Ya guys, welcome again to Ina Yadrega. If you're tuning in right now, it's nine or three, and I'm telling you we have an amazing show lined up for you in terms of music, in terms of the guests, and previously to the guests we performed, we performed two of amazing jams, one is one niletist, but I won't talk much right now, I just wanted to kido go kumu introduce again, welcome Lucy to Ina Yadrega. Thank you, thank you so much once again. Ya, so maybe briefly Ina Zambia, your fans maybe, who exactly is Lucy Lugano? Ya, so Lucy Lugano is a musician, she's a mom, she's an artist, I love art, all kinds of art, I'm an entrepreneur, I do interior decor, and I'm a fitness enthusiast, I'm a lover of nature, I'm a friend, you know, that's me, generally. Amazing, amazing, amazing. We'll be talking about you in fitness, you in interior decor, but first of all, let's just talk about your music, you've been doing amazing in terms of your music, in a nutshell, maybe you can tell us about your musical journey, where exactly did it start to right now, ya. Okay, and that's a long story, started in 2008, then I started with Zook, and I was signed to, if I can remember the name of the label, Iconic Music, I was still in campus, I was pining my way around the industry, and then I took a break after some time, then made a comeback, I recorded my first song, again with Shamir, called Butterfly, and then from then on, I was still in the process of looking for my sound, so I settled in reggae music, although I'm influenced by different sounds, I love your soul, I love R&B, jazz, if you listen to my music, I've mixed in some of those sounds. Yeah, your music has a bit of R&B soul, but what inspired you to decide, you know what, Lucy Lugano will be doing reggae music? That's something I've grown up with, ever since I was a little kid, I grew up in Taita, it's my homeland. Kasinda Maana. I know Taita guys. So anyway, my pups, my uncles, just the people I grew up around, that was the music that used to play, so I think it just stuck in my head, and anyway I loved it, so I left up here after high school, majamseshon tali. Majamseshon tali? Actually, that's where I got to know MF, although we didn't know each other personally, coincidentally it was an opportunity for industry, so basically reggae is something I've grown up with. Amazing, amazing, because you have that particular spirit of view in reggae music, at a point you shared the stage with Janayn? Oh, yeah, almost. Tell us about that, tell us about that. Thank you for asking. Anyway, she was performing at the blue door in Westlands, actually it was just before the lockdown last year, so I just found out from a fellow artist, her name is Kari, that she was coming in town and she was actually opening up for her, so thanks to a friend of mine called Stitchie, I got her ticket and I went because I wasn't sure I'd make it. Coincidentally, a few years back had just found out about Janayn, so I was listening to my music and playing it over and over again, and then I fell in love with her. And seeing her music just trying to learn her songs at home, I would always picture myself on stage with her. And it's so funny that that day, when she was performing a specific song, which was my favourite, we just jumped on stage with me and a few friends of mine and we sang along with her. It was just crazy because that's exactly what had been picturing for so long. So it's like I kind of manifested it, I don't know, it was an amazing moment, she's just a phenomenal woman. I feel so blessed to have met her and I hope to see her again and even do a song with her. It's amazing, Janayn is quite an amazing musical person here. And you've done some couples of songs and right now, you're going to perform a latest release. Nowari, tell us about what exactly influenced you Kamao Juniaji atu jali, this time atu jali tukona sahaja. What happened, what influenced you? Nowari nili andika 2020, weh your time. And then coincidentally, I was also on a spiritual journey, I wanted to really just grow spiritually. And so then it happened, corona and everything and we were stuck at home. So I was thinking about how different people are feeling, not just artists, guys doing it to five, Watubia Sharon Dogo, the children and I was just imagining it must be stressful for everyone because I myself was just trying to be still but it wasn't easy. So that's how the song came, trying to encourage myself and in the process I figured, let me write something which won't just encourage me but everyone else who listens to it and hopefully it inspires someone and that's how the song was born at the end. So why exactly from 2020 and now you're in 2021 September, why the delay of that amazing tune, the unitune Moja Fire from Kali Rhythm, why exactly, why was the delay of that? I wrote the song and then in fact, like I said, I was writing it to console myself. I wasn't sure it's something I could release and then I just one day went to studio, I recorded it but I did not want to release an audio, I wanted to release a video. So fans especially at that time were tricky but then thank God I met Stitchie and we just had a sit down, in fact I had received a gift from him, the Roots Radio match and I don't know. So I requested him if I could wait on my video and he said, why don't I give you more of those and also as Roots Radio support your video and it was just amazing. Yeah because the video, sorry to cut it short but the video is very colourful with these hoodies from Roots Radio and also I saw Kathy. I also requested her to join him because in fact another thing that inspired Naori was her song Revolution. When she released the song, I had finished writing Naori and my idea was a street kind of thing and so when I saw Revolution, I was like this is close to what I'm thinking to do about Naori and I figured it's in the same conscious vibes and she's my sister so why don't I ask her to just make an appearance in support as well and she did and it was just an amazing thing. So you know all those things, the logistics and planning, it needs time so that it comes out nice. So we shot it at the beginning of this year and so we released it maybe about a month later, maybe in February. And because I've seen you in a couple of readings with Binti Africa, with Kathy, maybe she'll re-anticipate more of your music, more of collaborations or this time you're just running alone. No actually this time I'm doing a bit of more collaborations. A set a song with a lady known as Bikimudoni. Aha, Big up to Bikimudoni. Yeah twice Big up to Bikimudoni. And also Binti. And then there's a group called Lioness. We were about to do a show and then again corona happened but we are going to come back. Lioness on the rise. So definitely you're going to see a lot of collaborations from most of the female musicians in the industry. And also I'm going to do a song with Nati Mwai as well. There are many artists I'm intending to do a collaboration with this year. So before the end of the year, I'll have released a couple. Couple of songs. And what exactly inspires you in terms of your music? Because you do positive music. What exactly drives you to decide this is my style of music? So when I'm writing, being a mum, I think that's the number one thing that drives me. Look at my daughter. She knows all my songs word for word. It's my pronunciation when I'm born. So I look at her and I'm like I have to write something that when I sit back and watch her sing I'm also proud. And it inspires her in some way. And not just her, everyone else who listens to it inspires someone. Even an artist who wants to come out inspires them too. So do something with their talent. And something that moves someone, something relatable, because most of my songs come from my own experiences, other people. So something which people can relate to, something which will encourage them, uplift them. I've been writing a lot of love music, but I'm now trying to get into more conscious music, stuff about life other than love. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And briefly just because you have, you make kujanam genipia in the studio, right? And you've talked about roots and all, yeah. Briefly maybe stitchy, that is the name, right? Yes, yes, stitchy. Maybe me, tombai at the moment you're working with, maybe in terms of like a management or what exactly? Yes, he is my manager. Okay. And also it just started since the release of Naori, but I met him a long time ago in 2017. Actually he's the one who noticed me performing at Memorial Park. So that's when he noticed me and he actually gave me, he likes giving people the news, let me just say that. Mokasa janete wa angu stitchy. Stitchy. So he gave me this rasta color necklace. Yeah. Also moved because I've performed in many places, but for someone to give you something and tell you, your performance was amazing. And ever since then he's been so supportive because it's not just me, it's so many artists. I'm sure when Kinakati come here, they'll tell you all about him. And so after Roots, so you're not Roots Naori, the collab with Naori and Roots, the kind of support he gave me, he's always been supportive. I figured because I've been looking for management, I figured why not work with someone who I know, who understands my craft and understands the artist's struggles because that's what Roots Radio is about. It's called the industry microphone. So Roots is about supporting homegrown talent, opinion talent. So I figured that's the best place to be for someone to work with. So yes, I work with stitchy as my manager. Amazing, amazing. I believe stitchy, you're most welcome to come at this yard every time, everything which is amazing. You want to drop, you can always come and I believe P.S.C. to ta alikwa. And P.N. ta pewayo gifts. But for people who are watching you, young girls who they enjoy your music, who want to be like Lu Siligano, what exactly can you tell them for millions of Kenyans right now watching you? I would say the number one thing for me is definitely God. That's my everything. There's nothing I can do without him. Sometimes you try and figure things out on your own, but you can't and I want to learn some things the hard way. So for me, my spiritual has to be very straight, because it's the thing that guides every other thing. That's your camera. I really wish you just look at that camera and tell them. For me spirituality is important and I'm a believer of Christ. So specifically that and believing in God and also being true to yourself. That's the most important thing, especially in this industry. It's easy to try and be something you're not. You could be pressured to be that way for the sake of making it and shining. But you have to know who you are and who you are and what you want out of your music while you're doing what you're doing. That way it's not easy to be misled or find yourself becoming someone you're not because even if you're passionate about the talent but you're not true to yourself you're not going to enjoy the journey. So when you are true to yourself and you put God at the center and fast and then the passion. The passion is important because I know there are people who are in it for the money. It's definitely important and necessary but I think the passion is very important. So God fast the passion and true to yourself. Amazing, amazing. God fast the passion and be true to yourself those are wise words from Lucy Lugano and maybe Lucy before finalize because we have Kafu this is Kenya maybe to people who want to interact with you to know you maybe what you're doing tomorrow where exactly you'll be performing where can Kenyans find you? You find me on Instagram I'm actually more active there Lucy.Lugano My YouTube channel is Lucy Lugano on Facebook it's Lucy Lugano and all other digital streaming platforms as well as my music. I'm super excited to have you again Lucy I believe, I believe, I'll teach you another music you'll be coming here right? So we are very very happy to have Lucy in the studio and Lucy will be performing an amazing tune Nambayo Amaitua 2 Juzzi Amainaitua No Wari Our DJ will be coming and giving us the play Amai DJ kindly If you can come on set because I can't do it too We want Lucy to perform here before I end it Take it away


Hey everyone, I know a little bit of a weird camera, sorry the frame rate is not that great or if the picture quality is not fantastic. Using one of my older webcams right now, the Logitech C920, it's actually a great streaming camera. At least it used to be. I technically still have the Logitech Brio which is hooked up right here. I'm working on some stuff here. My main camera is probably not going to be used for much direct recording like this when I plan to do things. I know the image is a little blown out. It is what it is. It doesn't matter. Com, leaks. That's right. There are leaks for copy com. Thanks to a ransomware attack. So basically someone hacked into Capcom and not exactly good. We know a bunch of stuff and we have the next four years leaked for Capcom. This looks completely official. This is crazy. Here's a few highlight summaries before we get into the full leak. The evil village details is getting the current gen release launches in April. There's going to be a demo before release. Monster Hunter Rise is going to be on PC releasing in October of 2021. There will be demos for the switch in January and again in March. Monster Hunter Stories 2 is also going to come to PC targeting June of 2021. It'll be a switch slash PC release, single player online co-op and PVP modes, paid DLC expansions, free post launch co-op quest, cosmetic microtransactions and amiibo support. amiibo support baby is planned. Source code for Devil May Cry 2 and Umbrella Chronicles is in this leak. Stadia paid Capcom $10 million USD to put RE7 and RE8 on the platform. SOTI paid $5 million for RE7 VR timed DLC slash demo exclusivity and the misadventures of Tron Bond source code is in there. However, we have some more stuff. Now this all appears to be from May, March, somewhere in there of 2020 is where this information comes from. Let me just show you the game list because my god. Alright, so as you see here we got Monster Hunter Stories for fiscal year 21, quarter 1, DGS 12 for quarter 1, fiscal year 21, SHIELD for quarter 3, fiscal year 21, Resident Evil Outrage for quarter 4, fiscal year 21, Regolith for quarter 4, fiscal year 21, Indies 2 for quarter 1, fiscal year 2022, Indies 2 Port which is for quarter 2, fiscal year 2022, Dragon's Dogma 2 for quarter 2, fiscal year 2022, Street Fighter 6 for quarter 3, fiscal year 2022, Rockman Match for quarter 3 of 2022, Resident Evil 4 Remake is happening folks for fiscal year 2022, quarter 4, Omni Mushu New York for quarter 4 of fiscal year 2022, Monster Hunter NSG for quarter 4 of fiscal year 2022, SHIELD G for quarter 4 of fiscal year 2022, Monster Hunter 6, I guess they're not done with the numbers huh, coming back here in quarter 2 of fiscal year 2023, Biohazard Apocalypse for quarter 3, fiscal year 2023, Capcom Commando for quarter 4 of fiscal year 2023, SSF Sex for quarter 4 of fiscal year 2023, New Sea for quarter 1 of fiscal year 2024, Final Fight Remake for quarter 2 of fiscal year 2024, Power Stone Remake, Power Stone Man, I didn't expect that one to come back, quarter 3 of fiscal year 2024, New Bee for quarter 4 of fiscal year 2024, Ultra Street Fighter 6 for quarter 4 of fiscal year 2024 and then Resident Evil Hank for quarter 4 of fiscal year 2024, folks this is a massive leak, an unprecedented leak, can you imagine if Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Activision Blizzard, Activision Blizzard same company, you know if you have EA, Ubisoft, even you know, check recently acquired Bethesda or something like leaking 4 years of data like this, obviously some of these are code names, you know like New Bee, New Sea, obviously code names for things, I don't know what they mean but what I do know is this is a massive leak, I don't know how many of these games are coming to Switch versus PlayStation 5 versus Xbox Series X or PC maybe some of them are PC exclusive maybe some of them are for mobile devices, I have no idea because that data doesn't seem to be included but companies do plan out roughly 40 years in advance on game development that is very normal, if Nintendo got hacked into you would see a leak similar to this where you would be seeing games that Nintendo doesn't have announced that won't be coming out for 4 years, this is crazy, I don't even know how to fathom this leak other than to say Capcom my boys are bringing it for the next few years and Resident Evil 4 Remake, was that ever in doubt at this point, Resident Evil 4 is the best selling game I think in the whole IPs franchise originally GameCube exclusive but then it went everywhere, it's kinda like Skyrim, it's on everything, so whew whew baby alright folks catch you guys in the next video


Good morning Hank it's Tuesday. Oh look it's Hank's book an absolutely remarkable thing which he wants you to know is available at fine bookstores everywhere. Has been since 2018. Hank today we're doing something called Mind Blowers with Hank and John where we share with each other the most mind-blowing facts that we know. Oh okay. Okay Hank here's my first fact. Pi calculated to the 38th digit is precise enough to calculate assuming that we knew all the other numbers the size of the Milky Way galaxy to within a few centimeters so like we only need to know Pi to the 38th digit but we know Pi to the 31 trillionth digit. That's not a fact about Pi it's a fact about humans. We're amazing.  I read a few years ago that there are probably fragments of dinosaur bone on the moon the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs probably shed debris as far as Jupiter. Another great mind-blowing fact is that some science communicators figured out that bananas were a really good system for the scale of radiation. How so? They have a little bit of radiation in them and so like eating one banana exposes you to some radiation so you want to know how much radiation you get like flying in a jet airplane to Europe. You can do it in bananas. Now I'm gonna have to google how many bananas an airplane flight is to find out if it was worth it to come here to visit you. Here's a mind-blower that Hank taught me before the Big Bang is an incorrect idea because in addition to creating space as we now understand it the Big Bang created time as we currently understand it? Yeah no absolutely. So me the mind-blowing fact is that you can look up into the sky with a telescope and see the Big Bang. Here's a great one. Henry Rice told me this if the universe were infinitely big and infinitely old the night sky would be white. Why? Because there would be light from all of the stars in every direction there would be no space not taken up by stars because the universe would be infinitely big and infinitely old. Okay Hank here's one that gets me for 99.99 percent of human history you could only hear music if you were within earshot of someone who was making it? Yes. And the idea of an album of recorded music is younger than Dr. Pepper. We do not know why there is matter. What? And we do not know like in two different ways. One we don't know why there wasn't an equal amount of antimatter and matter created and so everything annihilated itself. Like at the Big Bang it just like should have been like even Stephen at Big Bangs and then at Big Smoops. Well and then just like space and time continue to bang but matter does not. According to our understanding the universe a universe without matter is is just as likely if not more likely than a universe with matter and then like separately from that we don't know why matter exists at all. So we don't really know why I'm here. Oh definitely not. Okay well like on way more levels than just those two. Right like we don't know why I'm here in the sense that like we don't know why the atoms that are inside of me exist. Yeah it'd be interesting to look at what makes a fact mind-blowing. I think it's when it makes me feel either big or small when it recontextualizes my understanding of myself and the place in the universe. Yeah like I want to understand my own emotions because ultimately I am the most interesting part of the universe. I would argue that I am. It's weird. Do you not do you not wake up in the morning and your first thought is of me and my needs? Some days when it's a really bad day. Yeah I do think.  Yeah on the one hand it's that feeling of wonderful smallness where what you would think would be said but isn't but then on the other hand there's the feeling of like well there might not have been matter so in that sense I am quite something. This whole thing is weird. Thank you for coming to my TED talk Hank I'll continue to see you right now.


Felly yw am y toffi y TV. It is The Everton News Daily. Everton will return to training at USM Finch Farm on Wednesday. I'm meeting took place today regarding the Premier League teams and the protocols for them to return to training ahead of project restart. And it was decided from tomorrow clubs could return to training that the training will be split up into small groups of no more than five players. Everton yn y gallu ffluen nhw ar y cwmniadau wedyn yn yr awdraff. A gallwch chi'n ddod y gwerthu'r gwaith yn y gwybodaeth o'r cymdeithas ym mhag fydd fflaen i'r cyflas. Mae'r cyflas iawn yn ei roi'r cyflas yn oed yn gweinio yr ysgolol. Mae'r cyflas iawn i'r cyflas iawn na'r cyflas iawn. Ond yma yma, yma yma yma yma yma yma yma ar y projaf. Ond yn ystyried, ond y mae'n cyflas iawn yma. obviously on the back of the the Bundesliga return and at the weekend so Everton and a lot of other Premier League clubs returning to training. Everton have also offered fans a refund on their season tickets for this season and the club finally can see that nobody will be in the stadium for the rest of the season. They've offered fans a refund or you can either use it as credit against next season's season ticket or you can donate all of it or part of it to Everton in the community. So plenty of options there for the club so fair play fans will choose whatever options suit them whatever there's no right or wrong option of course there isn't so everyone just do what is the best thing for you to do regarding that but well played the club for sorting that out. The club have also extended the season ticket deadline for the 2021 season it had been extended anyway into May it's just been further extended but no deadline date has been given again very very doubtful any fans are going to be in stadiums before the 10 of the year so therefore I suppose it's very difficult for the club to have any clear indication on what to do yet in terms of season tickets for next season but the deadline has been extended there. Everton or it was announced rather over the weekend it was in the press first that Matty Folds, Morgan Feany and Alex Denny would be leaving the club when their contracts expire in June Morgan Feany was of course captain of the under 23 side he will leave the club with Denny and Folds when their contracts expire on June 30th Feany has been injured injured his hamstring while on loan at Tramio Rovers he will be allowed to train at the club to continue his rehabilitation ahead of trying to get a new club in the summer Nathaniel Markell has been offered a new deal and the club is still mulling over taking up an option on corn who's in need this so yeah so just want to wish all three of those lads who are leaving the very best of luck with the next phase of their careers so three lads leaving there and today Everton again linked with Barcelona defenders John Clare Tadebo he played at the weekend in Schalkers 4-0 defeat against Borussia Dortmund he was okay he was all right sports say that Everton are preparing a bid for the 20-year-old of around 22 million euros we'll see whether there's anything in that John Jo Kenny also played in that game at Signal the Duna Park yeah Dortmund by far the better team in that and ran off the leaders eight four-nil victors and that is it just want to finish by saying thank you very much we hit 40,000 subscribers over the weekend so thank you very much for everyone's support keep telling your mates get them to subscribe as well but thank you very much for doing that make sure you give this video a thumbs up subscribe if you haven't if you're not one of the 40,000 subscribers then subscribe now and if you want more videos more full in-depth interviews more live shows then become a page and the link is in the description see you later


I believe with all my heart that God is in the business right now of raising up praying churches across the earth. Let me tell you what I told the first service. The days of Sunday only Christianity are over. That's gonna be disruptive. Do you know Jesus began his ministry and he ended his ministry by cleansing the temple in Jerusalem? He began it in John two and the disciples said, my goodness, Jesus looks like his grandfather, David.  And then in Matthew 21, at the end of his ministry, when they're waving the palm branches and they go, Hosanna to the son of David, he comes in as the son of David, he cleanses the temple and it says the blind and the lame came to him in the temple and he healed them there. See, I believe that the zeal of Jesus is being restored again in his people. And this is going to be very disruptive because it's going to remove all of the stuff that has stood in the way between God and intimacy with his people. It's gonna be disruptive because it's gonna expose leaders that have stood in the way way too long and built things around them. That have built it around their personality, that have built it around their gifting. God's raising up friends of the bridegroom in this hour who are going to introduce the bride to the bridegroom and learn how to get out of the way. Who are going to connect a generation to their God.  I want you to turn to Luke 11. And I want you guys to pull on this. You can turn that back on, let's go again. All right, good, good. We are in the middle of a great shift in the earth, the earth is in transition. 2020 was the great statement. I want to say this to you, we're never going back to life as we knew it before. I want to get rid of the mask and I want a lot of things to go back to normal. But there's certain things that I believe that will never go back because we're entering into a new season. And hear me, Jesus called this in Matthew 24. How many mamas in here had babies? Come on. I've set by four births. And when you try to, we've set by four births. I have three beautiful daughters. I have a son who's in heaven. And I set by four births. And we set there in those contraction seasons. When those contractions begin to set in, they're wide at first, but they're quicker and quicker and quicker leading to the full birth. And Jesus likens the end times to the contractions and the birth pangs that come upon a woman in giving birth to children. And he says, birth pangs are gonna come upon the whole earth and it's going to culminate with the great birth, which is the return of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. It's gonna birth in a new age. It's gonna birth in the kingdom of God in the earth. The earth is being prepared right now when the church is entering into a wine skin shift. We are in the midst of a wine skin shift. And what it's going to prepare for is the greatest outpouring of the Holy Spirit that the earth has ever seen. We are going to see Acts chapter two, Holy Spirit poured out on all flesh. Sons and daughters prophesy. Young and old, men and women, blood, fire, vapor of smoke, sun and the darkness, moon and the blood before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. God's going to release a great outpouring before his coming. But you need to understand, I want to tell you a billion soul harvest, a billion soul harvest, hundreds of millions of new converts flowing into the kingdom. The power of God hitting whole regions as whole regions come underneath the manifest presence of God. The spirit of conviction rest on a whole city to where there cannot be one human trafficking ring, not one pedophilia ring, not one human, not one prostitution ring, no drug trafficking through this region because of the manifest spirit of conviction. That's what's in my heart. I'm not talking about good services. I'm talking about regional and national takeovers of the spirit of God. But you must understand that when revival really comes, it's going to disrupt everything. A lot of us just think we get revival, church won't be as boring. You got to understand that when real revival breaks in, it disrupts all the systems.  What revival does is it removes the gray areas in the heart of man and it becomes extreme love for God and extreme hatred for God. And there's a mystery called the mystery of iniquity where men love darkness in the face of blinding light. And we are going to see great rage of Satan, the sin of man, the judgments of God as God prepares the earth to bring forth a bride that will come forth out of this in full partnership with Jesus. And we will see the breaking in of the kingdom of God. And what is God doing right now? I'm letting you know where we're going. It's important that you understand where this is going. Are you with me this morning? Well, then talk to me. Okay, you can talk to me. Right now we're in the middle of a shift where God's bringing us back to apostolic foundations. He's bringing us back to apostolic foundations, apostolic foundations of God's the first one that we minister to. God's, we minister to God before the poor. We minister to God before the lost. We minister to God before the sick. Everybody gets ministered to, but God. God's the last one in the room. And yet that's the apostolic foundation is first commandment, first place. Loving God with all of our heart, all of our soul, all of our mind and all of our strength. And the second is the overflow of the first. And we just assumed, because we're at church, the first is in first place. So usually the first is about 10th place. But it's all changing. It's all changing. And what's happening? God's restoring gardens at the heart of his church. Do you know the first thing that God did after creating Adam in the garden? Adam, he planted a garden. And he put Adam in the garden and he says, Adam, this will be the place that I will come meet with you. The Lord will first build the place of encounter and that will become the place from where man rules in the earth. God is planting gardens back at the heart of the church because Jesus did not die for 45 minutes and 20 bucks. So we could live the other six days and 23 hours of our weeks disconnected. Jesus died to renvals. He died to bring us who were a far off into deep intimacy with him. I quote a verse in the first chapter, in the first service out of Isaiah 56 where God invites the sons of the foreigner. I want to tell you something about God. He's issuing an invitation for everyone to come to him in the place of prayer. And if you're really messed up, I'm talking about really jacked up. You especially qualify. If you can't believe some of the things you did in 2020, you especially qualify. There is a royal red carpet being laid out to all of us in this hour. And the father's saying, kids, it's time to come on home. The father's house is the house of prayer. Father's always running out. He'll run out to younger sons who have been in Vegas partying. And then he'll run out to older sons who have been in seminary trying to be perfect. And the father's inviting all of us into the house. I can hear the Holy Spirit saying, kids, it's getting late, it's time to come on in. Most of us are living in the front yard of Christianity. You're made to live from within the house. We're in the middle of a great shift. Even them, I will bring to my holy mountain and I will make them joyful in my house of prayer. I'm here to tell you that joy is gonna fill this house. I want you to look with me in Luke 11. Let's go. Let's just go ahead and skip up to verse 36 of chapter 10 before we look at it. Let's go ahead and stop that. Holy Spirit, we ask you to help us right now. I wanna connect Luke 10, 36, and then we'll go into Luke 11. The short of the story is this. Jesus comes into a town called Bethany. It's about a little bit south of Jerusalem. Jesus is going to come into Bethany and there's going to be two sisters. One's name's Martha and the other one's name is Mary. Jesus comes in hungry and Martha immediately begins to prepare a meal for Jesus and the disciples. And it says this verse in Luke 10, 39. It says, but she had a sister. Let's read this in Luke 10. I want you to see this. It says, now it happened as they were, they entered a certain village and a certain woman named Martha welcomed him into her house and she had a sister called Mary. Here it is, she had a sister called Mary who sat at Jesus' feet and heard his word. But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she looked at Jesus and she said, Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her to help me. And Jesus says, Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things, but one thing is needed and Mary has chosen that good part which will not be taken away from her. Here's the moral of the story. Learning how not to miss the window of opportunity. Learning how to take advantage of the moment. The majority of believers in this hour are bound and we worship the God of busyness, the God of distraction, the God of anxiety. And we are so busy running around the stuff around Jesus that we actually never sit at his feet and encounter him. I'm talking about services like this. I'm talking about the machine of ministry. Busyness in the church and we're busy and we're blessing and we're changing the earth. We're changing Zoom. We're changing Facebook and YouTube. We're changing the world, yet we're so busy around him we're not actually looking at him. We're not actually connecting to his heart and letting him transform us. And Mary does the most revolutionary thing in the world and I believe Mary is a prophetic sign of the church in this hour.    No amount of money or opportunity can get you out of. No amount of mistreatment or betrayal can get you out of but that it's the holiest moment of your day is at his feet and hearing his word. I'm here to tell you and I wanna just prepare you for this. I'm gonna say it to you. I'm gonna say it to you. I'm gonna say it to me. The devil will let us get lots of big churches. The devil will let lots of big things going on.  Find yourself on your knees with a certain time allotted to God every day and nothing talks you out of it. And show up there for the next two decades every day.  She sat at his feet and she heard his word and this is what happens. Mary made setting at Jesus' feet her primary reward. If you make what you do for Jesus your primary reward, hear this, I'm about to prophesy to some of y'all. It's not about Mary versus Martha. We need both. I need sandwiches. Somebody just made a real nice cheesecake upstairs. I loved it.  I would not enjoy that. So thank you. Thank you. It's not about Mary versus Martha. It's about Mary before Martha. You're not hearing me this morning. Can y'all talk to me? Can y'all talk to me? I'm not gonna just endure you for the next 30 minutes. It's not about Mary versus Martha. It's about Mary before Martha. That your primary source of identity is not what you do for God. It's not what you do for God. It's who you are to God.  But if you don't learn that spot first, hear me, you'll turn into making what you do for God your primary reward. And you'll always feel like you're getting the short end of the stick. The leader will never recognize you like you think you need to be recognized. You'll begin to get angry saying, look at how much I've done. Look at how much I've served. Nobody's done any of this. I'm here before everybody. I'm here after everybody. See, this is the thing about Martha. She's aware of Mary and she begins to question Jesus' fairness. Jesus, you're not fair. I'm working my tail off for you. Don't you care? See, this is the thing about Mary. When you make him your primary reward, you're unaware of everything else and works flow out of you and you're not looking for Jesus to pay you back because he's your payment. His words is your reward. A true Martha that has come through the door of Mary can work for decades with nobody paying attention, nobody noticing and nobody patting you on the back and you walking around with a glad spirit. Cause I don't get my reward from Vlad noticing me. I don't get my reward from Lana noticing me or that life group leader noticing me or for them seeing what I've done. My reward is him and what he says over me. That's the shift. And when God's words become the loudest and become the definer of your life, you can serve for decades with a glad spirit and you come out of the swirl of distraction, the swirl of anxiety and the swirl of busyness and the majority of the church, we love meetings. We don't really know what to do with him. When it's me and him alone, a Bible I barely know and a God I barely know and I've got to go on the journey of boredom and dealing with my boredom with God alone. And we are all going on that journey. What do I do? What do I say? Well, I think it begins with you not talking. I'm about to give you your first lesson in prayer. God talks first. Does anybody like being in here with somebody who just talks all the time? Husbands, keep your hands down. Wives, keep your hands down. What relationship is there when one person owns 99% of the conversation? Prayer is not monologue, it's dialogue. And it begins with the words you've heard. And Mary did the most revolutionary thing. I refuse to miss this moment. The son of God is in my house. The son of God's in my house. Let's fast forward. I wasn't going into this. I was gonna do Luke 11, get my teachers to pray book. It'll change your life. Fast forward, the next time we see Mary and Martha, where was it? It was John 11. The death of their brother Lazarus. Okay? This is amazing. John 11, the report gets to Jesus. Jesus loved these guys. Report gets to Jesus. Your friend Lazarus is sick. Okay? And it says in John 11 that Jesus loved them. And he says, this sickness is not under death, but it's for the glory of God. And it says, now Jesus loved them. So he stayed where he was two more days. If you love them, Jesus, why didn't you translate to Bethany and heal him? What is it about Jesus knowing that him not getting there in time is gonna let Lazarus die? So Jesus tells us what he's gonna do from the beginning, but he lets the story play out. And he's gonna let realities come forth out of Mary and Martha's heart that I believe are connected to the Luke 10 season. And because Martha did not learn to find the glory of the moment when Jesus was in her home, she lived constantly by the swirl. Whatever the recent circumstance was is where her emotions were. Whatever crisis was going on in her life, she just lived from crisis to crisis to the kids, to house, to money, to this, to that. And he lived by the swirl.  And now what you're gonna do about that, girls? That's the furnace. Have you ever cried out to God for something and the thing you wanted the most died? The breakthrough you needed from God died. It didn't look like what you thought it was gonna look like. And Jesus shows up in John 11 four days late. What happens when Jesus is four days late? Now we all know he's not late. It's perfect timing, but he's late. He's late! What happened in the heart? It says in John 11 that Martha's pacing, I just see her pacing in the room. Where's he at? He said he's gonna be here. I know he got the letter. He should've gotten here on time, but it says this, Mary was sitting in the house. Mary's sitting again, Martha's pacing. And it says this, that as soon as Martha heard, so now Jesus has come into Bethany, he's on the outside of Bethany, and it says as soon as Martha heard that Jesus was at Bethany, she bang! She left. She runs to Jesus and she looks him right in the face, standing up and looking at him. Lord, if you'd have been here, my brother wouldn't have died. Now get ahold of this. But I know that whatever you ask God, God will give you. You're gonna see Martha say a same phrase twice, and it's the phrase I know. Whenever someone tells you they know, they don't know. She quickly, this is the thing that happens in the delay. Anybody ever been in a delay? A delay of promise? A delay of the breakthrough? What do you do in the delay? There's two responses we see with Martha and Mary. Martha's is you can go into plastic buzzwords, plastic phrases, but you're actually disconnecting from it in your heart. Sometimes we can use lots of great confessions, but our hearts are disengaged because of the pain of having to deal with the delay. Some of y'all haven't walked with the Lord yet, it's coming. She says, I know, you can ask God whatever he wants and he'll give it to you. I love Jesus, he's just stone cold. He goes, your brother will rise again. I know, she says it again. I know he'll rise again at the resurrection at the last day. She has write theology about the resurrection of the dead. She knows there's a future day when the dead in Christ are gonna rise first. She knows it.  Resurrection isn't just coming, resurrection's here. And I'm looking for you to get out of all your little buzzwords and plastic phrases. And I'm looking for real faith that pulls on my heart to pull me into this storyline. Come on, come on. You wanna do theologizing, I'm looking for faith. He says, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me though he die, he will live. Do you believe this? Yes, Lord, I believe that you're the Christ, the Son of God. Okay, it stops right there. Martha runs back into the city and she grabs Mary and it says, Mary was sitting in the house. There's Mary always sitting. And she says, the master has come and he's looking for you. Now, we don't see Jesus asking for Mary. I think Martha hit a wall saying, all of my, you know, theologizing and all my nice talking isn't getting us anywhere, which means this, Jesus looking in the face saying, honey, you really missed Luke 10. Why don't you go back and learn how to sit before me? Why don't you go learn the secret Mary learned? Now get hold of this. She goes and she gets Mary. Mary runs out to the very same spot and says the exact same phrase as Martha. Lord, but check this out, check this out.  And do you know you can say the same phrase from two different places? One can be actually an accusation against God. The other one can be a statement of faith that doesn't understand what's going on. And Mary refused to get out of the tension of God. I know who you are, but I don't understand why my brother's dead. It says that she fell down at his feet. She's weeping and she says, Lord, if you'd have been here, my brother would not have died. How did Jesus respond to that? He groaned in the spirit. We're getting in holy ground here when you start pulling a groan out of God. I wanna tell you something. You can pull a groan out of God. You can stir up the bowels of his compassion, the bowels of his love and the bowels of his power, not by just having all the right phrases. He groaned in the spirit. What did that look like for Jesus to groan? And he goes, where have you laid him? Where's he at? They go, come and see. And then we see the longest verse in the Bible. Jesus wept. Now we laugh about it, and it's called the shortest verse of the Bible, but I believe it was the holiest moment and I believe it was closer to the 30 minutes. Because with Jesus surrounded by skeptics, critics, disciples, loved ones, strangers around the world, everyone surrounding him, a storm came out of the Son of God's eyes, a storm of tears. What does that say about God that God weeps? Why didn't Jesus just translate to the resurrection of Lazarus? Why did he get down into the valley, looking for something to bring forth up into the resurrection season? Jesus wept, he wept with his friends. He wept, he felt. It wasn't just some robotic thing to him. He was actually connected to the storyline of his friends and to the storyline of Mary and it caught him. It caught him. Jesus wept. He is the vulnerable God. He's the God who weeps with us to feel us, but the tears are going to become the seedbed of resurrection. The tears are gonna become the seedbed of resurrection. Jesus wept. I could talk on that. I could literally do a message on that verse. And now he gets done weeping and everybody has their commentary about what he's doing. Look at how much he loved him. Other people said, why didn't he get here earlier? Everybody's got commentary. And then Jesus starts, he dries his tears, still groaning in the spirit and he comes to the tomb. He says, roll away the stone and then Martha get ahold of this. Now we get to see faith filled Martha come up to the front. Cause this is what happens in the Luke 10. When you learn how to wait, everybody say learn how to wait. We live in a McDonald's drive through convenience driven generation and Mary learned how to wait in the waiting room to get called into the doctor's office. Martha tried to storm into the doctor's office and she didn't have equity in the waiting room. Hear me? He says, roll away the stone. Martha goes, Jesus, he stinks by now. I thought you had lots of big phrases earlier, honey. Actually I don't believe, I'm just hiding behind all my Bible verses. I'm just hiding behind my bumper stickers. Cause I actually don't believe you. He goes, didn't I tell you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God? They rolled away the stone.  You always hear me. And then he said, Lazarus come forth and a man who had been dead for four days walks out of a tomb because Jesus said Lazarus come forth. That was a second time. You know what it says in John 11? I love this. It says in John 11, he was talking about the lineup, Lazarus, Martha, and it says, and it was that Mary who anointed Jesus with her fragrant oil. Do you know oil gets produced in the crushing? You know oil gets produced in the crushing. She gained something in God right there. Let's fast forward to the third time. This is why I love Mary of Bethany. Turn with me to Mark 14. Y'all okay? Mark 14. We're now going to see the last time I'm married. You know why I love Mary? People ask me all the time, who's your hero in the Bible? Outside of Jesus, of course. I go, it's Mary of Bethany. That little girl is my hero. Every time we see her, Jesus is defending her. We were singing earlier, this is how I fight in my battles. I don't know about you, but I want to get Jesus fighting my battles. If you, see this is the thing. Mary only said one phrase in scripture. Lord, if you'd have been here, my brother wouldn't have died. In Luke 10, all she did was look at Jesus and listen to him, and he fought her battles. And then he's going to fight her battles in the last encounter. It's Mark 14. It's about two days before Jesus is going to be crucified. It's Passion Week. And Jerusalem is hostile. Jerusalem is weighing on Jesus' soul. And he goes, I got to get out of here.  He goes, it's too hectic in Jerusalem. He goes to Bethany. And he's sitting at the house of Simon the Lepper in Mark 14. And it says that a woman came. Y'all with me? It says that a woman came having an alabaster flask of very costly oil, of spiked nard. Then she came and she broke the flask and she poured it upon his head, but there were some who were indignant among themselves. We know that these were disciples. And they go, why was this fragrant oil wasted? It could have been sold and given to the poor, and they began to criticize her sharply. Jesus breaks in and fights her battles. It says, leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me. He goes, you always have the poor, but you don't always have me. She has come beforehand to anoint my body for burial. Assuredly I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will be told as a memorial to her. Jesus fought her battles. Most scholars believe that that costly oil was worth around $30,000. Some scholars have said this would have been her parents' inheritance to her that would speak of her future livelihood and care and comfort for her future. This girl breaks into a room. She's breaking 10 social protocols. She breaks into the room.  All the disciples, the disciples who are jockeying over, who's gonna sit at his right? Who's gonna sit at his left? Who's gonna be the greatest in the kingdom? Who's gonna be the greatest? And she says I could care less about any of that stuff.  Don't give me plastics. She breaks through the noise and the chaos around Jesus, and she takes her whole future and she breaks it over Jesus. Costly sacrifice, costly love, costly worship. Ever the church, religious, will always look at something and call it a waste. What a waste. You know what you could have done with that money?  You know what you could do with that gifting and skill set? People look at your life like a waste. You could have done more. You could have given more. You could have had more.   Do you know when you stand before Jesus one of these days, he's gonna ask you a simple question. Where did you waste your life? Cause it's gonna be poured out somewhere. They criticized her sharply. The religious spirit will always criticize extravagant worship and love. And Jesus looks him in the face. He's just sitting there and they just take their shots at her. And then Jesus speaks and he asks the core question, what is it about what she's done that's causing you to manifest? Why are you troubling her? What she's done is good work. Leave her alone.    She's anointed my body for burial. She's prepared me for the thing that none of y'all can understand, which means this. Not only was she moving in extravagant love, she was moving in revelation. Yeah, come on. She was moving in revelation of the offensive nature of the Messiah, a suffering Messiah. A suffering Messiah. No Jew could get their heads around that mentality. A suffering Messiah. Messiahs don't suffer, they inflict suffering. And she said, not only do I love you and I see how you're coming, I'm going to take my life and prepare you for it. And he goes, what this woman has done will be told as a memorial to her. Do you know what that tells me? That little acts in this age. Do you know that in the book of Acts, they're gonna give a lot more money than her? They're gonna be a lot more gifts, a lot more money that's gonna flow in. But this is the thing about Mary. She did it before it was popular. She saw him before everybody else did. And there's something about getting it on a stock when it's two cents a share. I don't know about you, but Jesus said this, wherever this gospel is preached. You know what he's saying, guys?  She'll never have a healing ministry, an apostolic ministry. We'll never hear of her doing one more thing in scripture, but she got something even greater.  And when you proclaim Jesus came, died, resurrected and is coming again, when you proclaim that, people go, well, what does a life look like that's been impacted by the gospel? Tell this story. Tell this story. Because to a person who has been impacted by the gospel, they give it all. They waste it all. It's the wasted life at the feet of Jesus. This is the thing I love about Mary. You may never be known. Some of you might have 10 followers on Instagram. You can be absolutely not known in this age and you can get an eternal memorial in heaven. Little acts, choices that you make with your life can live forever in heaven. It's not about the man of God on the stage or that big anointed person, but it's about sacrificial love in silence, in weakness, in quiet. When nobody sees it, that's the stuff that moves heaven. That's the stuff that moves heaven.  I wanna invite you all to stand right now. That's what I'm going after. God, I want the memorial. I want a life that screams forever. I didn't mean to go into this this morning. I believe the Holy Spirit took me here. I haven't preached this message in probably six to nine months and I wasn't modestly thinking about it until I got into this, which means I believe this was for you. You gotta learn how to do Luke 10 that will prepare you for hours of delay that will produce the oil that you will pour at his feet. It all begins with a little girl that nobody knew about that moved the Son of God. I've told Jesus, I wanna be your Bethany. I wanna be your getaway Jesus. I wanna be your Mary. Scholars say that that oil, Jesus would have still been smelling it on his body when he was on the cross. Just open up your hands. I just wanna pray for the revelation of the beauty of this man. Whatever, everybody has alabaster flask, a very costly oil. You have a little flask and the Lord's saying, I want that, just get lost in me. God, I pray right now for the revelation of the worth of Jesus, for the revelation of the value of Jesus. I pray God that you would teach us how to do Luke 10. God, I'll confess it. God, I get so busy, so distracted, so anxious. I live crisis to crisis. I'm waiting for the next text or the next email or the next post on social media. And I get distracted, Jesus. Help me come out of the swirl of distraction. I wanna hear your word. I didn't have time to go into it. I'll do it next time, but in Luke 11, Jesus, it was Jesus' life of one thing that produced the disciples to ask him, teach us to pray. They were watching him do it. I wanna be a man of one thing. The Lord told me this. If you go after one thing, you get everything. But if you go after everything, you get nothing.


Live from the Hilton at Bonnet Creek, Orlando, Florida, extracting the signal from the noise, it's theCUBE, covering Vision 2015, brought to you by IBM. And now your hosts, Dave Vellante and Jeff Frick. Welcome back to theCUBE, everybody. Welcome back to Vision 2015. I'm Dave Vellante with Jeff Frick. Dr. Susara Vanden Hevers here. She runs product management for the decision optimization part of IBM. Susara, welcome to theCUBE. It's great to see you. Thank you. So let's talk about decision optimization. Let's start there. Where does it fit in the IBM portfolio? People, you know, a lot of people know about Cognos and the other products, Watson Analytics now coming in. Where's the decision optimization product fit? What is it? Sure. So decision optimization actually quite recently became part of the analytics team. And so we're very happy that we're finally in our home where we belong. And so if you think of really the main three parts of analytics, so you have the descriptive, which tells you what's going on in your business today, and that's really things like Cognos. Then you have your predictive, which tells you what's going to happen in your business tomorrow or in the future, and that is really the SPSS. And then where we are, we're really that next step of true competitive advantage. So that's what, once you know what's going on, what's gonna happen in the future, what you need to do about it. So we're really that act part. Plan, schedule, decide what you're gonna do. So you're the action part of the portfolio? We're the action part of the portfolio. You like that, okay.  So it's really used cross industry, completely industry independent. It's a lot useful planning decisions, scheduling, any kind of combinatorial decision where you have a very large number of options you need to consider. And so what we find is, instead of say something like simulation where you might need to run thousands or millions of options, optimization really takes that whole problem in one go and it will just come and suggest to you one or more best solutions in terms of making plans, making schedules. So the software essentially helps me execute on my plan, right?  So talk more specifically about what the software does specifically. Does it help me get more efficient? Does it help me just track what I'm doing? Is it nag wear, making sure that people are following up on their promises? Talk a little bit more about that. Right, so I'll use an example to talk about that. So if you think of something like sales and operations planning, you probably have some business goal that you try to achieve.  So all those business goals go into our optimization problems. So that's really the first thing that you need to achieve those business goals. And then you know you have some levers in your business you can pull. So you can produce more of a certain product, less of another one. You might want to be able to change your stock levels. And those are the decisions that we would recommend. If you want to maximize your profit, if you want to focus on customer service, this is what you need to do in terms of changing your product composition, changing your production plans, and then all that within your business constraints. So we capture that reality of what's actually possible in reality. And that becomes your business constraint. How do these products fit with the rest of the portfolio? Because I can see different parts doing different things. Are they tightly integrated, loosely integrated? Maybe talk about that a little. Yeah, it's actually, it goes across the range. There are some products offerings in IBM that we are very tightly integrated with. For example, Maximo, Usersize, Algorithmix, Unica, even SPSS Modeler. We're inside SPSS Modeler. Then there are other products where there might be a slightly looser integration. It might be on a case-by-case basis. So if you think of the IOC, a lot of the smarter cities functionality would use decision optimization inside. And it might be based on a particular user, for example, the water network planning. That's actually an optimization application that started in IBM Research and got integrated into the IOC product. So that's a little bit looser. And then we also go way the other end of the spectrum doing completely custom integrations. So there might be a client that wants a particular set of IBM products together and we can integrate with those. So we have a wide range of APIs. We cover different languages and we basically integrate with anything. And you have some announcements at this event, right? Can we talk about those? Tell us what you're launching here. Yeah, so this week we're actually announcing decision optimization on cloud. So we're taking these decision optimization mathematical solvers. They've been around for about 25 years. They're the market leading solvers for decision optimization used across the world and we've now made them available or we are making them available on cloud. The announcement is this week, it's available in beta. You can go to ibm.biz-try-do-cloud to access it. And it will GA end of the month. What was that URL, ibm? ibm.biz-try-do-cloud. Try-do-cloud.  Yeah, we have a freemium model. That's right, we have a free trial. Now this product is really targeting our current customer base. So we're really targeting operations, research professionals and developers and those are the people who would be building these applications that can then be integrated with any other visual platform whether it's Cognos or TM1 or whatever the case may be. So how does the cloud change a game for you in terms of go-to-market delivery, everything? Yeah, so there's really two main parts that we see there. The first thing is that optimization which might have traditionally been a little bit of an expensive area to go in for the mid-market because of the cost of the licenses or maybe the cost of the servers you need for the really computationally intensive problems. So that's the one problem we address with cloud. So of course, once you go to cloud that whole cost problem goes away for the mid-market. You can pay per hour, you can access powerful solvers when you need them. If you have a really difficult problem that you need to solve, if you think of retail over Christmas time they're incredibly busy. So then they have these huge problems they need to solve. In the past they would have to have their own servers. Now it just goes to cloud, they use it for that month, that's it. That's all they pay for. If you need it for an hour, you pay for an hour. So that's the one thing. On the other side we have the ease of use. So we believe that putting decision optimization on cloud is really going to change the business landscape. In the past it was really a lot of focus on experts, people with PhDs. We believe this is going to overcome that. And so as a proof of concept for that we've gone and created a tie into Watson Analytics, a proof of concept, not a product. I have to emphasize it's not a product. We cannot sell it, but I will talk about it more this afternoon. And just showing how we can bring optimization to that line of business environment to have people work with optimization but in that context that they love to work with, that very visual, very interactive context. You mentioned developers is one of the targets. Can you talk about that a little bit more? So this is, I presume it's running on software. That's right. This aspect of this, is that the developer that you're going after? Maybe talk some more about that. Yeah, so the job of the developer, so we actually, we have these two personas. There's the operations research expert. That's the guy who creates these models. And he might want to solve these on cloud. So for him we created a drag and drop interface which means if he wants to solve his model on cloud he takes it from his desktop, he drags it over to our website, done. That's it. So some of our competitors require scripts that you need to write or implement, none of that drag and drop. And then his colleague is the IT developer and her job is usually to take his model or application and integrate it into a larger enterprise wide application. And so for her we have what we call the Duke Cloud API. It's a REST API, significance being you can use it with any language. So if she's a Java user she uses that. If she uses Python she uses that, doesn't matter. And basically for her it's about five lines of code to integrate our cloud solver with her application. And so we have all the samples online. She can go and download the samples. We have our developer community and it's just really simplifying that process. Right. But you've also written extensively about how all these new technologies, the social, the cloud, visual tools are enabling much better penetration into a line of business folks that aren't necessarily the people that are building these optimization models. Can you speak to that and really some of the great things that are happening because of that access to more regular kind of line of business folks? Yeah, so that's really where we see the role of what's in analytics and some of the other solutions from IBM, but especially what's in analytics because what we're going to do there is in the past where you might need a very particular model for a very particular business, we're now saying instead, let's just take that 80% model which is generic, we put that inside and we let the user actually interact with the system, interact through that what's in an analytics environment to configure it. So in the past where maybe you needed for 10 solutions, you needed 10 experts. Now you're going to need one and you're going to have the business users interact with it and configure it. Right, right. Yeah, I mean if we take this example, go back to your example of the operations research person and the IT developer in your example, talk about him as the operations researcher. So this is, we would consider him a low code or even no code developer, right? He's going to be dragging and dropping and creating function and business function and mapping to a business process with a drag and drop. Is it truly that simple, right? Yeah, so he's really, he's writing his models with the language he uses, but ultimately to make that solve on cloud, he doesn't have to do anything. In the past he would have had to write some code to make that happen, but he doesn't have to do that. He just drags it over and it's done. Okay, and then if I want some greater customization, I go to the IT developer and she's wearing a hoodie or... Where's the hoodie? She's got a hoodie going on. Okay, so she has access to what the tool sets within Bluemix, is that right? Yeah, exactly. So you can imagine that if you wanted to create an app that also includes optimization. Now you could have that service created in Bluemix. You can combine it, pick and choose other services, whether it's a visualization service, a scoring service, so we know that there's in beta a scoring on cloud from SPSS, and so you can combine and mix and match these things and then you can create your own application and that's actually one of our other target personas is the analytics entrepreneur. So people who really have some knowledge across the board, they know some predictive, they know some optimization, but we make these services available to them much easier to consume and string together to build applications. So one of the things that everybody talks about is this notion of self-service, people trying to create an Amazon-like experience or a Uber-like experience, so what are organizations doing to create that self-service model and how is IBM helping them? So in terms of self-service, well, analytic self-service is really a lot about taking that middleman that IBM support actually out of the picture. So for example, if you want to go and buy our offering today, well, at the end of the month when it's available, you just go online, you put in your credit card and you buy it. There's no more complex process, so we take all that out of the picture. So that's in terms of the buy, but then in terms of the use, the everyday use, there's really that aspect of going to something like Bluemix where there's really, it's almost as though it's a community of developers, of contributors, and they work together. You use your own stuff, you use other people's stuff, and that's really the third aspect, is the community aspect to it. So it's creating the self-service in terms of much less reliant on support calls, filing tickets, really an active community of people contributing and providing support within that community as well. And you had indicated to Sarah that your initial target is the existing customer base. And that's right. And so what do you expect for the cloud uptake there? You sort of indicated there's a surge, example during the holiday season, people might go to the cloud for additional capacity. Are you seeing that in sort of large organizations? Is that mostly mid-sized organizations going to the cloud? Is it sort of mixed? Yeah, there's a bit of a mix. So on the one hand, we see very large corporations who are moving everything to cloud, all their operations. And they want to say, we want to move our optimization to cloud as well. So there are existing customers and they want to just move to cloud. That's part of their corporate strategy. Then we have other customers who might be very happy with their on-prem, but they have the seasonality aspect. So that could be, for example, in retail. Another example is very large sports affiliations. So they do their sports scheduling. Very lumpy. So a lot of them use our software for sports scheduling. And so at certain times of the year, they need to run a lot of problems really fast and they need to get those solutions really fast. And so they would go to the type of bare-medal offering we have where you get the really, really powerful bare-medals servers on SoftLayer and you know you're guaranteed when you submit your problems it's going to be solving instantly. Now for companies who are not so worried about it it has to be instant. There's that virtual machine pool. So there you share with other users and sometimes you might have a little bit of a wait but sometimes most of the time it's just going to solve but if you really want that guaranteed immediate result it's going to be the bare-medal. And then so those are the larger corporations. Then you have the more middle size is really what we see through our business partners. And they're what we call the analytics entrepreneurs. Some of them are actually people from our team who've gone and created their own businesses. And so they are analytics experts and they are creating cloud-based applications for their customers. And so they are the people, they don't want to go and charge their customers a license, a full license just if they use the application a little bit. And so that's really that more middle size. We'll see it now. So they're essentially reselling your offering adding some value to it perhaps. That's right. Did they private label it? Or is it an IBM product to the customer? What is the customer? That would be their own offering. So they would create a custom solution for a particular customer. They can private label, white label that. And then how do you price this? Is it per month kind of thing? Yes, so we have three different pricing layers. So the first one is pay as you go per hour. And basically at the end of the month you'll be billed based on what you've been using. Then the second one is what we call a committed use, committed hours. And all that means is that you need to sign up for a minimum of three months and the more hours you sign up for the less you're gonna pay. So that's just to get that commitment. And then the third one is really the bare metal option. So the bare metal also has a three month minimum commitment. It is a lot more costly but then you get this really dedicated experience of you have this very powerful bare metal machine, you have it when you need it. And that's really for the heavy users of optimization. And are there such things as ELA in this world or not necessarily because enterprise license agreements or is it not so much because not everybody in the organization is gonna use it. What's going on there with enterprise? Yeah, so we've done a lot of that with our on-prem software actually. We do a lot of ELA. And so as we go forward we need to see how that's gonna work. We have often that customers would want to use a mix. So that they might want to keep using what they have on-prem. And then they would add to that some of the cloud functionality, some of the cloud solve. So we're out of time. But last question is we talk to our audience and the folks out there that are candidates for this product, what's the message you want to leave with them? What should they be thinking about in terms of this new product, the whole notion of decision optimization? What would you tell them? Well, first of all, if they don't know what decision optimization is and if they're at this conference, please come to our demo pit. We're at number 46. Or contact me directly. We found that a lot of people at Vision have not yet been exposed to decision optimization because we just joined analytics. We're incredibly powerful, very powerful technique. It's been around since World War II when the US military used it to plan military operations. So we're proven, huge ROI. If you're not looking at us, if you're not talking to us, you're really missing out on what you can do in terms of competitive advantage. So that's what I would say. Pretty straightforward. Well, Sarah, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE. Congratulations on the product announcement. Thank you. And good luck going forward and happy to see you're in the right place in the organization. Yeah, yeah, all right. Well, thank you very much. All right, you're welcome. All right, keep it right there. 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Hi, I'm Zor. Welcome to Unizor education. This lecture is part of the advanced mathematics course for high school students presented on Unizor.com website and I do suggest you to listen to this lecture from this website, from the video which is linked to this website, because the lecture has its notes. Notes basically can be used like a textbook. Now, the topic I'm going to talk about is related to the general category of limits, which we are talking right now about. But in particular, it's also related to an exponential function with a very special base, which I denote as a letter E. Now, the E is a specific number in mathematics. It plays in calculus and mathematical analysis as important role as the number pi plays in geometry. So, I'm going to talk about this number, about its properties and about the exponential function with the base equal to E. Okay, so that's what it is about. We're talking about today. So, this lecture is heavily dependent on all the material which I have presented in the topic related to exponential functions. So, I suggest you to refresh this. Also, binomial formula will be used, which is also presented in the course as part of the mathematical concepts. The lecture was induction and specifically binomial formula in the induction category. Okay, so, first of all, what I would like to talk about is some interesting property of, well, exponential function, but basically many other functions. So, let's recall what exponential function actually is all about. That's where it is. Where A is, well, some positive number, usually. Now, the graph of this function with A greater than 1 is monotonically increasing function at point x equal to 0. A to the power of 0 is all with 1. And then, as x increasing, the function increases to infinity as x decreasing to a negative part. And you remember that negative exponent is basically 1 over corresponding positive exponent. So, like, A to the minus 2 is actually 1 over A square, right? So, the function obviously goes down to 0 when the argument goes to minus infinity. Okay, so, we will consider this function. Now, this and many other function can have at any point actually, but we will consider the point 0. We will discuss the concept which I call a steepness of this function. You see, some function can be this way, some other function can be this way. Well, obviously, the dotted line is steeper at this point 0. Now, how can it be measured, this steepness of the function? It's basically a characterization of the function. We are interested to know whether one function grows faster than another or steeper than another in this particular case. Because both of them are equal to 1 at point x equals to 0, right? So, what differentiates the behavior of this function from this function? Well, obviously, the steepness is one of the characteristics which basically reflect this behavior. Now, the way how we will try to approach this concept of a steepness, we already touched, by the way, this point when I was talking about exponential function. But now, we will talk about this in relationship to the number E and that's why I would like to spend a little bit more time. Okay, let's do it in a very large scale. Now, steepness of this function can be characterized by an angle of the line which is tangential to our line. So, this is tangential line by this angle. So, the steeper the line, actually it means that at this particular point the tangential line has a larger angle. And the angle is usually characterized by either the angle itself or by some trigonometric function of this angle or in the case which I would like to make, the angle is very much characterized by the ratio between this and this. Because this is the right triangle, obviously. So, the ratio between these two things is characterizing the angle. Obviously, the larger this ratio, the steeper the curve is. Okay, but how can I determine this particular angle and this particular ratio for a function which is given by a formula? It's not really easy thing to do, right? And here is what I suggest to do in this particular case. Let's say this is a point we would like to know what exactly this ratio is. So, I will take another point nearby and I will replace the tangential line which is somewhere here with this one. Now, obviously, if I will make the right triangle of this, well, it will not be exactly the ratio between this and this. However, if I will make this point as close as possible to this one, then this line, which is like a chord actually, this line will be closer and closer as far as its direction is concerned to the tangential line. So, if I will make this ratio going to a limit as this particular increment from this point to this point is going down to zero, then I can count on the final, the limit value of the ratio between this and this as this point comes closer and closer. It will be exactly the ratio which corresponds to a real tangential line. So, how can I accomplish this using the formula? Well, very easily, if I have a point zero, now I will increment my value of the argument by one over n. Where n is some natural number. Now, then I can calculate, well, for this particular line, I can calculate the ratio of this versus this as what? Now, this particular catechise is equal to value of the function at this point, at point one over n minus value of the function at point zero. So, this particular line is equal to a to the one n minus a to the point zero. Now, what is this? This is increment. It's between one n and zero. And the ratio is this. Now, as n increasing, my point one over n goes closer and closer and closer to zero. So, this ratio at its limit as n goes to infinity will give me exactly the value of my steepness as I have defined it for this particular function at point zero. So, this is basically an approach. Okay. So, this is a sequence and whenever my n goes to infinity, this sequence has certain limits. I mean, I hope it has certain limits. And if it does, then this limit would be exactly the steepness, the characterization of the steepness of my function at point zero. And that's how I can differentiate one line from another, one function from another. Now, my next point is to do exactly this for two functions. One is two to the power of x and another is three to the power of x. So, I will show that the steepness of this function is less than one, which means that the tangential line would have an angle less than 45 degrees. Because at 45 degrees, my ratio this to this is equal to one. But if the ratio is less than 45 degrees, less than one, then the angle is less than 45 degrees. So, this function would be the tangential to this function would make an angle less than 45 degrees. And this function greater than 45 degrees. So, the ratio would be greater than one. So, that's what I'm going to prove right now. Now, as a problem, a similar problem was discussed actually during the... It's one of the problems in the chapter for exponential functions. So, I will just use exactly the same logic. This is kind of a refreshment, if you wish. So, what I'm going to do is... So, let's consider first function two to the power of x. So, I would like to prove that two to the power of... Well, not x actually, one nth, right? Minus two to the power of zero divided by one n minus zero. I would like to prove that this is always less than one. Now, if I will prove that this is always less than one, then I can go to the limit. And the limit is also would be less than or at least equal maybe, but definitely not greater than one. That's from all these theorems about the limits which we have already learned in the previous lecture. So, that's what I'm going to do. Now, this particular inequality is obviously equivalent to this one. Minus zero I can delete. Two to the power of zero is always one. So, it's this. So, it's equivalent to two to the power of one n minus one less than one n, right? I multiply both sides of the inequality to the positive constant one over n. Or, if you wish, two to the power of one nth less than one plus one n, right? I added one to both sides. Or I can raise both sides into the power of n and this is equivalent to this. So, this particular inequality is equivalent to this one, sorry, n. And I'm going to prove this one. Now, to prove this one, what I'm going to do is I'm going to use the binomial formula, which I mentioned in the beginning. I would like you to repeat from the induction lectures in mass concepts of this course, which is a to the power of nb to the power of zero n divided by one, sorry, plus n divided by one a to the power n minus one b to the power of one plus nn minus one divided by one two nn minus two b square plus etc. The common member is nn minus one etc. n minus i plus one divided by one two three etc. i a to the power n minus i b to the power of i. And the last one would be a zero bn. Now, this is binomial formula Newton, which we have proved by induction in the lecture, which I have just referred to, and I'm going to use it for this purpose. So, a is one, b is one over n. So, let's just think about what happens in this particular case. Well, obviously, if one and one over n are a and b, all members are positive, right? That's obvious, right? So, the first member is one to the power of n, which is one, and one over n to the power of zero, which is still one. So, I have one plus one over n to the n equals two. The first member is one. The second member, n over one, which is n, times a to the power of n minus one, one in any power is one, and b to the power of one, one n to the power of one. Plus. Now, starting from the third and the fourth etc. doesn't really matter, they're all positive because I already have two, right? So, that's why one plus one over n to the power of n is greater than two. It's two plus something, and something is the whole tale of all these things. So, that's easy, right? Fine. So, I have proven this particular inequality, which means if I will go to the limit with n going to infinity, it actually resulted in the following thing, let me just repeat it. Less than one, which means that the limit of this will also be less than one, and this is tangential line two to the power of x. So, this angle is less than 45 degrees. That's about two to the power of x. Now, let's talk about three to the power of x. It's slightly more complex, but I will use exactly the same formula. So, it's three to the power of one over n minus three to the power of zero, one over n minus zero, it should be greater than one. That's what my point is right now. Alright. Or, again, minus zero we can remove. Three to the power of zero is one. So, that's equivalent to if I will multiply by one n, that's completely equivalent to this one, and this is completely equivalent to this one. And this is, I will raise to the power of n both sides equivalent to this one. So, that's what I have to prove. Again, I will use this and use the binomial formula. So, what do I have here? So, I have one over n, one plus one over n to the power of n should be less than three. Why should I, why did I have more than greater than three? Let me start from the beginning. I think I changed the sign somewhere. So, three to the power of one n minus one divided by one over n, it's supposed to be greater than one, right? So, three is supposed to be greater. Three is supposed to be greater than one plus one n to the n, right? Okay, fine. So, I have to prove that this is less than three, right? I just changed the direction. Alright, so how can I prove that? Well, again, let's just look at this particular binomial formula. Let's start from the beginning. Well, obviously the first is one and the second one is one as well, right? We already did it with this one. Now, in case of the previous one, we just completely removed all detail and obviously that resulted in this particular inequality. In this case, to prove the upper boundary, the three is actually above this, we will use all these members. And what I will do is I will actually increase every member. So, that's why I will put sign less here because I'm going to increase every member. Not this one and not this one. Starting from this member, what I'm going to do is the following. What is b? b is one over n, right? This is b. This is a. a is one, so a should be completely ignored from everywhere, right? b is one over n, so b square is one over n square. Now, notice the following thing. b square or one over n square is n and n in the denominator. In the numerator, I have n and n minus one. So, n and n minus one in the numerator and n in the denominator. Obviously, denominator is greater. So, if I will completely reduce this and this, I will only increase my value of this particular member, right? Since I'm replacing n times n minus one, I'm increasing to n times n, in which case, I will have n square here and n square here. Now, in the general member, same thing, b to the power of i is basically one over n to the power of i. Each one of these and the number of these is also i, by the way. Each of these is either equal to n or less than n. So, if I will replace them with n, I will only increase it. But if I will replace them with n, it will be n to the power of i and this is n to the power of i, right? And if I will completely eliminate them, I will increase my expression, right? So, that's why I put the sign less. So, that's one plus one plus one over one times two remaining plus one over one times two times three plus, etc. Plus one over one times two, etc., times i, etc. Plus one over n factorial, actually, from i to n. Now, the last one is obviously this, because the coefficient is one, which is actually n times n minus one, etc., etc., times one. And this is one times two times three times n. That's why I have it one. But it doesn't really matter. It doesn't really matter. The denominator one times two times, etc., times n remains. But numerator was actually replaced with n to the power of n and it reduced with n. With b to the power of n. Okay. Now, I will increase it even more. So, again, it's less than one plus one is two plus. Okay. Forget about one. It doesn't really matter. And every one of those I will replace with two, which means what? I will reduce the denominator, which means I will increase the whole number, right? So, it will be one over two plus one over two times two, which is two square, plus one over two to the third power, plus, etc. And the last one, one to the n's power, right? I will increase it again. Instead of actually ending up at number n, I will go to infinity. Because you know what this is, right? One half plus one quarter plus one eighth, etc., it's an infinite geometric progression. The sum of it is obviously is equal to one. And that's why it would be two plus one, which is three. So, that's my inequality. Finally, I proved that one plus one n's to the power of n is less than three. Because I am increasing and increasing and increasing and finally I got only three, right? So, that's why it's less than three. Okay. What does it mean graphically? Graphically, it means that the steepness of three to the power of x is greater than one. That's what it means. So, graphically, again, this is 45 degrees. Now, this is greater than 45 degrees. And that's where my three to the power of x. The tangential line at point zero is steeper than 45 degrees. That's quite interesting. You see, with exponential function, we don't need this anymore. Or we don't know for more. So, back to exponential function. So, two to the power of x has a steepness, let's call it beta, less than one. At point zero, right? Three to the power of x has steepness greater than one. Now, what does it mean? I mean, obviously, and we actually talked about it many times, the greater the base, the steepness basically is growing. And that's what's important here. It's growing from two to three from some number which is less than one to some number which is greater than one. Now, it's natural to assume that the steepness is gradually increasing from something which is less than one to something which is greater than one, as the base is increasing from two to three. Which means that somewhere in between two and three, there is some number where the steepness at point zero exactly equals to one. So, we are talking about the line which has steepness this 45 degrees. So, this base of this particular exponential function has some, this base is in between two and three. It's not an integer number. Well, obviously, there is such a number. In calculus and mathematical analysis, it's actually proven that this number is in between two and three. And it's irrational, by the way. It's interesting in geometry. Pi is irrational number, right? In analysis, in calculus, E is also irrational number. Approximately, it's equal to 2.71. Actually, there is a joke among mathematicians. Is it true that E to the power of pi is equal to pi to the power of E? Well, they are close, but they are not equal. I mean, this is completely wrong. But, you know, sometimes people are asking the questions like this. So, in any case, E is a very important point, a very important number in analysis, as I was saying. It's as important as pi in geometry. And the main characteristic, and that's how we actually introduced this particular number, is that the function E to the power of x has the steepness at point zero exactly equals 2.1. So, this is equal to this in the limit as we are moving closer and closer between these two points. Right? Now, what's the value in some... I mean, I have kind of indirectly defined this number E. It's the number which is in between 2 and 3 with this particular function E to the power of x having the steepness of 1. Can I define it a little bit more precisely? Well, yes. And here is the considerations which I can offer in this particular case. So, what I know is that E to the power of 1n minus E to the power of 0, which is 1, divided by 1n minus 0, which is okay. It's going to 1 as n goes tend to infinity, right? So, that's what I know. Because this is exactly the limit of ratio between change of the value and change of the argument, as the argument is closer and closer to zero. That I know. Well, what does it mean? It means that as n becomes greater and greater, this is almost equal to 1, and this approximation is better and better as n increasing to infinity, right? Now, let's just change this approximation slightly. This is not as rigorous as I would prefer it to be. In higher levels of mathematics and calculus and in analysis, it's proven much more rigorously. But in this particular case, I think these intuitive manipulations are very useful and kind of natural. So, I'm using approximately equal to, with saying that the approximation is as better as the n goes to infinity. Now, if I will change this to this, right? For this, I mean this, 1 plus 1n, and then raise to the power of n, I will have this. With saying that approximation is better and better as n goes to infinity. So, what I can say is that e is the limit of 1 plus 1 over n to the power of n if n goes to infinity. This is an important formula. Now, the formula is actually exact. I did not prove it rigorously, but the formula is correct. I just illustrated how it can be derived, but not exactly rigorously, because I cannot really, with approximation, do the same as I do with the quality, obviously. I did it just for intuitive kind of purposes. So, this is the value. Now, let's just evaluate it for a couple of n's. If n is equal to 1, I have what? 1 plus 1 to the power of 1, which is 2. So, e is approximately equal to 2. If n is equal to 2, I have 1 plus 1 half, which is 3 halves, square, which is 9 fourths. So, e is approximately 9 fourths, which is 2 and 1 fourth, right? If n is equal to 3, it's 1 plus 1 third, 4 third to cube, 64, 27. 64, 27, that's 2, that's 54, so it's 10, 27, right? Now, as you see, it's growing, but we know it's limited to, it's no greater than 3. So, basically, if you will do this up to infinity, you will see that you will get some number like this. So, that's the value of e. So, we have introduced a specific value, number, actually. We have introduced the number, which we call e, and therefore we have introduced the function. This function now makes sense, because I know what e actually is. It's some real number, irrational, by the way. Now, but this function is a regular function which has a regular exponential function. So, it has the regular exponential properties, which is e to the power of 0 is equal to 1, as any other, e to the power of 0. Now, e to the power x plus y is equal to e to the power of x times e to the power of y. This is the property of all exponential functions, including this one, or something like this. So, all we know is this one. And then, I would like actually to pay attention to one specific property of the function e to the power of x, which no other function actually has. Here it is. So, we know what the property, which we call a steepness, at 0.0 is. So, we have introduced this concept. We have the increment of the function from 0, from x is equal to 0 to x is equal to 1n, and divided to the increment of the argument from 0 to 1n. And we know that this goes to 1. What I'm going to say is that very similarly, we can introduce a steepness at any point. So, here is the graph. Here is my point. I call it x0. I can have x0 plus 1n, which is this one. And I will do exactly the same thing. I divide this by this. And then, as n goes to infinity, 0.x0 plus 1n goes closer and closer to here. And this particular ratio becomes a steepness of this particular function at 0.x0, right? So, what exactly is this? Well, this is e to the power of x0 plus 1n minus e to the power of 0 divided by the difference between the arguments x0 plus 1n minus x0 equals. Now, I have just mentioned the property of exponential function that if you have some of two exponents, it means x to the power of 0 is exactly equal to this one, right? And here I can reduce by x0, so it would be 1n equals. Obviously, I can factor out e to the power of x0. And here I will have, right? What is this? This is a steepness at the point x is equal to 0 as n goes to infinity, right? So, it goes to e to the power of x0 because this steepness, as we have actually defined the number e, it's the function which has a steepness, if the function with this base has this particular steepness of equal to 1. So, this goes to 1 as n goes to infinity. That's why the steepness of function at any point x0 is equal to exactly the same function value at this point. Because e to the power of x0 is constant, right? As n goes to infinity. This goes to 1, so the product goes to e to the power of x1. Okay, this is quite a remarkable property of the function e to the power of x. It's steepness at any point equals to its value at this particular point. No other function, well, except some function which is derived from this one, like this multiplied by 2, for instance. No other, principally other function has this property. That's what's very important. It's almost like a characteristic property of the function e to the power of x. And this is the end of this lecture. That's the last property I wanted to talk about. I wanted to introduce using the limit theory and some other knowledge which we have known. I wanted to introduce the number e and the function e to the power of x. Well, that's it for today. I suggest you to read the notes to this lecture on theunizor.com. Well, I will probably use this particular function in some other very important cases. In particular, when I will talk about trigonometry and complex numbers, there is a remarkable connection between this number, the trigonometry and the theory of complex numbers which is basically, which looks like one formula, the Euler formula, which I'm going to discuss a little later in this course. It's a synergy between the number e, the complex numbers and trigonometry in one formula. It's really a beauty, quite frankly. I mean, I was always amazed how certain pieces of mathematics can be beautiful, but this is definitely. So, that's it for today. Thank you very much and good luck.