Coming to discipleship and small groups, we looked at some of the basics, the introduction in last class. I think the last topic that we looked at was about having a holistic cell group, holistic meaning a cell group that's inward-looking, upward-looking, outward-forward-looking and to have that perspective and to do everything possible to maintain that wholesomeness.  There might be seasons when the group is inward-looking and working on that aspect. There could be times when you're upward-looking and it's a continuous thing which happens. To develop the cell group in that manner so it can be effective and not become kind of leaning towards one thing only and the cell group develops in all aspects. We looked at that, I think we ended with that. Let's look at, let me just share the notes and then we'll continue on. What we'll look at today is how to lead a cell group meeting. We've been talking about the cell group model, the vision of the cell group ministry and also the focus of it which is discipleship. It is not discipleship alone, we can use it, the cell group can also actually function as an evangelistic team and so on but primarily which means the main thing is discipleship. We also saw how it was different from what do you call as a care cell or a cottage prayer meeting or a house prayer meeting or in a Bible study, we saw that it was different. We looked at some of those differences where in a cell group the leader is not actually preaching a message, he or she might summarize, might give a synopsis just to remind all the cell group members about what happened on a Sunday meeting, what happened in church, the sermon that we heard just to remind the cell group but we see that the cell group leader is more of a facilitator to enable the cell group members to share, to share their maybe their questions, ask doubts, to share about their learning, how do they apply the message that they heard on Sunday and this particular truth itself, how deeply is ingrained in them, all those things. So they are looking into the word of God, so it is a Bible study, we are studying the word but it's going much deeper in the sense that there are questions being asked and answers being provided, it's going much deeper in the sense there is a discussion rather than one person just giving a message and the meeting getting over. So how to lead a cell group meeting, how to lead a great cell group meeting, let's look at that. The first one is of course a favorable environment, it's up to us to create a favorable environment, it talks about the physical environment of course meaning let the place be comfortable, let the place be clean, is there anything that would distract, anything that would hinder the people from not being part of it, is there anything like that, is there a place to sit etc., is a place clean, is it, so just a simple thing, so a favorable environment and also is it noisy, is there anything distracting, because I remember once having a live group, like this is years back, so we used to have a live group in different live group members, oh sorry, this is even before we started live group okay, so we used to just meet as friends and have some Bible studies and we used to meet in different places and I remember this one particular place where we met and the host of course someone else was leading, we had someone who was leading the Bible study but the one who actually gave that space, the host, his intentions were good, he just wanted to be a good host, make sure everybody gets their snacks and so on but then there were too many interruptions, he ordered snacks from someone from one of the shops nearby, so here we are having a Bible study and in 10 minutes into the Bible study somebody comes with plates of chart and of course everybody is glad that the charts are there and we wanted to have some of those Baal Puris but the thing is it was an interruption then and then we had that okay fine because we had to stop, pause, study okay, we continued and then maybe after another 20 minutes something else, so he just wanted to make sure that we were all well fed but then it was a lot of interruptions and it didn't really help, so a favorable environment would talk about that, what goes on, the physical place itself etc, some simple things, praise and worship and spiritual atmosphere, so have a time of worship, have a time of worship right at the start, maybe have a time of singing, it doesn't always have to be singing, we understand that but singing definitely helps us to get into to be able to praise God, to be able to worship Him, so maybe there is someone who can lead in singing, sometimes we get the thing that people saying that there is no one, there is no musician, there is no one who can lead us, so in such cases we can just maybe play the music, play an MP3, play it on an audio system and worship together, worship along, sing along and worship the Lord, maybe someone can after a song or two can pause and then give time for people to just open up and praise God out loud and maybe people can take turns to praise God out loud, so all this can be done, but to have a time of praise and worship, whether there are people to lead in worship or not, we can do that. Christ centeredness is the life of the cell, so what happens is if I'm a leader leading a cell group, keep the focus on the word, keep the focus on Jesus, well there could be times when we are sharing testimonies, maybe life testimonies and so on, but keep the focus on Jesus, even in the testimony, let it not be focused on the self, how good we were and how in faith we stirred and how we overcame, well all that is true, but turn their attention back on Christ, how the grace of God enabled, how the cross of Christ enabled, for example. The third thing, the fourth thing to ensure that happens is prayer, so you have worship, then the focus is on the word, you make sure that there's a physically and otherwise the environment is pleasant and comfortable and conducive, then have prayer, prayer maybe for the leadership of the church, prayer for the families, prayer for all the members of the cell group and yes, people might have some specific needs, they might be going through some specific challenges, so give time for that, give time for that and one good thing to do would be to regularly keep praying for various things and maybe keep a notebook, maybe keep a file where you are entering these prayer requests and it'll be good to look into it and see how God has wonderfully answered these prayer requests as well and it can be a time of thanksgiving and gratitude to God as these prayer requests get answered, so you can do that, pray for Oiko's contact, when you say Oiko's it means a household, a point of contact, especially for those families and those family members or maybe those people whom we know who have not yet received Christ, we can pray for that contact, that person whom God has prepared, who will open the door for others, in addition to that person being open to the gospel, will also facilitate others in the household, will be like an influencer of the household to share the gospel, so pray for that contact, well it's good for the life group leader to not give up the leadership, it's good in the sense it's important but also to be able to delegate certain responsibilities, maybe somebody can facilitate, in one particular cell group meeting, someone else can facilitate, so you see that you notice as a cell group leader, you notice that there are some people who have the potential to become leaders, who have the heart to become, to minister in this manner, who have a heart for ministry, so the best way to develop them is to give them opportunities to facilitate a cell group meeting and say okay this particular day when we meet you lead the meeting, so you're there as a leader but then you're given the delegating the responsibility to them and so you can discuss about how they've already been watching, they've already been seeing how you lead the meeting and of course you can discuss after the meeting also one on one and say okay how it helped and what was the learning and so on, so delegation, so you delegate based on their heart for the Lord or heart for the Lord and the zeal for the Lord and also their heart for ministry, so don't do anything to feed the ego, like suppose somebody says you know I've been traveling, I've been doing this, I do that and therefore you need to give me an opportunity to share, you don't have to do that, what is the motivation, why do they want to serve, why do they want to grow up to be a leader, is it for personal gain or is it for personal fame, what is it, do they want to look good in front of the group, see all these are wrong motivations, so do not feed that or do not give into that but if the motivation is right then you give them an opportunity as leaders, sensitivity to visitors and unbelievers, now that's another thing, suppose it might happen that on a particular cell group meeting somebody brings a friend along, they just brought them along, they were also there and they brought them along and maybe you have visitors in the house who are not believers, so be sensitive to their presence and what they believe in, so don't condemn other religions, practices etc, so don't make fun of it, don't condemn it but focus on the Lord, focus on proclaiming Jesus, then you can be creative in the cell format presentation and facilitation of the word, so as we've been saying that it's not one person preaching, it's not a sermon, it's a discussion, so it can be creative, you can ask people to maybe write down certain things, even the worship itself can be creative, the discussion can be creative, you can ask them to write certain things, you can ask them to act out certain things, you can make it interesting, be creative, you can ask people to draw and show, so it depends on what the sermon was about and what we are going to be discussing, because I don't know if I remember sharing with this group, but I remember a long time ago when we were talking about, I think this was when we were in a youth camp many years ago, so this person, this speaker who came, he was actually talking about, he was, the topic was not who we are in Christ, but really, I mean he didn't phrase it that way, this was many years back and then, but he just wanted to, this was the activity, activity, the page one of the activity, we had to draw something, so we had to draw what we felt we were like, not write down, but draw, so plain piece of paper, you're giving a pencil, pen, you need to draw what you felt like, felt like what you, what you were, okay, so many people drew, we started drawing and on the other side, we had to draw what you would be along with Jesus, it's typically a who we are in Christ kind of a message and activity, but on the other side, with Christ, with Jesus, did you feel the same way, you had to write out, I mean we have to draw out that, okay, so many people wrote, it was kind of good, I mean it was very nice to see, interesting to see the kind of creativity which people, so like one person drew a candle on one side and the candle was not lit, there was no flame, then on the other side, with Christ, because I know Jesus, because Jesus is with me, the person actually drew a flame on the candle saying, okay, now I'm a candle with the flame, now I have meaning, purpose, I'm giving light, shining light, dispelling darkness, no kind of thing, so they, these kind of things, so a certain meeting may not be or should not be a one-sided thing, it has to be something where everybody participates, not everybody will be very expressive with their words, like some people might be shy, some people might be introverted, so it will take some time, it will take some time for people to begin to open up and begin to share, but if as a leader we prepare and we ask God for creative ideas, how can I facilitate this, how can I bring home this truth and ask people to do this, maybe something they can paint, something they can draw, something they can act out, not all the time, maybe some one aspect of that discussion can be there, so this will help, okay, so creative cell group formats or presentations and maybe, you know, we're talking about a group which is 12 or 15 adults, I mean people, I'm not saying in number, we're also talking about maybe six couples, right, so it is a kind of a small group, it is not a big group, it is not a big gathering, so you can even think of, okay, you know, on a particular month, well the cell group, we are going to be meeting somewhere else, we are going to be meeting in a park, we're going to be meeting, you know, going elsewhere and meeting and we can think of, okay, maybe that particular day's discussion is intercession and you can say, okay, we are going to be meeting, in this place or on this mountain top and we are going to be praying for our city, as we look at all the houses that are there, you know, from the top of the mountain, we are going to be praying over the city, so make it creative, see how best you can do it, right, okay, allow people to discuss and ask questions, you know, that's the key, we are developing disciples, we are helping people and in the process, we ourselves are being developed, we ourselves are being built up, so we take people from being believers to becoming disciples, to becoming ministers, to becoming leaders, right, so we are helping people go through all that and so that will happen only when people discuss or if they have doubts, if they have questions, if they have the freedom to ask and get answers, if they have freedom to ask questions and everybody looks into the word or people who already know the answers, you know, the answer based on the word saying this is what it is, so then there is learning, then there is, the questions are being answered, so there is growth, right, okay, so after the meeting formally ends, meet and follow with visitors, new cell members, et cetera, right, now there also could be, you know, there could be conflicts because, you know, it involves people, right, so there could be people not getting along with other kind of people, right, in the cell group itself, maybe there could be some differences of opinion and because of which they are not able to get along, there could be conflicts for various reasons but the thing is to resolve them, right, to be able to solve those conflicts, to be able to solve those problems and we need to do that, so, you know, in another section we're going to look more into the details of that, so, but the thing is to have that mindset, okay, if there is a problem, if there is a, you know, a relational thing, if there is a conflict, well we are going to address it, we're going to solve it, okay, and not let it go, right, okay, okay, so what do we do with, one of the questions is, okay, if it's a family group, right, you have children, now what do we do with children, okay, so children can be part of the group, they can have, you know, it depends on the age of the children, right, if the children are, you know, kind of, if they are 10, 11, 12, they can be that by themselves, they can play by themselves or they can have an activity, maybe somebody from the cell group can, you know, take responsibility and say, okay, this particular meeting I will take care of the kids, I will teach the children, I will, you know, make sure that they have an activity, right, so somebody who's gifted to be with children, to minister the children can do that or the children can watch something and at the same time when the adults are meeting and having their meeting, the children can also learn something, watch something, maybe read something, maybe one of the older kids can, you know, all the children can read something, you know, maybe a Bible story, maybe handle an activity, maybe, so there is also, they are also involved, right, so rather than looking as children as someone who's inconvenient for the meeting, we can actually involve that, you know, many times in our home, in our house, the kids used to, they used to watch a video, they used to watch some songs and of course there will be some issues, you know, there will be some problems used, you know, in between somebody will start crying because somebody started fighting with the other, so all that will be there, you know, that's the reality, you know, meeting as families, but it's all part of that, right, so don't look at them as inconveniences but involve the children, plan something for them, so it's going to take some effort to plan something for them, right, so that they are occupied during this time and it's good if it's something similar to what, you know, the adults are doing, okay, maybe the adults are looking at, you know, the sermon, maybe if someone can do it for the level of the children, the same message, maybe something else, how can that apply for children, you know, if someone can do that then that'll be, that'll be wonderful, right, and people can take turns to do that, okay, here are some guidelines, family cell groups, you know, maybe they need equipment, okay, I don't know how to handle kids, I don't know how to, maybe if people are saying I don't know how to handle them, I don't know how to, you know, get equipped, maybe read something, watch some videos, find out, contact the children's pastor, find out, and do the same thing, right, so, well, one thing to keep in mind is that when we start with worship, when we start or maybe end with prayer, children can be part of it, right, they can also be part of the worship time, they can maybe sing along, they can maybe lead in some of the songs, and also pray at time, right, so they can, so what is happening is that they're learning, right, they're learning that, okay, this is what happens in a cell group meeting, this is, these are some things that happen, and so, you know, they are learning as well, okay, yeah, I think this is what we saw, this is what we read just now, okay, so when it comes to the cell group leader, okay, we'll look at this section, and then we'll probably take questions, okay, so according to this model, you know, that we see only the committed members of the church can be trained or are developed to become leaders or appointed as leaders, okay, so it's not like somebody who's visiting, somebody who's part of another church, right, like they might have leadership qualities, you know, they might be running their own ministry, and they might be, like they might be doing other things, they might be, you know, wonderful, they might be wonderful minister of God, but a cell group leader is one who's committed to the church, is part of the church, is committed to the church, is part of the vision of the church, okay, so why is that, because one is the part of the vision of the church, they align to the vision of the church, they understand why do we have this, why do we have cell group meetings at all, right, the second thing is that they have oversight, spiritual oversight, you know, they are accountable, well, the leadership or maybe there is a cell pastor, maybe there's a coordinator who's going to ask them some questions, you know, he did we meet today, did we meet this week, the cell group hasn't met in a while, you know, any particular reason, and they're going to be asking some questions, so you're accountable, you know, if something wrong is happening in the cell group, if the cell, you know, if the cell group leader is like totally going off on a tangent, then there is accountability, so the leader, the leadership of the church, the pastor maybe is going to ask some questions, you know, this is what we, you know, this is the direction that we want to go, and you know, maybe we need to make some course correction, right, you know, what you're doing in the cell group needs to change a bit, right, why don't you try this, right, so they will bring in that correction, so that'll be, that'll be part of it, so therefore the cell group leader needs to be part of the church, very important, needs to be a member of the church, right, when you say a member, you know, becomes a formal member, which means they've taken that step to be committed to the church, so this is a very important thing, this might seem like a very, you know, small thing, or it might seem like, you know, why are you, you know, getting into all these formalities, but the thing is, it's, it works both ways, when somebody is committed, when somebody is a member, when somebody is known to the leadership, then you're able to, you're able to trust that person, right, you're able to trust that person, train that person, and entrust this responsibility of leading a life group, the cell group, to the person, right, so unless somebody is committed, unless somebody is a member, you cannot do that, you cannot entrust that responsibility, so you make sure that the person is a committed member, like part of the church comes to church, you know, takes part in the activities of the church, in the life and, you know, life of the church, and so is a committed member, right, so that's one thing. The second thing is that, you see that the members or the cell group leaders should also be equipped, right, spiritually, so one needs to ensure that, okay, so they need to have their fundamentals, the basic things in place, basic doctrines in place, so as a church, APC has the biblical foundations course, which talks about, you know, the nature of God, talks about salvation and sin and holiness and faith and who we are in Christ and worship and the sacraments of the church and so on, so these basic things, one has to have a knowledge and understanding of it, in order to be able to, like personally to be strong in this, to have an understanding and also to be able to teach others, lead others, right, then the third thing we all always make sure is that they are also trained to be cell leaders, cell group leaders, right, and so they go through the training, you know, and training is something, the material that we are going through is what they will go through also, they will go through this and then get an understanding of, okay, this is what a cell group is, these are the dos and don'ts, this is the expectation of the church leadership from the cell leader, this is what is expected, these are some things that are not expected, so the cell group leader is clear in his or her mind, okay, this is what we can do, this is the big picture, this is why we are doing cell group, so it would actually set the person for success, right, the whole training would actually help, you know, set the person to do well as a leader, to be equipped as a leader, to face some of the problems that might come up, and to have a realistic expectation, you know, like, the person should not think, oh, you know, if I, what is, what, this happened, you know, why did it happen, how, you know, is it supposed to, all those things are, you know, put to rest in the sense, yes, as a cell group leader, you can expect this, excuse me, so to say, okay, as a cell group leader, you know, you can expect this, this is the reality, if there are children, this is what will happen, so you'll be prepared, there are different kinds of people, and so, you know, this is what these, maybe some might, you know, behave in a certain way and do these things, you'll be, you know, ready for that, so if there are problems, you know, this is how you face it, so the training would cover that, so that they are equipped, okay, let's look at some of the responsibilities of the cell leaders, okay, some of the responsibility, one is preparing for the cell group meetings, so studying the word and preparing for discussions, now the preparation is, you know, one, the preparation, the key basic thing is, of course, quiet time with the Lord, there's nothing that can replace that, so as a leader, as a cell group leader, I need to have my, you know, personal disciplines of prayer and worship and word, and my personal time with God in place, okay, and then, you know, all these other things would apply, okay, so what are these other things, one is to prepare for the cell meetings, you know, who's going to be coming, you know, what is the content, right, so study that, be sure of that, and also think of ways to have the discussion, you know, what are some questions that you can ask, well, the cell lesson itself has some discussion questions, I think I shared it with, you know, the sermon outline comes, which is on the website, church website, would come with a cell lesson, you know, life group lesson, as it's called, so it has, it gives a, it's a guideline, okay, this is what you can do in a, in a meeting, so some, some scriptures to read, some questions to discuss, and some guidelines what to do after that, so it is there already, so, you know, you go through it, you prepare that, and anything additional that you want to do, you know, during the time of discussion, how do you want to facilitate it, think about that, plan that, pray about it, and, you know, be prepared with it, guiding the discussions to the cell, through the cell meeting, now that is another thing, now this is another thing that the person needs to be familiar with, and, you know, sometimes maybe with practice, right, it becomes, it becomes easier, right, so maybe people are sharing, you know, you could have a situation where nobody wants to speak anything, nobody wants to say anything, it's all quiet, okay, so to be able to ask pointed questions, right, what do you think, you know, this is what we looked at Sunday, you know, the ways by which we can receive from God, that God has already done it, the Lord has already done it on the cross, and it is His will and desire that we receive it, walk in it, so, and these are ways by which we can do it, so, you know, have you tried it out, you know, what are some of the ways by which, any testimonies about, so you ask these pointed specific questions, which enable people to open up and share, okay, you know, going beyond, okay, does anyone have anything to share, you know, that's a very open, kind of open, maybe people might want to share, people may not, you know, that they don't feel like talking, they're just all quiet, and nobody's saying anything, so it's up to us as self-group leaders to take that first step, and maybe, you know, self-group leader himself or self-kid share, and then from there, as people are listening, maybe they feel interested to share, so, another one shares, or maybe they just need a little bit of encouragement, a little bit of drawing out, right, and then asking them to share, so that can be done, okay, to guide the discussion, so, during the discussions also, it is possible that the discussion might go off in a different direction altogether, you know, this is the topic, and then people are, begin slowly, begin to talk about, you know, their personal things, and, you know, hey, you know what, this is what happens, so to bring back the discussion, to bring back the focus onto the topic of discussion is the responsibility of the self-group leader, okay, so that is also guiding the discussion, facilitating the discussion, and also to move forward to the next one, the next point, or the next thing, which is being planned, is the responsibility of the self-group leader, so the self-group leader takes that initiative to step in and say, okay, I think we've discussed, you know, we've discussed sufficiently, we've had a good discussion on this, now let's look at this other thing, okay, now no one else will do it, the self-group leader has to do it, the self-group leader has to guide the discussion, okay, set a godly example, influence people through life contact, disciple, cell members, so set a godly example through your life, through your speech, through your actions, through your lifestyle, let it speak to the people, right, everything else about you, let it speak to the people, lead by example, okay, pray for all cell members, you know them, and slowly they begin to, you begin to hear about the challenges they might be facing, and also some things pointedly, specifically that you want to, you know, you want to see in their lives, maybe some breakthrough, pray for cell members, follow up with individuals during the week, so this is outside of the cell meeting, you see that, okay, you have the cell meeting, and then you are, you know, as a cell group leader, the cell group leader is doing certain things, now outside of the cell meeting, okay, the cell group meeting is over, now apart from that, during the week when the cell group is not meeting, what can the cell group leader do, of course to pray for the people, and also maybe to follow up, maybe to send an email, maybe to send them an SMS, a WhatsApp text to find out how they were doing, maybe they need some encouragement, right, maybe they need some prayer support, maybe whatever, they need some counsel, so to be able to do that during the week, or maybe just to catch up, you know, what's happening during the week, you said this was, this was bothering you, you know, is everything okay, just to give a call during the week, okay, lead cell members in ministry and outreach to help them, to share the gospel, maybe they need some equipping, lead them in outreach, lead them in ministry, maybe somebody would want to do some kind of, you know, they have a ministry of compassion, and they feel that, okay, the poor and needy, they need to be helped, and just understand that, okay, in what way would they want to do ministry, what has got placed in their heart, right, what has got graced them with, and recognize that, and help them with that, help them recognize it, help them discover it, maybe they notice that, you know, every time you see the, you know, the poor people, I see that you're drawn to them, and you want to do something, why don't you, why don't you think about doing something on those lines, why don't you ask God to do something, to open up some doors, so that, you know, you can begin to, you know, do something with your resources, with your time, and maybe help them, why don't you do that, so, you know, helping people in the life group, in the cell group, to get started in serving others, in outreach, right, okay, encouraging cell members to evangelize, again, you know, this intentionally to share the gospel, to have conversations with others about Christ, maybe their testimony, how they got saved, and so on. Developing cell group members into leaders, now this is also something, now what would help is to, well, maybe not all are interested, maybe not all are, you know, have that same kind of gifting to be cell group leaders, but those who are, you know, whom you identify and whom you see that have the potential, they have the heart, they have the, maybe the shepherd's heart, you know, they want to care for people, they want, they are, well, they are interested in the spiritual life of the people, of the people, you know, they are interested, they care for the character, the testimony of other people, and so they are, you know, burdened about that, then they want to do something about that. So these are some things to notice and say, okay, this person really has a heart for developing people, he's an encourager, he's building up people, so, you know, why don't we develop them as leaders, giving them opportunities, you know, equipping them, maybe, and so that eventually they can start their own cell group, okay, and more people can be part of that, you know, so here we have 12 people, now if they start, now you have 24 people who are actually being discipled, you have 12 here and 12 there, right, so there is growth, there is multiplication in developing disciples, right, so it's why it's important to develop cell group members into leaders, okay, ministering to the needs of cell members, council support, imparting the vision of the church, always, you know, to point, so this is another thing, you know, crisis at the center, no compromise, and because we are part of, or committed to the local church and the life group ministry is also, or the cell group ministry is also part of that church that we are committed to, from time to time to draw people to the vision of the church, right, okay, this is why we are doing this, to remind people about the vision of the church is also the responsibility of the cell group leader, right, be accountable to the cell pastor and to the church, maybe the church might say, okay, why don't you attend this meeting, why don't you, you know, once the cell groups are, meetings are conducted, maybe keep us informed, send a small report, you know, these are some, maybe some administrative responsibilities, or some other kind of responsibilities, right, will be accountable to that, okay, so be aware of it, be accountable to those responsibilities, to the leadership as well, okay, so that's about the responsibility of the cell group leader, okay, now this might be different for, you know, different churches, this might be different for different ministries, but we're just putting together, you know, what would generally apply in most cases, and also specifically for, you know, APC as a church, and this model of cell group ministry, which is followed by APC, right, okay, so 950, we'll take a break, we'll come back in 10 minutes, okay, thank you.


The Battle of Infrastructure, 2017.  Now you may have no control over who lives, who dies, who tells your story, but the rumors of the death of any technology are greatly exaggerated. I've had people say to me, why do people still use on-premises? Why do people still use bare metal? Isn't bare metal infrastructure dead? And the answer to this is definitely no. If you're dealing with processing a lot of video, if you're dealing with mining whatever cryptocurrency is invoked today, you still need the raw compute power of bare metal. Now I've also heard, isn't virtual machine infrastructure dead? I mean, isn't everything serverless now? Why are you still spinning up VMs like you're running out of time? And the answer to this is no, it's not dead. There are a lot of parts of your application which don't work well in serverless and you still need that VM. Now this one's the big one. Doesn't everyone just run everything in containers now? And the answer to this is also no, despite what the hype may lead you to believe that containers are not the best solution for everything. This is because containers are for the stateless parts of an application, things like web servers or even short-lived caches, things where it doesn't matter if that container goes away and we spin up a new one from that container image. Now by contrast, containers are not for the stateful parts of an application, things like production databases. If you try to run a production database in a container, you are in for a world of hurt. Now when I say stateful, what I mean by that is something is stateful when it has persistent data, when it has data that needs to stick around from deploy to deploy and throughout the lifetime of the application. That means something is stateful and that means it should not go in a container. Now if you store persistent data in a container, you will get a giant container that is locked into a host. It's not young, scrappy, and hungry and you are throwing away your shot with containers if you do this. Now in addition to having that giant non-portable container, you're also going to be locked into a particular host. It's going to be very difficult to spin up a new container and get all that persistent data out of the old container into the new one and if that container goes away, you're pretty much screwed. It turns the world of containers upside down. Now I mentioned this last week and someone said to me, well isn't running a giant container that's locked to a host just the same thing as running my database in a virtual machine? And the answer to this is also no. There's some big differences. The two biggest are that you don't back up a container and you don't patch a container. Containers, the idea of them is that you don't change the software running in them. You update the container image and then you make a new container to do that. Keeping the persistent data out of your containers keeps them portable. That's the reason containers were created in the first place to have that wonderful ephemeral flexibility to spin up a new version of that application piece anywhere. Now what about Kubernetes? I mean there's a lot of really smart people at Google. Haven't they figured out this problem of stateful data in containers? And the answer is yes, but there are stateful sets in Kubernetes and they are very, very cool. But the thing about them is they still keep the persistent data out of the containers. They keep it on a separate volume that is then automatically mounted on each container as it's spun up within that stateful set. Now how do I know what parts of my application go where? I mean is my infrastructure even something I can control? Is it unimitable? Is it an original? Well I can't give you the 10 Commandments of Infrastructure but I can give you three general guidelines to help you when you're deciding where to run your application parts. The first is that stateless parts should go in containers. Again, anything where it doesn't matter if it goes away and comes back up again, you'll get a lot of benefit from having those in containers. Now if you have a persistent data store, something like a production database, those generally should go in virtual machines if you wanna keep that wonderful power and flexibility of the cloud and have the ability to easily back it up and or spin up a new virtual machine. Now if you're dealing with anything with a heavy compute load, again, processing video, doing cryptocurrency, anything where it would be bad for your host to be sharing its resources with other applications running on it, those generally do best on bare metal. There is definitely still a place for bare metal in this work. And so the DevOps experiment begins with my servers not scattered to the winds. Again, I'm Nell Shamrell Harrington. My name is Nell Shamrell Harrington. That's my info and thank you.


Good morning, Hank, it's Tuesday. I'm in my basement wearing a tie, which can only mean one thing. It's time for the Bank of Nerdfighteria's semi-annual report. So the Bank of Nerdfighteria is like the U.S. federal government, or an exceptionally unhealthy tree. It has three branches! There's the lending branch, the spending branch, and then the giving branch. Let's start with the lending branch over at Kiva.org. More than 49,000 members of the Nerdfighter Kiva group have now loaned more than $6.3 million to entrepreneurs in the developing world. Where the second largest group of all time on the website, you can make loans of as little as $25 to the entrepreneur of your choice. And you have a 99% chance of getting paid back, so it's like a savings account with a negative 1% interest rate, which is pretty healthy these days. There is a link in the doobly-doo below to learn more. Okay, on to the spending arm. So, Hank, our channels Crash Course and SciShow are both primarily supported not by advertising, but by voluntary subscriptions at Patreon. Basically, people who value Crash Course and SciShow and can afford to support them can go to Patreon and do so, so that the rest of us can watch it for free. Hank, lots of people told us that this would never work, but in fact, so far it's working great. Both Crash Course and SciShow are now not only fully sustainable thanks to Patreon, but we're hoping to be able to expand both of them in 2016. So, thank you. There are also cool perks if you support the shows on Patreon. There's a link in the doobly-doo. And lastly, the giving arm. So, Hank, the ninth annual project for Awesome starts this Friday at noon Eastern time. But the fundraising starts at midnight tonight with the launch of the Indiegogo with lots of amazing perks with 100% of the proceeds going to benefit the Foundation to Decrease World Suck, which is the real name of our real charity. And yes, your donations are tax deductible.  Everyone who works on it volunteers their time. All it does is take money we raised during the Project for Awesome in the rest of the year and distribute it out to charities. This year, during the first half of the Project for Awesome, we're raising money for Save the Children and the UN's High Commission on Refugees. And during that half of the P4A, your donations will be matched. Save the Children donors have put up $350,000 of matching donations. And Hank and I are going to match another $250,000. So, every dollar you donate for the first half of the Project for Awesome will be matched. And then, in the second half, we're going to be raising money for charities chosen by you. Starting on Friday, you can go to ProjectforAwesome.com, watch P4A videos, and vote for your favorites so that Nerdfighteria kind of collectively picks what charities we support. Also, if you have a charity that you feel strongly about, you should make a Project for Awesome video. If you make an awesome video explaining why a charity that you care about deserves people's support, it could win lots of money. It happens every year. You can find lots of resources, including Project for Awesome thumbnails and stuff at ProjectforAwesome.com. There's a link in the doobly-doo. Also, during the Project for Awesome, there is a 48-hour livestream starring Hank and myself and many other people from the YouTube community. During that 48 hours, you can always find the link to the livestream at ProjectforAwesome.com. It's the one time of year when you're likely to see my kids cover my face in Sharpie. Ah, and I forgot to mention that before it even starts, the Project for Awesome is off to a great start because the foundation to Decrease World Suck already has $80,000. Most of that is either from Nerdcrafteria, the Nerdfighter Minecraft server, or from Vlogbrothers Ad Revenue, half of which goes to sponsor educational projects online, and half of which goes to the foundation. So thank you for watching ads! So Hank, that's the status of the Bank of Nerdfighteria. I'm very excited for the Project for Awesome. If you have any questions, you can leave them in comments. I will try to answer them. I've been pointing at my pants a lot in this video. Hank, you will also see me on Friday because it is my year to make a P4A video. Hmm, so even things out and bring order to the universe, I will see you on both next Tuesday and next Friday, then we'll return to normal. DFTBA!


Civil unions are close to passing in Colorado, but there's only a few days left before the legislature adjourns. We're getting down to the wire on Amendment 1 in North Carolina, and the Prop 8 play is getting new legs as an audiobook. The guys behind We Are Young have some strong words about marriage equality. I'm Matt Baume at the American Foundation for Equal Rights, and welcome to Marriage News Watch from May 7th, 2012. Great news from Colorado. The House Judiciary Committee has passed a civil unions bill by a 6-5 vote. That's the same margin by which an identical bill was killed last year. So what made the difference? Republican lawmaker BJ Nickel, who changed her mind when she heard heart-rending testimony from LGBT couples. That bodes well for the bill's passage in the House, where Republicans hold a one-vote majority. You can click these icons to subscribe to AFR on Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook, so we can keep you connected and informed in fights like this one. Colorado's legislature adjourns on May 9th, so there's likely to be breaking news on this front very soon. Also on May 9th, we'll have the results of voting in North Carolina on Amendment 1. Polling shows that the ballot measure could still pass, even though it's lost some of its lead. Voters still don't seem to understand exactly how far Amendment 1 goes. Previous ads from the campaign to stop Amendment 1 showed how it would withhold health insurance and domestic violence protection from people who need it. This week, the campaign released a new ad featuring an assistant DA who explains how the measure will jeopardize domestic violence protections. In national news, there's been movement in two cases that challenged the Defense of Marriage Act. Both involve military benefits and are likely to be in the news a lot over the next few months. The first case has a congressional legal group led by House Speaker John Boehner, moving to intervene in McLaughlin v. Panetta. In this case, Boehner's group will be arguing in opposition to veterans like Chief Warren Officer Charlie Morgan, who has stage 3 breast cancer and desperately needs to secure survivor benefits for her wife. The second case is Cardona v. Shinseki, which involves survivor benefits for a disabled veteran and her wife. That case has attracted a number of friend-of-the-court briefs from veterans organizations. That includes several groups represented by Gibson Dunn and Crutcher. Now that name may sound familiar, that's because they're one of the firms that's working on Afer's case to overturn Proposition 8. In other news, nearly a million people have watched 8 Dustin Lance Black's play about the Prop 8 trial on YouTube. And now millions more will have the opportunity to listen to it when it's released as an audiobook. Starting next month, you'll be able to download the show from L.A. TheatreWorks along with bonus features like interviews with the cast. And finally this week, the band Fun took a stand on marriage equality. The group behind the song We Are Young told reporters that even though they're all straight, they feel a responsibility to speak out on behalf of LGBT couples, and they plan to use their newfound fame to promote marriage equality. Okay. Click below to subscribe on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, and visit afer.org to learn more about the federal fight to overturn Prop 8. I'm Matt Baume at the American Foundation for Equal Rights. We'll see you next week.


Okay it's time for a council initiated discussion. Veterans of the council know this part of an open session meeting quite well. We've given you a full agenda and there's more to do tomorrow as well but we also want to give you an opportunity to play open mic and this is a good time for you to ask for reports on some of our grant programs or activities going on at NIH. It's also a good time for you to bring to our attention any concerns you're hearing in the community. You are representative, you're advising us but you're also representatives of the research community and if you're hearing about problems or crises that we need to be apprised of it's a good time to bring it up. So what would you like to hear about? We could start with that. Sharon. Well I thought the discussion a few minutes ago about what type of LC research is going on across NIH was an interesting one. I don't know that all the institutes use the term LC but whether it might be worth at least hearing about if there's some major efforts addressing overlapping issues or policy issues at other institutes because when we review or when we hear about the grants we're normally thinking about the NHGRI program and not necessarily thinking about it in the context of NIH and where there might be other work going on. So would you like us to pull together some kind of report or could we ask our LC program directors to invite people from other institutes to give presentations which that might get a little bit long That might get long. I think I would defer to them as to the best way to present but I think it would be a good topic. Okay go ahead Rafa. So I hear concerns about the way their lack of guidelines for effort reporting. For what effort reporting? Okay and I think the general topic of foreign influence and NIH oversight of some of these things and many of the things that are in the news and we certainly have been offered appropriate people will come to council meetings and talk to council members so we can certainly do that. I thought a while back we had a discussion about having possible speakers about collaborating with foreign entities particularly China and so on. Maybe I've missed something in the interim. We might be the same general topic we just heard about. If you're talking about the recent concerns about that. Are you looking for guidelines to adhere to or report about the scope of the problem? Guidelines I think and in my mind. Okay we can do that. All right that's a short list we're happy with that. All right I think we're in the home stretch here so I'm now going to read the conflict of interest statement to you. This is what you've been waiting for all day long. This applies to the applications that you will review in closed session later today and tomorrow and there is a document I can see Pat's pulling it out now thank you very much there's a document in the folder that you need to sign a testing to your that you've identified conflicts so please do that and leave it just leave it on the desk we'll collect it later. So you must leave the meeting room when applications submitted by your own organization are being individually discussed. In the case of state higher education or other systems with multiple campuses that are geographically separated own organization is intended to mean the entire system except where determination has been previously made that the components are separate organizations for the purpose of determining conflict of interest. You should avoid situations that could give rise to charges of conflict of interest whether they are real or apparent. For example you should not participate in the deliberations and actions on any application from or involving your spouse child recent student recent teacher professional collaborator with whom you have worked closely a close personal friend or a scientist with whom you have had longstanding scientific or personal differences. The NHGRI staff will determine the appropriate action based on recency frequency and strength of such associations or interests either positive or negative and will instruct you accordingly. And counsel actions in which you vote on a block of applications without discussing any individual one the so-called on block action your vote will not apply to any application from any institution fulfilling the criteria noted above. Please sign the conflict of interest and dispose of a confidential materials forms which are provided and leave them at your place they'll be collected at the end of the meeting. And get ready with that gavel because we're now done with the open session we're going to take about a 15 minute break and then reassemble for the closed session. Okay.


Suppose x star comma y star is a local minimum, is a local maximum in this case of this particular optimization problem. Now, how did we argue in the case when the constraint was an open set? He said well x star and y star is a local solution. So, therefore, there is a ball around it and the constraint is an open set. So, what we can do is we can find a ball around it such that the ball lies completely in the feasible region. If the ball lies completely in the feasible region, we said we can go in any, we can move in any particular direction, any direction h. And so therefore, and then from there using Taylor's theorem, we concluded that the gradient transpose h should be greater than equal to 0 for every direction h or less than equal to 0 as the case may be. So, in that case then we and then we said that well one can one can take h suitably and show that this would imply that the gradient itself must be equal to 0 or the derivative of the function must be equal to 0. So, where does that argument fail here? The argument fails because this is not an open set. So, it is not true that if it just because it is a local minimum, we cannot compare the value of the objective with, we cannot compare that with every point in the neighborhood of x star y star. We have to compare it only with those points that are in the neighborhood and in the feasible region, right. So, you have to be sensitive to the shape of the feasible region near this point and that has to get factored in into your analysis, alright. So, it is not possible to therefore, simply work with only neighborhoods because neighborhoods are not necessarily all included in this, okay, alright. So, now let us look at a point like this. Suppose x star y star is a local maximum of this optimization problem, okay. Now, if you look at the, so can someone tell me without loss of generality, can I take either x star or y star as non-zero? So, I did not mention it, but it goes without saying that alpha is positive here. So, can I take x star or and either x star or y star as non-zero? If both of them are zero, then this equation will not be satisfied, right. So, the origin is not on the LA. So, both of them zero will not satisfy this equation. So, we will take, suppose let us take for simplicity. So, clearly either x star is not zero or y star is not zero, okay. So, let us suppose let y star be non-zero, okay. So, what that means is in terms of this diagram here, I am not looking at points where y star can be zero. So, I am looking at points, I am not looking at these sort of points, these two points here. These are, these two are points here where which could put, where y star could be zero, I am not looking at those points. So, I am looking at only points like these here, either here or here where y star is non-zero. Now, when y star is not equal to zero, that means we are in somewhere say at a point like this, okay. So, let us take some of this point itself, okay. So, we are at a point like this. Now, if you are at this sort of point, okay, you are on the surface of the ellipse and the thing that we want to exploit is because you are at this, at a point like this, I should be able to, if I tell you what the, if I tell you what the x is, I should be able to solve for y in terms of the x, knowing that I am on the ellipse. Being on the ellipse gives me this particular thing that if I tell you what the x is, I know precisely what the y is, okay. So, for example, if this is my point x, I know that this is what the y is. If this is my point x, then I know this is what the y is. This is because you are on the ellipse. On the ellipse, I can solve for y in terms of x. Now, I cannot do that actually at this sort of point because here if I tell you an x here, there are two possible y's, there is a y above and a y below. But here, near my point, near the point x star, y star that I am considering, I can solve for a y uniquely in terms of x on the ellipse, okay. So, let me explain this little more slowly. So, suppose this is my point x star, y star and I look in the very, in the neighborhood of my of x star. In the neighborhood of x star, okay, in the neighborhood of x star, every x maps to a different y and to a unique y. So, which means that if I give you an x, I can solve through the equations of the ellipse for what the value of y should be, right. What that is effectively saying is I can look at this equation f of x comma y equal to f 1 of x comma y equal to alpha and then fix the x here and solve for the y using this equation. And so long as I am not at this sort of point, I should get back a unique answer, right. I should be able to get y in terms of x. Now, this thing which I am just, I was, I am just telling you geometrically actually is a theorem, okay. It is what is called the implicit function theorem. So, this is the result of the implicit function theorem. Again, I will tell you what the result is in this particular context. So, the implicit function theorem in this particular context guarantees that there exists an epsilon greater than 0 and opens, number these, there is 1, an epsilon greater than 0 to an open set containing my point x star, y star and this function g, and a differentiable function g. This function is what will give me back my y in terms of x. That means the argument to this function is going to be an x and its output will be y, right. So, this function will take argument x, but this function will take an x and generate for me a y, but it will generate for me this y in a limited scope means that only in the neighborhood of x star can I talk of such an existence of such a function. Only in this neighborhood of x star will I be able to get my y back in terms of x. If I make this neighborhood too large, then you know all health breaks lose, I get multiple y's, there is no more correspondence between x and y. But so long as I am close enough, I should be able to solve for x in terms of y. Solve for y in terms of x. So, there is a differentiable function g whose domain is is like this. It is just x star minus epsilon to x star plus epsilon mapping back to mapping back to v. So, in this figure here v is this open set x plus minus epsilon is this sorry x star plus minus epsilon is this set x star minus epsilon to x star plus epsilon. And g is the function that you know taking the value of x returns the value of y for me. So, now I will tell you what the theorem says.  So, y equals g of x if and only if it lies in the on the ellipse and x comma y belongs to and is in the neighborhood v that is being considered here. So, one direction it means that if you look at any point that is in the ellipse that is on the ellipse and in this small neighborhood v of x star y star then that that point can be expressed in this sort of way y is a function of x y equals g of x and x lies x of course lies in this sort in this domain. So, take any point on the ellipse that can be expressed this way the reverse is also true take any x that lie that is in this neighborhood here evaluate the function low and behold you get a point at that is bang on the ellipse. So, this is what formally it means to solve for x solve for y in terms of x. So, you have got y as in terms of x. So, you can actually work this out you know solve this as a quadratic equation and get what that what this function actually is we do not need the form of it I just want you to know that this is I we will see how this generalizes there is such a function that is the point. So, now because there is such a function. So, now that that it means it means the following that since x star y star is a local minimum x star y star is the best local maximum x star y star is the best in amongst all points on the ellipse and in a small neighborhood around x star y star it has the maximum value of maximum value for this area. So, x star y star is a local maximum. So, let us denote this objective here by f 0 of x comma y.  Now, so in a small neighborhood around x star y star x star is up is the best value gives you the best value of f 0 in a small neighborhood of x star y star y can be solved in terms of x. So, if I take the smaller of the two neighborhood what must be the case both should hold right both should hold that means enough there is a small enough neighborhood in which I can solve for y in terms of x as given by the implicit function theorem. And moreover x star y star is the local maximum is the maximum over that neighborhood. So, therefore, in a small neighborhood of x star y star. So, also the solution of this optimization. So, you can look at this particular optimization in which y has now been substituted for as d of x and you are optimizing only over x right.  So, what does now what kind of problem has this become you have you have f 0 which was a differentiable function I told you g is also differentiable. So, this is all nice isn't all nice your objective is differentiable objective is differentiable, but importantly what is the shape of the constraint what what or what is the nature of the constraint it is now an open space right. So, as a this is what I wanted to tell you. So, you take a problem which where you are optimizing a function over a surface the implicit function theorem if it kicks in lets you convert that to an optimization over an open set over only some of the variable. This was an optimization over x and y to begin with we now have an optimization over only x, but it is an the earlier problem in x and y was an optimization over a closed set. We what we have got been able to conclude is that it is x star y star which was the solution of that earlier problem is also a local minimum of this particular of new optimization problem which is an optimization of a differentiable function, but over an open set, but open set only in x not in x and y both. So, now we can simply apply what we what we know from our previous lecture which is that the this this means that the derivative of this new function the derivative of of this this thing must derivative of this should be equal to 0 at x star right and that is just an an application of chain rule of differentiation. So, we therefore get that. So, I can write this in the following way that f 0 of f 0 x evaluated at x star y star plus f 0 y evaluated at x star y star times g x evaluated at x star this must be equal to 0. What is this quantity this the left hand side here is this is simply partial derivative with respect to x of the function f 0 of x comma g of x evaluated at x equal to x star I have just applied chain rule today. Now, in addition to this I also have that that the I also have that g of x returns me a point that is on the ellipse right in the neighborhood of x star g of x is the point on the ellipse x comma g of x is the point on the ellipse. So, which means that x f 1 of x comma g of x must be equal to alpha this is the first equation comes by optimization result on optimization over over open sets over open sets this here is that x comma g of x lies on the ellipse.  So, x should be within plus minus epsilon of x star right. So, this is lies on the ellipse for all x such that x star minus x in absolute value is less than epsilon right, but then this since this is true for all x like this that are in this this interval from x minus epsilon to x plus by x star plus at minus x star minus epsilon to x star plus epsilon since this is this is this is true for all of them what does it mean the left hand side the left hand side is actually independent of x as I vary x from x star minus epsilon till x star plus epsilon in that open interval because it is all for all these x is it is equal to alpha. What does that mean? What that means is I can put the derivative of the left hand side should be equal to 0 because it is independent of x derivative with respect to x as right. So, so, so derivative at x. So, derivative of this at x star must be equal to 0.  So, I want to highlight this we have got two equations like this. So, this is so this is true for all this is identically equal to alpha for all x in that interval right. So, at x star x star is the in that interval right the derivative should I mean it is a constant. So, its derivative should be equal to 0 if I view this as a function of x right. So, that is the so that is the reason. So, this derivative must be equal to 0.  Now, so long as my so if you look at that equation here. So, if I take the partial derivative with respect to y I am going to get a 2 y by b square and I had assumed that y star is not equal to 0. So, when y star is not equal to 0 that f 1 y evaluated at x star y star is not 0 right. So, since y star is not equal to 0 you get f 1 y evaluated at x star y star is not equal to 0. So, what that means is I can just use this equation second equation here. So, let us call number these let us call this equation 1 this call this equation 2. So, I can use 2 from 2 I can just solve for g x of x star. So, g x of x star is equal to negative of f 1 y evaluated at x star y star times f 1 x evaluated at x star y star and this then putting this into equation 1 gives me the condition that substitute in 1 sorry I think I have missed an inverse here. So, this is there should be an inverse here. So, notice what has happened. So, one of you asked me we do not we need not know g in closed form that is it is true we did not know g in closed form. But what I have done is I in using equation 2 and using that f 1 y evaluated at x star y star this is not 0 I was able to eliminate g from the equation or completely and I have now got here an equation that is only in terms of x star and y star and the known functions f 0 and f 1. So, this therefore is a necessary this gives me a new necessary condition for my for x star y star to be a local maximum. So, go back to the optimization problem that we had this was the optimization problem. So, x star y star is a local maximum then it is necessary that x star y star satisfies this this box. So, what this is giving us is that this is we as a result we by what we have done is we took an optimization of a differential function over a surface use the fact that you were on a surface use the equations of the surface to solve for one way one some variables in terms of the others turn that around and substituted and then use chain rule some more calculus and so on and then got back and a bunch of equations that that must be satisfied. You can see that if you did not have constraints some of these terms would vanish and all you will be left with is just you know derivative equal to 0 that is all you will be left with derivative of the objective equal to 0. So, this is how that earlier thing generalized what we have done earlier generalized. So, there is a these the implicit function and the and this particular term in particular this this this term in particular has an important meaning and I will discuss all these things in the in the next class. How this generalizes to to the two more general settings.


U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Tel Aviv on October 12 and met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of a Middle East tour to show Washington's solidarity with Israel after the attacks by Palestinian Hamas militants and to work to prevent the conflict from widening. Blinken will also try to help secure the release of hostages kidnapped by Hamas, some of whom are Americans and advance talks with Israelis and Egyptians on providing a safe passage of Gaza. He lands out of the enclave before a possible Israeli ground invasion. After Israel, Blinken will head to Jordan, where he will meet with King Abdullah and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.


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So this is a puzzle in which you have a grid with different colors and you have to fill all that grid with similar color. So here it starts with this screen, we have named it number virus. So there are two levels of difficulty, easy and medium. So this is the grid that you have to solve. So to create the game you have to shake it. So now the game is created, now you have to solve it. So it starts from the top corner, so here is four. Now there is an option to choose zero and one because they are the cubes that are around four. So you should choose zero. So it will change those four to this zero. Now like this we have to traverse and we have to complete this grid in the same color in just 20 moves. Okay. So next should be three, one, zero. Now it should be two, it should be three. What is the logic work? Should I press four for instance? I can press four but I believe from my logic it will not help me out right now because whenever these all fours are encircled with three, if I press four at last also they will cover it. So there is no such four. So there is a point in right now. So what actually my steps are just 20 so I have to think about what should be the next step and after that step then only I can solve this. Okay. Let's move with four only and one more facility is there. I can just go back if at a point of time I think that I have made mistake around three or four step back. I can just use this functionality and go back. Undo button. Undo button. So there is one more level which is medium which we can come up with tough also. So in this there are six colors. One, two, three, four, five, six. So in the same grid and in the same number of moves you have to manage more colors. So this one way to increase the difficulty. So what kind of algorithm are you using to make sure there is a solution to the game? So for that actually we first randomly generate a grid with numbers. And then we check with an algorithm in which we take four levels of actually what can be the next move. We go to fourth level and we stop there. We paint this screen again and from there we again go to the fourth level and again paint. And if for that grid we get solution in 20 moves then we select it. Otherwise we discard it. So in this way we generate around 100 grids and out of that we get around 60 grids which can be solved in this 20 moves. So you are generating the game when you are shaking it or they are pre-generated? They are pre-generated. They are pre-generated but we have an engine. We can generate as many grids as you can. You have to just put up a number and it will generate for you. And you can just pack those grids in this app and we can even increase the difficulty while generating it. We can decrease the difficulty. So the grids were not generated on the phone. We generated it and then pushed it to the app. The app does not generate the grids. The app does not generate the grids. So you built a generator too? We built a generator too. But these grids have a unique identifier. You can search it. Now this facility is not there. But if you want you can come up with a search. There was some grid and you want to solve it. Because the last time we were able to solve it. Now you can search that grid and you can again play the same grid. You probably shared it with me too. Yes. Sure. What is the sharing facility? Share to Facebook. We were working on that but there were some API issues with Facebook in the morning. So we dropped that facility to the user. Now you can play and you can share with the mails. You can share with the SMS. But that functionality needs to be done. So you built all of this overnight? Yes. Completely discussed. Not me, not at all. He was the developer of this game. And he built it. And the logic, the game engine, the algo is all written by him. And he has done it. Not me. I am just presenting it. You are the marketing guy. You can explain it again to you all. And if you want to increase for a particular game there can be a number of solutions. So right now we are on a logic that there should be at least one solution. But there are many. And we have the path for that solution. So in upcoming version we can even tell the user that this is the solution for this game. But right now if you strike somewhere and you don't know the solution, we can come up with a solution that this is the perfect solution for the game. And if he goes to a level where it's sure that even after 10 moves that game is not going to be solved, we can tell the user that you have to move back or we can give them an intermediate position or a stage of the game from where they can solve it. Many games do use hints as a business model. You pay for the hints, you probably try that. No, we can. It will be very good if the micro billing is there. If micro billing is there, we can do it. For example, on Facebook you can make Facebook credits. Like X credits will get you one hint and people have to buy credits or do something else to get credits. There are companies that kind of do this. As I said, if they are supporting micro billing or if they have virtual money they are providing it, we can do it. But those APIs should be on this and that should be working. Not on Facebook, I mean in our Android app. Anybody else have any questions? When we can play this game? Well, you can play it now and you can just get this APK on your phone. It works on your phone as well. Are you planning to release it as a commercial game from SPICE? Yeah, it's a commercial game. Yeah, very interesting. Is it going to be a commercial game or something like Open Source? We can tinker around. It will be free on market. You can play it anytime.


Want to learn about stocks, cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and the metaverse? Join RichTV.io. Hey guys, how you doing? This is your host Rich from RichTV, live and interactive. And I'm bringing your attention today to R-H-C-O, reading, holdings, corp, huge revenue growth, and going to be listed on the OTCQB exchange really, really soon. Penny stock involved in e-commerce, payment processing, travel, and so much more. And you're hearing about it today, exclusively on RichTV. What do you guys think about Read and Holdings Corp? Let's take a look right here, right now, exclusively on RichTV. All right, so I want to bring your attention to Read and Holdings Corp. You can see here, Read and Holdings Corp, R-H-C-O is a listed venture capital corporation with a history of over 30 years. It has a long history of engaging in the retail trade. And more recently, it is active in the FinTech, online payment, and e-commerce industries. R-H-C-O has subsidiaries and liaison offices in Europe, Asia, and New Zealand. You can see now, currently sitting around four cents. And this is OK Pay, payments made easy across all platforms. So what is R-H-C-O doing? R-H-C-O is pursuing a super app strategy in Hong Kong. I'm also looking them here on OTC Markets. You can see that they're currently at four cents, up 28%. And I've been doing a lot of research on this company. They've got a lot of news that's been coming out here. You can see R-H-C-O has made a strategic decision to pursue an investment strategy that takes an integrated asset approach where they focus on payments, e-commerce, and they're supporting infrastructure technologies in addition to seeking a structured balance between short-term revenue and long-term outperformance multiples. R-H-C-O continues to find value in distressed assets. This has always been supported by strong turnaround abilities in disposal of non-performing assets. You can see some of the latest news, promising start of Onyx Marble Trading Business. This is one of their big pieces of news that just came out and also revenue up 283% in their last financial statements. So some big news coming out for Read-In Holding Corp. I'd love to know what you guys think about these picks. If you have any questions, please let me know. They just closed the marble transaction in Turkey and they are an emerging FinTech giant. They're also planning to uplist to the OTCQB exchange currently on the OTC Pink. Once they uplist to the OTCQB, that could be another catalyst for the stock. So this is their website. It's read-inholdingcorp.com. They also have a long runway for growth in payment processing and they just launched the O-Key Travel Club. So very interested in watching how they deal with the O-Key Pay and the O-Key Travel Club that they just launched. So the launch of the O-Key Travel Club is also in synergy with RHCO's comprehensive backend online pay platform, O-Key Pay. This is the website here for okeypay.biz. O-Key Travel Club will further optimize the utilization of O-Key Pay, which handles all the payments of O-Key App, which you're seeing right now. It accepts standard credit cards and debit cards, such as Visa, MasterCard, Amex, Union Pay, along with Alipay, WeChat Pay, and other mobile wallets and e-vouchers. RHCO expects to officially launch O-Key App and O-Key Travel Club by the end of this month. Major upgrades will be added to O-Key App to facilitate the accessibility of O-Key Travel Club. So when looking at these companies, always important to kind of take a look at the stock and where it's gone and where it's going. So I'm gonna give you kind of an update of where it's been. It's been as high as 21 cents. That's it's high, high. That was actually around last year, almost to the day. And like most companies this year, it's taken on the chin like almost everybody else, been as low as two cents, that would be the low, low. So the high, high 21 cents, the low, low at two cents and currently sitting between three to four cents at these lower levels here. So definitely closer to the bottom than it is the top, which means there is a lot of room for upside for it to fill this gap, like most stocks in this market environment. You can see that the RSI is currently sitting right around 41. So there's a little room for it to go down, but I think there's a lot of upside here. And you can see that the MACD is kind of just, kind of just flat lining here right here. So very interesting. And what we would like to do here on Rich TV is when we do look at a new pick, we create a chat room for it on our website at richtv.io. So fully expect, once this video goes live, that we will create a chat room for Read-In Holding Corp. Okay, we'll create a chat room for Read-In Holding Corp. You'll also be able to see all the key data, key information, everything you need to know about Read-In Holding Corp at richtv.io and then you can even go and add it to your watch list. And this is the management and board. Richard Clitze is the CEO. Richard has more than 25 years of experience in business development and in operation specialist with a proven track record of building strong teams and delivering new businesses. Before joining RHCO, he held senior business development positions at Siemens and General Electric in Asia. And then there's Iggy, who's the CTO. Iggy is a highly analytical IT professional with extensive retail and e-commerce experience. His entrepreneurial mindset allows him to adapt and evolve quickly when needed. Stress resistant, highly organized and most at ease in fast-paced innovative environments. He was previously a technical specialist at Texaco Netherlands. And financial share movement. The company's most recent financial report occurred in its Q3 2022 quarter. With the period ending March 31st, the company's assets are separated into two. The current asset represents 2.6 million with 37,000 in cash and 1.5 million in interest receivable. On its other assets, Reed and Holdings has 25 million. Wow, 12.2 million in goodwill, 8 million in loan receivables. Its total assets represent 28 million. On the liability side, the company has 7 million worth with 4 million in accounts payable. Company strongly increased its revenues year over year. It's augmented by 161% and saw a 634% increase quarter over quarter, quarter ending December. Reed and Holdings reports an income of 66,000. If this data seems meager, many emerging are often operating for a loss. These positive results are void by the ongoing development of Oki app, RHCO's discount referral app and the increased revenue in Reedys own developed eVoucher. Other robust data are Oki Pay, Oki app and Reedys growth. They have recorded a 700% revenue gain in January 2022 compared to December 2021. RHCO has started the year 2022 very well and we were thrilled to announce its quarterly final completion. We are riding on the momentum of Oki app and Reedys and both are performing well beyond our expectations as anticipated. We saw profit last quarter and expect at least double digit revenue growth in quarters to come. That's from Richard Clitsy CEO. So pretty cool here. You can see this is a company that's clearly doing a lot of different things. Love to know what you guys think. Some of the valuations, the market capitalization right now is 16.4 million. So baby market cap enterprise value of 22 million and the total shares outstanding are 324 million. And you can see some of the newest merchants. So this is a company that's got a lot of things going on. Love to know what you guys think. What do you think of this company that we are bringing to you first today? I'd love to know your opinion on Reedys holdings. RHCO is the symbol and once again, they will be listed on the OTCQB soon. So love to know what you guys think and we will be creating a chat room for Reed and holding Corp on richtv.io.  Please put it in the description of the video. Symbol is RHCO. If you're not winning, you're probably not watching. We're bringing the winners, bringing the news, we're bringing the analysis, bringing new opportunities and we're bringing them to you first. RichTV Live is strictly for information and education purposes. Please do your due diligence, do your research before you invest in anything we talk about or discuss here on RichTV Live and this is Reedyn Holding Corp. Let me know what you think. If you liked the video, please smash the like button, comment down below, share the video everywhere and subscribe. If you're alive, it's your host with the most, your boy Rich from RichTV Live and I'm out.