns us about again and again in Evangelii Gaudium in the joy of the gospel. He warns us not to have this defeatist, depressing attitude, and that applies for Catholics as well, especially for faithful Catholics. I mean, if all we as faithful Catholics are going to tell to our culture is, join us so that you too can bemoan the culture of death. Oh, that sounds exciting. I got to give up my partying right now. And join you folks over there. Yeah, that looks like a happy gathering. So is that the message of the faithful Catholic, come and join us to bemoan the culture of death? There has to be something more. We really have to recover the joy of knowing Christ in our lives. Nehemiah 8.10 says, the joy of the Lord is your strength. And that's a verse that's well worth all of us memorizing. Today, the joy of the Lord is your strength. And that's what we have to remember going forward. We can learn a lot from the Apostle Paul about having joy in the midst of difficulty, especially in this book of Philippians. Dr. Hahn has already mentioned this, that the terms for joy or rejoice occur 14 times in the four short chapters of Philippians. And this is arguably the highest concentration of joy terms in the New Testament. We'll come back to that in a few minutes and talk about some other places in the New Testament that talk about joy. But that's kind of remarkable, especially considering the circumstances that St. Paul was in when he writes this letter. I mean, it would be one thing if Paul was joyful in the good times. Maybe when he was seeing great apostolic success and was able to travel freely through Asia Minor or something like this. But that was not the situation when Paul was writing to the Philippians. Let's just recall to mind some of the verses of Philippians 1. And then we'll talk about some of the circumstances that Paul was in that are reflected in some of these verses. Just to call to mind again Paul and Timothy. It says in the beginning, servants of Christ Jesus to all the saints in Christ Jesus, who are at Philippi with the bishops and deacons, grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all, making my prayer with joy. See, already we see those terms cropping up. Thankful for your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. And I'm sure that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. It is right for me to feel thus about you all because I hold you in my heart for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment, referring to as circumstances, and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel. Yes, and I shall rejoice a little later in the chapter he says, for I know that through your prayers in the help of the spirit of Jesus Christ, this will turn out for my deliverance, as it is my eager expectation and hope that I shall not at all be ashamed. Dr. Petrie referred to that shame thing, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death. You see, and we'll come back to this, but this is what's at stake. He's facing a life and death situation. For to me to live as Christ and to die as gain, if it is to be life in the flesh that means fruitful labor for me, yet which I shall choose I cannot tell, I am hard-pressed between the two. And then into chapter two he says, even if I am to be poured out as a libation upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all. So he's referring to his imminent death there. If I am condemned to death and if I die, I'm going to be as it were poured out like a libation upon the offering of your faith. Likewise, you should be glad and rejoice with me. So in these opening chapters of Philippians, St. Paul is referring to his circumstances and we can also reconstruct his circumstances with the help of archaeology, history and what we know from his other letters and the book of Acts. And I would be among those who would place the book of Philippians as being written around 61 to 62 AD while Paul is under house arrest in Rome as is reflected at the end of Acts in Acts 28. And that was not an easy time for St. Paul. So first of all, let's list what's going on. He's under house arrest. He's under house arrest. Now when I was doing urban ministry, I knew a number of people are placed under house arrest and the way we did it back in the 90s was what they called the tether. If you committed some kind of crime and they didn't want to put you in jail or if you were transitioning from prison back into society, they might confine you to your home and they do that by putting an electronic sender collar on your ankle and then a sending unit in your home and if you went too far from your house, like more than 100 feet or something like that, it would go off, notify the police, they'd come pick you up, put you back in jail. So that's what we called the tether. Now, technology wasn't so good back in the first century. So instead of that, what they did with St. Paul was they chained him to a soldier 24 hours a day or at least that's probably what they did, reconstructing, you know, that was the general practice and so we assumed that that was the practice also with St. Paul. He was chained to a soldier and he refers to his chains in this letter. And usually soldiers worked a six-hour shift so he was chained to four different soldiers through the day, six hours with one, then change, and six hours with another. Being chained to another person cramps your style. Okay? It kind of limits what you can do. Okay?  People come over, you want to have an intense, you know, you want to do spiritual direction and here you've got the Centurion over here. Ignore the Centurion. Just open up. Open up with me. Ignore him. He's just going to spread it all through the guardhouse. Makes it hard to do spiritual direction. So that is, and then you can't work. Okay? You can't, it makes it very difficult to hold down a job and yet the Roman government wasn't going to provide a living for St. Paul. So he's forcibly unemployed and yet he still has to pay for his house. He still has to pay for his food, etc. And so where's that money going to come from? Well, donations. Okay? People have to support him. And in fact, as you, as you noticed, reading through Philippians, one of the reasons why he's writing this letter is because he's so grateful to the Philippians because they sent him some support. They sent him some monetary support through a pathroditus so that he had the means to continue to maintain himself. So he's under house arrest and running out of money and then he has appealed to Caesar. So he's on trial facing a crazy judge. Okay? He's on trial facing a crazy judge. Okay? Because we know from the book of Acts that he was stuck in Caesarea Philippi in Israel. His court case is going nowhere there so he tried a legal maneuver as a Roman citizen of appealing directly to Caesar who was the equivalent of the Supreme Court for the whole empire. And so he was granted. Okay? Off to Caesar you go. So he's waiting in Rome to be heard by Caesar. Now, Caesar at the time was a guy by the name of Nero. Okay? Now, have any of you named any of your children Nero? What? No one? Really? Okay? All joking aside, that's not surprising. There's a reason why people tend not to name their children Nero, Adolf, and Attila. Okay? Those names are reserved for Doberman pinchers. Okay? Why doesn't anybody name their kid after Nero? Okay? Well, because he was one of the most monstrous of all the Roman emperors. For the sake of the more delicate among us, I'm not even going to mention everything that he did, but Nero was a man who had his first wife killed, had her assassinated.  He had his mother murdered, according to the accounts by having her locked in a sauna. He suspected of murdering his step-brother. He told his tutor and mentor, Seneca. You ever heard of Seneca? He's a famous Roman philosopher and orator, a great noble man. He was a flower of Roman culture. Well, Nero ordered Seneca to kill himself. And Seneca did that. Allah Socrates. Okay? Because that's the nobility that Seneca did, that he possessed. Nero ironically gives us one, perhaps the only example of same-sex marriage in antiquity. That was definitely not practiced. Same-sex relationships were very common, like in the time of Socrates and Plato. But nobody ever thought of marrying another man, because what would be the point? The point of marriage was to raise a family. And so we have these statements by various Greek philosophers, and they talk about, we've got courtesans for pleasure, and we've got concubines for every day, and then we've got legitimate wives to raise children and govern the home. So this is how they thought about it. And then they also had younger men that they spent time with. And that was very common, and it was not considered wrong back in that time. And in fact, in Plato's day, you ever heard the phrase, platonic love? Okay, yeah. Everybody thinks that means like a chased relationship between a man and a woman. That's not what Plato meant. When he was talking about the ideal love, he meant a chased relationship between two men, because he regarded sexual passion as an irrational disorder. And he thought that sexual passion had no place in a relationship between two men, that they should learn to have love on an intellectual level, that they should share a passion for truth, beauty, and goodness. And that sexuality was for procreation, and so that's where we get platonic love from. But nonetheless, the Greeks did not practice same-sex marriage, because as I said, marriage was for raising a family. But Nero is perhaps the only instance that I know of from antiquity where this happened.  And you know what? This is only about a third. I'll mention one more thing about Nero. He's the guy famous for having Christians crucified at his dinner parties, having them put up on poles, and then he would ignite the bodies after dark to make torches at his dinner parties. Okay, so that's the head of the Supreme Court. That's your Chief Justice. That's your Chief Justice whom you've appealed to.  I'm not making any comparisons with our own Chief Justice. No, seriously. Justice Roberts, you should read what he said on this recent decision. It was very sane, and he opposed it. But yeah, you know, the Supreme Court was the emperor, and so he was a Supreme Court of one man. So here's St. Paul waiting to have his case heard by Nero. You know, some people think that Nero suffered from lead poisoning, and that's what caused him to deteriorate mentally through his years. And it was a capital offense that he was waiting to be heard for. Okay, so he could be condemned to death, right? Third thing, he's facing a death sentence. And just as in modern America, he had no assurance going into this court that his case would be decided according to law. Okay? It might be just decided according to the whim of the judge. Okay? Maybe the judge didn't like him. Maybe the judge took a disliking to this new sect of the Christians. One of the accusations that the early Romans had against the Christians was basically that they were haters. Okay? They were hatred of man. They were misanthropes. Okay? So this accusation of hatred was already going on. So he might, you know, St. Paul might just be sentenced to death on a whim of this crazy judge. And then while St. Paul is waiting for his trial to be heard, he mentions in Philippians 1 that there are people going around preaching Christ out of envy of him. Essentially, we have other evangelists, other Christian evangelists, active in Rome, who are taking advantage of Paul's confinement to steal his sheep. Okay? So he's trying to pray on his flock and steal people away from those that he had discipled and converted and et cetera, and to enhance their own ministries at the expense of Paul's. So look at what he's done. You know, he's under house arrest, running out of money, waiting for a crazy judge to possibly give him a death sentence while rival preachers are destroying his ministry. And this is the time when St. Paul writes the epistle of joy. Okay? Ironic, huh? He's not sad at all. In fact, like I said, words relating to joy, 14 times in this epistle. Let me talk about that for just a minute, these concentrations of joy terms. There's two authors in the New Testament who use joy terms more than anyone else. Paul uses them the most than St. John. And there are two places of major concentration of joy terms in the New Testament. St. Paul's largest concentration is in the Book of Philippians. Outside of Paul, St. John uses joy the most, and St. John's largest concentration of joy terms is in John 14 through 17. Do you remember what John 14 through 17 is? It's the Last Supper Discourse. It's the words of Jesus before he goes to his death. So let's think about this. Two of the largest concentrations of joy terms in the book. One, during Jesus speaking before he faces his death, the other in Philippians by St. Paul before he faces his death. So that tells us something. That tells us we need to buy the Verben software so that we could do these words. That tells us that joy is not incompatible with suffering, and joy is not even incompatible with death. And let's say something about Nero and the Neuronian persecution. The persecution under Nero in the 60s for Christians was, of course, extremely bad. He was crucifying Christians, feeding them to lions in the Colosseum, etc., using them as torches, etc. But you know what? This was also one of the church's finest hours. And it was one of the periods of the quickest growth of the church. And it was during the period where the church was actually quietly converting the empire. And you know why? Because when those Christians were hauled off to the Colosseum, they didn't line up in chains and file into the Colosseum singing the Volga boatman. They didn't line up in chains and file into the Colosseum singing the Volga boatman. Woe is us. We're gonna be eaten. Okay? They didn't do that. Instead, as they were facing death, they were singing hymns. Ala, Paul, and Silas in prison in Acts 16. Okay? They were singing hymns of joy as they went to their death. And all these people in the Colosseum who were lined up to see this gory spectacle, yeah, let's see some Christians die.  And they're like, you know, this isn't funny. And they left the Colosseum in silence, pondering what they had just seen. Let's take a lesson from this, faithful Catholics. Okay? Don't get on your social media. Just bemoaning the culture of death. Okay? Get on there talking about the joy of Jesus. If you're fine for something, if some human rights commission comes after you, praise God. Start tweeting. I'm so happy. I'm being sued. Praise God. I'm going to jail. Thank the Lord. I am being counted worthy to lose my job for the sake of Christ. Amen! Amen! Amen! And people are going to wonder, what's the matter with those people? It makes me think of a Farsight cartoon. You remember the Farsight by Gary Larson? He's got this one cartoon that's set in hell, right?   He goes by the tunnel. He's just sweating. He's miserable, pushing this wheelbarrow through.   And there's these two devils with pitchforks and they're standing by and they're watching everybody go by with their wheelbarrows with the rocks. And then comes by a guy at a wheelbarrow. He's like, who-hoo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo. He's singing a tune. He's whistling, you know? And the two devils are watching this and look at each other like, you know what? We're not getting through to that guy. Jesus talks about Satan as the prince of this world. There's a lot of influence that the devil and the demons have in this world.  Okay? That's what World War II was.  Okay? The concentration camps are the closest thing to the vision of hell that we've seen.  Okay? Don't let them get through to you. Okay? Sing. Give praise to God. Give praise to God. Okay? All right. We'll come back to this. We'll come back to this. So these were the circumstances St. Paul was in. And despite all these circumstances, he just writes with joy for a number of different reasons. Let me just give you one. Because St. Paul was embracing his suffering and had not given into sadness, he was actually seeing that his circumstances were being turned to the good. Because, remember I said he was chained up to a soldier 24-7? Guess what he did with those soldiers? That's right. You ever heard about Jesus? How long is your shift? He was converting these soldiers. These were part of the Praetorian Guard. Okay? Philippians 1.13.  See, there's a great irony in this. Because he had appealed to Caesar, he was an imperial prisoner. And the imperial prisoners were guarded by the secret service. That is the emperor's own bodyguard, which was called the Praetorian Guard. So these were highly trained men. These were high-ranking law enforcement officers who were being detailed. Okay? It was like the FBI, the CIA, the secret service, whatever, being detailed to be chained to Paul. And then Paul had a captive audience. Who's chained to whom? Who's the one that can't get away? And so Paul is having the opportunity to do something that he never would have had the opportunity to do if he had not been arrested. Which is actually evangelize the royal court. He's making it straight to the top. Okay? Through the men that are standing beside Nero all the time. Watching him and guarding his life. Okay? And so it's getting all through the White House. Okay? All, you know, the guards there, the security detail. Even if they aren't converting, they're learning about Christ and so on. And so the gospel is spreading. And at the end of the epistle, in verse 22, look at this. All the saints greet you, especially those of Caesar's household. He's just like throwing that in there. Oh yeah. By the way, I've won a bunch of converts in the White House. Irony. Okay? So this shows us, what was Paul saying? He's not giving into sadness. Okay? St. Josiah Escrivah. He says, don't give into sadness. It is an ally of the enemy. Please write that down. Okay? Don't give into sadness. It's an ally of the enemy. Don't do it. The joy of the Lord is your strength. Okay? And because he didn't get, he didn't sit there in a, he didn't go into a shell and sit there moping under house arrest. But he looked around at what opportunities he had. The only opportunity he had is this guy that's chained to him. Okay. There we go. Every time I think about this, I had this vision of the future and persecution breaks out against the Catholic church. And the FBI gets sent to Steubenville and they arrest Dr. Hahn. And these FBI agents have to watch Dr. Hahn 24-7. It's like, you ever heard of Abraham? It's a payback, Scott. But my text is actually a Philippians 4. So let's turn over the page. Let's turn to page 2. And I'm just going to concentrate on six verses here. Philippians 4, 4-9. As he nears the end of his letter, St. Paul gives what we call perinacis or exhortation in the faith. And he gives them practical instruction for living. And he says, Rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I will say rejoice always. Let your forbearance or patience be known to all men. See, the Philippians themselves are being persecuted in various ways. He says, be patient. Don't strike back. Don't retaliate. Let it be evident that you're not... This word translated forbearance is one who does not strike back quickly. You know, but is patient with others. He says, let that be known to everyone. The Lord is near. We talk about that for a long time. Lord is near not only the sense that he's present with you when he's suffering, but also he's coming again soon. And he's near in the sacraments. But moving on. Have no anxiety about anything. How much anxiety should we have about things? None. About how much things? Everything, that's right. No anxiety about anything. But in everything. By prayer and supplication with thanksgiving. Let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God which passes all understanding will keep... I like the stronger translation will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, literally it's as to the rest, brethren. Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, that word could also be translated perhaps pious, whatever is pious. Semna from which you get like Sebastian, so on. Whatever is just, whatever is pure, has the connotation of holy there. Whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything excellent, if there's anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, do. And the God of peace will be with you. So this is St. Paul's three ways to joy and peace. And so let's break it down. First of all, right praying. Right praying. St. Paul says up here, have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. So I have in italics there are three terms, prayer, supplication, and thanksgiving in the RSV text. And these are three elements of prayer that we need to make sure to include in our own prayer life so that we have a well-balanced diet of prayer. Okay, first term is prosuche, which is the most general term for prayer. And it includes elements of worship. The element of prostrating yourself before God and showing God honor. And so I just want to concentrate on that aspect of prosuche, this aspect of adoring. And St. Paul leads with that. And that calls to mind the Lord's prayer, which begins with adoration. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. May your name be acclaimed as holy. Okay, so as it were praising, blessing the name of God at the beginning of the Lord's prayer. And that's instructive for us that prayer should start with worship, start with adoration. Many of you have probably heard the ax acronym for prayer, right, four movements of prayer. Adoration, confession, thanksgiving, supplication. I often use that for my own mental prayer, and I recommend it to you as well. In fact, you can use the beads of the rosary sometimes. Like, for example, if you're driving somewhere, you've got a half hour, an hour on the road, and you want to pray, you want to get some prayer in during that day. What I find very helpful is to take the beads of the rosary, I do 10 acts of adoration as I go through the beads. Like, Lord, I adore you for the beauty of the sky. Lord, I adore you for the turning of the leaves. Say it's a fall, you know, fall, and I'm driving through the countryside, you know? Lord, I adore you for the gift of yourself and the Eucharist. You know, I just think of 10 things to praise God for on those 10 beads. Then I go to the next set, and I make 10 acts of confession, confess 10 different sins, and then 10 acts of thanksgiving, and then on the final two decades, make 20 supplications, usually intercessions for people. And I find that that helps me. You know, it's hard to focus sometimes in prayer, and that can be a method that helps. But our point is it's best to start with worship. It's best to start with adoration in our prayer. And why is that? It's because the act of worship creates perspective in our relationship. It's kind of like this. When I was courting my wife in West Michigan, we used to love to go out on summer evenings out to Lake Michigan and watch the sunset from the Michigan dunes. And those of you who've ever had the privilege of doing that, you know it's a beautiful place of the country. Okay, to watch the sunset over the lake from the shores of Michigan. And we would do that, and then we'd watch the stars come out, et cetera. And when we would drive home from having, you know, spent a couple of hours and watch the sunset at the beach, I was always filled with peace. And I pondered, why is this that whole experience was so peaceful? And I think the answer is perspective, you know?  You get a sense of how great God is, how slow time is from his perspective, you know, a day is as a thousand years, a thousand years as a day, et cetera.  And I think that's what gazing on nature does for us. But, you know, adoration is like that as well. When we adore God, adoring God is like gazing on His greatness, gazing on His majesty, which is reflected in nature, but nature is even pale in comparison to the reality of God. So we begin prayer by worshiping the majesty of God, pondering His omnipotence, His omniscience, all of His attributes, and then we're ready, okay? Then we're ready to go into other acts of prayer, like, for example, what's next on the list, which is the acist or supplication, asking for things, okay? We have to do that. Our Lord welcomes us to ask the Father. He says, ask the Father anything in my name and it will be granted to you. So supplication is an essential part of prayer, but it should follow adoration once we've placed ourselves in proper relationship to God. And then let's not forget this third aspect, which is thanksgiving. St. Paul says, with thanksgiving, which strikingly in the Greek is eucharistias, okay? Expressions of gratitude. And we often forget to include in our prayer time opportunity for thanking God. And a good part of our time in prayer should be occupied in acts of gratitude and, as it were, counting our blessings. But it's something that we tend to neglect because we're usually stressed, and so we want to quickly get through other elements of prayer and start telling the Lord what we need, right? Like, okay, quick. Oh, door a little bit. Confess a little bit. Thank a little bit. Okay, now. Lord, okay. This is what we need. I need all of this, you know? And then if that plan doesn't work, I got some other plans that you might like too, you know? Give the Lord a whole dossier full of proposals for divine action and then negotiate. And St. Paul says, hold on! Don't forget thanksgiving. With thanksgiving, with eucharistias. You know? So he's counseling us on how to have joy and how to have peace. And, you know, thanksgiving is this essential part, okay? Why is this? It's because the recollection of things for which we are to be grateful builds our faith, okay? Gratitude builds our faith because when we look back into the past and we see how God has been faithful to us in the past, answered prayer again and again provided for us again and again, we're like, you know what? I'm seeing a pattern here. And if I see this pattern in the past, you know, that gives me courage to turn around now and make my request known in the future. So, gratitude, thanksgiving, should be an essential part of our prayer and it's an essential part of prayer in the scriptures, okay? The pattern of thanksgiving is written into scriptures in the liturgy. After all, you ask any good theologian, what's the greatest prayer of the church? The mass is the greatest prayer of the church. Well, what is the mass? It's the Eucharist. What does Eucharist mean? Thanksgiving. And what are its roots? Well, its roots are in the Todah sacrifice, the thanksgiving sacrifice from the Psalms, those great Todah or thanksgiving Psalms like Psalm 118 and so on. If you look through the Psalms, what you notice is a lot of the Psalms are recitations of God's saving acts in the past like in Psalms 105 and 106. And other Psalms are recitations of God's saving acts for the individual worshiper like Psalms 116 and 118 that were sung at the Passover and are also sung in our liturgy and they're also good for personal devotion. But in Psalms 116 and 118 David or the Psalmist goes back and rehearses what God has done for me. I will praise the Lord because he has been good to me. Okay? He saved me from the pit. He set my feet on solid ground. You know? These kind of things. And the Psalms teach us to pray by rehearsing the saving acts of God. And in the prayer of ancient Israel, God taught the Israelites in Exodus 12 and 13 when you celebrate the Passover you have to recite the saving acts to your children. When your children says, why do we eat this lamb on this night or why do we eat these bitter herbs on this night? You have to tell them, you know? Because God saved me out of Egypt and you have to recite the story. You have to remember and be grateful. And again in Deuteronomy 26 when the Israelites had to make the yearly pilgrimage to bring their first fruits. When they showed up with their first fruits they had to set it down by the altar and then they had to recite. My father was a wandering Arab man and then he went down to Egypt and blah, blah, blah. They're talking about Abraham of course and they had to recite the history with the saving acts of God and they had to be grateful. It's very interesting. I learned something from a Jewish man who studied to become a rabbi then left and became a doctor. He became a specialist in pediatric headache and one of my sons has a headache condition and so he went to the Cleveland Clinic to see the headache expert there and here's a man with a rabbinical education and two of his sons are rabbis. So he always had a great time because he found out I was an Old Testament scholar. Oh, he says. About 20% of the time I was talking about headache and 80% of the time I was talking about theology and the land of Israel. And one of the things he taught me was that in the Jewish tradition the reason for the loss of the temple was ingratitude. On the ninth of Av, on their calendar, they observed the destruction of the temple and the main reason they attributed is because of the ingratitude of the Jewish people at that time. So this doctor was telling me one day, I was at the synagogue the other day and I heard this guy griping behind me and I had to fight myself so hard to get around to him and give him a piece of my mind because what I was thinking was that kind of griping is what caused us to lose the temple. Okay. So let's not do that. Let's be grateful and let's include that gratitude in our prayer. So we've got a well-balanced diet of prayer including aspects of worship, of supplication and gratitude. Right praying. Secondly, right thinking or mental hygiene. St. Paul says whatever is true, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there's anything excellence, if there's anything worthy of praise. Think about these things. We have to control our thoughts. We have to control what we meditate on and there's a lot of dangers to our thought life these days. Okay. And a lot of it comes through electronic media. Okay. And I want to address a biggie that I don't want to be so naive for any of us here and that's pornography. That is rampant. I saw a recent study this week that 54% even of practicing Christian men report looking at pornography once a month. Okay. It is a great danger because it's so seductive and it's various stuff is splashed on your screen against your will. You're just in the weather and something salacious pops up and then it's so easy to click it and it just leads down and gets worse and worse. Okay. And that is the opposite of everything that's true, honorable, just and pure. Okay. So if you have a struggle with that or if you know someone who has a struggle with that, there's a website called PurityIsPossible. Write it down. PurityIsPossible has a whole bunch of wonderful advice for how to break out of that. But that is such a major problem. That's by the way a website that we recommend to students here on campus who are struggling with this issue. That's a major issue. Another issue is just inundation with news. Okay. I saw statistically this week among journalists only 7% of journalists identify as social conservatives. Ninety 93% of journalists. Okay. Do not identify with social conservatives. Do you think that has an effect on how the news is reported? I don't think just might. Okay. So the way things are presented, what you get to hear about and what you don't get to hear about is controlled by somebody who does not share your values. And you have to limit your exposure to this. We can get inundated because of electronic gadgets and laptops and so on. We can just, we can become news junkies and especially conservative Catholics can become addicted to news sites that report on all the evil that's going on in the church. We know the sites. This bishop did this terrible thing is happening in Rome. We should be worried about this, that and the other thing. It's a delicate matter because there is a place for exposing what's evil so it can be addressed. But if you diet on that kind of material you can sink into a hole and become so depressed that you cannot fulfill what we call your duties of state which are the obligations that you have to the people around you to your vocation etc. This is a problem for me that I had to break out of. I had to unsubscribe from a whole bunch of news sources and so on strictly limit how much time I spent on the internet and so on because I was becoming pulled back into a shell when I have to deal with hundreds of students 8 children my wife etc. How can I be a servant to them if I'm worrying about problems that I can't control? I can't get to all these places. I can't address all these problems. The problem of the modern age is it's much easier to find out about problems than it is to do anything about them. Back in the day you only found out about the problems in your own city and you might be able to do something about those but now we find out problems everywhere that we think about. Instead of checking news sites for the morning you want to check your newspaper your newspaper should be the gospel reading for the day. Let me check the news. The good news that is. I'm going to check the good news. This is today's gospel reading. I'm going to start my day with that. A cup of coffee and my news book. My good news book. Amen. Start your day with the gospel reading. Control control the movies. Not everything you can get. Everything can be streamed now and all those kind of stuff. Control what you watch. Control what your children watch. Not everything has to be seen. These things can get us down. We have to concentrate on what's true, honorable, just, pure, lovely. We have to make an effort to ponder and meditate on these things just like Mary who kept all these things pondering them in her heart. And the church helps us by having the days of the saints, the feast days of the saints. You ever ponder why the church doesn't have feast days of apostates? Hey, it's the feast day of Julian. It's the optional memorial of Nestorius today. It's the commemoration of Arius. We don't do that. Why don't we commemorate the great sinners? Why do we not remember Alfred Wazi? Why don't we call these guys to mind? Because it's unhealthy to meditate on them.    So we meditate on the saints. Don't forget about the evil. Except when absolutely necessary. Okay, so right thinking. Meditate on what is good and right. In everything that you watch on a screen should be like this. Unless there's a really grave reason why not. Okay? Right acting is the last thing. What you have learned and received and heard from me and seen in me, do. Okay, pretty simple. Do it. And the God of peace will be with you. Okay, I want to talk much about this because at last night's Ted talk, Ted Shree that is, Dr. Shree. Dr. Shree was talking about discipleship and and so we've talked about this a little bit and this line in Philippians 4-9 is very similar to something that St. Paul said in Romans 3 about imitating him. Learned, received and heard and seen in me, do. He's calling them to be his disciples to mimic his behavior. Okay? And we need to implement that discipleship in the Catholic life and let me give you two quick ways that you can do it. First of all, please try to find a spiritual director. Okay? Try to find somebody or at least an older Christian who will meet with you and kind of informally give some kind of direction. Okay? I've had one all through my life and it led me into the Catholic church. My youth pastor discipled me, gave me spiritual direction when I was a Protestant in high school. I went to my college. I searched out another one that chaplain of the college became my spiritual director all through college and my Discipler went to Notre Dame, could not find a Discipler or a director at my Protestant parish, kept looking around, found an Opus Dei priest who was willing to do it even though I was a Protestant. Okay? And that was one of the integral things that led me into the Catholic church. Please find somebody. Find an older Christian who if it's not possible to get formal direction at least an older Christian who can talk with you on a regular basis, who can counsel you and you can imitate their virtues and learn from them. And secondly, find a saint to imitate. A life saint. That you just grasp onto this one saint and you just get to know this one saint's spirituality really, really well. One of the problems we have is Catholic is sometimes saint hopping, right? You know, we dab a little bit in Teresa LeSue, we dab a little bit in Teresa Avalon, John of the Cross and they're, you know, that's true, we should be aware of the great writings of a wide variety of saints that were life, but we should kind of hone in and choose somebody to really follow consistently. Somebody whose vocation is appropriate to our vocation. And get to know that saint really well, try to imitate them in all that you do and like, this is really this is the person who I follow and put it into practice because the danger is by hopping around we don't consistently follow any one of them. And so we know a lot of interesting things about this saint, a lot of interesting things about that saint but we never put it down to the rubber hitting the road and putting one of their lives into practice in our own. So spiritual direction and in a life saint I'd recommend for you for right acting learning to do it. Okay, let me, I just want to close with one thing we got to have joy because it leads to evangelization it's necessary for evangelization we see saint Paul evangelizing even though he's in chains you know this happened recently within recent memory there's a man very much like saint Paul Cardinal Francis Xavier Wynn Van Thuong from Vietnam. Six days before Saigon fell he was appointed co-agitor bishop of Saigon. How do you like that for a job description? Okay. You're just made co-agitor. So six days after his installment as co-agitor you know the stories, you can watch it on PBS now PBS American Experience is showing you know the last days of Vietnam and you can recall this, my dad was in Vietnam for four years off and on and you remember those events so he was immediately rounded up arrested and spent 13 years nine of them in solitary confinement by the communists but you know what he didn't give in to sadness he was guarded 24-7 and guess what he did he befriended his guards he found out that his guards were just poor Vietnamese that had no education he was from the upper class and he had a fantastic education so he would teach his guards French and Latin his guards would leave guard duty, go off duty and they'd be singing you know ah, gloriosi he would teach them Latin chants he would teach them about Christ so many of his guards were getting converted that the communists authorities became scared and they could not leave a guard too long with him so they would rotate them in and out but then that was worse because it gave him a bigger audience so who's in prison who's scared of whom here ok he wrote powerful greatly encouraged you to get on the internet or go to a bookstore get some of his writings wrote fantastic spiritual writings from prison on little scraps of paper that were smuggled into him by his sympathetic guards and he continued to shepherd his flock from solitary confinement using little notes that the guards would smuggle out and let me tell you something the catholic church in vietnam is stronger today than most western european countries where there has not been outright persecution the joy of the lord is your strength let's remember that amen


God's plan. They call me. Hey, Black Run, are you available to feature this weekend? No, the guy before me, he wasn't able to do it all weekend. That's what it was. Are you able to feature this weekend? Yeah. Six shows, you can do all weekend? Yeah. All right, first show is Thursday, eight o'clock, be here. You'll be featuring for Dick Gregory. Wow, big. Man. We talking about my idol. Yeah, we on boss talk, one on one, one on one. Yeah, we gon' talk. There's a specific time or time in your life to do something. If it's never too late to go back to college, it's never too late to start a new career path. So how old were you? I was 25. Which is good for me, but you coulda do did what I really could. I was just grown enough to have something to talk about. Yeah, and so when it takes off and you, how do you end up dealing with Wildin' Out? How do you end up dealing with 85 South guys like a Chico Bean? How do you end up meeting, did you and Ricky Smiley ever do some stuff together? I'm touring with Ricky right now. Okay, let's talk about this stuff. Man, let's get it out here. Shout out to Ricky Smiley. Shout out to Ricky Smiley, man. Pran for you, dawg. Yeah, Pran for you. He definitely been going through something lately. I was about to say I went down there to Birmingham and linked up with a few people that he rock with, huh? But let's talk about it. So shout out to comedian A.G. White from Brooklyn, New York. A.G. White was down performing at Addison Improv. Nene Lee was doing Fat Tuesdays. I was a regular at Fat Tuesdays. I'm murdering it. I featured right before A.G. went on stage. A.G. come tell me, dude, you're dope. You need to leave Dallas. Year later, A.G. White comes back. I'm doing that same show. He said, yo, you been on the road? I said, nah, I ain't had 10s. I ain't had the money to get out there.  Wow. Right after that, comedian Mario Tory from Atlanta comes and performs at a comedian queue. He used to do a show called We Got Next at Hyenas. So Mario Tory headlines. I featured for him. He said, man, if you ever in Atlanta, hit me up.  Got a cousin that used to live in Atlanta. Said, man, if you ever in Atlanta, you got a place to stay.  That's big.  Rolled that Greyhound bus 22 hours. Pull up in Atlanta. My man CJ, come pick me up. Boyd me at his house. Go do Mario Tory's room. Go do all these rooms.  And you need to come here.  You don't fit in all some chicken wings. I got a spot for you tomorrow. I got a room, my host.  You know, you do three, four rooms a night, two, three rooms a night for about two weeks and you're in that town. Also, in that town is going to be somebody from somewhere else that's also in town knocking around. So that's why your network starts to build. So I went from Atlanta to Chicago, from Chicago to New York, from New York to Detroit. Went all around. You didn't come back home. Didn't come home until almost Christmas. So it was a whole year? No, I just, I would pop back home, pay rent. You know, see my lady, see my daughter, you know, get back on the road. Get home, company club that never gave me an opportunity, called me. The feature that they first called was sick. Second feature they called was out of town. Third feature they called couldn't get a ride. It was too last minute. God's plan. They called me. Hey, Black Run, are you available to feature this weekend? No, the guy before me, he wasn't able to do it all weekend. That's what it was. Are you able to feature this weekend? Yeah. Six shows you can do all weekend? Yeah. All right, first show is Thursday, eight o'clock, be here. You'll be featuring for Dick Gregory. Wow, big. Man. We talking about my idol. Yes. So when they told you that, did you like flip out? Of course, not on the phone, but as soon as you hung up the phone. I would have flipped out if it weren't for the fact that I got walked into comedy by an idol. Yeah, that's all. First time I ever touched a comedy stage, I featured for Shucky Ducky. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was already used to being around people that I admired for doing this, but I admired Dick Gregory for something way past comedy. Right. I admired him for who the man he was. You know what I'm saying? The consciousness, the wokeness.  Like, I was a disciple. So, wait a minute, I know you lied to me. I think you pranking me. I'm thinking y'all must be pranking me because my friends know that I fucks with Dick Gregory. And by this time, the local comedians were calling me the Malcolm X of comedy by now. That's all. They were doing it as a joke, you know, because back run, get on stage, he'd like to say something deep. He'd be killing the crowd, and then he'd like to wanna preach at the end. Why these niggas just can't do jokes? I don't know. He just got to preach for 10 minutes at the end, and he the Malcolm X of comedy. And it took off as a joke. And then I just adopted it. Like, no, but for real, I am. Because if you look at Malcolm in his life, and what led to the man he became, the story's almost the same with me.  Who tells me, I heard you call yourself the Malcolm X of comedy. Wow. Yes, sir, I do. Well, you know, I knew that man. He was one of my best friends. That's all it. Yes, sir, I know that. If you gonna wear his name, don't do his name, no disservice. That's big. I didn't know staying on that man name. So from that point on, comedy was live or die with me. Yeah, we on boss talk one on one. One on one. Yeah, we gon' talk.


One of America's oldest museums is the National Museum of Health and Medicine near Washington. It opened 150 years ago as the Army Medical Museum during the Civil War. Now, it has a new building for its collection. One curly organizes the historical objects like microscopes from the 1860s. What I find so significant is any given thing, they each have a very unique and interesting story. And that's one of the great opportunities that I have in my job to be able to explore. The museum is especially popular with school children and health workers. They can get a close look at the human body, like this leg swollen with elephantiasis. The museum has 25 million objects, including more than 5,000 skeletons. Tim Clark is the deputy director. So the skeleton is one of our first animal astronauts. Able, as a rhesus monkey, she flew into space for a very brief period of time in 1959. Some objects have been used for medical research by the military, including the bullet that killed President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Tim Clark says the museum teaches visitors about the medical discoveries of the military. It became the lessons learned from the battlefield that taught the next generation of physicians and surgeons at the time as science of medicine was evolving rapidly. What we have here is a contra-coup injury. The museum's public programs manager, Andrea Cierculque, is talking about an exhibit on brain injuries. This is something that we wanted to highlight through actual brain specimens that show these injuries, so that people can visually understand what goes on with the brain and how it is changed while we have these resulting behavior and function problems. The museum seeks to promote the understanding of medicine, past, present, and future. I'm Christopher Cruz.


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So, here's the deal. I'm just gonna tell you I'm taking an acting class right now and I'm not gonna tell you which one it is until I am completely done with the the school and it's very time-consuming so I'm not going to be able to actually audition for anything except for like remote voiceover work if that or anything that just needs me for a few hours because of this acting class. So because of that I don't know how much I'm actually gonna be able to give you but I do plan on just doing fun things and bringing you along with me and maybe I'll talk to some actors so yeah welcome to this week's vlog. Since I'm so sleepy I thought I should go work out and I've been skating quite a bit but I want to find new places to skate just like a bunch of new places to skate so I'm not always skating in the same place and like hogging up the space so we're going to go skating to a new park today so let's go get sweaty. Guys, it's Tuesday, it's taco Tuesday or how me and my friend like to call it as of today taco target churro Tuesday because we're gonna get churros and we're gonna get tacos and we're gonna go to target. Me and this friend always we always get tacos and always go to target but we're gonna go get tacos they're gonna be so good and we're gonna get churros and they're gonna be so good. I love churros. It's taking me 38 minutes something like that to travel 11 miles on a freeway mostly. It's cool though to look at other cars I love reading license plates in the Bay Area usually I've noticed a lot of tech people have license plates that will say softbox or data something and in LA there's also a lot of like vanity license plates that will say stuff but it'll be more personal things or I just saw one that said kite kid or night kid night kid it's a night kid so I'm wondering if it's an actor or a director or something I've seen a lot of license plates that have something to reference a show or what sounds like a show or a network so I mean I don't know I don't know if I would ever like a vanity license plate and I also when I'm stuck in traffic I like to look into people's cars to see if there's a dog. No dogs yet. Good morning it is Wednesday and I'm on my way to rehearsal I have rehearsal this morning and then I'm going to skate so let's go to rehearsal. Time to skate again it's Wednesday and here I am skating at a new spot I had rehearsal earlier today can't really rehearse anything I mean record anything in rehearsal but I'm gonna throw these skates on and have some fun


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Welcome to a short description of a multi-operator disaster recovery use case in a context of a 5G telecommunication network. The idea is that in disasters several resources of the operators went down so that the communication in that disaster areas is problematic. And there would be the possibility to join the resources of different operators the coverage in the disaster areas might be increased. And this is basically the idea of that use case. So on top, somebody needs to detect hey, there is a disaster. In some countries there are even protocols defined so that all the different instances will be officially informed. This request goes to the end-to-end service and management orchestration from the public safety. This component then will be later enhanced with an artificial intelligence planner in order to calculate the different instructions which needs to be then sent down to the different operator domains. The operators they will receive an intent basically give me as much as resources as possible. And we'll translate then this into configuration directly on the run. So in the run there might be already existing several slices and now the capacity can be moved from one slice to another slice. And this is a slice here in the sense is a virtual LAN or virtual network and their characteristics in terms of capacity and latency. So the use case really bases very much on the TM Forum API 641 for service ordering. And later use description will also then show what how this intent will be translated into real actions on the network. How does it look like a little bit more concrete? In this diagram here we assume we have an island. The island is divided in four areas, north, east, south and west. At the very beginning the status of the island is default, everything is smooth, everything is cool. So the coverage of the island by three operators looks pretty good. If we just look now to the public safety slice, the slice basically has no capacity, no coverage because it's simply not needed. For the operator A for example, it looks like this and very similar for all the other operators. So now when it's disaster occurs and here we have an earthquake so the island is shaking a little bit, now you see that in these areas north, west and south it's much more lighter. That means resources went down and are not functional anymore. Those are called here now disaster areas and in order to give coverage here to the public safety, the public safety will request all three operators, give me as much resources as you have so that here evocation can happen more easily. So let's send those requests for north, south and west. So the color has changed, that means now the resources are hand over to the public safety. The area east everything is okay so here the disaster did not occur so much so it's not needed here. This will be the description of the use case. Thank you very much for listening, my name is Martin Skorbsky, High Street Technologies.


All right, recording has started folks. Welcome. This is just a little bit of a github workshop for the open organization ambassadors at opensource.com Thanks for joining Going to just walk through a couple of basics regarding github We moved here as you know our community moved here recently as a sort of a public home base So we could work more transparently work more in the open And that's what we're going to do and I have just a couple of notes here on some github basics that we can review because some of the Ambassadors expressed an interest in learning a little bit more about our home. So I've got some notes over here I'm going to go through And we'll just cover the basics But the first thing that I want to say is that github really is a public Issue tracker at heart and that's why we're using it. So Chad Whitaker One of the open organization ambassadors just wrote an article about this that we'll be publishing in a couple weeks But the notion here is that using a public issue tracker allows People to see what you're doing how you're doing it and why you're doing it in public every step of the way and so Using github as an issue tracker allows us to keep our work out there allows us to keep us to keep us accountable for the work that we're doing and it allows us to Have a common point of reference when we're talking to each other and talking to newcomers that we can link to and show Them what we're doing in public with no walls So we use github for that tool and so when you go to github at github.com You'll see the opening screen here. You'll need an account to participate So at the top of the screen you can either sign in or sign up. I have an account. So I will go ahead and sign in When you sign in you see a couple of things right on the landing page of github Github functions as sort of a social network for coders. So you've got some Social elements to github some things that keep you connected to your network the people who you're following or the people who you're watching The people with whom you're connected online So on the left hand side, you will see a bunch of folks a bunch of activity from folks that I follow So, you know, this is one of our ambassadors here in is doing some stuff and You can see his profile here Which demonstrates, you know, sort of one of the social Elements of github that you can follow folks who are doing activity and do doing activities and doing work contributing to different projects So I follow here in and I see some of his activities. It looks like he's starred some repositories. He's made some contributions We can also see down here that ambassador robin mulwick who's on the call today is also doing some stuff And he has commented on an issue related to some open organization ambassador work So you just get an overview of what's been going on in your network, which is kind of nice On the right, you see a list of all the repositories that you contribute to and we'll talk about repositories in a minute And you also see a listing of the things that you sort of own that you have ownership of so that's just what you see when you First log in so the what we're going to do first is talk about some basic terminology and basic nomenclature On github sort of the the primary unit of functionality on github is what's called a repository and it might be a little bit of a gross generalization to say a repository is like a folder but In essence, that's what we're dealing with so let's go ahead and visit the open organization ambassadors page On github, which is github.com slash open dash organization dot dash ambassadors when you go there You'll see a couple things the title of the repo title or a title of the repos I should say here the people who are contributing to our little group on github and Then a list of these things called repositories and really our repository is a place where you keep all the files and the Work related to a specific project that you're doing so One of the things that the ambassadors have been working on lately for example is the open organization definition And these are listed here in the order in which they've been most recently updated So seven days ago somebody made some changes to the open organization definition And so that is the most recently updated repository and it's at the top So a repository again is a place where you store your files that are related to different projects Since this is a major project for the ambassadors. We created it our own repository for it So inside this repository when you click on it You'll see several things the first and foremost what you'll see is a list of all the files that are related to this project And what github does it when you create a repository is it automatically looks for a file called readme and That then what it does is it reproduces that readme file down below? And so it's important as one of our writers said just this past week on the open organization section of open source comm to have a very Concise an explanatory readme file so that people who are coming to your repository Can understand what your project is about and what you're trying to do and that's what this File does it explains what the project is so this explains a little bit about what we're doing It shows the current version of the open organization definition when it was last updated and things of that nature Inside a repository not only do you see a list of files, but you can see a list of other things as well We'll start here at the top The first thing and one of the most important things for the work of the ambassadors is going to be this tab up here at The top called issues when you click on issues what you'll see is A list of sort of tickets or discussion items and you can think of issues as kind of a meta Commentary about the files right so it's not the files themselves But it's sort of our discussion about them and what issues are is there this is what? Chad loves and you'll read in his article is that this is where we can keep track publicly of all the things we Note about the files are all our to-do items related to the files or all our questions or concerns or proposals regarding the files So for example, you'll see here that for the last couple of days We've been having a discussion about expanding the definition to include some kind of maturity model And this has been a discussion that the ambassadors have been having in earnest over the last couple days So when you click that what you see is An entire conversation related to this particular issue and people have been you know sounding off and giving advice and chiming in with their opinions and it just flows like a regular discussion and So what this is is it's an issue or a topic related to the code that's in this repository And there are other issues as well. So for example somebody thinks for example that we should Recruit an amp a new ambassador somebody who's familiar with the work going on in the so-called sharing economy So they put this item here so that it's now public and it's now something we can track together So the important thing to remember about issues is that they can become a sort of Vocal point for the work that you're doing a place where discussion happens about the code that you're doing in your repository So let's take a look at an issue. Let's go back to this issue about expanding the definition with a maturity model and You can see here that people are Responding to my initial post about this idea Chad did several things he Posted a comment that said I love this progress and he also Put a thing here a little emoji because Chad loves his emojis you can respond to the post with emojis by clicking this button here and You know leaving your feedback You also see a couple other things that you can do with an issue You can subscribe and unsubscribe from it. So that means when you When somebody makes an update to the issue what they leave a comment or post a new file or something like that you will receive an email about The update to the issue and the nice thing about github is that when you reply to that email? If you reply to that email from your email client it automatically adds your reply to the list of Conversation items that are going on down here So you don't even need to necessarily log in to github to leave the comment or to leave your response You can simply reply to the email and it will add it right here to the conversation Which is a nice time-saving feature for people who spend a lot of time in email Where was that a follow feature or where did you click to? If you to follow the repository or to follow a user Well this this discussion if I wanted to follow this discussion, right? So if you want to follow the discussion, there's a button now I'm subscribed so that it would want me to unsubscribe at this button down here. You can click Under notifications and that'll help you follow the discussion You can also do several things To the repository itself and I'll get to that in a second where you can actually follow all activity going on in Repository this just subscribes you to the issue itself So if you want to know about this thing, but not all the other conversations that are going on about this repo Which is short for repository you can do that here You also see a link or a list of all the people who have contributed so far to this conversation right below that button So you can quickly see at a glance who's participating in this discussion and several of the open organization Ambassadors have already contributed to this discussion Now this is the thing that I think most of the ambassadors will use most frequently So I think it bears lingering on this for just a little bit to show you a couple of features that make Interacting with one another one another really easy So for example You can see here that people have been at mentioning one another so we'll start with that as his common parlance for example on Twitter You can see that People are using at replies as I did when I mentioned Robin up here And as I did when I mentioned Sam down here to call other people out in the repository Folks who are members of the group and folks who are already contributing to the conversation and be referenced via An app mention so for example, I can type Great idea, and I'll mention Robin because I know he's on the call today. I can put at and see it automatically Populates with some of the folks who are participating in the discussion and some folks who are part of the open organization ambassadors group So I want to reference Robin. So I'll say great idea Robin Hit that and it will automatically put Robin's name in there In that way when I commit or this comment when I send it to the group Robin will get a notification saying hey Somebody said your name and once your attention on this issue simple, but it's nice way to get folks To pay attention to what you're saying and to notify them that they are that they're being talked about or that they're being asked The question so that they don't have to constantly check this so that they might not miss Something that's being said Now the other thing to know about Issues and about github in general is that it's markdown friendly and markdown is simply a Markup language why the name is kind of funny and ironic It's a markup language for plain text and allows you to format your comments in your text Really easily using common keyboard characters. So you can do several things. So I can use a hash sign to make a headline for an idea and I can also use asterisks to make bullet items I can do things like Make Words emphasized by using underscores on either side of them and I can also Make them bold simply by putting two asterisks on either side of the word And those what those things allow you to do is do basic formatting without having to fiddle around with things up here Or what have you now? I'll just click hit preview to see what my comment looks like and you can see that By including that hash that hash I was able to make this headline by including those asterisks I was able to make this bulleted list by including those things I was able to do this And so that just helps you make comments more quickly and without having to fiddle around with a lot of Formatting and things like that but the one thing that is really important and really interesting is referencing other resources So not only can you reference people you can also reference things that are going on in the repository itself So as you saw there when I hit the hashtag It brought up a list of issues that are going on in the repository So let's say that we're having a conversation and I want to reference another issue that somebody else has raised You know maybe Robin. I say Robin. That's a great idea You should see our conversation going on over here because we're also talking about that I can hit the pound sign and it will show me a list of issues that are going on inside this repository so Let's say I want to reference this issue about recruiting an ambassador from the account from the sharing economy universe I can say hey check out issue number five. We're talking about that and if I just put number five When I send this comment You'll see that the hyperlink has automatically been created and it automatically when you click it goes to that issue So simply by saying hey check out number five check out number six whatever You can send people to other issues and build on the conversation pointing people to other work to find the number of the issue By the way, you can find it up here in the title and you can also find it up here in the URL It's always the last number in the URL So that's a nice feature that this sort of markdown enhanced environment gives us what we can also do is we can Link to things outside the repository or anywhere on the web and that's very easy as well Let's say I wanted to link to hearing's biography Or his homepage here his bio on a github I'll say to Robin you should contact Hearing and now let's say to make it easy for Robin. I want to link to hearing's page. Well in markdown. That's really simple I can do this open bracket character and this closed bracket character on his name to show him that to show that I want this thing to be clickable and then you have to tell github Okay, where do I want the person to go when they click hearing's name? I'll go over here grab the URL from this window Copy it put a parentheses here put that URL in there close the parentheses and now when I preview this I'll see that when I send this comment if I click on hearing's name or if anybody clicks on hearing's name It will go right to his profile on github and you can do that with any web page on the on the worldwide web So we use this for example a lot of times when we are sending people outside github to look at different things I did it here for instance when I was talking to Lara and I wanted to reference another issue in another repository. I made that a hyperlink there and The last important thing to note and something you'll see people doing already in the thread like Robin And I and Lara to some extent is quoting and citing one another and that's also really simple to do So let's say that I want to respond directly to Robin's comment And I see the part of his comment that I specifically want to respond to is this one right here So I'll copy that When I make my response And I'll say great idea Robin you said and I'll go down here And I will paste that part of his conversation in here because that's what I want to respond to It's easy to quote that in my response simply by putting a character right in front. I do that put that character there and Now you'll see when I send that comment That it's cited Robin made it a little bit grayer to show that I'm quoting him at length And then I'm responding to this particular part of his comment and Robin you can see and this repository already did That for something that I said so his is a good example Of that So that's just a little bit of sort of markdown basics But it's a great way to interact with folks in comments and your fellow ambassadors Inside of github it makes responding and collaborating a lot easier when you know sort of some of those shortcuts especially the shortcuts for At mentioning one another mentioning issues like that And hyperlinking with this character and these characters. So Anybody in the call on the call or at the meeting have any questions about this part of the of github using issues or working with markdown Pardon my Reach here while I Look at the notes So as I said before I think that's really where most ambassadors are going to spend their time is hanging out in In issues talking to one another Well, let's say you wanted to do more than that. Let's say you wanted to contribute to project to a project Let's go back here to again the open organization definition This is the home page for this repository and you can see up here that you can do several things So Jeff in response to your earlier question about how you can follow things that I showed you how you could follow an issue But this actually show shows you also how you can sort of follow an entire repository You can do that up here by clicking watch or unwatch when you're watching a repository You are getting updates about that repository on your Home page in that list, but you're also getting emails when people do things like leave comments on it or make updates to the files That are in it So this is really handy for getting notified when people are doing work on a project that you really care about or that you're invested in So you can click that to watch the repository and that will send you updates when things happen to it You can also star the repository and starring a repository is really just like bookmarking it It allows you to make a note of it. You don't get updates about it. You don't receive any Additional notifications, but it allows you to kind of keep a little private set of bookmarks on your github account Of projects that interest you that you might want to go back to you You'll see that our buddy here here and is sort of the king of starring projects He's starred 672 projects on github things that he's interested in that he might want to come back to later And So those are some things you can do up here and the other thing you can do is fork the repository Now in open source terms a fork is a copy And it's sort of also in github language You might hear some people refer to making a clone of a repository cloning it when you fork a repository You are essentially making a copy of that repository which is owned by someone else on your own personal account When you click the fork button, it will take this entire Repository all the files that are associated with it and make a copy on your account so you can make changes to it and Mess around with it play with the code play with the wording and not worry about making any permanent changes to the Master copy the one that's sort of the owned by the entire group and I'll show you that I've done that with the Open organization Definition we'll go to my profile here and you can see a bunch of repositories that I've made I go to my repository listing and Here's a copy of the open organization definition repository that I've made because I wanted to update it and make changes to it But I didn't want those changes to automatically override everything that the group has already done So I made a fork of it And when you click this button It does this neat little animation of the github making a photocopy and putting those files on your own account So you can see if you look up here in the top left corner that this is me I'm semiotic robotic on github and pretty much anywhere else And then I've got a new repository in my account called open or definition Which is an exact copy of what you saw in the ambassadors group and Now what I can do is I can use my favorite tool to Mess with these files to make copies of them to change them and there are a lot of different ways to do this We won't cover that in this tutorial, but you can see open source calm specifically Seth Kenlon series on using github to and get it spent especially for Getting some different tools you can use to Mess around with github files But one nice thing about working on a lot of projects with the ambassadors and much of what we do is text and not code And so you can actually work with text right in github itself You don't need to do a lot of other work or use special tools So now I have this copy of the open organization definition in my repository My own repository, so I'm going to click it and I'm going to pull up a copy of the file Now this is of course one of the ambassadors largest projects to date Which is making a definition a working definition of open organization? And you can see that we've outlined the language here. We've got a nice long text file Because it's basically text. I can use The github editor to make changes to this file and I can do that up here in the top right corner by clicking the pencil icon now what it'll do is it'll bring up an editor and Now instead of it rendered in publishable sort of HTML It's again bringing the file here in markdown Which is again that markup language I told you about that you can use in plain text mode to make changes to files And so here is the open organization Organization definition lined up entirely as a markdown document and I can go through here and I can make changes You know I can change the version number. I can change the language. I can play with this file And you can see I'm using similar conventions as the ones that I use in comments one pound sign for a first order headline two pound signs for a second order headline and when it all When it all comes together when it looks formatted it will look very nice in github like this So let's say I wanted to make a change Say what I wanted to do is I don't like the word characteristics. So I'm gonna say I Think we should call these qualities of an open organization not characteristics So I'm gonna go ahead and say I think that is what I'd like to do and I might go through and do some other work The next thing I have to do is I have to Commit that change right so github works with what's called version control And it keeps versions of files and a history of those versions so that at any point Anybody can see a history of the project that you're doing that history of the project that you're working on and It allows you to revert back to a previous version if you don't like the changes that somebody made or you decide that a Previous version was actually better more functional or in our case sounded better But what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna say well I think that should be the word qualities and that's a change I really want the community to look at and consider adopting for this for this project So I'll go here and I need to make a commit. I need to commit this change to the project You can see down here that github has already Pre-populated these fields with some things that it recommends I put so it says, you know I should call this commit or name this commit update open org definition. I think that's fine I'll keep that but what I can do here is add a small description for What this commit can contain so that when people look at it when they see that I'm making changes They can see at a glance what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. So I I'll type here I recommend That we change the language In this line And now what I can do is I can commit those changes so it's gonna take the change that I made Attach that comment to it and now you'll see My copy here It has made that change And that says qualities can you talk about the difference between committing to master and creating a new branch I can yep so That functionality is often Most useful when you're working directly with the group's project so I created my own copy of The document before I started working on it and so Jason is asking down here at the bottom about creating a new branch or Committing directly to the master branch and you have the option of doing either of these things when you commit directly to the master branch What you're doing is you are making changes to the master file In this case I'm the only one with access to this because I made a copy of it and put it in my repo But let's say I was doing this in the open organization ambassadors repo Then I was making changes right to the document that everybody else had access to and so in Organizational terms this is sort of kind of not sort of a coding faux pas and Not necessarily a best practice community wise because you're making changes to a master document without asking anybody what they think And just kind of moving ahead When you create a new branch what you're doing is you are actually saying okay, I made these changes to this file Push them back up to so people can see them But don't overwrite the original make a separate copy that people can look at first before we do that Now because this repo is mine and nobody else is working on it I just pushed to master because it doesn't affect anybody else So I've made this change and I'm going through my individual copy of the document I'm working on it here and I say okay, you know I really think that I should notify the other ambassadors that I made changes to this document And that I want them to adopt those changes in the master file What I can do is I can go do Open organization definition and it shows here That I have made a change what that's called a commit That puts me out of sync with the master repository the master project that the open organization ambassadors are working on So what I'll need to do is I'll need to request that they incorporate my changes And that's how that's another primary function of github is what's called a pull request I would like the open organization Open organization ambassadors to pull my changes into their master document I can't do that automatically from here, and I shouldn't want to because day quorum indicates that I should ask their opinion first about whether what they think of my changes But I will request that they take a look and consider pulling my project into theirs So what I want to do is I want to go right down here to new pull request and click that button And when I do that it brings up this screen, which it says it's comparing the changes So it shows me what is currently in the ambassadors repo on the left and it shows my modifications on the right And What it's doing is it's saying you are requesting that the master document be changed so that what's on the right Becomes the master document and instead of what's on the left So what I can do is I can Hit commit pull request I can as you can see it updated with my Updated here with the title of my pull request and the description that I already wrote tells folks in the repository what I'm trying to do And then I hit create pull request okay And github has already checked it out said that the changes I want to make aren't going to override what anybody else is doing And now we're back in the open organization ambassadors repository And we can see that when we go into the open organization definition the master document the one that all the ambassadors are working on We can see that if we go to pull requests up here at the top We can see there's one outstanding issue And lo and behold it's mine. So other ambassadors can look at this now by clicking on it And they'll see my comment and my title and what i'm trying to do And they can see line by line the commit i'm trying to make and the changes i'm trying to Have accepted They look just like this and so what uh ambassadors can do is say is look at these look at them line by line And say okay, I like what's going on here. I don't like what's going on And then of course as is the case with all other Things you can do on github you can have a conversation Which is where these things usually go and the conversation is the master view here. So people can read my requests. They can look at my proposed changes And they can start to leave comments here On this pull request and we can have a discussion and this is normally how things work on github You know somebody proposes a change it or I request that they pull changes into the project and then people have a discussion about it Well, I think this is valuable. Well, I don't think this is valuable This is where that conversation happens Not every pull request gets accepted and some pull requests ultimately get rejected after a good deal of discussion But what you're doing here is you're saying I have done some work I'd like you to review my work and if you like my work I'd like you to pull those changes into the master document And so that's how a pull request works and that's how You know the ambassadors can collaborate on some of the work that they're doing right here From github. So that's another important part of Using github to do our work Those are really in terms of github basics the things that I would say are the most important features that ambassadors need to know about A couple other things that you can see here from our new home on github right from the home page Is that we have a list of the members of the organization? So here are the open organization open organization ambassadors who are on github the open organization ambassadors By virtue of being an ambassador one of the perks of the program is that you get to have push access to the repository So you have that power to go into A document like I just did and make a change to it A github user who's not a member of the organization can't just come in and click that pencil and start making changes as I did But github open organization ambassadors on github can do that Another thing to note here is that as it is sort of like a little social network You can click on the people tab and see everybody that you're connected to On github see what they're doing see what they're up to leave them private messages Send them notes send them links and things like that. So this is a place that we can use to Collaborate a little bit more and to communicate if you want to use this over email for certain tasks Sometimes it streamlines people's work if they can use this Instead of email for leaving notes and leaving messages And then another thing you can do is again because you are ambassadors you can actually create your own repositories and You'll see that I created a new one most recently that I called the ambassador boardroom And so I want to point this out as we wrap up here just as a sort of a point of order This will consider our sort of meta repo. It's our it's our repo about our github presence on For the open organization ambassadors so What you can see here is when you go into the boardroom we have several issues that are raised and It was Chad's recommendation and I thought a good one that The ambassadors have a place where they can talk about at a meta level the The organization itself and the repo itself So for example here, we've posted up the project agenda for 2017 This is really a comment about the work that we're doing and so it went in the boardroom I put it here and people have been discussing it and taking a look at it Of course, I hyperlinked it so you can click that and see a copy of it And that's part of the boardroom So what the boardroom is for is for discussions about things like hey, let's have a github tutorial for the ambassadors To teach them how to do some of the basic github functions. Well, here it is and we plan this very Seminar today on github. Here's a copy of the A copy of the outline that we put that Chad and I put together for this very project And there's other things on here, you know Chad is leaving notes about his intentions to write articles And things of that nature so the boardroom is a place where we can talk about our work Where we can talk about our projects and where we can leave sort of The work of planning what we're doing And so that's what the open organization ambassadors boardroom is really for that's that that's that repository Other repositories that we have so far not in addition to our working definition of the open organization include A description of the ambassadors program itself We keep that in the repositories that anytime people can propose changes to the description of the ambassadors program itself And the community produce guides to the open organization by Jim Whitehurst We have the leaders manual catalyst and chief and the open organization field guide all those projects Of course are public and their source code is hosted by the open organization ambassadors and we Manage the version control on those So that's a little bit about our new home on github some of the basic functions and how github works and what we can use it for We have about five minutes remaining anybody have any questions I think I covered everything on my notes All right, great. Well, we're going to make this video public and we are going to share it so that any Incoming ambassadors can look at it and anybody who's currently working can get a better sense of our new home Welcome to github everybody. Thanks for your participation and we will see you soon. Thanks Brian. That was great. Thank you


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