So beginning at verse 1, John chapter 9, reading just the first two verses or rather the first twelve verses, as Jesus passed by, he saw a man who was blind from birth and his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who's sinned? This man or his parents, that he was born blind? And Jesus answered, neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him. I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day, the night is coming, but no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. When he had said these things, he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, and he said to him, go, wash in the pulis loam, which is translated, sent. So he went and washed and came back seeing. Therefore the neighbors and those who previously had seen that he was blind said, is not this he who sat and begged? Some said, this is he. Others said, he's like him. He said, I am he. Therefore they said to him, how were your eyes opened? He answered and said, a man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, go to the pulis loam and wash. So I went and washed. Then they said to him, where is he? He said, I don't know. And so the healing of the blind man, John records in his gospel seven specific miracles in this particular miracle that is recorded for us in chapter nine is the sixth recorded miracle that John has in his gospel. When you read the Bible and you read your gospels, you're going to note that the healing of the blind is recorded as his most frequent healing, which is interesting. Why would Jesus heal the blind as often as he did? Because you see various times in scripture that he did that. Well, in the Old Testament, the healing of the blind is associated with God. In the book of Psalms, Psalm 146, verse eight, it says, the Lord opens the eyes of the blind. It's also a work that is associated with their Messiah. Isaiah 42, six and seven reads, I the Lord have called you in righteousness and will hold your hand. I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people, as a light to the Gentiles to open blind eyes to bring out prisoners from the prison, those who sit in darkness from the prison house. This was a what is called a messianic passage. It's a prophecy related to what Messiah will do. And God says there in Isaiah 42 that he is to open blind eyes. And so we know God opens the eyes of the blind and Messiah is associated with the opening of the eyes of the blind. On one occasion, John the Baptist was in prison and while in prison, he sent two of his disciples to speak to Jesus and he told them to ask Jesus, are you the coming one or do we look for another? And Jesus's reply was intended to communicate by what he said that he is Messiah. In Matthew 11, four and five, Jesus answered and said to them, go and tell John the things which you hear and see, the blind sea, the lame walk. Leppers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them. Go and tell John the things which you hear and see, the blind sea. All of this is associated with Messiah. So this is another one of those miracles recorded in the Gospel of John intended as evidence that Jesus is that Messiah. And so as we look at verse one, Jesus passed by, he saw a man who was blind from birth. This is one of those miracles we're about to see that is unsolicited. It's Jesus who saw the man. Obviously, the man was blind and could not see Jesus. And as Jesus sees the blind man, Jesus moves to do something for him. Why? Because he's the one who seeks to do that. In Luke 1910, the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost. And Jesus initiates on behalf of this man a miracle. And that reveals something to us about Jesus. Because even when we are blind and in sin and cannot see him, he still sees us. And that ought to be something we are very blessed to know. We did not see him, but he saw us. We didn't even know we needed him, but he knew we did. And we didn't seek him out. He sought us out. The scripture says there's none who seek God. No, not one. It's God who seeks the lost. And Jesus came to seek and to save that which is lost. And so when people say, well, I was in sin and I found Jesus, I'm not quite sure that he was lost. I think it's the other way around. You were in sin and he sought you out. And this is what we see here with this blind man, Jesus seeking him out. And so as this is taking place, notice his disciples and how they respond to this. Verse two. So they see this man blind from birth. His disciples ask him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned? This man or his parents said he was born blind. So they look at this with more like curiosity. There's a curiosity. They have a theological question. Who sinned this man or his parents that he was born blind? So it's not compassion that is motivating them. It's rather curiosity. And they ask a question that's theological in nature. Who sinned? They've connected sin with sickness, as was fairly common in the Psalms. Psalm 103 versus two and three. Notice what it says. It says, bless the Lord, O my soul, forget not all his benefits. And it goes on to speak of his benefits who forgives all your iniquities. And the next line who heals all your diseases. And so the Jews associated naturally sin with sickness. And so that's the heart of their theological question. Who did sin this man, his parents, that he was born blind? There's sin and there's sickness. And they're associating that because that was a common belief. There was a rabbinic saying there is no death without sin. There is no suffering without iniquity. And that's where their mind is at the time. So who sinned this manner as parents that he was born blind? You see, during this time, some believed it was possible to actually sin while in the womb. That's an interesting thought.  Look what they're doing to me. But they thought it was possible to sin while in the womb. And others incorrectly believed in a pre-existent soul that sinned in a pre-existent state. Some believe that the child could be punished because of the sins of the parents. They believe that the child would be born with a nilness because their parents were being punished for their sins. Exodus 347 reads keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression in sin by no means clearing the guilty. And then they would say visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and fourth generation. So they took that scripture to mean that if I as a husband, my wife, if I sinned that God could punish through the birth of a child that was ill. And that's the theology of their day. And that's what they're really asking Jesus, who did sin? This man or his parents that he was born blind? Well, Jesus answered, verse three, neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him. Sickness is not always the direct result of sin. I remember hearing a TV preacher tell a woman who had miscarried that she had miscarried because she had a lack of faith.  You see, physical problems can be a result of sin. That's true. It could be the result of sin on the part of a father or mother of the child. That's true. If you're drinking a lot and you're pregnant, smoking, drug abuse, we know that that contributes to the harm to an unborn child. But not all sicknesses that children are born with are the result of the sin of the parent. So Jesus tells his men that this is really an opportunity to show God's power to heal. God is gonna reveal his compassion as he heals this man. And the result he's saying is gonna bring glory to God. Now, later on in the gospel in chapter 11, Jesus says something like this. Martha and Mary sent messengers to tell Jesus their brother Lazarus was sick. And in John 11, verse four, when Jesus heard that Lazarus was sick, he said, this sickness is not into death, but for the glory of God that the Son of God may be glorified through it. And so he's taken this as an opportunity to bring glory to the father. He says in verse four, I must work the works of him who sent me. Well, it is day, the night's coming when no one, no one can work. When he says the night is coming when no one to work, we need to put this in its chronological context and just a few months, Jesus is going to be crucified. So he's saying, I need to continue doing what my father has sent me to do as long as I have opportunity before me. In 1 Thessalonians five, verses five through seven, Paul said, you are all sons of the light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. So then let us not be like others who are asleep. Let us be alert and self-controlled for those who sleep, sleep at night. Those who get drunk, get drunk at night. In other words, we need to be busy about the Lord's business while given opportunity. He says in verse five, as long as I'm in the world, I am the light of the world. As long as I'm in the world, hostility and opposition is growing. My time with you is drawing to a close because this is true. I must be busy doing the work I've been called to do. And so when he finishes saying that verse six, when he had said these things, he spent on the ground. He made clay with saliva. He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. He said to him, go wash in the pulis alum, which is translated scent. And he went, he washed and he came back seeing. All right, let's look at what's obvious, the spitting. Okay, it sounds gross. When I read that the first time, not spitting, why would he do something like that? Be honest with you, I was taught not to be spitting in public this and that, but I read in the Bible that Jesus spit. As a matter of fact, when you read your Bible, three times in the gospel, Jesus is spoken of as spitting. Now that's interesting, I'll develop this with you. For example, in Mark chapter seven, Jesus was in a region called the decapolis. Decapolis in Greek means 10 cities, decaholis. 10 cities was on the east side of the Jordan River, just outside of region that is called Samaria. And Jesus was in this region just east of the Jordan and there was a man with a speech impediment that was brought to him in Mark seven, verses 33 through 35, it says that Jesus took him aside from the multitude and put his fingers in his ears and he spat and he touched his tongue and looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, de fatah, which is be opened. Immediately his ears were opened, the impediment of his tongue was loosed and he spoke plainly, he spat. That was, he was doing a miracle in a way to show him what was about to take place, touching his ears, spitting, touching his ears, your ears will be open, spitting, your tongue will be loosed, looking to heaven, God is about to do a work and that's what he was doing for those in our sign ministry, that's what he was doing, he was giving them demonstration through just pointing and touching and all of that, but he spat and that was a symbol of his tongue being loosened. In Mark eight, 22 and 23, he came to Bethsaida and they brought a blind man to him and begged him to touch him. So he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of town when he had spit on his eyes and put his hands on him, he asked him if he saw anything, so he put spit on his eyes, there are those who say that part of that miracle may have been that his eyes were crusty and he put the spittle and in doing so was removing the crust that was causing his eyelids to be shut, but it doesn't say it in scripture, but there are the commentators who point that that may be a possibility as he's about to open his eyes, but he spit on his eyes. And it's interesting, when he asks him if you see anything and he says, I see men as trees walking in Jesus' ministry at the second time and he was able to see clearly. Now why saliva? And also why verse six? Why dirt that's made into clay? Saliva and clay, why? Well, during that day, this is interesting and I made sure on this, there's more than one source that points this out, that some believed at that time that saliva, your spit, they actually believed was medicinal. Some rabbis considered saliva to be a valid treatment for blindness. Since the people of that day had a high view of saliva's healing properties, Jesus used spit to communicate his intention to heal. Those being healed would have interpreted Jesus' spitting as a sign that they were soon to be cured. Now dirt mixed with saliva made clay. Why that? Because man was created from the dust. So that would encourage the man to understand that God, Jesus, was doing a creative work in the way that Adam was fashioned from the dust. They would associate the dirt with the dust that man came from. And so the spit was medicinal, the dirt was creation. So by tying the spittle with the dirt, making it clay, using it as a salve on his eyes, it was a picture of healing, that's what he was doing. So as he does this, notice verse seven, he said to him, go wash in the pool of salom. Salom, the word salom, is translated scent. So he went and he washed, came back seen. When we go to Israel, we go to this pool. They've uncovered this pool, they've discovered where this pool is. It's just southeast of the city of Jerusalem. Spaiwood is called the city of David. It is a place where when you read your Old Testament, you'll read about Hezekiah's tunnel. And Hezekiah built a tunnel in just the way that he built the tunnel when they were under a siege and all of that, it's an amazing story. And so they would get water from what is called the pool gihon. And it was deep enough for them to draw water and it was used as a water source. And so he sends them to this place called the pool of salom. We always go and we always have this Bible study there at the pool of salom. And hopefully one day, if you haven't been to Israel, you'll go with us and you'll see this for yourself. But it's called scent. That word scent literally is ascending out. And it speaks of a gushing forth of water. And that's the picture that you have here.  But I want you to notice that Jesus gives a simple command. It's the only requirement for him to receive a healing. Go and trust me. And this guy really doesn't really know exactly who this man is who's speaking to him at that moment, but he says go. So Jesus has just referred to himself again, verse five, as the light of the world and that he had already said in chapter eight, verse 12, I am the light of the world. He once again refers to himself here in chapter nine, verse five, as the light of the world. And so what we have is the light of the world sent a man who was sitting in darkness to wash that he might see. And so what happens? In verse seven, he went. And he came back seeing. Obedience goes a long way in the kingdom of God. He could have said no. He could have wondered, why are you rubbing clay in my eyes? He could have wondered a thousand and one things. I think you and I would have, I would have wondered what this all about. But he rubs this in his eyes and he says go. And it's a little bit of a walk from where Jesus is at that moment to where he has to go. Then he has to come back. And so out of obedience. And let me say this to you very briefly. Some of the greatest things that the Lord will do in your life always will begin with simple obedience. Always know that the great things that God wants to do begin with simple obedience. Just doing the simple thing. This church where we're at right now, 38 years of history began as a simple thing. Having a Bible study with a group of people. God always begins with small things in your life that require obedience. What is he saying to you now that you need to do? And you know you need to, but you just haven't. What has he told you? In this case is go to the pool. All you need to go and wash. I don't need to go. Why would I have to go? Why should I go? Who are you to tell me to go? But he did. Listen, when the Lord places something on your heart and says do this, do it.  In the case of this man, he receives his sight. He came back seeing. Can you imagine that? He was born blind. He walked to the pool, lined. He gets the water, washes his eyes like we saw a moment ago the baby seeing for the first time. Can you imagine what that would be like? Could you imagine that? I can't. I can't imagine what that would be like. The things that you do right now, by the way, this amplifies this miracle. The things that you're able to do right now are coming because you have developed with your eyesight. You don't know it. I don't know. It came early in our life. A relationship between you and distance. You developed perspective because you had the opportunity as someone who sees to learn what distance is, what proximity is and everything in between. You learn certain things about seeing by being able to see. But you don't have depth perception if you're blind. You don't have that. That's something that has to be given instantaneously. In the case of this man, that miracle is amplified. He didn't have to learn depth perception. It was a total healing. He went, he's blind, he washes his eyes, he came back seeing. He saw, he's able to walk instead of walking like, because you don't even know what it feels like until your foot, he was able to walk back and he's doing so. That just amplifies this amazing miracle that took place with Jesus and this man. And as he comes back, notice what happens. Verse eight, the neighbors and those who previously had seen that he was blind said, they're blowing the mind. It is not this he who sat and begged is, some said, this is he, others said, he's like him. They're arguing in front of him and picture that. Now there's humor in scripture. You have to just look for it. They're arguing and he's standing there watching them. This is he, not, it's not him. This is he, that's not him. That they're arguing, they're arguing and he finds this, it's me. And there's a bit of humor though, you might not think it's funny, I do. And he's saying, it's me. And so he steps in and he tells him, I am he. I am that one. Yes, you're more blind than I was. It's me. How were your eyes opened? Immediately that question comes. This isn't done. These things don't happen. How were your eyes open? He answered verse 11, a man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, go to the police, hello, I'm in wash. So I went and wash and I received sight. He gives a testimony. I know little of him. I'm sure you're like me and no little of him also. All I know is this, his name is Jesus. He made clay, he told me to wash. And now I see, here's something for you. You might want to market it in your heart if not on some notebook. You don't have to be the greatest theologian in the world to have a testimony. When I first got saved, I said this more than once and I still to this day say it.  I once was blind and now I see. Sometimes that's all you know. Sometimes that's all you know. I didn't, you know, I couldn't talk to you about theological issues. I couldn't even pronounce some of the books of the Bible. I didn't even know how many books were in the Bible. I didn't know, what do I know?  That's what I was like with my friends when I first got saved. And they'd say, you can't, blah, blah, blah. And they'd tell me, they try to argue me out of being saved. They brought their doubts and tried to invest them in my faith, which is what happens. You come home after getting saved and you talk to a friend or family member, mom or dad, whomever, and they may not, you know, kill the fatted calf. They may be upset because you came to faith in Christ. They may be mad because we've always worshiped God in this way and now you're saying that your way of, no, you're wrong and you were once this and you'll always be that. You hear those things. Some of you have. My brother said things like that to me. A lot of you heard the same kind of thing. You can't change.   You'll be back to what you used to be. So I didn't have a theological construct yet. I didn't know how to defend my faith. I wasn't able to present the gospel. What do I know? And I would say, all I know is this. I was blind. But now I see. I was lost. But now I'm found. That's a testimony. Don't let anybody argue you out of it.  And others might say, oh, you weren't as lost as you think. How would you know you're not in my skin? You don't know how I felt. You didn't hear my cry. You didn't know my tears. You don't know my story. How do you know? And the fact is they don't. But you do. And God does. And once I was blind and that's what he's saying. All I know is this. I'm no theologian. You're gonna see him get in a theological argument in just a moment by the way. But he says, all I know is this. There's a man I've never seen by the name of Jesus who gave me an order I didn't have to keep. But I did. Who put clay on my eyes, which I didn't have to receive. But I allowed it. And I followed what he said. And I went to a place, Bola Salome, you all are familiar with it. And I came back seeing. I was once blind. But now you're arguing about whether I'm that blind man. I'm standing before you, able to see. Are you gonna try and argue me out of the healing? God has done for me. And that's what's taking place here. A man called Jesus made clay annoyed in my eyes, said to me, go to the Bola Salome wash. I went and washed. I received sight. Well, verse 12, they said to him, well, where is he? I don't know. I was blind.  He could be standing right next to me for all I know. But why are they saying that? Well, they wanna arrest him. So, verse 13, they brought him who formerly was blind to the religious leaders, the Pharisees. It was a Sabbath. Jesus made the clay open his eyes. The Pharisees also asked him again, how he received his sight. And he said, he put clay in my eyes. I washed and I see. And so they're confused about this miracle. They need a religious pronouncement. Jesus is a rabbi. So the people naturally are gonna take this question to their rabbis. What are we to make of such a miracle? Should we honor this man, Jesus? Should we mistrust him? What are we to do? Well, notice verse 14, it's the Sabbath. So Jesus once again is violating their understanding of the Sabbath and its rest. And the controversy concerning that is renewed. So the Pharisees in verse 15 asked him again, how he received his sight. And it gives him another opportunity to testify of God's goodness to him. And his testimony remains consistent. He simply says what he said before. So verse 16, therefore some of the Pharisees said, and here's where they get mad. This man's not from God because he doesn't keep the Sabbath. But here's your theological problem. Others said, how can a man who's a sinner do such signs as a division among them? The law of Moses forbids work on Shabbat on the Sabbath. That's true. But the work that is forbidden has been referred to as unnecessary work. There are things that are necessary. And works of mercy on the Sabbath are allowed. In Matthew 12, nine through 12, when he had departed from there, he went into their synagogue. He, oh, there was a man who had a withered hand. They asked him, saying, is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath? That they might accuse him. He said to them, what man is there among you who has one sheep? And if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, we'll not lay hold of it and lift it out. Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep? Therefore, it's lawful to do good on the Sabbath. Jesus wasn't breaking the Sabbath. He was fulfilling it. He was doing acts of mercy on the Sabbath. So they're arguing about that. Now notice, others say, how can a man who was a sinner do such signs? And that created a division. And so here's the argument. If Jesus is a sinner, how is it possible for him to do these works? You see, deceivers might perform works, yet nothing really good could be performed by a deceiver. And so this is an argument concerning their understanding of scripture and a miracle. And so the answer to this is found in the nature of the work. His signs are pointing people to the true God of Israel. Even as Nicodemus had said, remember Nicodemus who came to Jesus by night and we know that thou art a teacher. Come from God for no man can do the works that thou doest, unless God is with them. So that is something that they understood. People were being pointed to God by his works. And what this is doing though, is this creating what is called a division or a schism. It's a division. It's a difference that makes a separation. So they're becoming separated over who Jesus is here in verse 16. So in verse 17, they said to the blind man again, what do you say about him? Because he opened your eyes.  He's a prophet. What do you say about him? He's a prophet. Well, they asked him saying, never say to him, but the Jews did not believe concerning him that he had been blind and received his sight until they called the parents of him who had received his sight. And they asked them saying, is this your son who you say was born blind? And how then does he now see? We'll look at that in a second and develop that with you. Well, the Jews didn't believe him. This went against everything they believed. They refused to believe him. They were convinced that Jesus was a deceiver. And so the result of this is continuation of argument. Now they're saying, you know, why should we speak to this guy when his parents are amongst us? We'll just go in and question mom and dad. And so they ask in verse 19, is this your son who you say was born blind? How then does he now see? Listen, put yourself in the parent's place for a minute because you're gonna see something interesting in terms of the response to this. Your baby has grown to manhood. I want you to think. Some of you understand this because perhaps it's something you do. And maybe something you do. You take care of somebody. Some people, that's their job. Some people, that's their duty. You take care of somebody.  You know what I did? I looked at it closely. I wanted to make sure it had 10 fingers. I just did. You got the cute little foot. One, two, three, four, five. Okay, since okay. You do that. You look at them to see if they're physically okay. Not that you won't love the baby regardless. You will let your baby. But you do that. You just look. You hold it and you look at it. Wow.  Give it to the mama. Do something with this. But your baby's born blind. You have friends who had a baby born right around the same time you had your baby. And your baby crawls, but bumps into things. Has to learn things that babies with sight don't have to learn. You take the baby by the hand and you have to step them through rocks and obstacles and sometimes you're sitting and you're watching other parents with their babies. And their babies are playing. They're doing whatever games children play. Your baby will never really be able to do that. And it doesn't mean that the baby can't be outstanding out of a variety of other things. But some of the basic things that you would have liked to have been able to see your child do. The child can't do it. It's not because it's a bad child. It's because the baby can't see. So you make a lot of adjustments in your life as you're raising this child. The baby's never even seen your face. The baby knows your voice. The baby knows your smell. The baby knows your touch. But the baby has never looked in your eyes to know who you are, sight to sight.   It's just there. That's a real thing. You adjust to it. You adjust to what you have to adjust to. And you can live with it and you don't see it as quote unquote the handicap that others might. Because this is us. This is our reality. This is what we do. We can do this. We're successful at it. It's our life. But in the back of your mind you say, I would want the baby to be able to see. And that baby from an infant grows to be a toddler, grows to be an adolescent, grows to be a young man. And has learned how to navigate, learns the life. He's there. He finds his way to where he's going. He's able to do that. He's overcoming whatever obstacles that he has to deal with. But now he sees. And you're there. Put yourself there for a moment, please. And you're looking at your son who has never even seen your face. And you're watching him as the religious leaders and people are arguing with him. Wouldn't your paternal or maternal instinct, wouldn't it kick in? Would you want to stand between that child who is now able to see? Wouldn't you want to be rejoicing, holding him, crying with him, saying, oh, what do the parents do? This is what amazes me. What do the parents do? Because they're being put on the spot. Again, verse 19, is this your son who you say was born blind? How then does he now see? And the religious leaders are speaking to you and you respond, verse 20, his parents answered them and said, we know that this is our son. And that he was born blind. But, verse 21, by what means he now sees, we don't know or who opened his eyes, we do not know he is of age. Now notice that, ask him, he'll speak for himself. Okay, I want to slap mom and dad. That's your baby. Why are you not defending him? Why? Why are you not shoulder to shoulder with him? With your arm around him? Any father I know, every father I know.  I still do. Why? Because I'm the father. That's my baby. You want to get to him, it won't be that hard, but you have to get through me. Maybe I can delay it for a while, so he gets away. That's what I'll do. I'm not a young man anymore. But they don't do that. Ask him, he's of age. In other words, we're pulling out. We're not going to defend him. We're not going to stand with him. That's what amazes me. That's what amazes me. Why did you do that? They abandoned him. Why? I'll tell you why. Because they feared being excommunicated. Because if they were associated with someone who is breaking the Sabbath, or involved in something that they could be religiously charged with, they could be kicked out of the synagogue, and they could be refused to enter into temple services. And their religious life meant more to them than the healing of their son. They didn't want to be banned from the synagogue. Why? Because being banned from synagogue in their sight was being cut off from God himself. And so they were not willing to stand for their son. They weren't able to do that. They wouldn't do that. It says in verse 22, his parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed that he was Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue, and they knew that. So verse 23, verse 23, therefore his parents said, he's of age, ask him. So verse 24, they again called the man who was blind and said to him, give God the glory. We know that this man is a sinner. So the frustration is mounting by the moment. The blind man is gonna be getting direct. They're getting direct, but the blind man will be direct also. And they're basically saying, we are your religious leaders. We are convinced that he's deceiving the people. You need to trust us as we're telling you this. And so they said, look at this, this man's a sinner. So give God all the glory. Well, he answered verse 25, whether he's a sinner or not, I don't know. One thing I know, though I was blind, now I see. Not to me again, that I have to be careful how I say some things because I could say it wrong. Your theology and your understanding of God develops over time. We know that. The more you study the word of God prayerfully and put it into practice, the more you begin to know God and his ways. When you first get saved, as mentioned a moment ago, I was blind, now I see. Over time, as you're in Bible studies, like those of you who come regularly to studies, you go through the gospel, you learn certain things that perhaps you didn't know before. It helps you in your understanding. You begin to trust the Lord more. And as your understanding is growing, your faith is growing, as your faith is growing, your trust in the Lord is now being put to test. And oftentimes, you have opportunity to trust him for something he comes through, shows you he's there, your faith. But that takes time. It takes time. Don't give up and don't lose heart. It takes time. Sometimes the Lord will give to you a lesson in faith by a seeming absence of his presence. It's not that he departs, it's that he's given you an opportunity to learn what it's like to walk in the dark and not to need him there in the sense of always dragging you, but giving you opportunity to learn to walk by faith and not by sight. And you learn some things as you go along the path and you discover certain things. All you need to do is read your Bible and you see that God appears to Abraham and ministers to him and then years of silence. And then he again opens the door and speaks to him. And I started learning that a long time ago that there may be times of silence because in the times of silence is when I've learned to trust the Lord even though I don't see him or hear him. But I know he's there and that's how you grow. That's how you grow. And you don't know that at first. You think that, no, you're supposed to hold my hand every moment. But how come it says I walk through the valley of the shadow of death? How come? Because you do. And you learn that he's with you but you learn that by walking, right? And so your faith grows. Don't get discouraged. Don't get discouraged. Many believers get discouraged very easily. He didn't deliver me instantly, therefore there's no God. He didn't learn your lesson instantly. You learn it over time. And then later on, you say, that's what you wanted to show me. I didn't realize that there were other parts of this puzzle that you were gonna be putting together in your time, in your way, so that you could make all things beautiful because you make all things beautiful in your time because all things do work together for the good of those who love God who are the called according to his purpose. So you gave me an opportunity to taste of the sour because you were preparing me for the sweet. Now I get it. And that's called faith that's growing. So you're not a theological whiz the moment you get saved, but you do have a starting point. I was blind and now I see. And this guy's a sinner. Give God the glory. You can't possibly be a Christian. You know, these Protestants are wrong. They don't know. And that was what I was hearing. I don't know what you heard. They don't know these things. They don't have the truth. They don't have a direct line to God. They don't have those things. That's what I was hearing. And all I know is that, you know what? I was an Elki, an alcoholic. And now I'm not dependent on alcohol anymore.  Great qualifications for pastoral ministry. All I know is I was blind. But now I see. And that's what's going on right now. They're trying to argue him out of what God has done. And so, verse 26 again, they said to him, what did he do to you? How did he open your eyes? He answered, I told you already. And you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciple? That gives us the inference that he's aware of what it means to be a follower of Christ, by the way. And it gives to us a sense that he has made a choice that he would follow Jesus himself. Do you also want to be a disciple? Verse 28, they reviled him and said, you are his disciple, but we are Moses' disciples. We know that God spoke to Moses. As for this fellow, we do not know where he's from. And so now they're getting real upset. They get angry. They take out their anger on him. We don't know where he's from. He has no credentials. We know the authority of Moses. This man has no authority. And now this, I love this man's answer. Verse 30, why this is a marvelous thing. That you do not know where he is from, yet he's opened my eyes. Now, now he's the theologian. We know that God does not hear sinners. But if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, he hears him since the world began. It has been unheard of that anyone opened the eyes of one who was born blind. If this man were not from God, he could do nothing. We don't appreciate how direct and how bold that is. These people have the authority to kick him out of synagogue in the Jewish religious belief of that day. They think that separation from God. But this man is saying, a line has been drawn in the sand. I'm on the side of the Messiah. I'm on the side of Jesus. It's a marvelous thing that you don't know anything about him. And then he gives this theological answer to him. And that to me is very direct. And he's basically saying, I marvel at your unbelief. Your blindness in the face of evidence is staggering. In Mark chapter six, verses five and six, Mark records something very interesting. He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. And he marveled because of their unbelief. There's two times in scripture that Jesus marvels. So word marveled is applied to Christ two times. One is when he marvels at the faith of a man. The other time is when he marvels in the face of unbelief. He marveled at their unbelief. How something could occur right in front of them, but they would willingly convince themselves that it just isn't so. And that's what's taking place here. When he says, we know that God doesn't hear sinners. In verse 31, the statement needs clarification. We know that on the one hand, sin does make a separation. Psalm 66, 18, if I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. Proverbs 15, 29, the Lord is far from the wicked. He hears the prayer of the righteous. Proverbs 28, verse nine, one who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination. A man who willfully, a woman who willfully remains in sin and disregards what God says in his word, while the sin makes that separation, that sin has to be confessed, repented of, rejected, and then your sins are washed away and now your prayers can be answered. So on one hand, he's saying something that is theologically true. God doesn't hear the prayers of sinners. And I'll go a little further than that. There are people, I've heard their testimonies and so have you who have said, well, I don't believe in God because I asked him for something and he didn't give it to me. Well, the first prayer that God does answer from a sinner is God forgive me a sinner. So in a theological way, no, God does hear that prayer. God hears a prayer of sinners because that's how you got saved. You were a sinner. If God didn't hear the prayer of a sinner, you wouldn't be saved. So the first prayer that you know for a fact that God heard is when you said, God be merciful to me. And so as a general rule, when somebody is not living for Christ, they cannot pray according to the will of God. Their prayers are an abomination to the Lord. You need to be right with God so that as a son or daughter, you can enter into the throne of grace and obtain mercy in your time of need. You have to have that sin you shoot dealt with. So in one way, there's truth to that on another way. Now, wait a minute. If he doesn't hear the prayer of a sinner, then how did I get saved in the first place? Because I was a sinner when I said, God be merciful to me because I am one. And so there's a little bit more in that than meets the eye. So he says again, we know that God does not hear sinners, but if anyone's a worser of God does his will, he hears him. Since the world began, it's been unheard of that. Anyone opened the eyes of one more blind. If this man were not from God, he could do nothing. And so he's right about that. If he were not from God, he could do nothing. But notice how they respond under the conviction they answered and said, you were completely born in sins. So that goes all the way back to the first verses here. They believe that he was a sinner that was born blind because of the sins that had occurred somehow in his life. And he said, you were completely born in sins and are you teaching us? And they cast them out. They blame his blindness on his sins and then they cast them out of the synagogue. They did exactly what the parents were concerned would take place. They were excommunicated. When I got saved and I'll close with just a little bit of a thought. And then next week we get together, we'll get back into verse 35 and conclude. But again, and I go back to this because a lot of times I like to take what occurs in scripture and remember how God revealed that through personal things and you get saved and you speak to somebody that has professed to be a Christian for a long time. And the first thing they wanna do is instruct you on why you're wrong about what you believe. And they wanna point to the sins that you've committed. Who are you to tell me how to live for God? I've known you, my brother was that way and others too. What gives you the right to tell me to live good, a good life when I've known you for a long time?  What gives you the right to tell me how to live? Anybody ever hear anything like that? I did. I even as a pastor of all these years there are still people who feel that way about me when I share with them. It gives you the right to tell me that. It's because our sins are our pets and we like to collect them and keep them because they give us pleasure, we enjoy them.  It's like that woman who found a baby raccoon and she brought it home and she thought she could domesticate it by giving it milk and letting it sleep next to her on her bed.  It became her pet. And the raccoon is a little as cute, it's all of that.  And one day she did what she'd been doing for several months, the raccoon had been killed. And growing into adulthood and she put her face next to his face and with his claws he ripped her skin open. Because you don't domesticate wild animals. You don't. You may think that you can make this raccoon into a pet like a dog, but it's a wild animal by nature. And at a certain point when it matures to a certain area of its adulthood, you are not that cute little thing that kisses it goodnight. You become an enemy and that's what happens. People don't understand that. We think we can domesticate our sins. We think we can live in compliance with them and enjoy them because they don't harm us because after all there are pets. That's not true. The wages of sin is death. And sin makes a separation. And here we are trying to cultivate a good relationship with sins that we consider acceptable. When in fact the only good sin is the dead sin. The sin that is tacked to the cross with Jesus Christ. Which when it's been placed on him as our sin offering sets us free to live for God. And so sin always is a terrible task master. So what we do is we receive from the Lord forgiveness we who are blind now we see and we tell others that the others will say to us who are you to instruct us? I know what you're like I grew up with you. So it takes time sometimes. In my case my sister Madeline came to faith the same day I did. She just went to bed and said whatever you did for him my brother please do for me and she got saved that night. My mom and my dad about three weeks later gave their hearts to Christ. My brother Frank about two and a half years August 4th 1974 gave his heart to Jesus Christ. And then my sister Rebecca in Easter of 1998 gave her life to Jesus Christ. And a lot of that had to do with them watching me because I got changed I was blind. Now I see and they watched me. My dad was very impressed with the change. That's why three weeks into it he gave his heart to Christ. My sister Madeline believed instantly I mean immediately and she went to bed after I shared with her what happened she said whatever you did for him do it for me. Becky decided to pursue the world until 1998. My brother continued pursuing the world until 1974 because they thought that I would go back to being blind and same is true with you guys. There are people who watch you and they're expecting you to return to what you once were.  I'm new in Jesus Christ I'm a new creation and those things are passed away and that's how it works in the kingdom of God. That's how it works. You were totally born in sin in your instructing us. Yeah because you can't deny what God did in me. No matter how you develop your theology to try and deny it you can't. I was blind and now I see.


Jargon Blaster. It's a game created by a developer named Elijah Dyes, specifically for UT Libraries. Taking inspiration from classic 8-bit games like Super Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon, Jargon Blaster combines the entertainment of vintage video games with a unique educational experience. You know, we can give students access to a dictionary. You know, we can direct into a dictionary of library terms, but, you know, you're not going to use that. You might, once or twice, but even then a lot of the definitions are filled with Jargon. So, my original idea was just to make something creative that would hopefully help the students, but also do it in a manner that gamified the idea and give them definitions that were more layman, more everyday common language, you know, not something that, you know, a librarian might give you if you were, or an instructor might give you, but something someone else who's learned about it might give you. Jargon Blaster is available to play for free on the university's website. The link will be in the description of this video, and I truly cannot recommend it highly enough. Engaging graphics, an interesting story, and a phenomenal twist ending await. Enjoy Jargon Blaster, and as always, thanks for watching.


Hello friends, I am Sanjay Gupta. In this video I am going to demonstrate you how you can calculate profit or loss by reading cost price and selling price from the user. Before starting you can note my information. You can visit or subscribe my YouTube channel through the link youtube.com slash sanjaygupta underscore tech school. You can download my programming app that is TechMS which is available on Google Play. Now coming on to the topic. Here I am going to implement a code in C programming which will check whether the seller has made profit or loss by using cost price and selling price. So first of all I am including a header file stdio.h then inside main function first time declaring variables cp for cost price sp for selling price then printf slash and enter cost price and selling price. So this message will be displayed on console then with the help of scanf I am going to read these two cost price and selling prices from the user. So for that purpose two format specifiers %f %f are used and then m%cp m%sp. So cost price will be stored inside cp and selling price will be stored inside sp variable. Now I am going to compare sp with cp. So sp is representing selling price and cp is representing cost price. So if this condition is true that is sp is greater than cp then seller is making profit. So profit equals to %e and sp minus cp. So with this printf statement profit equals to will be displayed and this %f sorry %f will be replaced by the difference between sp minus cp. So selling price is greater that's why seller is making profit. So profit amount will be displayed with the help of this printf statement. Now else if cp is greater than sp so in this case cost price is greater than selling price. So here seller will make loss so cp minus sp. So with this printf loss will be displayed on console and it will also display the amount of loss then again else and inside this else with the help of printf I am going to display no loss no profit. This means both prices are same and at last return 0. So this is the complete code which is implemented in c programming it is checking cost price and selling price and printing whether the seller has made profit or loss. Now I am executing this code I am entering cost price 100 and selling price 200 you can see it is showing profit equals to 100 which is correct. Now again I am executing this code this time cost price is 200 and selling this is 100 you can see it is showing loss equals to 100 again I am executing this code this time I am entering equal prices that is cost price is 100 and selling price is also 100 you can see the output is no loss no profit. So this way all three cases are working properly I hope you have understood how we can calculate profit and loss with the help of if else statement in c programming if you have any doubt you can contact me by following these details you can watch my various programming related videos and tutorials by this youtube channel that is youtube.com slash sanjay gupta underscore tech school you can use this URL for watching my programming related videos thank you for watching this video.


I'm very glad to be here to give a comparison study on the FRR in China, Ethiopia, and in Nepal. We can see the predictable trend of the forest change in different countries of the world from the experiences of the forest transition model study. Though deforestation and forest degradation is still the main problem in the world, global and national commitments to restore the landscape is also apparently strong in recent years. So here I want to, based on the hypothesis of the forest transition model on the forest cover change, to do the comparative study on the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation, what's the motivating of the factors of the restoration and incentives of the FRR in three case countries, try to build the policy recommendations for the decision-makers. The history of deforestation in China goes back many centuries by expansion of the agriculture up until the late 20th century, China's growing population required more and more agriculture land, but we have turned around in the past 20 years. And both Ethiopia and Nepal faced DND II as agricultural encroachment. After Himalaya and deforestation was discussed in 1975 by ACOM, widespread land degradation indeed occurred from some researchers' literature. So that's why from the global and national level, they all committed to restore the landscape. There are many global campaigns for planting trees and restoring landscape ecological functions. In recent years, there are various commitments from Bonn Challenge, from APEC meeting and the UN climate change summit, and the CBD, IG, biodiversity targets, they all have targets for the landscape restoration. Most China and Ethiopia have the national commitment to increase their forest area, to rehabilitate the degraded lands, and also both three countries in China, Nepal, and Ethiopia have commitments to the IG targets to restore the landscape. And China has a large ecological improvement commenced since six national key forestry programs launched in late 1990s. We are going to restore millions of hectares of land through natural regeneration and the planting tree planting. As you all may know that six national key forestry programs including the AFPP, CCFP, and CCFP conversion cropland to forest program is the case we are using in this study. And about the forest transition model and policy change in China, we can see we have different period, we have different stages. But I can summarize it as three stages from 1949 to 1976, from 1977 to 1997, and then after 1998, we have large ecological improvement commenced to restore the landscape. And Ethiopia's forest reconstruction starts from 2000, with the national tree planting campaigns starting from mid-2000. National forest policy and forest law issued in 2007, also the CRE strategy started in 2011. All of those policies reinforce the forest tree development and reinforce and encourage the tree planting. Now both forest reconstruction starts from 2000, with several national policies enacted. Forest policy started in 2000, and the national biodiversity strategy issued in 2002. So all that, also the forest carbon policy and forest policies envisioned in 2014, they have various potential benefits from the forest goods and services for the local people and the global level. What's the drivers of the deforestation and the forest degradation in China? It's because of the populace pressure leading to the agricultural expansion for food, over logging, for timber to support the economic development, also the illegal logging for the families, house use. Even though there are several policies, deforestation and regeneration policies, but we couldn't stop the deforestation trends, so far the mid and young forests and also the monocultural forests accounting for the majority of the current forest. A rapidly growing population in Ethiopia, over 90 million, which is 80% more, depend on the land for food. But the farm sizes of the households is very small and unproductive. It's about less than 0.5 hectares for each household. As a result, agriculture expansion caused deforestation and grazing and few wood extraction caused forest degradation in Ethiopia. In the port too, drivers for deforestation and forest degradation are agricultural expansion by the landless farmers, unsustainable agricultural practices, over logging and illegal logging as unclear property rights of the land. Overgrazing and bush cutting all caused deforestation and forest degradation. What's the motivation for the reforestation in China? It's improving ecological quality, controlling the flowers and soil water erosion in the origins of the big rivers. How to integrate the well-being of the improvement of marginal people living in the original arranging of the watershed are the second main concerns of China's FR. In Ethiopia, the main actors of FR are communities and central government and also the development partners such as NGOs and donors. Motivations for the reforestation are both economic benefits of meeting households daily needs for food and the few wood and also the ecological benefits of the water and soil conservation to provide clean water for drinking and irrigation. In the port, the main actors of FR are communities and central government too, and the motivation for their restoration to meet the local people's needs for forest products, for their house building and also for their few wood and of course control the flowers. So the incentives for FR in China will include the soil water conservation and protect the arranging of the water sources for clean water. Both the CCFP subsidies and future return of the forest management for the households attract the farmers to participate in FR. And a secure land use right by the certification of the forest land tenure and also the all-farm employment opportunities outside the village after participating CCFP, more labor and time are released from the intensive crop land management. In incentives for the Ethiopians FR, it's both the on-site and off-site benefits which directly influence households daily life are expected as incentives. There are mainly timber and non-wood forest products needs, also the like such as the form folder and the water flows for drinking and irrigation. And also the payments and the jobs participating in the forest management also attractive for the farmers. Of course the future ownership of the ownership of the land are also expected from the households. Incentives for the Nepal, it's the most attractive incentives should be providing the forest products of the timber and the few wood for the households land tenure or user rights to easy to access the forest, protect the communities from the large floods and provide clean water for local people by off-forestation in water sources area. So we try to conclude with this table comparing each country's transition period and their deforestation timeframe and also the time for their forest recovery and try to compare the incentives, what's the common incentives, what's the common drivers of the deforestation. And we think learning, adapting needs time. And there are common issues for deforestation and forest degradation in the same forest transition period of three countries. And the common drivers for FRR may maybe improve both the ecological and economic benefits for the local people. And most common incentives of the ecological service is to control the flowers, provide clean water and irrigation water. And we can see no one size fits all solutions. But by breaking down what incentives have worked in different case studies, we may try to find some common suggestions for the different transition models of these countries. Thank you very much for your attention.


While the House of Representatives at Plenary has resolved to investigate the alleged murder of one Ms. Umul Kutumbohari, a court member serving in Sokoto State by Chinese National, Genkuarung, thus followed the adoption of a motion moved by Kabiru Rurum, APC kind of state, on the matters of urgent public importance. While moving the motion, Rurum lamented that the gruesome murder of the young lady occurred last week while in a residence located at Jambulo, Durai Baba in the Guale Local Government Area of Kano State. After cooking the food was not sweet enough. I don't know whatever. You have to know how. How can you even know whether a foreigner can easily... I think your point is taken. That is the duty of the parliament. Determine the legal status of...


Hello everyone, this is Alice Gao. In this video, I will discuss the sensor model for our umbrella story. By sensors, I mean the noisy signal we observe about the state at each time step. The signal on a day is true if the director carries an umbrella and falls otherwise. The signal at time t correspond to the evidence variable O sub t. The value of O sub t could potentially depend on all the states as sub zero up to S sub t and all the previous signals. O sub zero up to O sub t minus one. As you can see, we will encounter a similar problem as before. The conditional probability distribution will grow unboundedly as time goes on. Let's make another Markov assumption for the signals. To distinguish this from the Markov assumption regarding the states, let's call it the sensor Markov assumption. The sensor Markov assumption says that each state has sufficient information to generate its observations. Therefore, O sub t needs to condition on S sub t only. We can simplify the conditional probability to the probability of O sub t given S sub t. Similar to the transition model, we will assume that the sensor model is stationary. That is, the sensor model for every time step remains the same. This is the complete hidden Markov model for the umbrella story. Let me use this example to describe some important components of a hidden Markov model. They're also described in words on the next slide. First, the variables. The state at each time step is not observable, but the state generates a noisy signal that's observable. Second, the state transition satisfies the Markov assumption. Each state depends on the previous state only. Also, the sensor model satisfies the Markov assumption as well. Each observation depends on the current state only. In addition, we simplified our umbrella model by making some further assumptions. We assumed that the state transitions are stationary. The transition probabilities at each time step are the same. We also assumed that the sensor model is stationary. The probabilities of generating a signal at each time step are the same. That's everything on the hidden Markov model for the umbrella story. Let me summarize. After watching this video, you should be able to do the following. Define a sensor model for the umbrella story. Describe the complete hidden Markov model for the umbrella story. Describe important components of a hidden Markov model. Why is it hidden and why is it Markov? Thank you very much for watching. I will see you in the next video. Bye for now.


Hello, St. Lucien's brothers and sisters. The festive season is upon us and it is extra special for me because it marks my first Christmas as a member of Parliament for Souffre, a community which I am so proud to represent. Let me take the opportunity today to wish all St. Lucien's and especially the people of Souffre a safe, healthy and peaceful Christmas season and beyond. As we draw towards the end of another year, it is also a time for reflection. I look back on 2016 as, personally, one of the most amazing in my life, partly because I was given the opportunity to serve the people of St. Lucia and Souffre and also be part of a cabinet of ministers that has a strong vision for Souffre and St. Lucia as a whole. To have been given the privilege of being elected to perform the duties of an MP have been a tremendous honour and I owe a great deal of thanks to my family and friends for their support. I also wish to thank the team at the Souffre constituency office for their continued hard work. In the short time I have been your constituency representative, we have achieved so much. In 2017 and beyond, Souffre and its environs are poised for growth and success. The aim is to make Souffre finally truly reach its potential and become a bustling town and a place where local and foreign visitors can enjoy what nature has to offer and also find other activities to engage in while in the community. I want to appeal to the people of Souffre to embrace the new ideas that are coming and look at the big picture of the future we want for our community. We are looking forward to the many opportunities ahead that will create solid employment and avenues for entrepreneurial development. I look forward to working in collaboration with all so together we can improve and touch the lives of as many people as we can. In this season of Goodwill, I call on the people of Souffre to bring to the light everything that makes us a great community. Share with your neighbour, visit the sick and shouting persons from your town and villages and let us get back to the family values that make us who we are. May this Christmas truly be a time of giving. My wish and prayer for our community is that we focus on our shared commitment to grow, develop and prosper regardless of the challenges. Once again, I wish all Saint Lucians the peace and joy of Christmas and I encourage you all to reach out to one another and spread love and peace. I thank you.


I am not a religious person, but what I witnessed with that total eclipse gives me, I think, the kind of comfort that religion provides people.  And that's the language I hear from people who are born again. This sense of, I don't describe it in a religious sense in terms of what I believe happened to me, but I believe it tapped into that exact same part of the brain.


Okay First of all, thanks for coming here My name is Christoph Sotier and I'm about to tell you about Clark E. Lee, which is a component that my company is starting to develop We both here for questions just right here. Sorry. My voice is a bit broken We both here for questions just right now or just on our booths, which is e3 Myself or Stefan would be happy to help you So let's tell you my name is Christoph Sotier. I'm the CEO and the founder of Objectif Libre I'm also an open-source contributor and I'm sitting at the board and the assistant secretary of the Ubuntu France Meetup in a session Objectif Libre is a French company specialized in Linux infrastructure. We do second-apps, audits, management, trainings We have a big focus on modern technologies and innovative tools like Perpetency ball We do of course a lot and a lot and love of OpenStack and we have a real commitment to contribution What the best example for that is that we are sitting on the top 20 of the OpenStack contributors So we hear about Clark E. Lee Clark E. Lee is an additional component for OpenStack That aims to do the charge back the pricing and the rating It's fully open source. We use the APH Apache the 2.0 License for that is fully written Python and it's extremely modular and I will develop all these things right now Before in getting a bit further into Clark E. Lee Let's have a look at the current state of charge back and building inside OpenStack. Actually the situation depends a lot Depends a lot of the size and your role and your aims inside your company if you're a cloud provider There are many many chances that you have developed your own Solution usually based on g-building or something like that if you're a big company you want to charge back inside your company You might have been tempted to use a commercial solution but that come with a high cost of Prices for sure, but also technical cost because you will be having a new stack Which is completely different from the OpenStack and For the vast majority of people you have nothing at all Of course the meter is great so we are using it clearly heavily But still meter for charge back and resting is not for that actually it's out of the scope So we're starting such a project as I told you at the end introduction We are really involved in the development of OpenStack and we also had two needs That actually came about the same time. The first one was one of our Client who asked us for deployment of OpenStack and told us okay I want to be able to charge my users so I need a solution for that But I don't want to have an extra. I don't want to have an extra track More than my future OpenStack. Okay, so that was one need the other one was TV T Maybe some of you know that's tall, but maybe you don't it's a cloud cost analysis Services that is done also by a French company and ask us Okay, can you help us to extend our product to OpenStack? they were currently working with Amazon of course with Google with With a Microsoft Azure, but they didn't work there had no solution for OpenStack So based on these two needs we said okay Why don't we give a shot do a small poke a small proof of concept and we see how it goes And actually the feedback we had in Atlanta where we showed it to a few people were really really good So we decided to go further for this and Which leads to cloud kitty? so Our technical choices were full Python we do all clock it in Python We use a lot of libraries from OpenStack. We use a lot of Oslo We use some PBR, but we're also following the best practices that we can find in OpenStack We use tiff door pecan double asimi. Well, actually we do use the same tools and the same components that all the other OpenStack components We're also really tightly integrated with some OpenStack components Of course, like I said that before we use the limiter as a data source Not the only one I will come back to that later, but we can use it as a data source We also have a UI integrated inside a reason. I will show you a quick video of that later and So far we are compatible with I south genome and we're about to be compatible with kilo If we have a closer look at the architecture that we put in place Well man, clock kitty is just architecture like all the other OpenStack components We have an API which is called clock kitty API. We have a processor, which is called clock kitty processor We have a report writer, which is called kitty writer We have a client a common line client, which is called clock kitty Python client and we have an integration Inside the dashboard, which is called clock kitty dashboard all these components here are Separated Separated repos that you can find on github, but also on Sackforge one of the things that we really have in mind when we decide to Develop clock kitty was to be able to be fully modular. I mean We have four level of modularity inside calculate the clock kitty The first one and we have a small schema for that is for data sources your input Which are we call later collectors are completely modular. We can have Modulation for all of this we can have multiple collectors in panel, but we also have Dedicated collectors for various kind of sources like for instance cilometer, but other ones Then once you have collected your data's you need to Process them. So here are the rating policies and the rating policies are fully modular too We have a pipeline where we have run rating policy then another one then another one each of them is on is based on is It's on module. So we clearly have a huge level of modularity modularity here and Finally once you have processed the data's we need to be able to Give back to give the data to you. So we need to have an app on outputs So we have two kind of we have two moderately for the output. The first one is for the storage we can store you date your reports on File system for sure, but also on Swift on safe on the S3 if you want and What we are about to to write to this kind of stuff to this stuff Well, we're going to write whatever you need because we also have a modularity here Which aims that we which means that we can produce the data that you need on the format that you need We have a basic format in jason, but we can produce on the format you need and of course all modules are loadable Unloadable on the fly since thanks to see the room Is the schema I was mentioning? We collected that we We have the multiple back-end from which we can take the data's then we take This data using our collectors We give the data's to rating pipeline where we can apply using this module and this module and this module And finally once the data's have been processed We said okay, let's store them Using the storage driver in database on the files and the fights will be put wherever we want As I said at the beginning cloud kit is for charge back is for pricing for rating You can call it as you want, but it's not billing at all billing Is something that each company has already inside the company? So we didn't want to create a new billing system But we want to ring where we wanted since the beginning to be able to get integrated with these billing solutions So that's what we did things to the various model we have and we have an integration of a billing system from The collection from the collecting of data's which means that we are able to extract from the billing system the rules Using the collecting the collector modules, but also at the end Once the data's have been done to re-inject that in the billing system, which means that we will be the bridge between Open stack and the billing system and since we are the bridge between open stack and the billing system Wow A billing system can be replaced by a cost and a cloud cost analysis because so that you can have a Representation of your cost if you don't want to Just have I was said I'm about to say if you just don't want to trust people But you also want to be able to have a representation of that is what you can have using TV T I mentioned earlier. You see here. This is the representation that have been extracted from Cloudkidding have a small demonstration of either works as you can see. Okay, let's go this way Yeah, as you can see It's fully integrated with horizon. So for starting we're about to create Using the billing thing which is right here. We're about to create the rating policies So we are inside the ash map module and we said, okay, let's try to Make prices and define the rating for the computer service. Okay, so what I'm about to Price let's say I want to do a price based on flavor type So that's why I said, okay, I want to have something based on flavors Once it's on flavors, I will have my different entries So the first one might be m1.nano. Okay, the price will be 20 cents great Then I want to have a different price when someone chooses another flavor. Great. It's for m1 tiny It will be 30 cents and the same and the same thing goes away for the goes on for m1.small It will be 40 cents But you know that once we have prices for instance We can have some modulation to that. We can say by instance if I'm running a Windows instance It might be 10% more expensive. Okay, we can do that too so I also go to the Ash map module to the compute one and this thing won't be this rating policy won't be based on the Flavor but on the image ID the image ID here. We're about to create one saying, okay This image ID here is on Windows 1 so it won't it will be 10% more So I put 1.1 here and let's say it's a rate. So it means that The classical price will be multiplied by 1.1 and this one may be just a little cheaper So it would be 90% of the price. So I said also it's also a rate here So I created the mappings here and once it's done so we have defined the The various policy we have for the rating. So once the policy are defined, let's use it So our user goes to his Arouson here and says, okay. I want to launch an instance You see here? You have an integration for the price that would change according of the various choice you do. Okay. It's an a no Based on the image that we had that was 10% more expensive It's 20% the one which is that 10% less It's 18 and so on when I change the type of flavor we expect we are face We want to you to change the price changes accordingly on real time So the users know what's about to be charged for this service And when I launch it for sure Everything is collected. Okay. I've got I've changed it and now The press I will be charged. Oh I'm just a little too fast here Sorry and the user can go to I will just post the demo here You can go to his own tenant go to the Billing said, okay. I want to click to see that here is the amount of price that I will be charged For the usage I had since the beginning of the month we have many other ideas that we have here to do a Quick calculation to know okay if Michael my consumer usage since the beginning of the month By instance was this how much I will pay at the end of the month That's of course just an expectation But we can have this kind of thing that we're about to add to TV to cloud kitty That's all I have to say if you have any questions you can ask them right now Please come to them to a booth. It's just in front of the car So you won't you want to be able to miss it and I'd be more than happy to help you and to answer to your Requestions to show you the videos maybe just for a little bit closer. So like you can see that directly You can follow us on Twitter and something like that when you want No questions. Okay. Feel free to come to the boss to the booth I think it's e3, but I mean the easy way to spot us. We are just next to the car. Thank you