What is up everybody, Jayce here for jaskiescasebreak.com. We just sold out 2024 Tops Chrome Black Baseball, 12 box case break, PYC number four guys. All-Cart ship, and let's rock and roll. So here we go guys, thank you everybody that bought in. Last but not least, Jeff got the Marlins. There's everybody else there guys. So I think what I'm gonna do guys, like I have been doing, I'm just gonna open up all the boxes, we'll stack up the hits. We'll go pack by pack, see what's in those. And then we'll go with the autographs after. So like I said, this isn't a quick break, this isn't a long break anyways, regardless, damn, this box got a little beat up there. We are looking for some depths of darkness that's what I wanna hit. So those packs are extremely thick. The cart is like a 130, one, when actually it's more like a 180 slash slider box type of pack. So if we pull one of those, you're gonna tell right away. Yeah, they say they're one in every five cases, these 60 boxes. So we did a 10 case round fanatics live on Wednesday and we actually hit two of them. So pretty much on average. So I mean, we're almost there too. I don't know if Joe's hit any just yet in the first couple he did after I did number one, but kind of on par to eventually get one either in this break or in the next break, at least on average. We get shipped the right cases, every one of our cases can have one, but I thought that doesn't always happen. Let's open up this now. I think we got one of those depths of darkness here, but hopefully some nice hits in general though. All right, here we go guys. Peak Row Armstrong, Corbin Burns, and Novelli Marte for the Reds. Reds is going to E8 to 75. All right, we got Pereira. And how about a Bobby Witt Jr. to 50? Nice mini diamonds gold, eight out of 50, one off the Jersey number. Rojas, and we've got a Jordan Walker for the St. Louis Cardinals, but a Matthew Wood, Corbin Carroll, Dodgers. Ooh, Emmett Shaheen. Little bit of a teaser there for the Dodgers to 75. Going to David, steel, metals, and Johann Rojas for the Phillies, number to 150. Westburg, we got an orange coming up, and it's Francisco Endor to 25 for the Mets. I'm going to Steven Schwartz. Nice Colton Couser, rookie variation. That's a nice one there for the Baltimore Orioles. Orioles is going to John and Finn. Oh wait, no. Did you get the Orioles? No, there's no way you got the Orioles, did you? Maybe that's a mistake by Joe. Maybe Ed was supposed to get the Orioles. That seems wrong. Oh wait, no, you did get the Orioles. Oh, forget it, you did. Orioles in four and five. Man, I almost thought that was a mistake. Pricer, Showtime, and nice Yamamoto. Guys, his base, we're going for like 75 bucks. Probably drop-downs about 40 or 50 now, but anything numbered, this guy is selling for hotcakes. Super hot. And then even agas, I think redemption autographs are like a couple hundred dollars. Or one of them I think Rex's, what was it, 700, I don't remember what he says, Josh Young to 150, Texas Rangers, Alan Kelly. Nice Luis Matos to 50, and the Andrew Abbott for the Reds to 199. We got Cabrion A's to 99, and then last pack and then we'll go to all those. Patrick Bailey to 99. Alrighty, here we go guys. First one. Gold rookie, and it's Jared Triolo for the Pirates. Mini diamonds. Pirates, that is going to David. Rookie again, Kyron Parris for the Angels, going to Kenban, who bought them straight up. Another rookie. Gray Kessinger for the Astros, going to add another rookie. Nice Evan Carter, just a base, but still really nice there, Texas Rangers, Alan Kelly. Another rookie. Williams for the Pirates. Pirates having a solid break, David. Orange, not a rookie. And it is Brandon Nemo to 25 for the Mets, Steven Schwartz, another rookie here. Connor Phillips for the Reds, going to EA. Gray Kessinger again for the Astros, double them for Ed. And Mark Tashara for the Rangers to 150. There you go, Adam. Another one there for the Rangers. Three more hits guys. Tended off strong, hopefully. Dane Myers for the Marlins, last Bob Mojo, Jeff Brown. Nice, Jason Dominguez, 87 out of 99. And that is Super Futures autographs for the Yankees, going to Tristan. There you go, you got your boy. And last one here is gonna be a green rookie. And it's gonna be Jose Danna for the Cleveland Guardians, going to Yanke. All right, well, you know, I've seen some better cases. I've seen some worse cases. This one was okay. I feel like that Jason Dominguez, I feel like definitely did save it. Good little mixture though. A lot of rookies though, I will say. Actually a lot of rookies, but just not the biggest names. So like I said, obviously this is just one case here. Number five through 10 is still available in the store.  But on top of that, of course, you have a chance to win that sealed case, right? So all of you guys that are here in this list, what we're gonna do is I'm gonna copy your names. Everybody that bought in straight up gets an entry. I'm gonna go to the promo list. I'm gonna paste your guys' names right here. Boom, just like that. And that's everybody there in the full list. And then of course, we'll do the same thing for number five. Full list. Once we get all the 10 picket teams sold out, we'll do the randomizer and we'll give away that sealed case, guys. So let's get number five done if you guys wanna get it done.  Let's get it going, guys. JaspysCaseBricks.com.


Pin this What's up money geeks? This is Lee here. Welcome to another video guys. So into this video We are going to talk about ticker symbol P I n s Pinterest if you haven't heard about Pinterest Now you probably live in a cave But if you live in a normal world like me and if you're married and has a wife that loves to cook You probably hear about Pinterest in your house every day like I do so to this video we're gonna talk about Pinterest and I'm gonna tell you guys what I'm thinking out if I'm buying it or I Am not buying but before we get started guys if you're new to the channel We took about how to earn money how to save money how to invest and build wealth So if that's something that interests you go ahead and hit that subscribe button any notification bell too You don't miss out on your content and also if you really want to help my work here guys go Hey, I can give you that thumbs up and share this video with somebody that you think would find my content useful So again, we're talking about Pinterest today guys Pinterest in my house is used for recipes and everything So this is from a practical standpoint. So my wife is actually making me buy these stocks She doesn't know that but I see how much she uses Pinterest and I see the value as she gets out of Pinterest So I think this stock is the stock that we need to put in our portfolios I'm definitely bullish on Pinterest So for a lot of you guys that again that I say that if you don't know what Pinterest does This company does a lot of good things again. It's a search engine slash a Blog name it a lot of people have been using Pinterest and don't even understand it If you see people that own blocks majority of the traffic comes from Pinterest again, they you post your pins I don't want to explain to you the details on how to use Pinterest I don't know what Pinterest keeps trying to get me to sign in here But basically if you own if you have a block and you're looking for traffic You create what they call pins and put it on this block people go there for recipes for You know, just ideas to fix your house dress. I mean just name it deco Everything technology. There is so much value that people get out of Pinterest So I think this is currently something that we need to keep an eye on right now as we're doing this video Pinterest is trading at about $73, but I bet you This by next year in the first quarter this stock is gonna be a hundred dollar stock mark my word I'm buying Pinterest as a matter of fact.  Look at where Pinterest was at. This is September 24th. Pinterest was trading at $38 a share Look at that. Look at that move Consistent rise to right now trading at $73 and again with the fact that Pinterest is proving itself to be Not just a social media platform, but a search engine. That's the key here. It's a search engine There's no way the stock is gonna stay under a hundred dollars So if you haven't already you need to put some of these in your portfolio and thank me later Yes, I think this is a on the value stock There are a lot of people not talking about a lot of you're not covering up covering the stock Because everybody is so caught up with the hype of the EV space, but these are stocks there I'm telling you day-to-day people do use them again.  It's a search engine slash social media platform And it's just going crazy Traffic on this website is crazy. I've spoken to Friends that have Pinterest that they use for their block There's a 90% of the traffic from the on their blog comes from Pinterest So I am actually in the process of now start creating my own pins to send some traffic to my my blog as well because I Think Pinterest is the way to go. But if for us investors guys When there's something good happening, we have to take advantage of it and Pinterest is one of those stocks One of the technology stocks that is currently on the value and I see it as a hundred dollars stock So let's jump right in here and cast it before it gets to a hundred dollars. So you don't see that and cry again This is not going to be a quick home run This is something that you hold for the long run like I said next year This thing is going to hit over a hundred dollars and who knows where it's going to go from there So that is my prediction for this again right now pending any major Thing that would happen in the market Pinterest really doesn't have any issues. Yeah, it's profitable They are I mean the last quarter if you if we look at the last quarter this thing was at 48 after their endings call Look at that. It went up to 60.  So and from here I'm anticipating that again first quarter of next year.  What do you think about it again to me? I I mean look at the usability. I look at the practicality of a stack This is an everyday stack that people use my web users printers as I mean like on a daily basis She has created what they call boards and everything so she puts her pins there from recipes Decorations at home to even combinations of outfit. I mean fashion fitness Name it everything is on Pinterest and she uses Pinterest more than she she uses Google I mean that is just to tell you the context here If you if you look at such engine Pinterest is right up there And so if you think Google is that great and then why wouldn't you give Pinterest the same amount of respect? So that's my personal take again. 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I'm Keith Ghostlant. I'm Ann Charles. It's Tuesday, June 13th. Welcome to All Things LGBTQ. As you may know, we are taping in Montpelier, Vermont, which we recognize as unceded indigenous land. So Linda, take it away. Well, thank you, Ann. Well. You got fun stuff. I have fun stuff and bad stuff. So there's been a spike in LGBTQ rhetoric and threats have taken a heavy toll on pride celebrations in the United States this year. Organizers say, especially in states where politicians want to curtail rights. This month's celebrations in Houston, the largest pride event in conservative Texas, has been scaled back due to rising insurance and security costs as well as concerns over soaring temperatures and capacity. We made the decision to cancel the festival this year, said Kendra Walker, president of Pride Houston 365. Downgrading the plans to a parade. The change was first announced in January as Texas lawmakers prepared bills restricting gender-affirming healthcare and drug performances. Now, pride planners across the U.S. and Canada say they are facing higher bills because of anti-LGBTQ disinformation and hate. Because you need insurance for your events and the carriers are putting the premium through the ceiling. Wilton Mannus is not having one this year, I can. Okay. Senator Tom Tillis, Republican North Carolina, was censored by Republican delegates in North Carolina over his votes on LGBTQ rights, gun violence and more. The Saturday vote was taken behind closed doors at an annual North Carolina Republican Party State Convention. A two-thirds majority of the party's 1,801 voting delegates was needed for the measure to pass. Many delegates criticized Tillis over his work on the respect of marriage. Act. The legislature guarantees federal recognition of marriage between two people. If the union was valid in the state where they were married and shining rights for same sex and interracial. Alex Keane, a 38-year-old gay man who grew up in the conservative, royal Indiana town of Cornersville, population 13,000, wanted to show support for his local LGBTQ plus community. So last December, he founded a group called Whitewater Pride, and later organized three events for the Pride Month. The state and national Republican platforms opposed same sex marriage, but Tillis was supporter of the legislature and lobbied his fellow Republicans to back the law. Soon after announcing the events, two residents, Melissa Rose and her husband, Andrew Rose, set up a now-defunct Facebook group called Whitewater Groomer Removers, which insinuated that Keane is a child sex abuser. Its members harassed his event sponsors. Keane has been followed in public by the group's supporters and has gone into hiding. He now plans on moving out of the state, worried that someone will target him for violence. You know, I was talking to a friend and we were saying that a lot of people are leaving Florida for that reason. Such a cesspool politically. But then, you know, what's gonna be left? God help us, okay? Well, yeah. The Independent People's Republic of Vermont? Yeah. A small Florida town in Miami-Dade County has defied the wishes of its mayor to celebrate Pride Month and fly the rainbow flag despite opposition of Surfside Mayor Shlomo Denzinger, the town's commissioners voted three to two to officially recognize June as Pride Month and to hold the ceremony to raise the flag. So that's good news. Louisiana Governor Bill Edwards, Democrat, has said he will veto three bills that target LGBTQ youth and vowed to veto any other anti-LGBTQ bills sent to his desk. Edwards compared the Republican attempts to target the LGBTQ community with opposition to the civil rights movement. Amid anti-LGBTQ protests at school, the Los Angeles Unified School District's board, led by its out-of-president Jackie Goldberg, has taken a stand for diversity and inclusion. The LA Unified Board unanimously adopted the resolution Tuesday in support of LGBT community and Los Angeles in general. It reads that the district proclaims and commemorates June as LGBTQ plus Pride Month, October as LGBTQ plus History Month, as well as October 11th as National Coming Out Day, November 20th as Transgender Day of Remembering, March 31st as Transgender Day of Visibility, and April 12th as the Day of Silence. It also encouraged the school to incorporate LGBTQ lessons throughout the year. So that was good news, wasn't it? Yeah. President Joe Biden on Thursday blasted efforts across the country to roll back LGBTQ protections, referring to proponents of the restrictions as hysterical and prejudiced during a joint news conference at the White House along British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Biden said the administration's fight for LGBTQ rights is far from over because we have some hysterical and I would argue prejudice people who are engaged in all of what we've seen going around this country. The American Civil Liberties Union is tracking 491 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced across the U.S. since the beginning of 2023 legislative session. It's nice that he did that with the British Prime Minister. Yes. In attendance. Now we need to sponsor a drag queen story hour at the White House. Good. I think there should couple it with the Easter egg hunt. Yes. Yes. Drag queen. Don't do a Easter egg hunt. That's great. All right. Now here's an interesting story because, you know, in Ann and I's travel around the United States, we've always avoided this restaurant, but. Chick-fil-A. No. The restaurant chain known as much for its quirky gift shops and addicting peg solitaire games as it is for a stick to your ribs fair has actually been celebrating pride and publishing rainbow-themed products for the last few years. Many people still remember the companies in tolerant past when they openly discriminated against LGBT plus workers in the early 1990s and activists descended on cracker barrel restaurants to protest their policy of promoting heterosexual values. The policy has been disconnected soon after and the company has continued to make positive strides. It's currently holds an 80 out of 100 on the human rights campaign corporate equality index. I'm surprised. Now when you're traveling around the US, you can stop at your local cracker barrel. I've never been to a cracker barrel. I haven't either. I have. Have you? Yeah. Oh, Linda. Well, I traveled across country many times. She has a jaded past. I know it, the free consciousness, I guess. And I'm gonna do this one more story here. Missouri has become the latest state to ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors and to ban trans-student athletes from competing under their gender identity. Republican governor, Mike Parsons, signed Senate Bill 49, the Gender Affirming Care Ban. And the Senate Bill 39, the Sports Bill. Into law Wednesday, he did so privately in his office and without a ceremony because the issue is divisive to some. He told a group of people. Divisive to some. Really? Mm-hmm. Okay, so Keith, what you got? I'll do a poll. So as Linda has pointed out, this is Pride Month. And as opposed to the rest of the country, Vermont, rather than canceling event, we're having 14. Oh my. However, the first Vermont Pride event occurred 40 years ago this year, June 25th, 1983 in Burlington. Did it have a theme? I'm sure it did. Stay tuned. Okay, so events, we have Rainbow Umbrella, the Women's Discussion Group, Book Discussion Group, same book? Vagabonds. All right. So Monday is Juneteenth. Yes. And I did not see anything listed for Montpellier or the State House this year, which kind of surprises me. However, on Sunday the 18th in Essex, at the Essex Experience screen from one to three, they're having a celebration. As is downtown Winooski on Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. And then on Monday, Juneteenth itself, the Old Stone Museum in Brownington, the Twilight, one to three p.m., they're doing a celebration. And at Burlington City Hall on Monday, 1 p.m., they're doing a celebration. So. Oh good. So looking at our Pride events, Brattleboro Friday, June 23rd, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Stone Church is their glam queer dance party and cabaret.  Friday is- Oh, we could have won it. No, it's coming up. We still have time. Ah. And then on Friday is the Mass Queer Aid Ball dress-up. And then Saturday is the family meeting, the Pride picnic, the Parasol Promenade. Yeah. So- Well, which you did a very interesting interview. I did. Last Saturday. And be looking for a follow-up interview because there may be a book being published about slavery and Vermont, something that we don't acknowledge or talk about a great deal. So. And then in Burlington on Saturday, June 24th, this is the People's Pride starting at 3 p.m. at Oak Ledge Park. Do you know who's doing that? The same group that we interviewed several years ago. Really? Okay, good. It's the same Facebook post. LGBTQ plus queer pride with no cops, no banks, an alternative to the so-called official pride in September. And then I had promoted this before in North Conway, New Hampshire, also on Saturday, the 24th, is their Pride Festival. And what was unique about this is Reverend Yolanda, who is an old favorite of ours, will be coming to MC. Springfield is also doing an event on Saturday, June 24th, Rainbow Palooza Pride and Veg Fest. You may wanna go and starting at noon to 5 p.m. Bennington also on Saturday is their Queer Youth Prom from 7 to 10 p.m. And then on Sunday is their Parade and Block Party. And then Newport on June 25th, this is the first Northeast Kingdom Pride Festival. Downtown Newport starting at noon. Middlebury is also having a Pride Festival on June 25th. I can't keep my calendars straight. June 25th, Middlebury Town Green, 1 to 5 p.m. Also, I'm gonna put out there again on Sunday the 25th, starting at 2 p.m. at Ellie Long Music Center is the memorial for Michael Hayes, Margarit Lemay. So, the Vermont Humanities Council. On Sunday, June 25th at 11 a.m., this is a live event at the Kingsland State Park in Addison, Words in the Woods. And this is Toby McNott. Or home, yes. And Toby McNott's work engages themes of embodiment, space, and relationship from a queer and disabled perspective. But also out there in the woods and maybe muttering some poetry. On Saturday, July 15th in Elmore, I think it's also at 11 a.m., it may be the winner of that Wicked Women's Award or on Linda Quinlan. So, in my last sort of events, and this is ongoing through November 26th, Hall Art Foundation, which is in Reading or Reading, Vermont. A collection of 100 paintings, Small is Beautiful, Andy Warhol. Oh, wow. And this is from the Hall's personal collection of Andy Warhol works. And they said everybody is used to sort of the big murals and, you know, cell screens. These are the smaller paintings and a hundred of them. Wow, very impressive. We may have to put it, we may have to do a road trip. Okay. Now you're gonna take me to far and distant places again. Not really. I'm deviating from the norm today because a lot has been going on in our communities culturally. So, Linda and Keith have given me permission to stay stateside and talk about several events of great interest to our communities. The first is the 2023 Lambda Literary Awards. It announced the winners of the 35th annual Lambda Literary Awards, selected by a panel of over 60 professionals from more than 1300 book submissions from over 300 publishers. So we are everywhere. In addition to the winners below, five special honors were awarded. Ebony J. Dunbar got the Randall Keenan Prize. Jaquira Diaz got the Cordova Prize. And I think we read Ordinary Girls in the group. Maya Salome and Naseem Jamia got the Markowitz Prize. Christopher Tradoski got the Samuel Prize. Aaron Hamburger and Raika Ayoki got the Duggan's Prize. And interestingly, there was a prize now for emerging writers over 50. So good for them. I believe Mr. Tradoski won that one. Let's go, I'm gonna tell you all the winners if you don't mind. It's an illustrious crowd. Lesbian Fiction. The honor was taken by Jay Ming Chang who wrote a collection of short stories, Gods of Want, published by One World Polishing. Gay Fiction, The Foghorn Echoes by Janny Ramadan, Canon Gate Books. And I've been listening to podcasts of this group called The Radical Books Collective. And both of these publishers have been represented on that podcast. So I'm learning many things. Bisexual fiction went to Reluctant Immortals by Gondolin Kiste, S&S Saga Press, Transgender Fiction Went to the Call Out by Cat Fitzpatrick, Seven Stories Press, Bisexual Nonfiction, Appropriate Behavior by Maria Sanfilippo, McGill Queens University Press. Now we have all these books we can put on our list for reading. Transgender Nonfiction, The Third Person by Emma Grove, Drawn and Quarterly Press. LGBTQ Plus Nonfiction Went to the Black Period on Personhood, Race and Origin by Hevska Augustus Gieder, Random House. So it's a really interesting mixture of small presses and... I was gonna say, Random House is one of the big boys on the block. That's right. Lesbian Poetry, As She Appears by Shelley Wong, Yes, Yes Books. Gay Poetry, Some Integrity by Padraig Regan, Carsonette Press. Bisexual Poetry, Real Phones and Genuine Fakes. Oh, I'm sorry, Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes by Nikki Beer. That's basically... Milk and Edition, makes more sense, huh? Transgender Poetry, Misseddy by Khamden Ishmael Healyard, Nightboat Books. Lesbian Memoir Autobi... Lesbian Memoir Biography, Lost and Found, and Memoir by Katherine Schultz, Also Random House. Gay Memoir Biography, High-Risk Homosexual, a memoir by Edgar Gomez, Soft Skull Press. A Lesbian Romance, The Rules of Forever by Nian Campo, Bold Stroke Books. I want that one. Gay Romance. I'm not so over you. Kosoko Jackson, Berkeley Romance, and now, do-do-do. Lesbian LGBTQ Plus Anthology, and I have a picture to accompany this outright. The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture, edited by Julie Enzer and Elena Gross. Rotterbill, your name. Yes. What a fabulous, that is, really encourage you to read it. It's a fabulous, wonderful collection. Very moving. And before I heard that they got the award, I was just thinking how, what a fine book it is. Rutgers University Press, so, and they had a wonderful, or kind enough to do a great interview on the show. They're lovely people and it's a fine book, so read it as you can. LGBTQ Plus Children's Books, Mighty Red Riding Hood by Wallace West, Little Brown, Books for Young Readers.  I was gonna say, order big and we're mailing them to the deep sand. LGBTQ Plus Middle Grade, Nick Hill Out Loud, by Malik Petroli, Balzer and Bray, LGBTQ Plus Young Adult, The Lesbianna's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes, Balzer and Bray, LGBTQ Plus Comics, Mamo by Soss Millage, Boom Studios, LGBTQ Plus is getting too long for you, only a few more. LGBTQ Plus Drama, If a Janiah and the Furies, Ontarian Land in Antigone, with a Chinese ideograph by Jeff Howell, Playwrights Canada Press. LGBTQ Plus Romance and Erotica Kisser, Once for Me by Allison Cochran, Atria Books, LGBTQ Plus Mystery, Dirt Creek, A Novel by Hayley Scrivener, Flatiron Books. LGBTQ Plus Speculative Fiction, The Wicked and the Willing, by Liana Tan, Shattered Sceptre Press, and Not to Be Outdone, LGBTQ Plus Studies, Keeping It Unreal, Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics, by Geir Reich, Scott NYU Press. So congratulations. Yeah, a lot of stuff to read. I thought we were the queer drama. No? Well, it's everywhere. Queer drama, us, them. May I continue? I think you have, you can do another story if you have one or. It's another exciting cultural story about the Tony Awards. All right. So let me show you a picture and, if you wouldn't mind keeping the picture up while I describe what happened. It was a fabulous ceremony and you can see it on YouTube. And it began by the wonderful host, Arianna DeVos, turning the pages of an empty script. So in honor of the writer's guild strike, the entire ceremony was unscripted. It was so cool.  I know it. They handled it beautifully. The 76 Tony Awards took place Sunday night. I watched from beginning to end. And the top winners of the evening included Kimberlia Kimbo for the best musical, Leopold Statt for best play. Meanwhile, Top Dog, Under Dog won best revival of a play while Parade picked up the trophy for best revival of a musical. And all of this is very interesting, I think, because I learned that Leopold Statt is about anti-Semitism as is Parade. So very important plays, Top Dog, Under Dog is a revival by Susan Laurie Parks, an African-American playwright of great renown. Hosted by Arianna DeVos and they opened with a wonderful dance number. We're the only of Broadway. The ceremony was on the verge of being canceled because of the WGA writer strike. But they pulled it through and created a fairly good show according to this critic. It was more than fairly good. More than that, the show included very clear, oh, this is the advocate.  So now let's look at this picture. At the top corner, we have Alex Newell and the buzz and rave reviews of Alex Newell's performance in Shucked came to fruition tonight when she won the Tony Award for best performance by an actor in a featured role in a musical. After commenting, this woman is wonderful. After commenting on how hot the room was, Newell took a moment to admit that she has been waiting for her entire life to get this award. I thank each and every one of you in this room right now. And mommy, I love you. Thank you for believing in me. Thank you for loving me unconditionally. Thank you for teaching me what strength is. Newell went on to thank their fellow Shucked cast and crew calling them The Rock. They closed with, and I just love this, so I would have applauded in place if I'd been in company. They closed with, thank you for seeing me Broadway.  Yes. She's from Lynn. She's from Lynn. Everyone has researched this now.  Resounding applause. Now in the top left, adding to the non-binary representation for the evening, J. Harrison Gee was met with thunderous applause when they were announced as the winner for best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical for their performance in some like it hot. My mother raised me to understand that the gifts that God gave me were not about me to use them to be effective in the world and to help somebody else's journey said Gee. So thank you for teaching me how to live, how to love, how to give. They continued for every trans non-binary, gender non-conforming human, whoever was told that you couldn't be seen, this is for you. She thanked the show's producers and allowing them to let lives be seen. Great. Now the bottom left on this picture that will be has been up, I hope, during some of my commentary. Michael Arden, when the best direction of a music must be musical, for his work with parade, said in his acceptance speech to our beautiful trans non-binary queer youth, know that your queerness is what makes you beautiful and powerful, everyone in this room sees you and needs you and we will fight alongside you and we will win. Growing up I was called the F word more times than I can remember and here he was bleeped and the audience all applauded and I was so CBS was afraid of being fined. So the caption police stepped in.  Yes! So keep raising your voices, my friends. Encourage people to continue to stand up against intolerance and keep loving and uplifting each other, standing up for each other. He also encouraged peers to continue making challenging art and vote every chance you get. Finally, the bottom right, Leopold Stats, Brandon Joranovic won the Tony Award for best performance by an actor in a feature role in a play and said to anyone who's watching who is a parent, when your child tells you who they are, believe them. He continued protect, celebrate and water their truth because an authentic life is a limitless life. The only reason I'm standing here is because my parents did that for me growing up. They stood beside me and they believed me when I said who I am. So I thank you, I love you all. What a fabulous ceremony. Yeah, it was good. So I have some headlines. No, I'm gonna, we have to move on now. Okay. Alrighty? Yeah, that's fine. In Collin County, conservative Republicans located north of Dallas, posted and then deleted several items to their Facebook page last week, critical of the LGBT community and Pride Month. They had on their site, welcome to the month of the demon. The group wrote Thursday morning, protect your children, just say no to rainbows. I know, I know. Here's a good story, I suppose. On Monday, Rachel Meadow helped MSNBC achieve more viewers during prime time than Fox News or CNN. On Tuesday evening, Speaker Emerita, Nancy Pelosi threw the ceremonial first pitch at the Washington Nationals LGBTQ Night Out game. I have a picture of her holding her hands up after she throws the ball. The 83 year old congresswoman walked out to the pitcher's mound, took a few steps toward home plate and lobbed the ball to the catcher. She wore the Nationals mascot costume and a rainbow shirt. The game marked the team's 18th annual Night Out event, making it the longest running pride celebration in a major league baseball. Was she wearing heels, I wonder? I bet. Of course, of course.  Greater Works Church in the community of five points held an event Saturday in partnership with the anti-queer South Carolina group Christian Families Against Destructive Decisions, an organization seeking to uphold the values of the nuclear family. Pastor Ronald Gates, who oversees Great Works participated in a video presentation titled The Solution to Society's Problems, which blamed gender identity, pornography, divorce, abortion for the collapse of the traditional family values. We want to strengthen the family who God has created, Gates said. According to local TV station, God created a man and a woman. When it comes to the LGBT community, I wanna say this, God loves everyone. Sin, he does not negotiate. In response, five point community members decided to send a message of love. Sorry, I didn't mean to throw you off. An acceptance to the LGBT community and residents outside the church on Saturday, residents engulfed the sidewalks with coverable chalk artwork in a show of solidarity and a dig at church leaders. Church leaders, blah, blah, blah, these ones anyway. Scatacoie Elementary School in North Hollywood will have heightened security on Friday as some parents protest a pride event at the campus. Sparking complains that the topic is one that should be left for parents to teach rather than having it imposed on kids. And here's a picture of the protest right here. Let's see. Oh, this is good news. A federal judge in Tennessee has ruled that the state law limiting public drag show performances represented an unconstitutional restriction on freedom of speech. So that was good news. Now, the attorney general of Texas, Greg Abbott, made a name for himself by fighting the federal government. Wait, wait, wait, Greg Abbott's the governor. Yes. Oh, when he was attorney general. Okay. As attorney general. When he was. There's the governor's currently. Yeah, he's the governor now, when he was. No, I mean the attorney general. The current attorney general was indicted. Paxson. He made a name for himself by fighting federal government and suing the Obama administration 31 times. As governor, Abbott has found a new enemy, local governments. Now, this is really interesting because in essence, they're passing a law that no town or county can go against state regulations. So if the state says no drag, Houston can't say, well, we're gonna allow it in our communities. So they're gonna override all of that by, if they pass this bill. Now, this is good. I have a picture of this, which is really fun. On Tuesday, my dad would be proud. June 12th, more than a hundred teamsters gathered in Hollywood, California to march and the 50th annual Los Angeles Pride Parade. Oh, right, good. I know. This was the first time ever that teamsters had marching contingent in the iconic and historic parade. Joining the teamsters were over 130 community coalitions, non-profits business, and even some other unions. So that was very good news. And just a sad story for my last story here is about Anita Cornwell. And I'm showing a picture of her now. She was 92. The Philadelphia writer who authorized the first, who authored the first published collection of essays by an out-black lesbian has died. Her literary ex... I'm sorry. Her literary person who takes care of her work, Mariona Simone Jones said, Ms. Cornwell was the first black female writer to publicly identify as lesbian in print. Jones said, contributing to the latter, a lesbian publication and Negro digest in the 1950s and later publishing her groundbreaking essay collection, Black Lesbian in a White America. In 1983, in those days when people could be fired for the suspicion they were gay, choosing to write about her lesbian identity as an unmarried black working class woman was nothing short of radical. We tend to underestimate how brave and daring and audacious it was to be out unapologetically as a lesbian in the 1970s. Said Julie, our answer editor of Sinister Wisdom, a lesbian literary and arts journal that is republishing Ms. Cornwell's work to put your face on the cover of a book that says lesbian was extraordinarily courageous and meaningful to so many people. Ms. Cornwell died May 27th at Wesley Enhance Living Center in Germantown, surrounded by her compassionate women who cared for her. So- May I add? Here's your picture, yes. Add whatever you like. Julie Enzer is doing a tribute at Sinister Wisdom of Anita Cornwell. Yes. And Breonna Simone Jones is the editor of that groundbreaking anthology, Mouths of Rain that won last year's Lame of Black Lesbian writing. Well, thank you, Anne. That's good news, additional. Thank you. So I'm gonna start with what has to be the quote of the week. Oh, okay. I want to know, do you really believe that garbage? And this was a comment that Becca Ballant made in an oversight committee hearing on clean energy. And it was to a former 45 environmental... Denier. No, an environmental official. This is person who worked in the environment. And they were talking about clean energy. Oh, so you believe that investing strategies are actually a secret. It's weaponized to support and promote gender transition for children. Or do you just use it as another opportunity to beat up on children? I stepped out to sit down with parents of trans kids from states that have come after their kids. And now their kids can't get the level of care they deserve and need, Becca said. And they literally said, when you leave this worm, would you please the next time you're in a room with someone bringing up, yet again, our children and our families as some kind of boogeyman that you'll actually stand up for us. I didn't think it would take less than half an hour. I didn't know that I would have such an opportunity. It feels like every single hearing I'm in, whether it's in oversight or whether it's in budget or whether it's in a subcommittee, somehow the witnesses find a way to bring in trans children into whatever conversation they're trying to have here. Thank you, Becca. Yes. And this is the biggie. Becca is now on the House Judiciary Committee. Oh, she is. Cicilini, who stepped down, out legislator returning to Rhode Island, running for office there. Oh, Cicilini. Cicilini. Becca has been appointed to that position. So she's now on oversight, budget, and judiciary. All right. I think people have noticed her. So I had said, or Susan had said on the last show that I would be talking about the veto session and the bills that the governor vetoed. I'm gonna withhold that because there are things happening in our schools that I want to share with you. And the first is an incident that occurred here in Montpayer High School where on the first day of Pride Month in the gender-neutral bathroom, someone painted a swastika on the wall in feces. Now the school responded by having an assembly, talking about the issue, that it was not okay. And telling the students that they had every right to be upset. And there was a queer student of color living with a disability who said, I don't feel safe here. So it's not happening someplace else. This is in our backyard. And we need to be attentive and look at how we can support our youth. Also, people were aware of the target incident that occurred nationwide. But New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, where it was someone promoting, stating they were representing the LGBTQ community and it was a bomb threat. Well, it was swatting. It happened nationwide. But most of the mainstream LGBTQ plus political organizations have said, this is not how we approach this. This is not who we are. This is not what we support. And the final one, and I will tell you if I grip my teeth, you will understand. We have talked on preview shows about the incident at the Randolph School, where it was a member of the girls volleyball team targeted a transgender student using the locker room. And that student had an investigation for bullying and there was a remedy put in place. That student's father was also removed as a soccer coach for the middle school because of misgendering and refusing to use appropriate gender-added product bounds. They were vile suit saying that their freedom of speech rights had been violated and they were represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, who we've all reported on. Well, there's been a settlement in that case. And they gave the Alliance Defending Freedom and the student and their parent $125,000. They, the father was reinstated as the coach, all referencing to the student engaging in bullying has been removed. And the reason that that decision was made and it was not by the school who said, our policies are our policies. We are going to continue to follow them, but it was made by the Vermont School Board's Insurance Trust Insurance Company because when you sue the school district, this is the insurance company that has their liability insurance. So they would be paying for the attorneys to represent the school district and they didn't want to have to pay out the money it would take to fully litigate this case. So they settled and gave the Alliance Defending Freedom absolutely everything they had asked for. And let me tell you my concern. We cannot get our legislature to add a bullying statute that is based upon the impact or the best interest of our students rather than a severe and pervasive standard. And the argument has been, oh, we can't afford the litigation. Guess what? Our students are going to continue to be bullied. Yep, oh, hard. That's awful. Yep. I'm going to go through some headlines and show my clip and if I have time. You have a clip? I do. Europe. Almost 7% of people in the UK changed sexual identity in six years according to a study. Written limits the use of puberty blocking drugs to research only. European Rights Court rules against Ukraine on same sex union case. And this is sort of interesting. These two gentlemen, Andrei Malovikin and Andrei Markiv sued in 2014 and were denied marriage rights. And so the court ruled that Ukraine, a signatory to the European Convention of Human Rights had violated articles on discrimination and the right to private and family life. In January, a survey by the National Democratic Institute of Kyiv said that 56% of Ukrainian support same sex civil partnerships while 24 opposed it. Such partnerships did not enjoy, this is interesting. They didn't enjoy majority support before the Russians invaded, but the Russians homophobic stance has pushed Ukrainians to favor LGBTQ rights more. Gay pride marches have been met with vile in opposition from Ukrainian far right groups. Legalization is still opposed by conservative parts of the Ukrainian society. And Zelensky responded positively to a related petition to that of these gentlemen, but said he can't alter the constitution during a war time. But the European Rights Court says, get on it, sir. Yeah, because they want to be in NATO and part of the European Union. Mm-hmm. Now Latvia has its first gay president. I've a picture built for you now of Edgar's Rinkivics. He was elected the new president Wednesday, the first openly gay person to hold the office. Good for him. I know, I can tell you a little more about him. He's Zelensky, President Zelensky of Ukraine congratulated him as a true friend of Ukraine. He's 49, will be the head of state of the EU and NATO member for the next four years. I will do everything for our country to prosper and be secure. He came out as gay as 2014, the first prominent political figure in the country to do so. You know if they're in danger of Russia's Russian invasion with them? I don't think so, but I haven't heard. Now, of course we have to talk about Uganda. There's HIV alarm as the anti-gay law forces and LGBTQ lockdown. Usually there are 50 patients at the treatment center in Kampala, it's all but dried up. People are afraid to go. The Kampala Clinic had been the beacon of success for the fight against HIV, where 1.4 million people live with the virus and 17,000 die a year as a result of its ravages. The World Bank has issued a group statement on the Uganda 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act condemning it. Now let's go into Asia. Japan court rules that not allowing same-sex marriage is in the state of unconstitutionality. What that means is the Japanese court has ruled a ban on same-sex marriage is constitutional but raises concerns about the dignity and human rights of same-sex couples, which is being seen as a step forward despite falling short of activists' expectations. So the key points are, I've often repeated, Japan is the only G7 nation without legal protection of same-sex unions. Five rulings on the same-sex marriage have now been handed down around Japan. Opinion polls show that about 70% of the public support same-sex marriage. Marriage. So now let's look at the Bangkok Pride Parade where the Thai PM front-runner has marched, promising same-sex marriage and gender identity rights. The numbers of people going to these pride parades, thousands marched through central Bangkok, marking Pride Month, they had love is love, the governor was there, over 50,000 people were there. That's amazing. A quiet afternoon with friends. It's more than double the attendance at last year's event. So what do you think? All right. Thailand.  Now 30,000 people marched in Jerusalem Pride, same thing. And this national security minister, Ben Goeir, was jeered by participants who shouted Nazis out at the far-right minister. Marchers also called to protect democracy and who also called to protect democracy held anti-overhaul banners. Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered on Thursday. 30,000 people. There was heavy security, 2,000 police and riot police officers, as well as several lines of police barriers separating the parade from a far-right protest across the road, passed smoothly without any security instances. Now let me turn to New Zealand where I have a clip. This film is Punch. It's available on Showtime and let me tell you what it's about. Jim is preparing for his first professional fight but begins to rethink his life's trajectory for his sexuality after tangling with way too a gay, maury boy who spends his days in an old shack down by the beach. Jim is a 17-year-old boxer in a small town. He's a golden boy preparing for a fight that will elevate him to early professional status. All bets are on. All bets are on his climb to success but his father Stan is a demanding coach and a notorious alcoholic. As Jim begins to rethink why he is fighting, his life tangles with way too a razor-tongued gay, maury boy who spends his days in an old shack with his dog, Moimoi where he cobbles together a fragile glamour and dreams of leaving town to become a musician. Away from the rainbow flags and pride parades Jim and way too must navigate isolation, hypocrisy, the brutality of small town boxing and an anonymous queer bashing that no one will talk about.  So let's take a look at a clip from Punch. Hi, sir. Ah! If you're with him. I'll set up your first professional fight. It's your big break. I've got running. No, you don't.  Yo, what's up, bro? Yay! So you made this? All of this? Do you ever get lonely out here? No. It's hometown, reeks of testosterone. Faggot? Huh? No, no, no, that's misfaggot. To you, sweetie. So... do you want this boxing thing? Yeah. It's like you climb through those ropes and... Watch what? You transform.  You think you want to be mates? But you're too scared. It's alright, mate. Let's not. Touch me. It's a hyena. And I'm one of them. Where can you see it? Did you say it? Showtime. This is getting a lot of positive buzz on the gay man's network. Oh, it is? Oh, it very much so. Oh, good. That was a good clip. I'm looking forward to seeing it. Keith. That first Pride Day. Yeah. Kind of punchy theme. Water won't run straight, and neither will we. And as a quick aside, the Victory Fund has named Vermont as having the greatest number of out legislators in the country, not per capita, total number with 14 out legislators. So, all right. With that. Can we send some to Randolph? With that, resist.


The Buddha attended to tell his disciples not to waste their time and energy in metaphysical speculation. Whenever he was asked a metaphysical question, he remained silent. Instead, he directed his disciples to more practical efforts. One day, when he was questioned on the problem of the infinite versus the finite, the Buddha said, whether the world is finite or infinite, limited or unlimited, the problem of the liberation of your suffering remains the same. Suppose a man is struck by a poisoned arrow and the doctor wants to take out the arrow immediately. But suppose this wounded man does not want the arrow removed until he knows who shot him, his age, his family, and why he was shot in the first place. What do you suppose would happen? If he has to wait until all of these questions were answered, then he might surely die before coming to an understanding. Life is so short. It must not be spent in endless metaphysical speculation that does not bring us any closer to the truth. Speculation and inquiry is a beautiful thing. But first, let us remove the arrow. Coming from the Buddhist teachings of the 14 unanswerable questions, this parable is often taken as a lesson on grounding teachings and being practical in one's search for answers. As is often the case with the Buddha, his philosophies and approach to life were grounded not in theories or speculations, but in practical application and the desire to solve real-world problems. Gotama often saw suffering as simply another problem in life, one that required solving, and was perhaps even the most important problem to solve. As such, he used this parable to help us understand the difference between what was a useful use of our time and what wasn't. After all, life is said to be an experiential journey. How can we participate in it if all of our time is taken up answering the exact and precise nature of the world we live in? In other words, whether you believe the world is eternal or not, spiritual or material, you can't deny that we all have to face the reality of birth, old age, sickness, death, and suffering at some point. No amount of why or how questions will change that. When Gotama became enlightened, it wasn't through a revelation of esoteric knowledge that could be explained or talked about. No, it was an insight into the true nature of reality through direct personal experience that he tried to share. In much the same way, spiritual speculation is worthless without first grounding it in personal insight and an understanding of how it can help the world and yourself. Perhaps there's also something here about tackling the biggest problems first. By understanding our suffering and working to solve it, it opens up our short time here for asking better and more practical questions and how we can better our own lives and the lives of others.


So welcome to the talk generic config API beyond cloud runtime and CPI configs. So my name is David. I work at SAP in Waldorf in Germany, and I'm part of the Bosch and OpenStack CPI team, which is made up of developers from both SUSE and SAP. Okay, so I think you have read this already multiple times throughout the conference, so we can skip this one and right jump into the contents. So in Bosch, there are three built-in configuration types and namely cloud runtime in CPI. And when I started half a year ago as a Bosch developer and Bosch operator at SAP, it took me some time to get familiar how these Bosch config types are getting used. So here's what we will learn in the next 30 minutes. We will first recap existing config types. We will then reveal shortcomings of the current config approach. We will introduce the generic config API and its new functionalities such as versioning of configuration files, diffing as well as splitting a config type into multiple named files. We will do a short demo presenting the new Bosch CLI version three commands and then present a couple of new use cases where Bosch and also you as a Bosch operator could make use of the generic config API. Okay, so let's recap the existing config types. So the cloud config defines infrastructure specific configuration and you see a snippet of an example cloud config on the left. So the value of the cloud properties key, everything what you see in green is infrastructure dependent and the different infrastructure CPIs define their own schema for the cloud property section. So for example the AWS CPI defines that there must be a key called availability zone with a value being a string in this case US East 1A whereas the GCP CPI causes just zone rather than availability zone and the name what you see in black here so in this case Z1 is actually a name given to Bosch and this name gets later referenced from the deployment manifest because the deployment manifest defines in which availability zones its instances will run. So the cloud config is there to define infrastructure specific configuration once and to then reference it multiple times and it allows us to keep the deployment manifest infrastructure agnostic. So we use the Bosch CLI commands cloud config and update cloud config. So cloud config just lists you or just shows you the latest cloud config and update cloud config you can create or update current cloud config on the director. So the runtime config defines configuration that applies to all VMs in all deployments and this is useful for security agents, antiviruses, monitoring or logging tools. The runtime config itself is infrastructure agnostic and you see an example runtime config on the left it basically knows the concept of an add-on so an add-on is a release job that is co-located on all VMs managed by the director and in this case we have just a simple runtime config with a job called user add which adds a backup user and it's public SSH key onto all VMs managed by the director so that the operator can SSH into those VMs. And again we have the Bosch CLI commands runtime config and update runtime config for downloading or uploading a runtime config to or from the director. So the CPI config defines multiple CPIs with properties how to communicate to a given infrastructure section. So by infrastructure section we mean something like an AWS account or OpenStack tenant or vSphere data center. And in most cases having a Bosch director using a single CPI and therefore a single infrastructure section is sufficient. However in production it might make sense to use multiple YAS sections and therefore multiple CPIs for availability, isolation or scalability reasons and multi CPI and therefore having a CPI config is totally optional. So at deploy time that is when deploying the director with the Bosch createNF command we use an ops file for a single CPI. And then at runtime that is why once the director VM is up and running we could then optionally upload a CPI config with further infrastructure sections. And these infrastructure sections are then referenced from the cloud configs availability zone section. So here in this case you see a CPI called OpenStack one and this CPI is then referenced from the cloud config az section. So here you see that two references just a CPI OpenStack one rather than a cloud property section. And then we say here that it's of type OpenStack which means that the Bosch director calls the OpenStack CPI binary and we pass some properties how to communicate and authenticate to the given infrastructure. And having a CPI config is a pretty powerful concept because it enables you running instances from one deployment on multiple infrastructures. Okay and again we have the Bosch seal I command CPI config for listing the latest CPI config and update CPI config for uploading one. Okay so what do the config types have in common? So in the beginning there were no cloud runtime or CPI configs at all. So everything was specified in the deployment manifest itself. And over the time the concept of the different configs got introduced. So all existing configs have in common that operators can create, read, and update them. And so it makes sense to consolidate them into a single generic config API. So based on feedback from USC community we observed the following weaknesses of the current config approach. So originally there was no different update which means when you didn't update cloud config you didn't see a diff in the beginning. So operators were unable to delete configs. There was no versioning which means you were unable to track down how the configs evolved or you couldn't diff different versions or switching back to previous versions. And there was custom functionality available only for certain config types. For example splitting a config type into multiple files and giving each file its own name this was only available for the runtime config. And what was happening then on the Bosch deployment on the director the latest named files for a particular config type are getting merged into a single file again. And also extensibility is a bit difficult because for each new config type we would need a new HTTP endpoint, new CLI commands, and new database tables. Right. So the Bosch and OpenStack CPI team at SAP and SUSE has therefore developed generic configs and given that the functionality of creating, updating, deleting, and diffing across config types is very similar. The director now provides a consolidated CLI and API functionality. So users are able to do versioning so they can see how the configs types evolved over time. They are able to diff configs and a single config type can now be given multiple names. And one use case of having named configs is that for example different teams can maintain their own configuration files. And all of this may sound to you like we did some refactoring here added some functionality which is true. However the real cool thing about the generic config API is that it pays the way for new config types and use cases. So that's why the following slide is in yellow because it's the main message I would like to convey in this talk. So the generic config API is the building block for new configuration types and therefore new use cases. And here we differentiate between director built-in types and user defined types. So director built-in type means that Bosch understands and applies the content of the configuration. So the user needs to comply with the structure of the YAML file for each type. And so beyond cloud, runtime, and CPI this allows further types like resurrection, tasks, and Chrome config. So we will explore those in a second. Then there are user defined types which means that the user can upload any file containing valid YAML to the Bosch director and assign any name to the type. For example Bosch operators can use the generic config API to manage other configuration files for other cloud foundry services. So we will see an example in a second in the demo. Okay so let's jump to the demo and then we will explore the generic config functionalities and see an example of a user defined type. Okay. So can you see that? Should I do it bigger? That's good. Okay. So I was setting up a Bosch light director here. And as you can see we use the Bosch CLI, sorry, Bosch CLI version three, and we got some new commands here. Okay so what is new is config for listing a current config, config for listing multiple configs. We can delete configs, diff configs, and now also have the update config command for updating further config types. So let's do some examples. We could first upload a normal cloud config. So we now pass a type to it, namely cloud. We must provide a name so we can use any name. Let's use default. Then we upload a cloud config. So we can do this either this way with update config or with update cloud config. So we see the diff. Everything is new. We just upload it. And then let's change something in the cloud config YAML. So for example let's use availability zone Z2 rather than Z1 for the compilation VMs. So if you now update this again, so we use the same type and same name, we see a small diff. Upload this one. And if you do a Bosch config, we see the latest version. And if you say dash dash recent equals two, we see now that we have two versions of the same cloud config. And what we can now do is that we diff those configs with Bosch diff config command past the IDs of the configs. So the IDs are just database IDs that we expose here. And so they start with 14 because I already uploaded some configs beforehand. So we get the diff. And what is also new is delete config CLI command. So now we were deleting the older version and see only the new one. Right. So what is also new is that we can split the config type now into multiple named files. So let's say we have another cloud config called cloud configs Z3. And this just specifies the third availability zone because maybe only one team needs that. Then we can upload this one. So again, it's of type cloud, but we just assign a different name to it. So we say name is Z3. And if you now say Bosch configs again, we see that we have two cloud configs actually with different names. So this enables that different teams maintain their own configuration files. And in future, we would like to provide another CLI command, which is called Bosch merged config, which will show you the result of the merged configuration files of the same type, basically. Right. Then one example of a user defined config type could be, for example, that you as an abacus operator need to upload like pricing plans or metering plans to the abacus API. And so abacus, I think you know it, it's the cloud foundry service providing usage metering. And you could beforehand maybe store those configuration files in Bosch if you would like to get those functionalities versioning, diffing, client set interpolating out of the box. So in this case, you would just say, wash update config again, assign any type to it that you want. We can just say, in this case, abacus metering, for example, assign a name to it, analytics, and then upload the config. And then we see an example of a user defined type here. So I was just making this up, but you could use it for any configuration files. This just need to be valid YAML files. You can upload it to the director, either manually or automatically in your pipelines, and you get those functionalities out of the box. Right. So let's continue with the presentation. Right. So now let's explore some director built in types, which will be then the future. So let's start with the resurrection config. So far it was possible to switch resurrection on or off globally across all deployments. So we could do this either in the deployment manifest by setting the resurrector enabled property of the health monitor to true, or we could use the CLI command Bosch update resurrection to set it on off globally. So what IBM was doing is that they implemented a built-in health monitor config type called resurrection. And there's a PR open in the Bosch repo, which will hopefully get emerged soon. And it allows operators to enable or disable resurrection per deployment or instance group level. So you see an example here. And this example basically just says that resurrection is disabled for deployment step one. However, it is enabled for the instance group API of deployment step one. Then another example of a director built in type is tasks config. So under heavy load in production scenarios, Bosch tasks might queue up on the director and operators may want to prioritize or rate limit certain tasks. And again, IBM was implementing a director built in type called tasks. And it allows operators to define the following rules. So options can be either rate limit in this case, which defines the maximum number of tasks running at a time, or priority, which is just an integer and determining the relative priority between tasks. So then there are those include and exclude keys. And they allow rules for deployments and task types. So in this example, it means that no tasks should be processed for deployment step one. And that the task types VMs and SSH and logs are prioritized over other task types. So this could be useful that if your Bosch director is under heavy load, operators can still do some root cause analysis. Then another use case, which is in our backlog, but not yet implemented is a crew config for scheduling regular jobs or director tasks. And examples would be to do regular Bosch cleanup, or to do a Bosch stop in the evening, Bosch start in the morning. Maybe this is useful on deaf landscapes for saving some resources that you want to stop your jobs overnight. Or you could schedule regular Bosch SSH commands and doing some checks on the machines. And here again, you would upload this config with the Bosch update config command and pass the type crone to it. And the Bosch director will pick it up and understand and applies this configuration file. So in future, we will provide the Bosch merged config command, giving a preview of all the latest named configs for a specific type. And we try to provide more convenience for working with configs. So for example, the deployment manifest is nothing else than another configuration file of how your deployment looks like. So in future, the deployment manifest could be just another config type, which would make the Bosch manifest CLI command obsolete. And then for the output of the Bosch deployments command, what you see here, the idea is to have a configs column showing all configs referenced by the deployment, including the deployment manifest itself. So here for example, you see the deployment depth one references the deployment config, deployment depth one, one cloud config, and two runtime configs. And operators will then have consistent user experience being able to see versions and diffs between deployment configs. Right. So the key takeaways of this session are that the generic config API enables new director built-in types like resurrection config, tasks config, cone config, or deployment config. And that you as a Bosch operator can use the generic config API for everything where you need to manage configuration files, because it provides you versioning and different functionalities out of the box. Okay. Then if you would like to work open source on Bosch or other topics, you can check out this link here. So thank you for joining the talk. And it would be interesting to share your ideas about new config types for your use cases, whether you have something in mind. So are there questions? Yeah. So the question is whether these new config types are already incorporated or coming. So they are coming. There are two PRs open for resurrection config and tasks config. And cone config is we have not yet started to implement it. This is just an idea. And hopefully this will come over the next few months.


Today we're in chapter four here in Romans. We're continuing our series. We just recently began we're going to be looking at verses 1 through 12 and As we begin here, this is one of those passages that is a very very Detailed and very deep portion of scripture So we'll do our best to to look at it and to understand the things that the Lord would have for us out of this passage Today, let's begin reading at verse 1. I'll read verses 1 through 8 and we'll get into our study Romans chapter 4 Beginning at verse 1 Paul writes what then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works he has something of which to boast but not before God For what does the scripture say? Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness Now to him who works the wages are not counted as grace, but as debt But to him who does not work but believes on him who justifies the ungodly His faith is accounted for righteousness Just as David also described the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven and whose sins are covered Blessed is a man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin Now Paul is developing a Doctrine a teaching the word doctrine simply means teaching a Doctrine that is called the doctrine of justification We're going to look at that today as we look at this particular chapter Romans chapter 4 And so Paul is going to continue something. He's already made reference to and that's this doctrine Now in chapter 1 remember with me at verse 17 He had already stated the just shall live by faith In chapter 3 he had said being justified freely by his grace And so he's been speaking concerning justification already has alluded to that doctrine in other chapters So he's now speaking concerning what is called the doctrine of justification question asked What is justification a basic? Definition for this this doctrine justification would be that justification is the act of God whereby he declares a person righteous after one believes in Jesus Christ He declares a person righteous after he believes in Jesus Christ Through justification God completely Forgives us of our sins completely Now it's more than simply the forgiveness of sins Justification also includes the removal of guilt as well as condemnation This is where a lot of believers really struggle. I believe in understanding that God is completely forgiven us of our sins and Not only that but I think a lot of people struggle with condemnation also the guilt of the sins that they have performed in the past Undoubtedly there are things that Some in here all of us really have done that we greatly regret Perhaps some things that we've done that were seriously seriously wrong and we feel terrible about it It's not that you don't remember that you've done those things But it's that you need to remember that God has forgiven you of those things when you repent it you see sometimes people have a tendency of wanting to go back and Relive those things or make them better or feel terrible guilt over them The doctrine of justification awakens us to the fact that we're forgiven and that we ought to live as those who have been No longer in bondage to the the memory of the sins that we perform our conscience Sometimes awakened because of what we have done will accuse us Sometimes will tell us how bad we were and and we can awaken in the morning thinking of how terrible we've been in the past Or sometimes our conscience may even excuse us saying it's no big deal. Doesn't matter. You hurt them. It's okay and sometimes you need to realize that the things that you've done in the past simply remain there and There are times that perhaps I I need to to speak to the persons that I've harmed and and hopefully reconcile with them But I need to understand that God has forgiven me and I need to live in the position of knowing that that God has forgiven me and God has removed the the guilt from me the Forensic guilt the the guilt of the fact that I have broken a law But he also can remove the sense of pain that I can live with because of that the condemnation The Bible makes it very clear. There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus who do not live according to the flesh But according to the Spirit God isn't condemning us Even though my heart may God doesn't God is greater than my heart. He knows all things John would tell us in 1st John And so what the Lord would have us to know is that he has forgiven us completely of our sins And we can live as those who've had our sins completely expunged by the blood of Jesus Christ in Psalm 103 verses 10 through 12 the psalmist said he does not treat us as our sins deserve or Repay us according to our iniquities for as high as the heavens are above the earth So great is his love for those who fear him as far as the east is from the west So far has he removed our transgressions from us as far as the east is from the west If you have a globe and you start at the equator and you begin to proceed north You'll reach the apex and then ultimately you begin to descend and you begin going south as we all would know But if you have the same globe and you begin at the equator and you begin to go east East never meets west you always proceed to the east God has removed our sins as far as the east is from the west They're no longer part of our life. He's washed them. You're brand new in the Lord Jesus Christ You have been justified So your sins are removed Not only are your sins removed and your guilt is dealt with and Condemnation is also a dealt with but you receive something that you did not have in justification You are not guilty, but you also receive his righteousness So you and I before Christ are unrighteous We are not able to do those things that please him But when I give my heart to Christ Paul is saying we aren't justified and receive something We didn't have before which is called righteousness 2nd Corinthians 521 says he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Him and so God gives to you it's called imputed righteousness He gives to you that what you didn't possess before you have a now a right standing before the Lord and he declares You to be righteous and he goes about after declaring you to make you righteous your life is now sanctified He begins to purify you as you yield to him Now Jesus Christ when you study scripture is revealed as the one who fulfilled all of God's righteous demands Jesus Christ is the one who sinless and because Jesus is sinless. He's able to satisfy God's requirements That's why we trust in him. We cannot trust in ourselves and he's making this case We'll see it in just a moment. It's not by works of righteousness. We've performed It's because Jesus Christ is the one who was able to satisfy his father's requirements Jesus was able to say in John 846 which of you convicts me of sin And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? Which of you can convict me of sin? Who here he is saying before his mother if you will he could say it in front of His brothers and sisters he could say it in front of the whole world Who of you which one of you can convict me of sin? And so Jesus was making it very clear that he is sinless This is something you see in 1st John chapter 3 verse 5 where it says you know that he was manifested to take away our sins And in him there is no sin So Jesus was more than simply a good man. He was perfect There was no sin within him and his perfection made him a worthy sacrifice able to redeem us from our sins So that's what Paul is teaching us here in this particular passage now when we were in chapter 3 verses 21 through 31 We noted that Paul used the word faith eight times Eight times he uses the word faith in order that he might reveal the significance of faith And now he's going to use a man as a prime example for what faith actually is He's going to speak concerning a man named Abraham and so in verse 1 here of chapter 4 Romans He says what then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh Abraham is a father of the Jewish nation and what are we going to say concerning him? Well, he's pointing out that he's regarded as the ultimate example of a man who was right with God He was right with God, but he was right with God through his faith That's why he asked what has Abraham found according to the flesh in other words Did Abraham become justified by the energy of his own works? How is it that he became right with God? Did he become right with God by the effort that he put into becoming right with God? So he's beginning the this passage by speaking to Abraham speaking of Abraham and how he became righteous Well, he says in verse 2 if Abraham was justified by works. He has something of which to boast but not before God If Abraham was made right by the works he performed he could boast before man, but not before God Did he become God's friend based on his own works his own righteousness his own merit No, because that would cause him to be able to brag about himself And if you were proud about such a thing he would have been disqualified because of his pride I met a guy one time. We told me He said to me I'm a very humble man. I'm the most humble man. I know So he was proud of his humility And I said no, you're not I'm the most humble man, you know No, I mean think about it for a minute. He's boasting about his humility to me Just the fact that you're boasting about being humble tells me you're proud of your humility So that doesn't make any sense at all But Abraham was a man who was extremely humble He was a man who was devoted to God and he became a friend of God by his faith not by his works because if he had become If he had become right with God through his efforts then he could have boasted concerning those things But the bible tells us in james chapter 4 verse 6 that god resists the proud But he gives grace to the humble Jesus in luke 14 11 said whoever exalts himself will be humbled But he who humbles himself Will be exalted And so it wasn't works that he had performed It wasn't something that he did that justified himself Because he says in verse 2 of Abraham was justified by works. He has something of which to boast but not before God So what made him justified before God? Well, it was his faith. It was a trust that he had in God His faith in God resulted in close fellowship with God And so in james chapter 2 verse 23 it says the scripture was fulfilled which says Abraham believed God And it was imputed unto him for righteousness. He was called the friend of God When you research your old testament you discover that he's the only one who's ever been referred to in the old testament in that manner That he was called a friend of God He's the only one specifically referred to as a friend of God, but his friendship Was not built on his efforts But were was built on his faith the faith that he had in God There are those who begin to question concerning the relationship between faith and works And so they want to know if if if works will save you does faith alone save you should you do good works It's been said faith justifies the person But works will justify his faith A person who has saved Works but not for salvation But out of salvation I've been saved And therefore my life is going to be spent serving the lord So the works that I perform are not because I want to be saved the works that I perform are because I have been saved And so Abraham was somebody who was saved Somebody who is known for his works, but he first believed God Now it says again in first three. What does scripture say? Abraham believed God. It was accounted or imputed to him for righteousness So paul appeals to scripture For this explanation This is how you receive a right standing before god He's using abraham. He says and you need to have faith like abraham a faith that is similar abraham very famous figure in the old testament He lived around 2000 years before christ. He came from a city called ur Which was in an area called the caldeas or caldea, which is modern southern iraq He came from a city that was estimated to have during his day around 300 000 inhabitants, which made it a very huge city It was a city that was um known for its uh Mathematics its agriculture they were known for weaving and engraving and astronomy They were also involved in commercial trade. They were located on the euphrates river. They were 100 miles north of the persian gulf As great as the culture was it was also known for something else. It was known for its idolatry So abraham was actually raised in a city that was wholly given over to idolatry But he came to faith in god But his family was a family of idolaters. How do we know that? Well, joshua in chapter 24 verse 2 makes mention of it Joshua said to all the people thus says the lord god of israel Your father's dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time even terra The father of abraham and the father of nachar And they he said served other gods So he came from a place of idolatry But one day god called him and god promised to bless him And god told him to leave his home to leave his country and he left he trusted god Trusted that god had a place for him, but he didn't know where he is going So as he was on his journey the bible tells us he lived in tents And he waited for the city which has foundations whose builder and maker Is god so he trusted god and followed god and his life became a life that was earmarked by faith And his life became legendary He followed god's call he trusted god for a promised child And he died without receiving all the promises that had been given to him That's why he's called the father of faith He was justified by his faith not by works alone And so he's using him as an example Abraham believed god it was accounted to him for righteousness now verse 4 to him who works The wages are not counted as grace but as debt But to him who does not work but believes on him who justifies the ungodly his faith is accounted for righteousness So he speaks about faith faith means to completely trust in something to adhere to or rely on something completely And he's saying that faith will result in salvation Unless you recognize you're ungodly in other words you cannot be saved So your faith results in righteousness, but your unbelief would result in judgment Now it's interesting salvation is a gift and not the payment we receive by doing good works We receive a righteous standing before god not by works that we've performed You have a job you work 40 hours Whoever delivers your check comes to your desk or However, you receive your your check and they hand it to you You're receiving a wage You work your 40 you get your wage That's how it works You don't hand the check back to them and say oh no, I don't deserve this You basically look at and say what you can't give me a little more Because you and I because we're working and that's what he's saying here He's saying To him who works the wages are not counted as grace but as debt If I agree with somebody to do a certain job for them at a certain price, that's an agreement. It's a debt that person owes me So I'm not saved by works that I've performed I'm saved by the grace of god through faith And god gives me something I don't deserve because that demonstrates his graciousness to me Verse 5 to him who does not work but believes on him who justifies in godly his faith is accounted for righteousness So it's a matter of faith and not by works And you receive it freely as a gift from god That's something a lot of people don't seem to get even to this day Grace is so unbelievably free and god gives it to us And that's how we're saved through our faith But so many times we've been raised thinking we have to work for somehow to receive this 10 years ago my Son joseph was here in my sister-in-law Patty was here on campus and my father-in-law used to come And would visit my father-in-law came from a construction background And he enjoyed the fact that there was so much construction going on at that time And he had started coming over weekly for a short while just to walk around and see what was going on in the process of building various things Well, he was supposed to be here at a certain time and he hadn't shown up So my sister-in-law patty tells my son joseph Let's go see if grandpa's okay They live only a few miles from the church in all and joseph had emt training And so he went with his aunt to go and check on grandpa and when they got to the house and walked in They found him on the floor It had a stroke joseph and patty walked up to him rushed up to him joseph knelt down next to him and began to take his pulse and Turned to his aunt and said to her You need to call 911 So my sister-in-law Goes to the phone and makes a phone call for emergency personnel to show up Well joseph kneels there And begins to speak to his grandfather His grandfather was still able to speak and so he says to him grandpa. Are you ready? Grandpa looking at joseph knowing what joseph's referring to says I'm a good man joseph And joseph looks at his grandpa and he says yes, you are you're a very good man grandpa and he was a very good man But you're not good enough You need jesus My father-in-law had heard the gospel before I'd been in the family for a long time and he'd heard the gospel He'd never received christ But joseph there is kneeling next to his grandfather and he's telling him grandfather grandpa. You're a good man But you're not good enough and began to share The basics of faith that he might come to faith in christ Because he'd been trained to do that And incidentally seen that we're having an evangelism class here It would be good for you if you're able to come to it So you might learn to do the same kind of thing because he knew how to share his faith with his grandfather And as his grandfather was laying there on the carpet Joseph shared the gospel with him and said Would you would you like to receive christ? Is your savior grandpa? And my father-in-law said yes And prayed with joseph before the ambulance showed up They took him to chino uh chino hospital And marie and I went to go see my father-in-law And I remember walking in as he was going into The stroke was getting worse and he was slurring his speech and unable to really speak to me Shared a few things with me and I shared some things with him He slipped into a coma and a few days later he died I was in that room when my father-in-law died. I watched that monitor flatline as I was there and I watched him as he died Went to be with the lord A few days later the catholic church here on central There was a funeral for my father-in-law And the priest Got up and began to share about ruben lopez and he said Ruben is in heaven Ruben has eternal life because ruben received water baptism as a baby My son joseph got up to share because they allowed us to share And he said my grandfather is in heaven today because Not because he received water baptism But because he received the lord and savior jesus christ That's how you go to heaven through faith in jesus christ That's what the bible teaches That's what the bible teaches It isn't the works that you've performed or religious rituals that have been performed on you Abraham was not saved because he received the right of circumcision And you'll see this in a moment Abraham was saved because he believed god and it was counted unto him for righteousness And that's how one is saved through trusting and believing in god You see it says in verses six through eight as david also describes the blessedness of the man to whom god imputes Righteousness apart from works blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven and whose sins are covered blessed Is a man to whom the lord shall not impute sin You see joy is the result of coming to faith in christ Joy is what we have because god has forgiven us when you awaken to that When you awaken to the fact that all your sin has been forgiven through the blood of jesus christ It changes your life You're not going to have joy when you're trying to work your way to heaven joy is a gift that god gives by his spirit You can go to the store and you can buy a lot of things, but you can't buy peace You can't go somewhere order it online or whatever get it on craig's list. You know, I'd like some peace Thank you very much. You can't do that It doesn't happen You can't go out and buy that kind of thing. You can't buy love You can't go out and purchase ten dollars worth of love today Fifteen dollars worth of love. Thank you very much. It doesn't happen. Does it love is not something you can buy Peace is not something you can buy Joy is not something that you can purchase joy comes from the spirit of god And when you come to be aware of the fact that god has forgiven you all of your sins Not just some of them, but all of them He has taken them and cast them in the deepest part of the sea never to be retrieved They're as far as the east is from the west God has forgiven you Completely not because you're so good and not because you try so hard But because he's good and he did what was necessary and we can believe it and what is the result joy Joy by the holy spirit a forgiveness of sins a cleansing of the conscience a righteous life This comes from jesus christ Abraham discovered that and that's why the psalmist would say to us blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven whose sins are Covered blessed is the man to whom the lord shall not impute sin The blood of christ covers our sin cleanses us from all Unrighteousness and it causes us great joy in psalm 5 11 Let those who rejoice let those let all those rejoice who put their trust in you Let them ever shout for joy because you defend them let those also who love your name be joyful in you God has done that work for us. He's transformed us and it didn't come Because I tried so hard He came because he did what was necessary And I was surprised by the joy that comes through a relationship with jesus christ C. S. Lewis when he got saved Climbed on a taxi as somebody who believed there might be a god Climbed off the same taxi as a firm believer in jesus christ He writes a book that's called surprised by joy Because that's the one thing he didn't realize he'd have in coming to faith. He said he must have been the most reluctant person who ever came to faith in jesus because as a philosopher c. S. Lewis Was raised as an atheist Then he made his way to more of an agnostic then to a theist and then he finally came to A faith in the lord jesus christ as Second person of the trinity and committed himself and he says That he must have been one of the people who got saved who had least evidence of it and he was surprised by the joy That came through his salvation Joy you can put your head on a pillow at night Without guilt And you can awaken the next morning with no regrets Because what god did in your life, right? Because he forgave you he's transformed you He has changed you and the joy that comes through this The joy that is beyond anything you could have asked for or thought The joy that is beyond an indescribable That comes through this knowledge that my sins have been forgiven It's what paul is speaking about and he says blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven whose sins are covered Blessed is the man to whom the lord shall not impute sin Does this blessedness verse nine then come upon the circumcised only or upon the uncircumcised also For we say that faith was accounted to abraham for righteousness How then was it accounted while he was circumcised or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised by but while uncircumcised And he received the sign of circumcision a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised That he might be the father of all those who believe Though they are uncircumcised that righteousness might be imputed to them also and the father of circumcision to those who are Who who not only are of the circumcision But who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father abraham had while still uncircumcised And so paul anticipates questions that would be asked if abraham was justified by faith. Well, why was he circumcised? Because they think that circumcision was instrumental in abraham becoming justified. So why was he circumcised at all?  We're saved through faith Galatians 5 success it in christ jesus neither circumcision avails anything nor uncircumcision But faith which works by love Well, then verse 10 how then was it accounted while he was circumcised or uncircumcised? Well, the a the answer Is abraham was declared righteous 14 years Before he was circumcised Because in genesis 15 verse 6 That verse declares him righteous, but circumcision actually came later on 14 years later and was performed in genesis chapter 17 So his faith predates Circumcision circumcision a religious right Was not something done that saved him It was simply done because he's already been declared righteous and established the covenant that god had made with them So he received the sign of circumcision Of the faith which he already had Well, why circumcise at all if there's no benefit then To the practice of it. Well Circumcision was practiced for three reasons one. It's an outward sign as a seal It demonstrates that god owns you secondly. It's an evidence of faith It's an evidence of the righteousness of faith. It's a constant reminder and then third It's a promise to those who have a similar kind of faith in god What he's saying basically is circumcised or uncircumcised if you have faith in god, you can be saved You can have a relationship with god And being saved is that which provides motivation to serve the lord You don't serve the lord to be saved. You serve the lord because you are saved When I was pulling up this morning at the early service in this time change, which is a killer, isn't it? I don't know about you. We were talking about this a moment ago When the time changes, I don't sleep The reason I don't sleep is because I'm concerned that I won't wake up in time for church And so I woke up at 345 this morning And I'm just kind of laying there Thinking yeah, I know good. You can sleep but what happens if And so I checked my alarm to make sure the alarm alarm is set And now I've got a couple hours. Do I have a couple hours did I you know, so I'm arguing with myself I don't know about you. I wake maria She's snoring Hey Wake up worry with me So I doze for the next and I went to bed at midnight. So I got three hours and 45 minutes, right? to sleep so But that's what I do. That's just what happens and so I finally get up and get over here And as I'm rolling into the parking lot, we have parking lot attendants out there It's cold out there this morning. It was cold. The attendant was waving, but he was frozen like that It's amazing And you come in and you know, good morning. We have children's ministers who are here on time serving People working in the cafe people manning the gazebo People who are here to usher. We have a worship team that came here early to To practice to get ready for service When you take all of that into consideration Why are they doing that? They don't receive any money for any of that. They're all volunteers Why did they do that guys? You know why they do that because they love jesus christ They don't do that because they get paid for that They do that because their reward is in heaven. It's eternal And it is something that god gives to those who are faithful to him They're not doing these things to be saved. They're doing these things because they are saved And that's how it works That's what he was saying. Abraham believed god. It was counted unto him as righteousness But what about his circumcision? He received circumcision. That's right It's a covenant between god and abraham and all his descendants. That's true But moses's law that made that part of the law of moses didn't come for another several hundred years And even beyond that when he received that sign of circumcision in chapter 17 of genesis It was already 14 years later It was 14 years before in genesis 15 6 that god said you're righteous So he was righteous before he performed the circumcision Righteousness predates your religious behavior So you're not saved by works You work because you're saved You do those things because god has worked in you That's how you got saved. It wasn't a religious ritual that occurred in your life when you were a baby and had nothing to say about it It had nothing to do with you going to sunday school and getting those little gold stars that you could get on your little Little book that I used to have when I grew up either gold or a silver star had nothing to do with those things It has everything to do with how good god is and what god has done on your behalf And that's why we by faith receive christ and that's how we are saved and that's how we are justified That's how we're declared righteous and that's why we serve him What a great god we serve. He gave to us salvation freely through jesus christ Amen