Welcome back everyone, we are in Acts chapter 2, we read till verse 30, we saw how the work of the spirit received two responses, one a positive response where people were inquisitive about what God was doing through the Galileans. The other one was a negative response where the believers were accused of being drunk and they were labelled as being full of new wine. Now let's move ahead, I said that we will read the next portion here and try to understand what is going on. So could somebody please help me to read from verse 14 to 21. So thank you Rosalind, from verse 14 to 21. But Peter standing up with the eleven raised his voice and said to them, men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and heed my words, for these are not drunk as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day, but this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel, and it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out of my spirit an all flesh, your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams, and on my men servants and on my maid servants, I will pour out my spirit in those days and they shall prophesy, I will show wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth beneath, blood and fire and vapor of smoke, the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord, and it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Amen. Amen. Thank you Rosalind. Let's look at this passage that Rosalind has read for us from verse 14 to 21, where Peter stands up with the 11, all the existing apostles or disciples and Matthias has also joined the team. So Peter, assuming his natural personality, because he seems to be a leader who is jumping it to resolve problems, to provide an explanation, to steer people in a certain direction. So naturally nobody's asking him to do these things, but God has given him that grace and maybe even personality wise he has that capability. So he's stepping up and when he notices that people are calling them full of new wine, or in other words, drunk, he tries to explain to the people, what is he saying? He says he raised his voice and said to them. So you will notice that this is a sermon because he starts to explain the phenomenon and then he will go on to talk about the fulfillment of what God has promised to the Jews. So he says, Men of Judea, in all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you. He in my words. So here he makes a statement saying, these are not drunk the way you suppose. And he also reminds them that it is the third hour of the day. So third hour of the day would be 9am. So we could assume that people get drunk later in the evening, through the night. But how can you expect somebody to be so drunk at 9am? So he's just kind of helping them think logically over here. He says no, they are not drunk, it's just 9am in the morning. So what is going on? And he refers to the prophet Joel who the Jews know about. He begins to say, hey, don't you remember? So in Joel chapter 2 is the prophecy of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. So he kind of repeats, he repeats that same prophecy here. And he says, and it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh. So this is what Joel had prophesied. And he's repeating that prophecy. He says, in the last days, which are the last days? The last days, as far as the Bible is concerned are the days after the ascension of the Lord Jesus, up until the return of Christ or meaning the second coming of Christ. So these are the last days. So it's not so much that 2000s, these are the last days. When the Bible talks about the last days, it's from the time that Jesus has ascended up into heaven and he's going to return. So these are the last days. So in these last days, what can we expect? What will God do? I will pour out my spirit on all flesh. Now in the Old Testament, things were slightly different. We see that the power of the Holy Spirit was made manifest in the lives of priests or prophets or kings. So the anointing would come upon each of these categories and they would be the ones who would hear from God and speak to the people or walk in miracles, signs, wonders, so on and so forth. But there is a shift coming in the last days. What is that shift? He reminds them, don't you know that the Prophet Joel said, I will pour out my spirit on who? One or two people? All flesh, all flesh. So divided tons of fire sat on each of them. Why? Because of this promise. I will pour out my spirit on all flesh. And God is not exempting anyone. God is not discriminating on the basis of age or on the basis of gender because the Prophet Joel said, your sons, your daughters shall prophesy. Your young men shall see visions. Your old men shall dream dreams. So what is he trying to say?  And another thing is, when the spirit is poured out, there will be a manifestation, right, of the work of the spirit or you could also look at some of the things that are being spoken of here as, you know, the way the Holy Spirit communicates. So the Holy Spirit is going to work in everyone's life and he lists out a couple of things which come under the category of the prophetic.  Your young men shall see visions. Your old men shall dream dreams. So the prophetic will manifest upon the people. Okay, let's move on. He says, men servants, maid servants, I will pour out my spirit in those days. So meaning, from the time Jesus was lifted up, He ascended, till now the promise remains. So people will receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit. What will accompany? Verse 19, I will show wonders and they shall prophesy. I will show wonders in heaven above, signs in the earth beneath blood and fire and vapor of smoke. So this is the powerful work of God in the form of miracles, signs, wonders, manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit. All this will accompany the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And then again, he talks about the culmination of the last days. So meaning, the last of the last days, when the Lord Jesus will return and some statements that say, the sun shall return to darkness, the moon into blood before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. And it shall come to pass and whoever calls of the name of the Lord shall be saved. So we are also told that these are the days when people can receive salvation by accepting the work that the Lord Jesus has done on the cross. So some people, some men of God, women of God, they torment us the period of grace or the time of salvation where the Holy Spirit is being poured out and people are being brought into the kingdom of God, they are being saved, they are receiving salvation. So all these things are promised in God's word for us. Now, we will continue because I want us to elaborate on particular words or anything they come to that scripture. So he has explained about the manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit through those who are baptized in the Holy Spirit. Now let's read on, let's read on from verse 22 to 28. Could somebody help me read this please? You can do, just do a quick read. Men of Israel, hear these words, Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did to him in your midst, as you yourselves also know. Him being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified and put to death, whom God raised up having lost the pains of death because it was not possible that he should be held by it. For David says concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken, therefore my heart rejoiced and my tongue was glad, moreover my flesh also will rest in hope. For you will not leave my soul in hades, nor will you allow your woolly one to see corruption.  Thank you, Rose. So Peter is continuing with his explanation. He is well versed with the promises of the old covenant and the scriptures. So he's quoting quite a bit of the scriptures for the Jews because who's his audience? He's been very contextual. He's speaking to the Jews, he's speaking to the devout men who have come to worship God and so he spoke about Prophet Joel and now he is going to speak about David but he's making a beautiful connection of David and Jesus. Now this is the same Peter who denied Jesus three times. We would all recall that he was definitely not the kind of disciple that Jesus would have wanted him to be in the most trying times when he actually needed to stand up for Christ. That was the time when he chose to escape the sea because he was so coveted. But right now what's happening? Peter has demonstrated great courage. Now we may point to Acts chapter 1 and say Peter seems quite courageous. Even in Acts chapter 1 that's true. So there are a couple of things that have brought a great change in this man called Peter. One is the resurrection of Christ. So after he witnessed the resurrection of Christ what happens? He's changed, he's become bold. Now what is the second thing that has taken place in his life? Just now moments before he was baptized of the Holy Spirit. He's so bold because notice it's only 50 days since Jesus was tried in the same region. Everyone knows. If it was the time that we live in it would still be in the news. It would still be in social media about partners pilot and Jesus and Judas and those 12 guys. So his name was probably well known among the people around that, hey, this man, he is one of them. Now that Jesus resurrected there would have been rumors about what these disciples have done to the body of Jesus. So so many things were going on in Jerusalem and Judea at this time for Peter to stand up and boldly talk about Jesus was something really marvelous and he's directly talking to the Jews all the regions. He says men of Israel, these words Jesus of Nazareth. What does he say about Jesus of Nazareth? A man attested by God to you by miracles wonders at science which God did through him in your midst as you yourselves also know. And if you know that was not enough he goes ahead you know he narrates the whole thing about how Jesus came and he died he was crucified and but the way he speaks is he was taken by lawless hands. So it's a little bit of accusation you know which he is pointing out and he is making this point that the people were the ones who did it even though Jesus of Nazareth attested by God. God affirmed him, God backed him up but the people lawless hands have crucified.  Why? He goes back to a promise in you know the Psalms where it is spoken of David that God will not let his soul rest in Hades.  Now when Peter is saying that God promised David that he would not, his soul would not remain in hell. He will slowly make the connection and remind the people that look though this promise was given to David where is our father David he's in the grave.  So just think with me who is this person that God was speaking about that he will not let that person remain in Hades or he will not let that person remain in death. In other words that's what it means not so much hell. So when we think about this we realize it is the Lord Jesus because he was the one who was resurrected. So what does Peter say? Peter is pointing towards Jesus. Peter is pointing towards the fact that he was the Messiah and Peter is pointing towards the fact that he is the resurrected Messiah. Who the scriptures are talking about. So that's that's the point that he's speaking. Let's go ahead we will read. We will read from verse 29 and go till verse 37. One more person could you please go ahead and read for us? Should I? Yes go ahead please.  Therefore being a prophet and knowing that God has swore with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body according to the flesh he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne. He foreseeing this spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ that his soul was not left in hades not in his flesh see corruption. This Jesus God has raised up of which we are all witnesses therefore being exalted to the right hand of God and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit. He poured out this which you now see and hear for David did not ascend into the heavens but he says himself the Lord said to my Lord sit at my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool. Therefore let all the let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ. Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles men and brethren what shall we do? I'll continue. No we can stop here. Thank you. Okay so let's go back to what Rosalind read here. I was telling us that Peter is quoting from the Psalms. He is referring to David and notice he uses the term patriarch. Patriarch is the men who were father figures to the you know the Jewish people in Judaism. They are like the main personalities that people revered and they followed like Abraham, Jacob, so David. Now he says the patriarch David. He reminds the people that David is dead but what did David write? He said he wrote and said in the Psalms that you will not leave my soul in Hades nor will you allow your holy one to see corruption but if David wrote this about himself he should be alive today because his body should not have been you know it must not become dust but he says David is both dead and buried and as a proof or evidence we all know that his tomb is with us to this day. So obviously when David talked about being alive he did not talk about himself. He was talking about somebody else so he's making that connection back to Jesus. He already said Jesus of Nazareth attested by signs and miracles you know by God whom you crucified okay and he continues about Jesus he says it was Jesus that David said well he's the Christ who will sit on the throne that's the promise God made to David and said you'll always have somebody sitting on the throne who is this somebody it's Jesus so he's telling the Jews scriptures are quite clear and I want to tell you that this is who Jesus is. So he's preaching okay so he's preaching to the people preaching about who preaching about Jesus as the Messiah very bold of Peter to do this and this happened moments after he was baptized in the Holy Spirit and he's also talking about the resurrection of Jesus Christ and I told us it's very dangerous for Peter to do this at this time but he is speaking the truth very boldly he was 31 he foreseen this folk concerning the resurrection of Christ now he's no longer saying Jesus he's even saying Christ meaning it's a given that you know Jesus is the Messiah Christ is the Messiah that his soul was not left in Hades nor did his flesh see corruption 32 this Jesus God has raised up of which we are all witnesses so remember Acts 1 8 what does it say you know I will pour out my spirit and you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be my witnesses so what is Peter doing now after being baptized in the Holy Spirit he is a witness for Jesus he has witnessed the life of Jesus and now he's standing as a witness but all that Jesus went through even his resurrection he's saying look we are witnesses Christ is God has raised him from the dead and he also adds being exalted to the right hand of God you know now he's up in heaven he's at the right hand of the Father so they know where Christ is as you know as the disciples and he says and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit he poured out this which you now see at here so he is reminding the people what you just saw happened is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit by this Jesus who is with the Father now remember even John the Baptist had mentioned it he said I baptize you in water but he who's coming up to me shall baptize you in spirit sorry in Holy Spirit and in fire who is this person who is going to baptize Holy Spirit and fire the Lord Jesus so that is the promise of the Holy Spirit which was mentioned with regard to what Jesus is going to do and now Peter is saying that's exactly what has happened he's gone and in the book of John we know that Jesus shared about the Holy Spirit and said that when I go he will come right the governor he will come and he will lead you into all truth he will do all these wonderful works so Jesus ascended up into heaven but now he has fulfilled the promise of sending the Holy Spirit and even baptizing people in the Holy Spirit now how does it help to be baptized in the Holy Spirit there are many things that we can talk about but when we go back to what John the Baptist said that you know he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire remember when the Holy Spirit came upon the believers in Acts 2 there were divided tongues of fire so what does this fire signify signify the presence of God but also one of the parts of fire is too clean fire will burn up the lighter things and you know the more precious things will remain in fire so that way fire is used to purify metals fire is used to you know burn up the chaff in the same way that one is baptized in the Holy Spirit we know Acts 1 8 we will be empowered to be witnesses for Christ but what is the other function of the fire of the baptism of the Holy Spirit it will clean up the life of the believer the fire of the Holy Spirit cleanses us sanctifies us okay so that is what was going on right now when the outpouring of the Holy Spirit happened upon these 120 people also see this lovely sentence of Peter he says he poured out this which you now see at here okay let's think about that so what is Peter doing giving an explanation to what has just happened so God has poured out his spirit because Jesus is the one who has done this he's gone to the Father he sent his spirit you now see and hear so the Jews have witnessed that you know the mighty sound and people speaking in tongues and Peter is also quoted Joel but notice in the prophecy of Joel what did what did Joel say he said I'll pour out my spirit on all flesh the sons and daughters shall prophesy your young men shall see visions your old men shall dream dreams so there are at least three things that Joel mentioned prophecy dreams visions don't think with me Peter is saying in verse 33 which you now see and hear did they hear prophecy did the people hear prophecy I'm just asking you any idea was wasn't it here yeah Rosalind not sure not sure okay whether any dreams any visions that Luke wrote about isn't it in acts to we only heard tongues they spoke in tongues and that's what the people observed there's no prophecy there's no dreams there's no visions but what is Peter saying Peter is saying verse 33 which you now see and hear but that's not what they saw they didn't see prophecy they didn't see your dreams and visions the witnesses or the truth then how is it that Peter is connecting tongues to prophecy dreams and visions it's the Holy Spirit who gave in the understanding that though Joel is talking about a different manifestation first time even Peter in his whole life it is the first time he is experiencing speaking in tongues but he's connecting it to the promise of the Father the outpouring of the Holy Spirit the baptism in the Holy Spirit the gifts of the Spirit how by the revelation at the Spirit of God gave him so we have to understand when the Holy Spirit manifests himself it could be with any set of gifts but it is the same Holy Spirit so the outpouring Peter correctly interpreted though that it the first day there was nothing to do about prophecy it was to do with a new kind of manifestation for all of them which is tongues but Peter recognized and he said which you now see and hear okay he connected it this is it this is what Joel was talking about though there is no prophecy no dreams no visions there are tongues but this is that right so it's beautiful how God gave him the capacity to interpret what was going on and he was able to rightly point it out and tell the people unmistakably this is the fulfillment of that promise which we have all been waiting for for many years Joel drop aside it's going to happen and it's happening right now okay so let's read on from verse 34 now verse 34 to oh yeah I think Rosen already read so again there is this explanation about David and the fact that it was not David who ascended but it was actually Jesus who ascended now once the message about the Messiah was preached to all these Jews who are waiting for an explanation what is going on right so Peter gives this explanation and in verse 37 scriptures tell us now when they heard this they were cut to the heart to cut to the heart is an expression to state that they were impacted they were touched they were moved you know they uh needed to now respond if the message went to them in such a powerful way so this also shows us that whenever we we preach right the Holy Spirit will work in the hearts of the people and when we are preaching aligned to the word of God and we are preaching aligned to the leading of the Spirit of God what happens it really ministers to people's hearts and in this case those who are listening they were cut to the heart or they were convicted in other words they were convicted and think about this they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles men and brethren what shall we do so when they were convicted they realized that yes Jesus is the Messiah this is the fulfillment of Joel's prophecy and uh we missed the boat you know in a sense Jesus is already he is ascended now what do we do what are we supposed to do to receive of the promise of the Father and to uh acknowledge who the Lord Jesus is so it's a beautiful situation for an evangelist because you know uh for an evangelist they want to see a response from the people or even you know for each of us as believers when we're sharing about Christ uh we sometimes we watch oh is that person going to cry or is that person going to what reaction can I get from this person it's a message really touching their hearts now if they cry or their expression changes they look you know uh then somewhere we are happy okay whatever we have spoken is making a difference to this person but think about this even if we have preached to uh someone or the people and it seemingly is not making any difference neither in that uh moment or in the days or weeks to come there is no difference in the people that's quite uh tough isn't it but when you preach the word of God empowered by the spirit of God what was the impact and Peter it was a tough day for him because he didn't know in God's calendar God is going to pour out the Holy Spirit maybe Peter had his own dynamic right like we all have a dynamic we write out okay today this is what I'm going to do but what did the scripture say suddenly there was the sound of the rushing mighty wind and the Holy Spirit was poured out people are asking the question what is going on Peter stands up he's not even written down his sermon imagine he was not ready for this he doesn't have a ready-made sermon he doesn't have chat GPT right I'm just simply joking here but uh he he doesn't know what to do how do I get a sermon now people have gathered from all over the region and I have to preach together but led by the spirit right based on the scriptures he quite beautifully being a Galilean people are listening to him quite eloquently clearly he's able to explain Jesus is the Messiah what you're seeing now is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit or the baptism in the Holy Spirit and uh he preached in such a way that it convicted the listeners and they asked they asked the question you know what whatever a successful sermon because he doesn't have to go asking them okay what is your decision what is your decision I just preached a message they are responding to Jesus and they are saying what shall we do just tell us you tell us what we have to do and we'll do it so it was an amazing day the the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was born up what happens 38 Peter talks to them he tells them that Peter said to them repent and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit so he shows them the path the path of salvation to uh acknowledge the Lord Jesus Christ repent of your sins um you know come into your life to the Lord then you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit whatever we have received you will also receive then verse 39 for the promise is to you and your children and to all who are afar off as many as the Lord our God will call so that day 3000 years ago Peter talked about you and me okay today we are sitting and we are studying the book of Acts went on that day his first sermon he mentioned you he mentioned me where here in verse 39 he says the promise is to you meaning the Jews to your children so you may say the descendants of of the Jews but he included others and to all who are afar off meaning you and me and our generations you know people from every nation tribe and tongue as many as the Lord our God will call so there is a promise right there about the Holy Spirit for every believer what did Peter say is this outpouring of the Holy Spirit only for 120 people is it only for those who listen to this sermon on that day no the outpouring of the Holy Spirit of baptism in the Holy Spirit is for all who are afar off meaning today whoever is a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ there is a promise that we can hold on to and the promise says that you know the Holy Spirit will be poured out upon each of us individually divided terms of fire sat on each believer and Peter also said that as many as the Lord our God will call meaning those who are who are being saved right across the nations we are all uh invited to receive of the baptism in the Holy Spirit so God does not discriminate as far as like salvation is concerned we don't got so lucky world that he gave his only begotten that who serve should believe in him should not perish but have everlasting life and even as far as the Holy Spirit baptism in the Holy Spirit is concerned all is not discriminating he's saying whomever the Lord our God shall call this promise remains those who are afar off this promise remains so it's an encouragement for all of us today for us even when we pray for anyone maybe people may come to us and say uh please pray i want to receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit i believe in Jesus i've got to get saved confidently we get free okay acts 239 yes this promise is for you you believe in Jesus the baptism in the Holy Spirit is for every believer we can boldly pray for them okay so this is how on the very first day when the Holy Spirit was poured out because sermon was successful okay now let's see what else happened could somebody help me read from verse 40 to 47 verse 40 to 47 and with many other words he testified and exhorted them saying be safe from this previous generation then those who gladly receive these words were baptized and that day about 3000 souls were added today and they continued to step firstly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship in the breaking of bread and in prayers then fair came upon every soul and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles now all who believe here together and had all things in common and sold their possessions and goods and divided them among all as anyone had need so continuing daily with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart pressing God and heaven favor with all the people and the Lord added to the church tell you those who we are peace sake amen thank you for reading that so we see how the church was gone who is the church the church it's all the believers in the Lord Jesus so 120 people on that day they were gathered but even beyond that after the baptism in the Holy Spirit on the first day how many people were saved how many people were added to the church anyone how many souls were added 3000 3000 teacher 3000 so wow what if this happened today you know we go for an evangelistic crusade 3000 people are saved and you know they are baptized it's amazing how the church grew in one day 3000 people have joined the church so there was no particular you know fellowship like this in Jerusalem but the birth of the church a lot of historians the Bible scholars they they call this passage acts to as the birth of the church because on one day these people came together and sort of the activities of the church have started here what's happening in verse 4 verse 40 itself you know Peter after he preached about the Lord Jesus in salvation he's preaching about sanctification he's saying be saved from this perverse generation so yes receive be born again but also live a holy life before God you'll never write his life before God live by the power of the Spirit what else is he saying he's saying verse 42 they are being taught how to live how to live now people are born again that's the beginning of the journey that's not the end of the journey that's the beginning of the journey so in verse 42 they have been trained as disciples the way Jesus trained them they now have to train the others because in Matthew 28 what did Jesus say go into all the world make disciples of all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father the Son and the you know Holy Spirit and teaching them isn't it he said teaching them all that I have taught you and you know know and behold I am with you even to the end of the age so one of the things that Jesus told us to do is not just to win souls but to make disciples of all nations see how the early church is functioning 3000 people are added now they're all born again yeah to disciple them how to disciple them okay verse 42 stead continues stead firstly in the apostles doctrine so that means regularly teaching them what is apostles doctrine apostles doctrine is you know they believed in the scriptures like the Torah which the the Jews believed in because that is something that Jesus also would read and you know would meditate on so they believed in those early five books but in addition to that they had the teachings of Jesus about the kingdom of God remember even after he's resurrected he took time to teach them about the kingdom of God so it's a combination of these things the early scriptures as well as the teachings of Jesus is what is known as the apostles doctrine so they were passing on what was passed on to them and that is how we make disciples so whatever we know whatever has built us in our spiritual walk we are supposed to faithfully pass it on to the people who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ so that's what it means so one thing to do when you know we are raising up a church or we're discipling people is you pass on helping people to learn the doctrine and fellowship notice how fellowship is another aspect so till now we don't you know really see a manner in which the growth of believers is being guided by the disciples but after the outpouring in the Holy Spirit teaching them the word fellowshiping that's why you know coming together as a church family for Sunday service or having other opportunities like your life groups connecting with people growing together it's very scriptural you cannot say that we don't want it at all because it's so much a part of how the early church grew in the Lord so fellowship what else we also see the breaking of bread which means the practice of communion right from that time because they were testifying to what Jesus has done what is the breaking of bread you know the broken body of Jesus the shed blood of Jesus and the power in it so these are things that they put their faith in so they practiced the Holy Communion and another aspect there is bread okay so we'll just wrap up like now there's so much to talk from you know each verse it's really hard to go fast in the book of Acts but we will do our best to catch up speed to complete things on time so let's just pray for now and we will wrap up again I want to request one of us to pray please and then we will close this call hello sling would you be able to pray let's pray wonderful heaven we choose this Lord God but thank you Father God for the wonderful session that we had oh Lord indeed Father God Lord thank you for the gift of Holy Spirit that you have given to us oh Lord Father God we pray Father God even as we are studying and meditating on the acts of apostles Father God that which you did in that time oh Lord Father we pray Almighty God that you use us also Father God for this generation oh Lord Father God let the works of the Holy Spirit be manifested through our lives oh Lord and Father God the words that the Holy Spirit will speak through us Father God may impact those that hear us oh Lord for whatever ministry that you have given us oh Lord help us to be faithful in that oh Lord and use us for your glory Lord we thank you and we bless Pastor Nancy also Father God anoint her mightily Father God and use her mightily for your kingdom's expansion Lord we thank you and we bless you in Jesus name be praised amen thank you thank you everyone but bless you we'll continue next week uh till then please take time to read the book of Acts God bless bye for now


changed this week so before I show you anything I'm just gonna talk to you for a minute I am I'm the kind of tree hugging dolphin loving person that comes from Canada I live here and I talk a lot of smack about Seattle because Canada's better and people don't really like that they're like why don't you go back to Canada then and you know if we all could would right would that's the point but my Canadian self really does care like I care about people I grew up in the 80s black don't crack and I can't tell and and there used to be like billboards you could drive along the highway in Vancouver and there'd be like a billboard that says like cooperation give it a try that's what growing up in Canada's like like you're in elementary school which we call primary school and you practice conflict resolution like in second grade so like if you're ever wondering why no one's bombing Canada it's because Canadian foreign policy is not to be an asshole it's working for Canada okay so that said last Friday not yesterday a week ago yesterday I was scrolling through my Facebook feed and I noticed that everyone's depressed have you noticed this okay it's bummed out times I call it hashtag no chill 2016 because we just don't have any more chill like at some point you get so upset from being constantly bombarded with negative messages that you just get raw and cranky you're like like a sleepy hungry five-year-old that needs a nap and you just don't want to deal you don't want to deal you do want to go play Pokemon go forever and just run away from life not everybody can do that and I'm a doer so I wanted to do something so I started a Facebook event page not even a group just an event an online event called reparations and before you freak out and lay a goose egg in your chair I I lost about a hundred and twenty thousand dollars getting liberal arts degrees so you can just feel sorry for me make a noise if you feel sorry for me mm-hmm I want more pity than that I want a hundred and twenty thousand dollars worth of pity like don't you think that degrees should be like priced differently like I went to Tufts University and like I paid as much as the international relations people paid for their degrees and my degrees in English literature that's kind of a rip-off okay so I know how to think critically I paid a lot for that so yeah if I was gonna be fighting for like I'm not saying there is any reason why we shouldn't be concentrating on serious apologies for huge egregious offenses like American slavery we most certainly should am I holding my breath for that to happen no this is what I was doing okay this is what the idea was it's a social experiment to empower people who have something to offer to connect with people who need something and I thought to myself there's a lot of stressed out people of color right now who could really use a 90-minute massage a stay at your lake house maybe some books on an Amazon gift card and should you be sitting in your house feeling wrought and mired in your stagnation of angst and anger and fear but want to do something because you think of yourself like I'm a good person I want to do something I don't want to just sit there and watch these atrocities and not do anything well maybe you could actually help an actual person in your actual community feel better so this is what the idea was behind reparations so you can go look at reparations dot me I'll pull it up yeah who knows the definition of reparation anybody that the word reparation not any movement not any policy like what is what does the word mean somebody shout it out to repair yeah it's not it's not America that's what dictionaries are for right like if you're curious you could always Google it like what does this word mean that I'm angry at I feel myself angry at this word reparations oh it means to like repair something that's broken yes I was noticing this look at that the site can't be reached you know that song sing along if you know the words yeah the way you torture me and get like the secrets out of me would be with slow internet or no internet you know like I want to go escape to a lake house and sit in the sun but what I really want to do is do that like with the internet my friend my friend the internet yeah oh sorry okay so this is what happened Friday evening the Facebook event page goes up Saturday Sunday people find out about it because I have a network I'm a community builder I use digital engagement to do a lot of my work I do lots of Canadian hippy stuff I connect people all over the globe with poems that help them to reimagine themselves as part of the human lineage that's my project red lineage calm I have a show up right now at vermilion gallery called remember me so if you want to see what that looks like in real life oh my god not on the internet you could go to vermilion gallery it's in Capitol Hill and take a look it's up till August 6th I have teas at midnight all over the world called Miko Kuro's midnight tea and we use time tea and technology to sort of manifest an idea of creativity together sort of like a a secular ritual to honor the creativity in human beings so like I'm saying like I'm not I'm not what you would consider a race warrior per se I'm really into people I I say that I say I'm a conceptual artist because my projects are about manifesting ideas I use people as my medium and everything available to me to manifest these things which always are co-created with others so my network which is a great network supported this idea reparations sort of a gift economy for our community and other communities and my network is already global so at launch it was a global idea it was a global concept by Monday it became clear I needed to put up a website so I did that which you cannot see but here's what what I know about everyone in the audience and I know you have a phone so why don't you look it up why don't you put www.reparations.me into your browser and look at it look we're being interactive we're all doing it together it's actually better this way why should I do all the work work okay so as you can see when you pull up the site people can submit offerings or requests and at first the requests actually the first thing that was made was an offering and the first people who started making offerings were actually people of color so really interesting to note that I set up this social experiment where in which people who identify as white can make offerings to people identify as people of color and the first thing that happens because I'm an interactive artist that works with other people as people do what they want to do so people of color made offerings I was thrilled to see this experiment take on a new shape beyond what I had imagined and I also think it says something about human generosity and about how we are and that it's always easier to offer something than to ask for something do you like to ask for help do you like that feeling when you have to call your friend and ask can you borrow a hundred dollars to make your rent I don't think anybody actually enjoys that I think it's much better when you get to be the person on the other side of that phone call who actually has that hundred dollars to spare where you could like help your friend out right especially if you can trust they're gonna pay you back or at least they thank you maybe you don't even need to be paid back maybe you're just happy that you could help so this is the concept and you can see you can scroll through the offerings you can scroll through the request they're they're tagged you can see what people what people need and what I saw was immediately that I had responded to a feeling that was that was happening I had responded to an actual need the need for many people who identify as white in America right now to feel like they're doing something to offset all this negativity I don't know how many videos of police brutality you need to see before you begin to ask yourself what's really going on here and if that's all if that's where you are if that's the point where you are and you haven't done anything else do know that you you haven't helped anything at all like so you discover that things are really terrible for a lot of people that may not be like you what are you gonna do about it if you were telling your friend let's say you've got your friend Mary and your friend Bob you're telling Mary that last night when Bob walked you home he assaulted you and Mary says that didn't happen to you and then you show Mary a video and Mary's like it looks like you were trying to seduce him at what point is Mary still your friend like when do you feel like Mary may not actually be your friend anymore right so there's a lot of people of color who are like why is it that I have been telling Mary Becky with the good hair for a very long time now that Bob did something bad to me and Mary just is like she cannot wrap her mind around that it has to be my fault like that leaves you with some pretty icky feelings how can we do something about it well if you're not that person if you're not the person that would sit there and say like I don't believe you if you are the type of person who would advocate and go confront Bob and be like what the hell is going on Bob like I need you to know right now that I'm not cool with that lots of people are too afraid to do that like lots of people wouldn't confront Bob they would just silently judge him but Bob goes out and assaults more people when you do that by the way so all I'm saying is that the idea behind this was actually a gift right I wanted people who want to do something to have a platform that was easy it's easiest text messaging someone or in which they could do it so this is how you use reparations stop me you think about what do you have to offer for all of us there isn't a single person in this room who cannot offer somebody something else it doesn't really actually matter what color you are how old you are what you do for a job none of that actually matters in fact all of us just as a thought experiment take a moment to think about that because that's what validates you as a person is what you have to give that's what makes you generous actually is what you have to offer other people not what you need what you can give and here's what a lot of people of color need right now catharsis they need to be able to safely vent and be heard about what's happening and believed you know they need the opposite of that Darth Mary I don't believe you it's your fault because that's really traumatizing catharsis is actually free if you didn't know it's something you can offer somebody at any point in time you just make the time people of color also need a break some self-care just like you would need some self-care if you had just found out that your friend Mary isn't your friend maybe you need a good book to read maybe you need to play a video game and like what's wrong with that what's wrong with asking for that I don't think there's anything wrong with that I think it's brave to have that kind of trust to believe that people might even help you honestly people of color and need you to realize that you can leverage your privilege what does that mean leveraging your privilege means when I go to buy a car I'm probably gonna get ripped off for a variety of reasons I look young female I'm a person of color but if you take your brilliant beautiful unbesmerged white maleness with me when I go to buy a car you don't have to know about buying cars actually you just stand there and maybe ask a question every now and then I'm gonna get a better deal on my car take it to the laboratory test that thing out bank loans business loans vouch for me on a job referral watch me get the job you know offer me a job offer me an internship offer to mentor me that's leveraging your privilege that's how it works you can also do one of the simplest things everyone can do if you have a job you can do this even if you don't have a job you can do this somebody gives you the opportunity to speak and you give that opportunity to somebody else because it's gonna come right back to you this is how it goes I'm up here on a stage everybody's listening to me right now I've got the position of authority I'm gonna take this position of authority and I'm gonna offer it to somebody who I think needs a moment to share so would anybody in the odd audience like to share anything I don't really care what you're sharing would you like a moment of everyone's attention to listen to you if you would raise your hand and you can nominate people because people sometimes don't necessarily want to put themselves up but they need they need to say something we don't have all day come on yeah Ellie come here you've won just kidding you can stay there yes give Ellie some love you are all like sighing right now like it wasn't you this is like this is it I I'm Ellie and things in my life have been kind of hard right now on all sorts of levels so it's it's been a difficult time for me so I may not be the most delightful outgoing person at this conference and if I'm playing Pokemon go a lot it's because I totally need that break and but I'm glad that everybody knows about Pokemon go now and I don't have to explain it to other people anymore because it's really weird I'm like trying to explain why I'm really into cute anime characters anyways what I'm working on right now I used to be a full-time product designer and I decided that working in tech wasn't it was really damaging my mental health I became a senior product designer and I became the lead of teams and I was getting paid a good amount of money basically to have people gas like me all the time and it wasn't really worth it and I was like you know what what can I do with the money that I have earned in order to give back to the community and to do things that I want to do which is basically to uplift other people and make sure that under represented people have a chance to thrive so one of the things well what I did I quit my job I started an LLC that's a benefit corporation because I actually I wanted to make it a nonprofit but the lawyer was like it's actually more work and more expensive if you want to be a nonprofit when you're doing everything by yourself so instead you should be a benefit certified LLC so that's what I'm doing and I'm launching a new event called effect and it is part conference and part group volunteering and I was like I don't want to just do a conference for anything I want to do a conference that talks about social change and it's about the work the culture and the design in the systemic sense of social change what it takes to try to create a difference in the world and it doesn't have to be saving the entire world but to make a difference in your small corner on the issues that you care about let's come together and talk about what it means to be doing that work what it takes emotionally physically and financially and see if we can help each other out and it's called effect and it will be October 7th and 8th in Portland and it's a community event so I want people to come and connect with each other and then I want us all to do group volunteering because a way to directly do something is to go out to the local nonprofits that are already working because I feel like in tech a lot of times we think that we should go and reinvent the wheel we have better ways of doing stuff and I'm like no you know there have been organizations working on these issues for for so long before you even were born before you learned about these things that you cared about so and they are not getting the support they deserve so the least we could do is figure out how to help them for half an afternoon thank you so that's what I've been working on and the idea was something that I was like I'm really excited about this I'm super jazzed and I actually proposed this as a talk for this conference but I understand that it's kind of a downer but basically what I'm finding is that even though people are really enthused about the idea it is really really hard to get any traction people are like who are you why are you doing this I'm like yeah I'm making no money from this I'm not even paying myself because I think it's more important for me to take my money and pay my speakers a tiny little stipend in addition to travel and lodging because I want them to be able I want people to be who are doing the work to be able to go on stage and be highlighted and be compensated for their time and energy and that's what I've been doing and it's been really hard because I look like I'm super I think I do a good job of looking like I have it together so people assume that I have it together and I don't need any help in this event is going great and it's not going great at all like I'm like nobody wants to come to my thing where all I want to do is help other people do their thing better and so I'm failing that's what it feels like right now to me like I'm totally failing I'm not doing this thing well and I could lose a ton of personal money because when you launch a thing for the first time you have to put your own finances into it because sponsors are like well you didn't show us anything that we can possibly get out of this and we're already there's so many like diversity and inclusion things out there and like what do you mean by social change does this really get us more engineers and like social justice is like nice but like it's more like a thing a nice to have and you're like I don't even know how to talk to you so that's just been the thing I've been struggling with and that's my rambling about trying to make a difference in the world and not necessarily succeeding what can we do to help you you can tell people about this event I've I've been too depressed to continue telling people and have them laugh in my face because that that's kind of a donor when people are like it sucks or if they don't believe in you but it's called effect I actually do think it's awesome underneath all this layers of depression or so my therapist tells me go to therapy by the way that's how you can help yourself if you can afford it and people have sliding scales anyways the if you can't there's lots being offered on reparations dot me effect is spelled a ff ect and the website is a ff ect c o n f dot com there is and it's also effect com and weirdly enough as part of an organizing effect my friends events and mine have congealed into all being around October in Portland and so now rather than just doing one conference also now in charge of a week-long festival called resolution fest which is all about getting the groups together and highlighting the groups that are trying to resolve to make the future of tech better and so that's res fest pdx.com r s f e s t pdx.com and what you can do is check it out you don't have to go because it's it's kind of ridiculous to ask people to show up to a place and put finances into it but I think you should check it out see if there's any groups that are interesting to you and if you even if you can't go or you don't want to go tell someone that you think might be interested and you know maybe offer me a hug if you're a hugger I could use a hug and also ignore me if I'm crying oh thank you oh my god it worked it's working okay so this is like a metaphor for my last week okay that did not go how I expected at all do I regret it no this is my experience so I didn't get to Monday so Monday I make this website Monday the stranger puts out an article Tuesday the television stations show up Wednesday's NPR Thursday I can't remember what happened on Thursday oh the times in the weekly and by Friday info wars started trolling me yeah the white supremacists sent out their minions to attack me for trying to set up an easy way to give the hugs the people need because they're tired because they've been doing the good work that's what I just heard you know depression is real when you're tired and you're worn out and you don't feel validated because you have good ideas that are helping people but everybody would rather look at some ridiculousness you know that takes a toll on you and that was like basically my creative existence too up until when suddenly for whatever reason my project was discovered right and you know now I've got people in Zambia saying good job and I've got people in Australia saying fuck you half-breed nigger bitch you should hang yourself from a tree about 2,000 times before like seven o'clock in the morning every day so what I'm trying to understand is where it is all this come from where is all this hatred coming from and why is it being directed at me like of all things that you could take time out of your day to fight against right well I was prepared for the trolls who's heard of men kissing men nobody I hadn't heard of it either a couple people I hadn't heard of it either but last week I discovered men kissing men and you know what they did the people who organized men kissing men they monetized their trolling so every time they got trolled a dollar was raised they got their network to like I actually I think they matched the troll dollars like some organization some organization like pledged I believe but I took the concept because it's a great idea and I started the troll fund so I had people offer to be troll slayers at a dollar per trolling post and within two days had raised four thousand dollars which all goes to satisfy requests being made thank you but trolls are they're tenacious aren't they they're tenacious so they're trolling as hard as they can they're trolling so hard I had to start a Facebook event called shrine of ass hats do look it up shrine of ass hats is just a gallery of some of the trolling I have received so yeah if you need a trigger warning fuck your trigger warning I didn't get a trigger warning okay it just came to my inbox telling me exactly how I could kill myself with which rope the the many horrible things I could do to myself and my family because I had the audacity to think you know what maybe good people need to be connected with the people who could appreciate their goodness so let's let's see if we can peek over to shrine of ass hats real quick there's there's a lot of ass hat out there what do we think it'll be we think it'll be like events shrine of I'm guessing I think this is wrong that's not gonna work how can I get there can I get there this way troll fun troll flares we love trolls this doesn't have been updated since yesterday but yeah isn't this great I had fun with that yeah eight one seven four eight you can practically remember that yeah page isn't available I have to log in and you know what because I was instantly super trolled and super hacked now my passwords to everything are so ridiculous like I have to make my own internet to store them on like I have to do all kinds of intense Hillary Clinton stuff to try to keep my respect back because you know sometimes you got to do what you got to do honestly and I had to do some things to get my password safe yeah oh just kidding okay don't you see what it's like when we do things together it's like watching figure skating you know you guys are like holding your breath like I've got to hope she gets this damn URL this is painful to watch okay I'm listening that is the only time in the world you're ever gonna have this experience okay like no one is ever gonna make you do that ever again in your life listen to like each number of the URL but like give yourself credit we did that that was practically performance art like I I would claim that performance art actually like just put people in a room and read out URLs one letter at a time just make them go through that like and it's about how America doesn't have any patience yeah but we did it okay so here it is the shrine of ass hats there's not many people in it right now so what I need you to do is I need you to join this and I need you to invite everybody you know especially people who maybe don't self-identify as fragile but are fragile because here's the thing with evil horrible racist gun toting people who want to kill people and often do is there out there like it's a real problem and like there's a difference between being theoretically traumatized and being actually traumatized because your life is actually in danger and I think step one is to expose yourself to the reality that exists like yes it's gonna be uncomfortable that's that's how you know you're learning it's not comfortable okay I can't see it after all that after all that but it's kind of like intrigue and buildup I feel like it's like in a world where trolls are exposed yeah that's what I'm doing I'm publicly shaming trolls I'm also counting them so that I can get the donations needed to offset the cost of the requests that are being made which as you can see from reparations not me are not that ridiculous but sometimes are very serious because people need serious things one of the first people to submit a request was a guy named Keto and he is looking for I'm scrolling down a service dog okay he's a veteran he needs a service dog if you are a person who's against veterans getting their service dogs okay that's you be do you for the rest of us you put $5 on this guy getting a service dog maybe you'll have that nice fuzzy feeling that you get that you do get when you help somebody you believe deserves help so maybe that will help offset some of the negative feelings you may be having like I may be having where you just maybe are about ready to give up on humanity don't give up don't give up and I would just like to leave you with an idea that I would like to see happen and I would hope that you would reach out to me if you can help me make this happen I would like therapy to be a website that looks that says navigatable as Craigslist and it's easy to and that's ugly I mean aesthetically God bless Craigslist and it's a little way but like you know bless its heart but what I mean is just like that easy to use where you can search by location for basically a white woman security force white women witnessing listen to this willing white women in your local area can be called by bat signal to witness for you just witness witness for you digitally or in real life there needs to be an app I need to be able to send out my white woman security force bat signal and have hot white women show up and just stand there like I wish you would troll her I wish you would you know beat her with it I wish you would taste her in front of me I look like your mom I need white women of all kinds every kind of white woman needs to stand between me and the person trying to kill me that's what really needs to happen so whoever can build that do it circle back let me know how it goes because that needs to happen I'm a little busy right now getting internationally threatened okay so I would I would do it myself you know I would so thank you check out reparations dot me think about these things I wanted to have a conversation with you guys I'm out of time but that's what I wanted to do the organizers will vote for me so have a conversation with me however you can you can find me they can connect you and I'll linger after this talk thank you guys appreciate you


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Welcome everybody. My name is Malone Boer. I'm working as a system engineer for the social networking site Hives. I was wondering before I start how many people really know the website Hives. Okay, quite a lot. That's a good thing. Okay, first I want to explain what Hives actually is from a technical point of view. So Hives is a social network much like MySpace or Facebook. Currently we use three data centers all around Amsterdam all connected to the MSX internet exchange. The department consists of 12 full-time units at the moment. It's just for the system engineers. So we have other departments as well that do the front-end programming. Currently we're doing about 25 terabytes daily external traffic. So not just the external, internally we do a lot more. We have about 200 million page views daily. That's quite a lot. And at peak moments we do about 80 million page views a year. To be able to serve that much page views we have about 2,500 servers at the moment, which are only managing and with 12 people that is a problem if you don't have a thing like Puppet installed. So what is Puppet? Puppet actually is a system configuration framework. You can describe parts or you describe what you would like to do in manifest, in Puppet manifest. Actually you could say I want to have Apache started or I want to manage my ETC password file or my host file. It's entirely written in Ruby. So yeah, for some people that could be a problem, but yeah you have to install Ruby to be able to use Puppet. It's created by Luke Canis. He was entirely fed up with C-vention and all the other tools because they lacked the ability to use the abstraction layer because you have to write everything for the specific environment you're in. You can't use it on BSD as well on Linux easily. With Puppet that's much more easily to do because it detects on which Unix system you are and you can almost use the same code. Much of the deeper info is available at Reductive Labs. I don't have the time to go into depth. So just want to show you how Puppet works. It's a client server model. So you have a central server where all your Puppet code lives which you write and all the clients connect to it. And the server compiles your manifest. Make sure it's unique for your host. And then the client receives it, executes it and makes sure it gets run properly. To ensure you're speaking to the right server, some people are concerned about security or perhaps even want to run Puppet over the public internet. It's using SSL certificates so that way you can make sure that you're connecting to the right host. This is an example of the site pp file. This is actually where in Puppet you declare all your hosts which you want to manage. In this example I've called the host some node. Normally this will reflect your DNS host name. You're allowed to use any kind of variables inside your node declaration. In this example I've used the operating system solvers and I want to manage SSH on this specific host. So I'm importing the Puppet manifest for SSH. In the actual SSH manifest you can see we're managing the SSH deconfig file. And here you can see the benefit from being more abstract. You can actually check on which operating system you are. So for solvers you can have a different path as you have for the default environment which could be a Linux or BSD machine. In this example I want the file to always be owned by root, the group root. I should have the node 644. Actually when a user changes this on a system and Puppet runs again, you can set intervals at which time Puppet runs. It will correct your changes so if somebody changed the file to nobody, nobody, first time Puppet will run it will change back to root. So it's also a tool to detect errors users might. The last part is the service. You actually, in this example, you're subscribing the file from above to the service SSHD. So if anything changes in the SSHD file, Puppet will actually restart your SSHD daemon with the new settings. So you don't have to do it manually. In some of the Puppet features there are more but for our environment these are the most important ones. Puppet is able to run in every Unix architecture that can compile Puppet, sorry Ruby. So in theory you could even run Puppet on your jail-briked iPhone. What really is handy in our environment is that we can use templates. This reduces the amount of files we have to control. So for example, if you have different locations and you want to have different firewalls or different resolve entries, you can just put in the variables like you saw in this IPP and the template can find out on which location you are. With Ruby you can even put in for loops or other things to automatically generate the content of that file without having to have 20 files in a specific directory and include the right one. Other thing Puppet has is the factor library. That shows you for example the amount of cores a machine has, how much free memory, how much interfaces it has and can show you which IP addresses are on that interfaces. Much more features but mainly we use those to spawn the right amount of Apache instances or generate our firewall for specific IP addresses. Puppet also supports types and functions, if I go back one sheet. A type is in this example will be the file type and the service type. There are a lot of more. You can use the contact type for example or the exec type. The contact manager contact entries on every UNIX host that supports it. Functions for example we use a couple of custom functions we wrote around. We can ask in any given time which versions of software is running or IP addresses we can bind on specific interfaces and we wrote custom functions for that. The only problem with the functions are that they only get executed on the compile host so that's the main server. If you want to use it on clients you have to do something with types because the types are executed on the client side. Other feature we use from Puppet is the database backend support. All the facts that are available can be written into a database backend. We use MySQL for that and the way we can run out all kinds of statistics. We can see which servers are on which version of the kernel or use how many cores, how many memories are in it. So it's very quick to just get an overview if you have a large server bar. Other thing Puppet supports is the external node definitions. If I go back to the site pp if you have a really large number of hosts and you already have another system for your asset management from your service you can write your own script to generate some of this content without having to take the rest of the server bar. Now I want to go to the point where we use Puppet.hives. We started out with the SSH for loop as most of the system engineers do. We found out that doesn't scale so we tried to figure out something for that and we came across Puppet. Mainly what we do is we install servers, we rip open the box, press on F12 to do a PXE install and it puts our quick start the first time, sets the hostname and in Puppet we put in the right node definition and Puppet will do the rest. So that way we can be operational within 7 minutes for example for our main web servers or front end servers we rip open the box, put it into a rack, push the F12 button and we're up and running within 7 minutes so I think that's a pretty good time to get your server operational. What do we actually manage with Puppet in our environment? Like I said before some of the DNS entries or the resolve and the NTP servers, firewalls are all location aware if we had to do that by hand it would be hell of a job to keep up. We use Gen2 on our servers and we don't want to compile all the packages on their own house so we have a centralized package system and Puppet can fetch packages from their own install if we're update if needed. Puppet also starts the required services. So for example if we have the main web class to make sure Apache is started, the SSH is started and the monitoring services. The group we use a lot is the database backend and of course that would start my scroll. The other thing we use it for is to push updates. That can be packages or config files if we have to roll out security updates we can use Puppet for that but Puppet will restart all our services to update the config. Other problem we climb across when we use Puppet is that it doesn't scale well behind over about 800 servers in the web brick configuration which I think most people still use. The problem with the web brick is that single threads so even if you have more cores in your machine you can't use them. So what we did we used the Mongo Ruby implementation for HTTP and split off the SSL part 2 SSL capable proxy. In our environment we use Nginx but you can use Pound or Apache as well. This way you can low balance some spawned instances of your mongrel and that way you can use multiple cores in one machine. If you get to the point that that doesn't scale in one machine anymore you can build your own trusted SSL chain so Puppet clients can connect to multiple services instead of one. Other thing we do we have passive clients. Normally the Puppet clients run in a defined interval and just connect to the server but if you have a lot of servers you will create your own natural dust attack in your own network so what we did we push all our clients are passive and we push all the updates serialized throughout our Puppet master to keep the load low. How we do that? You have a program that's called Puppet Run. We have a script around that just in batches of 10 servers calls the Puppet Run. The Puppet Run on the master will connect to your client to say you can run now so then it will connect to your server. That way you can easily reduce the load and don't have to think about the interval the Puppet clients will start. Okay, if there are any questions you can ask now. Okay the question was if we used DB backend to feed them to Nagios or any monitoring tool. No, we have our own other database which we actually started with for assets management and we use that database to create our Nagios configs but we're planning to merge them or do something else with it. Okay, sorry, time's up. If you want me to please come outside.


Nigeria's oil industry will be marking a significant moment today as 650,000 barrels per day dango tea petroleum refinery gets commissioned in Lagos, a shift from government operating refineries to the private sector. What to know about this and how the Nigerian economy and Nigerians generally stand to benefit from it is our first topic, first hot topic on the breakfast this morning. UK plans to ban Nigerian students others from bringing their families over. The announcement is planned to be made this week. We'll be taking a look at that also on the breakfast this morning. We'll be taking a look at some headlines and some of our national dailies without the press or be joined by a guest to discuss that. Good morning and welcome to the breakfast on plus TV Africa. I am Maureen Menongwe. It is the mindset Monday we call it and you are welcome. So good to have you join us. And before we kick start anything this morning or before we go further we'll have a report for you on traffic report where an accident involving a truck happened around the leaky axis of Lagos. We have that report for you. Okay I've been informed that that report to be end after a while. Well glad to have you join us. I'll be doing this alone this morning. Yamgul is not here neither is Justin, but you are there so that makes it okay. Well our theme of the day is a need to escape difficult situations. A sense of feeling trapped you want to escape is within your right to do so. It's been said that self-preservation is the first law of nature. All human all living things indeed not just human beings when they see any or sense any form of danger the first thing that comes to mind is to escape. And it is sad that Nigerians are seeming to be escaping from Nigeria which should be home. Why do we have this on the increase? Why are Nigerians running away from home? Well that question is something that only those running away will probably be in the best position to answer but it is sad that our people are living home. Part of the topic we're taking a look at today is the fact that the UK plans to stop Nigerians and other students who are coming to the UK to study from bringing their families along with them. The only people exempted are those who are going there to study PhD because that is between three to five years. But if you're going there for your master's or any postgraduate course you know you'll not be allowed to go with your family as that you know Hidato used to be the case. So what does that say about the pressure? What does that say about migration? The rate of migration to that place. Top trending. Let's take a very first up trending for the day. FG to commence home delivery of passport is a very first up trending. Parents are begging FG to also release allowance for overseas students. That is our second top trending. If you've applied for your international passport before and it took you a very long time to get it I'm sure that this first hot topic is good news to you. I understand that fresh applications will last just six weeks now and then renewal is just three weeks. That for me is a great improvement. There's been a lot of work going on there in that ministry trying to sanitize the whole place. Those who have been fingered as sabotaging government effort in making getting of passport seamless have been shown the way out. Some are being investigated even as we speak so if they can put this through and make sure that wherever you are your passports will be delivered to you at home as is the standard practice global best practice really then it would be a very good take for Nigeria to have that achieved and so a very second top trending which I've mentioned earlier is parents beg FG to release allowance for overseas students. Parents of Nigerian scholars in foreign countries have sought the intervention of the minister of education on the non-payment of their children's allowance. Nigerian students affected include beneficiaries of the bilateral education agreement. Studying in countries like Algeria, China, Cuba, Egypt, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Romania, Russia, Serbia, South Korea, Tunisia, Turkey and Ukraine are owed up to five months allowance for this year alone. That is not good news. This present administration is about to leave. The parents are worried that the next government coming in may not consider this a priority and so they are begging the present administration of President Mohammad Ibu Hari to do something urgently to see that their children who are being owed these allowances are paid. Each scholar is entitled to supplementation allowances of $6,000 per annum to augment feeding, local transport, maintenance, equipment, book, warm clothing allowances of $250 per annum and health insurance of $200 per annum. So this is a very, very serious crime here by parents of children living abroad, studying abroad who are entitled to some form of allowances. The parents are worried that their children are being owed months and they've also learned that some of the children are beginning to beg to survive and this is not a trend we want to see encouraged because you never can tell how far this children will be pushed into the survival mode. So they are appealing to the government to urgently look into this so the children would not need to be tempted to do something that would not just tarnish their name but also tarnish the name of the country. So hopefully this administration will look into that because it is indeed an urgent matter. The administration has just barely few days to go. What can be done remains to be seen. Well we'll move now to the weather report and when we come back we'll go to off the press to take a look at some headlines on the national dailies. Do stay with us.


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For my country, mobile learning is very important since we have been a society that started with technology a very long time ago, about 30 years ago. And at first we had the fixed technology but later on we moved into mobile technology which has made things easier for us to work with in the sense that mobile technology allows the students and the teachers, in our case in education and the rest of the people too, to access in a rapid way and a more broad way, in a broader way the aspects of knowledge are to establish new abilities, new competencies which are needed for the 21st century. Mobile learning has to have a foundation, a pedagogical foundation and for us at the Ministry of Education and in Costa Rica we are committed to educate for a new citizenship. New citizenship means to establish three main principles or three main aspects that are integrated in the curricula at the schools and which is the first one is citizenship for sustainable development, the second is citizenship for virtual learning with equity and the third one is citizenship for global or the third one is global citizenship for with a national identity and in these three aspects we are integrating different dimensions for the curricula development. We have new programs, we have a transformation of all the curricula that curriculum that we have in the country and we also have extracurricular activities that are incorporating this new citizenship education. This was a very important opportunity to establish contacts, to learn from other people's experience from other countries what they have been doing and to join efforts in a way that we can get more committed to mobile technology and to improve the use of mobile technology in our country. Our country recently approved a regulation for cell phones so that they can be used as a pedagogical or as an educational tool at the schools which is very important and learning more about mobile technologies and the uses is going to enhance the education in my country through our own governmental actions.


Are you excited for fight out with your BFF? I'm hella excited.  Yeah Yeah, yeah, I'll ask you was one of my favorites to you.  Yep, mighty mouse. Yeah, let me trust Johnson I don't know was he fighting cuz John I don't want to say it wrong. Sorry little homie, but he's got he's got gold medal in the Olympics So he's pretty legit. I think he's legit knees young.  Yeah, I really like Cody's. I think it's such a dope dude But Dilla Shaw like his drive and the way he trains and he the amount of improvements.  It's gonna be a good fight. I think it's gonna be a good last fight Cody garb and dropped them in the first round. Yeah Round was over in like 10 seconds. These little dudes aren't scared to fight. Yeah They're ready to get after it. So if the round what is if the rounds were like would have been 30 seconds longer done Okay, they wouldn't have a rematch. What's your heart telling you G?  I'm team. No love dude team. No love.  I don't think TJ's ever beat Dom. No So that's that's like it's like a toss up But Dilla Shaw is badass Cody Cody only has one loss Which is to do job. Yeah, I think so in the UFC and the mighty mouse, right? We got kind of got to go like he's literally the Michael Jordan of the UFC. Who do you think David has? David Really Dude no loves I'm the only one sharing for no love dude. I'm sure for both. I'm the only one when no love wins Dude, you guys aren't coming to the after party with me or if you do. I'm gonna make you wear TJ Dilla Shaw shirts to the party Do Cody Uncle Sam Do be Cody So the whole squads get down here. I talked to the homegirl Cynthia. She gets down last night We'll hopefully meet up with her Dean from Caffeine kilos is here Everybody came down from this fight cuz like I don't think you see as much of a team sport in the rest of the world But in Sacramento, dude, we have the Kings. We have diehard Kings fans I like the Kings, but we're not very good But team alpha males what we got and it's cool because they're part of the community Uriah does a bunch of business in the community Tons, dude Uriah owns like like a bunch of restaurants and stuff our homie Josh Emmett owns a restaurant in the area They own bars like they they do barbecues. They do community events and stuff They're huge in the community. You see them out everywhere Like they're not just like like NBA players. I feel like LA is so big so it's hard But even in Sacramento, you don't see them like they go to practice and then they're sitting in their mansion Like Uriah is out and about you can see them in the other guys Right, they're like OC wherever there's right Yeah, yeah team alpha male and Uriah has done a great job.  He's around in the community He owns a gym and like a yoga studio there like everybody's running around so it's super cool So I'm on big team alpha male fan, and I'm super excited for this fight. Have you guys been to a USC fight? This is about to be turns up dude.  Who's that? Who's that? Who's that? Who's that? Who's that? Who's that little clean guy? Who that? Who that? Who that? Who that dude? What's he doing? Where'd he go? Uh-oh, what's he doing? You're gonna try to take my camera Who's that? Who's that? I don't know basketball I'll see you dude. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah coming down the court drops the ball. Oh I was a good pass, dude Yep. Yep. He's distracting the audience Yeah, yeah. Oh Good past I tackled with the assist So I'm super lucky I've been working with Reebok for five years homies with Barbara O'Gade and other companies Partnered with Barbara O'Gade and other people that make a pearl So I haven't had to buy a bunch of clothes, but and mostly you guys see me in gym clothes, but I'm a huge Street wear guy I love clothes love sneakers We've talked about sneakers in the past a little bit just because of basketball and everything else that I rock I love sneakers. I love clothes.  So I got this kind of long-sleeve warm-up penny hardaway Big 90s hoop fan the penny penny before the knee injury Absolute beast could have been one of the greats was one of the greats and then I grabbed this San Antonio Soccer jersey for the World Cup Mitchell and this is one of my favorite companies. They do throwback stuff They basically made soccer jerseys for a couple NBA teams and that one looked the dopest I am a Cavaliers fan grew up a little bit of a Bulls fan just because of the Jordanaires when I began watching basketball But I'm a Kings fan and a Cavs fan, but I just love good players and good hoop. So History of the game when it looked the coolest. I like to know Lee. I like watching good players So San Antonio on my rep it don't know what we're gonna wear today, but this one's maybe comfy or so Maybe we'll keep with this. We'll see just getting ready about to leave. It's about 240 or so again, I don't think we bring cameras. So hopefully I'm still footage from Geo's phone We might vlog on that. I have a droid I know everyone makes fun of me you can hate on me in the comments But with the droid it's hard to transfer footage so I normally don't vlog on there Otherwise, I would and transfer to Conor to edit but iPhone will be a little easier feeling comfy excited for the fights Gonna grab a nice chicken sandwich and a burger Yeah, yeah You guys so right now they're fighting on this side But I just realized that there's no commentary going on so everything I watch on TV with Joe Rogan and like all the other Commentators I see Joe Rogan. I don't hear anything.   Oh, I just want actually We can have one house this one. It's a mid-century home. You guys know what that means. No what that holds at me Do you watch madmen? No, I don't watch anything mid-century. It's like that fifties era, you know Like in the diner days, so it's like made in that kind of grease Uh, yeah, but not a style, but if the so the grease is like the blue collar version of that era Like the mob kind of Frank Sinatra. Yeah, like the mob Okay, they think about home that Frank Sinatra. I'd have to be like that. Is it that style or was it made then? It could be both. Oh, what mid-century is I mean this one this one where this one They I think it was made with that style and they modernized some parts but some parts that we saw pictures really always So yeah, yeah, the space is good Pardon I both looking for homes, but different reasons different like why is behind it, you know Every purchase you make can have a different why mine's obviously a little bit more investment. It's the first home I'm buying. This is your second home. Don't lie.  Just trying to get a bachelor pad so I'm trying to get investment first and then somewhere that I'd like and Then somewhere that would be good for work I guess those are the tears for me are priority number one something I think that will have and hold good value over time either as a rental or to sell it down the road that will gain value based on location and type of house to for me, I guess it's tied for two and there's no three it's the workflow and will allow me and Connor to work our best there and then to What I'd like and what I want to live in so I like seeing houses. I guess the older you get the more weird stuff You're into people like joke about that But it's true like I'm not excited to get a vacuum for Christmas or whatever that meme is But I am a little more excited to like look at houses see houses no pricing differences from different cities We're heading off a little bit into the hills here in LA and then Compared to Sacramento or wherever I travel whenever I travel now, you know, if I'm in Phoenix or Miami or whatever might be I'll check out different prices on the on the website Zelo it's just like a super basic kind of craigslisty type site for different Housing I like to see what the costs are per square foot and what things look like so me and Tika are all packed up Geobar about to get the car. I need coffee or something bad. I just woke up and showered no food I don't really need food, but I need some caffeine and How's something we go and then I head home later today I was shopping over with I am freaking starving. I never eat breakfast, but All we have is a little sandwich at the fights last night and a beer too. So I'm starving right now I guess it's not even breakfast time. It's probably 11 o'clock. So that's why I'm hungry I normally daily routines wake up eight seven thirty a bunch of coffee a bunch of emails, and then I don't eat till 11 But I'm on I'm on a Tika's vibes right now did some food and some sleep It's good it's a good start it's a good foot in the door But it's not what you're looking for now the basics of chicken waffles that those that never had it It is literally just fried chicken and waffles Hopefully you get chicken with the bone in just because that's how the tradition goes and to make good chicken waffles All you really need is a really good piece of fried chicken a really good waffle and by the boom by the being you're there It doesn't have to be over complicated. It doesn't have to be Yeah, I'm Italian I've been a bit of each yeah My last name is a foreign nachi. Yeah, that's pretty Italian Yeah, yeah, wow Throw shots on my family First you throw shots on my gaming skills Look, you can throw shots in my family, but you don't better talk about my gaming skills again My family did yeah, my great uncle was a pro boxer Because they were being segregated against In the 40s so he was in the 40s and he was a pro boxer and for him to be in the public light He was discriminated against so he changed it His name was Giovanni for a Nazi and he changed it to Johnny Farr and then the rest of the family changed it to John Not he's not bad, but then I'll get more Luigi jokes.  Can I get back to my chicken waffles, dude?  He doesn't agree dude.  He thinks I look great Tell him about chicken and waffles are a vast culinary knowledge. That's what I was getting into That's what we're taking it to.  This chicken waffles they crushed the chicken. They crushed the chicken. The chick is a 10 out of 10 Dude the lightly breaded not overly fried often what people do a chicken fried chicken or fried anything Is they just overly fry it and they think that's gonna make the meal, but this one was fried What are you doing dude? Are they fake? Why aren't they working? I Heard in the car that it's already so big. There's nothing petite in or around you No, we're digging into the waffle I don't want to say that it was lackluster, but it was lackluster The flavor on the waffle was on point, but it was a little soggy I need a crispy outside waffle and a soft cake like inside and they didn't quite nail that the waffle I'm giving maybe a six out of ten chickens probably nine I am a bad damn fat kid that knows about food No, it's like in some stuff.  Give us give us your speech on the first dose Oh, I can already feel it you can already feel the crispy that's what I'm talking about You need the crispy outside the cake like inside you want some rip it The fridge was better than the waffle the waffles lackluster right But the chicken 10 out of 10 Creativity normal which I'm fine with you can't over complicate the chicken a waffle process the chicken itself 10 out of 10 Waffle six out of 10. We're going with the average 7.71 out of 10 You did nap on a food show. Yeah, yeah, yeah Stop by aunt's house little barbecue action little swim action I don't really like to swim and these guys only make fun of me for it, but He's got a full-size basketball hoop in the pool So we're trying to play a little horse bars trying to make a shot in the water So I got to go in there and I'm trying to avoid the water at all costs Back at Bart's house had to pack up real quick Head in back home tonight. It is sunday night and tomorrow as I said We have the biggest project the biggest partnership the biggest Sponsorship that I have to date so I'm really excited to shoot that with connor tomorrow morning We'll probably continue this vlog into there today was a little short We're just hanging out and chilling but tomorrow we got a lot of lifting do a lot of filming to do And I will inform you guys right now give it a thumbs up Because within the next couple clips you're going to know the biggest partnership I had today And I have you guys to thank for really excited about it excited to share it with you guys Appreciate it. Hope you had a good day Hope you enjoyed some of that ufc footage now.  See you there


Governor Hamadou Fintiri of Adamawa State has imposed coffee in part of Lamudi and Goyukloka government areas following renewed communal clashes. Fintiri, in a statement issued in Yola by its press secretary, Muashi Wonozuko, said the coffee will last between 5 p.m. and 6 a.m. until it is reviewed. He said that government was concerned about the persistent tensions and reported attempts by some people to take the laws into their hands by attacking individuals and private facilities, as well as public properties.