I've seen amazing things happen. I've seen kids do that. I've seen kids who've never latched and one day they latch.  So that... It's making me cry. I don't even, like, I don't even feel, you know. I saw those tears rolling. I know. Well, I was in your eyes. Well, I don't know why. It's okay. You know. Hi, lovers and friends. We are at the Kindred Space in LA to fix my boo problem. We're hoping to do that. So in essence, when Ziya was born, I was able to breastfeed and I produced a lot of milk. I started pumping right away. And even though we were breastfeeding a lot, I just noticed that it wasn't Ziya's favorite. Definitely wasn't mine because of the pain.  And so I just went to pumping, which felt like the normal thing to do. And even though pumping was painful and I missed the breastfeeding element, because I produced a lot of milk, I just didn't feel like I had a problem. And recently, I'm coming up to my one year. Well, it's not my one year. It was Ziya's first birthday and I have the question of, am I going to continue to make milk or am I going to stop? And if I am honest, if I have to continue the way that I am pumping multiple times a day, with it still being something painful and kind of missing the bonding element, I just don't know if I have the stamina. So I came here to see if we can make our situation better. So it doesn't hurt to ask and that's what we're here to find out. So wish us luck. This video is sponsored by Squarespace, an amazing one-stop shop for entrepreneurs and creatives to get out what's in their brain out into the world in a beautiful, customizable, optimized, diverse way. So whether you need a website, you have a mailing list, you have an online store, you have a member's only community. Squarespace is an amazing tool that we have been using for the past five years of our business. We actually have to buy a domain through them for shared entertainment. So we change our emails, remind me.  When you go to squarespace.com slash Shan Booty, you can also get two weeks free, no credit cards required to play around, see if you like it.  Yeah, go get it. This is my first time somewhere like here, Kim. This is your first time somewhere like here? Yes, to the point that I don't even know what this is. Well, the kids call it the midwives house. Okay. When the little kids come they're like, we're at the midwives house. Sometimes the kids are like, can we stay here? And it's a birth center. It's a birth center. Kindred Space LA is a birth center. And where we are right now is our classroom. And so we do our birth classes in here or anything class-related or like group-related we do here. It's gorgeous. The whole space is gorgeous. And the energy is just perfect. My mom is a labor and delivery nurse. And so I've just always been familiar with just the hospital. And when I was giving birth, I guess I just never thought it was a thing. I was just like, ah, you go, you pop another baby. No, I know. I would just to come here because my experience was uneventful. I had a good birth because I had babies, but I don't have like warm feelings. I don't remember anybody's name. I have no idea who birthed my baby. So when you're going to the phase of, okay, now you have the baby. It's like, well, I don't, if I didn't have support then I don't really have a support system now. When I saw you speak, I thought, I wonder if it's too late to ask for the kind of help that you guys offer. And I reached out recently. That was months ago. It took me this long to even actually reach out and get that help because you feel like I can get by. I'm getting through. And when it comes to milk production, I produce. And so a lot of people will tell you, well, if you produce, that that's the end of the story. And the conversations around the fact that it's been uncomfortable for me, that I've had constant yeast infections on my nipples, and that I have a baby who won't latch anymore. I feel like those tend to feel like, well, you're producing, so that's fine. So everything gets dismissed. Yes.  Yes. I hear that. Or deep prioritization. Like, oh, well, and then especially now that she's coming up to a year, and that's where I guess I'm at really right now where, okay, well, I've made it through, you know, I do it six times a day. It hurts every single time. People who say, you're not supposed to feel anything. They don't feel what I do. And now I'm like, okay, am I going to continue on this way? Or am I going to stop because this is majorly inconvenient. I don't want to because I enjoy being able to feed my kids. And she's cool with milk. It's my two and a half year old number one customer. She loves my milk. Oh, awesome. Yeah, she could drink a day, night and evening. She prefers steak over breast milk, but I like steak too. I've been off of breast milk for a really long time. Yeah, awesome. I think day one, I was pumping in best breastfeeding at the exact same time. So first of all, who told you to start pumping immediately? I don't know if anybody told me to. I know no one told me not to. Yeah. First of all, back up before even the birth, I always want parents to take a prenatal breastfeeding or prenatal body feeding or prenatal lactation class. And why is because once you give birth, you're kind of on the job training. If you don't have any information prior to you're trying to figure it out in the moment. And that's where a lot of people kind of give up because it's just too hard unless it just works like that.  I can get through this. I may need to call somebody. I might need to get more help, but I can get through this. So that's number one. And studies have shown for probably over 30, 40 years that education on breastfeeding in the prenatal period is the most effective. And it's one of the biggest ways we can help people be successful. One of my favorite videos from global health media is called self attachment. And it actually shows that our babies are born with the perfect reflexes to attach to the breast, just like any other mammal. So basically, if you get a newborn infant on your chest, skin to skin, which is still attached to the cord, ideally, they're going to come right on the chest within that first hour after birth, they're going to start searching around to attach to the breast. And all their newborn reflexes are designed for them to do that. You keep the umbilical cord on for an hour after they give birth? A longer than that most of the time. What? Yeah, it's called delay cord clamping and cutting, but out of hospital. So all the studies show that keeping the cord attached, not cutting it right away, put it to you this way. When you cut the cord immediately after birth, there's still about a third of your baby's blood volume left in your placenta. When the baby is on the body, eventually the first thing the baby will do after birth, their most important thing is to breathe in their lungs, through their lungs. So they're getting oxygenated blood through their cord prior to being born, and once they come out, they start using their lungs, right? They start crying, they start, they gas, they do different things to get their lungs to open, and the fluid gets pushed out, and they have to get their breathing together, and then they'll work on infant feeding, then they'll work on breastfeeding or lactation or body feeding. I'm calling it all those different names because some people don't identify with this part of their body as their breast. They prefer chest, so we have chest feeding, but lactation is kind of like a good catch-all, and it doesn't kind of like gender the experience. But now it's kind of like we're learning, you know, the way that it works a little bit in reverse, because as breastfeeding became like more understood to be an important factor in infant health and in maternal health as well, we kind of made it like, we kind of made it like you had to get real serious about it, right?  You got to get the perfect pump to make breastfeeding work, and actually you don't need any of that stuff. And many times, here's the rub, those things get in the way of just normal breastfeeding. So for you, you started pumping right from the beginning, you know, you did not have to do that because your body is going to make milk simply because not just that your baby was born, but because your placenta came out. So what happens is when you're pregnant, your body starts making colostrum, which is the first milk for the baby, by the time you're 14, 13, 14 weeks pregnant. Most women don't even know that their body has that, has colostrum because it's not really a noticeable change in your breasts, but it's there. It's a part of pregnancy. Colostrum will get made whether you know it's there or not. And so with the education, I get to tell pregnant people that. And then their number one fear, will I make food for my baby immediately gets dispelled when I tell them in their pregnancy, you already have it in your breast right now. You don't even know it, but it's there. What I liked about pumping, what I like, I'm kind of on the fence for the idea of it. If I would not allow it is one to not feel like it was me alone. So there was a bottle opportunity for somebody else and for the father to bond or anybody who else is in the house. And two, I travel a bit for work. So I knew I would have enough milk in the freezer for her, if I ever left. And I had enough milk for my other baby too. So there was like positives to it. But I'm not saying that pumping is like the devil or that you shouldn't have done it. But I'm saying that when you start, what I want to set up for you is that your body is made to produce. When you give birth, right, you already have the colostrum in your breasts. Great. You give birth and then you birth your placenta. And then that changes your hormones. The placenta being born tells your body, we can make that breast milk now. But it's going to take a couple of days for it to come in, right? And that's fine. And then all the while your baby ideally is nursing frequently. And then when the mature milk comes in day two, day three, day four, they get the mature milk. And then your body regulates the amount of milk your breasts are going to make based on how much your infant is nursing. So whether it's through a pump or through a baby or both, your supply is going to get based off of how much you're like demanding the milk, you're taking the milk out. So because you were taking out milk and also feeding your baby, your body regulated to making enough milk for two babies, essentially. So even though that sounds wonderful, it can also be a problem. Okay, hold it real quick. I know you guys have been watching this for a second, but I got to say we got to give a shout out to the sponsor of this video, Squarespace. Now we have been partnering with Squarespace for a couple of years, using them for double that time. Now they have got some new features that I want to tell you about, Jared. Tell me. The Fluid Engine. The Fluid Engine is a next generation website designed system from Squarespace. It has never been easier for anyone to unlock unbreakable creativity, drag and drop customizable fluid design. Let's go. Flexible website templates. We know about that. Custom merch. 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They just changed mine in this ad read. Yeah, Squarespace is the next thing or the thing. The thing. It's our thing. Yes. It could be their thing too. All they got to do is go to Squarespace.com slash Shambudy, get 10% off the purchase of a website or domain. Say one more time, babe. Go to Squarespace.com slash Shambudy to get 10% off of website or a domain. The reason why she stopped latching is the flow was aggressive. Exactly. Can we talk about that? Yes. Yeah. So again, a lot of people struggle and worry about not having enough milk, enough, you know, human milk for their babies. But and they think like, wow, if you have too much, that's great. Or, you know, and like you said, people will kind of dismiss you and say, well, you have a lot of milk, so that shouldn't be a problem or why are you concerned? But having oversupply can cause a lot of problems like a baby's not wanting to latch. Like it's uncomfortable. Yeah. If I was to take a like, you know, I refer it to it like, um, what's that like a beer ball? I've never done one, but I really do want to do one, but I've never done one.  Yeah. That's how it goes. Yes. That's how it is when she's nursing on breasts then or have like too much milk. Yes. And so like, could you do a beer bong every time you wanted to have some something to drink? Would you want to do it that way? No. It's not comfortable. It's not normal. Right. And so she was very smart. She protected herself by saying like, that doesn't work for me. You're going to have to give it to me another way. So with because of the oversupply, she was getting kind of like overwhelmed with the milk. It could be the flow. It flow can be overwhelming. It can cause coughing, choking, spitting, sputtering, vomiting. Um, and it's just really uncomfortable and babies are really smart. Like they're not going to pump it to come out like that fast. No, you, you have oversupply. So if you're making more milk than, you know, you kind of need, then it's just, you just have a lot. So it's just, it's just coming out fast. Also, um, second baby, right? So sometimes I would like to say most of the time our breasts get more efficient each baby we have. So maybe you didn't have the fast flow with the first baby, but second baby comes along and you're pumping. Your body's like, I know how to do this. I know how to make milk. I know how to like get it out.  When the milk comes down, yeah, and it's only going to last for a minute. And then it comes into a more steady flow. But if you first latch, it's a little bit dry. And then once that milk comes in, this was like pow, and they're out of multiple different directions. And so she'd pop off and then it would start spraying her in the face like this. Then she'd start crying and then I'd have to try to soothe her to get her to come back on the breast to trust it again. And we had an experience in the airport. And that was just the day that she said, I don't ever want to see these kids again. Yeah, she meant it. She meant it. She meant it. No, they were being ridiculous. You know what I'm saying? It was like too much going on. It's okay. It's okay. It was a lot. If you got this. You got this. So yeah, I mean, you know, another way sometimes that can happen, sometimes people without the extra pumping can just have oversupply or they can have what we call like a forceful let down or forceful milk ejection reflex. And but at the end of the day, one of the things I would have done with you is just had you do different positions. Well, first of all, I would have you calm down on the pumping. I'd have you kind of tamp down like it wouldn't be like I wouldn't even want you to go cold turkey on the pumping because that could cause mastitis, plugged up. Yes, all that kind of stuff, right? I had right in X was wasn't I guess they said a mastitis, but for the first month or two months of breastfeeding, if I missed a pumping session, I would get a lump in a fever. Oh yeah. Well, that's called mastitis. And you can manage it typically without taking like antibiotics or something. But yeah, that's that's what you had. Is it too late for me? Well, too late for what? What are you asking? Is it too late to have a pain free experience that includes her breastfeeding? I don't know the answer. But what I would say is some of the ways that you can kind of encourage her is you can one of the should I let it go? Was it a narcissistic thing to even want just to have her suckle on your breast as opposed to giving it to her? I think there's a bit of like one just for sustainability, because maybe I wouldn't do it as much. You just be you know, when on occasion when she wanted after a year, and two, I wouldn't have to lug around my bag of pumps all the time. Which would be nice on occasion if we're just going somewhere quick that I wouldn't feel like if I forget my pumps, my baby has nothing to eat. Yeah. But I also yeah, I think selfishly I do just desire that feeling and knowing I'm never having another baby again. I'm just like, I don't believe that. But anyway, go ahead.  They don't always work, which means you're probably having more sex. So I'm just saying. We're pretty certain that it's not it's not coming back around. Well, I mean, that's the hard part. It's like you've kind of made a finish line or you've kind of like this is kind of like a finite experience that you guys have decided. So now of course, you're having like, you're kind of trying to like, well, let me see if I can get back some of the things that I didn't get and that I wanted to have before I could say that I was kind of like done. Yeah. Yeah. So so I think that honestly that that's something that you just want to reconcile with yourself. And I think over time, you'll know the answer. You may not know it now if you should give up or if you should stick it out. But what I can say is some of the things that I would do to encourage her to get on the breast is I would try when she's not awake, when she's sleepy or sleeping or going to sleep. I would try when she is another great place to try is just taking a bath with her and just having the your breast, obviously you're in the bath exposed as she's in the bath. And there's something I don't know what happens in the water. Sometimes it's almost like a rebirth. And you guys can just be in the water together and sometimes babies will latch, you know, in the bath. I mean, that's one of the things that I really encourage people to do if they really have a baby that's having a hard time latching is kind of just let's just go let's go into the water together and let's just kind of see what happens. And sometimes magical things happens like that. I think that I think that I don't think it's narcissistic for you to want to try because it's not anything that's hurting her. But I think it's difficult when you have a baby that is not interested in latching, because if you're trying to force them to latch, that doesn't feel good. Right. And so one of the things you can think of is and I'm just going to say this and I don't want it to discourage you. But one of the things people say is as many as long a time has gone for the baby not latching is about how long it will take to get them to latch. So that's been about six months. So and then also it's stages. So one, you know, she has to be comfortable being at your breast before she's going to latch on it. So if she's already like looking at your breast and like, Oh, no, just like get those things away for me. Then we have she has to get to the place where she can just feel comfortable being right here. She can be there. It's literally as soon as they come out. Like if even if I just have her here, she's it's but I also know a shoe and we talk about this how he will say like I miss your breasts because I have to wear a bra at all times. My nipples are so sensitive. And my mom was even saying was a part of it too is that when she was breastfeeding, I would be bracing myself for the pain. So she would feel my body tense up. Right. So that's like I have to wear bras all the time. And if I do go in the bath with them after wear swimsuits, because if they rub or touch my nipples at all, it's so painful. Well, that I think we have to understand that whatever is going on, that's not normal. When you're pumping and you have like and had an ongoing use situation, honestly, like you should be replacing your pump parts frequently, meaning the stuff that's touching your breasts, be replaced like every week. And every week you should get new anything that touches your breast should be replaced. You should also really wash it because it's not going to get rid of you're reinfecting yourself. So the yeast can live on those parts. And then when you use it again, you're just you're not you're just kind of aggravating the situation. So you can sterilize the pump parts only the parts that touch your breasts. I'm talking about sterilize them like once a day. That's recommended to get rid of it. And once we change them out. So another thing is if you have, let's say you are nursing, you are putting the baby to the breast. If you have thrush, we have to treat the baby too. We have to treat the inside of their mouth. There's different ways we can do that. Often you can get a medication from a pediatrician, but there's I have other little tips and tricks that we do to to get the baby treated as well. So that's why sometimes it just never goes away. Because people don't have all the information they need to let it help it go away. And it kind of keep moms and babies can keep reinfecting each other. You know, I think that's a terrible and then your pump parts can get gnarly. This is why people quit. This is why people quit. And this is also why there are people like me who are lactation consultants who like just love this. And we like it kind of feels like detective work when we're doing it. Because you kind of have to that's cute. You kind of have to like you have to like get the whole story and put all the pieces together to figure out how people got to where they are. Yeah. So, you know, if anyone in your audience is having issues, concerns, troubles, you know, they should reach out to a lactation professional. And I mean, it's fine to like talk to your mom or talk to your sister or people who have breastfed. But oftentimes you need somebody who like this is what they do for a living. Because it's not everybody's experience is the same.  Yeah. And I think to your point is like, did I have somebody teach me the football hold and the cradle? Yes. Did she latch in the hospital? Yes. Did she have enough milk? Yes. But that wasn't the end of my story. Exactly. And it's kind of whittled down to all the only those things. And what's interesting is that, you know, things change. I mean, for however long you choose to do this, there's going to be different challenges and new experiences throughout the whole breastfeeding journey. So it's great to have people that can check in with you at wherever you're at in your journey. It's very hard not to look at your baby. She's so cute. Yes, I'm talking about you. I'm talking about you. You're very entertaining. But at the end of the day, I think if you're, you know, I think to your point that sometimes there is a time period where you might want something a little bit more than your daughter does, because if you look at her, she's great. She's fine. She don't care if she latches on to a boob. She don't care. She's happy. She's living her best life. And I think that if, you know, whatever you decide, I want you to also give yourself space for potentially not meeting that goal, right? Like, give yourself space for potentially not meeting a goal that you wanted to meet and give yourself space for the grieving that might come along with that, right? Yeah.  You can do whatever you want. You can try. You can do all the things.  I've seen amazing things happen. I've seen kids do that. I've seen kids who've never latched and one day they latch and you're like, oh my God, right? So that is making me cry. I don't even like, I don't even feel, you know, I saw those tears rolling. I know. I was like, why? It's okay. You know, she's just misty in here. A little humid in here. For some face humidity. Yeah, that part. I mean, that's exactly what I mean. Like, and maybe, maybe it will be helpful if you just say, like, come to some sort of peace with it, even before you make a decision if you're going to try again or not, right? Like, I, that's so much a part of mothering, so much a part of parenting. It's just like, there's so many things we have to make peace with. There's so many things that we have regrets. We have things that we wish had gone one way, but they actually went another way, you know, and then how do you kind of keep living? How do you keep kind of taking care of yourself and your family? So I will also say that you're not alone. Well, you have been incredible and obviously a well of information and you suggest that people go to see a lactation expert and call them. Some people get the benefit of actually getting to call you or getting to come to this space. How can people engage with the kindred space? I think the main thing is like you can always go, people can go to like our website and if they want to contact us, there's a way that they can send an email. If they want to come here to give birth, we have virtual interviews that we do every week and so they can sign up for that free of charge. They'll get a whole rundown of how our space works and if they're eligible and things like that. And then if they want to move forward, then we end up making like individual virtual interviews with either myself or Allegra, like the co-owner and co-founder of Kindred Space LA. I've been working in lactation for 32 years and I really do love it. I love nursing all my kids for a long time. I mean it wasn't always like super fun, but I appreciate that relationship. So I would say that my biggest advice would be you can reach out to Kindred Space LA. Absolutely. We'll get you in touch with the right people. But also find a good lactation consultant if you're having problems, if we're not in your area. Yes, there's virtual visits. Those are great. You can find a good lactation consultant by going to ilka.org. So it's I-L-C-A dot O-R-G. And they actually have a like a feature where you can find a lactation consultant in your area. And I would definitely recommend that as well. Beautiful. Thank you. Thank you, Ziya. You did it.


Hello, this is David Diger Hernandez, and you're watching Spirit Church here on the Encounter TV Network. Now, I want to talk to you about the most powerful miracle worker alive on earth today. Of course, I'm talking about the Holy Spirit, and I'm finishing now my two-part message, The Ministry of the Holy Spirit. But first, Steven Maktezuma is here with me. He's going to lead you in some anointing worship, and then we're going to get right into this message here. It's Steven Maktezuma. I like to say that there's not something special about me. There's some one special about me. The presence of the Holy Spirit and the power of the Holy Spirit are what make the difference in your life. His presence and his power make you distinct and unique. You become someone who brings about the will of God in the earth, a vessel through whom the power of God can flow and touch the world around them. It is the presence of the Holy Spirit that makes all the difference. If you're weak in faith, if you're dry in spirit, if your prayer life is dying, if your devotion to the word is waning, then the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit are your answers to your problems. You need the power of the Spirit. You need his presence.  When you have the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit, you don't get tired. You have a consistent, eternal divine energy. You begin to do things from the source of his power rather than the source of your own strength. When you have the presence of the Holy Spirit, everything about you has changed and transformed. You become God's glory within the earth. You become an atmosphere that moves around creating heavenly divine appointments wherever you go. And this person, the Holy Spirit, has a vast ministry. Now, in part one, I mentioned several points about the ministry of the Holy Spirit, and those points were as follows. Number one, he helps us to pray. Number two, he helps us to understand the word. Number three, he helps us to live holy lives. And number four, he helps us to worship. And so, I want to continue now with part two of this message by listing three more distinct aspects of his ministry. Now, he performs the miraculous through us, or he is the miracle working spirit. He convicts us of sin. He gives us faith. These three things I want to cover by first going to Galatians chapter three, and I'm going to read to you verse number five. Now, I have to give you the full context here. This is not talking specifically about how the Holy Spirit works miracles. Instead, that's a point that the writer of Galatians makes in passing as he makes his main point, which is about the law. But let's read it anyway, and I want to show you just what we can glean that truth about the Holy Spirit from this verse. Verse number five says, I ask you again, does God give you the Holy Spirit and work miracles among you because you obey the law? Of course not. It is because you believe the message you heard about Christ. So this is a rhetorical question, and this is primarily talking about the law. But again, in passing, we see this truth about the Holy Spirit, that he is the one who God sends to work miracles among us. In fact, in first Corinthians chapter 12, the scripture talks about the gifts of the spirit. Those gifts being the gift of healing and one of them being the working of miracles and various other gifts that were listed. But the main point is here that I'm making is that the Holy Spirit is the one who gives us power to do miracles. Now, a miracle is different than a healing. A healing is something that would occur naturally on its own over time. So for example, a broken bone. If I pray for someone's broken bone to be healed and it heals quickly or instantly, that is a miraculous healing. It's miraculous because it happens so quickly. Now, a miracle is something that would not have happened on its own otherwise. These are divine appointments with impossible odds and coincidences that create divine appointments for us. This is talking about water into wine. This is walking on water. This is the sun standing still. This is what the miraculous is. Those very unique miracles that occur. I know of preachers who've seen food multiplied. I know of preachers who've seen powerful manifestations of God's power within church services. Things that defy logic, so to speak. But the miracle working power of God ultimately produces multiple different manifestations of his power. And this is the work of the Holy Spirit in you. He causes miracles to take place. Number two, he convicts us of sin. In John chapter number 16 verse number eight, the scripture tells us about the Holy Spirit's work in the earth on a global scale. It says, and when he comes, he will convict the world of its sin and of God's righteousness and of the coming judgment. Now, oftentimes we say, well, that's the world, not the church. But sometimes when the scripture talks about the world, it literally is talking about the entire world, the entire human population. Here, that's what it's talking about, the entire human population. The Holy Spirit convicts us not just of sin, but of God's righteousness and of the coming judgment. What does conviction mean? It basically means he gives us these strong beliefs. He embeds in us these very real, very intense, very internal knowings that we would not otherwise have without him. So he puts these, I would say, pieces of divine revelation and heavenly knowledge within our minds and in our hearts. And he continues to press on those truths, causing us to respond to them eventually. But when it says he convicts us of sin, it means that when we sin, he confronts that again and again and again until there's repentance. When it talks about God's righteousness, that means he's calling us not just to leave sin, but to model after Christ's righteousness. And then he will come after that. He'll continue to press on that. He will continue to model before you the image of Jesus and push you to a higher standard from glory to glory to glory. Then it talks about God's judgment. He puts within the human heart this deep knowing of right and wrong. That is the conviction of the Holy Spirit. I remember one time I was ministering at a church here in Southern California. And I'll never forget it because I had the whole church begin praying in tongues. I said, everybody here, just pray in the spirit for five minutes. Now, before doing that, I had just preached a salvation message to which nobody responded. I preached on the blood of Jesus. I preached on the cross. I preached on heaven and hell. And for some reason, that just didn't do it. People didn't respond. Sometimes people just don't respond to the gospel. That's biblical. So what I did is I had everybody praying in the spirit for about five minutes. And then this man about my age walks into the service and he's looking around at everything. And as everyone is praying in tongues, he's just studying the room. And suddenly he begins to cry and he begins to weep. And he runs down the aisle, kneels at the altar, and I ask him, sir, why are you crying? He says, because I've been trying to find God for so long. And tonight I believe he found me. In other words, he didn't even really understand what was happening in that moment. He wasn't even there for the salvation message. He had just wandered in off the street. It was a church on the storefront property. He wanders in off the street and then he gives his life to Jesus. Why? Because of the convicting power of the Holy Spirit and nothing more. So the Holy Spirit performs the miraculous to us. He convicts us of sin. He is that voice in our hearts that tells us when we get off track and helps us to navigate our way back into the path of holiness. And then finally, number three, he gives us faith. In 2 Corinthians chapter number four, verse number 13, the Bible says this, but we continue to preach because we have the same kind of faith the Psalmist had when he said, I believed in God, so I spoke. This same spirit, this same anointing, this same stirring that was on the Psalmist David, we know was the Holy Spirit. This is the faith. This is the unction that he gives to us. There are those moments in your Christianity where you may feel like your faith is becoming weaker, like your doubts are growing, like the darkness is beginning to surround you. Now, I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but sometimes you'll continue with your Christianity in a very compromised state, in a very powerless state. And you'll continue down this path where you're back and forth, where you feel like quitting, you feel like giving up, and your faith is just dwindling.  That happens often. But then there are those times where you're persisting and you're doing your best and you feel like giving up, and suddenly out of nowhere, you can't even explain from where it came. There is this stirring, there is this unction. That is the work of the Holy Spirit. It's His grace. Sometimes we don't even deserve those unctions. Sometimes we don't deserve those fresh stirrings. We weren't even looking for it oftentimes. But He comes and He stirs within us that faith. And He breathes new life in us because He is the Holy Spirit of faith. And wherever He is present, the faith for miracles arises. The faith for breakthrough arises. The faith to pray. The faith to seek God in the Word. The faith to step out into ministry. It arises if ever you're facing a situation and you feel you lack faith. Your doubts are weighing you down. Call upon the Holy Spirit. He is the faith-giving spirit. So to recap, He performs the miraculous through us. He convicts us of sin and He stirs within us faith. That is it for the lesson. I want to pray with you now. I want to pray that the Holy Spirit would stir your faith. Because if He can stir your faith, He can cause you to receive everything else that is that He does for you. Let's pray right now. Father, in the name of Jesus, I lift that one to you right now receiving this prayer. That one who needs strengthening in faith. That one who feels like giving up. That one who feels like quitting, Lord. I pray, Lord, that you would drive away all doubt and that by your Holy Spirit you would stir faith. You would move that mountain of doubt. I thank you, Lord, for the anointing and the power that is moving through this media now. Some of you, you've filled that. It's the power of God. That's His power touching you right now. Some of you never felt anything like this. This is His Holy Spirit. So, Lord, do a deep work in that heart and stir faith within them in the name of Jesus we pray. I want you to say it because you believe it. Say, Amen. 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They've partnered with Technosis, a technology company, and are participating in building an application that has an AI element looking at publicly available data to generate patterns or rather identify patterns within the data that allow us to show when an organization engages in childhood sex abuse cover-ups. So rather than focus on individual perpetrators, the intent of zero abuse is to uncover organizational issues and use those to force organizations to change their behavior, thus lessening the effective child sex abuse around the globe.


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Hi and welcome to the session. Let's work out the following question. The question says, draw a graph of 2x plus y equals to 6 and 2x minus y plus 2 is equal to 0. Shade the region bounded by these lines and x-axis, find the area of the shaded region. Let's start with the solution to this question. First of all we need to find the points lying on this and this line. First we'll consider 2x plus y equals to 6. This implies that y is equal to 6 minus 2x. Now the points lying on this line will be when x is 0, y is 6, when x is 3, y is 0, when x is 1, y is 4. Similarly we find out the points lying on the line 2x minus y plus 2 equal to 0. Now this is the same as y is equal to 2x plus 2. Three points lying on this line will be when x is 0, y is 2, when x is minus 1, y is 0, when x is 1, y is 4. So now we plot these two lines on the graph by plotting the points first of all. So like this we have these two lines and this shaded region is the required region which is bounded by these two lines and the x-axis. So by plotting the points and joining them we see that these two lines intersect at the point 1, 4. That is x is 1, y is 4 is the solution. Also we see that area of the shaded region say a, b, c will be at this be the point a, b, c and let this altitude be ad. So we see that the area will be half of base that is bc into altitude that is ad. So we have this is equal to half of bc into ad. Now from the graph we see that bc is of measure 4 units ad is of measure 4 units. So this is equal to half of 4 into 4 that is equal to 8 square units. So our answer to this question is that area of the shaded region is 8 square units. I hope that you understood the solution and enjoyed the session. Have a good day.


It is impossible to mention the Pennsylvania Convention Center and not call out the convenience of the Reading Terminal Market. No convention center food court in the country can compete with a market so ingrained in the city that in the 1890s when the entire city block housing the market was purchased by the Reading Railroad for their new terminal, the merchants simply refused to move. In the end, the Reading Railroad Company was forced to build its terminal over the top of the still existing market, the market that still sits there today. This is just one in a series of places you can stop in for a bite to eat before, during or after your visit to Pack Expo East. Hi, I'm Sean Riley for Packadelfia, your East Coast Packaging Vlog. Today, Josh Becker, Senior Manager of Packaging Systems at Hershey is going to tell us how Pack Expo East allows him to bring the entire project team down to the show for targeted one-on-one time with many exhibitors. Hi, Josh Becker, Packaging Systems Manager for the Hershey Company. Pack Expo East being just over an hour and a half away from Hershey, Pennsylvania really can allow me to get all of my engineers down there. Spend a day networking with suppliers, really the smaller setting allows them to really learn, spend some time at the booths, just talking through projects, getting to know different technologies, it's just a benefit. It really helps me grow my team, grow some of their experience, but really provides them an insight into what the packaging systems field has to offer and what suppliers are there for us to learn from. The Pack Expo name is synonymous with quality, innovation and progress, and Pack Expo East is no exception. See for yourself when nearly 7,000 attendees and 400 exhibitors come together to discuss real-world solutions to the latest packaging challenges. For more information, visit packexpoeast.com and be on the lookout for the next episode of Packadelfia.


Awesome. Well, the good thing about this is there's not going to be any questions, so lucky me. Good afternoon, KubeCon. I'm super excited to be here. Welcome to Alerting in the Prometheus Ecosystem, a story of the past, present, and the future. If we're going to spend the next 30 minutes together, we might as well just get to know each other a little bit better. I'm Oswe, commonly known as Josh, or God Josh. Yes, is a reference to the 1993 advertisement of Got Milk. When I'm not coding, I'm usually snowboarding, which wasn't the easy sport to catch on, given I come from the Caribbean. I work as a software engineer leading the Alerting Team at Grafana Labs with a bunch of other folks from the Prometheus community, which you might know about, such as like Tom Wilkie, Bjorn Ravenstein, Ganesh Bernakar. Ganesh has a talk just after this one in this room, so please make sure you stick around, because that's an interesting one. I'm very lucky to have spent most of my tenure at Grafana Labs. Working with Prometheus, Mimir, Cortex, and the Alert Manager, has this helped me form or alerted to the service offering at Grafana. Before we begin, I want to see a show of hands. Who here is familiar with Prometheus and the Alert Manager? Cortex and Mimir? Cool, cool, a sea of hands for the first one and not so much for the second one. Hopefully, I get to explain a little bit about what Mimir and Cortex handle alerts today, and you'll leave the room with that knowledge. OK, great. I'm going to be talking about the past, the present, and the future of the Alert Manager. And I'm going to do that with four topics. Has groundwork? I'll review the Alert Manager and remind you of its features. Then I'll guide you to how we achieve horizontal scalability for the Alert Manager in Cortex and Mimir. Moving to the present, I'll show you why Grafana now includes the Alert Manager to power its learning system. And with eyes on the future, I'm going to share my Alert Manager wish list and what I hope to contribute back. And if I can do it, so can you. So let's begin with the past. Originally started as a one file program by Julius Bolz and Matt Proud. The Alert Manager is a binary that's in charge of receiving alerts generated by Prometheus or any other client application. There, you can configure and send notifications to other services, including third parties. Simply put, Prometheus is an alert generator. And the Alert Manager is an alert receiver. We have coined these terms as part of the alert generation compliance to better reference both actors. One would think that sending an alert, it's as simple as receiving it and then forwarding it to another service, such as like Grafana on-call or paid your duty. However, there's much more than meets the eye. The lifecycle of an alert can be broken down into five fundamental functions, grouping, deduplication, routing, silencing, and templating. Please keep in mind that this list excludes things such as high availability or the HTTP API. But what I want to draw your attention to is that the Alert Manager implements a set of five separate and portable components for each of these functions. This makes it really simple to use them as libraries within your projects. Before we delve into this function, let's break down what an alert is. As you can see from what we have here on screen, this is the alert reception endpoint of the Alert Manager. An alert is composed of a star timestamp to determine when it should the alert be active, and end timestamp to indicate when should the alert expires. Two sets of key value pairs, labels, which identify the alert, and then annotations that provide a way to include additional information. Think of like the place where you would put a runbook or a better description of your alert. Finally, a link back to the query and the graph that generated the alert called Generator URL. With this definition in mind, let's move on to the juice. In the case of an alert storm and tens of thousands of alerts being generated, you certainly don't want a one-to-one mapping at a notification time. Instead, the Alert Manager is capable of grouping alerts based on label criteria. If you use Kubernetes, think of like grouping my alerts by cluster and namespace. This translates to buffering received alerts in memory to eventually receive a single notification with multiple alerts in it. Moving on to the duplication. By design, the Alert Manager is a highly available mode. In its highly available mode, it's an AP system. It's meant to be available and partition tolerant. To achieve this, it's expected that alert generators send all alerts to each alert receiver, even if duplicated. However, under normal operation, you don't want duplicate notifications. The Alert Manager uses a hash of the alert labels to determine if we are already notified for that. Moving into routing, we all know it's possible to have label-based granularity based on where you want to send the alert on a three-light structure. Your alerts would descend through a set of defined routes that allow you to configure what service your alerts should be delivered based on their content. Think of having your alerts with environment equals production be sent to Grafana on call or pay your duty, but the ones that have a label of development will be sent to Slack. Silency referred to exactly what you see on the 10. Being able to mute an alert to avoid any current or pending notifications as well. And finally, templating. Yes, you have the ability to template your notification into anything you would like. There's a plethora of different functions to help you craft that beautiful Slack notification with a clear call to action or that perfect email that when woken up at night will make sure you have all the information to infer the size of the problem right then and there. Given the ample feature set of the alert manager and our required companion to complete the permutous alerting experience, you can see how it made perfect sense to include this service within Cortex and Mimir. But we reach a point where vertical scaling was not enough and this is what the upstream version supports. We had to bring heavy machinery into play. Before I begin, I want to clarify that when I say alert manager instance, as you see up here, I'm referring to the imported alert manager that belongs to a single tenant. And when I say replica, I'm referring to the multi-tenant alert manager, the Cortex and Mimir one. A tenant's alert manager, the one on the corner right here, it's a one-to-one copy of the permutous alert manager. The first version of the Cortex slash Mimir alert manager supported high availability by using the same protocol and mechanism as the upstream alert manager. Gossip via hashicorp's member list. It gossips silences and a notification lock between replicas to achieve eventual consistency, ensuring your alerts won't fire two times. But I must note that alerts themselves are not part of the state that's gossiped. Alerts generators must not load balance traffic and instead deliver alerts to all the different replicas of the alert manager. This operational mode, as I said before, enables partition tolerant and survival of machine failure without interruption of service. However, the operational mode does not allow for horizontal scaling, right? Because every tenant needs to be present on every replica. In this example, tenant number one, it's present with all of their data on each alert manager instance. And replicas, same tenant end times. I'll admit that vertical scaling, the three replicas that we ran at Grafana Labs worked pretty well to us for a very long time. But as our Grafana Cloud offering kicked off, we started to a point where reaching 10x, the current load was going to be a heavy challenge. It was the right time to bring horizontal scaling to the alert manager. When Tom and I assigned this, we started off with a set of requirements, as every engineer should do. Survive machine failure, make sure that a single replica crashing or exiting abruptly should not cause any external visible downtime or failure to deliver notifications. Eventual consistency for reads and writes. Users should have an eventually consistent BU of all the alerts currently firing and under active notification favoring availability over strong consistency. Zero downtime deployments that when you scale up or when you scale down or roll out a new version of the service, it should be done without any sort of server interruption and data loss. With that, we decided to split this grandiose design into four areas. Routing and sharding, persistent and state, replication and consistency, and the service architecture of itself. For routing and sharding, all of the Cortex and Mimir services rely on hash ranks. Hash ranks are distributed consistent hashing scheme that it's widely used by Cortex and Mimir for sharding and replication. We were in the market for rain and bent on the wheel. So the only question to answer was, what should we shard on? We settle on tenant ID while accepting the trade-off that a high variance of tenants workload could lead to poor balancing of the replicas. Next, the alert manager is a stateful service. You already know that it persists notification state and configuring silences to this after a certain amount of time. This is mostly to avoid what we call write amplification, right? With horizontal scaling, we needed to move the state around as the number of replicas either grew or shrunk and we also needed to present this state across restart or as we rolled out new replicas. We settled on pushing and pulling the state to and from object storage and making sure that we try other replicas first when starting a new instance. This would help us save on storage costs at the end of the day. For replication and consistency, this is where it really starts to get interesting. The alert manager replicates the notification state between the replicas to ensure notifications are not sent more than once. Remember that firing twice that I said before? Before moving to a model where the alert manager instance for a given tenant are only present on a subset of the replicas, we had to decide how are we going to keep these replicas in sync. I don't think anyone here enjoys getting paid twice. Managing cluster membership is the jobs of Hashi Corp's member list in the upstream implementation. However, in Cortex and Mimir, the hash ring is the one responsible for that function. We settled on keeping the same notification log and red silence replication algorithm while that the upstream alert manager was built upon. But the difference here is that we were going to rely on DRPC has a transport of replication messages and the hash ring for knowing where to send what. Effectively dropping the direct implementation of member lists. I got to admit that this worked out pretty well for us despite seeing it in paper at the end of the day. We didn't have to rip any of the internals to the alert manager and the only required change that we had to make upstream was turned the clustering, the clustering mechanism into an interface in the code so that we could override it within Cortex and Mimir. I would call that a massive win for open source. The last piece of the puzzle was the service architecture. To implement the sharding strategy, we needed a component in charge of handling incoming API requests. Then we needed to distribute it to the corresponding shard, meaning replica and instance. The idea here is to have this sort of alert manager distributor, which is the same as kind of the Cortex or member distributor at the end of the day, has the first step in the request reception. Once received, the component is in charge of sending the alerts in parallel to all the other replicas and instances to fulfill the request. We settled on not adding yet another service, and instead, simply baking it within the alert manager service, the trade-off here that we couldn't really scale this component individually. So now, with everything in place, this is how it looks. Rights of alerts highlighted in red are first sent to any alert manager replica. Alerts are then replicated in parallel to each other replica that hosts the alert manager tenant to the alert manager using what we call dynamo style quorum for consistency. Do note that because the alert manager replicas have access to the same hash ring, we no longer have the requirement of the alert generator having to send the replicas to each of them. This is great for a cloud offering because it meant that users wanting to send their alerts to their cloud instance could do so without having any sort of inconsistent views. As for the state that needs to be, speaking of reads, we have multiple strategies depending on the API call. But the gist of it is that we can either merge responses, depending if you want to talk to multiple of them, or you can send to any if the request only requires a single response of any of them. As for the state that needs to be replicated, which is highlighted in purple at the end, it's constantly communicated between replicas directly using ERPC. This happens whenever the instance receives either silence or sends a notification at the end of the day. And as I said before, the optimization that you see here of talking to object storage between each other replicas is that we'll always try to request the state from other replicas instead of object storage to avoid any major compute and storage costs at the end of the day. We have been successfully running this architecture for over nine months as part of Grafana Cloud with huge success as we didn't observe any major problems or any major increase in our costs. But enough of cortex and memory. I now want to come into the present and show you my most recent project in the alerting world. Fast forward to where we are now, and after working with the alert manager on such a complex project, I realized the value of it and how it perfectly complemented our vision of delivering the two most requested features for Grafana. I want us to look at my reasoning for including the alert manager within Grafana because it truly is a love story. By exploring the implementation details of these features, my hope is that I can convince you to avoid the trap of not invent it here and choose open source software when possible. While Grafana supports a high number of data sources, the examples I'm going to provide are based on permissive data for the sake of simplicity. Let's start off with support for queries using template variables and multiple alerts per graph. Even though this evolved into two separate issues as you see here, in reality, they're the same thing. You have a single query. You want that query to produce multiple alerts. You want individual control over all of those alerts. Number one and number two have already been a part of Grafana for a while now. And it's baked into Grafana data model. And it's exactly how you visualize time series data. Number three would be the new concept here. Imagine grouping all the alerts that come from my production environment and delivering them to Slack. I think you've heard that word grouping before. Exactly. The alert manager does grouping, and more importantly, they're routing us up notifications as well. With that in mind, we can have Grafana use this existing data model and turn any sort of data into a set of labels that we can use as the alert definition. Then I can send the definition to the alert manager, just like Prometheus, and take advantage of all the features I mentioned before, grouping, routing, silencing, and notification templating. Next, our silencing and time of the day restrictions. For silencing, Grafana supported a simple form of do not deliver me this alert. It was called pausing and halted the alert evaluation completely. The pausing feature was per alert, meaning there was no way to pause multiple alerts at the same time that matches single criteria.  There was no way of doing that. Personally, I think this was not great. Why would you keep an alert around so you don't want to be evaluated? Silence is with an alert manager. Semantically work very, very differently. First, they're based on label matches, meaning you can match a set of alerts that come from completely different rules. And second, they have an expiration date. They're meant to be ephemeral so that you don't forget about this. You're not ready to unpause the silence, just extend it at the end of the day, right? Now, time of the day restrictions is kind of a hard problem if you think about it. Consider not having your alerts firing during weekends. I knew that the Prometheus community had been trying to solve this problem for a very long time with plenty of input from the alert manager issues. It settled for a fantastic implementation named time intervals. Time intervals at the end of the day allow you to specify multiple criteria for time selection that could then be reused against multiple routes. This is exactly what I needed for Grafana. So I think it's pretty obvious at this point, right? Using the alert manager within Grafana gets us the both features that we wanted and we can continue to collaborate with the Prometheus community by upstreaming any improvements that we make the absolute beauty of open source. Open source, it's all about giving back. And in my next section, the future, I'm going to cover exactly that. What's my plan for giving back to the community? The first order of business was to improve how we gather feedback. We have already created a discussion section within the alert manager repository that allows us to prioritize just a tiny bit better. If you have a feature request or something that you would like to see, please share it with us. My wish list is based on feedback that I have gathered after months of the alert manager being part of Grafana and running the alert manager as a servers as part of Grafana Cloud. I'm going to start with a quality of live improvement that was developed by my colleague, George. Being able to test your receivers directly within an API. We have included an experience within Grafana that enables you to test how an alert would look like on a particular receiver such as Slack or Pay Your Duty or Grafana Alert. No more guessing with those always firing alerts and require them for them to fire as you make a change. Now you make a change and you get instant feedback. We have already offered to work this work, to upstream this work and are working out the design details as we speak so you should expect this to land within the next few months. Another challenge that our users face is the lack of visibility in the notification pipeline. With the most common being, failed notifications that do templating issues. Others such as like, why is my alert not being delivered? I have already on silenced it, are also present. Prometheus offers information about the state of your alert rules as you can see here. You can see the evaluation time, the error, what's their state. I want the same thing for the alert manager. As examples, directly from the UI, I want to be able to know why am I not being notified about this active alert? Is it because I've said to wait for an hour before you notify me? Or is it because it failed to render because there was an error in my template? When did a notification for this alert fire? How long did it took to notify? And for a particular receiver, have there been any problems in here recently? Well, the current logs are extremely useful to debug some of these problems. We'll need access to them in the first place, right? I want to help more the case where the operator is not necessarily the end user. To end, my moonshot ambition of a historical and stateful BU of the alert received and notified. The answer to the question, what was received and notified in the last 48 hours? The alert manager, it's already semi-stayful, as we know. Silences and notifications toward to this, we already saw this. Perhaps, improving the permit, perhaps importing the permit use to ESDV or any other database with a lower retention period and similar query interface to permit use is an idea here. I'm going to be thinking long and hard about this for the next few months and hopefully bring something to fruition that can help tackle this problem. I really want to end by saying that the alert manager is an amazing piece of software and take a second to celebrate the efforts of the permit use community. I'm excited about bringing the alert manager forward, but I feel like there's so much more that we can do as a community. Please get involved and catch me in the hallway track if you want to talk about anything that has to do with alerting. Thank you. We don't have time for questions and I apologize, but please catch me in the hallway track if there's anything you want to talk about.


Hello and welcome to the rugged rockhound today. I've got something a little different. I Recently went and visited the local rockhounding club actually. It's been a couple weeks, but I went visited them and Got to meet some of the people there got to see some of the cool stuff. So I was the Grand Junction Rockhounding Club and I go there very first time and I Win the raffle and get a bunch of rocks So I thought why not just kind of do kind of an unboxing type situation and we'll take a look at these together And at the same time if we find anything that I need to cut open I've got my saw up and ready so that I can go ahead and cut it open and show you what it looks like cut open as well So that's what we're gonna do We're just gonna take a look and see what I I won from the raffle. Yay. Oh and just quickly how I'm doing this I'm just gonna put the camera on the mount and just kind of show it against the wall And I'll grab them one by one and just show them in front of that Here's the first one. This is a really cool piece of agate. I think I think it called a tube agate But yeah, that's really nice stuff. Look at that That is beautiful Here's the next one looks like a chunk of kind of an agate calcytine something or other so Because there might be something cool inside. I think I'll cut that one open Cut it open. Let's see what we got Okay, you can see a few things going on in there That's kind of fun. Yeah, that's pretty nice. I like that So here's this piece. I'll polished up looks like an agate that they kind of tumbled or something It's got little bits of glue in it for some reason trying to bait whether I should cut that one open hmm, maybe Think about it might even be a wood cast limb cast Not sure. This is a nice little slab of Jasper Nice kind of looks like the Indian blanket Jasper a little bit from Southern Utah So the little thing is pretty a Purple kind of an agate Something going on here, maybe a little bit of amethyst. I Don't know not familiar with it and it's been polished. So it makes it difficult for me, but Very cool. I like the color.  You can see some nice banding there Very cool. Here's another piece of that pink-purple stuff. I wonder if this is There's a mine here in Colorado where they get this like amethyst With layered agate or something. I wonder if this has something to do with it. I don't know. I'll have to figure it out I think this is some of that tiger eye type quartz Yeah It's that fibrous structure that quartz gets sometimes where's it rooted?   I'll think about cutting it, but for now I think I want to leave it as it is a Little topaz crystal from topaz mountain in a bag. I got lots of this stuff and It's like some Ragonite from the red cloud mine in Arizona That's kind of lost that's jumped off its perch Okay Interesting And that's all there were in the bag, so I hope you enjoyed There were some neat stuff some fun stuff in there, and I appreciate them just giving away to me from the raffle drawing Anyway, it was a lot of fun and remember there's treasure everywhere