First question is from Tabish K. How do you know when you've reached your genetic potential and what is the age that most people reach it? Oh, have you read anything on that the golden question? Yeah, like the age that most people would reach it or a years of training Consistently that you would reach it. Yeah, I mean if you look at like taught it depends on the sport and it depends on obviously what you're looking for If you're looking at like body muscular development, you're probably for men somewhere in their mid Early to mid 30s Long training so probably early 30s some sports people reach their peak in their 20s Like you know if you're looking at a combat sport You don't see too many high-level combat artists that are you know or athletes that are you know over the age of 34 It starts to kind of decline, but you know what's funny about this question is your genetic potential Changes based off of your circumstances in the context of your life, right? So what is your genetic potential when you're lacking sleep? What is your genetic potential when your programming's off? What is your genetic potential when absolutely everything's perfect and that's what people want to think of they think of? Genetic potential as being what's the absolute furthest that could take my body when everything is perfect now? We've been working out for a long time Let me ask you guys a question when in your life has every absolutely every aspect of your life been perfect Yeah for developing your physique. Yeah, that's why this question is kind of one of those Yeah, well, I mean the closest I ever was there was that that three-year run of competing If I where I could say like I was really checking most all the boxes But even then you could definitely go in there and pick apart things that I could have optimized or done better To continue so yeah, I don't think it's funny because I know a lot of people probably have Reached close to their genetic potential because you've been training for 10 15 years consistently without really having too much off And so you've probably reached kind of the peak of how much total lean body mass Maybe if we're just talking purely muscle, but as far as optimizing your overall health performance Longevity, you know muscle body fat percentage. I mean there's always so much room to continue to improve everywhere Yeah, it's a hard thing to kind of pinpoint because for me It was always like what I was doing was then transferring out to sports performance And so like and I was only playing sports up till college and then that was it You know and so I didn't really have a good gauge of like when that sort of declined although my last year I did feel a bit of a Bit of a decline, but that was mainly due to circumstances and me and my consistency Kind of leading up into the season with that but like in terms of like the weight room I've had I've it's been all over the place like I felt like the last, you know Five years have been some of my best years of lifting now when we get a question like this What do you guys think spurs this like what do you think? Why do you think this person is out? I mean, we're totally spec. I know me when I used to really wonder this is I wanted to know what I could accomplish Like what's my limit? How far can I take my oh see now? I think I remember thinking this and I think that when you've hit a really hard plateau People start asking because they're wondering like oh this maybe this is it for me You know, I've already added so much muscle. I've been training for five plus years or whatever You know, I'm curious to know am I maybe I'm reaching my genetic potential right now. This is a trap I mean, I mean speak personally speaking my my PRs and my lifts happened in my early to mid 30s I would say it's when I hit like some of my heaviest lifts But let me tell you why this is a trap if you're always Training for the end result You're gonna be disappointed at some point because at some point you get older at some point you can't Possibly get stronger.  How do you stay consistent?  Yeah, I guess some point if you're a pro, okay, you're probably at Towards the top, but you don't ever stop practicing and trying to get better and improving every aspect And there's different metrics there though, too Like say it's not the physicality, but like your game smart Yes, I put you ahead of everybody else because of the time that in the reps you put in and so I just think that it's it's all based off of what you're sort of determining this because for me it would be like if I read this question and I would probably like my 20s because like I didn't think about anything, you know And then all of a sudden, you know, I was at my peak and then, you know Everything I did built muscle and then it just sort of like taper. I had to then really pay attention to what I was doing And if you look at studies, I mean actually I read this the other day. It's interesting I read an it was an article. Oh, maybe I saved it. But anyway, it talked about The peak age for different Abilities like the best age for learning new languages. I think was seven or something like that, right? The peak age for earning potential for men 48 so 48 generally The peak age for years now that makes sense Even if we do better you're tapped I think the peak age for like winning a Nobel Peace Prize was like 60 something or whatever Anyway, it's it's all very interesting, but there's a lot of factors that go into it. You you said something very interesting, right? Who's that the quarterback that's like in his 40s Tom Brady? Yeah, and he was just crushing right and how old was he? Still is still is crushing. Yeah, he's in his 40s, right now. Is it because physically he's Probably is he more is he faster than he was when he was no definitely. He's more efficient and he's smarter Right. No, it's a great analogy because I definitely know that I've probably seen like the most muscle And I may never even ever get to that point again in my life But even today the things that what I improve on is I less effort and I can achieve Similar or better things than I was able to achieve when I was 20 something So even if I like can say that I've seen the most muscle mass or reached the genetic potential of how much muscle My body can carry. I've gotten smarter and wiser about how I get there and it's taken less effort to maintain a physique that I was Hammering myself for in the my 20s trying to reach so there's other parts that you continue to get better at even Even if you've reached your maximum, you know how to quickly adjust on the fly Yeah, you know to stay ahead of these plateaus or you know aches and pains like there's just there's a lot more Playbooks that you've acquired You know to navigate through all that stuff. Yeah. Well, here's a good example The a man's generally speaking a man's testosterone right the anabolic hormone testosterone peaks at about 18 It's rare to find an 18 year old that will build more muscle than a 29 year old, right? If they both same training Experience and a lot of stuff 29 year old typically will build more muscle in 18 year old So there's a lot more that goes into this than just Hormone levels and physical whatever there's there's your wisdom and your application, but again Yeah, this is a trap because at some point father time is gonna slap you in the face And if you're constant if you're so focused and obsessed with the end result You will be in a whole world of pain. You will eventually find yourself stopping because you're gonna feel like what's the use? I can't get any faster. I can't get any buffer I can't look any better no matter what I do my body ages You have to at some point just love the process for the process itself. 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at everyone has a story to tell, particularly young people who have their whole life ahead of them and who want to impress upon us exactly what that story is. If there is one legacy from this year of young people, it is listening to those stories. I thank members for their contributions this afternoon. I particularly enjoyed that last speech by Liz Smith. Clearly, there has been a lot of support across the chamber for Scotland's year of young people. I am proud of what has been achieved this past year. I am proud that the Scottish Government championed the year with every ministerial portfolio that Jenny Gilruth pointed out, aligning activity in some form, and the whole of the cabinet were just as enthusiastic about the year as the minister and myself. That highlighted to me the sheer commitment of the country to the young people of Scotland and the determination that it has to ensure that Scotland is the very best place in the world to grow up. I am most proud of our young people and what they have taught us. Joanne Lamont in a thoughtful speech touched on this point and its challenge to traditional thinking. Gillian Martin in an excellent speech talked to of the films produced by her young constituents, now shown as part of teacher training, and the film's cyber attraction and overexposure, chosen by the young ambassadors for PSC, and the fact that they have now gone international. I would like to say to Ms Martin that I like the idea of that regular film competition. The year of young people was a new platform that put the spotlight on the country's young people. It turned up the volume on their voices and made sure that we listened to their ideas, experiences, opinions and acted upon them. What we must not do is lose the momentum and the newfound relationship. We must continue to show our young people that we believe in them and value the contribution that they make now and that they will continue to make in the future. They are catalysts for change, and, as Ross Greer said, we need to address the fundamental issue of climate change. That is why, in my portfolio, young people are going to be integral to the Scottish Government's Arctic day about what we are contributing in policy terms and addressing that challenge later this month. As I mentioned earlier, young people set the agenda back in 2015, and I was at some of the co-design workshops sessions. They told us what was important to them and what they wanted the focus of the year to be. That is key. What was important to them is not what we thought would be important to them. Those themes have been the catalyst to drive a shift in how our young people are viewed. To recap, young people wanted to ensure that their peers have access to the arts and can shape the future of culture in Scotland. I welcome the remarks earlier on at that point. In 1718, nine culture and creative modern apprenticeships were taken up. In the following year, nine cabinet secretaries were taken up. What more can the Scottish Government do to encourage more modern apprenticeships in the culture and creative sector? There are plenty of them. In fact, the creative industries skills sector and the creative industries skills plans have many of those. Many of the organisations, for example, in my portfolio, Historic Environment Scotland, have very strong heritage apprenticeships, which are about events as well as the creative industries. There is plenty of progress in that area. Claire Baker particularly talked about some of the cultural activities and the contribution that can be made by young people in the policy development, as she said. We also wanted to ensure that their peers can shape national education policy, so that leaders of their learning can support inclusive economic growth by becoming entrepreneurs or setting up their enterprises, can participate in sports and physical activity, can influence mental health services and have a greater say in decisions that affect their lives in national and local levels. Young people with protected characteristics have their voice listened to and encouraged more intergenerational dialogue that was touched on by Alison Harris. I like to focus on some of those and, in particular, the stand-out moments and critically the long-term effects that this theme year will have on Scotland. Young people were given new opportunities to have a greater say in how policies affect their lives and play a part in helping to reshape areas of most importance to them. Mental health was central to many discussions, as Bruce Crawford pointed out, that has happened in his sterling constituency. It highlighted the depth of concerns that young people have on the issue. We listened, we took on board their views, we worked with them to turn their ideas into actions. Young people are now leading the way to reshape future mental health services available to them through the Youth Commission on Mental Health, in partnership with Sam H and Young Scott, a vitally important work. Not only that, but the biggest conversation that Scotland has ever had with young people on what mental health means to them was run by the Mental Health Discrimination Charity CME Scotland. It launched Fields FM, which is harnessing the power of music to help people across the country to talk about how they feel. Young people are telling us through this mechanism that it is fundamentally important to our development of future policy. Of course, there are long waiting lists and they are unacceptable, but we are investing £250 million in mental health strategy. We are recognising that tackling the stigma has created more demand. I would say to Alex Cole-Hamilton that there are now double the number of camp psychologists in Scotland in the world when the Liberal Democrats came to power. Stimulating demand by removing stigma means that there will be greater need for services and that we must come together to address that. In my own portfolio, the National Youth and Arts advisory group will continue to inform and make decisions as the advice creator of Scotland. Young people's voices have also directly influenced education policy improvement and decision making. Brian Whittle might be interested to know that we have introduced the Scottish learner panel, which will build on key strengths in our curriculum, in which we place a high value in the voice of the learner in shaping their learning life and work of their school. We also listen to voices by welcoming them to the Scottish Cabinet. The most recent meeting of the annual youth cabinet took place last month. It includes decisions on teachers, public transport, the UNCRC, bereavement and youth work, which is referred to by Fulton MacGregor when he was championing and promoting the Coatbridge youth action. Officials are working on specific actions for those areas and that will be published soon. Key partners for the year also opened up the opportunities for their young people in their own organisations. Visit Scotland did just that with the creation of a future leaders group to give a voice to younger staff who do not normally have an opportunity to influence organisational initiatives and decisions. That is just one of many commitments that we know of, of organisations establishing youth boards during 2018, and many have decided to continue that simply due to the positive impact that young voices had during 2018. Maurice Corry spoke, for example, of the police youth volunteers programme. Rona Mackay talked about young carers, and I also think that the point about international work, which Johann Lamont and Alison Harris talked about, was very important indeed. There is a real strength benefiting both ends of the age spectrum in that work. Colin Smyth, Emma Harper and Finlay Carson were very right to complement Dufres and Galloway Council, who truly are to be complemented for their excellent contribution to the year. I hope that other councils can learn from that very important work. When I asked young constituents from Winchborough what was the highlight of the year, young beats were recognised as the best experience, and more young people should have been able to access and experience that. As a result of the year of young people, there has been direct change in how organisations involve young people in their work, ensuring that their services are better suited to the needs of younger people, and collectively we should all commit to continue to listen to them and take on a board their views, their ideas, to continue to work with them to make it happen. Ian Gray was absolutely right to focus on the legacy of the year, and we are not there yet on so many areas, and we must commit to drive forward improvement. The year of young people really did make people sit up and listen and realise that Scotland's young people are the voice of today, they shape our society and we want and need their presence now in the Scotland of the present. So many people were involved in the year of young people, and I would like to thank each and every one of them. To members here today, let's keep working in partnership with young people in Scotland and ensure that we represent their views on the issues that matter most of them here in their Parliament, but most importantly let us continue to hear the voice of young people in Scotland loud and proud and strong. I commend the motion. Thank you very much and that concludes our debate on the year of young people. The next item of business is consideration of business motion 16290 in the name of Graham Day on behalf of the bureau setting out a business programme. Could I call on Graham Day to move the motion? Moved, Presiding Officer. Thanks very much and no one wishes to speak against us, I believe. So the question is that motion 16290 be agreed. Are we all agreed? We are agreed. The next item is consideration of business motion 16291 in the name of Graham Day on the stage 2 timetable for a bill. Could I call on Graham Day to move the motion? Moved, Presiding Officer. Thank you and again no one wishes to speak against the motion. The question is that motion 16291 be agreed. Are we all agreed? Yes. Thank you very much. The next item is consideration of Parliamentary Bureau motion 16292 approval of an SSI. Could I ask Graham Day on behalf of the bureau to move the motion? Moved, Presiding Officer. Now I believe that Mark Griffin wishes to speak against the motion. I call on Mark Griffin. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Two weeks ago, I called on the Scottish Government to use RPI to upgrade the carers allowance and supplement package to help unpaid carers. I did so because I think that this Parliament still has some way to go to show our appreciation to carers who do tremendous work caring for loved ones. Labour did so to shift away from George Osborne's decision to use CPI to support carers with an extra £33 next year. We did so to set a precedent that new powers will be used progressively to invest in the people of Scotland with carers afforded the dignity and respect that they deserve. We did so with the backing of the national carers organisations, the Alliance, SCVO, Energy Action Scotland, Marie Curie and the TUC. They recognise that the switch to CPI has cost people billions. They recognise that carers are being shortchanged with the Government using the cheapest possible upgrading method. The cabinet secretary recognises that, too. I told the chamber that RPI is no panacea that a Government's choice of an upgrading mechanism is underpinned by how generous it hopes to be. The SNP Government used that debate to show dogmatic support for the Tory's switch to CPI, which is a cut that multiplies every year. The cabinet secretary demanded that we keep decisions on upgrading separate from decisions on benefit levels, but knows full well CPI's but one Tory upgrading policy that, among others, will slash incomes of the most vulnerable people in Scotland by £1.9 billion. In committee the next day, the cabinet secretary bemooned that RPI was erratic, but failed to point out that, in 2009, it was a Labour Government that responded to negative RPI with a 1.5 per cent uplift that Scotland could do, too, if needed. The cabinet secretary also claimed that CPI accurately tracked the cost of living, but failed to acknowledge completely the poverty premiums and heightened cost of living's carers' face. Rather than setting a path to more generous upgrading for carers, in committee the cabinet secretary said that CPI was a choice, that agency arrangements and their multi-million pound bill were a choice, and that some carers would have to consider cutting their working hours. Later that afternoon, the cabinet secretary told the chamber that carers want to see a single change to their allowance until after the transition, after 2024, almost a decade after the supplement was first announced by the First Minister. That is not a choice that Labour will accept for Scotland's carers, nor is using the Tory's CPI system. I secured the upgrading of carers allowance and the supplement in the Social Security Act and recognise how vitally important that certainty is. However, we will not accept an inferior Tory increase in asking the cabinet secretary to withdraw and rethink. I am disappointed that the Labour Party wished to vote against an increase in the financial support for carers today. The carers allowance upgrading Scotland Order 2019 that we vote on now will increase the weekly rate of carers allowance by 2.4 per cent. This Government through the carers allowance supplement brought the financial support to carers to the level of the jobseekers allowance. Because we upgrade both the supplement and carers allowance for the first time, passing this order will mean that carers in Scotland will now get a higher level of support than jobseekers allowance. That means an extra £452.40 a year for carers compared to their counterparts outwith Scotland. That is what the Labour Party would be voting against today. We debated the upgrading of carers allowance and the carers allowance supplement in this chamber on 27 February and at the Social Security Committee the following morning. On both occasions, there was extensive debate on the upgrading measure to be applied, and on both occasions there was support for this Government's proposal to use the consumer price index or CPI. CPI is widely regarded as the most effective measure to ensure that the benefits retain their value and not the retail price index or RPI as Labour claim. I will take this opportunity to correct Labour's gross misrepresentation in the debate in this chamber of the House of Lords economic affairs committee report, which they stated supported RPI. In fact, the report highlights that RPI in its current form is a flawed measure of inflation requiring improvements before it would be in any way viable for upgrading purposes and recommends that the UK Government uses CPI for upgrading purposes in all areas where it is not bound by contract to use RPI. We do not have time to retread and fool the facts surrounding the instability of RPI or indeed the Labour Party's absolute invisibility during the budget discussions on carers issues in general. However, this Government, alongside everyone else in this chamber, welcomes the immense contribution that carers make to society, caring for family, friends and neighbours. That is why I would hope that everyone in this chamber would show their support for carers by voting for this order and ensuring that the carers allowance is upgraded. If Labour wants to let carers down, if they want to vote against an increase in their financial support to carers, that can be on their conscience and for them to answer for. Thank you very much, and the vote on this matter will be taken at decision time. The next item, however, is consideration of six parliamentary bureau motions. I could ask Graham Day on behalf of the Bureau to move motions 16293 to 16297 on approval of SSIs and 16298 on substitution on committees. Moved, Presiding Officer. Thank you very much. We turn now to decision time. The first question is that amendment 16267.1, in the name of Alex Cole-Hamilton, which seeks to amend motion 16267 in the name of Marie Todd, on the year of young people 2018, a celebration, a chance and a change be agreed. Are we all agreed? We are not agreed. We will move to division. Members may cast their votes now. The result of the vote on amendment 16267.1, in the name of Alex Cole-Hamilton, is yes, 30, no, 83. There were no abstentions. The amendment is therefore not agreed. The next question is that motion 16267, in the name of Marie Todd, on the year of young people 2018, be agreed. Are we all agreed? We are agreed. The next question is that motion 16292, in the name of Graham Day, on approval of an SSI be agreed. Are we all agreed? We are not agreed. We will move to vote. Members may cast their votes now. The result of the vote on motion 16292, in the name of Graham Day, is yes, 93, no, 20. There were no abstentions. The motion is therefore agreed. I propose to ask a single question on the remaining Parliamentary Bureau motions. Does anyone object? Good. The question is that motions 16293 to 16298, in the name of Graham Day, on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau be agreed. Are we all agreed? We are agreed. That concludes decision time. We are going to move on shortly to members' business, in the name of Liz Smith, on the centenary of the death of Sir Human Row. We will just take a few moments for members and the minister to change ministers to change seats. A few moments and then we will resume.


Hi there, welcome to Stardust Gold Crochet. This is Tasha. Today we're going to work through the honeycomb stitch. This stitch is great for anything you want to make that you need something stretchy like a market bag or a mesh t-shirt. So today we're going to use knit picks, and I'm using all of the Andes Tweed in the colorway of Marine Heather. And I'm using a knit picks hook in the size 6.5 millimeter. It's a K hook. I like these hooks because they have a really deep groove, so they're really great. So what we're going to do to start is first we're going to create a slip knot. This is how I do mine. I usually just yarn it over, put it through, then I put the other end there and just slip the hook around like that. And we're going to chain sixteen to start. So we've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen. And this pattern works in multiples of four plus two. Then you chain three for the foundation chain. So we have our sixteen. I'm going to go ahead and chain two more. And then we're going to chain three more because we're working our foundation chain. So we're going to count now. We're going to do our row one. We're going to count six chains in. So there's one, two, three, four, five, and six. And we're going to work a double crochet into that sixth chain. So you yarn over, insert your hook into the chain. Yarn over and pull up a loop. So you have three loops on your hook. Yarn over, pull through two. Yarn over and pull through two until you have one loop. Then this is our repeat for the pattern which you chain two. Then you're going to skip two chains and work into the third chain, a double crochet. So yarn over, insert your hook into the chain. Yarn over, pull up a loop. Yarn over and pull through two. Then yarn over and pull through two. Here, and we've created our two, two little holes for our honeycomb mesh. So then repeat this pattern along until the end. So you've got two chains, skipping two, and working into the third. Chain two, skip two, and work into the third. And you can pause it and we'll come back at the end of the row. We're at the end of the row. We have three chains left. You should have three chains left. If you don't, just rip it back and start over and don't be mad at yourself. So count one, two, skip two, and double crochet into the very last chain. And now for row two, you can see there's our row one. We've got part of our honeycomb. For row two, we chain four and then we turn. And we're going to work directly into the chain space. So we're going to do double crochet. Yarn over, insert your hook into the chain space. Yarn over, pull up a loop. Pull through two. Yarn over and pull through two. And then the pattern repeats the same as it did for row one. So we chain two. And then we work a double crochet into each chain space.  You can make this with as tight as tension as you want, or as loose as you want to. I tend to make it a little tighter using this stitch because it ends up stretching a lot. And it has a great stretch to it. So it's great for market bags. So there we've completed row two.  And so for row three, you would chain four, turn, and keep working into each chain space. Then chain two, work into each chain space. And once you get the hang of it, start going really fast, you can bust out your project in no time at all. If you like market bags, this is the greatest stitch to use for market bags. Alright, so I did a real quick row three so you can see how fast it goes. So if you have any questions, please leave them in the comments below. I'm happy to answer them. And thank you so much for watching today. I appreciate it. Take care. Happy crocheting. The link for the Honeycomb Mesh Tee is in the description below, as well as a link to buy this great yarn.


Those online, I think we're not able to hear okay, so We all did we prayed and opened sorry. I don't know if you're able to hear the prayer No Okay we We closed with the Gospel of Mark last week and this week or today or sorry last class and then today we'll begin in the book of Luke and And continue next week to go into the outline of Luke So let's just go into our content for today the a little bit of an introduction to some of the themes that Luke covers and and Then I also wanted to talk a little bit about maybe how we can look at the outline We'll try this out for the Gospel of Luke I was thinking maybe each of us could take one chapter from the Gospel and Just give like a 30 second summary of the chapter Okay, so what I'll do is today I'll post a chapter and I'll put your name against it And I'll post it on Google Classroom so that you can be prepared on Monday to do that On Monday, we'll just go quickly because we have to cover it quickly as well So if you see your name, just be prepared to share Whatever chapters been assigned to you kids. So just a quick 30 seconds Just so that each of us is also engaged in looking at the book and Yeah, we can all learn together So let's begin with the Gospel of Luke Sorry my screen seems to be very Okay, we went ahead. Yeah so the Gospel of Luke as Opposed to so we looked at Matthew was written to Jewish Christians Mark was written to the Gentiles primarily to Roman Christians And Luke is written to Greek speaking. So Hellenistic people specifically So if you look here, this is northern Greece all of this area and so This is where Luke was mostly writing to people in this region so again it may have been Jews and and Gentiles but mostly people who are influenced by Greek culture. So we'll see that coming into his Gospel as well Luke is we see also very interested in history. So We can look at him as the first church historian Because he's recorded for us in detail about Jesus's life and ministry He also includes some secular history in his book So we'll maybe we can look quickly at these four passages mentioned here But what is helpful about that is that you can connect the story of Jesus to what was happening in the larger culture at that time So, let's just read Luke 1 5 Luke 2 1 all of the verses mentioned here If anyone can open Luke chapter 1 verse 5 there was in the days of Herod the King of Judea a certain priest named Zacharias of the division of a page up His wife was of the daughter of Aaron and her name was Elizabeth Thank you Luke 2 1 Luke chapter 2 was one and it came to pass in those days that Decree went out from KSR Augustus that all the world should be registered Thank you. So here we have the previous record was In Luke 1 5 was telling us about who the king was at that time Luke 2 is saying what was happening in Amongst the people there. So Caesar Augustus has asked for a Census to be taken. So these things help us connect back to other history Records that we have outside of scripture So 3 1 and 3 2 if someone can read that for us 3 1 3 1 Now in the 15th year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea Herod being tetrarch of Galilee his brother Philip tetrarch of I to rear and the region of Trachonitis and Lysanius the truck of Abilene while 3 1 and 3 2 While Anas and Caiaphas were high priests the word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness Yes, so we have about the Roman leaders in place as well as the Jewish High priests who were ruling at that time And then in Luke's gospel we have a much more detailed account of Jesus's birth death Resurrection and ascension are much more than in the other Gospels. So Do any of y'all have a favorite gospel out of the four Gospels? Anyone online any specific gospel that is your favorite Gospel of John sister John, okay, so for me Luke has been one of my favorites and in fact we read this to my Daughter while I was too pregnant with her my first daughter Because I think it's written in a very relatable way it's written like especially For someone who is completely Foreign to who Jesus is or to the Christian faith Luke is a very easy book to read And so Luke's record is very very Detailed from like what we are looking at here from the prophecy about Jesus's birth And John the Baptist's birth to how their parents reacted to what happened when they were taken to the temple When Jesus was taken to the temple all of these records are not there in the other Gospels So it's a very and it's written in a story format. So it's very easy to read as well Yeah, let's continue from there. So Characteristics of Luke Like what I was talking about the announcement of John the Baptist of Jesus. So we have the record of the angel Going to Zacharias in the temple when he's in the temple and telling him That he's going to have a son right and then Zacharias doesn't believe and then he's not able to talk until the baby is born So that is recorded only in Luke the story of the angel going to Mary and telling her about The birth of Jesus that she's going to have a baby and it's going to be She's going to carry the son of God And then Mary meeting Elizabeth after that. So all of these details how they meet each other Before John the Baptist is born and before Jesus is born All of this is recorded in Luke Plus we also have the most detailed stories about Jesus and John when they were When they were little right so John we only have that record of Elizabeth and Mary meeting but Jesus We have stories of him as a child in Luke much more than in any of the other gospels Then we also see the ascension of Jesus So Jesus giving the great commission and his ascension which is not Recorded with the same amount of detail in Matthew and Mark We have a very detailed account of Jesus going to Jerusalem before his crucifixion. So This also The gospel of John definitely is very focused on the passion Narrative and so is very focused on the crucifixion itself But Luke gives this journey to Jerusalem in a lot of detail And then Luke is also the longest of the synoptic gospels and the longest New Testament book as well Okay, so because Luke is written to a Greek audience rather than a Jewish audience We'll see in his book that there is a lot of focus on all people Okay, so when we say Luke's universalism That means the focus on the fact that the gospel that Jesus came for all people It's not just for the people of Israel not just for the Jews And so these are a few examples we see in the gospel itself So Luke 2 10 if we can open that and read it Luke 2 10 Luke chapter 2 was 10 then the angel said to them do not be afraid for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy, which will be to all people So the right at the beginning when they are talking about Jesus birth It's for all people goodwill to all people Luke 2 32 I like to do revelation to the Gentiles and the glory of your people as well so you see here both the Talking about the Israelites, but also that Jesus is a light to the Gentiles Luke 3 4 to 6 Luke chapter 3 was 4 as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet saying the voice of one crying in the wilderness Prepare the way of the Lord make his path straight Verse 5 every valley shall be filled and every mountain and hill brought low The crook to place shall be made straight and the rough waste move verse 6 and all flesh shall see the salvation of God So here as well this addition that Luke Luke includes in this prophecy that all people will see God's salvation We don't see that in the other Gospels Can we read the next one forward 25 to 27? But I tell you truly Many widows were in Israel Sorry But I tell you truly many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah When the heaven was shut up three years and six months and there was a great famine throughout the all the land But to none of them was Elijah sent except to Zarathas in the region of Sidon to a woman who was a widow and many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elijah the prophet and None of them were cleansed except Naaman the Syrian Thank you. So here we see these two records where Gods and people to non-Israelite so Jesus is using this example from the Old Testament to talk about how The Israelites were rejected because They were not truly Open to God Right Jesus is using these examples. So again here where Luke has recorded these stories for us Lou Luke 24 47 we see the great commission to all nations So Matthew also records this for us and then Luke 14 8 to 16 We see Jesus talking about the parable of the great supper. So where he's invited the king is invited people to a wedding banquet and Those who have been who have been invited come up with different excuses for why they can't be there and Then he sends his servants out into the streets and invites anybody who is willing to come. So again This is not recorded in Matthew's account, but Luke includes this to say that the gospel now is being sent out to all people and all people are being invited Through that final supper with the lamb in the new kingdom so We'll continue with some of the characteristics in Luke. So Luke is very interested in people so While Matthew is very focused on the kingdom of God Luke's stories are very focused on Certain people he's talking about different people throughout the book So in the parables when he's recording the parables his focus is on people in the parables And whenever he's talking about an event his focus is on the people rather than God's kingdom or rather than Something that he's trying to teach them about he's using people's stories to communicate The story of Jesus So we see here a list of all the people some of the people he talks about so he talks about Zacharias He talks about Elizabeth and Mary about Martha and Mary about Zacharias the tax collector about Cleopas and his companion so Cleopas and his companion are the two Disciples who are on the road to Amoeas That Jesus encounters after his resurrection. So Cleopas is is kind of astonished that Jesus doesn't know Why they are sad and what they are upset about so Each of these stories are about specific people their encounters with Jesus how they experience Jesus what Jesus said to them All of these things are Things that Luke focuses on Luke is also a very Social gospel you'll you'll see that a lot when you're looking if you're studying the book of Luke So one is where he focuses on social outcasts We see in seven thirty six the Story of the immortal woman if we can open to Luke seven thirty six Luke chapter seven verse thirty six then one of the Pharisees Asked him to eat with him and he went to the Pharisees house and said don't do it You can go on to verse thirty seven as well and behold a woman in the city Who was a sinner when she knew that Jesus said at the table in the Pharisees house brought an alabaster flask of Pregnant oil Okay, and then verse 39 Verse 39 now when the Pharisee who had invited him so this he spoke to himself saying this man If he were a prophet would know who and what manner of woman this is who is catching him for she is a sinner Okay, so we see here one story about an outcast So somebody who is viewed as a sinner by the religious Leaders right or by all those who were very religious She was not someone who was included and so they expect that Jesus will also exclude her But Jesus's Responses who will love or deter more someone who owes him a small debt or someone who owes him a large debt right, so Jesus is always Including these outsiders we see that in the story of Zacchus as well in chapter 19 And we see that also in the repentance of the robber who's crucified with Jesus So Luke records that story as well for us. So Luke is very Inclusive of these people who were socially Austerized at that time in religious circles He also includes these parables the prodigal son the two debtors so the prodigal son the two debtors and the public in the public in is the Parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector So where the Pharisee and tax collector both praying and the Pharisee is praying a very self-righteous prayer talking about how he's so much better than all the sinners around him and Including that tax collector who's praying next to him and the tax collector on the other hand is someone who was humble Who recognizes his need for a savior and he's coming Confessing his sin to God So here we see that heart in Luke's gospel for these people the people who were outsiders Luke also Focuses a lot on women compared to the other gospels So there are 13 women in the gospel of Luke who are not mentioned in the other gospels at all So he mentions these 13 women Some of the women that he mentions is the immoral woman The women who supported Jesus with their gifts who supported the ministry with their gifts those who work On the sides as Jesus was going to the cross who were mourning as Jesus was going to the cross Women are included in the birth and resurrection stories of Jesus They included in the cross When Jesus at the cross women are mentioned at the cross women are mentioned at the tomb So the word women is mentioned 43 times in the book of Luke Which is the same as both Matthew and Mark if you put both gospels together it has they Talk about women 43 times. There's Luke In his one record talks about them the same number of times Other mentions of women is how women served God in society So we have a list of passages here and the devotion of women To God in serving him So we can't go into all of these passages. Maybe we can just look at The service of women to society and God we look at chapter 8 Luke chapter 8 1 to 6 someone can read that for us Luke chapter 8 verse 1 now It came to pass after that he went through every city and village Reaching and bringing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God and the 12 were with him was to and certain women Who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities? Mary called Macdelnae out of whom had come seven demons was three and Jonah the wife of choose Herod's toward and Susanna and many others who Who provided for him? From their substance was for and when a great multitude had gathered and they had come to him from every city He spoke by a parable was five So went out to so his seat and as he sought some fell by the wayside And it was trampled down and the birds of the air Devoid it verse six some fell on rock and as soon as it is sprang up it weathered away because it Thank you. So I think yeah versus one to three is where specifically there's mention of women So the women who were with him along with the 12 So we don't see that recorded much We usually have the 12 disciples mentioned But Luke is mentioning here the women and he's not only mentioning that there were women He's mentioning specifically the names of the women. So Mary Magdalene Joanna Susanna and others who were supporting the ministry Let's also look at Luke chapter 18 verses one to three is one example Where he talks about the devotion of women Luke 18 Then he spoke a parable to them that men always ought to pray and not lose heart saying there was in a certain city Judge who did not fear God but regard Matt nor regard man Now there was a widow in that city and she came to him saying get justice for me from my adversary and he would not For a while, but afterward he said within himself though. I do not fear God nor regard man So is that all one two three Yeah, no problem. You can go ahead. Just read till the end of this Okay Yet because this widow troubled me I will avenge her lest by her continued coming. She wearing me Thank you. So here the illustration of Woman who is going to a judge repeatedly for the sake of getting justice, right? Used as an example of somebody who is diligently praying and seeking justice from God will God not answer their prayer We see also in Luke an interest in children, so He talks about the childhood of John the Baptist and Jesus and then we see these three examples of where Jesus ministers to to widow or a Or a parent of an only child in seven twelve and eight forty two It's where the only child is in seven twelve. It's about the death of an only child Eight forty two. It's about only child who is sick And nine thirty eight is an only child who is being Oppressed by demons So the parent goes to Jesus and Jesus has compassion on them so Luke has this record and and He the childhood of John the Baptist and Jesus is only recorded in Luke We also see social relationship. So Luke talks a lot about Jesus In social gatherings, we look at a few of these So here Jesus is dining with the Pharisees. There are a cause of Jesus dining with the Pharisees We have a record of Jesus at Bethany. Maybe you can look at it this Luke 10 38 to 42 Luke 10 38 Now it happened has they been that he entered a certain village and a certain woman named Martha welcomed him into a house And she's had a Sister called Mary who also sat at Jesus feet and heard his word But Martha was distracted with much serving and she approached him and Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her and Jesus answered and said to her Martha Martha You are worried and troubled about many things But one thing is needed and Mary has chosen good part which will not be taken away from her Thank you. So we see here Jesus dining at his disciples homes, right? So Luke is very interested in these Relationships that Jesus had how he is engaging with people in their homes. We see with Zacchus He goes to Zacchus's home. We see the story of him going to The disciples on the road to Emmaus when they invite him to their house He goes with them and breaks bread with them We see other illustrations. So on the traveler requiring Refreshments, let's just look at that Luke 11 versus 5 to 8 11 verse 5 and he said to them Which of you shall have a friend and go to him at midnight and say to him friend Lend me three loaves for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey And I have nothing to set before him and he will answer from within and say do not trouble me The door is now shut and my children are with me in bed. I cannot rise and give to you I say to you both will not rise and give to him because he is his friend Yet because of his persistence, he will rise and give him as many as he needs Thank you We also see these other illustrations of the lost coin when the prodigal son returns and the innkeeper in the story of the Good Samaritan taking care of the wounded Person who's fallen by the side of the road. So all of these there's a focus on hospitality there's a focus on relationships on taking care of people on Gathering together in people's homes. So a lot of that kind of Reflection on Jesus's ministry that Jesus was very intentional in relationships and he was very engaged in This aspect of hospitality that he was with people spending time with people in their homes Getting to know people so in these social environments Luke is also very interested in theology So we see a few different topics that he focuses on one is Jesus as saviour of the world so he talks about The word save savior salvation occur 21 times in the gospel So gospel is also known as a gospel of salvation history Because it's so focused on salvation or Jesus as saviour What we talked about before universalism that The gospel is for all people not just for the people of Israel or the Jews So much so that he even places Samaritans on the same level as Jews So we see the story of the good Samaritan narrated in the gospel of Luke where the Samaritan is the one who is Elevated as someone whose example is to be followed right so here we see that There's no elevation of Jews above Samaritans or over any other group of people Luke also talks about the Lordship of Christ. So we see the word Lord used hundred times As compared to Matthew who is at 72 times Mark 17 times and John 44 times. So He is focused on the fact that Jesus came to be Lord Jesus came to be the master of all those who follow him and we are called to be his servants Luke also talks about the day of salvation and is very focused on the fact that that day is today so in that calling of people to Respond to Jesus today today is the day of salvation now is the time when we should receive Jesus so let's just look at maybe Luke 10 Let me just open that Luke 10 9 to 11 Luke chapter 10 verse 9 Therefore what God has joined together. Let not man separate Sorry, sorry Luke chapter 10 9 to 11 Oh, I opened it to something else. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry Luke chapter 10 verse 9 and Heal the sick there and say to them the kingdom of God has come near to you Verse 10, but whatever city you enter and they do not receive you go out Into its street and say verse 11 the very test of your city which clings to us We wipe off against you nevertheless know this that the kingdom of God has come near you Thank you so That focus on the kingdom of God is here which we definitely see in the other Gospels as well But Luke Uses these words now today today is the day of salvation a lot in the Gospel And then we see the joy of salvation. So Joy gladness rejoicing occurs 21 times in the book of Luke and we see four songs recorded That's Mary song in Luke one Zechariah song also in Luke one and then the angel song and Simeon song in Luke two So all of these songs are songs of joy because Of salvation that is coming in Jesus So Luke is very focused on that message of joy Because of the coming of Christ and salvation through Christ so This we'll end with this slide Luke's also Like we talked about his it's a very social Gospel Which means that his interest is not only in the outcast but also in Outcast in terms of religious circles because of their sin. He's also interested in the poor and the oppressed so outcasts because of their Their economic status. So we see seven parables that contrast the wealthy with the With those who are poor or with those who are in a stressful economic situation Let's just read Chapter 16 verses 1 to 13 if you can read that it's a little long but He also said to his disciples There was a certain rich man who had a Steward and an accusation was brought to him that this man was wasting his goods So he called him and said to him What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship for you can no longer be steward Then the steward said within himself What shall I do for my master is taking the stewardship away from me? I cannot dig I am ashamed to beg I Have resolved what to do that when I'm put out of the stewardship. They may receive me into the houses So he called every one of his masters that is to him and said to the first how much do you owe my master and He said a hundred measures of oil So he said to him take your bill and sit down quickly and write 50 Then he said to another how much did you owe? So he said a hundred measures of wheat and he said to him take your bill and write 80 So the master Commended the unjust to it because he had dealt shrewdly for the sons of this world are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light You can go on till verse 15, please And I say to you you make friends for yourself By unrighteous mammon that when you fail they may receive you into an everlasting home He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much and he who is unjust in what is least is Unjust also in much Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon Who will commit to your trust? Who will commit to your trust the true riches and if you have not been faithful in what is another man's Who will give you what is your own? No servant can serve two masters for either he will hate the one and love the other or else He will be loyal to one and despise the other you cannot serve God and mammon Now the Pharisees who were true lovers of money also heard all these things and they derided him and he said to them You are those who justify yourselves before men But God knows your hearts for what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God Thank you, so In in the fact that Jesus was using parables that connected with the poor he was actually Kind of speaking to a group of people that was outside of these religious leaders because religious leaders were wealthy and So the parables themselves pointed to the fact that Jesus's heart was for the poor He was for those who were economically Struggling in some way Which means that the Pharisees didn't connect with those parables the parables were something that was very foreign Outside to what their personal experience was but Jesus was saying these are the people That my heart is fought when he was talking about these parables about the woman with the lost coin That would be something that would be so irrelevant to the Pharisees To lose one coin would be completely Would not be something that they would be concerned about but because this woman was poor And she lost a coin and it was so important to her That when she found that she rejoiced with her neighbors Jesus shows his heart for the poor whereas the parables with the Pharisees Immediately see that disconnect from these parables because it's not talking to their life experience For someone who didn't have to care about money that much we see also The last thing is Luke's interest in songs So there are few four hymns the four hymns We actually just talked about in Luke one and Luke two These hymns actually became Songs that start to be sung in the church So the song of Mary when she visits Elizabeth Song of Zacharias when John the Baptist is born the song of the angels when Jesus is born and Simeon song when Jesus is dedicated at the temple. So these are the four Songs that Luke records, which is very unique to Luke itself These are not recorded in the other Gospels So we'll close with this We didn't have a chance to address any questions in the book of Mark Which we finished on Monday So if you have any questions anything else you would like to share we can Discuss that If you have any questions on the book of Mark any thoughts that you all wanted to share from what we had discussed Or what we've covered today as well But John Mark and Mark are the same person Yes. Yes. Yeah, so he was not one of the 12th With the Apostles Okay, so what I'll do is if there are no other questions We'll I'll post the list of Chapters with and I'll assign it to Luke has 24 chapters So we'll assign that to 24 people for Monday Sanjay's posted is it true that Luke was a physician Doctor by profession. Yes That's that's as much as we know about Luke and that's something we look at on Monday as well we haven't gone into the author and The recipients the specific occasion for writing the book of Luke So those are some things we look at more on Monday before we begin the outline of Luke Yeah About when Satan came to tempt Jesus So in both like three situations are there regarding to bread And when he took to the top of the temple and when he asked Jesus to go down but like in Matthew and look it is like slight difference in Luke. It is sequence is changed Okay. Yeah, like the third thing is in Matthew It is like the go down when he asked to ask go down in front of me that is on third in Matthew But in Luke it is on second. So how come it is changed? Okay, so Luke. Can you give us the reference please? Luke for Okay, and nine is where He will command his angels Okay, so Luke has this Temptation third and my Matthew has its second is it Okay so one thing that we know is They were both writing with the same purpose right so From the end of the story what you understand from that of Jesus's temptation Of how Jesus was tempted the specific things that he was tempted about Is the same in both the Gospels and how Jesus responds From scripture is also the same. So with these things They were not so concerned about recording things In a timeline like this happened first this happened second this happened third They were much more interested in getting their message across so at the end of this what have we Understood about Jesus's experience of being tempted. What were the things Satan was trying to tempt Jesus about? So Jesus was trying to tempt Jesus to use his authority as the son of God in a way that benefited himself right so Or to test the father So the story is the same like what we learn is the same that we are not supposed to we don't test God We don't use the authority that is given to us for our own benefit. We use it For the benefit of the other of other people to serve other people So in that way the gospel writers write their things differently you write their stories differently But it's based on their goal So Matthew and look even though they've interchanged those things They're not trying to say this happened. This was the first test. This was the second test It is that is not their main point their main point is these were the things that The temptations that came these were the ways that Jesus overcame temptation So that that is the reason why they may record it differently. They may not use the same words all of that is that Satisfactory answer Okay, any other questions sister, I have a question Yes, yes Luke was not with he was not one of the disciples of Jesus, right? He was not yes. Yeah, but he has written this gospel in so much detail and so much Explanation, I mean he learned it from others Yes, so we see in Luke one two where he says That The Gospels were written through eyewitness accounts So then verse three he says I have carefully investigated everything from the beginning So that means he's gone back and he's talked to These eyewitnesses to make his own record Of what happened and also we know that Luke was traveling with Paul on some of his missionary journeys So a lot of what Luke writes is from his interactions with Paul from his interactions with Eyewitnesses of Jesus's ministry so with the other apostles So Luke that's why we say he's a historian In that he does his research and then he makes He makes this account so it's not based on his own experience But it's based on the research that he's done Okay, thank you sister Thank you Lucy says Jesus Christ had many temptations only three are recorded for us Yes, so as far as we know or The gospel writers have chosen to talk about this specifically to talk about Jesus in this Being taken to the wilderness being taken into a time of testing So there is also a specific purpose in that record There may have been other temptations that he faced That are not mentioned for whatever reason but the wilderness experience is mentioned as something that We can expect as well right the Holy Spirit himself leads Jesus into the wilderness To be tempted and so when we are tested when we are tempted we know that Just as Jesus overcame God will give us the strength to overcome those temptations so That is the purpose of them being recorded for us and That we can learn from how Jesus overcame temptation as well What is also interesting is that? It's Comparable to the Israelites in the wilderness. So the Israelites were taken into the wilderness They tested God so when you look at these three examples of Jesus's temptation It's all related to the Israelites in the wilderness Don't test God Sorry all of the we look if if you want to look at all of the temptations next week We can do that but all three of them are related to the wilderness experience of the Israelites and so It's kind of comparing how Jesus overcame temptation in the wilderness while these lights did not while these lights actually Fell and fell away from God in the wilderness So, yeah I hope that answers your question Okay, so we are past time if you'll have any more questions we can cover that on Monday Or we'll just continue with where we stopped. Thank you all Thank you


The Reason Why Many Educated People Are Poor When I was 15, I started dreaming of becoming an accountant. Though at this time, I had my own little business, since nobody in my immediate environment talked about entrepreneurship, I didn't even know that any poor boy like me could build a company. So, I wanted to work for a company as an accountant. Since I wanted to be a great accountant, I looked for a newspaper and cut out the image of one of the most successful bankers in those days. I pasted this photo in my room where I saw it every day. I also read about him and discovered that he was a professor of accounting and a professor of economics. Now I have a roadmap. Since my idol was a professor of accounting and economics, I started dreaming of becoming a professor of accounting and economics. I read like no one and nobody I knew was better than me in accounting and economics. I left high school and went to study accounting in what is similar to what many people know as college. I was still the best student. But one day, I asked myself, why is no one teaching me how to make money? You see, as an accounting student, I had learned how to calculate so many companies accounts, the balance sheet, manufacturing account, trading profit and loss account, accounting and a lot more. But I needed to ask, why are my lecturers teaching me just how to calculate money? Why is there no one teaching me how to make money? I later left school when I got no answer to my question. Or let me say, I got an answer but that answer was, here in school, we only teach you how to work for money, not how to make it. That's the reason why most educated people are poor, they were taught how to work for money. The science of money If you are a tennis player as you watch this video, to you tennis is not difficult.   Yes, I have a friend who loved war when we were young, simply because he wanted to be a soldier. 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Understand Leverage As I make this video, I work hundreds of hours per day. It's not possible to work hundreds of hours within 24 hours of the day but I'm able to do it because I have different people and technologies working for me. Until you figure out how to make money while you sleep, you don't know how much money you want to earn to make you truly rich. What happens with many high-paying jobs is that you work too hard for the money. This is not how to be wealthy because wealth is not when you have to work 18 hours each day to make $200,000 a year. Wealth is when you have the liberty to work or not and still make money. Doubt Jobs The number one problem about jobs is that it takes away the time you need to invest on your dream. The second problem is, jobs take away your ability to use leverage. For example, you can't employ someone else to do your job and pay him less. You can't work 100 hours a day. You can't use technologies for your advantage. 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Okay, this is an introductory video to the Raspberry Pi startup sequence that accompanies the article in model railroad hobbyist. I'm Jeff Bunza, and we're going to just step through what the actual sequence of events is to get everybody familiar. So when you power on the Raspberry Pi, you'll get this screen. I use the 10-inch display to put this together, and it's just going to go through the paces. We're going to see exactly what comes up. There's the background screen. There's the icons on the screen, much like any other Windows machine. It automatically starts up JMRI for you, and it looks to see what is connected to the Raspberry Pi. In this case, nothing. The screen with all the green letters in the background is the system console, and it gives you all the messages about what's going on. You have the end of it starting up the Wi-Fi throttle server, which corresponds to that screen I'm manipulating now, and notice it tells you what the active profile is. It's the DigiTrack simulator, because there's nothing plugged into the JMRI at this point. But you can go through all of the setup. You can configure things. You can go through the tools and roster and set those up. Create whatever tables you want to create, and then eventually quit out of it. To start it up, you double-click on the JMRI panel pro. It'll go through the startup sequence. It'll list the last configuration that it ran, which in this case was the DigiTrack simulator. In a couple of seconds, it'll automatically start up, and there goes the simulator with the windows we saw before in the same sequence we saw before. The end result is it automatically starts up the Wi-Fi server. You can see the configuration for that in the top window. Let's quit out of that now, show you some other things. You can go up to the top menu bar. Notice there's a little black window there. This will give you a text input, and you can put in different commands to configure things, to move files around in your RPI. Very useful. A couple of them are mentioned in the article. Also provided an Arduino ID already pre-loaded on the Raspberry Pi, and here you can actually do Arduino development and then download an Arduino from your Raspberry Pi. If you're using any Arduino, you can go and configure it, set it up, reconfigure it, program it, things like that. If you look at what's loaded already for you, there are many sketches from my previous articles in model railroad hobbyists that are there. If you're looking for any of those, they're already there on the system. If you don't use them, you can go through and you can delete them later. You've got things like the DCC++, JMRI sensor interface channels, and lots of other things from the articles. Let's quit out of that, and we'll go back up to the little Raspberry right in the corner there and go down to preferences. You can also use that to shut down the machine. We'll go down to preferences and then Raspberry Pi configuration. This is good to know about because you can do things like you can change the host name of the computer that the Raspberry Pi is referring to itself as. But more importantly, early on, you can change the screen resolution. If you're using a VGA screen or another screen that doesn't conform to what this is already set up for, you can go and change it. You can also enable and disable a whole series of interfaces on the Raspberry Pi as well. That's a good thing to know about.  Let's go through it again, except this time I'm going to focus a little bit closer to the screen so that you can see a lot of the details that maybe you didn't see before. You can see that the icons are bigger, and I'm actually only covering about a quarter of the screen. You'll see JMRI coming up automatically. There's nothing connected to it in terms of a DCC base station, so it goes and runs the simulator in exactly the same manner we saw before. Now you can see the system console a little bit better and note that it winds up starting the Y-throttle server, and it'll tell you what the configuration it's using, which you can also change. You can also run the Panel Pro Auto Identify right there and see it will go through and try to identify any base station connected to it. Here we're going back to the preferences again, so you can change the Raspberry Pi configuration, screen resolution, the name of the computer, the interfaces, a whole bunch of things. You probably won't change those right away, but they're good to know about, but certainly if you have a different screen that you're going to use, knowing how to change the screen resolution is a good thing. Here's the interface selection. Let's get out of that, and we'll start up JMRI again just to show you what's there. Notice it's selecting the Digitrack Simulator again, because we have nothing connected to it, and it starts that up in the same pattern we saw before. You can get a pretty good idea of what it's going through in the startup sequence, so you don't get surprised.  You can see that a little bit better, and then we'll end the session.


Rhaiddiw y cerddur y gallwn cynllun oedd yn gweithio'r cyfleiwyr, ac rhaiddiwm yn gweithio'r cyfleiwyr yn arferosol gwirianne5a Mery Ann Renny, Y Prif Weinidog, Ac Rhyw Gwyrddoch Trydd yn Fyrman. Rhyw bryd bod gweithio'r gwaith yn unig i gwybeth, ond y cerddur oedd yn gweithio'r cyfleiwyr. Y cerddur oedd y dyfod mwy 꿈osol gyda'r cyflawn i chi sylwgrifer ar gyfer 17-18 Febwrth, we marked 200 years since the rediscovery of the tomb of Robert the Bruce, and this weekend just passed, we've been celebrating 200 years since the laying of the foundation stone of the new abbey church. The first of those two events, the rediscovery of the tomb led to a hurried redraft of the plans for the new building by the architect William Byrne. It wasn't until three years later that the vision of the new design was visible to all, as the tower of the church soared into the sky and the crown around it declared King Robert the Bruce. At the time, there was criticism, and one unnamed commentator quoted in the annals of Dunfermline is declaring the great towers out of architectural proportion and the words around the top of it are in bad taste. For those visiting Dunfermline today, the tower and those words act as a signpost, bringing those looking for royalty to our door. Of course, today they also have to navigate through the one-way system. The boasting of an earthly king on a building created for worship with the heavens frequently prompts the question of why this name, rather than Christ's name. As a Christian community, our purpose is to be the church in worship and in action. At times, the history can be overwhelming of our purpose. While celebrating Robert the Bruce's myth, mystique and heroism, we are also aware of his duplicity, subterfuge and bloodshed. These elements of his life are shared with other historical and even biblical heroes, the reminders of the flaws of humanity. The meeting of the gospel story of Jesus Christ with the story of the King of Scots within the building brings richness to Jesus's meeting with the flaws of humanity and is still looking for the best. In challenging politician, thief and religious leader, Jesus brought to the fore human qualities of love, compassion and justice to be treasured, inspired and nurtured. We do not need to have faith to know the challenge of being part of a community. Living with other people can mean knowing too well the adage of sticks and stones may break my bones. Living with others should be an opportunity to look for and celebrate the best of another and to be enriched by that encounter.


Next talk is from Anker Kreuzer from Ulik Supercomputing Centre. This is a site presentation of the work they're doing there. Anker, you have about 15 minutes for the talk over to you. OK, can you hear me? I hope you can hear me. Yes, we can hear you. OK, great. Yeah, so hi, I'm Anker and I'd like to give you a short insight or update on how we are doing things at JSC with EasyBuild, especially now with our modular supercomputing architectures, short MSA. So we have five systems at least at the moment, which are set up with EasyBuild. And here's a short insight on that. So we started with a dual approach at JSC, having some highly scalable systems like your Queen or general purpose clusters like the old Europa. And a few years back, we decided to merge this approach to have now one single system containing several parts with different purposes. So now we have machines with a cluster part and the booster part to merge these approaches. And our biggest system at the moment is the Yuval's supercomputer. It has a cluster part with Intel CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs and booster part with AMD CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs. And as Ellen mentioned before, the Juval's booster is in the top 500 list now on position seven. So that's really great. We have also the Eureka system with its cluster part, Eureka DC with AMD CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs. We have the Eureka booster part with Intel KNLs. Then we have some smaller systems like Yusuf with AMD CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs. We have the HDFML with Intel CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs. And we have the DPST prototype with its cluster with Intel CPUs. It's booster Intel CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs and the data analytics module with Intel CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs. The last one has also Intel FPGAs, but the software for the FPGAs is not yet in the easy build stack. And I'm not sure it will be because it's the only system having FPGA. So having the software global does not make sense at the moment. OK, so what does this mean for our software stack? As you have seen, we have two systems with only one module, so non-MSA systems, but we have also three systems with at least two different modules. And as you've seen, there is quite a few combinations. So we have systems with AMD CPU and NVIDIA GPU, Intel CPU and NVIDIA GPU or even Intel Xeon 5, so KNLs. Different node types can mean different requirements. And so in our case, as you've seen, the different node types not only differ from system to system, but also from module to module. So when you're now running jobs across different modules, you need to make sure that you load the software from the proper stack. For this, we at JSC use the XNF tool to make sure that the modules you load for the cluster part are also coming from the software stack of the cluster part. Another thing to consider on the MSA system is that you might not have login nodes for all parts of the whole system, but you have maybe central ones like on Eureka or on the DPST system. To make sure that when you install software, then it's installed for the right part. We introduced architectural modules that need to be loaded before you install the software. In our case, now we have a package base with packages that can be installed over all systems. And we have also some overlay directories where we put easy config files in that needed to be adapted to be able to run or install on different modules. In total, we have 689 packages. So the base plus the overlays. And we support three compilers, namely GCC, Intel and NVHPC. We also support three different MPIs with PyroStation MPI, Intel MPI and Open MPI. For math, we have the MKL and want also to add the bliss, but at the moment it's work in progress. And in our case, that makes up for 19 different tool chains at the moment. So our hierarchy for the tool chains looks like this. We have the system tool chain with packages like UCX or VTune. We have GCC Core tool chain with packages like OpenGL or Python. On top of the GCC Core, we have installed the compilers. The compiler tool chains have packages like HDF4 meters. And then on top of the compilers, we have the MPIs with different combinations. So PyroStation, for example, is installed on top of all of the compilers. Open MPI on top of GCC and Intel and the Intel MPI only for Intel. Within the MPI tool chains, we have packages like HDF5 and SCORP. Most of the MPIs have also CUDA as dependency, since most of our system has GPUs. And also for each compiler and MPI combination, we have a tool chain with MKL on top. And in these tool chains, we have packages like Romax or Petsy. Then, as mentioned before, we want to add bliss as well, but this is still work in progress so far. The plan is to hopefully have it for our next stage. So now what is the view for a user when initially login into one of our systems? So by default, the GCC Core module is loaded to make sure the user sees all the available compilers and also some binary tools and packages installed with GCC Core. And then if you load a compiler, you get also the MPI, the possible MPI runtimes and the packages on top of the compiler. And the same when you load the MPI runtime, then you get to see the packages built with the MPI. If you now load a full software stack for your purpose and notice that you need to change the MPI or the compiler version, you can just load it and Elmod then will swap the branches and activate or deactivate the modules accordingly. We also have a lot of hidden modules because the users don't need to see all available modules because some of them are only needed as dependencies for other packages. So we have over 150 of those hidden packages just to make it not too much what a user can see or choose from to make it easier to find the right packages. Another thing we do is we bundle extensions. So some of the packages like Python or R or Perl need lots of extensions. And in most of the cases, these extensions are only needed by this one package. So making each of the extensions a separate module and install it by themselves would be totally extensive. And so we bundle them as extensions and according packages and yeah, name the Python, R and Perl bundle packages. Our stage concept at the moment is that redeploy software for a given timeframe. In our case at the moment, it's one year so we update everything once a year. The stage is more or less a simple directory where we put everything in. For each stage, we have also a development stage where new software versions or configurations or things like that can be tested. Tested software is then added to our repository and deployed to production. We are also in the test phase for user-based software installation where a user can load the module to be able to install new software. And then in the future it would be that each user could install their own software and we wouldn't need a whole development stage anymore. But as I said, that's still in the test phase. Switching between the stages is done during a maintenance so the users are not affected in a way that they can't additionally use the system because maintenance is always necessary for several things. So that's okay. If a user then noticed, oh, my old compiler version isn't there anymore, yes, in the new stage we won't copy the old compiler or whatever versions but they are not gone. The development stage and the old stages are still available but not visible by default. To make the user installations a little easier or at least smooth, we enable some hooks. So for example, we have the parse hook to manage the software installations. So we inject that and what families like saying, okay, the package is a compiler or MPI or a tool chain and also we are adding appropriate site contacts so that for each software it's clear who is the responsible person. We have also a pre-ready hook to check for some bad behavior like is the user trying to use an unsupported tool chain or is he even trying to install GCC Core by himself which shouldn't be the case or installing a non-JSC MPI which we also don't want. And then there's the end talk to check if the user is part of the development group or the software group because then the installation should be system-wide. Okay, so the software team I mentioned before consists of a small core team responsible for the core installations like the GCC Core, the compiler and the MPIs. It also supervises the quality standards of the work from the software team. So checks if the tested software has the correct dependencies, has proper programming in the easy configs and things like that and then installs things in production. The whole software team consists of several people. So we are trying to get for each field of application at least one person who works on the easy build installations just to have more expert on the team in case there are trouble or optimizations needed and also to reduce the work on the software core team a bit. Up to now this works quite good and all the users of the software team are allowed to install software in the development stage. Anybody can change any other installation in the development stage. So that means that the stage might get a bit messy but that's no problem. It's at least only a development stage and the production stage will always stay clean. One good example on dividing the work to a whole team is that we now have people with experience in each separate fields. For example, in the visualization we have now a new OpenGL module. So the old one had the problem when it comes to MSA that you need a version for CPU and a version for GPU. So one version with the Mesa driver and one with the NVIDIA driver. But this also would mean that each package which depends on OpenGL would need to have two versions. One with the OpenGL CPU version and one with the GPU version and that would blow the stack a lot. Another problem was that it was up to the user to choose the right packages all the time and in a lot of cases that leads to the users just always use the CPU versions to not be, to not need to think about which one to use and then later explain on the performance on the GPUs that it's not that good. Yeah. So here, our colleague, Henrik Gerbert put a lot of effort in the new module and now we have an OpenGL module that can cover all of it. So CPU and GPU. It is based on the NVIDIA driver and has Mesa as components as well as the GL vendor neutral dispatch library. And this library has the advantage that now OpenGL chooses the right driver at runtime. So in the GLX version, the driver is now defined by the settings of the user's X screen and in the EGL it's defined by JSON config files which are listed in the EGL vendor library filenames variable. So now all applications can use the same OpenGL module and also all packages depending on OpenGL can use the same single module which is really, really nice. And our software team roadmap looks like at the moment we have the software team that installs and tests new software in the development stage or a few user already tests the user-based installations but after that the software core team needs to install it in production. What we would like to have in the near future is that the software team installs and tests the software with the user-based installations and then later on is able to install their own packages in the production stage based on an ACL authorization scheme so that each user of the software group is able to install their own software and only their own software also in production to reduce a little bit the work on the software core team. And that's all from my side and thanks for listening and now I'm open for questions. Thank you to Ankur for the presentation. If you have questions in Zoom please raise your hand feature and we'll allow you to ask it. If you're watching the live stream then ask in the EasyBuild Slack and I'll pass the question on. Yes, I had a question or maybe two or three if you'll allow me or if nobody else asks any questions. So in the overview of hardware you showed that you have a big variety of systems but all of the ones that have GPUs it's all Nvidia is that a conscious decision by JSC to for now stay away from AMD GPUs or is it just the way that it has worked out until now? I would assume the second point but I am not quite sure and I'm not part of the decision teams. Yeah. I think we choose the Nvidia GPUs because we also have a cooperation with Nvidia so we have some people from Nvidia also working with us at JSC. Yeah. And in the past we also worked a lot with Nvidia GPUs so. Hello, the experience. Yeah, Alex has a comment maybe. Yeah, so she's right. It's the thing is that we have an Nvidia center in Ulish so there is an Nvidia team permanently in Ulish. There is a lot of CUDA knowledge and when we consider the AMD GPUs the software stack was just not ready yet. The software would not run on it so it's fine they have nice GPUs but if you cannot run the grow max properly there it's pointless. Yeah. Okay. And then maybe another question in terms of manpower you mentioned there's three people in the core team that look at the things like compilers I guess Alex is one of them. MPI and things like that and then a whole bunch of more application specialists on top. Can you give a ballpark idea of how many people are using EasyBuild at JSC? A rough estimation would be 10 plus the core team. Okay. I'm not sure Alex, yeah. That's pretty good. And we have end users as well who already use it for building their own stuff on top of what's centrally provided or? Yes and no. So one of the people who is testing it is also part of the software team. So he just takes the role of a normal user and test it. But before we advertise it to the normal users we just want to make sure that everything works as expected. So that's why it's still test phase and really small test phase. Okay. So we have the software supports team which is like 30 people and some of them are taking this role of dealing with EasyBuild with our help with Anke and my help. And then there is what we call simulation labs which are application specialists. So there are people who are, that they deal with their software in their own way. And so there are specialists on the applications and then we help them to work with EasyBuild. That's it. Okay. I see Jörg has a question. So I'll pass the virtual mic to him. Cool. Coming back to the NVIDIA GPU and AMD GPU question earlier on I was wondering, is that a kind of a chicken and egg problem? If there is more software written for AMD GPUs or any kind of other GPUs which is around would you then be more inclined to use non-NVIDIA GPUs or is that like, okay, we always use NVIDIA and the best and we just stick to that box. If you see what I mean. Yes. But I think that's something to decide not on our part. So yeah, that's more a step higher than we are. So I don't know. We have also smaller systems at our side where we always test new developed things. And there of course, we will test whatever we can get our fingers on. So yeah, but for the production systems, I would assume we would stay with NVIDIA for the time being. Okay. Thanks. We have been testing HIP, that software library, but it really, it's unfinished. So it's really pointless to buy 4,000 GPUs of a brand that you cannot use yet. So yes, it's a lack of software and it's not our job to fix every single scientific software right now because they use CUDA and the people for whatever reason they like CUDA and there are people who even like NVIDIA software development somehow. But yeah, so it's a fight that is not our fight. Okay. And in-house experience is a big factor of course. If you know, if you have a lot of CUDA specialists, then yeah, you would have to retrain those people which again takes time as well. Yeah. See, Victor has a question. So I'll let him ask his question. So when you say that you're gonna empower the software stack team to install their own software, does it mean that you currently do manual installations so that they can install themselves by hand with using ACLs or is there's a common user who can install it or buy a GitHub or a Git project that controls installations? No, so the installations are all with easy build also from the software team.  You log into the system and you do module load whatever easy build and do you be yourself? Is it by hand, the manual solution itself? This says that you're typing easy build command. There is no reframe or anything like that. So yes. But at CSCS what we do, we have a repository where everybody can push the recipes there and then the machine or robot will install the software. So anybody can install software at CSCS because the machine will be able to install the software. No, we have the same with the GitHub that we can push our software there but it's not automatically installed on the systems because then it's checked at the moment by our software core team if everything is okay and things like that. And then one of us three will install it manually. So typing the EB command for the production stage. In that case, I will have a suggestion because what we do have the same, right? We also have a team that kind of check the easy configs and the blogs. And then what we do have, we split in different projects, right? We have what's called testing project that tests the easy configs and someone that goes there manually and she's also but we have what's called the production one where we approve that recipe to be installed in the system and then it goes there automatically install that thing. So you don't need to be logged into the system to manually do it. You guys could implement something like that too. Yeah, sounds interesting but I'm not sure if this with the whole security restrictions we have at the moment would be possible but it's something we can think of over yes.