So our final speaker for this afternoon is Ajay LeMay, who is the winner of the 2013 Student Modeler Award and will give us a short presentation on vector-based approach of bank material tracking. All right, thank you very much for the invitation, the opportunity to speak today. I was trying to think of a suitable transition from the last talk, but I decided I'll just go for it. So I've been working on a method for taking our knowledge about meandering rivers and playing it forward over geologic timescales, working on a method to essentially improve predictions for taking channel migration and seeing how that plays out in the landscape and in developing sedimentary deposits. The lateral movement of channels is a fundamental geologic process that ties into many broader themes in earth surface science. For example, if we look at to bedrock river valleys, in some cases the channel migration might be very muted, but in other locations it's very common to find strapped terraces that are preserved in the landscape. These terraces formed by valley widening that's carried out by channels and the formation of different terrace levels is often conceptually linked to changes in climate and tectonics that affect entire watersheds. If we shift to depositional settings, the migration of channels combined with agridation is a fundamental control on the architecture of sedimentary deposits. That's true on earth, but also on Mars. We're very commonly fluvial deposits are one of our key constraints in the past climate of that planet. To understand meandering in its evolution, its impacts in the landscape, we also need to be able to understand how these meanders interact with bank properties elsewhere in the landscape. To get a sense of this, we can take a quick tour of some different river valleys across North America, one of which is not like the others. So we can see that the Colorado River in Texas as well as the San Juan River in Utah, even though these are in very different environments, have the common characteristic that the channel has essentially a gently varying sinuosity across the landscape. The Colorado River in Texas is migrating through poorly consolidated valley fields, whereas the San Juan River is carving into much more resistant bedrock. But in both of these landscapes, bank strength is relatively constant, and so it doesn't impart a strong influence on the channel form. However, the Beaver River in Alberta, Canada, shows a very distinct form, where we have some hints of regular meandering in the middle of the valley, but where the channel meets the edges of the valley, we have this very strong deflection of the channel migration. So in the context of numerical modeling, tracking bank material properties is really a key phenomenon that we want to be able to incorporate. Existing approaches to tracking bank materials in landscapes commonly use grids, so I'll quickly step through how that works. If the channel banks are represented at a given moment using vectors, the actual channel extent in the landscape is very commonly mapped onto a static grid to give some memory of where the channel has been. If we then have the channel evolve forward in time, as we see over here, the channel shifts from the location in the solid line over to the location in the dashed line. We can see that certain parts of the landscape are updated as having been newly eroded by the channel, and those are highlighted there in red. So what we can see is because this mapping of the channel is done in a discreet fashion, there's a discontinuous mapping of the erosion carried out by the channel. Now this is a detail that turns out to have cascading consequences as we look in terms of time-evolving scenarios. So we can see that here where we look at two simulations that track bank strength and landscape, that have an evolving channel that starts with the same geometry in both cases. And the way bank strength evolves is that the channel is eroding bedrock as to pausing sediment behind it. And that sediment is highlighted in gray. So what we can see is that for these cases that have two different grid resolutions, they essentially result in a different memory of bank strength that's imparted in the landscape. And that then feeds back to cause different trajectories for the channel. So we can see in these these two map views that even though they start with the same initial channel geometry, our channels have gone off in very different directions entirely because of this grid scale. To understand how this works, we can zoom into the scale of an individual grid cell. And what we find is that the necessary grid resolution we need to overcome this resolution dependence depends on the rate at which the channel is moving. So very simply if we consider an individual grid cell and right at the margin of it, we have a channel, channel boundary. If that boundary moves just a small amount or some fraction of that grid cell width in a time step, then the cell is not going to record, it's not going to record that increment of channel migration. However, if the increment of channel migration is substantially larger, then the cell can record that amount of channel migration. Of course, this distance that the channel moves in that time step is going to be equal to the lateral erosion rate times the time step. And so if we had complete freedom to choose an arbitrary the large time step, we could always get into a regime where our cells could be large enough or that it could be small enough that the channel migration would always overlap an entire cell. Very often, however, there are physical reasons that we would want to fix that time step. In the case of channels, that time step would very often be linked to some relevant timescale morphologic change, which we might consider to be the bankful recurrence interval of flood. So given that we want to fix the time step, that means that as the lateral erosion rate of our channel is decreasing, we need an increasingly smaller and smaller cell width in order to overcome this resolution issue. Now in many landscapes, the channel may be migrating fast enough that this resolution issue doesn't become a problem. But in bedrock river valleys, where lateral erosion rates are commonly on the order of a centimeter per year or less, and in valleys where we're considering spatial scales that may be several tens of kilometers of river length, this eventually requires a very dense network of small measurements, which can impart a very high memory cost, perhaps even on the order of terabytes, depending on how you implement it. So to overcome this challenge, we developed a framework that essentially uses the channel geometry instantaneously, records that, and uses that information instead of a grid to keep track of where the channel has been in the landscape. And so that's shown here, where the channel position at different time steps is colored with different colors, and the instantaneous or the current position of the channel is shown in white. Now the key point is that the footprint of the channel here in this landscape, rather than being mapped onto the grid, is recorded using these connected set of nodes which actually define the channel boundaries. And in so doing, we can use a lot less memory to represent the same information of where the channel has been. So in slightly more detail, the channel geometry is archived as vector data or sets of collected nodes at each time step. So that vector data includes longitudinal profile of the channel, its map to the extent, and also its cross-section. And then this vector data is used to reconstruct arbitrary bank material properties such as grain size or elevation that are set by channel scour and sedimentation. This history of bank properties is then used to scale channel migration rates. So as an example, if we take an arbitrary meandering model, which defines where our channel is, we can look along the channel banks at different locations and query for the locations of sediment and bedrock that exist in this landscape. So I'll give a quick example of how this approach opens up some new opportunities, especially for looking at landscapes at a very high contrast and bank strength, which is very common in bedrock river valleys. So the map you were looking at here on the left shows the channel, active channel in white, and the different colors correspond to the effective fraction of bedrock or sediment that's exposed in the channel banks. So the blues correspond to all sediment and as we go to the margins of the valley where the channel is deforming, it's hitting up against all bedrock walls. Now cross-section runs from the top to the bottom of this model domain and is shown on the right. And so we can see the contact between sediment and bedrock in this landscape and also channel right over there on the margin. So as we advance in time, the channel is going to dance back and forth across this model domain. Okay, looks like there's a problem with the movie. So anyway, so I'll have this on my laptop for the rest of the week. But what I can point out, at least just from the starting point, is if we do let this run forward in time, the channel, we can reproduce many of the features of bedrock river valleys just with accounting for an evolving bank strength in the landscape, even without other perturbations in the channel behavior that might be driven by changes in vertical incision rates. I think it's not uploaded. In any event, a result I can show you is that the memory use, compare the memory use that would be involved in a simulation that would, in an equivalent simulation that would use a grid-based approach versus the present approach. So to track the bank strength with a grid that had a resolution sufficient to track one centimeter per year, channel erosion in bedrock, would take on the order of essentially terabyte to represent this landscape. And for the simulation here, which is equivalent to bedrock river valley evolution on the timescale of several tens of thousands of years, we can do, we can track the bank material properties relatively efficiently with only about 15 megabytes of data use in this case. So to conclude, bank material properties can strongly influence river meandering. A vector-based approach to bank material tracking makes simulations tractable, particularly when we have cases of very high contrasts in bank strength. And another example, which I didn't have time to include here, is that this framework is also flexible to incorporate simple simulations of building sedimentary deposits and to depositing sediment on floodplains. And so it's potentially a type of framework that could be flexible to many different environments. Thank you. This kind of problem also would seem to be very suitable for level set methods, for example. Is that a popular approach for doing these kinds of simulations? I have seen it in some related work. But in general, there hasn't been, at least in models that are treating meander evolution over geologic timescales, I think there hasn't been a lot of attention to the detailed representation of boundaries, and particularly right at the channel in bank boundary. I was thinking, especially when you have topological changes, so reconnections of loops and so on, then it would probably be nice if that would be taken care of automatically in your simulation, right? Yes, I think it would. One advantage, I think, of one particular advantage of keeping track of the channel extents from different time steps is that you can record, essentially, I think it boils down to whether we need to record a boundary only instantaneously, or if we need to record the position of boundaries at different portions in time. And at least in some of these bedrock landscapes, or when we're thinking about floodplain meander belt evolution, I think very commonly we want to represent, keep track of boundaries at different points in time, because they can tell us about topographic breaks that we want to record. Are the properties similarly vectorized, or are you essentially having, sorry, are the bedrock and bank properties vectorized, or are you kind of pulling a raster onto a set of vectors which represent the channel margins? So these properties are reconstructed essentially entirely from the channel geometry. So, for example, in the case of a bedrock river valley, in the conceptual model, the channel would migrate and essentially erode a bedrock surface and deposit sediment behind it. And so if we know where the channel was, if we know where the channel's been at different portions of time, and what elevation it's pointing off the surface to, then at any where the channel's been, you can analytically solve for what the elevation would be. So it's really a process of reconstructing properties such as elevation or grain size, as long as there's simple mathematical formulation for what they should be.


Live from San Francisco, it's theCUBE. Covering Google Cloud Next 2018. Brought to you by Google Cloud and its ecosystem partners. Okay, welcome back everyone. This is theCUBE's live coverage in San Francisco for Google Cloud's big event, Google Next 2018. Hashtag Google Next 18. We're wrapping up day two and we decided to put together an influencer panel of thought leaders, journalists, reporters. Of course, I'm John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Mark Alberson on the ground reporting for Silicon Angle with Rob Hope who's in a meeting right now, getting more stories ear to the ground. Ray Wang, founder of the Constellation Group who's been in and out of meetings, the analysts, he's brief, he's under non-disclosure in many areas. Good group of people to really extract kind of, squint through the noise, squint through the announcements and take a shortcut to the truth. That's the purpose of this segment. Ray, Mark, thanks for joining us. Mark, I want to start with you. You're out, did a lot of pre-briefings. You were pre-briefed on some NDA and Bargo News. Been here multiple days reporting. What's the takeaway? What's the vibe? What's the scent? What's going on here? Certainly Google's pumped up. This looks a lot better than two years ago. What's your take? Absolutely. I think there's talk of the Google being at a 6% market share. Anybody that's been here the last couple of days wouldn't believe that for a second. I think they're clearly putting in place some key pieces that are paying dividends now and they're going to pay dividends later and we're seeing that already. Yeah, Dave and I were talking, Mark, great point. Ray, I want to get your thoughts on this because I've been very vocal on this. Not because I have any proof, but I just kind of, I can smell the rat somewhere in this all this, market share calculations. We're number one in the cloud with this market share. All the revenue, there's a lot of sandbagging going on. What is cloud?  The Holger's been quoted many times on SiliconANGLE, infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, software as a service. All kind of evolving as the stack modernizes, but actually no one has a clue on how to put a scoreboard together on who has what share. And even the magic quadrants kind of are obliterated by horizontally scalable category. So, Microsoft bundles office revenue. I mean, put G Suite, put AdWords in. They'd be number one in the cloud.   Wall Street doesn't know what to look at. I look at the customers. What's your take? I mean, how do you make sense of that? How do you talk about this whole market share issue?  The problem is everybody's counting the wrong things, sandbagging just exactly who's talking about. The only number that's going to matter in the next three to five years is compute power. Who's consuming the most compute power with their customers? Everything else? Just a time. I don't care how you can calculate it. Whoever has the most compute power is winning the cloud because the cloud powers AI-driven apps. And then we heard this too, Dave. We talked about this AI and the data sandwich. Compute AI and data, he's raised right. Compute is a great metric because compute, you need compute for AI. You need compute for storage. We can all agree. I think there's any debate that Google is a cloud company. Google has a hundred billion dollars on the balance sheet. End of story. But I think your point, right? Customers see this, right? We are seeing a lot of customers move off of Amazon. They're not publicly saying it. They're starting their Google instance. They're also on Microsoft Azure, but they're moving. And we're seeing a lot of them come here. And the reason they're coming here is they're afraid that in one case, the cloud partner might be a competitor in the future. In the other case, there's an embracement of open source that's so important to them because they're trying to drive down the cost structure. And then of course, security is a big deal. And of course, having an AI-driven background is really important. And they want access to the source code as the open source. It's not only cost, it's that they want to make changes. They could get to market faster and align to their business. All right, I haven't heard any blockchain. AI certainly two years ago was the hype word. You bolt blockchain onto anything, the stock goes up. No blockchain, maybe because Google's stock went up 35 points yesterday, but they don't need it. Blockchain is the valley missing blockchain. Is blockchain being relevant? It's decentralized, it's got storage, it's got security. And then developer community around decentralized applications emerging, that if the Canary in the coal mine is going to be saying anything, Ray, it's that the application market's moving and there's tell signs. It's not a, yeah, there's some scans on the ICOs out there in every market, but as that kind of gets through the system, you can't ignore the infrastructure impact of blockchain. You can't ignore the emergence of a new kind of software called decentralized applications. It just doesn't seem like it's Silicon Valley sitting the boat on this thing. So take the Russian FSB female agents posing as blockchain experts at all these events, take that out of it. We're in 1996 of the internet, right? We're just at the beginning. The standards aren't there, but the valley's completely missed blockchain. The VCs, they're kind of shy. They're not as aggressive as they used to be. It's the individual investors. It's the private equity folks. They're going into blockchain wholeheartedly because they see the future. It is going to decentralize and it's actually going to disrupt the valley, which is why the valley's a little bit afraid of blockchain at the moment. Now, transactions per second are slow, right? 700, that's not going to solve the problem, but we were just at Microsoft last weekend. They're working on some things that actually get transactions to move faster. EOS already has numbers that are off the charts in terms of milliseconds. I like to think, I think the VCs are a little bit gun-shy, however, we just heard from NetApp, the founder of NetApp, lean into what you're afraid of and you come out better. But I think that's one thing that I think they should do and I don't think they're doing it. I haven't met anyone in Silicon Valley that has the chops to do blockchain. We've been covering it. But I think it's more than that. I think New York is playing an upper hand over Silicon Valley with blockchain. New York, London, Switzerland, they're all ahead in blockchain. Estonia. Estonia. I mean, the Zug is like exactly where it's all happening. But here's the thing. I think Google was supposed to have a blockchain announcement. I'm not sure where it is. It kind of got leaked on Monday at the Fortune CEO event. I don't know where it is, I'm waiting for it because apparently it is really good. Well, and also I covered distributed 2018 here in San Francisco last week. And there was an interesting dynamic between all these companies moving ahead with blockchain initiatives and some of them are really interesting out there.  Are they going to do anything? And so you've got countries like Malta and others that are moving forward very aggressively and creating those initiatives. The killer app is money and what's going on in the US is the SEC is ruining everything because they're putting the fear of God in Silicon Valley. And by the way, this ain't the first time back dating stock options, Sarbanes, Oxleys.   Hundreds of millions of dollars for raising money. But the Valley might not just be money, but it's not just blockchain. It's the cryptocurrency, crypto economy. And we're at IBM think, remember, they didn't want to talk about cryptocurrency. We're talking about blockchain. Don't talk about cryptocurrency. That's where I think they're missing the boat because the crypto economy is allowing developers to actually get paid for developing core protocols for the new internet. It is funding the innovation, but I actually don't think it's in the money or in the financial side of the cryptocurrency. The value is when we take data privacy and allow data privacy to become a human right and a property right. When it becomes a property right, we now have a value exchange mechanism that's going to allow people to sell their data or say, no, don't touch my data. And right now people are getting away with making money on everybody else's data. But it does come back to the economics because if I can fund the development of that technology and I can incent users to participate in a marketplace and charge for their services, everybody's aligned and investors, private equity, old money, new money, VCs, if they're smart, will get in and take advantage of the increase in price in that coin. We need a business model. No, he's talking about asset. Asset class is a major home run. You nailed it. Ray, you nailed it. Dave, you're talking about token economics. They work hand in hand. They're converging. They're converging. Token economics. And this is where I think the VCs are missing in Silicon Valley. The token economics, you look at the ICOs, the good ones, is a new liquidity pattern. And this is going to be where they'll miss the money-making vote. And they might be looking at their chops saying, damn, why didn't I get in? Cut out of the action. I can get liquid on virtually any asset that's locked up in whatever. The VCs have become the middleman and they are cut out of the action. And when you have a business model that's in place that's built on smart contracts and identity, I can tokenize it. There's a great company. Check it out. It's called hu-m-a-n-i-t-y.co. Humani.co. They're taking that piece on data privacy, turning it into a property right and enabling people to transact on it first in healthcare. And remember, the Cubecoin's coming soon. So look for that. Our own token's coming on the Cube. And we're going to give you tokens for watching. All that great stuff. I see it on Telegram already. It's coming. Mark, you've been reporting on the industry. Blockchain certainly renailed the asset class. I think he's absolutely right. This is going to certainly be for physical goods. There's a distributed ledger. It's decentralized and immutable. The token economics over the top is going to fund how values transferred on these assets, whether they're intangible or physical. Now, the crypto side of it is more of a disrupter. You're reporting on this. What is the big threshold? I'll see in the US, security token, utility token. SEC put the kibosh on utility. But now security tokens are back. You're starting to see people get behind the notion of a security token, which sounds like preferred financing. What's your reporting saying? What I've been hearing for a long time, everyone gets caught up in the Bitcoin hype. What's the price? What's everybody just frothing at the mouth about? It's really about the blockchain. It's the distributed ledger that enterprises are looking at and that businesses are building some real products around. And that's where the action is going to be. Well, we're going to have to keep this stellar panel pun intended on this because we're going to have to continue this. Blockchain creates, takes inefficiencies and makes them efficient. That's where we're seeing a lot of value. VCs, some will say middleman and inefficient. Or was that the trend, Ray? It might be. I mean, if we can decentralize, if we can decentralize these financing structures, which is what blockchain is allowing, we can actually get to innovation faster. And so if we can eliminate a lot of this and get more money in more people's hands earlier and more money in more people's hands who are building innovation, we have a shot. So do you think that traditional banks will lose control of the payment systems? I don't know. I don't know what payment is. Whoever gets the fiat currency first. If, you know, one cool thing maybe to buy an airline's airplane mile system, take Air Canada, take them over, buy their airplane miles and use that as the basis for fiat currency. That would be crazy if someone did it. Oh wait, Singapore Airlines did that with Chris Miles. But you're going to see this. Well, Digital Bits does that. We still got a company out there called Fuse Chain doing it. What about the U.S. government? You think they'll do Fedcoin? Fedcoin. I don't know, back by the full faith of the... U.S. Defense Department. Yes, by the DOD. The trend, I'm going to end this segment, but the trend we're watching is a concept called stablecoin because there's a lot of instability going on. Keep an eye out on stablecoin. Look at EOS, a lot of private chain solutions coming out. I think it's going to be a hybrid world, public, private chains and hybrid. It sounds like cloud computing. So back to cloud computing. And given the venture trends, I want to get you guys' reaction on this. I said some outlandish things this week, the past two days. One of them, I said, is IT operations categorically will be decimated with AI. If you look at the trends out there, AI, AI SaaS cloud, IT ops, AI ops, auto ML. These are technologies with cloud that essentially could replace categorically the industry of ITSM, ITOM. These are categories. What happens there? What's your thoughts? John, that's not going away. You're completely right. With auto ML, all these categories of dev ops that we love today, we're going to train these systems to be better than how we are. That's going away. It's completely obliterated. So companies like ServiceNow should be focusing on the experience. Actually, Google should buy ServiceNow. But companies like Google are going to be able to decimate all these categories and augment humanity. Do you really want to sit there and go through that standup every day the way that we do it today? That's horrible. I don't want to do that. I want to think about great products, new strategy, great ideas. Put that in the market. So this is about being on the right side of history at this point. If you're a vendor and you're out there looking and you're in the IT operations business, ITOM, ITIL, ITSM, if that's your business, I mean, you better start thinking of moving to the other side of the street because a crater's coming down and it'll take you out. Well, even in a vertical like healthcare, in a session yesterday with Jeff Dean, he talked about the use of auto ML and how that's being starting to be adopted now in the healthcare industry and how businesses and companies are going to look at that and that's going to make a big difference. Healthcare, financial service, these are industries that have not been really disrupted but need to be. Look, we talked to Neil Gomes. He's the chief digital officer at Thomas Jefferson and Jefferson University. I mean, they've been doing great stuff with auto ML and being able to take visual things. I mean, just on images and be able to change patient experiences, all those things that are manual task, as soon as they get digitized, AI is going to change the world. AI, service management, AI operations, that's coming down. I totally agree with you. Okay, guys, let's talk. Cyber security, of course. Well, that has to happen. That's like table stakes. All right, let's talk big M&A. If you look at some of the big mergers, Broadcom buying CA, where the hell did that come from? BMC with KKR, it's happening. The rich are getting richer. Dave, you said the rich are getting richer. Broadcom trying to do an Apple, go from chip to app? What's your- Do y'all go in public? I want to- Michael. Guys, Ray, Dave, what's your thoughts?  What's going on? I got to give Guigua a lot of credit. He spent $2 billion and literally only generated a couple hundred million in revenue and exited on seven billion. That's probably the best financial transaction I've seen in years. So he gets kudos for that. But for Broadcom, right? It's, what else am I going to do? Return on profit, return on assets. Like the hardware infrastructure market is just about margins and EBITDA. There's no growth there. You've got to get into software or something else in order to grow. And so it's a logical choice since they couldn't buy that other company. Well, and I got, I said Michael Dell. I mean, look at the EMC acquisition. Michael Dell and Silver Lake put in four billion in cash. They're going to turn that four billion into 30, 35, maybe 40 billion. I interviewed Naveen from Mayfield Ventures. We had a conversation on theCUBE. He said, Silicon's back, the old Valley's back, the media Valley's changing because Broadcom has Silicon. We hear from Google, the chip. I'm checking the boot drive from Malware. Maybe chips are an advantage. Move to the high margin up the stack. Or is it just, I want to buy this because it's off the market. The CA thing's very interesting. Software and chip, software and networks, they're all going to be power of this. Software is powering those future pieces. That's all the point of software defined. You guys talk about this all the time. Yeah, well, and that's always been a gate in the semiconductor industry is software. So really interesting move. Okay, so final question to aim the segment. Let's give Google Cloud a grade on their event. We were there two years ago. We've seen before Diane Greene and we've seen now two years in. Certainly she knows the enterprise, found her VMware. The difference between VMware and having no competition like she had being a first mover, I think she come in. I thought, I think my takeaway, I think she came into Google Cloud. This is going to be a piece of cake. I'm going to come in. I got the enterprise shops. I'll bring in my people. I'm going to move things around. Whoa, Amazon. Hello, Microsoft. Hello, competition. Ray, competition is on her doorstep. She has competition and she's not in the number one position. This is not what she had at VMware. It's a very, very different market. I mean, I give Diane Greene a lot of credit of making Google more enterprise. Took three years ago. It was like, oh my God, there's 50 people. It's an enterprise. Really? Come on. So they've definitely improved for there. They get enterprise. Here are biggest challenges. She's got a one to 100 ratio from go to market to engineering. She needs more marketing people, more sales people, more people that know how to do support, people that do partner account management. If she gets that part, they're in a really good position because we're in a situation where the product is good. The product, well, the engineers are there, but the marketing, the finesse, the last piece of getting an enterprise story, that still needs to be baked in.  It was definitely a C the second year. And I think C plus, B minus. I might be a little more generous. I would go with a B and I'm basing that in part on what I heard in the partner discussion round table this afternoon. One of their partners said when they get in deal flows with the three big ones, Google Cloud is holding their own. I mean, they're holding their own. That doesn't sound like 6% market share to me. Well, Google's hungry, right? They're hungry. They want to be the best to raise point. They need more, they need more bodies, right? More than they've been hiring like crazy. I think the ecosystem point mark in your article, I think you said 13,000 partners, right? You know, Amazon's got 100,000 partners. Azure, 70,000 partners. But you walk around the floor here, a lot of the big guys, we like to say Deloitte, et cetera. They like to eat at the trough and they're starting to. And they've beefed up their partner team at Google Cloud. Which would make a difference. I have to say, because of this set, I got to give this set, you know. Oh no, look, this is today. The technicals are amazing. The sets are amazing. Guys, the cube is here. It's definitely an A plus. I was going to do a scorecard next time. It'd be like a boxing ring, you know, like self-awareness. I give them an A plus, okay? Google has turned the corner on self-awareness. They have gotten an A on that. They now are not by Google, because we're Google and we're great. They now have, with Diane Greene, they're still cocky, they're still in a good way. I think cocky and a bit arrogant. And I think that's positive, because they're engineers, they have good stuff. A plus on being aware that they need to do more in the enterprise. And they're moving hard, they're hiring the right people. I got to give very high marks for the contribution of women to the content agenda. Oh yeah. Probably the best. Who are now mammals. Probably the best I've ever seen. Yeah, I mean, A plus on women in tech and diversity. Their inclusion and diversity is awesome here. I want to see more of Reese, right? The guy that did the IoT event. I mean, be Google. Don't try to be Microsoft. Don't try to be Amazon.  Get the engineers there who can tell the story, tell it authentically. That was an awesome keynote that he was doing with the IoT, with the thing in the pocket and the chip. That was amazing. You need a lot more of that. I think Google's being Google in the ninja. I like that. I think that gave him high marks for that. Where are they really? And so I'm giving them AA, A, B, B plus. Where they lose still, in my mind, is on the product side. They're way behind Amazon. I think Microsoft is kind of- They're way behind Microsoft on teams. And even Microsoft, although they're wiring stuff together to have some pre-existing cloud, because they've been in that business more B to B.   So I give them a C on that one. But overall, I'd give them a good B plus on the event. And they're so, but they're so not panicked about it. They're in the long game. They got a long game, they got a hundred billion dollars in the balance sheet. They got unbelievable tech, and they're like, you know, we're getting there. The recognition of hybrid, three, four years ago was like, no, no, no, no, no. No hybrid. It's all going about- Give it to customers, don't buy. Amazon's kind of still there by the way. Well, Amazon wins statistically on the feature set, but their products are good enough, while they're winning deals, because they have enough great cloud that there are use cases that are pretty obvious that Google has a fit for. There are some clouds that they don't have a fit for. That's where they got to fill in the gap. I think that's where they got to do the work. But I think this is well beyond where they were with App Engine two years ago. That's all they had, the OG. And then their message is engineers, getting to that audience, and what they can do with data. And that's resonating. You guys sent it this event. They're betting on data. They're betting on scale and speed. If that bet comes home, they're going to lap the field. And if Cisco can sell for them with their relationship, that's going to be very interesting. They said something in the analyst Q&A, Dr. Fei-Fei Lee said something in the analyst Q&A I thought was amazing about trust. They said, take your data, put in our ML Engine. We give you some preceded information to start. It's your data, it's your model. We don't even look at it. We're going to keep that pure. It's your expertise. And I haven't heard that from any other cloud vendor. And I thought that was important. And they're pretty strong on statements about security. So that's a good sign. Guys, overall, great progress. Thanks for coming on and sharing the perspective. Mark, thanks for the great reporting. Ray, great work you're doing at Constellation. And thanks for all your guys for being able to be quoted on SiliconANG. We always love to have the expertise. Dave, that's a great thing for your great commentary. It's theCUBE day two wrap up here at Google Cloud and Moscone live in San Francisco. Stay with us all day tomorrow for day three of the CUBE coverage of Google Next. Thanks for watching.


Hi there! This is Pastor Vlad. And before we go into this week's content, I would like to invite you to become a part of what God is doing at Hungry Generation today. This year, we've seen a great blessing of the Lord, an anointing of God, God's healings and salvations and deliverances. And in 2019, I know that God wants to take us further. And many of you who are watching this video right now and watching this message, you've been receiving from Hungry Gen, you've been growing, your world has been changing and we give to God all the glory. But we would like you in 2019 to become a part of what God is doing. And you can do that by sowing your best gift into this ministry, or maybe doing something monthly, like a partnership, a reoccurring gift. This will help us to go further in 2019 and bring more of what we're bringing to you to many, many more people. Me and my wife, we do that every single year. Our church does that every single year. Well, once a year, we give a special offering to God. And then we also become partners of this ministry by our monthly contributions. And I give you that opportunity today to become our partner and to become somebody who contributes to what God is doing today. Below is a link where you can make that happen. So why don't you ask God, what would God have you give this year to this ministry to help us go further in God? And now let's go into this message. We are delighted to what God wants to do today in this service and what God wants to do in your life in Jesus' name. As we are approaching 2019, I know that 2018 has been a great year for many people. And we thank God for all the salvation, all the healings, the intership that we have had, the CDs that were released, the conferences that we have had, the many trips that Pastor Vlad took. And you guys went with me there in the spirit, amen. Amen. All the people that we've made an impact on, thousands of people through online community that God has used us to make an impact on. But 2019 is going to be better. It's going to be our best year yet. Can somebody say amen? It's going to be our best year yet. Today we are starting a new series that will be called Encounter. Because I believe that God's goal for us is to encounter Him, is to encounter the Holy Spirit. We love the Holy Spirit as a church, amen. And when we encounter the Holy Spirit, our life becomes different. The goal of this series, I'm just going to give you my secrets out from the beginning. My goal in this series is to encourage you, challenge you to live a life of prayer, fasting, and giving in 2019. That if you looked at the life of prayer, fasting, and giving as, that's not for me, that's for them. That in 2019, you rethink that, amen. And not just occasionally, but to do it regularly and as a lifestyle. To make prayer, fasting, and giving like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Part of your life, amen. One of the things that we're going to do is at the end of January, we're going to do on January 27th, we are going to do a sacrifice Sunday. Now sacrifice Sunday, I know where sacrifice is a negative word for some of you. And it doesn't mean we're going to do something bad or kill something. We're going to bring to God our best gift that we've ever brought. Something that may be beyond our convenience and our comfort zone as it relates to our finances. And we will create, it's going to be a habit that we're going to do every single year. Once a year, but especially next year, we have some financial needs as a church. One of them is that we had a school that rented our facility for over 15 years. And the school paid generously, they covered pretty much a lot of our bills. And as you have seen, the school has been replaced with our kids zone. Our kids zone now occupies that place and the school is here no more. They didn't get accepted for one more year of funding from the government. And, but it came exactly at the right moment for us as a church because we were so tight we couldn't fit the kids in. And when they said that they're moving out, the moment the kids zone got remodeled, we moved in. Our kids attendance doubled in the first Sunday. But as our kids ministry is growing, our finances went down. So this is where the Lord is using me and you now for the next year. Instead of the government to begin to take care of the things of the church. Are you with me? Now it got silent. But I believe that next year that our church is not going to be dependent on some big millionaire. It's not going to be dependent on the government. It's going to depend on the sacrifices of all of us. We're going to make that happen. Can somebody say amen? I believe God has grown our church now to the place where we don't need an outside help. Where we from this house can support this house. Are you with me? And so in January 27th, I ask you that you ask God, what would God have you bring? For those of you watching us on live stream, from Germany, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Canada, Ukraine, Russia, India, other parts of the world, people who write us every day that this house is like their church. We would like you on January 27th, not to skip the live stream, but to participate also in the same thing and become a partner with hungry generation. Church, I have to remind you that the first time the Lord provider, God the provider was mentioned in the Bible. It was mentioned when God revealed himself as Jehovah Jireh to Abraham. Abraham did not have a financial problem. Abraham was wealthy financially and Abraham was asked by God to bring a sacrifice. And when he was bringing a sacrifice, God stopped him and God provided a sacrifice that was God's gift to Abraham. Now, I understand when I read the story, sometimes I'm like, God, why did you bring a sacrifice so Abraham can give it back to you? Why could you just take it yourself? But God tests us many times and I would like you to ask God, next month, to give you a sacrifice. You might say, I don't have anything. Ask God to provide you a sacrifice. I heard businessmen one time in Louisiana who was working on this contract and Rehard Bonke came to church and he told God, if at the end of the year I get a bonus for $1 million, he never got anything closed before. He says, God, I will give $1 million to sponsor the whole crusade of Rehard Bonke. See, oh, flies from another country, comes in and out of all the thousands of employees, picks him and for some weird reason gives him $1 million. So he asked God and God gave a sacrifice and he blessed him. The next year, he prayed for two millions and for two crusades and God provided two millions in exactly the same way for a crusade. And you might say, this is kind of weird stuff. I'm not sure I like what I'm hearing. In the New Testament, it says God gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater. See, most of us in here, we know God is somebody who gives us bread, meaning he meets our needs, helps us to pay our bills. But see, some of you, the next year, you will discover God as someone who gives us seed, not just bread. Jehovah Chyre, the one who gives a sacrifice. Come on somebody, hallelujah.  I learned the hard way about the importance of stretching two weeks ago. Me and my wife, we go work out. She's more consistent. I'm just more of, I work out for the same way most people go to church, just for the check mark. Not you, but I'm saying most people outside of our church. I just go there just for the check mark. But this particular time, we decided to make it a marriage thing so to work out together. And so we're doing squats and, you know, girls, they do squats pretty much every day. And so I do squats once in six months and stuff. So I decided to do squats with her on this Smith machine where, you know, it goes kind of all together, the bar goes together. Now I was so focused on the lip, not to hit the little hinges on that that I did not focus on the proper posture. Because when you do squats, you have to have a proper posture and you have to, you know, pull the weight from your back into your, into your squats. So anyway, as I was wrongly postured, little did I know is that I felt something in my back. It wasn't the Holy Spirit. It was something sharp and hot, but it wasn't God. And as fell, my back went out and because I couldn't walk after that without excruciating pain, couldn't sit down without holding myself and couldn't get up. And the reason why that happened is because I don't stretch before I work out. The old me before a week ago. And a lady who does massages came to my house last Friday, last week. And the moment she came in, before even she started doing a massage, she says, I want you to bend. And I could not be honest with you. I couldn't go even more than what I'm doing right now without sharp pain. I just couldn't. And so she says, well, you don't have a problem with your muscles as much as you blown out your back and you need to see a chiropractor, but you know, it's Christmas time. So all the offices are closed. And so last Sunday, when I preached about healing of God, most of you don't realize I was in excruciating pain. I couldn't get up from that pew without Ivan helping me. He was holding my back like this and helped me to get up. So some of you maybe thought like, what's going on with Pastor Vlad and Ivan? I just needed help. Okay, that's all. Ivan actually knows that the moment I blow out my back, I right away drove to his house and I said, hey, pray for me and stuff.  And I was like, brain surgeon, never operate on their own brains. I'm like, I pray for healing for other people, but I need now people to pray for me, even when I met with Jeremy, you know, and asked Jeremy right in the parking lot of Starbucks. I say, he prayed for my back. I'm like, I need as much prayer as I can get so that I can minister to others. And by God's grace this week, you know, honestly, without the help of the professionals, because they were all closed, God just restored my back and completely have no pain whatsoever. Praise be to God. But this is what I've learned. If you don't stretch, you're going to become stiff. And some of you, the area of giving for you is a very stiff area.  Perhaps your back is out. Perhaps there is a man that is lodged. Perhaps you're too attached to things. Perhaps the issue is not the church and money. The issue is not that you have a lot of money. It's that money have a hold on you.   So you will not be, ah, it's again that church again. I knew it. I should have not went to that church and all after money. Pastor just wants my money because see your back might be out. And God wants you to stretch in this area. So that there is no pain in that area. So that you're not stiff, you're not stagnant, but that you are flexible in your relationship with God. Somebody say amen. Hallelujah. You know, when it comes to fasting, giving and prayer, I found out that in my life, one thing that keeps some people away from being generous, living a life of prayer and fasting is this. Is they say this thing, I don't have a prompting. You know, that's good for you. You're giving 10% to the church where you go. It's good for you. You fast and pray, but God is not leading me to some people. They're only motivated by problems. Others are only motivated by promptings. But I believe in the New Testament, Apostle Paul says to the Corinthian church. He says, whatever you purposed in your heart, give to God. That means there will be many occasions where God will not prompt you. You're gonna have to purpose. Meaning you purpose in your own heart that I will do that. Did God tell you? He doesn't have to tell me to brush my teeth. I don't feel prompted to brush my teeth. I purpose in my heart to brush my teeth. And all the people around me are thankful for that. There are things in your life. Let's see, God prompts Abraham, give your son. But Solomon never prompted, been prompted by God. He purposed in his heart. I will give God a thousand bulls. See, God prompted a rich ruler. Give everything you have. But a Mary was never prompted to give her whole income and put it at the feet of Jesus. She purposed in her own heart. Some of you are thinking, oh, God is not going to be pleased if he doesn't pull me into it. No, God will think you're mature if you can now purpose things in your own heart. He doesn't have to prompt you about it. And somebody say amen. A mama and a daddy will never look at their child and say, I'm so disappointed in you.  Why? Because you have grown of age. We're now on your own.  I didn't tell you to do that. Why didn't you wait for me to tell you? How many parents will be disappointed in their children? No, you will be happy if you say, finally, you grew up. You make your own sandwiches. You clean up after yourself now. I don't have to tell you why because you're matured.  The Lord wants in 2019 to mature you that you can purpose in your heart and go into that. Can somebody say amen? See, some of us, I want to give you one more nugget, is that sometimes our routines create revival. But if we keep them too long, they'll put us into a rut. See, sometimes what happens is that when we are just only prompted, we develop certain routines when we walk with God. And what happens with these routines, at first, they stretch you and they pull you into a revival. See, for some of you, to be here on Sunday morning is revival. But in a year from now, you will be in a rut by coming to Sunday morning. Why? Because God, the very routines that brought revival yesterday, if you keep them for too long, they'll lead you into a rut. So the question is not, well, oh, that's good, Pastor Vlad. I knew I had to stop coming to church in 2019. Thank you for confirming that.  That's not what I was saying. What I was saying is that you have to learn to change things with your routines in 2019 to stay in revival. I'll give you a workout example, since all of you are interested in that. A few months ago, I was working out, and again, I am not some fitness guru, and fitness is not necessarily my biggest passion. I just do it for the check mark and for maintenance. So I was doing a bench press, and I don't lift a lot on a bench press, but I decided to put a plate.  And so I lifted a few times and I was like, you know, I think I could do it. And so I saw Jordan there. Jordan, he comes to our church.  And so I asked him, I said, hey, could you spot me? And I didn't ask him to spot me because I was afraid that it will drop me and kill me. I asked him to spot me because I knew that I could not do the plate three times, you know, in 10 reps. There was no way I could do that. But if somebody is watching me, I'll do a lot.  And so I'm thinking like, Jordan is going to stand there, you know, and I'm going to push that through. I'm going to let a blood will come out of me, but I will push that through. And so, and there he was, you know, he's standing, and he doesn't know that I've never done three sets of 10 with the plate.  And after that, literally, I felt like I'm an Iron Man. I am the Mister Universe. And Jordan looks at me and he says, he says, dude, that was so easy for you. He said, next time just like, add more weight. And I didn't want to ruin this, my, my, the fact that, you know, I feel all much, I didn't want to tell him I'd never done this in my life. But, you know, Jordan was right. Jordan wasn't trying to kill me.  What he was in fact challenging me is that now at this time, which I still do a plate, and I was planning to do a plate for the rest of my life, but I know that I have, in the area of Bench Press, I have plateaued. And the only way to get out of that is not to say, I'm not going to the gym. No, it's to add a little bit more to the plate. Not another plate, because then you won't have a pastor, preaching pastor next Sunday.  But add a little bit more next time and create a new routine for next year. How many of you in this room think that you benched before in your relationship with God that a year ago it was revival, but now it has become an old routine. In fact, so old, you don't even see a thrill, a passion. You're not growing in it. You're not getting closer to the Holy Spirit. It doesn't stretch you. There's no sense of resistance. And the goal is not to say, well, I'm going to quit church altogether to get my passion back. Nobody does that with the gym, but nobody should do that with their faith. What you need to do next year, probably, is to see which routines require minor adjustments.  Perhaps you've been fasting for this year and you're saying, you know what, this whole fasting thing is not doing anything to me. What if during fasting you turn off your phone, the one that you're on right now on Instagram and turn it off for three days? What if you give up not only food, but you also give up caffeine? Oh, Jesus, have mercy. Did you say caffeine? That's like another plate on my plate. What if this coming year, the prayer life that you do always do on your way to work as you're also doing makeup and checking your phone that that's called your prayer life? What if this coming year on Friday morning from six to seven, you will make it your routine to come here for prayer? For some of you, maybe that's been your routine and the Lord has challenged you to go either deeper or to go more, but I challenge you, church, revival is not a magic. It's not God's just randomly giving people revival. It's people choosing to grow in the routine so that they can walk in revival. Somebody say, man, maybe the same thing we need to do with giving is start sewing, you know, and I will speak more vulnerable with myself. I saw the same thing, a certain rod that came with fasting and I saw the change for me was to begin to not just fast, but disconnect completely from fasting, during fasting, disconnect completely so that I could receive more. There were a few months where I, you know, did instead of three-day fasting to go way longer in that. Same thing in prayer. When my prayer gets in the rod, one of the things that I started to do again is to take a day during a week, one day and spend that whole day in prayer. Now, I understand that's not something you may do. That's something that your work might not allow you to do. It's part of my job, but at the same time, what it does is it started to stretch and I started to feel the sense of resistance with the flesh, a sense of feeding on the spirit and sense of closeness to God, a sense of revival that starts bubbling inside of my spirit.   The Lord is bringing a shift in 2019. Prayer, fasting and giving is where God wants to take us in 2019. Can somebody say amen? And I'm not saying this to make it, oh, this is so painful. This is so hard. Make it as a part of your habit and grow in it for God. There are people here today. Your challenge in 2019 is honestly to start tithing, to start putting God in your finances. And I'm speaking to Christians, people who call this church their home to in this area to grow and some of you up to now you made excuses. You're like, well, I come on Sunday morning. That's my tithing. Maybe you said, you know what? But I serve. I hold the camera. I take pictures. I'm on the worship team. I flip slides. You know, I work at the kids zone, you know, throughout the whole summer when it was being remodeled. You know, I speak here. I do so many things. That's my tithing. That is your giving, my friend. That is your serving. And that is so important and so appreciated. And from the depths of my heart, I say, thank you, but that's not tithing. The Bible says in Malachi to bring your tithes to the Lord, the God's house. It's interesting. It does not say give your tithes. Why? Because tithing is not giving. It's returning to God. What is his? Let me give you an example. It's like me giving you a car for a week and saying, hey, could you keep my car for a week and I come back a week from now and then you come to me and I say, well, I have a gift for you and you give me my car. And you say, I just felt generous. Just felt like, just felt prompted to give you a car. What am I going to say back to you? I say, no, you didn't give me a car. You returned my car. See, that's what the tithing is called. Tithing is not called giving. It's called returning. That's why people who don't tithe according to Malachi, God called them thieves for the same reason. If you would keep my car after I came back and you would say, oh, that's mine now. I wouldn't call you say, oh, yeah, that is yours. No, that's called stealing. You don't call me a thief if I didn't bring you a Christmas gift. You might call me greedy. You might call me stingy, but you would never call me a thief. Why? Because I never took something that's yours. God that doesn't call people who don't tithe just greedy. He just says that sometimes what happens, it's stealing. That's strong words and I did not write them. And that's why I want a challenge in 2019. God wants you to trust. God wants to trust you with resources in 2019. But there's one thing you have to remember. God don't trust thieves. Oh, how dare he not. The same way you don't. If you know a family relative who comes to your house and takes things that is not theirs. When they come into your house, what's going to happen? You're going to be extra careful. Will you stop loving them? Will you denounce them? No, you're probably not even going to block them on Instagram. You're going to still keep them closed, but this is what you're not going to do. You're never going to trust them. You're going to love them but never trust them. You have to understand one thing is that you may say, why does God not trust people who don't tithe for this reason? They don't trust him. Why should God trust us who are humans if we don't trust him who is good? We should do an article right here, right now. So I just want to challenge and I understand the etiologian sitting here. Pastor Vlad, this is all good, but it's the Old Testament. In Malachi, the verse about tithing, two, three verses before God said this, I am the Lord, don't change. That's for all those people who think that's the Old Testament and that changes. God on purpose put the thing, I don't change. Literally cut every single excuse from me and stuff.  I want in 2019 to say, God, I trust you. Please trust me. Trust me with greater anointing. Trust me with greater opportunities. Trust me with open doors. Why? Because my heart is in the right place and I want to bring my tithe to God's house. One more correction and I'm going to get off of this and touch more on this series and that's this. Bible says that the tithe belongs to God's house. I need to correct this because last few weeks I've been meeting with different people and a lot of our people ask me questions many times and there's a lot of misconceptions and it's completely fine. What people do with their finances is none of my business. But we should know what the scripture teaches. Tipping the barista, giving the person on the street, blessing your mom with a Christmas gift, blessing your wife with a new watch, buying your husband a new apple. The iPhone is not a tithe. It's generosity. It's charity. It's giving and every one of us should do more of that. But that's not a tithe. Tithe belongs to God's house. It doesn't belong to a televangelist. It doesn't belong to an awesome ministry that you listen to and it doesn't belong as your mom's Christmas gift. It belongs to the house that you come and you call your home church. That's according to the Bible. Amen? Now that I said things that will make many of you love me. Matthew chapter 2 verse 1 and verse 2. Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the king, behold wise men from the east came to Jerusalem saying, where is he who had been born the king of the Jews? For we had seen his star in the east and have come to worship him. For those of you who were here last Sunday, you experienced more like an Easter service. So today is going to be a little bit more, just few moments about like a Christmas story. Though this is not a Christmas story because the wise men came probably two years after Jesus was born because Jesus was no longer an infant and he was no longer in the manger. He was now in the house. The wise men, they studied these, they were magi, they were like the scientists. They studied astrologists. They studied the stars and they saw a particular star and they were led by this star and the first place they came to is to Jerusalem to get some more information on this king of the Jews that they suspect who was born. And as they came to Jerusalem, we see that the Herod, he got really, really nervous and the whole Jerusalem was troubled with him. He gathered the people who knew the stuff about the king of the Jews, the scribes and the priests and the Pharisees and the Sadists, all of those people. He gathered them up and says, tell me more about this king of the Jews and from the back of their heads without searching the internet, they said, oh yeah. And they quoted the prophets saying this is where he will be born. This is everything about, almost like gave him a whole folder of the profile of the king of the Jews. And what they did after that is went back to their normal life. The wise men took that information and ran with that information and they saw Jesus. They worshiped Jesus and again, they opened their treasures and gave Jesus, the baby Jesus, most precious gifts, gold, silver and another. They gave him precious gifts and they went back to sleep and the Lord instructed them not to go back the same way to Herod. I wonder sometimes, what would I have done 2,000 years ago if Jesus would have been born when I would be alive? Would I be a Herod who gets threatened by Jesus? Would I be a Pharisee who has all the information about Jesus? Or would I be a wise man who is not threatened, who is not satisfied with the information? But who wants to see Jesus face to face? As I ponder on this question, I think I have an answer on what I would do with Jesus and the answer I have also for you. I know what you would do with Jesus if he would have been born today. Do you know what you would do with Jesus if he would be born today? Exactly the same thing that you do with Holy Spirit right now. Which is for most of us, absolutely nothing. The second greatest event on this earth is not Jesus being born. That was the first greatest event and most people were completely indifferent to it. They were satisfied with knowing about Jesus and very few were interested to chase Him, to find Him, to experience Him, to worship Him and then disciples to give Him their life. But today there is another event that is happening right in front of your nose and this is the event where Jesus said, another like me, just like me, but another one is coming. In fact, he is my father. The reason why Holy Spirit is Jesus' father is because the Bible says that Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit. The meaning, he is even going to be greater than me. The reason why is because he will be in many places at the same time. He will not be lodged in Jerusalem. He will not stay in Israel. He can be closer to you than ever before. And my friends, I have a news for you. He is here right now. Another one is coming and he has came. My question to you today and this question I present to me as well. Am I like a Pharisee? Pentecostal. Because see we Pentecostals, we Charismatics, we have this feeling like Holy Spirit belongs to us. Like Holy Spirit has special connection with our denomination because we got the tongues figured out. We sometimes feel like Pharisees. We have all the information about the Holy Spirit and sometimes you find the Pentecostal Christians, they speak in tongues and they have the information. They walk around saying he is ours. The way Jewish rabbis were saying Messiah our King. But have no power. Have no signs, no wonders. Have no deliverances. Have no healings. Nothing supernatural is happening with Pentecostals except the fact they have more information and they speak in tongues. And why is that? Because the Holy Spirit does not belong to Pentecostals. He belongs to people who are hungry and who are willing to get up and seek an encounter with him. Whether they are Baptists, whether they are Catholics, whether they are Presbyterian, we say God, I want to see you. I am hungry for you. Holy Spirit wants to be sought, pursued. I want us as a church. An encounter with Holy Spirit is this. Is that what I read in the prophets, in the scriptures, I see in my life. Pharisees read it. Wise men saw it. I read the Gospels and every few verses I see Jesus healed. Cast out demons. He's Jesus healed. I don't want to be a Pharisee who creates a doctrine for why this is not happening. I want to be a wise man and take this as a challenge to my status quo and say, God, one more step closer. See more healings. One more step closer to seeing deliverance. But if demons manifest, people will run. Maybe those people have demons and they need to run. That's fine. I'm not after that. I am not after pleasing or impressing people. I want to not be a Pharisee who reads about and never sees that. See, Jesus was not planted in some planet, Mars. He was within the reach. Holy Spirit is not somewhere in some other country. He is within your reach. He is here right now and your hunger and your desperation will push you out out of your first say fair Sanitism into any counter with God. Let 2019 be a year of the Holy Spirit. Let this be a year of wanting to know Holy Spirit. Not just knowing about the Holy Spirit, but knowing Him personally, knowing Him intimately and knowing Him passionately. Come on, somebody. So an encounter is God wants us to have an encounter with the Holy Spirit.  God wants there to be signs that you know the Holy Spirit. God wants there to be results that you walk with Holy Spirit and I'm not talking about only that you can speak in tongues 300 miles per hour. That is great. That is awesome. But it does not mean that you know Him. You walk with Him and that you are with Him. Come on, somebody. In the conclusion, I want to give you just practical three tips on having an encounter with the Holy Spirit. Principle number one, before we have an encounter with the Holy Spirit, we have to have a right information. What wise men did is they, not only they saw the star and they decided to go and see it. They first went to Jerusalem to see that they have the right information of where the king is supposed to be born. An encounter with the Holy Spirit happens. Number one, we need to first be scripturally grounded. Not every spirituality is scriptural. Today, there is a wave of Christianity that calls himself Christianity or spiritualism called New Age. And some of you here today, you read their books. Books like secret. Books like present now. Books like courses and miracles. Books like the power of now. And you read them, you're like, wow, this is like the Bible. Just has less verses. It's New Age. And it's not the Bible. It's a cult. And I know where it was born from because the church was busy learning how to explain God instead of seeking to experience Him. But most of the people in the church said, that doesn't cut it for me. I read.   This Bible is marked with stuff you can't explain. You can have more degrees than a thermometer. You still can't explain it. I want to experience it. And people became so hungry to experience God that they looked at the people who preach this and they pushed this aside to experience angels, to experience miracles. And that's where that stuff was born. But listen, just because it's spiritual and supernatural. It doesn't make it scriptural. That's why it's wise for you and I before we run after the baby Jesus check with Jerusalem under the right direction to where he's born. Otherwise, you'll find a king but not the king. You want to find you find the spirit. You will find an angel. You will find stuff going through your spine. You will find energy going through your spine. And at the same time losing marriage, losing children and at the same time going into away from God because not every spirituality is scriptural. My dog knows that too. He's so desperate and thirsty sometimes for water that he doesn't see the difference between the little place what he's supposed to drink from. He runs to the toilet and drinks the water like there is no tomorrow. Now I am not my dog but so many of you here today you're hungry for supernatural.  Not everything that looks like water is water. That's why you need the Bible not to have a manual for your life but a map for an encounter. Many of you here today you stopped reading the Bible for one reason. You reduced this to a manual. And you read it. You're like, I read it. Read it twice. Read it three times. There's nothing new there and from what I hear they don't create updates for it. There is no revisions for it. So you know what? I already have read it. I've studied. I know what it says and it doesn't relate to how I should live in my life. Because life is so different. It doesn't talk about things that I battle with right now. I feel like it's not relevant to your to my life. See, you reduce the Bible to a manual. That's what Pharisees did. They studied and studied but didn't realize the Bible held directions to an encounter. The Bible held directions to you. Meet God to face to face. Yes, it has principles but its goal is to lead you to a person whose name is the Holy Spirit. What do I take from that? Is if I want to have an encounter I have to fall in love with the Bible so it can teach me the Holy Spirit. I've read the Bible over over 20 probably times from beginning to end. I try to read it once and sometimes twice a year. I don't read it to get a sermon but this year I have changed my perspective on reading the Bible. I don't read now to get a revelation or to get an insight.   Read your Bible more than you read your other books. Visit books but live in this book because only this holds the right directions to where the Holy Spirit is and who the Holy Spirit is. Books will inspire you. This will give you an encounter. Books will give you knowledge. This will give you a meeting face-to-face with God.  There is nothing wrong with that. We need to read books but this is different. This is a bread of life. This is the sword of the Holy Spirit. This is the hammer. This is the fire. This is the seed. This is the oil. This is the water. This leads to an encounter with God. That's why atheists don't fight other books. They fight this book. That's why communists did not fight any other book. They fight this book. Why? Because there's something dangerous about this book. It can change the way you live. It can change the way you spend your time. It can change the way You will never see the books of a new age being banned from other countries because they're not a threat to a demonic kingdom. This one is. The second principle of an encounter with God is not only I have right information which comes from the Word of God but I have also proper inspiration. Proper inspiration speaks of the wise men who had a star and they were led by this star. The star speaks of God elevating things, people, ministries, miracles in our life for us to like bring confirmation, inspiration and encouragement in our pursuit of the Holy Spirit. If you will watch your life carefully you will find out pretty much most of the encounters with God that you had were sparked by something you've read, some sermon that you have listened, a book that maybe you went through, a conference that you went through and they planted a small seed of saying, I want that. I'm hungry for that. Books and Holy Spirit. Many times conferences, like the things that even happen here a man of God came, prophesied, a man of God came and then God moved and something within you connected and say, God, I want that. I am hungry for that. See, God brings ministries, miracles and men of God in our life and many of you you have them on your phone. You have them on your YouTube channel. You listen to them or watch them on TV. You have some of their books and it's the star elevated so high. Sometimes we get discouraged by those stars because we look. We're like, man, there is no ladder on this earth. They can get me get me there and you listen today like, man, how can I get there? But I want to correct that notion to say that our goal is not to get there. Our goal is to get there. Our goal is not to grab a ladder to climb to see the star. Our goal is to let it lead us into an encounter that made them a star to bring a change in our own life and ruin us for normal and set us up to be people that God called us to be. God is not looking for another Billy Graham. God is not wanting to see another Benny Hinn. He doesn't want another Sean Bolts, not white. He wants you and he wants me and you can become the next if you have an encounter with God. That's why they all so different. You look at some of these men. One has a hair up to this size. The other one has no hair at all. You see, one person dresses this way. The other person dresses differently because God is not looking to make copies of them. God says when you encounter me the way they encountered me you will be different but you will be powerful. You will be anointed. You will be a challenge to your generation. You will be walking with my power. You will be walking with my anointing. You will be walking in your gifts and in your callings. You need an encounter. You need an encounter. To have an encounter with God I must have a right information meaning I have to look at the scripture not just as a manual but a map. I have to have right inspiration and for those of you in here who's like I just don't need anybody except the Bible. Yeah, unsubscribe from your Netflix as well. I just don't listen to anybody on the thing because all of them they want my money. Hulu wants your money too. Yeah, HBO subscription that you got. What do you think thereafter? To bless your life? Of course not.  I'm not listening to any. I don't need any extra exploration. Yeah, because you got a lot of poison coming into your life. And so we need positive inspiration. The Bible says in Hebrews chapter 12 is that before we can run the race meaning before we pursue God we have to be surrounded with the cloud or witnesses. That means you got to have a right inspiration. You got to have right examples. You got to have right models sometimes. You got to be surrounded with the crowd and with the cloud. Can somebody say amen? And so we have information. We have inspiration and then but what makes Wiseman different from the Pharisees is they had desperation. Is they were willing to take the information and walk with it to an encounter instead of take the information, memorize it, get a degree, learn in other languages and never make a move. They moved. They went forward. They were not perfect, but they moved. They progressed. They pursued. Their encounter wasn't big. That encounter was with the baby. Like if I'm thinking it would be pretty disappointing if you went to see a king and found the toddler. Like you're looking at your gifts.  Never mind. You're thinking about taking a picture. You're like, how's that going to King? What am I going to bow to a baby?  This encounter was not like other men who had where the fire of chariot showed up. This encounter was not such where there was voices and thunderings. This encounter was unique because it was so small. But wise men encountered someone bigger than any other men ever encountered in their life. Though it was smaller, it was bigger. And so what I want to encourage you right now is that when you begin to seek God for an encounter, you will have it. But never be disappointed if it comes in small size. If it comes in something that you felt the Holy Spirit and people describe it, you're like, well, my mind was like this, but I was real, but it was like this. I just, I felt the fire of God. I felt this sense of that he is real. He is with me. I didn't, it wasn't anything like super. It was, it was small.  He wants it to be the first one. He hopes to set up an appetite that you come for more. Unfortunately, this is where us and wise men have to part ways right now because wise men got one small encounter. They gave all they had. They worshiped Jesus. They were instructed by a dream and they never came back for another one. They never came back to visit Jesus when he was 12. They never came back to visit Jesus when he was 30 and like a dove came upon him. They never came back to visit him at 31 when he walked on water and when he multiplied bread. They never came to visit him at 33 when the veil was torn apart and the dead man became alive and Jesus rose from the dead. They only had one encounter, but I believe as hungry generation, if we have an encounter with God, it will change us. But if we have encounters with God, it will change our world. And I'm ready for an encounters with God. I want to go from glory to glory. What about you? I want this year not to be a year where you only remember what God did at 16. Where you only remember what God did at 24 or where God did few years ago when you got baptized in water or baptized in the Holy Spirit. I want 2019 to be your best year with God. Best year with Holy Spirit. Your best prayer life to be in 2019. Your best fasting life to be in 2019. Your best giving to be in 2019. Your best year with God to be in 2019. Can somebody say him ahead?  Let this year be the best year in your encounter with the Holy Spirit. You know what Jesus called Pharisees? People who didn't have curiosity about him when he was young became the critics of him when he became mature. If you have no curiosity for the Holy Spirit in a matter of five, six years you will be the biggest critic of what he's going to do. It's the curious that stays sane. It's the curious. People who are fascinated, not familiar. People who are not just happy that they can explain it but they're not content that they can experience it. People who don't just say wave it and say this is written but say also this is written and I see how I know how it works in my life. I want us to be those people in this coming year when Jesus rebuked the Pharisees when he was underserved he called them tombs. See tombs, tombs are places where life used to be. It's the places that have people that used to have life. I don't want us to be tombs in 2019. We remember good old days. We remember the miracles of the past. We remember God's experiences with the past. I want us in 2019 to be temples. We don't hold. We don't hide that which used to be alive. We host someone who is alive. The Holy Spirit. Dear Holy Spirit, we want an encounter with you as the offerings will go by. We're going to do what Weisman did. As they worship they gave. Give your best seed today, your best gift, your tithe or your offering. As they go by I want you to release your heart to the Holy Spirit. Say, Lord, 2018, I want an encounter with you. An encounter even if we will come as a size of the baby. But it will not be the only one. It will be more and more. Father, I pray for your people right now. I pray for the offerings. I pray for the tithes. But most importantly I pray for our hearts. We want to encounter you. We want to know you. We want to be known by you. We want to be like the Weisman. We want to not settle for what we hear. We want to experience. We want your word to become alive. And we want to God be inspired by the things you placed in our life instead of be discouraged, God. And we want to see Jesus. We want to see the Holy Spirit. And we want to be used by Him in Jesus' name. Amen. As we give, let's worship. And on social media, we're so thankful to you. Better is not good enough. The best is yet to come.


Hi friends, I am Arapata Kairava. In this video I am going to talk about one of the most asked topics in the UGC-NET English paper and which is that? It is Trilogy. Since the history of UGC-NET questions on Trilogy have been constant and hence in this video I have brought for you a comprehensive list of Trilogies and not just that. Keeping in view that a lot of chronological questions are asked these days I have created mnemonics to help you remember the sequence of each and every Trilogy. Excited right? Let's dive into it but before that let's understand the meaning and history of Trilogy. So first of all let's understand the meaning of Trilogy. A Trilogy consists of three distinct works with either connections seen as either a single work or three individual ones. Now Trilogy is traced back to ancient Greece particularly in the Dionysia of festivals where set of three plays were performed alongside a fourth satire play. So that was way back in Greece. Now do you know which was the first Trilogy? Think about it. The correct answer is Orestia. Now Orestia was first performed in Athens in 458 BC which remains the sole surviving ancient Greek Trilogy. It is also claimed to be the first Trilogy. Who is the writer? It was written by Echolus an ancient Greek playwright and one of the earliest or tragic writer of ancient Greece. Now he is referred to as the father of tragedy for his significant contribution to the development of Greek drama. Now did you know that Echolus introduced the second actor to the Greek play? So this is another interesting fact. Now this Trilogy that we are going to talk about consists of three works, Egmenon, Kephero and Eudemius. Now trick to remember the sequence is to remember the word Ace. Ace stands for the three works. So you remember the title. Okay now let's look at the short summary of each of these plays. The first one is Egmenon. Now this deals with the story of Egmenon who comes to Argos after the Trojan War and his murder happens by his wife Clytemetra. Now the second work is Cleophoro or the Liberation Bureau and this is the story of vengeance of Orestes and Electra, son and daughter respectively of Egmenon who murdered their mother Clytemetra and the lover Aegis Theus. Now a question from this text was asked in UGC net 2021. So don't remember it. The third work is Eumendis. Now this tells the story of a trial of Orestes by Athena who is gondous of wisdom. In the end she sets Orestes free. A question based on this trilogy was asked again in June 2023 exam and the question is right in front of you. So you can understand by looking at the question that how important is to know the names of these triology and the plays that are a part of this trilogy. So ensure that you write it down somewhere in your notes. Also pardon me for pronunciation because these are Greek text and there are various pronunciations available for these texts. So I am just using the British pronunciation. There might be multiple other pronunciations. So you might feel as if the pronunciation is not appropriate. So pardon me for that. Okay so now move on to the second work. The next one in line is Theven Plays or the Oedipus Cycle. Now this trilogy was written by Sophocles in the 5th century BC. Now it deviates from the true trilogy concept as the plays were written separately and with different themes with different purpose. So this trilogy includes three plays. Now the first one is one of my personal favorite which is Oedipus Rex or Oedipus the King. Now this first play revolves around King Oedipus of Thebes who seeks to solve the city's plague by discovering the murder of the former King Liars.  Now the play unfolds with Oedipus gradually realizing the horrifying truth about his own identity and his own actions. The second one is Oedipus at Colonus. Now this second play follows the now-blinded and disgraced Oedipus as he seeks refuge in a sacred groove at Colonus. Now his daughters are Antigone and Esmeen. Now they play the prominent roles as Oedipus faces the consequences of his own earlier actions. Now the play explores the themes of redemption, family ties and divine justice. The third one is Antigone. Now although this is not a direct continuation, Antigone is often considered part of this Oedipus cycle. It focuses on Oedipus' daughter Antigone who defies the King's decree to leave her brother unburied after a failed rebellion. The play delves into the themes of morality, duty and clash between individual and state authority. Now together these plays form a tragic narrative exploring the complexity of fate, free will and consequences of one's action in the context of Greek mythology and the ancient Greek society. So that was all about this particular play. Now the best way to remember these three titles are to remember this line, King and Clown are gone. Now Your King is for Oedipus the King, Clown for Colonus and Gone is for Antigone. So if you remember this line, King and Clowns are gone, you will remember the three words. Okay now before we move on to the next point here is something that I want to share. If you're preparing for UGC net paper one or paper two MA inference, PhD inference, English literature, exams like PGT-PGT, UPSC, Gay, etc. So please there is a great news for you and I would really request you to go and visit our website where you will find detailed online video course for all these exams. In all our video courses we provide you with topic wise video lectures with rich animations covering all topics in a step by step manner which works even when you've not done any previous preparation. 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Now here is a brief summary of each of the three novels so that you don't miss out on any important information. So the first one is Cunning's Bee or The New Generation. Now the first novel follows the life of Harry Cunning's Bee and orphaned young man as he navigates the political and societal landscape of only 19th century. The narrative explores themes of political reform, social inequality and clash between the traditional aristocracy and the rising industrial and financial classes. So that was the first novel. Second is Sybil or The Two Nations. Now this second installment Sybil focuses on the stark contrast between the two nations. Now what are these two nations? The first one is the wealthy aristocracy and the second one is the impoverished working class. So this novel addresses issues of social justice, workers' right and need for political reform. The character of Sybil represents the plight of the working class and the narrative underscores the importance of understanding and addressing societal disparities very similar to what we see with Charles Dickens' novel. The third one is Tankrit or The New Crusade. Now this is the final novel, the concluding novel of the trilogy. This takes a completely different turn by incorporating elements of exoticism and Orientalism. The novel follows the journey of Tankrit, a young Englishman, as he travels to the Middle East in search of spiritual and political enlightenment. The narrative explores themes of cultural identity and religious exploration and the intersection of Western and Eastern civilization. So this entire trilogy collectively represents Benjamin DeShreilly's vision for a revitalized Toshini harmonious England, addressing the challenges of his time through a blend of political commentary and as well as a fictional storytelling. So very, very beautiful. I personally read it and I've loved it. The best way to remember the names of these three works are if you remember Cunning Generation, Civil Nation and Tankrit Crusade. So if you remember these three words, you will remember the entire novel. Okay, a trilogy. Now let's move on to the next one which is the New York Trilogy. It is written by Paul Oster. Now it is a series of three interrelated detective stories. The first one is City of Glass, second is Ghosts and the third is The Logged Room. Okay, now let us look at the story or the plot of each of them. So City of Glass, the story revolves around the writer named Daniel Quinn who after receiving a mysterious phone call meant for a real detective takes on the role himself. So this decision leads him into a complex and surreal investigation that blurs the line between reality and that of fiction. The second one is Ghosts. Okay, you might remember Henry Gibson because he had written this work with same title. Now this installment introduces Private Detective Blue who is hired to follow a man named Black. As Blue delves into the case, he becomes entangled in a web of identity and in three uncovering the secrets that challenges his own understanding of what reality is. So very very complicated work. The third one is Logged Room. Now in this final part, there's an anonymous writer. Now this writer has been given the task of completing the works of his vanished friend. As he immerses himself in his friends' writing and life, he finds that fiction and reality becomes increasingly difficult to separate, leading to a captivating exploration of identity and storytelling. Now how do you remember the names of these three works? If you can just remember this. In the city of Glass, they keep Ghosts in a logged room. So if you remember these three, you are good to go. Now we move on to the fifth work which is Wesker Trilogy. It was written by the mannequin playwright Arnold Wesker. It is another important trilogy which has been asked quite a few times in the previous exam. Now this trilogy is composed of following works. The first one is Chicken Soup with Barley. Second is Roots and third is I am talking about Jerusalem. Jerusalem, I'm sure you know, is a very famous city associated with Christianity. Now this first work, Chicken Soup with Barley, is revolving around a family in London's East End and spans several decades capturing the impact of political and social changes on their lives. It particularly focuses on the character of Sarah. Now this novel explores her political awakening and her disintegration of a family. Then we have Roots which is the second play. This novel continues the saga of the family delving into the lives of younger generation. It examines their struggles with identity, relationship and legacy of the family's socialist ideas which is set against the backdrop of this changing European society. And the third one is I am talking about Jerusalem where it is also known as the Friends. Now this is a trilogy which focuses on characters in 1970s, exploring the efforts and purpose to find meaning that has shifted in this entire world. So this entire Wesker Trilogy is celebrated for its portrayal of working class life especially and the examination of political ideologies and the rich character development across the three interconnected place. Now how do you remember the three works in the Wesker Trilogy? Just remember this, Arnold was shocked to find Roots in the Chicken Soup when he was in Jerusalem. So if you can just remember this you will be good to go. Last is the Empire Trilogy. Now this is a very famous trilogy written by J. G. Ferrell. Now it consists of three historical novels set in the British Empire specifically during the British Raj in India. Now what are these three novels? The first one is Troubles which is set in Ireland in the aftermath of World War I and the story follows an English man named Benderin Archer who visits a hotel and becomes entangled in the complexity of the Irish politics and societal upheaval. Now the second work is Seize of Krishnapur. Now this novel is set during the Indian rebellion of 1857. Now British residence in the fictional town of Krishnapur faces a siege by Indian rebels and the story explores the impact of colonialism and clash of cultures, something similar to what we see in passage to India. Last is the Singapore Grip. Now the final novel is set in Singapore as the title suggests just before the Japanese invasion during the World War II. It follows the lives of various characters during a British rubber plantation owner against the backdrop of the war and the decline of British Empire. So this entire empire triology which is written by J. G. Ferrell is acclaimed for its satirical and insightful portrayal of British Empire and its unraveling in different regions in historical periods. Now here are few things that you should definitely remember. Seize of Krishnapur received 1973 Booker Prize in 2010. Troubles was retrospectively awarded the Lost Man Booker Prize created to recognize works published in 1970. Now how do you remember these three works? Just remember Troubles led to Seize in Krishnapur and Grip on Singapore. So if you remember this slide you'll be good to go. Okay now this brings us to the end of the video. I hope you like the video and the mnemonics that I designed for you to remember the sequence. Let me know in the comments section how would you design your own mnemonics to memorize the triologies. I would be really interested to know how creative you can get. So with that note I would like to take your leave. 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