My name is Timothy Terrell. I'm an associate professor of economics at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina and an associated scholar with the Ludwig von Mises Institute and I would like to spend some time talking about entrepreneurship, which is one of those areas I think the mainstream neglects and the Austrian school gets right. It's one of those areas where we can distinguish ourselves from the other schools of thought. I think the entrepreneur is underappreciated. The Austrian school emphasizes the role of the entrepreneur who is a person who acts to resolve misallocations of resources in the face of an uncertain future. I have a copy of a more mainstream, well very mainstream, managerial economics textbook. It's gone through multiple editions. It would be well known to many people who are taking MBA classes and others who have at some point taken a managerial economics course. I was slipping through the book. It's very quantitative and what you might expect. It assumes all kinds of information that entrepreneurs don't actually have available to them. I flipped through the index the other day and I thought, well I'm going to see what the mainstream has to say about entrepreneurs as I'm preparing for this talk. The word entrepreneur does not even appear in the index of a managerial economics textbook where you would think the entrepreneur should be central to making business decisions, not even there.  They have to do trial and error to figure out what customers are willing to pay, what factor owners are willing to provide the factors for. So this is an area where even going back to maybe especially going back to Adam Smith in his well-known book, The Wealth of Nations, he's sometimes considered the father of modern economics. Well, Adam Smith neglected the entrepreneur. So this is an area where Austrians I think have something very valuable to contribute. So here's where we're going and you'll see these points on the outline that you have. I tacked on a little on number four and number five here. Just really more of an expansion of the last item on number three and so I figured it deserved an extra Roman numeral. So that's where we're going. First of all, we're going to start off with the observation that consumer demand determines what is produced. And I depict this as a kind of a cycle on my diagram that first you have the consumer that wants something. Maybe the consumer doesn't have a real specific idea of what they want and they they'll know it when they see it that kind of thing. So it's not like the consumer provides the blueprint and the entrepreneur then builds the product for the consumer. Sometimes the entrepreneur has to do some of that trial and error to figure out what the consumer really wanted. But then the entrepreneur after predicting what it is that the consumer wants then designs a production process to provide that that good for the consumer. And that means figuring out what kinds of labor, what kinds of capital, what kinds of technology are needed. And by the way the Austrian school does not treat capital or labor as some kind of homogenous lump. Capital is differentiated. There are all kinds of different types of capital and maybe the discussion later on the business cycle will mention the importance of that. So then the entrepreneur has to come up with the resources to carry out this production. The entrepreneur is not someone who simply observes oh it would be nice if consumers had X and then here's how X would be done or produced. This is about how the entrepreneur actually carries out these plans and takes a risk in doing so. Faces uncertainty. Okay so then the entrepreneur gathers these resources together over time, produces a product. Again this takes time and then receives whatever is left over after the consumer pays the entrepreneur for this final product. So the entrepreneur is paying the laborers, paying the the managers who are working on this project, paying the owners of raw materials, paying the providers of capital and so forth. And then if there's anything left over after receiving the revenues from this production process that's what the entrepreneur gets to keep. And then I say that this is a cycle because the entrepreneur has to then think well what did I do right and what did I do wrong? Where was it that I didn't quite get the product right that the consumer wanted and where could I make improvements? And so they then redesign the production process and meanwhile as I'll point out later the consumers preferences are always changing. The prices of labor, the prices of capital all these things are in constant flux. So the entrepreneur can't just set a production process and then forget it. This is a constant cycle of design, redesign, reevaluation, reassessment of what the consumer wants and what the available resources are. Mises in his book Profit and Loss, which I think is mentioned as your recommended reading for this talk, says that the entrepreneurs fail to produce in the cheapest and best possible way those commodities which the consumers are asking for most urgently, they suffer losses and are finally eliminated from their entrepreneurial position. Other men who know better how to serve the customers replace them. Now in Professor Engelhardt's talk before the brunch, he mentioned factor prices and the imputation of value to producer or production goods. And so I know that he discussed that briefly toward the end of his talk and this is where this ties into the concept of the entrepreneur. So it's a seamless transition really from discussing markets and prices to discussing the role of the entrepreneur. So the valuation of goods drives these input prices. So for example, the preference for diamonds might rise. Then that means the price of diamonds is going to go up in the market because of shifting demand. And then that means that the wages of the diamond miners will rise. And this is something that people don't don't necessarily get when they think about economics and pricing and so forth. And it leads to some rather tragic results.  Do you say, well, you'd be better off if I did not buy from you because I'm simply reinforcing child labor if I do this? Well, no, of course, you think, well, this person will be better off if I buy their product. Their wages will go up. Now, Girl Scouts aren't paid exactly for this kind of work. But the principle is the same that you're going to make this person better off if you demand more of their product, not less. And that's a misconception that many people have about markets. Another example would be basketball. There's a demand for high school basketball playing, which means that the price of tickets to NBA basketball games would go up. And that means that the wages of basketball players would then rise. Notice that this is not, you pay a lot for a ticket because NBA basketball players get paid a lot of money. It's the other way around. You're willing to pay a lot for a ticket. Therefore, the factors, the laborers, the basketball players are paid a lot because you want what they have to produce what they have to offer. All right. Another example would be, say the preference for internet delivered movies rises. So the demand for physical disc rental CD, CD, but DVD rental right falls. And then that means the returns to blockbuster shares fall. And ultimately, blockbuster went out of business, because consumer preference has changed. They thought, why should I get in the car and drive over to look at a limited selection in some store when I can just click on my remote control. And there's my movie. Part C says continual changes and there are continual changes in consumer preferences, technology and resource supplies. So as I said before, consumers are always changing their preferences. One year they want green tea and the next year they want kombucha with the probiotics or something in them. And then they want pomegranate juice and then they want something else. And so you see these constantly changing consumer preferences once one Christmas, it's tickle me Elmo and another Christmas, it's something else. But that's that's constantly being changed by the by the consumer and in the entrepreneurs got to keep up with us. I don't know if you're old enough to remember geo cities, but that was kind of a pre my space, you get to set up your own little corner of the internet. And then there was my space and then there was Facebook and then Pinterest and Instagram and I'm still trying to keep up with this with my own kids. The minute I think I figured out what social media there is popular where their age group they've moved on to something else. And so the entrepreneurs got to keep up with this constant, constant kaleidoscopic change. So people are constantly developing different ways of signaling their characteristics to friends and clients one year it's one way to do it and another year it's another way to do it. Electromechanical switches move to vacuum tubes to semiconductors to printed micro circuitry. So the technology is constantly changing to we go from cargo nets being lifted into holds of ships to containerized cargo, which was a very important invention for international trade. And this is the kind of thing that entrepreneurs have to think through. It's not just coming up with a new tech, like we think of maybe in Silicon Valley coming up with a new app or something, but it's a way of combining some of the existing technologies. For example, the fracking method of getting oil or gas out of the ground is a combination of three technologies. One is 3D underground imaging to figure out exactly where the oil bearing strata are underground deep underground, and then directional drilling so they don't have to just drill straight down but they can bend the pipe to go in a different direction. And then hydraulic fracturing where they set off little explosions to produce cracks in the rock and allow the oil and gas to escape. So this is a combination of different technologies to produce something that's that's very innovative apps for your smartphone. Just people constantly coming up with different ways to to figure out how to use GPS plus your cell phone data connection plus the mapping that's available and somebody comes up with Uber or another technology that is that is a combination of things that might have been around for quite a while. But then an entrepreneur thinks I know of a way to combine these things and generate something people will want or that he thinks people will want. So there are also shifts in resource availability. So relative price changes will affect the entrepreneurs decisions about how much and what kinds of labor to use how much and what kinds of capital to use and so forth. There are population changes, maybe with growing populations in other parts of the world. Entrepreneurs have to think about maybe making their product available with different language instructions or different kinds of techniques of appealing to an audience that might have a different culture than the one that they've been selling to in the past. Economic growth worldwide means that now of course your your coal, your oil, your gas, etc. are now being sold to different parts of the world because of economic growth there. Entrepreneurs are always having to take these changes into account. And of course, we can't ignore, sadly, the influence of government on entrepreneurial activity that there are there are new and different restrictions, variably enforced taxes, confiscation, etc. that entrepreneurs have to take into consideration as well. So next, let's let's move to the role of the entrepreneur. In your notes, this would be part a on change, uncertainty and opportunity for gains. I've already described some ways in which the economy is in constant movement. It's not static. And importantly for the entrepreneur that this presents uncertainty. And it's that uncertainty that leads to the opportunity for profit. It's uncertainty about what is it that consumers are going to want a year from now, when I'm starting to put the resources into the pipeline to move into a final product over time. This is another emphasis of the Austrian schools, the passage of time. Mainstream tends to look at the production process as some sort of instantaneous manufacturing, you just plunk these things into a hopper and out immediately comes your product. And the passage of time is very important understanding the struggles that an entrepreneur has to deal with uncertainty over a long period of time. So the entrepreneur then has to anticipate changes in preferences. They can't just say, Well, this is what consumers want. And I'm going to provide it. They have to think what will consumers want down the road over time. They have to observe trends and patterns. They have to understand human psychology. They have to understand human tastes. And they have to be prepared to arrange resources right now, in a way in such a way that the product will be available at the right time for the consumer. So maybe the consumer doesn't want the product right now, but will want the product in a year or two years or five years, when the entrepreneur's pipeline spits out the final product at the end. That's what the entrepreneurs got to be thinking about. Not what do people necessarily want at this moment, but what will they want by the time the product is ready. So this means entrepreneurship really is something that involves a some people might call it an art of prediction, a combination of sometimes non quantifiable variables that you can't plug into some kind of equation to spit out some kind of optimal result. So an entrepreneur can't just say, Well, let me let me put together these 200 variables and this will spit out what I should produce. This is a very much more intuitive sometimes an intuitive process on the part of the entrepreneur. Mises says again, from the same source that I mentioned earlier, the business of the entrepreneur is not merely to experiment with new technological methods, but to select from the multitude of technologically feasible methods, those which are best fit to supply the public in the cheapest way with the things they are asking for most urgently, whether a new technological procedure is or is not fit for this purpose is to be provisionally decided by the entrepreneur and will be finally decided by the conduct of the buying public. Maybe 15, 16, 17 years ago, there was this initial burst of growth in the internet and everybody started to think, Well, what can I provide using the internet? And the I won't get into how the Federal Reserve sort of intervened in the process to distort entrepreneurial decision making. I'll leave that for one of our later talks, but people were coming up with things like I think there was an e groceries.com where you're going to be buying your groceries over the internet.  That's not what consumers want. They want to be able to, you know, tap the cantaloupe and figure out whether it's right or not and buying this kind of thing over the internet, at least at that time with the existing technology wasn't wasn't something consumers really wanted. And so it was one of the casualties of that dot com bus, excuse me, bust in the in the late 90s. So entrepreneurs need to anticipate changes in technology and resources. And we need to keep in mind that this doesn't mean that a new technology is always best. Sometimes the new technology is not the most appropriate way to to engage in a particular production process. Sometimes the conventional technology, the one that's been around for several years is best. A government investment in new technologies is is something one of the talks in Mises University this this week mentioned at some length. I think Peter Klein spent some time on this earlier. And it's important to note that government investment in new technologies, this, you know, the space shuttle program or the space program in general and the supposed advantages of having all of this new technology emerge out of that program, that's missing something. That's not entrepreneurship in the sense that are in the in the way that's going to create a positive growth for the economy. Government investment in technologies as new and as bright and shiny as they might be is missing key information about whether that that new technology is economically the best thing to invest in. So entrepreneurs have to pay attention to profit and loss. But governments, if their costs run up, well, they just confiscate more from the taxpaying public, and they they proceed with the with the endeavor, whatever it is. They don't have to pay attention to profit and loss government by its nature is a kind of a non profit entity, although of a special kind that can use coercion instead of appealing to people for donations. So the opportunity cost of one innovation might be the loss of another innovation. So we we come up with something like trying to think about genuine government innervate innovation. There's a lot of things that have been suggested as as being the outcome of government activity. But let's say jet engines that's been suggested as an outcome of government investment in the military during and prior to World War Two. Okay, well, great.  But perhaps they were a poor investment at that time because we could have used the resources to invest in something else. Maybe a better example would be the atomic bomb program, which did give us some useful peace peace time technologies like nuclear power and so forth. But it was this was an immensely expensive process. It was consuming some huge fraction of the electricity generated in the United States to run these these devices that purified uranium and plutonium. It was as a fraction of GDP. It was enormous. What else could we have done with those resources? Government didn't have to pay attention to the need for profitability. Again, they could simply coerce the resources out of the population if they if they wanted more. So it lacked that feedback that entrepreneurs depend upon. So entrepreneurs finally need to use judgment and appraisal. They have to use judgment and appraising the current and the likely future values of resources and other inputs and the envisioned final products. It's not enough to figure out how much electricity or labor or some piece of machinery is going to cost now. They have to think since this production process is going to take time, what's that labor going to cost me when I'm halfway through my production process? Is that machine going to develop a higher opportunity cost down the road that I have to think about now? It's a constant barrage of new variables that have to be taken into consideration. All right, so profit is a residual gain, as I said earlier, after the factors of production are paid. So we have all these factors, not homogenous, like some schools of thought tend to tend to suggest, not just a lump of capital and a lump of a lump of labor, but widely varying qualities and types of labor and capital. That's the real world we live in. We don't have some kind of schmoo like lump of capital that we put into this this kind of hopper. But we do combine the entrepreneur combines these factors in a production process that then generates an output. While that production process is going on, this entrepreneur has to keep paying the wages and the interest to the capital owners and the prices to the owners of the raw materials that they're using all along the production process. They're plugging in all of this money. And then at the end, they get a final product and they hope that the consumers actually willing to pay enough for this final product to compensate the entrepreneur for everything the entrepreneur has put out in this production process and hopefully even leave a residual for that entrepreneur. And the residual is what you get when you take the revenues and subtract all those payments to the factors. That's the residual. If it's positive, then the entrepreneur has made a profit. If it's negative, the entrepreneur has lost resources and if they keep running losses, they'll eventually go bankrupt, which is a useful process, by the way. Bankruptcy is the process of moving resources from entrepreneurs who have not correctly predicted what people want to entrepreneurs who do correctly predict what people want. So when government tries to get in the way of a bankruptcy process and says, oh, we need to bail this entrepreneur out, what they're actually doing is they're stifling the process that allows resources to go to their most valuable uses. Ultimately, it even hurts the laborers who are involved in these processes, who are then being guided by entrepreneurs who are not using resources efficiently. Now Karl Marx said that capital begets profit. That's not true. Capital by itself is an inert object. You have to combine capital with the creative action of the entrepreneur to generate profit. The more profit there is for entrepreneurs, it does not mean there's less for laborers. Revenues are not fixed. It may be that by paying workers more, you get more productivity and the entrepreneur can enjoy higher residual. So there's not some kind of fixed pie out of which you have to take the entrepreneur's payment, resource payments, laborer payments. That's not the way it works even though a lot of people think of payment to workers as somehow taking away from the profit to entrepreneurs. The pie can vary in size depending on how efficient the entrepreneur is. We also sometimes make the mistake of thinking that profit is, since we call it a residual, that sounds a lot like some kind of unnecessary leftover. Well that's not true. Profit is key. It is essential to the production process. Herbert Hoover back in the beginning of the Great Depression thought, well what we need to do is we need to keep wages propped up and allow entrepreneurs to take a hit to profit. Because he thought, well if we, profit is kind of this disposable thing, we don't have to have it anyway, so the key thing is to give spending power to the workers. Well that changes things fundamentally in the economy. Profit's not a disposable unnecessary thing. It's a signal for one. You see an entrepreneur making a big profit that suggests, well maybe that entrepreneur has lit on to something valuable, a valuable reorganization of the production process. Maybe that's something worth copying. And more resources go in that direction. If you tax profits or if you otherwise penalize that entrepreneur, you're dampening that signal that's telling people move resources over that direction. Also you're incentivizing entrepreneurial activity. Remember that entrepreneur is facing uncertainty. You don't have profit, you don't give the entrepreneur any incentive to take on that risk of loss. I mentioned bankruptcy already, I won't go through that here, but MISA says profit and loss are generated by success and or failure in adjusting the course of production activities to the most urgent demand of the consumers. And there's a simple rule of thumb to tell entrepreneurs from non-entrepreneurs. The entrepreneurs are those on whom the incidence of losses on the capital employed falls. And let's talk about point C in your outline there, says the difference between the profit and the rate of interest. Now interest is the exchange rate between present and future goods. We all value goods now more than the same good later, other things being equal. That's interest, that's not profit. Even though the mainstream will say well you're getting more for your product today than you put in at the beginning and all of that difference they would say is profit, not so. Okay, part of that difference between what the entrepreneur gets at the end in revenues and what the entrepreneur put in in payments to factors at the beginning, part of that is interest. Because you're having to persuade the resource owners to give up goods now and wait to get payment of interest later. Entrepreneurs may also wear other hats for the firm. They may, especially if you're looking at very small firms, you may have an entrepreneur doing all the accounting or doing the hiring and firing and some of that is something that you might trust to a manager who's paid a wage. We would call those entrepreneurial quasi wages. They're not the same thing as profit. Finally, let me mention briefly in this section profit and disequilibrium. MISA says that profit and loss are ever present features only on account of the fact that ceaseless change in the economic data makes again and again new discrepancies and consequently the need for new adjustments originates. Now some of these needed adjustments may be very large. It may be that there's a giant gap between the way resources are used and the way they could be used to provide with consumers with a better cheaper product. Well, large discrepancies if they're noticed and acted upon by entrepreneurs mean perhaps large profits. You tax those and you're reducing the ability of the entrepreneur or the incentive for the entrepreneur to resolve those large gaps and so you're left with that persistent inefficiency. MISA says taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success in best serving the public. One example of this would be the 1920 transportation act which taxed half of all the profits to railroads that were considered excessive and then put those into a fund out of which they subsidized the less successful or less efficient railroads. This is penalizing the efficient and subsidizing the inefficient. No wonder railroads ended up becoming inefficient by the by the middle of the 20th century. I need to to spend a minute or two on this ERE idea, the evenly rotating economy. Now this is a fictional construct created by MISA's in which there's no uncertainty about the future. Now he did this to try to establish the difference between between interest and profit. Interest remembers the payment that you make to a capital owner for giving up those resources for a period of time. Profit is that residual that the entrepreneur receives but in the ERE and that evenly rotating economy where there's no uncertainty at all, there's no entrepreneurship, there can be none and there's no profit. We don't think that's really the way the world is, but it's a way of establishing that distinction between capital interest and profits to entrepreneurs. So who's an entrepreneur? I'll close with this. Capitalists will are those who are providing an advance to the owners of factors that by factors I mean labor and capital and and and so forth, raw materials, in exchange for taking control of those long enough to produce a final product. The capitalist receives more from the consumers than their payments to the factor owners and that difference is interest. And again because there's no uncertainty in the ERE that's the only thing you see is interest, no profit. Bob Murphy's just come out with this wonderful book, Choice, which is a distillation of a lot of the ideas in in human action by Mises and he says in in that book that capitalists who lend money to a business venture may be contractually guaranteed a certain percentage return, regardless of the success of the company, but they know that if the company fails badly enough it may default on its loan and repay only pennies on the dollar. So in that sense the capitalist may be acting also entrepreneurially, being aware that they may suffer a loss of their loan if the entrepreneur who's guiding this process fails. So entrepreneurship is much broader than we sometimes think of it as being. In fact all of us to some extent act entrepreneurially.  Every individual is making decisions now to prepare himself or herself for the future, an uncertain future. Richard Cantagone in 1755, and we think might be a picture of him, asked Mark Thornton more about that, but he says entrepreneurs work for uncertain wages and everybody else for certain wages until they have them, although their functions in their rank are very disproportionate. He says the general who has a salary, the courtier or servant who has a pension, the domestic who has wages are in the latter class. All others are entrepreneurs. He says even beggars and robbers are entrepreneurs of this class. So to sum up entrepreneurs are uncertainty bearers in an economy full of constant change. The entrepreneur's boss is the consumer and consumer demand is what that entrepreneur's got to keep an eye on all the time. Profits result from accurately predicting the future, desires of the consumer, resource availability, technology, and competitive conditions, and then they have to act on those predictions. They receive the residual after all the factors are paid. If you tax those profits you get ultimately less consumer satisfaction. Losses result from poor entrepreneurial judgment and again all of us act entrepreneurially in some way. You can't reduce economics to a set of equations or actuarial tables. The information the entrepreneur acts on is often tacit. It's not in quantitative form. Thank you very much for your attention.


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Most Christians miss the important difference between repent and renounce and because of that continue to struggle in habitual sin cycles. But you can be free. So what does it really mean to renounce something and what does it really mean to repent? Repentance is a change of mind and to renounce is to forsake or turn from. Now many try to renounce sin before they've changed their mind about sin. They attempt an adjustment in behavior before they experience a transformation of mind. So they end up frustrated. You need to start by agreeing with what God says about sin. It's wrong.  You're not going to allow it in even small portions. Sometimes we deceive ourselves by acknowledging that sin is wrong, but then in the back of our minds we know we'll just come back to it later. So first repent, change your mind completely and then renounce, forsake sin in all forms, in all measures and for all time.


What is the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit? And how do you know if you've committed this unpardonable sin? Before I begin, make sure you're subscribed to EncounterTV on YouTube and make sure that you click that notification bell. You can also follow us wherever you're watching us. We're going to dive into the Scripture to better understand the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, also known as the unpardonable sin. Now, there are three things that I want to set as foundations before we dive into the Scripture on this topic, and it's a very important topic. Number one, fear not. Don't be afraid. God is not the giver of fear. This is what the Scripture says in 2 Timothy chapter 1 verse 7. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. Perhaps you're listening to this message because you're looking for answers. You're wondering if you've committed the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. Maybe you're afraid. Maybe you're worried. Maybe you're wondering if something you thought, something you said, something you did has forever sealed your fate. But remember this, fear not. God has not given you a spirit of fear. So that's number one. Number two, we have to remember that the Scripture will never contradict itself. So our conclusion about the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit must be harmonious with all other scriptural principles. The Bible will not contradict itself. So whatever we conclude on this topic cannot contradict other principles of Scripture. And finally, number three, we must remember to tread very carefully on this topic. Jesus did intend to inspire a holy reverence and a holy fear. So we must not seek to inspire apathy, where Jesus sought to inspire that holy fear. With those things in mind, let's look at the key verses and then we'll look at the context. Matthew 12, 31 and 32. So I tell you, every sin and blasphemy can be forgiven, except blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, which will never be forgiven. Anyone who speaks against the Son of Man can be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven either in this world or in the world to come. So a few things stand out to me when we look at this key portion of Scripture. The Scripture means what it means. Never really means never. Forgiven really means forgiven. That phrase never forgiven literally actually means never forgiven. Also note that the Bible says either in this world or in the world to come. So if I commit the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, I can't be forgiven in this world or in the world to come in this age or in the age to come. So this tells me that the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit can be committed on this side of eternity. And that truly is a terrifying reality. This is a big deal. So now that we've looked at the key verses, let's look at the context beginning in verse 22 of Matthew 12. Then a demon possessed man who was blind and couldn't speak was brought to Jesus. He healed the man so that he could both speak and see. So Jesus drives a demon out of a man. This is a deliverance. And the crowd was amazed and asked, could it be that Jesus is the Son of David, the Messiah? But when the Pharisees heard about the miracle, they said no wonder he can cast out demons. He gets his power from Satan, the Prince of Demons. Verse 25. Jesus knew their thoughts and replied, any kingdom divided by civil war is doomed. A town or family splintered by feuding will fall apart. And if Satan is casting out Satan, he is divided and fighting against himself. His own kingdom will not survive. And if I am empowered by Satan, what about your own exorcists? They cast out demons too, so they will condemn you for what you have said. But if I am casting out demons by the Spirit of God, notice there that Jesus reveals the secret to driving demons out. It's by the Spirit of God. Then the kingdom of God has arrived among you. For who is powerful enough to enter the house of a strong man and plunder his goods? Only someone even stronger, someone who could tie him up and then plunder his house. Anyone who isn't with me opposes me. And anyone who isn't working with me is actually working against me. So I tell you, every sin and blasphemy can be forgiven except blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, which will never be forgiven. Anyone who speaks against the Son of Man can be forgiven. But anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven either in this world or in the world to come. So let's break a few things down here. First of all, the Pharisees were teachers of religious law. And they were quite jealous of the influence that Jesus had. And what they often tried to do was discredit Jesus. They didn't want him to gain influence. They were against him. Now, what did they hear? The Pharisees heard that Jesus had cast a demon out of a man. And upon hearing about this exorcism, the Pharisees, inspired by their own jealousy, accused Jesus of using demon power. Now think about what that accusation entails. Not only are they saying that the power of the Holy Spirit is actually demon power, but they're also saying that Jesus was demon possessed.  Now in Mark chapter 3 verse 30, which is the same story from a different gospel account, we read this. He told them this because they were saying he's possessed by an evil spirit. So the Bible does reveal exactly why Jesus told them what he told them. That whole warning that Jesus gave concerning the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit was specifically directly a response to the Pharisees saying that Jesus was demon possessed. So either the Pharisees were very close, dangerously close, to committing the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, or they had already committed it. Now personally, I believe that the Pharisees were only close to committing the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. Otherwise, why would Jesus give them a warning if they were forever doomed by their sin? So it's what they said. Now before we draw any more conclusions, let's look at the word itself. We've looked at the key verses. We've looked at the context. Now let's look at the word. The word for blasphemy here means to slander. It means detraction. It means speech injurious to another's good name. So the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is something you speak. It's something that you say. Knowing this, we can rule out other sins. We can rule out sins like murder, suicide, fornication, witchcraft, adultery, and so on. And sometimes Christians who struggle with things like OCD, when they hear about the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, they become very worried, very paranoid, because once they hear about what the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is, and that thought repeats in their mind again and again and again, they think that those obsessive thoughts, those intrusive thoughts, they think thinking those thoughts is the same as committing the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. But here we know that blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is something that you speak. It's something that you say. It's a sin of the tongue. So it's not unbelief unto death, as some have said. Some say that the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is simply the rejection of salvation, or the rejection of the gospel, or the rejection of Jesus. No, because remember, it's something you can commit on this side of eternity. So looking at the key verse, looking at the context, and looking at the Word itself, we can conclude that the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is to speak aloud against the Holy Spirit and accuse the Holy Spirit's power of being demonic power. Now, keep also in mind that this sin comes from a very deep place. You can't commit this sin on accident. This is not something that you just frivolously say. This is something that's very, very deep within your heart. Let me show you a portion of Scripture here. Again, in Matthew 12, let's start at verse number 33. A tree is identified by its fruit. If a tree is good, its fruit will be good. If a tree is bad, its fruit will be bad. You brood of snakes, Jesus is talking to the Pharisees there. How could evil men like you speak what is good and right? For whatever is in your heart determines what you say. So it's not just the pronunciation of the accusation. It's not just the words themselves. It's the state of the heart that causes you to say something like that in the first place. In other words, the Pharisees were so stubbornly against Jesus. They were so anti-Christ that that hatred and jealousy within their hearts produced the sin of accusing Jesus of being demon-possessed and of accusing the Holy Spirit's power of being demonic. So this is not something that can just happen by accident. It's not something that just is a slip-up. It's not just a thought that comes to your mind. This is a very, very serious condition of the heart that produces this blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. Neither is it general blasphemy or general disobedience. Some Christians are so fearful. They say things like, I cussed at God. Now you shouldn't cuss at the Lord. Of course we know that. And you shouldn't deliberately sin. And you shouldn't repeat cycles of sin. And you shouldn't sin in all the different ways that we sin. Of course not. But you can at least be released from the fear that you've committed the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. Why? Because this is the condition of the heart that produces such a thing. This state of being is so far from God, so against Christ, so against the Holy Spirit that it would rather speak against the Holy Spirit's power. It would rather believe that Jesus is demon-possessed than to believe that he's the way. Think about how against Christ you'd have to be to say such a thing. In other words, they heard of a man being delivered. They saw the miracles Jesus performed. That jealousy, that hatred in their hearts produced this blasphemy that caused them to reject Christ. They so wanted to reject Jesus that they chose to believe that he was demon-possessed.  So if you're wondering, did I commit the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit? I'm worried if I've said something on accident. I'm worried if I had this thought. I'm worried if I repeated this sin. That somehow I've committed the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. You can be released from that fear. Now of course, don't go on sinning.  Of course, don't say things that would hurt the Holy Spirit or hurt the Lord. But here's what the Scripture says in 1 Corinthians 12 verse 3. So I want you to know that no one speaking by the Spirit of God will curse Jesus. And no one can say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit. Therefore, it is impossible for a born-again believer to commit the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. I want you to hear that.  Remember, the unpardonable sin is a very intentional one. You can't commit it on accident. Not only can the unpardonable sin not be forgiven, but the one who commits it is sure to have no interest in being forgiven. Now this is a key point, so I'm going to repeat it in a different way. If I've committed the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, it's because I have no interest in being forgiven. Let me show you this with Scripture. John 6, 36 to 37 says, But you haven't believed in me even though you have seen me. However, those the Father has given me will come to me and I will never reject them. Very key here. I want to read it one more time so you can understand what the Bible is saying. However, those the Father has given me will come to me. That's the first key. And I will never reject them. Remember, at the beginning of this message, I told you that the Scripture will never contradict the Scripture. So our conclusions concerning the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit have to be harmonious with other portions of Scripture. Now according to John 6, 36 and 37, those whom the Father has given to the Lord will come to the Lord. And because we come to the Lord, that's proof that God has given us over to Jesus. So then, if I approach the Lord, A, it means God has sent me. And B, it means that Jesus will never reject me. Jesus will never reject anyone who comes to him. So how do we reconcile that truth?  Well, it's quite simple. The only conclusion we can make while holding true to these two principles of Scripture is that the person who commits the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit will never approach God. They don't want forgiveness. They will not seek God. They will not seek forgiveness. They will not seek His mercy. The person who commits the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit has no interest in repentance. Remember that state of the heart is so far from God that they don't want anything to do with Him. So then, if the Scripture makes it clear that Jesus will never reject anyone who comes to him, and the Scripture also makes it very clear that the person who commits the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit can never again be accepted, then again, the only conclusion we can make while holding to the Scripture is that the person who commits the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit has no interest in being forgiven. Therefore, the conclusion. If you're worried that you've committed the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, then you haven't committed the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. If you're wondering, did I say something? Did I do something? Did I think something that has forever sealed my fate? If that's your worry, if that's your concern, that shows that you have interest in repentance. And if you have interest in repentance, it's because the Holy Spirit put it there. And if the Holy Spirit put it there, then that means that your heart is not in the condition that would commit the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. So today, be released from that fear. Turn from your sin. Don't speak evil against the Lord. Control those thoughts that are wicked. But also rest in the assurance that if you approach the Lord, He'll never reject you. If you come to Him, He'll always embrace you. Why? Because you approaching the Lord means that the Father God has sent you and therefore your heart is not in the place where you could possibly commit this sin. I want to pray with you now. Father, in the name of Jesus, I pray, Lord, that we would be established in your word. Let your word also be established in us. Father, release us from all fear. Thank you that the truth sets us free. And I pray now, Lord, that you would teach us what it is to honor the precious Holy Spirit. Thank you, Father, that you'll never reject us when we approach you. Thank you for your mercy, for your kindness, for your love. And thank you for the clarity of your word. We honor you. We love you. Let your presence and power be known in our lives. In the name of Jesus, we pray. I want you to say it because you believe it. Say, Amen. That is it for the message here now. It's a question for conversation. Did this message help you to better understand the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit? How so? Tell me about it in the comment section right now. And here are some comments from a previous video. Titled, The Holy Spirit Simply Explained. The question I posed in that video was, when did you first come to know the Holy Spirit as a person? Here were some responses. Rhea Campos wrote, I first came to know the Holy Spirit as a person through your teachings, Brother David. That's awesome. I'm very happy to hear that. Leanne wrote, I first came to know the Holy Spirit as a person when I started listening to your preaching. Well, to God be the glory. The next commenter wrote, I came to know the Holy Spirit as a person and not a thing after reading a book about the Holy Spirit given to me by a newly found friend. And the final comment I'll read from this video says, I realized that the Holy Spirit was a person when I understood that the Holy Spirit was my helper, teacher, and comforter watching from the Philippines. Thank you, Brother David. 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Okay, and now we are recording. Hello, welcome to the advocacy and outreach special interest group meeting. Today is May 7th, and we will just go to the topics we have on the agenda. So we have Google summer updates from me, and then this question is your UX hackathon, discussion about EPFAE videos by Alisa, and also some topics about roadmap, some line meetups, and et cetera, et cetera. So let's just start. Yeah, we had discussions about the Google summer of court at several meetings this week already. I'll just spend some time for those who didn't participate in previous meetings. So on May 4th, we have got announcements by Google about the selected projects. And we're proud to announce that we have seven projects in the Jenkins organization this year. Six projects will be focusing on Jenkins. One project will be focusing on Jenkins X. I still, it's a good number. It's exactly the number of projects we asked for. All these applications have been suggested by students who have already contributed to the Jenkins project during, and to Jenkins X during the selection timeframe. And we're looking forward to work with them. So we have already posted some announcements in social media. I plan to make an official blog post early next week. So once we get all profiles updated, because yeah, right now, if you go to our page, you can see that there are mentors listed. Some mentors have profiles, et cetera there. But for students, we still need to make some updates to have everything in place. And once it's ready, we will just kick off the announcements. And Oleg, so from the CDF side, we are also writing a press release to include all the Google Summer projects. So Tara is driving that. Not sure exactly what the messaging is gonna be around it, but Jesse's gonna ghostwrite it. So I'll also make sure that you're looped in so that you can provide feedback. Yeah, we have already received a request from Tara about the list of projects. Yeah. I provided this list, but if additional reviews are needed, I'm happy to help. No, I just want you to just give it like a final look, just so, because like I said, he's gonna be ghostwriting it. So I just wanna make sure it aligns. Okay, that's perfectly fine. Okay, I'm happy to help with that. So for us, as usual in previous years, we will have a lot of other social media announcements, hopefully starting from the second part of me, we'll start getting a blog post from students and mentors. And likely we will have a lot more content for them, because some projects already have proof of concepts, which we could demonstrate. And we will keep facilitating that. So in total, we have around 30 contributors in this project. So it's a good number. Okay, so I think that's all from the JSOX standpoint, because we basically used the same framework as before. So we will have online meetups. Once you have evaluations, we will also request additional blog posts and we will be trying to facilitate discussions through special interest groups so that we can onboard most stakeholders in this project. Okay, any questions before we move on? Then yeah, that's it. And yeah, once we talk about Google something, there is a Google season of documentation. So for Google season of documentation, we have applied and the results will be announced next Monday. So here's our landing page. You can also find our application somewhere in these documents, second, which should be here. Yeah, our application. So if you're interested, you can find all the information here. And we are just waiting for the feedback. If you are lucky, we will also get additional slot for a technical writer who would be working with the Jenkins project on one of the suggested project ideas. And yeah, another update is about your UX hackathon. So we had a discussion before in Brussels about doing more one hackathons. We had a hackathon for Java 10 plus support, which was a great success. We also had a hardware first, where we pushed a number of contributions to the record high numbers, which we are hopefully going to beat this quarter, by the way. But yep, online hackathons proved to be pretty efficient. And we would like to use these hackathons in order to drive our roadmap. So we have a roadmap, which includes many stories. But historically, when we were doing surveys, this Jenkins user's one of the top feedbacks that Jenkins user interface is dated. It's hard to use that. It's hard to find proper documentation, et cetera. All of that boils down to user experience. And what we want to do with this hackathon is to specifically focus on user experience, and in particular on three areas. So it's user interface. On the roadmap, we have stories for Jenkins look and feel updates. We also have the discussion about accessibility in the previous UX meeting, and there are other stories. So this is from the technical side, on documentation, we want to put solution pages, tutorials, and user documentation. And we also want to work on the marketing, because for us sharing stories, it's also a good opportunity to get feedback about user experience and to share it with other users. So Alisa has recently started the Jenkins in the Way program, which is currently online, which we are promoting. There are stories here. Right now there are eight stories already, or something like that. And we want to actually push it a bit more. The hackathon will offer contributors to write user stories, and also to just post their stories in whatever social media is Jenkins the Way hashtag, similar to what we use currently is promoting the content. And hopefully it will help us to promote what we are doing more among users. So that's the idea for this hackathon. And actually I wanted to spend some time to discuss the framework to get feedback from SIG members, but we don't have so many people on the call. So do you think it makes sense to discuss now? I do. At least I think it would benefit because Alisa and I will probably be actively trying to promote it, help people know it. So if we talk about the framework now, it gives us a sense of what we are doing. It gives us some notes we can take and some ideas to capture. Okay, so yeah, briefly describe the framework. We actually had hackathons before, like our 10 plus support hackathon. It was a 5D event, and it was not a hackathon per se, it was a hackfest. So it's not something like for five days, people were just working 24 hours per day, depending on how much sleep you need to hack something, then to demo it and get the prizes. Our approach was quite different. We invite everybody regardless of how much time they have. And in order to make it possible, we prepare new befriended tickets, we prepare some onboarding events, contributor materials, and at the same time we have advanced topics as well. So basically it's hop-in, hop-off event when everybody is welcome to participate. Usually we have people who just do a couple of contributions. We have people who spend almost full-time driving particular stories because some people with a couple of us from companies and we are preparing for that. So right now we have some new befriended stories. We still need to create G-requires, et cetera, but these stories are more or less confirmed. So for example, thanks to Mark and documentation for working on the user documentation, same for user interface. Yesterday we had a meeting to discuss new befriended tickets we would like to create and also new befriended tickets. So we will be pulling it together. Yes, Jacqueline. So there is a question, but we will submit it to the event calendar. We will do that. So what? Yeah, I plan to do that, Jackie. Okay, cool. Cause I'd love to also make sure that the CDF promotes it on their channels cause this is like something that the CDF like hasn't been a part of. It'd be like the first hackathon for our project. So I think it'd be, we definitely want to help you guys wherever we can. And I also want to make sure that you guys, like we've got socks. So if, I don't know if you creating like custom swag for this, but we can also help with some of the, we have a ton of socks for Jenkins. So. Oh, that'd be great. Yeah, we can provide socks and we can provide decals cause I ordered about 3,000 of the Jenkins decals. So we are stocked up to provide it for you guys. Just let me know. And yeah, or I could have, for example, the codes created and then we just give it to every attendee and then they go and order it themselves. So. Okay. Yeah. So what we had with regards to swag before. So we have called this sponsor in the event and we will be using the same Jenkins as the weight teaming. So it allows us to use the same t-shirts which have been created. And yeah, these t-shirts are really cool. I'm looking forward to receive one. Yeah, me too. Yeah. So yeah, stickers. We also discussed some special prizes which is currently TBD. But yeah, hopefully we will have some. So, and if we can get some from CDF as well, it will be awesome. We can, for example, if you, one of the things that we could give you is some of the CDF hoodies, I believe we still have some.  So we could give, give you guys t-shirts too. I just need to see, I put in the order back in March, but because of Corona I, they haven't put it on our store yet. So I'm assuming that it just, they haven't received it depending on where it's coming from. So let me check in on that. Actually, it's a good topic to discuss today if you have some time because we have other events like cool summer off code where we would also like to distribute swag. Yeah, just give me numbers, send me an email, give me numbers, how much you need. Like I said, I ordered a, I ordered 3,000 stickers. So I'm stocked up for, for that kind of swag. And I also have, we also still have plenty of socks. I think we had around 200 socks. And then t-shirts, I think about 200, so. So Jackie, how would it work if I was to give you, because we have Jenkins is the way t-shirts that I'm producing at the moment. Okay. What if I send them to you or to whoever the vendor is. And then, and then I think it's easier if we just give- They send everything out at once. Okay. Well, would that cost us anything? Like in terms of for CloudBees or the Jenkins project? I don't think so. So let me ask, I do have a phone call with Pinnacle.  Why don't we just ship them to the Pinnacle's warehouse where they ship everything out.  Yeah. That would be great. Yeah. So I think, send me an email, Alyssa, and then I'll ask them and then we can, I can ask them for their address. Yeah. So that you, then I can give you the address. Okay. And then we can have all that stuff. Yeah, it would be much appreciated. Yeah. Cause then it'd be easier to just put everything in a, like in a package. Yeah. Yeah. And also it would be really helpful to use logistics system because before that we were basically sending Shvaka on our own. Yeah. Well, it requires so much time from contributors and definitely if there is a vendor who we could use. Yeah. So I'll ask, I mean, I'll just send an email right now and I'll copy you, Alyssa. Okay. That'd be great. And they, they are pretty, they're a pretty good partner. So I'm hoping they'll say yes. Okay. Okay. Cool. Yeah, that's pretty good. So I will also follow up with regard to GSOC then. That's great. So let's go back to the event. So yeah, Shvaka is something we will be coordinating. We will be sending them after the event. So there is no time pressure to get it ready right now. And we will also continue the promotions. So my target is to officially announce it on Monday or Tuesday next week. So, Oleg in terms of back to the swag, is there a threshold that you're envisioning setting? And I liked Octoberfest's technique of must have had five accepted something or others. Are you envisioning something similar for this right? Yes. So what we discussed is Alyssa. So we have some both part estimation for the budget. What I plan to say in the announcement that top 50 contributors will get t-shirts, et cetera. And for the rest, it really depends on what actually you'll be able to facilitate. And for example, this help from continuous delivery foundation, definitely we could do more on this front. So. Great. I love the top 50 because that assures we won't overrun Alyssa's budget. Great. OK. Thank you. If you get to 50 contributors, it would be already a good achievement. But let's see. So really in Octoberfest, we had 127-week contributors. So those who registered in the program, let's see what we could do something like that. OK. So going back to stories, accept advertisement, we will try to put everything on our side. We also need to facilitate more project ideas. So yesterday we had a discussion at the UX meeting. And we have some stories added, which are marked as advanced topics. So for example, it's system read and read only UI, which is important for configuration as code stories we are working on. Then the solution pages are considered to be a rather advanced topic, or maybe it's not. Also, another advanced topic we put it is installation guides taking our first discussion of platform seed. I'm not sure, but yes. Agreed. Yes. Yeah. And what else we have? So yesterday we had the idea about credentials plugging UI, also creating new UI samples for developers. I'm not 100% sure about that, because we rather want to focus on user experience. So yeah, obviously it also contributes to that by providing developer tools. But yeah, maybe we should focus on user features. Git plugin, especially multiple Git actions. So when you use multiple Git steps in pipeline. Yeah, definitely an advanced topic, but yeah. Advanced, dark, and very good topic to have. Yeah. OK. Yeah, but for that I am definitely willing to print issues on my own. Also some site panels, et cetera. So we will be refactoring the stories. Hopefully, tomorrow I will meet the pull request using initial listing for the website, these queries, et cetera. And we will keep updating that. But yeah, that's the plan. What we also need to do, we plan to have at least one online meetup in the beginning. Just a second. So on May 25, I tentatively plan a grant opening meetup. Maybe this morning and evening session. And for that it would be nice to have some overviews for all these three areas. So all right. So morning and evening session. So does that mean that it's the same session that we'll run both in the morning and in the evening? So usually, or not usually, what we did previously, we were doing grant opening on the evening. So basically when we have overlap between United States and EMEA time zone, and also still a park, because it's a bit late, but it's possible. But for those who want to start earlier, we were doing a session earlier, something like nine AMUTC, whether we were doing basically the same, but maybe just less contributors. So it's what we did before. At least then we can adjust. Okay. But for evening session, which we definitely need to have, it would be great to have presentations for all three trucks. So I'm currently working to get somebody for UI, also for documentation, and for whatever promotion. So Jenkins is the way social media. And it would be great to have multiple presenters there. So for example, if your mark is available for documentation, it would be great. And same for UADC, if you're able to speak about Jenkins, it's the way how to submit the stories, how to share them, it would be much appreciated. Okay. So welcome words, like to bring here. And Oleg, I think you mentioned that you will write a blog post about this hack fast, right? Yeah, so we will have at least two blog posts, one early announcement on Monday and Tuesday, where we will basically have some top-level overview and the registration for it, because we will need the registration for shipping details, et cetera. Well, or if we use CDF resources, just contact information so that we can send out codes. Okay. But yeah, so it's something we will need to figure out. But it will be initial announcement. And the final announcement will be just on the day of the hackathon beginning, or maybe on Friday before, so that we list more stories, we list more examples there. And yeah, it will be a longer blog post with all this information. Yeah, it will happen just on the days of the hackathon. Okay. Okay. And so Jackie, it's okay that we cross-post this on CDF website as well? Sorry, I was multitasking and was not paying attention. That's okay. So we're gonna have about two blog posts before the hackathon, before the hack fast. And we'll have it on jengens.io, but I wanna make sure that it's okay for us to cross-post that on. Yeah, yeah, please submit. Yeah, please submit. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. So I will do that, Oleg. Okay, that's good. So, well, I will be still sharing this information on CDF Slack, but we'll see if you could help with it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So after the first day, we will also try to facilitate some developer meetups. So for example, how to develop front-end, maybe how to write Jenkins documentation. I'm not sure, but I think it makes sense. It's really easy, but yeah. Maybe we could just match it in the opening session actually, but let's see. Yeah. I think you're right, Oleg, that I'm not sure it justifies a full dedicated session. Let's see. Yeah. And after that, we will have some closing events and we will try to process this information. And once the hackathon is over, to prepare a hackathon results blog post earlier. Because for us, historically it was a problem to have a closing blog post because everybody is so exhausted, everybody is sweet to start the tasks. So for some events, we just didn't have once, but this is something we need to fix. Okay. Okay, so yeah, this is the plan. And yeah, I will try to share more of it next week. But yeah, so far there is support in the community. So everybody is finally doing that. Nobody was against, I think we just roll forward. Yep. Okay, any questions? A lot to do between now and then. We can do it. Yeah, I can show my Friday schedule to you later, but I didn't get almost all the time to the hackathon tomorrow. Okay, yeah, that's. So yeah, some heavy lifting needs to be done, but I'm confident it can do that. And the reviews will be much appreciated. And new befriended tickets, yeah, this is the most important thing. Because during October 1st, we lost something like 300 new befriended tickets. And we still didn't replenish this number. So yeah, time to do something about it. Okay, well, first of all the problems, I know, but we need more. Okay, so yeah, thanks for making a meeting with us. Okay, the next topic was Jenkins, the preferee video. So could you just talk about that? So we have, the Jenkins project has been given some money to do, buy CloudBees to do an Epifio video. And I put a link there with the example of the video. The video is about, it's a less than three minutes video, but my, I'm here to ask for guidance on how do we want to approach with this. So before starting working on this video, we need to answer the such questions as what is the audience base that we wanna achieve with this video? What is the messaging that we want to achieve with this? And then what is the, what does success would look like for us in terms of the Jenkins project with this video? So I'm looking for guidance in terms of should I, should I start a document and get people on the SIG to add input, or should we build a smaller committee, a smaller group to work with this? Cause I would love to get more than just myself working on this video. Personally, I think that advocacy and outreach would be a good venue because we already have a quite a small team here. And we could also outreach to wider Jenkins community once we have something to show. I mean, in terms of documents so that we could collect more ideas. Okay, so just use the mailing list for, okay, okay. Maybe you may need to use a Google Doc to collect ideas. Right, right. Now, Alyssa, are you looking for the conceptual things, high level things, are you looking for script proposals? Both, any of the above? So the script will be done by the folks at Epithio. Okay. So right now we're at the very beginning stage. So before going to them or meeting with them for that first initial meeting, we need to let them know, okay, who are the audience that we want to get to? What is important to us in terms of messaging?  So those are some of the questions that we need to answer before I can go to them and that's how we start the process. Okay. So yeah, this is definitely something we could discuss on our site in other work as an outreach. Okay. Okay, I will start in email thread. Thank you for that. Yep. Okay. So anything else about this video? Not for me. Okay. Let's just quickly talk about Roadmap again. So we made some updates for coming to marketing for our official programs Roadmap. So based on the stories we even got recently. So Jane can say that the web program as it was confirmed yesterday, the governance meeting is officially in the part of the Roadmap now. Same for new online meetup platform. Same for UI UX hardware. We kind of agree that we do that. So we just put the new stories here. What else we added? Jenkins on Kubernetes online meetups. We just put it as an additional item because it looks to be an ongoing program. I have something like five more online meetups in the pipeline. Oh, nice. Yeah. And we already have four scheduled to happen next week. So, yeah, I think it would be good. Yeah. Also, I added Jenkins on LinkedIn because our experience looks to be pretty good there. Just look at these numbers. I literally spent one hour last month on LinkedIn, but still it helps us. We can visit more contributions through this channel. We can just have more please because, yeah, you've got this blog post, for example, a Google Summer of Code announcement. So here you can see that basically 170 people clicked and went to our website on this blog post, which is basically just two minutes of work. Same, we also promote Jenkins' other way here. I did that for Farm. Let's see. So basically it was more than 2,000 people who viewed that. It was a 5% click rate. So 5% of the ones who clicked to get more details. Well, 135. Also, nine people shared that. So I would say that it's still below Twitter account, but firstly, the audience is different because LinkedIn, for example, has small reach in some regions like India, for example. It's very popular there. The same also we post in different time zones. So we again get more follow-ups and basically it goes almost for free because we duplicate the content. Yes, sometimes I extend the content because in Twitter we just have 280 symbols. We are not really limited. Well, we are still limited, but yeah, I just copy a section of our blog, et cetera. So again, it's not a big deal and it helps. So it's also on the roadmap now and yeah, I think we will be pushing it. And thanks to Continuous Lira Foundation to reposting some of our blog posts, we will do the same. So yeah, but I think it's overall a good experience. Yeah. And later we will return more content managers there to set up automation. Oh, but let's see. Okay, so yeah, thanks Mark for adding the Jumbotron. So as we agreed yesterday, we will be changing the Jumbotron. We will be also updating our Twitter logo for one month. And this section item is on Alisa. Well, basically on Alisa to contact Tyler, so that Tyler changes that. Yeah, hopefully it will help us promoting the program. Yeah. Okay. Now we, oh like on that screen, I realized we had talked yesterday about changing the avatar. We did not talk however about changing the background. That big, the wide image that's right behind the avatar. Fine, we're changing everything. So yeah, the problem is having a contributor who would change that. Got it. So Tyler will definitely help us, but we need to propose exist the exact content to put there. Yeah, and for now it's fine. I just realized, oh, hey, there's more to it even than just the avatar. Yeah, we can put some text, for example, after the account name. So some people do that, something like stay home or it would have a cube con. So we can put the jinxes the way we tell it. Well, yeah, these things could work. I'm not sure how far we want to go with the official account, but in principle, we can do that. Okay. Anything else? Okay, so another question is basically to SIG members. We have a new page for online meetup which documents our online meetup platform. And one of the sections today is about how to apply to speak at our online meetup or how to host an event. And basically all boils down to please send a message to our advocacy outreach mailing list. And we had an example of one email coming from third party contributor. So there is, oh, actually now there is another one from Nikolai. So Nikolai presented about Kubernetes and configuration as code. And yeah, there is now a proposal from about job user. So my question to SIG members, are we fine with such kind of code for papers format? I am. And this particular by Nikolai, I'm very interested in personally. So yes, I like the format and I like the topic he's proposed. Yeah, so Google Doc should be commentable as documented. So we can easily review it here. You have mailing please, so we can discuss that. So if everybody is fine, let's do that. And I don't expect a huge traffic here. I love the idea that we finally have a forum for people to submit their speaking. Yeah, so no more Google forms, no more whatever, just drop it to the community. Yeah, love it. Yeah, same for hosting meetups. But yeah, it's specific to Jenkins. We already have redirects to continuous delivery foundation on our local meetups. I think we should add something like that here because now there is official webinar program by CDF. So we should add the link in here. But yeah, for Jenkins events, we can use our online meetup platform. So I think this should also go on the continuous information and the CDF newsletter, Oleg. Okay. So I can help with that. I can help with that. I can reach out to the appropriate folks to get that on there. Thanks to CDF. Yeah, and actually, while we speak about webinars, the NAPI is still online. I have a question to you. To who, Oleg? Me? Jackie. Yep, yep, I'm here. So we are starting Jenkins room meetups. So basically meetups in Russian. We will be using Jenkins online meetup platform in some way to post them. But we have a discussion about meetup, which would be rather a bit more generic, not really related to Jenkins. And I wonder what is CDF stance about meetups, which are healthy in different energies? Would you be open to host them, or should we seek other alternatives? You know, I don't have anything against it. I wouldn't see why the organization would have anything against it either. But I'll ask just to make sure, but I think it should be fine, Oleg. Yeah. So for English, we definitely want to use this CDF platform. For Russian, we have a couple of other options. So we can see how we do that. Okay. And definitely we will cross reference to these meetups anyway. So hopefully within one week, we'll follow up on the story. So if you ask whether it's possible to do meetups in Russian, it would be much appreciated. We plan to rename some of Russian Jenkins meetups to CI CD meetups. Okay. And with the current situation, we can use CDF platform for them instead of using Jenkins online. Okay. Yeah. I don't think we should have an issue. So, but I'll confirm that I think we should be good. Okay. No worries. I can fix it. It's too late for me. Okay. So, yeah. Moving on. So regard and comment strip. All right. I guess. Do you have some updates? Oh, for the comic strip. Yeah. So I guess same question. A comic strip. Yeah. So, so we have a Jenkins comic. What Jackie? Yeah. My God, that is so cool. Could we share the image or? Okay. Yeah. Yeah, we can share. Do you have it? Or I need to find it. Yeah. Or we can wait. Or we can do it of the records later. If you prefer. Doesn't matter to me. We can share it. It's, it's, it's available. So in May, Jackie, we came out with our first Jenkins comic strip. And the plan is to release a Jenkins comic strip. Once a month, every month until the end of the year. That's awesome. Yeah. So I need a place. To post it. Yeah, we can make a page on the CDF. Okay. Page. Oh, you know, website. Okay. I'm how I want one for each of the projects though. Oh, cool. Okay. That is really fun. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So what we have on the Jenkins page now, you have artwork. This page needs some redesign because it's already. Well, it means pagination. Definitely. So we'll somehow rework later. But yeah, for example, now we have. We also have for the model edit there by Adrian. So what we could do, we could just create a section on the artwork, for example, for comics or something like that and put it there. Okay. And then we can ensure that they didn't from right places. So this page gets enough traffic. Okay. This is one of the ways you can even create some navigation. So. I like that idea. Yeah. So, for example, you can take it. So he basically, it's just separate pages. So something like that. Oh, okay. So we can do something like that on Jenkins. It's easier. Okay. Yeah. We'll handle that. But yeah, let's see. It's so fun. I want to include it in the newsletter. Oh yeah. Absolutely. So I'll send it to you, Jackie. Cool. Yeah. That's a really great idea. I love it. Okay. So, oh, like, so who would be able to help me with, with Jenkins.io? And I am able to help. Okay. Mark. Yeah. Mark. Yeah. The structure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The structural piece Oleg's certainly much better at than I am, but the, the content and trying to do pull requests. Those kinds of things. I can certainly help you with Alyssa. Okay. And then I think we, we had talked about doing a blog. For, for this as well. So then. That would be Mark to help me. Yes. Okay. I got it covered. So your artwork comics, right? Right. Okay. I can get the framework done. Yeah. Even. So for example, even if you look for Jenkins comics now. I hope that all content is appropriate. Well, it's, it's wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong. Well, it's wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong. Oh, it's wrong Jenkins Comics. But still there are some. And yeah, you can find more. But, yeah, there's. Hey, there's, there's one with the DevOps world, thing that used a, yeah, I was looking at the one. Plutura pipeline newsletter. They, they combined a, I don't know if it's legal, not. So, yeah, if you want to have some content to just start it, we can definitely Google some. Probably this one isn't really about Jenkins, but yeah, whatever. Right. Well, and it's probably a glaring copyright violation. So yeah, let's try to avoid that. I already had to deal with a member already violating. So, I don't need to, I don't want to deal with another lawyer again. Okay, just follow the rules. Okay, so anyway, we can just put whatever. But yeah, once we have first comment strip one already, I'm definitely happy to create a prototype for Jenkins. So, all like in the past at DevOps World, Jenkins World, we've had like each year we would have a a mural done by a comic strip. Do you want it on that page too? That would be cool. Why not? It's a artwork. Yeah. If we've got photos of the murals of past murals, and if we're allowed to share those photos, I think I have photos of one or more of the murals. That's a good idea. I believe we have images. Okay. So, before having murals, there were also images, which we were reviewing, but advocacy and outreach meetings. So, yeah, we can definitely get them posted. Okay. So, whatever artwork called these or other vendors would like to host and to donate to the community, we are happy to accept it and publish. Great. That's easy. Okay. All right. I will gather that and send it over. Okay. So, I'm happy to post that. And, yeah, we will set it over to this page a bit because, yeah, it's a bit, well, it's not obsolete, but it still looks pretty bad on the mobile screens. So, if you tweet this page, it will look terrible. So, now it's time to apply my new CSS. Okay. So, let's see. Okay. So, yeah, that's okay. Yeah. And blog post, Mark, to help you with it. Thank you so much. And I guess we, for Jenkins, the way we all expect blog posts to be posted eventually, right? Yes, as the stories, as new stories arrive, I assume we'll eventually select some of those stories and blog post them or maybe all of them. Yeah. But this is a great way to collect more candidates for the blog. So, Mark, we have one case study from, is it D4 Science? I don't know if you want to post that as a blog. It's, so last week we posted a blog talking about the initiative, the program itself. And then, so, I don't know, this week you want to post about that user story, the case study that we got from that. So that maybe like once a week we have something. I think that's a great idea. Let's talk about it. And yeah, let's talk some specific details, because those would be good if they came from the original author as though that were the person submitting, I'm happy to go straight or to copy and paste to facilitate that. Yeah. Yeah. He's, we talked to Manuel and he's more than happy to help us get this on jengus.io. Great. Okay. Okay. That's great to hear. So, yeah, I guess May and this summer will be quite packed with content. Because, yeah, last year on average we had 10 blog posts per month with JSOC. This year if you get jengus in the way and other programs, okay. Originally when Tyler introduced the new website he said that he targets daily blog posts. So maybe we'll get to this goal. Okay. Cool. Yeah. Good news that we extended jengus.io copy editors team couple of weeks ago. It will help us. Yeah. Okay. So last story we had in the list is a CDF virtual booth. So, yes, CDF ambassador, I got invitation to actually organize something for the jengus project. And we had a follow up conversation with Mark and we are ready to amend this booth. And for us it would be a good practice because we have other events like KubeCon, like DevOps world and basically almost every conference in the world is the console that goes virtual. Yeah. So having some experience with staffing virtual booths would be useful. Also, Oleg, if you guys have like spec sheets or data sheets or white papers that you guys want to submit to us, send that over so that we have that we can start sharing that like that collateral with the community because I don't have any for Jenkins. Yeah. We have some materials. I wouldn't say that we have that many, but we definitely have some. We also have rolling decks and whatever which we could convert to booth materials. And actually this is exactly why I put this item to the agenda. But if you want to have this material, so the design is my sentence. Yeah. I mean, share with us whatever you have. I don't want to add like new like more work to your play. I think, but I think for the future, like you said, it'd be good for us to just have that stuff. So it could be easily distributed. And then Mark, I totally, I'm going to drop in the application for the ambassador program. I think you should definitely apply. Okay. Otherwise we will eliminate you. And Oleg, is Oleg an ambassador? Oleg is an ambassador. I just, I'm actually, that's what I'm working on right now is the page. So I'm looking through my email to see who sent me their bios and their photos to update it. I haven't, but I promise to do that. Yeah. Just send it whenever or even if you have like a profile already created somewhere else, send that over and I could just copy and paste it. Okay. Okay. I will do that. And yeah, thanks for inviting because of course, it's really a great opportunity to try it out and see how it goes. Yeah. And if you guys also have other folks from the community that you think would be good ambassadors to represent Jenkins, please refer them. Because I'd like to, my goal is to have about a hundred ambassadors for the CDF by the end of 2020. And we're at 35. Nice. So I think, I think we could definitely get there. But we just, you know, like I said, we just need to evangelize the program a little bit more. Right. Do you have anybody for Jenkins acts yet, Jackie? No. And that was the other person I was going to go bug was Kara. Yeah. And then who else? Oscar, maybe. Oscar definitely. Victor. Yes. Stratkin. I'm not sure they'll say yes, but why don't you send me a list of folks and I'll go bug them. Okay. And Rowling better say yes. I mean, he's an excellent speaker. He better say yes. Isn't he one of the co-creators of Jenkins X? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. On the Jenkins site, we will also look for more people because we have a lot of community members. We tried to launch Jenkins ambassadors program a couple of years ago. So maybe there's more people from. Yeah. Or maybe. And who's driving that program, Oleg? It was me. So is it still going or is it? No. No. Okay. Yeah. It was superseded by your program, Jackie, whether you knew it or not. Oh, I'm sorry. That's not, that's not a sorry. That was an intentional and a delighted. Okay. Yeah. So if you get that, we could do the same thing we did with the jams where we just transition everybody over. But let's put a community. No. I wouldn't worry about the transition. Yeah. Keep doing what you're doing. Right. Okay. Okay. Got it. We will just nominate the right people or ask them to self- nominate. We nominate and that's a good choice. It is really. Yeah. I mean, or have, yeah, nominate folks or just let them know if they want, if they want to participate, they have a place. Yeah. And thank you. Yeah, absolutely. Okay. So yeah, it was quite a packed meeting, but thanks a lot for your time. And yeah, I'll try to get a video of this meeting published by the end of the day or maybe the other tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah, let's follow up on all the items you have. Thanks all. Great. Bye, everybody. Bye, Liza. Bye. Bye.


Hello everybody, welcome back to another Adobe After Effects 2021 tutorial. This one I'm going to show you how to render footage but render it in multiple formats in one place as opposed to having to go Adobe click render mp4 click render mp3 click render whatever alpha channel all that stuff you can do it all in one one shot show you how to do that first step I've got a very simple Mickey Mouse composition here already set up for you so you can see it so I've got this on the go it doesn't really matter what it is the way to do that is you want to go to file you want to go to export and this time you want to go to add to render queue when you go to add to render queue you're going to of course see your options here which you should probably know how to play around with but you'll also see a plus sign here left click on the plus and this creates a second duplicate file that you'd be outputting but here's where it gets interesting you can now go in and adjust this so let's say you're a you're a video editor and you want to release a video and one of them maybe you want an alpha channel one of them you don't right like there's a million different reasons why you could want to do this you would go in and select your format quick time and then I would go over here to format options and then instead of animation I would make this one let's go with apple pro res four four four four four four that's a lot of fours okay perfect I now have two files I have a regular one with no alpha channel and then I've got a new one with an alpha channel this also works you can do it a third time if I wanted to release let's say a what do I want to do I want to do a mp3 or an mp4 or something like that mp3 now I've got an audio file to go with it and these are all separate files rendered out perfectly thanks for watching this tutorial guys I got a ton more stuff coming up stay tuned


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Coming up on this edition of OES News in Depth the flu is widespread. We'll be talking to the California Department of Public Health but you and your family can do to remain safe. Thanks for joining me today. Our guest is Dr. James Watt with the California Department of Public Health and he's in Richmond, California. Thank you for joining us Dr. Watt. My pleasure. So the CDPH has issued a widespread flu activity report saying that there's quite a bit of flu throughout the state. So why is this year different from previous years? That's a great question. Every year about this time we see a significant increase in flu activity so that part is not unusual. It is important for people to know that the flu is out there and circulating in the community. What is unusual this year and what we wanted people to be particularly aware of is that the disease that's out there appears to be more severe this year than we have seen in previous years. Is there a particular part of the state that's being affected by the flu or is it widespread? This year influenza is widespread as it is every year so it is certainly throughout the state. What we did see this year was that the season started in Northern California so towards the end of December beginning of January that's when things really started to increase in the north and that things are really starting to increase now in Southern California but we are certainly seeing flu throughout the state. And is it targeting a specific age group or persons? This year what we're seeing is that the greatest incidence of hospitalization is in older people so people over age 65. That's what we usually see with influenza so this year is similar in that regard. And Hal is this strain stronger than previous strains? Is it a little bit different or? There's one dominant strain that we're seeing this year it's called influenza A H3N2. That's a strain that is included in the influenza vaccine but when we see seasons where this virus predominates the disease does tend to be more severe. And what precautions are you recommending people take to avoid the flu? Well there's a couple of things. The first is and most importantly people should be vaccinated and it's not too late to be vaccinated. When flu circulates it usually stays around for a couple of months so people who get vaccinated now can still benefit. And I would really urge people who haven't been vaccinated yet to get the vaccine now. We recommend vaccination for everyone aged six months and above. There are also some other common sense things that people can do to protect themselves from the flu and other winter time viruses as well. Influenza is not the only virus that's out there. Things that people can do are wash your hands often or use alcohol based hand sanitizers. Stay away from people who are sick particularly if you are someone who has underlying health problems.   And finally if you are coughing cover your cough to reduce the spread of viruses to others. So for someone like me who got vaccinated back in October is it beneficial to get vaccinated again or will that vaccination last throughout the season. That vaccination will last throughout the season so you only need one dose except for very young children who are getting flu vaccine for the first time but for most people one dose protects you throughout the season. And if family members in the house get sick and have the flu how long does the virus remain within the home. Well it can be contagious in the home for several days particularly if it's passed from person to person but someone who has fever and cough does remain infectious for a day or two after they start to feel better. So if you're caring for someone in your home it's really important that you wash your hands regularly make sure that you have that sick people have their own towels and cups and things like that and do everything that you can to prevent the spread of those respiratory secretions that carry the viruses with them. Well that's very good advice and we really appreciate you taking time today Dr. Watt to join us and we wish you good health as well. Thank you.