at chapter 10 here, verses 46 through 52 in the Gospel of Mark. And so I'm going to begin reading at verse 46. I'll read to the end of the chapter, verse 52. And I'll be sharing with you about the heart of the minister. And you'll see why I chose to speak on that out of this passage in just a moment. So let's begin reading together here in Mark chapter 10. I'll read to you verse 46 through 52. And then as is my normal way, I'll share with you some things to give you a context of what's taking place. And then we'll go into the study and look at it verse by verse. So beginning at verse 46, reading to verse 52, Mark chapter 10, Mark writes, Now they came to Jericho. As he went out of Jericho with his disciples in a great multitude, blind by the mayors, ascended to mayors, sat by the road begging. And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me. Then many warned him to be quiet. But he cried out all the more, Son of David, have mercy on me. So Jesus stood still and commanded him to be called. Then they called the blind man, saying to him, Be of good share, rise, he's calling you. And throwing aside his garment, he rose and came to Jesus. So Jesus answered and said to him, What do you want me to do for you? The blind man said to him, Roboni, that I may receive my sight. Then Jesus said to him, Go your way. Your faith has made you well. And immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus on the road. And so I want to share a few things with you because I chose to refer to this particular study, the heart of a minister. And Jesus is communicating that to his men. And so I need to develop this a bit for you to remember some of the context in order to understand why this is standing out as we look at it even today. Jesus has been prepared, has been prepared for the work that they've been appointed to do. But in order to prepare them and train them, he had to call them. And he called them to leave everything and to follow him. This is because they were going to be the foundational blocks that the church would eventually be built on. Now he specifically called certain men to follow him full time. And these men are referred to as his apostles. So to train them, he spent time with them. And he taught them as modeled for them what ministry was. In Mark chapter 3, we saw in verses 13 and 14 that Jesus went up on the mountain and called to him those he himself wanted. And they came to him. Then he appointed 12 that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach. So he called to them to himself those he himself wanted that they might be with him. Over time, he poured into them the purpose as well as the meaning of ministry. And he spent time with them so that they could learn how to be Christian ministers. He did it to mentor them because he wanted them not only to be genuine disciples, but to know and understand what ministry actually is. Now during the time of Christ, there was a process of developing disciples. And that process is something Jesus alludes to. It's a process that we today refer to as mentoring. He spent time with them in order that they might learn how to be Christian ministers. And he did this through a mentoring process. When you look at the old methodology of training people up to be disciples during the time of Christ, I was reading concerning that and this one brother was pointing out that a disciple is somebody who decided to follow a teacher. And then he would memorize the words of the teacher. He learned the way of ministry from that teacher. He imitated the teacher's life and character. And then when he was finally mature, he would raise up his own disciples. Jesus speaks concerning that. When he said in Matthew 10, 25, it is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher and the servant like his master. I was in Israel back in 1983 and I was standing in the western, in the area called the Western Wall. And I was there with my pastor of ending Chuck Smith. And Pastor Chuck and I were speaking and I was watching these rabbinic students who were there at the Western Wall and they were praying. And as they were praying, some of them would rock side to side as they prayed.  And I was watching these different forms of styles of praying and I finally turned to my pastor and I said, Pastor, I said, what are they doing? Why are they doing that? Why are some people moving from side to side? The other ones are moving front to back and all that. And I'm noticing that they're different. And Chuck, as I was speaking to him, said, well, one, he said in the Old Testament, it tells us, it teaches us to love God with all of your strength. And he said it may be that they're putting their physical effort into their worship and prayer right now because they are demonstrating a love for God with all of their strength. He said a second reason would be that because they're rabbi that they are following and learning that they're being mentored under, that's how he prays. And so that was something they did 2,000 years ago and to this day continue to do so. I can sometimes can, I can tell you what church somebody goes to by the way that they act and the way that they speak. Sometimes when they're praying, I can say, well, that person comes from this fellowship or that way because I know the pastor of the church and he says those things or does those things. And that's just an unconscious thing with us. But there was a real thing during the time of Christ where they would actually learn these things and watch. And then ultimately what it would be is when they had reached maturity and Jesus said it would be enough that he'd become like his teacher, a servant like his master. And at that point, when they had reached that, they would begin to have disciples of their own. Now these men that Jesus is ministering to, these men have heard his sermons. They've, they've witnessed his miracles. They've observed his authority. They've seen him cast out demons. They, they have seen him as he has healed the sick. He's cleansed leopards. He is, they have seen him still the storms. They've eaten miracle meals with him. They, they saw him heal from a distance. They've seen Jesus Christ raise the dead. They could say that they had witnessed so many things, but they're still lacking one thing. It's the one thing that the Lord continues teaching them. You see, they could speak of his works, but they didn't understand who he was. And this is something that he desired for them, that they might understand him. They were learning the how of ministry, but they also needed to know the why. It's one thing for somebody to know how ministry is. It's another thing to know the reason behind it. You can go to a church and you can know what the pastor does. But many people don't know why he does what he does. In Psalm 103 verse 7, it says, he made known his ways to Moses, his acts to the children of Israel. The children of Israel could say the Red Sea, or they could say manna. They could say things of that nature. They had seen the works of God. But Moses knew why God did what he did. They knew what he did, but Moses could say, and this is why. And so what happens is he made known his ways to Moses, but the children could speak of the things that God does. Well, they needed to learn the why. They needed to know why Jesus did what Jesus did. They needed to learn the lesson of compassion. It's a lesson that's been modeled by Jesus Christ. In Matthew 9, 36, Matthew writes, when Jesus saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered like sheep, having no shepherd. You see, the heart of compassion is the key to properly performing future ministry. Now the Bible reveals to us that God is compassionate. And the Bible tells us that God is moved by suffering. Paul spoke of this when he was writing to the Corinthians in 2 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 3. He had said, Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of compassion and the God of all comfort. So the father of compassion, the compassionate father, Paul spoke concerning him and somebody speaking of God's compassion said it like this. They said, God is compassionate. He's sympathetic to the suffering of his people. He sees our distress. He takes pity on us. However, his compassion is more than sympathy and pity. God's compassion is related to his mercy, kindness, patience, grace, forgiveness, and love. This is a key element to the training of the 12th. They are once again about to receive a lesson on the heart of the minister. And by the way, this isn't something that's only for apostles. This heart of compassion is to be the airmark of a believer. The heart of compassion is to be the way we as Christians actually act in today's world. So as we begin to look at this notice, verse 46, I'll begin by sharing just a few things and move into some application. In verse 46 here in chapter 10, again, it says, Now they came to Jericho as he went out of Jericho with his disciples in a great multitude, blind to Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus sat by the road begging. Jesus is traveling to Jerusalem. He's been up in the north. He's been on the eastern border of the Jordan River in a region that is called Piraeus. The Jews normally under normal circumstances would, if they're coming from the north, they would cross the Jordan to the east, travel south till they pass Samaria, then they would re-enter into the land of Israel. And that's what the root is that Jesus is taking. And so it's now nearing the time of the Jewish Passover.  And as we've been going through this portion of scripture, we see how he had recently taught them using a small child that he had taught them that children have value. Then he challenged a rich young ruler and in doing so he emphasized the value of the eternal by dealing with the request for special honor from James and John. He emphasized the value of humility. So he's about to teach them once again the value of compassion. You see, the kingdom of God is composed of people who love and have compassion and care for other people. And compassion and concern for others makes God's kingdom needed in today's world. If there's ever been a time when we need compassion, it's today. Our world is very busy. And it's unusual to see compassion displayed. And it's been noticed and this is interesting to me. The lack of compassion and kindness has been noticed and some have even tried to once again reveal the value of compassion. I don't know if you know this, but there's a foundation that has been dedicated to doing caring things for others. And they even established something called Random Acts of Kindness Week. And that Random Acts of Kindness Week was celebrated March 7th through the 11th of this year. And I was in compassion at all during that week. It was terrible. Random Acts of Kindness Week. That serves to emphasize that compassion and kindness is a value that many share. Did you know there's even an app to help people learn how to spread kindness in the world? There is. Being compassionate is something that Jesus wanted his disciples to learn. That's because compassion is simply an expression of love for other people. And it's been said, and rightly so, that love is the birthmark of the believer. Jesus said, By this shall all men know you are my disciples if you have love one for another. By this shall all men know that. And so it's the love of Christ is God's love in us that is actually the birthmark of the believer. And as his people, we're to take the time to care for those who are in a real need, in genuine need. Like it says in the book of Galatians chapter 6 verse 10, therefore as we have opportunity let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers. So Jesus is about to share once again about this important Christian virtue. Now notice again in verse 46 he went out of Jericho with disciples and a great multitude. Now this great multitude is made up of pilgrims who are traveling to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover. We saw in chapter 10 verse 1 that Jesus was on the eastern shore while he's come down and he's entered in, he's gone southwest, he's on his way to Jerusalem. We know that Jericho is about 15 miles northeast of Jerusalem and it's a few miles west of the Jordan. So he's traveled south, he's on that eastern side as I said, he bypassed Samaria and he's traveling to Jericho and there are those who are traveling with him and they're now ascending or on their way to ascend towards Jerusalem. I want to point something out here. Notice that Mark says that he went out of Jericho and encountered Bartimaeus. In Luke 1835 giving us the same account or another account of the same event it says it happened as he was coming near Jericho that a certain blind man sat by the road begging. One says he went out of Jericho, the other said he's coming near Jericho and so there are those who say well see that's the problem with the Bible it has so many contradictions. One person says that he's entering, another person says he's leaving and so it seems to us that there's an obvious contradiction. Is he going out of Jericho or is he coming near Jericho? I don't know let's just keep going. Anyway, you know, now let me answer that. One time there was a, I was asked this question a long time ago, probably 35 plus years ago now and I was asked this question. They said listen if you were to be isolated on a desert island and you were to remain there with just one book, the Bible, but one other book. If you had two books, the Bible and a second book, what is the book that you would take to a desert island? What book would you want? The Bible and one other book and I immediately said at that time and I would probably still say it to this day, I would take Alfred Edersheim's Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah. Alfred Edersheim was a Jewish believer. He had rabbinic training, was well aware of the customs and the teachings of Judaism, came to faith in Christ and was able to incorporate those things in his understanding and teaching of the New Testament. Alfred Edersheim answers this particular question here. Edersheim tells us that there were two sites of the city of Jericho. One site was called ancient Jericho. It's the Jericho of Old Testament days. The other site was the modern Jericho. So he's leaving the ruins of Old Testament Jericho, but he's entering into what is called New Testament Jericho. There's your answer. It's no contradiction. It's just knowing the geography of the lander in that day. Well, it says in verse 46, Jesus came to Jericho accompanied by his disciple as well as a multitude. Now I'm going to develop this with you because I want to share with you some things that I believe are practical as I've laid a foundation so we can get an idea of what's taking place. One, he has entered in, he's got his men. He's got people who are followers, but you also have just a multitude, a group of people and not everyone who are there following after Christ are necessarily his followers. Many joined the group of disciples that were traveling with him. That makes this what is called a mixed multitude. There are followers of Jesus and there are those who simply joined them and that kind of gathering of believers and those who are not necessarily believers in Christ, that happens to this day. It's true in every Christian gathering. There are those who follow the Lord and there are others who simply are in the mix and what has happened is they have joined in with Jesus as followers and there's a festive kind of environment. They're following him in what I call the Christian parade and as they're there in this Christian parade and they're entering into the city and there are groups of people in Jericho as Jesus is entering in who are there on the streets looking at those who are coming in. They're talking amongst themselves or listening carefully. What they're doing is they're joining in an event and there are lots of people who are there and they're listening, they're restraining to hear what Jesus is saying because more than likely as Christ is going in the front people are asking him questions and he's answering them so there are people restraining their ears to hear what he's saying as this is taking place and what they're about to be exposed to is love in action. You see the crowd begins to enter Jericho and people of Jericho begin to take notice and somewhere in the crowd lining the street while there's a blind man there his name is Bartimaeus. Now Matthew in his gospel mentions that there are two blind men. Luke and Mark mentioned only one and that's because Bartimaeus is singled out as the spokesperson. Now he's a blind man both of them are blind. You need to know a little bit about what was taking place during the time of Christ because at that time many considered those who were blind to be sinners who were cursed by God. In John chapter 9 verses 1 and 2 John said it like this he said as Jesus went along he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him Rabbi who sinned this man or his parents that he was born blind so they saw blindness as a symbol of sin and we want to know how this took place. The disciples connected suffering with sin and they knew that that sin was at the root of all suffering. You see in the fall of man sin entered the world along with with sin came affliction and came disease and so the question that they're asking is who sinned this man or his parents that he was noticed that he was born blind that gives you some insight by the way that then I think I'll take a moment to touch on because when they asked the question who sinned this man or his parents that he was born blind tells us their concept of human nature and it speaks of the fact that they believe that a baby in the womb is capable of sinning which also gives us insight that the Jews believe that that is a baby and not a fetus that it is a baby in the womb it's in scripture people ignore these things who did sin this man or his parents that he was born blind. See when Rebecca in the Old Testament became pregnant she was found to be carrying twins Jacob and Esau and in Genesis 25 verses 22 and 23 it reads the babies jostled each other within her and she said why is this happening to me so she went to inquire of the Lord the Lord said to her two nations are in your womb two peoples from within you will be separated one people will be stronger than the other the older will serve the younger the Jews believed as we do to this day that the life was in the womb not when it took its first breath but that the life is in the womb and God speaks of them as your babies and that's important to know that's important to know they believe that unborn had emotions and that some of those emotions displayed sinfulness and the sinful emotions were the result of their fallen human nature Psalm 51 verse 5 surely I was sinful at birth sinful from the time my mother conceived me so that is a biblical truth there now it may be that the people at that time were seeing this blindness as a curse from God many thought they were cursed and because many thought that they were cursed by God they were reduced to begging and that's what's taking place with Bartimaeus Bartimaeus may have been blind but he and his companion could hear and they heard the commotion luke 18 36 and 37 says it hearing a multitude passing by he asked what it meant so they told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by well verse 47 of mark 10 when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth he began to cry out and say Jesus son of David have mercy on me Bartimaeus obviously had heard of Jesus because Jesus was very well known and at first he might have become excited when he at first heard the sound and as this crowd is now approaching where he is he might have thought man this is great these these will be pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem and pilgrims are normally religious people who are very generous and because religious people are known to be more generous than the non-religious and so they probably will know as they would they know the scripture that commands them to be generous towards the poor due to Ronomy 15 verse 11 there will always be poor people in the land therefore I command you to be open-handed toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land and so they're thinking as as this Christian parade is beginning to pass by they're thinking man I've struck it rich this is great there's a whole lot of them what's going on and so they're saying well you know they can tell there's a commotion what's going on while they're beginning to ask what is this oh Jesus of Nazareth is passing by well notice verse 47 when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth he began to cry out that word cried listen when you read your bible the the New Testament is written in what is called Greek or Koine Greek common Greek and so there are words that we translate in the English that when you look at the root word and what it meant you get a deeper understanding and so if you read it and it says he began to cry out that's one thing but the word cry there is a very strong Greek word that actually is literally speaking of crying out at the the top of your lungs it's another way of saying he was screaming out he was screaming loudly above the crowd that was going by he wasn't just crying out oh he was screaming at the top of his lungs the word is often used for speaking of crying for help and that's exactly what he's doing his opportunity for more than just a handout has come he's his opportunity because it's Jesus of Nazareth passing by his opportunity has arrived for him to be able to be healed if he cries out and i'm not about to let this go by is what he's thinking this is my greatest hope of ever regaining sight and so he begins a shout out at the top of his lungs and notice what he says it says Jesus son of david have mercy on me now in verse 47 it said when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth he began to cry out but what did he cry out Jesus son of david why is there in why is that interesting well one if it's of Jesus of Nazareth it's simply speaking of the village he came out of but when he said son of David that's a cry of faith he's recognizing him as not just a rabbi from a city called Nazareth he's saying you're the son of David son of david is what is called a messianic title so he's crying out that's why Jesus will will will say your faith has made you well you recognize who i am you recognize who i am Jesus son of david have mercy on me now earlier we saw how mark recorded that Jesus had healed a woman with an issue of blood remember that she had come up quietly touched the hymn of his prayer shawl but here Bartimaeus screams out at the top of his lungs he didn't want his opportunity to regain psych to slip away it's like with the psalmist in psalm 77 verse 1 wrote when he said my voice rises to god i will cry aloud my voice rises to god he will hear me well as he's screaming out Jesus son of son of david helped me well verse 48 when many warned him to be quiet the crowd didn't appreciate the disturbance so they told him quiet down i want to spend some time looking at this with you i think this is very practical and as i would think as believers it's something that we can benefit from considering together why would they say to this man be quiet why well one it could be that they were just simply showing respect to jesus christ Jesus might have been speaking and this man is interrupting so i want to be charitable towards these people they may have believed that they were showing reverence to jesus by asking for things to be quiet and that's understandable even jesus's own apostles often didn't understand remember how jesus's men had recently rebuked parents for bringing their children to jesus for for jesus to bless it and how it had displeased him and he had to correct his men for doing it well in this case they warned him to be quiet that word warned speaks of forbidding of admonishing him forbidding him to speak and what they're doing is very instructive to those of us who follow jesus christ and this is where i want to begin sharing a little bit with you they were walking with jesus they're walking with jesus but they are still callous to the pain of other people over the years i've become more aware of how easy it is to become callous to other people's pain we see so much of it so much pain that it becomes commonplace and even ordinary people who are different can sometimes be disturbing and uncomfortable to people at his first cry they should have brought the man to jesus but instead notice the people are disturbed even going so far as to saying be quiet and instead of bringing partomias and his friend to jesus they're keeping them from jesus it's not hard for people to misunderstand and what i'm going to share right now is not intended as a condemnation i'll say it first like this we here in this fellowship obviously value a quiet atmosphere why because i teach and i don't want to be shouting over other people and i don't need a cheering section and all of that right we're here to teach so i value it by respecting people around us i value a quiet atmosphere i do that's just the way i am but sometimes people's needs can disturb us when they make them known i began to learn this in ministry many years ago i was a young pastor it's back in the 80s and we used to meet at a place called ontario christian chapel i'm sorry ontario christian school and in the school sat the the school that we use the little auditorium sat between 250 or so maybe up to 300 i i don't remember anymore i just remember that that we had 200 to 300 people that were coming to church we had a couple of services there in all ends i remember on one particular sunday morning i was teaching and as i was teaching the particular very very much like i'm doing right now just teaching at one point somebody who was maybe six rows or so from where i was at which is a close it's real close um all of a sudden this older man it's funny for me to say that now but to me then he was an older man he had to be at least 50 but anyway this this this older man this older man let out a moan like like someone had stabbed him it was that kind of moan it was loud it was a loud moan so much so that it shocked me and again it was only a few rows away from me so you could hear it very easily and he he moaned and sounded like he is in great pain and and i i was kind of shocked and i looked to see what's going on and he got louder and then right behind him was a young couple and they acted as if a as if a dynamite a stick of dynamite had exploded i'll never forget that because they looked at each other with almost a panic look and they both stood up that's how i was able to locate where the noise was because they stood up and when they stood up they went to the center aisle went out the door and i never saw him again and i thought why what's going on because you know church is quiet normally people listen respectfully and so for that to take place is very disturbing especially in a small room well i found out later on what had happened something in what i was sharing touched him because his son had just died his son died and whatever it was that was being shared opened up that wound and as a father mourning his son he cried loudly he hit him so hard and when i saw that i thought it's very sad that the church doesn't have the capacity to have compassion for those who hurt to the point that's so disturbing we're willing to boot out of that place and never come back and i never have forgotten that i've never forgotten how people's pain sometimes can be a mess there was a time for some time in our fellowship we had a brother who would he was exuberant he sat off to my left he never called me pastor david he called me pastor davis pastor davis and he would talk to me after church often i would walk down there and he's always waiting to talk to me he was a bit exuberant very exuberant as a matter of fact it was so exuberant that we had to we had an Easter service where we recorded the worship to make it available to the to the church and we had to edit his big mouth out i mean he was just he would get so caught up and he would turn around and he'd try and get people to stand with him and he was very disturbing and i would go down there and he always waited to talk to me and pastor davis pastor davis i just and he would tell me his story and i would say to my cement i said you know i appreciate it do me a favor what's that calm down a little bit just a little bit i said because yet you're causing people around you to kind of say what's going on you see there were people in the church who were angry some left because i didn't do anything about this i was supposed to stop this it was disturbing them in church they didn't know that i would talk to this guy what am i supposed to do stand up and say oh by the way you see that guy there i talked to him quite often when i supposed to embarrass him in front of people so people are satisfied saying oh he's a good leader no i don't do that my dad taught me a long time ago when you correct somebody do it privately don't embarrass people that's how you do it so i would talk to him and i say brah you've got to slow it down man take it down a notch are you know pastor davis you know and i'd say yeah well he died he died recently he died of covid listen i learned a lot forgive the emotion i learned a long time ago to love people who are different and to be aware of the fact that some of them have some pretty messed up backgrounds and the one place that they should always feel safe is with brothers and sisters in the lord and we should never be so caught up with trying to keep order which i am very much into keeping order i'm not into disturbing and using the flesh know me but i am also willing to accept a person where they're at to help them to realize some things aren't acceptable let's learn to do the things that are i think that's very important see i walked into a church at the age of 20 i was already on drugs and alcohol for several years i was a hippie my hair was long i was barefoot i didn't wear shoes i'd wear slacks and a and a dress shirt with no shoes i never wore shoes i didn't like shoes as a matter of fact i was still barefoot when this church began and it was my mother who told me i don't want to look at your feet anymore put on shoes that's a fact that's a fact so i started wearing some you know foot coverings for my mom's sake because i used to kick them off when i teach and say put those shoes back on son i don't want to look at your feet see so but i walked into a church it was called calvary chapel and there was a young man by the name of lani frisbee who was the teacher at that time pastor chuck was the pastor over the church and i walked in barefoot and i walked in with long hair and i walked in with beer on my breath because i had been drinking before i came and my eyes were bloodshot because i was smoking dope so i walked in barefoot hippie bloodshot eyes and beer on my breath and i was accepted not for those things but in spite of those things by a group of people who were not disturbed by real life because at the end of the day at the end of the day we're all sinners in the need of Jesus's grace and we ought to love each other we ought to and i think that we have to be careful because Jesus is teaching his men lessons of ministry it's it's it's that when there's a crying need how do you meet it do you tell the person be quiet don't disturb the master or do you open the door for him to be brought to the master how's it work and that's what we're seeing here we're seeing a group of people that are not sensitive to these blind men cursed by god in their sight who are crying out especially varda mayas to jesus who's not referring to jesus as jesus of nasser who's crying out son of david and they're missing the whole point and the earlier earlier in the gospel they they bring babies and the disciples say oh don't disturb the master and jesus has to correct him and and i think he does that to this day that we we we should be aware that not everybody else in the place starting with me is that sanitary that we all need help we all need help and jesus brings it god help us god help the church to not be so mad at the world that we forget that jesus tied for it god help us to take the love of the gospel and envelop it in human flesh incarnate it to people and say i may not like what you're doing i don't jesus died to set you free but guess what i love you and i would like god to set you free too i'm no better than you but he saved me and he can save you too and that's what the gospel needs to that's how it goes out and the church needs i'm telling you we're living in a time when people leave church sometimes mad at the president or mad at the government or mad everybody's evil yeah guess what so am i and that's why i need a savior no i do not approve of the things that are going on and i never will it would not be right for a person to preach the gospel in compromise i don't do that but i hate that sin but i will i ask god help me to love the sinner help me to never forget where i came from i was no better than anybody else and to this day i still am no better but i have a great savior he changes lives he forgives sins he transforms us and that's why we preach the gospel we need to remember that the disciples needed to understand and these people there who are telling him be quiet they needed to understand that that god hears those cries and god moves and that's what's about to take place notice that they're saying to him be quiet be quiet but his response in verse 48 is that he cried out all the more son of david have mercy on me i'm not about to lose out on receiving from you son of david messiah and what happens verse 49 so jesus stood still commanded him to be called and they called the blind man to him they said he's calling you so his crying his persistence is his crying out for the lord well the lord listened in psalm 18 verse 6 it says in my distress i called upon the lord cried out unto my god he heard my voice out of his temple my cry came before him even to his years so jesus stood still he commanded him to be brought to him he halted the parade to minister to these men he's willing to stop everything that he's doing to reach you and it says in verse 49 it says jesus stood still commanded him to be called and they called the blind man saying to him be of good cheer rise he is calling you throwing aside his garment he rose and came to jesus and so this garment was part of what would keep this man warm at night this garment was very important to him in many ways the garment was was a source of comfort it was a source of great value mark tells us part of mayors threw aside his garment and rose and came to jesus he discarded it he threw off what might stumble him as he came to christ you see this outer cloak had great worth to him but he cast it away so he could be healed in Philippians chapter three verses seven and eight the apostle paul said it like this he said what things were gained to me these have i counted loss for christ yet indeed i also count all things lost for the excellence of the knowledge of christ jesus my lord for whom i have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish that i may gain christ remember recently a young ruler would not let go of his wealth and was stumbled by it people get stumbled over various things some people stumble over their husband or their wife oh they're going to be upset at me if i follow jesus christ some get upset over their kids all the kids don't want to go here or do that because of my christianity so we let the kids we let the kids rule our house and tell us where we go to church and what we do sometimes we're concerned for our siblings brother or sister who gets upset or friends relationship and because of that we're afraid to follow christ but this guy let it go because he wouldn't have anything stumbling him he was going to come to jesus he was going to receive from the lord though physically blind with spiritual eyes he saw who jesus was and he came to him and so in verse 51 jesus answered and said what do you want me to do for you now he had recently asked the same question to james and john what is it that i can do for you but this time the request is recognized as legitimate they wanted to say to jesus's right hand or left hand he said it's not for me to give that but this is legitimate i want to see well it would seem that at first that his need was obvious but sometimes we simply need to admit it he needed to say it i need help i need to see so in verse 51 the blind man said my dear rabbi my dear teacher that i may receive my sight it's interesting that word when he says i may receive i looked that up in the original i wanted to see how that word is actually what it is intended to communicate the word received carries with it the connotation of recovering may i recover my sight gives the intonation that he had lost his sight and i want to receive it back i want to recover it and so what does jesus say verse 52 he says to him go your way your faith has made you well and immediately received his sight and followed jesus on the road let's close with a couple of thoughts in matthew 20 verse 34 jesus had compassion touch their eyes immediately their eyes received sight they followed him luke 18 42 and 43 receive your sight your faith has healed you immediately he received his sight and followed jesus praising god and when all the people saw it they also praised god when you receive your sight you follow him when you receive your sight you impact others so that they will also praise god that's how it works someone once said there are such things as christian tears and too few of us ever weep them i was teaching at a pastors conference many years ago now and when i teach sometimes i just get overwhelmed as you see my heart just becomes welled with something and i tear up i don't like it i don't want it it just happens what can i say and that happens when i'm touched by something that i'm thinking of or it i just so some of the pastors said why does that guy cry but why does he cry and they mocked it not that long ago i was speaking at a pastors conference q and a and pastor next to me i had just shared something from my heart in the q and a and i teared up for a moment and the pastor next to me a friend of mine teased me and said i don't cry like he does and so when i gave my message to the to the pastors and assistants i said it isn't a question of why i cry my question is why don't you because if you know what god has done in your life if you understand how deeply you were in sin how lost you were how messed up your life was how can you not cry over how good he has been to you how can you not show that because god has forgiven you and you're going to heaven think about that for a minute if i look i can do this i won't i have to close but if i look around here and start pointing people out to you you would blow your mind and maybe get a little scared at who you're sitting next to but god but god he forgives he washes and he changes you and that's why we tear up that's what i tear up when i talk about the goodness of god that's why because i know how undeserving i am and yet he still loved me and he still gave himself for me and he changed my life that's not simply a testimony that's a declaration of the goodness of god so instead of keeping people from him god help us to get out of the way so people can come to him because that's what god would have us as christians to bring people to jesus that they might be able to see our father we ask that you would work


I've been involved in the evolution of Togaf for 25 years. In that time we've had representatives of more than 300 different companies. People from the supply side, people from the IT consumer side, people from service providers working together to develop the Togaf framework, a practical approach to enterprise architecture. In that time 70,000 people have achieved Togaf certification. 70,000 people have demonstrated their understanding and knowledge of Togaf. 70,000 people can talk to each other and understand each other. They've got access to a common vocabulary. They've got a common language. They've got access to tens of thousands of people who understand the approach. They've got access to an ecosystem of service providers. They've got access to software tools that help them do their job. Enterprise architects are a talkative lot. They're really keen to share their experiences with other people. One of the objectives is to enable companies to link each and every critical decision they take in their business to the business outcome they require. They can get to the outcomes faster. They can get a better return on investment. The Togaf standard is developed and evolved by the Open Group Architecture Forum. More than 200 members at the moment working on it making sure that the underlying Togaf core standard is fit for purpose whether you are engaged in digital transformation or whether you are engaged in evolving a 25-year-old legacy system running on Mayprane computers.


Texturing is one of the tools you can use to fully customize your shader. But what is a texture? Well, a texture is basically an image or a pattern of some sort that is used to drive a certain aspect of your shader. So, for example, a color texture for a wall could be the image of a plaster or brick texture, and that texture will be projected onto your material and can then be used in many ways to create a more interesting and detailed material for your mesh. So, most of the time, texturing is going to be done through images, photographs, or painted textures. This is the most common way to texture materials, as it allows for full customization of how your materials will look. We can already see how easy it is to have an image texture drive the color of our shader, simply navigate to and left click drag the file from the file browser panel into our shader editor, then connect it to the base color input. As you can see, the image is now projected onto our object. This uses the UV map of our object, which is the skinned version of our 3D object in 2D space. You can see some examples here, but we'll be going over UV mapping in another video. Now, keep in mind, if you want to repeat the texture over a surface, you'll find that it may look like a bunch of tiles. In these cases, you'll want to look for what are called seamless textures.  Textures can also drive many other factors, including glossiness, shadows, subsurface scattering, transmission, transparency, brightness, bumpiness and more. To do this, simply plug the texture into any of the input connectors of these values. For example, if we plug this image texture into the alpha input for our shader node, you'll notice that the texture is now affecting the transparency or alpha of our material, except that it's not. Aha, that's because in EV, in order to use transparency in your materials, you'll want to go into the materials tab and change the blend mode settings. I recommend changing it to alpha hashed, as it is the most accurate, but it does have a little bit of noise. Another good alternative is alpha blend. Once you do that, you can see the transparency is now working and is being driven by our image texture. Of course, this image is in no way made for this purpose, so for your projects, you'll want to download or create textures that fit each purpose. Here's an example with multiple types of textures, color map, specular map and normal map, that are able to drive different factors to create a convincing material. We'll also be talking a little bit about procedural textures, also known as generated textures, in a separate video. Procedural textures are not image textures, but rather textures that have been generated via an algorithm. This allows them to have infinite resolution and variability, especially when compared to image textures, which are essentially only what you see is what you get.


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Hi, everyone. So, thanks for joining us today as part of this open source as a services vendor presentation. My name's Chris Howard and I'm the open source lead at EPAM Systems. So, a little introduction to myself, I've been consulting for 10 years mainly on digital transformation and I'm leading at the moment on all of EPAM's open source activities. So that includes our open source consulting, our OSCI, which is our open source contributors index tool, a enliadurai gweithio i dylunio llwynt yn symud y llyfr adapt wedi ein ddylun i'r gwybod yn eu cyflawn i'r wneud? Rydym y gallwch cyflawn i Hipam hefyd yn 1993 a eu hynny'n dweud sefydig cydwle angenhau agnigol. Ond yna bosb gweithio gyflawnio ar gyfer y cyflawn i gysylltu strategiol i gwybodaeth sylwyr hebodol, We are in a unique position and very pleased to Beans I when where we can do both. And this really allows us to provide real business value to our customers. So let's get started. So the first thing we are going to be considering is, what does open source mean to us here at EPAN? Well, as you can see on the slide there, EPAN systems believes in the principles and power of the free and open source software paradigm. Well, you could say that sounds like we have got it perfectly understood, But it really wasn't that simple to start with. So as a services vendor, we really found ourselves in a position where we had to write our own book on this as our engagement with open sources is quite different to many other types of organisations. In particular, perhaps like some of the organisations that many of you here today might be familiar with, technology providers, banking and financial institutions. So in 2011-12, we started our journey down the open source path, and we really had to think about how we could embrace and contribute to open source as a services company in a worthwhile way. We had to work out what that meant for us whilst at the same time making sure that aligned with our activities, our core business and assured that we played, as is very important, an active part in the open source community. So fast forward eight years, and with a pretty good grasp, we like to think of how we do open source and how we focus our efforts across the different faces of open source in our organisation. And we split our open source engagement into three clear channels of activity at EPAN, and I don't use the term silos here because I do genuinely believe, and we should see that later, these areas overlap and support one another. But like I say, more of that later. So our first channel is our client projects, and this encompasses our engineering and delivery work in the open source space that we do in collaboration with clients as part of their own project engagements. It's quite self-explanatory, and we'll touch on that a bit more detail around this shortly, but it really is about helping our clients with project work and their own open source journeys. The second area is our open source projects, and these are open source projects that are drawn out of innovation and our client team needs within EPAN, where we then recognise the value of this solution and thought that it might be worthwhile to consider or contribute that to the wider community. So in this instance, we've moved our internal IP, our EPAN IP, to open source through our own release process, and I'm going to talk a little bit more around our open source release process in due time. And for me, I really find these open source projects the most rewarding, because it's really great to see the energy and the eagerness from colleagues around the idea of open sourcing something that they've built, and then that continued sense of attachment that they'll then have to that solution. And it really motivates me to have them to see them deliver great quality code and support their contributions moving forward on the back of the sense of achievement and attachment that they have. But of course, it's great to have them personally be responsible for a solution that's now being used by others outside of EPAN or its original team, and that's really rewarding. And of course, some of you may be thinking, well, as a commercial organisation, there's a possibility that this outward contribution might well lead to generating a revenue stream. And that's true, and Anna will mention that, but that's not the primary goal of this open source project channel that we have. And our third channel is the Supported Project Channel, and this is where we engage with industry and community projects that we contribute to. So, for example, Apache Big Data or Drupal, the automotive Linux space that we're working in at the moment, as well, of course, our collaboration and ongoing commitment to industry consortia like Finos, who we're engaged with here today. And these Supported Projects are typically where we've got engineers, consultants and analysts with expertise in technologies and the associated languages contributing to products and projects that are sitting within the industry vertical or a community for that specific language that they're most focused upon. And we've established competency centres here within EPAN that focus exactly on that, be that our Drupal or Apache competency centres or our life science, financial services and insurance verticals. So, for us being an active contributor and explicitly supporting these community initiatives strengthens our expertise internally, but also allows us to support our clients better. It's a win-win. But what do these three groups there for look like in practice? Well, in the first instance, our engagement with clients. Well, as a services vendor, this is the most obvious in terms of what we're offering to support our clients in their own success, and we do this in two ways. One, the delivery angle, so our engineering and development. The key to success here and being true to the topic of this talk as a service vendor is to ensure that we're supporting clients in the delivery of their own open source solutions, be that homegrown solutions within their own development teams or solutions taken from the community. And here it's about ensuring that individuals we put to work with these clients are skilled, knowledgeable, passionate and really understand the solutions that they're engaged with. And we ensure that these people, as a vendor, demonstrate a real interest and commitment to the development of furthering of not just the client's project and work, but the open source solution they're engaged with. This opportunity for us and for our colleagues to influence and direct open source projects and further derive the success within a service business as a key contributor is key to this part of client projects. But the second and the more exciting, particularly given my own experience, is the consultancy, the advice and support, and the second way is how we engage with our client projects through supporting our clients with an open source adoption, growth and maturity. It's not common to find service vendors that have such a strong commitment to open source coupled with engineering excellence, so we're really proud of this. And for other service vendors, perhaps listening today, it's a unique position you're in to support clients if you've got such a strong grasp of open source already too. So for us, this engagement is about helping our clients understand open source practices, overcoming hurdles, misconceptions and generally supporting them in selecting the right infrastructure and technical decisions. So we work with clients who are right at the beginning of their journey, considering how they might do that first for a or step into consuming open source, all the way through to clients who are using open source but perhaps keep hitting governance roadblocks or legal complications around IP rights or a lack of ongoing support. And of course, we make recommendations on what kind of solutions to engage with within the community, where there might be an opportunity, perhaps even for our clients to open source some of their own IP, borrowing ideas from our second channel, which of course brings me on to that. Open source projects. So our second channel, well, these are solutions, innovations and products that have been driven out of both client and eternal work that we at EPAM here as an organisation believe will be valuable to the wider community. So for us as a service vendor, the opportunity for us to expand our audience for these EPAM born solutions, if you like, moving from a create and consume mindset to a create and contribute way of thinking is a really great way for our developers and engineers to value and be valued about the works that they're engaged with. And the number of EPAM born and led projects that we're pushing through to open source is growing more and more rapidly. And I know you can see some key facts there on the screen, but we've well over 70 already in the world being used on a daily basis, and we're continually developing improving by EPAM's own engineers and more importantly, external contributors. So I thought I might share some information now around one of these EPAM born solutions and a little bit more about its story. So you can hopefully now see the EPAM report portal or the report portal that's now out there in the world. And this is exactly the kind of tool that we developed and through using internally saw the benefits that this could provide to the wider community. We started to work on this tool in 2012 and successfully use this for four years for our own benefit. And some of its features and I say incredible features can be seen there on the slide, such as decreasing test effort by 90% and integrating with a broad array of frameworks. But in 2016 we felt as part of our ongoing commitment to open source and indeed being a good open source citizen that it would make sense to release this to the wider community. And it was the right decision. Since then it's been deployed by 60 plus EPAM clients and has its own dedicated team of 25 people here at EPAM. So you might say, well that's very exciting, but that's still within EPAM. But what's even more exciting is that it has a total of 59 unique contributors, both those who've never even engaged with EPAM and those who perhaps were in EPAM and now moved on to other things. So with over a thousand commits alone on GitHub, we're super proud to push this tool out to the community and really seen it blossom. And we hope that our ongoing commitment to the tool itself shows that we are really engaged and who knows how many more of our solutions might have equal success. This really reinforces our second channel around open source projects and the value they bring both internally, but also externally to the wider community. So what about that final channel? Well, our supported projects. Well, as I mentioned at the beginning, these are the projects consortia, communities and initiatives that EPAM actively is a member of and contributes to as a good open source citizen. And we're here today as I mentioned as members of FINOS, which I'm sure most of you are familiar with as the FinTech open source foundation, where we recently transitioned our glue projects and soon to be our time based project into their own FINOS landscape. So if you think back to the overlaps and synergies that I spoke about before, this is a perfect example. Glue, an EPAM open source project that we believe with the support of FINOS and their engaged contributors and members would be valuable to the community and financial industry to sit within their landscape. Well, on that notion, we moved it from sitting within EPAM's open source space, our second channel if you like, to now residing as a key offering within FINOS. Our engineers continue to support and contribute it, but the focus now is much more on organisations and contributors to really push forward its development and usage across the FS sector. It wasn't selfish for us to keep this because we knew that by pushing it out to be a supported project, we were furthering the industry and driving innovation. But you might say, well, why, particularly as a service vendor? Well, as a service vendor, it just makes business sense for us to embed our employees in established range of communities and groups, because if we can maintain our own awareness about what is happening in these communities and frameworks, then we can absolutely stay abreast of changes and latest innovation. But secondly, to do more than simply build solutions around these frameworks and tools, but to actively participate in their development. So take Drupal, for example. If we can be responsible and co-responsible for developing the backlog definition book fixes and being a truly active member of this community, then we'll receive so much more value than simply building a tool on top of it. And it's that final engagement of the three channels that are highlighted that wraps up our kind of relationship with open source externally. So from client to create and contribute, and then finally to community. So we've heard a lot about our external engagement, but how do we encourage open source contribution within EPAM? And how do we drive ongoing contribution from our employees to open source solutions? Well, the next few slides should give an overview of some of the ways in which we here at EPAM, a service company, really do drive open source within our organization. So the most important thing we've realised is that employees, be that engineers, analysts, account managers, presales or leadership need to be able to find the home of open source within EPAM. And that's represented by open source there sitting within the middle of what you can see on the screen. The idea of an organization doing or living open source is great, but there still needs to be someone owning this and a team supporting its development and growth. So we created a dedicated space within the organization, our open source project office, if you like, although a little less defined, that provides everyone with a simple, easy to find point of reference for their open source activities and engagement. And we sit across the organization. We're not tied to a specific function, so we're accessible to all and we're also not related specifically to a team or a specific project or deliverable. We're always available and always accessible. So on the left hand side of the screen, you can see the kind of activities that my team and I get up to in terms of provision or providing. So promoting working on open source solutions freely and removing barriers to doing so, or perhaps developing a culture of innovation and a strong internal community around open source, something I'm particularly passionate about. Or finally, rewarding individual open source contribution celebrating successes, which I'm going to come on too shortly. But on the right hand side, you can see more of the support role that we exist to provide. And that's the more kind of meaty items around reducing legal complications through clear guidance on what is an is an EPAM IP perhaps, or perhaps when colleagues might want to notify us that they're engaged on something, which I'm quite proud to say is quite few occurrences now given the kind of stream working and narrowing down this process we've established. Or perhaps it's supporting on educating the sales and account managers on the value of open source, which I'm sure here today we're all aware of, but making us an active part of client conversations. Or indeed it could be actually working with the delivery and project teams to support them on solutions to establishing suitable ways of working given their clients open source demands. Or even perhaps recommending potential open source solutions over paid software, or even engineering a bespoke solution itself. Now we know we don't have it perfect and please don't think that we do, but there's lots more we'd love to be able to do and provide to our colleagues. And the diagram above purely shows us at a high level the kind of remit that our open source team has within EPAM. We're constantly improving and we're always taking ideas from the community and indeed some of the speakers at this conference around what provision and support offerings we can provide to our community to continue growing. And as part of giving our teams all that they need, and of course being a good open source citizen, we also encourage our teams to contribute back to us and to our community. So the next slide, as I mentioned earlier, our release process visualizes some of the solutions, some of the stages, sorry, that our solutions have flown through as part of that open source release process. So this is our open source release process here at EPAM. I'll be it with a few less words to enable me to share it with you today. But what's important about this is that this process is visible and accessible to anyone in the organization, and it's as stripped back and succinct as possible. And it's been through, I can assure you, many iterations where we've managed to cut out various stages, red tape approvals, sign offs, etc. And really bring it down to the key activities and stakeholders. So, as the open source capability, we're always behind, as hopefully my last slide indicated, our teams through supporting them with questions where necessary, because it's really important for us to not stifle innovation. So we make sure that this release process is as simple and as straightforward as possible. And you can see along the top of the four stages. So we start with one inception, moving through preparation, release and promotion. And within each of these four stages we have typical activities, be that notifying us about the project, through to perhaps doing security scans, setting up repos on GitHub, and then even shouting about it and promoting the solution. And we typically see projects go through this process in about a month. So from the point at which they present that idea to us, all the way through to us handing over that repo to them, we're talking about three or four weeks. And of course, as I mentioned, in the true spirit of collaborative working, we take on all feedback and indeed in our release stage, we have a stage where they can actually feedback on how the open source team have done as part of this process. And we know that this process works. And as a services vendor, that's super important because we've built this process and I can assure you that when my inbox receives a notification around a new project, I've already seen that people have perhaps jumped to stage two and done the various scans already. And in my opinion, that's fantastic. As a services vendor, our employees are our primary measure of success. So it's really important that we make these processes as easy as possible. And those inbox notifications are testament to that. But it's also important that we value our employees and we ensure that we celebrate their successes and their innovations and indeed their contributions. So how do we do that? Well, here you can see some of the initiatives we have within EPAM to reward contributions to open source, but also encourage further innovation. So at the top left, and I'll take a little time just explaining each of these, we can see badges. So we use our indexing, where we're able to see a daily record of those contributing to open source projects. And I'll talk about our indexing when we come down to the OSCI index. But it provides us with an opportunity for each month to award contribution for a single commit, all the way up to those people doing hundreds of commits. And these badges fit in with our larger corporate badging system. So through gamification, we're encouraging more engagement in open source because individuals and employees want to receive more badges to have a better reputation at a corporate level. The motivation here is about looking good within the company, but at the same time looking great within the open source community. A second area around what we do as a services vendor, and one that's probably the most weighty, is our executive recognition. Our leadership really are on board with us in recognising the importance of open source. And off the back of this, when we tell them good news, perhaps that one individual has done something in the financial services community, or there's a leader in the Drupal competency. Our executive recognition happens where they jump on board, send them an email and notification award them in some way to say thank you for being on board with us as part of this. And a third one is our EPAM garage. And it's not based about cars, but I'm sure many of you have incubators, innovation spaces, garages, whatever you choose to call them. So through linking up with the EPAM garage, we present a unique opportunity to open source the innovation and the solutions happening in that space. The garage in EPAM is able to rapidly solve problems and iterate these with some of these solutions then entering that release process we just spoke about. It gives us a unique opportunity to see what's going on within the innovation and the innovative areas of the business to then present an opportunity to perhaps start pushing those out to the wider community. Now the OSCI index some of you might be familiar with, but this is an EPAM tool that was rolled out last year and provides a ranking of the top contributors by organization in the open source space driven by GitHub contributions, and you can find that online. But this tool really drives innovation because it encourages our employees and our individuals to contribute to EPAM's ranking through wanting to increase our own ranking through their efforts. And indeed we've seen other individuals and other organizations engaging with us to say, how can we bring this culture to our own organization, particularly in the services space to encourage our employees to really help us show that we're walking the walk and not just talking it. And our final thing around this ranking and contribution is productisation. So as a team we're always keeping our eyes on as the open source team, always keeping our eyes out and our finger on the pulse of what the delivery project client teams are doing within EPAM. And we recognize in the opportunity proactively to support teams of open source and highlight the value in doing so they choose to pursue it. All of these approaches or five I just went through really help us develop, recognize and celebrate open source contribution within the organization. So as we come towards a closing point, to some things that hopefully I've set the scene that amongst some of the very largest service providers there are a few that are prominent contributors to open source. But there are others that have embraced open source and been on a similar journey to us in understanding how to thread it throughout their business. And we'd really love to see more and more of the service providers jumping on board and being identified as real top contributors in these spaces. But if we go back to thinking about open source as a services vendor and consider those three channels that we mentioned at the beginning. It is clear that the primary focus of a services company remains of the delivery client work. That's why we're all doing the job we do. But the through offering that through offering open source solutions created both internally through sourcing open source alternatives through supporting community development and through providing consulting as we mentioned earlier on perhaps open source adoption and growth. These unique avenues that service companies possess when compared to other organizations providers all with a great opportunity to embrace open source with open arts. This notion of building a culture of open source within an organization through some of the methods I've just shared. But indeed some of your own as well and continually pushing your business and your employees to support the community and those industry projects to our avenues available to service vendors who want to join the open source journey. And in the last few minutes, I really wanted to give you two recommendations that we've learned because I think it's always important to have some key takeaways. Well, there's two of them. The first, formalizing open source. So a few years ago, I mentioned we started our journey in 2012, but a few years ago, we had a number of individuals in the organization who were responsible for the open source office or team. And unfortunately they moved on to other exciting things or left to focus on other areas of focus. What happened was things like our knowledge base, that central point in the organization, everything around it kind of disappeared. That lack of control that we possessed over open source is just an idea meant that actually that whole culture left the organization too. So the lesson we learned here is that we absolutely need to formalize open source and that's why we set up that kind of core offering that umbrella across the organization. And I'd encourage you all who perhaps are in a similar situation thinking that open sourcing your organization is an idea at the moment or a culture to formalize that. And the second is inclusion is key. And this is a really recent lesson we learned, but a fantastic one is that we've been recognizing and celebrating all of these employees, perhaps through some of those methods I just mentioned. But actually what we weren't very good at doing is recognizing the people who were under the radar. The people who were doing incredible things in open source, the people who were innovating and pushing out to the community, perhaps even contributing in their own time. But we just weren't visible for them, but they weren't visible for us sorry, we didn't know who they were, we didn't have a channel to find that out. And we're doing more and more at the moment to look at our data sources and the ways in which we find these people, or indeed encourage them to tell us themselves through perhaps making open source far more ingrained in our day to day. So the lesson we learned here was literally reach out to be as inclusive as possible and avoid any rewards or recognition that are perceived as unmotivational. So perhaps those could be, we're awarding one particular data source, but if you happen to be contributing another, then perhaps you're off our radar. So for us that's a real action point moving forward. So it has been an absolute real pleasure to be able to share these insights with you today. And I do hope that you've heard a few useful actions or initiatives to take back to your respective organizations, and in particular those of you too from service vendors. In particular, it will be great to see a few more service companies really picking up that challenge that I've thrown down to join us in the open source world. I want to thank you very much for listening and I do wish you a fantastic remainder of the conference. Thank you.


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Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we will discuss the following question and the question say solve the in equation minus 12 minus 12x is greater than equal to 2x plus 2. Show the solution set on the number line. Let's start the solution now. The given in equation is minus 12 minus 12x is greater than equal to 2x plus 2 add 12x to both the sides. This implies minus 12 minus 12x plus 12x is greater than equal to 2x plus 2 plus 12x. So the inequality remains the same. Now 12x gets cancelled on the left hand side. So this implies minus 12 is greater than equal to 14x plus 2. Now we subtract 2 from both the sides. So we get minus 12 minus 2 is greater than equal to 14x plus 2 minus 2. Since we are subtracting both the sides with the same quantity. So the inequality remains the same. This implies minus 14 is greater than equal to 14x. Now we divide both sides by 14. So we get minus 1 is greater than equal to x or we can say that x is less than equal to minus 1. So this is the solution for the given in equation. We will now show the solution set on the number line. Let us first draw the number line. So this is our number line. And we have to show all the values of x which are less than or equal to minus 1 on this number line. Now all the values which are to the left of minus 1 on this number line are less than minus 1. So this thick shaded portion of the number line represents all the values of x which are less than minus 1. This filled circle means minus 1 is included and these three dots indicate that the solution set extends to infinity. Since minus 1 is included in the solution set so we have made a filled circle at minus 1 on the number line. So the solution set is represented by the shaded portion of the number line. With this we end our session. Hope you enjoyed the session.


tires We got tires Lee, Minnesota spent the night here About to get going We want to make it to my not north dakota tonight to the Shats Crossroad truck stop. That's the goal if we get further than that Good for me. If not, well, that's our goal if we don't make it there Then I failed Setting goals for myself Taking these tires just a scratch one someone in Saskatchewan Wants these I'm bringing them to him when the air pressure in here is equalized And I forget and then I slam the door. It's nice walking up to a truck. That's clean Have had a chance to wash it as often as I wanted to this week. So we got it done yesterday here at the Petro They did a pretty good job. I Had to wipe it down after again the wheels and stuff They still had a little bit of grime on them, but you know, I'm a little bit picky too One second. I got to clean my looker so I can see where I'm going That's not these little wet nap things Like I was telling you earlier, we want to get to my not north dakota today That'll be just under 600 around 600 miles just under maybe just under a thousand kilometers It'll be a full day Full day, it'll be a good day. I mean the weather's overcast We might run through some rain today. We'll see hopefully not but better rain than snow, right spring for the seatbelts It doesn't get sucked in there. It's fast anymore. My pickup truck does the same thing. My vehicle I drive the seatbelts always gets I gotta tell the government that I'm fueling now They're very nosy Well, I found a decent parking spot in the back corner Where I'll be safe in St. Cloud here So I decided I'm gonna stay here because I looked up on Google and around Alexandria pilot right now There's a whole ton of construction and all the roads leading to it are closed You got to go way around just to get to the pilot I would feel more comfortable parking there. I like that neighborhood and area better But well, I found a safe spot here So I'm gonna go for a bit of a walk. They got a nice trail. They just recently repaved. Which is nice And this goes all the way down the street here and then it goes down around behind here into those bushes back there And sort of goes along the river or close to the river It's like a little nature walk once you get to the end of this section here I'll show you Get the blood pumping a bit and try to get back in the habit of walking every day Once we're done our walk, we'll have a shower And we'll book it to my not so that road we were walking down is back there Which aren't this way to come around here just in case you got tempted, you know We're still in town The town's just back here and there's a river that runs down there I'm not sure what it's called. I could probably look it up on Google now Probably something like St. Cloud River or something. Oh, it says oh Mississippi River That's a famous river, isn't it? Does that go all the way down to Mississippi? Well, we're way up here in St. Cloud, Minnesota.  I also I don't want to run nice brisk walk You know just get the blood pumping get the heart pumping some fresh air See the scenery a bit But also, you know, I want to get this done as fast as I can. I want to shower and get back to trucking Well that path looks fun This I believe goes right down to the river. I don't think I want to go down to the river I don't think this loops back. I'm gonna have to stop and check the map all kinds of trails another trail goes in there Down there. It's be fun to have like a mountain bike bike around in here Or just you know two feet in heartbeat walk around I'm doing It's not that far down to the river See it over there. I decided to keep going this way. I'm gonna see if it loops back around to the main trail over there There's some kind of gazebo coming up here just in case you want to stop for a picnic. I Guess the trail ends here. Oh wait. No it goes this way now. Okay. What's this? It's another trail that leads down there. Oh It's a cliff. Yes Okay And there's the water This is a really neat trail system Wonder what's down here. That's cool. Well goes right down to the water. I bet You know, I know I'm going the wrong way here. This is going away from where I want to be So let's save this for next time. Let's go explore that next time We'll continue this way. I believe this path Well, this is going in the direction. I want to go because the main trail is over there So we're going that way. This is neat Look at that tree Wow, that would be so fun to climb. That's a perfect tree for a tree house I want a tree like that in our backyard one day. The fence here Wow, looks like people go down there regularly this little trail Kind of wish I would have brought my swim trunks now. I'm just going there for a quick dip Gotta keep trucking. We got a job today. So many forks in the road This way when that way we want to go This way Or that way Let's go this way See what happens Well, we found the trail back on the main trail. Nice That worked out.  This parking lot is chaos So glad I got this safe spot here, but now there's someone new back and in beside me and It's gonna let him get into a spot and I'll be out of here Nice straight shot right in beside me, but soon as he's in place I'm out of here. I really don't like stopping here. It's just it's a very busy place Very busy But it worked for today. We got a good walk out of it. I really like that walking trail So chances are I'm probably gonna stop here again If I can get a good spot like this like early in the day just to go for my walk I have a shower and go and I kind of like that that trail All right, buddy straight back. Don't overthink it too much straight back You got it. You got it Straight straight straight nice nice Good all blue marked safe Let's get out of here before someone else comes and hits me Hours and 36 minutes left on my 14 hour good stop. I couldn't have gone any better The body feels good because I got a little active today Wasn't much, but I think I walked about two miles For the major stops today. Now let's just go go go to my not or further Stopping for bathroom breaks We got to keep going We are gonna stop in at the truck stop there for a bite to eat in the coffee It's quarter to nine at minute or two I changed my mind. I'm gonna stop at Shats crossroads here in my not anyway I made it to my goal Let's hope I can find a parking spot here I'm getting tired. Let's see if I can find anything. No Karen. I changed my mind Plus I get to do that if I want to 100 meters turn left on 20th Street and then turn right in 40 meters off the cab It's pretty hot out here some blasting the AC a little bit Then I'll shut the truck off and go to bed back a little further crazy US 52 the highway that we take from Northportal to the the I-94 Had some crazy construction on it. It was dark out. I didn't know what was going on It was like a mud road all of a sudden. It was terrible I Don't know if they well They have to know that this route is the main road for all like international truck traffic like me coming from Saskatchewan, Alberta To anywhere in the Midwest of the United States or Eastern United States all those trucks come through here So it was a ton of heavy trucks coming through right? construction zone that was like three or four miles and The road was completely gone. They had ripped the entire road out and it was just soft dirt and mud With huge like ruts from the trucks like me that are coming through here fully loaded Just big growth. I thought I might get stuck This is US 52 a major state highway out here I was surprised by that, but we made it through and good thing. Everything was dry Looks like old blue didn't pick up too much dirt from that, but And if it was raining hard that would have been a muddy mess Right here in my not tomorrow and we'll cross the border deliver these tires into lying banks of Saskatchewan And figure out what we have going on after that Take care everyone don't forget to subscribe make sure you're subscribed and leave me comment down below and I'll see you tomorrow


Every day I get stronger. University of Merlin Midtown campus is building up my health. They gave me the best care here and I appreciated it. I felt loved. I would have lost my leg if they wouldn't have found out that I had no blood flow. The leg was already turning dark. All the doctors that I need to go to is here in one place. I don't have to rip it run around Baltimore City to different doctors. My primary care doctor here is here. They have a womb center here. They have an endocrinologist. All my doctors are here and I like that. I told my family it's very nice here. Very beautiful hospital. When you walk down a hall everybody say good morning good afternoon and they make you feel comfortable here. They really care for patients.


What's up everybody, it's Jason here for jaspierscasebreak.com another wax party break here 2022 Panini one football hobby 10 box half case break picture number four And again guys, this is a wax party break, but just as I was telling people earlier, you know If you have the rules here or the wax party if you Get spots in an RMB and it doesn't have wax party in the title of the RMB Unfortunately, it will not be randomized to win a spot only fillers Pack fillers, of course that when you teams not RMBs that have teams in the RMB So of course we're gonna alphabetize it at the end And it'll just be these customers here, of course That are straight up and also these ones here none of these spots here will be part of it So pretty good odds a little bit better odds of normal, but In the meantime though, let's do the break. So of course, this is the second half Not sure what came out in the first half But here's one of the RMBs that has four different teams. There's San Francisco, Atlanta, Kansas City, New York Jets and then here is The other ones that have eight teams in the RMB and there's a list of names as well and then of course here is The list of customer names That bottom straight up first one is once upon a time John Riggins nice on-card for the Washington Commanders of course retkins back in the day two out of four very nice low numbered So of course that is Washington Commanders 18 RMB two out of four Spot two is James. Oh, there you go, man. Very nice one Low number two out of four. Oh problem James. Thank you, buddy. I think what are you man? I don't know if you would have done this man So good luck. I mean obviously with everybody, but I think you really got to start it So got the rally started Then we got a nice two-color patch and autograph Kenneth Walker the third twenty nine out of forty nine Seahawks part of the 18 RMB and then Chris also who got it going as well a couple spots straight up and this is from your Pack filler spot 29 spot nine there you go from Chronicles 40 on the board Chris. Thank you, buddy Then we got a Bailey Zappy 29 out of 49 for the Patriots Ron that's gonna go straight up to him and another dude Four color patch and autograph Bailey Zappy again 54 to 199 How about that back to back hits for Ron and the Patriots? You have noticed that a couple of these cases have had back-to-backs or you know duplicate hits of the same player in the same case Hopefully spread the love around though We got a two-color patch an RPA and Jahan dots in three out of 49 That's gonna go to spot three Chris Butler. You go on the board again. What another one We're halfway through the case guys five boxes left and we have a 33 out of 75 Chris Olavi three-color patch and autograph That is thirty three Saints three another one for Chris Butler. Yeah, man. Oh, this pinini one has had a lot of duplicates I mean, it's all it's all fun when you know, you have the Patriots or It's a big-time player like a duplicate of Kenny Pickett, but Her picker team obviously kind of want to spread the love around Then we got one-man show autographs 11 out of 49 Justin Tucker for the Ravens. That's part of the 18 R&B Ravens spot one is Brian K Also on the board so so far guys the R&B of the eight team has had a lot of hits actually All the hits minus the two Patriots hits and for the Cowboys Jalen Tolbert That is another 18 R&B. What is going on here? eight out of 149 Eight is going to James. Wow all of these hits so far have been for the R&B that was going on here. This is wild R&B is almost every Commanders Cowboys Saints Seahawks Ravens five out of the eight teams have hit at least once I get some love to the straight-up teams man. Dang More Patriots what a break for Ron Jesus Taekwondo or in 10 out of 199 Three Patriots hits it right here two Zappies and one Taekwondo And the last one here folks. Hopefully it's one for the straight-up teams or the other R&B, but see what we got here and It is champ Bailey for the Broncos straight up to Ed. This is awesome. I love these cards man The wonders that is 48 out of 49 Sick that one went to a straight-up team Unfortunately everybody else No hits for you guys man. Thanks for giving her a shot though, but one R&B just straight-up dominated though But unfortunately this R&B didn't get much obviously this R&B just killed it But I still appreciate you guys again. Those are the last 10 So I'm not sure we came out of the first half, but it feels like the first half could have had some pretty big ones But solid names are regardless Now let's do one more thing guys before we End this video. Let's give away those spots in the wax party. So again only teams that were about straight-up get a chance so We're gonna go Adam down to Michael All right, so we got those 15 there and Then Don't want to forget these people down here, right? So no 18 no 18 there. I Got these ones here. All right now. Let's roll the dice and we got ourselves a five into two Seven times. Good luck seven times. Name a number one gets a spot one two three four five six and Seven times seven seven Adam congratulations. I think I called your name had the cardinals and there you go man after seven times So let's paste your name in here And of course this was pin anyone football ten box pick a team number four So appreciate it guys. Thank you guys so much. Jasper's case breaks.com


Hello and welcome to the session. The question says, the mean and standard deviation of 20 observations are found to be 10 and 2 respectively. On retaking it was found that observation 8 was incorrect. Calculate the correct mean and standard deviation of each of the following cases, first one is if wrong item is omitted and second is if it is replaced by 12. First let us learn the formula to calculate the variance of n observations is given by summation xi square i running from 1 to n upon n minus x bar square. So this formula is the key idea which we shall be using in this problem to solve it. Now let's start with the solution. Here n is equal to 20 since we are given 20 observations. The mean of these 20 observations which is denoted by x bar is given by summation xi i running from 1 to 20 upon 20. Now we are given that mean as 10. So we have 10 is equal to summation i running from 1 to 20 xi upon 20 which further implies that summation i running from 1 to 20 xi is equal to 20 into 10 that is 200. Also we are given the standard deviation which is denoted by sigma is equal to 2. Now the formula to calculate the standard deviation is root over summation i running from 1 to n xi square upon the number of observations which are 20 minus 10 square. Now square in both sides we have 4 is equal to summation i running from 1 to n xi square upon 20 minus 100 which further implies that summation i running from 1 to n xi square is equal to on taking 100 on the left hand side we have 104 and then multiplying 104 with 20 we get 2080. Therefore summation xi square i running from 1 to 20 is equal to 2080. So let this be equation number 2. Here also n is 20. Now the first part is if wrong item is omitted. If the wrong item is omitted then the number of observations are now 19 and the correct mean is given by summation xi i running from 1 to 20 minus 8 since 8 is omitted which is the incorrect observation upon now the number of observations are 19. Now summation of xi i running from 1 to 20 is 200. So this is further equal to 200 minus 8 upon 19 and this gives 192 upon 19 which is equal to 10.11. Also the correct variance is equal to summation i running from 1 to 19 xi square upon 19 minus 10.11 square which is by our key idea. Now here the number of observations are 19 if one observation is omitted and this is the correct mean. Now can be written as summation i running from 1 to 20 xi square minus the observation which is omitted 8 so 8 square upon 19 minus 192 upon 19 whole square and from equation 2 the value of summation i running from 1 to 20 xi square is 2080 so we have 2080 minus 64 upon 19 minus on simplifying this bracket we have 36864 upon 361 so this is further equal to 2016 upon 19 minus 36864 upon 361 which is further equal to LCM is 361 so multiplying 2016 upon 19 we get 38304 minus 36864 gives 1440 upon 361 which is equal to 3.98 and thus the correct standard deviation which is the square root of variance is equal to 1.99. So if one incorrect item is omitted that is 8 then the correct mean is 10.1 and the correct standard deviation is 1.99 so this is the answer to the first part and now let's proceed on to the second part which says if the wrong item is replaced by 12 so here again the number of observations are 20 and the correct mean in this case is given by summation xi i running from 120 minus 8 which is the incorrect observation plus it is replaced by 12 so plus 12 upon the number of observations are still 20 since 1 we have omitted and 1 we have added. Now the value of summation xi i running from 120 is 200 so we have 200 minus 8 plus 12 upon 20 and this is equal to 204 upon 20 which is equal to 10.2 and now let us calculate the correct variance let's formalize summation xi square i running from 1 to 20 upon the number of observations which are 20 minus 10.2 square which is the correct mean now this can be written as summation i running from 1 to 20 xi square minus 8 square plus 12 square upon 20 minus 10.2 whole square is 104.04. Now summation xi square i running from 1 to 20 is 2080 minus 64 plus 144 upon 20 minus 104.04 and this is further equal to 2160 upon 20 minus 104.04 which is equal to 108 minus 104.04 and this is equal to 3.96 and thus the correct standard deviation will do root over the correct variance which is 3.96 and this is equal to 1.98. Hence our answer is if it is replaced by 12 then the correct mean is 10.2 and the correct standard deviation is 1.98. So this completes the session hope you have understood it well take care and have a nice day.


And today we're gonna be having some fun times with SF9. We're gonna be watching something fun 9, it's the SF9 movie. And it's for the many Olympics that they got going, right now there are two episodes out. So I'm gonna watch the first one today and then the second one tomorrow. Because, you know, it's gonna be fun! But I, yeah, other than that, let's get straight into this. I'm freaking excited. I hope you guys are too. And let's do this. I still love the sound. I still love that sound. Oh, white hoodies, pink hoodies. Oh, I'm not wearing my hoodie. Oh, it's in the wash, that's why. Hey, have you heard? Oh, the fun they shook all of SF9. Yeah, this is something fun. Dude, look at Zuru with that hair. He looks... And Darwin, I love Darwin's new hairstyle. He suits him so much. He can do two pull-ups. More than me, man. More than me. He's the same age as him, man. That's a good team name. He can be a rice cake team. Sick team. But I like the name. It's just so good. Human curling, two members on each team. Play one person says on the chair and I'm a pusher. I don't read all of that. But I get the gist of it. It's the same. Oh, they know how to promote. I feel like Inseong's gonna win this. Oh! Oh, one lead fight. I've always wanted to do this. It just looks like fun. Oh! I'm never doing bets. God damn, Inseong lost. You had my hopes, Inseong.  Pink honey rice cake team. So, as whoever gets closest to that line, right? Oh! Not bad, not bad, not bad. But the team that I want to win is Zuhou Chan and Youngbin's team. It's Oppa- Oppa-run team. That's what it's called. Don't fall.  I knew that was gonna happen. Oh, it's Youngbin. But I don't want that. I want Chan and Inseong. Oh, yeah, Inseong can't wait for that. That seems like it's gonna be a lot of fun. Oh, man, Inseong's nine. Inseong's nine, man.  That was fun.  Now, I just can't wait for the next episode. I actually can't wait for tomorrow, right? It's gonna be so freaking awesome tomorrow. I'm super excited. But you guys, it's just gonna be all of this video. If you guys did enjoy it, then definitely share some support by leaving a like and also comment down below how happy you were seeing the SF9 something fun is back. Because this is an awesome series. I love this series. And also, subscribe to the channel because there's a big more SF9 reactions coming to you guys. And oh, yeah, other than that, I hope you guys have a great day and just keep on smiling. Adios, amigos.