Live from Boston, Massachusetts, it's theCUBE, covering Spark Summit East 2017, brought to you by Databricks. Now, here are your hosts, Dave Vellante and George Gilbert. Welcome back to snowy Boston, everybody. This is theCUBE, the leader in live tech coverage. This is Spark Summit, Spark Summit East, hashtag Spark Summit. Brian Duxbury is here, he's the vice president of engineering at StreamSets. Cleveland boy, welcome to theCUBE. Thanks for having me. You're very welcome. Tell us, let's start with StreamSets. We're going to talk about Spark and some of the use cases that it's enabling and some of the integrations you're doing, but what does StreamSets do? Sure, StreamSets is data movement software. So I like to think of it either the first mile or the last mile of a lot of different analytical or data movement workflows. Basically, we build a product that allows you to build a workflow or build a data pipeline that doesn't require you to code. It's a graphical user interface for dropping an origin, several destinations and then lightweight transformations onto a canvas. You click play and it runs. So this is kind of different than, a lot of the market today is a programming tool or a command line tool that still requires your systems engineers or your unfortunate data scientists who are pretending to be systems engineers to do systems engineering, to do a science project to figure out how to move data. And the challenge of data movement, I think it's often underplayed how challenging it is, but it's extremely tedious work. You have to connect to dozens or hundreds of different data sources with totally different schemas, different database drivers or systems altogether, and it breaks all the time. So the home-built stuff is really challenging to keep online. When it goes down, your business is not, you're not moving data, you can't actually get the insights you built in the first place. I remember I broke into this industry in the days of Mainframe and you used to read about them and they had this high-speed data mover and it was this key component. It had to be integrated. It had to be able to move a large, back then, was large amounts of data fast. Today, especially with the advent of a dupe, people say, okay, don't move the data, keep it in place. Now, that's not always practical. So talk about the sort of business case for starting a company that basically moves data. Well, so we handle basically the one step before Hadoop. Like I agree with you completely, many data analytical situations today where you're doing the true business-oriented ETL, where you're actually analyzing data and producing value. You can do it in place, which is to say in your Hadoop cluster, in your Spark cluster, in Vertica, all the different environments you can imagine. The problem is that if it's not there already, then it's a pretty monumental effort to get it there.  And that works for the first two to 20 tables you want to deploy. But for instance, in my background, I used to work at Square. I ran data platform there. We had 500 tables that we had to move on a regular basis, coupled with a whole variety of other data sources. And so at some point, it becomes really impractical to hand code these solutions. And even when you build your own framework, when you start to build tools internally, it's not your job, really, at these companies to build a world-class data movement tool. It's your job to make the data valuable, right? And actually, data movement is, it's like a utility, right? And providing that utility, really the thing you need to do is be productive and cost-effective, right? So the reason why we built Streamset, the reason why this thing is a thing in the first place is because we think people shouldn't be in the business of building data movement tools. They should be in the business of moving their data and then getting on with it, right? Does that make sense? Yeah, absolutely. Now, talk about how it all fits in with Spark and generally, and specifically Spark coming to the enterprise. Well, so in terms of how Streamset connects to stuff, we deploy in every way you can imagine, whether you want to run it in your own premise, on your own machines, or in the cloud, it's up to you to deploy it however you like. We're not prescriptive about that. We often get deployed on the edge of clusters, whether it's your Hadoop cluster or your Spark cluster. And basically, we try not to get in the way of these analysis tools. Like there are many great analytical tools out there, like Spark is a great example. We focus really on the moving of data, right? So what you'll see is someone will build a Spark streaming application or some big Spark SQL thing that actually produces their reports and we plug in ahead of that. So if your data is being collected from Edge web logs or some Kafka thing or a third party API or you're scripting a website, we do the first collection and then it's usually picked up from there with the next tool, whether it's Spark or other things. I'm trying to think about the right way to put this. I think that people who write Spark, they should focus on the part that's like the business value for them. They should be doing the thing that actually is applying the machine learning model or is producing the report that the CEO or CTO wants to see and move away from the ingest part of the business. Does that make sense? Yeah, the Spark guys sort of aspire to that by saying you don't have to worry about exactly one's delivery and you can make sure there's sort of guaranteed, you've got guarantees that'll get from point A to point B, things like that. But all those sources of data and all those targets, writing all those adapters is, I mean that's been a La Brea tar pit for many companies over time. In essence, that is our business, right? I think that you may touch on a good point. Spark can actually do some of these things, right? There's not complete but significant overlap in some cases. But the important difference is that Spark is a cluster tool for working with cluster data and we're not going to beat you writing a Spark application for consuming from Kafka to do your analysis, right? But do you want to use Spark for reading local files? Do you want to use Spark for reading from a mainframe? Like these are things that StreamSets is built for and that library of connectors you're talking about, it's our bread and butter. Like it's not your job as a data scientist applying Spark to build a library of connectors. And so actually the challenge is not the difficulty of building any one connector because we have that down to an art now but we can afford to invest. We can build a portfolio of connectors but you as a user of Spark could only afford to do it on demand, right? Reactive. And so that turnaround time of the cost that might take you to build that connector is pretty significant. And actually I often see the flip side. This is a problem I faced at Square which was that people asked me to integrate new data sources. I had to say no because it was too rare. It was too unusual for what we had to do. We had other things to support. So the problem with that is that I have no idea what kind of opportunity cost that left behind. Like what kind of data we didn't get, what kind of analysis we couldn't do, right? And with our approach to like StreamSets you can solve that problem sort of up front even. So sort of two follow-ups. One is it would seem to be an evergreen effort to maintain the existing connectors? Certainly. And then two, is there a way to leverage connectors that others have built like the Kafka Connect type stuff? Well, truthfully we are a heavy duty user of open source software. So our actual product, if you like dig into what you see, it's a framework for executing pipelines and it's an SDK for connecting other software into our product. So it's not like when we integrate Kafka we've built like a brand new blue sky Kafka connector. We actually integrate what stuff is out there. So our idea is to bring as much of that stuff in there as we can and really be a part of the community. Our product is also open source. So we play well with the community. We have had people contribute connectors. People who say we love the product, we need to connect to this other database and then they do it for us. So this has been a pretty exciting situation. We were talking earlier off camera about sort of, George and I have been talking all week about sort of the batch workloads, interactive workloads and now you've got the sort of new emerging workloads, continuous streaming workloads, which is in the name. What are you seeing there and what kind of use cases is that enabling? Yeah, so we're focused on mostly the continuous delivery workload. We also do a little bit of the batch stuff. We're finding as people are moving farther and farther away from batch in general because batch was not the goal, it was a means to the end, right? Like people wanted to get their data into their environment so they could do their analysis, they want to run their daily reports, things like that. But ask any data scientist, they would rather the data show up immediately, right? So we're definitely seeing a lot of customers who want to do things like moving data live from a log file into Hadoop so they can read it and impala like immediately on the order of minutes. We're trying to do our best to enable those kind of use cases. In particular we're seeing a lot of interest in the Spark arena, obviously that's kind of why we're here today. People want to add their complex event processing or their aggregation and analysis like SparkJob especially like SparkSQL and they want that to be almost happening at the time of ingest, right? Not once it landed but like when it's happening. So we're starting to build integration. We have like kind of our initial foot in the door there with our Spark processor which allows you to like put a Spark workflow like right in the middle of your data pipeline or as many of them as you want in fact and we'll sort of manage the lifecycle of that and do all those sort of connections that's required to make your pipeline pretend to have a Spark processor in the middle. We really think that with that kind of workload you can do your ingest but you can also capture your real-time analytics along the way and that doesn't replace you know, batch reporting per se that will happen after the fact or your daily reports or what have you but it makes it that much easier for your data scientist to have a piece of intelligence that they add in flight. I love talking to somebody who's a practitioner who's now sort of working for a company that's selling technology. What do you see from both perspectives as Spark being good at, you know, what's the best fit and what's it not good at? Well, I think that Spark is following the arc of like Hadoop basically. It started out as infrastructure for engineers for building really big scary things but it's becoming more and more a productivity tool for analysts, data scientists, machine learning experts and we see that popping up all the time and it's really exciting frankly to think about these streaming analytics that can happen, these scoring machine learning models really bringing a lot more power into the hands of these people who are not engineers, right? People who are much more focused on the semantic value of the data and not the garbage in, garbage out value of the data. You were talking before about it's really hard, you know, data movement and it's not, the data's not always right, you know? Data quality continues to be a challenge. Maybe comment on that, state of data quality, how the industry is dealing with that problem. It is hard, it is hard. I think that the traditional approach to data quality is to try and specify quality up front and we take the opposite approach. We basically say that it's impossible to know that your data will be correct at all times so we have what we call schema drift tools, right? So we try to go more of like an, we say like intent driven approach for interacting with your data rather than a schema driven approach. So of course your data has an implicit schema that's as it's passing through the pipeline rather than saying, you know, let's transform column three, we want you to use the name, right? We want you to be aware of what it is you're trying to actually change in effect and then the rest just kind of flows along with it. You know, like there's no magic bullet for every kind of data quality issue or schema change that could possibly come into your pipeline. We try to do the best to make it easy for you to do effectively like the best practice, the easiest thing that will survive in the future and build robust data pipelines. And this is one of the biggest challenges I think with like homegrown solutions is that it's really easy to build something that works. It's not easy to build something that works all the time, right? It's very easy to not imagine the edge cases because it might take you a year until you've actually encountered, you know, the first big problem, the real, the gotcha that you didn't consider when you were building your own thing, right? And, you know, those of us at Streamsats who have been in industry and as on the user side, we've had some of these experiences, right? And so we're trying to export that knowledge in the product. Who do you guys sell to? Everybody. We see a lot of success today with, we call it Hadoopry platforming, which is people who are moving from their huge variety of data sources environment into like a Hadoop, like data lake kind of environment. Also cloud, people who are moving into the cloud, they need a way for their data to get from wherever it is to where they want it to be. And certainly people could script these things manually. They could build their own tools for this. But, you know, it's just so much more productive to do it quickly in a UI. Is it an architect who's buying your product? Is it a developer? It's a variety. I mean, so I think our product resonates greatly with the developer. But also people who are higher up in the chain, people who are trying to design their whole topology. You know, I think the thing I love to talk about is everyone when they start on a data project, they sit down and they draw this beautiful diagram with boxes and arrows that says, here's where the data's going to go, right? But a month later, it works kind of, but it's never that thing, right? And so- Yeah, because the data is just everywhere. Exactly. And the reality is what you have to do to make it work correctly within SLA guidelines and things like that is so not what you imagined, right? But then you can almost never go backward. You can never say, based on what I have, give me the boxes and arrows, right? Because it's a systems analysis effort that no one has the time to engage in. But since StreamSets actually instruments every step of the pipeline, and we have a view into how all your pipelines actually fit together, we can give you that. We can just generate it. So we actually have a product, we've been talking about the StreamSets data collector, which is the core data movement product. We have our enterprise edition, which is called the Dataflow Performance Manager, or DPM. And it basically gives you a lot of collaboration, enterprise grade, authentication, access control, and the command and control features.  So people like your director of analytics or your CIO, who want to know, is everything okay? Like, we have a dashboard for them now, right? And that's really powerful. It's a beautiful UI and it's really a platform for us to build visualizations and more intelligence that looks across your whole infrastructure. Green is good. Yeah. And then the thing is, this is strangely kind of unprecedented because again, the engineer who wants to build this themselves would say, well, you know, I can just deploy graphite and all of a sudden I've got graphs, it's fine, right? But they're missing the details. Like, what about the systems that aren't under your control? What about the failure cases? All these things, these are the things we tackle, right? And because it's our business, we can afford to invest massively and make this a really first class data engineering environment. Would it be fair to say that Kafka sort of as it exists today is just data movement built on sort of like a log, but that it doesn't do the analytics and it doesn't really yet, maybe it's just beginning to do some of the monitoring with a dashboard or that's a statement of direction. Would it be fair to say that you can layer on top of that or you can substitute on top of it with all the analytics and then when you want the really fancy analytics, you call out to Spark? Well, so sure, I mean, I would say that for one thing, we definitely want to stay out of the analytics space. We think there's many great analytics tools out there like Spark. We also are not a storage tool. In fact, we're kind of like, we're Q-like, but we view ourselves more of like, if there's a pipe in a pump, we're the pump, right? And Kafka is the pipe, right? I think that from a monitoring perspective, we monitor Kafka indirectly, right? Because if we know what's coming out and what's going on later, we can give you the stats. And that's actually what's important. This is actually one of the challenges of having sort of like a homegrown or disconnected solution is that stitching together so you understand the end to end is extremely difficult. Like, because if you have a relational database and a Kafka and a Hadoop and a Spark job, sure, you can monitor all those things. They all have their own UIs. But if you can't understand what the throughput is on the whole system, you're left with four windows open trying to figure out where things connect and it's just too difficult. So just on a sort of a positioning point of view for someone who's trying to make sense out of all the choices they have, to what extent would you call yourself a management framework for someone who's building these pipelines, whether from scratch or buying components? And to what extent is it, I guess, well, when you talk about a pump, that would be almost like the runtime part of it. So there's a control plane and then there's a, I guess, a data plane. What's the mix? Yeah, well, we do both for sure. I mean, I would say that the data plane for us is this stream-stress data collector, right? We move data, we physically move the data. We have our own internal pipeline execution engine so it doesn't presuppose any other existing technologies, not dependent on Hadoop or Spark or Kafka or anything. You know, to some degree, data collector is also the control plane for small deployments because it does give you start and stop, command and control, some metrics monitoring, things like that. Now, when people need to expand beyond the realm of a single data collector, when they have enterprises with more than one business unit or data center or security zones, things like that, you don't just deploy one data collector, you deploy a bunch, you know, dozens or hundreds. And in that case, that's where Dataflow Performance Manager, again, comes in as that control plane. Now, Dataflow Performance Manager has no data in it. It does not pass your actual business data, but it does, again, aggregate up all of your metrics from all your data collectors and give you a unified view across your whole enterprise. And one more follow-up along those lines. When you have a sort of a multi-vendor stack or a multi-vendor pipeline, what gives you the meta view? Well, we're at the ins and outs, right? So we see the interfaces, right? So, in theory, if someone were to consume data out of Kafka, do something right in HTVS, and then there's another job later, like a spark job, so we don't have automatic visibility to that. But our plan in the future is to expand the Dataflow Performance Manager to take third-party metric sources, effectively, to broaden the view of your entire enterprise. You've got a bunch of stuff on your website here, which is kind of interesting. Talking about some of the things we talked about, taming data drift is one of your papers, the silent killer of data integrity and some other good resources. So, just in sort of closing, how do we learn more? What would you suggest? Sure. Yeah, please visit the website. The product is open source and free to download. Data collector is free to download. I would encourage people to try it out. It's really easy to take for a spin. And if you love it, should check out our community. We have a very active Slack channel on Google Group, which you can find from the website as well.  Yeah, and when you're solving gnarly problems that a lot of companies just don't want to deal with, so that's good. Thanks for doing the dirty work, we appreciate it. Yeah, my pleasure. All right, Brian, thanks for coming to the queue. Thanks for having me. You're welcome. All right, keep right there, everybody. We'll be back with our next guest. This is theCUBE. We're live from Boston, Spark Summit. Spark Summit East, hashtag Spark Summit, right back. Since the dawn.


Welcome to the wide world of eSports, a show devoted to all things eSports. I'm your host, Katharine Norr. Today, my guest is Andre Foster, Tournament Host for EACL. Our topic is Gaming to Give Back, Raising Money for Charity. Welcome, Andre. Hello. Thanks for having me. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. I'm being here. All right, so tell me about EACL and what that stands for. Yeah, so EACL is a fundraising platform for nonprofits and for-profits alike. We're able to connect to the multi-billion-dollar eSports gaming platform and fundraise through donations.  In game, we have leagues all the way from eight years old, all the way to 55 and up. So this could be for your toddlers, grandma and grandpa, giggling on the Xbox and play. And they game for over $25 million in prizes that we currently offer right now, everything from vacation trips to $10,000 scholarships for school. And the great thing about our platform, even if you're a rookie, you're not the greatest gamer.  You don't want to be in that crazy competition. Even when you lose, you still have the opportunity to win $1,000 in cash prizes. So it's a pretty great system and a lot of nonprofits and churches and for-profit businesses, and especially gamers that like it. We're actually launching our first micro tournament coming up in February, and then we'll be doing the big one and coming up in August, and we're going to be playing the top games like Fortnite and, you know, Latest Madden's and NBA 2021 or 2022.  When you spend money, you get rewards. Those rewards points are actually redeemable for the prizes and scholarships and, you know, dinners and vacation cruises and things like that make that nature. Let's show the video. Even in the darkest of times, there are bright lights that shine, but it can be easy to lose sight of guiding lights during these challenging times. With hospitals overflowing, entertainment venues operating at a portion of capacity, and unemployment at an all-time high, Americans are yearning for human interaction at a new avenue of financial growth, and they have to look no further than the gaming industry. Introducing the EACL and the UFL, the next generation of giving and engaging. The U.S. gaming market is comprised of over 244 million individuals. The Esports Amateur Competitors League is an organized platform to support non-elite gamers. Our proprietary software will manage 12 million 16-bracket qualifying events per month with a chance to win cash and prizes for all players and age groups. All of this will culminate in the EACL-UFL world games held once a year in Las Vegas, where thousands of players will come together to compete for millions in cash and prizes. But how can you be a part of the EACL? This is where the United Fundraising League comes in. By participating in the UFL, you can tap into your entrepreneurial spirit to help financially support your community. Through fundraising events, you will not only help to grow the player base of the EACL, but you will help create a new revenue stream for nonprofits with dynamic growth potential. Together with these two platforms, you will be able to reach millions across the country to help better your community and assist those in need. The UFL is a place to give back and have fun doing it. The EACL is your new vehicle, with the UFL being the fuel it needs to help take your community to where it's always deserved to be. For more information, contact us at info at eaclglobal.com Okay, so I know we have way too many acronyms in our heads right now, so it's really hard to keep track of all of them, and so I totally get it, Andre, so could you tell us what EACL stands for, please? Yep, it says we're E-Sports Amateurs Competitors League. I said it's going to be a big league we're looking to actually push into the Olympics, because as many of you may or may not know, E-Sports is actually going to be a new platform that is going to the Olympics, so we're definitely going to be doing a lot of traveling in the upcoming months and in toward returnments and competitions and getting the word out there for EACL and what we can do for the community, not only our non-profits, but our for-profits, and the opportunity our gamers can have by joining this platform and helping out a local non-profit in their community. You're a busy guy, so thank you so much for being here, so tell us what you do with the company. Yeah, so when I do the company, I'm a tournament host. I help onboard non-profits and for-profits on this platform, as well as other potential people that want to offer this platform to other non-profits and for-profits, as well as share this opportunity with gamers and as well as platforms like this as well, so that's pretty much my main spot is just getting the word out there and helping others on this platform. All right, so what is your background that led you to this company? I am actually a Sierra entrepreneur. I own, co-own, and run over 11 different companies. Right now, I come from a family of entrepreneurs over 40-plus years, if I'm not mistaken, in the city of Detroit. I've been doing business, so it's just in my bloodline at this point, so when I was introduced to this platform through my colleague Deborah, she got me on Facebook as a mutual connection and, you know, we've been killing it ever since. All right, are you a gamer? Is that what led you, Harley? I am, actually. Very avid gamer. I'm actually just getting back into the gaming space because I was raised with siblings. I'm noticed of five siblings and very competitive siblings to the point where they destroy games and systems. I've lost a lot of game controllers to the children that want to destroy them and bash them and spill drinks on them. I just recently got back in the gaming space and I'm going to go crazy with it this year, so definitely going to be doing big things with it, especially with this EACL platform. Now, what is your game of choice? Oh, jeez, that's a tough one. I am a gearhead, so I do play a lot of Horizon 5. I do play a lot of GTA. I try to get back into the new Halo. I'm still kind of warming up to it because I'm very old school with the games and I like the older ones better because the classics to me, jeez, I mean, I can really take people back. With the N64 games, I used to play a lot as a kid and the GameCubes and PlayStation games. I didn't get back into the field of things. I just downloaded MK11 a few months ago and then just dived into that again. I'm definitely going to hit it hard and be doing some gaming and looking to maybe possibly doing streaming as well with my game. With my game. Yeah. All right. Okay. If I'm a charity or a nonprofit and I'm interested in partnering with you, what do I do? You can simply go on our website, the one I sent you, the Wulu website. You can post it up here. I can post it as a matter. We'll show it. We'll show it. They can go on the website on the right-hand side of the little menu where you can click sign up as both a for-profit and a nonprofit or if you're a gamer that wants to offer this platform with your other competition leagues, you're more than welcome. This league is going to be huge. You can make tens of thousands of dollars a month with this platform, helping out your community, helping out nonprofits and small businesses strive in this situation we're doing right now called COVID. And then you're also gaming for a purpose. You're gaming to help your local nonprofit and you can get paid for it. You can make money with it. So why not? You know, this is the only platform that I know of where a gamer can pay for college or grandma or grandpa can get on the platform and send their granddaughter to their vacation trip for their honeymoon. So it isn't just for charities and nonprofits. So if you want to fund something yourself, like you said, college or whatever, so who actually puts the money into the platform? With the platform, our gamers pay a yearly $240 membership to support the nonprofits and for-profit organizations and that gives them access into our platform game, rack up their points and then win the course of the $25 million prize that we have between different vacation trips, cruises, cash prizes, and of course, college scholarships as well. Do you have sponsors as well? We don't, but we are looking into some of those sponsors for our team. We definitely want to do some sponsors because I've been looking into places like Target and Fyre. We do a lot of sponsorships and gift matching. We're also looking at a corporation that allows us to give people vacation trips just for helping support the nonprofits. So looking into other incentives to help our nonprofits push and thrive and sell their gamer cards to all them or donation cards if you will to help the organization grow because this is a platform that St. Jude Hospital is utilizing about 40 times a year and they make about $40 million every year off this platform. It's going to a great cause, a similar platform can do great for organizations that are on this platform watching us right now. So how long has St. Jude been on it? So St. Jude, I think it's just recent. It's something new that they launched recently. If you go on their website, I think it's called St. Jude Gaming. I can send you to the link. It's pretty interesting. I never knew that they were actually into esports gaming. To find out that they have esports tournaments at their hospitals to benefit the kids there at hospitals that either can't afford their bills or whatever the case may be. It's going to a great cause and I'm like, wow, hospital having esports gaming. Where was that? When I was visiting family members, they're sick in the hospital. They had an esports tournament downstairs. It's something to do. They're similar to what we do. They pay a membership. They come in, they game and their membership fees go towards the hospital as a donation. As many of us know, it's a charitable write-off. How long has EACL been in business? My knowledge, I believe it's been over four years actually. It's been around for a while.  They've been at a few large events. You'll be able to see them all over YouTube. They have all our presentations and our commercials and everything. It's all on YouTube. We're definitely out there. Right. Why do you think that this platform is attractive to amateur gamers? What is it that makes them participate? It's one of many things. You have the ability to give back to a pause, but also get a financial benefit as well. And unlike many other gaming platforms, not pushing down, they're all great in their own perspective. But with our platform, which makes us unique, not only do we support nonprofits, but we give our gamers the opportunity to win $25 million in prizes every year. Just a 240-dollar donation to look for charity organizations they support every year. It seems like it makes a lot of sense, because if you're going to game, you might as well game for good. Otherwise, you might feel like you could be wasting time. And if you're doing something to either raise money for a nonprofit or raise money for something that you want to do, I could see that would be a benefit for people. It's only amateurs and pros aren't involved at all. We have everything. We have leagues from eight years old all at a 55 and up.  Everybody can play in this platform. That's what's great about it, because, you know, you have the grandkids over, what are they going to do? They're going to go to grandma and grandpa's TV, big TV, plug up the Xbox, plug up the PlayStation, and be on the game for hours. But this platform allows the families to finally engage, but the grandparents to engage in the platform, be a part of the conversation and connect with their grandkids on a level that they would never even thought. It was like the game I'm pretty sure everybody's familiar with, Pokemon Go. It was solely designed to get kids out the house and get more into fitness. It's an app designed for fitness, not gameplay for fitness. But what did it do? It blew up. It had millions of downloads. We had an office in the Renaissance Center post-COVID, and I would walk downstairs to get lunch.  And they're like, what the heck is that? And the kid would go, this is what that is. It's a Charizard, whatever the case may be. But it finished out to be able to connect grandkids to grandparents and build that bridge that they probably didn't have before. You have something to connect about, because if you're going to want to go over grandma and grandpa's house, you're going to play Pokemon Go now. But now with this platform, you're going over grandma and grandpa's house, you're going to go play Fortnite with grandpa. You know, are you going to go play Call of Duty with grandma, or are you not going to get out of the game and play Forza Horizon 5 with grandma and grandpa? And the whole time, grandma and grandpa are racking up points. They win.  You know that connection piece is really important. And I do think that whenever you can connect generations in gaming, it's really positive. I know that I recently taught a course on intro to eSports to people over 50 at the OSHA program at University of Hawaii. And I found that most people didn't even know what eSports is. I probably should have called it intro to gaming or something, because they, you know, people have to Google eSports because they don't know what it is.  But I think, but they do see that their kids and their grandchildren's are, children are playing games and want to know more about it. So that's really wonderful that this does that as well. So has there been an impact as a result of the pandemic to the platform? Not really. A platform like this would actually strive through a pandemic because, you know, with people being stuck at home, what else do you have to do? The gaming industry saw a surge as many as you know in sales. You can't buy an Xbox. You can't buy a PlayStation.  Everything's sold out, everything. The second they drop, they're sold out.  But, you know, Walmart, it's going to be have a restock in Xbox. But three years ago, you can go to Walmart any day and buy an Xbox. No, you can't. You know, the PlayStation and Xboxes, they're like the charges and challenges of the gaming world. They're so hot right now because one, because of the pandemic and two, because, well, demand, you know, the chip shortage so they can't produce as many. The point where Sony is literally remastering and remaking the PS4 again. Like, the PS4 was due to be stopped production this year, but now they're going to kick a kick back into it and produce more because they cannot keep up with the demand right now. One, because of the chip shortage and they got to keep the gamers engaged. So a platform like this is going to strive them better in the pandemic because people are at home.  You can't really go anywhere, especially when you're quarantined for like, we have been in the past six months to a year. What else is there to do besides stream, watch TV, a game, except for this platform, you can make money while you're gaming. Yeah. And, you know, we've seen people quit their jobs or they lose their jobs or have less to do. So, you know, people are looking for other ways to make income. Are there any, does your company have any special projects scheduled for 2022? Or is, you know, I know the pandemic is kind of causing challenges. Yeah. We have a lot of things on the books right now. I'm not like in the executive level of start the company. But I do know we're going to have several tournaments coming on throughout the year and promotional events. I know with our team, we're looking to support our nonprofits and help them get these tournaments going for their nonprofit, helping them make it work for them so they can help grow and expand their community. We have a church on our team, but he actually sold out all of his required tickets and was able to have $38,000 for his church organization. And all he did was they had a little vending event, as most churches do. He had his vendors buy that $240 ticket to vent for the year, the church, he just made $38,000. Anyone sitting? Wow, that's fantastic. You know, it's one of the questions related to that. And, you know, it's kind of related to the Olympics and to nonprofits. Because, as you know, first person shooter games are pretty violent. And one of the issues with regard to the Olympics having esports is, you know, there's many issues. But one of the issues is what game do they play? Do they just play Rocket League? Or, you know, I mean, I've seen lists of different games. But, you know, do you find that any nonprofits have any challenges or conflict with more violent games? Not often. They said the platform is up to them. They don't have to play a certain game, like, you know, for our churches. If they want to have an esports tournament, they can play 2K or Madden. You know, they can play Zelda if they wanted to. You know, it's up to them. I feel old just saying the word Zelda, but yeah. You know, they can play whatever they want. They don't have to play, you know, Call of Duty Black Ops.  They don't have to do that. That's not what they want to do. There's several games on the platform they can play. They have mobile games. We have the e-games. I mean, opportunities are endless. They can play any of the top games you can think of. They can select. If they want to just do NBA 2K, they can do that. That's up to them. It's 100% up to them. We're not here to sit there and tell them that you can only play this game in the tournament. That would walk people away from this platform because we're forcing them that you only can play first-person shooters. Like, we're having, we're being sponsored by Microsoft. You have to play Black Ops four days straight. That's not going to happen, especially with churches, because they're right now. We're not going to get a church organization to have a Call of Duty Festival at church. I wish, but it ain't going to happen. It's not going to happen. Sure. So what do you think the future of gaming for good is? I believe the future gaming of good is we're going after these 50,000 nonprofits to help them raise their fundraising goals and help them get to that $38,000 or more with our platform. So that's the future I see in this company. It's hitting 50,000 or more nonprofits, but helping them out with a new way for them to fundraise. That typical selling baked goods and selling clothing and having vending events. It gets kind of dated. You need something new. You need something fresh. And EACL is that newness that they need, because it's very flexible. You can have eSports tournaments at your churches. You can have eSports tournaments at your schools and colleges because they have them every day at schools and colleges, not only because they're the grant money and the funding and companies that fund stuff like that, but because they have scholarships for it. There's scholarships for kids to do eSports. Yeah. When I think of traditional sports, say you have your basketball team who wants to go to a particular tournament on another state or if you live in Hawaii going to the main course of the challenge, you know, it might be very consistent to have a fundraising event using, you know, NBA UK, you know, because I mean it would be consistent and it would make sense. But, you know, it just seems like a good way for like nonprofit associations also to raise money. Yeah, for sure. It's consistent because with our platform, our game is going to come back because every year they're going to have $25 million in prizes they can be for. You're not just going on another eSports platform, you're competing more or less for a status.  It's that in the third was great. You know, knock them down, but we're giving you a competition league where you can also have the same status, but you have the shot at winning $25 million of different prizes. Yeah. And helping up a local charity organization in your community. Absolutely. You know, so I'm going to give you the last word to tell us how to find you. And I really appreciate you being on the show. Sure. I'm glad you could have me because we love the exposure. We want to get the word out there for EACL to help these nonprofits because our goal is 50,000 nonprofits. Organizations to help the community, help you guys, community of the people that are here watching. We want to help your community. We want to help your community strive and grow.  I'm a victim of it. I'm sure many of us here have seen that both financially and it is not fun. And if I could be at my college dorm room gaming, which I was doing anyway, and be winning a scholarship, I would have done that all day long. That's all college kids do is game when they're bored. We do that every day when I'm bored. But the best way to find this is on our website. I know it was posted earlier. You can sign up today. It's free. It doesn't cost the nonprofits for profits. Anyone, anything for the nonprofits. You click, you just get to sign up. I click nonprofit. You get your information. You sign up. And you can start fundraising today. And you can literally have that $38,000 in no time. You know, you can raise this until about that. And that's the platform. If you go to this is up to you.  And if you want to office platform, the nonprofits and businesses. You go in that same sign up link instead of picking on nonprofit. You're going to select what's called ETS. That's the platform where you would be start off as a tournament host like myself. And then you can be promoted into a what's known as a celebrity host. When you start arm-wring a silver nonprofit. All right. That's great. Thank you so much.  We just have to deal with these challenges with, you know, sometimes with phones and technology. But I, I thank you very much for being here today. And thank you to our viewers for joining us. Make sure to tune in next week. And I'll see you next week. Thank you. And I'll see you next week. Thank you. And the next host will be. And Williams, the development director of amateur eSports Association. See you then.


This lecture is part of an online algebraic geometry course about schemes and we'll be covering the operation of gluing schemes together. So, for smooth manifolds, a smooth manifold can be thought of as obtained by gluing together number of copies of open subsets of Rn. So, for example, you can make a sphere by gluing together an open disk covering a bit more than the top half of the sphere and another open disk covering a bit more than the bottom half of the sphere. So, you'd have an open set here and an open set here and you sort of glue them together along this cylinder bit. And schemes are rather similar, they're obtained by gluing copies of open affine schemes. So, we covered affine schemes in previous lecture and an affine scheme is in some sense more or less the same as a commutative ring. So, we'll see some examples of how to do this. So, the example we're going to take is we're going to glue two copies of say the affine line over field K. So, this is the affine scheme with coordinate ring, the ring of polynomials over X. Well, in fact, we don't really need to use the fact this is over a field K, so we can do it over any ring R. So, this is, we're going to glue two copies of the spectrum of R of X, although it will turn out that the case of a field is actually somewhat simpler. And we can take an open subset. So, you can think of the affine line over a field K, if you ignore the generic point, it's just the points of K. And we're going to throw away the origin, so discard the origin. So, this means we're looking at the affine scheme of K X X the minus one. So, if we invert X, that more or less corresponds to discarding the origin. So, what we're going to do is this open subset is contained in the affine line, and we're going to glue together. So, we're going to take this open subset K spectrum of K X X minus one. And this is contained in spectrum of K X, which is the affine line. And it's contained in spectrum of K X, which is the affine line. And we want to sort of glue these two things together. So, the picture is, we have two schemes here. So, I mentioned all that one orange. And we're going to try and form a new scheme by kind of joining them together over that intersection. So, in terms of rings, what we're doing is we're taking K X, mapping it to K X X minus one, taking K X, mapping it to K X X minus one. Well, there are actually two ways, two natural ways of doing this, because we can map X to X, but we could also map X to X, or X to minus one. And similarly, we could change, we can map this X to X to minus one, but that's, if we do two of those, that's just the same as swapping X with X to minus one. So, there are essentially two interesting things we can try doing. So, let's see what happens. So, first of all, let's do the case where we map X to X here. So, the picture we've got is we've got a sort of affine line. And it's got an open subset, the affine line minus the origin. And we've got another affine line, and it's open subset. And we're gluing these two open subsets together by the identity map. And if you try picture doing that, you see what we're getting is one copy of each point, except we sort of get two copies of the origin. So, this is going to be giving us a line with two origins. So, to make it clear, what we're doing is we're taking these maps here. So, we're mapping KX to KX to minus one. We're mapping KX to here by the identity map. The other thing we can do is twiddle by mapping X to X to minus one. So, we may as well call this KX to minus one. So, this time we take KX, KX to minus one and map these both to KX, X to minus one. And what's going on here is now a little bit different because we're taking two copies of the affine line. And we're taking these two open subsets. But now we're identifying these open subsets by changing X to one over X. So, we sort of glue them like this. So, point five might be glued to a fifth and so on. So, what we find is that these two points are no longer near each other. What we're doing is we're getting an affine line together with a point at infinity. So, you can think of this point as sort of being infinity in some sense. And this is the point zero if we identify things like that. So, what we get here is a scheme called the projective line over K. Or the projective line over R if we work with a ring instead of a field K. So, now we want to ask some questions like what are the morphisms of these schemes to some other scheme? And what are the morphisms of some other scheme to these schemes? So, we're just going to do the case of morphisms of affine schemes from these. So, suppose we want to ask what are the morphisms to K of X say? So, this is the coordinate ring of the, this corresponds to the affine line. Now, if you want to look at morphisms of the affine line to itself, what you don't want to do is to look at all ring homomorphisms from KX to KX because this includes several rather strange morphisms where you map K non-trivial to K. So, what you really want are morphisms that commute with the embedding of K into these. In terms of schemes, what this means is you're looking at spec K of X mapping to spectrum of K, mapping to spectrum of K of X. So, we're looking at more, we're interested in morphisms from this scheme to this scheme that commute with the maps to here. What we say is we're working over the spectrum of K. Every scheme we have is provided with a map to the spectrum of K and we only want diagrams that commute with this. This is sort of like working with algebras over a fixed field K. Well, so, if we've got a field K and we're working over spectrum of K and we want to know what are the morphisms of any scheme S over spectrum of K. So, I'm sorry, that spectrum of some ring R to the spectrum of K of X. This just means we're looking at maps from K of X to R that commute with the action of K. And this is just the same as choosing elements of R, which is global sections of the spectrum of R. So, for affine rings, for affine algebras over K, the morphisms to this scheme here just correspond to functions on R. And that's sort of reasonable because you can think of this as being a sort of affine line. So, we're saying functions to an affine line are just regular functions on an affine scheme, which is what we expect. And the same actually holds for any scheme S, that's a scheme over spectrum of K, that morphisms like this are just going to be regular functions on S because they're regular functions on all the open affine subsets of this and these cover S. So, by the scheme property, these morphisms are just the same as regular functions. So, let's work out the regular functions or equivalently morphisms to this scheme here with the two examples we had earlier. So, first, for the line with two origins, so here we're looking at maps to the affine line over K. Well, what we have to look at, we know the scheme is covered by two copies of the affine line. So, we take the coordinate ring of one affine line, which says this one, and we take the coordinate ring of the other affine line. And we've got to take an element of this and an element of this that coincide on their intersections. So, what we're going to do is we're going to take an element of this ring and an element of this ring for the same image in here. And that's obviously just going to be K of X. So, this is the coordinate ring of the line with two origins. Incidentally, this shows the line with two origins can't be an affine scheme because if it was, it would have to be the spectrum of this ring here. And the map from this to K of X would have to be an isomorphism, but it's not an isomorphism because it maps two points here to one point in the spectrum of this. So, if we try and do the same thing for P1 over K, we get a slightly different answer. So, this time we look at K of X, mapping to K of X, X to minus one. And this time, however, we're really looking at the map from K of X to minus one to here. This is, of course, isomorphic to K of X. I'm just writing to K of X to minus one to indicate what this mapping is. So, now we need to take an element here and an element here that are the same image in this ring here. And obviously, the only way to do this is to take an element of K. So, this is the coordinate ring of P1 of K. And again, you see this can't be an affine scheme because it was an affine scheme. It would just have to be the spectrum of K, which is just a point, and this obviously has more than one point. So, this shows that by viewing affine schemes, we can get non-affine schemes. Now, I want to discuss a slightly more tricky question. What are the morphisms to, say, the scheme P1 of K? And let's just take, let's do the simplest case. What are the morphisms? Let's just look at morphisms from the spectrum of K to P1 of K. And these are going to be morphisms over K, over the spectrum of K, as usual, because we don't want to worry about automorphisms of the field K. Now, the spectrum of K is just really just a point. So, morphisms to here should just correspond to points of the projective line over K as for classical varieties. And we can check that this does hold because P1 of K is the union of the affine line over K and the affine line over K, which are glued along. This isn't a district, you're only going to be glued along open subset. So, this is just a point. So, its image must be in one of these two. So, the points of, so morphisms from spectrum of K to P1 of K, which are usually denoted by P1 of K of K, these are the sort of K-valued points of P1 over K, is a union of the affine line with values in K and the affine line with values in K, modulo sum equivalence relation. So, we take K union K and what we have to do is we have to identify A with A to minus one whenever A is not equal to zero. So, we can think of these as just being K union appointed to infinity as we're getting the classical case. So, the morphisms from the spectrum of K to the projective line over K just correspond to the points of the classical projective line. By morphism, we mean morphisms over the spectrum of K. So, this diagram has to commute. Well, now let's look at a slightly more interesting case. What about P1 over R, where R is some ring? Let's take R to be the integers. Let's try and do a reasonably simple case that isn't a field. So, again, what we're doing is we're looking at the spectrum of Z and we're trying to map it to P1 of Z over the spectrum of Z. So, here's an obvious wrong guess. So, P1 of Z is the union of A1 of Z, the affine line over Z. Sorry, union of A1 of Z and A1 of Z. Identified along some subset. So, maybe P1 of Z with values in Z is the union of A1 of Z with values in Z and A1 of Z with values in Z again identified. So, this would just be equal to Z and this would just be equal to Z. And we're identifying A with A to minus one whenever A has an inverse. So, that would say that elements of the projective line over, the integer value points to the projective line over Z or either integers or inverses of integers. And this is just wrong. So, it looks plausible that the scheme is the union of these two open sub-schemes of the values of the scheme with values in Z should be the union and this just works for fields, but it fails for the integers. And the reason why it fails is as follows. So, let's right think of P1 of Z as being these two open, union of two open subsets. And we're looking at maps of another scheme to this. Now, if the other scheme just has one point, then its image must line one of these two open subsets. So, the values would be that. However, if we look at something like spec of Z, which isn't a point, the image of spec of Z might sort of look like this. It might not line either of these two open subsets. So, it might not be in either of these sets. So, how do we find morphisms from spec of Z to P1 of Z? Well, you notice that if we take the inverse images of these two open subsets in spec of Z, we get a cover of spec of Z by two open sets. And we get a map of the first open set into the first A1 of Z and a map of the second open set into the second A1 of Z and we have to glue these together. So, let's sort of see what's going on. Well, we need to know what are open subsets of spec of Z consist of primes and nought and open subsets, either the empty set or you remove a finite number of points.  If m is zero, this is the zero ring and corresponds to the empty set. So, what's going on is we've sort of got spectrum of Z of X. So, this is the affine line over Z and spectrum of Z of X to minus one. There's another copy of the affine line and we're gluing them together along spec of Z X X to minus one. I'm not going to try and draw these. You remember we actually did draw spectrum of Z of X a few lectures ago and it was really quite complicated. So, we now want an open cover of spec of Z, which is spec of Z m to the minus one and spec of Z n to the minus one and these should also be glued together over the spectrum of Z mn to minus one. So, we've got a picture like this. And now we want the union of these two over this is just spec of Z and the union of all these is just P one over Z. And now we want to define a map from spec of Z to P one of Z, which will take this open set of spec Z to this open set and this open set to this open set and of course it will take that one to that one because that's just the intersection. Well, amorphism from this spectrum to this space here is just a map of rings taking, oops, taking Z of X to Z of m to the minus one which is obviously determined by the image of X. So, it's just going to be something of the form a over m to the k. In other words, you take X to a over m to the k and similarly, this blue morphism here will be a map of the corresponding rings taking X to minus one to b over n to the l for some n and l. And these two morphisms have to be the same on here. So, that shows that a b over m to the k over m to the k n to the l is equal to zero in spectrum of Z mn for minus one. So, we can figure out what the points are from this. First of all, if mn is not equal to zero, then all you're doing is saying that a over m to the k is the inverse of b over n to the l. So, if we put q equals a over m to the k, we can see that q can be pretty much any non-zero rational number. So, this means the points correspond to non-zero rationals. On the other hand, we also have the possibilities where m is equal to zero or n is equal to zero. So, if m equals zero, this sort of corresponds to the point nought and infinity of the projective plane. So, if we put everything together, we find that homomorphisms from spec of Z to p1 of Z correspond to pairs of integers let's say i colon j with i and j co-prime and where these are equivalent if i. So, this is equivalent to lambda i, lambda j for lambda a unit where i over j would just be this integer q here. So, the integer-valued points of the projective line over the integers are slightly more complicated than you might guess, but then you notice that this looks very much like the definition of projective line over a field. So, you remember that for a field, elements of the projective line were pairs of elements of the field that's what we're looking for. So, we're going to ask, is this true for all rings? So, are the maps from the spectrum of r to p1 over p1 of r? These are going to be maps from the spectrum of r given by the p1 over p1 of r. So, we're going to ask, is this true for all rings? So, we're looking at the spectrum of r given by pairs m, n with m, n in the ring and m, n being co-prime up to this equivalence that this is regarded as the same as lambda m, lambda n for lambda a unit. So, this is true for fields and we've checked it's true for the integers. It turns out that it fails for general rings for rather subtle and interesting reason. And easy way to show that it fails is to give an example where it fails. So, what we're going to do is to take r to be the ring z root minus five. And this is a rather famous example that is not a unique factorization domain because two times three is one plus root minus five times one minus root minus five. And this will turn out to be closely related to the fact that this has more points in the projective line than you might expect. So, we're looking at maps from spectrum of r over spectrum of r to p1 of r. So, we want to find some elements of this map here. And you can find maps by covering r by two open sets. So, we notice that two and three are code prime. So, r is, so spectrum of r is covered by the spectrum of r with two inverted and the spectrum of r with three inverted. So, we can now look at the following picture. We take r with two inverted and r with three inverted and they're both embedded in r with six inverted. And now, here we can take the element one plus root five over two and here we can take the element one minus root five over three. And we notice the product, the product of the images of these is just one. So, these are sort of inverses in r with six inverted. So, what we can do is we can define a map of the projective line over r by taking this element in this copy in this open subset of the f1 line and this element in this open subset of the f1 line and gluing them together. But the trouble is this isn't giving you an element of the form m colon n with mn equals one because if you try doing this you're looking at the element one plus root five two. So, this actually represents an element of the projective line over r and the trouble is one plus root five two is not r and it's not even a principal ideal. If it was a principal ideal you could just divide by some common factor and make this equal to r. So, this is an example of the fact this ring r has non-principle ideals. This is closely related to the fact that it's not a unique factorization domain and these non-principle ideals give you sort of unexpected extra elements of the projective line over the reals. What's going on in general is that non-principle ideals are examples of things called invertible modules. Well, in general they're not. For this particular ring, non-principle ideals happen to be invertible modules. Invertible modules over rings kind of correspond to line bundles over schemes and classifying points of a projective line over the spectrum of a ring or even a more general scheme turns out to involve classifying invertible modules. The earlier cases we had for fields and the integers the only invertible module is isomorphic to the field or the integer so we don't get this complication and the projective line is what you expect it to be but for more general rings and schemes the classification of points over a projective line or projective space is more complicated as you need to use line bundles since we haven't covered these yet we will just postpone that till later. So the next lecture we will be generalising the construction of the one-dimensional projective line over a ring to n-dimensional projective space over a ring.


60% of Nairobi's population of 4 million live in the informal settlements, we call them people's settlements, devoid of basic urban services. That is not news. The majority of this population are adversely affected by the rising food prices, bad governance and corruption. That is a disaster and that is not news. What is news is that this 60% is a population of 2.4 million of Nairobi's population.  It has been said that if you are to ban open defecation in Nairobi and every individual in the informal settlements would queue, they would queue for two days to access a toilet. That is the image. I was privileged to live in Kibira when I was a teenager. That is the image and that is the experience. We have worked in partnership with others, not just the Madi Trust, we work with Oxfam, we work with the Government of Kenya, I think Water Services Board, we work with UNHBH, Halkru Foundation UK, to engage communities to look at how we can design alternative sanitation solutions. So we engage women, we engage the youth, we have participatory design sessions and you can see one of the prototypes, because we are going away from the basic toilets, one of the products that we are basically selling is what we call a biosenter. Story buildings, you can see the industry underground, that's the biodigester where the human investment goes in. But for us we want to convert human investment into biogas so that we can also tackle the energy crisis. So the ground floor you have bathrooms, you have toilets for the children, for the women, for the girls and the boys. Upstairs we have space there which can be used for rental, which can be used for other facilities. These are peace centers, they are democracy centers, they are income generating centers and many of them, because we have 52 such facilities in Nairobi, many of them are also stadiums. We have the old traffic stadiums in many of them. We are trying to work on designs where we can also trap solar panels and currently we are also trying to see how we can link the biodigesters with existing toilets so that we are not reinventing the wheel. Currently we are also working on modalities on how we can convert the biosleri into fertilizer so that we can contribute to urban greening. So we have baffle reactors, we are working with engineers from Denmark, engineers from Netherlands to see how we can recycle the water so that the water is used to flush toilets. That is people at work, women and men working on the industry, the biodigester, the biodigester coming out. Now that is one example, the one my friend Abdullaia has quoted. This biosenter is called Stara Biosenter. It is managed by women who run an orphan school three kilometers away in Kibera. The school is called Stara. Now you can see the bottom you have the toilets. It is one of the best biosenter staffs of biogas utilization. They use biogas from five to six for hot showers. It is in a public place. So if you want hot showers in Kibera, go to Stara. The first floor is let out for Kituachashiria for legal advice centre. And they have upper floor for community meetings. Every month these women earn 45,000 Kenya shillings which they use to feed the children and they offer to HIV and positive. We have another example in Korogosho, to West-Ompia. Four years ago these were criminals being hunted by police and under the guise of being called Mungiki. We went to them and told them look, can we work together to work on sanitation. Now they are providing sanitation services to 300 users a day earning income. They have got a pickup and even the police who are in the bit go there for a call of nature. We have one in Mukuru. It's called Mukuru Environment in partnership with Oxford. This one recently were evictions in Mukuru. It provided a centre for the internally displaced persons upstairs in Mukuru. We are working in Kibagare and you can see how they are mapped. That is serving Korogosho. You can see the blue serving Kibera. You can see serving Mukuru. We are expanding and in partnership with others. Biogas at work converting human waste into biogas. We are now working with a private sector company from Thailand to see how we can bag the biogas for supply both within the settlement and the middle and high income areas.  In conclusion, we have made it. We have managed together in the future biocentras to at least contain 60,000 kilograms of sheets. I want to welcome you to join us in this new page to make sure Nairobi, this world class city becomes an open defecation free city. Thank you very much.


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Good afternoon Pastor David. Hey John. Welcome everybody to a random moment with Pastor David unfiltered Pastor as you just recently started marriage in the family series on Wednesday night with Ephesians Mm-hmm and last week you took us through Genesis and you gave us the institution of marriage and and our series is on Tuesdays I want to draw out some of those teasers as we are now starting marriage in the family But I want to start it a little bit different this time because I want to talk about the influences of our children This week our churches will be hosting A lady named Patty hike who's going to come out and speak to our children and not on various particular issues Especially the LGBTQ plus the the influences of that, but it's not so much just that it's The unmasking of evil that is influenced our children, you know Jesus speaks or Paul speaks about wives submitting to husbands and husbands loving the wives as as Christ has loved the church Washing them in the water of the word What instructions does Paul give in regards to? Protecting the influences of our children. Well, you know one thing I should very briefly say that Patty will be speaking when we say children worse we're not speaking of babies or The little ones we're talking about junior high and high school age, you know for those who are listening and don't come to our fellowship So we recognize them obviously as our children But they're they're old enough and capable enough to listen to the things that are being said and it's going to be said that will be said with With wisdom and an awareness of who they're speaking to just so because I know some may hear that and think oh And they're gonna talk to five-year-olds even though the world right now is is going after not only five-year-olds but three-year-olds and two-year-olds and they're trying to go after them from the very beginning because what they're doing is they are grooming them and the LGBTQ and name all the rest of the letters of the alphabet that is now associated with that lifestyle are very very intent on seducing our children I Was listening to something just a few days ago where the the speaker was pointing out that the The intellectual grooming begins at an early age. See, they're not really those who are trying to bring our children into a certain perspective Are not are not trying to bring us into that perspective. They already know that at our age, especially mine You know being advanced in age, you know the that I'm not going to change my mind under normal circumstances To to agree with something that I have for the entirety of my life felt was wrong I'm not going to change my mind, so they don't go after the older necessarily what they do is they find different avenues so they enter into to preschools or Libraries and they have they have People reading books to them who are part of the community of men who like to dress as women or whatever they'll bring them in for story time and They they make the children accept that as a new normal and so that's what we're seeing take place It's really not so much that they're trying to get us. They already know that many of us won't change our mind and They also take advantage I would say The charitable heart that we have towards people I I have a sympathy for someone who's going through pain Regardless of whether they think they're in pain or not See so there's a way to take advantage of even good feelings towards people or a desire for them not to be harmed etc and So it's a whole formulation of a new worldview that has taken place in the last 50 years. It's It's obvious and so you get into the school you get into the movies you get into the all of the things that that are societal influencers you get into that and Then you tell people you can't disagree with that because if you do you you're filled with hate and And all of that and that's what we're dealing with right now, obviously and so years ago back in 2000 early 2000s There was a proposition that was here in California Related to homosexual marriage and Whenever that was in the early 2000s, I still remember standing up in front of our fellowship saying this is not this is not a move to to Just have marital rights as a civil kind of ceremony where a judge pronounces someone husband and husband or wife and wife or whatever they call himself This is not that this is legitimizing something that has been recognized as illegitimate for 2000 years That's what this is because the way the elephant gets the the trunk underneath the tent is to bring in a law that makes it Legal to do these things and I said that a long time. I said that a long time ago in relation to to Abortion same thing when you pass a law because most people think in terms of if it's legal It's also moral because people think that way because that's the lowest rung of the development of Conscience and morality according to Colberg and others with that if it's legal it must be right That's how many Americans think John and so yeah, I believe what we have is a is a an onslaught because What we've done is legitimized homosexual marriage legitimized homosexual adoptions of children legitimized parades legitimized months so even major league baseball gives give time to the Rainbow Coalition and this and that the things that the rainbow which is stealing The symbol that God gave that he would not flood the earth because of the promiscuity and Sinfulness and which is really an ironic to me how they were able to Hijack a symbol that God had brought a flood because every thought and intent of man's heart was evil constantly there was sexual immorality and So God brought judgment. That's what the scripture says the rainbow is a symbol that he will not flood the earth in this way again And then the homosexual quote-unquote community hijacks that as their symbol and the church remains silent doesn't even say This is wrong. You hijacked a Christian symbol a Jewish symbol so that you could what make that an acceptable behavior And so it all goes back to the three institutions that God established in Genesis and and obviously the church being one of them Obviously human government being the other and marriage and family being the third and so with the With the onslaught against marriage with the amount of people who think that you don't need to marry to have children Or to be called a family anymore. It's a large amount of people obviously that are doing that What you end up is you have fatherless children and When you have fatherless children and you you have that mama who's trying to raise her kids As being both father and mom I Can't imagine the pain. I'm well aware of that. I have seen that firsthand How hard it is for a mama to raise a baby or babies without the help of a husband being a single mom I've seen that obviously not only in pastoral ministry, but on a personal level. I've seen that and I tell you John When you don't have a dad in the home when you don't have a father Who represents authority when you don't have a father who supports the mother when you don't have a father? Who is in the lives of the children when you don't have a father teaching them? What is right? What is wrong? How does a man act? How does a man treat a woman? You know, that's the destruction. We're seeing right now and and It's it's heartbreaking But it's also producing and has produced a generation of children who are not aware of the difference between a man and a woman and so you have these Perverted educators who are trying to say that oh well the doctor made a mistake in pronouncing This was a boy or girl because we don't know what this is until they decide what they are that's what we're living under right now and Anybody who says that is looked at as being all a hate-filled Person I'm I am so you know in our city It was I was referred to by certain in authority as being a pastor who teaches hate in the church And I do hate sin hate what it does, but love people who need Jesus Christ So yeah, oh he hates because he says no I hate because the scripture says that that the sin that it the sinner is going to end up in eternal judgment and And I hate the enemy. I do I hate the works that he's done the destruction. He's brought I hate to see the the broken families the broken babies. Yeah, I hate that I really do and so yeah We're speaking about marriage and the family. We're gonna speak concerning Children and all as we continue and we look forward to that because you know it At one time evil was masked in a lot of ways and yes today. It's just blatant. It's law It's law and as you mentioned if it's lawful, then it's rightful Right, and and so but as a church, this is the time where we need to remain in prayer and stand up Yeah, and speak out and We're just talking about your introduction. Yeah, and now Jesus had that authority Where he Confronted Yeah, one last thought and then we'll close and I want to keep you guys here too long Yeah, very often in the ministry of Jesus. There's confrontation. You see it in all the gospels He is confronted by religious leaders quite often, you know from the beginning in John's gospel when they when Jesus Christ says Destroy this temple in three days. I'll raise it up again They begin to argue with him concerning the the temple and and he and John goes on to say but he spoke of the temple of his own body Speaking of his resurrection you see that in so many passages where the religious leaders would come and argue with him And so Jesus dealt with confrontation quite often. I mean that was part of his ministry But today people seem to think that if you actually have a confrontation or an argument that you're not a Christian And therefore what we're supposed to do is just kind of just keep our mouths shut I believe that they're that there is a proper way to respond You don't have to be belligerent. You don't have to be contentious. You don't have to be in a mean way argumentative but you need to speak what is true and Let the let the people know the truth and love them as you do So I've been doing that for over 50 years John. I went to secular college I had my discussions in college class and in in sharing things of the gospel with people. They didn't like hearing it But somebody has to say it and if I didn't who's going to nobody else did and so I think that it's time for the church to actually just know what we believe and lovingly present that Well pastor, thank you so much for sharing and thank you guys for tuning in Patty height will be out here speaking to our junior high and high school students on Actually Tuesday will be the junior high and high school. So that's tomorrow today today today Today seven o'clock and they will be in the banquet hall And then on Wednesday The parents are now invited of the children or the junior high school to come here patty addressing them questions. Yeah, that would be good Again, that will be in the banquet hall. So come on out And come up come join us Wednesday evening for a 7 p.m. Service and our Sunday morning services at 8 30 and 10 45 We look haven't we look forward to having you guys and thank you for tuning in and God bless you God bless you