I'm having some deja vu because it seems like we had a.NET conference a couple months ago, but we're having another one that's all about Windows. So join me with Beth Massey as we learn more about the upcoming.NET conference on this episode of Visual Studio Toolbox. Hey, everyone. Welcome to another episode of Visual Studio Toolbox. I'm your host, Leslie Richardson, and today I'm joined by Beth Massey, who is a product marketing manager on the.NET team. Welcome, Beth. Hey, thanks for having me, Leslie. Appreciate it. Sweet. Nice to be here. Or nice to have you here. It's always cool that I'm here. I mean, I'm the host, so what do you know? So word on the street is that there is a conference coming up that's.NET.conf, but didn't we just have .NET.conf like a couple months ago? What's going on? That's right. Actually, so we have it every year. The main three-day event happens every year, and from now on, it'll happen every November when we launch a new version of .NET. So it happened with .NET Core 3. We released in September 2019, but then we went on the every November release train. So now we're going to have every November. So last November, you're right, in 2020, we had .NET 5 in Washington, right? So that happens every year, and we've been doing it for a long time. So it started out in the community. Javier Lozano is still on the planning team. He started it 10 years ago. So last one was the 10-year anniversary of the main event. Now, what we started last year, though, is the series of smaller events that are just one day. So like the main event has an open call for content, and we run it like a real conference, basically, except it's always been a virtual conference. So it's a little easier for us to adjust to this pandemic situation, to be honest. Fair pretty setup for that. But we started a series of smaller events actually before the pandemic hit. It started in January last year. We did a focus on Blazer. It was sort of a test to just say, hey, let's just invite some of the community experts and get some product team members together for just a one-day thing. We had no idea how it would perform or what it would do. Well, it turned out it was actually a very successful event. We had a lot of viewers, and so we're like, hey, this is a kind of an easier version, like a little scaled-down version of Donut Comp. And people kind of understand what Donut Comp's about. And so we're like, let's call it focus on something, because you can do anything with .NET. And so it's nice to be able to focus on a topic for the day. So we actually started that last year. We had focus on Blazer in January. It was on January 14th. I remember we flew up there, and it was snowed in. We got completely snowed into the studio. So we ended up trying to bring all the speakers. No, literally couldn't come to the studio at all, so we had to bring all the speakers remote. We only had like half the speakers remote, and then the product team members come in the studio. Well, they couldn't even do that. Well, yeah, we literally were like, okay, we're going to have to go pick up the crew from their house in an SUV. So, okay. Then in March, then we planned one for March, and that was focus on Xamarin. So we were doing all the mobile development with Xamarin. That one was March 23rd, which was actually one day before Governor Inslee, the Governor of Washington State, shut down the state because of the pandemic. It feels like an eternity ago. Yeah, it feels like an eternity ago. It was like literally less than a year ago that that happened. Yeah. We didn't plan on traveling because we knew this was something we kind of knew this was going to happen. So I ended up staying home. Javier stayed home. Jeff stayed home. So we were all at home, except that James Montemagno was the host, and they did go into the studio, right? But we ended up calling everybody in remotely for that one, except we had a few like a skeleton crew. Then we did a third one, and this is full blown into the pandemic. We did a third one on microservices in July, and that was our first real test run of everything in the cloud. So we basically built a studio in the cloud. So instead of having these channel line studios, we created a big Azure beefy Azure VM running OBS, and we actually still at that, we didn't use StreamYard. We were using, I think we're still using Skype to call people into it. But it ended up being a super successful event, and we ran it through Learn TV, and that one is probably our biggest event that we've done. So they've been successful. So we've got another one coming up. We think we have streamlined the process, and it should like we almost like a cookie cutter blueprint of doing these events. As you know, you guys are using StreamYard. We're using like Learn TV, like to do the player. Everything's like pretty smooth across. Well, let's knock on it. It's a live event. So you never know exactly what's going to happen on that moment. But yeah. So we've got Windows. I got my screen up here. So if you go to focus.netconf.net, focus on Windows is happening on February 25th. I'm going to blow it, Leslie. This is recorded. So by the time Yeah, don't don't pay attention to the countdown here. It's a lot for you guys, but yeah, 15 days. So it's not the countdown. All right. So yeah, so we got basically some, you know, speakers, we got some speakers from the community and the product teams.  So you could see a little bit about, you know, what is.netconf here and you can kind of check out our past events, which I just walked through all the content, the code, the slides, all the stuff that our speakers did in the past, you can grab here. It even the main event. This was the one you were mentioning in the beginning. That's the main.netconf 2020 where you can grab all the content there. But anyways, we've got a great lineup. We just announced or just maybe published the agenda. I haven't actually announced it. There's an announcement right now. The agenda. So we've got Scott Hunter and Alia. They're going to kick off the day with the welcome session, which is an hour long session. We're actually building that. It's like the keynote. We're building that right now. So a lot of, I can't tell you all the details because we're building it, but it's going to be pretty cool. We're going to focus a lot on, you know, the, the what's new in, in wind forums and WPF development on.net five. And then Kathy's going to come in there and she's going to talk about how to take your .net framework based apps and get them to .net core slash five. So there's a tool we're working on to help you do that too. So she'll kind of walk through the preview of this tool. Okay. So that's a little teaser on a slip out a little. We're going to have a little announcement there. Okay. So cool. Don't tell anybody. Okay. Then we, then we, you know, we figure we had a, we've had a ton of what's new in C sharp, right? We do a lot of C sharp content. A lot of, because we know we have a lot of C sharp developers. Yeah, a lot of visual basic developers. Right. So we said, you know what, on.net five that we've done a lot of work in visual basic to light up the visual basic framework. Like it has a, it has a whole development framework for building, you know, wind forums apps actually. So Klaus who actually used to be an MVP and now works for Microsoft is super passionate about visual basic has is going to be speaking with Kathleen Dollard on like taking full advantage of visual basic and what's new for visual basic developers on.net five. So hopefully that's an appreciated. Yeah, that's really cool.  And I'm like, shoot, I feel like that's like the underrated language but I select to be used and it deserves some more love. It's very close to my heart. People might know me from like, you know, 20 years ago, I, I was like a huge visual basic developer when I was hired by Microsoft. I was a, you know, a visual basic developer advocate. And, you know, I, I, I definitely love VP is always be close to my heart. I don't really code anything anymore because I'm in marketing, but you know, so we got some, you know, Sam Vasu from progress teller is going to come in and show us how to use Azure signal our service with your desktop apps. So I think a lot of people think like signal are, you know, that's a, it's a web, web, you know, real time communications, web communications protocol. I don't, I don't need that from a desktop app. Sure. There's a lot of scenarios where desktop apps can, you know, take advantage of this as well. Right. I mean, you know, your stock trading apps and those kinds of things right, you know, that have really rich, rich UIs and are built native on native platform like windows and can totally take advantage as well. So he's going to talk to us about setting that up. The cool thing about Azure signal our service is it's a total turnkey service. You don't have to host it or do anything yourself. So that's really cool. Jessica Engstrom is a Windows developer MVP. And she is all about UX. So she's going to talk to us about some UX principles and how, how we can as developers, we kind of struggle and suck at building great UIs, what we can do to, you know, build better UI, right? And usability in general.  Yeah, I know Dimitri. Lot of, he's working on, he's basically the XAML tool guy, right? So he's going to show us some of the new enhancements in BS for building XAML based WPF and UWP apps in Visual Studio. So this should be pretty cool. So I'm going to pivot you for a second. Yeah, so like obviously people should definitely check out this conference, especially if they're into Windows apps and Windows desktop apps. But what if people want to be able to have a say in what the next focus conference events are, what should the point? You know, I, I, what we, how we usually do it is this one was based on feedback that we got from a survey that we did at the end of the last conference, the main event. And we looked and saw, you know, the people love the main event. It was, it got really good, you know, good feedback from that event. But I saw some comments around, it would have been nice to have more Windows content because it was really web heavy, right? And I, I, I felt like looked back and I'm like, Hey, we did a blazer event that we did microservices. We did a mobile thing. But like, yeah, we haven't done anything for Windows developers. And so it was sort of, this was already pretty much based on the feedback that we got from a survey on the last event. So I would say, you know, you can add Beth Massey me and I take that as feedback too. You know, as the executive producer of Donik Hoff, I do take feedback that way, but we'll also send a survey out and join the mailing list. So if you subscribe to notifications just down at the bottom here, that just puts you on a list that anytime we have another .net conf or survey or asking for feedback, they just email people and then they fill out the survey and then we know what to do. And then a lot of times it just, it coincides with something we're doing in the product too. Like we've like blazer, for instance, was newly released at the time blazer server was and we were working on the web assembly. So it was kind of like right in between. And we saw just a ton of people like, you know, asking questions about it and how do I use this thing? And so we kind of, we've kind of provided these as scaling events. And so we want to, we kind of just look and see like, Hey, what's the community doing and asking questions all up. And then we pick, you know, so it has a lot to do with, it has a lot to do with feedback, but it also has a lot to do with marketing as well. And what, what, where do we want to drive people next based on what the product is? You know what I mean? Some of the things that I don't think other people, like people know about, you know, Windows is our least windforms and WPF is that they're open source. They've been open source for like over a year, right? And so we're going to bring in some contributors from the windforms and WPF projects to talk about how people could actually get started contributing in general on GitHub or to those particular projects as well. So it's not always like our, you know, shiny web technologies that are open source. It's actually like these like mal windforms is like 20 years old, the framework, right? And, you know, to actually take something that wasn't initially ever meant as an open source, you know, project to actually get it open source was actually an accomplishment in itself. And now the community contributed to it is even, even more rewarding. Let's put that way. So we'll have some of those books on as well. So I hope that we, you know, take a look at the agenda. Like I hope that we've covered a lot. Like the, you'll see like most of the content is about what you can do today. But we do have some future sessions. Like if we look at kind of the end of the day, here we go. We'll building.net hybrid apps with Blazor. We'll talk about, like Dan Roth will come in and we'll talk a little bit about hybrid apps. They're using, you know, they're native apps that use web technology. So if you want to use more of a web webby syntax or Blazor syntax to do native development, he's going to show us where that's come, where that's going and what it'll be like, the experience will be like in.net six. We've got someone, someone from the Windows team. About project for union, right? Project for union is about, you know, making that experience a lot better. And across, you know, all the different Windows 10 versions and basically building one app that can take advantage of all those devices. And then we'll have Maddie and David in to give us an update on the Donet multi-platform app UI, Donet Maui, which is in preview, I think very well, and actually by the time this airs, I think it'll be in preview. One will be dropped. And yeah. And so by the time we release November, it's a new app model for building apps that not just not just mobile apps, but also desktop apps as well, all native applications using XAML. So hopefully we'll, we'll have a good show for you. Yeah, that sounds great. And yeah, hopefully people go check out that site, get hyped about all the different talks and all the different ways that get involved in the, with the community as a whole. Don't forget the swag. We do have. Oh yeah, the swag. Free digital swag, right? So take a look at the swag. So we got free digital swag. We got a digital code theme. We've got like, you can create your own little bot. We also have sponsors.  So this is the first time you're doing swag for a focus event. This is kind of, this was swag bag was really popular for the main event. And so our generous sponsors are donating 25 different prizes. So you'll have a bag of stuff basically. So you can enter to win, uh, right here and back stuff. Yeah, especially the mystery prize pack. Apparently progress did that last time and they're like, people love the mystery prize. I personally hate mystery surprise packs. I don't know what I'm getting myself into. Like, I want to know what I'm getting, but you know, teach their own. And I'll have items in the, in the stores that people can pick from, you know, more t-shirts and that kind of stuff too. So hopefully we make it fun. Awesome. So February 25th is the magic date starting at, starting at 8 a.m. Pacific. Great. So thank you so much for coming and sharing that. I think that is super cool. I'm sure there's a lot of people out there who would love to have a full conference of nothing but windows apps and both desktop and mobile and beyond. So that's really exciting. And yeah, awesome. Thanks for having me. Yeah. And remember February 25th. Don't look at the countdown on this video is wrong. It's the date. Yep. All right. And with that, happy coding.


My name is Sam Vaknin, and I am the author of Malignant Self-Love, Narcissism Revisited. Narcissists are incapable of truly loving, and yet they experience some feeling, a modicum of emotion, which they insist is love. So what gives? Well, narcissists love their spouses or other significant others as long as they continue to reliably provide them with narcissistic supply, in one word, with attention. Inevitably, narcissists regard others as mere sources, objects, functions, or extensions of themselves. Lacking empathy and emotional maturity, the narcissist's so-called love is pathological. The precise locus of the pathology depends on the narcissist's stability or instability in different parts of his life. There are two types of narcissistic love, pathologized as it may be. One type of narcissist loves others as one would get attached to objects. He loves his spouse, for instance, simply because she exists, and is available to provide him with narcissistic supply. He loves his children because they are part of his self-image as a successful husband or father. He loves his friends because, and as long as they provide him with narcissistic supply, and as long as he can exploit them, as long as they are exploitable and gullible. So these are objects, sources in his life. He doesn't really regard them as three-dimensional human beings with their own needs, preferences, wishes, and priorities. To him, they are two-dimensional cardboard cutouts. They are representations of functions, of his needs, of his priorities, of his wishes. Such a narcissist reacts with alarm and range to any sign of independence and autonomy in his charges. He tries to freeze everyone around him in their allocated positions and assigned roles. His world is rigid and immovable, predictable and static, fully under his control. Such a narcissist punishes for transgressions against this ordained order. He stifles life as a dynamic process of compromising and growing. He renders life instead a mere theater, a tableau vivant, a cult. The other type of narcissist abhors monotony and constants, equating them in his mind with death. He seeks, actually, instability, chaos, upheaval, drama, and change, but only when they conform to his plans, designs, and views of the world and especially of himself, only when they conform to his false self. Thus the narcissist, or such a narcissist, does not encourage growth in his nearest and dearest. By monopolizing their lives, he, like the other kind of narcissist, also reduces them to mere objects, props in the exciting drama of his life. This second type of narcissist likewise rages at any sign of rebellion and disagreement, but as opposed to the first type of narcissist that we describe, he seeks to animate others with his demented energy, grandiose plans, manic and megalomaniacal self-perception. He is an adrenaline junkie. His world is a whirlwind of comings and goings, reunions and separations, loves and hates, vocations adopted and discarded, schemes erected and dismantled, enemies turned friends and vice versa. His universe is equally a theater, but a more ferocious and chaotic one. So where is love in all this? Where is a commitment to the loved one's welfare, the discipline, the extension of oneself to incorporate the beloved, the mutual growth? Well, in the narcissist world, this kind of mature love is nowhere to be seen. The narcissist's love is hate and fear disguised. The narcissist's so-called love is fear of losing control, and hatred of the very people is precariously balanced personality so dependent. The narcissist is egoistically committed only to his own well-being. To him, the objects of his love are interchangeable, replaceable, and therefore by definition inferior to him. The narcissist idealizes his nearest, dearest and closest not because he is smitten by emotion, not because he loves them, but because he needs to captivate them and to convince himself that they are worthy sources of narcissistic supply. He is aware of their flaws and mediocrity, but he lies to them and to himself about these. In order to elevate them into high-level, high-octane, high-quality sources of supply. Once he deems these sources of supply, he is nearest, his closest, he is dearest, useless. Once he deems them useless, he discards and devalues them cold-bloodedly. Predator, always on the lookout, always on the prowl, he debases the coin of love as he corrupts everything else in himself and around him, incessantly and inexorably.


Joining you from the traditional territory of the Lekwungen speaking people of this one mountain song he's First Nations on whose territory I live, I work, I play, I was born and raised and have chosen to raise my daughter. And the topic of mental health is something that our family has lived experience with. And so being able to carve out some time and really work as adults is so important. And so just thought I would just take a couple of minutes to share my reflections over the last two days and really the collective care of adults. There were a few big themes that stuck out for me around collective care of adults and how do we enter conversations and spaces with curiosity and think about the attachment seeking versus attention seeking that one reminded me of Kimberly Shonet-Reichel's work and how stress contagion in a classroom can happen and how it can transfer from an adult to a young person which is also linked directly to school connectedness. We know that school and research tells us that school connectedness is a number one protective factor outside of family and caregiver relationship. We heard that from doctors LaPointe and Maté. They both spoke about those emotional needs of children and how teachers you play such an incredible vital role in that and how to secure attachment, how to make sure the children and youth that you get the opportunity to engage with every single day are seen, heard and validated from you. And Dr. Clinton stressed that wellness is a core piece of education and wellness must start early. And that's why through the leadership of Maureen Dawkendorf who was our superintendent of early years has brought compassionate systems leadership into the early years network. And the importance of play that Dr. Maté spoke about is something that often many of us have had the opportunity to talk with Monique Grismith about and that connection to land and being outside. And I must hold space for Phyllis Webstad. The gifts that Phyllis gave us today, through her voice, through her lived experience, through her generosity and the word ease and the opposite of dis-ease and the dis-ease that is felt when she wasn't treated as a person and the ease that she gets when she is seen and treated as a person and her why of her grandchildren and the journey her family is on for the first time in four generations. Cooke-sham to Phyllis for being a light maker. I will hold that term with me. And the youth for holding up your voices and bringing courageously your lived experiences and your advice. And I jumped in on the substance use session as well with the youth. And so telling us what they need to help them. Maria, a huge, huge thank you and gratitude to you for continuing to guide us on our mental health in schools journey and the entire team behind you, the technical team, the mental health in schools team and the ministry here. As we continue to gather to think about what our journey for mental health in schools is as we explore and develop a system that is truly built with compassionate leaders like each one of you today, how we can support teachers in the classroom better and what you need and how we build our capacity as a system as a whole. And so what I'm taking away is the power of relationships and how to start with listening and holding space. And I'd like to leave you with a challenge as teachers, if you could be light makers in every child, every child that you have the opportunity to interact with in the classroom, not just your classrooms, but in the hallways and the gyms on the playgrounds and the grocery stores. Be a light maker for those young children that you're entrusted with. Thank you for spending some time with us over the last couple of days.


Live from Miami Beach, Florida, it's theCUBE. Covering Veeamon 2019, brought to you by Veeam. Welcome back to Miami, everybody. This is theCUBE, the leader in live tech coverage. I'm Dave Vellante with my co-host, Peter Burris. We're wrapping up day two of Veeamon 2019. And so we've been talking about cloud, hybrid cloud, data protection, backup, evolving to more of an automated data management environment. Ken Ringdahl is here, and he is in charge of really building out the Veeam ecosystem. He's the Vice President of Global Alliance Architecture at Veeam. Ken, great to see you again, thanks for coming on. Yeah, thanks Dave, appreciate it. So the ecosystem is evolving. You know, you're in a competitive marketplace, but one of the things that differentiates Veeam is, you know, billion dollar company, and people want to do business with your customers. And so the ecosystem keeps growing and growing, and you guys have some blue chip names at the top of your sponsor list. So good job, but you're not done yet, so. No, not at all. And I think Dave, you know, it's really great to see how Veeamon has evolved.  You know, we, Ratmir announced, we hit 350,000 customers. That customer number is a huge asset for us. When we talk to our partners, you know, that is something that they're all trying to tap into, right? They love, you know, and our customers are really passionate. And we have partners that come to us and they say, hey, look, you know, and the bigger partners than us, and they're saying, hey, will you please work with us?  So it's a great asset to us. Yeah, and it's evolved since, you know, so certainly since the first Veeam on I was at, the very first one I think was, we were talking was at the ARIA, whatever, it was five years ago. So, you know, ecosystem is a, I think Jason Buffington was quoting Archimedes today and, you know, Lever. And that ecosystem is, you know, a huge opportunity for growth. Okay, so let's get into it. Well, first of all, I want to ask you, the title is interesting. Global Alliance Architecture. Yes. So we're not talking technical architecture necessarily. We're talking about what? The architecture of the ecosystem or both? Yeah, so my, you know, my role, my responsibility and what my team looks after is everything technical related to our partners. So Veeam, we're 100% ISV and you know, Ratmir and Andrea, our two co-founders and leaders of the company, you know, that's something that they take to heart and it's something that's actually really valuable when we talk to our partners because we don't really overlap very much, especially with the infrastructure partners that we have. And so, you know, my job is to take the great product we have and make it work really well and go deep with our partners. So create value with these partners. There's sometimes their product integrations, storage snapshot integrations. We announced a with Veeam program. Two weeks ago, we were together at .next with the rest of your team talking about Nutanix Mine with Veeam which is a secondary storage integrated solution. So all of those, that's all part of my role. So solution architecture and product integrations, you know, through our partner ecosystem, which is very broad. It stretches from storage partners to platform partners to other ISVs like Oracle, SAP, even healthcare partners. Yeah, Peter, we were excited about the with Veeam stuff, the API. Very much so. Is with Veeam yours? With Veeam, yeah, so my team is responsible for the overall architecture with Veeam. It's really a joint collaboration within Veeam. So we have an R&D investment that's building the intellectual property that powers the, you know, the system under the covers. My team is responsible for the broader architecture, how we bring it together, how we bring it to market through the channel, right? And how we bring it to our customers and that whole experience. So my team is intimately involved in that. So a lot of people talk about inflection points in the industry and clearly we're in the middle of one. One way of describing it is that the first 50 years were known process, unknown technology. We knew we were going to do accounting, we knew we were going to do HR, we knew we were going to do blah, blah, blah, blah. And there was mainframe clients here with a lot of other stuff. But the whole notion of backup and restore and data protection grew up out of the complexity in the infrastructure. As we move forward, it's interesting because it's known technology. It's going to be cloud, relatively known. But what's interesting is we don't know what the processes are going to be. We don't know what we're going to automate. We don't know how we're going to change the business. It's all going to be data-driven, which places an enormous burden on IT and specifically how they use data within the business. So I'm going to ask you a question, it's a long preamble, but I'm going to ask you a question and I ask, we're out in here too. This is not the test. But the question is, look, as we move forward, as data is used to differentiate a business, it suggests that there's going to be greater specialization in how data is used, which could and should lead to greater specialization in the role that Veeam and related technologies will play within the business. And the question then is, is the with Veeam approach a way to allow innovation to bloom so that specialization can be accommodated and supported within the Veeam ecosystem? Yeah, so yeah, Peter, good question. And so I tell you, the short answer is yes. The longer answer is- I was the shorter answer too. The short answer is yes. The longer answer is it doesn't have to be with Veeam, but really our goal and what we want to empower our partners. And so really the goal of with Veeam is, hey, we're already working across our partner ecosystem and we work with the likes of NetApp and HP and Pure and Nutanix and all the platform providers as well, public clouds, our goal is to make Veeam ubiquitous and drive better value to our customers through our partners, right? We need partners, no matter what, when we're working with a customer, there's always a workload we're protecting and we need a place to land our backup. So no matter what, we're always working with one or two partners in a deal and sometimes it's multiple because then you tear out to cloud storage and other places. With Veeam, what we're trying to do is really simplify that process for customers and so make that process from the buying experience all the way through the delivery and the deployment and the management and the ongoing management, day one and day two operations. We want to make that all seamless and give them higher value. Now, one thing we're looking to enable and by adding APIs with Veeam is we want to leverage the strengths of the partners we have. And so I often end up in these discussions is we have a broad partner ecosystem. We've already announced two with Veeam solutions. We have a third that we did last year with Cisco that's in the market that's sort of similar in nature. And we're going to add more and the question our partners even ask us is you already got three of them. Why are you going to add another one? How am I going to differentiate? And the answer is, they differentiate with their own technology and the idea is we have these open APIs so that they can build their own solutions. They fit different markets, they fit different use cases. Some are small customer solutions, some are enterprise. But our goal is to enable them to be creative in how they build on top of Veeam but have Veeam be a core part of that solution. Got it. So it is that core part of the solution applied to specific customer parts? Absolutely. Okay. So the term seamless always triggers me in a way because seamless is like open. It's evolved over time. And so what was seamless 10 years ago wasn't really seamless in today's terms. So when you talk about seamless, we're talking about, if I understand it, deep engineering, right? Getting access to primitives through APIs and creating solutions that are differentiable as a function of your partner's core value proposition. And obviously integrating with Veeam which has 350,000 customers so you're now in the ball game with Veeam customers. So talk about the importance of APIs and how that actually gets done. And seamless to whom? To the partners, to the customer, to ultimately to the customer a bit. But there's got to be an ease of integration as well with the partners and I'd like to understand that better. Yeah, absolutely. So I'll give you an example of something we've done in the past that we're trying to model this with Veeam program after. So about a year and a half as part of our nine to five update three we introduced what we called Universal Storage API. And we've talked about our version 10. There were five core features of version 10 when we announced it two years ago in New Orleans. You're the first time you were with us at a Veeam on. And one of those was Universal Storage API. And what that means is we help our partners, we help our customers ultimately by way of our partners on the primary side of integrating storage snapshots with VMware vSphere. And so when we go to backup of Veeam we take a snapshot of that VM and with our storage snapshot integration we then take a storage snapshot of the volume that VM is on and we can release that VMware snapshot very quickly. So it's very low touch and low impact on the environment. Well, we introduced this API so that we could scale. We had done our own storage snapshot integration with call it five or six storage vendors over the previous seven years, eight years. In the last year and a half we've added seven. And that's the scale we're talking about and allowing our partners to build the storage snapshot plugin together. So we have a program, we invite them into that program, we collaborate on it, they develop the plugin, we jointly test it and we release it. And so we're trying to sort of take, and that's been very successful. As I said, eight years, five or six storage snapshot vendors, year and a half we've done like another seven or eight. So it's been very successful and we have more that are in queue. So we'll be talking about more of these as time goes on in the very near future. With the with Veeam program we're looking to do something very similar. It's going to be an invite only program. Realistically the secondary storage partners is the universe is probably 20. The logical universe for us is probably 10 to 12. So it's not going to be huge but it's going to be impactful for our partners. And so we'll invite them into the program. We'll have an agreement of us working together. We'll jointly develop and test it and we'll bring it to market together. At the end of the day, you know both our partner and Veeam, we have our name on it. And I'm sure you heard from Ratmayer and Danny and others, right? We have our MPS score, which we really, really value and it's really high. It's best in the industry. And if we're putting our name on a solution to market we also want to make sure that we're working on it together in it. You know, it really goes through the rigor of what it takes to bring a Veeam solution to market. Actually, you know what? Nobody's talked this week about the MPS score. If they maybe they have in the keynotes but I might have missed it. But while I was in the keynotes what is it today? Yeah, so an MPS score is basically, you know from zero to a hundred, it's, you know will a customer reference you or recommend you? Right, right. And so ours is 73, the industry, the general average in our space is about 28 to 30. So we're about two and a half times that score. You know, and that's in, Frank Slutman said to me one time, it's easy to have a high MPS score if you're a one product company. But you're not a one product company. No, no, we've evolved substantially.  We've added cloud support. We've added other applications. We've added Veeam availability orchestrator. We've added Veeam backup for Office 365. We have VAC, which is Veeam availability console for our service providers, which has cloud connect. I mean, it's a very broad portfolio. Everything comes back to Veeam backup and replication as the flagship foundation. But we have all these other products that now help our customers solve their problems. Peter, the reason we're so excited about this with Veeam is this notion of cloud and hybrid cloud. And you talk about programmable infrastructure. You really have been pushing, just bringing the cloud experience to your data. You've been talking about that for a while. And part of that has to be infrastructure as code. And it can't really do that without open APIs and this sort of seamless integration. Well, the cloud is testing us with you as well. The cloud is really an architecture for how you're going to distribute work as opposed to how you're going to centralize it. I think for a long time we got it wrong. It's all presuming, it's all going to go to the center. Well, in fact, when you get that level of standardization and common conventions and the technologies are built to make IT that much easier, it allows you to distribute the work a lot more effectively and get the data closer to where the work's going to be done. And that is enormous implications for how we think about things. But it also means that we, when we talk about bringing the cloud to the data, that the data has to be there. The data services that make that data part of a broader fabric have to be there. It all has to be assured so that the system knows something about where the data is and what services can be applied to it in advance of actually moving the workloads. That suggests ultimately that the technology set that Veeam is offering is going to evolve relatively rapidly. So the whole notion of, you know, with Veeam today for secondary storage, but I could see that becoming something that you guys take to new classes of data service providers pretty quickly. I don't want you to pre-announce anything, but what do you think? Yeah, Peter, I think you're really onto something. And when we sort of look at the world, right? The infrastructure world we're in, you know, and certainly some of our partners would draw a slightly different picture, but we see Veeam as the common thread in the middle, right? Because at the end of the day, I think you mentioned it as you were just talking there, you know, when we talk about hybrid cloud, right? We see now our customers, especially commercial and enterprise and large enterprise customers, it is a very heterogeneous environment. It's multiple hypervisors, different storage platforms. It's multiple cloud providers because they're picking best of breed for the workload. And so they need a platform that's got really breadth and depth of coverage. And so the one common thread we weave between there is Veeam, right? So if we are that data protection layer, as I mentioned before, you know, we're in the middle, we're protecting a primary workload and we're writing our data to a secondary workload, but in the middle is Veeam. And so that workload we're protecting on-prem, cloud, secondary data centers, Veeam is the thread in between there. We can move that data around and wherever that is, we can make use of it. I'll give you a good example. Today, you know, let's say we're protecting a Veeam workload on-prem, right? We back that up to a system locally so we can have fast restore, but ultimately we tear that out. Veeam cloud tier, capacity tier, tear that to AWS. So we can actually recover workloads in AWS one or two ways. We have direct restore, which would take a backup from on-prem and directly move it there for DR or migration purposes, or we can simply consume that backup that's now up in the cloud because Veeam backups are self-describing. We can lose the system on-prem and recover it. So your point about making the data close to your workload with Veeam in the middle, we enable that for our customers, regardless of where they want to go. Yeah, so we think that that's going to change the mindset from protection to assurance. So assure your data is local and that it's the right data and it's integrity and all the other things and then ultimately move it and back it up to some other site. So it's a subtle switch. It's going to be interesting to see how it plays out. This has obviously been- Well, as we talked about, as you need to begin to protect things, like containers, like functions that come and go super quickly, assurance has more meaning because there's security threats and if you can help solve those problems through your partners, through automation, spinning containers up and down, making it harder for the bad guys to target a specific container, raising essentially the cost, so lowers their ROI, that is a new game. And I'll call out one thing, a rat mayor, I thought did a really good job on stage yesterday and his keynote, he popped the slide which talked about the universal storage API and with theme and it had all our partners sort of around that. You know, that, I think he illustrated our strategy which is, hey, we're focusing on the core parts of backup and replication and helping the core parts of data protection. We're going to partner with everything else that's adjacent to that. We're not going to go solve maybe some of the security problems ourselves. We're going to enable some hooks, secure restore maybe as an example. We've announced, you know, in the technology keynote yesterday, we announced a new API that allows partners to come in and crack open beam backups and take a look at them. One of the things could be deep inspection. So, you know, our strategy and our goal is really to be open to our partners so that they can come in and add value. And again, our goal for our customers is give them choice. So give them choice to choose best of breed solutions. Don't go do it and say, hey, you got to go use partner A. You know, hey, we're going to have an API that others can build to and you go choose your best of breed partner or your platform technology choice. Well, and with 350,000 customers, you got a big observation space. So, guys have always been customer driven. Ken, give you the last word on Veebond 2019. You're our last guest and we're going to wrap with a little analysis on our end but give us the bumper sticker.  We have hit 350,000 customers. The innovation train is really moving. Our Veeam cloud tier that we announced with update four earlier this year has gone way beyond our expectations and we're looking to continue to build on that momentum. So we're just super excited. You know, we, if I'm the closer, I'll say thanks to all of our sponsors. We have a lot of great sponsors on the cloud side, on the Alliance partner side, the channel side. You know, it's just, it's a testament to where we are as a company. Yeah, and you're building out a great ecosystem. Congratulations on that and good luck going forward. And we'll see you around at the shows. It's great, great to have you guys. Great, thank you. All right, you're welcome. All right, keep it right there, everybody. Peter and I went back to wrap right after this short. Break you watching theCUBE live from Veeamond 2019 from Miami. We'll be right back.


Suppose I have $20 and you need $20. Since I'm a decent human being, I lend it to you in the expectation that you'll return it. The principle is the amount I've lent you. Since you're a decent human being, at some point you'll return it to me. You might also give me some additional money, and this is known as the interest on the principle. Now, there's an important moral and ethical question. Should you have to pay interest? The answer is complicated, and it belongs in a philosophy or ethics class.  While this is often interpreted as borrowing k and returning k plus m, it also describes investing, and it's important to realize there is no mathematical difference between borrowing and investing. So let's introduce some of the mathematics. Suppose the amount k is borrowed. The amount function akt is the amount that would be returned, principle and interest, at time t. We assume ak0 equals k, the amount borrowed. For example, if you borrow $20 today with the plan to pay me back $25 in one week, then a27 is equal to 25. But if you don't pay me back $25 in one week, you'll need to pay me back 50 in two weeks. So a2014 is equal to 50. So suppose you agreed to a27 equals 25, and a2014 equals 50. What about a21? This is the amount you'd owe if you paid me back one day after you borrowed the money. This would be, well, here's the problem. If it's all written down, it didn't happen. And in the financial and business world, this really means if it's all written down, it becomes a lawsuit. We want to avoid lawsuits. So we might phrase our borrowing terms a little bit more precisely. Suppose you borrowed $20 and agreed to return $25 if you paid me back within seven days. Find a23 and a200.001. A23 is the amount you'd pay me back if you returned the money three days after you borrowed it. Since that's within seven days, a320 is equal to 25. A200.001 is the amount you'd pay back if you returned the money 0.001 days, about 86 seconds after you borrowed it. Since this is within seven days, a200.001 is 25. It may seem unfair you'd have to pay back the full amount plus interest, even if you paid the money back almost immediately. But that's what was written down. Now, historically, this unfairness has been addressed by religious leaders telling people it's immoral, legislators passing laws that limit the power of the wealthy, or robbing banks. Instead of these work very well, what does work? Mathematics. And it's important to remember to fight injustice, quantify, and compute. Generally, we can compute the amount using a mathematical formula. And a common method is simple interest. In simple interest, let amount k be invested at simple interest rate s per unit of time. Then akt is k times 1 plus st. The interest is simple because it's based on only two things. The interest rate s, the principal k, and the time t. Now suppose $1,000 is invested at simple interest with a rate of 5% per year. How much will this become after two years, or after 30 months? We have the amount invested is 1,000. The interest rate is 5%, which we need to convert to a decimal. And so our amount function, a1000t, is 1,000 times 1 plus 0.05t. And we can compute after two years, a1000 of 2 substituting that in gives us 1,100. And after 30 months, a1000t substituting that in gives us 2,500. And at this point, it is important to keep in mind no computer was ever fired for making a mistake. So the computer makes it very easy to calculate things like a1000t, but if we did calculate this, we'd be wrong. So let's take this apart. The interest is 5% per year, so we must measure time in years. And so 30 months must be converted to an amount in years. And so to convert, there's three ideas to keep in mind. You can multiply anything by 1. 1 is a quantity divided by its equal, and units act like algebraic variables. And so we convert. 30 months is the same as 30 months. Now we want to remove this factor of months, so we'll divide by it. We'll put month in the denominator. We want to express our final answer in terms of years, so we'll put years in the numerator. And if I multiply, it's got to be multiplied by 1. Well, 1 year is the same as 12 months. So we'll put those numbers there. And completing our multiplication gives us 30 months is the same as 2.5 years. And so we need to calculate a1000 of 2.5, which works out to be 1,125.


And Luke chapter 19, so keep your place there. We'll get there in just a minute. But we're on the run up to Easter here and we're gonna be looking at a certain story that happens at the end of Luke chapter 19 here, which I'm calling the entrance to Jerusalem. This was, when I was a kid, this was kind of celebrated as Palm Sunday, this event here at the end of Luke chapter 19. But this is basically when Jesus comes into Jerusalem for the last time before, a few days before the Passover. And everybody is rejoicing and they are celebrating Him as the Messiah, calling Him a king. All the disciples are around Him. Of course, the naysayers, the Pharisees are there as well. But if you look down at Luke chapter 19, look down at verse number 28. Let's look at this story this morning and see what we can take away from this, this morning. And I wanna point out something that is kind of a valuable lesson for us personally, a valuable contrast of what Jesus says here, His attitude towards coming into Jerusalem, especially knowing what is gonna happen. But look down at verse number 28, where the Bible says, and when He had thus spoken, He went before ascending up to Jerusalem. And it came to pass when He was come nigh to Beth-Page and Bethany at the Mount called the Mount of Olives. He sent two of His disciples, saying, go ye into the village over against you and in which you're entering in, you shall find a colt tied wherein yet never a man sat, loose him and bring him hither. And if any man ask you, why do you loose him? Thus shall you say unto him, because the Lord hath need of him. And they went and they were sent their way and found even as he had said unto them, as they were loosening the colt, the owners thereof said unto them, why loose ye the colt? And they said, the Lord hath need of him. And they brought him to Jesus and they cast their garments upon the colt and they set Jesus there on, turn to Zechariah chapter number nine, if you will. So this is a prophecy, this seems like kind of a random story in the Bible here where Jesus tells them to go and get this young donkey here for him to ride on. And you say, why is that important? Why is that in the Bible? Well, it's the fulfillment of a messianic prophecy in the Old Testament. If you look at Zechariah chapter nine and verse number nine, the Bible says, rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion, shout, O daughter of Jerusalem, behold thy King cometh unto thee.  Go back to Luke chapter 19. So all that to say this, that story is in the Bible because it is a further proof that Jesus is the Messiah that the Old Testament was prophesying, that the Old Testament. Of course there's dozens of these prophecies and Jesus fulfilled them all but I just wanted to point that out. So Jesus is coming into Jerusalem and look at the scene here and this is really what I wanna focus on this morning. If you just picture the scene of verse number 36 and beyond here and it says, as they went, they spread their clothes in the way. And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent to the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen. So this is at the end of Jesus's ministry. All these miracles have been done. He's raised people from the dead, healed the sick, healed the blind, all these things. He has this massive crowd of people that are following him into Jerusalem and they are saying, look at verse 38, this again is matching up that prophecy in Zechariah chapter nine, verse nine where it says saying, blessed be the king that cometh in the name of the Lord, peace in heaven and glory in the highest. And then of course in verse number 39, some of the Pharisees from among the multitude sent unto him, master, rebuke thy disciples. So of course, they're calling him Lord, they're calling him the king, they're calling him all these great names acknowledging that he's the Messiah and the Pharisees again are saying, rebuke these people, they're giving you this deity title, they're giving you this title of the Christ. Why aren't you rebuking them? And of course, Jesus knows that they're correct. Look at verse 40, it says, he answered and said unto them, I tell you that if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out. So Jesus again is saying, they're correct, they're writing what they're saying, I am the king, I am the Messiah, I am a deity, I am God. So the scene here is there's this great celebration, Jesus fulfilling this prophecy, writing in on this cult and it is this massive celebration of Jesus entering in Jerusalem. Look at verse number 41 and then we see this in verse number 41. So imagine the scene, Jesus knowing what is gonna happen sees all these people that are celebrating him, all these people calling him the Messiah, all these people calling him king, all these people that love him, that are with him. The Bible literally says that these people are his disciples, meaning they are followers of Jesus. Yet Jesus knows what is going to happen in the coming days. It's kind of like, you know, he knows, I mean obviously it's the purpose that he's there, but it's kind of like, you know, him knowing something that's already happened basically is the way Jesus looks at this. But then look at verse 41. In verse 41, Jesus says this and says when he was come near and beheld the city and wept over it, saying, if thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day that the things which belong unto thy peace but now they are hid from thine eyes. What is he saying in verse 42? In verse 42, he is saying, he's crying again. He's weeping over the city of Jerusalem and he's saying, you don't know what is going to happen to you. You don't know, he's weeping over what he sees happening to the city. So he's not weeping over what's gonna happen to himself in the next few days. He's weeping over what's gonna happen to Jerusalem. This is a prophecy of the 70 AD destruction of not only the temple but of the city of Jerusalem which we know took place. Look at verse 43. Then Jesus says what's gonna happen. He says, for days shall come upon thee that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee encompass thee round and keep thee on every side and they shall lay thee even with the ground and thy children within thee and they shall not leave in the one stone upon another because thou newest not the time of thy visitation. This is such an interesting thing here. You kinda have to be like a little bit more of a one dimensional thinker to kind of understand what Jesus is saying here but he is basically saying that you know and I understand that there's some end times prophecy things here but what he's, I wanna focus on is what he's basically telling them is they're gonna be destroyed in 70 AD and by the way this is one of the biggest proofs in my opinion that the entire New Testament was penned, was written down before 70 AD because Jesus not only prophesied the destruction of the temple but he prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem itself which all happened in 70 AD and if that had happened during the writing down of the New Testament they definitely would have put that down as a fulfilled prophecy so we know that the New Testament was written before 70 AD otherwise it would have been already a fulfilled prophecy of what Jesus is saying here in Luke chapter 19 but look Jerusalem is going to be destroyed and that is what Jesus is talking about so Jesus is going to his death he knows he's going to his death he knows he's going to be betrayed by not only the people in Jerusalem not only the Romans, not only the Pharisees but also all of these people that are currently celebrating him as the king he knows that no one is going to stop what is gonna happen to him none of these people are really even going to be there when he is in the worst trouble of his life and yet he cries over the city he cries over the city's destruction and he tells you why it's going to be destroyed in the last part of verse number 44 he says because why is it going to be destroyed he's prophesying the destruction of Jerusalem and he tells you why he says because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation because you didn't recognize the Messiah coming and he's still sad over it though so they're being judged it's a judgment upon the city itself however he's not happy about it he's not rejoicing in this as a matter of fact he's very sad about what is about to happen to Jerusalem in the coming really decades in the coming decades so look Jesus wasn't looking to be saved he wasn't looking to have his life spared and he knew he also wouldn't be spared because this was the purpose of his life but turn to first Peter chapter number two it must have been very hard I mean I can't even imagine the mindset that Jesus had where he knew he was about to be stabbed in the back by everyone friend and foe alike and yet he still had this attitude of compassion towards the people of this city turn to first Peter chapter number two turn to first Peter chapter number two and then we're going to go to Psalm 32 right after this but this is why the Bible says this about Jesus first Peter chapter two verse number 21 is talking about Christ look at verse number 21 it says for even here on two were ye called because Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example that we should follow his steps so yes Christ was the Messiah in order to be saved in order to have salvation you must trust on him but he is also an example to us one of the problems with Christianity today is they put forth Jesus as only an example no Jesus is an example but he's first the Messiah but yes he is also an example for us to follow all right so it says leaving us an example that ye should follow his steps what kind of example look at verse 22 who did no sin neither was guile found in his mouth now turn to Psalm chapter 32 and verse we'll just start at verse number one but turn to Psalm chapter 32 right in the center of your Bible you'll find the book of Psalm go to Psalm chapter 32 so the Bible here is saying that in Christ's mouth was no guile what does that mean it's like nothing bad came out of his mouth nothing bad came out of his mouth nothing wrong came out of his mouth nothing really guile means deceitfulness no deceitfulness came out of his mouth no just unrighteousness at all came out of Jesus's mouth ever so first Peter chapter 2 in verse 21 and 22 is talking about Jesus having no guile in his mouth but then look at Psalm chapter 32 in verse number one it says blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven whose sin is covered now this is talking about you this is talking about the saved believer here in Psalm chapter 32 look at verse number 2 blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputed not iniquity it doesn't say that blessed is the man that hath no iniquity it's saying that because of Christ's righteousness the Lord will not impute iniquity to you but then look what it says and in whose spirit there is no guile so what the Bible is saying here in first Peter chapter 2 in verse 21 it's saying Jesus had no guile in his mouth and then he's saying that you should have no guile either in verse number 32 so it's saying Jesus is an example for us and then Psalm chapter 32 just backs it up saying you should follow the example of Christ is what Psalm 32 it's kind of cool how those two things match up where first Peter chapter 2 is talking about Jesus but Psalm 32 is talking about you talking about how you should be so with this story this great contrast of Jesus coming into Jerusalem coming into this terrible situation where he knows he will be abandoned and betrayed by everyone I want to give you three thoughts this morning I just want to give you three thoughts on God's mercy I want to give you three thoughts on God's mercy versus our mercy versus what we think deserves mercy and does not deserve mercy I want to give you three things to think about this morning with just this extreme case where Jesus going into this bad situation with all these bad people all these people that were going to abandon him even the disciples even Peter himself was going to walk away from Jesus in the coming days to save their own lives for fear of the Romans fear of the Jews look at Luke chapter 23 look at Luke chapter number 23 look, I mean the bounds of the mercy of God are beyond our understanding let's put it that way but look at Luke chapter 23 and verse 34 it even goes further when Jesus was being crucified on the cross he still had no guile in his mouth look at Luke chapter 23 and verse number 34 he's going to be crucified and he's being beaten and tortured and verse number 34 it says then said Jesus Father forgive them for they know not what they do and they parted his raiment and cast lots even at the point of his painful death on the cross Jesus was still asking God the Father to forgive the people that were involved in this he's like they don't know what's going on they don't know what they're doing so the first point I want to make tonight or this morning is this in our lives with following this example of Christ there is no place in our lives as Christians meaning people that are following the example of Christ there is no place for bitterness at all there's no reason for it there is no Jesus if anybody had an excuse to be bitter it was Jesus Christ as he came into Jerusalem it was Jesus as he was on the cross yet he was not he was not so the first thing is there is no place for bitterness none whatsoever turn to Hebrews chapter number 12 what does that mean? it means that you should not get jaded in your life ever you should not be a jaded person look even if you've been legitimately burned Jesus had every legitimate reason to be bitter if there is a legitimate reason if there's a legitimate reason to be bitter and have guile he had it yet he did not have that so that shows us that there is no place for bitterness you say well you know I've been burned you know I mean I got somebody did me wrong that still does not give place for it should not give place to bitterness you say why is that? turn to Hebrews chapter 12 look some people let legitimate bad things define their whole lives and you know this is true people let legitimately bad things look bad people did bad things to me and they let that define everything in their life going forward this is wrong look at Hebrews chapter 12 and verse number 14 Hebrews chapter 12 and verse number 14 look and it's easy to let it creep in it is easy to let bitterness define you it's easy to get bitterness look at Hebrews chapter 12 and verse number 14 the Bible says follow peace with nice people the Bible says follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord look at verse 15 it says looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God lest any what? any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and thereby many be defiled so there's a lot of things to learn at the very end of that verse right there the Bible says who will bitterness trouble? say well I've been wronged I've been legitimately wronged but the Bible says that bitterness if you become a bitter person and it says springing up meaning bitterness starts small and it grows it takes root and then it grows but bitterness only hurts you bitterness only let me say that with different emphasis bitterness only hurts you there is nothing that bitterness will do for you that is positive that is good there is nothing that bitterness will do for those around you that is good so why would you ever want to be bitter? wow it feels good at the moment yeah it's you going with the flesh literally damaging yourself and thereby many be defiled meaning you're gonna damage all the people that are around you your family, your children, your wife you say well somebody did I mean it makes no sense somebody did me wrong so I'm gonna damage myself I mean when you put it that way if we just think logically and not emotionally all the problems go away I mean somebody did me wrong so I'm gonna ruin my own life I'll show them turn to 1 Corinthians chapter six look at verse number seven and look I've said this many times I've said this many times there's two different ways to handle problems there's two different ways to handle somebody that does you wrong you can either let it go look at 1 Corinthians chapter six and verse number seven 1 Corinthians chapter six and verse number seven the Bible says now therefore there is utterly fault among you because you go to law one with another why do you not rather take wrong why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded so the other way to handle someone that did you wrong is to confront the situation in the Matthew 18 process just go to that person individually and talk to them but here's the thing folks in this day and age that we're living in more people need to let more things go I mean you should be suffering yourself to be defrauded like 99 plus percent of the time just let it go I mean if you have to just because we are living in a time where people are being trained to be hypersensitive about everything I mean this culture that we're living in and I get that it's a wicked culture but look it can rub off on Christians too where everybody's just I mean you got all these social justice warriors out here that are offended over you know they're offended for other people that aren't even there they're offended for all I mean who probably aren't even offended I mean think how silly that is to be offended for someone who's not you who's not even there and even if they were they wouldn't have been offended people need to let more things go look this can rub off on Christians you can get this attitude where everything offends you and look we just need to let more things go in our lives and we'll have better relationships but all these things can lead to bitterness this whole idea of you wonder where like this manosphere came from in the last couple years with all this mig-tow stuff popping up all the Andrew Tate garbage coming out and you say where did all that come from well they claim and these people look it's all formed it's all based off of bitterness that's what it is it's all run from bitterness and guess what if you're a bitter if you're gonna jump onto that bitter bandwagon bitter young men will just end up bitter old men you say how did that guy get to be a bitter old man well you ever met a bitter old man it's just angry all the time like over everything just screams at everyone constantly well he was bitter like that for a long time he didn't just become bitter last year he's been bitter his whole life has been defined as bitterness so this manosphere Andrew Tate all these wicked people pushing all these things they'll look at things like feminism and all these things that are legitimately wrong but then they go and they embrace bitterness no wrong answer they embrace bitterness and they're like no you need to adopt a life of bitterness it's like that will ruin you that will ruin you and it will ruin all the people around you if you need to be like turn to James chapter three look I mean people are mean people are rude I mean just if you get offended over every little thing you're gonna have a hard everyday life when I mean go ask you know ask Jacob after the service like when we're out working and we're working on something I'm not the nicest all the time maybe I should be but I'm not you know but you can't be offended at every single thing that happens sometimes things need to get done we need to get to work we need to get things done right the first time all these things is like you know oh you know you mean to you Garrett told me a couple of years ago he's like man if I could work for you I could work for anybody good good that means I did it right that means it worked you can't raise these kids to be these kids where somebody just blows on them and they just fall over because that's what's happening today because even Christians are embracing this attitude that if somebody wrongs me I can just get bitter I can just get upset like no just get over it let it go look at James chapter three and look at verse number 14 here's another reason people get bitter if anybody had reason to get bitter it was Jesus Christ and he did it and we're supposed to follow that example look at James chapter three and verse number 14 but if you have bitter envying look at that and strife in your hearts glory not and lie not against the truth look here's another thing that can make you bitter somebody else has something that you don't have that should not make you bitter look there's ways there's two main ways to find out who your real friends are the first way is it's very intuitive it makes a lot of sense like when I'm in a bad place and I'm really in a bad spot a true friend somebody that really loves me somebody that's my brother my sister in Christ that's going to be somebody that's going to come to my aid when I'm in trouble look I got a lot of friends like that well I shouldn't say a lot but look those are real friends like when you're in real trouble and somebody really takes action to come and help you that's a real friend right there and you will never you will never forget those times you will never forget those times as you live on this earth I mean the times where I've been in real trouble in my life and I had a brother in Christ that came to my aid I will never forget that until I'm dead and I'll still remember in heaven I'm sure but it's a long lasting thing you can say that is my friend but here's another way you can identify your friends a true friend will be happy when you are in the good times a true friend will see something good happen to you and they will truly be happy for you it is not a friend where something good happens to you and they get envious and they get bitter towards you because something good happens to you because look you're gonna have good times these are great these are two great ways to find out who your real friends are because look there's a lot of people out there that will pretend to be your friends but will they actually come and take action when you're in trouble and when you're having good times are they happy for you or are they bitter that is a terrible thing to have a friend a friend where they're having good things happen to them and you sit there and say that should have been me that's not a friend that is not what a true friend should do turn to Colossians chapter number three so those are two great tests of who your friends are I put how much how much weight do I put in words when it comes to friends none you're the best and that's the greatest and whatever and all this stuff now actions how are you when I'm in trouble and how are you when things are going well that's how you can tell who your friends are actions not what people say because what people say that's James chapter two right there what people say is nothing what people say is there's no profit there profit comes from action look at Colossians chapter three look at verse number nineteen we're talking about you know being bitter we're talking about not letting a root of bitterness come in if anybody had reason to be bitter this is just the point point number one this morning if anyone had reason to be bitter it was Christ and he wasn't he was not bitter he was the opposite of it look at Colossians chapter three verse number nineteen you know I mean it's interesting that you know the bible brings this up it it seems like unless you've been married for a while this must seem like a strange verse right here but look what it says it says husbands love your wives of course the verse before it is wives submit to your husbands but then it says husbands love your wives but then you get this last part and you're like and be not bitter against them like what? that kind of seems odd that seems kind of like odd place in there but no it is saying it is telling husbands here it is telling husbands how to lead their families it is telling the husband how you should lead your wife wives submit to your husbands husband loves your wives love husbands love your wives you think he would just end the verse there he says no but be not bitter against them what does that mean? it means that you know maybe your wife's not going to do everything exactly the way you want her to do it every time maybe that leading your wife is not going to go perfectly all the time and look maybe she's going to do the wrong thing sometimes it is saying don't lead in a bitter way it's saying don't be a negative leader I cannot stress enough how important it is to be a positive leader in your home I woke up this morning and I was not feeling good I'm still not really feeling that great but I got up and I think everyone could tell that I wasn't really feeling good and I kind of had something creeping up on me in the last couple days and I said you know what? and I feel this way it was true so it wasn't just like you know making something up but I said look I'm not really feeling that great but I'm excited to go to church today and I feel that way I'm excited to be in church today even though I'm not a hundred percent I'm excited to be here but if I just be like oh man I don't feel good we should all stay home we got to go though people are going to show up you know but you know I joke but do you know the effect that that would have on my family do you know the effect it would have on my family if I went home on sunday night and I just sat down at the dinner table with all the kids and my wife and like did you believe this guy? did you believe this lady? did you believe that? did you believe that? I was just negative all the time my family would hate coming here my family would hate church my family would despise these things you know why? because I'm planting seeds of bitterness everywhere in them I'm allowing that root that is taking hold inside myself to just be planted everywhere I'm spreading weeds in my household think of it that way the bible here is saying love your wives lead in a caring way it's not saying your wife is going to do everything perfect all the time your wife is going to mess up and so are you but lead in a positive way even when people in your household who you're leading are not doing the right thing say my kids don't do the right thing every time they don't but you have to lead in a positive way you can't allow bitterness to allow bitterness inside the walls of your house is a disastrous move for a leader and that's why God puts it at the end of this verse husbands love your wives and lead them in a positive caring loving way turn to Proverbs chapter twenty two bitterness like you can have reasons where you think you're justified to be bitter but there is no justification for allowing bitterness to grow inside you there is none you say well my wife did this and and I don't think you know she apologized good enough or whatever just let it go let it go pull out the route that's growing that's what happens to marriages that and after fifteen years that and after twenty years i think i was telling the kids are somebody that i believe all no it was it was that we had some people coming up on i won't mention names with some people coming up on a one-year anniversary this year and i was like well after one year you've made it like all you have to do is get to that i'm joking but you get to that one-year point and you're good it's successful no no problem but i remember how surprised i was when a friend of mine who was way older than me got divorced after twelve years of marriage i was like twenty three i've been married for like two years at that point and a friend of mine got married after twelve years and i remember thinking as a stupid twenty year old twenty three-year-old man when are you good the problem is bitterness can set in in year seventeen of the marriage in year twenty eight of the marriage in year thirty five of the marriage you just have to constantly manage bitterness you can't allow bitterness to set in in your marriage women or men there is never a justification for it so if you find yourself getting better get rid of it how do i get rid of it let it go ninety nine percent just let it go look at proverbs chapter twenty there's never a time for bitterness but you say what about in the worst possible cases where the worst possible people have done someone wrong look at proverbs the bible covers that too look at verse number twenty two of proverbs chapter twenty what if somebody just completely evil some evil reprobate hurts someone that you know and love what about that but look at this the bible says in verse number twenty two look this i i get it this takes faith i get it this takes faith but the bible is clear here the bible says say not now i will recompense evil but wait on the lord and he shall save the even where there is a hater of god that hurt someone it is god who will recompense it is god who will take vengeance it will it is god that will make it right and you have you had better believe and it takes faith but the bible is clear vengeance is mine god will make it more right than you could ever there is no place even in those cases for bitterness because bitterness will hurt and do damage to you and the people you love and the people you care about it makes no sense to allow bitterness to enter in here's the second point so the first point is there's no place for bitterness i've got to hurry up here i've got two more points the second point is this jesus looked at jerusalem and he cried he looked at jerusalem and he cried turned to matthew chapter twenty three but you say what in the world i don't understand and look people you have to believe the reprobate doctrine or you can't understand the bible it makes no sense look at matthew chapter twenty three and verse number fifteen the second point is this most people are not beyond redemption what do i mean by that most people are not reprobates thank god but most people are not reprobates look at matthew twenty three and verse number fifteen you say but jesus yelled at the Pharisees all the time he said the worst possible things to them look at verse number fifteen as an example of matthew twenty three he says woe unto you stripes and Pharisees, hypocrites for you compass sea and land to make one proselyte when he is made you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves he's literally calling the Pharisees the jewish leaders here that did not believe on him some Pharisees did believe on him he's calling the mainstream jewish leaders here children of hell is there more uh... is there a worse thing you could call someone than a child of hell but guess what folks you say why would he cry over this group of people that are children of hell, but guess what not only a jerusalem was a Pharisee as a matter of fact that was the extreme minority of people when he looked at the city even though even though none of those people in that city would do the right thing none of those people in that city would stand up for jesus would stand there even at would even be there for his execution on the cross would stand with him even peter didn't do the right thing but guess what be careful that the reprobate brush doesn't get too wide because jesus had he had compassion on this city that was about to abandon him i mean it's it's arrogant to think that because someone doesn't get saved when i talk to them that they're beyond salvation i mean what that's an arrogant thing to think that oh you know somebody i gave this person the gospel they just flat out rejected it reprobate now that's an arrogant thing many people they just they don't get saved the first time they hear the gospel i didn't get saved the first time i heard the gospel it doesn't mean they never will get saved it doesn't mean but let me ask you this now let me ask you to think a little bit you had to think let's let's go a couple stages of thinking again what if somebody never get saved what if we look back from heaven in the past and we say well that person uh... that person was given the gospel when they were twenty five they were given the gospel when they were forty five they were given the gospel on their deathbed when they were ninety five and they still didn't accept is that equivalent to that person being a reprobate no it is not it is not it is not because god had not given up on them and that is important that is important because it matters how we treat people it matters if there's somebody whom god has not given up on we are not to give up on them most people most people will have until their last breath to accept christ most people look people turn to luke chapter nine i'll give you an example of this even from the disciples people are too quick people are too quick to condemn condemn entire groups of people look at luke chapter nine even the disciples even james and john did this look at luke chapter nine verse number fifty two people are too quick to condemn like i have this neighborhood's no good i have this every time i've even had that thought we end up getting somebody saved look we all do it we all have this tendency to want to just condemn groups of people but that is not correct because if anybody could have condemned groups of people it was jesus and he didn't do it look at luke chapter nine verse fifty two and he sent messengers before his face and they went and entered into the village of the samaritans to make ready for him and they did not receive him because his face was as though he would go to jerusalem and with his disciples james and john saw this they said lord we'll talk we command fire to come down from heaven consume them even as a lies did but he turned and rebuked them they're like hey you know we didn't get any saved in this neighborhood let's burn it up let's burn it down and jesus is like whoa calm down he turned and rebuked them and said you know not what manner of spirit you're up he's like this is not the kind of attitude that you were supposed to have that i need you to have for the son of men is not come to destroy men's lives but to save them that's what we are there to do that's us we can put ourselves now that jesus is risen and gone to heaven we can put ourselves in that place we are not here to destroy men's lives but to save them through the power of the gospel and the power of the saving grace of jesus christ and they went on to another another village look people are people are way too quick to condemn entire groups of people and i did that the podcast with pastor mehia he made a comment that i thought was really interesting because he said you know he said he's like for some reason people from outside california are super quick to tell me about the problems that i'm dealing with living in california and let me tell you something that is so true i've had that happen to me so many times and if you know people outside of california i bet you've had it happen to you too we've got people outside of california i can't tell you how many times i have heard the phrase california just needs to fall into the ocean from conservative christian people what in the what a what a wicked thing to say there are thirty nine million people here people get so worked up over a place that they're not even act and they condemn the entire group of people over what over the actions of a few wicked leaders kind of sounds like jerusalem did jesus condemn the entire city over the actions of a few wicked leaders no he wept over it he cried over it he had compassion for it it's exactly the same as the situation jesus was in how many people are getting saved in california every single year how many churches are starting in california how many churches are growing in california there are more bible-believing christians here than any other state fall into the ocean what are you talking about there are more people here that are willing and need to hear the gospel than any other state what are you talking about we should get rid of it all there are more children that need to be that need to hear the gospel that need to be homeschooled that need to be brought out of this trash garbage culture that's in every state by the way there's more children here than any other state christians should be rushing here they should be running here saying this is where the help is needed this is where the people need to hear the gospel the most of them anyway out of all the states it's the most there's more i've never met more bible-believing christians than in this state people are too quick to just paint with this broad brush and just condemn entire groups of people if anybody could have done it it was jesus and he didn't and he's our example so that's point number two turn to second chronicles chapter nineteen point number three is this point number three is this and it's maybe a cousin of point number two but this is something that we need to remember through the example of jesus as he went into jerusalem and he had such great compassion on this city the third point is this our enemies are not his enemies look some of our enemies might be his enemies but just because i have an enemy does not mean that is an enemy of the lord look enemies of the lord look at second chronicles chapter nineteen enemies of the lord i get it look at second chronicles chapter nineteen verse number two a prophet rebukes jahosaphat for helping someone that hates the lord and jayhu the son of henniah the seer went out to meet him said king jahosaphat shouldest thou help the ungodly and love them that hate the lord therefore is wrath upon thee from before the lord but now go to matthew chapter five verse number fourteen and i have a reference to matthew chapter five verse forty four two second chronicles chapter nineteen verse number two because you have to contrast these two and i told you earlier that if you don't believe the reprobate doctrine you can't make sense of this you can't make sense of these two verses the bible has no contradictions but look at this so henniah the seer the prophet of god told jahosaphat you shouldn't love them that hate the lord wrath god is mad at you because you love them that hate the lord that you helped somebody that hated god now look at matthew chapter five in verse number forty four but i say unto you love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despise despitefully use you and persecute you you're like what am i supposed to love my enemies or or hate my enemies what is it no you hate god's enemies and you love your enemies because your enemies are not exactly god's enemies though unless you're making yourself god those two lists are not exactly mutually exclusive to each other not everyone that hates you hates the lord i hate to break it to you i mean look it's easy to identify the haters of the lord all the evil wicked weirdos and perverts out there i mean it's it's easy to identify it i mean if there's a blessing it's that it's easy to see it's easy to see who hates the lord but you are not the lord even those and even to those that hate the lord you know don't help them you know we don't have to love them we're not to love them recompensing is still the lord recompensing is still up to the lord we are here to save not pursue vengeance so the point is this we are here we are here here's the point for these three points in this example jesus gives us there is no place for bitterness in our lives there's no place at all if there was a place jesus would have found that place here he wouldn't have had compassion over this city that was about to kill him that was about to abandon him even down to his own disciples no one did the right thing and i get it he was he that's the point of his life was to come here and die for the sins of the world but if anyone like no christian should be a bitter negative person it will only hurt you you'll raise bitter negative children no one will be around will want to be around you i mean i've met people like that before you don't even want to you don't even want to talk to him you don't even want to ask ask him questions about anything because it's just it's just negativity bitterness it's just ugh you don't even want to hear what they say because you just know it's bad no matter what's going on just carry a negative cloud with them everywhere they go i mean i was talking to one of the guys out soul winning yesterday and look the thing is this life is too short life is too short to be this bitter person life is too short to not have mercy and passion i mean this life this life is a timed event it's a spend it in this negativity and doing things the wrong way by like being bitter is just take over our lives is it's terrible the lord himself had the most legitimate reason to have gyle in his mouth and to have bitterness in his heart all those people were fake to one degree or another it was a wicked thing they're calling him king they're calling him king they're laying down their clothes in front of the the the ask that he was riding on days later he's killed and everyone except a few women is gone if anyone had reason to be bitter it was him we have no excuse at all and here's the thing folks there's no upside none at all other than it maybe makes your flesh feel good for a moment then it is long-lasting damage to you and those around you is a great example of showing us that we need to have mercy as the thing that leads us in our lives as christians let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer


Hello and welcome to this session. Let us understand the following problem today. Using properties of determinants, prove that determinant sin alpha cos alpha cos of alpha plus delta sin beta cos beta cos of beta plus delta sin gamma cos gamma cos of gamma plus delta is equal to 0. Now let us write this solution. Consider LHS which is equal to the determinant sin alpha cos alpha cos of alpha plus delta sin beta cos beta cos of beta plus delta sin gamma cos gamma cos of gamma plus delta.  Now applying C3 tends to C3 plus sin delta of C1 minus cos delta into C2 which is equal to sin alpha cos alpha as it is. Now C3 tends to applying to this column C3 first of all this as it is cos alpha cos delta minus sin alpha sin delta now plus sin delta of into C1 so C1 is this so we get here plus sin delta sin alpha minus cos delta C2 now the second row sin beta cos beta as it is now this as it is we get here cos beta cos alpha minus sin beta sin delta now plus sin delta into C1 which is sin beta sin beta minus cos delta C2 that is cos beta now the third row sin gamma cos gamma this as it is so cos gamma cos delta minus sin gamma sin delta plus sin delta C1 that is sin gamma minus cos delta into C2 that is cos gamma now we see here this and this gets cancels and this and this gets cancels similarly here this and this gets cancels cancels and this and this gets cancels. Similarly this and this gets cancels and this and this gets cancels. So we get which is equal to sin alpha cos alpha 0 sin beta cos beta 0 sin gamma cos gamma 0. Now since column C3 has all the elements as 0 so the determinant is equal to 0 which is equal to RHS therefore LHS is equal to RHS hence proved. I hope you understood the problem. Bye and have a nice day.