Perhaps my favorite was actually you, Mike, and the Titans radio team. I remember standing, watching as the broadcast was being aired on 104.5, and everyone in that booth was calling that game as though it was the Super Bowl. Snap is good. Dooley looking, firing deep down the middle. Caught. Touchdown! Stand meal! How down you are. What a bullet! What a bullet! What a high school football game. And it was just this example of recognizing that we have something unique to offer to our community. And in this case, it was waverly in the time of need. We were able to bring a bit of a bright light to that community in that time. Finally, Burke, what do you hope that Tennessee Titans service looks like, not just to the people of Nashville, but to the people of the entire Mid-South?


3. Secrets of Establishing Rapport with Students Friendly atmosphere in a classroom is crucially important. Not only does it create a conducive environment for the study process, where students are relaxed and therefore tend to participate more, but also provides a safe space for a teacher. From my experience, building good rapport is especially important for young teachers, as it helps to boost their confidence and unleash all the potential they have in order to make lessons effective and fun. Here are some ways of forging a friendly relationship with students, that worked out for me. 1. Learned Students' Names Apparently the very first thing one should do when meeting a new group, is to learn their names. It might be a bit tricky due to their large number, for example when I first started teaching at university the number of my new students amounted to 50 people overall. Notwithstanding my excellent memory for faces, remembering a single name out of 50 and virtually an instant was sometimes an issue. What I did was ask the students to write their names down on stickers, so I could take a look at them during the lesson, and call everyone by their names. And here is the thing, when trying to memorize or learn something, you should repeatedly use it as many times as possible until it sticks in your mind. The same is true for the students' names, seize every opportunity to use them each time you address someone or give a comment. Another opportunity for me to match the names with the faces, that I knew well was the attendance check prior to the lesson which was obligatory. Yet another option to announce the names might be giving out the check test papers, you simply read a name on the paper out loud, and the one whom it belongs to raises their hand. However I assume that the very best way to learn your students' names is to get to know their personalities, thus building better rapport and getting to understand their interest to a larger degree. To be able to do this, first of all you have to be genuinely interested in your students and display a generally positive attitude towards them. Chatting in between or before classes, even if discussing something not really relevant to your current topics, is a quick way to win anyone's heart. In my case I would say, it was exactly discussing things completely irrelevant to the classes, that made me a rather nice yet earthly human being in their eyes. 2. Learn about their interests. An effective way to get to know your students' interests, is not to be afraid to share some of yours in the first place. It does give a sense of a safe environment and the willingness to share back. Moreover as well as giving personalized tasks, you can use the tasks which help to know your students better, those requiring personal examples for instance. A fine example of that can be drawn from my own teaching experience. At the school of foreign languages of higher school of economics in Moscow where I worked, teaching English was carried out through three separate yet interconnected university subjects, speech practice, phonetics, and grammar. Within such a curriculum only the former resembled an average EFL lesson, whereas the other two subjects focused exclusively on the particular aspects of the language, using certain approaches which were far from being communicative. Having taught grammar I had very little freedom within the comprehensive program and even less time. We had to tackle fairly sophisticated topics and next to no time, and therefore it was crucially important that my students memorize the material. So upon completing an exercise, I usually asked the students to construct a sentence about themselves, using the focus grammar thereby killing two birds with one stone. Not only did personalizing helped my students master the grammar unit, but also their peers and I learned something new about them. 3. Make fun. Indubitably another perfect icebreaker is laughter. Cracking a suitable joke every now and then can drastically improve your relationship with a class. However, in terms of humor, a teacher needs to be extremely careful to avoid certain topics in order not to offend anyone. Also one must never make fun of the students themselves. Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course. In conclusion it should be said that there is, in fact no single ultimate solution to establishing rapport with students. Neither can a teacher achieve good results in it simply by using a range of rapport building techniques without actually liking the students and respecting them. I would not claim that developing great rapport was easy to do, but it came naturally after I had realized that possibly the only important things were treating my students with respect, notwithstanding their results and being consistent and reasonable in imposing requirements and rules. Therefore the students are likely to respect and admire you back. Thanks so much for watching. We are ITTT the leading provider for TEFL and TESOL training courses. If you like this video, please subscribe by clicking that button down here and click on any of the videos here on the left for more interesting teaching tips for getting certified to teach English abroad and online.


What's going on everyone? Sam here with late sports cards. We're changing the break time. We're up in 23. Penina Mosaic, football hobby, six box break, number four. Pick your team style. Read off the list for names of our teams. Got L and R with the Vikings, Andrew T, commanders. Ben P. Bills, Ben S. Titans, Cody W. Rams, David D. Ravens, Edward E. Bucks, Suki M. Cardinals, Jason M. Giants, Jeffrey H. Panthers, Jerry B. Raiders, Josh W. Bangles, Justin K. Steelers, Leonard N. Texans, Long J. Saints, Luis L. with the Cowboys and Dolphins. Got Matthew W. Chiefs, Matthias N. Colts, Matthias S. with the Browns, Nicholas S. Seahawks, Noah B. Falcons, Noah H. Bears, Paul L. Jets, Peter B. with the Lions and Niners, Roy M. Eagles, Ryan E. with the Packers, Stephen D. Broncos, Vaughn with the Jags and Patriots, and Zach O. with the Chajas. So good luck here, everybody. Let's go ahead and do this. We're down to 13 to go on that flawless NT mixer, everybody. Thank you to that was... I don't remember off the top of my head. And I remember whoever it was, thank you. I appreciate that. 13 to go. Let me just send off a quick tweet. 13 to go on the flawless NT mixer. We're almost there, everybody. 13 to go. That is it. That is all on that first mixer. All right, technically the third, first one of the day. Let's get going on another half-case mosaic. Good luck, everybody. Here we go. Let's see a 101 black. They even add a Bowman chrome. Nice. Hell, yeah. All right, let's keep it going here, guys. Good luck. Anthony Richardson-Rookie, Evo. Nice, 2199. Tavius Robinson for the Ravens. On the red. Congrats, Ravens. Gronk red to Sean Watson. Silver brights young introductions. Again, we'll have the carbon copies. We'll have to do a dice roll for... I've not seen one yet, but will eventually. Another auto is Jordan Battle. A rookie auto for the Bengals. Grads, Cinti. Marcus Allen. Well, there it is. Again, dice roll 123 left, 456 right for the rest of the break, unless it's a gold or lower. If it's a gold or lower, it'll have its own separate random at the end. There's going to be a 2. Going to go to the left with Travis Kelsey and the Chiefs. Travis Kelsey and the Chiefs. We've got a white coming up. Zach Charbonnet. Najee, Jordan Madison. White, Joe Burrow. Nice one there. Congrats, Cinti. 14 to 25. That's nasty with the color match. Well, with the jersey match, I should say, of the white Bengals jerseys. That's pretty cool. Jordan Madison. That is a Trellant. Silver, T. Higgins. Zae Flowers, Rookie. And Justin Herbert, Audible. Honeycomb, I think, or Orange. I don't know, Honeycomb or Orange, one or the other. Jacory and Bennett. That is a Jackson Smith and Jigba. That is an Orange, just kidding. Still a nice one though. Zae Flowers to 199. Congrats, Ravens. Ravens doing well here. Splash of T-Law, Mosaic. Will Anderson. Oh, no. CD. That is a Silver. Dorian Thompson, Robinson. They do the Silvers, or like, not easy to hit for Rookie's. Silvers are not easy to hit for Rookie's at all. What do you see in the rails? It's kind of nice, dude. Blue, Brian Burns. Congrats on that Panthers to 99. George Pickens, Silver. And a Purple DK to 49. Muir Gibbs, debut. Purdy. J Ward, Red. And it's Silver, center stage of Grease Hall. Zae Flowers, debut. Zae Ojalari, Chad Ryland for the Patriots to 199. Silver Skymore, Will Lovis, Darnell Wright, Dallas Clark, and Pat Pete, moments in time. Boggs Dos. And the Esser. Again, 13 to go on that Flawless and NT Mixer. Patrick P with a spot tonight. Chris with a spot over on Gaming. Chris G. It's Jonathan Taylor, Juju. And Silver, Justin Fields, Swaggoth. Derek Henry, Staphon Diggs, Red. Jonathan Ogden, Silver. Good to see him in there, too. T-Law, Montage, Silver. Will Anderson, Rookie. CJ Stroud, Rookie, nice. True Rookie. Cam Jordan, Clayton Tune, Blue to 99. Cardinals. Herbert and Audible, Silver, Gino Smith. Come on, Coveys. Make it to the playoff. I know. I always have something to look for. Right. It's not our sorry team. There's Will Lovis.  Michael Meyer, Rookie. It is John Lynch for the Bucks. Congrats, Tampa to 25. Ramandre Silver, Jordan Addison, Rookie. And moments in time of Antonio Freeman. Yeah, I know. I want to see someone happy. Exactly. That's a honeycomb. We got a honeycomb coming up. Bijan Robinson to a honeycomb. Brian Branch Rookie. Nice. Congrats, Lyons. Got a honeycomb, super short print. Either Jacob picking up a random team spot tonight. Derek Henry and JSN. This stuff is good, man. This stuff is really, really good. I'm very, very happy with Mosaic this year. Anthony Richardson. Randy Moss, Silver and base. Yeah, I am pleasantly not surprised, but pleasantly happy with this. Nice to 25. Bijan Robinson. White auto for the Falcons. Heck, yeah, man. Five of 25. So, two off Jersey number. Congrats on that. There you go, Atlanta. That is going to work just fine right there. The Atlanta Falcons, I believe, was Noah. Yes, it was Noah B. Congrats, Noah. Get that into a Mac for you, buddy. That is Rishi Rice, Colby Wooden, and George Kittle Silver. Oh, that's cool. Herman Moore for the Lyons. Mosaic autographs. Little throw back there. Hello, Kyle. Devin White. Silver, Jake Hanner. All I know is Kyle's getting worked in golf today. Aaron Rodgers. No, this is all hobby, Trace. This is all hobby. And an orange coming up. Marvin Mims. George Kittle. Tray Lance. Orange to 199. Another orange coming up. Jameer Gibbs debut. Orange Denzel Ward. Kind of a color match. You're good, Trace. It's a 199. No, yeah, this is hobby. Introductions. Anthony Richards in purple. It's a 49. Nice one there. Indianapolis. Oh, that Bijan's so nasty, dude. So nasty. That is pretty clean overall. Five is the last break. Just the Rams in number five as well, everybody. I'll drop you a link for that real quick. Just the Rams. That breaks next. Yes. Yes, that is correct. Yeah, Genesis Retail Peacock Choice, Honeycomb Hobby. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah, Genesis, and this is really cool. I do like the Mosaic Genesis. Quinton Johnson. That is an orange. Eddie George to 199. Actually, a funny story at one of the shows I went to in Massachusetts. That is Chandler Jones, Moment in Time to 49. There's this guy who set up a lot of Connecticut shows as well. I knew we were buddies, obviously. He would cut me deals for Raven stuff. Ray Lewis, Mosaic. Ramondray to 199. I think we hit a Henning to 199. I think that was probably the biggest tube. And there was one time I was like, oh, yeah, I'm looking for Raven stuff. Bryce Young, this is 2019. So I was like, yeah, looking for Marquise Brown. Kyle Pitts, Silver Center Stage.  Like, I got to find it. He just kept looking for it, looking for it, couldn't find it. And then I was like, oh, yeah, I'll be back around if you find it. Let me know. And all of a sudden, I start walking away, I just see him sprinting toward me with the Marquise Brown Genesis in his hand. It's like, I got it. I got it. I'm like, all right, perfect. So then I bought it off him. CJ Stroud. My funny Genesis story for everybody. Can you pick it? But yeah, I do like that the Genesis are cool, man. They're clean. They do well, too. Devanna Shane. Oh, yeah, especially if you get one. No name. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. Damian Pierce to 49. It's a couple hundred bucks right there. And Chase Claypool, especially Graded Well, Graded Ten or something. You're talking into thousands at that point. Chad Ryland. Nice. Purple debut CJ Stroud. It's a 49, 32 of 49. You're looking at your NFL's number one passer in week two. CJ Stroud. Congrats on that. Ram's gone. Thank you, Trace. Ben with a couple of random team spots. Jeff Riem with a random team spot as well. Trace, thank you, buddy. Selling us out on the next break. Peyton Manning, base and base. Get that into a mag for you. Congrats, Houston. Wound up behind the ramps. Thank you, Trace. Appreciate you, buddy. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Mario Cooper, Silverma Holmes, and base. So yeah, we just got to get those two mixers filled up, everybody. 13 to go. Marvin Mims on the first one, aka number three, Drake London, Tyreek Stevenson, and a CD and Stefan Diggs. Dude, the debuts are awesome.  I've been doing that in basketball this year as well. JSN. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. Base, base. There's Luke Shoenmaker. Nice one there. Rookie Auto IV at the Cowboys. Congrats, Dallas. I'm going to tell you, this helps a lot. Yeah, Dorian Thompson, Robinson, and Bijan. Yeah, there's a case to be made. I have to agree, Trace. There is definitely a case to be made on that. Jalen Hyatt, we've got Jamal Williams. Nice one there. He's hilarious, dude. I love Jamal Williams. He's like, Stats and Bennett Red, nice one there for the Rams, and Emmanuel Forbes, who's a baller, dude, for Washington. Absolute baller. Silver, Nick Foles, moments in time. Billy, Billy. I want to be a baller.  He's like, dude, this is really me. He's like, I like football. I'm good. I'm just good at it, so it's my job, but my real passion is anime. It's like, I just play football because I'm good at it. That's basically it. I'm like, it's like yokich, dude. He's like, nobody, nobody likes job. If they do that, if they say they like job, then they're lying. Exactly. He's like, yo, say flowers. There's a purple, Josh Allen to 49. Nice one there. I can't believe I'm going to break chasing Stets and Bennett. They're Sean Clifford. At least Cooper cups got a couple of autos. Corey Holt's got some autos in this, too. There's a couple of cool Rams, like Ram Betts that have autos, too, Trace, Mims, Ojalari, Klaigea Kansy, Blue Gabe Davis to 99, again for the Bills, Bass and George Kittle. Yeah, this looks good this year, though, man. I'll be buying some retail of this if I see it out in the wild. Quentin Johnson. Jalen Ramsey. Jalen Hyatt, Devin White, Silva, Nick Chubb, and Bass. CJ Straubrooky, Josh Jacobs, Trevor Lawrence, National Pride Red, Silva, Odell Beckham, moments in time making the catch as a giant. Vinny with the Colton number 12. Thank you, buddy. Okay, so that's no longer for sale. 13 to go in that mixer, everybody. 13 to go. Let's get that sold on out. Will Leviss, Traylon Burks. There's that sick to 199. Cordell Stewart. There you go. Steelers, congrats on that. Nice one, Pittsburgh. Damarianne Overshown, Ruffin, Silver Mean Joe Green, and Silver Tyreek Hill. Devanna Shane. That's a Julius Brentz to 199. Silver, Diane Hensley, and a purple moments in time Baker Mayfield to 49 for the Rams. Rams Baker, that game-winning drive last year for his brief stint in LA. There's another, not an orange, like I said, that's not another hunting comb. Bijan Damian Pierce. Orange, Peyton Manning. Nice one there for the Colts to 199. Absolutely one off jersey number 19. Hmm, rear gibs and base. I got a funny story about Peyton Manning. Oh, God. And how, I actually never, one of my boys. Straight firefields. Has a funny story about Peyton Manning. He was the guy that actually pushed him to win the Super Bowl. Oh, yeah? Oh, jeez. What he said. Is this the Broncos Super Bowl? Yes. Okay, all right. That's this, yeah. Okay. So, he was telling me how his wife went out to this conference for something for her because she's a writer. And Peyton was there. Okay. And he was a part of it. And I forgot what he said. I really forgot what he said. But it was just the look on Peyton's face. Oh, I guess that's a black mosaic. One of one. Okay, everybody. We got a black mosaic. One of one. Anthony Richardson. DJ Stroud. Come on. Billy White shoes. Johnson for the Falcons. One of one black mosaic. That's so cool, dude. Hell yeah. The originator of NFL celebrations right here. Billy White shoes. Johnson. He is known as the godfather of celebrating a touchdown in the end zone. Billy White shoes. Johnson. He had the famous, uh, the famous he would like go like this with his knees. That was his thing, dude. That's awesome. Silver Dorian Thompson Robinson. Aaron Jones and base. Yeah, Jay, do the white shoes dance. That is Zay flowers. It's funny because I don't want to mention it. Same, dude. Jerry Rice, orange to 199 and two up. He was like, uh, that was like his thing, too. He's one of the first guys to wear white cleats, like to wear like different, uh, different colored cleats, which is really cool. There's a Jair Brown, uh, Tyler Murray, Jordan Addison, and Justin Herbert. Stuck was a Jerry Rice. Will Anderson, mosaic, rookie, nice for the Texans. Silver Rochon, Johnson, base and base. Uh, yes, Trace. Yeah, it'll go right after this half case. So around 3 p.m. Eastern time. Will Levitt, rookie, Traylon Berks, Sam Laporta. Nice one there for the Lions, mosaic, auto. We're at Detroit. Peter with some leaf exotic, Matt with a couple mosaic spots. Jeff with a couple mosaic spots. Chris with some more late in gaming spots or personals, I should say. Van Marino, Silver. I'm gonna have Sam put on my bench for the whole entire time. Just so I can't have him. No, no, no. Oh, just until I, until I face him and then I'll play him. They're bot. Michael Meyer, rookie, autographs, mosaic, going to the Raiders. Nice one there, uh, Vegas. Congrats to the Raiders, Michael Meyer. Manual Forbes Red, Silver Herman Moore, and Silver Jason. Bijan Robinson, TJ Watt. There's a Michael Pittman, Blue to 99 for the Colts. Silver Chris Jones, and Will Lettuce, Clutcher Cox. White is, uh, 25, Valami Pahoko Jr. Nice one there, congrats, Cowboys. Uh, 10 of 25. What a name like that. I know, honestly. It's a JSN on the debut. Red, Tiki Barber, Silver Mike Evans, and Splash Christian Watson. Oh, no. Yeah. The next, the next case will be a, uh, I misread your question, Trace, my bad. Yeah. The next one's going to be a fresh case. Generally, like good rule of thumb, like if you see a half, if we're doing half case breaks, whatever the even number is will be the second half. The odd number will be the first half. Mo, like 90% of the time, sometimes we'll just have like a random half case lying around. Yeah, potentially I would say, potentially I would say for sure. There must be super rare this year, man. Or it'll be like kabooms. Like you'll get like three in one case, or you'll get zero in one case. Like, you know, like that happened in absolute last year. Anthony Richardson, Showtime signatures. What a half case, man. Congrats, Indy. There we go. Well, Anthony Richardson action, Brenton Strange, Silver, Zay Flowers, and more base. The redemption coming up, Quentin Johnson is going to be Jackson Smith and Jigba, rookie autographs, Mosaic Blue. Congrats on that one. Let's go, Matt. Congrats, dude. Go to the Seahawks on the JSN, Andre Johnson. National Pride Lamar Red. His afternoon meeting got canceled, and his watching breaks. Living the dream. Oh, yeah. Living the dream. C.J. Stroud. That is a Fred Taylor Blue Breeze Hall to 99. And there we go. Micro Mosaic. C.J. Stroud. Let's go, man. Those are clean. Congrats, Houston. Houston with a hell of a break as well. Holy, going to Leonard N. There's the case hit. C.J. Stroud Micro Mosaic. That is, that is a wild card, man. I am really digging Mosaic this year, I have to say. I am digging Mosaic, man. And now we got a gold coming up, too. Bryce Young. Gold, Shannon Sharp. Ski up. Going it to the Broncos. Hell yeah, man. That's the 10. Silver tealaw. And another gold. Kyler Murray. One of 10 jersey number for the Cardinals. Two golds in one pack. Let's go, man.  This is a, this is a cracked box, man. Cracked box. J. Caner. There's John Lynch. Luke Keekley Red. And center stage, Jerry Judy. Devanna Shane. Joe Burrow. Archie Manning Red. Miles Garrett. Silver. And a splash of Kenny Pickett, second-year picket. That's Clark Phillips. We got Orange, Eli Manning. Two, 199. Silver Jerry Rice. Diggs and a Michael Vick. Luke Musgrave. There's AJ Brown Mosaic. Orange, Rashi Rice for the Chiefs to 199. A Jordan Addison and Justin Jefferson. Splash. Yeah, we have not seen a tessellation out of this case. You're right. Because that other one came in break number two, that JSN. Dolphin won. Murray Cooper. Silver, Cluel Mack. But imagine it most likely is Corey. Fulton Kincaid. Jamar Chase. Wes Welker. And moment in time, John Elway with the helicopter play. We hit a, there's no points in this one, right? Yeah, no points. All right, nice. We hit for Corey, actually. We hit a Purple to 49. That was probably the best one. Honeycomb, Brian Branch. Orange is the 199. Rashi Rice. Eli, Jerry Rice. Peyton Manning. Julius Brents from Andre Stevenson. Eddie George. Trey Lance. Chad Rylan. Zay Flowers. To 99, we've got a Michael Pittman. Breez Hall. Gabe Davis. Clayton Tune. Brian Burns. Purple's the 49. Chandler Jones. Baker. Josh Allen. Damian Pierce. DK Metcalf. White to 25. Joe Burrow. Valame Fajoco Jr. John Lynch. Golds to 10. We had a Kyler Murray. Shannon Sharp. Autos. We had Jackson Smith and Jigba. Michael Meyer. Sam LaPorta. Jamal Williams. Luke Schoonmaker. Herman Moore. Jordan Battle. Cordell Stewart. Tavius Robinson. And now our MAG cards. Man, what a case. Anthony Richardson. Showtime signatures. Purple. CJ Stroud. NFL debut to 49. White. Brian Robinson Jr. Five of 25 on the, or Bijon Robinson. Excuse me. Bijon Robinson. Nice one there. We had one of one Black Mosaic. Billy White shoes Johnson for the Falcons. And then a micro mosaic. CJ Stroud rookie. Congrats again Houston. That'll do it for the break everybody. Thanks again for the fill. Up next, number five.


The recording has started. Let's pray, either Prince or Dave, one of you, would you please lead us in prayer? Prince, can you lead us? Okay, I think Dave would like to request you. Are you able to hear? Yes, yes, I am able to hear. Actually, your voice is too low. Oh, is it? Okay, let me just adjust it. Let me know whether it's any better. It's fine. Is it better? Can you hear me now? It was fine for me. I see. Okay, not sure. I have kept everything in full volume. It's quite okay. Okay, okay, all right. Okay, okay. Okay, great. Thank you for having me, Father. Thank you, Lord. You have given us a wonderful morning. As we've come before you, Lord, as you're going to learn your world, whatever you want to do with them, also with the students. I submit all the students and amen you have. Amen, amen. Thank you. Thank you, Prince. Okay, so we shall get back to our subject here. We have been studying from the book of 1 Peter. And to the same audience, Peter writes another episode.  So, in the first episode, we saw that he had a lot of encouragement for the persecuted believer. He reminded them of their imperishable, eternal, precious inheritance because of which he said that this life, don't worry about the challenges that you're going through in this life. God is there and we are from a kingdom which cannot be shaken. So, basically, he's just trying to help them understand that the struggles of this world will not last forever. And we also saw that he gives them pointers on how to live their lives as believers in a world where people are observing them. So, in the context of authority, he spelled it out like he talked about the governmental leaders and he talked about the husband-wife relationship, husband over the wife. And then he also talked about leadership in the church. How do you deal with elders? So, basically, he emphasizes on submission, that we must walk in submission, we must walk in honor. So, in this way, he kind of brings in encouragement, brings in instruction. But in the second episode, the subject is completely different. So, he found it important to address the issue of false teachers. And so, you find that the second episode is a warning to the believers. The first episode was encouragement, but the second episode is a warning. Similar to the book of 1 John. Remember, we all went through the three episodes written by Apostle John. And it seemed like even John, at some point, he brought in the subject of apostasy and people trying to mislead the sheep or the flock of God and bring in wrong teaching, wrong instructions, wrong examples. So, all the apostles seemed to be warning the people to hold on to the true doctrine and to recognize these false teachers and false leaders as quickly as possible. So, you would find that this entire episode is more of a warning. So, that is what is covered in this episode. Let's get into it. I'm in 2 Peter chapter 1, where again, as per the method of writing, Peter introduces himself. He uses his full name for some reason here, Simon Peter. We know that Peter is the name that God gave him, Jesus gave him, but Simon was the name that he was known by. If you just want to think about it, maybe he didn't forget his past and he knew where he came from and yet God gave him a different future. So, it's beautiful to see that this begins with Simon Peter. This is what God does in people's lives. He turns it around. He introduces himself, Simon Peter, a bond servant. You've seen this earlier as well. A bond servant is like a slave of someone in those times. So, he is fully committed or sold out for the kingdom of God, sold out for the cause of Christ and that is who he is and he also recognizes his calling. He says, Apostle of Jesus Christ. So, he's quite clear on who he is in terms of the assignment that God has given him. Then he addresses the audience. Audience, though earlier we saw that he says the dispersion of the brethren. So, he refers to a geographical region, but in this situation, he just describes their spiritual status. So, he says, you who have obtained precious faith with us by the righteousness of God and Saviour, Jesus Christ. He just describes that through the work of the cross, here are the people of God who have now this precious gift of faith which has been given to them by the righteousness of God. How did God display his righteousness? By redeeming us, he paid the price for our sins and he bought us back to himself. So, he says, come on, now you must recognize who you are. Again, emphasizing more on the spiritual identity of who the people are and that is why he says, now you have precious faith with us by the righteousness of God and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Now that he has given an introduction, he moves on. Again, we saw earlier how, greet one another with a holy kiss. That's the way he ended the previous episode. So, they had a way of greeting one another. So, once again, you find the greeting of their times where he says, grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. So, that was their way of greeting one another. So, right at the beginning, he says, grace and peace be multiplied to you. So, it's like speaking blessings over the community of believers. Then, we see that he says, in the knowledge of God and of our Lord. So, here is the understanding that for a believer in our lives, the more we know about the Lord Jesus and knowing here is not necessarily only an intellectual knowledge but it also refers to an experiential knowledge where we know about but we also personally know who the Lord Jesus is. So, when this happens, the knowledge of God increases. We could also see that proportionately our peace and the grace of God also increases in our lives. So, it's also, though it's a greeting and a blessing, there is a truth in it. The truth is that the more I come to know God, the more I come to know the Lord Jesus Christ, the greater my peace, the greater the grace with which I can move forward. So, that is how he blesses the church. And then he affirms to the church that, see, this salvation which we have through that, you know, God has given us divine power and what does this divine power do? It says his divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness.   You know, even though we may say, oh, in this world, there is the devil. There is the, you know, the world which attracts us. There is also the flesh which goes against the desires of God. There is an overcoming work of the cross which has also given us the victory.  So, you know, it's a blessed thing for us. Every time we think about us being believers, we can be so, you know, so strong because we are victorious, no matter what is there in the world, we are victorious. And he says, you're already empowered. His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness. What do you need to release and reveal that victory? You already have it for life as well as godliness. And this comes to us through the knowledge of who? Through God who has called us by glory. And, you know, he also reminds the believers that we have been given exceedingly great and precious promises. So, you know, it's like talking of all the good things. His divine power has given you everything you need for life, godliness. You've also been given the great and precious promises of God. And because of this, you know, here's the beauty. What can happen? We can be partakers of the divine nature of God. You know, if we had a gospel where God said, OK, be holy as I am holy, you know, be righteous, be virtuous, be faithful, be strong. So many things that God wants us to be just like him. But he never gives us the power or he never gives us the victory. You know, it is like the old covenant where people knew what should be done, but they never had the power to live that kind of an overcoming life. But here is the privilege for the believers, you know, those of us who are on the other side of the cross. We also have the empowering. So he says you have exceedingly great and precious promises. You have everything you need for life and godliness. So what? So you can partake of the divine nature. So you and I, every believer, you know, again, it is not only referring to pastors. Sometimes people have that concept, you know, pastors have to be very, very holy, but believers can't be holy because they are just believers. You know, they don't have the power to be holy. Maybe God gives the people in leadership or with a certain calling the ability to be holy. But you see every child of God can partake of what the divine nature, divine nature. So what is the divine nature of God? The divine nature of God is clearly a nature which is so pure, you know, and so uncorrupted and pristine and glorious and, you know, beautiful. So you could look at the nature of God. And you see, that's why we are told that we must worship God in the beauty of His holiness. It's so beautiful that we are awestruck by it. We are amazed by how holy. Wow!  Now, can I be holy? That's what Peter is saying. Believer, you can be holy. You can partake of the divine nature of God because you have been given everything you need for life and godliness and also the exceeding great and precious promises of God. So I can partake of the divine nature of God. Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust and, you know, that is understood. If we are walking according to the nature of God, we are not walking according to the nature of the world. And therefore, the corruption of sin, which is there in this world, we can sort of, you know, overcome that and we can live above it and not be touched by it. Now, a little bit more, you know, he encourages the believers before he comes to the point of warning them. Now that he has spoken about who we are in Christ. Okay, so that is his point. Number one, who we are in Christ. Now, he adds a note to say that a believer's journey should go from strength to strength, glory to glory.  We go from level one to the next level of learning and then keep moving to the next level of learning. So in the same manner, we are in Christ. Yes, positionally, the truth is that we have already been blessed. We've already received so many things from God. However, there is also a need for us to keep growing, keep learning, keep maturing in God. So, you know, here is that word of encouragement where he says, for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith. So he gives them some keys and says, in this manner, you can be a more mature believer. Okay, so somehow when you look at the early church and the episodes that, you know, were written, the leaders and in these cases, apostles. They always encourage the church to grow. How? Just numbers? No, but also they encourage the church to grow spiritually in maturity. So he's saying here how to be a more mature believer, you know, add to your faith virtue. To virtue, knowledge, to knowledge, self-control, to self-control, perseverance, perseverance, godliness, to godliness, brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness, love. So, you notice here that the life and the attitude and the character of the believer should display this spiritual reality that already exists. We said that in Christ Jesus, we are partakers of the divine nature of God. But that should show in our practical life, isn't it? That is what Peter is saying. Now, if you, he says giving all diligence, you know, giving all diligence is the way I really appreciate, you know, your batch because you are in the third year now. Was it easy to finish first year and then second year, you know, every semester, every course, every assignment, all that and then come all the way to the end of the third year?  That's what diligence is. You're careful to keep doing what you need to do. And that kind of attitude when you carry all through, you know, you all have reached here. And I'm so happy for you in a matter of a month, you all will be graduating with your bachelor's degree. So that's the attitude. But then, you see, you must continue with diligence. Don't just take a, you know, like they say, right, you take a chill pill and you say, now I finished my graduation. Now I'm going to relax. No need to be attentive to God's word anymore. I've already been so attentive in my classes. No, but all diligence means you pay attention, you give careful thought to something and you keep at it. So in the same way, you know, he's telling the believers, come on, you need to be alert, give all, give your attention and keep adding, keep adding to these godly characteristics. Okay, we already have faith. Good. Now, if you have a believer who has faith and who's not righteous, you know, it's, you just can't make sense of it, isn't it? It's very disappointing. So he says, we say we have faith, but we also need to be walking in righteousness.  So virtue has to do with truth. So righteousness, he says, faith and virtue have virtue. Now, having virtue, being walking in righteousness and, you know, being true to God and all, but if we lack in knowledge, we don't know God's word.  Would it be beneficial? No, we should also know the truth of God's word. Otherwise, what happens? We don't know how to, you know, worship God in the right manner. We don't know how to teach others about the things of the kingdom of God. So it really cripples us. Okay, so he says, come on, if you add all these things diligently to your characteristics, then you will be so productive. You will be so useful and you will be mature for the kingdom of God. So he said, virtue, to that you add knowledge, to knowledge, self-control. So again, when we look at this, if you've ever seen a leader who practices self-control, it's very impressive because you know that they have truly applied what they have learned in their personal life and they are able to, you know, overcome their fleshly desires. So for every believer, and you know, this is for every believer, he's saying all believers can have these things. So to your faith, you please add virtue, to virtue, you please add knowledge, to knowledge, add self-control, to self-control, perseverance. Okay, again, perseverance is a characteristic of the mature people who are able to bear up under pressure. You know, people who give up easily, we could say that, you know, that shows that the strength within them has not yet developed fully. But then he says, come on, if you develop your strength to an extent that you can persevere, that is really displaying Godly character. To perseverance, he says you add godliness. Godliness is again, you know, characteristic where we are living a God-pleasing life. So in our choices, in our thoughts, in our behavior, in our lifestyle, we constantly are living the way it pleases God.  And to godliness, he says, have brotherly kindness. So, you know, I don't know why he has chosen these particular characteristics, but maybe, you know, Peter observed that these are the ones that are so important for the believer's community to display. And so he says, brotherly kindness. And to brotherly kindness, love, you know, just like Apostle John, what did he do? He went straight to love and, you know, he just said what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us that we should be called as the children of God.  But we must truly love our brothers. So he goes straight to love and he begins to describe it. And he says that if you carry the character of love, you know, we will surely walk in victory. Peter, in a more practical way, you know, he comes to love, but then he says, come on, let's be very, very practical here. We say we have faith, but please display all these other characteristics as well. And when a believer has all these characteristics, you know, we could say that, wow, you know, they are moving towards the path of maturity and that brings honor to God, that brings glory to God. And that is how, you know, as pastors and leaders, you can also teach your church, what are we doing? We are helping the church to make a journey of growth and maturity towards God. Okay, now coming to verse eight. Now, again, some more encouragement for if these things are yours and they are bound.  You will neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. So in other words, for us as, you know, the modern day believers, basically he says that do you want to be an effective believer?  Then please, you know, you need to have all these things as a part of your character.  So he says no barren or unfruitful. What is the opposite of that? You're not productive for the kingdom of God. Now moving on, he says that this sort of, you know, if at all people don't have these characters, he says he who lacks these things is short sighted even to blindness and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. So a believer who does not think that, you know, having the lifestyle filled with the character of God is important. If a believer doesn't think that way, if a believer only thinks, yeah, I go, I'm saved. I go and do all the Christian activities. It doesn't matter, you know, what else is a part of my life, whether I know the word, whether I live in righteousness, whether you know, all the other things, whatever we saw in a perseverance. It doesn't matter. So such a believer, he says a short sighted. Short sighted are people who only think of the present, who don't have the wisdom to think of the future.  Okay, somebody has given a mother 3000 rupees. Now this mother is, she has two kids and she also has a job. What would that mother do?  Now I also have extra money. How about I use it in a good way? And then, you know, what does the mother do? The mother will, you know, plan up for that 3000 rupees, you know, how to use it in such a way that it will, one second, yeah, that it will be beneficial for my family. But let's say we give that 3000 rupees to a teenager. Now this teenager only knows about, you know, going out with friends and maybe, you know, eating ice cream or something to have fun, go for the movies, buy clothes. The teenager will be very excited and how will the teenager use the money? Just spend it off. So do you see the difference in wisdom and foresight? It's 3000 rupees. It is a big deal for, let's say, both that mother as well as the teenager. But a teenager has no idea about the importance of that amount of money that you could probably buy grocery for the house. You could probably buy, you know, gas or fuel, cooking fuel for the house or you can pay some bills with that money. So somebody with wisdom and foresight knows that we have to live life in a wise way. So a maturing believer thinks, ah, this is what God has blessed me with. And, you know, this is what I must accomplish for the kingdom of God. I must move forward. And those thoughts come to a maturing believer. But here he says, a short-sighted believer doesn't care about these things. He's just concerned about, today I enjoy, today I am happy. That's good enough. But such a believer, you notice, he says they have forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. So in other words, till now he said, you know, precious faith, precious promises. So the believer who is careless about their maturity, it's as if they have forgotten what a precious sacrifice Jesus made for them. No, isn't that so sad that when we don't take our spiritual life and we don't take our salvation seriously, it is like saying, okay Jesus, whatever you did, fine, it doesn't matter to me. So it's like we have forgotten and that is not a good thing. It is in fact showing that the believer has become short-sighted, barren, unfruitful. All this is ineffective for the kingdom of God. So, you know, it's like standard growth. I don't know if you all have seen there is a, there is a gardening technique. It's called bonsai.  Okay, maybe like let's say mango tree simply, I'm just telling you, they will grow the tree, but in the size of the tree will be small only. Okay, so there is some technique that they use to keep the size of the tree small. It never really comes to its full form. And you know, when you think of a mango tree, you might think of shade, you might think of fruit. But in the bonsai technique, you will just have a cute little tree, which you can probably keep on your shelf. You know that, hey, you know, this is a whatever this tree or that tree, but it will not yield its full results. And in a way that's very sad because the full cap potential of that plant or tree has not been released. So same for the short-sighted believer who's living for today's pleasures, no maturity. It's as if, you know, I'm a believer, but stunted. Okay, and not useful for the kingdom of God. And that is something that we should be careful about. And that is why, you know, Peter goes on, he says therefore. So whenever there is a therefore, you have to see what is there before that. So till now he just said, you need to be mature. Some people are not mature. Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent again. He says diligent, diligent, diligent is be careful to do or be serious, be attentive. So all believers, you know, we have to learn this to be serious about salvation and about our spiritual walk with the Lord, our assignment, our purpose, we have to be serious about it, you know. And if you don't carry that attitude, that's not good. So he says, there is a chance of being stunted. So please be even more diligent to make your call and election. Sure. So basically he's saying what God has given to us. Okay, call and election is salvation, the inheritance, the blessings. Okay, so all those things who we are in Christ. Knowing these things, you try to remain in that because even in Hebrews, we saw that some have tasted these things. And then what? They have given it up. And such people, it says it's impossible to renew them into the faith. So there is a warning of falling away and we have to be careful. So every believer must be diligent and make your call and election. Sure. So this doesn't mean that we are the ones who will assure our salvation. No, not at all because assurance of salvation comes by the finished work of the cross.  The believer just has to cooperate and the believer just has to walk aligned with the purpose. It's not that we have to do anything to earn our salvation, but when we are cooperative with God, then we can keep it. Then we can stay in it. And he says, if you are careful, you know, to keep moving with it, if you do these things, you will never stumble or you won't slip. The believer, you will walk steady in the faith. For so an entrance would be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. So basically he says, hold on till the end. If you hold on till the end, then what? You enter into eternal life and you have heaven waiting for you because you have finished the race. And that's the important thing. You know, we always say, again, coming back to the fact that you all are in third year, it's easy to start anything. Easy to start learning an instrument, easy to start learning, you know, reading a book. But what is more important is that you finish.   So finishing is so, so, so important. And as leaders, as, you know, pastors, please remember that now we are all serving. That's so nice. Praise God for it. But till the end of the journey, we have to serve. We have to same diligence, give even more diligence, be alert. Never in our spiritual walk, we should say, ah, now I'm going to relax. You know, when you do that in your spiritual life, it's very dangerous. Because Satan will be like, ah, now is my chance. In a spiritual life, he's relaxing. Let me go. You know, let me make him to stumble.  Please take it seriously. Finish. Finishing is important. So please make sure you finish this race of faith. Now again verse 12, he says, for this reason, I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things. Though you know and are established in the present truth. Again, he says, I will be reminding. You know, for us, sometimes, you know, when we read passages of scripture, we read about righteousness in one passage. Then we read again about righteousness in another passage. In further, when we're moving into maybe a different book of the Bible, again you read about righteousness. Sometimes we feel that God, why are you repeating this for me? You see, reminders are very good. And that is why scriptures carry a reminder of many of the truths. Same truth will be spoken of elsewhere.  Is it okay to teach people who they were, who are, we are in Christ? Let's say, you just started a church and you've done a series on who we are in Christ. After two years, you come back and you again teach on the same subject. You know, maybe you use a different title, but you teach them on the same subject. It's a reminder. Is it necessary? Yes, it is definitely necessary in our spiritual journey. Many subjects we need to be reminded of it again and again and again. So I can't read any one verse and say that I already know, I already read this 10 times. I don't need to learn anything out of it. You know, whenever a believer does that, that is when it is dangerous. Because we feel that we got everything out of it already. But you see, the power of God's word is such that, you know, that truth will always remain and that truth will always work in us to change us and transform us. And so we must believe in the capacity of God's word and you know, the power of God's word as Hebrews 412, you know, we saw God's word is living. It's active. It's powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword. So we must never take it lightly and reminders are always very good. So if at all I feel like, hey, this is a reminder. Be happy about it that God is once again helping us refresh our knowledge. Then again, he moves forward and he tells them, you know, about how this life is temporary. Verse 13 he says, yes, I think it is right as long as I am in this tent to stir you up by reminding you, knowing that shortly I must put off my tent just as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me. So he's talking about his end. He knows that he is going to die. And he refers to his body as the tent. Okay. Tent is temporary, but constructed houses, you could say permanent. So he says this body is temporary, but the glorious body that we're going to have later, you know, that is in eternity. And that is what we should fix our eyes on. And you know, because he knows he's going away fast soon, he says that it is very important for me, Children of God, to remind you of all these matters that you must know who you are in Christ, that you must keep maturing, be productive, be effective, be diligent, give attention to God's word, so on and so forth. Now verse 15, he says, moreover, I will be careful to ensure that you always have a reminder of these things after my disease. So you see, this is very apostolic that the apostles have the doctrine and they don't want the people to forget the doctrine. Okay. And we know that the Bible is made up of the doctrine of the founding apostles. So you have people like Paul, Peter, John, James, who have put down for us the truth of God's word and the boundaries of that truth. So they also wanted to make sure that the church is built on the truth of God's word, that it should not be infiltrated with lies and all kinds of false philosophies and doctrines. And that is why Peter is reminding the people and he's saying, come on, you know, I will be careful to ensure. These are all words to say that this is very important. The truth is very important. You have to stay in the word. I will make sure the truth is preserved so that it can be carried forward to generations. So he says that you will always have a reminder of these things after my disease. So that shows us why the apostles wrote the epistles. You see, they could have just spoken it to the people, isn't it? But they knew that if they put it down in writing, then what happens? Even if they die, their words continue to speak. You know, here we are. In 2000 plus years later, reading the epistle of Apostle Peter and the doctrine where we are understanding, okay, this is the truth. We should not allow any false philosophies or false doctrines to come and, you know, change the things that we have already learned. So apostles are usually careful to make sure that the truth is out there. So the written documents are so important. So that's what Peter is saying. I'll be gone.  I know that. But you know, if I put it like this in writing, remember, he said with Silvanus or Silas, I wrote this all down so that you have a copy and a reminder. Even if I'm gone, you know what you need to do. So verse 16, For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power in coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. But where I witnesses of His majesty. So you see, just like John. John said that, right? We have seen, we have heard, we have touched. So what was John saying? John was saying, I'm talking to you about history. Some philosophies in the world, some religions in the world. They have a mythological basis. So it's not history. So they have all these stories that have no reference in world history. But John said, I have seen, I have felt, I have heard of those things I'm telling you. This is Peter. Remember, he's one of the first few disciples of Jesus. So he's saying, I'm not cooking up any stories. It's cunningly devised fables. Again, fables are stories. You know, how you have all these kids stories, right? They may not necessarily be real. So fables. He's saying that the gospel, the truth of God's word, it's not a story. But then he uses the term, I witnesses. So we have seen these things. It is historical. I witnesses of his majesty. So his majesty, when did Peter see the majesty of Jesus? In so many ways, you know, Peter was there when Jesus did the miracles. Peter was there on the Mount of Transfiguration. Peter was there when he, you know, met with Jesus after his resurrection. Peter was there when Jesus ascended. So Peter is saying, I know what I'm talking about. I have seen the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is historical. Okay. So again, you know, apologetics. We are talking about history here. And so there is a lot of evidence as well, which can be spoken of when we talk of the life of Jesus Christ. So he continues. He says, for he received from God the Father, honor and glory when such a voice came to him from the excellent glory. This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. And we heard this voice, which came from heaven when we were with him on the Holy mountain. So again, he talks about this as an eyewitness. Where he saw Jesus being, I think this was in transfiguration, right? When they heard a voice, yeah, correct. We heard a voice from heaven where even though there were other men like Moses, Elijah and all present, it was Jesus who has been affirmed by the Father. Okay. Going to verse 19. He says, and so we have the prophetic word confirmed. Okay. So you see, he's talking in a very apologetic way. He says that it has happened. What the prophets had spoken, it has already happened and I have seen it. So we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. So he says that the prophecies about Jesus have come to pass. And so here is the truth about the prophetic word. Remember in one Corinthians 14-3, we say the prophecy is to comfort, what is it? Comfort, exhort and I only forgotten. Okay. One second. Let me just, okay. So it is two. It's in a different translation here. Okay, JV. Edify, exhort and comfort. Yeah, edify, exhort and comfort. But he says the prophetic word is also a light in the darkness. So you see that the prophetic word already reveals the mind of God to us. So even though at present it feels dark, there is a light. What is that light? It's the truth of God's word, the prophecy that yes, you know, for the believers of the Old Testament, they had the prophetic word that the Messiah is coming. So though it was a dark season, they knew that surely the Messiah will come. So in the same way for us today, if we have the prophetic word of God in our hearts, there are all kinds of prophetic words, isn't it? There is the prophecies, Bible prophecies about what is going to take place in the future. That also gives us clarity on the second coming of Christ, the end of the world and all those matters. Then we have personal prophecy. Again, we have to understand that personal prophecy is conditional. It depends on the cooperation of the individual. So even personal prophecy, it is, it strengthens us. Okay, it really strengthens us because we carry a word in our hearts.   So what is the work of a prophetic word? It's like light in the darkness. That's how it works and that's how it blesses a believer. Okay, so we have come to the end of the first session. Let's take a quick break. Let's come back and we will move forward. Okay, fine. So let's submit a 10-01. Thank you.


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Hello, okay Thanks everybody for coming Thanks for everybody coming willing to see my presentation. Thanks for the guy staying here because it's silent and comfortable and Avoid me the shame of an empty room today. We will talk about a use case About Europe and open stack Let me introduce myself. My name is Mariano Cunetti. I'm I'm from Italy. I'm from a company named enter We are based in Milan. We were an ISP now. We are a cloud service provider or CSP I am currently the city. Oh, I am In charge of all the cloud of activities in my company Today, I will explain you a use case about Europe willing to extend their cloud infrastructure so Almost one year ago more than one year ago in January 2015 the EU published the tender that was intended to To be a request for proposal to all the cloud providers Global cloud providers in order to acquire External cloud services It was meant to provide services to all the 52 institutions that build up of the EU Like like the US have different agencies on the territory. They are dispersed on the territory and they provide different kind of activities from the the EU Court of Justice, the EU Commission the EU Council the EU Parliament and up to the European Food Safety Agency or an ESA for security information So this tender was published and the objective of this tender were two mainly the first one was to migrate existing workloads from internal data centers that were spread all around Europe with consistent waste of money for the EU and the second objective was to start an Innovation strategy in order to acquire a new way to approach technical problems and in order to build an Elasticity and innovation and flexibility in managing the cloud services The first one was if you cannot solve the problem Please move it and the second one was okay. We need to start from scratch on something we don't Handle very well So the key points for this were mainly two explicit and one implicit The first one was reducing the costs as I told you before the second one was to enforce the security of data managed by all the institutions and especially on a special regard to the Data protection the day the personal data the third objective was to provide the Portability across different providers. So they publish the RFP, but they wanted to be sure I just turned on Everything okay, sorry to be sure they could change at any time the provider that we're using Let me just give you a brief overview of what's happening in Europe about data protection The new data data protection law is the the law the rules the management of personal data of Citizens and users obviously in the EU it was dated 1995 and until last month it was not changed. Okay, so it was pretty old Last month it was published. It was released a new version of this data protection that mainly covers these eight Topics the right to be forgotten. I don't want anybody to store my data anymore Easy access to personal data means I want to know what kind of personal data you are managing On my behalf. I want to be able to move my personal data from one provider to another I'm talking about providers. It doesn't mean only cloud providers. It means also Facebook or Google or what else? a Clear affirmative action when consent is required a use a citizen You citizen must be clearly aware of what is doing or she's doing when she is bringing his or her data to a provider the information but must be very clear and transparent when when I give you a Clearance and allow you to manage my data. I must be very well informed and I must be informed if the provider is Has been breached somehow there are being it's been hacked Somehow I have 36 to 72 hours to be informed by the provider Improved administrative and judicial remedies which means that so far all the national laws Were pretty different every country in Europe had different laws. So now the US is saying everybody Okay, now, let's rule everybody with one single law. You will apply this law And so it will be much more clear to anybody if you want to act against any data breach This is what you have to do and the responsibility is increased for the providers managing your data So this is the content of the of the tender It was divided in three lots. The first lot was covering private. Yes It was a single framework contract which means one single winner no reopening and for Lotu and Lotu which were respectively covering Public yes and public pass it was a reopening which means the winners the awarded Providers would be put in a competition again after they've been awarded or they've been Allegable to provide those services so Public us and public pass the total amount of money The EU Provided for all of these three lots were 34 million euros Which is pretty amount of money oven over a four-year time span between two plus one plus plus one So you have you can have contracts for the first two years and then they can be renewed for one and then one other year The documentation was very heavy I Can personally say that because I studied it day and night and it was very very detailed So they wanted to be sure to cover all the aspects. It was very well written It was written by someone that has studied has done. It's his own work very well What about our lot we are we were involved in a lot lot too because we are a public cloud provider As I told you the requirements were very detailed. They started with the EU privacy compliance They wanted to be sure that anybody participating in the tender should be could be subject to any audit by EU I can say Commissioners that could come to the site to provide a site and check if for the policies and the security policies were in place Data center were an issue. They wanted to have the data centers in Europe And multiple data centers were required at a distance of at least to 100 kilometer one from each other Better if in different countries That were on the networking side. They asked very advanced features They wanted to have not only IPv6 They wanted also to have the ability to configure load balancing as a service to have IPS and ideas This was a bit tricky So it was very detailed on the working side compute very standard features flavors ranging from two gigabyte up to 100 gigabyte in the Amazon and open stock flavor Approach they wanted to have the possibility to make snapshots they wanted to have the ability also to Define who could do something on compute nodes who couldn't run instances but not destroy them Not resize etc. So a role-based access and control on the block and object storage side. They wanted typical open stock Services block storage. They wanted to have flavors or Cinder volume types in the open stock language So they wanted to have different performances at least for ranging from archiving to SSD like Type They also asked for self encryption this self-encrypted disk or opal drives to be Connected to the cinder to the block storage provider on the object storage side They wanted to be sure that there were some features like the versioning of the file expiration date temporary URLs They wanted to be sure that there was enough replica for the data across all the data centers They wanted to ingest a lot of data Either by network or by sending these drives to the the provider site On the managed services they wanted IT compliant services So they wanted the provider to be able to assist the customers and to provide information in a Following a precise framework Very enterprise like approach on the security which was one of the most consistent part in the in the in the tender They wanted to be sure that every action inside the the cloud platform was auditing So they wanted to add audit logs for network configuration changes For object storage activity They wanted to know how many people could gain access what kind of access what level of Permissions they had etc SLAs should be measured on on a monthly basis They wanted to be sure that SLAs were not related just to APIs, but also to infrastructure So if you are declaring an SLA for I mean VMs or for compute they are not saying you want to provide API access for 100% But they want the V and the single VM to be reachable 100% out of a month support Multilingual support they wanted to have an at least the English and one European language could be French could be German could be Spanish or in our case Italian Billing and pricing. This is a very Important point for them every single expense in the EU must be previously approved So every time you sign a contract, they just tell you we are going to spend Maximum this amount of money.  So they want to be sure to to be in control of the expenditure They have on your platform. So they require a lot of reports and graphs and They by day consumption. They want to know everything and the last one is environmental impact. They wanted to be they want the Provided more points to the providers that had certifications like 14,000 in place, which is the environmental impact Certification and to be sure that no there were there was no Power waste or a footprint enough too much carbon footprint by running your data center in some cases we found Explicit references to open stock in which cases in object storage They when they said we want to be sure the object storage might must be the objects in the object storage must be portable They referred explicitly to open stack swift Architecture transparency and compatibility. They asked the provider to declare Providing more points. It was meant. It was not mandatory, but if you declare Your underlying architecture may the iPervisor the orchestrator, etc They would provide you more points, but they were providing more points if you were running open stack and The third one when they asked for APIs should reflect industry standards. They explicitly referred to open stack. Okay, so There might be the case of someone with some homebrewed solution providing APIs, but not compliant with the industry standard They asked for more compliance to allow more more portability so the The main goal for the the you was to avoid any vendor lock-in They didn't want they wanted to bring the data and the processes out of their data centers But they didn't want to find themself tomorrow locked in into someone some big providers data center other references to other Competitors of ours VMware initially they asked for live migration mandatory At the first stage of the tender participation, we were allowed to ask questions In one night I posted I personally posted 70 questions Because we were not agreeing with some of the requirements I mean in our vision when you ask for cloud services means you are talking about instances and not virtual machines So the workloads can move across instances if you use the proper techniques You can just get rid of the VM and build another you can snapshot and rebuild etc So having live migration should have meant a huge impact on our design So we just asked a lot of questions and the guy on the other side was very smart. We were very happy to find some intelligent person on the other side Agreed on the fact that asking for a mandatory migration live migration would mean to shrink the Options just to a few one a few ones and not to include all the other ones so they asked for our BAC and I am like Amazon I am like role-based access and control which we open stock is a bit tricky so far and All the trades like cloud trades So at the end of the day, they just cherry-picked the best of three that they wanted to build their own cloud by Getting the best the most out of the the market So and now it's up to the team what we did Anybody familiar with this movie old enough to be familiar with the Goonies. Okay, if you are not Check it on IMDB.com So this is actually a selfie We have shot in front of the you commission the first time we were invited after the award And we have Diego on the from the left Diego Cabezudo from Giga's Alexandre Steiner and the finger John from Numajie and on top me and even bought the CEO of entries here tomorrow Today with me. So we're together. We have built the cloud team alliance. We decided that in order to be ready to Fight against the big ones the big players. You will see later on. Who are they? We needed to be Together and to have more weight together So we finally ended up with a team of four now the cloud team alliance has expanded including also Germany and Belgium etc. But at the starting point we were four and we were enter cloud suite, which is us For Italy numer G. Everybody knows numer G is one of the biggest players of open stock in In Europe and France now is acquired by SFR Mio formerly Portugal telecom and and Giga's pure KDM based the homebrewed Solution for Spain and Latin American they grow in at the very fast pace So we built this team and we started to build our answers to the RFP Our guiding principles were this we are not big. We are small So we decided the number could be a viable option to answer to the the size Resource optimization because the more we are the more we can share capacity. So reducing cost for everybody and having a team that brings value to a Brand which is cloud team alliance could be better than running alone We are very focused on customers since we have not huge as the global players We can just focus more on customers. We can hear them. We can help them and support them country value Europe is a Group a community of countries very different in languages in traditions, but not that different in beliefs and and Fundamental values So we thought it could be very important for us to build an alliance to to be ready for Europe And the partner ecosystem because some of them really work hard with partner to develop their network. So here's our proposal we looked out around our respective infrastructure and we found out that our Existing enter cloud suite platform was out 80 percent ready to answer to all these specifications So what is enter cloud suite enter cloud suite is a public cloud developed since we started in 2010 and we released the first region in Milan in 2013 and then we released the second and third region in on Easter 2014 it's based in Milan where we live and Frankfurt and Amsterdam we are connected to the main Internet exchange in Europe. So we have a very powerful network. We have a 10 gig 10 gig ethernet over STH ring connecting all the dots you see we have plans to expand also in London Paris may be in Brussels and So there's a lot of capacity between all the regions, but every region is is a is a single Silo not connected with the other ones except for two Three things one is users obviously every user is Configured on any region. The other one is object storage every time you just snapshot something in one region It's immediately propagated to The other regions following the unique as possible swift routing policy and since Snapshots are stored into swift every time you take a snapshot of an instance in one region You immediately can find it available for a restore in another region. So it's pretty Comfortable to have for your disaster recovery solutions In the middle we have three possible access Interfaces one is our dashboard We are developed our dashboard just to improve the user experience that you may have with the Ryzen, which is very basic I won't say any more and we'll say more and Obviously the CLI in order to provide geographical replication between the regions we developed our own DNS as a service based on an anycast network So we picked the best out of route 53 from Amazon and from din DNS Route 53 is based on geo IP tables and din DNS on anycast So we put them together so you can have standard DNS, but you can also have HA between different regions So if one region phase that you have an L checks changing the other DNS resolution and Moving your traffic towards another region and you can also have geo DNS Based on the region where you ask the query you are answered with a different resolution IP and Also, we have partnered with the big European and now global partner iBernia Networks Formerly a throttle to provide CDN. They have 200 pops in the world and they provide Distribution and low latency access more over They also provide streaming services on top of CDN. So the data physically resides in Europe But you can access it at a low very fast speed and low latency everywhere from everywhere in the world Obviously, we also plugged in heat for automation We use cilometer for accounting and then we plug our billing system to provide all your financial information We are open source At our heart we use this kind of technologies look if you can find the intruder there's one in the picture and middle line and We we are really fond with open source We like to open stock for being open source and collaborative which are not always the same thing and also We are not paying any single license to anybody to run our Infrastructure, this is very important because We need to we need a lot of software to run computing we use KVM Obviously, we use swift or object storage. We provide network. We're using only open source Components like open V switch and all three agent etc. We have developed our own DNS We run CDN just with the partners. They just we just resale someone else's service and We are working hard with to deploy some alerting and monitoring services Who are the competitors in this in this challenge? Okay, you can see lot you as the middle column. We had Verizon Which was actually participating with the former taro mark I think Accenture and complex means Asia and We have ATOS with some Siemens acquired stuff in VMware IBM with soft layer BT with BM or definitely CSCI don't remember us with open stack telecom Italia sparkle Which means Amazon Web Services IS Group B of a I don't remember who they are But I know for sure does no open stack in that competition. So The evaluation was declared initially from the beginning. So it was a document saying we will we will test your your Installation I just switched off again. We will test your infrastructure doing this and this and this and this so it was pretty helpful and one thing we got Letter I was you know in Italy in August everything stops I was at the seaside everybody was at the seaside and I got on 28 August 28 I got this letter from the you this thing Are you sure you're going to provide these prices because these prices are abnormally low compared to the other ones? And that's why it was so important not to pay any license when you run your open stock cloud, okay? Abnormally low it anybody confident with this movie. Okay So this was the award On lot one BT one single winner 10 million euros for Private yes on lot two public yes BT again IBM with soft layer ATOS Accenture with Microsoft and the cloud team alliance Okay, this was very important. Look how big they are and how small are we so we did it against any odds and Lot three was won by telecom Italian sparkle with Amazon Accenture again with Microsoft ATOS and IBM with soft layer So what we learned from this Thing we were obviously very proud of the result. We couldn't expect we could go so far But we understood that being European is very important so far for Europe for Europe European agency for the European Union It's very important because of not only for the political but also for the values Europe brings It's hard time. It's a hard time for global players I don't know if you are aware of the safe harbor issue on October 6 2015 the court of justice sentenced that the safe harbor was illegal and then it was struck down Because in 2011 a guy from Austria and I don't remember the name He is in a civil rights activist He just asked Facebook to tell him, please I want to know all the personal data you have Related to me and they provided that 1244 pages document with a lot of stuff more than what should be in place He discovered that faiths Facebook had not deleted some contents that he was supposed to be deleting so it should Facebook Ireland and Ireland politely forwarded the the problem to the court of justice and Four years later the court of justice sentenced the safe harbor to be Illegal what is the safe harbor is the treat? it's Between the European Union and the US trade Commission, I don't know the exact name by which US based companies can manipulate and you Can I cannot say manipulate personal data in Europe for European citizens? They can do this Only if they assure that the security measures they take are enough and compatible with European law in this case Facebook was not Compliant and so all the framework collapsed It was replaced six months later by the privacy shield, which is almost the same thing But so there's a problem now with the new rules in in data protection It's a green field now. Everybody can play his game, but it's game But the rules shall shall be the same for anybody. Okay, no more advantages for Non-European companies. Everybody should play with the same rules Federation is a must I've been to countless meetings about federation, but what it means federation here is a Competition it means different companies different commercial interests for companies that need to join their forces in order to provide a larger a Broader set of services to broader customers institutional customers. It's not just academic It's something it's very important for small public cloud providers when we started four years ago five years ago Everybody won't say okay. It's there's Amazon You're doomed. Okay It was not true. It was not true, but federation was the key about this and Europe wants European companies like us to grow they need European providers, okay, because even if the NSA provides all the Clarifications and papers etc. They're not safe with bringing the data from Europe to the US So open stock enabled us to do something we were not supposed to do we thought we could not do so thanks to all the community for supporting us and What happens now? We have to sell we have to go door by door there's on the Super User magazine does an interview and I said it's like in the 50s. Yeah, you have to sell door by door like brushes now. No, we sell open stock. We sell cloud services We have to convince Every IT manager in the EU that using open stock using DevOps using CI CD is important It's future proof you have to change the way you work like Boris Ratsky said today It's a matter of people and processes and there I can assure it There's a huge amount of work to do on people and processes, but it's something most of them are Unaware of but some of them are very aware. I found the European environment agency They have just released the the perfect integration with Docker and Jenkins they are the maintainers of this stuff that you already use containers and tons of containers So there are some exceptions and there are more tenders Ongoing so more opportunities for us to participate So I would just close my presentation with a call to action If there is any European operator here that wants to join us We are looking for companies that want to join our alliance in order to share our capacities Sharing capacity means to have a common approach to the market and to provide what you are able to do in terms of capacity in terms of resources infrastructure and skills obviously So that's it. Thank you for coming. Thank you very much If you have any question, I would be glad to answer You don't have a microphone any questions, please refer them to the wireless microphones in the audience does a microphone over there Sorry for bothering you. Hi. Hi Could you tell me more specifically what the EU liked about open stack and just expand on all those points for me What they liked more Maybe What I didn't like, okay Delight the fact of being open open source. They can check how the code work None of the other competitors was open source. So especially on the security side. They were much They had a lot of relief With us, okay, they can check the code. They can know everything about it. No obscurity about that This is was the main thing. The second one was that If they have chosen us Portability would be assured. Okay, once you start using the Amazon API's you can just move to another name Amazon region You cannot move to another Amazon provider These are the two main things what they didn't like is that that open stack brings an idea of real cloud cloud native applications are Requested you need to cope with some things you're not used to if you come from a VMware world you must imagine that behind the you now there's a huge amount of data centers and servers run with VMware and Microsoft stuff So what what they didn't it's not that didn't they did like it But it's pretty awkward for them to cope with now So that's what we are working now to explain what cloud is how you can leverage open stock in your infrastructure Did I answer to you? Okay Any other question? Okay, thank you very much So you mentioned that the EU is very concerned about most security in general Did you find what difficulties did you experience in terms of? One first bring in open stack into their environments and to bring in any updates Whether it be from different like ice house to Juno or Liberty or such Okay, so the upgrade nightmare you're talking about okay, and we are currently running on Juno version We have plans to move very soon or to kilo the upgrade process takes a lot of time We don't use any facilitator like fuel or other commercial software We just run you want to and so we have to manual update and use back ports for all the releases So the question was how do they cope with the security and the updates the security updates for open stack No, we are not bringing in to that. No. No, we are a public cloud provider So they are we are bringing them into us. Okay, so the problem is migrating the first question They asked us was can I import my VM or machines? Okay. Yes, you can do but why this is what this was the first issue they had There was no issue they didn't ask anything about upgrades, etc Okay, hi, can can you clarify on lot one lot two lot three are all these companies approved? And you are one of them all these companies Like what's the process? Are they all selected? Yeah, they're the first one lot one BT one single winner Okay, every every public every private gas contract shall go to BT. There's no competition For lot two and lot three. It's a reopening now these five are able to raise a compete to bring the contract so every time the An agency has a need for cloud services. They just publish a request to all these five only to this five not to the other ones and The best wins every time. Okay, so Sometimes we lose because it's more Microsoft oriented sometimes we win because it's more DevOps Enabled or more future proof And were there any objections for AWS particularly Was there anything that they said we are not going to go AWS because they have Frankfurt and Ireland right one in Ireland as well. Yeah. Yeah, is there any reason because the data Amazon says if you're storing in that data center, it will never go out of that. No Is there any reason why Amazon was did not participate on that it was not selected? Do you know I didn't tell us the reason why the other one was were excluded, but they won on lot three So I think that was not the point Amazon I know for sure that Amazon has a lot of documentation That proves that the data is not moved without your consent from European regions to the US based region. So I'm sure that was not the problem. Okay Thank you. Bye. Bye