All right, keep your place there in Genesis 25. You know, I had all these flashlights prepared for yesterday. I thought we were going to be hiking in the dark. The lights went out, and I was like, oh, I had all these flashlights. We could have had flashlight church. That would have been fun. Yeah, I thought we were going to run out of time on the hiking trip, so we all had head lamps and everything. We were ready to hike in the dark. And as far as bears, I mean, I proved that I can outrun Angel. That's all I need to know as far as bears go. So. How did he count? Brother, you had a five-second head start. OK, all right, we're not going to discuss it. OK. OK, we're preaching on First Corinthians 5.11. First Corinthians 5.11. We're in the boot series. We're talking about the six sins that will get you kicked out of church. So far, let me just read it for you, First Corinthians 5.11. But now I've written on to you not to keep company if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or a covetous, or idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. With such and one, know not to eat. So here we see we've already gone through fornication. We've already gone through being covetous. We've already gone through being a railer.  We have extortion and idolatry left. So tonight, we're going to talk about being an extortioner. Now, how do you preach a sermon on extortion? I mean, that was my first thought when I started reading this. And at first glance, extortion, that word that we know, it brings up a certain definition in our modern vernacular. And the modern definition of extortion is the practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats. It's obtaining basically benefit through coercion. You think about the shakedown of the shop owner by the mafia or something like that when you think about extortion. Extortion can also refer to political corruption and selling one's influence. Extortion, which is not limited to the taking of property, involves installation of fear that something will happen to the victim if they do not comply with the extortioner's will. You could consider what people are accusing the president of the United States of today of being sort of extortion, like asking for favors from a country and by withholding money, in that kind of case, it's a form of that. I'm not saying that happened or didn't. I don't even care about that. But that's the modern definitions of extortion. Now, in Genesis chapter 25, we see sort of a version of this with what Jacob did to Esau. And if you look down at verse number 29, let's reread the story. And the Bible says, in Jacob saw a potage, poor Esau, by the way. I mean, let me just turn there myself. But I mean, talk about the baby pictures that you never wanted anyone to see.   It's like, that's his welcome to the Bible, you know? It's like, wow. But anyway, so Jacob, and then, you know, Jacob does this to him. In verse number 29, the Bible says, and Jacob saw a potage, and Esau came from the field, and he was faint. And Esau said to Jacob, feed me I pray thee with that same red potage, for I am faint. Therefore was his name called Edom. And Jacob said, sell me this day thy birthright. And Esau said, behold, I am at the point to die. And what profit shall this birthright do to me? And Jacob said, swear to me this day, and he swearing to him, and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and potage of lentils, and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright. So here he's had Esau come in from the field, and I know that Esau is not guiltless here, because it says that he despised his birthright. But Jacob definitely took advantage of the situation. The man was beyond hungry, to the point where he said, whether he was physically ready to die or not, we don't know, but he basically said, he was in a bad place, and Jacob took advantage of that. And he took something from him out of that. Now Jacob was basically withholding his aid from his brother in order to gain financially. He extorted it out of him in a sense. So you say, what is a birthright? Basically a birthright, if you look at these two boys, that Esau was born seconds before Jacob, so he was the elder. He did have what was called the birthright. The birthright was considered a double portion of the inheritance. So if you look at Isaac's whole wealth, his inheritance that he would leave to his two boys, if that's all the people that would get that inheritance, basically it would be cut in three pieces. Esau would get two, Jacob would get one. So he would get a double portion. So instead, now Jacob would get the double portion. So he took something financially from his brother. Okay? He took that from him. We see other versions of extortion type situations in the Bible.  So you say, how could this apply to us? How could someone get thrown out of church for extortion? How could extortion actually exist in a church like this? No one's gonna be threatening to kill anybody. They don't give them money. You know, I've never seen that happen in a church. I've seen a lot of silly things happen in a church but never that, okay? But turn to Ezekiel 22 and I'll show you how this can apply today. I've never actually seen anyone thrown out of church for extortion but I've actually seen what I will call Christian extortion happen in churches, okay? Turn to Ezekiel chapter 22 and we'll see how this can apply to us today. Ezekiel chapter 22. And look at verse number 12. And the Bible says in Ezekiel chapter 22 and verse number 12, in thee have they taken gifts to shed blood, thou hast taken usury and increase and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by extortion. And as forgotten me sayeth the Lord. Verse 13, behold therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made and at thy blood which thou hast been in the midst of thee. So here we see the Bible is equating extortion with dishonest gain. Extortion with dishonest gain. Turn to Ecclesiastes chapter two.  And before we can talk about dishonest gain, I first wanna tell you what, and show you what the Bible says about honest gain. Honest gain. So turn to Ecclesiastes chapter two. Ecclesiastes chapter two. If you go to the book of Psalms, Song of Solomon, and then right before Song of Solomon is Ecclesiastes. In Ecclesiastes chapter two, look down at verse number 24.  Is the same as extortion. So extortion fits in that category of dishonest gain. There's many things that we could put in this big category of dishonest gain, but extortion is one of those subcategories, okay? In Ecclesiastes chapter two, we see that there is something taught in the Bible about honest gain. Okay, about honest gain. Look at verse number 24. In Ecclesiastes two, verse 24, the Bible says, there is nothing better for a man that he should eat and drink, that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw that it was from the hand of God. So it says that from his labor is, you know, the good of his labor is from the hand of God. Look at Ecclesiastes chapter five. Ecclesiastes chapter five, just a couple chapters over. Let's look at some more examples of honest gain in the Bible. Ecclesiastes chapter five in verse 18, the Bible reads, behold, that which I have seen, it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink and to enjoy the good of all his labor that he taketh under the sun. All the days of his life which God giveth him, for it is his portion. Every man also to whom God have given riches and wealth and have given him power to eat thereof and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labor, this is the gift of God. So we see that there's an honest gain. There's nothing wrong with working hard and gaining. The Bible calls that the gift of God, the fruits of your labor. In Psalm 128, I'll just read it for you. The Bible says, Blessed is everyone that feareth the Lord, that walketh in his ways, for thou shall eat the labor of thine hands, happy shall thou be, and it shall be well with thee. So there's nothing wrong with enjoying the fruit of your labor in this life, okay? The Bible says in Psalms that as long as you fear God and you work hard honestly, enjoy the fruit of your labor. The Bible teaches that.  Don't get this idea that oh, this is something that I did, and it's all because of me, and I'm so great, because then you fall into that trap of pride that we talked about this morning once again. So rejoice in your labor. There's kind of a culture in this country that I don't like seeing where it's going, where anybody that has done well must somehow be bad. Some company that does well and has grown and has gotten big is somehow bad or evil just because they're good at what they do. No, there's nothing wrong with having a business, working hard, and enjoying the fruit of your labor. So don't be that guy. Generally, it's a cop-out. People that don't wanna work and do hard work and get honest gain themselves, they like to play down people that do. That's what I've found to be the truth. So we see that, I just wanna point out, I don't wanna spend a lot of time on this, but the Bible teaches that there's an honest gain. And then it teaches that there's dishonest gain. Now dishonest gain could be a sermon series for several weeks, but extortion, in Ecclesiastes 22, is called out as one of those categories of dishonest gain, as extorting your neighbor. Now, let's talk about dishonest gain. Taking advantage of people, that's what this is. Dishonest gain. Now first, let me tell ya, the turn to 1st Corinthians chapter six, and let's look at Christian extortion. Let's call it that, Christian extortion. Now here's the problem with church. You're like, problem with church, what do you mean? The problem with church is that we are commanded to be a certain way towards our brothers and sisters. It's not a problem, it's what the Bible teaches. I'm saying that tongue in cheek. We are commanded to be long suffering. We are the perfect people to extort, or to take advantage of. I mean, we're the perfect people to do it. The true Bible believing Christian is very easy to take advantage of, especially by another brother or sister in Christ. And so that's the danger here. So that's what I wanna talk about tonight. Look at 1st Corinthians chapter six and verse number seven, and I'll show you why. 1st Corinthians chapter six and verse number seven. Now Paul is talking here about people that are suing each other, that Christians that are suing each other, taking each other to law, but I wanna apply it elsewhere as well. Now therefore there is utterly fault among you because you go to law with one another. Why do you not rather take wrong? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? Turn to Matthew five. But basically the Bible is teaching here that before you get in an argument and go to the law and go to sue your brother or whatever, even having an argument with your brother, it is better to just suffer yourself to be defrauded. That's the best.  So on the end of the person who's being taken advantage of, I'm really kinda commanded to suffer myself to be defrauded, okay? Now in Matthew chapter five, look at verse number 41, and we'll start reading in verse number 41. We'll see just more commands on how we're supposed to respond to people as Christians. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain, go with him too. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee, turn not away.  So look, on the individual basis, the church, this church, is full of people that are willing to help. People. And you know, that can turn into something that people can get taken advantage of. Unfortunately. The worst example I've seen with this personally was at a church that we were at, not in California. And it's the most extreme case I've seen yet. And I was literally at this church, let me just let me give you an example of this, because I've seen it in the church. A guy is, we're in a circle of guys in fellowshiping after church, and he's saying, he's like, oh yeah, I have this thing, it could be cancerous. And I need this ultrasound or whatever it was. And I'm like, whoa, that's bad. I'm like, are you gonna get that looked at when you're gonna get in to look at that? And he's like, well, the ultrasound is $400. And I just can't afford that right now. And I'm like, brother, go get the test, right? And I pulled him aside after the conversation.  I mean, it might be, it's your brother for crying out loud, right? So he goes, a week goes by, I see him a week later, and I was like, hey, did you get the test? Did you get the test? And he's like, oh no, it was, I can't even remember the excuse he gave, but it was no big deal. I didn't really need to get the test, all that. It's just like, so the check is cashed, and that's just, that was the end of it. And I'm like, okay, you know. I'm just gonna suffer myself to be defrauded. I mean, there was several examples of this, not just with us, but other people. It was his wife, we don't have any food. I don't know what we're gonna do this week. I mean, fellowship after church, I don't know what we're gonna do this week. We don't have any food for the kids. So I mean, people were just going out and getting them food, right? Because what in the world? You don't have anything to eat? So people are buying them food, paying their bills, all this kind of stuff.  And I've never seen it in a good church. But personally, we are supposed to suffer ourselves to be defrauded, right? Like this is why I was talking to Brother Perry out soul winning today.  Cause I'm like, I'm good at some things. Being a landlord is not one of them. Because the people would be like, well, you know, my cousin died, or my uncle died, or my parakeet died. And that's why I can't pay the rent this week or next week. And I'm like, you know, I'm 95% sure they're lying to me.  You know, so I'm just like, I'll just suffer myself to be defrauded for a couple of weeks. And then, you know, they wrecked the house and all this kind of stuff, right? But look, ultimately folks, what I'm trying to get here is lines do need to be drawn. Lines do need to be drawn. You can't just get defrauded constantly, okay? But I'm trying to just get across to you that as a general people, in this Bible-believing church, we are going to be easy to take advantage of by our brothers and sisters especially. So if we get somebody in the church that just is constantly taking advantage, you know, it could become a problem. Because that's the nature of who we are. Now the church itself, I'm starting to realize, you know, why churches need to have policies on things. You know, a lot of things you don't really realize until you actually get into the ministry, this is one of them. You know, we're not just going to hand out money to people. Ever. And we will have people ask that. And we will not, people come to a church thinking they can just get things from the church. And you know, one thing that I've learned being in this role, especially underneath Pastor Jimenez, is that we are to be very careful with the church's funds. There's many times when Pastor, I will call Pastor and I'll say we need this and this is how much it costs. And he will say to me several times this has happened. He will say to me, can you find a cheaper option? And so I will continue looking and I will find a cheaper option. So we need to be careful with the church's funds as leaders and we need to draw lines in these types of areas. You know, the camera wasn't working, we figured out we could buy a $10 battery and a $4 cord and keep it going for another year. Things like that, you don't like the red carpet? Too bad, it's not going anywhere. I actually like it, it's growing on me. You know, we're not gonna be remodeling the building any time soon because we're just not gonna do things that don't really matter right now. I mean, we're growing a church where the first works isn't having an awesome sound booth or whatever, you know? I mean, so, but the church needs to have policies so the funds of the church that is God's is protected. Okay, and ultimately in our personal lives, we need to have some lines as well. Okay, and I'm gonna show you why. Go back to Ezekiel. So you say, well, you know what? I just get taken advantage of all the time. I just don't know. I can't, you know, I don't know what to do. Well, let's look, go to 1st Timothy, chapter five and keep your finger in Ezekiel. But let's look at 1st Timothy, chapter five first. Let's look at what the Bible says about who deserves our help.  And in 1st Timothy, chapter five, you know, the Bible gets pretty detailed about this. Look down at verse number nine. The Bible says in verse number nine, let not a widow be taken in the number under three score years old having been the wife of one man. Right there, we eliminated like, you know, 99% of everyone in the United States. I mean, it's like number one, there's no men. Number two, you have to be a widow. So there goes most of the women. And number three, you have to be at least 60 years old. And you can't even be, you know, married more than one time. So if you've had more than one husband, I'm sorry. You know, you say, that's pretty strict. But wait, there's more. Look down at verse number 10. Well reported of for good work.  It matters for this lady. Well reported of for good works. If she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.  They're looking at these women and they're like, how did they live their life? So they found a 60 year old widow. And they're like, okay, but has she been married more than once? Was she serving the Lord like her whole life? And if that's the case basically, you know, then maybe we'll think about it. I mean, that's pretty strict rules here. As far as who they are to, you know, support. Look at verse number 11. But the younger widows refuse. From what they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry. That kind of fits into this morning sermon. Having damnation because they have cast off their first faith. And with all they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house. And not only idle, but tattlers also. And busy bodies speaking things which they ought not. I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary, to speak reproachfully. For some are already turned aside after Satan. If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them and let not the church be charged that it may relieve them that are widows indeed. So basically what he's saying is that you're supposed to take care of your own family. So the rest of the widows, they're gonna have family that are gonna take care of them. This is the basis of 1st Timothy 5-8. If any provide not for his own, he is worse than an infidel. It's in the context of widows, but it applies to your whole family. Because if you're supposed to take care of a widow that you're related to, you're definitely supposed to take care of your own children. I mean, you can just infer that, all right? But look, the point I'm trying to make here is this is the kind of personal responsibility taught in the Bible. And it is a completely foreign concept today. That's why biblical servitude that we talked about a few weeks ago or a couple weeks ago, it's just a foreign concept today. People can't understand it. What, I have a debt and I actually have to pay it off? I actually have to work to like, fix something that I broke? Or I stole something and I have to pay it back? It's weird today. It's a foreign concept. If we suddenly implemented this in the US, like probably an entire generation of people would die. Or they would, you know, go to work, one of the two. But I mean, I'm trying to get you to understand that as far as people taking advantage of you, the Bible draws a pretty seriously strict line on who deserves help. Okay, so look back at 1 Timothy 5, 11. If you wanna know how to handle people that you don't wanna take advantage constantly of you. And the word you're looking for here is refuse. That's how you do it. You say no. You can say no to people that are taking advantage. You know, they will marry in the case of 1 Timothy 5, 11. They will marry. In the case of somebody constantly taking advantage in the church, they will find a way to get their own money, or their own food, or their own $400, or whatever it is. And they will stop taking advantage. You will stop that bad behavior, basically. Look, this is why welfare is so evil. Welfare is evil. It destroys people.  I grew up around Indian reservations. And let me tell you something.  And that is biblical, what I just said. Because we took whatever you wanna say about the settlement of the United States, we, for the next hundreds of years, we destroyed them as a people by implementing this reservation system.  The foster care system in North Dakota is just full of Native American kids. And that's just the ones that they know about. I mean, it's terrible. People don't even go there, it's so bad. And it's no different in inner cities, it's not about the Native Americans, we're all of one blood, we know that. It's about the system of just handing people something for nothing, it ruins them. It destroys them, it's evil. So when you sit here and you constantly let people take advantage of you, and you constantly are giving and giving, and giving to people who need to get for themselves, you could actually be hurting them. It's what I'm trying to get, on a micro level. I mean, we see the macro level of the welfare system in the United States. That's a macro level of what I'm talking about here. It's the same thing, it's the same thing. They will marry, they will get a job, it's no different. Now, turn back to 1 Corinthians 5-11. When you refuse, and you start saying no to people who take advantage, it's the equivalent of 1 Corinthians 5-11. It's the equivalent of someone being put out of the church. They're being chastised, they're being, you know, you're encouraging them to get right. You're actually helping them. It's the same philosophy, Fia, as delivering them unto the Satan for the destruction of the flesh, as 1 Corinthians 5-11 says. When somebody gets thrown out of church, it's not that we never want to see them again.  It's the same thing. Somebody constantly wants to take advantage, take advantage, take advantage. No, get it right, do it yourself. Get right, become who you're supposed to be as a Christian. These are brothers and sisters doing this to each other. And it's why it works so well for people because on the receiving end, you have these people who are just suffering themselves to be defrauded, and I'll go with you two miles, and I'll give you my coat also. That's what they're doing on that side, okay? But lines need to be drawn. I'm trying to get you to understand even on that side to help your brother. Look, let's have a Verdi Baptist culture moment again, okay? This, look, one day in a good friend of mine from Sacramento, we were talking, he has his own business, and he told me how much money he needs to make every day in order to keep the machine of his family running, if you know what I'm saying. How much money his labor has to bring in to pay his taxes, his business fees, his materials, all these types of things. And I mean, I was kind of blown away. I was like, whew, you know, because he's not a rich man. And you know, but he's telling me this, and he told me that number, and look, this is why I would never even think about asking him to do anything for me, ever. Because look, I'm not messing with that. I'm not messing with that. I'm not literally taking food off his table. I mean, what kind of man would I be if I would do something like that?  I'm not saying you're never gonna need a favor. Don't misunderstand what I'm saying. Everybody needs a help in hand every now and then. There's nothing wrong with asking a brother or sister a favor, but I personally will always air on the side of caution here. I always wanna do more for you than you will do for me. And we should have that culture here. We should have that culture. Look, if this guy ever did any work for me, I knew we would be caught in this weird back and forth of him trying to do stuff for me, and then I'd try to, it'd just be this weird battle. And I didn't want any part of it, and neither did he. I mean, it was just a great mutual friendship. Whenever he did a small thing for me, I'd do something for him, and he'd do something. I mean, that's a great friendship to have. I've mentioned this before. That's the culture we wanna have here. We always wanna do more for each other than we feel people are doing for us. That would be a great culture of a church. Okay? So look, I don't have a huge long sermon tonight, because this is a pretty simple thing, right? But the bottom line is, if you don't fit the category of someone who deserves help, and let me just scan the, no one in here does. Okay? And people are constantly doing things for you. You know, you're taking advantage. You know, you say I don't like hearing this. Well, you know, welcome to church. Amen. So let's think about this. Let's think about, you know, this culture that we wanna have here, and how we wanna be to each other. I should always wanna do more for you than you do for me, and vice versa, right? I mean, that's a great relationship. That's a great brotherhood that we would have, and a great sisterhood that we would have. And ultimately, look, I've never seen it. I've never seen someone get, you know, thrown out of church for something like this. But you know what, anything's possible. I mean, if I've learned anything in the last few years, is that anything is possible. And let's make sure that we're not, you know, we understand what honest gain is. The Bible's very clear that honest gain is okay.  There's nothing wrong with that.  You know, there's nothing wrong with working hard, and growing your business, and moving your family into a nicer neighborhood. Nothing wrong with that at all. That's, you know, that's great. The Bible says that, but don't forget that it's not you that did it. It's your, you feared God, you did what he told you by working hard, and it's a gift from God.  Don't look at me like that.  And he said to me, he's like, you know, he's like, I go to church, and I do what I'm supposed to do. He's like, but God doesn't put food on my table. That's what he said. And you know, that's just one of those things that just stuck with me forever, because you know what? You fear God. That's the only thing you should fear. You work hard, you do what you're supposed to do, but everything that you are given is a gift from God.  Because it's a gift, you don't deserve it. But the Bible does teach that if you work hard, there's nothing wrong with honest gain. But let's be careful about taking advantage of our Christian brothers and sisters, because guess what? Most of them will let you take advantage of them. So let's just not have that in this church. Let's keep a good culture here. Okay, let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer. Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for the Bible. We thank you for just this wisdom that we can pull from, Lord. We just ask you that you bless this church, you grow this church, help us have the right culture in this church where we're trying to do for each other, Lord. We're trying to do more and more for each other and not the other way around, Lord. And just keep us aware of that. And we love you, Lord. Please bless the rest of our evening and the fellowship to come. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.


The best places for non-native English speakers to teach English abroad. Although it is true that there are some countries where employers will only consider native English speaking ESL teachers, either due to government restrictions or simply personal preference, there are still plenty of great opportunities across the world for non-native English speakers. In this article, we look at the best teaching destinations for people who are not from one of the countries generally considered to be native English speaking. Typically, these countries are Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK, and the USA. Where to teach English in Asia? Due to the huge demand for foreign English language teachers across much of Asia, there are always plenty of jobs available regardless of your native language. So what are the best options for non-native English speakers in Asia? Teaching in Thailand. Known as the land of smiles due to its welcoming nature, Thailand is one of the most popular destinations in Southeast Asia for ESL teachers from around the world. There is a strong demand for teachers in many parts of the country and jobs are always available at any time of the year. In order to qualify for a work permit, you will need a four-year degree and be able to prove that you have a high standard of English that is equivalent to 600-plus on the TOEIC test, or 5-plus on the IELTS test. Although not an official requirement, a TEFL certification will also improve your chances in the job market. Teaching in Cambodia. As one of the rising stars in the ESL teaching world, Cambodia is another great option for non-native English speakers in Southeast Asia. As the demand for teachers currently outweighs the available supply, there are few restrictions on who can legally work in the country. Regardless of your nationality or academic qualifications, if you are keen to find a teaching job you should have little problem finding one in Cambodia. Although you shouldn't expect to earn as much as in some other countries in the region, Cambodia does offer a friendly and vibrant culture which creates a perfect environment for gaining valuable classroom experience. Teaching in China. While work visas for foreign teachers are restricted to native English speakers only, China's unrivaled demand means that there are still plenty of opportunities for everyone in this vast country. At any given time there are many thousands of teaching positions waiting to be filled which leads employers to try any means possible to attract the staff they need. One of the most common options is to provide a teacher with a business visa which allows them to stay in the country. While it is technically illegal to teach with this visa, it is still a popular option for many who want a benefit from all that the world's largest teaching market has to offer. Where to Teach English in Latin America. The good news for non-native English speakers is that there are few restrictions on who can teach English in most countries in the Latin America region. Jobs are plentiful in many areas and we would certainly recommend the following countries right now. Teaching in Mexico. With a population of over 120 million and a very close trade relationship with its northern neighbor the USA, Mexico has an unsurprisingly high demand for English language teachers. The capital Mexico city is home to the largest market for teachers, although there are also several other major cities worth looking at, including Guadalajara, Monterey, Puebla, and Tijuana. If you prefer a sea breeze to the hustle and bustle of the city, you may want to check out some of the country's many popular beach resorts such as Acapulco or Cancun where the thriving tourist industry ensures there is always a need for English teachers. Teaching in Costa Rica. Although relatively small in size compared to many other countries in the region, Costa Rica has long been a popular destination for foreign English teachers. As well as the attraction of its many natural wonders, Costa Rica is particularly popular as it is possible to work legally on nothing more than a common tourist visa. The majority of teaching jobs can be found in the capital and largest city San Jose, while the country's booming tourist industry has also created other hot spots in towns and cities across the country. Teaching in Colombia. Like Cambodia, Colombia is a rising star in the ESL teaching world. Although it was effectively off limits for most visitors for many years, Colombia is now a rapidly developing nation that has a great deal to offer foreign teachers. The country's vastly improved security situation has led to a surge in foreign business dealings and international tourism that has created a strong need for English language instructors. If you are looking for a destination that is still developing and is ripe with opportunities then Colombia could be the perfect place for you. An honorable mention goes to Turkey. Although teaching opportunities for non-native English speakers are often quite limited in much of Europe, Turkey is one country that is certainly worth a look. Although a degree and previous teaching experience are generally required for the best paying jobs, there are always plenty of options available regardless of your nationality. The most important thing is to speak to the employer either directly or via Skype so you can prove your English language skills in person. As it occupies a unique position at the crossroads between Europe and Asia, Turkey is also a great location for exploring farther afield. Job hunting tips. As a non-native English speaker, it is essential that you do all you can to maximize your employability. One very positive step you can take is to complete a TEFL certification course before applying for jobs. This will not only equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to impress potential employers, but also prove that you take your role as an educator seriously. You might also consider gaining some classroom experience before leaving home by volunteering in community centers or language schools in your hometown. A new teaching career awaits you regardless of your native language. 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th the fact that the conversation we're having here and the fact that we're trying to do this on the occasion of the 50th year anniversary of the Turner commission is that this is inevitably about power it is inevitably about power and so when we bring the facts forward and marshal a conversation about school transformation we really do have the unfortunate burden I personally think of putting this in a broader political and social context greatly diminished public support for many things not just the schools gradual privatization of pretty much everything right the prisons healthcare system schools arguably correlated with the decline in the proportion of white middle class students of them that's number one number two changing public expectation I've looked at polling data in the sound and Raymond you're going to need to look at the data that shows it's not that folks don't care about the collective good it's just that it's dropped down the list of priorities in the times in which we currently live imagine a baby boomer taking care of his or her parents on the one hand and still paying for their kids college on the other they're sort of in this sort of track you know between these two tectonic plates they're increasingly focused on and are inclined to prioritize the returns to individuals over public outcomes and public ends couple that with the ascendancy of market theories as holding solutions to our most pressing problems we've just been through two decades of a rather focused, highly disciplined well resourced narrative about all the things bad with government reflect back to how Linda started this company in the days of the commission what had we been through we had fought two world wars we fought a Korean war we fought a cold war and we came out with a dividend that dividend we decided in the moment to turn to our most pressing domestic challenges the country thought that government to be brief was part of the solution not part of the problem that near has been flipped has been flipped completely on his ear and my time is nearly up actually my time is up but this is not new for me not new experience I'm used to bells ringing in my ear perfectly capable of ignoring them if I have a little more sake but I would just argue that we have to put the facts and our ideas about school transformation in the broader context of the kind of social dynamics that are operating at least right now and I think this brings me back to Zakiya and her arguments about building power and Gary's observation that we are a catastrophe in the making point is this we need to figure out how to help folks with power understand more vividly the implications of not addressing these issues with the quality of the lives they lead if we can't connect those dots this will just take that much longer and the longer it takes the harder this is to solve and the more kids to Zakiya's point be loosed I knew when I got up here nothing I would say would be particularly helpful but I just want you to know it felt good to say and with that I close the meeting now know why I ask to perform this benediction because there's always so much to take home just leave us with this thought it is not only about helping those in power see how this redounds to their benefit I think about a school bond issue that was being brought in a community in Southern California that had once been an all white community now mostly Latino many older voters etc and they had an ad on the television which showed the little kids playing and then made the point that these are the children and they have to support with their taxes your social security your health care the quality of your life how much education do you want them to have and so we got to bring that point but we also have to be about the business of acquiring more power for those who already hold these views don't forget to vote and on that note thank you for coming all the materials will be available on the website


Hold a moment, apprentice. Let me feel ahead. The floor is rotten here, and it's a long way down if you fall. The Magistail. It's a first person VR dungeon crawler or PG by In-Axile Entertainment. Originally released for PC VR and now it comes to PlayStation VR. But is this game magic or will it leave you with a floppy wand? Let's find out. The Magistail takes place in the world of the Bairdstail and is set before the events of the Bairdstail 4. Fans of the series will likely find many references and easter eggs here, but personally as someone who never played a Bairdstail game before, I didn't know what to expect. Luckily for me, the plos is pretty straightforward and easy to follow. You play the role of an apprentice mage. Your master is abducted at the start of the game and it's up to you and your blue sidekick crux to mount a rescue mission against an evil wizard. Things aren't very straightforward, however, and you'll make many many detours on your journey to save your master. The story isn't anything mind-blowing, but it does enough to set you on your journey to becoming a more powerful mage. That's pretty cool. The gameplay of the Magistail is based around three pillars. Combat, exploration and puzzle solving. Combat is exclusively range based. Using your two move controllers and that's rice, just move controllers only. You'll be whipping out a spell and physically flinging fireballs at your enemies or electrocusing them with a charged shot from your fingertips. The spells themselves are a highlight of the game as at any point in your journey you can return to your workshop and craft a spell. And as long as you have unlocked the spell and found certain hidden ingredients throughout the world you'll be able to alter spells. Some examples include adding a homing function to your fireballs or increasing the duration of a freezing spell. There are some novel combinations here that are fun to discover and may encourage you to explore the world more so you can increase the combination of effects. It's a bit of a shame then that the actual combat encounters don't match the fun of the spell crafting. The enemies in the game are quite dumb and can be pretty easily fooled and evaded. Some enemy types are more effective than others like the flying goblin for example or the shield wielders who will get right up in your face if you give them a chance. But more often than not, combat encounters were an exercise and simply running around in circles and spamming the enemies with spells until they stopped respawning. Completing combat encounters will reward you with XP for leveling up and when you reach a new level you'll get to choose one of two upgrades which felt a little anemic especially when you consider the depth of upgrading in that other viewer or PG Skyrim. It's a good thing then that the puzzles in this game are where the game really shines. Throughout your journey to save your master you'll need to overcome a wide variety of puzzles. Some of these puzzles are optional and some you'll only encounter if you explore the linear dungeons well enough. The puzzles in this game felt really nicely designed. I never found myself too frustrated at the tougher ones and when I saw of them it gave me that feeling that I also found in Stasic and Red Mazur a feeling of being intelligent. A very impressive trick. Most puzzles come with hints given to you via large stone mouths in the walls that speak to you in rhyming riddles and are occasionally funny. I'd encourage you all to at least try and seek out the optional puzzles as they are usually well thought out and rewarding. Ah ha ha, sick. That was a good puzzle. The Mages Tale isn't a stunning looking game graphically. Now I was playing on a PS4 pro and it was a little bit blurry at times. Though the devs have stated that they were working on a pro patch but right now just keep that in mind. The special effects that come with casting spells are also somewhat underwhelming. Fireballs don't exactly like the place up with sparks and the electric spell looks like something you might find on PS2. But keeping in mind the limitations of VR it's hard to blame this on the devs rather than the hardware. However, I will say that the Mages Tale has a very nice art style. You'll stumble into beautiful large caverns, you'll come across large and impressively detailed statues and you may even be disturbed by some of the laser levels but in a good way. The audio in the Mages Tale does a decent job. Some things can be irritating such as enemy dialogue being repeated over and over in quick succession or when your sidekick crux says a line that seems to get cut off slightly sooner than it should but other than little niggles like that you should be satisfied. I also have to give a special mention to the soundtrack that plays in the loading screens. Celtic themed songs are sung beautifully in Gaelic though the serious melancholy tone of the songs don't seem to quite fit the goofy and cartoonish tone of the game itself. The Mages Tale is available now on the ps store for around 30 euros slash dollars and for that price I can easily recommend it to VR players who are looking for either a fantasy game or who love puzzle games like maybe Stasiq or Red Matter. While the combat isn't quite as exciting as I would have hoped there's still enough here in this game that works well enough to overlook us. Eight out of ten. Thanks for watching my review lads and ladies and before I end the video let me give special thanks to my patreon supporters for their help their names are on screen right now you lads and ladies really make doing this worthwhile so thank you very much if you want to add your name to the list then check out the link in the description but if you don't want to do that then you can help me out the old fashioned way with likes and shares and subs and all that and I'd appreciate it very much thank you again for watching I'll see you in the next one and bye for now


And I'm here from Nexra. Actually, the presentations that occurred before actually provided great introduction to what I'm hoping to speak a little bit about more today. So I came to India with the idea of trying to help our company locate our customers on a more efficient manner. We have about 25,000 customers at the moment, and we want to be able to locate them on a house-by-house basis. But right now, as we know, the app systems really aren't so efficient. And in the city that we're based out of Inhooli, this information is very inconsistent. And a lot of areas don't even have street names, just the basic information. So actually, when I arrived to India, I was interested in mapping, but I didn't really quite know how complicated or how interesting this whole project might be for me. I wasn't even told an address of where I was located because, well, it's actually not even useful. And I found out that after riding here, the auto driver, taxi driver that I was to give an address to would probably even have to ask five, six, seven different people before I even get to the location. So just having someone who knows that local knowledge is actually much more useful. It's getting you to that address than trying to crowdsource information on a constant basis. So what I'm hoping to provide here is some of the experiences that we've been facing on the field, as on a day to day basis, we're hoping to at least get to 500 customers a day. So what coming out of our report is an extra. A little background about us, we provide SMS messages to our customers of when their water supply is going to start. And we, people get water only every three to four days. So that leaves a lot of wait time for when your water is going to arrive. Some people may not be able to go to work because they're always waiting to collect the water when they need to. So what we're able to do is we can reduce that wait time to down to as little as 30 minutes so they can just go home, collect the water, and resume their daily business. At the moment, the way that we are collecting our customers and figuring out where they are is going house to house and gathering their address information. So what we've been doing is we go to our house, we ask them what their address is, they tell us all the relevant information that they feel might get us there in the future. And then we enter that data into our system, provide their SMS message through our address system. And then we actually go back to build them. But the problem with going back to build them is, well their address doesn't actually translate if we give it to someone else who's never been to their house before. So you may end up going to one house, two houses, three houses until you finally realize, oh, that's where they were the whole time. So what we're hoping to do is kind of understand better what this local knowledge is and find a way to use it to make more standardized system, which we all know is a little bit difficult, but somehow use that to eventually navigate to our customers in a more efficient manner. So as I was mentioning earlier, we want to locate 500 customers a day. We have over 25,000 customers right now in Boobly. In order to be efficient and to work as best with our resources and time, we want to get to 500 days to build them. And second, local knowledge. We know that the knowledge is there, so how can we get this, put it on a map and use some sort of navigation system to get there? Finally, it kind of seems at the moment that maps are geared towards more larger cities. I had asked earlier if Locazi might consider working with smaller cities, because we feel there's a lot of potential products, markets that could be available to people that are just a lot of cities and their address might not be the most useful, but if we can locate them on a house-by-house basis, then maybe we can provide more products in these areas. So starting with the pros, sure you all find mapping pretty useful, or else you probably wouldn't even be here. So as is to new markets, new products, e-commerce, helping municipal utilities bill our customers more efficiently. And as I was saying, work in efficiency. If we can place our customers onto the maps, we can navigate to them more efficiently. We can see where they are and just work towards if we will improve in general. And finally, because we can, people have some sort of address in their mind, and it's just a matter of collecting this information, figuring out how we can put that on a map and use it to our own advantage. All cons associated with mapping at the moment, we found the first was to be map or literacy. In Hoogley, not everyone is as tech savvy and interested in mapping, or they don't really see the need for it. But if they were placed on a map, then they could provide a lot of opportunities and different services that they could have. So finding the medium of how we can make our maps in a simplified manner, and in a way that others can read it as well and use it, is one of the key goals that we're trying to get to. And emphasize data, which I'll just elaborate a little bit more on. So this is Alston, it's a neighborhood in Boston. And as you can see, the area of boundaries and emphasize data is a problem everywhere. A great percentage of people know kind of roughly where they are, but once you get to the outskirts of the boundaries, it kind of becomes a little bit vague. So different residents, even though they might be located similar to each other, might not be associated with the same area name or colony name. Contradictive data, we've discussed this a little bit so far. We found that in Hoogley, you'd assume that most people might have a plot number or a house name, but there are often times people may have lived in the area for so long that this just isn't something that they even care about. They're able to get the supplies they need, they can live on a day-to-day basis without even having any sort of address. But for our purposes, to be able to provide service, like Neck Shop does, address information would be very useful. Second is a lack of city planning. What I'm trying to say with this is maybe in 2003, all the houses may have had some kind of chronological order, one through five. And just a couple of years later, with more development, all of a sudden, house three isn't located next to house six. House 34 is no longer next to 35, but 72. So how exactly do you find those missing houses? Do you survey an entire area before you can locate them or is there some sort of application that we can create out of this? So maybe it's a generation gap, maybe we need to think about this problem in a different way. People may have come to a city at different times and associate with different landmarks because of when they go to the area. It might be the older building that they associate as landmark or the new gym that just opened. So the next thing that it has done is we haven't exactly come to a solution to this problem, but we're just trying to tablet piece by piece as efficiently as we can. Six to nine months to locate all of our customers might be a little bit too long for us so we can keep our business going, but we kind of tested out a couple of different prototypes so far. So we're collecting address information from our 25,000 customers that most of them associate with the city. Some sort of hub area, parking system, if you give this piece of information to our builders, maybe eventually they can have some sort of systematic way of getting to these households and zoning in on them barely actually applies on the field, it was a little bit messier. Some areas and areas associated with different colonies, they had different names for the same place and it was just a big mess. We were trying to figure out what was going on. So we tried to de-organize our system. Everyone associated with some sort of landmark so we thought maybe if instead we group these households that pick the petro pump for example as their landmark then we can just say they're all located behind the petro pump. We don't need to know what their exact cross street is. Once you can find that landmark then that's enough for us. There were the cases where there just wasn't a landmark at all. Actually that sign up there, I was just happy that there wasn't a sign at all because usually there's just nothing. So we thought maybe we'll just create our own landmarks. So I can say that the houses located between landmarks one and three are to your right. Four and one, our landmarks just was very, very, maybe as we recruit our customers we can just do it in a different way. Instead of a little contact.  The issue with that is we need to locate houses and so getting landscape and launching cornets for every single house is just a very time consuming. So we're trying to just protect very rapidly and that's why he kind of has a mission to add. So we had an area of all and we just assumed he'll be the main point of contact and he can tell us the boundaries of where we're trying to go. So for example, this is an area who gets water supplied between 7 p.m. and 7 p.m. So we put those boundaries out. We put this information on the smartphone and went out there and recruited our customers assuming that all of them in this boundary are gonna get water at the same time. But of course this didn't really happen. So these customers got water at 7 a.m. instead and they were just contradicting information. Who actually knows this information? Is it evolving? Is it the customers? Is it the city? And then we decided maybe mapping isn't the most useful tool for us. Maybe we need to think outside of the box. Being able to locate one customer in an area might be a little more useful than locating every single customer in the area. So I guess, well I'm sorry, I went through that a little. I just wanted to present some of the problems that we've been having on the field and see if there's any ideas that we can develop out of this and how we can get to the customers more efficiently. It's a very crude method that we're using at the moment to locate our customers. But hopefully this information's a little bit useful to what the complications are actually on the field. We found that unplanned development leads to a little confusing maps. And once we have these confusing maps, development and building our cities off of this is still a little complicated. So if we can somehow create maps that help development in the future, then I think we'll provide more opportunities in general. I just have a short. I just wanted to focus on this one. We couldn't do any of this without GIS. For the first time we have a 3D building model for the whole city. That's possible because the whole region now has LiDAR data. LiDAR systems, the satellite aircraft beams down to the earth. The beam bounces back up. They gather information based on the return of objects on the ground. So you end up with a very good terrain model. At laser point accuracy, literally, we can take our information and actually start to visualize things three-dimensionally. Instead of worrying about what if a proposed building threw a shadow all over the park. We did a shadow analysis using the GIS to calculate that it doesn't really impact the park. People went out and measured it and they were within two feet, I believe. The city says you can't build anything that's gonna block the view of the mountain from up on the hills. With the GIS, we're able to do satellite evaluation to improve what they've proposed. Buildings would not block the view of the mountain. And that made people happy. We get maps that actually work. We get influenced the way that development is done and eventually, hopefully these maps are even more useful and we're able to collect information that's actually just more useful to start off with. So I guess for that, I just wanted to put out some questions there and see if any ideas and thoughts might arise. Just to understand your need. Sure. Do you need the address and location only for building collection? Is it also for providing the information that water is coming out? It's for both. It's for both. And that's where we're kind of getting some sort of an issue because the people that actually get water at the same time aren't necessarily associated with one area. So there's a lot of hope in that that's going on. So being able to have different layers on a map is what we're trying to do. Because if it's only for building, you can probably bypass the problem. I mean, you can partner with, for example, Department of the Post. I mean, they're related to the big powers. Yeah, yeah, we have to consider that. Or relatively, you can think of mobile-based payment solutions. Yeah, those are definitely things to think of. You could also look at some address-cleaning solutions. So it's kind of something like, you can pass an address with a comma or a separator and then standardize those addresses using some tools. So if you have one reference point, you can get some other addresses. And then, for instance, it could be some people write as NG road in Bangalore. Some others write as Mahatma Gandhi road. So there are ways of standardizing that and then you can do a geocoding on them. I think we probably have some things that we can follow the process. Yeah, let's hope you just keep going. Are these about this afterwards as well? And one of the things that Yaza Hort was trying to get the lat-long of the place, but he said that that's quite expensive. Yeah, I guess we're just trying to, as quick as a solution as we can at the moment. And that's the thing. Actually, I don't think it is so difficult.  And then you could go back and just do a transcription. So you don't really have to go there, stop at each and every house and say that. Just drive through it. Just drive through it. I can go there. So that's where timestang goes to probably. Instantly in geostag. Okay, yeah, thank you. And if you're already going to the houses, collect the address. You might just as soon get the lat-long. Instead of the address. Yeah. Long-the address. Okay, transport basically are all tools and most of the time many people will be using that. Probably we can use those facilities to get to address whatever we want. More than we frequently go in and out. But yes, part of our problem is even if we can collect this, you know, lat-long information put onto the maps, not many people know how to use these math information. So now we're facing a problem of how do you translate this and put it into a format that some people aren't familiar with maps and actually use to get to their location. So one thing we are considering is how may be printouts are using SMS to get to these locations. But this is still very basic thoughts and we haven't really developed anything out of it yet. One of the things that we have done, I mean, with respect to what we do is reverse geofort. So whenever somebody sends an SMS with a particular address, we try to pinpoint to a particular location that works quite well with our database. So what probably the good thing is if you have a pretty good map database in the back end and then you could provide an address in whatever fashion, whether it's MG Road or Mar-Malan or whatever, depending on the level of accuracy. And obviously it has to be custom designed because you have the extract and where the house number comes, where the road comes, where the EA comes, and then probably get a rough estimate of where exactly this lat-long should be. One interesting thing on that, see, we tried something like that with a place called Maruti Nagar, somewhere near VT. And then actually the reverse geofort in Maruti Nagar, geoforter at some of the Maruti Nagar features here actually. That's why I'm saying the search has to be intelligent enough. So when you say Maruti Nagar, you obviously say Maruti Nagar or Mar, let's say that area. So the more information that you give to, the more data that you give to the search engine with respect to the specificness, the better the result comes out to. For example, if you just- It also appears to be an IOS 6 problem, you know? You're asking for- Yeah, I think, yeah. We should ask them to get in touch with us. We're collecting information from customers. We ask, usually, what is your landmark? And oftentimes we'll get a building, or a room, or a school, or just maybe a tree. But there are oftentimes when people will give us a road also, and then you wonder, if this is your landmark, you could be located anywhere along this route. And it's just being able to gather information from people that is useful to us, is something that we're trying to figure out as a lot. I actually had a different question. You said, you know, you're on the other part of your business, so there's telling people when their water is there. How are you actually collecting that location information? Are you censored data? How do you- We're actually partnered with a water board. So we got this information from the development, the area development, and when they open a pipe, they call it to our IVR system, and that's what sends out the SMS message. Yeah, because really, you know, we correlate, you know, you need to know which pipe someone is on, not just their left, but along for that part, right? Yeah, and there are issues with having two pipe connections, or they tap into another pipe connection. So, yeah, I've also realized on day-by-day basis, I just try to just capture all of that here, and it's like- The size of smaller domes are mixed up as a solution. So, what's that? The size of smaller domes as a operating system What I have seen in villages is that typically this information that water is coming just flows, I mean, a lot of more. Yeah. I've collected a lot of information. So, there, I would think that every household will subscribe to this service to get this information. On the other hand, I think it will be more useful in cities where it's not much of a neighborhood in that sense, and of course it's not like a horizontal flow, but more like vertically, but laser. So, we don't know whose connection is there and what and so on, right? Yeah. So, I wonder like, how is the response and is it like every house subscribed to US service? Yeah, I'd say it's about, maybe about, 70% of the people that would try to recruit actually use our service. They do find it useful. In Cougli, there's quite a wide variety of middle income, high income, low income. And we get different responses from different areas. We're actually still trying to conduct more research to figure out why this is the case. And how much does the service cost? It's 10 rupees per month.


Well hello everyone and welcome to another video of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform featuring our partner Ecosystem and I am Dave Muir, Principal Solutions Architect at Red Hat. I focus on Red Hat Security ISV Ecosystem and in this video I plan to demo an integration between Synopsys Blackduck and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management and this allows you to govern and secure your fleet of Kubernetes clusters by creating a Blackduck policy in Advanced Cluster Management to ensure that Blackduck is deployed in all your clusters so it can automatically scan, identify and monitor the open source and all container images deployed in all of your Red Hat OpenShift clusters. So in this short 10 minute video I plan to give you a solution overview of Synopsys and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes. I'll show a little bit of an architecture overview and then we'll get into a demo with Blackduck and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management. Now this demo focuses on Synopsys Blackduck's integration with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management. If you want to learn more and see a demo about the core concepts of the Blackduck integration with Red Hat OpenShift then you'll want to check out the Synopsys Blackduck on Red Hat OpenShift YouTube video which you'll find on this very same channel which of course is the Red Hat OpenShift YouTube channel. In that video I discussed how Synopsys fits into the Red Hat's DevSecOps framework and specifically the security methods that are integrated in the different points here on the DevOps lifecycle. As you can see Synopsys complements, Red Hat OpenShift as their technology addresses application analysis needs like static analysis, software composition analysis, interactive analysis and dynamic analysis testing as well. I also dove into the Blackduck for OpenShift architecture and how Blackduck's certified operator installs the Blackduck connector and that's responsible for scanning container images to identify security, licensing and operational risk and then retrieving the vulnerability and policy information from Blackduck to place on pods as labels and annotations. Again if you want more detail on this specific integration then please do view that Synopsys Blackduck on Red Hat OpenShift YouTube video it's only about 10 minutes just like this one. Now for this video imagine you have a fleet of more than one cluster either on prem or in the cloud maybe you have a combination of both. Well deploying the Blackduck operator and connector is very straightforward on one cluster but let's say you had 5 or 10 or 100 clusters that task starts to become a bit redundant and you can waste a lot of your time. Plus what if you wanted to know the deployment status of the operator or if any running images were in violation of a Blackduck policy I don't think you'd want to go to each 100 clusters and look at every single pod in the labels and so this is exactly what Red Hat Cluster Management and the Synopsys Blackduck integration do for you. With a pretty straightforward YAML policy you can ensure that the Blackduck operator and connectors are deployed in every cluster under management and you can see a centralized view of which clusters have images that fail Blackduck policy. Now this capability is part of the governance risk and compliance feature with Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes which allows you to centrally set and enforce policies for security applications and infrastructure it also allows you to prevent unintentional or malicious configuration drift. There's three other major capabilities within Advanced Cluster Management they are cluster lifecycle which I always say is the crud for clusters it allows you to create update delete Kubernetes clusters across multiple private or public clouds then there's application lifecycle which allows you to easily deploy an application as well as visualize those applications and their relationships across clusters and then you have end-to-end visibility which allows you to view system alerts, critical application metrics and overall system health. Okay so if I jump over to Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform the first thing I want to do is create a new project we'll call it Synopsys Blackduck this is where the Blackduck connector is going to be installed in through the policy that is governed by Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management. Now if I go over to Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes you can see the four capabilities that I talked about previously and in this case we're going to go to Governance and Risk you can see no policies are created at the moment so I'm going to click Create Policy and what you want to do now is head on over to GitHub to the Open Dash Cluster Dash Management repo and go to the Policy Dash Collection, Community and SI System and Information Integrity folder and there you'll find the Blackduck for OpenShift Policy and you can copy and paste that but there's a couple modifications you need to make and so I'll point that out here copy and paste my version you sort of see when I copied that in some of the fields here were filled out if I go up to the top of the YAML there's three different policy checks that this YAML describes. The first one is that the Blackduck operator is installed on all the clusters you want it to be installed on. The second object definition, the second policy that's enforced is that the Blackduck connector is installed and one of the things you'll want to do here is specify which namespace you want this installed in as you saw I created Synopsis Dash Blackduck earlier and then you'll need to specify the URL and credentials for the Blackduck server that you want the scan results to go to so in this case I'm going to Red Hat hub.blackducksoftware.com and so the third policy is all about ensuring that your pods have been scanned by Blackduck and that there are no vulnerabilities we take a look at this object template you can see it's a compliance type of must have and a label on the pod that says not in violation if remember the integration details with Blackduck for OpenShift it labels pods based on the number of vulnerabilities and the number of policy violations that occur after a scan so in this case if this policy does not find this label and the value of this label is not in violation that means two things one the pod either has vulnerabilities or two if the label doesn't exist container image hasn't been scanned yet so if we take a look at the form everything is filled out for me I'm going to leave enforce if supported checked because once I create this policy it'll then begin to build the OpenShift objects like the Blackduck operator and the Blackduck for OpenShift deployment so I'll click create that's going to redirect me to the governance and risk page and I'll click policy Blackduck you can see it's not compliant right now because it didn't find the operator nor did it find the Blackduck for OpenShift deployment but if we go over to the cluster and take a look at the operators that are being created you can see the Blackduck operator just installed a few seconds ago and that has succeeded so if we go back to the status of our policy Blackduck you'll see that the Blackduck operator is compliant as well as the Blackduck connector is now compliant also because it must have installed the Blackduck connector let's take a look to see if that exists now we go to Synopsys Blackduck and go to workloads pods and there's the Blackduck for OpenShift integration with its four pods now let's see the scanner in action one thing I forgot to point out if we go back to the policy and look at the yaml and we jump down a little bit on the second definition you can see this pod processor node where it has a namespace filter that's looking at Synopsys demo so what this is telling the Blackduck connector to do is to only scan images that are in that namespace so let me create that namespace now what I want to do with Synopsys demo is add an application so I'll go ahead and port some yaml here this is just a simple image called Duckie CRM that does have some vulnerabilities so when I go ahead and create it that will start to build out the pod once a pod creation event occurs Blackduck for OpenShift grabs that event from the Kubernetes API and gets a handle to the image downloads the image into a tar file and scans the tar file and sends the results to the Blackduck server the integration then communicates with the server to get data to send back into the pod in the form of labels so if we scroll down here momentarily we should see some labels that are specific to Blackduck like the ones that just popped up right now so you can see that I've got 56 vulnerabilities these are high vulnerabilities higher critical and the overall status is in violation if you remember in the Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management Policy in the YAML we specified that that label needs to be not in violation and of course that's why we're still not compliant here with this cluster because those labels are in violation okay and if we wanted to just see the results in Blackduck itself we would head on over to your Blackduck server and log in and then you can easily find Duckie CRM by filtering by project you can go into the project itself and you'll notice 26 plus 30 is 56 those are the 56 high and critical vulnerabilities that were drumroll please add it to the label back here in OpenShift in the pod that wasn't that cool now what's even more cool is that this integration was all deployed and it's now managed through Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management and as we saw with a pretty simple YAML we're now able to deploy both the Blackduck operator and the Blackduck connector on n number of clusters regardless of their location we're also able to centrally view which clusters have either not been scanned by Blackduck or in a violation of a Blackduck policy alright I'd like to thank everyone for watching this demo of the Synopsis Blackduck integration with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management and how you can govern and secure your fleet of clusters to learn more please head on over to RedHat.com or the software integrity pages at Synopsis.com have a great day y'all


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I would not have thought that they were for me. This is a feat or not a bug better than what you get at Harry Potter. The Simon Snow Books by Ray Morrell and also Fan Girl. Should you read them? Are they for you? I would not have thought that they were for me even though I was collecting them before I ever read them. And yes, I have quite a few additions here. These are not even all the additions that I will have. I have ordered some more additions and I thought about waiting until they arrived before filming this. But I was like, ah, you have more than one of every single book. So that's quite enough for a stack. So a little while ago, I filmed a video on the Raven Cycle that was, you know, should you read it? Is it for you, etc. And I thought I'd just make similar for this series partly because I do think that there's pretty good crossover. I think there's a decent likelihood that if you like the Raven Cycle, you'll like these books and vice versa. But also, I think because of the similarities, a similar type of discussion video is appropriate in terms of being helpful to you in deciding whether or not you should read these books. So what are the Simon Snowbooks? To explain what the Simon Snowbooks are, we have to start with fan girl. Now I don't mean to say that you have to start with fan girl in your reading, but to understand the Simon Snowbooks and what they are, you have to know about fan girl. When I expressed interest in reading carry on, I was told over and over again, you don't have to read fan girl. You don't have to read fan girl. And I was like, I have to read fan girl. You're like, okay, well then read fan girl. I don't want to read fan girl. That sounds terrible. Well, then don't read fan girl. Just read carry on. No, I have to read fan girl. So earlier this year, I finally did read fan girl and liked it so much that I acquired a nice other edition of it, which has cool illustrations in it, etc. But yeah, to everyone's surprise, most especially my own, I loved fan girl. I didn't just like it. I really loved it. I gave it five stars. Now I don't think when I gave it five stars, it wasn't because I thought this was a masterpiece that everyone should read, etc. Rather, I finished it and I enjoyed it so much that I just, I couldn't think of a reason to dock it any stars. So I was like, I guess that's five stars then. I said, I can't think of a reason not to give it five stars. Fan girl is a contemporary YA fiction book. I guess, I guess a romance. It has a romance in it, certainly. I don't read much contemporary or certainly don't read much YA contemporary and I really don't read YA contemporary romance. Which is why I was like, I don't want to read fan girl. But I did find the main character extremely charming and the premise charming and the humor really works for me. But again, you don't have to read fan girl to read YA. But in fan girl, what you learn is that the main character, Kath, the eponymous fan girl, she is anonymously the author of In Universe, the world's most popular, most celebrated, most followed fan fiction of a Harry Potter-esque story that exists in their universe called Simon's No. There are, in this universe, a series of books about a boy wizard who attends a magic school called Watford. And these books are equivalent in nature and in popularity as Harry Potter. And Kath has written a fan fiction called Carillon, which, again, for a real world parallel, is akin to when people have written Harry and Draco slash fiction, is what the vibe of that is. Is that the main character, Simon Snow, is your Harry Potter, and Carillon is a fan fiction in which Simon has a male-male romance with a villainous character from the Simon Snow books called Baz. And he's got kind of Draco-Malfoy-ish vibes. So there is no romance between those two characters in the Simon Snow books that exist in this universe. That romance exists in Kath's fan fiction called Carillon. The Simon Snow trilogy that Rainbow Rowell has written is not the Simon Snow books that exist in the universe of Fan Girl. It is the fan fiction that Kath wrote about the characters from the Simon Snow books that only exist in the universe of Fan Girl. Carillon is the first book. It can be read as a standalone. I don't know this for a fact, but reading it, I would suspect that it was originally intended to be a standalone, to simply be a companion novel that hears Fan Girl, and then she talks on and on and on about this fan fiction. So, okay, well then here's the fan fiction to go with it. But there is an entire trilogy, but when you read this, it ends pretty conclusively and it feels, again, like it was intended to be a standalone companion to go with Fan Girl by itself. These look like the same copy. They are not. This is the original hardcover of Carillon, which did not have this aesthetic at all. And in a promotion, they were giving away dust jackets so that the Carillon hardcover would match what later became the aesthetic of the books. So this is the original hardcover of Carillon with a promotional dust jacket on it, but it's a different book on the inside with a different map, different art, et cetera. But then they did release a hardcover to match the now aesthetic of these books. So this book comes with this cover now, comes with this dust jacket. The book itself is different. The color of the book is different. And I have both. So, ta-da! The Carillon, as I say, it reads like a fan fiction of an existing IP, but an excellent fan fiction. But that's what it reads like. So it doesn't really talk that much about the world building. It doesn't do a lot of setup, as you would expect from a first book in a series of books that are about new characters in a wizarding school, et cetera. Fan fiction is able to kind of just dive in and not explain things because fan fiction presumes you already know what this universe is, who these characters are, and you're just here to see some what-if scenarios between these characters or characters from other universes colliding. So that doesn't have to set things up very much. So, when you start Carillon, it doesn't really introduce the characters. It doesn't really start with, you know, young boy doesn't know he's a wizard, finds out he's a wizard, then discovers the school and makes friends. We've skipped past all of that. He's already been at the school for a while. He already has friends at the school. He already has an existing rivalry with the character of Baz. And there's, you know, a little bit done. It's not completely absent, but there's not much done to set that up because it reads like fan fiction. It assumes you know these things, and you do know these things if you read Fan Girl. Or if you have been told about Fan Girl, as I am telling you now. You know that Simon Snow is the main character of these books. You know that Baz is the sort of baddie rival Draco character from those books. So when you read Carillon, you're like, ah-ha, here we go, I know what we're doing. And furthermore, because it's so directly inspired by Harry Potter, then a lot of gaps can be filled in by assumptions like, okay, wizarding school, it's like Harry Potter. Okay, they attend magic classes, it's like Harry Potter. There are non-magic folks, okay, those are muggles. Like you can just insert, fill in gap the way you would if you were to Harry Potter fan fiction. But the central driving force of this book or these books is similarly to in a fan fiction, it is the relationship between Simon and Baz, which is the what ifs that this fan fiction is positing. Is what if these two characters that already exist in a book that has like a full-on story about magic and defeating evil, what if those characters had a relationship? What if that happened? So that's what this is about. And then again, I don't know for a fact that there was never planned to be any more books, but it certainly feels like this was a standalone companion, but it was so popular that we got two more books. I know I'm holding up four. The regular and Barnes and Noble editions of the second book, Wayward's Son, which feels extremely like a middle book. At this point, you're like, okay, so you planned more. This is ending quite open-endedly. And then the last book where again, I have the regular edition and the Barnes and Noble edition of Any Way the Wind Blows, which feels like a finale that is conclusive, although I would not object to, and I would not be surprised if there would be more books written because this is so popular. What these books are not are an independent new invention with a completely unique world and a completely unique idea for a fantasy story. They are not that. They even, the stated purpose of them is to be a fan fiction of a supposedly existing IP, but that IP doesn't actually exist, which is kind of a strange limbo for it to be, and which is why I think it deserves or it necessitates some background knowledge and explanation, you do not have to read all a fan girl to get that information. You just got that information from me right now in a few sentences in a few minutes because fan girl is about her own life and her starting university and her personal relationships and the fan fiction is significant to the story and her relationship to being a writer of fan fiction, how that affects her life, but what you need to know in order to carry on, I've just told you. So why do I love carry on and why might you love it? I, if you follow my channel, I tend to read adult fantasy in particular. I tend to lean towards the more grim dark. I don't like fluffy books whenever something is pitched as this is a book that'll make you happy. This is a book that's sweet. This is a book that's just like fluffy and romantic. I'm like, ill, no, get it away from me. That's the last thing I want. Many people, including myself, were surprised that I would be interested in carry on and then like carry on and not just like carry on, but love carry on. Guy got in merch for carry on, ordered every edition of carry on and the other Simon Snow books. These books, I think, I often talk about books being intentional and being actively choosing to do something which is, I've discovered a big deal with me. I wouldn't have thought so. I wouldn't have thought to identify that as a thing with me, but it is. So I've talked before about historical fiction where it messes with history and it changes a bunch of historical things and how that will irritate me unless it feels like the author is fully aware that this is not how history was and has actively chosen to change that, to replace that, to subvert that, that there is an active conscious choice on the part of the author to do that thing. I also, I love the show Riverdale, which like people's, it's one of the people's favorite shows to deride, which is just so much fun for me. But Riverdale is a show that is extremely self-aware and intentional about what it's doing. When people say that, oh, the characters speak in like completely unnatural ways in Riverdale, I'm like, yeah, I know, they know. The writers know, the actors know. This is a feat or not a bug. Like you haven't like spotted a problem. This is part of the project of it, is this like hyper saturated, hyper ultra not realistic kind of thing that they're doing. Like they are not going for realism. So criticizing it based on its lack of realism is just a complete misunderstanding of its project. When you know, I feel like if you learn or know that I like Riverdale, it's less surprising than I like, carry on. But similarly, carry on, it knows what it is. It's not trying to be something different than that. And it knocks it out of the park on being what it is. So when you read it and you know that it's meant to be this fan fiction from this other book, it reads like it, but it reads like the absolute best version of that. It doesn't read like a book or she tried to start her own unique story with her own unique idea for magic, her own unique idea for et cetera. And it wasn't trying to. It's not that she was trying to do that and failed at it. That was not the project of these books. And yet for being, you know, this sort of, I guess you could say flimsy premise, this sort of copycat, copy paste fan fiction of a non-existing thing from another thing. Like that's a pretty nebulous weird limbo zone for it to occupy. But despite that, I think it excels at actually creating a decently unique world that does feel distinct and different from the world of Harry Potter. It does not feel legitimately like copy paste. You can tell that it's like, you know, when you watch Galaxy Quest, this is a send up of Star Trek and yet it has its own unique characters, its own unique kind of setup, its own unique thing that it's doing unto itself that is distinct from Star Trek. So carry on, like Simon Snow, he's not a one-to-one with Harry Potter. He has like the type of situation he's in, the archetypal character that that is in the way that he is a magic user who was raised by non-magic users in squalor and poverty and was discovered and then got to go to a wizarding school where he made friends and it's a found family. Like, okay, that situation, yes, that is Harry Potter. But Simon Snow isn't really nothing like Harry Potter as a character. Similarly, Baz, the love interest in this fan fiction of Simon Snow, he's sort of snooty. He comes from a rich, old wizarding magic family. He kind of looks down on other people in school. He dresses very in very expensive clothing. He's very kind of sarcastic and can be kind of cruel. He's definitely, it is alluded to all of the times that he has done things to cause problems for Simon Snow. So you're like, yes, this is a Draco-Malfoy type of character, obviously. And yet Baz is nothing like Draco-Malfoy in terms of who he is as a person and his actual relationship with Simon Snow, who is nothing like Harry Potter. They have a female friend. She's clearly a Hermione type, again. She's a pretty book smart and she sort of functions in the friendship a little similarly to Hermione where she'll show up with the information, with the knowledge they need to solve the problem, this sort of thing. But she herself is extremely different from Hermione. And the way that magic works is, I really, really love the way magic works in Karrion because unlike very serious books, very serious magic systems, where I'm gonna be poking holes in it and saying this doesn't make sense, this falls apart. This is a fluffy, fun Riverdale-esque adventure where I don't expect it to function. But actually, the way that the magic is explained in Karrion makes more sense than the way that magic is explained in Harry Potter. She has written in, for example, a reason for why, they're not called muggles, but why muggles cannot know about the world of magic, why that information must be kept from them. In Harry Potter, we get some explanation about how, oh, well, then they would just want all of their problems solved by magic if they knew about it or something like that, which is kind of like, huh, there's a pretty good reason. It's not, you know, like, when I say a good reason, it's not like, well, that's a perfect reason. That's a great explanation. This is an ironclad magic system, no. But it's actually like a pretty solid reason that makes more sense than anything in Harry Potter. Or at least there is a reason, I should say, for why that information, that knowledge, that awareness must be kept from non-magic users. And the way that spells work, the way that the saying of them works and what words result in magic makes more sense in these books that it does in Harry Potter and is also kind of a humorous thing, the way that it's worked in, the way that it functions, is a little more on the tongue and cheek side. And yet it does still make more sense. And I feel like the way that these sort of lessons learned and the way that the comeuppance of the villain, like that whole thing, I think there's actually a better sort of thematic message as a result of how that is all resolved, how that, what is the situation between the hero and the villain, how this conflict, what is the conflict that must be resolved and how it is resolved, is thematically better than what you get in Harry Potter, in my opinion. But the thing that we're all here for, presumably when you read Simon Snow books, which are a fan fiction, which are a romance-centric fan fiction as fan fiction tends to be by its nature, Baz and Simon. I am not a romance reader and I definitely am on record as saying I really don't like enemies to lovers. I don't like hate to love. Most of the time I'm of the opinion that like, if you dislike somebody that strongly on your first impression, I don't think you could be that wrong about it.  Like, I mean, having learned that about them, I can't condone that. And then learning that that's false. That's different from like meeting somebody and immediately just like hating them. And then falling in love, like I just, that does not work for me. I know a lot of people love it, but I don't like it. So for this to be like a hairy Draco, you know, kind of enemies to lovers type of situation, that sounds extremely unlikely to be satisfying to me. But I think this is the rare example of it done in a way that I absolutely, I love it. And I think that the reasons for why there would be this sort of hate or misunderstanding to begin with works pretty well, makes a lot of sense, especially because they are young and because of the magic and things like that and their family backgrounds, the situations that they've each been kind of forced into, it works for me. And their relationship, once there is a relationship when they've gotten over the hate part and they are in the love part, I love them together. I, they have such great chemistry in my opinion. They are distinct and interesting and amusing individuals. I enjoy reading about all these characters and I enjoy reading about the stuff they get up to and the conversations they have that are not romantic in nature. I've read some romance books, not by choice. And a lot of the time, my problem will be like, okay, they claim to love each other as people. There's a lot of lip service paid to that. But the only thing they ever do is bang and the only thing they ever talk about is wanting to bang. And I'm like, I mean, I guess I believe you that you have something else between you but it's not really happened in the book. Whereas when you read the Simon Snow books, you get a sense for who Simon is as a person, who Baz is as a person, who they are to their friends, who they are to the magic world at large, who they are to each other other than just lovers. And they, I like them as people and I like them as friends together in outside of any kind of like romantic physical relationship. I like that in addition to it. It's not like it's purely just a physical, lustful kind of relationship. There's so much more to it. And there's so much more to them as characters. And lastly, the humor. The humor really, really works for me in these books which I think can kind of make or break it. That's what made fan girl work for me because again, I don't really like contemporary, contemporary romance, contemporary YA romance but I Ray Morale's humor really works for me. And it's really, really excellent in the Simon Snow books. In fact, I messaged Hillary who has not read any of these books and I would not even recommend them to her honestly. This is not a situation again where I'm saying these are great books and everyone should read them because everyone would like them. I don't think that's true. I think a lot of people would like them and I think more people would like them.  You know, don't knock it till you try it. But anyway, like I was saying, the humor and it really works for me and even though I would not say, Hillary, you gotta read these books, I wasn't trying to convince her to read them. There were a lot of passages, a lot of like amusing moments, a lot of fun quips that even out of context, I could share and she found extremely amusing. So the humor in it, again, humor is a very, you know, your mileage may vary, your taste may vary, like humor is a very like taste specific type thing. You know, people, everyone can agree that you know, someone dying in a book is a sad thing to have happen but whether or not something's funny is very much like in the eye of the beholder. I personally find the snark in these books to be the right amount and the right kind for me to find amusing. I've read a lot of white books where I complained that, oh, it's just nothing but snark, nothing is taken seriously and every single character is the same kind of snarky and you can't tell them apart and I hate that. Here they are distinct personalities with their own distinct kind of ways of saying things that can be amusing in their own ways but they have distinct voices and the humor, there's a lot of it in the very nature of these books is kind of humorous, their very existences but there are quite serious poignant moments that are not then undermined by a joke, that are not turned into a joke, that are not ruined by some snarky banter because God forbid there's a page that doesn't have snark on it. It allows itself to have some more serious heartfelt moments which is what makes it work. Even Galaxy Quest has that which is why that movie is so good. Now if you are thinking about reading these books obviously you can physically read them but the audiobooks, if that's something that you're into are really, really good. The narrator is really good at doing different voices for the different characters with in particular with humorous books, it's important that an audiobook narrator have good comedic timing in delivering humorous lines and I believe that the audiobook narrator for these books does have good comedic timing. So yeah, I would recommend them. If any of what I've described to you sounds pretty good then I would say give them a go. You don't have to read Fan Girl but I did not want to and ended up really liking it so maybe give it a go but if it's carry on that you're interested in go right to carry on. You have the information now that you need in order to understand the project of it and to be set up to enjoy it. So let me know your thoughts and feelings about these books if you've read them, if you're thinking about reading them, if you have no interest in reading them. I'll leave a link down below to where I bought this. I think it's Rainbow Rowell's own Merch Shop. She's got some other cool merch there. So I'm tempted by a few other things but this is the one that I got. But yeah, whatever you want to let me know. I post videos on Saturdays, other random times as well but definitely Saturdays so like and subscribe, join my Patreon if you feel so inclined and I'll see you when I see you.