There's the signal. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Adrian Otto. For those of you who, anybody who see the morning keynotes this morning, you like what you see? You all like Jackson. I think he's pretty cool. So I'm the PTL for the Magnum Project here in OpenStack. And I'm a distinguished architect at Rackspace. So you're all here to hear. You're all present to hear about Magnum. And I've given this talk a few times before at prior summits and mid-cycles. And previously, the Magnum vision has been containers as a first class resource in OpenStack. But that's not our vision anymore, because we've already achieved this. So now what Magnum is all about is combining the best of infrastructure software with the best of container software. And I want everyone to recognize that container software does not solve all problems. Most of the problems that you have when you try to run applications on containers are still infrastructure problems. How do I connect my networks? What do I do with my storage? Where does my addressing come from? How are these things related? How do I orchestrate these? How do I scale them? So container software helps me at the app layer. It helps me with my packaging. It helps me with my distribution. But it doesn't solve everything related to infrastructure. And so Magnum is trying to take and vertically integrate solutions that do solve an entire range of problems. This is actually my favorite slide. And the reason this is my favorite slide is because every single time I give this talk, I have to change these numbers. And they all go up, except for the release date. So we have about, let's say, 2,200 patch sets across 12,17 commits. And this is important because it shows that we are, first of all, we're reviewing code. And we're making that code better before it gets upstream. But we're not making tons of revisions to this code. We're doing a few revisions to make it better, and then that code is getting in. So there's some velocity here. 210,000 lines of code, pretty impressive. We started in November of 2013. And we had an initial release in, this should say, 2014, 120, sorry for the bug. This obviously didn't go through Garrett review. But what I'm most proud of is that this was a collaboration now between 101 engineers who come from 28 different affiliations. And I think this is a testament to the excitement that we all feel about where this new technology might take us. So here's an idea of who the top contributors to the project are today. IBM, NEC, Huawei, Red Hat, Intel, HP, Cisco, Rackspace, and what falls off this list is Yahoo. Again, there are 20, how many? 28? Don't all fit on the slide, but this gives you an idea of who's committed to this. And if you look at the distribution of contributions here, this is not all coming from one place. So if one of the sponsors of Magnum decides that they're no longer interested for some reason, as a cloud operator, you can still have confidence that this project is going to resume. Now, Magnum is not the first project to bring OpenStack containers capability. We've had containers capability for many releases. So the Libvert LXC driver for Nova has been in there for several releases. The Nova Docker driver for Nova has been in and out, currently out of tree, and a heat resource for Docker that allows you to spin up Nova instances that have the Docker daemon on them. But there was a couple key things missing here. There wasn't a real multi-tenancy story here. And there wasn't a real orchestration story here. The scheduling of resources across a grouping of hosts in order to have more than just a few containers was a real problem that needed a better solution. So we thought, well, aren't containers just like virtual machines but smaller and faster? Please kick someone in the nuts if they say that. Because they're not. They're different. And the sorts of things that containers and Nova instances have in common is a very limited set. Basically, you're to create and delete and not much more. Nova instances have other operations. You can resize them. You can restart them. You can attach volumes. You can attach networks. But these are not the things that containers do. Containers are about things that are related to processes that run on hosts. Killing them, starting them, setting their environment variables, binding file system volumes, attaching terminals to them, and running processes within them. It's a completely different set. So you wouldn't try to fit all of that into Nova because it would be like a round peg in a square hole. And it just would not work. So we came to this point of clarity where we decided that this needs to be a new project. It needs to have its own API. Now, the last time I gave this talk was in Vancouver. And during the Q&A, there was a really good question that prompted a statement from me that cloud providers assume a risk when selecting a single cloud technology today. If you choose a single container technology to base your solution on, maybe that will remain in style and maybe it won't. And if it won't, depending on how much energy you put into integrating that, you may be kicking yourself later.  So here's a review from this morning. We have OpenStack, which is compute networking and storage. Magnum is an additional service that allows you to create a new entity, a new cloud resource called a Bay. And a Bay is where your container orchestration engine, I'll call it a COE, which is a new term that the Magnum team just made up because we needed to be able to talk about these things in a generic sense. And you currently have a choice. You can run Docker Swarm. You can run Kubernetes. And now, as of the Liberty release, you can run Apache Mesos. Hongbin, are you here? Hongbin, stand please. So thank you, Hongbin, for this new feature. I'm thrilled to have this. We now have the ability to run an Apache Mesos Bay that runs a marathon framework, which has a REST API. So you can actually create containers against it. So thank you, Hongbin, for your contribution. Now, why have these different bays? Why not just offer one and have just some OpenStack method for creating a container, a generic container? Well, the reason why is because we believe that you should have the native tool experience. You should be able to use the Docker CLI, like Jackson did this morning. You should be able to use the kube-ctl command against your cluster. And you should be able to enjoy the new features that surface in these various COEs as they're made and not have to wait for the Magnum team to build leaky abstractions on top of all that stuff in order to surface that to you.  And then you interact and create containers and manage containers and stop containers, all using your native tools if you want. Now, Magnum also does provide a feature to create a container, which I demonstrated in Vancouver. It allows you to create a pod in Kubernetes. It has this capability as well, but you also have the option to run this as a native experience. So depending on what bay you choose, you're going to get a different native API experience. Now, OpenStack is a relatively unopinionated entity. It does not dictate that you have to use a particular kind of storage or that you have to use a particular kind of a network. And when it comes to containers, it's also unopinionated. Gives you an option to choose. When it comes to what compute surface you would like to run your containers on, there might be a good reason why you want to run your containers on virtual machines. You might really enjoy the additional features that your virtualization platform offers you. You may really want the security isolation that virtual machines offer you. But you might also have a reason to run it on bare metal. So there is limited support today for bare metal capability in Magnum so that you can run your containers on an ironic instance. So I'll leave you with native APIs aren't just a good idea, they're essential. So all Magnum bays. So Magnum has these resources, right? It has container resources, it has bay resources, it has nodes. Nodes are essentially Nova instances. A bay is simply a grouping of Nova instances. And so all of the bays in Magnum today have at least these three abstractions. Now, Hongbin creating container on Mesos. Do we have create container? No, OK. So at least with Docker Swarm and Kubernetes you have this with Mesos maybe soon. It does have a REST API so this is not a hard thing to do. With the Kubernetes bay, we actually have more abstractions. And the reason we have more for Kubernetes is because this is the one we did first before we had really explored having multiple bay types. So here we have containers, pods, services, bays, and nodes.  A pod is a grouping of containers that run together on the same host. A service is a way of connecting a network port to a container. And a bay is a grouping of Nova instances. Nodes are one-to-one related to Nova instances. So why do Magnum? What is so different about this approach than what came before it? Why aren't we just slapping Kubernetes on top of a heat template and rocking it? The reason why is because that doesn't give you a strong multi-tenancy control and data plane answer. So OpenStack already has multi-tenancy capability in just about every project. It's in Nova. It's in Keystone. It's in all of the different projects that we have. And Magnum is no exception. So because the bay is a grouping of Nova instances, the bay is also the security barrier between one tenant and another. So when you have a grouping of VMs that are all belonging to the same tenant, you have confidence that you don't have the same tenants being able to interact in this way. It also, if you look at the APIs for container creation, using the existing container technology as of 2014, all of them were synchronous. Meaning that when you request a container, it blocks for the duration of that operation until that operation completes. And that makes sense if your operations are always sub-second, right? But it doesn't make sense if you're gonna be doing things like creating virtual machines on the backside of it. You don't want your API to be blocking for long periods while that's occurring. So instead, we return an asynchronous response and you can pull the API for the status. And this is a more scalable approach. OpenStack Heat provides an orchestration capability for bringing up the bay. So when we bring up a bay, say for Kubernetes, there's something like 30 different software configuration steps that need to happen to bring that up. It might even be more now that we have TLS support, which I'll talk about in a minute. We didn't wanna reinvent orchestration, right? We want app orchestration to be handled by COEs and we want infrastructure orchestration to be handled by OpenStack. So that's what we did. And then from an identity perspective, Magnum uses the same credentials for creating bays and bay models that you would use to create any resource in OpenStack. The same credentials you would use to create a server with Nova, the same ones you would use to create a volume and cinder are the same ones you're gonna use to create bays. So let's talk about the stuff that we just added. Now there were hundreds of bugs closed and dozens of blueprints closed in the last six months by the 101 contributors to the project. But these are the four favorites of mine. These are the ones that every single week in IRC meeting we were hounding on, because we think these were the ones that added the most value to the project. First the MISOS Bay type that we talked about, Hongbin led that effort.  And MISOS is very compelling if you want a container orchestration that is job-oriented or task-oriented, there is no parallel to its capability with respect to those workload types. The second cool feature was what we call the TLS feature, which really is about securing the communication between clients and the bay, and securing communication between the bay's controller and its actual COE, and then between the components of the COE. So there's a lot of moving parts there that all of which are deployed on potentially public networks that need to be secured in a way that's appropriate for something that would be on the wide open internet. And the way it was at the time I showed you this in the Kilo release, anyone could come along and just start containers on your machine, which would be a bad thing, of course. But now we automatically generate TLS certificates and sign them and distribute them to the right place and automatically wire them up so that all you need to do is just download the cert that you need in order to access the service and use that because the native tools that I'm talking about, the Docker CLI, the Kube CTL, these things don't support OpenStack in Keystone integration, they could, but they don't. And what they do today is they all have TLS capability. So they use a TLS certificate as an identity to authorize the client. So if you have the right certificate, you can communicate with the API server. And so Magnum handles the generation of management of those for you so that you don't need to be a cryptography expert to figure out how to configure your base. The next cool feature is the external load balancer support. And this is something IBM worked on. Tom, are you in the room? Will you stand? I'm gonna come back to the TLS one in just a minute. So, Tom, thank you for your efforts on this. This was a bit, this took a long, we thought this was gonna be easy. It turned out that there was a lot of work we needed to do in Kubernetes and various things upstream in order to get this done. So I appreciate your efforts, thank you. This was a hard one. And how this works is when you create a Kubernetes Bay, you can activate this feature. And how this works is it will add and remove nodes from a neutron LBAS instance in accordance with changes in your Kubernetes pods. So as your containers are growing and shrinking in your Kubernetes pods, in accordance with your changes there, your load balancer is tracking all of that. And this is really compelling because the Neutron API can control not only the software load balancers that you would normally find in the container world, but they're integrated with a lot of hardware load balancers as well. And so that stuff can possibly actually work with a dynamic container system, which otherwise is a very difficult integration to do. You think it's easy until you try to do it and then you find it's actually very difficult to do. So this is a pretty cool feature. And then the final one was multi-master from Kubernetes. This, the idea here is that you don't want a single point of failure within your Kubernetes cluster because if you lose that node, state about that cluster is lost. So in multi-master, you essentially have two of these. So you don't have any lost state when you have a single node failure. And you can just put an attribute in your Bay model that indicates how many masters there should be by default one. You can change that to two. Now you've got an HA configuration. You can change that to a bigger number. So it's just basically toggling a switch in order to get the additional masters. Now if you were to try to do that on your own, again that is not as easy as it sounds. Magnum is making that easy for you. So I intentionally kept this short because I know everybody has a lot of questions. So a lot of questions about how are we gonna integrate with networking? What are we gonna do with storage? So a lot of these questions are actually still open and we're here this week too as a development team to figure a lot of this out. So I'm gonna open for questions in a minute but before I do that I just wanna, for all of the Magnum developers in the room, especially the ones who worked on TLS, will you please stand? All of you. Hongbin, I see you. Taun, I see you.  That's fine. So thanks to all the guys who put this together. So we have a microphone at the back if you would like to direct your questions there so that we can get those onto the stream. I'll start telling jokes if you don't ask questions. Just a quick question. To the microphone, please. Is there a doc sprint in the roadmap? There is not yet but we would welcome that. Right now the only documentation we have is developer documentation so we'd love to build that out more. Nice presentation, Adrian, but I noticed on the contributors list, well I noticed that Google had signed up as a sponsor earlier. I noticed their name not on the list. You know if they're actually gonna consume more code to that. Yeah, great question. So Google is a sponsor, an OpenStack sponsor, and they have at the OpenStack Silicon Valley event which was maybe a month or two ago, maybe September, Craig McClucky made a public statement about OpenStack being the right answer for running container technology in private clouds. That's their point of view. And so I think the idea here is that they would participate in the OpenStack community. I think they've actually got their hands full with the Kubernetes community right now which is probably why they're not participating to the extent they anticipated. But they're welcome to begin participating and I do have an occasional interaction with them but I'd like to see more participation. That would be great. So I have kind of a crazy question. Okay. You know there's triple O, right? So when do we get to see something like container-driven inception things like with COLA perhaps, so I don't know. Where do you see this going? Okay, so COLA is a project that allows you to provision a OpenStack control plane that is containerized using Docker containers. Steve Dake, Steve and Dake, is he here? Is the PTL for that project? He was actually instrumental in getting Magnum off the ground. Will that sub-plant triple O? I don't know. It might. There's also another project called OSAD, OpenStack Ansible Deployments which is another way of configuring an OpenStack control plane. But from a Magnum perspective, it's pretty much beyond my reach so I'm not sure. Hey, it sounds like Courier is coming but what's the story for networking right now between existing VMs and containers? Networking between existing, okay. So let me just characterize Courier really quick. Courier is a remote network plugin for Docker LibNetwork. So you can use this in order for LibNetwork to communicate with Neutron. So when you create a network in Docker through the LibNetwork facility, you end up with a Neutron network, that's the concept. And the idea there is that if you do that, then you can have networks that are Neutron networks that can have both virtual machines and containers participating together. Now that also requires some additional features on the Neutron driver for what we call sub-interfaces. You need to be able to have on a single VM multiple sub-ports. So there is Russell Bryant from Red Hat who is working on a piece of software called OVN, which you may have heard about earlier in the summit. But the idea there is adding the, for OpenVSwitch, adding a sub-port capability. So if you're using that driver, then you can actually have containers and virtual machines on the same network together. Rather than just the Bay nodes being part of the Neutron network and using an overlay network with the containers on top of that. Now, why do we care? We care because we don't love having a network with another encapsulated network, right? You don't want an encapsulated SDN network with another encapsulated network on top of that because you'd have a performance drawback of doing that kind of configuration. That's why we care about Courier. So the Courier team has been working with the Magnum team extensively over the last couple of months to get all of our requirements aligned. That was a little bumpy start, but I think we got that figured out. And we're expecting great things from that project. Yes, can I go to the microphone? So I guess it's a pretty basic question. I'm wondering, for end user who is owning a project in the open site, can have n number of days, right? Yes. So I'm trying to understand, as an end user, why should I want to have n number of days and different orchestration mechanisms, Kubernetes, missiles? Great question. Okay, so why? If you are the type of user who does not care about customizing anything that happens in the deployment process of your containers, then you would probably really like a declarative interface for defining your container deployment. And in a declarative interface, this would be like a YAML file that just describes how this should be set up. So with a declarative system, you describe the output and you do not define the actual process that the system goes through in order to produce that output. As far as you're concerned, it's magic. And Kubernetes is one of these systems, right? You put the YAML file in and magically your pod comes out the back. Now that makes sense if you don't want to customize the process, but if you do want to customize the process, then you might really like something where you define the process, where the system is stupid and the instructions have all of the information in them. Okay, that's what we would call an imperative system. So in an imperative system, you supply the exact process to follow when you create the resource and the system itself is just totally following that. So depending on what you care about and depending on your application, you might want to have one of them running in a Bay that has a Docker API and another one of them running in a Bay that is running a Kubernetes API. So depending on that. Also, you might actually see a shift. Maybe one of these three prevailing choices becomes totally unfavorable in the future and you've actually got applications running on them. It might be nice if you had a migration story where you could run them concurrently and slowly shift from one to another. And so Magnet provides a mechanism for that. To the microphone, could you go? Yeah, I wanted to ask about specifically Elba's integration. So if I understand correctly, with this integration, if I create my service in Kubernetes and I specify the type of service load balancer, it will automatically add the ports of this service to Elba's, right? If you've configured the Bay to have the external LB feature turned on, then yes. Okay, thank you. So I want to ask the direction of the future of the Magnum. So I heard about some movement about the standardization of the container, like OCI or Synasif. So are there any relationship between that kind of movement or standardization and ongoing the development in the Magnum project? Yes, so the OCI is the Open Container Initiative, which is a standardization of container format, which would be like the image format primarily and then related things. And the initial format is coming actually from the Docker specification. Is OpenStack or are the Magnum contributors participating in that effort? I do know that there are members who are contributors of Magnum who are on the OCI, but we're not officially participating as an entity. We're keeping an eye on it. I think mainly concerned with the integration of the COE and the infrastructure and a little bit less concerned about the format itself. But the Bays are designed in a way that you could have alternate formats. So if Docker and OCI end up divergent, which I doubt, but if they end up divergent, then you can have different Bays to support each. That's our point of view. Thank you. I have a question on the Docker's not planning to support stateful containers. Is it a plan of Magnum to support sender directly connecting to containers with Magnum? Yeah, you should come to the fishbowl session for Magnum storage tomorrow and ask that exact same question. So we have a lot of storage capability in OpenStack already and almost none of it is wired up to Magnum yet. There is a cinder volume that gets created on each of the Bay nodes for basically local storage of what it needs in order to run the Bay, but it doesn't expose that in a way that you can easily just tie, as you run the container, tie it to a volume. So in order to make that more compelling, what I'd really like to see is the ability to create a cinder volume and attach that to the no-vincent in the Bay, automatically put a file system in it and allow you to, when you run your container with a dash V argument using Docker, you could connect to that volume. That's like the first, like most basic kind of storage integration we could do. Beyond that, we could use potentially Manila in order to have shared file system capability where you could specify using hints with dash E. You can give hints as you create the container that you would like to bind-mount something but that it should be an existing volume and that those could be shared across multiple Bay nodes, regardless if they're on the same host or not, which would be pretty cool for things like image repositories for CMS systems that they're not written too frequently, but every node wants a common view of the same file system. We think it would work really well for that use case. A quick question was, do you have a mixed mode environment where you can have different multiple Bay nodes giving different services like one with Docker, one with Kubernetes? And now? No, you choose that per Bay. So if you want, well, so if you can run them concurrently, right? You can have a Docker Bay and you can have Kubernetes Bay simultaneously running on the same cloud within the same tenant account, but the only mixing we really do is with the flavor. So if the node is a master node, it can be configured with a different size than the rest of the nodes in the Bay, but we don't try to mix the COE within a single Bay. But think of a Bay as a virtual resource, right? It's not, there's no cost to having a Bay besides the process for running the orchestration system. So creating more Bay doesn't consume a whole lot of resources. So if you really want to do a mixed configuration, I would recommend just creating two Bays and having those two Bays interact. So one of the big advantage of Apache Mesos is to run also other workloads like Spark or Hadoop or something like that. So do you expect people to do that? And do you think also about supporting like Kubernetes on top of Mesos? Because that's something that we see more and more as well. I'd be open to a Bay type with Kubernetes on top of Mesos. The one we have today is a marathon one. It wouldn't fit there nicely, but it would fit in a new Bay type. I'd like to see that. In terms of big data workload use cases, I'd like to see more of those. I think most of the stuff that people have been using Magnum for today are kind of web-centric applications. But there's no reason why it couldn't be used for data-centric applications as well, especially once we figure out what storage capabilities to put on. If we figure out some of these cinder volume integrations and make those really tight, running something like Spark or Hadoop on top of a Mesos framework would make a whole lot of sense. You had a question? Kubernetes is already fairly opinionated around its networking model, right? And it explicitly departs from the Docker networking model.  Any thoughts on how you're gonna address it? Yeah, so each Bay type has, is Danny in here? Okay, so Danny and Hansen from Cisco has designed a networking, container networking model for Magnum, which is an extensive specification that addresses exactly this area of concern. And the idea is that we wanna use the native networking capability that's in Docker, and we wanna use the native networking capability that's in Kubernetes. But of course, because they're incompatible, we can't simply produce a single opinionated view of how network should work on all container systems. So the short answer is there is a way that you can indicate how those networking systems should be configured using labels when you create the Bay. And those labels are what pass through the configuration information so that you can actually set up the network. And there's gonna be a default network for each of the Bay types that we support. So there'll be one, probably the default will be courier through to Neutron for the Docker one. And we currently have a flannel one for Kubernetes and that'll likely remain the default for some time until we sort out how to integrate that with Neutron as well. Okay, all right, great. If you don't wanna answer your questions now, I will stick around for a little longer and you can come and ask me up here. Thank you everyone for attending. Thank you.


Good morning everyone. Welcome to today's session. Today we are going to study on two books from the Old Testament that is the book of Jonah and the book of Micros. Yeah, so even before we go to the start of the session and join in, we can start our session with the word of prayer. Am I audible? Dear God, we thank you, we praise you, we love you. We come into your presence, Lord, as we study on these two books, the book of Jonah and the book of Micros. Lord, you will cover me and you will speak in for me. You will make these two books very simple that we can understand and we can remember. And Lord, I pray that Holy Spirit come move in midst of us, no matter from where we are, Lord, out of this class. You will teach us, you will lead us. Thank you, Father, for doing every word that we can understand and grasp your word that make well as a seed in our hearts. In Jesus' name we pray Amen. So we all know this book of Jonah. It's not something very new. Okay, so I just want to know what is our learning from this book? What do we know from the book of Jonah? Is it the story of Jonah, of the whale, or is it the story of the people of the world? I think the importance of being obedient in God's presence. Yes, thanks. Thanks, John. You went to the point. Yes, it is important to be obedient to God's point. It's more than the story of the people of man away. I think it is the story of this one. We can relate ourselves with Jonah because it's just not Jonah at 70. So let's see, let's go through this book and see how we can relate ourselves with Jonah. I'll just give you a brief background. The name Jonah in Hebrew means dove. So the dove is a symbol of peace. In times of Noah, we see Noah sending out this bird from the ark to signal the end of the flood. And later we see in the book of Lettuce, the doves were used for sacrifice at the temple. And later, even in the book of Isaiah, we see the dove symbolizes the one of Moons. So in the New Testament, we see the doves come. And also we see that when the Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus during the time of his baptism, we see the Holy Spirit came in form of a dove which descended upon Jesus. And whoever was present, they heard the voice of Father affirming that Jesus was his beloved son. So in the book of Jonah, it's collected as one of the 12 minor prophets of... ... and the book of Jonah as its own right in our Christian Old Testament. Well, Jonah lived during the reign of Jerubo once said, where it tells us the Hebrew prophet named Jonah, who was the son of God, who was sent by God to prophesy the destruction of Nineveh, but tries to escape this divine mission and he runs. Now, can we tell you, why did Jonah run away from this mission? What made him not to go to Nineveh, but go to Daesh? The land that was far. Or God asked him to go to East Iran towards West, totally opposite direction. He didn't want the enemies of Israel to be rescued. Like God is showing kindness if they would repent. So he didn't want that for them to be rescued. Yes, that's right. It's not that Jonah didn't have heart for people, but that he didn't wanted the enemy nation to be rescued. He didn't want. Jonah was okay if God forgives Israel, though he was prophesying to the Israelites, he was all okay for God to forgive Israel. Jonah, being a prophet, he was not ready to... You know, except the fact that God wanted to save Nineveh, because Nineveh was the capital city of Assyria. And Assyrians were against Israel. They always wanted to invade Israel and later on when we studied the book of Micah, we can see how they come and invaded Israel, the northern part of Israel. So here we see like God is asking Jonah to go and tell the people to repent and change so that I can forgive them and save them. But Jonah was not ready to accept that fact. Because throughout when we studied the book of Kings, or even Chronicles, we see throughout the book that God destroyed the enemy's kingdom. You know, gave Israel to go and invade other kingdoms. But you know, never have I seen that God forgave them. God wants to save those people. But this was something very new. And you know, he wants to run away from God, so he could not accept it. He wanted to go in a different direction. But God did not, you know, love that to happen. And even though Jonah turned away and he went to a different direction. Okay. Did God change his decision? Did God change his decision? Yes, ma'am. Did God change his decision? In what way? In what way? God said, okay, because Jonah went to a different place. That's okay. Let the people of Nineveh stay like that. Or did he say, okay, if Jonah was not ready, I will raise another prop, another man of God who can go and do my work. What Jonah didn't do, I can ask somebody else to do in place of Jonah. Did God do it? No, ma'am. God turned Jonah himself only. God wants him to do his purpose. God wanted to change Jonah inside out. God wanted to show that he is God of mercy. We see, there are a few important scriptures here, P verses. Can I request one of us to please turn to Jonah chapter 2 verse 1? Can I request one of you to please read? From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the Lord his God. When I was in trouble, Lord, I prayed to you and you listened to me. From deep in the world of dead, I begged for your help and you answered my prayer. Yes. Okay, can we request one of us to please turn to Jonah chapter 2 verse 6? Jonah chapter 2 verses 6. Jonah chapter 2 verses 6. To the roots of the mountain, I sank down. The earth beneath buried me in forever. But you bought my life up from the pit. Oh Lord, my God. Jonah chapter 2 verse 9. And one of you take Jonah chapter 3 verse 10 and the other take Jonah chapter 4 verse 10 to 11. Jonah chapter 2 verse 9. But I, with a song of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to you. What I have bought, I will make good. Salvation comes from the Lord. Salvation comes from the Lord. And in chapter 3 verse 10, what does he say? When God saw that the people had stopped doing evil things, he had pity and did not destroy them as he planned. And Jonah chapter 10 to 11. Jonah chapter 4 verse 10 to 11. But the Lord said, you have been concerned about this wine. Though you did not tend it or make it grow, it sprang up overnight and died overnight. But Nineveh has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left. And many cattle as well. Should I not be concerned about that great city? Yes. Thank you. Thank you so much. Well, when God sent Jonah to go to Nineveh and he disobeyed God and he went the other side. So after he boarded the ship, what happened? When he boarded the ship, there was a great storm and the storm was so huge. It was not subsiding. The men in the ship tried doing many things. They threw the wheels out to get the boat back. Things didn't go well. So what they did, they put lots to find out what was happening. And the Lord fell on Jonah because they believed in the sloths and it rightly fell on Jonah. Jonah knew what was happening. Jonah was fast asleep and all that. It was a great escape. He thought, okay, this is all that was happening around. Let me just escape. But when people told Jonah what was happening and the Lord fell on him, he agreed. He confessed. He said, I'm running. You know, I'm running from the Creator God, the God of creation, from the Creator God. And he knew within him like that. He didn't want to escape anymore. And what he said is, you just throw me into this water. Why did you throw me into the water? Jonah knew that there will be a body of God that he will save him. He will actually come from the water and he will be rescued and he will be taken to Nineveh. Is there any kind of repentance in that? Oh Lord, I made a mistake. I chose a different question. He said, I'm sorry, forgive me, take my soul and save these people. Did he say something like that? And he said, what happened? Why did Jonah throw me into the water? We all are leaders. You can share your views. It helps us in our class. Was it easy to Jonah to convince the people around him to throw him into the water? I think it was basically Jonah knew that it was because of his sin that this is happening. Yeah, so he was also concerned of the fact that there were other people in the ship who were praying to false gods. Yeah, he knew that God can save. Yes, as Farshish also said, thanks to the people who say it's not very easy and it was not easy for people to throw him into the water. But here we see a description of the clear picture of what was the thought process in Jonah but then he said, maybe I'm the cause and because of me I don't want other people's life to be in stake so Jess put me into the water and it will be an end to the storm. So the people took him and they put him into the water but then the people were scared of the God and when they put him into the water and they saw the storm would stop immediately there was a car in the sea they prayed to the God. Farshish also said, God let not his man's life come to pass for we are innocent. Does it also remind us of something? Does this also remind us of something? Ooprade let his blood do not come upon our hands. We remember a conscious style this way when Jesus went through the time of dry saying when people are saying kill him, kill him he also said he's a innocent man I don't see anything in him to put him to crucify him so he washed his hand and he said, let his blood do not come upon there are some instances where the scholars relate Jonah's incidents with Jesus the time of channel when they put a lot of effort Jonah, sorry, they put a lot of effort on Jonah and they put Jesus clothes as a lot many scholars relate many things to Jesus but Jesus himself related to him well Jonah was thrown into the water God sent him big fish big fish the book of Jonah says big fish but in the book of Matthew it says big whale God sent a whale and it swallowed Jonah in Matthew 1240 it says that he was in the whale's belly for three days and three nights and Jesus also related to him and saying so shall the sun be inside the earth for three days and three days and Jonah woke up in the belly of the fish and now, and now it's time for God which didn't happen when he was in the ship when the storm hit he didn't do anything he was just watching everything that was happening around him but something happened when he was inside the belly of the fish he confessed his disobedience and he told God that he would accomplish the task the Lord had called him to there's a change of heart that which was stubborn I will go opposite direction of what you have told me I will not go to that any land to I cannot take that being safe and here there's a change of heart in the belly of the fish sometimes when it happens to us there's a change of heart during the time of Troy and then when it changed when there was a transformation we see that God had instructed the whale to vomit Jonah exactly on the dry ground of Nenemi for three days and three nights he comes out of the fish and he is even lacking in the land of Nenemi to his amazement and also his disappointment the people of Nenemi heard the message they may not be okay they just won't do what others are going to do they went and told him people don't know what repent and turn over the salvation of the Lord is at hand if you don't repent this is the punishment that will come upon you he kept declaring and this news when everyone listened he did the voice of this prophet all these days when we are studying on the other works of the prophets the major prophets we study we study the minor prophets they all were prophesied the people of Israel and the people of the prophesied they cried Ezekiel demonstrated and we see Hosea he demonstrated in this life and declaring the people of Israel to repent and change so that God can forgive us and save us but the people of Israel you know it didn't show any kind of giving heed to the voice of these prophets they in fact when we are mad people around them they never heeded the voice of what God was saying Jonah thought maybe it would be something like that even the people of Syria would also react in the same way but to his surprise to his appointment we see people listen they heard the voice of this prophet they believed on his word some of the scholars say that when Jonah was the king of the fish and he came to scripture some scholars say that his appearance was different because of the acid that was the belly of the fish and this made people to believe what he was saying yes this is the Lord who was talking to us that we need to repent we need to listen to his word and this people king of that place and along with the king and the people even the cattle repent it they also fasted and prayed seeking God to forgive for their sins and save their land and after Jonah preached to the people he goes he sits on top of the mountain and to watch the Lord destroy the city but then the Lord saw these people repent and ask for forgiveness God did not destroy this city but then God forgave the minute God forgave them Jonah was was not very happy he complained and God wanted to teach him to not being very happy and saving these people like because as he was sitting on the mountain top to watch over it was very hot he was hitting upon him and here got a wild plant to grow within a night over and then give him the shade from the sun in short time and he also sent a worm to open it from that wild from the plant and now again the sun is hitting him and he was very angry he was so sad he just grew his fresh and nice it was getting shade and this worm was hitting upon this plant so sad of this plant he has the heart to feel for the plant which is your soul then God is saying Jonah this plant do not have a soul and you are feeling sad for this plant which just you know sprouted and raised and gave you a shade from the sun from this plant but not for the people who have a soul should die not be merciful toward them I am a God of all I am a God of this earth I am a God of all creation God will be understanding God will be understanding saying that I am God of the Jew and also of the Gentile he is a God of all he is the God of all so yes that is not the scripture does not give us a clear picture that Jonah was able to understand and we were able to accept the decision of God and this is what God is bringing the news to you and me today so what we learn from this book is first sin is a sin because the scripture says the witness of sin is death and one of us read and one of us read that scripture yes it is Romans 623 can I read yes please Romans 623 for the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord see the wages of sin is death after that what is not but what is the next slide the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord but the gift of God is eternal life though the wages of sin is death the gift of God is the eternal life so very clearly we see God telling God telling Jonah both Assyrians and Israelite needed a savior to save them we all need a savior to save us so this is what something that we need to learn just not Jonah even we that we need savior because the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is the eternal life and that we get only through the savior so we all need Jesus so when the people from in a way turn from the sin turn to God God's wrath subsided and our sin qualifies the complete destruction but God in his mercy through Jesus Christ he saves us he gives us this eternal life in Christ and we see another part here is no one can flee from God's time no matter how far we can run and Jonah we cannot run away from God's plan we you know God yes there is a call there is a purpose in our life God will accomplish this even the time delays but God will accomplish his purpose just like how God accomplished the purpose in Moses life in David's life the same God says no matter how far you can run but you cannot run away from me can you hide yourself from God David says where can I hide Lord from your presence even if I go to the deep of the earth you're there in the heavens you're there where can I hide there is no way that we can run away Jonah hide we cannot from the presence of God God is everywhere and the scripture says that his eyes runs two and four on this earth seeking his children God knows everyone scripture says even even the head head is numbered without his permission it cannot fall you know so cured God knows about us the very thought he knows the very word even before it would be formed on our mouth he knows so how can we run away from God's run we cannot the third point is looking at the Assyrians we may think you know okay the reason for their sin is death and they need to be destroyed and God cannot forgive them one thing we need to know is God is the God of second chance God has a heart to forgive us it's not that only after the death of Jesus but from from the beginning as a God as a God who wants to redeem his people redeem his children that's the reason Tywin again is raising the offer it's a servant of God to proclaim tell the people not to sin repent so that he can forgive us even in the time of Moses we see God gave the most but in the same way he gave the law he also introduced the sacrifice so that whenever the laws introduced the sin has been measured because God knows that man cannot keep his law we will fall short we need to overcome that how to sacrifice so there was a covering given for our sin they should be a bloodshed so that's the reason he introduced the sacrifice where the animal can be sacrificed for the covering of a sin later but God had a plan of Jesus where once and for all the wages of a sin can be paid through Jesus Christ our Lord but there is a time but till that time he wants to save his people redeem his people protect his children it's mindful of us when the Sama says that God we are the apple of his eye truly we are the apple of his eye and we see that no matter how far we have gone from the salvation God can bring us back if God is concerned about the Assyrians about the genitals how much more will be concerned about us the fourth point we see is don't often get a negative impression from the other people looking at his selfishness but Jesus laid the attribute assigned to the church life plays you know a later role in Jesus' death and resurrection Jesus took the example of this man you see no matter how much we may have denied just like how Peter did when Peter denied Jesus but then Jesus never changed his mind oh Peter you denied me three times so let me change a different concept Jonah you ran away from my plan so let me raise another leader so that you may learn a lesson that you missed the opportunity that came your way God knows as a human he knows our weakness he knows our strength he is a God of understanding even in our selfishness even in our fear weakness whatever we may be God and he raises us to fulfill his God his purpose in our life as we study in this foundation the very first book fulfilling God's purpose in our life he says both of us should cooperate God and we God is always cooperated we need to work our part to cooperate with him so that we can accomplish his or our life we need to be ready we should not run away like Jonah but then we need to be ready because any which way God will fulfill his plan his purpose in our life but then it becomes much easy for both of us when we incorporate so the book of Jonah teaches us so much about the patience of God the perseverance of God the love and care that God has on the nation at the same time on the individual I feel more than the nation God had to talk up with the Jonah to make him understand today you and I are in the same way I don't know about you but me I am in this God comes to my level to teach me the way I can understand he talks to me the way that I can understand he teaches me through simple things around me the way that I could understand God would have to do that isn't it but then he chooses to do that because of the freedom he's given to that we may not comprehend to his wisdom but then he humbles himself to teach us in the way we can understand how amazing God is isn't it the God in the New Testament way I believe in 99 I run behind that one it is so true in Jonah's life and in our life today each of us are young we all have a story to share just like Jonah in different ages maybe we have run away we have gone very far but then God ran behind us restored us back to him and here he is nurturing us every day as you all are the student and I am the student in this class it's the Lord who is our teacher he teaches us as I teach it's not that I know everything from the Bible I'm just learning like you every day as I prepare to teach God teaches me and everywhere I see the heart of God the love the compassion that God has towards his children towards us, towards his people and it questions me am I carrying the same kind of love because we need to reflect God's love are we reflecting in our life are we having the mindset of God in the same way where we can show his love towards people can we change our mind can we change our heart are we hard in the heart and mind just like Jonah like how God can forgive and bless other people when they have wronged are we having a heart like God thinking big even when Jesus was crucified on the cross Jesus said Lord forgive them they do not know what they do and the same reflection we see the same kind of love flow even the first Martha even he looked up to God he is not looking at the people who are stoning him to kill him but he is looking at God and he is smiling with joy and he is saying Lord forgive them for they do not know what they do do we have the heart like them this is what God's love is are we reflecting God's love in our heart are we showcasing that in our life to our people to our family to our brothers around us is a question so the book of Jonah is asking us to carry the heart of God so with this we will move on to the next book we have taken lot of time and we can go on and on talking about the book of Jonah but then we should also go to the book of Micah give me a minute so the book of Micah the name Micah is a short form of Hebrew which means who is like the eternal who is like the eternal it seems to me a reference to his name in Micah 7 18 that he is the author and his name means who is God like you pardoning iniquity the God who forgives us went beyond and the book of Micah is the 6th book of the 12 manner of it and it was written by Micah and the first in this book identifies that he is the author and and he is from this place called Mauritius Gath verse 14 says that he lived in a town called Mauritius Gath and Mauritius Gath in Judah located little about 20 miles southwest of city of Jerusalem and this was very close to where the prophet Isaiah and which may explain the similarities in the prophecies and Micah was known by the name over 100 years later during the time of Jeremiah then certain of the elder of the land rose up and spoke for all the assemblies of people saying Micah also mentioned prophesied the king of Judah and spoke to all the people of Judah and Jeremiah in the book of Jeremiah we read if you see chapter chapter 12 to 15 we see that how people raised to kill Jeremiah prophesied the doom of the Lord to Judah and if they don't repent and there was an outcry and there were other people also supported Jeremiah to kill and they related Micah's message before him and he was prophesying again the doom of the Lord but people and Micah he was prophesying he said guys if y'all don't repent I use the local people of Israel if y'all don't repent if y'all don't change transform and if y'all continue to do this idol worship and if y'all keep drinking and getting involved in the immorality of the sexual sin the day of the Lord as I said with Micah prophesied you know also they didn't yes they listen to him but they will stay and kill him but when Jeremiah prophesied the same thing to the people of Judah they were about to kill Jeremiah but then the other people you know a reminder of the elder reminded how can we kill him when there was another prophet also shared the message in similar way if we have spared him then we should also spare Jeremiah so they related Micah's prophecy and they spared the life of Jeremiah so that he can live so this way they were reasoning out in those days they were comparing and reasoning out so Micah the prophet Micah he prophesied in the 8th century there was 700 he prophesied during the king of Jotun Ahaz king Ezekiah he actually saying you know prophesied on the millennium of Christ he also prophesied on the location of Christ in Jerusalem and the three characteristics that God wants to see in our life and that's what Micah was prophesying to the people saying that there is a justice and when there is a justice there is mercy and hope so he is clearly mentioning that to the people so in chapter 1 we see the judgment is announced against Israel and in chapter 2 to 3 we see Micah announces judgment of the false prophets the rich and the powerful of the sin and the evil ways if they don't repent there is a judgment because the wages of sin is very low and they all like the false prophets and they were encouraged to make the people not elicit the voice of the false prophets and in chapter 4 to 5 we see the millennial reign of Jesus talking about the reign of Jesus Christ the judgment will come upon the enemies of Israel and in chapter 6 we see God causes against Israel impending sorrow and punishment for their sins God causes against Israel and we see impending sorrow and punishment for their sins and in chapter 7 we see future forgiveness upon Israel when they confess and forsake their sins they will be saved they will live in peace although in the book of Micah the prophet says when the peace God's peace is there they will forget about the wars that happen they will not be talking about it in the time of millennia and in chapter 3 verse 8 Micah says fill your strength with the spirit of God to declare how Israel has rebelled it's not very easy for Micah to prophesy people will stone and people will kill him to death but then the spirit of the Lord was upon him and he will strengthen to declare what was happening yes Micah accused them and he warned them about God's judgment upon Israel and at the same time when we are studying yes the prophets asked them to give them the word tell them there is a judgment for your sin but at the same time God is also giving them the message of hope if you repent if you turn away from your sin there is forgiveness there is a message of hope this is the gospel this is the good news and even today we take this good news and share it with others yes we all need a savior just like what Jonah is saying just like what Micah is saying to the people of Israel at the same time are called to be that mouthpiece it's not that we have to be any of the 5 calling 5 ministry that either it's not that we need to be an apostle or a prophet or an evangelist or a pastor or a teacher but then God is saying if you believe that Jesus Christ is Lord and you have accepted and you have encountered and you have tasted the goodness of God we are supposed to share this joy share the good news with others so just like Jonah just like Micah God is asking us can you be my mouthpiece as the scripture says the harvest is huge but the laborers are not few God is raising laborers today each one of us in this class are not just an attending we are not attending we are not part of this college to receive a certificate and relax or just be content in changing ourselves even that was my thought as well as I say this to you Lord I will only focus on myself and I will only change myself I will see that I will lead my way in the way it pleases you but please do not ask me to share your word to anyone this was my thought me in a hard way and this is not what God wanted from me and this is not what God has touched me has saved me to focus just on me the minute I realized I surrendered said Lord change me give me the grace give me the strength you put your words into my mark because you know my weakness that I cannot speak if I don't know a person then the words won't flow if there is a number of people I cannot speak to everyone it would be like I don't know the language words won't flow in a sentence in one of the language would I speak in front of anyone yes I also face a challenge when I move to online I cannot speak in front of a camera not just now even before there are a lot of challenges just like me each one in the class may have your own challenges in different ways just like Jonah we may run away but here the book of Micah is saying I was strengthened by the spirit of the Lord when we seek God when we are willing to say Lord if you have brought this far you will give me the grace to overcome my weakness you will give me the grace to teach and share your word because this is your call this is your purpose you will put your words in my mark you did with the prophets they trusted God and they stepped it and we boldly proclaimed the word of God and the Lord may not be everyone but then people heard today you and I beyond our weakness and beyond our weaknesses when we trust God God will give us strength those days the spirit of the Lord is to visit them but now the spirit of the Lord is abiding within us forever we have the spirit of the Lord the spirit of the Lord strengthened Micah how much more the spirit of the Lord can strengthen us because we have Jesus with us the spirit of the Lord is in dwelling within never leave us and he is abiding with us forever so we have the privilege we have the opportunity to be strengthened and fulfilled and God is a promise he keeps his promise he will see in and through us he can change your situation if your situation is a barrier you can change that situation no matter what obstacle beyond there the minute we surrender to God we see God's call and purpose when accomplished in our life the only call that we have is for us to share this word of God share the goodness to people so that they can be saved the greatest miracle is not the healing not the deliverance not comforting those who are oppressed the greatest miracle is when the soul is saved because that is when the heaven rejoices the scripture says the heaven rejoices when one soul is saved if God can take so much of risk and you know getting Jonah from the ship and then if God can raise Micah to boldly declare the word of God the judgment is coming say repair asking you and me today to do that in our time God wants us in the name of Jesus to step out to share the good news to the people that Jesus died on the cross for you and me and he is mindful of us when we believe in Jesus we have eternal life with him this is the goodness don't worry about other persons understanding don't worry about any none of us but what we know we can share the gospel what we know what we experience that's what the disciples did what they know delivered Jesus whatever they heard and saw Jesus do they did Jesus says you shall do great and mighty things than what I am done and we see people moving in the presence we can only move in that area only when we step out we cannot ask God give me the power first then I will move no God say you step and you see me work in and through let's in faith see God but before that I will open to the class we are crossed our time I leave it open is there anything you would like to share talk from these two books that we study today and we can go into the time of prayer Sir John Brother Isaac anything you would like to add or good first dino thank you John can you lead us in prayer that's great Precious Lord we want to thank you for this time Lord we submit once again ourselves and thank you for reminding us the importance of being obedient in your presence of God Lord we pray to God that in every circumstances help us to be obedient to you, your word your what your spirit leads us Lord and help us to give utmost importance to your word as we are just being a messenger to share your word to the people around us God and help us to be humble help us not to take any pride in anything that we are doing we also thank you for the learning that we had from the book of Micah Lord Jesus that we pray to God that let's have that attitude of being so vulnerable in your presence and and pray to God that we would be able to execute what you want us to do in this world of God help us to deliver the message of hope to the people around us and pull people from every hopelessness to your marvelous light Lord Jesus we help each one of us to stand to stay on the course of God and we pray that you would enable us to do it and let your Holy Spirit work in us in a powerful way master Lord we thank you for this time we thank you for us Diana to help her to deliver this word to us master we give you glory and praise in Jesus name we pray amen thank you so much for coming in today's session and yeah tomorrow we will not have session we can meet next week okay so Wednesday we will not have class because we completed the portion call of honor you can continue to do your assignment we will meet next Monday okay so Abbas say thank you okay thank you good bless thank you


No, run. Run, little man. Okay, these guys came from the boat. Maybe we can make it. Oh, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, please. Please. These boats, they cause me too much stress. I can't deal with it anymore, man. I'm on the boat. Like, inside it.


I think the great thing about having a virtual conference is that you can reach out to much greater numbers of people than you would otherwise in a physical conference. The other thing of course is that it gives us the ability to bring various experts from different fields all together at the same time around the same virtual table. The vision of FAO in this region would be to make food safety everybody's business. That has to be done through what we have adopted as the tagline for this conference which is to regulate, delegate and participate. This region is very big, is heavily populated and it is virtually impossible for a government entity or a single government in a country to regulate all of food safety simply because of the immense size, the number of businesses and the number of people that are involved. So the best way to have food safety across the food chain is to have delegation to the private entities, the private industry or to all the operators. Give them a good understanding and training in food safety and help them to implement various codes of practices and standards so that they take responsibility for implementation while the government sets the regulatory framework. And the third element of course is the consumers who have a role both as consumers who keep the food that is provided but at the same time they in their daily lives are professionals are part of these businesses too. So through consumers we actually have the opportunity to disseminate food safety even more widely through at home, at the workplace and in educational institutions. So the wider this spreads and becomes a part of our daily life and our culture the better it is in terms of improving food safety across the board in Asia and the Pacific.


So the main association of the deaf is a non-profit organization that gets together and it's deaf and hard of hearing people from all over the state and hearing people are able to join as well. Every year we host the Deaf Culture Festival in the last week of September. And it's people from different agencies and throughout the community in Maine. And it's people who run non-profit organizations and people who are artists, craftsmen, food vendors within the community are all invited to participate. So this festival was set up several years ago and we have Deaf Culture Week here in Maine. It tends to be the last full week of September. Every year the governor signs a proclamation to announce that the last week of September will be Deaf Culture Week. And just before the week or the week before the Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing hosts a deaf tee to recognize people within the community who have made large contributions to the community. And that's hosted in Augusta at the state house. That tends to be the start of the Deaf Culture Week and that ends with Deaf Culture Festival on the last Saturday of that week. My job here is the coordinator of the Deaf Culture Festival and I work within the community to invite organizations, artists and craftsmen to all come and set up a table at our festival. There are different organizations and event services that are here. We have support groups. We have agencies that also donate to the festival to keep it running. We have a video phone company that is here. We have different vendors with food and drinks that are here. And we also sell food to raise money for the Maine Association of the Deaf and also for the athletic teams for Baxter School for the Deaf. It's a really wonderful event to get the entire community involved, old faces and new alike. And it's a great way to be able to enjoy our community. Also we do different activities for the children. And every year we try to include services for deafblind community as well. And Josh is saying the deafblind community is wonderful because we have special support persons for people who are deaf and blind. And people who are deaf and blind tend to be isolated within their community. And the Deaf Culture Festival is a time where they can enjoy the culture as well. We have children who are children of deaf adults. They are considered codas. We have a jumping bouncy house and we have different signed movies and stories and face painting. So the Deaf Culture Festival is really a time for the entire community, old and young alike, to come out and celebrate. And if you feel like you've missed it this year and you want it to be involved, please, we are always looking for people to be involved in the future years. So get in touch with us and come out and be part of the Deaf Culture Festival. The mission of the Maine Association of the Deaf is to support the community through political, educational and social events. And Josh is saying we also try to have outreach with the schools and with the community. We try to assist people with civil rights issues and with disability rights issues. We work with the disabilities of rights Maine together by, if there are needs for deaf and hard of hearing people within the state of Maine, the DMR can contact us and we will work closely with them to work on outreach, to get the community involved in rights issues, to get a group together, to go to the legislature to discuss needs and to work on a social and political level. And also, if the government or the legislature has something that is related to deafness and they are not educated in that, we will provide education and exposure within the deaf community and then with that we will bring it to the legislative level. The significance of the culture within the Deaf Culture Festival is very important. We have our own culture as a linguistic minority in the United States. The way that we address life is different than how a hearing person would address life. Growing up deaf in a hearing family communication is a lot different and a lot more challenging. So when we are with other deaf people we have our own culture where we are able to use our language, American Sign Language, fluently and with ease as opposed to when we are in the hearing mainstream and struggling to have clear communication. So over the generations the culture of deafness has become very important and because it is equal access. And with the language comes its own culture. And for hearing students, some hearing people in the deaf community become interpreters and they become advocates and they are able to see the difference very clearly of the hearing culture and the deaf culture and they are very separate. When it comes to hearing people in deaf culture, within deaf culture we are not exclusive. The whole point of the festival is to educate and encourage openness between the two cultures. There is a gap between them but we always encourage a bridge to be built and we want to make sure that everybody feels welcome within our world. So when we talk about deafness we include people who are deaf, late life deaf in, hard of hearing. Everybody is included in this culture and it is really important to remember that we are very inclusive. The Maine Association for the Deaf also works very closely to other non-profit organizations who provide services to the community in Maine. For vocational rehabilitation in the past they did not have services for the deaf. So we had a conference every two years and I just became president this past June so I am in a new position as president. And so we have many events planned for the future. We also have an equipment program and that was started because of the work of the Maine Association of the Deaf. So we do have many resources for the community. We have done a lot of work up until this point but there is always more work to be done. Technology is always increasing and we are always working to catch up with technology. Also we are trying to catch up with the legislature about deaf awareness and about the need for deaf education and the deaf school here on Macworth Island. We work with different employers. If equality is not happening then deaf people are able to get in touch with Deaf rights Maine or also Maine Association of the Deaf. And we work to provide equality and access for deaf people and hard of hearing people of Maine. If you would like more information you can get in touch with disability rights of Maine and they are able to refer you to the Maine Association of the Deaf. We are in the process of setting up a website but we do have a Facebook page that is up and running at this point. And we are doing our best to catch up with technology. Our website was a little bit old and now we are working closely with the community to get a brand new website up and running. So Terry is saying this is a great way to show old and young working together as we move forward in the world. If you are interested in volunteering or adding support for the Deaf Culture Festival next year please get in touch. We would love to have you.


All right welcome to monthly news number 21.  So we have product designers, we got engineers, we have web developers, helpers, business guy and a fun guy. So this month we've been busy preparing for the Dutch design week but also running our project for version four and this monthly news is going to be a bit different because we have a little team that wants to take over. So these ones are going to edit the new monthly news, very unexperienced, first time they're doing it so I hope it's going to be okay but they're quite excited about it so it should be good. Hey guys my name is Louis and I'm going to show you every month from now on an interesting project from the version four teams. This month we're going to show you Nate and his extrusion machine. Hi Nate, what's up? It's good, it's good. We're working on making this bigger in batter and we've already sort of developed a semi-industrial prototype I mean to develop this by putting a larger motor on and still working with beam molds we want to try to get some continuous extrusion going on. We can make really really nice things we know this already so the hopeful goal we have a cooling water system that we can continuously extrude beams out of and just kind of cut them off as they come out. But we're also having with doing larger fills so we're getting things that are kind of hollow we don't have enough material output to fill things completely before they cool so hopefully a faster larger motor will solve some of that for us but if you guys come over here some successes that we have had are like we said our beams before and just learning a little bit more about working with the material and building things we get things that are really smooth we start filling and cooling with water we get some interesting texturing going on so there's some interesting developments there but we still need a lot of work so thank you Nate. It sounds very interesting guys if you have any suggestions or tips down here is the forum link to his project now Charlotte is going to tell you a little bit about Dutch Design Week and I'm going to see you next month. Hello I'm Charlotte and I'm going to be talking to you about Dutch Design Week so for the past couple weeks you've been really busy getting ready we've been building painting cooking and this year we open the doors and welcome people from all over the world to come see us working in our brand new workspace we had five guides from the team that wore bright orange boiler suits and were there to answer people's questions and guide them through the exhibition we also held an event on the Saturday evening where we had free beer and delicious food cooked by our vegan chefs we had people from all over the world come visit us even this guy and our friends Tala Estorica run a workshop throughout the week where people can make sunglasses from recycled plastic we even had a live extrusion demonstration from precious plastic Ukraine thanks for that Giovanna. Brick Nick also provided an alternative lunch where we put veggies into a ceramic brick and set them up over an open fire but this year's Dutch Design Week was just the beginning of version four and next year people can come and visit and see what we've developed achieved and discovered over the past year it was a busy week but we're back to normal now yoga sessions jam sessions and playing Tony Hawk on PS2 and now Vicente is going to talk to you about some other stuff hello everybody i'm Vicente it's true that we have been working a lot in the workspace but we also get outside of it so yeah at the beginning of the month 50 000 people went to Germany to visit the handbag forest they went there to celebrate the suspension of tearing down the 12 000 year old forest which sits on top of the coal mine during the past decade people have been occupying the place and defending it against the deforestation and thanks to the persistence they managed to accomplish the goal we joined the celebration and spent a sunny day with thousands of other passionate people everybody was happy and playing instruments and having fun it was super powerful to see that even though the coal mine has huge machines people have the power to stop them and as long as they stay persistent and now Paul from Kentucky is going to introduce the next topic hey this month we finally released our video about setting up the precious plastic Kenya workspace and two of the Kenya workspace members Manduku and Alicia came to Eindhoven to help develop version four it's been a busy month we've gone from 15 to almost 40 volunteers and the farmers and bakers all around Eindhoven are helping keep our bellies full with the tastiest food that's it for this month thank you to all of our supporters we'll see you guys next month hey guys hope you enjoyed watching the video it was our first time doing it so be nice if you have any recommendations so we can do it better next time please let us know and yeah make sure to leave in the comments what do you want to see in the next one thank you bye


Oh, you're right. Mace has a fantastic quick tip. He had asked the question, can you rename Bluetooth devices on the Mac? And the answer that we and I evidently others gave him was you can't do this any longer. But we certainly gave that answer. Accidentally, he says this morning I found that if you go into system preferences Bluetooth, while the device is connected, and this is the key part of this, if you control click the name of the device, the little pop up there allows you to rename. It will only appear if the device is connected. If the device is not connected, you don't get the rename option. So it is possible to rename how your Mac sees a Bluetooth device or displays a Bluetooth device. And it is in Bluetooth preferences, Bluetooth system preferences, right click on a connected device to rename it. Yeah, very good. Thank you, Mace. I love it when we find these things. It's wonderful. I think it could be dependent on the device. I seem to recall some devices I've renamed, and they'll show up on another device with that name in them, and then others don't. Interesting. Okay. Yeah. All right. Okay. I'll buy that too. You don't have to rename it on each device. Oh, for sure. Yeah, this doesn't store a great point. This doesn't store anything in the device. And yours, I can tell it doesn't store anything in iCloud either. So there's there it is that one machine's name for that device changes. It is a let's call it a nickname. Maybe a machine specific nickname. There you go. But I think my point was being that like, I think it was my Skull Candy or Bluetooth headset. Okay, that came up when I changed it on the Mac. It came up on my iPhone with that new name as well. So maybe it did write it to the device. Maybe it, well, or it wrote it to iCloud. Maybe it is syncing it to the iCloud. Oh, maybe, okay. All right. I wonder where it is. That's a good, we'll find that out something. Yeah, I doubt it would be writing it to the device. Yeah. Just based on how that works. But iCloud makes sense. So, okay, I stand corrected. Yeah, so it is potentially syncing that via iCloud. I like that.


Welcome to Think of 50 2017. Brightline is not about improving only business but how we can leverage and reduce the inequality of the society. So we decided to work together to try to find ways of improving the discussions on how we can translate strategy design into strategy results. Some leaders become diminishers. The only way I think we can select the best entrepreneurs or corporate entrepreneurs is by natural evolution. Why we are facing so many challenges on transforming ideas into reality? The difficult part is to align the organization to execute the plan. I define a strategic inflection point as a moment in which the possibilities that are the envelope of constraints in which your organization operates a moment at which those change. But sometimes people, CEOs in particular leadership teams can create too much value. Every 20 seconds, around a million dollars is wasted globally due to the poor implementation of projects. If you think about the really big ideas we talk about in management almost none of them came from a direct disciplinary focus, almost none. So I think that tells you something about the nature of ideas and we have a lot of power which is they go beyond these existing structures. Our mission at the Thinker's 50 is to identify, rank and share the very best management thinking in the world. Please welcome Ricardo Vargas from the Brightline Initiative. It's a great honor for Brightline to be here to share this strategy award and the winner is Richard Davenin. Winning this award is a very important place in my career. So thank you.


Please be seated. Mr. President and distinguished guests, and Mr. President, these are distinguished guests getting four American Nobel Prize winners on the stage at one time, I think it's quite an accomplishment. Dr. Cronin, Dr. Weinberg, Dr. Ting, and Dr. Richter, ladies and gentlemen, a year ago the President made the decision to move ahead with the construction in the United States of the world's largest and most powerful high-energy accelerator, the Super Collider. The President weighed the budgetary, the economic, and the scientific arguments and decided for America's future. Our scientific future, our future technology, our future competitiveness as a nation, and yes, our educational future as demonstrated by these outstanding honor students in science from across the country who are with us here today and on this stage. Now this outcome came as no surprise to those of us who have had the great honor of serving Ronald Reagan, an historic President. The President's basic instinct on any issue has always been to look ahead and to resist the temptations to do what is expedient today to create a vision of tomorrow for the United States and for the world. Today in the face of ever-increasing, tougher global competition, the importance of the Super Collider is all the more critical to our nation's future. The accomplishments of the Nobel laureates on this stage and the promise of these high school and college honors science students who are with us this morning says much about where this nation is today and where we can go if we continue to chart the right course. This group of explorers epitomizes the great importance of a continuing commitment to the quality education of each generation of Americans and investment in the necessary scientific tools to explore the new frontiers. Without the benefit of successive commitments by the United States to larger and more powerful particle accelerators, the United States would not enjoy the world preeminence in high-energy physics and other sciences that are represented by these Nobel laureates with us today. The Super Collider will show that this nation intends to be at the forefront of change into the next century and a world pioneer for new discoveries in basic physics. With your help, all of you here today and others, I believe that we can make the Super Collider a reality and that we Americans can continue to invest in our country for generations to come. It is my pleasure to introduce Dr. Steven Weinberg to make a presentation to the President. Mr. President, last year you decided to proceed with the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider. This decision was a major milestone in the support of basic scientific research by your administration and we wish to congratulate you on the wisdom of this decision. The SSC would be the latest in a sequence of particle accelerators. The first, the cyclotron was built by Ernest Lawrence in 1930 in Berkeley. The SSC is the next step needed to make progress in this field. It represents America's commitment to the pursuit of excellence in basic scientific research. It's also a commitment to our nation's next generation of young scientists. Today you have before you in the audience a group of some of the brightest members of this next generation. I hope they don't all go into high-energy physics because we need some of them to do other useful things, perhaps in the 21st century being president of the United States. They'll need the SSC, those of them who go into physics, to make progress at the scientific and technological frontiers that they'll have to explore. If we don't build it here in this country, then they're all going to have to get on planes and go off to Switzerland or Japan or the Soviet Union to do their experiments. We believe that it's imperative to proceed with this construction and operation of the SSC so that it'll be ready for them when they need it. We pledge that we'll do what we can to accomplish this important goal. Thank you again for your support of basic scientific research and for your historic decision to approve the SSC. It's a vital link to the future. Now I am to present you with a letter signed by six of us physicists. Two of them could not be here today and I'm glad to say that one of them, Professor Glashow isn't here because he's addressing a class of high school students. Thank you, Dr. Weinberg, and thank you all very much. And welcome to the White House. It's a great, great pleasure to have so many present and future scientific pioneers in the Rose Garden with us today. Along with members of Congress and the administration, we have no fewer than four Nobel laureates in the audience, as well as many of the top science students from the Department of Energy Science Honors Program. I'm tempted to paraphrase an earlier president who once said, there's never before been so much talent assembled in one place in the White House since, well, since I hosted the Washington Redskins and the South Lawn last month. But the reason we're here, of course, is to talk about the superconducting supercolliders you've probably guessed already. I have to confess that when I first heard about this place where things go round and round at great speeds and then crash into each other, I thought they were talking about a presidential campaign. At first, I was a little nervous addressing so many distinguished scientists on a subject of such complexity. But then I realized these are people who spend their days talking about things called quarks, which some claim exist in two places at the same time. And I thought, why worry? The fact is, I envy the students here today because they exist in a world that seems to put no limits on the imagination. Outer space used to be called the final frontier, but today we've begun to tap another frontier, inner space, whose infinitesimal constellations hold out infinite possibilities. It may be a cliche, but it's nevertheless true that the pace of progress is constantly accelerating. I think one of the reasons I've always had so little patience with those who talk about the limits to growth is that in my lifetime, I've seen those limits shattered again and again by questing minds. When I was very young, horsepower was still the kind you fed with hay. Powered flight was still a relatively new thing. And before the turn of the century, we plan to have men living and working in stations in space and a new hypersonic plane that can fly from here to Tokyo in less than three hours. I know that some people may question the practical applications of the superconducting supercollider. The strange world of subatomic particles they may think will never be more than an arcane interest to a few highly specialized scientists. But the truth is, the practical applications of this knowledge are already changing the way we live. One of my favorite examples is from the computer industry. One scientist describes the progress in that industry by making this comparison. If automotive technology had progressed as fast and as far as superconductor technology has in the last 20 years, he says that Rolls Royce today would cost less than $3, get 3 million miles to the gallon, and six of them would fit on the head of a pin. Well, the technological revolution he's describing is transforming our world. And it was only made possible by the knowledge scientists have brought back from their explorations of inner space. Every time someone turns on his desk computer, makes a phone call or plays a video game, he's plugging into that mysterious world of quantum physics. The superconducting supercollider is the doorway to that new world of quantum change, of quantum progress for science and for our economy. In the face of ever increasing global competition, the United States must maintain the leading edge in science and technology. And building the world's largest particle accelerator is a visible symbol of our nation's determination to stay out front. Benjamin Franklin once said that an investment in knowledge pays the best interest.  And it's my hope that Congress will show equal vision by approving funding to initiate construction of the supercollider. I think all they'd need to do is meet with some of these students here today to see that it is our responsibility to the next generation to keep America a place where we can dream big dreams and then make them real. I have to interject something here before I conclude. In my lifetime and not, and only the recent part of my lifetime, after about 25 years in movies and so forth, I was representing the General Electric Theater on television. And I visited one of their plants in Schenectady early on, and they proudly took me in and showed me what turns out to be the first computer. They called it an electric brain. It would have fit in the rose garden here, but it was about as long as from the edge of the platform to the bushes over there and almost as thick. And that is what I just thought of that when I mentioned here someone sitting down to his desk computer. That in just those years from there up to here is what has happened. So maybe that fellow about the Rolls Royce was right, six of them on the head of a pin. Well, I just want to thank you all very much for being here and for allowing me to participate. And God bless all of you. See the before you are the best and brightest in the scientific community of America schools, some high school, some colleges. In the summer, many of them work on the craig computers and the national laboratories. The scientists in the laboratories have nicknamed them super kids. Although I suspect most of them would probably like to be referred otherwise. They've selected two today, Greg Griffin from Louisiana, and today young from Washington DC to make a presentation to you of a super glider t-shirt from the super kids. Please step forward. Thank you very much. I'm very pleased and proud to have you here today. Thank you. I can go in and try it on now.